After a lengthy decision-making process, Prime Minister Salisbury and the House of Commons have finally reached a resolution:

For example, for a one-time payment of 20 million pounds, the Huaxia Guild will sell the colonies on Borneo and the English colonies on the Ilian Island in West Papua to the Huaxia Guild!

If the Huaxia Guild does not have enough money, it can also take out loans, but it can only borrow from English banks, and the collateral can only be the territory under the control of the Huaxia Guild.

Politicians in England knew that it was not so much a sale of the English colonies in the Far East to the Huaxia Guild as a temporary safekeeping of the Huaxia Guild.

Because, in the eyes of the English politicians, according to the conditions they gave, the money to buy this colony must be mortgaged from the Bank of England, but the collateral can only be the territory taken from the Dutch in the hands of the Huaxia Guild, if the Huaxia Guild can repay the loan, of course the English can make a lot of money, but if they can't repay the loan in time, they will naturally have to confiscate the collateral of the Huaxia Guild.

At that time, wouldn't it be the land that the Huaxia Guild had taken from the Dutch and given it to England!

It's a great deal, so why not do it?

Moreover, this Chinese guild is just a dog in England, and this dog can also be used to contain the Germans, who are expanding their colonies on the island of Ilian in Papua.

Not only did the dog have to buy bones to fill his belly, but after he had eaten his fill, he had to continue to look hard at the English colony.

In the minds of most English politicians, the Chinese Guild is simply unable to repay the loan, and the East Indies in the hands of the Chinese Guild is already in the pocket of England.

When England needs it, in front of the world's most powerful fleet, it is not afraid that this Huaxia Guild will not hand over the land collateral.

This is the way things happen between countries, you are calculating others, but in fact others have already calculated you; You're taking advantage of others, and they're already taking advantage of you.

Politicians in England triumphantly think that England has taken advantage of it, but they don't know it. Hu Zhen took out loans from banks under the control of his own funds, and although he had to hand over some loan taxes to England, most of the profits and stock dividends he created actually fell into the hands of the capital group controlled by Hu Zhen just a corner.

Hu Zhen didn't expect that the English would offer to sell West Papua Ilian Island and Sabah together. He felt that the price of 20 million pounds was acceptable, but he still instructed Niu Quyun to bargain with the English first.

The negotiators in England were very high-profile, saying that not a pound could be lowered.

Niu Quyun said that we Oriental people have a very good face, and we can't do business without lowering the price. Just like buying and selling some vegetables in the vegetable market, you must bargain, otherwise it will be very unlucky, although Britain is the strongest in the world, but you can't help but give some face.

Under the stalemate between the two sides, it dragged for several days, and finally Niu Quyun, according to Hu Zhen's instructions, proposed that in addition to taking out a loan to buy the Brooke Dynasty and the colonies directly under the English Wing, he would also borrow 10 million pounds from the bank in England to purchase the industrial equipment and facilities of the English industry for industrial construction.

At the same time, Hu Zhen also instructed Niu Quyun to send people to Germany, France and other places to communicate. He also asked Zhang to deliberately release some gossip in the European tabloids: The Huaxia Association plans to send representatives to Germany and France to negotiate and take loans from banks in these two countries to purchase industrial equipment and facilities.

Under Hu Zhen's combination of soft and hard measures, the British negotiators had to report to the Prime Minister of Salisbury.

"No, if we want to ensure the interests of the British Empire's enterprises, we must let this Huaxia Guild mainly buy industrial equipment and facilities in Great England!"

Since the rise of Germany, the sales of industrial products in England, the world's largest industrial power, have been declining, and Prime Minister Salisbury has made a decisive decision after synthesizing information from all sides. He approved that the price of the colony could be reduced by three million pounds, but that the Chinese Guild would have to borrow another twenty million pounds from the Bank of England. It is used to purchase industrial products from English businesses.

When Hu Zhen found out, he was very happy: "This Salisbury Prime Minister is really interesting, but I won't worry about buying 20 million pounds, we not only have to buy 20 million pounds of industrial equipment." Even if it is 40 million pounds sterling industrial equipment, we can swallow it, and it is not bad to drop 3 million pounds, notify Niu Quyun to sign the contract immediately! ”

Negotiators from both sides signed the Treaty of Singapore in Singapore for the purchase of the English colony by the Chinese Guild:

First, the British Empire agreed to allow the Chinese Guild to borrow six million pounds sterling from Lloyd's Bank in England to purchase more than 124,400 square kilometers of territory of the Brooke dynasty in Sarawak, the protectorate of England.

Second, the British Empire agreed to allow the Chinese Guild to borrow 17,000,000,000 pounds from the Barclays Bank in England. Purchased 74,500 square kilometers of colonial territory in Sabah and 300,000 square kilometers of Ilian in East Papua of the British Empire.

