"Hmph, don't shoot this sycophant!"

Liang Kunri immediately smiled and said: "Yes, we don't shoot, we don't dare to ......"

But Cui Jinfeng beside him still didn't understand a little about something: "Sir, this leased colony of Cuba and Puerto Rico is really a little far away from us?" The supply has to cross half the world, and it has to make a detour to South America, and the most troublesome thing is that this is placed at the door of the Mi Guokee, and it is difficult for us to defend! ”

Hu Zhen pointed to the Caribbean Islands and the Isthmus of Panama on the map and said: "That's right, this eastern Cuba and Puerto Rico are placed at the door of the Mi Guoyan, I will consider coming down, don't do it now, there will be no chance in the future, this is a dagger nailed to the throat of the Mi Guoyan, we can cut it when we want, although there is a little difficulty in defense, but with the success of our negotiations with the Republic of Gran Colombia on the Panama Canal, the Panama Canal will be developed and managed by us, The navy does not have to make a detour to South America to get there, and goes directly through the Panama Canal, which will be much less difficult to defend! ”

"Panama Canal!" Liang Kunri and Cui Jinfeng heard Hu Zhen talk about this for the first time, and immediately raised their eyes to look at Niu Quyun.

Niu Quyun nodded and said: "According to Mr.'s instructions, since the Battle of Hawaii, the negotiations with the Republic of Gran Colombia on the Panama Canal have been going on secretly for more than half a year, and now the negotiations are close to success. ”

"Okay!" Liang Kunri and Cui Jinfeng thought that this Niu Quyun was a trickster with foreigners, and it was useless at all, but they didn't expect that he could get a lot of benefits through his mouth, and from then on, they looked down on Niu Quyun and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Hu Zhen asked the generals: "After the negotiations are successful, who is willing to lead troops to Cuba and Puerto Rico to grow coffee and sugar cane!" ”

The 37,000 square kilometers of colonies leased by the Huaxia Guild in Cuba and 9,100 square kilometers in Puerto Rico were a large island colony larger than the island of Taiwan, and Hu Zhen planned to send 100,000 troops to defend it.

"I'll go!" Jiang Yunfeng, who had been silent, stood up.

"Okay, you're the first governor of our Chinese colonies in the Atlantic!" Hu Zhen was very happy, waved his hand and said to Niu Quyun:

"Very well, I was worried that the Spaniards would be stupid enough to delay the negotiations. It will lead to the intervention of the European powers or the United States, and affect our plans to gain a foothold in the Caribbean. Now that both parties are interested, let's sign the contract as soon as possible! But I would like to attach one condition: until our troops appear in the colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico, both of them will be kept in strict secrecy. I'm going to make the people of the United States not react yet. Our army is on the surface of the Atlantic! ”

At this time, the economic situation in Spain was in a mess, Queen Cristina and Sagasta were much more anxious than Hu Zhen, and they didn't dare to make a mistake, after Hu Zhen agreed to sign the treaty. Get their response immediately.

Another reason was that the Spanish rulers, out of the desire to make the Chinese guild and the industrially powerful rice people stumble, so that they could profit from it, completely agreed to publish only part of the terms of the treaty for the time being, and only after the Chinese army was stationed in western Cuba and Puerto Rico, the contents of this part of the treaty were made public.

After the two sides signed the treaty, a part of the treaty was announced, and the stock and bond markets in Spain immediately stabilized and began to gradually recover.

At this time, Zhang Suan, Ou Lang, Frodo and others who were hiding in the dark room were smiling. They already knew the outcome of the negotiations, and by the time the two sides signed the agreement, they had changed their shorts to longs in the Spanish financial markets, and they made tens of millions of pounds in just a few days when the stock and bond markets rose sharply.

So far, under the remote command of Hu Zhen, during the Luzon War, Zhang Suan, Ou Lang, Frodo and others mobilized huge funds to sweep the Spanish financial market like a tsunami, and it took only half a month before and after. Plundered hundreds of millions of pounds in wealth and took control of the top 30 most promising big companies in Spain.

