Zhu Jinglun never thought of reconciling with Stanford, not because he hated this person, a rogue capitalist politician, he has seen a lot of this kind of person, the United States produces this kind of thing, and has to admit the greatness of American imperialism, but it must be understood that the great American imperialism was established by a group of bastards. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Later generations said that the United States succeeded because the United States had a group of great bastards, and China did not lack conscientious social elites, not shrewd and capable businessmen, but only a group of great bastards, so China declined in the nineteenth century, and there is some truth in this sentence.

The reason why Zhu Jinglun wants to attack the Pacific Railway is not that Stanford thinks it is competing with him, but in fact, Zhu Jinglun's own purpose is that railway.

He just wants to make that railroad not built, at least the later it is built, the better, once this railroad is completed, the east and west of the United States will be integrated, the United States will be too strong, and the United States' control over the west will be more stable, and most importantly, immigrants from the east of the United States will come to the west at a lower cost, and it will be too difficult for the Ming Dynasty to occupy a favorable proportion of the population composition at home.

Zhu Jinglun needed to delay the construction of the Pacific Railroad, so that it would take seven months for immigrants from the eastern United States to reach the west, while it used to take only two or three months for Chinese immigrants.

Why do you need this place, economically speaking, this is a treasure land, and it is more material security for immigrants to live here. Politically speaking, in the future, the United States and China are bound to be two big countries on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, and if the Chinese can form a certain advantageous presence on the west coast of the United States, it will help China gain a dominant position on both sides of the strait.

During the negotiations he presided over, Wu Chongyao expressed great concern about the situation of the American Railroad Company, believing that the American Railroad Company could not provide safety guarantees for its workers.

The Central Pacific Railroad sent a team of professionals, including barrister, Charles Crowker, and engineers, who explained that the Pacific Railroad was capable of ensuring the safety of its workers, especially Chinese workers, and that they would take strong measures to ensure the safety of Chinese workers.

Their engineers came up with a complete set of solutions, including a newly designed hanging basket and a special safety rope to ensure that the workers would not fall off the cliff due to the previous wear of the rope. There are also shelters made of steel structures, which are well stocked with food and water, and those who flee to the shelters may survive in the unfortunate event of a snowstorm.

Wu Chongyao only asked if these things had been built, and the Americans said that they would not invest in the construction until the agreement was signed. Wu Chongyao asked again, it is possible to escape in the event of a snowstorm, but in the case of an avalanche, is it possible to escape?

The Americans believed that the probability of an avalanche was unlikely, but Wu Chongyao insisted that unless the Americans promised not to use gunpowder blasting in the process of digging tunnels in the high mountains, and to use manual iron drills and hammers to excavate, the Daming Labor Service Company would not dare to export labor to the US Central Pacific Railroad.

The negotiations were not going well, the Americans could not afford to delay the time, their opponents were already about to build the railroad to the Rocky Mountains, and they could not watch their opponents build from the east to California. Although the railroad was still built at that time, the Stanford had nothing to do with half a dime, and he had only one way to go bankrupt, or die with his broken railroad.

So the Americans didn't waste time, they immediately started their options, last year they signed a treaty with the Qing court, this Pu Anchen is interesting, he was originally the American minister in Beijing, after the end of his term, the Qing government hired him, and his first thought was to go to the United States to sign a treaty on behalf of the Qing government, he thought that his motherland, the United States, was most likely to sign a relatively fair treaty with the Qing government.

Based on this, we will revise the treaty with other countries.

Ponson succeeded in the United States, and he used his political connections to do so, and the treaty provided for the question of expatriates, and the two peoples were free to travel, travel, trade, or reside at any time.

To tell the truth, this treaty is beneficial to Chinese workers, because it is a legal treaty that grants Chinese workers residency status in the United States. Therefore, it was smooth for the United States to recruit Chinese workers in the north, and they did not have to be managed by the Ming government, and they felt that they were fed up with the blackmail of the Ming labor export company.

So they went to Tianjin, the largest port in the north, and they successfully recruited 3,000 Chinese laborers, and the wages were very low, and they only promised to pay thirty cents a day, and a lot of people were willing to do it, even if they didn't know where the United States was, or even the official name of the United States, and pointed to the American flag and said Citi Nation.

Crowk was satisfied, he was sure that this time they would succeed, and if the Chinese workers performed as well as their diminutive southern relatives, there was still hope that the Pacific Railroad would be built.

