"Turn the clock back about 1900 after the Boer War, amid the rise of emerging industrialized countries, Britain's exports to global markets have declined, with a particularly huge decline in exports to colonies.

Fourteen years later, China, which had just achieved national freedom, took advantage of the old colonial countries to be busy with war. Based on the rapidly growing industrial economy, it began to strengthen its economic exchanges with Africa, using cheap goods such as cotton textiles, shoes, clothing, etc. to quickly occupy the African market, which had a serious impact on the trade between European powers against Africa.

In this war, the "sun never set" empire gradually declined, allowing the "First Republic" in the East to see a god-given opportunity to achieve the rapid rise of the country's industrial economy through trade.

The trade between China and South Africa began in the 17th century when the Dutch East India Company was established. In order to export animal skins to the Far East, the company established an office in South Africa in 1652. In the past three centuries since then, the trade volume between China and South Africa can only be described as "small", mainly concentrated on traditional products such as tea and porcelain. The maximum trade volume was only tens of thousands of yuan.

But World War I became a turning point in the situation. With the interweaving wars, traditional suppliers of South African daily necessities such as Britain and France were unable to take care of themselves, but Chinese merchants were able to seize the opportunity to import textiles into South Africa in large quantities, and since then they have gained a foothold in the business world. In 1915, China's exports to South Africa were nearly 4 million yuan, which was nearly 10 times that of the European war. The increase was extremely astonishing, and this was inseparable from its extreme dependence on European goods before the war.

In the African region where the UK has many colonies and dependent countries, people are gradually loving the cheap and affordable Chinese goods. Coincidentally, China's main exports to Africa are cotton and rayon products, which poses a huge challenge to the UK's textile exports on this continent, but everyone knows that this challenge is not limited to Africa..."

Cape Post

After the ship "Jishun" departing from Shanghai Port, as soon as it left the Yangtze River mouth, it sailed straight towards the distant West. That's right. It was heading towards the West, not the Southeast, and voyage to the West, perhaps a word that just appeared.

The boat is walking on the sea. There is no wind in the sky, the sky is blue, and there are a few white clouds floating in the sky.

For Huang Haoze, who had never walked out of Anhui in his life, he had never seen such a large ship in his life, but although this ship was large and large, it was said to have tens of thousands of tons. But for the people of northern Anhui who had never even seen the sea, he discovered something strange. Why did it be strange?

Because the boat is bigger than the farm in his hometown, the people on the boat have to support several farms, but the place is not big. This place refers to the cabin, to be more precise, it is the cabin where he lives.

The third-class cabin is divided into three layers, upper, middle and lower cabins, and the layers are less than half a person high. If you want to enter the cabin, you can only walk with a bent over. Each person can be divided into a narrow canvas hammock, which can be lying down, just wide for one person. But despite this, because the space is too small, it is not easy to sit there.

In this boat, men and women squeezed out more than 3,000 people. Most of them had to go abroad to make a living. Of course, their destinations were very different. More people went to Borneo in Southeast Asia. Two years ago, the Central Committee and the United Kingdom signed the Zhongpo Immigration Agreement. The Zhongpo Immigration Agreement is a treaty for recruiting Chinese workers signed by the government of the Republic of China and the British government. The signing time is

This treaty was signed in Beijing on September 20, 2019. Background of the treaty

The British North Borneo government wanted to develop North Borneo, so it recruited Chinese workers from all over China to develop this place and gave preferential treatment. After the signing of the treaty, the government of the Republic of China formally sent officials to escort Chinese workers and set up a consulate in Kota Kinabalu, North Borneo. The main feature of this treaty is that one of the recruited people was from Tianjin, with about 800 people.

In the following two years, the immigration agreement was almost suspended. It was not until May 4th of the Republic of China that the central government once again signed a further agreement with the British Borneo authorities, thinking that immigrants would fight for more rights and interests. In addition to the old most-favored-nation treatment and other benefits, they also obtained a number of rights such as 150 yuan settlement fee, 100 acres of land ownership, and five-year rent-free exemption. Subsequently, under the guidance of the government, they began to increase their immigration efforts to British Borneo. In one year, nearly 50,000 immigrants were transferred from all over China to British Borneo to reclaim land.

At this time, when the ship was like a mobile island, slowly leaving the Guangzhou Pier, leaving the southernmost port in China and continuing to drive towards the South Ocean, almost everyone was still on the deck and unwilling to go to the cabin. That feeling was strange. Although everyone was full of expectations and excitement for the life that was about to come, and although everyone was more or less resentful and dissatisfied with their hometown, when they really wanted to leave her now, everyone was particularly reluctant to leave.

Many people knelt on the deck for a long time and were reluctant to get up. They all cried. Although they had never cried in the past, perhaps because of this emotion, Huang Zehao also burst into tears and started crying loudly. When he looked at the distant river mouth and the rivers and mountains of the motherland slowly disappeared from the sea level, he suddenly understood in his heart why the teacher told them that when leaving China, in addition to a pack of rural areas, he should carry a national flag, at least, it can remind them of some things.

