As the only Englishman in the Qing Dynasty, Hurd naturally knew a lot about the things of this feudal dynasty, and the meaning conveyed by Prince Gong naturally represented the final decision of the imperial court, but the import tariffs of these 5 were the terms imposed by the British on the Qing government in the Sino-British Tianjin Treaty.

The tariff of the Americans according to 5 is also based on the last paragraph of the article of the Sino-US Treaty of Tientsin, which states that "if the Qing Dynasty has any favors, favors, and benefits to other countries or their merchants, whether they are related to the sea surface of ships, trade or political exchanges, etc., which have never been touched by that country and its merchants, or which are not covered by this treaty, they should also be allowed to be equal to the government and the people of the United States." ”

Hurd was thinking about the consequences of the Great Qing Kingdom's casual violation of the original treaty, and he couldn't help but show a hesitant look on his face, and after thinking for a moment before asking tactfully: "Sixth Prince, I have two questions, I think you still need to make a decision in person, and the relationship is heavy."

Prince Gong frowned and asked, "Mr. He De, is there any difficulty?" ”

Hurd straightened up and looked directly at the most powerful prince of the Qing Dynasty, "This tariff agreement is in accordance with the agreement of the Treaty of Tianjin, of course, the Sino-US Treaty of Tianjin, which preceded the agreement between us, does not stipulate the issue of this tariff, but according to this last paragraph, it must enjoy the same tax rate as the goods of the British Empire."

This is definitely a complete rogue clause, but it is also grandly included in the treaty between countries, but after many years, the bigwigs in the court have long forgotten the scars of 20 years ago, and the foreigners still maintain the high dignity, in the eyes of the Manchu magnates, those terms of Laoshzi, we will abide by the Qing Dynasty if we are willing to abide by it.

This time it slapped the Americans in the face, the court and the people all need the court to straighten their waists, and the most important thing is that those public opinion even through the nobles and lords of Beijing City penetrated into the palace, which annoyed the Queen Mother, and that was a big deal, so this time the tariff punishment on the Americans was on the bow and had to be sent, and violating the treaty was a ball

Prince Gong straightened his face and arched his hand to the south, "Mr. Hurd, it is also written in black and white in the treaty, 'The Great Qing Kingdom of China and the Great Asian United States have clearly established fair and accurate laws because they want to maintain a long-lasting and sincere friendship', and now the United States has imposed a heavy tax on the silk of our Great Qing Dynasty, which has violated this original principle of justice, so it must be treated solemnly."

In this matter, Prince Gong, who has been with foreigners for decades, has naturally thought about it, the current Qing Dynasty is not 26 years of military equipment, millions of people are equipped with foreign guns and cannons, and the French have never been afraid, afraid that it is not as good as the United States of America

Moreover, the negotiations of the Taixi countries in these years, as well as the envoys of various countries, have made him understand a truth, what these Taixi powers want to do most is to make money through the trade with China in a safe and stable manner

Hurd was obviously not very interested in raising tariffs, but for him the incident undoubtedly pushed him into the limelight, which did not do much good to the British Empire, and out of a responsible attitude towards the Qing Empire, he believed that it would inevitably lead to an economic dispute between China and the United States.

After some discussion with Prince Gong, Prince Gong accepted Hurd's suggestion that the increase in the tax rate was too high, which might trigger a strong reaction from the United States, and the proposal to gradually increase the tariff on American silk instead of doing it in one step as it is now

The city of Beijing is a big sieve, and within two hours, the news has already reached the American minister Ma Fen, who was also a little surprised that the Qing government had so openly and generously violated the previous "Sino-US Tianjin Treaty", and he immediately rushed to the prime minister's national affairs yamen to meet Yi and lodged a protest.

However, this useless diplomatic protest soon became the talk of the young master and the tea guests, and Minister Muffin naturally immediately sent a telegram to send this sudden news to China, you know, now is the peak season for the purchase of raw silk, and American merchant ships are constantly coming from the country, ready to sell foreign silk, buy raw silk, obviously, this unexpected time, made him, the American minister, very unhappy.

