Chapter 865 Busy Negotiation

"I'm so busy."

"No, I want to apply for a transfer."

The above two sentences have become the mantra of every staff of Xinhua North American Trading Company during the armistice negotiations. For soldiers, they don't have to worry about bombs and planes. For Americans, they don't have to worry about bombs and planes. But for trading companies, since the beginning of the negotiations, they have not only been idle but also busy. Everyone's feet don't touch the ground. They can't wait to step on the hot wheels like Nezha and separate three heads and six arms to help.

Of course, it's better to learn the hair transformation of Monkey Sun.

It's just that these are always the whims in the novel. With the rapid takeover of the whole United States by the military after the armistice, the task of trading companies has suddenly increased by dozens of times. In the face of the machinery, equipment, factories and scientific researchers on the list of the East Coast and the Great Lakes, almost everyone feels that there is nothing. Compare.

So, the sentence "I'm so busy." It has become a mantra for everyone to say hello. According to unconfirmed gossip, the big boss Liu Jingpeng has neglected his wife for a long time in order to speed up the task of emptying the United States assigned by the emperor, so that Mrs. Liu thought that her husband had a physical problem and went to the hospital to get a large number of aphrodisiac drugs. It has become the biggest joke circulating inside the board.

"No, I'll tell you, fleet No. 7 must go to Baltimore in three days."

"What? Can't get in touch? Is the radio broken?

"Then contact the navy, contact the aviation to find it!"

Boss Liu Jingpeng, who has moved his office to the mouth of ChesaPic Bay, hung up the phone angrily. He turned around and looked at seven or eight staff members holding the list of transshipment supplies. He patted his forehead and howled, "Don't look at me. I've tried my best. Even the fucking destroyers are helping you install it. Xi, you just spare me."

There are too many, there are too many!

Due to the "evil" order of the North American Theater Command, it has now occupied all major cities in the United States. In addition to worrying about the biological resources and ordinary private property that caused the riot, the red-eyed soldiers move almost everything they see, so that it is said that the military's gasoline consumption is more than twice that of wartime! If East Texas Oil Company hadn't been at full power, I would have had to lie down first.

More importantly, these bastards are too fucking blind. It's just the raw materials for moving the finished product. What are you going to do if you haven't refined the dead ore?! But even if these are removed, there are still too many things that need to be moved away, so that the transportation capacity begins to be seriously insufficient.

"Boss, this is the most important thing for me. You see, there are several tons of lead ingots.

"And my copper, are all refined copper ingots."

"What are you? Look at me, the army's latest seizure of hundreds of thousands of rifles, millions of bullets and shells, which is the most important.

"It's nothing. It's the most urgent to move the silver reserves of the United States quickly!"

"Silver! Did you get the silver?!"

"Yes, an armored company of the 17th Infantry Division has found the silver warehouse and has blocked it. There is an urgent need to dispatch trucks to ship it."

"Great!" Liu Jingpeng jumped up directly. The silver depot was staring at by the military and him for a long time, and the intelligence department sent people to stare at it 24 hours after the start of the war, so he immediately picked up the phone again and arranged to contact the naval transport ship to give priority to removing the most important reserve of silver, so he rushed out of the office despite these guys.

After walking out of the office, my eyes suddenly opened up. As one of the largest number of shipbuilding bases in the United States, Virginia has too many things to take away, especially the warship that has been half built. The cargo ship has been included in the list, and even the United States itself has sunk. Many warships began to speed up the salvage.

Now the only thing Liu Jingpeng thinks about is that he hopes that the negotiations in Istanbul can be longer than five days. It's better to have half a year to deal with him. Otherwise, he will definitely not be able to move the most important material task before the final determination of compensation.

"Huh? Isn't this Boss Liu? Why do you have time to inspect the work?

The familiar voice sounded. I only saw Li Xiuyan, who was dressed in casual clothes and did not follow the fleet to the United Kingdom. He didn't know where to find a private yacht. He was about to go around Chesa Pike Bay to take a detailed look at the largest shipbuilding and naval base in the United States.

