Ten votes plus more.

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Therefore, before coming to the Manchu Empire, Zhou Chenggong thought of all the situations that should be thought of in order to ensure that he could successfully lobby Daoguang. One of the most important is the financial difficulties of the Manchus, Greece cannot solve the financial problems of the Manchus, because although Greece has begun to have a surplus of capital and began to export capital, but Greece itself is only a small country with capital, and the surplus of capital is only because the Greek market is narrow and the capacity is limited, so it will invest overseas. Greece's own financial industry is not developed, and the Athenian financial market is dominated by Greek government bonds.

The largest financial center in the Black Sea region, Silla Port, is the largest local capital group of Chinese business forces. China has become the largest capital country in this era, but contrary to the situation in Greece, China itself is not a net exporter of capital, and there is a lot of foreign investment, and more capital can flow into China. With a huge market capacity, China is still an inflow of capital, even if it controls two-thirds of the world's gold production.

The Black Sea region is a microcosm, the territory of China in the Black Sea, and although a large number of Chinese businessmen bring capital into it and flow through it into other countries, capital from other countries is also flowing in, and the amount of capital flowing out is greater than that of Chinese capital.

The rapid development of the port of Silla made Athens an industrial and commercial region dependent on it, but it was unable to climb to a higher position as a financial center.

Zhou Chenggong was worried that the accumulation of foreign debts would lead to foreign interference in Greece's internal affairs, so he only issued government bonds in Greece and restricted foreigners from holding Greek government bonds. But the countries surrounding the Black Sea began to raise funds in the port of Silla, including the powerful Austrian Empire.

If Greece has a population of 10 million, in fact, Zhou Chenggong is not worried about Greece's foreign debt, he is not a conservative fiscal balancer, he believes that borrowing money is beneficial for development. Mainly fearing foreign interference, the Ottoman Empire was a wake-up call to the Manchus, and likewise to Greece.

Greece could not solve the financial problems for the Manchus, but the port of Silla could, so Zhou Chenggong first sought a channel to solve the financial problems through a European company operating in Athens, and the European company referred the Chinese office in the port of Silla.

The Chinese Gongfu, like the Shanxi Guild Hall, is a special organization unique to China and dominated by merchants. The official definition is that of a feudal group of fellow villagers or peers in the cities of China during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is a complex autonomous non-governmental organization with the nature of a chamber of commerce, a fellow villagers' association, and a public welfare.

Merchants were the leaders, providing funds to build the guild building, keeping the guild hall running, and often holding meetings at the guild hall to exchange business information and discuss important issues. However, the guild hall also provided temporary shelter and shelter for some fellow villagers, and the earliest guild hall, which is well documented as the Wuhu guild hall in Beijing, was originally established to facilitate the entry of scholars from Wuhu into Beijing to take the examination. Even now, most people still think of the clan as a hometown organization that helps travelers abroad, but businessmen happen to be the largest group of people living abroad, so they have become the biggest beneficiaries and active participants of the association.

Many guilds still provided free housing and food for scholars, mainly from merchants, and some officials would raise donations for the purpose because they might have been the beneficiaries in the first place. The guild also provides other services, such as those who die in a foreign land and have no funds to return to their hometowns, merchants raise funds to buy coffins for them, park them temporarily in the guild hall, wait for their families to rhythm, or ask someone to transport them back.

The guild hall also has a religious nature, and the coffin is parked with this nature, because traditionally only Yizhuang and temples are willing to let the unlucky dead park. The guild hall building itself is also a kind of religious architecture, for example, the Shanxi guild hall is dedicated to Guan Gong, the carpenter's guild is dedicated to Luban, and the nylon hall in Guangzhou, which operates the silk weaving industry, is dedicated to Zhang Qian of the Western Regions, who believes that Zhang Qian has opened up a Western market through the Western Regions, which is still a Cantonese person, and the vision is unique enough.

Guild halls are sometimes called public offices, such as the Ningbo Guild Hall in Shanghai, also known as Siming Gongshuo. In the Kazakh region, businessmen from Shaanxi and Shanxi can also form the Shanxi Guild Hall, or the Western Chamber of Commerce, and become the leader of the local commercial forces, but in the Black Sea region, in a more open business environment, Shaanxi and Shanxi alone cannot dominate.

Because it plays a role as a distribution center for Chinese commodities in the West, and a convergence of Asian, African and European commodities into China, it not only attracts a large number of Chinese businessmen, but also attracts commercial forces from Central Asia, Europe and other places.

