At the beginning of 1870, the Li Mingyuan regime signed a repatriation agreement for Chinese workers with the United States, Canada, Australia, Peru, Cuba and other countries. According to the provisions of the agreement, the Chinese who had completed their work period would be received and transported back to the country by the Chinese regime in South America, and they were not allowed to stay there without reason. The signing of the repatriation agreement,
It relieved the governments of the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries from worrying about how to deal with the departure and stay of Chinese workers. Therefore, from 1870 to 1879, which coincided with the ten years of frequent disasters in the Central Plains, nearly 700,000 poor coastal people, as well as those who fled Ding
The lucky ones in the provinces where the famine broke out have limited shipping capacity to South America, so they can only accept the labor agreements reached between the Han government and the United States, Australia and other countries, and the governments of various countries will come forward to transport these workers to their destinations in batches.
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Affected by the Han State's agreement to accept Chinese workers from the mainland and the repatriation of Chinese workers, millions of people affected by the disaster in the mainland were lucky enough to avoid the fate of death. They boarded crowded transport ships and sailed to different destinations, which was similar to the same period in history.
For example, excluding the Chinese immigrants who entered South America, the total number of Chinese in Australia, the United States, Canada, Peru, and Cuba not only did not decrease due to the influence of Han Dynasty's policy of absorbing foreign Chinese workers, but was twice to three times more than in history.
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Western capitalists regarded the pursuit of profit as their primary purpose. Australia, Canada, and Cuba were under the direct colonial rule of the United Kingdom and Spain at that time. The problem of using young Chinese as front-line workers to mine minerals and plant economic crops was solved by using white labor.
It brought high costs and increased considerable fiscal revenue for the colonial government. Why wouldn't the British and Spanish governments do this?
Australia's mineral resources were gradually discovered, exploited and utilized. Following San Francisco in the United States, Australia was called the New Gold Mountain by Chinese workers.
Because the distance is closer and transportation costs are lower than in the United States, the number of Chinese workers going to Australia has doubled in the past ten years. By October 1879, the number of Chinese workers there reached 200,000, second only to the 350,000 in the United States.
people, ranking second in the number of Chinese living in Western countries.
In 1876, Ford Hayes, a veteran of the Civil War, took office as President of the United States. On the day he officially took over as president, he clearly declared his anti-Chinese stance in his speech: "Our experience in dealing with blacks and Indians can also be used against the Chinese.
, I will prioritize using any appropriate means to prevent the Chinese from reaching our shores."
As the head of state of the largest country in the Americas, Hayes catered to the mentality of some white supremacists and delivered anti-Chinese speeches, which cast a shadow over the vigorous introduction of Chinese workers. Since Hayes came to power, the U.S. government has consciously reduced the number of Chinese workers coming to the United States.
Quantity, in the United States, white rioters were allowed to persecute Chinese workers, and the American police responsible for maintaining social security turned a blind eye to the smashing of Chinese shops and the killing of Chinese workers. When the Argentine War broke out, more than 200,000 Han Chinese troops advanced.
Argentina and Uruguay have further intensified the anti-Chinese atmosphere in the United States.
The anti-Chinese storm in the United States is intensifying. With the end of the Argentine War and the Han Dynasty fully establishing its dominance over the La Plata region, the Han government and many Chinese who have lived in the United States have felt that a new round of anti-Chinese storm is about to begin.
, Chinese workers stranded in the United States will face an unprecedented dangerous situation.
Huang Xiping was one of the beneficiaries of the labor repatriation agreement. In 1875, a total of 1,300 young men from his hometown in southern Fujian followed the surrounding counties by ship to the United States to work as railroad workers. At the end of 1877, the two-year labor agreement expired.
Huang Xiping did not leave on a transport ship to Han like other Chinese workers. Instead, he stayed in a town in Nevada where Chinese workers gathered. He used his previous experience as an apprentice in a pharmacy to open a traditional Chinese medicine store. Huang Xiping's medical skills were mediocre.
