Chapter XXIV. Exchange of Interests

Only a third of these volunteers who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the freedom of the Javanese people finally walked out of the sea of corpses and blood in front of the barricades, and the rest...

Well, they're so undetermined.

"Hmph, a bunch of stupid idiots!"

Han Xu looked at the little greenhouse flowers who were helped back with disdain and said.

For the next few days, the Anglo-Indian and Javanese continued to engage in bloody melee in the city, while Chinatown stood alone as a haven of tranquility in the storm, with British bombers and naval guns deliberately avoiding the area.

They also have to do this, after all, the Kaohsiung at sea is not easy to mess with, although Rear Admiral Mansey is confident that Yang Feng is not so bold, but things on the battlefield are never absolute, in case they really want to hit the shells in Chinatown, what if the young sailors on the Kaohsiung have a hot brain, and they fire directly at the five British battleships? It was a light cruiser and a destroyer, and the Kaohsiung was a genuine heavy cruiser of one grade higher, and its 203 mm guns were not something that one or two levels of warships could withstand.

And the Javanese ...

They were all beaten all over the field by the British and Indian troops, how could they have the courage to provoke the Ming army again.

What's more, the Kaohsiung also pressed on their heads like a mountain.

"Myoko?"

At the Temasek Cathay Tower, Lord Mountbatten, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Southeast Asian Theater, looked at Yang Feng in amazement.

Now Temasek is under military control, and he is also the head of the military management committee, and the daughter of a good friend of his , Evelyn, a journalist from The Times, brought him a strange guest from Ambuna Island.

Yang Feng, the head of the Ming Empire.

"Yes, Your Excellency, I would like to be able to buy Myokohime, this warship is no longer of any use to you, she doesn't even have a main gun, I think you are probably ready to tow her somewhere in the Strait of Malacca, and then scuttle her to settle down for the fish, right?" In that case, why don't you sell me more than 10,000 tons of steel? I buy it at the price of scrap iron, you can dismantle the rest of the cannon in advance, and I am not ready to tow her back as a warship, although I repaired Takaohime, but the amount of work to repair Myokohime is too large, and even if it is repaired, I don't have a soldier to drive her. ”

Yang Feng said with a frank smile.

"So what are you going to buy back for?"

"It's very simple, power generation, I towed her to Ambuna Island, found a random place to moor, and then dismantled her transmission system and installed a generator set, she has a steam turbine of 130,000 horses, which is enough for my electricity needs in the short term."

Yang Feng said.

Well, he is just going to do this, it is very troublesome to build a thermal power plant on land, even if he starts now, it will be difficult to generate electricity in two years, but if he drags Myoko-hime back, and then removes the gearbox propeller or something, and adds a generator set directly behind the steam turbine, the 130,000-horsepower steam turbine is almost a 100-megawatt thermal power plant level, and the power demand of the Ming Empire to supply him in the short term is more than enough.

The key is that this power plant does not need any infrastructure, no planning and design, no need to build a factory, no need to build a huge chimney, no need to...

In short, there is no need for all kinds of messy things, tow it to the Voyager, and in one night, it will be able to dismantle the inside and assemble the generator, and drag it to Ambuna Island, and the rest is the work of erecting cables and transformers, and it will take him less than two months to power the planned industrial area.

Lord Mountbatten hesitated, this is a good business, Myoko Ji he is indeed going to scuttle in the Strait of Malacca, this heavy cruiser has no repair meaning, the British Navy does not need her, and no one wants it when scrap metal is sold to shipbreaking companies. Because it has to be towed to Europe for dismantling, the scrap iron money sold is not enough for the cost of towing and dismantling, staying in Temasek still occupies berths, towing out and scuttling is the most reasonable way to deal with it, if it can be sold directly, even if it is sold as scrap iron, it is extremely cost-effective.

But Yang Feng's identity...

"Your Excellency, you should know that I'm entrusting Evelyn with a marketing film to a distributor in your country, right?"

Yang Feng said.

Mountbatten nodded, he had also seen the five-minute clip cut from "Cinderella", and he also thought it would be a big hit.

"There is more than one thing I want to sell to your businessmen, of course, my final destination is not Europe, in your current situation, I am really not interested in making money from you, my target is the United States."

Yang Feng said and gestured to the bodyguard next to him, who put the cardboard box she had been holding on the coffee table next to him and opened it.

"The first, highly effective herbicides.

It should be said that there are two kinds, one is the soil treatment agent before sowing or germination, the soil treated by it will not grow grass, and the other is the herbicide, which directly kills all weeds, and the farmers in the rice country will love this thing to death, and we can find a piece of grass to test it for a while. ”

Yang Feng took out a bottle of glyphosate and a bottle of acetochlor and put them on the coffee table, and before Mountbatten could wake up, he then said: "The second, medicine."

