In the Qianlong period, salt merchants and hong merchants were better than the whole Qing dynasty after the Qianlong dynasty, which was the law of ups and downs of the feudal dynasty
The root cause is that people and land have changed, and the population has been growing in the early stage, so the production has increased, and the country has become rich, but the per capita technical level is not high. When the population grows to a certain extent, the population will no longer be wealth but become a burden.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the population reached more than 400 million, but the area of cultivated land did not increase. In Daoguang, the per capita cultivated land was two mu, while in Kangxi, it was a method to increase the land. This method eradicated contradictions and caused China to always rise and fall.
Once the land law supports the people who live in the land, even if they are moderate as China people, they will never sit still and wait for death. In the late Qing Dynasty, various social problems broke out and civil unrest broke out, such as Tianli religion and Bailian religion, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was one of the representatives.
When it comes to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is customary for the imperial court to take charge of the merchants to ask for money. Because the Qing Dynasty learned from the experience and lessons of the DPRK, it prefers to search from the merchants and search from the poor people at the bottom. If it is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the peasants’ uprising broke out naturally, the merchants can still hold up their money. Unfortunately, in the late Qing Dynasty, a great change in the world was driven, and it was during the expansion period when the two great empires of Britain and France set off the ball, so foreign troubles were very serious, and the merchants were somewhat overwhelmed.
As early as before the first crow-crow war, many governors in Guangzhou had become superficial, and the operating income was not as good as that of filial piety to the court. It can be said that many businessmen made ends meet, so they backed out and joined the public bank, but they wanted to quit the government freely, but they did not agree.
Except for a few bribing the government to successfully quit ICBC, most of them have no way to get away successfully. Even the famous Wu Bingjian was forced by the government to end up as a general merchant of thirteen banks.
There is a well-known story that Wu Bingjian’s family has 260,000 silver dollars, which is more than 12,000 silver dollars. Wu Bingjian expressed his willingness to hand over his family’s property so that the Wu family can enjoy the remaining 20% of the wealth. As a result, the government did not promise to make a mercenary businessman willing to hand over most of his wealth and hope to get out. The industry is definitely not a good industry, at least the risk has exceeded the limit that these businessmen are willing to bear.
Because of the defeat of the crow-cong war in Britain, the Qing government had to terminate the monopoly of the Wu family, which made foreigners dissatisfied. It should be said that it was extremely fortunate that Zhu Jinglun invited them to re-engage in harmony and worship Yao, which made him feel a sense of crisis. He didn’t want to do it until he died
Seeing Wu Chongyao’s performance, Zhu Jinglun knew that he barely knew that the stories in the thirteenth line might be true, and no one really wanted to do it in the later stage.
However, watching the Wu family give up Jardine Matheson, Zhu Jinglun felt that they had given up a gold mine. In his own mind, it was worse than a pity to compare the strength of Jardine Matheson, which was far more profound than Jardine Matheson’s. Wu Jiayi and Jardine Matheson gave up their business. Zhu Jinglun thought that this gold mine might help him dig deeper.
In Zhu Jinglun’s eyes, Guangzhou Thirteen Banks has always been a monster with the same level of monopoly as the British East India Company. Although the East India Company was dissolved, it brought a thousand times and ten thousand times to the British empire, and Zhu Jinglun was not so greedy. After the thirteen banks closed down in the Qing Dynasty for a hundred years, he could not dig out an imperial legacy from it, but at least he should be allowed to grab industrialization funds.
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It’s small money to get 1 million silver from the Wu family this time, and it’s a big gain to get a giant partner like the Wu family, but these are nothing compared with the bankruptcy inheritance of the thirteenth bank.
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Zhu Jinglun appeased Wu Chongyao and dug up the first bucket of gold in his career. Getting the Wu family to set up a shop in Xin ‘an is equivalent to integrating Xin ‘an into the Wu family’s commercial network. More importantly, Zhu Jinglun found an opportunity to dig deep into the thirteen-line ruins gold mine.
The British dissolved the East India Company and gained the jurisdiction of the whole India. Zhu Jinglun believed that he would take over the Manchu court, give up the century-old public bank and the Wu family, and give up the thirteen-line signboard, which would certainly bring him an empire.
However, there is still a long way to go, and not everyone has the money to grab these heritages. The most important thing is to reach an agreement with the British to let Xin ‘an and Hong Kong trade.
