But they were very interested in hearing that the British captain said that Britain was stronger and richer than the United States and that Britain was the first-class country in the world. Of course, they didn’t think Britain was the best country in the world because they came from China, but it didn’t prevent them from seeing Britain as the best country among foreigners.

In this era, shipbuilding technology makes it take thirteen days for the fastest flying shear ship to cross the Atlantic to travel between Britain and the United States.
They took a flying shear boat, but their captain refused another invitation from new york Port to compete. Ten days have passed since the flying shear boat arrived in London smoothly, and it happened in May.
The mission arrived in London a few days earlier, but London learned two months ago that a China mission was about to visit Britain and wanted to present diplomatic documents to Britain. The news was that Zhu Jinglun would return from Hong Kong. After Erjin contacted Zhu Jinglun, Erjin even sent Zhu Jinglun the diplomatic documents to London. The fastest military mail ship was sent back to London. The speed of sailing and steam engine was faster than that of flying shear. It took less than three months to get from China to England.
Therefore, when China people just arrived in the United States, in fact, the British people already knew the situation, but the British government had serious differences on how to receive this delegation, because unlike the United States, they didn’t need such a mission to show the legitimacy of the government, and they received a detailed report from Elgin, reporting to them the current complicated situation in Guangdong, which is why this delegation came.
This delegation hopes to release Britain from ceding Guangdong territory when petitioning the British King, which makes government officials very worried. Even the first delegation from China, England, sent by a local government, can’t be received by the British King, but the problem is that the other party may be very unreasonable when meeting the British King, which may make it difficult for both sides to clean up the situation. According to Erskine, the other party is very unfamiliar with international diplomatic practices and its formal attitude is too emotional. If such a delegation meets the British King, there will be diplomatic disputes, even if there is no diplomatic dispute to embarrass the Queen, it will be a blow to the image of Britain.
Therefore, the vast majority of officials disapprove of the Queen’s meeting with the delegation, but there are differences on whether to allow the delegation to visit the parliament and speak. Some say that the British parliamentary system can make these barbaric countries see the highest model of western language, and some say that the parliament is a sacred place, and it is an offense to the highest British institution to let these barbarians enter for a while.
Although both sides are racist, one is active and the other is conservative. No one can say who. How will the British government receive Chen Zhiting’s mission until it is on the coast of London?
The neglect of the government, especially the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, does not mean that all departments are indifferent, but the Ministry of Commerce is very active because they know the details of this mission and that most of the people in this mission are the most influential businessmen in Guangdong, and these businessmen are the biggest customers of British business. Therefore, the Ministry of Commerce can’t neglect them, and even hopes to promote the Sino-British trade exhibition through this delegation
They were greeted by Chen Zhiting, a British business official, who didn’t know the benefits of diplomatic etiquette. They didn’t care because when the other party arranged for them to stay in a hotel in London, Chen Zhiting also actively asked him when he could see the Queen of England.
It is Chen Zhiting’s greatest motivation to argue with Queen Ying Yi face to face, and it is also his greatest willingness to set foot on a western warship with tragic feelings.
On the same day, when he was asked to visit Europe and America on behalf of Xin ‘an County for the first time, Zhu Jinglun told him that he first apologized to the United States in order to stop the United States from moving towards Peiping soldiers. But Chen Zhiting struggled psychologically, but he decided that his country would sacrifice his dignity. He was willing to apologize to the families of the American fox soldiers who were killed and comfort them.
It is a pity that the United States has been divided for a long time, except that the delegation ships are also one south and one north. The battleship Nisuda is in the north and the cruiser Mississippi is in the south. As a result, the southern warship was sunk, but the division of the south made Chen Zhiting unable to sacrifice his own dignity.
Therefore, they came to England directly. For Chen Zhiting, Britain is the root of this visit. Although he was baptized by an industrial writer in the United States, it is still difficult for Chen Zhiting to change his mentality of treating foreigners as barbarians. It is still very attractive for him to meet Britain face to face and reprimand or argue. He wants the sage to teach him to tell the foreigner queen well and let her know that he has made a mistake.
Zhu Jinglun didn’t even know that Chen Zhiting was in a state of mind when the envoy visited the country for the first time and met the captaincy. If he knew him, he would be glad that the British didn’t let him see the queen, otherwise it would be a big trouble.
