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Chapter 612

Traitor, Mr. Jia is a professional.

Compared with the coveted Chinese market, there is a high probability that the British gentlemen of the East India Company will do whatever they can to get steam engines from China.

As an image metaphor, if a steam engine is worth 100 yuan, then the Chinese market is worth [-] million yuan.

British gentlemen know how to choose.

What's more, I am afraid that the British gentlemen themselves have not fully understood the huge value of the steam engine.

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

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

The governor from the heartland of the Tatar Empire is extremely enlightened and far-sighted, and he can even speak a few words of English. He is obviously the best partner for business and trade in Western countries.

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

Jia Liu doesn't mind being the target of all countries vying for support. He needs to have closer exchanges with Western countries and use the research results of Western countries that are starting the first industrial revolution to strengthen themselves.

The century-old colonial trade system is what Jia Liu covets.

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

That is, national priority.

Western countries have implemented this very well.

Zhu Dawen, the prefect of Tianjin, obediently acted as an "ambassador" for negotiations with the British East India Company. In the name of the Governor, Jia Liu ordered the Dagukou guerrilla Chen to send three warships to escort Zhu Dawen to Macau to seek contact with the British East India Company. Start negotiations between the two sides.

Jia Liu even wrote a personal letter to the British East India Company. In the letter, he warmly invited the East India Company to send personnel to Tianjin to take a walk around and take a look, so as to feel John Jia’s enthusiasm and friendship for them. .

In view of the fact that Zhu Dawen's eyes might be smeared when he arrives in Macau, and he might be fooled by the local foreign scammers, Jia Liu specially wrote to Tong Yang Yuchun, who is running Keelung Port in Taiwan, and is planning to cross the Qing army with the Tiandihui Rebel Army. Liu De, who initiated the decisive battle, asked him to provide assistance to Zhu Dawen's mission in Guangdong through the Tiandihui.

That is to provide a knowledgeable person to act as an intermediary introducer.

Before Jia Liu asked Liu De to buy a batch of firearms and books in Macau through Guangdong Tiandihui, and hired several technicians.

This re-cooperation can be regarded as a familiarity.

In addition to contacting the British East India Company, Zhu Dawen also had the task of reserving talents for the upcoming Beiyang trade.

To put it bluntly, it is to poach the corners of the thirteenth line, and use high wages as much as possible to poach talents who understand business to Tianjin.

Of course, if possible, you can also contact businessmen from French, Spanish, Belgian and other countries.

Although Jia Liu really wanted to get help from British gentlemen, he didn't want the British to become second-hand dealers like the Netherlands.

But the premise is that the British must be given preferential treatment. There is no way, who will make Jia Liuyi poor and useless.

If you don't point at the British, you can't point at the retreating shogunate and North Korea's Lee Dynasty.

In addition to a hundred escort officers and soldiers, there were two officers and a Belgian priest named Wan Siyou, whose major was astronomy.

Jia Liu was not able to use astronomy for the time being, so he asked Monk Wan to act as a bridge between the East and the West for the time being.

In order to encourage the foreign monks to actively and conscientiously devote themselves to the construction of the East, Jia Liu sent a message to the foreign monks, saying that as long as they are willing to promote the Qing Zhili Governor to do business with Western countries, and help purchase the equipment needed by the Governor-General, Then the governor-general can consider asking the Qing emperor to open the ban on religion in the north.

That is to allow missionaries to preach in the north of China.

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

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

The Western Study Group was also organized immediately, and they only had to wait for the cooperation with the British East India Company to start their journey.

I don't know if it's a prank, but Jia Liu intends to write to the court requesting that a county king or Gushan Baylor lead a delegation to go abroad for investigation.

After listening to the young master's thoughts, Shuan Zhu proposed, not without malice, to simply write a letter to ask the twelve princes to lead a delegation to visit. He can declare the crown prince to the outside world, and then throw the crown prince into the sea to feed the fish. Think about it.

"To be a human being, one must have a basic moral bottom line and a minimum conscience."

Jia Liu didn't want Shuanzhu to become the eunuch of the East Factory, so he planned to do as Shuanzhu said.

Whether Lao Fu is allowed or not is another matter.

After arranging the two major events of the East India Company Mission and the Western Study Group, Jia Liu, surrounded by his entourage, came down to Haihekou, Tianjin.

Thousands of peasants from all over Tianjin Prefecture are consolidating the foundation and clearing the reeds to make the port wider, bigger and better.

Jia Liu gave subsidies in three aspects to these civilian husbands who participated in the construction of Tianjin Port.

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

On the one hand, the governor's office in Tianjin allocated ten Wen per person per day.

On the other hand, the household and engineering departments of the governor's yamen raised logistical support for food and housing for civilian husbands, so as to reduce the pressure on Tianjin.

On the way to inspect the port construction, Jia Liu asked his second brother-in-law Gao Delu to look for "smart" people among the civilian husbands, that is, people who not only work without being lazy, but can also take the lead.

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

Then my brother-in-law said the term "contractor".

That is to say, the project construction here in Tianjin will definitely continue to increase in the future, and the scale will continue to grow. In this way, professional construction personnel are required to lead the project construction. No matter how well the government guarantees, there will inevitably be some unpleasant things.

Therefore, it is necessary to establish a Zhili engineering construction organization, like the East India Company, to replace the role of the government with the company, an organizational system that had never existed in the Qing Dynasty, and to maximize the power of the people.

"This way, there is another advantage, that is, some people can get rich first."

Jia Liu didn't just say it casually, but he really hoped that the first engineering construction team in China would emerge here in Tianjin, so as to lead one by one, first of all, let the people in Tianjin get rich through "working" and get rid of the shackles of the land .

(End of this chapter)