Chapter subtitled: Petty Money and Cannons

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Thursday morning, April 21, 1921.

"BOSS, today's newspaper."

"Aisi, thank you."

I heard a female voice from the bedroom, "Is it Miss Morman?" Please help me call my maid. ”

The unhappy female secretary stared at her boss fiercely, and replied angrily, "Okay, Ms. Brooks." ”

The Gray Knight has a 16-point physique, so it's natural to have a night swim. The Archmage had a cold since he returned, and he was still alive and well, thinking that he would have time to get Miss Morman in order.

But when he opened the door of his guest room, Keke, who was surprised to find him, chased after him again.

Our Master Yuan really regrets it now, he really shouldn't provoke this Bai Fumei. Obviously, Miss Moman has always been on his lips, and people are also looking like they are picking up, and they have no chance to eat it along the way, which is really ......

He sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but have a question, is he mending the demons, or is he mending the demons to the demon girl in the bedroom?

He also found a problem this morning, which made him really look like a little white face who eats soft rice, not to mention his driver and secretary, and even Einstein had such a wrong cognition.

Really, people's harems are called to come, and they can fight...... No, it's a lingering go, and when you go, you can be an aunt's wife with peace of mind, and you don't complain at all, and you don't mess around with Ma Ben or the driver.

On the other hand, I haven't opened a harem properly, but I just found a **, and I made it possible to come without being called, and I fought when I came, and my combat power was quite high.

The old lady who had given birth to three children was defeated, and he had to do everything in his power to protect the honor of the Seris people, especially the men.

Besides, it's true, all the people in the harem are virgins, and if you are not a virgin, you have to write as a virgin. Look at yourself again...... Always break the evil slash and make it look like a holy warrior.

If he is the protagonist of a certain crossing, then this author must have pounced from Fifth Avenue in New York to the four roads of the magic capital!

Forget it, I'm going to leave Citigroup in a few months. Now history can always get back on track, and Cromwell will be able to find his true destiny...... It should be sauce purple ground.

The grief-stricken Yuan Yanqian swallowed her tears, picked up today's newspaper, flipped through it casually, found the "Washington Post", and hastily browsed the front page and opened it to look at the second page......

“Very Good！”

As he expected, the current Attorney General of the United States, Mr. Harry M. Doherty, published a signed article entitled "This Administration Will Implement the Spirit of the 'Philiparchical' and Payne-Ortri Bills."

This lengthy article was not written by Yuan Yanqian, but by Mr. McCall, the father of "His Majesty the Emperor". The son-in-law of the president of the New York Life Insurance Company is an expert on contract law and economic law.

You know, the policies and methods of the United States to colonize the Philippines are very different from those of the old colonial powers. In a sense, it can really be called "benevolence".

Politically, "the colonial policy of the United States in the Philippines was a policy of extreme liberalism, which was very different from that of Spain". This quote comes from the "History of Southeast Asia" written by the Americans themselves.

From the very beginning, the United States has used high-ranking officials to woo high-ranking Philippine figures and military and political officials. After Wilson, the progressive president, entered the White House, such policies reached a climax.

The U.S. government has even encouraged the retirement of U.S. officials serving in the Philippine government, providing them with generous pensions in return so that more jobs can be given to Filipino locals.

By such means, the Americans gradually introduced the form of political organization and bourgeois democratic politics of their country into the Philippines and "Americanized" it.

Economically, the Penn-Altry Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1909, was about the "free trade" policy adopted by the Philippine colonies.

To put it simply, the Philippines and the mainland of the United States are considered a customs union. U.S. goods imported into the Philippines are duty-free and in unlimited quantities. Raw materials and manufactured goods exported by the Philippines also enjoy such treatment within certain limits and scopes.

By 1921, with the exception of a few agricultural products, such as rice, the vast majority of Philippine exports to the United States were exempt from tariffs.

It has to be said that compared with those old colonial empires, such a colonial policy can be called "benevolent".

There are three main reasons why the United States pursued such a benevolent colonial policy:

First, the most important purpose of the United States in seizing the Philippines from the Spaniards was China.

Just as the pioneers of the Age of Discovery, who bypassed the Arabs to explore a new route to Seris, the United States, the "chosen nation," was not so scarce about the resources of the Philippines, and what they really wanted was to gain access to the huge Chinese market.