The first is asthma spray, how many people die because of sudden asthma? Especially in the fog of London, I think you must have seen the tragedy of a respectable gentleman suddenly grabbing his throat and falling down at a noble ball, and then returning to heaven before he could be taken to the hospital.

Well, with this you don't need it, spray it, and the next moment he can revisit the horse racing with you. ”

Yang Feng said and sprayed the air with vantolin spray.

By this time, Mountbatten's eyes had already lit up.

"The other is the gospel of men, I don't need to explain it in detail, in short, if you are interested, you might as well try it yourself, who knows who uses this thing."

Yang Feng took out another bottle of small blue medicine and threw it directly to Mountbatten.

"The third type, or the third type.

Seeds, high-yielding seeds, corn and soybeans, when using glyphosate for weeding, it is easy to kill crops and weeds together due to improper operation, but with these seeds it will not, they are not afraid of glyphosate, and they have a higher yield than ordinary seeds, and even insects do not like to eat them.

Of course, they also have a problem.

You can only plant one crop, farmers don't expect to be able to keep their own seeds, they have to buy more seeds if they want to plant more, we are businessmen, not philanthropists.

If you are interested, you can send an invitation to your businessmen on my behalf, and I will hold a bidding meeting on the island of Ambuna, only for your businessmen, and then they will act as agents for the distribution of these things in Europe and the United States, and we will negotiate a mutually acceptable price distribution method, your businessmen will be responsible for sales, I will be responsible for supply, and we will make a fortune together. ”

Yang Feng said.

"No problem, I'm more than happy to help." Mountbatten said without hesitation.

Of course he welcomes such a good thing, if these things are really like Yang Feng said, then it can be said that the money printing machine, and it is a dollar money printing machine, especially pesticides and seeds, if it is really so magical, it can be said that it will make the farmers of the United States go crazy, and a steady stream of dollars will flow to Britain, and now Britain, the most lacking is the dollar. Moreover, this can also gradually control the agriculture of the United States in its hands, and through tens of millions of farmers, and then affect the political trend of the United States, it can be said that whether it is from the national strategy or economic interests, it is beneficial to Britain.

Of course, he ignored for the time being that those British merchants were also controlled by Yang Feng.

Maybe he didn't take it too seriously when he thought about it, because there were scientists in Britain.

But he didn't know that none of these things could be realized with current technology, and glyphosate and acetochlor were both launched thirty years later, in the mid-seventies, after the Chinese people had done enough experiments with Agent Orange on the battlefield of Annam. Vantolin was also launched by Glaxo in the seventies, not to mention the little blue medicine and genetically modified seeds, which were all half a century later, and it would be too rebellious for them to be able to copy them out now.

"Your Excellency, I have other conditions." Yang Feng looked at Mountbatten and said with a smile.

"Myoko? There is no problem, as long as it is not arms, anything you want to buy is business freedom. Mountbatten said with a smile.

"No, you're wrong, I'm buying arms." Yang Feng said.

Mountbatten looked at him deeply.

"Sir, I can sell these things through any European country, Gaul, Ε½esbania, the Nordic countries, Switzerland, even Prussia and the Netherlands, so why should I choose Britain?

If you want me to give such a good business to your merchants, you must give me something I need.

First of all, in the ammunition depot of the Japanese army that you received, all the ammunition that the Kaohsiung Ji set up needs to be sold to me, and secondly, you must sell me another batch of aircraft, thirty-six of the latest Lincoln bombers, and if the Lend-Lease Act does not prohibit it, sell me the same number of Mustang fighters, in addition, I also need a batch of warships, cruisers, destroyers, and even aircraft carriers, and large tank landing ships, if you don't mind, even sell me a piece of tanks. ”

"Yang, this is simply impossible, it is impossible for us to sell any arms to a country that we do not recognize." Mountbatten said with a solemn face.

"Isn't it okay for you to admit the Ming Empire?" Yang Feng said.

"This..."

"Now the issue between us is nothing more than the question of sovereignty over the island of Ambuna, but this is a dispute between me and the Dutch people, and if you come forward and invite the Dutch people to sit down with me and negotiate, do you think this issue will be resolved satisfactorily?

I have always respected Queen Wilhelmina, just like I respect His Majesty George VI, if this 3,000 square kilometers of territorial dispute is perfectly resolved, maybe I will also give Queen Wilhelmina some small gifts, my ancestors relied on the help of the Dutch to finally escape from the pursuit of the enemy, so both I and the Ming Empire are very happy to re-establish friendship with the Dutch. ”

Yang Feng said lightly.

(Thanks to the book friend for the song of rage, tkbl's tip)