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"Martinez, go and find out where the assets of the three consortiums have gone, and I want to know where the assets of the three financial consortiums Lloyd, Kimas and Barclays have transferred their assets in the Brazilian Republic."

Seeing off the principals of the three consortia, Williams returned to the council chamber and turned to the assistant beside him and commanded.

"The assets of the three consortia should have been transferred to Hanguo, and before meeting you, the three of them have successively transferred some of their financial assets to Hanguo through His Excellency the Counselor. I mentioned this to you a week ago. ”

"Well, I remember, a week ago, the Lloyds consortium had a commercial dispute with the Cleveland Mining Company of the United States, and at that time, the Lloyds consortium seemed to have a precursor to shrinking its business layout in the Brazilian Republic."

Williams, recalling a business dispute that his aides had reported to him a week earlier, frowned, and said, "The business expansion of American capital consortia overseas is becoming more and more excessive. They did not put themselves in the right position at all, did not know how to respect the interests of Great Britain at all, and were always like a pack of wild dogs, smelling the breath of interests, and impatiently pounced on them. What an uneducated bunch of savages! ”

"The Americans always regard them as the masters of the North and South American continents, and arbitrarily interfere with the normal economic and trade activities of the empire on the American continent."

The aide chimed in: "I have heard from colleagues working in Canada that every once in a while, the president, high-ranking generals, and officials of the United States will meet with the leaders of overseas capital consortia at the White House, the State Department, or other more hidden places, plan and organize joint operations, and prepare to send military troops to occupy and control the Caribbean and northern South America."

The Americans' ambitions are growing, and they always fantasize about driving the empire and other European countries out of the Americas, and then enjoying the economic benefits of the whole of North and South America for themselves. ”

"Yes, Americans are becoming more and more confident in their own strength, and less and less interested in the interests of the British Empire."

Williams said: "Twenty years ago, the Americans only threatened the empire and European countries to give up colonizing the independent American countries in the name of independence, and in recent years, the actual controllers of the major American consortia have repeatedly publicly announced on official occasions that they oppose the activities of the empire and European countries to carry out economic cooperation in the Americas, and at the same time, the US government has also begun to use their strength and military power to exert pressure on Caribbean countries one by one.

They even threatened to land "marines", demanding that these countries refrain from granting concessions and contracts to Imperial and European capital, and even forcing these countries to abolish agreements already signed with Imperial and European investors.

A year earlier, in 1878, an economic consortium in the empire had negotiated with the Mexican government in order to obtain normal economic and trade licenses in Baja California.

Just as the two sides were about to reach a formal cooperation agreement, the news leaked and reached the ears of the Americans, and within a few days, the US government threatened the Mexican government with the cancellation of economic cooperation with the empire's local consortium.

At that time, because some members of the Empire's native parliament advocated compromise with the United States and eased political relations with the United States, the excessive demands of the Americans were satisfied, which also fueled the Americans' expansion ambitions in the Americas, which in turn led to the passivity and disadvantage of the Empire's economic and political activities in the Americas. ”

Williams was very dissatisfied with the hegemony of the Americans and the compromise and concession of the British government, but intellectually, Williams also knew that Britain was a global empire, and Britain not only had interests in the Americas. In other worlds, there are also potential enemies that Britain faces are not only the United States, but also Russia, Germany, France, and other countries.

Unlike other countries, the United States has the greatest overall strength and development potential, and it also poses the greatest challenge to Britain's maritime hegemony.

The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty! The United States not only has the strength to threaten Britain's global hegemony, but also shows its ambition to expel British power and dominate the Americas; if other countries honestly coexist in accordance with Britain's balanced strategy, then Britain may not be able to make up its mind to go all out to curb US expansion in overseas regions, but international diplomatic relations and cooperation and competition between countries are not simply black and white relations. Rather, it is a mixture of intricacies, cooperation and competition, friendship and hostility.

It is true that Britain maintains temporary peaceful relations with Russia, Germany, and France, but in Africa and the Middle East. France is the UK's biggest competitor.

In the Far East and Central Asia, Russia was the main enemy of Britain.

In Europe, Germany and Britain have serious economic conflicts and competitions.

For example, such complex international relations involve a lot of energy and military power in the United Kingdom, and the impact of such international games is that the economic and military power that Britain can invest in the Americas does not have an advantage over the United States.

Moreover, with the rapid development of the domestic economy of the United States, the overall strength of Britain and the United States in South America will undergo changes that are even more unfavorable to the United Kingdom.

At least for the British diplomats in Latin America, who often deal with the United States, it has become the consensus that they should pay attention to the real changes in the strength of the United States, and at the same time use the political and economic advantages accumulated by Britain in the early days to weaken and slow down the speed at which the United States becomes the dominant power in the Americas.

In the eyes of most British politicians, it is almost an unstoppable trend for the United States to become the hegemon of the Americas, and all they can do is to find allies as much as possible to delay the pace of the United States becoming the hegemon of the Americas.

It is precisely because of this concept that Britain and the United States have both competition and hostility in South America, as well as compromise and concession.

Even when the time really comes to relinquish dominance in South America, Britain will not leave in disgrace, but will choose a relatively advantageous way to withdraw from South America with dignity.

Of course, the timing of the withdrawal from South America may be between 10 or 8 years, or it may be decades later, and the timing of the start of the withdrawal plan depends on the speed of the Americans' overseas expansion, the British government's assessment of the political and economic value of South America, and the degree of cooperation of the American allies.

The Second Paraguayan War ostensibly involved Paraguay, the Republic of Brazil, and the Han Kingdom of South America, but behind the invisible, the Americans used the war to expand their influence in southern South America.

The U.S. consortium met secretly with senior officials of the Brazilian Republican government, and the U.S. minister to the Brazilian Republic took the initiative to find a consortium to undertake the war bonds issued by the Brazilian Republic.

The Americans were secretly maneuvering, and although the British had not yet obtained detailed information, Williams had probably guessed the Americans' intentions by analyzing the information provided by some of the pro-British compradors of the Brazilian Republic.

It is nothing more than persuading the government of the Republic of Brazil to accept capital investment from the United States, demanding that the United States be the first economic cooperation country and expel British capital and investment in the Republic of Brazil.

And if the speculation goes a little deeper, it is not impossible for the Americans to propose to the Republic of Brazil such conditions as leasing military bases and deploying military forces under the pretext of maintaining peace in South America.

Williams was almost certain that behind the withdrawal of the three British consortia from the Brazilian Republic, there must be Americans who were causing trouble.

It's just that in the face of the unbreakable competition between the United States and Britain, he has no appropriate way to fight back.