Chapter 437 The Restless America

@@@@@@ On the busy Hudson River, a Victorian-painted British cruise ship slowly entered, and the dull whistle seemed to become a horn, ringing a busy day on Manhattan Island.

On the top floor of the eight-story new Thomas Mining Building, a big hand opened the thick curtains and looked at the huge cruise ship with black smoke outside the window. Thomas couldn't help thinking of the man again. For him, the figure seemed to be everywhere.

It's like the cruise ship in front of him, which reminds him of a crown that the United States changed hands again ten days ago.

Ten days ago, with the delivery of three 20,000-ton cruise ships in a row by the largest Dalian Shipyard in the Far East, the well-known Pacific Cruise Company, a subsidiary of Pacific Freight Company, took the throne of the world's first cruise company for the first time with a huge fleet of 15 ships, totaling 250,000 tons.

The news came to New York, and the stocks of many American cruise companies, including the White Star Cruise Company, fell one after another, causing heavy losses to many investors.

Abuse, disdain and questioning are all over the exchange, because in the eyes of Americans, the world's number one water of Pacific Cruises is too big. First of all, it is the royal background of the Xinhua Empire behind it, because at this moment, everyone knows that the company has nearly 80 tons of cargo ships, 15 cruise ships, and 30 dedicated ships. The investor of the super maritime trust enterprise that transports oil tankers and a large number of ships is the Chinese emperor, and on the way, it also got a large number of ships captured by the army that were almost half-sold and half-delivered. Even the five second-hand 10,000-ton ships recently built by the United States sold to Russia were bought by them to join the fleet, so many people think that it and It can't be regarded as a real commercial company.

But in the view of Thomas and many of the top businessmen, this statement is really too American. Although in terms of total, the 15 cruise ships of Pacific Cruises account for only 20% of the total number of Atlantic cruise ships, and the annual transportation volume is far less than that of the two sides of the Atlantic, as Xinhua began to migrate to Nanyang and Mick on a large scale. In Ronniesia and other places, the number of people leaving the country has reached several million, and this number is still exploding, more than half of which will be transported by cruise ships.

The increase in the number of immigrants is bound to increase the connection between overseas and the mainland. When the total number of immigrants exceeds 10 million, the number of people traveling to and from coastal and overseas provinces every year will flow by at least 500,000, which will bring rich benefits to cruise companies.

Perhaps for other countries, it is not possible to reach tens of millions of people, but it is easy for Xinhua. Especially at present, from the northernmost Kamchatka Peninsula to the southernmost island of Central Guinea, the ten thousand miles of sea border itself provides the best cruise route.

And the United States and Europe have only seen one Pacific Cruise Company. In fact, the re-imped Hong Kong Merchants Shipping Company, Ryukyu Shipping Company and Luzon Nanyang Transportation Company are all emerging private transportation companies with dozens of ships. In addition to maritime freight, they have also focused on the cruise ship and added Great investment in cruise ships.

In fact, this is not the first time that the United States has lost its crown. The Chinese sweet sugar company, which is controlled by the Xinhua Royal Family and the political axe at the same time, after reaching a sugar trade agreement with the Cuban political axe, and because Xinhua controls the emerging southwest Pacific sugar cane planting area, it has controlled the world under the strong financial impetus. 60% of the total amount of white sugar transactions.

And the largest crown is rubber. Although there is also rubber in South America, because the construction is too late, many of them are still small saplings, but that person has been laying out a lot since ten years ago, constantly refreshing the planting scale of the rubber garden in his competition with himself, and now it is the largest original The material origin of the southwest Pacific Ocean is almost completely in its arms, making the total amount of natural rubber exported by Xinhua year to 80% of the world's total demand!

This is an extremely amazing number, which means that if Xinhua bans exports, the booming automobile industry in the world will lose its wheels!

A car without wheels?

Thomas smiled jokingly and tried to sketch the scene in his mind, but he still couldn't think of that terrible scene.

Greater China Tobacco Company, 40% of the world's total output.

Nanyang Trading Company, 40% of the world's coffee and cocoa production.

As for the six newly integrated Xinhua folk silk joint-stock companies, they account for 50% of the world's raw silk exports!

There is also Huanya Oil Company, which is still lurking under the sea and has huge reserves.