Second, at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States was already a real imperialist power, so they could use the export of capital to extract the economic benefits of the colonies.

There is no need for them to be as ugly as the old colonists, as long as they use the same set of later generations to enter the processing industry and dump industrial products. Moreover, it would also reduce the spirit of resistance of the colonial peoples and facilitate their rule.

Thirdly, the Americans at that time...... Well, from post-independence to the 21st century, there are a large number of Americans who believe that they are the promoters of universal values with "manifest destiny" and represent the right direction of history or the "end" of all human institutions.

It can be said that they are covert cultural colonialists, or it can be said that they themselves brainwashed themselves into shabi. But there are really some Americans who are very persistent and export their ideology.

So the American people really agree with the policies that successive administrations have pursued in the Philippines.

On the one hand, colonial affairs were the internal affairs of the United States of America, and the Secretary of State had no authority to interfere; On the other hand, unlike other countries, the U.S. government does not have colonial ministers, so such internal policies and regulations are the job of the attorney general.

For the current Republican attorney general, it is only natural that Mr. Doherty should publish such a relevant article in the early days of his presidency to show the public that this administration will inherit the spirit of this policy.

However, how could Master Yuan's article about the current Minister of Justice be confined to the Philippines.

The real drama is at the end of this article.

Mr. Doherty...... Mr. McCall Sr...... In fact, Mr. Yuan Yanqian wrote at the end: "We, the United States Government and myself, have noticed a very bad sign in the colonies of Southeast Asian countries.

Certain countries, which had managed to abolish colonial policies that were contrary to universal values and liberalism, are now going against the tide of history and adopting extremely inhumane and non-capitalist oppressive methods against the colonial peoples.

As the Attorney General of the United States Government, I advise these colonial governments to return to the right track of history as soon as possible and not to exacerbate the contradictions with the local people. Do not forget the lessons of history, a hundred years ago (1825-1830) the same oppression triggered the Javanese uprising.

And in order to maintain peace and stability in Southeast Asia and the whole world, our US government will not sit idly by and watch this happen in a civilized world like today! ”

Are these few sentences worth 100,000 US dollars, equivalent to 2 million US dollars in later generations, more than 12 million yuan?

Nonsense, of course it's worth it. And it is child-free, cheap and good-quality, and great value for money.

This is a signed article by the U.S. Attorney General, who is speaking on behalf of the current administration, which can already be seen as a declaration of U.S. government policy.

If it weren't for Doherty, he was a corrupt element who didn't know how to see money. If our Master Yuan pays twice the price, he will not easily publish such an article that interferes in the internal affairs of other countries and will cause international disputes.

Of course, for proud Americans, whether in 1921 or 2017, interfering in the internal affairs of other countries is not a matter at all. Because this is the real imperialist style.

Moreover, this time they interfered in the Dutch.

Now the Dutch are not the sea coachmen of the past, and they will plant tulips to kill the Chinese and indigenous people in Southeast Asia. What can they do, at most, verbally protest, or even declare war on the United States......

If Queen Wilhelmina of the Kingdom of the Netherlands really declared war on this matter, it would be in the hands of some Americans, and perhaps Doherty and Harding would become American heroes who defended universal values. Their reputation won't be as bad as it was in the original timeline.

After reading this article, Yuan Yanqian confirmed that Mr. Doherty had indeed not changed even a single punctuation.

Now he was relieved, and he could give an explanation to the Nanyang side, and he also took the first step to interfere in the historical development of Nanyang.

At this moment, his driver walked in and said, "Second master, the car is ready." When do we depart? ”

Master Yuan put down the newspaper and said, "Let's go now!" But we'll have to go to the telegraph office first......"

Java, Semarang.

"Father-in-law, you are still not well from this old illness, you should go to the house to visit your son-in-law. Why did you come here in person? ”

The person who spoke was Huang Zhonghan, who was known as the "Nanyang Sugar King". He was born in 1866 at the age of fifty-five.

It is said that at this point in time, his private assets are more than 200 million guilders, which is equivalent to more than 140 million US dollars. That's right, that's really it.

The Oei Tiong Ham Concern was the first largest, most economically powerful and most modern Chinese conglomerate in Southeast Asia.

