Chu Qi found several Chinatown veterans and arranged tasks for them. In fact, the Jinyiwei was able to move freely in North America, which was inseparable from Chinatowns in various cities. They were able to give Jinyiwei the best cover up. These veterans even had contact with Jinyiwei.

After the chess piece was deployed, Chu Qi opened the folding fan and wandered around Chinatown, hoping to find some interesting things as souvenirs to send them back to the Chu Mansion or Zhang Mansion.

Feng Yuruo followed Chu Qi to Chinatown to win people's hearts, and was a little dissatisfied with Chu Qi's approach. In her opinion, the militia formed by Ming immigrants in Chinatown did not have much combat effectiveness and would not have any effect on the Civil War that might break out in the future.

"Blue and white porcelain, Dahongpao, dried salted fish, silk... There are various commodities from our Ming Dynasty, which are like our local market in the Ming Dynasty."

Chu Qi walked around Chinatown and found that the items sold in Chinatown were not much different from those in the Ming Dynasty. It can be seen that the Ming immigrants who came here to hunt for gold completely retained their own culture and were not influenced by the local Western culture.

This may be the terrible cohesion of Eastern culture. Early immigrants were able to retain their cultural imprints and build a street that was almost exactly the same as the local area thousands of miles away from their hometown. The language here is also Chinese. Even any traveler who arrived from the Ming Empire could easily communicate with those who live here in Chinatown.

Feng Yuruo reminded Chu Qi on the side: "Chu Qi, in addition to obtaining the deployment map from California, our Ministry of War is more important to obtain detailed topographic maps and deployment maps of the East Coast, as well as possible military mobilization of the United States. The East Coast is the main battlefield."

"Don't be impatient, I must make sure that the Ming army can easily take California, using it as a base to aid the southern slave states."

Chu Qi was rushing through the goods in Chinatown without any haste. It was too difficult to find a suitable souvenir. There are all things that can be found here in the Ming Dynasty, but there is no California's characteristics.

"Miss Feng, do you want to buy a new outfit?" Chu Qi tried to please the Feng family.

"No need, just wear enough." Feng Yuruo refused coldly.

Of course, there are Chinese restaurants opened by Ming immigrants. Chu Qi, who could not find a suitable gift, went to the restaurant for dinner with everyone.

Chu Qi finally discovered the benefit of a country's strength. He can eat Chinese food anywhere in the world and communicate with local people in Chinese.

Just as they were about to enter the restaurant, two people were driven out by the shopkeeper, who also held up muskets to demonstrate: "You gangsters who eat free food, next time I come to our restaurant, I will shoot!"

"You Ming vendors should have left this land that belongs to us. You have taken away our business!" The two foreigners limped and ran away cursed.

Guo Yan was planning to stop them, but was stopped by Chu Qi. He would only reduce his identity by fighting with such a gangster.

Chu Qi walked up: "Shopkeeper, what happened?"

"Oh, there are more than one or two people who eat for free. Many gold diggers have nothing to gain. They want to get rich overnight through gold digging, but not everyone can dig up enough gold to make up for the cost. So there are these homeless people who pretend to be decent but actually have nothing to eat. Next time, our restaurant will consider charging first and then providing them with food. Our Ming Dynasty immigrants are fine, and everyone knows the truth, but foreigners come to our restaurant to have a good meal." The restaurant owner complained a few times, and saw that Chu Qi and his party were well dressed and brought their female relatives, so he turned to greet him with a smile, "Please invite some people inside."

"It seems that our Ming Dynasty immigrants also have some troubles here."

"That's right, our Ming immigrants gathered together, have their own cultural circle, and are incompatible with the culture brought by other immigrants. Moreover, our Ming immigrants are superior here and monopolize one-third of San Francisco's business. The police officers in Chinatown are all decided by us, not the Town Hall. After all, the important tax source of the Town Hall is paid by our Ming immigrants. So other immigrants enjoy privileges here, fearing and jealous of us, thinking that we had taken away their business. By the way, the accents of the people sounded like they came from the Imperial City, were they here to join relatives or do business?"

“We are going to do some small business in Virginia.”

"Virginia? It's not close to California, it has to span the entire North America. Fortunately, the railway was opened last year and can reach Virginia through the San Francisco railway. Otherwise, you may have to cross the Isthmus of Central America and go from the Caribbean to reach Virginia. I came here all the way to do business. It's probably not a small business, and the young man must be rich."

The shopkeeper is very enthusiastic about his own people, especially when he heard that Chu Qi and the others came from the imperial city, he was even more polite.

The Ming Dynasty Imperial City is the most prosperous city in the world. An emerging city like San Francisco, with a population of only 100,000, is like a backward town than the imperial city.

People who came to San Francisco from the Ming Dynasty to find gold were generally those who lived or went bankrupt along the Ming Dynasty. Only then did they go abroad to look for opportunities to get rich overnight.

Chu Qi sat down in his seat and found that the restaurants in Chinatown not only included Ming immigrants living in the local area, but also a few foreigners were dining.

As the number one power in this world, the Ming Empire in this world is amazing in the eyes of foreigners. Instead, they imitate the culture of Ming immigration.

Chu Qi whispered to Feng Yuruo: "Miss Feng, this time we came to North America for not a month or two, but a year or two or even longer. There are already people on the East Coast, so please don't worry. After we go to the Hunter Point Shipyard to see if we have the opportunity to destroy the shipyard. After completing the deployment of the West Coast, we will go to Richmond on the East Coast, which will be our real stage."

"I understand, everything is obeying your command." Feng Yuruo replied calmly.

Guo Yan said: "Sir, if we appear rashly near the shipyard, it will definitely cause suspicion. I know that you can see the situation inside the shipyard from a distance on a hillside. We can pretend to be climbers and observe the layout of the shipyard."

"I guess you are already familiar with the situation here, so just do what you said."

A subordinate said to Chu Qi at this time: "Sir, there are two sneaky guys outside, who seem to have been following us just now."
Chapter completed!