Chapter 265: Going to war with Canada?

"Master Qingtian"

When they first heard this title, Li Asheng and Zhao Dachang couldn't feel like they looked around... After a while, they were convinced that the people on the other side who were similar to those of beggars should be called by themselves. But why does this title sound so awkward?

"A few guys, you guys are..."

The ragged clothes are nothing. Most Chinese people who just arrived in Seattle are like this. Even if they find something to do or divide the land later, their lives are better. There are not many Chinese who are used to being thrifty and poor, but they are willing to use their limited money to buy clothes. Many people want to hold their money tightly in their arms, and even some people just find a secret place to dig a deep hole and bury the money... Although the state government has made great efforts in this regard, even the super banker Morgan has thought of many ways to absorb deposits, but for two years, Chinese people have deposited money. The proportion is still pitifully low. They are not willing to spend anything except necessary daily necessities. In fact, the current business prosperity in Tangzhou is the white people who come here to work. As the governor, Li Asheng sometimes really hates these compatriots... What's wrong with some money? Don't you know that if you don't use that money, it's just like a useless waste paper? But no matter how depressed, as a Chinese, Li Asheng still has to seek benefits for his compatriots and protect their rights.

"You... are you the governor?" A Chinese man in his forties seemed to be the leader. He knelt there and looked at Li Asheng carefully, and then asked carefully.

"No, no, I'm not a governor, I'm the governor." Li Asheng smiled bitterly. He really has a nickname now, called "governor". This was the people Liu Tongfu recruited from the Qing court... I don't know what the guy who had always thought about snatching the position of governor from him would think after hearing this title, but he wouldn't be happy anyway.

"My fellow villager, get up first. Just say something if you have anything to do, don't kneel down." The person who came was speaking Cantonese, which made Zhao Dachang feel very friendly. He walked up to help the person up, but several Chinese people went to the side and just couldn't get up.

"Master, you have to make the decision for us." The Chinese who led the lead walked forward two steps and kowtowed to Li Asheng twice, "We brothers are waiting for you to help you."

As he said that, tears flowed down.

"What's going on?" Li Asheng suddenly tightened, stepped forward and arrested the man, "What's wrong? Can anyone dare to harm you?"

"Master, I, we came from the north. They said that only you can save us..." the man said in a crying voice.

"north?"

"Well, we call it British Columbia, they call it Dabulio"

"British Columbia?" Li Asheng couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

"Well, it's British Columbia," the man nodded repeatedly.

"...Canada?" Zhao Dachang was stunned, and then his expression became serious.

...

"The English name of British Columbia is 'province of britishbia'. It is located on the west coast of Canada and is facing the Pacific Ocean. The coastline is more than 8,000 kilometers long and nearly 9,000 kilometers. The coast is beautiful and the seafood is rich. The province covers an area of ​​947,800 square kilometers. The population is currently about 120 to 150,000. The south of the province borders our Washington state, namely Tang, and Idaho and Méng Dana. It is a Canadian household to the Asia-Pacific region. This province has a mild climate, beautiful scenery, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and most of its area is covered by forests..."

Several Chinese workers, to be precise, were recruited from Guangdong to Canada, and they brought a very bad news to Seattle. Thousands of Chinese workers were forcibly trapped in British Columbia by Canadians. This news immediately triggered the political situation in Seattle that had been calm for two years... Some important figures were quickly summoned by Li Asheng, and then, Bu Pinglai urgently convened a parliamentary meeting in the name of the Speaker.

"I don't want to ask what's the natural situation of this place called Colombia. I just want to know what happened to those Chinese... Why are they trapped by Canadians and not allowed to come back? Why are they trapped?" There were many people in the parliament hall, including Li Asheng, Zhao Dachang, Bu Pinglai, Hou Nan, Jian Wang and some others, and even two other white people... And it was one of these two who were reading the British Columbia data on the podium. However, his slow speech speed angered Zhao Dachang a little. Before he finished reading the data, he was interrupted roughly.