Liu Jingpeng got into the yacht almost without saying a word and said with a smile, "My General Liu, aren't you afraid of danger when you go out like this?"

"What's the danger? The beautiful [***] team here has been cleared, and the mines in the bay have been explored several times. Besides, I'm dressed like this. Who knows? Li Xiuyan pointed to the casual clothes on his body and waved his hand to sail with a smile.

The yacht soon began to go deep into the bay. Seeing that there were not so many mouths and ears around, Liu Jingpeng quickly stepped forward and asked, "General Liu, you are the most well-informed. Tell me, how is the negotiation?"

"What? Why do you care so much about negotiations?

"I care about that." Liu Jingpeng patted his thigh and complained, "I hope to talk for a few more days. When you look at the mess, I'm so busy that even my wife!"

Li Xiuyan laughed and quickly stretched out his hand to stop Liu Jingpeng's chatter, because now the army is spreading a saying, "It's better to provoke the king of hell than meet Lao Liu", which is this guy's chatter. It is said that even several commanders have made a detour when they see him.

"Don't worry, it's not that fast."

"Oh, what? How dare Britain and the United States to upturn their tails?

"A warped tail? Humph!" Li Xiuyan snorted coldly and looked at the Lexington-class battleship outside Newport Harbor, which was running out little by little and had completed almost 50%. He said, "The soldiers have received the armistice order, and all the weapons have begun to be gradually handed over. How can they bow their tails? Even if you think about it, it's impossible. You don't understand this. Soldiers sometimes have to rely on courage. Once they stop, they have no desire to fight. Now even if you let them pick up the gun again, I'm afraid you don't have the courage to pull the trigger again.

"Then why didn't it end so soon?" Liu Jingpeng asked curiously.

"The price is high." Li Xiuyan swept around and saw that the guards didn't pay attention to this, so he came to his ear and said, "Germany's asking price is too high. They proposed to take over all the African colonies of Britain, France and other countries, and also asked for strategic places such as Gibraltar and the Azores, and to compensate the United Kingdom, the United States and France for a total of 850 billion gold marks."

"850 billion!"

Liu Jingpeng jumped up directly when he heard this number. You should know that this does not include the compensation of other countries. According to this ratio, it will cost trillions of gold marks! I'm dark enough. Since I landed, I almost moved everything in the occupied area, and now I have sealed the whole United States. But even so, plus the batch of American silver reserves that have just arrived, it has not exceeded 30 billion gold marks!

Based on the exchange rate of sterlings, gold marks and blue coins of 1-2 to 7 before the war, 850 billion gold marks are 425 billion pounds and 295 billion blue coins! If this number is not direct, then according to the fixed 1 yuan of blue coin and gold for 1 gram, it is 29,750 tons of gold! Ten 10,000-ton ships that can load 3,000 tons of cargo at a time are needed to complete the shipment!

God, you can't make so much money by selling the Anglo-American and French countries in the heyday before the war!

If you want all the people's colonies and so much money and gold, you just need to directly take back their wives and women! Black, it's really black. It seems that I haven't learned enough!

I'll go back to those guys later to study and see if I can sell the "uninhabited land" of the United States to other countries.

Just as Liu Jingpeng was dripping the 850 billion gold mark, Li Xiuyan frowned and pointed to several transport ships with British flags docked on the dock not far away and asked, "How can there be British ships?"

"Oh, I'm here to pick up the soldiers." Liu Jingpeng quickly introduced it. After announcing the release of weapons, in order to take back the last 50,000 British North American Expeditionary Force sent to support the United States, the British political axe contacted the Xinhua Admiralty and promised to let the British send a ship to pick them up after ensuring that all the weapons were surrendered.

On the dock, Allenby, who used to be in high spirits, also saw the yacht passing in front of him, with an indescribable pain in his heart.

