Li Yongji was originally an anxious person, and he hated talking around the bend the most, plus his current identity is completely different from the past, and he has a lot of things to deal with every day, so he can be said to be a busy person.

Therefore, at the banquet to welcome the special envoy of the Confederate States of America, after finding that Mr. Vice President's speech was too out of tune and very unkind to his spleen, Li Yongji simply lost the patience to continue the conversation, and no longer continued to receive in person, but found an excuse to go back to stay with Soho, and the negotiation was handed over to Gao Junjie.

Gao Junjie is Jason. Jimson's Chinese name, when Pu Anchen came to Smithland for negotiations, he was in charge of receiving and acting as a personal interpreter for the Chinese side.

Although Jason. Jimson was a white British-American, but he had long since become a Chinese citizen, married a wife and had children in China, and then accepted the employment of the Eastern Bloc, sent the Red Fort in Hollywood, and finally joined the Chinese Expeditionary Force by chance, becoming one of the many Chinese white translators in the expeditionary force.

The reason why the expeditionary force hired so many white translators was because Li Yongji was going to the southeast of North America, surrounded by whites or blacks, and there were basically no yellow people, so their expeditionary force was really alone.

Because the targets of the campaign are mainly whites, it is necessary to bring some white interpreters for the convenience of communication.

Speaking of which, before China officially declared war on the government of the United States of America, the Red Fort in Hollywood, or the emerging city of Los Angeles, was basically a Chinese settlement, although there were also many white people coming and going, but they were all businessmen, even if they could speak a few words of Chinese, but they could only be some of the simplest common words, and it was absolutely impossible to be a translator.

In the early days of the construction of the Red Fort in Hollywood, or before the official declaration of war between China and the United States, the language of communication between the Chinese in Los Angeles was still English. It was only after the declaration of war that the Chinese quickly attacked, swept across California, and took all important cities such as San Francisco, which forced the entire California to use Chinese as the official language, but English still did not give up, after all, there are still a large number of whites in the local area.

At the beginning of the war, Li Yongji thought about the problem of white people in advance, so he recruited a large number of white translators from China in advance.

White translators are not necessarily better than Chinese translators, after all, strictly speaking. In the Chinese Empire at that time, there were many Chinese who knew both Chinese and English, not to mention Nanyang, and there were many people available in Hong Kong alone.

On the contrary, the white people who are proficient in Chinese are a very rare species, not to mention the previous Manchu Qing era, even after the establishment of the Chinese Empire and the strong marketing of exquisite Chinese goods to the world, more and more whites came to China. But the number of white people who really understand Chinese is very small, not to mention the price of hiring such white translators, which is several times that of Chinese translators, and the price difference is too much.

Of course. If it was in the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the past, white translators were still very popular, after all, foreigners at that time had privileges on Chinese soil, and the government did not dare to offend. So if you hire a white translator, it's much easier.

But when the Qing Empire was overthrown. After the strong rise of the Chinese Empire, this situation of foreigners being superior to others was completely reversed, and foreigners no longer had all kinds of privileges on Chinese soil as in the past, but were subject to many constraints, and if they did not do well, they would be punished and punished.

Even, due to the previous superiority of foreigners, the Chinese consciously felt that they were a head shorter, and as a result, after their own national strength was enhanced, their national self-esteem swelled rapidly, and Chinese's perception of foreigners also had a great rebound, from the original extreme inferiority complex to extreme arrogance.

That is to say, in the past Manchu Qing Dynasty, the average Chinese people subconsciously bowed their heads to avoid foreigners when they saw them, which was a kind of inferiority complex that was deep in the bone marrow, but when the foreigners were defeated in succession and signed a series of so-called memorandums of understanding with the Chinese imperial government, banning the privileges of foreigners in China, and foreigners must abide by Chinese laws, the Chinese people trembled all of a sudden.

This change was not obvious at first, after all, the long-term obscenity of foreigners made everyone still very afraid, but when the Russian expeditionary fleet was completely annihilated by the Chinese navy and forced to cede land and sue for peace, and the territory ceded was comparable to half of China's territory, this mentality of the Celestial Empire surged again.

