Chapter 32 Buying Land
Li Mo, who was afraid of long dreams at night, asked Lin Yongxiang to contact the Spanish shipyard owner early the next morning, and he took Chen Ping to the tax building on Oahu Island to wait for the completion of the land and shipyard delivery procedures.
Oahu is only more than 1,400 square kilometers, which sounds very small, but if you are in it, you will still feel very vast, especially in this era when cars have just emerged, relying on horses and manpower. It takes a long time to walk all over Oahu.
Along the way, the purpose was basically some plantations and sugar factories, as well as some pineapple canning processing plants. In addition, there was almost no trace of heavy industry. Although I heard from Lin Yongxiang that there was a small ironworks on the other side of the island, the distance was too far away, and now Master Li was not in the mood to travel. Play, so the carriage went straight to the queen's so-called palace.
Yorani Palace, which was built in 1879 and completed three years later, is a huge two-story luxury villa with obvious traces of Renaissance signs. It is the center of the whole Kingdom of Hawaii and the residence of the current Queen Liluokalani.
Around the palace villa, there are small buildings of different styles, in which the tax building of the Kingdom of Hawaii is located.
Li Mo swept the Jorani Palace that he had visited in front of him, and there was an indescribable feeling in his heart, but a famous palace brought him indescribable melancholy.
"If the guys who came together knew that the young master's goal was here, would they go crazy?" Li Mo thought, but quickly shook his head: "Those naval officers of the Republic, although they don't say anything, who doesn't want to replace the United States to seize the whole of Hawaii and even control the whole Pacific Ocean? Unfortunately, the vicissitudes of the century have made the Chinese people lose a lot of opportunities. Even most of the Republic Navy in the previous life was still focused on breaking through the so-called first and second island chains. Now that you have come back, replace them and fulfill the wishes of everyone in the Republic!"
"I hope you can help me. I need a little time!" Li Mo finally looked at the luxurious palace and muttered in his heart. Then he turned his head and walked to the tax building.
In the Kingdom of Hawaii in the 19th century, the most important place is the royal palace and this less eye-catching tax building. The royal palace is naturally a symbol of state power, and the tax building is a real economic center.
The current Kingdom of Hawaii controls more than 50% of the world's sugar trading and 70% of the pineapple canning industry, but it is ridiculous to say that except for the large sugar cane gardens belonging to the queen on the big island of Hawaii, there is no asset that belongs to the country.
Sugar factory, American, and completely monopolized.
Pineapple garden, canned processing, mainly American, and other countries account for a small part.
The shipyard is about to belong to itself.
The steel factory is too small to be a climate, and the young master has sent someone to wave a huge check. I believe it will soon belong to him.
So what's left?
By the way, there are more than 500 security teams. Unfortunately, they are still Americans. It is said that there are three major groups of myself and Chinese, and the locals are directly excluded. It's strange that they can work!
In the final analysis, the Kingdom of Hawaii at this moment is just a woman who takes off her clothes in the eyes of the great powers. Everyone can sleep with her, but she didn't do it for some reason. In the end, it's just that the Americans are not very kind and take care of them up and play alone.
Even if this kind of transaction involves a large amount of land that may endanger the security of the kingdom, the tax official can only let the two parties sign the agreement by themselves, and then take a breath and knock a stamp.
No strength! You can only let others play with you.
After waiting for a while, the owner of the Spanish shipyard arrived. Looking at this guy who was a little unkempt, as if he had just woken up, Master Li despised him: "It seems that this guy is not doing well. With such a large area of land, he is still like a beggar, but at this moment, Hawaii is basically beautiful. In the world of Chinese businessmen, even if there are more than 100,000 Chinese people, without a leader, they can only watch the Americans infiltrate little by little and finally complete the occupation.
Maybe he was afraid that Li Mo would repent, or that the Yankees would make trouble for him, so the Spanish shipyard owner didn't even have a basic greeting. When he saw Li Mo, he directly took him to complete the land and shipyard transfer agreement quickly.
With Li Mo quickly signing his name and handing over a check of 500,000 pounds, this guy's eyes were straight. I'm afraid he didn't expect that there was such a big Kaizi in the world, a dilapidated small shipyard, and a barren land, which could be sold for 500,000 pounds!
God, you can go back to Spain and be a millionaire!
As the two began to sign the handover agreement, a surprised look, with a trace of confusion and no answer, swept away the young Li Mo. When the two's eyes had just met, Li Mo saw a Chinese man in his forties, wearing a tax official uniform of the Kingdom of Hawaii, standing not far away and looking at him.
Chen's family!
Li Mo remembered Chen Ping's introduction, but at this moment, he didn't want to have anything to do with the other party, so he quickly handed the signed check to the shipyard owner.