Next to him, one soldier after another who had put down his gun lowered his head and began to line up to board the ship. After nearly four years, from Mesopotamia to bypass Russia, he finally set foot in North America, but he did not expect that the war was finally lost. Although on the surface, it was just a truce, he knew very clear that Britain might pay ordinary people this time. At the cost of imagination.

With his eyes, he knows very well that there may be an important person on the yacht, but it is impossible to use any brains, because as long as you look at the soldiers behind him who are depressed and only want to go home as soon as possible, they can understand that if someone fights against Xinhua figures at this moment, maybe they will jump out to stop a new war or more The terrible Liverpool tragedy.

"Cough." Almost uninterrupted coughs sounded one after another from the queue. It seemed that in order to avoid infection, all the Chinese soldiers in custody next to them were wearing masks.

"Mason Mason!"

Just as Allenby watched the yacht go away little by little, a soldier who could get on the ship suddenly fell out of the queue after coughing twice. His comrades-in-arms immediately surrounded him and did rescue work.

"What's the matter?"

"General, Sergeant Mason fainted. He seems to have a serious fever."

"Fed! Let him." Allenby looked at Mason, who fell to the ground and fell into a coma. For some reason, he always felt something was wrong. In fact, he felt very abnormal during this period. Many soldiers had a strange cold, coughing all the time, and even some people died unconsciously.

In order not to spread the cold, Allenby thought for a moment and was just about to let Mason stay in the United States, but before he finished speaking, he was surrounded by several soldiers and pleaded, "General, let him get on the boat. His wife is waiting for him to go back in Birmingham!" Please rest assured that we will take care of him. He can live with us to the stern of the ship, so as to avoid infection.

Looking at the pleading soldiers and looking at the soldiers who were eager to go home, Allen softened and finally nodded. But he didn't know that it was because of this nod that a terrible century plague arrived in Europe.

According to later British records, this cargo ship carrying more than 1,500 British North American Expeditionary Army soldiers had 176 people died of the flu when it arrived in Portsmouth Port, and most of the remaining soldiers were also ill. They went home to deal with the illness and eventually spread the cold. Britain, and then spread to the European continent.

"Yes." Li Xiuyan, who saw this scene, also didn't know how much impact this incident would have. He suddenly turned his head and smiled, "My boss Liu, I heard that you are worried about your transportation recently?"

"It's true." Hearing that someone finally felt sorry for him, Liu Jingpeng burst into tears: "It's 7,000 to 8,000 kilometers from China to the west coast, and it's even farther to get around Panama!" The Strait of Gibraltar has not been opened for the time being. Isn't it embarrassing for me?"

Li Xiuyan smiled, blinked his eyes, and suddenly hooked his fingers: "I'm going back to China recently. I'm worried about what gifts I should bring to the emperor and my eldest brother. Does Boss Liu have any good suggestions?"

"See you outside, see you outside!" Boss Liu is a personal essence, not to mention that Li Xiuyan is still the emperor's godbrother, so he immediately took out a small notebook from his pocket and handed it over: "These things are all searched from the homes of private collectors and enemy war criminals. I'm going to take them back to China and hand them to the Prime Minister's office for processing. Why don't you choose a few?"

"You see, this is a pure gold scepter unearthed from the South American rainforest more than a hundred years ago. There are many mysterious spells on it, which are very expensive."

"And this is the crown of the princess left by the Wessex dynasty, which was brought to the United States by British merchants."

"Yes, yes, and this. It's a big deal. It's a portable sword used by Louis XVI. I've seen it. It's full of gems and valuable."

Li Xiuyan, who wanted to choose a few pieces casually, didn't expect Liu Jingpeng to hide so many good things. In addition, he was going to give them to the emperor as a gift, so he immediately picked 17 or 18 good things and came up with an idea to solve the transportation difficulties.

"It hasn't been a day or two since the Naval Guantanamo Base was opened. Now it's really empty."

