According to the thinking habits of the Chinese people for thousands of years, Hu Zhen heard the praise of others for himself, so he had to pretend to be 13 again, and hurriedly humbled Li Haoran: "Where, where, this is the strategic planning of the entire Huaxia Army team, not all of my credit!" I don't know what the old-timers and so many people have to say to me! ”

"Xinghua, don't be humble in front of me! We had an idea before we came, and we've been discussing it for a few days, so I wonder if we can read it out here? ”

Hu Zhen thought to himself, this old fox is finally going to turn over the hole cards, and it doesn't hurt to listen to it himself, so he respectfully saluted: "Please teach Senior Li!" ”

"In order to block the excuse for the European powers to send fleets to intervene, we discussed many methods, and in the end we all felt that the way to buy Borneo and other islands from the Dutch was the best, and the negotiations with the Dutch should be fast, and the overall situation of the negotiations should be decided before the major European powers reacted, and the contract with the Dutch was signed, so that the major European powers had no excuse to intervene......"

"Buy ......"

This is actually Hu Zhen's idea, and Hu Zhen's inspiration comes from the practice of the United States in the War between the United States and Spain in another time and space in 1898, the United States defeated Spain first, and then paid a symbolic sum of money in the way of "purchase" to snatch the colonies of the Caribbean Islands and Luzon Islands, and the emerging hegemony of the United States squeezed into the club of great powers in this way.

Hu Zhen sighed: I can't imagine that these old foxes can come up with such a solution? What an old fox! It's a pity that they have more than enough heart but not enough power, and now only themselves have strong military strength and enough financial resources to do this among the entire Chinese people!

Li Haoran saw Hu Zhen groaning, and continued: "...... We also felt that it was best to pay in pounds, so that the English would not only make a fortune from printing pounds, but would even say a word or two for us if necessary, and force the Dutch to comply, and not let the other powers dare to interfere! ”

Hu Zhen planned to use the land of Borneo as collateral to lend pounds to the banks controlled by England, and pay the Dutch for the purchase of Borneo in pounds, so that before his navy became stronger, England would not kill his own Chinese army. Moreover, with this astronomical amount of loans, the banks under his control will definitely rise sharply in the stock market, and he can still make a lot of money.

Hu Zhen said secretly: It seems that this Li Haoran is really an old fox, and this idea coincides with himself. But after thinking about it, I became a little suspicious: could this group of old foxes be instructed by someone to deliberately fool themselves?

Li Haoran saw that Hu Zhen was silent, so he continued: "...... Xinghua, after buying Borneo, in addition to the land army, also sent people to Europe to learn to drive the gunboats, and vigorously build up the naval division, this is a foolproof strategy! ”

When Hu Zhen arrived at this time, he no longer pretended to be 13, and bowed his hand and said: "Yes, the younger generation has such an idea, and has sent someone to try to contact the English, but now he has not found a way, and the loan for the purchase has been contacted with the two banks in England. If the government agrees, you can use the land in Borneo as collateral to get a loan! ”

"Haha, Xinghua, your thoughts coincide with ours!" Li Haoran was very happy to hear this, and took out a large stack of thick things from his bosom, put them on the table, and said: "Although you can get a mortgage from the English, you can't rely on outsiders, this is some silver bills and sterling certificates of deposit raised by our Nanyang Chinese, which can be used to buy Borneo!" ”

"Oh, the silver bills and sterling certificates of deposit that everyone raised, how many are there?" Hu Zhen was very surprised, it seems that these people are serious, and they don't seem to be fooling.

"This is only the first instalment, a total of 10 million pounds, and there are still 20 million pounds pledged, but it will take some time to realize!"

"Thirty million pounds! So much, huh? ”

Hu Zhen's eyes widened, he couldn't help but be surprised, he was a traverser, and he could make a lot of money by getting some new things that appeared in advance to sell, but this group of Nanyang Chinese people were struggling to survive in the cracks of a foreign country, and they were able to come up with funds equal to the financial income of the Qing Kingdom for two years.

It turned out that the leaders of these Chinese people, of course, were all old foxes, otherwise they would not have grown into a huge fortune in a foreign country.

After Hu Zhen led the Huaxia army to defeat the Dutch army and occupy the entire Dutch East Indies colony, especially after the defeat of the Dutch reinforcement fleet, they all knew very well in their hearts that from now on, whether they were Hu Zhen's comrades or not, the European colonial rulers would strictly guard against them, would not give them any more chances, and their survival would become more and more difficult.

And the only way out for the entire Chinese people is in front of Hu Zhen, who followed Hu Zhen only by selling some antibiotics and drugs, they can make a lot of money, they visited the steel mill and mechanized farm in Lag Town, they were already tempted, but at that time they were still worried about the strong military strength of the European colonial rulers, and now Hu Zhen commanded the Huaxia army to defeat the Dutch army, so that they saw hope and determined to keep up and not fall behind.

After the old foxes made up their minds, their movements were astonishing, and many people took out almost all the cash in their homes and bet on Hu Zhen like a red-eyed gambler.

"Thirty million pounds, converted into two hundred and ten million taels of silver, to buy land in a country, this is not much, not much!" Now, it was Li Haoran's turn to be humble.

"Thank you, I'm Hu Zhen, how can I be, this makes everyone bet on their full wealth!" Hu Zhen pondered for a moment and said:

"In this way, this money will be used as a bond loan, and it will be repaid in the future, I want to name it Huaxia Bond, in addition to buying land in Borneo, it will also be used to build various public utilities in Borneo, and the scale of this bond can be expanded in the future, which will not let everyone suffer, but also help the development of the entire Huaxia, but it cannot be disclosed to the public now, it must be operated in secret!"

Since Li Haoran and a group of them took the initiative to donate, Hu Zhen knew the truth of not fishing with all his might, and he was even more willing to use bond borrowing to tie up all the interests of the Nanyang Chinese people.

"Bond borrowing? Debt and interest payments? Construction of various public utilities? This string of nouns made Li Haoran feel very novel, and after thinking about it, he was deeply impressed by Hu Zhen, and couldn't help but give Hu Zhen a thumbs up and praised: "Xinghua, this is really a good way!" ”

"Okay, we're done!"

"Yes, it's decided, but there is one more thing, although there is a naval fleet that captures the Dutch, the construction of this naval division ......" The old fox Li Haoran was most worried that the Huaxia Army did not have naval talents.

"Senior Li, you can rest assured in this matter, I have sent someone to England some time ago to learn how to drive a steam engine warship, and after a while, we will buy a batch of steam engine warships and come back, we can have our own navy, and we can also build our own naval ships in the future!" Hu Zhen felt that the Chinese people in the hall were too talkative, so it was better not to tell all his secrets, so he did not tell the details.

But this can already make Li Haoran feel at ease: "Okay, good, I didn't expect Xinghua to have already taken precautions, and when we have a steam engine water engineer, we Chinese people will not be afraid of anything in Nanyang!" ”