He is a legal expert, and he is sure that this time there is no problem at all in law, and the Ming Dynasty does not have jurisdiction over the residents of the Qing Dynasty, so even if these people go to the United States, the Ming Labor Company will not be able to entangle the Pacific Railway Company with the law.

But he underestimated Zhu Jinglun too much, and was too confused by the illusion that Daming Labor Service Company likes to use the law in the United States, and he really never doubted that this company would only use legal means to do things.

When their ship had just left Tianjin, they were going east to Japan and then across the Pacific Ocean, but they were intercepted by a cruiser of the Ming Navy near the waters of Korea.

After ordering them to stop the ship, they found that the cabin was crowded with a large number of coolies, and the captain of the Daming cruiser immediately ordered the cargo ship hired by the Pacific Railroad Company to return to the south bound for Qingdao.

Qingdao, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ming dynasty, was seized on suspicion of involvement in the coolie trade, and said that the Ming government did not rule out the right to use legal means to sue them.

Crowk protested, threatened, and scolded to no avail, and could only watch the coolies they had paid an advance payment "liberated" by the Ming government, and the documents of the Ming government were very beautiful, and they invited the local American envoy to observe their investigation of the coolies, and the coolie testimony showed that they had taken the fixed money given by the Americans, and the Ming officials wrote "they had received money from the sale of their bodies", and the coolies said that they did not know where the United States was, and the Ming officials immediately wrote "were trafficked to unknown regions".

In front of the eyes of the American minister, the Americans' guilt was confirmed, and they were issued a fine, paid money to ransom people, and stayed in prison if they didn't pay, as a result, Crowk and others stayed for nearly a month, and their company collected 10,000 taels of fines and remitted them to Daming.

When Crowk and his family returned home, they immediately put pressure on the government, especially the federal government, that they had suffered a great injustice, and demanded that the government stand up for their interests.

The U.S. government also intervened, but Daming determined that these foreigners gave illiterate laborers a little silver, and pulled them to a country and region they did not know, and they were simply trafficked, and they were also suspected of fraud, and said that whether it was the citizens of Daming or the Chinese in the north, they were under the protection of the Daming Crackdown on Coolie Law, and they were fighting crime and not involving politics.

At this time, the Central Pacific Railroad Company knew that Stanford knew that it was not only a rogue capitalist like him who knew how to do business with the government, but the Ming government was actually a business prop for some people, perhaps not only a business prop, but also a tool for retaliation.

Stanford had no time to care about this, and after the disgraced return of his delegation from China, the American Federation lost patience with him and refused to fund him again, and it was already 1869, Lincoln did not die, but his term was over, and the new administration did not want to see the Taiping Railway delay for a long time.

Central Pacific Railroad's rivals, Union Pacific Railroad, which has extended the railroad to the Rocky Mountains, have lashed out at Central Pacific Railroad's construction capacity and are unhappy with the government's time and time again for subsidizing Central Pacific Railroad.

They stirred up a huge amount of public opinion, exposed the incompetence and various scandals of the Central Pacific Railroad, and they themselves lobbied the government's Central Pacific Railroad to hand over the construction of the section of the road to them, and if they could build the railroad to the west coast of the United States, they would control the American exit to the Pacific.

When Stanford encouraged California giants to invest in railroad companies and lobbied the California government, he said that if a railroad to the West was built, California would become the main gateway to the United States. Now the Union Pacific Railroad wants to have this main gate to the west.

After being lobbied by Union Pacific Railroad, the U.S. federal government refused to subsidize Central Pacific Railroad again, and demanded that they solve the employment problem as soon as possible, or the government would consider canceling the railroad license given to them.

Stanford's situation is very dangerous, he may go bankrupt at any time, at this time, in order to persuade the Californian billionaires to continue to inject capital, he constantly explained to everyone the importance of Californians controlling California's exports, and at the same time, in order to win the trust of others, he sold most of his industry, put millions of dollars into the railroad company, and finally successfully lobbied the California billionaires to inject more than 8 million dollars again, and these billionaires passed a bill in the California Legislature, and the Congress subsidized again, A large amount of unclaimed land in the Central Valley, which is not bordered by the railway, was allocated to the railway company.

The Central Pacific Railroad used the money to survive temporarily, but Stanford also gambled and invested all his fortune, and if the railroad failed, he himself failed.

But he believed that he would not fail, because he thought of a way: if the Chinese laborers could build the railroad under difficult conditions, would the Japanese laborers, as China's neighbors, also be able to take on this difficult task?

While seeking funding, Stanford sent Clauk to Japan to recruit laborers, and Stanford intended to bring in Japanese coolies.