And in traditional Chinese industries such as tea and porcelain, they are eager to catch up. Under the deliberate guidance of that person, a small enterprise is being strengthened by the planned alliance of the political axe, and they are slowly beginning to join the competition of world trade.

Yes, the United States also holds the world's largest processing capacity, the world's largest steel enterprise, hundreds of millions of foreign loans, and the equipment manufacturing capacity that sweeps the world. In addition, its own resources can meet the demand. From the perspective of Xinhua's current economic total amount equivalent to the United States, So you don't have to worry about being squeezed into the world's first economic throne for at least 20 years.

And compared with the high-value goods exported by the United States, Xinhua is currently only a world's raw material export distribution center. Even if it exports one million tons of raw silk and tea, the United States only needs to build ten large ocean-going cargo ships to make all of them back. But the problem is that this is only the United States, except for the United Kingdom, which has the world's largest colony. Other countries, other than France, the second in the world, are unaware of it. In fact, they are inseparable from the supply of raw materials from the Far East.

"One day, the world will find that it will never leave China again!"

Thomas remembered what Li Mo said to him in Ryukyu ten years ago. To be honest, he didn't think so at that time, but now he turned around and found that these things were slowly becoming reality.

What's more terrible is that Li Mo is an extremely self-disciplined person. Although he has four women, he has an extremely strict and meticulous plan in his career. Thomas is one of the few in the world who has seen the plan he began to prepare gradually from Canada. He didn't know that he was only thirteen years old at that time. How did he know how to make such a detailed plan, but if the above words were spread out, it would be enough to surprise all countries in the world.

At that time, even with him, only a few people knew why he wanted Nanyang. Even at this moment, many people still thought that he was a madman, an arsonist who was more greedy for the land than a hungry wolf, and a land maniac with greater ambition than the Russian tsar, but in fact, his fundamental purpose was to hope to take those in the southwest Pacific. The endless islands have become the world's largest raw material library.

When rubber, sugar and tobacco leaves began to rise in the undetected slow process in his famous saying "boiled frogs in warm water", when the three major commodities in the world's largest London and New York futures exchanges were traded by Thomas Mining, Bank of America and other black hands. Ups and downs. When Li Mo used the opportunity of Russia's huge expeditionary fleet to rush to the world's largest sugar and rubber planting area to detonate the upsurge caused by concerns about raw materials in the international futures market, few people knew that outside Sibiru Island, he had quietly won a sea battle that shocked the world. A big victory.

The profit-taking funds of hundreds of millions of dollars are being quietly entered into the Far East by means of loans, acquisitions and other means of loans, acquisitions, etc. under the slow transfer of the Bank of America, and then he subsidized the industry. Such investment is several times larger than the investment scale of relying on private and bank loans. He is using a full The new, centralized way to catch up is to rejuvenate that ancient country step by step.

Another whistle came, interrupting Thomas's thoughts. He quickly sorted out his briefcase and prepared for another big fluctuation in the capital market, but the origin of this fluctuation was close at hand.

The negotiations in Philadelphia seem to be just a matter between China and Russia. The United States is just a mediate, but the problem is that if the shadow of the war cannot be dissipated as soon as possible, the world's largest capital market established in New York will once again fall into the situation of worrying about raw materials when the Russian expeditionary fleet sets off. .

Before Thomas went out, he grabbed a New York Times with the smell of ink from the front desk, and two news caught his attention.

The Prime Minister of Salisbury, who has just returned to the United Kingdom and has been replaced in the middle of history, finally stepped down after the expiration of his term of office. In fact, the death of Salisbury has long been expected by the world. He had a deep conflict with the conservative British Parliament. Originally, the parliament launched the impeachment process after the end of the end of the United Kingdom, but in the end, because In order to break out the Far East conflict, the British nicknamed "War and Iron-blooded Prime Minister" proudly continued to stay in office.

He was taken over by Henry Campbell Bannerman, a liberal with a deep business background.

The change of British Prime Minister in the British Empire is bound to have an impact on the world economy, and the second news has exacerbated the severity of this impact.

Because the Sino-Russian negotiations in Philadelphia fell into a deadlock at the beginning.

After seeing the two big words "disjournment", Thomas couldn't help smiling at the corners of his mouth, and then escorted by several "special" bodyguards, it was obvious that today would be a busy day.

In fact, as Thomas understands, both the New York stock market of the U.S. economic barometer and the U.S. political axe have fallen into an unprecedented depression.