Compared with Muffin, rushed to the Shanghai port to prepare for the purchase of raw silk American businessman Jefferson seemed more unhappy, in previous years, it is the peak season for the purchase of raw silk, in the past, if you arrive in Shanghai, you will soon be able to purchase raw silk of various qualities from various foreign companies at the right price, and you can complete the purchase and ship to Los Angeles in almost a few days. ,

However, after arriving at Shanghai Port this time, Martin, a middleman who had been contacted before, hurriedly came to tell him that the raw silk at Shanghai Port had been purchased out a month earlier, and now there is still a small amount of raw silk from all over the surrounding areas, but it is simply not enough to meet the demand in the market, and the price is one price a day, and the price has risen by 5% compared with previous years.

Hearing this unexpected news, he was very depressed, waiting for the goods, personally ran to several foreign companies to ask, sure enough, had to wait for Martin on the ship to prepare the goods, fortunately, a ship of silk and industrial products shipped sold well, the middleman Martin ate all the "foreign silk" he shipped at a very suitable price, these cheap silk, after being transported to Chinese mainland, can get twice the profit.

These so-called "foreign silk", the silk content is less than half, the natural cost is low, and the more outrageous thing is that after these silks enter the domestic circulation of the Qing Dynasty, as long as they are operated by foreign merchants, they do not pay the provincial centigold along the way, and the domestic production of high-quality silk is used, after the layers of checkpoints to collect the centigold, this merchant is not profitable at all, and can not compete with the "foreign silk".

But now this raw silk has no way to buy, which makes him depressed, this month, the London Stock Exchange raw silk trading price has risen by more than two percent, look at the trend to continue to rise, O ...... MyGOD, don't these damn Chinese businessmen make money if they have it?

At this time, a small comprador in his foreign bank introduced him to a person, it is said that this person has great influence in Shanghai, and may be able to help him solve the way to buy raw silk, hearing the news, Martin immediately jumped up, and followed the comprador to run his door, there is a way to walk is much better than sitting and waiting.

Fangbang middle road, is the famous foreign distribution center of Shanghai beach, merchants from all over the country from the wharf to transport all kinds of native products to sell here, close to the street entrance of a shop full 50 meters of large business, the door hangs a big signboard - Fukang, at this time the street is crowded, passers-by from the south to the north walk by, always have to look back a few times, if there are one or two people together, must discuss a few words.

"Look...... This is Hu Dashanren's shop, it's really magnificent."

"Could it be...... Hu Qingyutang's medicine number Hu Dashan? ”

"Naturally, I saw that the signboard hung out was not that but the plaque written by Zuo Dashuai, the iron painting silver hook, the murderous spirit"

“……”

This is Hu Xueyan in Fangbang on the road of the old shop, the purchase of raw silk from all over the delivery here, as early as the end of spring, he sent a large number of people, to the raw silk production areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang a large number of orders, and are paid cash deposits, this can be said to be a wonderful move, foreign merchants will not go to the origin to buy raw silk at all, but sit and wait for the silk merchants from all over the country to transport to the store and then make it difficult for various reasons, or with quality problems, or with color problems, sit on the ground and bargain.

Sure enough, in August, when the raw silk went on the market, the output of raw silk in Jiangsu and Zhejiang fell into Hu Xueyan's bag, and nearly three million bags of raw silk have been hoarded, worth 18 million taels of silver.

Hu Xueyan has already brought the big shopkeeper of each family to the secret discussion, this time Fukang shipments, will mobilize the goods to clear the warehouse together, so there is no need to worry, and this raw silk hoarding, only for one thing, to get back the power of domestic raw silk quality assessment and pricing, otherwise the raw silk and silk industry can only follow the ass of foreigners forever.

At noon, several old men in their fifties are opening the bags one by one to check the quality of raw silk, and the tea table in the raw silk shop is already crowded with silk merchants from all over the world, these businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang hurried to Shanghai, in order to buy dozens of bags of raw silk in their hands, taking advantage of this time, are exchanging their business information.