"General Zhao, I'm about to say it..." The white man smiled bitterly, "The main reason why those Chinese workers were trapped in Canada and were not even allowed to leave... I think it's the same as the reason why you were excluded in the United States at the time."

"I heard that Canadians are also building railways. Could it be..." Bu Pinglai frowned and remembered a message he had heard before.

"That's right." The white man picked up the information in his hand again, "The Chinese workers he found should be hired on the Canadian Pacific Railway..."

"Can you tell me more details?" Li Asheng asked in a deep voice.

"No problem." The man nodded, "The facts will start from 1867. On July 1 that year, Britain formed a federation in four provinces in the eastern part of the North American continent and announced the formation of a new country, which is today Canada, and some provinces later joined the federation. At that time, the western region of Canada, British British Columbia, had not yet been included in the Canadian territory. Because the area lies across the Rocky Mountains, the largest mountain range in North America, and the peaks were dangerous, it was with East Canada.

The connection between the localities is almost isolated, but it is more convenient to connect with Washington State in the northwest of the United States. Therefore, the state's willingness to join the United States is also extremely strong, especially in 1869, when the United States built the Pacific Railway running through the North American continent, which made this willingness even stronger. Finally, the regional government proposed that unless Canada builds a railway through the Rocky Mountain within 10 years, it will leave Canada and join the United States."

"So they started to build the railway?"

"Of course." The white man nodded, "The threat of the United States forced Canadian politics to put the construction of the Pacific Railway on the agenda. You must know that the entire United States believed in the mid-19th century that 'the destiny was to rule the entire North American continent'. In 1869, the Minnesota State Legislature even passed a resolution to demand annexation of the entire western Canada. The American railway was the pioneer of northward expansion. The North Pacific Railway near the U.S.-Canada border had long been ready to move, trying to get involved in the northwest of Canada. At that time, after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia, it desperately expanded to the west, posing a serious threat to the western region of Canada. In addition, the United States was also striving to win British Columbia to join the United States and offered many generous conditions, so Canada was under tremendous pressure."

"Since I started to have this intention in 1869, why did it continue to be today?" Hou Nan asked.

"Because the Canadian Pacific Railway project was not going well from the beginning," another white man said, "The then ruling Canadian federal prime minister was John A. MacDonald, who claimed to be the father of their federal government, and the Conservative Party led by him. MacDonald asked a si-man company to build the railway. This required the government to allocate 30 million Canadian dollars in subsidies and set aside 50 million acres of land to allow a si-man company to complete the project. Canada and the United Kingdom, the United States' capitalists competed fiercely to seize control of the company and obtain more funding from the Canadian government.

At that time, Canada's wealthiest industrialist and transportation giant, Hugh. Allen wanted to contract the project, but Liberal MPs found that he had donated about 360,000 Canadian dollars to the Conservative candidates in the 1872 election to ensure that the railway construction contract was obtained and that it could control the transcontinental railway to monopolize the connection between the mainland and the east and west coasts. After the incident known as the Pacific scandal was exposed, the railway contract was forced to be re-signed in 1873 and led to the collapse of McDonald's Conservative government, which also forced the Pacific Railway project to delay."

"Hmph, I just said that there are not many good things in those who do business." Zhao Dachang snorted coldly.

"Cough, cough... General Zhao, I hope you can apologize for what you just said." The white man who had just spoken coughed twice in dissatisfaction and continued.

"I didn't say anything about you, why are you anxious?" Zhao Dachang gave him a blank look.

"But you are talking about a businessman, and I am just a businessman." The white man said dissatisfied.

