Chapter 45 San Francisco

The Sino-Xia Friendship and Trade Treaty Treaty was approved by the Hawaii Kingdom Parliament. According to the treaty concession, the Chinese obtained the land use rights of a natural port on the south bank of Oahu. The Chinese will build ports, docks, ship repair factories, fuel supply stations and other facilities. This port was named Pearl Harbor by the Chinese.

The lease period is ninety-nine years. If neither government raises any objection after the expiration of the treaty, the contract will be automatically renewed for fifty years, and so on.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zou Kaizhi and Hawaii King Kamiha V held a signing ceremony with Chinese journalists, and announced that China would strive to implement a policy of freedom and equality in the East and would never allow any country to annex Hawaii. A French businessman protested on the spot.

The French businessman was expelled from the venue, and the government of the Kingdom of Hawaii declared him an unpopular person, restricting him from leaving Honolulu within three days.

Today, France is still insisting on having sovereignty over the Kingdom of Hawaii, and the Americans really had the intention to get involved in Hawaii's sovereignty when France was defeated in the French-Prussian War and its political and military influence fell to the bottom.

This practice of the Chinese is equivalent to beginning to challenge the French's existence in the Pacific.

Ye Zhao naturally didn't care. He had an ally Prussia staring at France. In the East, Ye Zhao believed that the French did not want to establish a powerful enemy.

When the fleet left Honolulu, Ye Zhao and Misaki boarded the cruise ship. They came all the way east, Ye Zhao was on the cruise ship. However, when they arrived at Midway, they got off the cruise ship and boarded the island for a trip, and later they boarded the Regent.

At this time, there were only the last two thousand nautical miles away from San Francisco and there were no supplies in the middle. Ye Zhao returned to the cruise ship to become a merchant, so as not to be too eye-catching on the Regent.

More than a dozen days later, the fleet arrived in San Francisco, and US Vice President Sherman came to San Francisco in person to welcome the mission from China.

This is a very high courtesy, because the Pacific Railway is far from being completed. The eastern and western United States are actually two worlds, heavily obstructed by mountains and vast deserts, and there are no convenient transportation routes.

If you are transporting bulk cargo, you need to transport it from San Francisco to New York Harbor. Without the Panama Canal, merchant ships need to circumnavigate Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, and its long route is almost as far away from Shanghai to Europe.

Geographical and transportation reasons have made the West a relatively independent region in the United States, not only affected economic development, but also become a hidden danger to national stability and unity.

The completion of the Pacific Railway declares that the mainland of the United States has begun to be integrated in economic operation, and the United States has changed from a country that only exists in name to a truly complete country.

This is an epoch-making feat in the modern industrialization history of the United States. In later generations, it was rated as one of the seven industrial miracles in the world since the Industrial Revolution by the British BBC. The Pacific Railway has made great contributions to the economic development of the United States. In a sense, it is this railway that has made modern America successful.

Ye Zhao sometimes sighed that this railway of more than 3,000 kilometers was officially opened to traffic in just seven years. You should know that it is difficult to build, and Americans have never been as sufficient and almost unlimited labor as China.

The railway is far from being completed. When Americans from the east to the west, they often have to bear huge risks by land, including life safety and property safety. Because not only the road conditions are harsh, they must also be wary of attacks by a few bloodthirsty Indian tribes.

Therefore, it is not difficult to see how much American politicians attach to visiting the Chinese fleet through mountains and rivers.

Although the Eastern Railway is well developed and some sections of the eastern and western ends of the Pacific Railway are open to traffic, it is said that Vice President Sherman, official entourage and guards, came from Washington to San Francisco, and it took nearly a month.

Ye Zhao finally did not ask Wilson to help him contact American politicians. Otherwise, he would have had private contact with military and political officials without hiding his country's president. No matter how unpopular the president is, this matter would have become a scandal if it was exposed.

Ye Zhao did not participate in the meeting between Zou Kaizhi and Vice President Sherman.

