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"Can we do this piglet's business?" Zhu Jishi asked thoughtfully.

"It can be done, but ...... There is always some unconscience. Liu Jiong interjected: "The piglets who are sold to Nanyang are extremely hard, working all day long like slaves, and the income is only a few silver dollars per month......

"How many pieces of silver? Actually, it's quite a lot. Zhu Jishi waved his hand and interrupted: "There are many foreign devil workers here in Britain who can't earn this amount!" ”

Zhu Jishi already knows these days that the so-called "colonizers" are not the same as he imagined more than a hundred years later. The vast majority of those who crossed the ocean from the European continent to the New World to become colonizers were poor, and even when they arrived in the United States, they were proletarian working people who were bitter, and they wanted to be the American uncles who were coaxed by cowhides, not to mention the doors, there were no windows!

As for the current Nanyang, it is not the world of the Chinese, if the Chinese want to "colonize" in the past, of course, they must first be oppressed toiling masses, and many of them must die of exhaustion and disease! In the future, those who will make a fortune and become a giant businessman will inevitably be a minority.

But will this people be moved? Ken is wanted, and the more the merrier! The reason is very simple, because the era of European colonialism will eventually pass, and whether Nanyang will be the world of the Chinese or the local people in the future depends on who has more people! Moreover, those Chinese who sold themselves to Nanyang are even harder and poorer in China! After paying the imperial grain tax of the Qing Dynasty and the landlord's field rent, he may not be able to have a balance of a few silver dollars a year.

"Muwen, Pojun, what do you think?" Zhu Jishi did not make a decision immediately, but asked for the opinions of two other subordinates.

"The lord is wise!" Han Si suddenly thought of something, and said with a happy face: "Sir, selling piglets to Nanyang is the way to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Well, this person who wants to rebel is about to go crazy, and anything can be related to the anti-Qing and Ming restoration. Zhu Jishi frowned, just wanted to tell Han Si his true purpose of doing the piglet business. This Uncle Han hurriedly continued, "If you want to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, you must have an army, and if you want an army, you must have Ding Zhuang!" There are thousands of good brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society, and hundreds of officers can be gathered, but this soldier is not easy to recruit, I think it can only fall on those pigs! ”

"Let the piglets be soldiers? Are they willing? Liu Peng shook his head and said suspiciously.

"Ken? Hehe, how many of the French soldiers who fought in Algeria went willingly? Han Si sneered, "This Europa's military training method relies on the ability of officers, and any kind of scum can train elite soldiers in their hands!" ”

"In that case, this piglet trade is done." Liu Peng calculated: "The halls of the Heaven and Earth Association are all over the two rivers and Fujian, and even the two rivers and lakes have our brothers. There is no difficulty in recruiting some ordinary people who can't survive to sell themselves to Nanyang as coolies, and there is also a demand on the other side of Nanyang, and now the British, Dutch, and Siamese are recruiting Chinese laborers, and Australia also needs coolies farther away. ”

"In that case, this business can be done!" Zhu Jishi tapped his finger on the table, and said: "Taking advantage of the fact that foreigners don't care about immigration now, sell a little more to Nanyang, and it would be better if you could sell it to Australia!" It is best to make the Chinese account for the majority of the population of Nanyang and Australia! ”

"My subordinates understand." Liu Peng, Han Si, and Liu Jiong replied.

Zhu Jishi knew that they didn't fully understand, but he didn't explain either, and continued: "Now Jishixing has three armed merchant ships going to the South Seas, and a few more will be purchased after a while, there are many shipyards here in the UK, and the cost of shipbuilding is not high. ”

"My lord, in fact, we can build ships in Guangdong." Liu Peng reminded, "The ships that go to the South Seas don't need big Western ships at all, just use our large ships." ”

"Hirofune?" Zhu Jishi was stunned, "What kind of ship?" ”

