Lincoln regarded the arrival of the China mission as the best gift for his inauguration. He had hoped that the mission would arrive on his inauguration day so that they could attend his inauguration ceremony. Unfortunately, the sea was so measured. Although the Nisuda had tried its best, it was still more than a week late.
However, Lincoln received them in a high standard. Although it was not a formal mission, Lincoln needed a decent diplomatic achievement because he heard too much bad news during this period.
Last year, the second month after his successful election, South Carolina declared its independence from the Union. Before his inauguration on March 4, Mississippi, Florida and other slave-holding States successively seceded from the Union to form an American Union.
At this time, it is particularly important for the Chinese to come because they came to Washington, not Richmond, and they visited the United States of America instead of the United States. This can be regarded as China, an eastern country with little attitude towards American politics. Lincoln can make the American people understand that "China people support the federal government."
The China Mission became the first mission to visit the United States and express its attitude after the division of the United States.
Lincoln gave a high-profile welcome. When the Nisuda mission and American envoy John Eliott Ward were moored in the port, several salutes sounded and warmly welcomed the mission from the mysterious country in the far east.
Later, Lincoln personally received the mission, but he regretted that the mission diplomacy, that is, apologizing to the families of the silent Mississippi cruiser, was completed because the families of the warship were all in the south
Lincoln was too busy to communicate much with the mission, but he had already made careful arrangements, even before he took office. For example, he had to show the mission the best things in the world.
So a special person took them on a secret visit to the most developed New England area in the United States, visited where a large textile mill and machinery factory appeared, visited the Erie Canal, took the new york train to visit the city’s high-rise buildings, visited universities and libraries. Unfortunately, the American government did not arrange for them to visit the prosperous New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street, because in this era, the name of Wall Street is even worse than that of later generations, and the elite in the United States recognized where to gather as a group of most immoral bastards. They could not show the American "scar" to oriental guests.
Nevertheless, the members of the delegation have seen too many things to see. They have never seen cotton turn into cotton yarn so easily, and then it is hard to imagine that one person can weave 200 people to weave textiles, but it is even more difficult for these wealthy brothers who have studied hard or mixed food since childhood to understand what those magnificent and horrible steel monsters can do.
When they saw the machinery factory, they were frightened that steel could be pulled and crushed at will, and processed into all kinds of grotesque workpieces like soft noodles, and finally they could form different machine monsters.
When taking the train, people were frightened and screaming all the way, and some people were lying on the window and cheering wildly. This steel monster running on two tracks without horses made some people panic and some people feel excited, but no one was indifferent.
Americans care most about the most famous universities and libraries, but it doesn’t surprise them too much. Compared with these books, teachers and students, the industrial products are still in their cognitive range. No one thinks that it is anything special than the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. They may not have seen the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but they know that the river is less than 100 times longer than this canal.
It’s always a huge ideological shock, and everyone is excited every day.
After the Reform, the Japanese sent half of the senior government officials to travel around the world, and their mission left six words about the feelings of western languages: shock, drunkenness and madness.
Generally speaking, these businessmen’s brothers are much more flexible in concept than their peasant brothers and landlords, but they still can’t do the Japanese painstaking learning attitude that they can abandon their own culture as soon as they see something new, because their country’s heritage is much deeper than Japan’s, and others have always learned from China, which makes their brains unable to turn this corner for a while.
But someone has been silent.
Silence means thinking that one of them is a businessman in his thirties. He is a farmer, a farmer and a farmer. Although he has a lot of land, he can’t be rich and expensive, but his worries about food and clothing can make him read. It is Confucius and Mencius in his mind.
His family also does business in Vietnam, doing groceries and silk business. He has a businessman’s eye, but the way of thinking is still Confucius and Mencius.
When he saw the American textile factory and stayed in the hotel at night, he remembered that the world outlook of Confucius and Mencius was not low. In this case, if they can do 200 people live and get 30 people’s wages, how can they say that their exotic skills are barbarians?
Section 170 Speculation
However, most of the businessmen’s brothers haven’t come back yet. They are curious about new things and marvel at the world different from theirs, but they are not the same as the Japanese mission a few years later. Before going abroad, the Japanese have made up their minds to spy on the secrets of westerners’ prosperity. They have already straightened their minds before going abroad. They have long been shocked that these foreigners have defeated the Asian sun twice, China and even China. They have long accepted the fact that foreigners are stronger than Japan. When they go to the west, they can immediately put themselves into study and visit western scholars, and they can lower their posture and ask for advice.
