Hurd obtained from Britain the power to reduce the tax rate on cotton exports to India to 5% in exchange for the loss of Ming keeping the import price of cotton yarn unchanged. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Hurd explained that Daming cotton production is seriously insufficient, and can only be made by importing Indian cotton and cotton yarn, which can be used as a raw material for refined cotton cloth for the urban middle class, and imported cotton processed into coarse cloth, which not only satisfies the domestic market, but also makes up the balance by exporting to India.

In other words, Hurd intended to use the British colonies to dump Ming goods and then make up the balance, but he still did not want to infringe on the interests of Britain itself.

In view of the fact that the Ming Dynasty still needs to maintain friendly relations with Britain, Zhu Jinglun intends to accept the results of the negotiations, but he is worried about the dumping of cotton yarn between Britain and India, Zhu Jinglun still hopes to support the cotton yarn industry in his own country to fight, so he asked for a complete exemption from the low tariff of 5% on imported Indian cotton, increase the import of raw materials from India, and reduce the price of domestic cotton yarn, so that he has more ability to resist the dumping of foreign yarn.

At the same time, various duty-free policies were introduced to tide them over, and at the same time, the raw silk industry also needed to be tax-free, and tea did not need to be tax-free without competitors, while heavy industry, in addition to the shipbuilding industry, the steel and machinery industries only needed to raise tariffs by a large margin to block the dumping of French and German industrial products, and did not need to be tax-free, because as long as the dumping was blocked, the railway construction of arsenals and railway companies could ensure a basic steel and machinery industry market.

In 1890, when the stability had passed, the common people felt that life was more difficult than before, the women workers in the rural industry were protected by the rural community, and they would not starve to death in the economic crisis, and the urban workers felt for the first time that they could not survive, and they had three choices, one was to emigrate, the other was to return to the countryside, and the last one was to make a revolution.

Soon after the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of workers were the first generation of workers who entered the cities from the countryside, and there were still relatives to take refuge in the countryside, which was not a pure proletariat, so a large number of workers chose the first two choices, and only a very small number of workers who really left the rural community were the real proletariat, and most of them chose to emigrate, but there were already pamphlets of various worker theories spread among the workers.

This kind of movement formed by workers for their livelihood cannot be stopped, and it is not a big deal for workers to shout slogans on the streets, but what they are most afraid of is being used by careerists, and all kinds of tyrants under the banner of revolution will use the anger of workers to destroy all civilizations, visible and invisible.

At this time, the government tends to have two kinds of repression, one to repress, the other to divert attention, using nationalist sentiments to transfer the proletariat's anger and violence to it, which is why war is always between economic crises.

The economic crisis of 1873, the French invasion of Vietnam, and the economic crisis of 1883, the French invasion of Vietnam continued. The linkage between war and economic crisis is not just a coincidence.

Hurd, who had lost a lot of points in the taxation of British goods, also intended to use this nationalism to divert national discontent from the economy.

The Americans offered this opportunity.

The economic crisis has a greater impact on the United States, because the United States has a larger population and therefore greater public resentment.

The U.S. government chose to divert the attention of the workers with nationalist sentiments, and they turned the object of damage to the Chinese.

Public opinion blames too many Chinese for the unemployment of American workers, but in fact the number of Chinese in the United States is only about 1 million, and the total population of the United States is 62.9 million, and the Chinese are only a pitiful 1.5 million, accounting for less than 3 percent of the total population of the United States.

But American public opinion is guiding in this direction, and every time the US economy is in crisis, it always blames other races for the cause, and this time is no exception.

In fact, it is the racists who are pursuing their racist policies under the guise of employment, and ten years ago they have forced the Ming to recognize a Chinese-exclusive bill that will expire next year.

In the past ten years, the Ming population to the United States has been greatly reduced, and a large number of Chinese have migrated back, forming an interaction of entry and exit, although the Chinese have formed a mature community in the local area, because of the immigration inertia brought about by the kinship problem, it has become the main driving force for immigration, the government has no longer promoted, the population of immigrants to the United States has been close to balance in recent years, obviously under the effect of Chinese exclusion in the United States, the motivation of Chinese immigration to the United States has weakened.

But even in this state, the Americans are still agitating for anti-Chinese exclusion.

They are no longer satisfied with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 10 years ago, and not only want to ban Chinese from immigrating to the United States, but they also want to drive more than one million Chinese immigrants out of the United States.

But Da Ming is not so easy to bully, so they choose to negotiate.

The Hurd government excluded the negotiating team and could not accept the demands made by the Americans.

The United States requires: first, it prohibits immigration between relatives, second, the Ming population who leaves the United States, whether it has American citizenship or not, cannot enter the United States, and third, it completely prohibits the short-term work permits of Ming workers in the United States.

The first two are to drive the Chinese out of the United States, which is the content of the Chinese Exclusion Act in history, and they really did it in history, in the 1850s, the Chinese population in the United States exceeded 100,000, and after World War II a hundred years later, it was reduced to less than 80,000.

It can even be said that the United States passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which stifled the growth of millions of Chinese, and this is the struggle for living space.

