"Engage in a tripartite military exercise with the Mi Guoyan? All right! I agree with these tripartite military exercises! Hu Zhen couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he heard this.

However, the US fleet, which has evil intentions, refused to participate in the tripartite joint military exercise on the grounds that it was going to carry out a military mission.

As a result, the British fleet and the Huaxia fleet ignored the Chinese fleet and held military exercises, but after half a day of the incident, the Chinese fleet received instructions from China and told the joint military exercise command that the United States fleet was willing to be an observer of the exercise and watch the exercise.

Hu Zhen, the actual commander of the Huaxia fleet, immediately agreed to the request of the Chinese fleet to be an observer, and through the commander of the fleet, Zheng Dingbang, and the commander of the British fleet, Huaide, also agreed.

As a result, the Huaxia Army Fleet and the British Fleet held a large-scale joint exercise in the Caribbean Sea, while the Mi Fleet watched coldly from the sidelines.

The joint military exercise lasted two full days, and the exercise included a confrontation between the columns of the large fleet, a charge by a cruiser, a torpedo attack by a destroyer, and an artillery performance by a battleship, as well as an amphibious landing exercise.

The content of these exercises is not unusual for the soldiers of the United States fleet, but the artillery shooting performance of the Huaxia fleet in the exercise shocked them unusually:

The accuracy of artillery fire of the Huaxia Army was at least twice as high as that of the English fleet!

This Huaxia fleet has only been in army for a few years, how did they get it? Could it be that the law of a century-old navy is wrong? Or do the Chinese have some technical secrets?

A series of question marks, the people of the United States very much want to know the answer, and the English people also want to know the answer very much.

Obviously, in the later stages of the exercise, the English seemed to know the secret, but the Americans did not know the essentials.

This was also Hu Zhen's arrangement, in order to obtain the support of the English Empire for the rapid expansion of the Huaxia Guild in the world, in addition to giving a little stake in the Panama Canal to the English company, he also transferred to the English two technologies that changed the strength of the navy - the technical secrets of radio and rangefinder.

Many people think that Hu Zhen should not hand over these two technical secrets that can completely change the strength of the world's navy to the British, but Hu Zhen knows it very well. According to the trend of technological development in Europe, in a maximum of five years, the two major technologies of radio and warship ranging fire control systems will be developed, and it is better to develop them without the Europeans having a research and development base. I can sell these two technologies at a good price, and in the future, I will have more control over the development direction of these two technologies.

In fact, the English Navy was shocked that the Chinese Guild had mastered these two technologies, which were approved by Prime Minister Salisbury. The English Foreign Office and the Admiralty quickly reached a secret deal with the Huaxia Guild:

Publicly declare support for the Pontianak Treaty between the Huaxia Guild and the Kingdom of Spain, and support the Huaxia Guild to build a canal in Panama, so as to obtain these two technologies that are ahead of their time!

The people of the United States are helpless about this: with the strength of the fleet of the United States, the naval battle of Hawaii proved that it was only between the two fleets of the Chinese Army, and now there is another English fleet to disrupt the situation, and it is definitely not the opponent of the two fleets of the other side!

As the situation in the Caribbean continued to deteriorate, so did the country's domestic financial market, which soon turned into an economic crisis.

Hu Zhen took the opportunity to transfer a large amount of funds from Europe to make waves in the financial market of the United States. Both shorting the stock market and robbing the real economy took advantage of the fire, which gave the US government a headache.

The domestic economy is not good, the US government is considering whether to fight a war to divert the attention of the people, the Indians in the country suddenly broke out a big uprising, the 30,000 or 40,000 Indians in the western part of the country do not know where to get German-made advanced rifles, artillery, and launch a fierce attack on the white-controlled areas.

Mexico, which was robbed of a large area of territory by the United States, was also ready to act after receiving secret weapons assistance from the Huaxia Guild, and small groups of troops and militias continued to infiltrate the border of the United States, move boundary monuments, and provide weapons to the American Indian Resistance Army to train the army.