The news of the defeat of the Spaniards by the Huaxia Guild and the forced cession of Luzon and the purchase of Guam spread to the whole world, causing a great shock again as the Huaxia Guild had shaken the world several times before.

But the greater shock to the people of the United States is still to come.

When Hu Zhen personally commanded the Huaxia Army's fleet of three battleships, twelve cruisers, eight destroyers, and thirty-nine transports. When more than 50,000 soldiers appeared at the port of Guantánamo to accept the colonies of Guantánamo, Santiago, Holguín, Granma, Lastunas, and Puerto Rico, the Royal Government of Spain and the Chinese Guild simultaneously announced to the world the contents of the treaty under which the Chinese Guild leased the Caribbean colonies for 99 years.

This made Benjamin Harrison, the new president of the United States, jump angrily: The Caribbean is the backyard of the United States, and the Chinese army stationed here, doesn't it make people stick a bayonet in the throat of the United States?

Public opinion in the United States is also in an uproar, and some newspapers even directly say: The Chinese Army is stationed in the Caribbean. It is the most serious provocation to the interests of the United States, and the United States will absolutely not tolerate it!

This country, which has always claimed to be righteous and upright, immediately showed a hideous appearance when its own interests were affected.

The government of the United States immediately sent people to negotiate with Spain and the Huaxia Guild, but the reply from the Huaxia Guild was: This is a treaty between Spain and the Huaxia Guild, and it has nothing to do with a third party!

The reply of the government of the Kingdom of Spain to the people of the United States is quite interesting: if the country has a strong capacity, these places can also be rented to the United States!

This is a clear attempt to provoke the people of the United States to come and fight to the death in the Caribbean with the Chinese Guild!

After receiving the hint from the Spaniards, the naval fleet of the United States urgently dispatched and formed a confrontation with the Chinese expeditionary fleet in the Caribbean Sea, and the situation was so dangerous that war was almost imminent.

What makes the people of the United States even angrier is still to come.

After half a year of negotiations, the Chinese Association and the Republic of Gran Colombia reached a treaty: the Chinese Association paid 1 million pounds of free aid to the Republic of Colombia, and obtained the right to build and manage the Panama Canal at an annual rent of 500,000 pounds.

The Huaxia Association immediately announced that it would establish the Panama Canal Management Company and station troops in the Panama Canal to protect the safety of the canal.

Since then, the Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, has been decided by Hu Zhen and the Huaxia Guild.

The United States was furious and wanted to start negotiations with the Huaxia Guild on the Caribbean colonies and the Panama Canal, but Hu Zhen once again refused without hesitation: the matter of the Huaxia Guild negotiating with a third party has nothing to do with the Chinese people, and there is no possibility of negotiation!

When Hu Zhen ordered Zheng Dingbang to command the Huaxia Army Fleet and the United States Fleet to confront each other, Jiang Yunfeng commanded 50,000 troops to land at the port of Guantanamo and Puerto Rico, and set up defensive batteries and coastal defense positions in dangerous places in the local area.

Although the people of the United States were very angry, they were far from preparing for war, and they were afraid of the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia Army's defeat of the Mi Army fleet in Hawaii, and did not dare to start the war with the first shot.

At this time, the financial market of the United States has undergone strange large fluctuations, the stock market, the bond market has been pouring out, the financial market is the place where the people of the United States rely on the world and pride, but at this moment it makes many people want to cry without tears.

In fact, this is also Hu Zhen's instruction to the Oulang Group and the Frodo Group to put the funds plundered by Spain into the rice market, taking advantage of the tense situation in the Caribbean, wantonly shorting the rice financial market, and ruthlessly making the rice people's national hardship.

When the two sides confronted each other, the fleet sent by England came to the Caribbean Sea.

Hu Zhen immediately ordered warships to be sent to pay respects and greetings to the British fleet, and invited the British fleet to participate in a joint military exercise.

The British fleet hesitated for a while and agreed to hold a naval military exercise, but proposed to hold a tripartite maritime military exercise with the United States fleet and the Huaxia military fleet.

(This book is first published at the starting point, please go to the starting point to read the original version of this book.) (To be continued.) )