Chapter 436 Recess

@@@@@ Kunming Lake, the green willows are shaded, and it is refreshing to walk in it.

This royal garden full of oriental charm made Salisbury, who came for the first time, and only the ancient Chinese could build such a beautiful garden, which made him sigh. At the same time, he couldn't help but secretly doubt the authenticity of the sentence "Li Mo was favored by the goddess of luck". Otherwise, why let a What about him getting this country when he gave birth to the lowest general family?

It has only been 13 years since he first bought land in Hawaii, but in the past 13 years, the arsonist has set fire everywhere, used huge funds that no one knows where they came from, and used mysterious technical support to abruptly complete a feat!

Now, after counting the captured Russian [***] ship, his total naval tonnage has surpassed France. Does this indicate that this madman will continue to challenge the world's first crown?

Salisbury shook his head. He couldn't know that maybe he was the only one in the world who could understand Li Mo, so he asked quickly, "Your Majesty Li Mo, this is really a beautiful garden. Its size is so large that it is almost as large as your fleet."

"Sure enough."

Li Mo smiled from the bottom of his heart. The British were most worried about the challenge at sea, so they stared at their fleet. Fortunately, he must make way for national construction now, and even the navy looked down on the captured warships, so he immediately said, "Your Excellency the Prime Minister, this garden is our Chinese garden art. The concentration of the art, but it's a pity that it had a twin sister, but it was destroyed in the flames of war.

"Real is that so? That's a pity." Salisbury smiled knowingly and said, "That's right, I haven't congratulated your fleet on being called the World's Second Navy."

"Congratulations? No need." Li Mo waved his hand and said sadly, "Mr. Prime Minister, I don't want to hide it from you. In fact, I don't want to keep such a large fleet, because it is too burdensome for this country, so I have asked the navy to sell all the captured Russian ships, and I am also going to cut three battleships and three cruisers, so your praise Let's leave it to France."

"Why? According to my calculation, you have too many sea borders to protect. Why do you want to cut the navy?

"There is no money." Li Mo spread out his hand bluntly: "If the Prime Minister is willing to provide a loan of 5 billion pounds, I am not willing to weaken the navy."

"Fifty billion pounds!"

The Salisburys are sick, and probably the only madman in the world dares to report this increase casually. However, Xinhua's reduction of the navy was also expected by him, but he didn't expect it to be so large. After all, compared with France, although Xinhua has the world's largest territory, its comprehensive national strength is different from that of France. It's too far away, and after he occupied the vast Siberia, he will definitely expand the army, because he has too many places to defend, so it is impossible to feed so many warships.

Besides, even if you have money, you can't lend it to you, and you have to discuss it with the United States, because God knows whether this guy will start building ships on a large scale after getting the loan. With his current technology, if he has enough funds and steel, he doesn't need to get more than 30 new main battleships in five years. There is no problem.

So he smiled politely and said, "Your Majesty, you really like to joke. Our country is currently in economic difficulties, and it is impossible to provide loans to other countries."

"Then let me issue treasury bonds." Emperor Li climbed up the pole.

"I'm afraid it won't work either."

"That provides material support."

"No way."

"Okay." Li Mo seemed to have expected this result for a long time, and asked with a smile, "Dear Prime Minister, they said that you have something to do with me. Is it about the Netherlands and Russia?"

"No." Salisbury quickly waved his hand: "The negotiations between the Netherlands and the Russians will remain neutral and will not interfere. I'm here today hoping that you can allow your technology company to sell radios."

"Radio?!" Li Mo pretended to be surprised and dodged, "Your Excellency, who did you hear? I don't have this technology."

"Ha ha." As if guessing that Li Mo would cheat, Salisbury narrowed his eyes and smiled, "With all due respect, Europe is not big, and Little General Mourke is too anxious. In order to verify that he got the radio from you, he held a drill."

"It happens that it was seen by the people of our country."

Li Mo blinked his eyes and wanted to ask whether the person he saw was the first generation of James Bond, but after a long time, he couldn't think of anything else in Britain that attracted him. The most exciting shipbuilding technology was also gradually mastered because of the nearly 10,000 skilled workers he had been sent to study for ten years, so he gritted his teeth and offered a price. Ge: "Technology is impossible. It can only be the same as in Germany. One is 2,000 pounds, and the first order is at least 1,000 units."

"Deal."

Two million pounds is just a hit for the British, so Salisbury immediately agreed to the procurement plan, and was not even willing to entangle the technology transfer, because he believes that with Britain's scientific and technological strength, as long as he gets the finished product, it can be cracked soon.

In fact, he is right. The manufacturing technology of radio is indeed not complicated. The difficulty is the signal encryption technology similar to frequency hopping, so Li Mo has long thought about taking the opportunity to make a lot of money from the first generation of radios. After waiting for Britain and France to take it back for a long time, he found that Emperor Li had already registered a global patent. If you don't make one, you have to pay a sum of money like electricity, and your intestines will be green.

What's more, what the Russian radio inventor proposed was true. In order to save his life, he took out the preliminary design draft and had taken himself to a new level. However, Li Mo even planned to rot in his stomach all his life.

On May 25, on the same day that the Navy and Thailand reached a contract for the transfer of two cruisers, Salisbury left Xinhua with a contract to purchase radios. As the British Prime Minister, he could not participate in the long negotiations, so he left Li Mo's old friend Kimberly.