With this heavy mountain, I have arrived in Hong Kong without any difficulties. Hong Kong has long been declared free by Hong Kong and Britain. gang Fangshan hired a fishing boat alone and had no weapons, so I won’t have any trouble.
I had some trouble finding Hurd, so Hurd was really unhappy at this time. He was released by the Qing army in Guangzhou and brought back with the goodwill of the Qing army. But when he returned to Hong Kong, Sima Mi Geli and Grant were bent on taking military force and refused to accept the kindness of the Qing army.
Hurd’s position in China and Britain can’t be too high. When he was in Guangzhou, he was valued by Parkes. It was because there were too few foreigners in Guangzhou and Hurd really showed his talent that he stood out. But there are many foreigners here in Hong Kong. His status is just a second-class translator in Guangzhou. People like him caught a lot in Hong Kong, so the news he brought back from Guangzhou was ignored and almost forgotten.
Fortunately, Fangshan is very good at finding people, and he has made some efforts to contact the local strongmen at the Hong Kong pier. After spending some money, he can naturally get the news he wants and send a letter.
Hurd’s life is not satisfactory, and he is particularly depressed at this time. When a person has no way to realize his own value, he is likely to be worthless and depressed. Hurd is no exception. He also feels depressed and hides in the staff apartment arranged by the British Hong Kong government every day, but he rarely goes out, but he is not idle. He has found many China nationals to continue studying hard, just as he did when he was unhappy in Ningbo.
A letter was handed to him from a middle-aged woman who was cleaning the apartment. Hurd read the letter with a dim oil lamp, and Hurd suddenly burst into a surge of enthusiasm.
He is also very rude. Hurd saw him looking for someone in a teahouse opposite the Sailor Beer Hall on the Hong Kong Pier.
After receiving the letter, Hurd knew that his chance had come.
After a 15-minute communication with the bearer, Hurd got up in a hurry, put on his hat and said, "I’ll find a way" and then asked the bearer to "wait for me for three days"
Why wait three days? Hurd can’t attend a cocktail party until the third day. He has never been very keen on cocktail parties. This kind of social activity will make him feel demeaning if he meets a group of ceremonies at the cocktail party, or he will be despised if he meets someone who is superior to him or a real rich and noble. He doesn’t like both of these feelings, so he doesn’t like attending cocktail parties.
This is an exception to attend the cocktail party. Because of this cocktail party, there will be a person who is the highest official in Hong Kong. To be precise, Erkin is the highest ranking person among the British in China. He is a representative of China. It can be said that here he represents the British royal family and he represents Victoria.
It’s been almost 20 years since Hong Kong port, but westerners still appear here as adventurers, erupts and fugitives. Western gentlemen are rare, let alone nobles. Therefore, the second generation of nobles like Erjin rarely attend cocktail parties. Today, Erjin is welcoming the special painter of London Pictorial. He hopes that the painter can paint his achievements into a painting to show his achievements.
This cocktail party is not very high in specifications, but it has become a popular place for Hong Kong’s floating society because of the presence of Erjin. Hurd tried many ways to get an invitation to the cocktail party.
At the cocktail party, he didn’t get a chance to get in touch with Erkin alone. An official like Erkin wouldn’t have Hurd in his eyes when Hurd knew he couldn’t wait for him.
"Peace!"
Hurd grabbed Elgin’s ear and said when he casually walked past him looking for someone else
"What?"
Erkin stopped and looked at Hurd doubtfully. He had no impression of Hurd, but he seemed to have seen not many British people even in Hong Kong. He was really not sure.
"I said that peace and trade are prosperous!"
Hurd added.
Erkin was a little curious about what Hurd wanted to say to him. "Who are you?"
Hurd quickly said, "I’m sorry, my name is Hurd, the second translator of Guangzhou Consulate. I want to say that we need peace and trade."
Erkin smiled with grace. "We all know that."
Then gently nod and leave.
Hurd didn’t want to miss this opportunity. "I know their officials and I am willing to negotiate."
Erkin obviously lost his patience and walked and said, "Mr. Hurd, we will take care of peace and trade."
Obviously, he is not interested in a small role like Hurd.
Hurd shouted behind him, "please forgive me. I know these things should not be asked by me. The problem is that they came to me and they believed me!" "
Erkin stopped looking unhappy, but he didn’t refuse. "Come to my office at two o’clock in the afternoon and I’ll give you twenty minutes to call me."
It was a beautiful afternoon, so Hurd thought, because he said Elgin promised to send someone to contact GD officials.
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