"What? Did the Chinese Empire provide economic aid to Colombia? ”

The White House, when Grant learned of this, was shocked. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He was suspicious by nature, and immediately guessed that the Chinese Empire might be meddling in the Panama Canal.

"Damn, the Chinese Empire is indispensable everywhere!"

Grant immediately contacted the Prime Minister of the French Empire, Eyre, and made an appointment to make a phone call.

An hour later, the two sides were scheduled to make a telephone connection.

When El learned about this, he was also shocked.

"Mr. President, what are you going to do if the Chinese Empire intervenes in the Panama Canal?"

"This time, we won't budge!"

"You have to think clearly, with our current strength combined, I'm afraid it will be difficult to defeat the Chinese Empire!"

"If we lose the Panama Canal, it will be a catastrophe for us in the United States, even if we can't win!"

El didn't persuade again, he knew Grant's temper, and only hoped that the Chinese Empire would not go too far, once he intervened in the Panama Canal, he really touched the scales of the United States, and he could only go to war.

In fact, whether it is Grant or El, their worries are unnecessary.

Li Weiguo did not plan to start it now, the Panama Canal project is huge, the investment is huge, and now he has to pay for it himself, it is better to let the United States and France complete the Panama Canal, and then Li Weiguo will directly pick peaches.

However, in order to force the United States and France to create a sense of urgency and speed up the opening of the Panama Canal, Li Weiguo still provided economic and military assistance to Colombia.

Li Weiguo wanted to strengthen relations with Colombia, he knew that in history, after the United States built the Panama Canal, it was not willing to hand it over to the Colombian government, but wanted to take it for itself, so he created the Panamanian independence incident and controlled the Panama Canal from then on.

Now, all Li Weiguo has to do is to strengthen Colombia's military so that it is not easily threatened by the United States, and can have enough troops to suppress the future Panamanian rebellion.

Colombia was already dissatisfied with the United States, and although it invited the Chinese Empire to intervene in the construction of the Panama Canal, it only drove the tiger and devoured the wolf, and only used the Chinese Empire to deal with the United States, and in fact also defended the Chinese Empire.

However, with the actions and performance of the Chinese Empire, Colombia discovered that the Chinese Empire had no intention of seizing the Panama Canal, but genuinely helped, providing economic aid and military support.

The performance of the Chinese Empire won the favor of Colombia, especially the Colombian military, which not only used all the 5 million funds donated by the Chinese Empire to Colombia to purchase weapons and equipment from the Chinese Imperial military, but on the contrary, after seeing the advanced and ferocious weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire, increased the huge amount of funds of 20 million yuan to continue to purchase the military equipment of the Chinese Empire.

The Chinese Empire used 5 million yuan as bait, and in less than three months, it won back a large military purchase order of 25 million yuan, even earning back all the money with interest, and also won the favor of Colombia.

This kind of good thing makes all countries in the world envious, jealous and hateful.

In the United States, in particular, in the face of the Chinese Empire's rebellion in its backyard and the arming of Colombia, Grant felt a serious threat, far more serious than the restoration of the Brazilian Empire.

After all, the Brazilian Empire is in South America, while Colombia is in the Caribbean, which can make the United States feel a more urgent threat.

A large number of Chinese-style equipment is being shipped to Colombia and delivered to the Colombian military, which originally had only 200,000 troops, and its military strength is only a third-rate country (super first-class, first-class, second-rate), with only rifles and artillery.

Now the Colombian army has obtained advanced patriotic rifles, bloody heavy machine guns, from 75 mm field guns to 155 mm heavy howitzers from the Chinese Empire, which can be described as everything, which instantly raised the Colombian army from a third-rate military force to a second-rate, with the Chinese Empire sending a large number of instructors to the Colombian military to help Colombia train the army, in the next three to five years, the strength of the Colombian army will be upgraded from second-rate to first-class, no worse than the American army.

Of course, in the eyes of the Colombian army, the armament of the Chinese Empire was too advanced. However, in the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, these weapons were all inventory products that had been replaced and eliminated.