San Francisco now has a population of more than 100,000, all of them are adventurers who flocked to after the gold rush in California more than a decade ago. In addition to speculators with a dream of gold rush, many people also open shops in San Francisco to provide supplies needed by gold rushers, such as Ferges coffee, Levitra jeans, Gidley chocolate and other famous brands in later generations. They appeared in San Francisco at this time and gradually became famous. In terms of finance, California Bank and Wells Fargo were also founded in San Francisco more than a decade ago.

More than 30,000 Chinese workers work in the gold mining area near San Francisco, and more than 20,000 Chinese workers were recruited in the construction of the Pacific Railway.

The Southern Dynasties has been severely cracking down on businessmen who sold "piglets" labor. The highest penalty was the death penalty. A notorious American trafficker was hanged in China. This move greatly shocked the Western merchants who sold piglets. At that time, the United States was in a civil war between the north and the south, and the telegram was not read. Although the American minister negotiated with the Southern Dynasties, he still could not stop the Chinese from sanctioning their national death penalty and executing it. The Americans could only accept this fact in a very low-key manner.

After the founding of the New Dynasty, the number of workers willing to sign labor contracts with foreigners to go abroad has been shrinking, which has also caused the number of Chinese workers in the western United States to be about 100,000, and most of them came to the west coast of the United States by various means before the 1960s.

After the 1960s, more and more Americans came to China to recruit labor, and fewer and fewer labor recruitment, especially in the past two years, it has become almost rare. It is probably because China is also in full swing in infrastructure construction, and various immigration plans, it is no longer worth taking risks for a little money, and fewer and fewer workers are willing to go to the other side of the unfamiliar ocean. According to statistics from the Civil Affairs Department, last year, only 1,401 workers were exported to the United States, and extremely formal contracts were signed.

It can be imagined that the current American politicians are determined to be saddened by the lack of labor.

It’s no wonder that Sherman urgently proposed a plan to introduce Chinese labor.

San Francisco, from a small village of 100 people more than a decade ago, has become the largest city west of the Mississippi River. However, the city looks a bit messy, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and a chaotic gold-digging city, adventurers have created a brutal style unique to the west.

The meeting between Zou Kaizhi and Vice President Sherman was held at San Francisco City Hall, which is a very simple two-story building. Ye Zhao's residence is located in the east of Nob Shandong, San Francisco. The north is across the red light district, and the heavily guarded San Francisco Mint is born every year.

Nob Street is adjacent to the red light district, and it can even be said that it is part of the red light district. The security is definitely not the best, but there are many small hotels on Nob Street. Most of the Huazhao who came to San Francisco lived here. After inspecting many hotels, Zheng Aqiao and several guards finally chose a second-floor hotel on Nob Street. The terrain is very high, and the layout of the walls and other layouts are most in line with security requirements.

Soon, the hotel called "yerba buena" moved into all kinds of Chinese businessmen and families. The original tenants moved out at the same time. The hotel manager Slott did not pay too much attention. Instead, he felt that he was lucky. After all, renting to Chinese people can earn 10% more every day. Moreover, the Chinese are humble and polite, clean and hygienic. It is not like those gold diggers. It is fine if they are dirty, but they often fight with each other when they are disagreeing. The duels in the yard are often happening. Now that they have become Chinese tenants, Slott is too happy, so how can he ask the bottom line?

Needless to say, all these Chinese guests are guards and members of the task force.

Ye Zhao and Misaki lived in a simple suite on the second floor. The mattress in the dormitory was quickly replaced with a spring cotton mattress made in China. The quilt was a goose-brown quilt specially used for the dragon bed. Ye Zhao next to him didn't care, but the bed had to be comfortable, after all, he might have to live for a while.

The room was washed and incense was replaced with all the sofa covers, tablecloths and other hotel supplies and toiletries, which were also replaced.

The 203 rooms today seem to be no different from before, but the comfort level is no longer the same.

