However, it takes a lot of money to buy shares in the railway company. Although Stanford is very rich, he can’t afford so much money. His mines and land add up to more than one million dollars, but he can’t control it. Moreover, it takes nearly ten million dollars to buy these shares, not just one or two million dollars.

One of Stanford’s requirements is that Dalao Export Company lend him the money, but Lauo Export Company is willing to lend it, but there is a dispute between the two sides on the repayment method. Lauo Company hopes that Stanford can repay the loan three years after the railway is completed, while Stanford hopes that he can pay dividends in the railway company and repay it in 30 years. Obviously, he doesn’t want to take risks.
Finally, the two sides reached a compromise plan. Stanford agreed to repay the loan in the form of land along the railway three years after the completion of the railway. Although the land along the railway will belong to the railway company in the future and the completion of the railway will make this land extremely valuable, I dare to come up with this plan. China people like land best to replace Stanford and value cash most. Obviously, Stanford has the ability to change these land from the assets of the railway company at a low price to his personal assets and then resell it to Lao Company at a high price. What will Stanford do if he can become the president of the railway company? He has 100 ways to complete this trick of stealing the column.
At the shareholders’ meeting, the identity of Stanford’s individual major shareholder was different. Lloyd’s did not appear in the name of the company, but by agents. Most of these agents were bankers from new york who completed the acquisition of the Pacific Railway through their hands, and at the same time let them represent those shares. That’s how the British played.
Unlike the British, it is because of this that the British are relieved that they are frightened by railway speculation. They are willing to believe that those reputable aristocratic bankers can safeguard their interests, such as Morgan, and they let these bankers and their agents enter the railway companies where they hold a large number of shares, and then they dare to invest in these companies with confidence.
Lloyd’s did this because he was worried that the racist sentiment in the United States had been exhausted by the exclusion of China because a China company came forward to buy a railway of great significance to the United States. Lloyd’s company is now cautious in the United States.
Of course, these labor agents support the president of Stanford Cheng Company and the shares of Stanford Shen, so they can get the words.
So in March, the shareholders’ meeting and the management of Pacific Railway Company experienced a coup. The former president of Central Pacific Railway Company, a California tycoon, was restored as the new president of the railway company with the support of a large number of bankers.
After that, he replaced most greedy management personnel of railway companies, replaced his former headquarters in the era of Central Pacific Railway Company, and changed the name of Union Pacific Railway Company to Central Pacific Railway Company, thus completing his restoration of Pacific Railway.
After Stanford completed the recruitment of workers in one month, it successfully hired 20,000 China laborers who had just been unemployed from the mine.
At the end of April, Stanford Central Pacific Railway Company announced that it would restart the railway construction that had been stagnant for three years, and almost completed the docking by opening the tunnel in two years.
However, even such important news failed to make the Pacific Railway Company’s stock rebound, because everyone was really tired of such big companies breaking out false news. In this depression era, how many railway companies were repaired and stopped, and finally they all made little progress?
At the same time, two railways in China suddenly announced their work.
These two railways were declared as a way to save lives because of the sudden outbreak of famine in the northern part of China this spring. Most of the northern areas extended from Shandong and Hebei to Shaanxi and Gansu, and the most serious ones were Shanxi and Henan. These two railways were built from the famine areas of Hebei and Shandong to Shanxi and Henan, where the famine was the most serious, which not only gave several hungry people a chance to live, but also brought life-saving food to the disaster areas.
These two railways acquired Qinhuangdao-Datong Railway and Qingdao-Zhengzhou Railway as early as ten years ago.
Section five hundred and ninety-nine Ding Qi’s strange famine
There have been several famines in China’s history, and the more often it is at the end of the dynasty, the more likely it is to encounter this super famine.
The climate is beyond people’s control, but it always breaks out in the last dynasty, so it can’t be explained by coincidence.
The ancients didn’t understand that all these reasons were attributed to the superstitious and scientific attitude of falling into sin. In fact, it was not that the last dynasty always encountered great disasters, but that the last dynasty had the weakest control over society, so it had no power to fight against natural disasters, which caused serious disasters, especially those that occurred in prosperous times, which often caused little damage. The government opposed the past in various ways, but no one paid attention to it.
The dynasties at the end of Qin, Han, Tang, Yuan, and the end did not fall in front of the turmoil caused by this disaster.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was no exception. A famine broke out from 176 to 179. After four years, the disaster areas covered Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Zhili and Shandong provinces, and spread to northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, Longdong and northern Sichuan. This famine history was called Ding Qiqi’s famine, which was named after the worst year in two years, the year of Ding Chou, the year of 77, and the year of 7 years.
