Chapter 407: British and French evacuation
After Britain and France signed agreements with the Xia Empire and the Chinese Empire respectively, the Xia Empire and the Chinese Empire released the soldiers, government officials, merchants, diplomats, and their families imprisoned by Britain and France in Hong Kong, French Indochina, Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, and the West Indies. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
So many people are going to return home, and the transportation force alone is difficult for both governments.
The number of merchant ships in Britain, France and other countries is very large, but it is obviously impossible to transport so many people back in a short period of time, mainly because the number of people who need to be transported is too large, and the distance is too far, and now it will take a month to transfer ships from China to Hong Kong and other places, besides, there are many merchant ships seized by the Xia Empire, and it is necessary to ensure that the ships used in other parts of their country are very limited.
The measures taken by the Xia Empire this time were different from the past, not only the weapons of the troops and soldiers were all confiscated, but also the assets of government officials and businessmen were also confiscated, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Xia Empire said that this was learned from Britain and France and other countries, and how many Chinese shops and property were robbed in Britain and France and their colonies? How many Chinese were robbed and killed? The Xia Empire and the Chinese Empire just confiscated their property, which was already very merciful.
The Chinese Empire was obviously very happy to carry out the advice of the Xia Empire, except for the German leased land, in Hong Kong and Macao, they only confiscated the property of the British and Portuguese, and the two countries had been operating in the local area for so many years, not to mention the fixed assets, even those merchants who had the advantage were also rich and oily, and naturally they could not be taken away from the leased land for these ill-gotten gains, and they were cheapened for nothing.
Naturally, the military, government officials, diplomats and their families are within the scope of the government's first evacuation, and the governments of several countries cannot ignore the other expatriates, otherwise their governments will lose the support of the people, especially those businessmen, etc., and must evacuate the dire place as soon as possible.
Since all the people were confiscated and their assets were confiscated, the Xia Empire and the Chinese Empire used to provide them with food and drink when they were imprisoned together, but now after they are released, no one cares about their lives anymore.
These British and French had no choice but to do short-term labor, get a meager salary, temporarily buy a small amount of food for themselves and their families, and barely survive, and what they are most looking forward to now is that their country and government will come to the ship as soon as possible to take them away from hell, otherwise according to the greed of the Xia Empire, I really don't know when they will be able to scrape together enough money for the ferry ticket back to China.
Fortunately, the temperature in these areas is very high, so it will not freeze to death, but it is uncomfortable in Russia, and there is no food every day. Now they don't even have a way to contact the country, the radio station has been confiscated, and they have no money to send commercial telegrams, so they can only endure silently, and their hearts are full of curses for the Xia Empire, and even the expensive pocket watches, rings and other personal belongings on their bodies have been taken away.
In the West Indies, the British and French are better, there are also ships from Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and other countries passing by, and the government will pay the relevant remuneration as long as the government promises to transport people to the designated port, and many merchant ships are happy to bring these people back to make some extra profits.
There were not so many good opportunities for the British on the Pacific and Indian Ocean coasts, and the ships of the European countries that came here generally had to fill their ships with locally produced goods before returning, and there was not so much space to transport these people, and they did not want to delay time.
At this time, the clever Jews found a business opportunity to make money, they found that although the Xia Empire seized so many foreign merchant ships, but has not been used, so they found the relevant departments of the local government to negotiate, hoping to buy the seized merchant ships of Britain and France and other countries in various places, originally these local governments also hoped to auction these merchant ships in the future to meet the transportation needs of local people and expand the scope of employment of local people. The Jews paid a high price for the ship, and the local government profited.
In fact, the Jews mainly thought that the speed of ordering new ships was too slow, and they were likely to miss the opportunity to make a fortune, so they preferred to pay a high price for old ships.
The Jews recruited shipwrights from these British corporations, promising to send them back to China as long as they had worked well for a year, and to pay them the previous year's wages.
It turned out that the sailors on the merchant ship felt that they were not working for someone, that they were paid a lot, and that they could get out of the sea of misery in time, so they signed labor agreements with the Jews one after another.
Then the Jews began to advertise that those who were willing to return to China could provide free ferry tickets and all the food and drink expenses on the way, but after London, their families would have to pay 10 times the cost.
The Jews also propagandized that their own ships did not know what year they would come, but the Commonwealth of Australia had millions of people to transport, and Britain and France did not have so many ships, and their countries could not take care of them at all.
The British knew the Jews' half-truths, but they were certain that they would not be able to return to their home country in a short time. Inwardly, they began to curse these damned Jews.
The Jews also advertised that as soon as the agreement was signed, they began to provide food, clothing, etc., as long as the accounts were kept.
Now the leaders of the newly occupied territories of the Xia Empire are very busy, and they are happy that these Jews will transport these foreign devils away as soon as possible, and the materials purchased by these Jews are also produced by the Xia Empire, and they can also increase local income, why not?
