In Charlie's room, an assistant who had followed him to Sichuan spoke with a gift. "Sir, we're leaving Chengdu tomorrow, is it really okay if this gift isn't given?"

"Don't worry, I'll give the gift out tomorrow when I leave...", as if intoxicated, smelled the aroma in the teacup, Charlie's face was relaxed.

At this time, it had been a week since Charlie and Riddle arrived in Chengdu, and in the course of a week, the three of them had discussed the details of the business many times, and Yan Guang also added some other business to the original arms agreement, making the total value of the entire business more than 20 million silver dollars.

"Is there any machinery and equipment for the construction of the roadbed, tunnels, bridges, and track-laying for the railway, and the Chengqing Highway?" he muttered. I have a gut feeling that this Yan may become a problem for the British Empire in the future..."

"What did you just say, sir?" The assistant didn't seem to hear Charlie's whisper, so he turned around and asked.

Shaking his head, Charlie smiled wryly. "It's nothing, you keep busy with yours."

In the near future, Qijiang will become the mining and smelting center of Sichuan, where the iron ore mined will be smelted into iron and steel, and then sent to the industrial center of Yucheng to be processed into industrial supplies and military weapons. In other words, the existing Chengqing Highway is absolutely insufficient, and it is not the era of motor vehicles, the efficiency of mules and horses is too low, and the train is the most efficient means of transportation even in later generations (the era of motor vehicles cannot afford to burn that oil)...

Therefore, the construction of a connecting railway between Qijiang, Yucheng and Chengdu is Yan Guang's latest plan. Because of this, when discussing business, Yan Guang added all kinds of machinery and equipment needed to build railways and some equipment needed for civilian factories...

The expansion of business also means the expansion of profits, but while he is happy about the growth of profits, Charlie's heart also flashes a trace of vigilance. No matter how good his personal relationship with Yan Guang is, after all, Charlie is an Englishman and a Caucasian after all, of course, as a qualified capitalist, race and skin color are obviously not something Charlie often thinks about, which is why he became the manager of Jardine Matheson.

But...

This does not mean that Charlie wants China to become stronger, because it is in their best interest to be in the chaos of China, which is in this case, so that they can maintain their privileges in China and continue to sell goods, including opium, to China, even though the latter has been out of the scope of Jardine Matheson for many years.

It can be said that the current chaotic but not particularly chaotic situation in China is what people like Charlie want to see the most. Because in this situation, the warlords will buy arms from them with the last silver dollar, and the people under the warlords will buy from them because they can't buy goods made in China...

And then...

Thinking about Yan Guang's every move, it can be said that Yan Guang is indeed an alternative in this era.

Of course, in addition to Yan Guang's emphasis on the development of industry, the most important thing is that he is too rich, rich to the point that he can take money seriously. This also allowed him to massively expand his armaments while also having enough financial resources to build an industrial empire...

If possible, Charlie really didn't want to sell goods to Yan Guang, because he had a hunch that it wouldn't be long before this Chinese would become a trouble. But he had to sell them to Yan Guang again, because in Charlie's body the blood of the capitalists was burning, and they were even willing to sell the ropes that hanged themselves for something called "profit"...

Moreover, even if Charlie does not sell, others will, because in China, in Shanghai, there are too many capitalists...

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"It's really—" Standing in front of Yan Guang, Charlie and Riddle both smiled awkwardly.

They would be so embarrassed not because of anything else, but because they found out that the gift they gave to Yan Guang was actually the same.

"Cigars"

Of course, this is not the same as the ordinary, not only the origin is the same, the brand is the same, but even the production date is the same...

With a wry smile, although he didn't smoke, Yan Guang still accepted the gift looking at the embarrassed expressions of the two.

And after Yan Guang accepted the gift, Charlie and Riddle were also relieved, after all, the gift crash is indeed a bit embarrassing. Because of such a scene, it is difficult not to think that they are colluding.

didn't know that Charlie had already become a little wary of himself in his heart, and after handing the gift to the guard beside him, Yan Guang patted the shoulders of the two people affectionately. "Since you still have a lot of things to do in Shanghai, I won't keep you any longer, so let me send you out of Chengdu."

"Thank you very much." Not as much as Charles, nor influenced by the Kaiser's cartoon of "The nations of the world, protect your most precious possessions", Riedel hugged him affectionately. With 20 million silver dollars in arms, plus all kinds of machinery and equipment needed to build the railway, although Riddle and his Lihe Foreign Company only accounted for half of this business, Yan Guang was already cuter than a giant panda in Riddle's eyes...

After hugging each other, Yan Guang kept sending Riddle and the others out of Chengdu before stopping, and after saying goodbye to other officials in Chengdu, Charlie, who boarded the carriage, said to Riddle. "What do you think of Yan?"

“？” Listening to Charlie's words, Riddle felt a little inexplicable, but after thinking about it, he replied. "A very strange Chinese..." Riddle has lived in China for many years, although he has not had much contact but still knows some Chinese, it is clear that Yan Guang is the strangest one among the Chinese he knows.

"Did you ever think that maybe what we're selling now is going to be a rope to hang ourselves...", Charlie continued to ask after poking his head out of the window to salute Yan Guang and take off his hat.

Riddle was stunned when he heard Charlie's words, but he quickly understood what he meant. “… Dear Charlie, we are businessmen, we are in pursuit of profit, those long-term things are only for politicians to think about, we only need to think about how to make more money. As a standard businessman, Riddle was unimpressed by Charlie's ideas.

"But a lot of times politicians are as stupid as pigs, aren't they..."

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PS: I read the book review section once

The Nazi Party? That's what the hell -_-!

The Chinese Socialist Party? Actually, I also thought of Xinhua News Agency

And the Democratic X Party? It's the same as the one in Taiwan

The Chinese National Rejuvenation Party feels that there should be a lot of people who use it

Capitalist State Boss Party -_-!

The name of the Chinese nation's Mingzhuism is too long, and it is estimated that it is ultimately a reading talent in this article

The China Forward Party, the China Revitalization Party, the China Huamei Party, and the China United National Power Party don't sound very smooth

As for the Datong Party in the world, can I ask my friends in Shanxi to complain about the "Datong Party" -_-!

PS again: National Socialist National Party? The main reason is to facilitate the implementation of the minority elite system by the protagonists, so as to promote the planned economic system, because I think that for early China, the most suitable is still the planned economy. If the open boil system and the market economy are used, it is estimated that the First World War or something will not be able to catch up

Again: I'm not interested in Nazi's race xx, and I'm not interested in applying it, calling it "National Socialist Party" just because I think it sounds good