With the handover of the check, the land transaction was finally completed, and the document stamped with the so-called Kingdom of Hawaii was obtained. Master Li not only a new citizen of Oahu, but also owned 35 square kilometers of land, including a small shipyard.
But when the tax official who handled the formalities for him thought that the transaction was completed and he could go home to sleep, Lin Yongxiang took out a lot of land certificates again, which immediately made the tax officer dumbfounded, because these land and plantations were traded by him not long ago. Unexpectedly, they were all merged into the small one in front of him at this moment. Under the name of the teenager, the tax officials in the building suddenly looked at Li Mo and their eyes changed.
And the Chen family, who had been looking at Li Mo from afar, frowned even more tightly. Although from the total amount of land, it was not as good as the Chen family's giant sugar cane garden on the big island of Hawaii, the outrageous identity of Li Mo's youth and the free and easyness of waving huge checks made Brother Chen feel burdened. Heart.
"Is the Chinese power going to be re-divided again?" Mr. Chen silently watched the completion of the transaction, and finally did not say a word. When Li Mo completed all the formalities, he quickly got into a carriage and disappeared into the palm trees.
Although the Kingdom of Hawaii is located in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, the ubiquitous bankers will obviously not let the loss of this treasure land go, so the banking system on the island is very developed. Not only Citigroup, HSBC and other giants, but also Italy and German national banks are opened here. It can be seen how popular and how profiteering the sugar industry is at this time.
In order to better control here, Americans have even laid a submarine cable to connect San Francisco and Hawaii for telegraph business. If we wait a few more years, when the radio technology matures, I'm afraid it will be more busy here.
After the transfer was completed, the Spanish uncle's eyes were almost narrowed. After politely taking Li Mo around his land and shipyard, he took a family to the United States that night.
Although the shipyard is a little small, it has a good location. It has two dry docks of about 5,000 tons and a built wharf. It is not a problem to stop four or five battleships, and the geographical location is empty, which can fully meet the needs of expansion.
As for the facilities of the shipyard, it is a little dilapidated. Master Li still lacks everything, but there is no shortage of money. I believe that under the huge cheque **, it should not be a big problem to quickly build a large shipyard of its own.
It's just! Li looked at the dozens of spars behind him and frowned. The shipyard could be expanded and the equipment could be purchased, but skilled technical workers could not be trained in a day or two. Because the shipyard had no business, they usually did some minor repairs, so this kind of Spain The technicians left by the factory owner are completely untrustworthy.
Chen Ping seemed to see Li Mo's worry and walked to him and said quickly, "Don't worry, young master. I have told Duan Fei to try to find some skilled workers from the American shipyard."
Li Mo nodded, and this can only be done first, but this kind of talent-digging method can only quench the thirst for a while. If you really want to have your own team, I'm afraid you still need to use other brains.
"It seems that my ship-building plan is really a huge project far away!" Li Mo stretched out and said to Chen Ping, "Tell Duan Fei to see if we can buy a medium-sized shipyard on the west coast of the United States. In this way, we will also have a training base!"
"Yes." Chen Ping nodded.
"That's right, how's the small steel factory?" Continue to ask.
"It should be attracted to our price, but that guy didn't know where he learned that we spent 500,000 pounds to buy a shipyard, so now he has raised the price to 200,000 pounds, not counting the surrounding land, but in my opinion, he can't last for a few days, because I have released it. The wind is going to find a German merchant to rebuild a steel factory next to the shipyard.
Seeing that Chen Ping learned his own set of things, Li Mo smiled and said, "Wait, don't worry! If you really can't do it, just build it yourself."
Li Mo is really not in a hurry. What are you afraid of if you have money? What's more, with the current appearance of the shipyard, I'm afraid it won't cost a few tons of steel a year, and there is no iron ore or high-quality coal in Hawaii. It's no wonder that a steel factory that relies on external input is not squeezed!
"Wait a minute, you take someone to visit the two German and British envoys, bring some gifts, and see if you can let their envoys contact the businessmen of the two countries, expand the shipyard, and buy some large machines."
Li Mo thought for a thought and added, " By the way, go to meet the Americans, negotiate with them, and give all our sugar cane and pineapple to them for processing!"
"Young master, are all the profits made by foreigners?" Du Dazhuang, who was next to him, saw that the young master finally bought the sugar cane garden and pineapple garden, but he had to be taken care of by the Americans. He quickly scratched his head and asked puzzledly.
"Ha ha, Da Zhuang now knows how to use his brain, okay!" Li Moxu kicked the simple big man, praised a few words, and then asked with a smile, "Are we still short of money now?"