In this case, where does the Mi people have enough strength to PK with the Huaxia fleet?

Mexican, Indian actions. Of course, it was funded and instigated by Hu Zhen, which in Hu Zhen's view, only spent less than 200,000 pounds of investment to attract the attention of the Chinese people. Even if it's temporarily appealing to the past three or five months, it's really worth it.

At this time, Hu Zhen took the opportunity to jump out and be a good person, and told the diplomats of the United States that the Huaxia Association intends to purchase 100 million yuan of industrial equipment and railway construction equipment.

If this 100 million rice yuan is converted into currency 120 years later, it will be 100 billion rice yuan and 680 billion yuan. That's a staggering number! Although it is only a theoretical order, far from the money officially delivered, it is a savior for the economy of the United States.

Hu Zhen This is a gesture to show for the Huaxia Army to gain a firm foothold in the Caribbean, as for whether it is really for the Chinese people to order later, it depends on the situation.

At this time, the Mi government also needed time to deal with domestic affairs in order to be able to crisscross the world, and had to temporarily put down its hostility towards the Chinese Guild, and temporarily acquiesced to the Chinese Guild's control of the Caribbean colonies and the Panama Canal, but there was an undercurrent inside, and many Mi army generals, especially the admirals, were brewing an attack on the Chinese forces in the Caribbean.

But no matter what, under Hu Zhen's careful operation, the forces of the Huaxia Guild smoothly extended into the Caribbean Sea without firing a single shot, and laid the first steel nail in the backyard of the United States.

After handling the relationship with the people of the United States and allowing the situation to stabilize temporarily, Hu Zhen turned to focus on the excavation of the Panama Canal.

In fact, in February 1883, the French company has officially started to dig the Panama Canal, but the Panama Isthmus is a tropical rainforest climate, humid and sultry, dense jungle, traffic blockage, complex terrain, backward infrastructure, lack of minimum construction conditions, when 40,000 construction workers arrived, people found that it was simply a hell on earth: the towering dense forest was full of poisoning insects, intolerable, and the hot weather spread terrible epidemics, taking the lives of a large number of workers and technicians.

At first, the designer Reseb copied the experience of the Suez Canal in Africa, thinking that it was possible to use the numerous lakes of the Isthmus of Panama to build a sea-level canal, but after four years of construction, the arrogant French discovered that the sea surface of the Panamanian Isthmus near the Pacific end was 5-6 meters lower than the Caribbean end, and it was impossible to build a sea-level canal, and this late discovery dealt a fatal blow to the French Interoceanic Canal Company.

In addition, there was a conscious and organized disturbance by the Chinese, and the design of the canal was parallel to the American-run Panama Railway, which was mainly to facilitate the transportation of supplies, but the Americans did not cooperate at all. The railway department put up obstacles and treated the distribution of canal materials in every possible way, and finally forced the French Canal Company to buy the railway, which was only worth $7.5 million, at a sky-high price of 25.5 million US dollars.

The worst thing is that the Canal Company also had problems in operation and management, and its senior management wantonly embezzled the funds of the canal shares issued to the public; In order to cover up the truth, the French government continued to issue additional bonds and bribed officials with large sums of money, and 150 ministers and parliamentarians of the French government accepted bribes, and in 1889, the French Interoceanic Canal Company was exhausted and had to be declared bankrupt, and the company's founder and technical director, Reseb, were also sent to prison.

However, the Republic of Colombia, where the canal is located, did not have enough financial resources to continue the construction of the canal, so Hu Zhen made a move at this time, paid 1 million pounds of free aid to the Colombian government, and won the right to build the Panama Canal at an annual rent of 500,000 pounds, and after the completion of the 10-year construction period, he had the right to manage the canal and the right to garrison the canal zone for 99 years. (To be continued.) )