This famine was amazed by the wide range of other waves, hundreds of millions of people were killed, and tens of millions of people were killed. It is amazing that there was no peasant uprising with a long history in such a catastrophe. There was not a wave in the whole north, not even an uprising that could cause great shock in the disaster area. Except for some farmers who ate big, there was no organized rebellion. This is the most amazing thing about this famine.
In such a special situation, many researchers naturally believe that there was no shocking uprising in the disaster area in the face of this catastrophe. The most important reason is that nationalism has risen.
Some scholars have cited quite a few examples. For example, the squire of northern Jiangsu organized a special trip to Shandong to rescue children, and the leader was a Suzhou squire named Xie Jiafu. He just helped the government to send the victims who fled to their hometown back to their original places, and on the way, he saw foreigners in relief.
Xie Jiafu was greatly touched not by gratitude or emotion, but by a sense of crisis and guilt. He wrote in his diary that he was deeply afraid of the news of foreigners’ disaster relief and could not be indifferent to the enemy’s kindness and heresy.
Obviously, the foreigner’s trip touched the feelings of home and country in the squire’s heart. He did not do it from a personal point of view, but from a national point of view. It is difficult for foreigners to understand China’s scholar-bureaucrat spirit, which is a small man who is always willing to worry about the country because they don’t understand Fan Zhongyan’s innate worry and worry about the future.
Xie Jiafu is worried that someone is not starving to death. This kind of thing is too common in the history of China. How can people not die when they are affected by disasters? He is worried that someone is so special that they set off a terrible riot. If the China people uprising themselves, it will be a winner and a loser. But when he sees foreigners, he can’t help but worry that foreigners want to buy people’s hearts through disaster relief and plot China Jiangshan.
Later, Xie Jiafu wrote to some gentry in northern Jiangsu who knew him well, telling them that they must take measures against foreigners’ disaster relief in China, or they will suffer from poverty. "Westerners’ disaster relief in Shandong is a conspiracy to clean up people’s hearts. If no measures are taken, I am afraid it will lead to the loss of people’s hearts and the heresy will run rampant in China."
In Xie Jiafu’s push, the gentry in northern Jiangsu launched a "follow-up relief" campaign, and they followed the foreigners wherever they went for relief, taking the initiative to provide relief against relief.
However, the strength of these squires is limited, even if their appeal is supported by the squires in northern Jiangsu, the wealthy businessmen in the sea and the squires also actively donate money and materials, but the strength of the people is limited. After all, Xie Jiafu often feels that his financial resources are limited, and he laments the soldiers and then kills the national economy and people’s livelihood. 300,000 yuan in relief money overwhelmed Mu Weilian (a priest)!
When financial resources were poor, Xie Jiafu and other squires were compared with the powerful foreign churches, but they refused to give up the discovery of the law to compete for the hearts and minds of the victims. After that, he turned to treating children. They believed that children were immature and easily tempted by foreigners, and put an end to foreign religions’ demagoguery. If you can’t treat both the symptoms and the root causes, you have to treat the symptoms. The Lord calls it "urgent to treat the symptoms", and children are obviously this standard.
Xie Jiafu called on the squire to save the children, which was supported by the literati in the south of the Yangtze River. Some people wrote back to him saying, "Westerners want to adopt famine orphans, which is absolutely impossible … If we can adopt one more, one less person will have great merit in teaching." Others said, "It’s impossible for children to starve to death, but it’s very good to be lured out by Catholicism." They not only took the initiative to save orphans, but also hoped to rescue those children rescued by foreigners. Mrs. Xie Jiafu also told friends many times that his disaster relief was not a disaster relief.
He thinks that what he does is "enemy against foreigners", that is, he is fighting against foreigners, which is a more important righteousness than promoting benevolence and benevolence.
Besides Xie Jiafu, there are several squires like him.
The gentry in Henan province, which suffered the most, also mobilized. They called on the people not to accept foreigners’ relief, made various brochures and told them that foreigners’ relief was to buy people’s hearts. As a result, a large number of people would rather starve to death than accept foreigners’ relief.
Hai Shen Bao deeply regrets this. They reported that "the local hungry people in Henan are puzzled by the fact that the priest refused to receive the money, which means that the priest in the west intended to buy people’s hearts and attract them to join the church, so he gave us the money, so be careful not to avoid each other during the operation, but one person refused to receive it."