My Strength Does Not Allow Me to Low-key

After the yacht entered the dock, Xiao Feng didn't say much, and brought the terrified Jesse back to the other courtyard of the Chen family's mansion.

"How about, let's get out of here right away? I know a few senior managers of Citigroup who are based in Copper Country, and they can help us contact a private sea plane to pick us up."

Jesse felt very terrified of Li Zhen's group who suddenly appeared today.

Xiao Feng smiled, and patted Jesse's hand: "Don't be afraid, I'm here, and the Chen family should come back later and give me an explanation."

Sure enough, within half an hour, there was a knock on the door, and Chen Yonglu took his father and uncle into the other courtyard.

"I'm so sorry, Mr. Xiao, we didn't expect the people from the Li family to be so messed up!"

When Chen Xu and Tang brothers saw that Xiao Feng was still there, they immediately apologized to him.

"Haha, it's nothing. Come in and sit down!"

The small courtyard assigned by the Chen family to Xiao Feng has everything. Xiao Feng invited the Chen family brothers into the reception room of the house where he lived.

Chen Yonglu was very discerning and made tea for them respectively.

"Okay, do you two have something, you should tell me!"

After hearing Xiao Feng's words, Chen Xutang and Chen Xuyong looked at each other, then sighed, and Chen Xutang spoke.

"Actually, this story begins when the ancestors laid down this foundation..."

It turns out that the rumors on the Internet that these Tongguo Chinese are descendants of the Taiping Army are not true.

In fact, as early as 1849 to 1874, a large number of Cantonese were bought by slave traders in the form of piglets to be used as slave labor in plantations in Peru and Bolivia.

Moreover, their native white farmers have a very bad attitude towards them, not even as good as Indians and blacks.

In 1870, the serfs who could not be squeezed finally rose up and began to rebel.

At the beginning, there were not many people, only more than a thousand people, and they hid in the dense forest and fought guerrillas with the government forces in Peru and Bolivia.

Later, more and more Chinese slave laborers who could not be squeezed, and local Indians began to join them, and they became stronger and stronger.

And here is the birth of Weng, Chen, and Mai's three major families, but what really made them stronger was the addition of a family surnamed Li, and this family surnamed Li was really to avoid the Qing Dynasty. The descendants and subordinates of Lee Se-hyun of the Taiping Army who took the initiative to flee here to take refuge are here.

Because they had war experience in the early years, the people surnamed Li brought a qualitative change to this group of rebels, allowing them to evolve from a guerrilla army into a powerful army.

As more slave labor and local Indians joined in, their power became stronger. By 1879, the saltpeter war broke out between Peru, Bolivia and the Copper Country.

They chose to join the side of the Copper Country, and the people of the Copper Country organized them into the Vulcan Battalion. Because of the hatred for the Peruvian and Bolivian farmers, this army fought very bravely.

And repeatedly made extraordinary achievements.

But after the war, Patricio, the commander of the Copper Country, wanted to betray them and give them to those Peruvian plantation owners.

However, Sirapizzo, the chief of the Navy of the Bronze Kingdom, who had been at odds with Patricio, just thought this was an opportunity.

At that time, the structure of the Bronze Kingdom was also very chaotic, and there were many hills inside the military. Commander Padrisio was a descendant of the nobles of the Western Kingdom and belonged to the army.

Sirapizzo, on the other hand, is a native white man and a naval faction, and has always been at odds with Patricio.

So he told the Vulcan Camp the news, so the Vulcan Camp simply reversed the scene again, killed Patricio, and helped Sirapizzo and his naval department to take over smoothly.

After Sirapizzo came to power, he gave Ithaca to them as a dominion.

Later, the four major Chinese families established the mechanism of elders. All major decisions in the autonomous territory were voted by their elders with a show of hands, and the leadership in the territory was also held by the four families in turn.

But in fact, the Weng family, the Chen family, and the Mai family have always been on guard against the later Li family, and Li Jiayou believes that it was the appearance of their family that caused the qualitative change in the Vulcan camp, so they always think that they should be better than other people. The three are higher than the first.

This also buried several hidden dangers of discord!

Later, because of that era, there was a lot of external pressure, especially although the Copper Kingdom gave them a self-governing dominion, but they didn't feel at ease, because the location of their dominion was located in the original Patibir Valley next to Peru and Bolivia .

Not only is it facing the pressure from Peru and Bolivia, but it is also facing the covetous eyes of the copper country behind it.

