"Heh, you sent me an invitation!"

Pan Xun was elected president, and it will be settled on Chinese New Year's Eve, but it is still necessary to celebrate in advance and thank supporters. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Are you going?"

Zhang Nian knew that Yang Chao supported Mi Qing and Li Fuan, at least he had always shown that.

"Of course I went, do you still have to give the face of the future president?"

Yang Chao said with a smile.

In fact, he does not support anyone, and whoever becomes president is like a ball, and in a stable political system, the role of the president is a rubber stamp.

Yang Chao's purpose is to maintain such a system, as long as it does not cause too much chaos.

"Tell Zhang Zuolin that the meeting has been canceled, take me to give him a gift as reparation, and I will go to Mongolia to see him next time."

Yang Chao came to the Northeast just to meet Zhang Zuolin, because the soldiers under Zhang Zuolin mutinied, this matter is very serious, and Yang Chao plans to deal with it in a low-key manner.

But the better Zhang Zuolin is, he is going to break the appointment, so he should make amends for giving a gift, as for what kind of gift, a jade pendant, encourage him to be a gentleman like jade.

"Lord Yang has arrived!"

The guards sang loudly, and Yang Chao walked into the hall, which was the Beijing World Hotel.

Everyone stopped their activities and looked into the foyer, almost saluting Yang Chao as he walked into the hall.

Yang Chao waved his hand and greeted his acquaintances.

"Brother Pan, congratulations."

Pan Xun strode up to greet him, and Yang Chao took the lead in bowing.

Pan Xun hurriedly helped Yang Chao up: "Chairman, you can't be it, you can't be in the future." ”

Yang Chao patted him on the shoulder: "Deserved, deserved." How did you think about the policy policy? Really want to go to war with the Americans? ”

Pan Xun shook his head and smiled: "The chairman said that he was laughing. ”

This thing really intends to deceive the voters and deceive those simple and hot-blooded youths.

"Look, the U.S. ambassadors have arrived."

Yang Chao smiled and said hello to U.S. Ambassador Hoover, who is now ambassador to China because he is familiar with China's national conditions.

"Aren't Americans trying to communicate the issue of trade between China and the United States?"

Pan Xun said it directly, the first is to tell Yang Chao that the Americans are already active in the next leader, and the second is to test Yang Chao's views.

Yang Chao didn't speak, just shook his head, that was enough.

Pan Xun stopped talking about this topic anymore.

"If you want to run, why don't you say it earlier, I didn't vote, it's a waste."

Yang Chao laughed.

Pan Xun nodded again and again: "Thank you Chairman for your support." ”

Then the two entered the hall together.

There were many tables full of food, a combination of Chinese and Western, fruit snacks, plus braised pork, red wine and two pot heads.

The guests were also a combination of Chinese and Western, Yang Chao saw Zhang Jian, Chamberlain, Tan Kah Kee, consulate staff of various countries, some central bank Taipan, HSBC managers, Swire Steamship managers and so on. It is accompanied by a band, with a western trombone violin, as well as an oriental pipa and erhu. Let people not have any pickiness and satisfy anyone's appetite, just like Pan Xun does things.

The middle is empty, which is used as a dance floor, and the crystal chandelier is overhead, but it is incandescent light.

"President Mi Da has arrived."

The defeated opponent also came at this time, and it seems that Yang Chao was not the last to arrive.

Mi Qing came, Pan Xun went to welcome him again, and apologized to Yang Chao.

Yang Chao immediately touched the cup with a person who pretended to walk by casually.

"Mr. Hoover, it's a good thing to see you."

"Mr. Yang, look up for a long time."

Hoover's goods are now famous and world-famous, but they have developed in China.

He was the first to sing a high-profile song and persuade the US government to spend more than $20 million to purchase grain and distribute it to the people of Soviet Russia. But his behavior in China was not glamorous, helping the British to smuggle the Luan coal mines. The blank contract was used to defraud the operation rights of the Kailuan Coal Mine, and the Chinese officials who signed the contract could not understand the contents of the contract at all, because they did not understand English, and at that time it was the period of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the officials did not dare to object at all.

Running the Kailuan Coal Mine as a partner allowed Hoover to earn his first pot of gold.

But this is all in the past, I didn't expect that Hoover could still rely on China to develop, so that he became the ambassador to China and entered politics, of course, he must also enter politics in the end, and eventually become the president of the United States, so Yang Chao is also interested in talking to him.

"I don't think it's good for our economy to put high tariff barriers between our two countries."

Hoover immediately spoke about tariff barriers.

Yang Chao sighed: "I think so too. ”

Hoover and Yang Chao clinked glasses to celebrate the consensus.

"Then why don't we sit down and talk about tariffs?"

Hoover suggested.

Yang Chao shook his head and said, "I said this, but it doesn't count." ”

Hoover shrugged, obviously he did not approve of this, he is a China expert, a big liar who can deceive the Chinese in China, how can he not understand the Chinese people's feelings, of course he knows the influence behind Yang Chao.