The third short-term labor is mainly for the labor service company to send millions of laborers to the southern United States every year, every year during the cotton picking season, the Daming labor company can provide one million young and strong laborers to the plantation owners in the south, they rush to pick cotton during this time, work for about three months, can get an income of about 100 US dollars, more than they have worked in Daming for five years, because to this day, the people of Daming can not get more than two US dollars a month. In the United States, however, they can earn one dollar a day, and this strong wage gap has caused a large number of workers to be sent to the United States by labor companies.

Millions of laborers go abroad, but also for the Ming Dynasty to bring hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign exchange inflow every year, and although the Ming Dynasty's foreign trade exports reached more than 100 million US dollars, but the trade surplus is only 10 million US dollars, far less than this labor import, so this labor import, has become the largest industrial accumulation of the Ming Dynasty, can not be lost at all.

Now the United States is making these demands, which no rational government can agree, but the Americans have decided to pass legislation to meet all their demands, and there is a high probability that they will pass it at home.

Hurd believes that the United States should be taken a tough stance, and he believes that it would be a mistake to agree to the anti-Chinese policy of the United States a decade ago and take the initiative to restrain immigration.

Obviously, Hurd, as an Englishman, could not accept such a discriminatory policy.

Zhu Jinglun decided to support him this time, but as for how tough it was, Zhu Jinglun's opinion startled Hurd.

"War!"

Zhu Jinglun said.

"Our bottom line is war."

Zhu Jinglun emphasized.

Hurd felt that it was not so serious: "I think as long as we stick to my reasonable attitude, Americans will not dare to formulate irrational policies." The adoption of a policy of exclusion against a single ethnic group is contrary to international traditions and practices of free migration. The United States cannot do that. ”

Zhu Jinglun sighed: "Conventions are formed by people's habits, people's habits are changing, and conventions will always change." The United States did not dare to formulate a policy against the British, but they dared to develop a policy against the Chinese. It is because they feel their peace from the Chinese in the United States, and they think that this peace represents weakness and can be expected. I think they should be taught a lesson. ”

Hurd is an Englishman, although he knows that foreigners look down on Chinese, but very Daming prime minister, he thinks that it is mainly caused by policy, is that the previous Chinese too did not know how to protect their rights, as for peace, in his opinion, it is a virtue, because as a foreigner, he can be the prime minister of Daming for a long time, mainly thanks to this peaceful habit of indisputability, not only the common people are peaceful and indisputable, officials often do not have a strong fighting mentality, otherwise he would have been ousted from power long ago, he is very sure that if it were changed to France, he will not be in power for more than three months.

Hurd nodded: "That's right, our government should take all measures to protect the interests of our citizens. I believe that if the U.S. government formulates a policy toward Britain, a policy toward Germany, and a policy toward France, they will definitely choose war, and the Americans probably think that we will not dare to go to war against them, so they will have nothing to fear. ”

Zhu Jinglun said: "You go for it." In the past, Chinese people in the United States had the idea that people were under the eaves and had to bow their heads. In order to live, they are willing to endure humiliation. They are paying the price of sweat and tears in exchange for a chance to survive, and since the Americans are going to deprive them of their livelihoods, then I think that after sweat and tears, we have to show the Americans that we are determined to shed blood. ”

Hurd is optimistic: "I think that as long as a people has the consciousness to shed blood to defend their dignity, they no longer need to shed tears of humiliation to live, they have the right to live under the respect of others." ”

Zhu Jinglun encouraged Hurd: "You go for it." If we can help Chinese Americans win their rights, I believe that the Chinese people will recognize you to a large extent. ”

Hurd also felt that this was an excellent opportunity, in order to achieve better results in this political achievement, Hurd began to build a campaign in the newspapers, his government had special funds and talents to deal with this kind of problem, he was to stir up the national sentiment of the Ming Dynasty, and then pressure the United States to cancel the injustice against the Chinese, with a beautiful diplomatic victory, in order to redeem his loss of points in the weakness of the British trade policy.

What Hurd didn't expect was that the U.S. Congress really passed the amendment to the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed the demands that the United States put forward to Daming, and when the problem could not be resolved through negotiations, the United States really decided to use the law to expel all Chinese from the United States.

Hurd was stumped because the national mood of the Ming Dynasty had been ignited, and in the fierce national sentiment, he not only failed to achieve a diplomatic victory, but instead obtained a complete diplomatic defeat.

There are two paths before Herder, the first is to resign to calm public anger, and the second is to continue to be tough, hoping that a miracle will happen to force the US court to rule that the bill is unconstitutional, or let the US president veto the bill.

But if he really wants to threaten war against the United States, he feels that he can't afford this responsibility, and he needs Zhu Jinglun's support.

"You can give them an ultimatum, I said that our final bottom line is war, if we can't live in humiliation, then we will die with dignity, not to mention that we don't want to live in humiliation, they need to live with dignity, and now we think we have the qualifications."

After getting Zhu Jinglun's support, Hurd really issued an ultimatum to the United States, telling the US government that choosing to implement this bill was a declaration of war against the Ming Dynasty.

But the President of the United States still signed the bill into law. Because like the Ming Dynasty, the U.S. government is also riding a tiger, and the U.S. president will either choose to take the risk of signing the bill, or he will be ousted by the people.

So he chose to sign the bill, he wanted to see if Daming really dared to start a war against the United States, and the whole world wanted to see if Daming dared to declare war on the United States.

Now the choice is in the hands of Da Ming.