Chapter 144: Arriving in the United States
Li Tie has really gained a lot in the past few days in the UK, with the dedicated hospitality of the two princes, the strong support of the British royal family, and Li Tie's large amount of pounds spilled out. The British Parliament passed a rare and efficient passage on granting Li Tie the right to exploit resources in the UK's colony land.
What makes Li Tie happiest is that the two princes' ability to do things is really extraordinary, and this development right really only passed the vote at a price of 10,000 pounds per year.
It's just that the contract that was originally planned to be signed for a hundred years did not pass, because British politicians are no less stupid. The mandate for this development right is redefined every 10 years. After all, there is already a profession of economics, and many people know about inflation.
Li Tie was not angry about the reduction of the development period, and after ten years, Li Tie had already been in the same league with the local government, at that time, it was the outbreak of World War II, and Britain couldn't manage it even if it wanted to.
Therefore, Li Tie also handed over to the British government a one-time fee for the use of the development right for ten years on the second day after the development right was voted on, totaling 100,000 pounds. As for the other 900,000 pounds, it was secretly handed over to Prince Edward that night.
Of course, the royal family, who received a huge amount of money, was very happy, and made an exception to invite Li Tie and his party to a charity dinner held at Buckingham Palace that night.
The banquet was a charity dinner for the homeless in England, during which many items used by celebrities were auctioned. There are also several items of British royalty to be auctioned.
There are not only pocket watches used by the King of England, but also the dresses and swords of the two princes for their coming-of-age ceremonies, as well as the baby blanket used by the little princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth, when she was born.
Li Tie, who was already full of bad taste, immediately participated in the friendly competition with the British elite, not only snapped up a number of handicrafts and daily necessities, but also bought an Elizabeth baby blanket at the highest price of 10,000 pounds that night.
Because Elizabeth's baby blanket received the highest donation, the homeless shelter would eventually be named Elizabeth Shelter.
George didn't expect that his daughter would have a rescue unit named after her just after she was born, and he was moved to tears for a while, and even the guests present thought that this was Li Tie filming Prince George's sycophant, in order to show the deep relationship between the two of them.
As for the royal family, they were very happy, many of everyone's daily necessities were sold at a good price, especially Li Tie's performance was even more satisfactory, no wonder Edward and George insisted that the king give Li Tie a knighthood. This Li Tie really has his heart set on the British Empire.
At that time, Li Tie really didn't have the thoughts of these people present, he just thought that if Queen Elizabeth dared to talk about the Hong Kong issue in the future, he planned to use the queen's diaper to make her make a fool of herself. He really wasn't as great as these people thought.
But no matter what the original intention was, the most important thing is that Li Tie has once again won the approval of the British royal family.
Seeing that Li Tie was so keen on charity, the next day Prince Edward took Li Tie to visit the London orphanage, nursing home, and various welfare homes.
And Li Tie seems to be really generous, and he will donate some pounds almost everywhere he goes, ranging from a thousand to a thousand.
However, Li Tie does not donate in vain, almost every time he donates a place, Li Tie will always find various reasons to leave a few famous words there. It seems that Li Tie was affected by the problem of the leader's love for inscriptions in his previous life, and he rarely seized an opportunity to let go.
Because of Li Tie's generosity in Britain, in the end, the British royal family granted Li Tie the title of a viscount. And a part of the Maldives archipelago on the edge of the Indian Ocean suitable for human habitation was given to Li Tie as his fief.
But Li Tie is more concerned about the Philippine Islands in Asia. Unfortunately, Britain believes that the Philippine Islands are too close to China and does not want them to be connected to China. In the end, he did not agree to Li Tie's replacement request.
But in order to compensate Li Tie. The British government eventually gave the Thousand Tailed Scorpion a head street of the British noble, and the Thousand Tailed Scorpion a baron's head street.
Li Tie has been very comfortable in the past few days in the United Kingdom, accompanied by the two princes, Li Tie took the thousand-tailed scorpion to take a good tour of London's scenic spots.
