Li Mu is now one of the shareholders of the Great Lakes Mining Company, so this matter, Li Mu is not good at eating alone, and there is a Rockefeller next to him, if Li Mu's bowl of water is not even, it is estimated that several partners will have a lot of opinions.

Money is inexhaustible, Li Mu has long been mentally prepared, the new government of Luzon is not capable of developing its own mineral resources, want to exchange resources for money, must introduce foreign assets, looking for Li Mu, it is better than looking for the British or French, at the very least, Li Mu will give the new government of Luzon a good price.

"Reem, let's start with it, if oil resources are found in Luzon, then it can only be developed by Standard Oil." Rockefeller did not forget to give Li Mu a vaccination, other mineral resources, Rockefeller can not care, oil is Rockefeller's bottom line.

"No problem, as long as it's oil, it'll be given to you." Li Mu is very generous, anyway, there are no oil fields in Luzon, if Rockefeller is willing to waste manpower, Li Mu has no opinion.

"I always feel like you're too happy to agree." Rockefeller didn't feel good, but he didn't know what the problem was.

"I've told you, but you don't want to admit it, what can I do?" Li Mu is also helpless, no one believes the truth these days, and good people really can't be deserved.

In addition to the new Luzon government officials, there were also envoys from various countries in Luzon, and the only one who could talk to Li Mu was Baron Reem, unfortunately, because Baron Reem successfully solved the "oil crisis" in Sumatra, so he was appointed as the Dutch ambassador to Luzon.

Until now, Baron Riem has not understood why Li Mu is interested in so many islands that are uninhabited, this question may not be understood by Baron Riem in his lifetime, a country with a population of less than five million people cannot understand the desire for land in a country with a population of 40,000.

"I must warn you, Mr. Ream, that I have heard that both the English and the French are interested in New Guinea, and if you are going to be the master of New Guinea, then you should be quick." Baron Riem was in a good mood, this was a problem for the Dutch in the past, and now this trouble belongs to Li Mu.

"Thanks for the reminder, I have sent four expeditions, and no matter which direction the British and French land on the island, they will meet the mercenaries of the Far East Company, and by the way, there is no New Guinea now, I call that island Jurassic." Li Mu is not worried, as long as it is not an act of the state, Li Mu is fully confident in dealing with those sporadic adventurers.

In fact, Western colonialism was not an act of the state at the beginning, and explorers played a key role in this process, and many islands were discovered by explorers, and then transferred their rights and interests to the state, and then became colonies of the state.

Baron Riem didn't care whether the island was called New Guinea or Jurassic, Li Mu's actions were very fast, which made Baron Riem a little disappointed, when he sold New Guinea to Li Mu, the Dutch were not happy, the cannibals on the island of New Guinea were terrible, and it was also a fact that the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies was unable to develop the island of New Guinea.

"Mr. Ream, I heard that you are cleaning up the indigenous tribes of New Guinea, and I have a proposal, if you don't want to see those terrible cannibals, you can hand them over to us, and we can help you deal with those troubles." Baron Riem saw the needle, this is the sorrow of the small country and the widow, the population, is an important factor restricting the development of the Dutch East Indies.

Just as Baron Riem could not understand Li Mu's desire for land, Li Mu could not understand the Dutch's desire for population, the Dutch wanted to develop the Dutch East Indies, plantations needed a large number of farmers, processing plants needed a large number of workers, and even the army of the Dutch East Indies colonial government also needed a large number of soldiers.

Li Mu doesn't have this problem here, let's not talk about how many Chinese can immigrate in the empire, there are actually a large number of Chinese in the whole of Southeast Asia, Li Mu doesn't need indigenous tribes at all, but this doesn't mean that Li Mu wants to be cheap Dutch.

"What cannibals? Do you mean Jurassic? No, there are no cannibals on Jurassic Island, not a single one. Li Mu flatly denied it, and resolutely refused to admit that there were indigenous people on Jurassic Island, and if this problem was not handled well, there would be great hidden dangers in the future.