However, most of these businessmen with the most flexible brains are still amazed at the skill of foreigners. They have not been interested in western scholars and knowledge for the time being, but even the most conservative of them have actually suffered a great impact.
I’m afraid there is a person who is really unmoved, Wu Chongyao, the deputy envoy of the mission. He was forced to come by Zhu Jinglun, because the other half wanted to come to the United States to see what his father Wu Bingjian was like before he died.
But when he came, he was different from everyone, including the mission, which enabled Chen Zhiting to despise him without sighing about visiting him, but he couldn’t. His business in China was not only his business in the United States, but also his family’s business in the United States. At this time, he also gave him a big business behind Zhu Jinglun’s back!
Wu Chongyao has been very admired for Zhu Jinglun’s business since he resold a draft of the East India Company with Zhu Jinglun.
It is difficult for Wu Chongyao to understand how to create a draft market and earn excess profits from it.
But Wu Chongyao felt that he did it very well that time. He didn’t earn as much as Zhu Jinglun because he didn’t have the guts as Zhu Jinglun at that time. He invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Guangzhou and finally earned 302 thousand dollars.
But this is the most successful business he has done in recent years. Frankly speaking, he is not a good material for doing business, because Wu Bingjian didn’t take him as a successor to train the Wu family as a successor in those years. Wu Yuanhua, the fourth brother of Wu Chongyao, is the most suitable successor. Wu Bingjian has been doing business with Wu Bingjian since he was a child, but this is a bad life. The local new governor and other officials hate businessmen and have to change the way to clean up these businessmen, just a foreigner. When a woman visited in a sedan chair, he took off his clothes and flogged Wu Yuanhua, an official and businessman who wore three hats. Because he built a dock for foreigners, he was caught in prison and beaten, which led to Wu Yuanhua’s early death at the age of 33.
Finally, Wu Bingjian had to push Wu Chongyao, who was only 23 years old, to the position of heir. At that time, Wu Chongyao’s business knowledge was almost cultivated when he was a child, and he couldn’t even count the accounts. He couldn’t understand the feeling of doing business, so his father Wu Bingjian was able to continue to take charge of the business. Ten years later, Wu Chongyao really took charge of the Wu family after Wu Bingjian’s death, but his talent was really bad, and he was specially cancelled by foreign firms. However, he was blackmailed by officials, but his business suffered a long-term loss.
Wu Chongyao knew that in his own hands, Wu’s family business had hardly been pushed forward, and most of it had shrunk. He donated money to the court to honor officials and pay court war reparations, which made him feel extremely worried about the future of the Wu family.
Until Zhu Jinglun’s method made him win a beautiful battle and changed hands for hundreds of thousands of silver profits. This feeling is like his grandfather and his father’s demeanor made him very happy when they were doing business.
This time, Zhu Jinglun found him again and told him that he planned to do a similar business and asked Wu Chongyao if he would do it. Of course, Wu Chongyao would do it, and then Zhu Jinglun asked him to come to the United States.
Zhu Jinglun borrowed one million taels of silver from the Wu family this time, hoping that Wu Chongyao would help him fuck.
There are also Wu Chongyao who can fuck because Wu Chongyao has someone in the United States, John Forbes, a new American businessman.
Forbes went to China as an apprentice to the tea industry in 129. Later, he believed that Wu Bingjian’s adoptive father founded Qichang Foreign Firm. After years, he returned home with a huge asset of 50,000 Mexican silver dollars!
Forbes is the money to run another industry in the United States-the railway. At this time, he is already a railroad tycoon, worth more than one million dollars, and is the agent of Bahrain Brothers Bank in the United States.
Because Forbes in Wu Bingjian received Wu Chongyao with great enthusiasm, he introduced Wu Chongyao to his banker friends in new york and told his friends that Wu Chongyao’s wealth was 100 times that of him. This tycoon came to the United States to invest, and at one time Wu Chongyao became a new york star. A group of American businessmen with various purposes tried to get close to him, including those who recommended stocks and securities to him, entrepreneurs who sought his investment and entrepreneurs who wanted to join hands with him to expand Sino-US trade.
