Compared with the coveted Chinese market, there is a high probability that the British gentlemen of the East India Company will do whatever it takes to obtain steam engines from China.
Metaphorically speaking, if a steam engine is worth 100 yuan, then the Chinese market is worth 100 million yuan.
British gentlemen know how to choose.
What's more, the British gentlemen themselves may not fully understand the huge value contained in the steam engine.
If the gentlemen are far-sighted enough, they may 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 changed according to the emperor's preferences, if free trade truly became the national policy of this old empire, it was necessary to change this old empire from within.
The Governor-General, who came from the heart of the Tatar Empire, was extremely enlightened, far-sighted, and could even say a few words about Ingratis. He was obviously the best partner for Western countries in trade.
Historically, the yearning and desire of Western countries for the East is really touching.
Jia Liu doesn't mind becoming the target of various countries competing for support. He needs to have further close exchanges with Western countries and use the research results of Western countries that are beginning the first industrial revolution to strengthen himself.
The colonial trade system that has been established for hundreds of years is an existence that Jia Liu covets.
Whether it’s called plunder, business, or mutual aid, essentially all economic and trade activities outside the country, whether violent or non-violent, are to serve the local area.
That is, the country is given priority.
Western countries have implemented this point quite effectively.
Zhu Dawen, the prefect of Tianjin, still obediently acted as the "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 parties.
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 to take a walk, take a look and feel John Jia's enthusiasm and friendship for them.
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In view of the fact that Zhu Dawen might have a bad look when he arrived in Macau and might be fooled by local foreign swindlers, Jia Liu specially wrote to his colleague Yang Yuchun in Taiwan who was running the Keelung Port and was preparing to attack the Qing army crossing Taiwan with the Tiandihui rebels.
Liu De, who initiated the decisive battle, asked him to provide help to Zhu Dawen's mission in Guangdong through the Tiandihui.
That is to provide knowledgeable people to act as intermediaries.
Previously, Jia Liu asked Liu De to purchase a batch of firearms and books in Macau through the Guangdong Tiandihui, and hired several technicians.
This time we are working together again and we are very familiar with it.
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 poach the corners of the Thirteenth Industry and recruit as many talents who understand trade as possible to Tianjin with high wages.
Of course, if possible, we can also contact businessmen from France, Spain, Belgium and other countries.
Although Jia Liu wanted to get help from the British gentlemen, he did not want the British to become second-rate traders like the Dutch. Instead, he encouraged flowers to bloom and foreign countries to come to the DPRK one after another.
But the prerequisite is that we must give preferential treatment to the British. There is no other way, who will leave Jia Liuyi in poverty.
If you don't point at the British, you can't point at the secluded shogunate and the Lee Dynasty of Korea.
In addition to the one hundred escorting officers and soldiers, he was accompanied by two generals and a Belgian priest named Vance You, whose major was astronomy.
Jia Liu had no need for astronomy for the time being, so he asked Monk Wan to temporarily serve as a bridge between the East and the West.
In order to encourage the foreign monks to actively and conscientiously devote themselves to the construction of the East, Jia Liu asked people to send a message to the foreign monks, saying that as long as they were willing to facilitate the Qing Zhili Governor's trade with Western countries and help purchase the equipment needed by the Governor-General,
Then the Governor-General may consider petitioning the Qing Emperor to open up the religious ban in the north.
That is, missionaries are allowed to preach in northern 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 the Catholic Association can be stimulated, it will play a huge role in Jia Liu's Beiyang trade and industrialization development.
A Western expedition was also immediately organized, waiting to start cooperation with the British East India Company before setting off.
Not sure if it was a prank, Jia Liu planned to write to the court and request that a county prince or some kind of Gushanbeile be sent to lead a delegation to study abroad.
After hearing the young master's idea, Shuan Zhu suggested with malicious intent that he simply submit a letter to ask Prince Twelve Agori to lead a delegation to visit, so that he could be declared the crown prince to the outside world, and then throw the crown prince into the sea to feed the fishes, which would definitely kill the old rich man.
Think about it.
"Being a human being must have a basic moral bottom line and a minimum conscience."
Jia Liu did not want Shuan Zhu to become the eunuch of Dongchang, so he planned to do as Shuan Zhu said.
Whether the old rich man is sure is another matter.
After arranging the two major events, the East India Company mission and the Western expedition, Jia Liu came down to the mouth of Haihe River in Tianjin surrounded by his entourage.
Thousands of people from all over Tianjin Prefecture are laying foundations and clearing reeds to build the port wider, bigger and better.
For these civilians who participated in the construction of Tianjin Port, Jia Liu provided subsidies in three aspects.
On the one hand, the subsidy comes from work-for-service, that is, those who participate in project construction can be exempted from this year's corvee.
On the one hand, the Tianjin governor's office allocates ten wages per person per day.
On the other hand, the Household and Work Section 2 of the Governor's Yamen will provide logistical support for food and accommodation for the residents to reduce the pressure on Tianjin.
While inspecting the port construction, Jia Liu asked his second brother-in-law Gao Delu to look for "smart" people among civilian husbands, that is, people who not only work hard but also play a leading role.
The second brother-in-law didn't understand what his brother-in-law meant.
Then my brother-in-law mentioned the term "contractor".
That is to say, the engineering construction in Tianjin will definitely continue to increase and the scale will continue to grow in the future. This requires professional engineering construction personnel to lead the engineering construction. Otherwise, it will rely on using civilians who are not familiar with engineering construction every time, which will affect the construction period and secondly.
No matter how good the government guarantees are, some unpleasant things will inevitably happen.
Therefore, it is necessary to establish a direct-controlled engineering construction organization, such as the East India Company, to replace the role of the government with an organizational system that has never been seen in the Qing Dynasty, and to maximize the power of the private sector.
"Another advantage of doing this is that it can make some people rich first."
Jia Liu didn't just say it casually, but really hoped that China's first engineering construction team would emerge in Tianjin, so that they could lead one by one, so that the people in Tianjin could become rich through "working" and get rid of the shackles of the land.