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The harvest of the coup day includes two parts: precious metals and antique oil paintings, precious metals are good to say, the valuation of antique oil paintings is actually not very accurate, after all, Raul They are not professional antique experts, a little mistake is normal, and this part will not be easy to realize for a while and a half, so this part will be directly divided.

The total value of precious metals was about $4 million, and the five-member group headed by Li Mu set up an investment company called "Santiago" to specialize in investing in Cuba, and the first investment was to rebuild Santiago.

It is indeed necessary to rebuild, and Santiago, which was once the second largest city in Cuba, is now almost in ruins.

After the establishment of the United States of Cuba, Santiago was still the capital, and Santiago is the face of the United States of Cuba, so it is reasonable and reasonable to build a beautiful Santiago, so that Li Mu and they can proudly declare that they have brought prosperity and development to Cuba.

After surveying the topography of San Diego, Nelson Morris first established the central axis of the city of "Presidential Palace-Victory Square-San Diego Port", and then began to build around the central axis.

As for the materials needed to rebuild Santiago, there is no need to worry, Santiago is a port city surrounded by mountains, and there is a lot of marble and wood on the Maestra Mountain, and it is easy to import building materials through the port, as long as there are enough people and money, these are not a problem.

At this time, the United States of Cuba was strictly a planned economy, and the collapse of the original socio-economic system, the paralysis of commerce and industry, the unemployment of a large number of urban populations, and the influx of more people into the labour market after the abolition of slavery further exacerbated the problem.

In order to ensure a stable United States of Cuba, Sylvester must first help the unemployed workers of Santiago to find work, otherwise the unemployed army will sooner or later become unbearable again without the Spaniards attacking.

"There are vast areas of plantations around Santiago, but unfortunately, most of the crops grown in these plantations are sugar cane and tobacco, in addition to some tropical fruits, but they are not very useful, this is at most an after-dinner dessert, but the staple food is still not settled-" Li Mu directly pointed out the problems that the United States of Cuba is currently facing at the joint meeting.

Even up to the present day, even into the twenty-first century, the Cuban economy has maintained a single economic development model dominated by sugar production.

This is the main way the Spaniards control Cuba, a huge country, actually does not produce food, this forces Cuba to maintain a strong economic dependence, if there is no foreign aid, the common people will have a problem to eat, hungry always have no mood to toss.

In order to better control Cuba, the Spaniards even turned a blind eye to the rich fishing resources around Cuba and strictly forbade the Cubans to develop marine fisheries, which forced the Cubans to concentrate on producing sugar and Havana cigars for the Spaniards, and wanted to eat meat and rice.

It sounds like a bit of a chicken thief, right, but Li Mu also plans to do this: "The grain I bought from the United States has been loaded from Miami and can arrive in San Diego within three days, so don't worry about the food problem, what you have to do at present is to find jobs for the unemployed workers in San Diego, as long as they have something to eat, you can stabilize their emotions-"

Li Mu then explained the concept of "cash-for-work" to Sylvester and Nelson, as for how to operate, this is the task of Sylvester and Nelson, these two are qualified politicians, in the case that Li Mu has proposed a solution, if they can't even do this, then they had better go home and pick up their children.

"We have a plan here, and if we want to rebuild San Diego, we need at least five million dollars." Nelson's face was full of sadness, and he handed Li Mu a plan as he spoke.

Although Darwin Andrew and Rayleigh Toynby had previously forced the sale of a batch of government bonds, that money was a drop in the bucket for a country, and it could last for months to pay its employees, but it would not even make a splash if it was used for urban construction.

"Funds - the Santiago Investment Corporation has them, but what do you use to guarantee the solvency of the United States of Cuba?" Li Mu is on official business, and his own people must also settle accounts.

"We can guarantee it with taxes, Mr. Reem, you now have a huge area of plantations and mines, and we can give you tax exemption." Nelson blinked his little eyes, he didn't pay for it himself anyway, and the conditions were very refreshing.

"Well, that sounds good—" Li Mu was noncommittal.

Tax-free, this condition is quite good, even the plantations and mines under the names of Darwin Andrew and Rayleigh Toynbee were taxed before, with tax-free treatment, the enterprises under the name of Li Mu in Cuba will be "a country within a country" in the future.

