Chapter 451 What is Thomas going to do?

@@@@@@@@@@@ "Damn it, damn it, damn it!"

"Thirty thousand, why didn't he just send it for nothing!"

"These oriental infidels use our country's warships as favors, but why can't they fight with the Americans!"

"These upstarts are all bastards!"

The luxurious palace of St. Petersburg is full of the roar of Nicholas II. Although the formation of the Duma is exchanged for temporary stability in the country, it still cannot satisfy His Majesty the Tsar. For him, the Duma is a stumbling block and will seriously affect the rights of the great emperor!

So when he heard that Li Mo was pulling a large number of Russian [***] ships to South America for sales, selling the fleet he had built at tens of millions of yuan, his eyes turned red! But in the end, when they heard that Xinhua and the United States had a conflict because of the sale of warships, there was a great possibility of a war, and they even began to fantasize that they would immediately wave their troops to the east to recover the lost land after the war.

But who would have thought that in just a few days, the situation turned sharply, and Xinhua actually began to negotiate with the United States.

When Queen Alexandro got up and walked out, she looked at her somewhat neurotic and too ** husband and smiled from the bottom of her heart. She knew very well that what the roaring emperor was really worried about was the upcoming Duma election, because the establishment of Duma meant that his rights had been greatly weakened. It's done! As for those warships, they are lost if they are lost, which allows Russia to start again!

The departure of the queen seemed to make Nicholas II more unscrupulous and roared, "Vitt, have your money ready? How's my navy plan going?

"Your Majesty, the total loans of all countries have almost arrived, a total of 900 million rubles, but they are used to maintain financial stability. If we don't stabilize the country as soon as possible, I'm afraid it will lead to national bankruptcy!"

"So it is impossible to start a new battleship immediately, and you plan to wait until the end of the Duma election." Vit's face was expressionless, but he was as clear as Queen Alexandro in his heart that when all the warships were damaged to Siby Road, Nicholas II was so eager to build a new navy. It was not that he loved the sea, but that he was worried that losing the warships and guns would encourage the arrogance of the so-called traitors he thought. So anxious.

So when the loans of various countries were gradually in place, the emperor immediately proposed a huge plan to rebuild at least 16 battleships and 20 cruisers, all of which must be similar to Chinese battleships.

The dream is beautiful, but the reality is cruel, because Russia does not have the technology of new battleships at all, and even the dock has not been expanded, so Nicholas II had to imitate the French Dandong class to build the Saint-Andre-class battleships first, and the scale of at least six ships he dreamed of is also subject to problems such as capital and platform. Two ships were ruthlessly suppressed.

However, this still relieved Russia. As long as two Yefstafi and two St. Andrew are launched in two years, the Russian navy will slowly recover.

And according to the secret agreement between Russia and France, after the construction of France's first new battleship, the technology will be transferred to Russia, so that you can have a real new battleship!

Just.

"That annoying Duma!"

Nicholas II cursed from the bottom of his heart and said angrily, "You don't need their consent. You immediately withdraw 100 million rubles to restore the navy."

"Dear Your Majesty, if you insist on doing this, please agree to my resignation first, because it will lead to the collapse of the country's finance!" Victor bent down, and the general said.

Nicholas II did not expect that Witt had resigned and threatened him. Although he hated it so much, he had to admit that if it hadn't been for his waiting in Philadelphia, perhaps Russia would not have been able to get out of the predicament immediately at this moment. The confidant Chancellor of the Exchequer still had made contributions, so he could only ask, "Well then. My dear count, please tell me when I can really rebuild the navy!"

"Your Majesty, as long as the Duma is established and the country's economic stability is restored, the construction of new battleships can be started in two years at most, and we are currently expanding the dock. Now even if I allocate funds, I can't build it. Please wait patiently for two years."

"Duma, it's Duma again!" Nicholas II waved his hand and always felt that these two words had turned into a curse, but there was nothing he could do. As Witt said, even if it was allocated, it could not be built now.

" By the way, has the guy named Lenin been caught?" Nicholas II turned his target to deal with the rebels again.

"Not yet, but according to the last person who saw him, he went to Germany and boarded a ship to the Far East there."

