No, before Zhang Yunfei could digest the victory against Russia, the US Navy Colonel Charles Harveydenbi told Zhang Yunfei alone.

The visit of Navy Colonel Charles has been predicted by Zhang Yunfei. For Americans, where the cake is the largest and most fragrant, they will fly over like bees. It is undeniable that the Americans' mentality of not getting up early without any trouble, coupled with their natural businessman mind, has accumulated a lot of funds for the rapid rise of the United States.

The Meditation of the Rise of the United States once said: If there is a country in the world that allows people to see the process of their growth from birth to adulthood, this country is the United States. If there is a country in the world that is lucky to avoid feudalism and dictatorship, this country is the United States and China. If there is a country in the world that has obtained the results of others through revolution and bloodshed, and even through revolution and bloodshed, and has been preserved to this day, this country is still the United States.

Zhang Yunfei knew very well what Navy Colonel Charles was here to do, just hoping to gain benefits from Zhang Yunfei's territory. However, for Zhang Yunfei, it is the happiest thing to attract American investment. The Qing government has almost no private enterprises except for military industry in the Northeast. Faced with such a large resource-intensive area, Zhang Yunfei's wish is to quickly establish a complete industrial-intensive system in the Northeast. Because the current Northeast can be said to have great similarities with the rise of the United States, both of which are a piece of blank paper. Zhang Yunfei can take out all the future reasonable industrial and urban layout planning. The only difference is that Zhang Yunfei needs to overcome political pressure on him, after all, this place is nominally the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

However, this seems not very important. Since the Qing government allowed Zhang Yunfei to return to China, it was ready to let Zhang Yunfei be a warlord or a vassal king. Zhang Yunfei needed the Qing family as the foundation. Similarly, the Qing government needed Zhang Yunfei's strength to fight the division crisis of foreign powers, and everyone took what they needed. As long as Zhang Yunfei did not blatantly oppose the court, he would give the Qing government a step in terms of face, and everyone would maintain this peaceful situation together.

"I don't know what happened to Charles School meeting me?" Zhang Yunfei asked with a smile.

Colonel Charles answered the question irrelevantly: "Today's weather is bright and your mood is bright, isn't it?"

Zhang Yunfei dipped it and said, "Of course! Tea or coffee?"

"Tea, thank you! Follow the customs of the countryside!" Colonel Char said politely.

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"It's very fragrant! Is it boiling ground tea in boiling water?" asked Colonel Charles.

Zhang Yunfei nodded and replied: "Use boiling water tea. Let it last longer!"

Colonel Charles, who was born in a beautiful country, did not understand Chinese tea ceremony. The only place he could do was drink like an old cow.

Zhang Yunfei had no choice but to say, "You are not here to come to me for tea!"

Colonel Charles immediately said: "Of course not. I am the Minister to China this time. In addition to being commissioned by President McKinley, I would like to thank you for your support and the Republican Party and congratulate you on your victory in the Russian issue. Our government hopes to expand cooperation with Mr. Zhang. Just like you make tea, you are like tea in the best place. And we in the United States are just like you say boiling water. If we cooperate, I believe that a pot of tea will be brewed. I wonder if my metaphor is appropriate?"

Colonel Charles was able to serve as the ambassador to China and was also a military officer. I have to say that he was very capable. It can be seen from his words.

"You are right. I also hope to cooperate more deeply and extensively with your country. I wonder if Colonel Charles has any good suggestions?" Zhang Yunfei asked.

Colonel Charles said: "I came this time to hope that Mr. Zhang can allow American companies to invest in and set up factories in Mr. Zhang's territory, Fengtian Province, and expand our economic and trade cooperation. If Mr. Zhang is interested, I will also bring a lot of domestic consortium representatives this time, and you can discuss in detail. Also, I was commissioned by the US Navy Department and hope to further strengthen cooperation with Mr. Zhang in the naval field."

As expected, this trick was used. Zhang Yunfei was not as afraid of foreign investment as the Qing government. On the contrary, Zhang Yunfei believed that although foreign investment seems to be profitable in the short term, in the long run, foreign capital injection can not only solve the domestic surplus labor force, but also drive the overall economic growth, which is beneficial to the country and the people.

The United States is currently in a transition period from free capitalism to imperialism. Typically, domestic investment in the United States is saturated, and a large amount of surplus capital from major American consortiums has nowhere to be available, so it will turn to external exports.

Historically, because the United States was busy with the Spanish-American War, it missed the opportunity to inject capital into China. After occupying the Philippines, it attracted a large amount of American capital investment, so it waited for the United States.