Ye Zhao was very satisfied with the bathroom. There was a bathtub and a hot shower. Ye Zhao was very tired inside.

Wearing a snow-white nightgown, sitting on the sofa and enjoying the coffee made by Misaki, Zheng Aqiao sent the domestic telegram he had just received.

It was nothing important. The family asked about safety, the Council of Ministers questioned the Wuchang Bridge project, and the General Administration of Audit, which was under the Council of Ministers, began to audit the use of the money used by the project, etc.

While drinking coffee, Ye Zhao looked at Misaki, who was busy in the incense pillow of the bedroom, and said, "It's almost done. You can take a shower and get tired and have a breakfast."

This is what happened when I was on the boat. Misaki always waited for Ye Zhao to fall asleep before going to wash, then put down his small spring folding bed, climbed onto the small bed to rest, and the next day, he always got up before Ye Zhao. Every time Ye Zhao opened his eyes, Misaki would have put away the small bed.

Now that he has arrived on land, Ye Zhaozi hopes that she can have a good sleep. When he saw the small spring bed also entered the suite, which was placed in the inconspicuous corner of the bedroom, he couldn't help but laugh.

Misaki extinguished the small bronze incense burner and asked curiously: "Master, Americans don't have goose down quilts, right?"

Ye Zhao said: "It's not as good as us."

Misaki said: "I think so. I heard that they are furry like big monkeys, and they are like quilts without sleeping."

Ye Zhao laughed and said, "You have strange thoughts all day long."

More than ten minutes later, the maid sent in the conversation between Zou Kaizhi and Sherman. The two were just polite exchanges today and did not discuss any substantive issues. However, Sherman has mentioned twice that he hopes to introduce Chinese labor with the help of the Chinese government.

Ye Zhaoxin said this was difficult, not to hinder the development of the United States, and labor issues could not hinder the United States. But we can’t force Chinese workers to come to the United States. As we signed contracts like the Chinese workers last year, the cost for American employers is really huge, but it is far less than recruiting local or Mexican workers. Originally, the introduction of Chinese workers was mainly because Chinese workers could get the lowest salary to do the most tiring work, but now, according to the requirements of Chinese workers’ wages, it is becoming less and less cost-effective.

China's prices are rising slowly, and of course, national income is growing faster.

As more and more paper money enters the circulation field, the goods that can be purchased in China are much less than ten years ago, but the salary income is no longer the same as ten years ago. Taking the textile workers with the lowest income of technical jobs as an example, when textile workers first appeared, their annual salary was only about twenty yuan silver dollars, while the average annual salary of textile workers across the country is around 60 silver dollars. As for the middle class, only the annual income of more than 200 silver dollars can be called the middle class, and the team is getting stronger and stronger, including senior technicians, small merchants, bank employees, insurance company employees, litigation firm employees, large enterprise employees, general civil servants, etc.

China has always been a self-sufficient closed economic system. The purchasing power of one tael of silver is much stronger than that of Europe. For example, in Beijing ten years ago, it took about 40 taels of silver to maintain the basic living of a family of five every year, while in London, it costs 40 pounds, which is about 140 taels of silver. The living standards of the two families are almost the same. It can be seen that the purchasing power of one tael of silver in London is far lower than that in Beijing.

In the past, it was a closed self-sufficiency society, and its purchasing power was naturally unhindered. However, as China's connection with the world became closer, there was no doubt that if this trend was not changed, it seemed that in foreign trade and industrial goods trade, it would seem that European goods could be dumped, but this would be an unhealthy economic system.

Therefore, proper inflation is inevitable in the pain, but because the wealth created by the empire increases in a geometric multiple, the issuance of paper money has led to a much higher growth rate of per capita income in the people, and the living standards are also greatly improved.

