Chapter 108 Guam
"Young master." With Chen Ping present, Duan Fei couldn't help but subconsciously saluted.
Li Mo looked at him quietly and went out for more than half a year. The guy was obviously dark and lost a lot of weight, but he was in good spirits. Sit down. I don't have so many rules here. After pointing to the sofa opposite and asking Du Dazhuang to make a pot of tea, he asked, "Is it all done?"
"It's done!" Duan Fei's eyes flashed with excitement. He quickly took out a thick document from his leather bag and said, "Slow didn't lie. His uncle is indeed the governor of Guam."
It's really about the position of governor of the island! Li Mo wondered, shouldn't Guam be under the jurisdiction of the Spanish colonial axe of the Philippines at this time? How can a governor have the ability to read? But soon Duan Fei's words answered his doubts.
Although Guam belongs to the Mariana Islands, after Magellan discovered Guam, he thought that Guam was the largest island, so he became the governor of Guam. Later, he discovered the entire Philippine Islands through Guam. In order to commemorate Magellan, the Spanish decided to permanently retain the position of Governor of Guam, directly Under the jurisdiction of the Spanish political axe, it ruled the sea with the Governor-General of the Philippines and the Governor-General of the Marshall Islands.
However, compared with the rich Philippines, the governor of Guam is not easy. Guam is only more than 500 square kilometers, less than half of Oahu, and there are no natural resources. At this time, the total population is only more than 40,000, most of whom are local Chamorros, and the Chinese and I only account for a small part. In addition to one governor, only 100 soldiers maintained the rule.
Because the land of Guam is not suitable for tobacco cultivation, the largest income now is the fishing industry and a coaling station to add coal for passing ships, and the source of coal is also imported from the Philippines, which can be said to be very poor. According to intelligence, the monthly income on the island is less than 1,000 pounds.
One thousand pounds! Li Mo sned. It's not as good as a pineapple plantation on Oahu. When can he pay off his one million pounds?
Listening to the young master's words, Chen Ping held the corners of his mouth tightly and tried not to laugh. For the young master's strange way of thinking, he, like everyone else, really couldn't agree. I don't know what he thought. He actually forced his teacher to write a million IOU, which may be unprecedented.
Duan Fei also smiled, shook his head, took out a hand-painted map of Guam, and said, "This is the young master you said about the Apra seaport, but now the waterway here is too narrow to pass large ships. Even the Spanish coaling station is not placed here. If you want to use it, you must expand it, and And this bay is very dilapidated, surrounded by gravel and mudflats. I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money to clean it all up.
Apura Naval Base, this is one of the largest naval bases of the United States in the Asia-Pacific in later generations. It can berth 80 warships, including aircraft carriers. How can such a good place be left for others?
What's more, Guam is the gateway to the Micronesia Islands. As long as it is strangled here, half of the islands in the Pacific Ocean will be shrouded. Most importantly, through Guam, the power of the Pacific Army can extend to the Southern Ocean and even Australia. This is the strategic node of the Pacific recognized by later generations!
Thinking that Guam is already in front of him, not to mention Master Li, even Chen Ping is short of breath. Although he has not conceived Guam as a strategic node in his mind, it is enough for him to take any danger!
"Money is not a problem." Master Li waved his hand boldly and said, "You can ask the State Council to take out the money for preliminary guidance and construction first."
Duan Fei nodded and knew that money was indeed not a problem for the young master. Now the heaven profits secretly remitted to the Swiss Bank through his hands are now less than 50,000 pounds a month, and they are exploding.
The biggest problem now is the land! Although it has taken Oahu and Lovely Island, which sounds like more than 3,000 square kilometers, the land that can be used is actually very small.
Cute Island is mostly mountainous. It is originally a planting-based island, which is not suitable for the development of heavy industry at all. Oahu is in good condition, but with the expansion of shipyards, steel mills and military factories, it is already very crowded, so it has become a top priority to find new investable land for the young master.
After hearing that Sloe said that his uncle was the governor of Guam, Li Mo immediately assigned Duan Fei to go to Guam secretly. He had been coveted on the small island for a long time.
Of course, Duan Fei knew that Li Mo sent him to take Slo to Guam, so when he saw Li Mo looking at the map in a daze, he quickly said in an uncontrollable and excited tone, "Young master, I have taken all the land near Appra Harbor."
After saying that, he picked up the pen and scratched it hard in the place like an appendix. " hiss!" Chen Ping hissed with a cold breath. Isn't this the young master's enclosure method? How did this guy learn it?!
"Ah! Is it done so soon? How is this possible?" Looking at the circle drawn by Duan Fei, Li Mo also widened his eyes. How could this be possible? Is the governor stupid? Just for an inexplicable IOU, I sold the land in Guam, which accounts for one-third of Guam?
"Young master, you forgot that we have heaven!" Duan Fei looked at Chen Ping, and a smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.
Heaven is scattered!
Chen Ping shivered for a moment. He also recently learned about this very popular thing in the United States. At first, he thought it was a conspiracy made by Roosevelt, but later he knew that it was the young master who poisoned the Americans.
After some explanation, the two gradually understood. It turned out that after Duan Fei arrived in Guam with Sloe, the governor was so angry that he almost sent troops to kill the two people when he saw the IOU, and directly refused the request to pay off the debt for Sloe! But how could Duan Fei be willing to come back empty-handed? He immediately gave him a few boxes of Cuban cigars mixed with heaven.
