Traitor, Master Jia is a professional.

Compared with the coveted Chinese market, the British gentlemen of the East India Company are likely to do whatever it takes to get steam engines from China.

Figuratively, the steam engine is worth 100 yuan, and the Chinese market is worth 100 million.

English gentlemen know how to make trade-offs.

What's more, the great value of the steam engine at the moment may not be fully understood by the British gentlemen themselves.

If the gentlemen were far-sighted enough, they would even take the initiative to support the Governor of the Tatar Empire, Jajia, as their agent in the East.

Because the policies of the Tatar Empire often changed according to the emperor's preferences, it was necessary to change the empire from within if free trade was to truly become the national policy of the empire.

Coming from the heart of the Tatar Empire, the Viceroy was extremely enlightened and far-sighted, and could even speak a few words to the West in England, and was clearly the best partner for trade and trade with the Western countries.

Historically, the yearning and longing of Western countries for the East is really moving.

Jia Liu does not mind becoming the object of competition and support from other countries, he needs to further communicate closely with Western countries, and use the research results of Western countries that are beginning the first industrial revolution to strengthen themselves.

The colonial trade system, which has been established for a hundred years, is even more coveted by Jia Liu.

Whether it is called plunder, business, or mutual aid, in essence, for all economic and trade outside the country, violent or non-violent, in order to serve the homeland.

That is, the country first.

This is something that Western countries have implemented quite well.

Zhu Dawen, the prefect of Tianjin, still obediently acted as an "ambassador" to negotiate with the British East India Company, and Jia Liu, in the name of the governor, ordered the Dagukou guerrilla Chen to send three warships to escort Zhu Dawen to Macao, seeking contact with the British East India Company, and then starting negotiations between the two sides.

Jia Liu even wrote a personal letter to the British East India Company, in which he warmly invited the East India Company to send personnel to Tianjin, take a walk on the spot, have a look, and feel John Jia's enthusiasm and friendship for them.

In view of the fact that Zhu Dawen might be smeared when he arrived in Macao, and if he didn't get it, he would be fooled by the local foreign liars, Jia Liu specially wrote a letter to Liu De, who was running Keelung Port with Yang Yuchun in Taiwan, and was preparing to launch a decisive battle against the Qing army crossing Taiwan with the Tiandihui Righteous Army, asking him to help Zhu Dawen's mission in Guangdong through the way of Tiandihui.

That is, to provide knowledgeable people to act as intermediaries.

Previously, Jia Liu asked Liu De to go to Macao through the Guangdong Tiandi Association to buy a batch of guns and books, and hired several technicians.

This cooperation is a familiar road.

In addition to contacting the British East India Company, Zhu Dawen also had a task, which was to reserve talents for the upcoming Beiyang trade.

To put it bluntly, it is to dig the corners of the thirteen lines, and use high wages as much as possible to dig up people who understand trade to Tianjin.

Of course, if possible, you can also come into contact with French, Spanish, Belgian and other merchants.

Although Jia Liu really wanted to get the help of the British gentleman, he didn't want the British to become second-class dealers like the Netherlands, but encouraged a hundred flowers to bloom and all the oceans came to the court.

But the premise is that the British must be treated preferentially, there is no way, who made Jia Liuyi poor and white.

If you don't point to the British, you can't point to the closed shogunate and the Joseon dynasty.

In addition to a hundred escort officers and soldiers, he was accompanied by two generalists, as well as a Belgian priest named Vance You, whose specialty was astronomy.

Jia Liu couldn't use astronomy for the time being, so he asked this monk Wan to temporarily act as a bridge builder for the communication between the East and the West.

In order to encourage the foreign monks to actively and seriously devote themselves to the construction of the East, Jia Liu asked the foreign monks to send a message, saying that as long as they were willing to facilitate the trade between the Qing Dynasty and Western countries, and help purchase the equipment needed to introduce the Governor, then the Governor could consider asking the Qing Emperor to open the northern religious ban.

That is, to allow missionaries to preach in northern China.

This is also an obvious friendly signal sent by Jia Liu to the Western countries and the Catholic Church, which is extremely influential in the Western countries.

If it can stimulate the Catholic Church, it will play a huge role in Jia Liu's Beiyang trade and industrialization development.

The Western expedition was also immediately organized, and it was only necessary to start the journey in cooperation with the British East India Company.

I don't know if it's a prank, Jia Liu plans to write to the court and ask for a county king or some Gushan Baylor to lead a delegation to go overseas for investigation.

After listening to the young master's thoughts, Zhu Zhu maliciously proposed to simply write to the Twelfth Prince of Agori to lead a delegation to visit, so that he could claim the crown prince to the outside world, and then throw the crown prince into the sea to feed the fish, which eliminated the old man's thoughts.

"To be a man, we must have a basic moral bottom line and a minimum conscience."

Jia Liu didn't want the bolt pillar to become the existence of the eunuch of the East Factory's palm print, so he planned to do what the bolt pillar said.

It's another thing whether the old rich are allowed or not.

After arranging the two major events of the East India Company mission and the Western expedition, Jia Liu went to the mouth of the Haihe River in Tianjin, surrounded by his attachés.

Thousands of people from all over Tianjin are laying down the foundations and clearing the reeds so that the port can be made wider and better.

For these people who participated in the construction of Tianjin Port, Jia Liu gave three subsidies.

On the one hand, the subsidy comes from work-for-service, that is, those who come to participate in the construction of the project can be exempted from this year's conscription.

On the one hand, the yamen of the governor of Tianjin allocated ten yuan per person per day.

On the other hand, the household and engineering departments of the Governor's Yamen raised the logistical support for the people's food and lodging, so as to reduce the pressure on the local area of Tianjin.

During the inspection of the port construction, Jia Liu asked his second brother-in-law Gao Delu to pay attention to the "witty" people among the people, that is, people who not only work without being lazy, but can also play a certain leading role.

The second brother-in-law didn't understand what the brother-in-law meant.

Then the brother-in-law said a noun for the foreman.

That is, in the future, the construction of Tianjin will definitely continue to increase, and the scale will continue to grow, so it is necessary for professional engineering construction personnel to lead the construction of the project, otherwise every time we rely on the use of people who are not familiar with the construction of the project, first, to affect the construction period, and secondly, even if the government guarantees to do well, it is inevitable that there will be some unpleasant things.

Therefore, it is necessary to establish a construction agency under the direct authority, such as the East India Company, to replace the role of the government with the company, an organizational system that has never been seen in the Qing Dynasty, and give full play to the power of the people.

"There is another advantage of doing this, that is, it can make some people rich first."

Jia Liu didn't say it casually, but really hoped that China's first engineering construction team could emerge in Tianjin, so as to bring one by one, so that the people of Tianjin could get rich through "working" and get rid of the shackles of land.

(End of chapter)