The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 575: Xianfeng in New York, Moore goes to China (Request for subscription, request for tickets)
The moment the gunshot rang out at the dock in New York Harbor, Lei Lao Hu's pupils suddenly shrank, and almost by instinct he pulled out his revolver and shot the one-eyed man in the head!
The shot was accurate, hitting him squarely in the head, the bullet shaved off half of his skull, the one-eyed man didn't know he was dead yet, he took a few more steps towards where Xianfeng was, then realized something was wrong, suddenly he stopped, twitched and fell to the ground. Brain matter, blood, gray, white and red were all over the place, his brain was rotten, his hands and feet were still there, his vitality was strong enough.

This tenacious one-eyed man is a gold medal fighter of the Italian gang in New York City. Today he brought his men to the New York Bay Pier to fight with the Irish gang. In order to scare the Irish gang, he also carried a pistol, ready to shoot if he couldn't win.

As a result, when he and his men ran to the dock where they had agreed to meet with the Irish gang, they saw a group of short Chinese men who came from nowhere moving things off a merchant ship by themselves - because the dock was going to be used for a fight between two gangs today, of course no one was responsible for moving the goods. Lei Lao Hu and Huang Shiren saw that no one was working at the dock, so they just did it themselves.

But in the eyes of this one-eyed man, this is a big taboo! The Italian Melolo family and the Irish Five Street Gang fought for the territory of the dock workers' union. If the crew is allowed to unload the cargo by themselves, won't the dock workers lose their jobs?

"Fecker" is that even in a hundred or so years, this thing cannot be allowed! Whoever dares to destroy the jobs of American dock workers must be prepared to die.

So, this one-eyed strong Italian man died under Lei Lao Hu's gun!

His death stirred up a hornet's nest. A group of Italian young men immediately became furious and rushed towards Lei Lao Hu, brandishing daggers and sticks and shouting.

Lei Laohu was not afraid of this. He was an old brother of the Taiping Army in Guangxi. Although he had been a priest since he arrived in the United States, he was a priest in the West! It was the West during the gold rush. Would a gold digger dare to go out to look for gold without two revolvers? Lei Laohu was always helping people deal with him. When he talked to people about Hong Xiuquan's principles, he always had two guns on his left and right.

Now seeing a group of muscular Italian men rushing towards him, he took out another revolver. With two guns in hand, I have the truth, and I start to attack with a burst of fire.

Xianfeng also reacted. He also had a gun with him! Seeing that something was wrong, he immediately took out a Colt revolver and fired at the Italians who were rushing towards him.

When the two of them opened fire, the True Testament priests, warriors, and bank clerks who were carrying silk from the ship dropped their bags and took out their revolvers and samurai swords.

That’s not all. The group immediately rushed to the dock and formed two horizontal lines, with the knife-wielding True Creator warriors in front and the gun-wielding True Creator priests and True Creator Bank employees behind.

The well-dressed Italian and Irish men on the dock were frightened when they saw this group of "Chinese" wearing red robes, black guns, crosses on their chests, and holding knives or guns in their hands.

Oh my god! Are all the gangs in China so fierce now? Why is it like fighting for territory? No, no, let's give this port to the Chinese.
I don't know who shouted "Rees" first, and then everyone shouted "Rees". More than thirty strong Irish men with red turbans ran away in the blink of an eye. Then the "Italians" also reacted, and quickly helped the injured, carried the body of the one-eyed man and ran away.

Only a group of "Chinese" were left to clean up the battlefield, destroy evidence, and hide weapons. Two blond and blue-eyed white men with respected lawyer and banker identities were quickly pulled out of the cabin by their Japanese wives to serve as eyewitnesses when the New York police arrived. They were sure that nothing would be found out!

After these people finished everything, about two hours later, California Senator Jamie O'Connor's carriage slowly drove into the dock that was controlled by the Chinese "True Date Gang"
On the Persian carpet in the blue reception room, a three-meter-long map of China was unfolded - what a magnificent country!
Prince Albert used a red and blue pencil to draw a line across the Grand Canal that connects the north and the south, and finally stopped at a "small city" called Xuzhou that he had never heard of, and drew a circle.

"Besemai should have arrived in Xuzhou before the end of last year, and he also brought a converter with a maximum daily output of 300 tons." Viscount Palmerston shook the secret report on Sino-French technical cooperation just sent by the British Embassy in France. "Prince, the Chinese industrial ambitions are greater than we imagined!"

