Edo Traveler - Vol 13 Chapter 10

Come on, talk to Jose again. Invited the British Minister Pasha Li to accompany, a seemingly casual afternoon tea party, Alan also appeared as the Queen of Japan.

It’s looser, but also formal.

After a simple salute with Alan of the Imperial Palace, Jose started chatting with a few people. At first it was about the weather. The southern hemisphere is different from the northern hemisphere, with winter and summer reversed. It’s just that in Brazil, it’s the difference between wet and dry seasons, and it’s not too cold. In Edo’s summer, it was 30 degrees, but Jose didn’t feel the heat.

After chatting and chatting, we came to the topic of immigration. Chuemon is not ready to reject Jose completely. Diplomacy is an art of language. What’s the point of speaking harshly when it’s not necessary?

Tired of talking too much!

Let’s leave the home court to Bashari. He has been in the Qing country for many years, and he knows the Qing country relatively well. Moreover, he has actually seen Huayongying, and can say one, two, three, four and five.

As I said earlier, the British did their best to completely disrupt the Spanish colonial power in South America. And he’s also investing in places like Argentina. Before the United States actually regarded South America as its own back garden, the influence of the British on South America was still quite large.

Just because of historical reasons, there is a Portuguese colony like Brazil in South America. The relationship between the British and Portugal is also doable, and Portugal itself has long been weakened. To the extent that Daiying didn’t do much work on Brazil, it didn’t mean that he didn’t do anything at all.

After the British had profited greatly from the slave triangle trade, they had amassed a solid raw capital. When he finished accumulating, he would not allow others to do it again, so abolitionist ideology began to appear, and a new abolition law was established, outlawing the slave trade.

As far as England itself is concerned, he no longer needs slaves. But what about Brazil? Brazil needs it!

Brazil’s main economic income is still concentrated on plantations. At this time, agricultural mechanization has not yet seen its shadow, and naturally a large number of cheap labor is needed. Workers charge so much in sparsely populated South America that slaves can be squeezed a little harder.

It seems that the British who preside over the international order want to abolish slavery to show that they are “civilized”, but in fact they greatly harm Brazil’s national interests.

Today, there are a considerable number of abolitionists in Brazil, and Pedro II is also devastated. The royalists were basically big planters and big landowners, and they needed slaves. If you want to maintain the kingship, you need the support of this group of people. But domestic liberals are calling for abolition of slavery.

How to do?

fight!

As long as I win, then I have enough prestige to abolish slavery, satisfy liberals, and gain the support of freed slaves. At the same time, if the land is expanded, the big landlords will be able to build more plantations, and the immigrants who are constantly recruited will be supported. Although the plantation owners will be dissatisfied, they will not openly oppose it.

Best of both worlds!

As for winning or not…

Forget it, let’s get back to the point, Basharie and Jose have a blast. It said that the soldiers of Huayong Battalion recruited by the British army were hard-working and obedient, and that after the signing of the Treaty of Tianjin and the Treaty of Jingshi, foreign countries already had the right to recruit workers in Qing.

In two days, Pasha Li took Jose to Shanghai, and after establishing diplomatic relations with the Qing Kingdom, he could start recruiting immigrants.

Jose was skeptical about what Bashari said, because it was not that the United Kingdom had never cheated on Portugal. But he wasn’t stunned either. Chuemon Chu was smiling, but he asked Pasha Li to be obedient here. It is clear that the shogunate is not very willing to let immigrants go, or at least is not willing to let immigrants go abroad now.

Why don’t you keep bragging about the country’s peasants, who are definitely good workers in the plantation?

But fortunately, at least Chuemon did not refuse to die, and this matter should have a turning point in the future. In addition, Jose was going to Qing to try to recruit immigrants, and he could recruit one or two million Qing immigrants, which was also a great achievement.

Pedro II asked for people if he was thirsty, he wanted everyone, and there was no restriction on what must be Portuguese. If you speak Chinese, you can speak Chinese, and Italians can speak Italian. Pedro II still wants to.

And to put it badly, let’s be honest, the common people in southern Italy are short, black and small at this time, and there are many black hair. When they went to the United States, the Angsa people, who were of German and British descent first, regarded them as second-class whites, and they were a little taller than blacks.

Until the 1950s and 1960s, the US police still treated ordinary Irish, Italian and African Americans as all the same people, and various indiscriminate adjectives emerged one after another.

Then I’ll go to Qing Kingdom to see…

Yep, that’s what you said. Pasha Li and Chuemon looked at each other and smiled, which was another British-Japanese cooperation. It’s just that the Qing Dynasty immigration is not something that can be done with just a touch of tongue. It is only after the Taiping Army is defeated that it is convenient to recruit on a large scale.

Now Chuemon does not completely reject Jose, let him open a Brazilian consulate in Yokohama, and our two countries sign a friendship and trade treaty. If you can afford any good conditions, give money and land, and fool the Japanese people to go to Brazil, that is your skill.

Anyway, the shogunate doesn’t set up obstacles for you. You can count how many you can recruit. Don’t blame me if you can’t recruit them. In these years, there are people who need to run away from their hometowns. In the past, they ran to Ezo, Huatai, and Kamchatka, but now they can run to Brazil. If they really went to Brazil, the shogunate couldn’t do anything to them.

An afternoon tea party, UU reading www.uukanshu. com came to an end happily.

Chuemon got up to send one and two envoys. Although he is the king of Japan, it is also a gesture of goodwill to send people to the doorstep.

Bashari and Jose greeted Alan again, put on their hats, and prepared to leave in the carriage. Walking to the door, a foreigner seemed to be waiting anxiously. Pasha Li nodded to the man when he saw it, Chuemon didn’t care about their British affairs, just sent them to the car.

It seems that Kurokawa Ketoku, who followed him along the way, and also guarded Pasha Li to get into the car, seemed to hear two words. He is also an international student. He has studied shipbuilding and design, and his English is good.

“What? Did you hear it?” Chuemon asked casually.

“It seems that I heard that Lindley robbed a British steamship to save King Chen Ying.” Kurokawa Ketoku only heard two sentences, and the words were vague.

But when it comes to Zhongyouemon, it is very clear that Chen Yucheng may have been captured by the Qing court.

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