When the permission to open the air between Huaxing Airlines and London, England was granted, Li Tie finally decided to say goodbye to the two princes. Li Tie boarded the Huaxing passenger plane with the warm wishes of the two princes and a group of royal family members.
On the plane, Li Tie did a good calculation, this trip to Europe, such a large amount of money was spent, and a small amount of 25 million silver dollars were spent.
The family of his own foreign bank is almost exhausted. If you want to spend any more money, you can only use those few batches of gold and the treasures in the looted warships. It seems that we have to let the Variety Rat speed up the sale of stolen goods.
Fortunately, I still have some private money, otherwise I would really be poor when I go to the United States this time.
This flight will be the most exhausting because it will be across the Atlantic. Fly from London to Quebec, Canada, and from Quebec along the east coast of the United States to Detroit.
The whole journey is more than 5,000 kilometers, but fortunately, the Huaxing passenger plane has been upgraded and refitted, and it flies far, and it is comfortable to sit on, otherwise I am afraid that Li Tie will have to take a ship to reach the United States.
This time he went to the United States not to open a route, he went to the United States this time to cooperate, and at the same time, if possible, he also wanted to find an agent in the United States to set up a Huaxing company, which was responsible for Huaxing's business in the United States in the future.
After a two-day flight, Li Tie and his entourage finally arrived at Dearborn, a city in the southeast of Michigan, which is a satellite city of Detroit, the city of the American automobile industry, and the headquarters and main factory site of Ford.
Now at the airstrip in Dearborn, representatives of Ford have just greeted Li Tie and his party. In order to make a big splash for the Ford IV airliner.
There were also dozens of reporters at the airport, but this time the protagonist was not Li Tie, but the Huaxing passenger plane that had just crossed the Atlantic from Europe to the United States.
I saw more than a dozen young and beautiful blonde beauties, surrounded by Harris, holding various propaganda posters in their hands and posing in various sultry shapes. Let dozens of reporters in front of him click to take pictures.
At the same time, the representatives of Ford also invited many local people to take pictures in front of the plane, but fortunately, Ford also knew that the property rights of this plane belonged to Li Tie, and did not ask to enter the plane, even if they wanted to enter Li Tie, they would not agree.
Because Hei Da and Hei Er were guarding several suitcases in shifts on the plane, which were the most important materials that Li Tie brought from Shanghai Huaxing Laboratory.
Finally, after the completion of Ford's publicity ceremony at the airport, Li Tie led a group of entourage to Ford's headquarters, and this time Li Tie took Ford's latest car. The T-type sedan, which is exported to Shanghai, is more luxurious and comfortable.
After nearly half an hour's drive, Li Tie and his entourage finally entered the headquarters of the Ford Company, although it was only a small city in the United States in the 20s, but because it was the headquarters of the Ford Company, this small city already had the prototype of high-rise buildings in later generations.
I saw that on both sides of the spacious road, there are all kinds of auto parts processing plants, what steel factories, machinery manufacturing plants, mold factories are all large-scale, and they are next to each other. All the way to Ford's headquarters, the factories on both sides of the road have not yet been counted. Li Tie is very envious of the current industrial level of the United States.
Ford is now the only company in the United States that can smelt iron ore directly in a city until it is finally made into a finished car.
It can be said that the current Ford company has a complete automobile manufacturing industrial system. That's why Li Tiecai chose Ford as a partner. As for his hole card to impress Ford, it is also very simple, a set of 50-type duralumin composite materials that will only be invented from Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in the forties, and that's it.
As for the other hole cards, Li Tie still has a lot of cards, but his purpose is only to buy shares in Ford and the leaders of major industries in the United States.
Moreover, Li Tie has more far-reaching plans to implement, so this trip to the United States is an important step in the layout. Li Tie has already thought about it, no matter what, he will definitely return home with a full load on this trip to the United States.
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