By the 5th of August, the United States of Cuba had taken more than 67,000 prisoners, including more than 13,000 Spaniards, including three counts, seven viscounts, and more than 20 barons, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars alone. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because the number of ordinary captives is large enough, the value is relatively higher, Li Mu leased 15,000 captives to Green Giles, and Green Giles needs to pay Li Mu 300,000 US dollars a month for this; Li Mu also lent 20,000 captives to the United Cuban States at the same price of $20 per month and per month, because the United Cuban States did not have the cash to pay the rent, so the rent was covered by the plantations and mines in the Spanish-occupied areas of the island of Cuba.

One of the advantages of using prisoners of war as laborers is that they don't have to worry about the death of laborers, if they are hired workers, accidents at work are to be compensated, the amount of compensation varies, generally speaking, it is better to die, the general standard is two years of workers' salary, if it is calculated according to the monthly salary of twenty dollars, it is about five hundred dollars, if it is injured, it can be a big trouble, counting the cost of treatment and compensation, the standard can break through the sky.

It may seem a bit cruel to say that, but it's realistic.

In fact, prisoners of war were compensated more for accidents at work, but for Green Giles and Sylvester, they could get a share of the compensation paid to prisoners of war, but they had no idea what compensation they paid to hired workers.

In this comparison, prisoners of war are really popular.

Relatively speaking, Li Mu's manpower gap is even greater, Li Mu's projects are more, to build ports, to build factories, and plantations and mines need to be taken care of, and the remaining more than 30,000 people, let a few places be divided, but there is still a shortage of manpower, which makes Li Mu have to send a telegram to Will, instructing Will to get more prisoners of war.

It was in early August that asphalt from the island of Trinidad finally arrived at Guantanamo.

Li Mu started the idea of pitching in May, but he couldn't find a suitable transport ship, so he had to order it from the New York shipyard, until last month, when the first dedicated asphalt carrier was finally delivered, becoming the first professional cargo ship of Rim Corbyn Ocean Shipping Company.

Rim-Corbin Ocean Shipping Company is the company that Li Mu and Abel partnered, this company now has a total of six ocean liners, four running between New York and Europe, and two running from the Far East to San Francisco.

"We have followed the path of Mr. Sanchez, the British Administrator in Trinidad, and such a five-hundred-ton bitumen ship will cost no more than two hundred dollars from Trinidad to Guantanamo, and will hardly cost anything-" Gabriel Cotton, general manager of the Rim-Corbyn Ocean Shipping Company, looked at the freighter that was sailing into Guantanamo Bay, and reported to Li Mu in a respectful but reserved tone: "In accordance with your instructions, we have added ten such freighters to the shipyard, and within this year, These ships will all be delivered. ”

Gabriel Callon is a professional manager hired by Li Mu through J.P. Morgan, Li Mu and Abel have no time to manage the company, so hiring a professional manager is the best way, and at the same time, for the sake of fairness, the company's finances are also managed by a professional accounting company, so what Li Mu and Abel have to do is to pave the way for the company, and then sit back and wait for the money to be collected.

Trinidad is currently a colony of the British, who did not recognize the huge development value of asphalt, so Gabriel could easily obtain asphalt from Trinidad at little to no cost.

The improvement of road traffic is an important symbol of social development, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, so Li Mu is ready to promote asphalt roads in San Diego, Guantanamo, and Springfield, so that a large amount of asphalt will be needed, so Li Mu will add orders to maximize the value of these asphalt.

"How much can a shipload of bitumen sell for in Europe?" Li Mu not only wants to use it himself, but also wants to transport asphalt to Europe, others don't understand the value of asphalt, but Li Mu knows it very well.

"To Europe - about twenty-five thousand dollars -- " Gabriel's eyes lit up, and he immediately saw the prospect of asphalt.

Fifty dollars a ton, that's a pretty good price, after all, the asphalt itself has almost no cost, and almost all of it is a profit after removing the cost of transportation, and such a business can make people crazy.

"What is the name of the British Administrator in Trinidad?" Li Mu decided to monopolize this unique business, and there is such an asphalt lake in the world, which must be firmly controlled in his hands.

"Sanchez, Sanchez Trollope." Gabriel lamented in his heart that another opportunity to make a fortune was gone.

"Sounds like a South American—" Li Mu was a little skeptical, if he was a South American, then it was unlikely that he would be directly appointed as the chief executive by the British.

"It's a pure British, but he was born in South America, and Sanchez's father was originally a British colonial officer in South America." Although Gabriel regretted it, he didn't dare to hide it, and it was only when he arrived in Cuba that Gabriel knew how huge Li Mu's power was.