Regarding the hidden dangers of the indigenous people, there are two very clear examples in the 21st century, one is the United States, the other is South Africa, which are also countries established by immigrants, the attitude of the United States towards the Indians is to exterminate them, and the attitude of the Dutch farmers towards the black South Africans is to divide the land, and the result is obvious, in the 21st century, the voice of the Indians cannot be heard in the world, and the whites have become a minority in South Africa, and the attitude of the black South Africans towards the whites is not as merciful as the ancestors of the white South Africans to the ancestors of the black South Africans. Li Mu would never make such a mistake.

"Well, you Americans are so hateful." Baron Riem has ignored Li Mu's complexion and treats Li Mu as an outright American, which may make Baron Rim feel better.

The world knows about the massacre of Native Americans by white Americans, but sadly, no one sees it as a humanitarian disaster in the United States, as if it was a matter of course for white people to treat the natives in this way.

In stark contrast, when the Haitian blacks began to liquidate the Haitian whites, the world was in an uproar, and the British almost risked war with France to insist on justice for the Haitian whites.

"Alright, don't say you Dutch are like saints." Li Mu is not polite, the Dutch are no better than the Americans in this regard, if the Netherlands also has a population of 50 million, see how the Dutch will treat the natives of the East Indies, it is estimated that the attitude is as resolute as Li Mu.

Baron Rim was noncommittal, and quickly opened the topic after a haha, not entangled with Li Mu on this topic.

"Excuse me, Baron Reem, I would like to discuss with you the development of the Sumatra oil fields." Rockefeller suddenly appeared, interrupting the conversation between Li Mu and Baron Ream, and giving Li Mu a hidden look.

Li Mu raised his head, and a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of a French naval officer raised his glass to Li Mu again.

"Hello Mr. Reem, I'm Commander Livier of the Cochinchina Navy, and it's a pleasure to meet you." When he came to Li Mu's side, Livier took the initiative to introduce himself.

Li Mu thought for a while before he understood what "Cochinchina" was, that was the predecessor of French Indochina, during this period, the Sino-French War had not yet started, and France was still encroaching on Vietnam, and it was not until 1887 that the French would upgrade "CochinChina" to "Indochina".

Thinking of this, Li Mu seemed to understand why Livier appeared here.

"Mr. Ream, I have a business here, I wonder if you're interested?" Livier really asked for something, said hello, and immediately got to the point.

"Tell me about it, if it's suitable, of course I won't say no." Li Mu is certainly interested, especially in cooperating with an old imperialist country like France.

Sure enough, Li Mu's expectation that Livier came to Li Mu without leaving the house, and it was indeed related to the French war against Vietnam.

During the Second Opium War, the French began to occupy southern Vietnam by force, which is the "Cochinchina" in the French population, when the six provinces of southern Vietnam became French colonies, and then the French continued to the north, trying to expand the colony, in 1873, under the instruction of the Cochinchina Governorate, a French adventurer named An Ye led more than 100 men to invade and capture Hanoi and its vicinity.

King Nguyen Phuc Thi of Vietnam asked the Black Flag Army, which was stationed at Bao Thanh on the Sino-Vietnamese border at the time, to help resist the French invasion, and in December of the same year, the Black Flag Army defeated the French army on the outskirts of Hanoi, killing An Di, and the French army was forced to retreat to southern Vietnam.

The following year, the Governor of Cochinchina and the Yuan Dynasty signed the Vietnam-France Treaty of Peace and Alliance in Saigon, opening the Red River to France and granting France various rights and interests in northern Vietnam.

Three years ago, in 1875, the Governor's Office of Cochinchina sent a note to the Qing government, announcing the contents of the "Vietnam-France Treaty of Peace and Alliance", with the intention of seeking recognition from the Qing government, so as to rule out the influence of Chinese culture on Vietnam.

Livier's purpose in coming to Li Mu was simple, hoping that Li Mu would send a team of mercenaries to launch a new attack on Hanoi instead of the Cochinchina Governorate.

"The Cochin-China Governorate will pay a fee for this to satisfy the Far Eastern Company, and if it succeeds, we hope to continue this model, and if it does not succeed, the Far Eastern Company can also gain the friendship of the Cochin-China Governorate, of course, the Cochin-China Governorate will not recognize that the mercenaries are related to the Cochin-China Governorate." Livière had the usual arrogance and self-righteousness of the French, who looked down on the British, on the Americans, on anyone but France.