Among them, the most disappointing is undoubtedly the successor of U.S. President Fairbanks after the assassination of William McKinley. As the vice president of William McKinley, he had the same ambitions and aspirations as his predecessor, but he took over a mess that could be said to be rotten.

The failure of the Cuban War deprived the United States of its best opportunity to go abroad, and the aggressiveness of the New China Empire in the Pacific Ocean made the president hesitate to choose whether to continue to infiltrate Central and South America or march into the Pacific Ocean.

The domestic problem is also bad. William McKinley's first anti-monopoly trust bill was assassinated before it was implemented. Although the murderer claimed to be a liberal, many people were actually very clear about the inside story. Those economic oligarchs did not like that law. Case.

So Fairbanks slowed down again and again. When he finally decided to continue to implement the promotion bill last year, he didn't expect that the news of war between China and Russia came at this time. When the huge Russian expeditionary fleet set off, the worries about raw materials and the situation in the Far East made the U.S. financial community loud and the real economy. It was also greatly affected. The U.S. Federal Reserve of Gold, which reads the power, continuously lowered its forecasts and outlook for the U.S. economy in the disregard of political opposition, exacerbating this turmoil and unrest.

So the United States was the first country to intervene between China and Russia, but the problem is that the Russian fleet was coming at that time, and neither of the two sides would listen to the opinions of the United States. Only then did the United States realize its international status!

It was not until the Russian expeditionary fleet arrived at Sibiru Island that the world's Third Navy sailed to the Far East for six months, but it took only two days to sink the sand, which made him and the whole United States realize that strong economic strength did not represent a strong deterrent.

When the results of the naval battle on West Bilu Island spread to the United States, the financial community was relieved, but the American political axe fell into a huge, even panic. Li Mo, a madman, has achieved the northwest Pacific Ocean and continues to infiltrate into the southwest Pacific Ocean. Because of Honolulu and its existence, the East Pacific Ocean is also Slowly shrouded in the iron curtain.

The United States is being intentionally or unintentionally involved in a military competition that no one can predict. Whether it is the economic or the manufacturing level, the United States is not afraid of such a competition. However, in terms of technology, especially military technology, the United States is far inferior to Europe, not to mention that of Lemmer.

When the eight new capital ships of the Xinhua Empire sank the battleship Crown Prince, which was known as the pride of Russia and France, in just 50 seconds, the world seemed to have been smashed with a hammer. The leaders of countless countries and countless naval generals fell into anxiety and deep thinking.

Britain and Germany took the lead in launching the research and construction of the second-generation battleships. France decisively abandoned the submarine and gave up the theory of small torpedo victory, and also joined in it. Italy, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and even the Ottoman Empire continued to work hard, while the world's first economic power was the lack of technology. We have to continue to build old-fashioned battleships.

What a ridiculous thing this is!

So when the Russian expeditionary fleet was completely destroyed, the largest riot in history broke out in Russia. After the battle with Angarsk, Fairbanks immediately sent Secretary of State John Hay to Yanjing, which was even faster than Salisbury's outgoing visit.

Because the United States knows that if it doesn't find a way to contain Li Mo, if Li Mo's army continues to open up Petropavlovsk, the gate to Siberia, and even advance to Yekaterinaburg, the Asia-Europe junction of the Ural Mountains, then the land threat of the New China Empire will disappear completely, and Li Mo can With all your heart and soul to focus on the Pacific Ocean, the already slow United States will be completely swept out of the Pacific Ocean!

So, the United States needs Russia, even stronger than Europe, so after sending John Hay as a representative to mediate the Sino-Russian war, Fairbanks immediately contacted Britain and France and offered a guarantee of armistice loans to Nicholas II. At the same time, there was a steady stream of munitions. He is on standby to set sail at any time, hoping to help Nicholas II suppress domestic riots after the negotiations are over.

But the problem is that the negotiations only started for three days, and then it stopped!

And it's an indefinite adjournment!

Seeing that the truce was coming to an end and the smoke of gunpowder began to permeate again, Fairbanks personally called Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria and other countries. Finally, under his series, Yanjing and St. Petersburg agreed to have a one-month truce at the same time.