With the Chinese Empire's Shence Army ushering in a new round of redress, a large number of stocks of weapons and equipment began to be sold to the world, a large number of stocks of ammunition are either used by the army to strengthen live ammunition shooting, improve combat effectiveness, or exported to other countries, can not rot in the warehouse scrapped, although the Chinese Empire has money, but it will not be wasted.

The Chinese Empire did intervene in the Panama Canal, but it was not as determined to win as the United States and France feared, and it would do whatever it takes.

This time, the Chinese empire took a-stirring stick and stirred and stirred in the vegetable soup pots of the United States and France, stirring the United States and France to vomit disgustingly.

In the Panama Canal project, the Chinese Empire deliberately sang and made peace with the Colombian government, constantly raising the bidding price of the project, disgusting the United States and France, and forcing them to come up with more money to pay for the bidding project.

Originally, the United States and France planned to spend 300 million yuan to dig the Panama Canal, but the Chinese Empire deliberately stirred up the Panama Canal with a-stirring stick, and finally forced the United States and France to add an additional 200 million yuan to settle the Colombian government.

In fact, the Colombian government and the Chinese imperial government have secretly reached an agreement, and the Chinese empire will get an extra 200 million yuan, and the two sides will divide it between 46 and 6, with the Colombian government getting 80 million yuan and the Chinese empire getting 120 million yuan.

For the Colombian government, the annual fiscal revenue is only 5 million yuan, and this time it has received an additional 200 million yuan in compensation, even if only 8,000 yuan falls into the pocket of the Colombian government, it is enough to happily jump high and celebrate.

However, it's not better than not knowing, it's more frightening!

In the past, the Colombian government only focused on the military strength of Central and South American countries, and when everyone was on the same level, it did not feel how inferior its military strength was, and boasted that it was world-class.

However, in recent years, as the military strength of the United States has continued to expand, the military pressure on Central and South America has increased.

The outbreak of the Spanish-American War made Colombia discover that the United States began to expand into the Caribbean, although the final result was cheaper for the Chinese Empire, which hindered the southern expansion plan of the United States, and Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands fell into the hands of the Chinese Empire, but it still made Colombia feel the strong edge of the American army.

Especially in the Caribbean, the Royal Navy's West India Fleet withdrew from the Caribbean Sea as the British Empire sold the British Virgin Islands to the Chinese Empire. Although the Imperial Chinese Navy quickly filled the vacuum of sea power in the Caribbean, it was limited in size, and instead the influence of the American Navy in the region replaced the British Empire's West Indies Fleet.

This made the Colombian Navy feel like a thorn, although it had been afraid of the Caribbean Fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy before, but after all, the Chinese Empire was far away, and it was only a sense of existence in the Caribbean, and there was no military threat to Colombia, but the United States was at the doorstep and became the number one dangerous enemy of the Colombian Navy.

This time, the Colombian military had the opportunity to come into contact with the Chinese Empire, the strength of the world's super-first-class military powers, and finally understood that the Colombian army was just a frog at the bottom of the well, thinking that the American army was already strong and boundless.

"We are willing to establish a more in-depth strategic cooperative partnership with your country, as long as our Chinese Empire has weapons and equipment, your country has the right to buy, and we will supply any weapons and equipment to your country without reservation, so as to express the sincerity of the Chinese Empire!"

Liao Ping, the minister of the Chinese Empire to Colombia, said without hesitation in front of Colombian President Rafael.

"I believe in the sincerity of your country! This time, with the help of your country, on the Panama Canal issue, the United States and France were forced to pay an extra 200 million yuan, which is really very gratifying. Nowadays, our Colombian army has changed its guns and artillery, and its combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, which is all the credit of your country, which is enough to prove the friendship and sincerity between our two countries! ”

Rafael was very happy to say that Rafael was especially happy to hear that the Chinese Empire was willing to export military equipment to Colombia without restrictions, which made Rafael feel very happy.

"I heard that your country's navy is building a super-dreadnought battleship, and newspapers in various countries reported that the previous dreadnoughts encountered this kind of super-dreadnought battleship, and they could only be killed in seconds! I wonder if it's true? ”

Liao Ping suddenly replied with a proud face: "It's a bit exaggerated to kill in seconds, but the super dreadnought battleships are far superior to the dreadnought battleships in terms of firepower, armor and power system, and once they encounter them in naval battles, the early dreadnought battleships will only be beaten and sunk, which is inevitable!" ”

Rafael suddenly became nervous with excitement and asked, "I wonder if you can export your country's most advanced battleship, that is, the super dreadnought battleship under construction, to our Colombian Navy?" ”

"This ......"