"It is the main warship of the Dashimizu Division, the largest is about 3,000 materials, equivalent to more than 900 tons of foreigners, but it uses a hard sail, the speed is not as fast as the Western clipper, and it is not as strong as the Western warship, but it is the most economical to run in the South Sea." Liu Peng is the manager of Jardine Bank, and it is not okay to rebel, but he is very familiar with maritime trade. "And the price of this Canton ship is much cheaper than that of a Western sailing ship, and now a Western-armed merchant ship of about 1,000 tons cannot be taken without 20,000 pounds, and if we recruit craftsmen to build a Canton ship in Hong Kong, not counting artillery, the cost will not exceed 5,000 taels of silver. Moreover, with Western sailing ships, we must recruit foreigners to help us steer the boats, which are expensive and unreliable. If you use the Guangzhou ship, you will use all Chinese sailors. In addition, there is another advantage of using Guangzhou ships, which can go to Vietnam, Korea and Japan, which are all closed to the outside world like the Qing Dynasty, but they cannot help the merchant ships of the Qing Dynasty to enter the port for trade. ”

"Jishixing is not a commercial house in the Qing Dynasty." Zhu Jishi said lightly.

Liu Peng smiled, "Let's say it is, it is, let's say it's not, it's not." ”

This is obvious, in the future of Nanyang, the World Guild will be a very special existence. On the one hand, Jishixing is a holding company registered in the United Kingdom, and has a close relationship with Prince Albert and Duke Churchill of the United Kingdom, and the big boss Zhu Jishi is a famous scientist in Europe, so Jishixing is undoubtedly a foreign company.

But on the other hand, through Han Si and Liu Peng, Jishixing could catch the line between the Tiandihui and the Thirteen Lines, and Jishixing's fleet was all Guangzhou ships, and the sailors were all Chinese, so Vietnam, North Korea, and Japan would only regard Jishixing as a Chinese commercial house. Of course, the bribes that should be given still have to be given.

In this way, not only the coolie trade in the South Seas can be done, but also the trade of Japan, Vietnam, and Korea.

So Zhu Jishi made a decision at the moment, preparing to regard maritime trade and shipbuilding as the fourth and fifth main businesses of Jishi Bank.

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However, the major policies set do not mean that they will be implemented immediately, and this era is not the later information society, and everything is done in years.

Early the next morning, Zhu Jishi still went to Vincent Street in Manchester to attend the board of directors of Jishi Bank as originally scheduled. However, as soon as the carriage drove into the city of Manchester, Zhu Jishi felt a strong smell of gunpowder in the air.

Because the working people of Manchester are once again outraged!

"Down with the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie! Long live democracy! Long live universal suffrage! Robert. Peel get off the stage......"

"Repeal the New Poor Law, Limit Working Hours, and Implement the Separation of Church and State!"

"Long live Irish independence! Stop oppressing the Irish! ”

"Universal suffrage equals bread!"

"Bread! Bread! Revolution without bread! ”

What was once Manchester's busiest street is now full of ragged, yellow-skinned British working people. They were unarmed, but they did not flinch in the face of the rifles and bayonets of the British military police, holding high slogans and shouting slogans, as if they were all in a frenzy!

It was January 1844, the coldest time in Britain, but Zhu Jishi, who got out of the car and walked through the protesters, felt a wave of heat rushing from all around, wondering if the anger of the British proletariat was burning? In a short time he was already sweating.

"Sir, what's going on?" When has Liu Peng ever seen such a scene? With horror and surprise on his face, he asked loudly, "What are these foreign devils doing?" What are they shouting? ”

"Rebellion! You know, they're rebelling! Zhu Jishi grabbed Liu Peng's arm and squeezed forward while replying loudly, "Muwen, do you know? In 1842 and 1843, agriculture in England and France failed, food prices rose, and workers had to spend most of their income on subsistence and the demand for industrial goods declined, which in turn led to factory layoffs and wage cuts. The average British worker now works 12 hours a day for a few pennies, and between 1.5 million and 2 million people are unemployed......"

As he spoke, the crackling sound of gunshots rang out, and the crowd of marchers boiled over at once, and the sound of slogans, which had been relatively neat, turned into a miscellaneous number of shouts, screams, shouts, whistles, and all kinds of sounds. The march of the masses also stopped, but it did not disperse, and it seemed that the shooting just now was only a warning.

"Hurry up, let's get out of here!" As Zhu Jishi spoke, he took out a brand-new Colt revolver from his briefcase and handed it to Liu Peng, and then took out another Colt revolver. "Mu Wen, follow me, let's go to the alley on the side of the street to take shelter, look at this, the British military and police are about to suppress it!"