Jones was not surprised by Jensen's death, as he was well aware of his boss's ambitions. No boss would allow such a bomb to explode at any moment. The reason why Hu Xiaoyan didn't get him in the first place was only because he needed someone with outstanding ability to open up the situation in Mexico. But the situation didn't open, but Jensen made a mistake, so can Jensen still live comfortably?

Jensen had done one thing wrong from the beginning, he had always thought about the needs of the little people under him! For the gangsters, whoever pays is the boss, and as for the so-called loyalty and righteousness, it is not as direct as 100 dollars for these people. Although the ruffians who stayed in the United States were not paid much more than $400 a week, they were much better off than many American residents. Own your own house and a position that you can promote at any time. In addition, they are no longer rats in the gutter, and they no longer have to worry about the black leather strips coming to the door at any time.

Money, a house, and a woman are more important than anything else to a gangster who has never seen the world. Abandon these to follow Jensen, and then watch out for being hunted by bounty hunters at any time? And beware that your companions will betray and carry your own head to receive the reward? Such an ending can be imagined by smart people.

The power to be able to come up with two million dollars at any time without worrying about Jensen taking the money and escaping is simply not something Jensen can resist. Jensen is just a gangster boss whose desire for money fills his brain and makes him forget that America is a world of money. And no matter how carefully he hid, no matter how tightly he hid, he could not escape the pursuit of the bounty hunter, a dark force that has lasted for thousands of years and will continue to continue in the future.

Jones doesn't care about any of that because Jensen will be a thing of the past.

"We are gangsters, not white roads. So spending money on a farm is a stupid thing to do once. The money from the farm is used to buy off government officials. Jones kept Carlos in mind the advice he had given. Nothing in Mexico costs money, not even the head of the Mexican president.

"Billy, you go and make arrangements, we're going to recruit a team of 1,000 people. There are also farm tools, food and other materials. Get it all at once here. I have heard that Mr. Governor's brother-in-law seems to be in the grain trade, and all the supplies are purchased from him. Jones commanded lightly.

Jensen never knew that the inn had been bought shortly after he moved in. And the retired soldiers she recruited had already been recruited by Billy. Billy was recruited by Xu Chi early in the morning.

The Mexican episode didn't affect the overall strategy, and old Hans was cautious and would have taken care of it, considering that the early taverns in Europe were never a safe place to relax, and there were no two brushes to keep the alcohol-controlled fools at bay.

Hu Xiaoyan is considering a problem. That is, Miss Roosevelt of the United States had arrived in the city of Peking, and the next day she met with Emperor Xuanwu Zaifeng under the arrangement of the American minister Conger. Miss Roosevelt arrived to defuse the growing anti-Chinese movement and the rejection of American goods by the Chinese.

The Chinese Exclusion Movement led to the orderly evacuation of a large number of proletarian Chinese laborers from the United States, and with the help of Hans Sr. and the Rockefeller Oil Company, they returned to Shanghai on the Rockefeller Oil Company's ship, and then traveled from Shanghai to Shenyang and Ma'anshan.

Most of the proletarian Chinese in the United States are oil workers, miners, and railroad construction workers. The evacuation of these workers will have a significant impact on the railroad project in the United States, which was the driving force behind the economic crisis of the previous two years. But this was not a bad thing for Rockefeller, whose stock plummeted during this period, while at the same time the two financiers, Rockefeller and Morgan, took the opportunity to stab themselves in the back, and when the opportunity was right, they would take control of almost all the railroad engineering companies in the United States. (Rockefeller and Morgan's involvement in railroad engineering has already been done once in history.) ）

These workers are really not very important to the United States after the completion of the North-South Railway, but they are different for China. Because the reason why Hu Xiaoyan was able to quickly reach an agreement with the eight countries, and even cheated Japan at will, Japan did not say half a word of nonsense. It is because Japan wants to participate in the construction of China's new railway. The railways of the three northeastern provinces are an important part of it.

At that time, Sun Dacang served as the Minister of Railways and proposed a 100,000-kilometer railway plan, which was an unthinkable and impossible goal at that time. He simply did not take into account the financial and technical problems of China at that time.

But this is not a problem in Hu Xiaoyan's eyes. Cai Yuanpei recommended a railway expert to him: Zhan Tianyou. Zhan Tianyou, born as a child in the United States. Majored in civil engineering from Yale University, majoring in railway engineering. I don't want to talk about his future achievements, as long as anyone who knows a little bit of history knows it. The key is that he also wrote books such as "Railway Glossary" and "Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Engineering Chronicle". These books played a great role in railway engineering at that time and in the future. But now this Zhan Tianyou is just an engineer of a government-run railway company. This benevolent brother's current reputation is more prestigious than that of the children studying in the United States in the same period, but it is only average in the circle of the entire cultural person. Because he was not a serious Confucian background.

