Chapter 625 "Hotel California"

  Mark Twain once said that the coldest winter is the summer in San Francisco.

  In fact, San Francisco is never cold in summer. Many people don’t understand why Mark Twain said that.

  Mark Twain is just a pseudonym. His real name is Samuel Langhen Clement. Mark Twain was originally a term used by the sailors of the Mississippi River to express the depth of the water measured on the channel.

  Life's ups and downs, no one knows when he will be unlucky. When Mark Twain was a reporter, with the information and experience he collected, he bought stocks in a silver mine.

In his cognition, he has fixed a “pipeline”, and he only needs to wait for it to “flow” money out, but what he did not expect is that the stock has not risen to the position he expected. The law of Nevada There is no change.

  In 1873, the United States laid the groundwork for returning to the gold standard and abolished the legal tender status of silver, which caused opposition from regions rich in silver. In 1890, the introduction of the new Silver Act, the price of silver plummeted, and Samuel Langhen Clement went bankrupt, and Mark Twain had to work again in order to repay his debts. In 1894, his investment in manufacturing automatic typesetting machines failed and went bankrupt. In order to pay off debts, he traveled to give speeches and visited Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, India and South America.

  Fortunately, he is still famous, and the speech is still heard. Before and after the publication of "Fool Wilson" in 1894, his family suffered misfortune: two daughters fell ill and died, and his wife’s health deteriorated.

There is a record in the library in London’s Chinatown. From May to October 1894, the plague pandemic in Hong Kong killed more than 2,000 people. It became the plague with the largest number of deaths since the opening of Hong Kong, one third of which The population fled Hong Kong.

  The plague began to spread globally. In 1896, the plague broke out in Taiwan and Mumbai, India, and later became a local endemic disease.

  Egypt, South Africa, Hawaii, San Francisco and Northeast China broke out in 1899. There were also cases in Japan. It broke out in Australia and Russia in 1900 and eventually spread to all continents except Antarctica. It was not until the end of the global pandemic in the 1950s.

  After the outbreak of the plague in Hong Kong in 1894, some ports have taken measures to prevent the plague from being introduced, but these measures did not completely prevent the spread of the plague in the end.

Western medicine did not fully understand the role of rats and lice in the spread of the plague before 1898. Many Chinese workers still leave Hong Kong by smuggling, and their environmental sanitation conditions are extremely poor. If the pneumonic plague spreads , It is easier to spread in the narrow cabin.

San Francisco’s Chinatown is very dirty and messy. Many hotels are "single rooms", that is, there is only one room with one bed, no separate bathroom and kitchen, and many "piggy" rooms can't be accommodated. They are in an old warehouse. Inside, **** with a rope, you can dry clothes and make partitions.

  The population is densely populated, and the unclean appearance of Chinatown is in sharp contrast with the affluent areas of San Francisco. Since 1885, the city of San Francisco has been driving out the Chinese.

  A suspected case of lymphatic plague was discovered in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900, which allowed the San Francisco Department of Health to find an excuse to expel the Chinese.

Mark Twain paid off all his debts in 1898, and his family returned to the United States in October 1900. At that time, Chinese and English newspapers were arguing about anti-Chinese and plague incidents. The Chinese and Western Daily News kept track of the progress of the plague every day. San Francisco Chinatown It became a place where the contradictions between Chinese society and mainstream American society intersect.

  Before the boycott of American products in 1905, the Chinese still had a good impression of the United States, because they reported fairly fairly about the incident of the Eight-Power Allied Forces in 1900.

   But in the San Francisco plague incident, the Americans have a different attitude.

  On February 16, 1900, health officials burned Honolulu’s Chinatown on fire for disinfection.

  On March 6, 1900, there was the first "suspected" plague death in San Francisco. Health officials did not wait for the results to come out and isolated Chinatown overnight with ropes to distinguish white and Chinese shops.

Inside Chinatown, the health department neither isolated the building where the Chinese tenant lived, nor searched for people who had contact with him, nor did they restrict white people’s commerce and external traffic in Chinatown. They blamed everyone on the charges. Chinese residents.

  At that time, the San Francisco consulate sent people to investigate the death cases and issued an announcement to clarify the facts. After the Chinese Chamber of Commerce approved the announcement, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce donated money to hire a lawyer and requested the Federal Court to lift the ban.

  The deceased’s yellow woven sutra has been sick for a month. It cannot be the plague, a malignant infectious disease that will be fatal within a few days.

  After the corpse of the yellow weaving sutra was dissected on Angel Island, the quarantine personnel injected the extract into rabbits, monkeys and mice, and none of them developed symptoms.

  So the first time the "encirclement of the port" was lifted.

  But the Health Bureau did not give up because of this. Every time a Chinese died, the body was taken away, dissected and burned, and even slandered as a plague without evidence.

  The Chinese believed that it was safe to enter the land, and the deplaning and cremation were regarded as disrespect for the corpse. Therefore, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce hired white coroners and lawyers to examine the corpse before the people in the health department to avoid the end of the "dead dead.

Later, the smallpox vaccine came out, and the health department required the Chinese to vaccinate. The vaccine at that time was not as safe as it is now, and vaccination would be life-threatening. Moreover, smallpox vaccination could not prevent the plague. It was only targeted at Asians. The club appealed.

  The Consul of San Francisco contacted U.S. Ambassador Wu Tingfang, requesting exemption from the disease, and the merchants protested with a strike.

  On May 28, the Federal Court ruled that the seeding epidemic against Asian residents was discriminatory and suspended. However, the California Department of Health ordered the San Francisco Department of Health to enclose Chinatown again.

