"And what about the highway?" Miss Roosevelt crossed her right leg, revealing her bare calf.

"Highway?" Hu Xiaoyan was stunned.

"Don't tell me that the truck line you bought in the United States was used to make horse-drawn carriages. And do you order several industrial machine tools in the U.S. and all the machinery needed for the entire automotive production process to produce boats? ”

"You want to develop the automotive industry vigorously, right? The automotive industry involves seven or eight related industries, such as highways, petroleum, steel, rubber, and so on. An automobile industry can support the basic industrial base of a country. Do you know that there are not many cars sold in China, but you develop the automobile industry, isn't it aimed at the weak industry of your country? With cars, don't you want to develop road facilities? And the oil industry! ”

Miss Roosevelt held out two fingers and nodded affirmatively.

"You don't have any money!"

"I don't have any money." Hu Xiaoyan smiled bitterly. He didn't want to argue, it didn't make sense, since Roosevelt was so sure, there must have been a lot of work behind it. He now wondered who had betrayed his plans.

"I don't really have any money, but roads and oil come step by step. Oil has not yet been found in our country, and roads are not something that one of my local governors can decide. ”

"Don't take me for those idiot politicians!" Miss Roosevelt's disdain was written on her face.

"If you want, you could have secured the position of emperor a year ago. At that time, no one had an anti-aircraft machine gun. Now the anti-aircraft machine guns of Britain and Germany have been installed, and the United States, Japan, France, and Russia are already developing them, and if nothing else, they will be able to be installed in the troops in a few years. But you China don't! ”

The airship is invincible, and there is no weapon that can hit him. The only weapons that can hit an altitude of 800 meters are Mauser and Lee Enfield during World War II. Other rifles shoot about 600 meters into the air.

Of course, an anti-aircraft machine gun is also possible, but the price of this machine gun is too expensive! One such machine gun can buy Maxine ten or even fifty units. The specific price Hu Xiaoyan is not clear.

It's useless for you to hide in the city. Because the city is not a fortress fortress. In the case of the fortress, it is a person hiding inside, and there is a cement fortress above the head to block it. Neither the armor-piercing nor the flowering shells of the airship could hit the people inside.

But there's no such thing in the city. If Hu Xiaoyan produced more than 100 airships at the beginning, no one in the Qing Dynasty would be able to stop Hu Xiaoyan's offensive. In these years, if you have money, you can recruit people. The original army of only more than 10,000 people can be expanded to 100,000 within a month, and if there is more money, it is not impossible to expand to 1 million. This is the confidence of Wilhelm II to start a world war after the development of the airship! But Germany did not have enough supplies at that time, and neither did Hu Xiaoyan. Waging war is a simple answer. A million people are also easy to recruit. But the cost of food, clothing, weapons and sufficient explosives for a million people is not a fraction of the cost. Germany simply did not have that many supplies ready.

Miss Roosevelt's words made Hu Xiaoyan dumbfounded. It would be nice if the war of unification was really so easy.

"It's a joke." Hu Xiaoyan thought for a while and said, "If, I mean, if we want to build roads, the United States will be our first choice." ”

Miss Roosevelt completely misestimated Hu Xiaoyan. She always thought that Hu Xiaoyan, a young man, should have the momentum that a young man should have, which can be seen from Hu Xiaoyan's running to Britain and Germany to get money and equipment when he had nothing. It's a pity that Hu has never been an impulsive person under the teaching of his mother and Luo Jin, the old housekeeper! Thinking of three steps and one step is Hu's character.

Miss Roosevelt, however, was not very angry. She just smiled.

"Then I believe that Governor Hu will not put obstacles in the way of American businessmen entering the industrial and commercial companies of your province, right?"

"Of course not. I personally welcome the entry of American capital. ”

"Then I understand. Please Governor Hu must remember what you said today. Miss Roosevelt got up and left. This made Hu Xiaoyan a little confused.

What is this chick here for? She's not here to talk about the railway?! He always felt as if he was overlooking something.

It wasn't until much later that he realized he was caught up in Roosevelt's little pepper.

The noisy spoils meeting ended soon after. An agreement was also reached in the United States.

Except for Japan and Russia, which are still in a stalemate and waiting for the naval war to begin to end, other countries have basically accomplished their goals. France got the right to invest in the construction of railways in Guangxi, Britain got Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Germany got Shandong, Austria-Hungary and Italy got Guangdong, and the United States got Anhui. Several other countries partnered to get the Zhili region. In addition, Germany also received the construction of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. Russia's railway investments in Mongolia and Britain in Tibet were undermined by Hu Xiaoyan's alliance with the United States, Germany, and France. The total investment amount is up to one billion US dollars. The countries will be granted the right to develop the economy (excluding minerals) and collect tolls for 50 years along the railway.

Hu Xiaoyan, on the other hand, left Shanghai for Hangzhou a month after the auction ended.

Zhejiang Governor Yun Zuyi, his predecessor Liu Shutang was sick. Yun Zuyi was able to ascend the throne, and during his tenure, he extensively repaired water conservancy, and even resisted the Boxer Rebellion and bandits, and befriended foreigners. On the whole, he is a capable governor. But Hu Xiaoyan's relationship with him was not good. Yun Zuyi thinks that Hu Xiaoyan is a big thief of the country!

When the Eight-Nation Coalition attacked the city of Beijing, Hu Xiaoyan led the army outside, but did not prevent the coalition army from entering the city. Cixi disappeared, and Hu Xiaoyan did not avenge Emperor Guangxu, but made peace with the Eight Kingdoms. Such a total made Yun Zuyi very angry. And Hu Xiaoyan also did not have a good impression of the governor of Yun Zuyi, because Yun Zuyi also joined the Southeast Mutual Insurance Agreement. It can be said that Yun Zuyi is a warlord!

However, Hu Xiaoyan does not need to worry about these problems, because the southeast mutual insurance agreement has annoyed Zaifeng. Although Zaifeng's ascension to the throne was helped by the Southeast Mutual Insurance Agreement, he was angry at the governors' behavior of watching the emperor's life and death, and it was rumored that Yun Zuyi could not sit firmly in the position of governor of Zhejiang. A single Zaifeng can't take Yun Zuyi, but Li Hongzhang is also dissatisfied with Yun Zuyi. At the beginning of the year, when the emperor ascended the throne, almost all the governors who joined the Southeast Mutual Insurance Agreement did not come to congratulate them, and even the congratulatory gifts were as thin as paper. Although the annual tax is still paid, the amount of the payment is much lower than in previous years.

Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kun and others can do this, but Yun Zuyi, a person who doesn't have much strength and backstage, is a little inappropriate to do this.

Not long after Hu Xiaoyan arrived in Hangzhou, Yun Zuyi was finished. The new governor is Ren Daorong. Ren Daorong is much smarter. Hu Xiaoyan believes that this guy will not create obstacles for his next work.

Hu Xiaoyan was ordered to go out of Beijing to inspect the railway, and the crown of the governor of Erpin was not removed. As long as Hu Xiaoyan doesn't do it too much, Ren Daorong won't interfere too much.

This time he came to Hangzhou, not to inspect the railway, but to collect the raw silk industry and complete the silk industry chain in the south of the Yangtze River. What his father Hu Guangyong didn't do, Hu Xiaoyan wanted to facilitate this to commemorate Hu Xueyan!

PS: The longest effective range of the best Mauser G98 in World War I was only 800 meters, which is still a flat shot. If you go up, plus the influence of gravity and wind speed, the G98 can have a range of 600 meters. The effective range of the Lee Enfield rifle is 800 meters, but in fact, it can hit the enemy at 500 meters.