"Far East!" After all, Nicholas II was not a fool. He quickly understood and scolded angrily, "Did, he wants to find Li Mo for help!" This pig, who lost the face of the Slavs, actually went to shake hands with a pagan!"

The roar filled the palace again, but the voice of St. Petersburg could no longer affect the overall situation in the world. After Britain felt that it could not suppress the five Chinese battleships of Germany, it launched three subsequent Bolerophon-classes, and Germany also took out four Helgolan-classes again half a year later. For the first time, three chimneys and 12 305mm naval guns were designed.

At this point, even Li Mo has to admire Germany's industrial and technical capabilities. In the era of steam turbine faults, German engineers used three-expanding small water pipe boilers and reciprocating steam engines to increase the speed of this battleship with a full load of more than 24,000 tons to 21 knots, which is a miracle.

The new battleship plans of France, Italy, Austria-Hungary and other countries are also under intensive preparation. The rivets of countries around the world are becoming more and more dense. At this time, the rapidly rising Xinhua can't help but pay attention to these two violent in their spare time because of the renewed dispute between the canal and the United States. Where on earth will the guy who starts the account go?

In terms of industrial capabilities, Xinhua is far away by the United States, but in terms of naval technology, all countries are optimistic about Xinhua, so this is almost a close competition!

For the two upstarts, Europe is not good, so they can't wait for them to bite the dog, but when everyone is ready to watch the show, the young emperor in Yanjing City, who enjoys the service of four women, suddenly blinked his eyes first and took the initiative to propose to the United States to sell the right to dig the Nicaraguan canal.

Now everyone was dumbfounded and didn't know what medicine the arsonist was selling in the gourd this time.

In fact, not to mention foreign countries, even Xinhua is surprised. Many people think that although the domestic economy is not as good as that of the United States, it is already comparable to that of France. There is no big problem in excaveling a canal, not to mention such an important canal, and the world's number one human resources and construction corps model, as long as funds It is guaranteed that there is no problem in opening this Grand Canal in ten years!

As long as the strategic channel connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean is controlled, no matter how powerful the United States is, it will not be able to send warships to the west continuously and quickly. If they build shipyards in the west on a large scale, they will all be under the muzzle of the Xinhua Navy. Once the war occurs, the losses will be greater.

Then why does the emperor have to compromise?

This seemingly mysterious and difficult problem has only one word to be fed back to Li Mo.

"Money."

Yes, when the news of Germany's launch of four Helgolan-class battleships more than a year earlier reached his ears, his pursuit of money had reached an unreparable point.

Of course, it's not that he is short of money, nor that the country is short of money, but in the face of a huge arms race that has begun, if we can't find another way to raise a large amount of military expenses for additional expenses, relying only on the country's finance, Xinhua, let alone play, will look down on it!

France and Italy are the best examples. These two countries have been unable to come up with their new battleship plans for a long time, not because of their technical gap, but because their financial situation does not allow it.

In terms of financial resources, Xinhua is now only comparable to France, and the country is larger than France, and there are more places to spend money. If you learn English and German, that is, the road to bankruptcy, as for the idea of devoting himself to development for 30 years, Li Mo has never thought about it from beginning to end.

Yes, I can not participate in the First World War, according to what others say, build more than N factories, produce more than N weapons and wait for buyers to come, but the question is who will buy you?

Don't forget that the United States is already the world's largest creditor country and the largest industrial country, and the distance is closer. The most important thing is that the United States is a white country!

When the war broke out, the powerful American industry would almost move at full speed. The status of the white country allowed him to quickly become the favorite of both sides participating in the war.

But Xinhua can't do it. Not to mention racial discrimination, it's troublesome to transport materials alone. Once the war breaks out, the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal will directly strangle you, and in order to kill you, the biggest bystander and competitor, the United States will definitely ask Britain, France and other countries to stop the Soviet Union with all their strength. East Canal, you should know that the United States is the largest creditor of European countries. He finally intervened in the war because he was afraid that he would not be able to collect the money, so he sent troops.

If you make trouble and take the opportunity to get rich, it will only lead to the United States to chase and intercept, so that Britain and France will try their best to block the Suez Canal, block themselves in the Pacific Ocean, and even directly use continuous Pacific military provocations to force you to be distracted.