The half-baked medical skills he learned from a local doctor in his hometown were often ineffective, but no matter how bad his medical skills were, he was still a doctor. The thousands of Chinese workers gathered around him brought a lot of benefits to Huang Xiping. At the end of 1878, Huang Xiping was
When he was about to use the money he earned to buy a large medicinal shop, hire a few more Chinese apprentices, and expand the business of the medicinal shop, a riot broke out against the Chinese. In the Chinese area where Huang Xiping was located, hundreds of people carrying old-fashioned
White men armed with muskets and knives broke into Chinatown and shot Chinese people walking on the road, or chased Chinese people who fled in fear with knives. After killing people, they would cut off the Chinese people's braids and hold them in their hands.
vying to show off.
The incident that happened in Nevada is not an isolated case. In areas such as Alabama and California where a large number of Chinese people gather, white cowboys and homeless gunmen actually joined in violent actions against Chinese people. Nearly a thousand Chinese people were beaten by white people.
The mainstream media in the United States applauded the violent incidents. Only some white farmers and mining businessmen who employed more Chinese workers muttered a few words to express their dissatisfaction with the damage to their interests, but it did not help.
The U.S. government intends to tear up the repatriation agreement for Chinese workers and no longer introduce large-scale Chinese workers to engage in low-level labor. Therefore, after negotiating with the U.S. government to no avail, Han Chinese officials in the U.S. can only remind the Chinese workers to be more careful and be prepared to find out when the situation worsens.
weapons for self-defense.
Witnessing the atrocities committed by white Americans with his own eyes, Huang Xiping learned his lesson and decided to leave the United States, a land of right and wrong. He hurriedly sold the local medicine shop at a low price to a few apprentices who planned to stay, as compensation for their hard work over the past year, and he
In early 1879, when the immigration transport ship arrived in the United States, he took the ship to South America.
After arriving in the mainland of Han, Huang Xiping quickly discovered that after opening a store in the new capital of Chang'an, Han in South America was very different from the Chinese inhabited areas in the United States. In a small town in Nevada, the United States, although his medical skills were average,
However, because there is only one traditional Chinese medicine shop in the surrounding area, the daily income is pretty good. However, after more than eleven years of development in Han Dynasty, traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine treatment systems have been gradually established. My low medical skills cannot be used in Chang'an City.
Get a foothold.
After conducting overt and covert visits to other traditional Chinese medicine shops on the street for several years, Huang Xiping found that the prices of herbal medicines in those medicine shops were 20 to 30% higher than when he was in the United States. Excluding the fact that their medical skills were superior to his own, Huang Xiping thought carefully and understood that the prices of his own medicines were
They were all packed and brought from their hometown by relatives from the same hometown. Every time they brought a cart full of medicinal materials, the transportation cost was much lower than that of second-hand medicinal materials merchants. Sensing the business opportunities contained in it, Huang Xiping made the decision of his life.
The second important decision was to close the traditional Chinese medicine shop and switch to a professional wholesale merchant of medicinal materials.
Today, the Han Kingdom dominates the La Plata region and is only three to five years away from becoming the largest country in terms of comprehensive strength in South America. Moreover, with the delivery of the first 1,350-ton light cruiser independently built by Xinjing Shipyard into naval service
, Military shipbuilding technology feeds back the civilian shipbuilding industry. Han's new batch of 1,500-ton large-scale civilian ocean-going transport ships has completed experimental acceptance and will soon be authorized to be mass-produced by Xinjing Shipyard and Xinghe Shipyard.
The three core shipyards of Han Dynasty, Xinjing Shipyard, Xinghe Shipyard, and the Royal Military Shipyard established based on the technical workers of Jiangnan Shipyard all have the main purpose of building warships. During the next ten years of development planning period, Han Dynasty will
The Chinese government will authorize the opening up of part of the steamship construction technology, integrate and support the establishment of three to five large and medium-sized civilian shipyards, and specialize in ocean-going ship transportation tasks. By then, maritime trade between South America and Southeast Asia, mainland and other regions will explode.
