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It had been several days since Ali Guo was in Beijing, but for the past few days, he had scarcely refused to step out of his room, except for a few copies of the "Frontline Newspaper" recently published by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Northern Camp that he had bought from the streets. The few assistants who accompanied him even wondered if the Lord had completely forgotten the burden of the empire that he was now shouldering on his shoulders.

This time he came to Beijing in a hurry, and Ali Guo, first, was indeed shouldering the heavy responsibility entrusted to him by the imperial government, and secondly, he was anxious to avoid the native merchants who gathered around him like flies all day long and complained that they could not leave the sky.

As an exiled diplomat who was supposed to protect the real interests of the empire's expatriates and merchants abroad, in this great revolution that took place in this ancient land, he misjudged the shape of the country, causing the citizens of the empire to suffer unprecedented losses. Needless to say, the time-honored foreign companies such as Yi Kee, Yan Kee, Jardine Matheson, Baoshun, Dian Di, and De Kee, which had been madly involved in the opium trafficking in the past, disappeared overnight, followed by the bankruptcy of the branch of Liru Bank in Shanghai and the collapse of the British Steamship Company. The empire had been operating in Shanghai for more than ten years, and now only a dozen foreign companies such as Sassoon remained, and it became more and more difficult to operate because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government was extremely disgusted with British goods. What used to be more or less bilateral deals has now turned into one-sided import trade. What made these merchants most indignant was that there were some British goods that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom urgently needed, but they could not trade with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom alone, and they had to sell other foreign foreign companies to be reluctantly accepted. In the middle, coupled with repeated price reductions, the profit is almost equal to nothing.

For example, after Sassoon & Co. shipped shiploads of pottery, tea and other Chinese products back to China at the beginning of the year, it had no choice but to make a return trip. The number of transactions seems to be not small, but as soon as the things arrived in Shanghai, they changed hands in the middle of the Rui Ji foreign company jointly established by the French company Aneng and the Arnold brothers of Prussia. Who is to blame? Of course, they can't complain about Rui Ji Foreign Company, but they publicly took out the settlement list with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government and asked them to see it, in fact, what they earned was only the transportation cost saved, and the extra profit was also pitiful and pitiful.

The Sassoon family, who had "voluntarily" paid a large atonement fine for opium trafficking, and hoped to make a big profit in the future hot trade with China, saw others get rich, and now they really want to cry without tears. Damn bastards, if it weren't for their participation in the forces against the Taiping Revolution with their big tails, how could they have such evil results today. The merchants in China began to "entangle" Ali Guo, and strongly demanded that this nominally idler, in essence the imperial diplomat and politician in China, establish a government that would quickly change his stance on China and not delay everyone's fortune.

As a veteran diplomat in China, Ali Guo is no more short-sighted than those businessmen. From the year before last to the beginning of this year, especially from the second half of last year to the beginning of this year, Ali Guo has seen some ways in the export of domestic industrial products, which seems to be very lively. In fact, the major buyers of industrial products in China mainly come from the American market, and one is that the United States has been setting off a great movement to make a lot of railway money, attracting countless British speculative funds to join. And this movement, as the Taiping government began to allow the export of new explosives to them, was like adding fuel to the fire, and it was even more intense. Second, the U.S. government, which is good at duplicity, adjusted its strategy toward China in a timely manner, openly violated the tacit agreement reached with the British Empire, and was eager to recognize the legitimacy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government, and soon lived an economic honeymoon with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government. Countless American companies have taken advantage of the steady flow of "spare money" from Britain to take advantage of China, a country with huge market demand after the war, and the gamblers have reached a crazy point in hoarding cheap British industrial goods.

The madness of the American speculators directly led to a new round of enthusiasm for industrial production in Britain. From the mouths of frequent domestic people, Ali Guo learned that at present, major domestic enterprises are working all night to maximize their horsepower, tap their potential, and find ways to meet the unprecedented wave of procurement. In China, when it comes to railways and steel, everyone's eyes immediately glow with golden light, and small iron factories in the countryside have sprung up one by one. Those guys who have a lot of railways and steel bonds and stocks in their hands seem to be lying in a big golden nest, beautiful! Extraordinary prosperity in the country, it was an unimaginable prosperity.

Ali Guo is indeed a very loyal "diplomatic warrior", not to mention that he does not even have an official status now, but in this land that he deeply hates, he has been working tirelessly to play his role as a stealth diplomat of the empire, and he may provide the empire with "extremely valuable information and extremely forward-looking construction". Ali Guo keenly observed that although the United States is very hot, if you think about it carefully, it is just a hot head shaved head, and these industrial products are still stored in the distant United States, and there are not many things that actually flow into China. What will be the consequences if the craze cools down? It didn't take long for Aleguo to feel even more worried from Marshali, who had a toothache on fire every day and was forced to hit the wall by the screaming government and businessmen in the United States. The pace of domestic economic construction, which the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government had been singing, did not speed up with the recovery of the whole country, and it seemed that the pace suddenly slowed down again. The Americans did not receive the large contracts they had hoped for, and American speculation was being dealt a very ferocious blow. This is terrible, if the Americans can't hold on, not only the Americans themselves will suffer, but also drag the British Empire into the water.

