Chapter 131 Cooperation (2)

Although Wang Bin did not say what kind of cooperation method it is, but as for what kind of cooperation Wang Bin did not propose, mainly in Wang Bin's view, this business cooperation is only the minister in the Qing Dynasty has the ability to make a decision, so Wang Bin just told the two people that they have such a plan to cooperate in the development of business, as for how much the two parties participated, this Wang Bin is unknown, after all, Wang Bin is not a fortune teller who can pinch and calculate.

Wang Bin was also a little uncertain about the attitude of the ministers of the two countries, and Sheffield and Vladimir hurriedly said that they would immediately go back and relay the matter to the ministers after getting Wang Bin's purpose this time.

Looking at the backs of the two of them leaving in a hurry, Wang Bin was full of confidence that the Russian minister did not dare to say that he could be fished over, but the minister of the United States was different, and there was something to say when it came to the United States, especially since the United States was an emerging country, so it was very hard, and this wanted to grab interests in China but had nowhere to grab them.

At that time, the plundering activities of the European powers and Japan, such as seizing Haikou and competing for spheres of influence in China, posed a direct threat to US interests in China.

Once China is carved up and becomes a colony ruled by various countries, the United States will inevitably be excluded from trade with China, let alone further development. At that time, its trade with China was growing rapidly, and the American business community saw China, with its vast territory and large population, as a "potential market," and the textile industry's interests wrote that the possibilities offered by China for American business were "simply immeasurable" and that it was the potential "largest market in the world."

At the same time, the bitter thing about the United States at that time was that when the great powers began to seize benefits from the Qing Dynasty for the first time, the United States was engaged in the Spanish-American War, so this time there was no American business.

The second time was even more bitter, and finally won the Spanish-American War, at this time the United States pondered whether to give up some of its own interests and those of other old imperialist powers in exchange for interests in China, but no one paid attention to the United States, and what was even more bitter was that at this time, the United States launched a vigorous anti-war movement in the United States at that time, criticizing the US government's foreign expansion policy, so that the United States occupied the Philippines and the peace treaty was also strongly opposed at home and in Congress, and in the Senate it was slow to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority for ratification of the treaty.

This was followed by the birth of an anti-imperialist alliance, which sprung up in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities, totaling more than 100 and setting up nationwide organs, with nearly 500,000 people from all walks of life participating in the movement, and the Democratic Party took up the banner and severely criticized the Republican government's foreign aggression and expansion, so the government should follow the will of the monopoly bourgeoisie, actively protect US interests in China, and take decisive steps to compete for hegemony in China and Asia; It is also necessary to be cautious in disguised aggression and avoid attacks by anti-imperialist movements.

In the end, the United States had no real interest in China, except for some indemnities, so in the end the United States had no choice but to put forward the principle of "maintaining China's territorial and administrative integrity, protecting all the rights guaranteed by treaties and international law to all friendly countries, and guaranteeing equal fair trade between the whole world and all parts of the Chinese Empire," and also devoted itself to developing relations with the Qing government in order to seek access to China, a huge "potential market."

And Russia can't guarantee anything for this cooperation, the only thing Wang Bin can guarantee is that the American minister will definitely come to negotiate with him after seeing this cake.

So five days later, just as Wang Bin had expected, the American and Russian ministers came to visit.

After receiving the news, Wang Bin hurriedly went to entertain the ministers of the two countries in person, and specially washed the dust for the two ministers on his mansion.

This time, the minister of the United States who came was the minister of Rou Keyi, and the Russian minister was called Pukodi, and the two of them directly stated the purpose after being received by Wang Bin, and Wang Bin did not directly say the method of cooperation after listening to the words of the two.

As early as after the garrison Mukden, Wang Bin has been thinking about how to pull the powers into his camp, thinking about it, so far it seems that the United States and Tsarist Russia are the most unlucky, the former has been seeking the interests of the Far East but has no room to start, the latter has just fought with the Japanese, and has to cede part of the interests in the Far East to Japan, so these two countries are currently the best to win over, so Wang Bin has in his heart to rely on this purpose of commercial cooperation to pull the United States and Tsarist Russia over.

Sure enough, both Tsarist Russia and the United States were tempted to come over. "Two ministers, please look, I am going to establish a commercial area in this place of Fengtian, the specific location I am going to establish in the north of Fengtian City, this business is prepared according to a huge commercial market, the two of you must know that Fengtian outside the customs can be regarded as the center of the three northeastern provinces, now that the war is over, you just need to do a good job with the geographical location and convenient transportation, especially the railway and the current transshipment of many goods have to pass through Fengtian, So this market can be established as the largest commercial center in the Far East. “

Wang Bin's words paint a very good picture of the prospects, and the truth is exactly as Wang Bin said, of course, provided that Wang Bin can build this commercial center.

So after being caught in the mind by the picture depicted by Wang Bin, the first thing the two ministers asked was: "General Wang, you invited us to come and discuss this matter this time, according to our thoughts, you should not have enough financial resources to complete this idea!" “

These two ministers are worthy of being old foxes, even if they were hooked by Wang Bin's idea, but none of them should be thought about, Wang Bin came to them for one of them to win over, and the other is that the funds in his hands are indeed unable to support himself to build the largest business district in the Far East, so Wang Bin wants to let the United States and Tsarist Russia contribute a little bit to this matter. "Yes, I do want His Excellency the Minister to provide financial assistance, and with this assistance we can not only build a commercial area, but even an industrial area if possible."

After throwing out the idea of a commercial area, Wang Bin once again threw out the idea of an industrial area.