Live broadcast: Ancient people accompany me to make up lessons

In the Ming Dynasty, productivity was already very high, so Zhang Wugao, the lucky number 8 spectator in the Yongle period, didn't want to ask anything else, but wanted to know the difference between those masks and how they were made.

[This is easy to explain. Xiaoxiao found information to show them the difference between ordinary surgical masks and protective masks, as well as their main materials and production methods.

The ninth lucky viewer, it’s your turn. 】

Liu Qing, who lived during the Jiajing period, was already a fan of this movie. He just wanted to know if this movie with an apparently unfinished ending was still available and when he could continue watching it.

He and other fans felt relieved when they heard the anchor say that there were six live-action movies in the series and they would watch them slowly.

As for the six movies, there are plenty of opportunities to watch them. The point is that as long as one is alive, one can always wait for the host to show them.

The last lucky spectator, Ding Quan, was from the Qing Dynasty. He was nothing special. He just wanted to report to his family that he was safe.

Seeing that it was still early, the host fulfilled the agreement and prepared to learn about the commercial company with them.

Familiar websites, familiar searches, and the results are still varied.

"Nightmare in Central America", "Banana Republic", "A History of Blood and Tears in Magical Realism Literature", "Banana Colonization"...

Just by looking at these titles, you can already get a glimpse of the blood under the veil.

[United Fruit Company’s main business is selling fruits and vegetables produced in Third World plantations to North America and Europe. Its most famous product is bananas.

Bananas, which originated in tropical Asia, spread to Europe and the Americas with the great sailing fleets. During the Spanish colonial era, they became a crop alongside cocoa and tobacco in American plantations.

In 1854, Henry Meggs, a Boston businessman in the United States, sailed to Latin America with a total of $ obtained through fraud, and transformed himself into a railroad tycoon.

After his death, his nephew Miner Cooper Keith took over his business and became the famous Banana Superman...]

Not everyone has seen a banana, but as soon as its photo comes out, people who are familiar with it immediately think of bananas.

According to records in "Qi Min Yao Shu", bananas were already there at that time, and the leaves could be used to make decorative tools. The stems were boiled in cold water and turned into silk, which could be spun and woven into thick and thin kudzu cloth, which is Cochin kudzu.

According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", banana is already a famous crop in southern Fujian and Guangdong and Guangxi.

The bananas on the sky screen are very similar to plantains, but they are taller, bigger, and the fruits are different. People in areas with a history of growing plantains couldn't help but talk about them when they saw them.

[In 1876, due to financial problems, Meggs faced a bankruptcy crisis and left an unfinished Costa Rica Railway contract to his nephew after his death.

In the railway contract signed in 1871, the Costa Rican government, which had no money, adopted the model of developers asking builders to advance funds first.

Keith, who was not that capable, took advantage of his uncle's reputation in Europe to successfully raise 120 million pounds in funds from London banks to start building railways.

Costa Rica, which is still a wild land, not only has rugged terrain and harsh natural environment, but epidemic diseases such as malaria and yellow fever are also spreading. There are more than 4,000 construction workers alone, including Keith's three brothers.

In the end, it relied on buying American prison inmates, Jamaican black slaves, and Chinese laborers to support the railway construction work. ]

The man who thought Keith had picked up a big deal began to wonder, is this his biological uncle?

The contract in the industry must be completed, and three of my brothers are involved. This is pie in the sky, and it is clearly a talisman!

Also, the harsh environment in Costa Rica sounds very familiar to us people from before the Song Dynasty. Isn’t this the wild Lingnan? The anchor’s house used to be so unsuitable for human habitation in our eyes.

Moreover, we don’t say anything about the prisoners he used to build the railway, and we don’t know about the black slaves he bought. Why are there Chinese laborers among them?

[In 1882, the Costa Rican government defaulted on payment for Keith's project and could no longer repay the London loan.

Seeing this situation, Keith negotiated with the Bank of London to reduce the interest rate on the funds from 7% to 2.5%. He also went to the Bank of America and private investors, promising that in addition to building the railway, he could also acquire large tracts of land along the railway. , and received a large amount of investment.

In 1893, Keith married the daughter of the former president of Costa Rica and the niece of the current president. His wife's brother will be the next president.

In the end, he got the 99-year operating rights of the railway and 3240 square kilometers of tax-free land along the railway.

Costa Rica’s total land area is square kilometers, and the land acquired by Keith accounts for 6% of the country’s area...]

The familiar year 99 reminds everyone of those treaties in the late Qing Dynasty.

Regardless of the fact that their president is also a family member, it is unheard of for a businessman to acquire so much land in a country without having any responsibility for the country.

So much land is owned by one company, and the president of Colombia is not a leader of a country in the traditional sense.

According to what Tianmu once said, it is more like a comprador force.

"Of course this is not something he can do alone." Liu Bei said firmly.

At this time, it was already time for the British Empire to become an empire, and Ami's status was gradually rising. It was Keith himself and the shadow of the big powers behind him that made all this possible.

[Keith's railway will be opened to traffic quickly after every section is repaired, but there is no way to quickly repay the money by buying train tickets.

So during the construction of the railway, he asked workers to plant bananas along the railway line.

Banana is a fruit in our common sense and is usually eaten after meals. In more areas, it can also be used as a staple food, which can save some food expenses.

There are too many bananas for the workers to eat, so the railways connecting the ports can transport the bananas along the lines to the ports and export them to the United States.

In 1883, Keith already had three banana export companies and a steamship route specializing in exporting bananas. Bananas began to bring him more profits than trains.

Steamboats brought bananas to the United States, brought cheap industrial products from the United States back to Costa Rica, and opened daily necessities supermarkets.

He asked workers to live in the plantation with their families. While eating bananas, their wages were also directly consumed there for the second harvest. ]

Liu Bang couldn't help but smacked his lips when he heard this: "It's not enough to not give people a decent meal, but to worry about the small salary that will be paid. This is too greedy!"

Those people clearly ate wheat, oats, and various kinds of wheat, which was their staple food. But when they arrived at the plantation, they didn't even give them potatoes or corn. Instead, they just grew bananas for them to eat.

I just rely on this to pay for food, and I still have to search for the little salary.

Liu Bang didn't believe how much the salary could be in a company that was so stingy with food. It's really clear that everyone is calculating and greedy from top to bottom.

[In 1899, Keith's stock brokerage company went bankrupt and all 150 million US dollars were lost. Despite the efforts of the Costa Rican government to support it, it could not prevent Keith from merging with his largest competitor, the Boston Fruit Company, and the United Fruit Company was officially established.

Keith had large plantations in Central America and a distribution network in the southeastern United States; the Boston Fruit Company had plantations in the West Indies, an entire fleet of steamships, and sales channels in the northern United States.