At that time, the Chinese in Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places, once they saw foreigners, no longer subconsciously bowed their heads to avoid them as in the past, but deliberately raised their heads to show their arrogance, and even many local shrewd ruffians deliberately stopped in front of foreigners and used various methods to provoke them.

At the beginning, many foreigners were not adaptable, and in the face of the provocations of those Chinese, they often used their own methods to fight, generally speaking, using hands and feet and the like.

However, as soon as they moved their hands and feet, those Chinese ruffians began to shout out for injustice, and then reported to the police, and most of those policemen were transformed from the previous arrests, and they were originally angry with foreigners in the past.

At the beginning, the local consulate protested, but after finding that it was useless, it quickly changed its attitude and began to take the initiative to relent, so that the arrested foreigner obediently admitted the punishment, and did not play any appeal or anything like that.

Sure enough, those foreigners who appealed were ruthlessly refuted, and most of them were sentenced by the court to criminal laws of varying severity, while those who did not appeal, obediently accepted punishment, especially foreigners with good attitudes and took a lot of money, were mostly reprimanded, asked to write an examination, and were released after paying the money.

After several similar incidents, coupled with the strict instructions of the local consul, the result is that foreigners in China are becoming more and more constrained, usually concentrated in the area near the consulate, once they need to go deep into the Chinese mainland, they must hire a few Chinese tongs with them, otherwise they will definitely be blackmailed.

Therefore, although the Chinese Empire has nominally been open to all foreigners who have entered the customs legally, that is to say, foreigners who hold legal entry permits can walk freely anywhere in China within the specified time, due to the environment in China, white people do not dare to go deep without the company of Chinese, otherwise they do not know how to die.

This kind of situation in which the Chinese took the initiative to reject foreigners was relatively light when Li Yongji was still in China, and the mentality of the Chinese had not yet been completely reversed at that time. Moreover, when Li Yongji was in the palace, the deterrent effect was also relatively large, and he knew that foreigners had a better relationship with the emperor.

However, when Li Yongji went to North America incognito, and the country's internal affairs were handed over to the queen and Shen Shiming, the situation began to change.

Although Empress Yin Susu is in charge of the internal affairs department, she is lazy by nature and does not like to manage the government, and spends most of her time taking care of her children every day, so slowly. The government and politics are all under the control of Shen Shiming.

After Shen Shiming took power, perhaps it was a childhood shadow, and he was bullied by foreigners when he was a child, so he began to show a strong side to foreigners.

When I found that the prime minister didn't seem to be very interested in foreigners, the bureaucrats below understood what to do, and when it came to the local police station, many police officers simply regarded the project as a local income-generating project.

Why do you say that, because most of the police arrest foreigners on trumped-up charges. Among them, administrative penalties, especially fines, are the most common punishment methods, and this kind of fine can be withheld for a large part of themselves, and only one-third of it needs to be handed over to the above.

There are such benefits. Of course, the police are willing to punish people, but if they punish local people, not to mention that everyone is neighbors, it will be difficult to face them. Let's just say that you really have to be fined, and the poor have no money to fine, in case they are in a hurry. Their family members go to the court to sue you, and if you don't get it right, you will have to suffer a lawsuit, and the gains outweigh the losses.

The rich are even worse, most of China's rich people are local famous people, their power is intertwined, they are either rich or related, and they can make a lot of things out of any one of them, and they don't need the court to come forward when the time comes, just those nominal parliamentarians can give you a headache.

Therefore, the police generally do not punish locals, at least they will not make false accusations, but foreigners are different.

Foreigners are proper outsiders, they have no roots in the local area, and the hatred value is very high, whether they are rich or poor, they hate these foreigners, so there will be no psychological burden to frame and punish these foreigners.

In the past, foreigners had strong ships and cannons to rely on, and the lords of the yamen to restrain them, but now the days of foreigners acting as prestige have passed, and the lords of the yamen have become strong orders in the face of foreigners, so it can be said that there is no risk in punishing foreigners.