So the few families decided to start integrating with the local people with all their strength, not only intermarrying with the local people wantonly, but also encouraging their own people to believe in religion.

At the same time, a large number of family children are sent to join the army every year, which eases the suspicion of the rulers of the Bronze Kingdom and takes root in the local area.

It's just that their lives have been very difficult before, because the Patinier Valley used to produce saltpeter, and after the saltpeter resources were exhausted, there was no major livelihood.

The vicinity is either a desert or a dry hilly area, and the agricultural output is not much, so most of the time, they have to go to sea to fish to feed themselves.

The situation lasted until after World War II in the last century, because the confrontation between the two major powers also brought shocks to the political situation in South America. At that time, there were frequent movements within the copper country.

Some local young people actively participated in it, and later established a foundation in San Diego.

Others went north to seek to make a fortune, and they are active everywhere in Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and even Colombia.

Among them, the Li family, who had inherited martial arts, was the most open. In Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, they all cooperated with local bigwigs and opened up many channels.

Because of their boldness and wild way, the power of the Li family grew stronger and stronger, and gradually tended to surpass the other three families.

At that time, the other three families also had many children who participated in the crazy business of that crazy era. It can be said that all of them made a lot of money.

"Originally everyone lived in peace, but a few years ago, the elder brother of the Weng family wanted to wash his hands in a golden basin. Our family also felt that it was not very honorable to always be involved in this kind of business, and wanted to get out. But the Li family I don't agree, because the members of the Weng family were at odds with the Li family, they even encountered an accident a while ago, and many important members of the family died unexpectedly..."

When Chen Xutang said this, the expression on his face was very solemn, obviously that time was not an ordinary thing.

"Didn't the Weng family think about revenge?"

"Why didn't I think about it? But I have been suffering from no evidence! Besides, the Li family has a lot of connections in Santiago, so they dare not act rashly."

"What about the Mai family!"

This family seems to be very low-key, Xiao Feng is very curious about this family.

"Well, their family didn't say much about it, but we feel that they should be with the Li family, and they don't want to quit that business."

Xiao Feng nodded: "Both uncles, since you have already made it so clear, let's open the skylight and speak clearly! I want to know why you are so eager for me to come and invest. It seems that you are very short of money. Woolen cloth!"

Chen Xutang and Chen Xuyong looked at each other again, and then both smiled wryly.

"Hi! Now that I've said so much, I might as well tell you all! It's true that we are short of money now, not only short of money, but also short of people..."

It turned out that in the early years, when the four families were engaged in those shady businesses, because they had huge income every year, in order to prevent people from being found out about the source of these funds, or people making irresponsible remarks.

Everyone was showing their talents and looking for connections to launder money, but the Li family had the wildest way. They actually opened a bank in the Netherlands Andres Islands.

Speaking of the North American Caribbean region, many people know that the well-known Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands are paradises for tax avoidance and money laundering.

But I don't know, where is the Andres Islands of the Netherlands, which is not much better than them.

There are more than 30,000 companies registered on the small main island of Curaçao. Compared with the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, those South American bosses prefer to conduct "financial transactions" here.

Because this place is not under the control of the British and American forces, although the Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands claim to be financially free, once the US government is in trouble, their financial regulators will still open the back door to the US investigative agencies.

In Curacao, there is no such problem, because it is a completely independent country.  In the early years, it was under the jurisdiction of the Netherlands, but at that time it was the favorite place to hide money for bigwigs from other powerful countries in the European continent. Even the United States was afraid of those bigwigs. Later, in 2010, this country finally became independent, and this place became a paradise for real financial freedom. Not only European bigwigs like to patronize, but also many bigwigs in the United States, and even South American bigwigs like it even more. .  The domestic regulatory agencies in the United States turn a blind eye to this place. After all, many leaders above them also have accounts here. . .  So this place has always been outside the law of the main regulatory agencies of the free Yu world. It is amazing that the Li family can actually set up a bank there!  The Li family set up a bank on Curacao, and several other families also began to use them to launder money and hide money for peace of mind.  It was fine at the beginning, but when the opinions of several parties began to diverge a few years ago, the disadvantages appeared.  For example, when the Chen family wants to use funds, they often don't get it in place quickly, and even occasionally get hacked.   It's no wonder that Li Zhen dared to be so arrogant in front of the Chen family cousins ​​today.   It also explained why the Chen family was so urgent and wanted him to invest here, and why they were so short of money.