The ** power of Cuban cigars is worthy of being huge. After a few days of enjoying it, the governor of Guam finally degenerated and became another victim of the demon of drugs. Finally, he agreed to Duan Fei's plan to rent the seaport and land to repay the large debt owed by Slo, and the only requirement is Duan Fei must continue to provide "Cuban cigars".
According to the Spanish colonial law, the governor had the ultimate control over the land under his jurisdiction, so they quickly completed the lease agreement and asked people to return to Spain overnight with the agreement to file with the political axe.
It took a total of three months. With the messenger coming back, after paying the so-called down payment of 50,000 pounds, he finally took the land for Master Li in the name of Pacific Shipping Company. Although there were mountains except around the harbor, the sea alone The value of Hong Kong is far more than a million pounds.
Time travelers are good! At least you can foresight, and you have traveled to the era when the land sale was very loose, and the industrial revolution began, which is simply the best year to use the golden finger!
I just got out the electronic tube and became the disgusting image of the big-headed monsters. I didn't expect that such a piece became the landowner of Guam again. Has the young master begun to have good luck again recently?
Li Mo almost jumped, pointed to the map and shouted, "Develop, develop immediately! Go to Li Enfu and ask him to immediately arrange to recruit 20,000 workers from the Qing Dynasty. Even people and their families will settle there for me. They will dredge the waterway for me as soon as possible and build the port of Apra. In addition, he told Lin Yongxiang that he must arrange the best people to go there and let him send people to Italy and Spain to buy equipment and build it here. A 50,000-ton shipyard,"
"Remember, all projects must use our people, and skilled technicians can be sent from Hawaii. It can't be seen that we are going to build a military base here."
"Five tons?" Chen Ping and Duan Fei were surprised. What is the young master going to do? Why do we need so many large shipyards? And it's not easy to build a military base for such a big project!
"Nonsense, of course, it is to prepare for the young master to make super battleships and aircraft carriers in the future. If it weren't for the technical restrictions, the young master would have wanted to go directly to the 50,000 tons or even 100,000 tons of shipyard!" Of course, this can't be said now, otherwise Duan Fei will definitely think that Master Li is crazy. As for confidentiality, hehe, then you can find your own way. Anyway, you can hide it a little bit.
Taking over the port of Apra is equivalent to adding another piece of land to the young master. Although it is not big, Duan Fei is still quite excited. However, at the thought of the recent frequent telegrams from China and Japan, he was a little uneasy and asked, "Young master, I heard that you are going back to China?"
"return to China? Why are you going back to China?" Li Mo's eyes widened and looked at Chen Ping, who was also full of doubts. He didn't understand why Duan Fei asked such a question. Even if he wanted to return to China, it couldn't be now?
"Don't go back? But I heard that you recently sent the night eagles back to Liaodong? Could it be...?" This time, it's Duan Fei's turn to be depressed. He looked at Chen Ping. Could it be that all the previous guesses were wrong, and even Chen Ping didn't understand the young master's intention?
Finally, he knew why the two of them had this idea. Li Mo hurriedly smiled and knew that he had taken action in Liaodong and Ryukyu one after another during this period, which made the following misunderstanding. He quickly picked up the map and pointed to it and said, "This is Japan, and this is Ryukyu."
"I want people to go back to Liaodong. I'm not going back to China soon, but where I want resources. What I need is here!"
"Is this it?!"
Duan Fei and Chen Ping stared at the place circled on the map, and then they realized that the young master made a big circle. It turned out to be for here! Li Mo didn't care about the two people who were shocked. What's more, he also felt the need to let his intelligence leader and the number one staff officer clearly know his strategic ideas, so he continued: "Take this place to connect Hawaii, Ryukyu and Nanyang."
"But if you want to connect, you must defeat the Japanese version, so that they will turn over forever! Otherwise, we can't rest assured to continue to go south! As for the country..." Li Mo curled his lips and said, "I will go back, but not now...!"
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"There is another large area of land."
After sending Duan Fei and Chen Ping away, Li Mo returned to the room, looked at the map outlined by him, carefully drew a circle in the location of Guam, and began to look at the Philippines near Guam.
Good place! Unfortunately, the young master is not strong enough now.
Li Mo swallowed his saliva and looked at the large island near Papua New Guinea in the south of Guam. Whoo-hoo... It's all occupied. It's really not the right time for the young master to come. Whoo-hoo...
Master Li, who was just sighing that it was easy for Apra, began to curl his lips at the map again. When will he complete the plan to monopolize the Pacific Ocean?
Looking at the blue sea outside, Li Mo began to wander outside. It was not until Zhao Long knocked on the door of the study that he woke up. Young master, this is the list of some young officers who have been promoted recently. While Zhao Long handed over a list, his eyes were completely attracted by the map.
"All right, you can ask Chen Ping about this in the future." Master Li was relieved and stuffed the list.
Zhao Long took over the list and continued, "Young master, I just received a telegram. Yoshino has returned to China!"
"Yoshino is back to Japan!"
Li Mo put down his pen in a daze and didn't notice the names of Zhang Zuolin and Sun Jiugong on the front page of the list blown away by the wind in Zhao Long's hand.
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