"300 tons per day?" The second Duke of Wellington was shocked. "Wouldn't that mean we can produce 10 tons of steel a year? How many tons of steel did we produce last year?" "About 12 tons," Foreign Secretary Crowley took off his monocle beside the fireplace. "Although the 300 tons per day output of the Bethemer converter is only a theoretical number, it is definitely much lower than 300 tons in reality, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will definitely have an annual output of tens of thousands of tons of steel within a few years. It is not impossible for them to surpass Britain in the future. After all, they have a population of more than 4 million and a territory larger than the whole of Europe!"

"What's even more terrifying is this." Viscount Palmerston took out a copy of the "Five-Year Industrial Plan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" from his briefcase and spread it out in front of Prince Albert: "They plan to complete 36 large industrial projects in the next five years, including Xuzhou's steel mills, coking plants, large coal mines, large iron mines, dye plants, sulfuric acid and nitric acid plants, Shanghai's shipyards, steam engine plants, locomotive plants, textile machinery plants, arsenals, and gunpowder plants. They also plan to build two railways from Shanghai to Tianjing and from Xuzhou to Pukou, and to build 300 steam tugboats for water transportation on the Yangtze River and canals. In addition, they plan to complete preliminary literacy work in five years, striving to make more than 10 million adult illiterates recognize two to three thousand Chinese characters. They also plan to open 4 primary schools so that all children of school age in the country can receive at least four years of compulsory education."

The British Prime Minister took a deep breath and said in a hoarse voice: "They are learning from Prussia! But how many people does Prussia have? They have more than 400 million people."

The hall was dead silent, with only the ticking of the clock.

China in 1857 may be described in Chinese history books as poor and weak, but it was a huge country with a land area of ​​more than million square kilometers and a population of more than million.

When China lies still, Western masters think that China is easy to bully, a piece of fat meat that must be pounced on and slaughtered - even though China's own wealth is not enough to feed so many people.
And when such a China really began to pick itself up, the masters of the British Empire began to be afraid.

After all, how many people are there in the UK? If China really wants to catch up, it is entirely possible that its industrial capacity will surpass that of the UK in a few five-year periods. And a strong country will dominate!
Viscount Palmerston narrowed his eyes and said, "We must stop this yellow plague. We must start dealing with them after we defeat the Russians!"

"Prime Minister, what should we use to deal with them?" Foreign Secretary Crowley said with some worry, "The Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant will be built anyway, and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau in Shanghai can already produce rifles and 64-pound cannons. If they have tens of thousands of tons of steel a year, there will be no problem in producing enough weapons to arm millions of troops."

A giant country with a population of 19 million in the middle of the th century, as long as it really started to work hard, would soon scare the old Western imperialists. After all, the old imperialists at that time were not "old", and they were just in the first industrial revolution!

Prince Albert suddenly took over the question from the British Foreign Secretary: "I do know a way." He paused, "We must make all white civilized countries aware of the threat of this giant yellow country! As long as all white civilized countries unite and oppose them together, their development will be curbed. The real problem is that we ourselves are not united on this issue. Some countries will cooperate with them for short-term economic benefits or other benefits and provide them with the most advanced technology."

His words almost left everyone speechless for a while. It seemed that the Southern King Feng Yunshan was visiting Windsor Castle today, and would visit Oxford University and Cambridge University tomorrow.
"Prince, but how can we unite all the white civilized countries?" The Second Duke of Wellington broke the silence.

"We have many ways to think of, but the most crucial one," Prince Albert paused, "is of course to open our eyes to China! We need to make the white civilized countries in Europe and America open their eyes and see clearly this huge country that is rising!" He paused, "A few days ago, a friend of mine suggested to me that we send a delegation composed of civilian journalists and scholars to China to let them observe on the spot and bring the most authentic information back to Europe to show it to everyone. By then, everyone will understand how terrible this country is!"

South Kensington, London, England.

Bai Siwen excitedly got off a rented carriage and walked quickly into his luxurious residence. An Indian servant quickly stepped forward to take his coat and top hat. Two guests who had been waiting in the living room stood up and bowed slightly to Bai Siwen. They were Moore and Friedrich.

"Moore, Friedrich," Bai Siwen shouted at them, "good news, we can go to China! The British government is planning to organize a large China observation group, mainly composed of journalists and scholars. Now you can go into that country and carefully observe its social changes!"

(End of this chapter)