This is the strategy!

So it is impossible to wait for decades later. How much gold did the United States accumulate in World War I? How much money did you make? If you immerse yourself until you die, the distance will only get bigger and bigger.

Li Mo knows this very clearly, so he wants to completely change the situation and encourage the United States first. He can't concentrate on economic development and force him to compete with his own arms. If he wants to make a fortune in the first war, it's very simple.

Defeat Xinhua first!

The world is limited, and the population and market in this era are even more limited. This is a doomed competition!

The competition for resources, the market, talents and wealth!

In this world, there is no economic road to rise peacefully. The birth of capital itself is a plunder of the surname. It is the only way for you to live or die. The natural selection does not only happen to animals!

When you sit and watch the United States make a fortune in World War I and the economy sweep the world after the war, you will know what you have missed, and they are wearing a white skin. When the war in Europe spreads, the scientific and technological talents of Europe will flood into the United States. Look at the completely different military capabilities of the United States in the early and late World War I. You can know how big the impact is!

At that time, in terms of money, even if you have mastered the peak in terms of technology, the base of others is larger than you, sooner or later it will surpass you. In addition, you are not qualified to re-divide the world resources after the war, so can you guarantee that you will defeat the United States in decades?

Li Mo only believes in one law.

"Take advantage of your weakness and kill you!"

Now the United States is the weakest. It has a strong industrial capacity and capital market, but it is not as good as Europe in technology, because European countries have not yet flowed in. As long as it pinched the South American market and then uses some brains at home to force American goods to gradually withdraw from Asia, its powerful goods in the past decade. Manufacturing capacity will become a burden.

He knows all this very well, but he also has the most realistic problem in front of him, which is money.

You can't use the national tax to compete with the United States for armaments. It's you who die like that, so you have to find another way.

A Jilin class costs 11.9 million blue coins, and at this moment, McKinson is designing according to his own ideas, and the price of the new battleship that has entered the experimental stage is almost doubled, so it is necessary to raise funds as much as possible before the start of armaments without affecting national construction.

Li Mo originally had this money, which was the batch of scattered huge counterfeit money, but it had been used in the construction of the country before, so he had to find another way.

Now there is a way. The United States began to wave a check, but suddenly there was an accident.

Li Mo looked at the telegram forwarded by Thomas and looked at the above sentence, "Delay the conflict for half a year, Thomas," and frowned.

The telegram has no end, and it doesn't even explain why it was delayed, and Thomas has left for Europe after sending the telegram, indicating that he is planning something, or he knows that something will happen.

What's that?

It has been more than ten years since he was reincarnated. He is not a superman, and no matter how strong his memory is, it will slowly fade away. As soon as he comes back, he almost compiles the memories in his mind. From the complete collection of world geography, to mechanical drawings, to the context of history, he made a few thick books, but no matter how he looks through the notebook, No clues were found.

Is it a new event?

Or is it a historical event that you don't know?

Thomas is a smart man. In order to hide, he seldom contact himself. He just concentrates on being his super-rich and helping him accumulate wealth. This time, he took the initiative to send a telegram and clearly asked for half a year. What on earth are he going to do?

Half a year, it's about to enter 1907. Except for Italy and Osman's fight, the memory is almost blank.

This is undoubtedly the first time that Li Mo feels tricky after returning to this world. It's not impossible to delay for half a year, but now the navy is waiting for rice to be cooked. The loss of half a year means that the new warship will be launched half a year later. In this era of competition calculated in seconds, is this price worth it?

He knows very well that this lack of grasp of the future will become weaker and weaker with time, which is undoubtedly a test for him!

"Notify Ouyang Geng to slow down the progress of negotiations and ask for money on the spot. How slow it is." After thinking about it, Li decided to give Thomas half a year. He wanted to see what would happen!

Duan Fei nodded. Just as he was about to leave, Du Dazhuang rushed in and shouted breathlessly, "Your Majesty, the Chief of Staff asked you to go to the General Staff immediately. He said that Ji Rushan was blocked by the Americans off the coast of Cuba!"

(to be continued)