"Do you think the Chinese government will accept negotiations?"

Hoover probed.

Yang Chao said: "It depends on the attitude of the Americans. ”

Hoover sighed: "Chinese Exclusion Act? Is it that important? ”

Yang Chao said: "Of course, it is very important, important to the United States, and even more important to China. ”

"Hi Edon!"

Hoover was also saying that Yang Chao suddenly said hello to the person walking by on the other side, the British ambassador to China, Sir Eston.

Eiston didn't really want to deal with Yang Chao, he came here just out of etiquette, because the British Empire was too embarrassed this time, the dignified British Empire Navy, to go to its own colony, even had to get permission from China, and in the end, the British Empire acquiesced.

At that time, the Chinese were cruising in the Strait of Malacca while displaying their majesty in the South Seas, and at the very least, a cruiser stood in front of the British Imperial fleet, and the entire fleet did not even pass. Of course, the British Empire did not make a detour, it would be too embarrassing, so they confronted the Chinese fleet in the Strait of Malacca for half a month. Then after the Chinese fleet lifted the blockade, they rushed to Singapore. But the lost face can never be regained.

Therefore, Eston, who has lived under the glory of the British Empire for half his life, is really unacceptable, and feels that he is really unconfident as an ambassador.

"I'll tell you the good news, we have found oil in the deserts of Arabia."

Yang Chao said to Eston with a smile, Eston was stunned immediately, and then he knew that something big had happened.

He was now very interested in talking to Yang Chao.

Historically, Persia was the first to discover oil in the Middle East, which was discovered in 1872, and then for more than half a century, Persia was the only country in the Middle East to produce oil.

Iraq's first successful oil field was discovered in 1928 by a joint effort of British, French and American oil companies. Saudi oil was only discovered in 1932, Kuwait in 1934. If it weren't for Yang Chao, the Europeans would have had to wait at least a dozen years before they could find oil.

And the value of oil has become increasingly prominent, especially the military value of it, which country can live without oil? Warships can't start anymore, tanks can't start anymore, cars can't start anymore, and it can be said that without oil, a decent war can't be fought.

The British had established the value of oil before World War I, and in order to control Mexico's oil resources, Britain and the United States supported different factions, causing a civil war in Mexico. Britain came to power by supporting the Mexican warlord Huerta, and the U.S. government even directly sent troops to occupy the Mexican coast to overthrow Huerta.

The last war brought Britain out, and the United States obtained the right to exploit Mexican oil, the oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico are a big gold mine, and the Sero Azul oil field in the Tampico region, a well can produce up to 200,000 barrels of oil a day, and it can be sold for $1 million a day, which is much larger than the output of South African gold mines.

In 1917, when the United States had no time to take care of the European war, he declared Mexico's oil resources to belong to the state through the constitution and wanted to nationalize the oil fields exploited by the United States. As a result, a year after the signing of the Paris Peace Conference, Carranza was assassinated, and everyone knew who had done it.

The Americans acquired Mexican oil fields, and after the war the British stepped up their search for oil in the Middle East, and it was firmly in their hands that in Persia it was the British Persian Oil Company that controlled the extraction rights.

In the vicinity of Persia, the same British Petroleum Company, the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company, and the newly established French oil company control all the exploitation rights, and the Dutch Shell Company, which has a large number of shares of the British, so it can be said that it is under British control, and France is by giving up the occupation of Iraq, agreeing to give up Iraq from Turkey to British rule, which is equivalent to France recognizing this as a British colony, and Britain gave France a quarter of the oil exploitation power, and Britain gave a quarter of the power of Britain, In fact, it was not theirs, but it belonged to Germany in the past, and Germany was defeated, and this part of the power was divided as compensation.

After France got this quarter of the power, it was only then that the French oil company was formed.

After Britain and France divided the oil power in the Middle East, they signed the San Remo Agreement, which stipulated that Britain had the right to refuse any country to extract oil in their territory, and their oil hegemony in the Middle East was guaranteed by France.

The United States ****** even came out to oppose the agreement through diplomatic procedures and strongly demanded to participate in the oil development of the Middle East, but the British brutally rejected them and made it clear that American companies were not welcome to enter the Middle East, just as the Americans would not give Mexican oil to Britain.

The dispute between Britain and the United States is now very acute for the sake of oil, and this time the Americans have never sided with the British and have not agreed to send warships to Asia with the British. The British, by controlling the Middle East, allowed their oil reserves to begin to surpass those of the United States, which created a sense of crisis in the United States.

It's just that the British rejected the Americans, but ceded the right to mine the Arabian Peninsula to China, firstly because the British did not think that there was oil there, and secondly, they could not refuse the temptation of 5,000 tons of gold from China.

And now the Chinese have really found oil. (To be continued.) )