Here, Wu Chongyao enjoys the respect that a successful businessman deserves, but he is deeply depressed because he knows that these are not what he deserves, but what his father earns for him is nothing compared with him.
The more I feel that I am in Wu Chongyao, the more I want to make some achievements. He told Forbes that there will be an English ship docked in Richmond in the south of the United States. He needed Forbes to help him find a secret warehouse in Richmond and a trusted British businessman to look after him.
Forbes asked him what the ship was loaded with, and wondered if Wu Chongyao had smuggled anything into the United States illegally. Wu Chongyao didn’t hide it from him and told him that it was a ship worth millions of doctors, including alcohol, gauze and tincture of analgesic crow.
Forbes is a banker with a background in new york, and big businessmen know that Wu Chongyao is hoarding traders. This kind of thing has already been done. A large group of people in new york are betting that the north and the south will fight, but they are not as big as Wu Chongyao. Take out one million.
At this time, Americans were optimistic about the North and South. In fact, most people, including the Lincoln administration, did not think that there would be a war, which led to the sudden outbreak of the war and the north was caught off guard. At that time, they had less than 20 thousand troops in their hands and were still distributed all over the country, so there was no way to get up.
Lincoln always hoped to solve the problem through negotiation. He promised the South many times that he would not force the South to liberate slaves. He insisted on choosing the southern States, but he didn’t expect the South to attack the North and launch a war.
This is the attitude of the government. The more there are big businessmen in the government, the less they recognize the battle. Forbes happens to be such a businessman. He participated in the establishment of Qichang Foreign Firm, which is similar to the East India Company. As for Britain, the business giants have great influence in the United States. After his death, his family continued to have great energy in politics. One of his descendants later became the vice president of the United States
Forbes doesn’t believe that war will break out, even if it does, it will definitely be a short-term war. He believes that Wu Chongyao’s hoarding of that million and two medicines will eventually make him suffer heavy losses, because this batch of goods is destined to be sold for a long time, and it is impossible for someone to consume so many medicines in a short time.
Wu Chongyao’s righteous brother Forbes is still very sincere in persuading Wu Chongyao not to take such risks and persuade him to ship the goods to the north, so that he can lose less. But even if Wu Chongyao insists on doing so, Forbes can’t promise to help someone find a businessman with a British background in the United States. It’s too easy, but it’s necessary to find a reliable person for such a large fortune. Finally, Forbes gave this to one of his relatives and won a generous commission for this relative. Brother’s business is brother’s business, and even Wu Bingjian Forbes needs money.
Forbes didn’t know that Wu Bingjian had asked Jardine Matheson to help raise this batch of drugs in Britain the year before. In this era, even if Britain took out one million taels of drugs, it would also have a great impact on the market, so this batch of drugs was raised bit by bit for a whole year.
Ask Jardine Matheson to send someone to send the medicine to the United States one month before Wu Chongyao leaves from China, and properly dispose of the medicine when Wu Chongyao comes to the United States.
Just after they unloaded all the goods in a remote warehouse in Richmond, the Confederate army attacked the fort Sumter in the north and the war broke out.
Wu Chongyao breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the news of the outbreak of war. In fact, he didn’t have much confidence because he didn’t know much about the United States. Even Forbes recognized that the war would not break out or it would be a small-scale war. Then why did Zhu Jinglun assume that there would be a war between the north and the south? Now the war broke out as expected. Zhu Jinglun guessed that Wu Chongyao also guessed that the end was this end. He couldn’t see it because he had to go to Europe to deal with the same thing.
On April 12, 161, at 4: 03 a.m., the allied artillery fired at Sumter fortress. Three days later, Chen Zhiting led the Guangdong delegation to leave the United States and took a British merchant ship to Britain before the war spread to the north.
For Wu Chongyao, Britain is another speculative market. For Chen Zhiting, Britain is the real goal of the mission.
Section one hundred and seventy-nine Promote free trade
Being away from the United States is temporary, so it seems to be in a hurry. For many businessmen, they are still quite sorry because Americans have prepared a tour for them. For young people who are new to a new world, what is more disappointing than not being able to travel?