After arranging the military, Xiao Yungui asked the generals to rush back and prepare immediately. He called Yao Yuan and told him to stay in the church to communicate with Luo Weilin and other missionaries more about opening a pharmaceutical factory. Yao Yuan immediately accepted the order. Recently, he had a lot of medical communication with the missionaries in the church, and this kid was very fascinated. As Yao Yuan had more contact with the missionaries who knew medicine in the church, he found that these Western doctors were also treating the disease with a sucking.

People's hearts are doing things, but their treatment methods are very different from traditional Chinese medicine, so many Chinese people cannot accept it. Nowadays, Chinese people are still very ignorant and superstitious. Many people are sick and would rather believe that a cup of talisman water can save lives than those foreigners with red hair and green eyes can cure the disease. After Yao Yuan arrived, he cooperated with them to treat many military and civilians. Traditional Chinese and Western medicine has their own strengths and weaknesses, but Yao Yuan still appreciates the efficacy of Western medicine and is quite happy to let him stay in Shanghai.

After arranging the military affairs with the generals, Xiao Yungui asked Hong Yun'er to talk to Zhou Xiuying alone. Half of the women's camp's troops wanted to go back to Suzhou with Hong Yun'er, and the other half stayed in Shanghai with Li Xuanji. Xiao Yungui thought Zhou Xiuying was a local and hoped that she would stay and help Li Xuanji's help. The battle in Shanghai would be very difficult. Xiao Yungui hoped that the women's camp would be led by female generals. Although Li Xuanji was good at literary affairs, he was still insufficient in terms of situations. It would be more appropriate for Zhou Xiuying to stay...

As soon as Hong Yuner and Zhou Xiuying said that the girl agreed immediately. She also knew that the war would be very tight, and she also wanted to stay and take care of her father and other brothers in Qingpu.

After a busy night, in the second half of the night, Barritt and Wilbur arrived with a merchant ship. Xiao Yungui took people to the temporary dock in Caohejing to greet him. Wilbur did get six cannons, shells, and a lot of shès, and bring more than 500 borehole flintlock guns. Most of these guns were British goods. More than ten years ago, Xiao Yungui naturally bought all the standard equipment from the British army, as well as 30,000 kilograms of gunpowder and lead.

Xiao Yungui quickly completed the transaction, and there were two Americans next to Wilbur. After the transaction was completed, Wilbur stepped forward and introduced: "His Excellency Xiwang, these two American friends really want to know you."

Xiao Yungui also noticed it and immediately smiled and said, "Americans? There are also many Americans who have been dealing with us these days."

Wilbur smiled and said, "These two Americans came here under the commission of the American Minister Masali. Mr. Masali hopes to make an appointment with the place to meet with His Excellency the West King to discuss the possible future trade between the two sides."

Xiao Yungui smiled while touching his chin. It seemed that the Americans could not sit still. The smuggling of private merchants came to them. Americans would not sit still and watch the huge benefits fall. At that moment, Xiao Yungui brought Wilbur and two Americans to the straw shed by the dock to sit down. Hong Yuner naturally did the translator. The two Americans began to introduce themselves.

The first American was named Jin Nengheng, the representative of the US consul in Shanghai. Foreign merchants all called him the US vice consul in Shanghai. Hong Yuner vaguely remembered that this person had a great background. Jin Nengheng's English name was Edward Cunningham, and he was from the American Qichang Foreign Company.

When talking about the deeds of Americans in Shanghai, we have to mention Qichang Foreign Company, the most famous American company in the Far East in the 19th century. It was founded in Guangzhou in 1818 by Samuel Russell, an American businessman born in Connecticut. He engaged in cross-border trade between Guangzhou and Boston. His early main business projects were tea, raw silk and opium. His main trading partner was Wu Bingjian, a wealthy businessman from the Thirteenth Bank in Guangzhou. Warrendelanjr., the grandfather of President Franklin Roosevelt, and was also a senior partner of Qichang Foreign Company. In 1846, Qichang moved his headquarters to Shanghai.

Jin Nengheng was a famous manager of Qichang Foreign Company. He opened the Qichang Ship Company, China's first ship company. He built the Shiliupu "Jinliyuan Terminal", which occupied 80% of the Yangtze River Shipping, and created the glorious era of Qichang Foreign Company, which was also called the Qichang era in the mid-19th century. In the mid-19th century, Qichang merchants included consular positions in the major trading ports in China, and almost took charge of the US diplomatic affairs in China. Among them, Jin Nengheng, the Consul in Shanghai, first proposed the merger of the British and American concessions in 1862 and became the first director of the Shanghai Public Concession.

US Minister Mashali sent Jin Nengheng to contact the rebel leader first, which shows that the Americans began to see the view of the Taiping Army. Mashali began to have a deeper contact with the Taiping Army, so he chose Jin Nengheng to meet.