"This shopkeeper, I am a member of the Zhejiang Jinhua people's family, where did you make a fortune?" A red-faced and slightly chubby silk merchant smiled and chatted first.

"Oh...... You Zhejiang raw silk is a large producer, which is like our northern Jiangsu, this year's weather is cold, the output of raw silk is not comparable to previous years, I only shipped a total of more than 40 bags this time," another thin black businessman next to him muttered in a low voice.

"Eh, our Jinhua output today is not good, it is one and a half times less than last year."

“……”

At this moment, sitting in the shop is another big shopkeeper Chen Guangzhong under Hu Xueyan, this is Hu's fellow countryman, following Hu Xueyan from a shop to the current tens of millions of furniture, can be said to be one of the veterans of Fukang, and good at calculation, steady work, has been in Nanjing to control the local Fukang silver affairs, because Lu Yijin went to Guangzhou, this came to Hu Xueyan to deal with this side of the affairs, this raw silk acquisition war, handed over to him to directly control. ,

For this time Hu Da shopkeeper's generosity, he is naturally very agreeable, the beginning of the spring is very, he and Hu Xueyan went to dozens of sericulture counties in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, heard the news that is very shocking, in recent years, although the output of raw silk has been rising, but the income of silk farmers is decreasing day by day, the reason for this is really infuriating.

Silk farmers change hands or their own shops to process fresh cocoons into raw silk, resell to silk merchants, and silk merchants will ship a large number of raw silk to Shanghai, foreign merchants at any time to obtain the price of London raw silk transactions, and then on this basis bargaining, arbitrarily evaluate the quality of raw silk made of Chinese hand-reeled silk, at will, excellent products into medium products, medium products into inferior products, which is greasy, naturally can not be prevented.

Therefore, even the silk merchants are struggling to make a living, not to mention the misery of the silk farmers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, after Hu Xueyan intervened in the raw silk business, he had a painful pain in the high pressure of foreign companies, and he had already planned to regain the pricing power of raw silk, so there was this joint Chinese businessman to carry out the raw silk purchase war.

Chen Guangzhong looked at these silk merchants in the store very happily, for the oppression of foreigners, these businessmen joined without hesitation after seeing Fukang's counterattack, many of them signed the contract on the spot, even the deposit was waived, and promised to transport it to deliver after receiving the raw silk, which is indeed a win-win situation, for the righteous act of the big shopkeeper, he raised his hands in agreement.

At this time, suddenly a lot of foreigners appeared outside, accompanied by Liu Ruifen of Shanghai Daotai, which made Chen Guangzhong very surprised, and hurriedly led people out of the door.

Liu Ruifen is also familiar with Chen Guangzhong, and after meeting, he said: "Chen Da shopkeeper, Lord Hude of the Customs and Excise Department wants to meet Master Hu, but I don't know that I can be in the store today."

Sure enough, it was this red-capped foreigner, Chen Guangzhong hurriedly welcomed the two adults into the backyard and sent someone to invite Hu Xueyan to come, Hurd naturally had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, he was entrusted by the Shanghai Ocean Bank, and the managers of the foreign banks sent a great favor, asking him to mediate from it, hoping to negotiate the price of this raw silk with Hu Xueyan.

The Customs and Excise Department Hud brought by the 20 most powerful foreign companies in the raw silk industry in Shanghai Ocean Bank opened a very attractive condition, increasing the price by 40% to buy the raw silk spot in Hu Xueyan's hands, which is definitely an amazing profit, and in a few days, Hu Xueyan can make a net profit of 8 million taels, however, after bargaining, Hu Xueyan very resolutely vetoed this condition.

Hurd touched his nose with a gray nose, and naturally went away with a displeased face, in this regard, Hu Da shopkeeper proudly sent off the guests, and just wanted to enter the house to continue to think about the next operation, the guy outside came in with a famous thorn, and when he saw this thorn, Hu Xueyan was also stunned, handed the famous thorn to Chen Guangzhong, and immediately ordered the guy to invite someone in.