In the future, the cost of immigration and commodity transportation will also be further reduced.
Looking at the impact of national development on the industry from the perspective of a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, Huang Xiping initially explored the key points of changing his career to business. First, he looked for a Chinese medicine doctor with superb medical skills and a good reputation as a partner. He could not only find buyers for the sale of medicinal materials, but also be able to
In the early days of starting a business, I quickly opened up the business. Then I personally took a boat back to my hometown, contacted friends and relatives there, and purchased herbal medicines from local medicinal merchants or farmers directly. Then I rented an ocean-going ship to transport the purchased medicinal herbs back to South America.
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After planning his business plan, Huang Xiping approached Dr. Feng and told him his true purpose straight to the point.
"Mr. Feng, Huang has been to the United States and also stopped briefly in Nanyang on the way. According to Huang's observation, the prices of local ginseng, asarum, schisandra, dangshen, rehmannia root, achyranthes, yam, chrysanthemum and other medicinal materials are higher than those in the mainland.
It is two to three times higher. If we work together, I will purchase these medicinal materials from the mainland at cost price, and then Brother Deng's Pharmacy will resell them. After deducting the cost of sea transportation and operation, there will be a profit of at least 20 to 30%.
The development of the pharmaceutical industry is a general trend, is Brother Feng interested?"
"The distance from the mainland to the mainland is thousands of miles away, and the risks at sea are unpredictable. If our medicinal materials encounter a storm at sea, wouldn't we lose all our money?"
Dr. Feng did not directly answer the other party's invitation, but asked a question that concerned him most.
"There are risks at sea, but they are not as big as Mr. Feng thought." When the two parties discussed cooperation for the first time, they were always a little worried about each other. Huang Xiping patiently explained, "Storms are the biggest risk in ocean shipping. In the past few years, storms are the biggest risk.
From time to time, small transport ships encounter storms and tragedies occur, including shipwrecks and fatalities. However, according to the navigation decree issued by the government, small transport ships with a displacement of less than 700 tons will gradually withdraw from the ocean transportation industry. Three years later, ships performing ocean transportation business will
, the minimum displacement standard is 800 tons. Transport ships with a displacement of less than 800 tons can engage in short- and medium-distance offshore transportation from the mainland to northern South America, and are not allowed to go to the South China Sea privately.
There are also two local military shipyards that have begun to transfer steam ship construction technology to civilian shipyards. In the next ten years, ocean-going sail transport ships will be eliminated, and steam ships will become the main force in the ocean-going transportation industry. With the tonnage and power plant of steam ships,
Its ability to withstand storms is much higher than that of sailing wooden ships. Therefore, even if it unfortunately encounters a storm, the ship has great survivability.
"Thank you very much, Brother Huang, for your sincere invitation. It's just that Feng has just settled in Chang'an. Most of the money he saved has bought a shop on the street. The remaining money may not be enough to start a business partnership with Brother Huang."
"How much extra money can Mr. Feng have now?"
"The maximum amount is 2,400 Chinese yuan. My wife is heavily pregnant, so Feng has to prepare some money for emergency use."
"Mr. Feng, don't worry. In terms of money, I will probably give you an extra share, but in terms of shares, I'm afraid I will be wronged by Mr. Feng."
"Brother Huang is responsible for most of the medicinal materials business. It is appropriate for Brother Huang to hold more shares. Feng has no objection."
"Okay, let's discuss it with Brother Feng. Brother Feng will pay 2,400 Chinese yuan for 30% of the shares. I will pay 5,000 Chinese yuan for 70% of the shares. We will draw up a formal agreement tomorrow."
"Then thank you, Brother Huang, for your support and care."
"Haha, Mr. Feng is polite. You and I should cooperate and support each other."......
The woman's goal was achieved, Huang Xiping replied with a smile.