The second American was Sellers West Field, who was also an American industrialist. Hong Yuner remembered that he was mainly because of telegraph. Field was born in Massachusetts on November 30, 1819. Field's brother was a well-known lawyer and the founder of international law. Field was a child at first. Although he had never become a real scientist, he had outstanding misuse and courage to apply a scientific achievement of the nineteenth century to a striking technology. This technology should be done even now, only with the funding of zhèngfu, and individuals dare not care about it. In order to achieve the laying of an Atlantic submarine telegraph cable

Setting the goal, over the past thirteen years, Field spent all the money earned from running a paper business and endured one disaster after another. In this project, Field provided funds and equipment, while Morry and Kelvin provided technical guidance in oceanography and electricity respectively. Field's wish was finally realized in 1866, and the telegrams connected the United States and the European continent. The reward Field received was just a gold medal and a thank-you vote made by the US Congress. Later, Field began to build an elevated railway in New York City. The railway was expensive, and some financial capitalists made huge profits from it. Field went bankrupt again and died of poverty.

The invention of telegraph is also very exciting, but in Hong Yuner's opinion, no matter how good the invention is, it must be implemented by merchants who dare to invest in order to carry forward the great inventions one by one. Field's courage is commendable. But how could Field come to China? It seems that there is no record of him coming to China in history.

Out of curiosity, Hong Yuner couldn't help asking about the purpose of Field coming to China. It turned out that Field had already started preparing funds for the Atlantic telegram cables at the beginning of this year, but in terms of funding preparation, he still needed stronger investments. Through Qichang Foreign Company, he learned that Wu Haoguan, a rich man in Guangzhou, was very rich and often invested in foreign trade, so he went to China to lobby for the Wu family to invest.

The Wu family is the famous representative of the 13th Bank of Guangzhou. In the 42nd year of Qianlong, the Wu family had already operated foreign trade in Guangzhou, selling raw silk and tea to British merchants, and also sold foreign goods. In the 49th year of Qianlong, his father Wu Guoying was appointed as a merchant under the supervision of Guangdong Customs and established Jardine Magazine. He also named himself a business name "Haoguan". The business name has always been used by his descendants and became a famous name in the international business community in the early 19th century. In 1801, 32-year-old Wu Bingjian took over Jardine Magazine.

Business, the Wu family's career began to rise rapidly. Some Western scholars called him "the world's largest tycoon". In view of the fact that he followed his brother Wu Bingjun as a soldier in the sixth year of Jiaqing, he became the general manager two years later. In the twelfth year of Jiaqing, he became the second largest soldier in Guangzhou, and in the 18th year of Jiaqing, he was listed as the leader of the general manager, and became the chief merchant. For decades after that, he has been in the leadership position of the merchant. In the sixth year of Daoguang, he handed over the Jardinian Operations Office to his fourth son Wu Yuanhua in charge, and he retreated behind the scenes, but he still held the real power of the Jardinian Operations.

The Wu family has maintained good relationships with British and American businessmen all year round. According to American newspapers in 134, Wu Bingjian's wealth is 26 million Mexican silver dollars, which is about 5 billion yuan today. A story circulating in Boston says: An American businessman owed him 72,000 taels of silver notes and was stranded in Guangzhou and could not return to his country. He heard that he tore up the IOU in person and said that the account had been settled, and you would leave when you were happy.

Wu Bingjian not only owns real estate, real estate, tea gardens, shops, etc. in China, but also boldly conducts railway investment, securities trading and involves insurance business in the United States on the other side of the ocean, making the Wu family's Jardines Bank a veritable multinational consortium. That's why Field thought of lobbying the Wu family to participate in the laying investment of Atlantic cables.

But the trip to Guangzhou disappointed Field. Wu Bingjun, the current Hao official of the Wu family, refused the investment because the Wu family had already begun to decline and had no courage to make such a big investment. As a wealthy businessman during the decline of the feudal dynasty, the wealth accumulated by Wu Bingjian was destined not to last long. Just when his multinational consortium reached its peak, an undercurrent was quietly surging. In June 1840, the Opium War broke out. Although Wu Bingjian had donated huge sums of money to the court for the third-rank top dress,

This could not save his career at all. Due to his close ties with the British opium merchants, he was scolded and punished by Lin Zexu many times, and had to contribute huge wealth to the Qing Dynasty again and again to seek temporary peace. After the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing, the Qing Dynasty ordered the merchants to repay 3 million silver dollars in foreign business debts in 1843, while Wu Bingjian alone borne 1 million silver dollars. It was in this year that Wu Bingjian died of illness in Guangzhou.

After Wu Bingjian's death, the once richest people in Guangdong began to gradually decline. Many merchants went bankrupt one after another under the exploitation of the Qing Dynasty. What's more fatal is that with the implementation of the Wukou trade, Guangdong lost its advantages in foreign trade, and the privileges enjoyed by the Guangdong Thirteen Trade ended.

In recent years, Changmao has started to fight against the huge stake of Ye Mingchen, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. The Wu family, which was once glorious, has been in a mess. Recently, the Wu family donated a huge sum of money to recruit red single ships for the Guangdong Navy and formed a naval fleet to head north. The Wu family is already overwhelmed and it is impossible to invest in Atlantic telegraph cables. Field, who has gained nothing, has to follow the Minister Mashali to Shanghai to try his luck and see if he can find a new partner.

After listening to Field's introduction, Xiao Yungui discussed with Hong Yuner a few more words. Finally, Xiao Yungui asked with a smile: "Mr. Field, how much money do you need to invest in your telegram cable?" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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