In addition to tropical cash crops, the consortium is also involved in logistics, insurance, real estate, finance, publishing and other industries. And in Southeast Asia, China and the West have offices and branches in major ports, which can compete with the Western Ocean Banks such as Jardine Matheson and Swire at that time, and are not weaker than the major Japanese chaebols in this era.

However, 1921 should be the apex of Huang Zhonghan's consortium, and after that, it was "Huang Xiaoer's New Year is not as good as a year".

In 1924, Huang Zhonghan, who was not yet 60 years old, died of illness. He has eight wives and concubines, thirteen sons and daughters, and more than 20 children of the Huang family have also fought a big lawsuit that caused a sensation in Southeast Asia for the inheritance. The protracted lawsuit would not end until 1939.

The Great Depression of 1929 was a big blow to the Huang consortium.

The Pacific War of 1941 made matters worse.

The Huang consortium eventually fell into the hands of the Indonesian monkeys led by Sukarno. In 1961, the Indonesian government suddenly ordered the confiscation of all the Huang family's property in Indonesia, and the 98-year-old Huang Zhonghan consortium disappeared.

The fundamental reason is that the three generations of heads of the Huang family, starting from Huang Zhonghan, have never taken off the comprador atmosphere.

After World War II, they tried to seek the cooperation and support of certain Indonesian politicians and parties, including the Indonesian National Party and Soekarno.

But as pro-Dutch Chinese businessmen, they did not like the more monkey-nationalist, anti-imperialist and anti-colonial Sukarno, and chose the more moderate Indonesian Socialist Party and the Mas Youmei Party, and ended up on the wrong side.

At the same time, they also underestimated the role of the military in Indonesia, and not only openly opposed Sukarno, but also colluded with separatist forces in various places to engage in the smuggling trade.

In short, the old fortunes of the Huang family did not understand the truth that "power comes out of the barrel of a gun". (Author's note: Patients who want to know more can go to CNKI to search for "On the Rise and Fall of Huang Zhonghan's Consortium")

But...... Isn't our Master Yuan here now?

Huang Zhonghan's old Taishan is naturally Yuan Yanqian's old Taishan, and the old man Wei said with a smile: "Taiyuan, the old man is just an accidental accident, and now he has nothing to do." Just came out to relax, and brought you another telegram...... Telegram from New York. ”

Although Huang Zhonghan and Wei Mingniang have divorced, they broke up peacefully, so the relationship between the two families is still good.

"The telegram from New York......" the noble Nanyang Sugar King still remembered and said, "Could it be that my brother-in-law sent it?" ”

LOOK, this is the benefit of marrying Miss Wei Mingzhu. Yuan Yanqian has now become the brother-in-law of the richest Chinese in the world, and has taken another solid step on the road of reactionary school.

"What the virtuous son-in-law said is right, it is Hongji." Old Man Wei nodded with satisfaction.

LISTEN, since he knew that his little son-in-law was Mr. George Baker's guest, Old Man Wei immediately decided that Yuan Yanqian was their Wei family's Chenglong fast son-in-law and East Bed Guest, and even the title became so affectionate.

Huang Zhonghan took the telegram and looked at it, and couldn't help nodding and praised: "Well, Sister Mingzhu is worthy of being our pearl of the South Seas, with a unique vision." I can't imagine that Hong gradually can even talk about the Minister of Justice of Citigroup, which is really terrifying and terrifying. ”

He sighed in his heart, his daughter Huang Huilan's marriage to Gu Weijun said that he was the minister to the UK, but this good son-in-law only gave himself the idea of changing his nationality and joining the UK.

And his brother-in-law, who is thirty years younger than him, is really extraordinary, not only organizing a joint fruit company inspection group, but also bringing out the great god Doherty at once.

Looking at the meaning of this telegram, as long as he is willing to pay for it, even President Warren Harding is not impossible to buy.

Yes, Warren Harding may not be able to buy it, but this good old president has soft ears and blind eyes. He also had the poker cabinet beside him, who was very well-behaved, and the people in it were the ones who only knew money.

So as long as the Nanyang Sugar King is willing to spend money, then the New York Cannon King can make an appointment with a cannon...... Well, make a big news!

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At the end of the year, there are a lot of things, and Murong really did his best to maintain 4K every day.

Please bear with me.