At the beginning of 1870, Li Mingyuan's regime signed an agreement on the repatriation of Chinese workers with the United States, Canada, Australia, Peru, Cuba and other countries, according to the agreement, the Chinese who had completed their work were received and transported back to China by the Chinese regime in South America, and were not allowed to stay in the local area without reason. and the lucky lucky ones who fled the provinces where the Dingshu famine broke out, because of the limited capacity to South America, they had to accept the labor agreements reached between the Han government and the United States, Australia and other countries, and the governments of various countries came forward to transport these laborers to their destinations in batches.

Affected by the Han State's agreement on the acceptance of Chinese workers from the mainland and the repatriation of Chinese workers, millions of people affected by the disaster on the mainland were fortunate to avoid the fate of death, and took crowded transport ships to different destinations, and compared with the same period in history, excluding the Chinese immigrants who entered South America, the total number of Chinese in Australia, the United States, Canada, Peru, and Cuba not only did not decrease due to the influence of Han's policy of absorbing foreign Chinese workers, but was two to three times more than in history.

Western capitalists regard the pursuit of profit as their primary goal, and Australia, Canada, and Cuba were under the direct colonial rule of Britain and Spain at that time, so why didn't the British and Spanish governments do anything about using Chinese young and strong Chinese as front-line laborers to mine minerals and grow cash crops, which not only solved the problem of the high cost of using white labor, but also increased considerable financial revenue for the colonial government?

Australia's mineral resources have been gradually discovered and exploited, and Australia has also been called the new gold mountain by Chinese laborers after San Francisco in the United States.

Because of the proximity and lower transportation costs compared to the United States, the number of Chinese laborers going to Australia has doubled in the past decade, and by October 1879, the number of Chinese laborers in Australia reached 200,000, second only to the United States with 350,000, and the second largest number of Chinese in the West.

In 1876, on the day that Forde Hayes, a Civil War veteran was inaugurated as president of the United States, he made it clear in his speech that he swore his anti-Chinese stance: "Our experience in dealing with blacks and Indians can also be applied to the Chinese, and I will give priority to using any appropriate means to prevent the Chinese from reaching our shores." ”

As the head of state of the largest country in the Americas, Hayes catered to the mentality of some white supremacists and delivered an anti-Chinese speech, casting a shadow on the vigorous introduction of Chinese laborers, since Hayes came to power, the US government consciously reduced the number of Chinese workers in the United States, and in the United States, connived at the persecution of Chinese workers by white rioters, and the American police responsible for maintaining social order also turned a blind eye to the incident of smashing Chinese shops and killing Chinese laborers, and the Argentine War broke out, more than 200,000 Han troops advanced into Argentina, Uruguay has exacerbated the anti-Chinese atmosphere in the United States.

With the end of the Argentine War and the full establishment of the Han rule over the La Plata region, the Han government and many Chinese who had lived in the United States have felt that a new round of anti-Chinese storm is about to set off, and the Chinese workers stranded in the United States will face an unprecedented and dangerous situation.

Huang Xiping is one of the beneficiaries of the labor repatriation agreement, in 1875, from the small mountain village of his hometown in southern Fujian, followed by a total of 1,300 young people from the surrounding counties to the United States to work as railroad workers, at the end of 1877, the two-year labor agreement expired, Huang Xiping did not leave on a transport ship to Han like other Chinese workers, but stayed in a town in Nevada where Chinese workers gathered, and used his previous experience as an apprentice in a pharmacy to open a Chinese medicine shop. At the end of 1878, when Huang Xiping was ready to use the money he earned, he exchanged the money he earned for a large medicine shop, hired a few more Chinese apprentices, and made the pharmacy business bigger, a riot against the Chinese occurred, and Huang Xiping was in the Chinese ghetto, hundreds of white men with old-fashioned muskets and knives broke into Chinatown. They shoot Chinese people walking on the road, or chase Chinese people fleeing in terror with knives, and after killing people, they will cut off Chinese braids and hold them in their hands to show off.

The incident in Nevada is not an isolated case, in Alabama, California and other areas where there are large numbers of Chinese, white cowboys and homeless gunmen have joined in the violent action against the Chinese, and nearly 1,000 Chinese have been beaten and injured by white people.

The U.S. government intends to tear up the agreement on the repatriation of Chinese workers and no longer bring in Chinese workers on a large scale to perform low-level labor, so after negotiations with the U.S. government have failed, Han officials in the United States can only remind Chinese workers to be more careful and prepare weapons for self-defense when the situation deteriorates.

Witnessing the atrocities of white Americans, Huang Xiping learned his lesson and decided to leave the United States, a land of right and wrong, and hurriedly disposed of the local medicine shop at a low price to a few apprentices who planned to stay, as compensation for their hard work for a year, while he himself sailed to South America in early 1879 when the migrant transport arrived in the United States.