"Mr. Dodd, Dachang is just unintentional, and I don't think we need to worry about this small problem... let's talk about serious matters." Li Asheng said. Dodd was the lawyer who came to Tangzhou with Rockefeller. But no one expected that the trusted subordinate of the oil king was finally poached by Guo Jinzhang as one of the independent directors of Changan Bank to prevent the internal control of the controlling shareholders and management from damaging the overall interests of the company. This is the first time in the world, and Morgan was extremely dissatisfied. But later this guy was the first to implement an independent director system in his own bank... However, although he followed suit, this guy still felt that Dodd's appointment was caused by Rockefeller behind the scenes. It was not until later that Morgan Trading Company was able to settle it in Enron Energy Company. Although Dodd was a white man, he did have excellent professional qualities. In the past two years, he

More than once, he discovered some small actions by the bank general manager sent by Morgan to secretly ensure the interests of Tangzhou. He also gained a certain trust from Li Asheng and others and obtained corresponding status in Tangzhou. Not long ago, starting with Guo Jinzhang, Li Asheng formally gave him the identity of a resident of Tangzhou and proposed that he be appointed as the position of attorney general of Tangzhou. This proposal was quickly passed in parliament and alarmed the entire American society. No one expected that

Tangzhou, who had just lifted the war with the US government, accepted a white prosecutor so quickly. All parties commented on this approach, but in the end, almost without exception, gave extremely high evaluations of Tangzhou's actions, believing that this was the beginning of Tangzhou's initiative to release goodwill and decide to go to the whole United States. As a result, people thought of the US Congress, which had always refused Tangzhou to be away, and accordingly, gave extremely low evaluations of this performance.

"I know he is unintentional, but this is even more terrible. Although I know it is impossible to make you agree with me in a short time, this kind of heartfelt hostility still makes me shudder." Dodd shrugged, not satisfied with Li Asheng's consolation.

"Then what do you want? Apologize? There is no mén..." Zhao Dachang said with his neck stammering.

"Dachang, what's wrong with you? Now you are talking about serious matters. If you say less than a few words, you will die?" Hou Nan shouted loudly.

"He was the one who provoked me first," Zhao Dachang's voice suddenly became weaker. "I'm talking about a businessman. He is an official now. What's the matter? He still has to be angry and ask for scolding."

"Mr. Dodd, ignore him, let's talk about Canada." Li Asheng smiled bitterly. Dodd's appointment as a prosecutor in Tangzhou is indeed a good move... Because Dodd definitely dares to protect white people in Tangzhou, and he has nothing to do with Chinese people, it is very likely to remain fair under various circumstances, and this is very difficult for Chinese people at present... In addition, he is still a lawyer. Although he is a business lawyer, he is always much stronger than those of them, such as legal idiots. Moreover, the procurator-general has nothing to do with the most important three powers of legislation, administration, and military, and it is also difficult to do.

What happened to harm Tangzhou? Tangzhou Zhengfu could use this appointment to release goodwill to the white American society, so he finally agreed to Guo Jinzhang's proposal. However, despite all the benefits, many people were still dissatisfied with Dodd, and some even believed that he and Guo Jinzhang had taken the benefits of those white consortiums. Zhao Dachang was the one who opposed the most. This guy always believed that Tangzhou should be Chinese, and it would be fine if white people came here to do business, but no matter what aspects, they should not be as white as others... It was useless for many times he advised him.

"Okay." Dodd sighed. He had expected this result. To be honest, white people are not having a good life in Tangzhou now. Apart from scientists, teachers, professionals and technical workers, white people have no ability to compete with Chinese people in other aspects... After all, Chinese people are famous for their hard work. White people don't have any ability. Just want to earn money here by working hard is as ridiculous as fighting wealth on Wall Street. There are also smart Chinese people among Chinese. Over the past two years, the technical schools and factories opened by Tangzhou Zhengfu have trained quite a few Chinese technicians. In addition, there are Chinese people studying nervously in various research institutes...

...He was like a dream from beginning to end, and he thought it was a joke until the parliament passed. However, his prosecutor was not stable because he was surrounded by two secretaries at any time. These guys were not monitoring him, but Guo Jinzhang sent him to learn relevant knowledge. He knew that once these two guys succeeded in their studies, his term of office might end. As the prosecutor, the white people who came to find jobs were naturally the same... The conflict between the two sides has happened more than once, most of them were white people who were not promising and could not compare to the Chinese, but they blamed the Chinese for working too hard...

"Where did we talk about just now? It was McDonald's political collapse because of bribery, right?" Bu Ping asked.