After meeting Zhan Tianyou, Hu Xiaoyan came up with his own plan. Because Hu Xiaoyan doesn't understand railway engineering, the plan is only an approximation. Within 10 to 15 years, he planned to connect the east-west, north-south railways in a quadrangular fashion. Its central point is located in Nanjing.

It is located in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province in the north, Guangzhou in the south, Tibet in the west, and Shanghai in the east. Plus provincial capitals in important strategic places such as northeast Sichuan. The entire railway project is planned for far more than 100,000 kilometers.

But when it is actually built, it is not counted as such. For example, the line from Shanghai to Tianjin to Beijing has been opened. This part does not need to be built. Many cities across the country have actually opened railways. This part is mainly concentrated in the east and south. The trouble is in the West and in the North.

Because of the early opening and closing of the southern provinces and cities, the railways were also built early. The northwest side not only has a complex climate and a complex geographical environment. The ethnic composition there is even more complicated. So herein lies the difficulty of this plan. There was no hard-line governor in the northwest to take the lead in the construction of the railroad and deal with the national question.

If the governor is not tough, the issue of Tibet and Xinjiang will not be resolved. The reason why the railway was built quickly in later generations was because Zhao Erfeng, the governor of Sichuan at that time, was too powerful. Those who are familiar with history probably know this. He had a bad reputation for suppressing the Baolu Movement during his time as governor of Sichuan, but he did play a role in suppressing the Northwest separatist movement. Without him, Tibet would have been divided long ago.

But the current governor of Sichuan is Kuijun of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the White Banner. Manchu said at the time that everyone knew that making money was very powerful, so I won't talk about it. Such a person said that it is better to expect the sow to go up the tree if he can solve the problem in the northwest.

What Hu Xiaoyan is thinking about is the issue of the governor of Sichuan.

The 100,000 railway plan, the south does not have to worry, the northeast has its own town, and when Russia is defeated, Japan will also cooperate very well to connect the issue of railway construction. And Mongolia and Shanxi in the north are not to be considered. The Shanxi Jin merchants will definitely cooperate with the construction of the railway. On the Mongolian side, Hu Xiaoyan has been meddling for a long time. I believe there won't be much of a problem.

Therefore, the position of the governor of Sichuan in the west is the key to the complete success of the 100,000 railway project. Zhan Tianyou can't help with this.

Seeing Zhan Tianyou away, Hu Xiaoyan was a little worried. Railways connecting the whole country are the key to the development of China's heavy industry! Together with the north and south, connect the east and west! It was never a lie again. The construction of the railway needs to recruit thousands of workers, which will drive the economic development of various places, and at the same time, the wood and rails needed for the construction of the railway will drive the economy of the timber producing areas, and a large number of steel orders will be generated. With these orders, at least the Hanyang Iron Works and the Maanshan Iron Works will be thoroughly developed. With a decade of development. These two iron works will become the driving force behind the development of China's heavy industry.

In addition, the various problems encountered in the process of road construction will be a specific research project of each university, and it will also provide corresponding materials for the tutors and students of each university, and provide corresponding suggestions for the future development of the country.

And so on, it can be said that as long as the 100,000 railway project is completed, China's science and technology will reach the level of the world's second-rate countries, at least Belgium and Switzerland, within ten years.

The trouble was not only a problem for the governor of Sichuan, but also a problem for money. The total consumption in ten years will exceed one billion taels of silver. The court couldn't take out this money, and neither could Hu Xiaoyan. All the funds he had on hand now added up to less than 50 million taels of silver. If you sell all the antiques that you have stolen from the palace that can be sold, you may get seventy or eighty million taels of silver. But that's not enough.

A billion silver! I'm afraid it's possible to get it only by looting the entire Shanghai and Jin merchants.

"When you go to see Li Jingfang and Brother Li Shi, you will say that I will go to visit Li Zhongtang tonight." Hu Xiaoyan lightly instructed Qin Yun.

When he sees outsiders, Hu Xiaoyan still likes to take Qin Yun with him. There are some rules in the officialdom, and only Qin Yun dares to put them forward. Speaking of which, since the last time life and death followed, the relationship between the two seems to be much closer. At the time of the first acquaintance, Qin Yun would never take the initiative to remind the officialdom of taboos.

Qin Yun bowed his head and agreed.