Chapter Seventy-Nine: Regret

Within a few days, a series of newspapers, led by Handan Daily and Taiyuan Daily, began to publish the entire story of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis kind of obvious, Chiguoguo's discrimination does not need to be provoked by more words, and it has already aroused the anger of the Chinese people.

While the princes in the south were still stunned, the newspapers in the north had already exposed the face of the United States, and there was also a history of the Americans' extermination of the Indians into rare animals. When the black history of the founding fathers of the United States, such as "killing an Indian every minute" and "people should be encouraged to kill Indians as much as possible and make boots out of their skins", it was a national uproar.

Indians and Chinese are very similar in skin color, and the death of rabbits and foxes has been a long time coming. With only a slight hint in the media, it is easy to associate the Chinese Exclusion Act with the history of the extermination of the Indians by the Americans. The tragic experiences of those Chinese in the United States have also been written out with added fuel and vinegar, making Americans feel like they have crawled out of hell and like to oppress the kind and hard-working Chinese.

The rest of the matter is logical. First the workers in Tianjin refused to unload American freighters, then Qingdao, Lianyungang, Shanghai, and all over the country spontaneously joined in the boycott of American goods. Workers refused to load or unload American goods, merchants refused to sell, and citizens refused to use American goods.

At first, the other powers were frightened by the huge demonstration, thinking that this was another Gengzi rebellion, but after seeing that the Chinese were only boycotting American goods, they felt that the Chinese were beginning to wake up like this, and they would not be able to get their foreheads one day, and on the other hand, they began to vigorously seize the share left by the American goods after they were squeezed out of the Chinese market.

The U.S. minister to China at this time was Conger, a typical American who believed in God and hated the British. Of course, to be able to achieve the position of minister, in addition to those two qualities, he is also very rich in his family, and he also has some business acumen. Otherwise, you would not be able to do this by simply believing in God.

After the Chinese began to boycott American goods, the income of the related merchants plummeted. Thanks to China's growing machinery and the number of various means of transportation, the Northwest Town Guard had to buy a large amount of refined oil from the Standard Oil Company every month, and after the wave of boycotts of American goods blew, such businesses were naturally robbed by the British.

The founder of Standard Oil is the famous Rockefeller, and now it is the largest crude oil producer in the United States, monopolizing 95% of the refining capacity, 90% of the oil transportation capacity, and 25% of the crude oil production in the United States. They were excited to expand production and sell more refined oil products to China, and then they received an official notice from the Chinese government that "due to some force majeure factors, the cooperation between the two sides will be temporarily terminated".

Standard Oil is the big financier behind Conger, and it is also one of Conger's achievements to promote the Chinese government's purchase of a large number of American goods, and now there is this trend of boycotting American goods, and he immediately found the current Foreign Minister Xu Yuanhua.

"Mr. Xu, I strongly protest against your behavior, which violates the principle of free trade!"

As soon as he came up, Conger made his position clear in righteous words, and also made a request: "My government urges your government to deal with this matter in a serious manner, and not to continue to stir up hostile sentiment against the United States in the newspapers." ”

Xu Yuanhua has reached the pinnacle of his life, and this former religious person who originally lived in the countryside by pretending to be a ghost and cheating people out of money, is extremely satisfied with his current position. He also knew that he couldn't go any further, so he didn't have the same interest as before when dealing with government affairs.

"What does the Chinese Exclusion Act say?" Xu Yuanhua scoffed at the Americans, and if the British protested, he would be serious, after all, they were the world hegemons. As for the Americans, you descendants of traitors, stay wherever you are cool.

Kang Ge didn't expect Xu Yuanhua to throw out the origin of the problem so directly, and he couldn't help but be stunned. He was also a little dissatisfied with the domestic division of fine divisions, and while he wanted to expand the Chinese market, he also came up with such things as the "Chinese Exclusion Act", which is a typical fine division.

However, he is the US minister to China, and he is here to safeguard US interests. Even if he was a little dissatisfied, he still excused the behavior of the United States: "I regret that Congress passed such a bill, which is obviously contrary to freedom and human rights." But this is not a reason for your country to abandon its boycott of US activities. ”

The man from Iowa said sincerely: "I implore you, for the sake of friendship between China and the United States, to stop slandering the United States, so that we can also operate in the country to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act." ”

Conger said very sincerely, the American people were still very simple at this time, and they were not contaminated with the exaggerated atmosphere of the American imperialism of later generations, and they would not make a "... There are things we know and things we don't know...... Things we don't know, we just don't know."

But Xu Yuanhua is a person who has been in the rivers and lakes all his life, and he will not be moved by Conger's seemingly sincere performance. As soon as his face straightened, he said, "I have never heard of such a truth. Did you first insult China and the Chinese, and then you demanded that we first give up our boycott of the United States, and then you would consider repealing that bill? ”

"Is there such a thing in the world?!!

Conger was also a little ashamed, as a civilized person, a person who claimed to be a civilized world, although he still looked down on the yellow people in the East, he couldn't do it to the point of talking nonsense with his eyes open.

"Well, all I can say is regret and apologies." In the end, Conger could only say: "I will convey your country's meaning to the country as soon as possible." ”

A large number of U.S. companies, including Standard Oil, were in an uproar after receiving the news that Conger had returned home. They didn't care about the "Chinese Exclusion Act" originally, anyway, the de facto discrimination and suppression of Chinese people has been many years, and this time it was just determined in the form of legislation.

They don't care much about the forces that push for this bill, it's just business. But if it affects their own profits, then they have to jump out and end up themselves. (To be continued.) )