"Yes!" Liu Jingpeng patted his head and scolded himself for being too stupid. He always wanted to ship things back to China, but forgot that he could be transported to Guantanamo base first and slowly transferred. You should know that it is a pure imperial base and one of the future stations of the Fifth Fleet. No matter how bold you are, you dare not move.

With Li Xiuyan's reminder, the North American trading company began to organize a large number of ships to travel between Guantanamo and the east coast of the United States. At its peak, about 1,000 ships traveled to and from this route. As a rate, the transportation journey was shortened by 70%, and the relocation work was greatly accelerated. The only feeling of pleasure was It was the Fifth Fleet, because a huge amount of supplies needed to be slowly transferred from here, so it was not until a year later that the Fifth Fleet was stationed.

Such a "busy" North America even aroused German jealousy. At the Istanbul meeting, the German delegation more than once hinted that Xinhua was too much, but the delegation led by Yan Fu and Feng Qi did not have any excuses unexpectedly on this issue, just a sentence.

"Consture of military materials."

The most distressed thing is the major American enterprises, which have even begun to attack the armistice measures of the political axe, so that now they can only watch the Xinhua army sweep banditry with the help of cannons.

For the American political axe, it is heartbreaking, but after Xinhua made it clear in private that these things could offset part of the compensation, its eyes turned to the negotiation.

Money can be re-earned, the machine can be rebuilt if it is gone, and the factory can be rebuilt. But for Britain, the United States and France, the number of all the colonies and 850 billion gold marks proposed by Germany is really terrible!

If they really pay this money, they don't have to do anything in the next 30 years and concentrate on working for China and Germany.

Just as the agreement chose to shake its head on Germany's conditions, Xinhua, one of the two giants of the alliance, also put forward its additional requirements in addition to compensation.

First, Xinhua accepts all the Asian colonies of the Allies of the Allies!

Second, the United States ceded Alaska and California.

Third, return the Mexican land illegally occupied during the Mexican-American-Mexico War to the Mexican ax.

Fourth, the West Coast of Washington and Oregon are opened as a demilitarized free trade zone.

Fifth, from Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee to North Carolina as the boundary, the north-south air no-fly zone is established to allow the southern political axe to self-rule on the basis of not secession from the country!

Sixth, establish a free zone for black people in Florida, allowing blacks to self-governing here to reduce violence such as racial discrimination in the United States.

Seventh, Canada ceded the Amundsen Bay in the Arctic Ocean to the Yukon River area in Juneau and half of the Ma Geng Mountains!

Eighth, France ceded French colonies such as Madagascar and Reunion in the Indian Ocean in Africa!

Ninth, Britain and France ceded their control of the Mediterranean Sea of Malta, the South Indian Ocean, the Bermuda Islands of the South Atlantic, Kelguelen Island, the Croze Islands, Armstrong Island, Prince Edward Island, South Georgia and other areas.

Tenth, South Africa and Gibraltar will be entrusted to Xinhua for a period of 30 years!

11. Comprehensively prohibit the establishment and development of aircraft carriers by Britain, the United States, France and other countries, the development and equipment of submarines, the development and equipment of offensive air forces, the limitation of the size of the navy (the specific size will depend on the needs of each country's environment and the protection of territorial security), limit the total number of the army and put them under the supervision of the alliance, and prohibit the suppression of countries. The development of other weak political parties prohibits racial discrimination.

12. Give Xinhua the most-favoured-nation treatment, reduce or exempt customs taxes to reduce acts that undermine the free economy such as discrimination and state protection, have no choice but to hinder normal trade exchanges in any form and excuse, and open up domestic ports and shipping industries.

13. Give Xinhua citizens visa-free treatment, and have no choice but to restrict the legitimate trade and tourism of Xinhua companies, enterprises and individuals by any means.

14. All countries must return their illegally occupied Xinhua cultural relics and state property.

15. Compensation for a series of fees, interest and late fees for infringement of intellectual property rights and patents, such as electricity and radio, which breached the contract during the war.

Sixteen.

A total of 28!

(to be continued)