"Yes." Dodd came back to his senses, and then continued to say, "The Conservative Party fell and the Liberal Party won the new round of elections. However, the enthusiasm of this regime for railway construction was much worse. They believed that the Pacific Railway could be built as a public work. However, from June 1, 1875, the railway broke ground near Fort William until the change of the government in 1878, and only a small section of railway lines began to be built in the central provinces Ontario and Manitoba. At this time, British Columbia was about to arrive at a 10-year period, and the politicians' commitment to building a transcontinental railway to the province would not be fulfilled as scheduled. So they threatened to withdraw from the Canadian Federation. In this way, in 1878, the Conservative Party was in the process of 10 years.

McDonald re-entered the power of all four projects. The railway was built up in 1881 and began to build the railway line upstream from the West Coast along the Fraser River. After McDonald decided to build the railway, the British Columbia region soon became the sixth province to join the Canadian federal government... However, it was obvious that they underestimated the difficulty of building the Pacific Railway."

"So, they thought of Chinese workers?" Hou Nan frowned. What Dodd said reminded him of his past experience.

"That's right. Chinese workers are the most hardworking and creative Chinese people." Dodd replied.

"Washington State is established, and it is the base camp of Chinese people in North America... Here, Chinese people can enjoy equal and even superior treatment. Therefore, after the Chinese workers hired to Canada have suffered enough and heard about Tangzhou, many people must have the idea of ​​giving up their railway engineering work, which will obviously seriously affect the construction of the railway." Another white man said immediately.

"So, in order to ensure the progress of the project, those Canadians forcibly detained them on the construction site?" Bu Pinglai asked in a deep voice.

"I guess this should be the case." The man replied.

"what to do?"

Bu Pinglai stood in the Speaker's seat and looked at everyone present.

"What else can I do? Fight and rescue the person," Zhao Dachang yelled.

"You want to start a war?" Dodd asked looking at him.

"War is war, am I still afraid of them?" Zhao Dachang snorted coldly.

"Canada is a member of the Commonwealth. As long as one of the members is attacked by outsiders, other members are obliged to send troops to help the war... The American political fu was once full of ambitions for Canada, but in the end they had to give up the idea of ​​using force, because they were unwilling and did not dare to provoke the Commonwealth..." Another white man said on the side.

"Then you can't just watch so many Chinese suffer." Hou Nan clenched his fists tightly, his voice extremely painful, "Pacific Railway... a sleeper is a life."

"Asheng, you are the governor, what do you think?" Some congressmen turned their attention to Lee Asheng.

"I……"

Li Asheng frowned, his face was unstable. His hesitation naturally reminded others of their true supreme leader.

"It's better to find Jin Zhang and let him make an idea."

"Yes, find Jin Zhang and let him find a way."

...

"Hasn't you notified me? Why haven't Guo Jinzhang come yet?" Everyone said something and said something, and Zhao Dachang even stood on the chair and yelled.

"Jin Zhang is still in Everett, twenty miles away, how can he come back so soon?" Hou Nan said annoyed.

"Can you make a phone call? NN, you are obviously a lieutenant general, and you still have to go to a research institute all day long. You have to build that research institute so far, so you can cause trouble for yourself," Zhao Dachang said dissatisfied.

"I have sent someone to wait in the office. As long as there is a reply, I can send it here immediately." Li Asheng said in a deep voice. Everyone's performance just now made him feel a little savory, but he also knew that he really did not have the right to speak for such a major event. Although Guo Jinzhang is not an external expert, at least no problem has occurred so far.

"I'll go and have a look." Although I still have to wait for news, Zhao Dachang couldn't wait, so he spread two tui and rushed out of the hall.

...

One minute, two minutes...

About twenty minutes later, the depressed atmosphere in the parliament hall was interrupted by a burst of rapid footsteps. Then, Zhao Dachang returned and shouted before he even entered the hall.

"Jin Zhang said that he would explain to Canadian politics for 72 hours and send back all Chinese workers who were unwilling to stay in Canada. In addition... the Red Corps immediately assembled if the other party disagrees or cannot do it, then start a war."
Chapter completed!