Five days later, the Jews announced that they would now have to raise the cost to 11 times because of the large number of people who had signed the agreement, which made many people even more anxious and eager to sign the agreement with the Jews.
On the 10th day, it was changed to 12 times, and then the price was changed every 5 days, which put a lot of ideological pressure on the British corporation.
Zhang Wei got a report from the intelligence officer, just smiled, how similar this speculation ticket is to the previous life of speculation, in fact, it is all speculation people's expectations, and gradually put pressure on them, if there is no government support, no one can be speculated.
Now that the price of goods continues to rise in various places, many shipowners would rather transport goods to earn stable profits and keep existing customers and channels, rather than transport these people who have no money and create unnecessary trouble for their ships.
Seeing that even the Xia Empire and even their own merchant ships were unwilling to transport them, and thought that it was an internal order issued by the Xia Empire, and saw that the Jews had no fear and raised the price every 5 days, they could only accept their fate and sign agreements with the Jews one after another.
The Jews were able to earn back the cost of buying a ship through this sale, and the food of the Xia Empire was very cheap, even clothing and other items were not expensive, and they were sold to the British at more than 10 times the price, and they had to charge them expensive fees for bathing.
Anyway, they had to pay the money after returning home, and these British people who had been in hardship for many days also demanded higher food for the Jews, which was something that the Jews could not ask for, and the more expensive the goods, the more profit they would make.
Since the colony of French Indochina itself was small in number, with a combined population of less than 100,000 people, when the 200 cargo ships sent by their country arrived in Saigon, Hanoi, etc., only a few dozen people were accepted on each ship, and the others had already left on Jewish ships at high prices.
Zhang Wei knew the whole thing well, he first felt the horror of the Jews, and secretly decided that this ethnic group must not be left as an enemy of the Xia Empire; He also saw that Britain and France and other countries were loose and backward in their management and slow to respond when they did not turn to a wartime state; He also saw the contradiction between Britain and France and Germany, and the German merchants, seeing the embarrassing situation of the British, French and other people, preferred not to make money than to transport them, but they did not know whether it was their personal behavior or the instructions of the German government.
What disappointed him even more was that there were so many people in the Xia Empire and so many people in the Chinese Empire, and no one thought of the Jewish way, was it because the Chinese people did not have this consciousness or did the empire not give them these policies? made Zhang Wei fall into deep contemplation.
All the people in the system are arranged to work in state-owned enterprises or government departments, but they don't have the right to do business freely; And what about national capital? It seems that these people's minds have been constrained for too long, and they can't become a big thing at all, and they can rely on system people.
Soon after, what happened stunned Zhang Wei, and after these people from England and France returned home, they all let their families pay the relevant fees according to the number of Jews reported, and obtained personal freedom; However, there is nowhere to vent the resentment in their hearts, they have already seen the strength of the Xia Empire, and this war was caused by the merchants who attacked the Xia Empire; If you can't attack the merchants of the Xia Empire, then attack the Jewish merchants, and it is unforgivable that the Jewish merchants should fall into the well against them.
Since many Jewish businesses were protected by the Xia Empire, these Jewish enterprises protected by the Xia Empire would display the Xia Empire flag in a prominent position, making it very easy for British legal entities to distinguish which Jewish companies they could target.
This time, the British also learned a lesson, and no longer smashed and looted as openly as they did against the Chinese, and this time they organized their actions to prevent gangsters and other people who disobey orders and obey commands to participate, and all participants must pass the registration and be reviewed, and their immediate family members must be blackmailed by Jews to participate in the attack on Jewish businessmen.
Since the people involved in this civil action included businessmen, soldiers, and government officials, the governments of the two countries turned a blind eye to this, and as long as it was not a blatant robbery during the day, the governments would not take care of it.
At the beginning of the operation, there were a succession of Jewish homes, shops, factories, workshops, etc., which were robbed by unknown people at night, and this time the Jews were not killed, at most they were beaten, and they did not hurt their lives, but they robbed all their belongings, destroyed their houses, destroyed their crops, fields, factories, and workshops, and transported away all their money, tools, furniture, and livestock, leaving only a single cloth for these Jews; Let them also enjoy the taste of being helpless.
The turmoil spread rapidly, destroying thousands of Jewish shops, factories and workshops throughout Britain, and looting tens of thousands of Jewish families, making these Jews real proletarians.
The turmoil is still spreading, and France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Spain and other countries have also followed the British example of robbing Jews, and a wave of anti-Semitism has risen around the world.
The British had great psychological satisfaction, they had a country to rely on, and returning home was their goal, but these Jews had no support, no goal, and they were much more miserable than they had at the beginning. (To be continued.) )