When paying attention to China, China has been divided up by force and has no choice but to propose a policy of opening a door.

Now, the United States and Zhang Yunfei have joined hands to fight against Spain, greatly shortening the time. Cuba seized by the United States from Spain has long been saturated, and local American sugar capitalists do not allow other American capital to be injected. However, the largest market, the Philippines, was seized by Zhang Yunfei. Although the Americans realized that they regretted handing over the Pacific battlefield to Zhang Yunfei, they gave Zhang Yunfei a cheaper price. However, the Philippines has become a certain fact, and the United States had to contact Zhang Yunfei through the government and injected a large amount of capital into the Philippines to help Zhang Yunfei carry out industrial construction.

However, Zhang Yunfei implemented a comprehensive opening-up policy in the Philippines, and businessmen from all countries have the opportunity to compete fairly. Moreover, Zhang Yunfei also specially established an industrial and commercial bidding committee to be responsible for foreign bidding tasks. In addition to the military industrial construction of the Philippines being managed by Zhang Yunfei's own people, all other industrial and commercial facilities are bidding to the world through bidding. In this case, in order to suppress competitors, large enterprises from all over the world will participate in the bidding at the lowest price and the best quality, and basically there is no huge profit at all.

American businessmen have always been driven by the highest profit. In the Philippines, although the fair competition environment has allowed enterprises in all countries to gain something, the biggest winner is Zhang Yunfei. The cunning Americans found the problem at once. Therefore, when they heard that Zhang Yunfei had won a province in the Qing Dynasty, major consortiums in the United States immediately persuaded Congress to approve it. The government led the thread and through the way of getting a relationship with Zhang Yunfei, they hoped to get a share of the pie in Fengtian Province in advance.

"Thank you Colonel Charles for your invitation. I will arrange personnel to specially receive representatives of your country's industrial and commercial groups. I really hope that your country's industrial and commercial groups can invest in Fengtian Province. As a thank you to your country, I will give your country the most favorable treatment." Zhang Yunfei said happily.

Most-favored-nation treatment, referred to as international and economic trade relations, is a system that provides preferential benefits to each other in import, export, taxation, navigation, etc. in accordance with the provisions of certain treaties, providing necessary convenience, and enjoying certain privileges. It is also called "non-discriminatory treatment". It usually refers to the preferential treatment, privilege or immunity given by both parties in terms of trade, navigation, tariffs, and legal status of citizens, which are not less than that given to any third country at present or in the future.

Simply put, it is just an equal trade rule.

"Mr. Zhang, thank you for giving me such high treatment for merchants, but I hope our cooperation department is limited to Fengtian Province alone. I hope it can be implemented in all your territory by Mr. Zhang. Of course, I hope we can determine it in the form of a treaty." Colonel Charles poured himself tea while watching Zhang Yunfei answer.

Colonel Char's pun, a speculative strategy. It is obvious that Zhang Yunfei's ambitions will not be limited to the province of the Qing Dynasty, and will be effective in all territories. Not only will Hawaii and the Philippines be included, but the United States' preferential policies will cover the size of Zhang Yunfei in the future.

Zhang Yun thought to himself: Colonel Ers is not a simple person either. He is worthy of being a naval colonel and is a little capable.

"Of course. I can also determine the agreement between me in the form of a formal treaty. But I have a condition, and I hope I can get the same treatment as your country." Zhang Yunfei said affirmatively.

Colonel Charles hesitated for a moment, as if he was thinking about the pros and cons. But he soon figured it out because he knew that with the current trading capabilities of the Qing Dynasty and Zhang Yunfei, Ocean Trade was still very weak and could be ignored.

"No problem. We are friends with Mr. Zhang, so we must treat it equally," said Colonel Charles.

Zhang Yunfei knew what Colonel Charles was thinking, and he must have agreed so happily that his jurisdiction had a weak trade strength and small scale, and could not impact the huge trade market in the United States. However, this is only temporary. Zhang Yunfei believed that he would soon be able to form a strong foreign trade industry, so that the United States would regret it.

Zhang Yunfei smiled and said, "Since that's the case, please ask Colonel Charles to draft a relevant contract as soon as possible according to the agreement between us. I wonder if your Navy Department has anything to tell me?"

Colonel Charles happily replied: "Of course, I will do it as soon as possible. Our Admiralty hopes to discuss some issues with your Admiralty."

Zhang Yunfei asked in surprise: "Oh, I wonder what issues your Navy Department wants to discuss with us?"
Chapter completed!