Therefore, the police simply cooperated with the local ruffians and hooligans, let the ruffians find fault first, and then the police went over to finish, the whole process was reasonable, forming a complete set of fishing law enforcement models, and quickly spread widely, becoming a compulsory subject for police departments around the country to engage in income generation.

In this way, foreigners everywhere have been unlucky, many foreigners have been blackmailed, and many foreigners have even died because of this.

However, even if a foreigner died because of a false accusation, or even if this was a citizen of the British Empire, which claimed to be the world's most powerful country, the British consul could only protest against this, and did not dare to take the slightest practical action, and even those British consuls took the initiative to help the Chinese government suppress the development of the situation and prevent the further spread of the news, so as not to lose face of the British Empire.

To put it bluntly, it is still the Chinese army that has shown extraordinary combat effectiveness, and the powerful people of the British government pondered it and felt that it seemed very uneconomical to fight the Chinese army now, and the chances of winning were very low, and Britain had many interests in Asia and did not want to conflict with the local giant China, so it could maintain restraint.

Otherwise, the kind of behavior of framing foreigners and extorting bamboo is tantamount to a slap in the face, and it is not much worse than the Boxer Rebellion in another time and space.

However, this kind of thing, in turn, has stimulated the Chinese, and the Chinese seem to regard this as a victory, and every time a foreigner is punished, he will win a piece of applause, and as a result, this attack on foreigners has not only not weakened, but has a tendency to intensify.

In the end, the foreigners had to retreat to the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, which was nominally the land of the royal family, and it was also a place where Li Yongji had set aside a special area to trade with foreigners.

Originally, the Shanghai Free Trade Zone was a new port area, the purpose of which was to avoid the military port of Wusong Port and speed up the logistics of trade, so a lot of warehouse areas and residential areas were built, and it was a high-end commercial area.

However, after it was built, although the scale was very large, it was a new place after all, located in the suburbs, and many inconveniences were inconvenient, and foreigners didn't know about it at first, so not many people went.

However, after the whole country began to suppress foreigners, foreigners suddenly found that this was a safe place. So they came to live here, and as a result, this free trade zone instantly became popular, and it turned out to be a new settlement area for foreigners.

Later, I found that this situation was a little uncontrollable, and even Li Yongji knew about it, so he called Shen Shiming and asked him to stop this behavior, otherwise it would only be himself who would be harmed!

Now that the emperor has spoken, and Shen Shiming also feels that it is indeed too much to go on like this, hindering normal trade. As a result, the tariffs were reduced, and the local governments were decisively ordered to strictly restrain the local Chinese, and strictly forbidden to privately attack and frame international friends, otherwise they would be severely punished.

Under this strict ban from top to bottom, the frenzied attack on foreigners was curbed, but foreigners, especially whites, were still frightened, and the result was that foreigners generally went directly to the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, and even the former concession area did not dare to go. If you have to go deep into the Chinese mainland, you must bring a Chinese translator and find a Chinese to protect yourself.

Of course, not all foreigners will be like this. Another way to avoid being attacked by the Chinese is to obtain Chinese nationality and become a serious Chinese!

The mentality of the Chinese at this time is very strange, obviously hating foreigners. But once foreigners become Chinese, they are quite protective of these foreigners with Chinese ID cards, if you have an official position to protect yourself. Then there is no doubt that they will treat you as their own.

Like the previous Huaer who served in the foreign gun team, they are treated similarly, they not only have Chinese nationality, but also have official positions, which can be called adults, and as a result, these Chinese foreigners are not only not discriminated against in China, but also have a very high status in China because of their official status.

Because of this, when the Chinese frantically attacked foreigners, many Chinese foreigners became a lifesaver for foreigners, such as the previous Huaer, he was a warm-hearted, more than once for the wronged foreigners to intercede, for which he really saved a lot of people, although most of them only reduced corporal punishment, fines and the like are a lot, but at least people can be quickly fished out, and there is a lot less flesh and skin, and the result has won a lot of prestige among foreigners.

Gao Junjie, or Jason. Although Mr. Jimson became a Chinese citizen early, he did not have an official status before, so he was originally going to be attacked in that wave of xenophobia, even if he himself was not in China at the time, but he had two Chinese wives and four children in China, and these family members were also very easily implicated.