The official of the British Ministry of Commerce is vague. He can represent other departments, and he is not aware of the current contradictions of the government. He is not interested in whether other government departments will intervene. Their Ministry of Commerce has received an official letter from the United States from the diplomatic department. The Americans told the British Guangdong delegation that it would arrive in these days, hoping that Britain could do a good job as a receptionist.
The Americans conveyed this message out of vague diplomatic ideas about this mission, and there was no direct diplomatic reason between China and Britain. However, the Ministry of Commerce was not the first to receive the notice from the diplomatic department, but it was the first to take action.
After the Ministry of Commerce officials kept talking with Chen Zhiting, he knew that this mission was a delegation without diplomacy, but after all, it was the first mission, so their concept was likely to become Guangdong’s influence on British concepts, and the world was exactly what the British were good at or pushed forward.
Wilson, a researcher from the Ministry of Commerce, accompanied Chen Zhiting personally. He invited Chen Zhiting to visit London’s large and small factories and shipyards and museums with cultural relics from all over the world and ethnic groups.
But his goal is definitely not that these Americans are still ignorant, and they hope that the Guangdong mission will see their best side, showing some areas in New England, while the British are showing something besides reaching.
Wilson showed Chen Zhiting that those factories are often highly specialized in producing nails, screws and pipe bases, and there are no complete sets of equipment factories. His purpose is simple, and then he sold Chen Zhiting their theory of professional division of labor.
In fact, it is Adam Smith’s wealth theory that tells Chen Zhiting that each country has its own advantages through division of labor, and then the production capacity of both sides will be greatly improved through free trade exchange.
From the division of labor, it leads to free trade, changes the division of labor and injects theoretical basis into free trade.
Now the British and later the Americans are very good at this.
Scholars like Adam Smith can always come up with all kinds of theories, and then these politicians choose to promote them and then fool others.
Unfortunately, when Adam Smith was alive, Britain was still maintaining heavy money and implementing strict trade protection policies. However, more than ten years after Adam Smith’s death, his economic masterpiece suddenly became popular in Britain half a century ago. This was because the British completed industrialization at this time, and their industrial level reached the commanding heights of the world. The United States and other parts of Europe combined have no British proportion, let alone the gap in technology and efficiency.
It was only when Britain reached the stage of free trade that they produced Adam Smith’s works and promoted Adam Smith to the altar to sell his theory to all countries in the world, fooling these countries that Britain is strong because it respects Adam Smith’s theory and because it advocates free trade.
Economists of later generations believe that Britain hopes to throw an attractive bait at the British market by adopting free trade, so that they can put the factors of production back into agriculture. For example, Germany will not compete with British industry and produce more barley and rye in exchange for British prices. Industrial production in France should not produce textiles, but more red wine and luxury.
In this era, many countries have adopted this policy. In 16o years after Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte became emperor, France signed the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty. Britain could not produce French red wine, silk weaving, handmade products and other preferential tax rates, while France imposed trade restrictions on British steel, textile and other industries.
The result is a devastating impact on the French textile industry.
The Germans were very clever. They started their own tax union. Prussia either forced or negotiated a trade union that included most German countries.
The end result is that Germany has developed its own steel industry and manufacturing industry by protecting it, and its silk weaving and luxury have reached the height of France.
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At the beginning of the British industrial exhibition, they took great pains to protect the country’s industry, and sometimes they took good care of themselves.
The theory of free trade is true, and it can really improve the economic level of the whole world. But the problem is that this world is not a whole. It is made up of several nations and worlds that compete fiercely with each other. The living problem is often that if the Anglo-Saxons occupy North American Indians, they must lose their land. If the Spaniards occupy South America, they must perish.
Adam Smith didn’t come up with the theory of free trade alone. In his first hundred years or so, scholars have repeatedly expressed this view throughout European history.
Henry Maduo was studying international trade and international division of labor in comparative labor in 17o1.
Isaac jervis deduced the conclusion of universal free trade in 172o O.
However, they are unknown to the British people, and some scholars and economic enthusiasts are keen to read their theories, which the government ignores.
Not only that, the government has repeatedly formulated more stringent trade protection policies to crack down on countries and industries that compete with Britain
The long-term implementation of the navigation law led to the gradual shrinkage of the Dutch shipping industry, and finally had to transfer the shipping industry to Britain
In 17o1, Britain implemented a textile import ban: "All processed silk, grosgrain, silk or grass blended fabrics made in Persia, China or Dongyou are not allowed to wear in all the countries where the colors, printing and dyeing have been or will be imported."
