When Masali asked about Wu Jianzhang's whereabouts, Xiao Yungui was distracted and said lightly: "Wu Jianzhang? This murderer has been beheaded and shown to the public. The head is ordering the entire army."

When the translators from all countries heard this, they were shocked and hurriedly translated. After hearing this, Masali, Wenhan, Blombul and others stood up and questioned him in a verbal way. Among them, Masali was the most intense. He kept asking why Xiao Yungui killed Wu Jianzhang without interrogation.

Xiao Yungui didn't expect that he would kill Wu Jianzhang and other foreigners to react so much. At this time, he slapped his head and vaguely remembered the background of Wu Jianzhang. Wu Jianzhang was not only the boss of the 13 Guangdong Circuit Tongxing, but also one of the seven major shareholders of the American Qichang Foreign Company. Needless to say, Qichang Foreign Company was the most famous American-owned company in the Far East in the 19th century. Its influence was just like the East India Company for Britain. Guangdong Circuit Tongxing, which has been engaged in foreign trade with the great powers since 1832, and has close business dealings with various countries. When Wu Jianzhang died, it can be said that the great powers lost an extremely important trading partner. Moreover, many merchants, companies and Wu Jianzhang also have creditorship and debt relations. If this person dies, it will involve many disputes and may suffer losses. No wonder the ministers of several countries react so fiercely.

After Xiao Daocheng captured Wu Jianzhang in history, Liu Lichuan did not kill him due to his fellow villagers' friendship, and was saved by American missionaries. This also shows that the Americans did spare no effort to save Wu Jianzhang's life. However, Xiao Yungui did not regret killing Wu Jianzhang. After Wu Jianzhang escaped in history, he suppressed Xiao Daocheng in crazy ways. Xiao Yungui didn't want to keep such a person so that he would not feel pain.

Seeing a few foreigners clamoring in their big tents, Xiao Yungui slapped the table again and shouted in English: "Shut up!"

The silence of everyone was startled. For a moment, the tent became quiet. Xiao Yungui stood up and said loudly, "Is this arguing one by one, can such a quarrel solve the problem? Is this your gentlemanly demeanor?"

Lord Wenhan snorted, waved the back of the tuxedo, and sat down. He knew that Masali would definitely be the first to jump out and talk. Blombl also shrugged and sat down. The cooperation between the French and Wu Jianzhang was far less than that of the United States and Britain. He followed the noise and just wanted to take advantage of the situation.

At that moment, Masali stood in the middle of the tent, waved his arms and said loudly: "His Prince Xi, if you kill Wu Jianzhang, you will cause chaos in Shanghai and Guangzhou trade. Moreover, Wu is also one of the important shareholders of our American Qichang Foreign Company. If you kill him, seriously infringe on the interests of the United States! Even if Wu commits a great crime, he should be handed over to public trial in various countries. If you decide to deal with it privately, you must bear the consequences!"

Xiao Yungui sneered: "Who is Wu Jianzhang? At best, he is a businessman. If he kills him in Shanghai, Guangdong's trade will be in chaos? Mr. Mashali, you are too alarmist. I have a sentence for you, that is, everyone will turn if the earth is missing! Wu Jianzhang is a shareholder of Qichang Foreign Company, but he is also an official of the Qing Dynasty. This time he commanded his army to kill tens of thousands of people in Shanghai. There are many innocent people. I just seek justice for the victims! Leave it to public trial for various countries? Is this necessary? The consular judgment power in the "Wangxia Treaty" is limited to you foreigners. Is Wu Jianzhang a Chinese or my captive, and what crime should he convict be judged by me!"

Masali pointed at Xiao Yungui angrily and said angrily: "You are a robber who despises human rights. Everyone has the right to get a notarized trial!"

Xiao Yungui cursed: "Go to the notarization trial. When did Wu Jianzhang massacre those despots? When did you so-called fair consuls, ministers, say something? Now they are here to accuse me of being unfair? What is the reason? The Qing Dynasty was first barbaric, so I will be barbaric with him to the end!"

The two of them argued, and Wenhan and Bloomburn seemed not to be strange at all, but they enjoyed the noise, whether it was the British Parliament or the cabinet of the Second French Empire, which was commonplace.

Finally, Wenhan stood up and said, "The two disputes are helpful to solve the problem. Let's discuss how to solve the current situation."

Mashali sat down panting and took a sip of tea. Xiao Yungui was full of redness. It was obvious that the Western King had occupied the top of this dispute.

Wen Han saw the two of them silence and said slowly: "Your Excellency Xiwang, our UK regrets that you made such an irrational decision to let an important influential businessman and official die. Wu promised our British Empire to expand the area of ​​the concession during his lifetime, and also had several trade deals with our British East India Company. We need to discuss it before we can list the specific losses. Please note that you promised to ensure that our UK interests are not damaged, but now that Wu Jianzhang is dead, all the losses caused can only be borne by your army."

Here comes again, these foreigners are all robber logic. Why should Xiao Yungui bear the evil that Wu Jianzhang has committed?

Blombur also echoed: "Yes, Wu Jianzhang has also promised that France has expanded the scope of the concession, and the concession between Britain and France can be expanded to Hongqiao and Yangpu areas. This is a record of official documents."

The British and French concessions have not surpassed the Suzhou River now, and the public concessions in later generations have not yet appeared. This time, Britain and France want to expand the concessions, so that they want to occupy both sides of the Suzhou River and occupy some good ports and prosperous markets on both sides of the Suzhou River to meet the growing trade needs of their own country.