But fortunately, before the xenophobia incident, Gao Junjie was employed by the Eastern Group, and the Eastern Group is a holding company with the emperor's background, which has great privileges at home and abroad, and Gao Junjie had already joined Li Yongji's expeditionary force at that time, so their families and the Eastern Group have effectively protected these people and have not implicated these people.

However, the wave of xenophobia in China still stimulated Gao Junjie, but the difference is that he did not deviate from China because of this, but had a clearer understanding of the essence of China.

Gao Junjie realized that although China is a country dominated by Chinese, especially Han Chinese, it is not a nationalist country in essence, but an authoritarian country, after all, China is a country with many ethnic groups.

If you want to gain a firm foothold here, you don't need to hide your national bloodline, you just need to get a higher official position and have higher power, so no matter what color you are, you can be unhindered in China.

It should be that Gao Junjie's idea is actually wrong, after all, although the Chinese Empire at this time is not a country with strong racism, the role of skin color is still very large.

However, Gao Junjie was only a British sailor before, and his knowledge was limited, and he attached great importance to authority, and he understood the fact that with his identity, it was impossible to obtain too high a status in Europe, the United States and Western countries, and only the newborn China was his opportunity.

The combat effectiveness of the expeditionary force deepened his idea, so like other people who like to vassalize the strong and are eager to rely on the strong to gain power and wealth, Gao Junjie can be said to be dedicated to his duties during his service to the expeditionary force, and it is simply outrageous in helping the Chinese suppress their white compatriots.

For example, he played a big role in the Smithland negotiations at the beginning, and many additional treaties, such as various concession claims, were the first to be proposed by him, and in many places even Li Yongji himself did not think of it.

Not to mention, the most ruthless to one's own people is still one's own compatriots, and at present, the most ruthless to white people has to be white themselves.

But looking at it another way, Gao Junjie, that is, Jason. Jimson was originally an Englishman, and he was still a sailor in the British Navy, and the British people hated the Americans very much, and the British Navy especially hated the existence of Americans, so as a former British Navy sailor, Gao Junjie's hatred of Americans is understandable.

In short, because Gao Junjie played a prominent role in the previous negotiation process, and there were no talents available in Li Yongji's hands at that time, the most prominent Gao Junjie was quickly promoted by Li Yongji and became the main person in charge of foreign affairs in the future, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a diplomat of the expeditionary force.

In the past, when Gao Junjie received Pu Anchen, he was still accompanied as a translator, and in order to take care of the other party's mood at that time, and his status was very low at that time, he used his English name.

But this time entertained Alexander of the Union government. Vice President Stephens is different, Gao Junjie is representing the Eastern Expeditionary Force, and he is talking to him as a negotiator, so he uses the Chinese name Gao Junjie.

Although strictly speaking, the Eastern Expeditionary Force is a private mercenary army affiliated with the Eastern Bloc, and Gao Junjie is now only a representative of a business group, not a Chinese official, but Gao Junjie is very aware of the nature of the Eastern Bloc and knows that as long as he behaves well here, power and fame and fortune are all things that are easy to obtain.

Therefore, based on the mood of re-innovation, Gao Junjie treated the vice president with an extremely excited attitude, he was not afraid that the other party would not speak in tune, but he was afraid that the other party would talk less, because only when the other party talked more, he could detect more fiction and reality, and take the opportunity to fight for more rights and interests for himself.

To put it simply, Gao Junjie is very clear about his own bottom line of negotiation, or his own negotiation purpose, after all, Li Yongji has told him in detail, and if he can add a little more benefit to himself on this basis, it will be a reflection of his ability.

In other words, if he can tear off some more benefits from the other party, the greater Gao Junjie's credit, the greater the credit, the more rewards, maybe, just this time through negotiations, he can soar, and with the platform of the expeditionary force and the Eastern Bloc, he will really become a big man to look up to within the Chinese Empire, and may even become a nobleman!

It is said that Napoleon, who made the European continent a chicken, once said that a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, and in China, Gao Junjie believes that this sentence should be changed, and a national who does not want to be an official is not a good citizen! (To be continued......)