In the second encirclement of the city, doctors hired by the Chinese were not allowed to enter. Only people from the health department were allowed to enter. The Chinese were not allowed to enter except Chinatown. Later, they said that Chinatown would be burned. It seems that they intend to follow suit. In the Middle Ages, people were burned to death at the stake.

  Wu Tingfang met with the President of the United States this time, and accused the San Francisco Health Bureau of violating the Sino-US contract. Mr. President sent the Governor of California to inspect, and the ban was not lifted a few days later.

  The second time Chinatown was besieged, when the ambassador complained to the president, the Chinese in San Francisco also began to actively rectify sanitation, which made the sanitation situation in the area much better.

   Although the siege was finally relieved, many people were unemployed and many people were hungry. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce also distributed the donated food to various branch halls and churches according to the rules.

  At the same time, the Zhonghua Hall told all the townships that after this incident, the houses should be cleaned and kept hygienic, so that people from the health bureau should not make excuses to confine the port.

  San Francisco is the largest and most prosperous city on the West Coast. After traveling the world, Mark Twain, who is debt-free and light-weight, may return to San Francisco again to see where he once stayed when he was wealthy and his family was complete.

  His works are not catering to the general public. He criticized unreasonable phenomena or the ugliness of human nature. 1900 was the era of the magicians Houdini and Holmes at the end of the century.

  Perhaps, the cold that Mark Twain said does not refer to the weather, but to the hearts of the people. Among so many equatorial tropical cities he has traveled, the coldest summer is in San Francisco.

  Nowadays, there are still "single-room" hotels with poor conditions in Chinatown where dragons and snakes are mixed, as well as five-star hotels like W Hotel.

The flashy and glamorous hotels are actually not as clean and bright as they appear on the surface. There are many so-called five-star hotels. The "snow white" sheets will not be changed at all, but for those who sleep in their clothes, they only need to have one. A bed that can lie down can quickly fall asleep.

  Hermione is now sleeping on the double bed in the bedroom. She has no interest in the gorgeous decoration of the hotel, and after opening the door, she goes straight to the bedroom.

This girl not only wandered in the wild for a long time to destroy the Horcrux. She knew what it was like not to take a bath for a long time and to be hungry. She also experienced the Battle of Hogwarts. She survived all the hardships. What else is it? She can't stand it.

everything will get better.

  Looking down from the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, not far away is the torii of London's Chinatown. Mr. Lin, the chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, is negotiating with the police in the "wall" under the arch.

  Visitors want to enter Chinatown. The police said that there was a gas leak. Investigations are underway. No people are allowed to enter. Mr. Lin and the superintendent in charge of the siege are "noisy".

  Scotland Yard should be a good-tempered person. No matter what Mr. Lin said, he kept smiling from beginning to end, but he did not give orders to remove the police cars blocking the entrance.

  The "strip" is really harmful.

"What are you looking at?"

A familiar low voice came from behind Pomona, and then she wrapped her hands around her waist from behind. From the reflection in the glass window, she saw a face as pale as a vampire. The unsightly half-blood prince was kissing her neck, looking like he was sucking blood.

   "A demon I want to kill but can't kill." She didn't look back, and whispered, "Why are you here?"

   "I miss you." He lowered his eyes and smelled her body with a hooked nose.

   "I didn't wear perfume today."

   "I know." He kissed her earlobe "I like your smell."

   "We are working." She closed her eyes and tried to avoid his entanglement.

  "Stop talking." He ignored her resistance and continued to unbutton her coat.

   "Please... Hermione is in the bedroom."

   "The presidential suite has many other rooms."

  "She needs information, she asked me where did she get the night call information!" In the end, Pomona broke free of his entanglement and talked to him a step away.

  His hair is messy and greasy, his upper lip is tight, his round eyes are bloodshot, his back is bent, and his black robe is dragged on the soft carpet, looking like he is going to get angry.

  "You teach me how to tell her, Professor." Pomona immediately added cleverly, "Now I follow your orders."

   "I don't like your spy game!" He snarled at her fiercely with his yellow teeth, holding his hands in front of him, as if he was about to strangle her with bare hands. "Don't play tricks with me!"

   "I didn't." She said timidly, "I listened to you, and I didn't betray you."

  The roaring beast suddenly put away its ferocious face and restored the human five senses.

   "I'm afraid Kingsley will lose patience if he keeps denying it this way, how about you let him make up for it?" Pomona folded her hands and pleaded, "Now we need his power, especially in a city with sufficient electricity."

   "I hate werewolves." He said in a daze, "It almost killed me."

"I know." She shed tears, choked and said, "I'm just worried about Teddy. He did nothing wrong. Once humans and werewolves go to war, all his dad's efforts are in vain, oh, what should I do, West Fles."

  She was crying, and her tears were hazy. It didn't take long before she felt that she was surrounded by a warm embrace.

  She smelled sage and a **** smell on him.

   "That werewolf recruited?" she asked.

   "Yes." He said in a hoarse voice, "Stop talking about this, do you want to dance with me?"

   "Yes." She whispered in his arms, "But we don't have music."

   "We can imagine in our heads."

   "Can't you sing to me?" She condemned her new husband "You never sang to me!"

   "Waltz or Tango?" He asked her in a strong tone.

   "I don't want to jump!" She was so angry that she broke free of this place that gave her a brief warmth, and then she was pulled back.

   "You never want to leave." He smiled triumphantly, and then pulled the black robe to wrap her in the darkness.

  (End of this chapter)