Dong Liang handed a cup of tea prepared by Wu Meiniang to Mai Lian.

The cup of this kind of Kung Fu tea is very small. Mai Lian followed Dong Liang's example and held the cup between two fingers, took a sip, and drank the rest of the tea in one gulp.

After a cup of tea, Dong Liang said to Mai Lian: "Dr. Mai Lian, if you write back at any time, please give my regards to President Pierce."

Mai Lian looked at Dong Liang in surprise. He actually knew about President Pierce.

You know, President Franklin Pierce had just taken office for less than half a year.

Dong Liang naturally knew about this president. You must know that Zheng De had just returned from the United States.

He also knew that President Pierce was a political wizard with average abilities but many bad habits.

His qualifications are as if they are fake. For example, he has not served in the military for a long time and was promoted to general, but he has almost no military merit.

Historically, he is regarded as the main culprit in the Civil War.

"Yes, Mr. Führer, our Excellency, President Pierce, also attaches great importance to the relationship with the Chinese. It's just because we still have diplomatic relations with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so we cannot openly recognize the noble power." Mai Lian is here to repair the relationship between the two parties. Naturally,

It’s about picking up good words.

"It doesn't matter, we haven't formally established a country." Before overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Dong Liang was not prepared to formally establish a country, because that would mean division, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty would probably give up its southern territory.

Then the two of them talked about Mai Lian's purpose.

Several requests were put forward: first, the opening of sea routes. He hoped that American merchant ships could reach Shanghai directly. At the same time, they also hoped to resume trade with Xiamen.

Shanghai Beach is now under Chinese control, and it is not impossible to reopen it to the outside world.

However, Dong Liang also had his own request, that is, the Americans must withdraw their armed forces in the American concession, and Dong Liang could retain their right of residence in the concession. The future governance of the concession will be in the hands of Shanghai Dao, and the concession is equivalent to a kind of free trade.

District general existence.

It is obvious that Americans already know about the tricks played by the Chinese in Shanghai.

Moreover, there are restrictions on trade in Shanghai, and the Chinese can determine the amount of trade by issuing recognition flags.

For example, if I give you five recognition flags, then you can only have five ships to trade in Shanghai.

Of course, the Americans have another way, which is to hire Chinese ships to transport the goods to Naha, and then transfer them away on their own ships.

Why did Dong Liang set so many restrictions on them?

That is to maintain the vitality of Naha Port.

Naha Port is a completely open port. Even if the Chinese are at war with Britain and Spain, their merchant ships can still dock in Naha.

Because the Chinese are also dependent on trade.

Without trade, goods cannot be exported. Where will the profits come from for the Chinese?

Mailian's second request was that she wanted the Chinese to return the captured warships and release the captives.

The battleship has long since become the main force of the Chinese first fleet, so it is naturally impossible to return it, even if Mai Lian points out that they can pay to redeem it.

You know, it takes a long time to build a battleship.

As for the prisoners, you can select some and return them.

Of course, those who are valuable to the Chinese people cannot be returned.

Just report the other party's death directly.

There are also some additional conditions, such as religious and cultural exchanges.

These are not so important.

Dong Liang naturally also made his own request, that is, the Americans must also open the Port of San Francisco to Chinese merchant ships.

From now on, the Chinese will no longer need to trade with North America in the name of Ryukyu.

In addition, Dong Liang also raised the issue of Chinese workers, which was a very sensitive issue.

Mailian did not admit that they enslaved Chinese workers. However, Dong Liang's condition was that the United States recognize the citizenship of Chinese workers in the United States, because they did the same for European immigrants.

Dong Liang just made a request for equal treatment.

Mai Lian has no control over this matter. In their eyes, European white people are the same as them and can be absorbed as American citizens, but Chinese people are like Indians and cannot be considered their own.

Moreover, President Pierce has a strong racist tendency, which can be seen from his attitude towards Indians and black slaves.

In fact, historically, Pierce also introduced the infamous "Chinese Exclusion Act."

Although many conditions were not reached, the two sides reached an important agreement, which was to end the state of war.

This is very important to the Chinese, which means that the Chinese have successfully completed the differentiation of the Western powers.

If the British try to suppress the Chinese through economic blockade, they will fail. Because if you don't buy my stuff, someone else will.

You don't transport tea, but the demand from Europeans is still there. This market will be occupied by others.

Otherwise, why would the British have been trying to monopolize the Qing tea trade?

Finally, Dong Liang also gave Mai Lian a big gift, which was that the Chinese would increase their imports of American steel and contract the construction of a railway to an American company.

This is a timely help for the United States, which is suffering from overcapacity.

Overall, the meeting between Dong Liang and Mai Lian was very successful.

