"Germany may lack overseas colonies, but it will not lack overseas supplies in the future."

"This?" Bismarck quickly reacted, and it was obvious that German merchants could enter the Chinese colonies to buy raw materials.

"Yes, you heard it right, this agreement means that German merchants who buy raw materials and set up factories in our colonies will be treated the same as our merchants, although there will be some differences in small aspects." Although Guo Songtao didn't understand why the cabinet and the emperor did this, he still faithfully conveyed the meaning of the country. In addition to further binding Germany, there are two considerations for this, and it is also necessary to attract investment from Germany to develop African colonies. The Chinese Empire still belongs to the stage of reclamation in the development of colonies, that is, in the early stage of the development of colonies by virtue of human resources, the imperial merchants have not yet completed the transformation from old-fashioned merchants to modern merchants, and most of the Chinese merchants basically belong to the development of couriers at this stage, and the goods of the colonies are transported back to China by shipping to make a profit. At this stage, however, China's commercial power is mainly concentrated in a large number of small and medium-sized merchants, especially given that China has a large number of colonies. On the other hand, the influx of German businessmen can also bring competitive pressure to the imperial merchants and constantly improve themselves.

This kind of business is a bit stupid in the eyes of some ministers, and even Bismarck thinks that Chinese is not a mistake, but it is not a loss in Lin Hong's eyes, after all, China's previous backwardness cannot be changed in a short period of time, Chinese now you have to study, study hard, learn everything that is beneficial to yourself, even if Lin Hong sprinkled a large number of clones throughout the country after the unification of the empire, but the change of concept takes more than time, from the Opium War to the founding of New China, the tuition fees paid by China are too expensive, and the cost is too great. The transformation that took nearly a hundred years of shame and suffering to complete was not something that he Lin Hong could achieve overnight with a golden finger.

"If so, it would be great, thank you for the greatness of your country." Bismarck knew very well that if China and Germany had such an agreement, it would mean that there would be a huge guarantee of domestic development. This means that even if France gets more colonies in Africa, Germany will not need to worry.

"I want to know, what does my country have to pay?" After rejoicing, Bismarck quickly asked, he knew that at such a large price, China must have a greater purpose.

"Friendship and loyalty, which we wish to receive from our German friends, and our businessmen in your country, Togo and Cameroon, should be treated in the same way, and perhaps it would be more perfect if the two countries could conclude some scientific and technological agreements and educational agreements." Guo Songtao said without leaving a trace. In fact, Germany really has nothing to take, as of the beginning of 1870, the imperial royal consortium has controlled 56% of the railway operation rights of Prussia and the states through various means, the Zhejiang consortium headed by Hu Xueyan occupies ninety percent of the silk fabrics and raw silk market in Germany, and the Jin merchant consortium controls three percent of Germany's machinery export trade, the Procter & Gamble Group of the Southern Guangdong Chamber of Commerce exports a large number of daily necessities to Germany every year to actively seize the German daily necessities market, and like Carrefour large supermarket group, Imperial megagroups such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have also entered the German market for a long time. (Coke was successfully developed by the emperor in 1865, and then a royal consortium funded the establishment of the Coca-Cola Company and the Pepsi Coke Company, which became popular in the world and became a military product for a time).

"Friendship and loyalty are Germany's highest honors, and as for science and technology and education agreements, Germany welcomes Chinese students to study." Bismarck decided that these requirements were not a problem at all, only Lin Hong knew that the second industrial revolution was about to begin, as long as he obtained German science and technology to cultivate more scientific and technological talents, he could embark on the shuttle bus of the second industrial revolution, of course, what he didn't know was that the industrial revolution based on generators and motors had quietly begun in China, and a group of Chinese and foreign scientists led by Tesla were working silently at the Imperial Academy of Sciences of China waiting for the day of the scientific and technological blowout. The internal combustion engine group, led by Otto and Daimler, is also working hard with the strong support of the royal foundation. This is all this will not be heard until Lin Hong will hear it at the imperial meeting at the end of the year-

White House, Washington, USA.

The current President of the United States, Ulysses Simpson Grant, was born into a family of small business owners in Ohio, USA, and graduated from the U.S. Army Military Academy (West Point) in 1843. Participated in the Mexican-American War. Grant is the first military president in U.S. history to graduate from a U.S. military academy (West Point). As a soldier, when he heard that China, Britain and France threatened to turn the United States back into a colony at the Cairo Conference, he was furious and slapped his resolute desk. The staff did not dare to gasp.

"Mr. President, calm down." Rutherford Burchard Hayes was the U.S. Secretary of War at this time, and as a military president, the Secretary of War was of course his confidant, and the two were comrades-in-arms in the U.S. Civil War, so Hayes could still speak.

"Hayes, they are a provocation and an insult to the United States. What good advice does the James staff have? Grant sat down and said.

James is the leader of the president's staff, and to be honest, Grant doesn't really know much about politics, and mostly relies on his own staff.

"According to Fish's message from Cairo, the worst we can do is get out of Egypt or even Liberia."

"What?! You're kidding! ”

"Nope! Mr. President, I am afraid that it is true, that we are absolutely incapable of confronting China, Britain, and France in African affairs, and even "

"Or even what?"

"Even in North America we can't stand up to the union of China and the British. If we don't make concessions, the Chinese may not be joking," Hayes replied for James.

"What! Why? Grant couldn't believe Hayes would say such a thing, but as a soldier, he still wanted to know why.

"Either way, we don't have an advantage. First of all, militarily, we have just finished the civil war, but now the domestic army has been reduced to 200,000, the British and the Chinese emperor have more than 400,000 troops, and we do not have an advantage in numbers. ”

"What if there is a national mobilization?" Grant asked suddenly.

"Sir, then we have no chance of winning, China has more than 500 million people, more than 1.2 million domestic standing army, and 1.7 million reserves, and although the British army is weak, the British Empire can mobilize troops from its colonies all over the world. In addition, in terms of the navy, we hmm," Hayes really doesn't know what to say about the American navy, and what will happen if it goes to war with the world's No. 1 and No. 2 navies.

"I know, I know!" Grant replied weakly.

"Sir, the Cairo meeting may bring the government's prestige to the ground, and all we have to do now is how to recover the next losses." James is no longer entangled with the loss in Africa.

"Mr. President, I think we should propose an expansion of armaments in Congress, and attribute the failure of this Cairo meeting to the backwardness of our strength in order to reduce the criticism of the parliamentarians." Hayes actually put forward such a proposal for a purpose, historically he is the 19th president of the United States is the next Grant, and the interest groups that support Hayes are the American arms dealers, after the end of the American Civil War, the arms dealers lost their market, and the international arms market has long been occupied by China, Britain and France, for which they can only seek domestic political power.

"Well, James, you will write some articles at once to attribute the failure of the Cairo Conference to my backwardness, and Hayes will draft a plan for the expansion of the Army and Navy as quickly as possible and submit it to Congress. The news of tomorrow's meeting in Cairo is a good response. I'm going to Congress tomorrow to speak, hoping to recoup a little bit of the damage," Grant said, slumped in his chair