But Ali Guo couldn't understand whether the politicians of the British government, who were foaming stars every day and were dizzy, had their heads squeezed through the door or been flooded when they were children, and they didn't know if the staff members who had been chattering around the queen all day long were just sticking their noses to smell the unique fragrance emanating from the queen, so that their souls were ingested. Not only did he turn a deaf ear to his efforts to "get along" with the Taiping government as soon as possible, but he even intensified his view of the Taiping government as the most vicious enemy of the British Empire. At the behest of the absurd government, the Indian governor, Viscount Canning, continued to create disputes on the western border of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, until he instigated the Gurk and other armed forces to enter Tibet.

In August of this year, the United States was in chaos, and a small number of American speculators began to go bankrupt one after another, unable to bear the burden of high financing interest. Moreover, this wind of bankruptcy and bankruptcy began to quietly spread like the "Black Death" that swept Europe for nearly a century hundreds of years ago. However, in this case, those politicians in the country are still not sober.

"The crisis is coming, and if it is not properly guided, the wind of crisis will sooner or later reach the empire and shake the fundamental ...... of the empire" It was not until last month, under the repeated warnings of Ali Guo, that the imperial government finally seemed to wake up a little.

In an urgent letter to him, the Foreign Secretary of the Imperial Government first encouraged Jia Yitong, and then complained as always about Aliguo, although you are a rare diplomatic elite in the Empire, but after all, you are still a layman in terms of economy, and you will be very narrow-minded in looking at problems. The Imperial Government carefully studied his many suggestions and reminders, and agreed that the kind of economic crisis he spoke of could not be said to be impossible to erupt in the United States, but that the idea of a heavy blow to the country, as he had said, was too far-fetched.

In particular, he believes that what happened in the United States "This may be a very serious crisis, but it is actually a great conspiracy that the inhumane Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government has been deliberately operating all along." It is to take advantage of the high trust and dependence of the United States on the industrial products of the British Empire to indirectly attack the economy of the Empire." The Taiping Celestial Government was nothing more than an ignorant government that was accepting a huge mess, and although it seemed to be advanced in some places, it lacked a strong industrial base and posed no threat to the Empire's powerful industries for at least ten to twenty years. In this regard, not only are all members of the cabinet remarkably unanimous, but also the ideas of the major domestic financial giants. As of the issuance of the official letter, the major financial institutions in China and Europe have maintained an unprecedented amount of foreign loans, and even if there is any trouble in the United States, with the help of the major financial institutions, the situation will be turned around.

In a personal letter to him, the Foreign Secretary, who accompanied the official letter of the Imperial Government, said with great understanding that he had been fighting far from his homeland in a foreign land with a complicated situation, and that he knew very little about the real situation in the country, and that it was inevitable that his conclusions would be erroneous on the basis of hearsay and shadows. The Foreign Minister also wrote with great interest that bankers and businessmen had learned through various channels that the top officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Government were about to visit France at the end of the year to speed up trade between the two countries......

Seeing this, Ali Guo could only be speechless. Will the bankers help the Americans through this? Hehe, those old men in the cabinet are really naïve and naïve and ridiculous. However, at the end of the cabinet letter, Ali Guo finally got a little comfort. "With the approval of Her Majesty the Queen, I hope that you will once again make full use of your superhuman wisdom and reach a formal trade agreement with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government as soon as possible, set up an imperial commercial agency in Tianjing, kick out the United States, and find a smooth trade channel for the empire alone."

After receiving the official letter and appointment from the Imperial Foreign Minister, Ali Guo first cheekily went to the door to pay a visit to Hong Renji, the foreign minister of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Government, and after a short conversation with him, Hong Renji told him with a sad face that for various reasons, he could not promise anything to Ali Guo, and that the matter of setting up a British commercial agency could only be communicated with the personal approval of Yang Xiuqing, the chairman of the National People's Congress. The strange thing is that every time he arrives at the door, the busy Chairman Yang is either out on business or on business, and he has no time to meet him.

After thinking about it behind closed doors, Ali Guo finally figured it out, and it turned out that Chairman Yang was deliberately avoiding him. He used his brain, thought about it for a whole day, and suddenly his eyes lit up. This is the reason why Ali Guo came to Beijing, and it is also the reason why he hesitated for several days and did not dare to rashly come to the door to "disturb" Director Lin, who had never had a good impression of him.

However, no matter how ugly the daughter-in-law is, it is inevitable that she will see her in-laws, and after a few days of "charging" in the past few days, Ali Guo still came to Fengtai after making some careful calculations from beginning to end.

To his surprise and some excitement, not long after the application for a meeting was passed in, there was a quick response of "please" inside.

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