When jervis called for free trade in noodles, Britain issued a law stipulating that "it is illegal to make or wear colored and printed soft cotton cloth in Britain regardless of clothes or ornaments".
In this era, Britain’s industrialization is already in the early stage of machine system, and it can compete with manual production, because the machine is extremely expensive at this time, and the labor price is very low, especially in China. However, when women workers in China sweat, the British do not hesitate to cut off this hard-working labor.
China is lucky, especially in this century, when it became a British colony. Nowadays, the British people, especially handmade cotton cloth, are finally popular in Britain. Especially, women workers dare to make a living and compete with the British machine system, so they are angry that the textile tax rate is constantly high, but the British machine textile industry is constantly reduced.
At this time, some businessmen also introduced looms from Britain to produce cotton cloth with the same technology as Britain, and the British competed for the market.
For example, a cotton merchant named Dawa Mumbai made huge profits in transporting cotton to Europe and the United States, but he was not satisfied with trading raw materials and always wanted to produce.
People like Dawa are working hard, especially the textile industry is advancing by leaps and bounds. After all, cheap labor and rich raw materials are attached to the British world trade body, making them too suitable for exhibition industry.
As a result, the textile industry in particular has exploded, and the demand for cotton in particular has doubled several times. Especially, textile enterprises can not only meet the local market, but also have the ability to export.
Although Britain is still weak, especially the annual consumption of cotton by textile mills is only 7% of that of British textile mills, the British still can’t accept the adoption of a bill to levy a high protection tax on British yarn imports.
In the end, it not only destroyed the Youtong industry, but also completely interrupted the mechanization process of buying British machines.
In fact, thanks to British rule, especially the industrial revolution is likely to succeed more than 100 years before the promotion of British industrial culture
If Americans were not independent of Britain, I’m afraid they wouldn’t have ushered in the later glory. You know, in colonial times, except for the rich timber resources, they exhibited two industries, shipbuilding and steel making, and other industrial fields were blank.
Compared with what the British did to you, China people are really glad that they were not completely colonized. Of course, some people regret that they were not colonized by white countries. This kind of immigrants will be especially happy!
However, China people are also limited to being glad that the British are unable and don’t want to pay a high price to establish a rule in China. After all, it is much more difficult for them to rule China now than especially, but they succeeded in forcing the Qing government to reduce the tax rate to 5%, which is less than the British tax that advocates free trade, and the average tax rate in Britain is 12 to 16%.
Friedrich Liszt, a German economist who advocates the tax union, satirizes Britain’s theory of promoting free trade to the world, saying, "If a country relies on the protection tax and shipping restriction policy to achieve such a high level in the industrial shipping industry, there is no other country to compete with it in free competition. At this time, the smartest way to conceive for it is to throw away the ladder it climbed when it climbed high, and then tell other countries that free trade is beneficial. Tell them that it has made many detours in the past and finally realized the truth of free trade."
Ten years later, the different fates of Germany and France have long been doomed by the British. I’m afraid that the country that suffered the most from Britain is not the first, especially France. After all, it maintained the declining France in the declining era, but it was directly blamed by Britain for competing with Britain for world hegemony, making it a second-rate country in Europe.
There are economists like Liszt in Germany.
The French emperor can at least be fooled
But Chen Zhiting can’t hear what the British are talking about, what division of labor and what high productivity are. This is what businessmen should do. He told him all this by himself.
So he soon got impatient and kept asking when he could see the king.
Wilson’s enthusiasm for Chen Zhiting is out of the hope that China, especially these Cantonese people, can release trade, not just a tax agreement, but a real psychological welcome to free trade. He doesn’t want to offend Chen Zhiting to help him ask questions many times.
The British government also discussed the result. They not only refused Chen Zhiting to meet the king, but also refused to invite him to speak in parliament.
Chen Zhiting doesn’t care about the parliament. He doesn’t know what it is. In the United States, Lincoln invited him to visit the parliamentary debate. However, Chen Zhiting felt humiliated when he saw people who were called members of parliament in the United States arguing and swearing in the parliament. He heard Americans say that returning members of parliament is equivalent to China courtiers. After seeing it, he couldn’t help but despise it.