After Mailian left, Dong Liang found Sun Yanping.

"Uncle Ping, how is the agent sent to the United States?"

In order to support Chu Yunliang's North American Chinese resistance forces, Dong Liang had previously decided to send an agent to the Eureka area of ​​California to secretly build a port and stockpile supplies as a logistics supply base for the resistance forces.

The agent must be white and 100% reliable.

Such people are difficult to find, so Dong Liang did not give Sun Yanping a death order.

"Head of State, the people have already set off, taking away a large amount of funds and equipment. Have you concluded the negotiations with the Americans?" Sun Yanping said.

"Yes, we have an armistice. It will be much easier for merchant ships to pass by in the future. Is the person you sent the white boy Li Weili who was raised by an old Chinese couple?" Dong Liang asked.

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At this time, on the Pacific route to Hawaii, a ship flying the American flag, the "Ishigaki", was spitting out black smoke.

A young white man with short blond hair, wearing a white shirt and a brown suit, is looking at the boundless sea in trance.

The man's name is Li Weili, his father's name is Li Zhengying, and his mother's name is Miao Cuihua.

The old couple made a living by selling herbal tea at Shisanhang Pier. They originally had a son, but he disappeared after going out to sea with the ship.

Li Weili was picked up by the couple on the dock twenty years ago.

There are many foreign merchant ships at Sanhang Wharf in Guangzhou. Maybe a white prostitute accidentally got pregnant and had to give birth to the child, but she was unable to raise it.

The old couple had just lost their son and felt empty in their hearts, so they picked up the child and raised him.

As the child grew up, Li Zhengying and his wife discovered that the child turned out to be a little foreign devil.

The old couple regretted picking up the child. The people in Guangzhou did not have a good impression of foreign devils.

However, the two old men were kind-hearted and felt that they should be responsible to the end for saving others. Besides, they were just little foreign devils and had not done anything bad.

In this way, Li Weili slowly grew up under the care of his old couple. He had almost no friends, foreigners did not accept him, and Chinese children also bullied him.

Only the old couple have been taking good care of him.

When he grew up, Li Weili worked as an interpreter on the dock to support two elderly people.

Sun Yanping finally found this fake foreign devil. He recruited Li Weili into the ANBU on the condition of giving preferential treatment to the two old men.

He also asked a foreigner to identify it, and it was indeed an Anzai species. The subtle differences between foreigners could not be seen by ordinary Chinese, only they themselves could tell.

Then came the intensive assault training. In order to successfully complete the mission on the west coast, Sun Yanping also equipped him with a team. This team included businessmen who had gone abroad, commandos who performed special tasks, assassins responsible for assassinations, and even

There are also administrative staff.

"Warren, what are you thinking about?" A middle-aged man wearing a long gown walked up behind Li Weili. He now has a new name, Warren Rockefeller, and a new family background.

He is a distant branch of the Rockefeller family, who went to the Far East to prospect for gold and settled on Hong Kong Island.

Now that Hong Kong Island is occupied by the Chinese, he took his family's huge wealth back to the West Coast of the United States to look for investment opportunities.

At this time, California was still very desolate, with a total population of less than 100,000, and the largest city, San Francisco, had a population of only 30,000. There were hundreds of thousands of miles between here and the eastern United States.

Only the adventurous dare to cross the prairies between the East and West and the barren deserts and canyons of the Rocky Mountains.

If someone is willing to invest here, they will definitely be warmly welcomed by the local government.

"Uncle Rong, I'm thinking about what California is like and how I should deal with those people." Little Warren said with some worry.

The middle-aged man's name is Rong Qingshu, he is also a member of the ANBU and has worked in a foreign company for many years. At this time, his role is Warren's Chinese housekeeper.

"You don't need to worry. Your confidence is based on this boatload of gold and silver. I heard that in the United States, those who have money and guns are the bosses. We have money in our hands. If they want to use violence, we have dozens of good players who are not afraid.

They. So just point your nostrils at those people."

"If a problem can be solved with money, use money to solve it. If someone blocks our way, let him disappear. The director-general said that California is a lawless place."

Young Warren nodded and said, "I obey Uncle Rong's arrangements in everything."

Warren and his team not only want to establish a secret port to support the Chinese resistance in North America, but also establish an intelligence network for the ANBU in North America.

It is not easy to develop an intelligence network from the west to the east of the United States.

Fortunately, Dong Liang has restored trade with the Americans, and more Chinese will soon go to the New World, which will be helpful for the construction of the intelligence network.

In the study, Dong Liang learned about the ANBU's arrangements for North America from Sun Yanping, and then felt relieved.
Chapter completed!