Liao Ping was stunned for a moment, thinking that this Raphael really dared to speak, and came up and asked for the purchase of the most advanced super dreadnought battleship in the Chinese Empire.

However, the Colombian Navy was not a threat to the Imperial Chinese Navy, and there was a way to attack from afar.

Previously, Liao Ping received a notice from Zhang Peilun of the Imperial Court that Colombia was no threat to the Chinese Empire, but that the military planned to get a naval base in Colombia to contain the Panama Canal and block the Allied naval invasion of the Pacific Ocean.

However, Raphael opened his mouth to ask for the most advanced battleship of the Chinese Empire, and his appetite was inevitably a little big, as a politician and diplomat, Liao Ping knew very well that he must not let the other party get it too easily, because the easier it is, the less he will cherish it, and the more he will not care.

"I wonder what your navy is for super-dreadnought battleships? With all due respect, as far as I know, there is absolutely no need for super-dreadnoughts in your navy, and ordinary dreadnoughts are enough to crisscross the Caribbean. ”

What president has no expansionist ambitions?

Raphael is no exception!

can hug the thigh of the Chinese Empire, then if you don't make good use of it, it will be ***.

"As you know, we don't have a good relationship with the United States, and this time France privately built the Panama Canal in a joint venture with the United States, and we almost went to war because of it. The dreadnought battleships of the American Navy have sailed to our doorstep to show off their might, and if it were not for the help of your country, I am afraid that we would suffer a great loss. But I think it's better to ask for others than for yourself, and if our Colombian Navy also has super-dreadnought battleships, then we won't be afraid of the American Navy, right? ”

Liao Ping smiled slightly, nodded and said, "This makes some sense!" However, His Excellency the President knows that the cost of ordinary dreadnought battleships now reaches 4 million yuan (after electrification and modification), and the cost of super-dreadnought battleships is as high as more than 20 million yuan. And this is just the cost, to raise such a super dreadnought battleship, the annual expenditure will be several million yuan, even if you don't let her go to sea, only stop at the port, it will cost more than one million daily maintenance costs, and it must also be equipped with related auxiliary facilities, such as a 40,000-ton maintenance dock, a 40,000-ton deep-water port wharf, etc., not just a matter of 20 million yuan! ”

Although Raphael was mentally prepared and knew that the super dreadnought battleship was expensive, he was still shocked when he actually heard it.

For the small Colombian country, this is simply a gold-swallowing machine, and it is not something that the navy of a small country can afford!

However, Raphael has just received a windfall of 80 million yuan, which is inevitably itchy.

If you buy four super-dreadnought battleships for 80 million yuan and defeat your biggest rival, Venezuela, in one year, Colombia's land area will be doubled.

Raphael was thrilled at the thought of a successful day in the future.

So he said with a straight face: "Even then, we want it, I wonder if your country agrees?" ”

Raphael was also a little nervous, for fear that the Chinese Empire would not agree, after all, this was the top naval equipment of the Chinese Empire.

"No problem, I don't object in principle, I will immediately convey your country's request to the relevant departments of the empire, as for whether it can be approved in the end, I can't guarantee it, I hope you can understand!"

Raphael was overjoyed and hosted a banquet for Liao Ping and the officers of the Imperial Chinese Embassy in Colombia and the instructors.

The news quickly spread back to the Forbidden City, Li Weiguo did not hesitate too much, since Colombia wants to send money to the Chinese Empire, it is reasonable not to do it!

So, with a stroke of his pen, Li Weiguo approved the export of four super dreadnought battleships to Colombia, with a total amount of 80 million yuan, which just earned back the 80 million yuan that Colombia had obtained before.

However, the Imperial Chinese military resolutely refused to install secret and expensive equipment such as radios and high-precision artillery optical aiming.

For a time, relations between the Chinese Empire and the United States of Colombia warmed up, as if they were on a honeymoon. (To be continued.) )