Xiao Yungui felt that it was nothing about the concession. Since it was stated that it was the concession and someone else rented your territory for use, it was different from the direct ceasing of Hong Kong. To be honest, if Shanghai had no investment from the concession and foreign people, it seemed impossible to develop. Didn’t Shenzhen, which was reformed and opened up in the future, develop in this way? If you need to develop backward places, you have to attract foreign capital and businessmen to invest. When others come, you have to build a dock, warehouse, residence, factory, etc. You have to give it to others, rent out the land and rent it for decades before they can have the confidence to invest, right? It is impossible to have to invest in others and not give them guarantees.

The next step of Xiao Yungui is to build southern Jiangsu, and an extremely important part of it is to attract foreign businessmen and capital to enter. In Xiao Yungui's view, it is never shameful. What is shameful is that you don't know how to use it. And you have already used it, but you only picked up sesame seeds but lost the watermelon. This is the shameful use of it.

The longest lease period for the Shanghai concession is only 99 years, and the area is also very large. Expanding the concession is actually nothing. Expanding the concession means that there will be many powerful merchants and companies coming to Shanghai, which will have huge benefits to Shanghai's economy, trade, and tariffs.

However, Xiao Yungui also saw the disadvantages of the concession. The great powers could station troops in the concession, what kind of consular judgment powers are there, customs tariff agreements, Chinese people are not allowed to enter the concession, etc. This is what damages China's sovereignty. Xiao Yungui thinks that expanding the concession is not a problem, but the problem is how to expand the **. He also wants to limit some things that damage sovereignty through this lease negotiation.

Xiao Yungui said lightly: "Lord Wenhan, Lord Bloompur, Wu Jianzhang promised to expand the concession in Britain and France. We can discuss it, and we can agree to this." Xiao Yungui turned his head and looked at the angry Masali and asked, "Mr. Masali, is your country interested in expanding the concession? I think the United States can also expand the scope of some concessions, which can be negotiated."

Mashali said ah, and he could not have expected Xiao Yungui to raise such an issue. The Qing Dynasty had always been very afraid of the great powers' land requirements for concessions, thinking that this was a matter of harming the national system, and was also worried that some miscellaneous places of China and the barbarians would cause trouble. The US concession was limited to the Hongkou area and the missionary land of the American Anglican Church. The area was very small, and most Americans still carried out trade activities in the British concession.

Xiao Yungui didn't wait for Masali to reply. He continued: "Actually, I think that all countries can discuss expanding the concessions, but my only requirement is that the management and security rights of these concessions should be left to our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to manage. In addition, the concessions of various countries can actually be merged and unified into a large public concession, which can promote trade exchanges between countries. In this way, land rent and labor prices in the concessions can be unified, so as to facilitate merchants from all countries, avoid the chaos in the market atmosphere in each concession, and avoid the various forms of management of concessions, which lead to unfairness."

The emergence of the public concession in history was actually in September 1853. After Xiaodaohui occupied Shanghai county town, the Qing government lost control of the concession. In July 1854, the British and French concessions in Shanghai jointly formed an independent municipal agency, "Shanghai Industrial Bureau", established police forces, and began to manage all affairs in the concession on its own, officially forming the first concession in the true sense, in which the country exercised its own judicial, financial, management, and garrison rights, and truly turned the concession into a country among the country.

Since Xiao Yungui understood the real harm of the concession, he now planned to expand the concession in exchange for countries to give up the exercise of those messy rights in the concession, thereby avoiding the emergence of the country among the country.

Sure enough, the ministers of the three major countries whispered one after another, but the proposal was too abrupt and several ministers needed to weigh it carefully. So Wenhan finally said: "The proposal of Your Excellency Xiwang is very constructive, but we need to go back and discuss it before we can decide on this proposal."

Xiao Yungui nodded and said, "Yes, we also need to re-formulate the Shanghai land lease charter and pass the land lease agreement signed after re-consent with various countries."

Seeing that Xiao Yungui gave a part of the leased land, Mashali calmed down and asked, "Then, Mr. Xiwang, who will fill the investment amount and trade transactions he has vacant after Wu Jianzhang's death? If Wu Jianzhang's family gave up the investment of Qichang Foreign Company and demanded to get the shares back, Qichang Foreign Company would suffer huge losses."

Xiao Yungui snorted contemptuously and said, "We have so many rich people in China. Are you still afraid that you will not be able to invest? I have He Yuanlun, the president of Baoqing Chamber of Commerce, and Zhu Changlin and Wei Helin of Guiyun Business. These three are rich businessmen. Zhu Changlin and Wei Helin have a huge influence in Hunan, Guangxi and other places. He Yuanlun controls more than 90% of Baoqing merchants' trade transactions, and they can buy Wu Jianzhang's shares. I also heard that Qichang Foreign Company hopes to open a business road to directly purchase tea in Wuyishan. I believe that they

Three can also be done. As for Wu Jianzhang's trade at Guangdong Thirteen Banks, Guangdong Thirteen Banks have already made enough money, and it's time to change people. In short, I will find someone to fill all the commercial and trade gaps that appear after Wu Jianzhang's death. You just need to settle accounts with Wu Jianzhang's heirs in Guangdong. Money is not a problem, what I need is a direction of investment!" To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to Qidian (. voting for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m.. Read.)
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