After a while, a dignified-looking man in Western-style clothes walked in, but it was Li Donglai, who arched his hand towards Hu Xueyan and smiled: "Shopkeeper Hu, I just came back from the Wa Kingdom, and I brought back some news from my family, and I have some other words to bring to you."

Hu Xueyan hurriedly introduced Chen Guangzhong to Li Donglai, and the three of them walked into the house, closed the door and began to talk softly.

Thousands of miles away in Guangzhou, Qin Kai was discussing with Sun Fu with a transcribed telegram, "Brother Sun, Chen Baotong sent a message to Chen, hoping to start an industry in Leizhou Mansion, I think this matter can be tried, you let Wu Jingui choose one or two industries, let Governor Chen do it himself, whether it can be achieved depends on him But according to the rules, our technology investment should be counted as shares."

"Gale, Chen Baotong has done a good job these days, I think he should be a little enlightened, I heard Yuan Ting say, in the past few months, Chen Baotong has not been to their Zhanjiang New Industrial Zone to go around" Sun Fu flipped through the few documents in hand, raised a document in his hand and said: "This is a secret proposal sent by Chen Baotong, he said that he should cancel the level tariffs in Leizhou counties in order to promote Leizhou's commerce"

Hearing this, Qin Kai couldn't help but sigh, and his heart was very strange, this Chen Bao is worthy of being an official from Jinshi, and he has some brains, this so-called flat tariff, this era is that the servants of various prefectures and counties set up cards everywhere to collect money, and the people's truckload of goods passes all the way to collect taxes, fattening corrupt officials and suffering the people, how can this commodity be profitable if it is not circulated

It's not that I haven't thought about canceling this flat tariff, but this involves too wide a wide range, even if it is Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangguang, the source of the silver on weekdays is all from the gold of this flat tariff, of course, this silver also has five transactions to himself, when he first saw this entry, he had a depressed feeling, and he even used the hard-earned money of this "eat and take card",

Leizhou ...... Leizhou ...... Qin Kai suddenly smiled, Guangzhou has a special industrial zone, then let's set Leizhou into a special economic zone, now the time is ripe, in the past half a year, the personnel sent to Leizhou have been familiar with the local civil affairs, and have mastered the power of the counties, under Qin Kai's secret manipulation, the Mutual Masonic organization was also stationed in Leizhou, with the support of the governor, the Mutual Masonic Association played the brand of mutual aid production, to assist those grassroots officials to take root in the local area, expand their own manpower.

And the most important thing is naturally the barrel of the gun, Qin Kai pulled the recruits of the Nanyang Military Academy plus the officers drawn from the pro-army team to form the Leizhou Military Region, fully cooperate with the rectification of local public order, he is naturally not going to engage in ** now, and he has no intention of changing anyone's life, unless it is a bully landlord who is extremely evil, as long as it is a local force that takes the initiative to get closer, it is naturally the most Cheng Dù to win over, and he is called "non-violent"

The question raised by Chen Baotong is also a touchstone for his own control of the local government, what kind of rich yamen is the Lijin Bureau, the most chaotic order and the most despicable means of the old era that are full of here, as the main content of local revenue, a modern person who knows the management model of the Lijin Bureau, will definitely drop his jaw in surprise.

According to the division, it is indeed a direct agency of Qin Kai, the governor of Guangdong, and there has always been only one way to manage the bureau -- the contract system, with an annual quota, and the balance can be handled freely

The flood of centigold is only more than 40 years, but the tricks have been dazzling for the layman, the initial extraction is only rice centigold, that is, the grain transported to and from the tax of one percent, called "mile", and now, as long as the goods, carriages and horses in the past have to collect centigold, called "department store"

He called Luo Yan and Ouyang Qing, and secretly issued an order to revoke the Leizhou Lijin Bureau, but in order to hide people's eyes, he also ordered the establishment of the Leizhou Industrial and Commercial Taxation Bureau.

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