For example, it is now about 100 silver dollars to maintain a family of five in Beijing, which seems to have nearly doubled compared to ten years ago, but the average income of the people in Beijing has increased by more than twice as much as ten years ago, and the actual income has increased greatly. Moreover, the variety of goods purchased at 100 silver dollars today is not the same as the forty taels of silver ten years ago. It also maintains a family of five. However, with the emergence of various industrial products under new technology, the quality of life that is now called maintaining a family's life has improved significantly compared to ten years ago.

The increase in per capita income has also invisibly set up obstacles for Americans to recruit Chinese workers. Chinese workers have an annual salary of more than 200 US dollars in the United States, but before taxes, and now miners have extremely heavy taxes, and tax collectors have imposed heavy taxes to bully miners. After tax, Chinese workers earn about 100 US dollars a year, which is about 100 yuan in domestic silver dollars.

If one hundred silver dollars were in the past, it would naturally be an astronomical wealth for Chinese workers. If the magistrate did not pay attention to the integrity of silver ten years ago, the salary of the seventh-rank magistrate would be only forty-five taels of silver, totaling 60 silver dollars.

Nowadays, there are more and more low-tech workers in China who can get an annual salary of more than 50 silver dollars, and coolies can make a living. Even if they really can't find a job, the gangsters would rather wait for the opportunity to immigrate, or beg for the pass and go to the Western Regions to explore. It is always more reliable than sailing thousands of miles away from the foreign devils.

In the past, most of the workers had no choice but to be deceived. Nowadays, there are more and more choices to survive. Going to the territory of the ghosts has naturally become the choice of the poor. Immigrating to the frontier cities can obtain a piece of arable land. With the traditional Chinese ideas, the temptation of the gangsters is self-evident.

Therefore, it is really difficult to export a large number of labor to the United States today.

Looking through the conversation records between Sherman and Zou Kaizhi, she saw Sherman's last words, "In dealing with Pacific affairs, China and the United States should establish good cooperation and communication channels."

Ye Zhao smiled. Obviously, the fleet's actions all the way to the Americans must have caused them great uneasiness.

It seems that I have to raise my spirits well these days, go around San Francisco, and come up with a plan to appease the Americans. The Russians are trying to win over possible potential opponents of China everywhere. The United States, which is far away from each other across the Pacific Ocean, is naturally the focus of Russians to win over, and they cannot force Americans to the Tsarist Russian camp.

Ye Zhao was thinking about it. As soon as the bathroom door rang, Misaki walked out. Pink pajamas and pajamas covered with peach heart-shaped patterns, fluffy snow-white slippers, sweet and cute pajamas, and seductive little loli. It was not a simple and cute style, but a cute attribute that could stir up the hearts of "old men" and make people long to break through taboos, a kind of throbbing of love and desire.

Ye Zhao's heart was inexplicably trembling.

Misaki walked over, and the extremely fresh breath penetrated Ye Zhao's nose. When she turned around, she saw the plush snow-white slippers, revealing her tender and tender ankles, and her delicate hands and feet were like pink and jade, making people feel evil desire to love and bite.

Why do you often say that you should eat someone? Ye Zhao now understands it.

"Go to sleep!" Misaki just came over, and Ye Zhao had waved his hand and urged her to rest. He thought that he was getting less and less moral bottom line. This is the eleven-year-old little ***? How could he have such dirty thoughts? Yes, but this little loli is really tempting?

Misaki stretched out her little arms and turned around in front of Ye Zhao, saying, "Master, do you like the pajamas I wear? There are several more pieces, with many pink ones and different patterns. Can I change it and show you how to wear it?" Obviously, I didn't know that the master was scolding himself for being dirty and looked at her shamelessly.

Ye Zhao coughed dryly and said, "This one is pretty good, go to bed quickly."

Although Misaki was not sleepy, this was the second time that the master urged her, so he went into the bedroom obediently, laying the small bed, and moving outwards. He could just see Ye Zhao's location from the bedroom door. Misaki then washed his hands, returned to the small bed, and lay carefully in the goose-quilt, and looked at Ye Zhao secretly with big eyes, because he was worried that he would not see when the master needed to call him.

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