"General Livier, I have a question, what gave you the courage to dare to attack a city with a population of tens of thousands and thousands of garrisons with only a hundred people?" Li Mu is really curious, the adventurers in this period are indeed bold, there is nothing they dare not do, people like An Ye are actually people who take their lives and gamble on their future, and they succeed and become famous, it doesn't matter if they fail, anyway, no one is optimistic about them.

The Far Eastern Company is different, although what the Far Eastern Company did in Luzon can be regarded as small and large, but Li Mu is not arrogant that he can capture Hanoi and its surrounding areas by sending only 100 people, even if all of them are superhumans.

"Haha, tens of thousands of people and thousands of garrisons sound terrible, in fact, they are just tens of thousands of pigs, there is no threat at all, to deal with them, more than a hundred well-trained soldiers are enough, successful examples abound, with the Cochinchina Governor's Office as a backing, Mr. Reem, you don't have to worry." Livier is not saying it lightly, but it is not Livier's arrogance, and the colonial behavior of this period is such child's play.

"So, why did Mr. An Ye fail?" Li Mu will not listen to Livier's words, Livier may not know, Li Mu knows very well, the Yuan Dynasty is indeed not worried, but the Qing government in this year still has a bit of combat effectiveness, another time and space France mobilized tens of thousands of people to launch the Sino-French War, still beaten by the Black Flag Army, the French Prime Minister resigned, it is not difficult to see from Livier's body, how arrogant the French are at this time, they deserve to be pressed to the ground by the Black Flag Army and rubbed hard.

"It was an accident, born from the despicable and shameless sneak attack of the Black Flag Army, and if it was a dignified frontal battle, France could defeat any enemy." Livier did not shy away from it in front of Li Mu, and the white people in these years did not have much concept of family and nationality, in Livier's thinking, since Li Mu had joined the American nationality, then he should be completely cut off from the Qing Empire.

"Okay, okay, of course I do." Li Mu's words are very perfunctory, it's not that Li Mu looks down on the French, since Napoleon stepped down, France is Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and every year is not as good as a year, but it's a pity that the French don't seem to have discovered this and are still living in the glory of the past.

Maybe Li Mu should mention it without a trace, because of the reparations of the Franco-Prussian War, Li Mu is still a creditor of the French government, maybe then Livier will be more restrained in front of Li Mu.

But there is no need for this, Li Mu is still more merciful to his potential customers, and the more Livier emphasized, the more he looks like a proud little rooster, and it is quite interesting to tease and play.

"Let's talk about how much money the Cochinchina Governorate can pay for mercenaries, declare in advance that we are mercenaries, not death squads, so such a task as an attack on Hanoi by a hundred people will not be undertaken by the Far East Company." Li Mu first explained that lest the Liviena mercenaries be used as death squads, and Livier was willing to do it, but Li Mu was not willing to do it.

"Mr. Reem, how many mercenaries do you think will be needed if you want to attack Hanoi?" Livier probably didn't expect Li Mu to be so resolute, frowning and thinking for a while, Livier found a key problem.

"If you only attack, then it doesn't matter how many people there are, even if it is three or five people, you can carry out a small-scale attack on Hanoi, but the effect is not guaranteed, if you want to occupy, then you need at least a thousand mercenaries, and at the same time, you need the cooperation of the navy." Li Mu didn't have a lion to open his mouth, a thousand people is Li Mu's bottom line, a hundred-person army similar to An Ye should forget it, this is a war, not a joke, Livier doesn't know about the Black Flag Army, Li Mu is no stranger to the Black Flag Army, as the only bright spot in the Qing Empire's modern foreign wars, the victory of Zhennanguan was written into middle school textbooks.

"A thousand people - how much does that cost?" Livier already had a premonition that the mercenaries of the Far East Company were indeed strong, but the price was not cheap, and Livier did not think that Li Mu would give a discount to the Cochinchina Governorate.