Abel is showing off his might under the banner of the brother-in-law of the president of the United States, but Abel also has to abide by the rules of the game in the United States, and it is impossible to be unscrupulous, and Li Mu is the real one-handed cover in Cuba, where Li Mu is omnipotent, and his power is unchecked.

So although Gabriel regrets, he definitely doesn't dare to snatch food from Li Mu's mouth, Gabriel may have entered the elite class in the United States, but in Cuba, Li Mu can make Gabriel disappear in minutes.

"Very well, tell Mr. Sanchez that I have a business to talk to him about." Li Mu is full of ambition to turn the asphalt lake on the island of Trinidad into his own small treasury.

"Yes sir—" Gabriel bowed down, it sounded like Li Mu didn't plan to go to Trinidad, so Gabriel had to find a way to get Sanchez to come to Guantanamo.

In fact, compared with Santiago, Guantanamo's urban construction started earlier, especially the road from Guantanamo Bay to Guantanamo City, the roadbed has been repaired early, and the paving machinery purchased from Europe has already arrived in Guantanamo, just waiting for the asphalt to come, and the construction can start immediately.

When the freighter docked at the wharf, the relevant technicians and workers waited on the wharf, the asphalt is liquid, and it must be transferred to a special carriage and sent to the construction site for heating before it can be used.

"Oh my god, this stuff smells weird." Green Giles complained and came to Li Mu, and it seemed that he would go to San Diego with Li Mu in the evening, and wait for ten days and a half to come back.

The smell of asphalt is indeed a bit big, in fact, this is just natural asphalt, if it was that kind of coal coke asphalt, Li Mu would have hid in San Diego a long time ago, and the coal coke asphalt sometimes contains carcinogens.

But even so, it has become unbearable for Green Giles, who in the 19th century had almost no industrial pollution compared to the United States in the 21st century, and Green Giles was accustomed to this kind of green water and could not stand the pungent smell.

"It's not heated yet, and when it does, it tastes like tsk." Li Mu deliberately provoked Green Giles, full of malice.

"Don't talk about it, I think it's better for us to go to San Diego quickly." Green Giles can't stand it and wants to leave his post now.

What does it matter, anyway, there is no one to supervise Greene Giles, the supreme administrator of Guantanamo, and the United States at this time also has no supervision.

"It's the same in Santiago, another ship will arrive in Santiago in a few days." Li Mu did not leave a way for Green Giles to live, and what is now Cuba, like the Celestial Empire at the end of the 20th century, is a big construction site.

With more than 30,000 prisoners of war, the construction of the port area of San Diego has advanced by leaps and bounds, and in just four or five days, the sewers in the port area have begun to be laid, and the work is expected to be completed within half a month.

This is also thanks to the early construction of the Chinese workers, after all, before the prisoners of war entered the construction site, the tunnel operation of the main sewer has been basically completed, there is no shield machine in this year, and the only way to dig the hole is to use shovels and pickaxes, just a month of work, the Chinese workers have dug the five-kilometer-long main tunnel, this speed is enough to prove the hardships and hard work of the Chinese workers.

Of course, the work efficiency of the prisoners of war is also good, from the first batch of prisoners of war into the work area to now is only a short week, the prisoners of war completed twice the workload of the Chinese workers, thanks to the Cuban overseers hired by Li Mu, under the hard work of the Cuban overseers, more than 70 prisoners of war died in a week due to various accidents, an average of nearly 10 people a day.

With such diligent workers, the construction work of the port area is naturally a thousand miles a day, and the person in charge of the project, Norman Noah, an American engineer, proudly reported to Li Mu last night that it is expected that the first phase of the construction of the port area will not have to wait until the end of the year, and will be completed in October at most.

"Ream, I have a good place, how about going to the Bahamas?" Green Giles' eyes lit up suddenly.

"The Bahamas? Where can I go? Li Mu doesn't know about the Bahamas, only that the Bahamas used to be a tourist attraction in the 21st century, but in this era, the Bahamas is a British colony, and Li Mu, an American, seems to be unable to run to the British colony casually.

"Of course you can go, don't you have a Ranger, let's go with the Ranger, take your guards, no one dares to trouble us." Greene Giles speaks as boldly as the Bahamas is terra nullius.

"Go with the Rangers - do you want the United States of Cuba to go to war with the British?" Li Mu disagreed, and the current Li Mu couldn't afford to mess with the British.

"No, no, at most a war with pirates, the British will not care—" Green Giles was confident.

Pirate!

Li Mu immediately came to the spirit.