At the same time, Tang Shaoyi, the Foreign Minister of the Xinhua Empire, rushed to Washington non-stop and said in proficient English in the U.S. Congress, "The world should learn to listen to the East." In his famous speech, he rudely criticized the fact that Russia has been encroaching on Siberia for hundreds of years, condemned some countries for ignoring the voice of a country with a population of 400 million, and said that what Xinhua is currently doing is only recovering its homeland, and Xinhua is willing to be under the supervision of various countries in the future. More than 200,000 tons of warships were abolished during the year, but in the end, he also said that all this was based on the current negotiations. If the two sides still made no progress in this month, Xinhua would immediately withdraw from the negotiations and seek a military solution instead.

This is a threat, but it is a threat that the world has to listen to. Later historians agreed that if the famous sentence "Empire is waiting!" of Long Guozhang opened the curtain of Xinhua and even the world entering imperialism, then Tang Shaoyi's article "The world should learn to listen to the East" represents From then on, the world began to listen carefully to the voice of the East.

With Tang Shaoyi's words, unilateral and multilateral negotiations one after another, from St. Petersburg to Paris, from London to Washington, from Philadelphia to Yanjing, the whole world was almost involved, and strangely, under the escalating domestic riots, Russian negotiator Sergei Wittber Jue didn't say a word from beginning to end, and he would rather continue to be deadlocked.

This situation began to make the United States more difficult and more anxious. No one knew what the plenipotentiary minister was paying attention to, and he began to turn to Nicholas II one after another, but a telegram from Vit made Nicholas II no longer care about negotiations, but turned to focus on dealing with the spread to the country and the countryside. The riot.

Sergey Witt's telegram is very simple, with only a short sentence, "If Your Majesty no longer trusts me, please remove my full authority."

What the hell is going on with the Russian Chancellor of the Exchequer, the plenipotentiary in the negotiations?

Fairbanks couldn't figure it out, Long Guozhang couldn't figure it out, and Zhao Long, who was still on the front line, couldn't figure it out. Even in Russia, there was a verbal attack on Witt. He couldn't figure out why he dared to watch Russia fall into more and more severe turmoil, watching the riots spread from the city to the countryside, and the Xinhua Army on the Western Front. Gathering, but continuing to be indifferent, what on earth does he want to do?

"Yuanshou, what the hell do you think Sergey Witt is doing? Although he is the leading powerful minister in Russia, and Nicholas II also regards him as his confidant, he is really not afraid that we will enter Yekaterinaburg? Long Guozhang lay on his desk with a sad face, partly because of Sergei's strange behavior, and the other half because of the captured Russian [***] ships in his hand.

Chen Ping smiled and said, "Why can't you sell it?"

Long Guozhang shook his head with a wry smile. With so many old warships, it would definitely be a more attractive cake in the past, but the problem is that after the power of the new Chinese battleships was seen by all over the world, the ghost was willing to buy these old guys.

In addition to selling several protective cruisers with small displacement to Thailand with Sino-Thai friendship, he personally went to North Korea and "selled" three ships. After "selling" them, almost no buyers asked, which worried him, because he still wanted to make a lot of money and build a few more capital ships.

"Don't worry, someone will rush for it in a few months." Chen Ping smiled mysteriously.

"Are you rushing for it?" Long Guozhang was speechless and looked at Chen Ping. It meant that he believed that you had seen a ghost. He took the initiative to return to the topic and asked, "Wen Shou, you haven't answered my words yet?"

Chen Ping pinched the newspaper, looked at it twice, and then hooked the corners of his mouth: "Unfortunately, this life is in Russia. If it is in other countries, it is a great figure."

"Why do you say that?" Long Guozhang was even more surprised.

"Because his eyes are not only limited to negotiation, but have crossed the negotiating table and begun to take advantage of this opportunity to fight for enough interests for Russia!"

Long Guozhang looked at the newspaper in a daze and his eyes suddenly lit up: "You mean that he took advantage of us, and also took advantage of the United States and Europe who did not want Nicholas II to fall, deliberately delay, and then obtain a loan!"

"Hmm." Chen Ping nodded with a serious look: "There is no doubt that Vit is very clear that Russia has no confidence, so he wants to take advantage of the opportunity that Europe and the United States do not want Nicholas II to really fall to win the support of all countries as much as possible."

"I asked the emperor, and he also said that if Russia can quickly recover its vitality after the negotiation, then this person will make great achievements!"

"Damn it, this Witt has also begun to count on us!" Long Guozhang said a rude sentence

(to be continued)