"There's also the lease of the port of Santiago, and if you come and invest, Mr. Reem, we can lease the port of Santiago to you for a certain number of years, and then use the taxes you collect to repay the investment." Nielsen continues to sell, which is the rhythm of praising Li Mu as the "emperor".

"Of course we still have cane sugar - I wonder if you, Mr. Ream, are you interested in the agency of Cuban cane sugar?" Nielsen continued to increase his weight, and spared no effort to help Li Mu dig into the corner of the United Cuban States.

"Very good, that's it, I'll pay for it." Li Mu was finally satisfied.

Compared with the duty-free and port operation rights, Li Mu attaches more importance to the agency rights of Cuban cane sugar.

Since the 16th century, the Cubans began to grow cane sugar on the island of Cuba, until the uprising of the Republic of Cuba, one-fifth of the world's cane sugar produced in Cuba, and this is not the limit, the future Cuban sugar production once accounted for 40% of the world's sugar, so the current output still has potential to be tapped, although now the United States of Cuba has not unified the island of Cuba, the value of the cane sugar agency is not high, but as long as the Spaniards are driven out, then the cane sugar agency will provide Li Mu with countless money every year.

This is also the cunning of Sylvester and Nelson, the conditions they set will not be fulfilled until the future, if Li Mu does not want his interests to be damaged, then Li Mu can only wholeheartedly support the United Cuban States to drive out the Spaniards.

Well, it's not easy to make it clear who has the advantage in this deal, which in itself is a complementary thing.

After the joint meeting, Li Mu returned to the San Diego military camp and listened to the report compiled by Raul: "Around San Diego, you now have a total of 30,000 acres of plantations, as well as two sugar factories, as well as four mines, a quarry, and two lumber yards in the Maestra Mountains, in these plantations and factories, there were more than 20,000 workers in total, and now the problem is that the machines in the factories are intact, and the sugar cane in the plantations has not been harvested, but we have no workers in our hands, "Abolition Order" After the enactment, almost all the workers on the plantations and factories fled, and manpower was an urgent problem that we had to address. ”

Sugarcane is a perennial herbaceous plant, planted once, can grow for nine to twenty years in a row, Cuba has a hot climate and abundant rainfall, is a paradise for sugarcane growth.

Spring is the season for the sugar harvest, and from about January, it will enter the three-month "harvest season", in which the sugarcane must be harvested and then sent to the sugar factory, if it is late, the sugar production will be affected.

This year's situation is different, because the continuous war has delayed the harvest of sugarcane, so the sugarcane on the plantation has not been harvested yet, and it was at this time that the United Republic of Cuba launched a coup d'état and promulgated the "Abolition Decree", which was a heavy blow to the "big slave owner" like Li Mu.

"Get the workers of the sugar factory back first, no matter what, it can't affect normal production, as for the harvesting workers, there is no need to worry, I will deal with it." Li Mu has a way, and he is not worried about the shortage of manpower at all.

In Guantanamo, Li Mu tun more than 9,000 workers, even if half of these workers were transferred back, it would be enough to solve the problem of shortage of manpower in the factory, as for the harvesting army, hehe, the most important thing in the barracks is people, at most George Dewey was invited to have a meal, not to worry about not finding enough workers.

"Mr. Fernando wants to see you, he wants to negotiate a new sales contract with you." Raul continued to report.

Fernando was a middleman who bought sugar from San Diego and shipped it to the United States to sell.

Although Cuba was a Spanish colony, it was economically heavily dependent on the United States, and more than 90 percent of the sugar produced in Cuba was shipped to the United States for sale.

Darwin Andrew and Rayleigh Toyn were slave owners, but they were not good merchants, and perhaps because they had no outlets, the sugar produced in their sugar mills had to be sold to middlemen like Fernando, who then sold it to the United States.

This point is not true here in Li Mu, Li Mu himself is an American, in New York, Li Mu has a tough background, even the chief of customs was bought by Li Mu, it is not too easy to transport some cane sugar or something, so if Fernando still wants to do cane sugar business, then he must negotiate a new contract.

"Tell him I don't have time right now." Li Mu didn't want to see Fernando, not because Li Mu didn't need a trade route, but because Li Mu had a better partner.

Morgan is on his way to San Diego, and if Li Mu needs a partner, who better fit than Morgan.