But they are facing a group of peoples whose commercial culture has penetrated into the bone marrow, Greeks, Jews, Armenians, the oldest commercial peoples in human history, are by no means in vain, for Chinese, commerce is a means of livelihood, and for these peoples, commerce is a way of life, and their entire culture and existence is based on commerce. Just like the Chinese in the countryside, for Americans, agriculture may be an industry used to make a living, but for Chinese, rural society is a life, farming, plowing, building houses, and having children.

In the case of the Jews, finding sources, keeping accounts, calculating profits and losses, these are their daily lives, they can find the slightest business opportunities, and they have been rooted in the Black Sea region for many generations, and it is not enough to compete with such local business powers.

And when it comes to the extent of their capital, the British, French, and Dutch from Northwest Europe are no less than inferior to the Chinese business powers, bringing with them the most advanced commercial systems of the era from their respective home countries, using more modern methods of financing, and at the same time dealing in a variety of cutting-edge products. There are high technical barriers, and it is not easy to make up for it through capital strength.

Therefore, the trade of the Chinese merchant group in the Black Sea, in the competition with these local merchant nations and Western European commercial forces, although they also learned a lot of more complex business skills, they must also be more united in order to share the most lucrative commercial cake. Therefore, the Chinese commercial forces trading in the Black Sea are not a one-man show of a group of Western merchants, but a joint operation of merchant groups and merchant gangs from all over the world.

Therefore, they established the Chinese United Hall here, the Chinese Public Office. Whether it is a private Western business group, a joint-stock business company, or even a privileged company such as a European company, they are all part of the Chinese public office, they jointly finance, meet together, share business information, cooperate to share profits, and become business leaders in the Black Sea region.

For some special businesses, only combined forces can obtain them, such as oil from the Black Sea. This is a certain technical barrier, but the profits are quite lucrative, and it is very disturbed by political forces, ordinary small businessmen can't eat, weak business forces can't eat, but it is too much in line with the appetite of the Chinese business group, they have funds, they also have a strong country as a political backing, they are not weak.

As for technical barriers, they are no longer barriers.

Compared with the powerful Chinese merchants, the Greek, Jewish, and Armenian merchants who fought on the mainland, the Western European merchants who were at the forefront of technology, and the Austrian merchant group, were only second-rate players in the Black Sea region.

They are inferior to Western Europe in technology, inferior to China in capital, and less sensitive to Jews and other localists, but they have a certain amount of power in all aspects, but they have a set of comprehensive aspects.

The reason why the oil trade was first developed by the Austrians is precisely because oil was first discovered and used in Poland in Europe. In Europe, farmers in Galicia, Romania and other places have long dug wells to extract oil. But this is not the reason, because oil appeared very early in the history of manpower, near Susa, the capital of the Persian Empire, there were oil wells dug by human hands, and the ancient Greeks also used oil as a weapon to attack the enemy's fleet, and the history of oil exploitation in the Baku area is also very long.

However, in ancient times, when it was mined by hand, it was used as a panacea in Central Europe to cure diseases; It was used as a weapon in the Greek, Persian, and even Roman periods, and was used for fire attacks; It was not until modern times, with the development of science, that chemists, perhaps called alchemists, studied oil, and they discovered ways to refine kerosene from oil.

It was the people of Galicia who first mastered this method, and as a result of the partition of Poland by Austria, this area was annexed to Austria, so that the method of refining kerosene was in the hands of the Austrians. After all, oil production in Europe was limited, so kerosene was basically consumed as a luxury, in the service of the aristocracy. Austria also happened to be a country with an aristocratic economic model, and many industries revolved around aristocratic consumption, such as expensive Bohemian crystal products, gorgeous velvet and silk products, and a thriving group of musicians, all of which were characterized by an aristocratic economy.

Under the first movement of the aristocratic economy, in the Lviv region under Austrian rule, a pharmacist designed and produced a kerosene lamp with the help of a blacksmith in order to improve the sales of kerosene operated by himself. Historically, it has been confirmed that in 1854 kerosene for lamps had been identified as a commodity on the Viennese market.

The Austrians brought the kerosene lamps that had just appeared to the Black Sea market and sold them to the Chinese, and they let the Chinese see the benefits of this brighter oil lamp, and the Chinese merchants in the Black Sea sent the kerosene lamps back to China to sell, and in just a few years, the Chinese wealthy class made the sales of kerosene lamps and kerosene increase exponentially.

The Austrians found that the oil from Poland and Romania alone could no longer meet the consumption needs of the Chinese market, and they began to look for other oil supplies, and Baku was developed by the Austrians at this time.