"No shortage!" Du Dazhuang smiled naively. Although he didn't know much about the value of the pound, he could buy a shipyard for hundreds of thousands of yuan. If he bought such a large area of land, he also knew the value of it. What's more, Master Li has spilled nearly a million pounds these days. How could he be short of money?
"That's it. Since it's not short of sugar-making money, it's better to be a smooth favor and let the Americans think that we just come here to settle down. Isn't it better to have no other thoughts?"
"The young master is farther than I thought!" Du Dazhuang hurriedly flattered.
"I'm tired, go home and sleep!" Li Mo smiled and turned his head: "Da Zhuang, go and tell Xiaoxiao to let him sleep with the young master tonight!"
This sentence again!
"..." Du Dazhuang and Chen Ping can't laugh or cry. The young master is indeed in good spirits and perswerable! Knowing that the little girl would never come, she didn't give up.
"Oh...!"
After a day's inspection, Li Mo took Chen Pingren back to the big house he called Qingshan Villa. After everyone was caught off guard and completed the deal, not to mention how beautiful his heart was!
"The young master also has territory!" Li Mo is lying in ** and laughing.
At this moment, a house of the same size as a green mountain villa in the east of Oahu is brightly lit.
However, it is different from the Western style on the exterior of the villa, and the scenery in the villa is completely different. On the front of the square hall, there is a long table of sandalwood incense table, which is dedicated to the golden body of the Mazu. Under the incense table, two Taishi chairs are on the back of the incense table, facing the south side and north, which is a typical Chinese layout.
At this moment, an old man was sitting in the master's chair on the left, looking at the two sons sitting left and right below, and said, "Have you checked?"
"Check it."
It was Mr. Chen, the tax official of Oahu, who replied at this moment. After he frowned slightly, he immediately said, "It is said that he came from the Qing Dynasty. His surname is Li, who is the young master Li who went through the formalities. In addition to more than a dozen family members, there are also three or four hundred subordinates, and after the transfer of the shipyard was completed today, they went to contact. German and British businessmen heard that they would expand the shipyard by four or five times and build three more large shipyards.
"Qing Dynasty?" The old man's eyes flashed.
"Father, now there is chaos and turmoil in the Qing Dynasty. Didn't some people with a large family run away that day? In my opinion, this young master Li is just a waste born with a golden key. Otherwise, how could he want the broken shipyard of Sykes? And that gravel field can't even be planted in the sugar cane garden! There is nothing to worry about.
The speaker on the right is Chen's second brother, Chen Kang'an, wearing a floral shirt and looks a little impetuous.
"Hmm! I know how to eat, drink and have fun all day long!" The old man stared and scolded, "I learn from your eldest brother and say that others are useless. I think you are useless!" Have you ever seen a waste that can take out hundreds of thousands of pounds at any time? Have you ever seen that the shipyard will be expanded, and it will cost at least a million pounds of waste! Besides, there are only a few rich people in the Qing Dynasty, and I haven't heard of the surname Li.
The boss Chen Kangning looked at his younger brother and agreed, "My father is right. There are a few rich people surnamed Li in the Qing Dynasty, but if you want to take out millions of pounds at once, there are only those rich princes. What's more, except for a few old people, they all have twisted their braids. In my opinion, They are either rich and noble descendants of Beijing, or they come from somewhere else.
"Beijing Central?" The old man narrowed his eyes and continued to ask, "What's the reaction of those Americans?"
Chen Kangning shook his head: "They moved too fast. Although the Americans had taken a fancy to that land for a long time, Sykes immediately left here by boat after getting the money. Now they have no other way. Originally, they planned to go to the queen and exert some pressure, but the Li family had sent representatives first and found the United States. People, promise not to build sugar factories and canneries, and also hand over the sugar cane and pineapple orchards purchased by this section to the Americans for processing and acquisition. I heard that an agreement has been reached!"
"Hist..." After listening to this, the old man immediately took a breath of cold air: "It's so fast!"
"Yes, I heard that their young master also sent people to visit the British, German and French envoys here. They not only gave gifts, but also ordered several cargo ships from the three countries respectively, giving us no time to react at all." Chen Kangning was also a little surprised by the speed of the Li family's movements and continued, "Father, you know that those foreigners care most about money. What's more, it's not a boat now. Since the Li family can't participate in sugar production, the Americans have nothing to say. What's more, they take the initiative to hand over all the sugar cane to them for processing and sell. Such a big gift, I guess the Americans will also give in!"
"I'm old."
After listening to Chen Kangning's words, the old man squinted his eyes for a long time before leaning back and sighing.
"Kang Ning, I'll tell you later, this Li family..." The old man pondered for a moment: "The water is too deep. Let everyone wake me up!"
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