As soon as the "Jishun" ship left the estuary of the Pearl River, the wind became stronger. The waves kept beating the side of the ship. The waves blown by the wind fell on everyone's faces like rain and flowed into their mouths. They were salty and astringent. Only then did the people on the deck return to the cabin.

"Do you know? At that moment, my heart was cut off by someone, and I felt like I was empty."

Although Huang Zehao, who was alone, said nothing, when he heard others say this, he knew that his mood was the same as theirs.

Otherwise, why do you say that your hometown is hard to leave?

While sighing in his heart, he also knew that most people actually let their lives be forced. If life can continue, who would be willing to go so far?

Huang Zehao looked at the compatriots who immigrated to Borneo with their families. From now on, there is no more division between Anhui Province, Zhejiang Province, Fujian Province, and Guangdong, and there is only one noun - Chinese.

When the ship was sailing on the sea, Huang Zehao's mind was thinking and thinking, but his longing for the future. He was not a landless farmer. He did not need to be tempted by "more than a thousand acres of land" to go to Borneo. For him, he had a more distant dream, a gold-digging dream. That dream was never born in his mind a few months ago. Even for him, before, his only dream was to become a worker one day, and then 1,. What would he become? He didn't seem to have thought about it.

But now, a few months ago, the teacher from the station night school took out the map for the first time, told him how big the world is in class, and told him that when he was also the term "voyage to the West", he told him that he could earn a piece of ocean by selling a pair of shoes. It seemed that his dream had changed.

He began to dream of becoming Zheng He and becoming...

At this time, he heard a song sung by a little boy sitting opposite him. Although he couldn't quite understand the little boy's words, he still understood some after more than ten days of sailing:

The fireboat sailed into the Qizhou Ocean, and it was all good or bad. When it came, gold and silver were carried by ship, and even lost their lives...

"The fire ship sailed into the Qizhou Ocean, and it was all about life. When it came, gold and silver were carried by ship, and even life was lost..."

The heroic and rough songs echoed on the wasteland, with the scorching sun in the sky. The sun had no sympathy for this desolate land. It seemed that, however, he had already become accustomed to all of this for Huang Zehao, who was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and had a dark skin like a black man.

The scorching sun in southern Africa has long changed this nineteen-year-old peasant child. Now he is wearing a boolean cowhide hat on his head, a western-style horse whip on his hands, and American-style jeans on his legs, and driving a double-torn carriage. If he doesn't look carefully and does not listen to his singing, it is hard to believe that this is the slightly shy country boy who was half a year ago. Well, now he is still a country boy, or a country peddler.

That's right.

Huang Zehao is now a country peddler. Half a year ago, he took the "Jishun" to the Cape of Good Hope and South Africa. Then he began his "voyage to the West". Like many young people who "have dreams of making money" in the West, after arriving in Capeton, he went to the local Chinese Chamber of Commerce. At that time, the chamber of commerce was not big, but there were only a few dozen people, and he was just one of them.

While learning English, he was working as a mate in the chamber of commerce. In this way, five months later, the shopkeeper told him that he had already started.

This is not because he learned to do business, but because he learned one thing - unity.

All the worlds are brothers.

There is a saying in the "Chinese Chamber of Commerce" distributed all over the world, branches, trading stations, and trade industries, but this sentence does not really refer to the "four seas", but refers to compatriots, who are like brothers, which is the only requirement of the Chamber of Commerce. Even the first clause formulated by the Chamber of Commerce is - "I Chinese need to unite overseas affairs, otherwise, the place where the cone is established will not exist!"

Unity is a fresh word.

As for unity? That is, all Chinese people must form groups, form knots, and never fight in the internal struggle. If they can make their business bigger and stronger, of course, more importantly, when everyone unites, foreigners will not dare to bully them.

For this reason, the Chamber of Commerce also has an industry rule. If one person fights internally, then attack them together. How to attack?

The chamber of commerce will cut off his goods, and the transportation company will refuse to transport his goods. In short, there are various ways to punish him. In the end, the consulate will cancel his passport. Even after returning to China, he will be put on a "blacklist". The only thing waiting for him is to "death commit suicide to redeem his life."

The Chamber of Commerce's explanation is very simple - shopping malls are like battlefields, so it is not easy for us to expand business overseas. If someone fights internally, he will undoubtedly collude with the enemy during wartime, and he will never be merciless towards such despicable people.

Is this just a verbal statement?

Of course not. Huang Zehao once witnessed that a small businessman from Wenzhou, Zhejiang colluded with outsiders to try to crack down on other local Chinese businessmen in order to occupy the market, the chamber of commerce recovered all the goods on credit, the bank recovered the loan, the consulate canceled his passport, and deported him back to his country. On the return ship, he jumped into the sea and committed suicide.