On May 26, the Ministry of National Defense of the Xinhua Empire announced that the newly won navy would make a large-scale reduction, and also put two Arctic star battleships that had made great achievements on the shelves.

At the same time, the Banda Aceh incident, which had been arguing for nearly a month, also came to an end. Because the Netherlands was caught providing coal-burning braids to Russia, it handed over the jurisdiction of the island of Dutch Guinea and the Lesser Sunta Islands, excluding Dili, to Xinhua at the price of 7 million blue coins, in the case of being occupied. Compensation.

As for Dili, it belongs to Xinhua's booty because it has been occupied by Russia before.

In exchange, the Ministry of National Defense announced that it would revoke the position of commander of the Lefei Nanyang Fleet, which ordered the shelling of Banda Aceh, and pay a total of 3 million blue coins to the Netherlands and white Europeans who died in the shelling.

Le Fei's withdrawal caused a great sensation in the navy. Many officers and soldiers, especially the officers and soldiers of the Nanyang Fleet, petitioned the emperor to make a judgment. In order to stabilize the hearts of the people, Long Guozhang had to come forward in person to stabilize some officers and soldiers.

At this moment, Li Mo even forgot the negotiations in the United States. He had long been lying on the table and laughing and wiping tears. In the eyes of the countries at this time, this is almost an equivalent deal, because the island of Dutch Guinea is not only rampant among the indigenous people, but also has a terrible cannibals. The mountains and forests are rampant and lacks enough value.

But no one knows at all. According to the information provided by the World Geography Encyclopedia he has seen, it took Li Mo three years to pay the price of hundreds of deaths. Finally, the world's largest refined copper mine, located 40 kilometers southwest of Chaya Peak, which was successfully located a few years ago, was hundreds of times more valuable than this time and owned Chile. After being called Central Guinea, Emperor Li said that he was the second copper merchant in the world, and no one dared to be the first.

Of course, no one knows where the reserves are now. The prospecting team is very rich, but no one can say how rich it is, and it is more troublesome to mine it now. The main reason is that the local environment is too bad, and the indigenous people are rampant, and the famous cannibals are there.

Originally, according to Li Mo's idea, he immediately sent troops to station, ordered a large number of machinery at the same time, and summoned people to dig immediately, but this time Li Enfu and Chen Ping joined hands to stop him.

The reason is very simple. Whether it is Dili or Guinea, it is close to Australia. Britain is already nervous. If a large-scale army is stationed immediately, it will inevitably trigger tension in the Southern Ocean. Maybe it will involve Australia, which will completely disrupt the deployment in Australia and destroy it. It's easy to get the situation.

In the end, under the joint dissuasion of the two, Li Mo also calmed down in front of the huge cake. At present, supported by the Chilean copper mine and the Australian copper mine, there is no shortage of copper, and Xinhua also has copper-covered steel technology, which can completely make up for the needs in an emergency, so it is not meaningful to mine the Guinea copper mine immediately. Big.

Resources buried in the ground will not escape, just like Siberia. As long as the railway line is extended as soon as possible and the establishment of immigrant cities is accelerated, those undiscovered resources and minerals can be used as a long-term national strategic reserve.

Now the top priority is still in China and the newly conquered Siberia!

So Li Mo accepted the suggestion and decided to suppress the copper mine as a top secret. First, he built a migrant city on the edge of the mining area, and at the same time built a small seaport in Uta. Because both Borneo and Luzon have built large cement factories, Guinea also has rich stone and wood resources, so many materials can be solved on the spot. After the small city and seaport are built, 50,000 to 100,000 immigrants will be moved there immediately. At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of immigrants, the military will build a main base for tropical jungle combat training nearby, and then push forward step by step with this base.

In this way, the safety of immigrants is basically guaranteed. What's more, although the cannibals are dangerous, the number of people is actually not large, only about 20,000. As long as some single-shot guns are provided to immigrants, it is enough to ensure safety. And from previous experience, the soil of Nanyang islands People's hostility to yellow people is obviously not as high as that of white people. In history, during World War II, there were even things that natives helped me fight Australia, so as long as they were guided, they would be the best labor force.

Of course, as for those who are disobedient, just learn from Borneo.

When the immigrant city is built, some early small-scale mining can be carried out, which can drive the economic construction of the immigrant city. When Western Australia and North Australia are truly controlled in the future, a huge raw material base will be formed, so there is no need to spend a lot of time now.

In front of him is a huge treasure house of resources. How to make better use of it has become a national problem. When Li Mo lay on the map with his two right-hand arms and carefully outlined a large southwest Pacific economic and resource circle, the negotiations in New York finally began.

At the beginning of the negotiations, there was a big impasse.

It's very simple, because Tang Shaoyi proposed to divide the current actual control lines of the two armies, that is to say, it was no longer bounded by the Yenisei River, but directly pushed more than 500 kilometers to the west, with Tomsk and the Obi rivers as the boundary.

"This is impossible!"

This condition, not to mention Nicholas II, even pragmatic and innovativeists like Sergei Witt, directly slapped the table.

Of course, Tang Shaoyi's reply is simpler.

adjournment!

(to be continued)