In the small town of Nehoda, although his medical skills are average, because there is only one Chinese medicine shop around, the daily income is not bad, but after more than 11 years of local development in the Han country, the treatment system of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine has been gradually established, and his low medical skills cannot gain a foothold in Chang'an City.

Huang Xiping found that the price of herbs in those herb shops was two to three percent higher than when he was in the United States, excluding the factor that other people's medical skills were more superb than his own, Huang Xiping carefully pondered and understood that his medicinal materials were packed and brought by his fellow villagers from his hometown, and each time he brought a full car of medicinal materials, the transportation cost was much lower than that of the second-hand medicinal materials merchants, and he realized the business opportunities contained in it, Huang Xiping made the second important decision in his life, that is, to close the Chinese medicine shop, Changed careers to become a professional wholesaler of medicinal herbs.

Today, Han Guoxiong occupies the La Plata region, and it is only three or five years away from becoming the largest country in South America in terms of comprehensive strength, and with the delivery of the first 1,350-ton light cruiser independently built by Xinjing Shipyard to the Navy, military shipbuilding technology feeds back to the civilian steamship industry, and a new batch of 1,500-ton large civil ocean-going transport ships of Han State has completed the experimental acceptance, and will soon be authorized to Xinjing Shipyard and Xinghe Shipyard for mass production.

During the next ten years of development planning, the Han government will authorize the opening of a part of the steamship construction technology, integrate and support the establishment of three to five large and medium-sized civilian shipyards, specifically responsible for the transportation of ocean-going ships. The cost of migration and the transportation of goods will also be further reduced.

Looking at the impact of national development on the industry from the perspective of a Chinese medicine practitioner, Huang Xiping initially explored the key points of changing his career to business, first looking for a partner with superb medical skills and a good reputation for Chinese medicine Langzhong, which can find a buyer for the sale of medicinal materials, and can also quickly open up the situation in the early stage of entrepreneurship, and then personally return to his hometown by boat, contact the villagers and relatives there, purchase herbs from local medicinal herb merchants or directly from medicine farmers, and then rent an ocean carrier to transport the purchased herbs back to South America.

After planning his entrepreneurial plan, Huang Xiping found Feng Langzhong and told the real purpose straight to the point.

According to Huang's observation, the prices of local ginseng, assara, schisandra, Codonopsis, rehmannia radix, hyssop, yam, chrysanthemum and other medicinal materials are two to three times higher than those in the mainland.

The development of the pharmaceutical industry is the trend of the times, can Brother Feng be interested? ”

"The homeland from the mainland is thousands of miles away, and the risks at sea are unpredictable, in case our medicinal herbs encounter a storm at sea, then wouldn't we have lost all our money?"

Feng Langzhong did not directly answer the other party's invitation, but asked a question that he was most concerned about.

"There are risks at sea, but they are not as big as Mr. Feng thinks." Huang Xiping patiently explained that "the storm is the biggest risk of ocean shipping, in the past few years, from time to time there are small transport ships encountered storms, the tragedy of ship destruction and death, but according to the navigation decree issued by the government, small transport ships with a displacement of 700 tons or less will gradually withdraw from the ocean shipping industry, and three years later, the minimum standard for the displacement of ships carrying out ocean shipping business is 800 tons, Carriers of less than 800 tons can only engage in short- and medium-distance offshore transportation from the mainland to the northern part of South America, and are not allowed to go to sea to the South China Sea without permission.

In the next ten years, ocean-going sail carriers will be eliminated, and steamships will become the main force in the ocean-going shipping industry, with the tonnage and power plant of steamships having much more storm resistance than sail ships, so even if they are unfortunate enough to encounter storms, ships have great survivability.

"Thank you Brother Huang for your sincere invitation, it's just that Feng has just settled in Chang'an, and most of the money he has saved has bought a shop on the street, and the rest of the money is probably not enough to do business with Brother Huang."

"How much money can Mr. Feng come up with now?"

"At most, 2,400 Han Yuan, my wife is seriously pregnant, and Feng has to prepare some money for emergency use."

"Mr. Feng don't worry, in terms of money, it's a big deal to have an extra share, but in terms of shares, I'm afraid I will have to wronged Mr. Feng."

"Most of the medicinal material business is Brother Huang's labor contact, and Brother Huang should have an extra share, Feng has no opinion."

"Okay, then it's agreed with Brother Feng, Brother Feng will pay 2,400 Han Yuan, accounting for 30% of the dry shares, and 5000 Han Yuan, accounting for 70% of the dry shares, and we will draw up a formal agreement tomorrow."

"Then thank you Brother Huang for your care."

"Hehe, Mr. Feng is polite, you and I should cooperate with each other and support each other." …………

The female goal was achieved, Huang Xiping replied with a smile.