Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 427 Germans II

The total import and export trade volume between the Han Kingdom and Germany has been increasing year by year, and German capital is also welcomed and supported by the Han government. However, due to the gap in national strength between the two countries and the weak position of the Chinese community in the Western-dominated international community, the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries is not completely equal.

Heavy industrial products with a German background, such as steel, machinery, and lathe manufacturing, were allowed to enter the local market of the Han Kingdom in South America. However, products in the Han Kingdom's advantageous industries, such as chemicals, electricity, and medicine, were subject to varying degrees of restrictions and found it difficult to receive the same treatment as German goods.

In addition to the inequality in the fields of industry and economic trade, the Han Dynasty also suffered unequal treatment in the field of world politics and diplomacy.

At the Berlin Conference in 1884, Germany, as the host country, sold out China's colonial interests in the Congo River Basin as a bargaining chip and took advantage of the colonial conflicts among European countries in Africa to steal benefits for Germany's own colonial cause.

Cooperation and exchanges between countries are based on interests. Han and Germany initially concluded economic cooperation because of interests. However, even though they understood this truth, young military personnel represented by Xu Zhixuan still could not forgive the Germans' betrayal. Yes, in Xu Zhixuan's eyes, the Germans' performance at the Berlin Conference was a betrayal of the friendship between Han and Germany, and a shameful act.

Although the Han State purchased much-needed industrial equipment from the Germans and laid the foundation for industrialization by hiring German technicians and experts, all of this was earned with the hard work of all the people of the Han State. The Germans did not exempt the Han State from the cost of purchasing machinery and hiring technicians for the sake of friendship.

Not to mention the friendship between countries, on a personal level, the Han Emperor Li Mingyuan saved the lives of the German prince and the current German Emperor Frederick III successively. In terms of personal feelings, the German royal family owed the Han royal family a favor, but in the face of the Han royal family's favor, the Germans made very limited substantive response.

Although the German royal family implemented these two policies in the name of royal friendship between the two countries, namely increasing the number of Chinese students and strengthening cooperation between the two countries in emerging fields, the main reason that prompted the Germans to do so was still the benefits it contained for Germany.

Although nearly five years have passed since the Berlin Conference, its impact has not yet dissipated. The division of colonial interests dominated by European powers made the people of Han realize the nature of European powers. Many citizens and soldiers who originally had a good impression of Germany because of the cooperation between the two countries also learned to look rationally at their country's cooperation with Western countries after feeling humiliated.

The weak eat the strong, and the fittest survive!
After experiencing the anti-Chinese trend and the true face of Western countries revealed at the Berlin Conference, the few Eastern Confucian thoughts that remained in Xu Zhixuan completely disappeared!

Only a strong country can win the respect of Western countries. The humiliation imposed on the people of the Han country in South America by the Berlin Conference can only be washed away by the iron blood and bravery of the soldiers!
He was filled with a desire to avenge his humiliation, so while accompanying the German officers' training group to Xinjing Prefecture, Xu Zhixuan maintained respect and courtesy towards the Germans, but never took the initiative to talk to them about anything other than military and military technology. …………

On April 1889, 4, after a week of trekking, the head of the German Officer Training Corps and the German Minister to China, Baron Roberts, arrived in Xinjing as scheduled.

In the old imperial palace of Xinjing Prefecture, the first thing that the German envoy Baron Roberts said was to explain to the Han side about the Berlin Conference five years ago: "Before the Berlin Conference, His Majesty William I and Prime Minister Bismarck both hoped to invite the Han country and His Majesty the Emperor of Han as representatives of the interested countries in Africa to send a diplomatic mission to Berlin to participate in the conference. However, due to the strong opposition from the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Italy, His Majesty William I and Prime Minister Bismarck had to give up the plan to invite representatives of the Han country to attend the conference.

Five years ago, the German Empire unified Germany through the Franco-Prussian War, but the strength of France has not suffered any fundamental damage. In international events concerning the European continent, it is difficult for the German Empire to pass a resolution to invite the Han Kingdom to participate in the conference under the unanimous opposition of the British Empire, the French Republic, the Kingdom of Belgium, and the Kingdom of Italy. Although the Berlin Conference was held at the initiative of the German Empire, the German Empire could not ignore the opinions of the British Empire, the French Republic and other countries and dominate the direction and agenda of the conference. I hope that His Majesty the Han Emperor can understand this. "

"Your Majesty King William I and Count Bismarck need to be responsible for the citizens of the German Empire. I can understand your country's original actions."

It has been five years since the Berlin Conference. Dwelling on something that happened so long ago does not benefit the interests of the Han State other than satisfying one's own verbal pleasure.

Li Mingyuan had no intention of dwelling on the issue of the Berlin Conference, but it was necessary to take advantage of the opportunity of the Germans coming to him to win due respect for the Chinese students.

Germany is the main destination for Chinese students. Excluding students who returned home after completing their studies, after 1886, the average number of Chinese students staying in Germany each year was more than . The increasing number of Chinese students gradually dispersed to study in universities in different parts of Germany. In this process, although with the improvement of China's national strength, especially its scientific and technological strength, the impression of Chinese students in the eyes of teachers in German universities has gradually improved, but also because of the increase in the number of students, some German white civilians who have experienced the brainwashing of Western industrial civilization and the stimulation of German unification are full of discrimination and hatred towards Chinese students entering their country.

They still believed that the Chinese students studying abroad were the same as before, just a bunch of sneaky, cunning, cowardly inferior people who were not worthy of setting foot in the land inhabited by white people.

In places where Chinese students gather, such as Berlin and Frankfurt, there are frequent incidents of radical white people deliberately bullying Chinese students.
The Chinese Embassy in Germany has protested to the German side on similar incidents many times, but the effect is not ideal. After being caught, the radical white Germans who caused the trouble were often only locked up for a few days or released after being given a minor punishment, while the Chinese students who were bullied often did not receive the compensation they deserved.

As the first generation of international students to see the world, it is difficult to avoid similar unfair treatment. However, if he can use the support of the country in exchange for fairer treatment of international students, Li Mingyuan is still willing to make further attempts.

Li Mingyuan informed the German envoy of the situation reported by the Chinese Embassy in Germany and the Office of Overseas Students Affairs, then stopped speaking and waited quietly for the other party's reply.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty. I personally feel very sorry for the unfair treatment that Chinese students have suffered in the German Empire."

The German envoy bowed and apologized, then stood up and explained: "The Chinese and Germans have the same experience. Both nations have suffered hardships and tribulations. The people in the German region have also experienced the suffering of being bullied and insulted by other countries because of the division of the country.

Although there are some misunderstandings among German citizens about your students, I believe that as long as both sides understand and communicate more, some of the previous unhappy misunderstandings will disappear. "…………

(End of this chapter)