Did he really jump into the sea by himself?

No one knows, but everyone knows one truth. If he doesn't jump into the sea, the fate of waiting for him will be even more miserable after returning to China. He will not get even a penny of bank loan, and no one will do business with him anymore. Because his reputation is ruined.

Strict meeting rules have made people like Huang Zehao afraid to go abroad to the West for a second step. The reason is very simple. Since the fourth year of the Republic of China, the "Overseas Business Expansion" was promoted by the "Chinese Chamber of Commerce", a chamber of commerce founded by the Premier in the second year of the Republic of China. Domestic commodity exports are under the responsibility of the Chinese Trade Company and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. They have always held a "zero tolerance" attitude towards internal behaviors that "damage the reputation and interests of national businessmen."

It is precisely this common "business self-discipline" between the country and the business community that has made it pasted with "made" in just one and a half years.

A"'s Chinese manufacturing quickly opened up a lot of foreign market popularity, of course. Among them, it was the "travelers" like Huang Zehao who made great contributions.

But for Huang Zehao, of course he didn't know, and he didn't necessarily agree with the so-called "made" in the newspaper.

a"Build a reputation by relying on quality, and one more important reason is price.

“made

a!”

Almost as soon as the carriage entered the town of New South Wales, the residents of the small town noticed the large words written in paint on the carriage. Then, the Boers, even blacks in the heart of the inland, were seen as a dark-skinned Asian man driving the carriage. At the same time, they saw that the Asian man was dressed neatly. There was not even a trace of dust on his white shirt, perhaps he had just changed it.

When the carriage stopped by the square in the town, Huang Zehao first wiped off some of the floating dust from his face with his wet hair, and then nodded to the surprised white men with a sincere smile on his face.

"Oriental?"

“made

a?”

In people's surprise, Huang Zehao quickly opened his stall. According to the "Business Guide" of the Chamber of Commerce, he could set up stalls here without worrying about the police coming to close the stalls. The city hall did not prohibit the stalls here.

"The price is shocking - a small shop of 0.3 pounds!"

When a piece of Buman was put up, people saw a big word written on the white cloth.

"Shoes, size, 0.3 pounds!"

"Shirt, size 0.3 pounds!"

...

The people who were originally extremely surprised by the arrival of this Asian man became even more surprised. The goods sold by this person were cheaper than they thought. To be precise, they were far cheaper than the things in the grocery store.

"Come and see, the goods from China are of high quality and low price..."

Huang Zehao shouted in English, while holding a 0.3-pound shirt to people with his left hand and a pair of shoes in his right hand. After five months of internship and one month of "trading business", he has long been very familiar with how to open up the market. First of all, people must know what is made in China.

Of course, the synonym for Chinese manufacturing is extremely simple - high quality and low price. It can be said that this is the "magic weapon" that traders can always make progress when they explore the market.

The sun was so strong that it was almost noon. Slowly, a few people came from the stalls on the Town Hall Square. They squeezed here and began to select goods that seemed to be of good quality but were cheaper. Folding umbrellas, shirts, skirts, silk cloth, etc. Although they were just a small stall, the goods here were extremely complete and any daily necessities could be bought here.

In the crowd, Hamsk picked up a pair of leather shoes from the stall, or more to prepare them, "leather cloth shoes". As a businessman, he only needs to touch them casually to distinguish the materials used in leather shoes. He can tell the quality of the materials by just a few glances. The waist of this deep-waisted leather boot is made of cloth, but he handles it very much like leather, only the toe and heel of the shoe are made of cloth. "Sir, can I take a look at your shoes?"

"Of course, of course..."

Huang Zehao did not refuse this person's request. When the other party was checking the shoes, he had already sold more than a dozen items. Although the speed was not very fast, at this speed, there was no problem in earning ten pounds a day.

After looking at such cheap leather boots, Hamsk, who runs a grocery store in the town but is half-closed due to goods supply issues, looked at the cargo, especially the yellow man, and a thought emerged in his mind.

"Sir Henry!"

In the bar, Hamsk handed a stack of banknotes to Sheriff Henry, which was as much as one hundred pounds.

"This is a little bit of a slight meaning. If you can help, you will definitely express your gratitude when the time comes!"

Hamsk had a very humble smile unique to the little businessman on his face, but deep down, this little businessman who was once the second lieutenant of the Boer National Army looked very despised the Chief Henry in front of him. He was an Englishman. In this colony, what would these damn British men do except for corruption and bribery?

Well! They will also slaughter the Boers! They will also plunder the wealth that should have belonged to the Boers.

But now, he hopes that the other party can accept his bribe and then achieve his goal according to his "request".

The thick stack of five pounds of denominations in front of him only made Henry's eyes lit up, and then he casually pressed the bills with his police cap.

"Mr. Hamsk, is there anything I need to help?"

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