Third, the Huaxia Guild must choose to take out a loan from a bank in England to purchase 20 million pounds of industrial equipment products within three years.

Fourth, the annual interest rate of all loans must be at least 6%.

When the news reached Pontianak, the old men and elders of the Huaxia Guild believed that 23 million pounds was converted into 161 million taels of silver, and that they would have to pay 6% of the annual interest on the loan, and that the territory was too expensive to buy.

But Hu Zhen completely disagreed with their opinions, and insisted on persuading these old men who were so heartbroken that they could barely eat that they wanted Niu Quyun and Fan Qianhai to immediately implement the provisions of the treaty.

Hu Zhen removed all obstacles, completed all the formalities in less than 20 days, paid all the money to the English government and the Brooke Dynasty, and sent troops of the Huaxia Army to complete the handover of more than 500,000 square kilometers of territory in 30 days.

So far, the territory controlled by the Nanyang Huaxia Guild has reached an area of 1.8 million square kilometers, and if according to the public law of the sea in later generations, in addition to this 1.8 million square kilometers of territory, the Huaxia Guild also controls more than twice the land area of the maritime territory.

Hu Zhen sighed greatly in his heart: "1.8 million square kilometers of land area, nearly 4 million square kilometers of ocean area, this is a tropical region, the health and medical conditions are a little better, to solve the problem of tropical germs and plagues, at least two or three hundred million people can be fed, if it is an independent country, it can be regarded as a world power, this is the first territorial gift to me in the future!" ”

At the same time as the territory was greatly expanded, under the auspices of Hu Zhen, through unremitting efforts, the victims of the Yellow River's breach of the embankment brought in 3 million people in just seven or eight months.

Among these 3 million people, most of them are healthy young adults and teenagers, and after entering the territory controlled by the Huaxia Guild, all of them have undergone more than three months of rigorous training and become hard-working and highly obedient high-quality laborers.

The assimilation of the primitive tribes in the jungles of the archipelago has not been relaxed for a moment, and under the combination of soft and hard, three million primitive aborigines have returned to their ancestors in China, "recovered" their surnames and genealogies from their homeland in China, established ancestral halls to worship them, "restored" Chinese surnames and names, and "restored" the customs of Chinese language and writing.

Hu Zhen plans to no longer write any nationality on the national household registration book and ID card in the future, but only mark it as the Chinese nation, dilute the national identity, and let most people completely integrate into the Chinese nation. For these indigenous people who "recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors", they are only taken care of for a period of time, and after they are integrated into the Chinese community, they all adopt a policy of treating them equally, and no longer use the preferential policies of ethnic minorities.

The territory under the control of the Huaxia Guild originally had more than 5 million Huaxia people, plus the 2 million disaster victims who poured in, and the 3 million primitive tribes who recognized their ancestors and returned to their ancestors, the population has exceeded 10 million.

In addition, there are more than 7 million primitive indigenous tribes, after the investigation of the Ministry of Intelligence, at least 3 million of them can be assimilated in a short period of time, so as to achieve the recognition of their ancestors, and the other 4 million people need to show the strong military strength of the Huaxia army and the combination of grace and power can be completely assimilated.

The matter of population naturalization is no longer Hu Zhen's key work, and his focus is on industrial construction, but due to the large number of ships occupied by the rush to transport the victims, less than 50,000 skilled Chinese workers have been withdrawn from the country, and there are still hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers waiting for the arrival of transport ships in the country.

In order to transport Chinese laborers from the United States, Hu Zhen and his staff department conducted several sand table exercises, intending to take the Hawaiian Islands in the center of the Pacific Ocean as a foothold across the Pacific Ocean.

During the sand table exercise, the staff officers of the General Staff all believed that a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean was neither a colony nor a protectorate of the European and American powers, and that it was not necessary to use too much military force to easily seize the Hawaiian Islands.

But Hu Zhen doesn't think so, he thinks that Hawaii's strategic position is important, and as soon as the Huaxia Guild makes a move, not to mention the neighboring Mi countries will jump, even the European powers thousands of miles away will also make moves, so it is necessary to make careful arrangements, make serious preparations, and even consider the intervention of the fleet of the Mi people, and if necessary, start a sea battle with the Mi people to determine the fate of Hawaii.

Hu Zhen was intensively planning a strategic plan to seize Hawaii at the General Staff, but after the Spring Festival in 1888, something unexpected happened to Hu Zhen: the Beiyang Fleet of the Qing Dynasty came!

The Beiyang Fleet of the Qing Dynasty has always been just an existential fleet, why did it suddenly come to the South Seas?

Are you not used to seeing the existence of such a freak organization established by the Huaxia Guild as a Chinese people, and you want to crusade against it?

Hu Zhen had to make military arrangements and prepare to fight the Beiyang Fleet, which had two battleships! (To be continued.) )