Chapter 176: Reasons Why Not to Annex
Fang Xiaoyu paced around the room twice and said without giving up: "But isn't the Boston Empire contained by the Saint Martin Empire?" They won't go to war on their own. ”
Liu Junguo said: "Let me explain this." The Boston Empire was a newly emerging industrial empire with a production capacity ten times greater than that of the agrarian empire of St. Martin. In the past, the reason why the St. Martin Empire was able to confront the Boston Empire was because the Western Continent powers did not want the Boston Empire to be too strong, not only threatening their coastline, but also their industrial products would impact their markets, so they supported the St. Martin Empire to fight against the Boston Empire, plus the St. Martin Empire was rich in gold and silver, and had enough money to order warships from the Western Continent to maintain the balance of power in the New World. ”
Fang Xiaoyu asked, "Now the Saint Martin Empire can't fight against the Boston Empire?" ”
Liu Junguo then explained: "Due to the rise of our Chinese leader, the powers of the Western Continent originally hoped to contain us through the Wa and Cossack Empires, but both countries were defeated by us. So they plan to let the Boston Empire expand westward, threaten us from the sea, and let us fight with the Boston Empire to solve two problems at once. As a result, they have now severed their support for the St. Martin Empire, which has no manufacturing capacity, and is increasingly unable to fight against the Boston Empire. ”
"So we can only accept the outcome of the confrontation with the Boston Empire with the Oahu Kingdom as a buffer?" Fang Xiaoyu asked unwillingly.
Feng Shichang comforted: "At present, we can only accept such a fact, which is also a helpless thing. The Boston Empire's official refusal to do anything to the Oahu Kingdom should be based on the same considerations. ”
Fang Xiaoyu gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, then do it according to the original plan." But I won't just suffer like this, let the Intelligence Bureau and the Saint Martin Empire line up, since the powers of the Western Continent don't support the Saint Martin Empire, then let's come. ”
Feng Shichang smiled: "Young Master, you are really a person who never suffers. ”
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but our lord didn't agree to your request." Huang Weihua came to the Oahu Palace again to bring the news to Queen Akaliana.
Hearing Huang Weihua's words, Queen Akaliana's face was as dead as ashes, and she couldn't understand why someone would refuse such a tempting proposal of hers.
Seeing the Queen's face, Huang Weihua knew that the other party would be mistaken, and he hurriedly explained: "Our lord is not unwilling to help Her Majesty the Queen, your lordship out of the spirit of humanitarianism, he can't bear the slaughter of Her Majesty's subjects, and he is willing to help Her Majesty the Queen resist the attack of the Boston people free of charge." ”
Listening to Huang Weihua's words, Queen Akaliana's expression was stunned, and she immediately asked, "Why do you want to help us for free?" ”
"This ......" Huang Weihua really couldn't say any reason, but he replied as soon as his eyes rolled: "Our lord hates power and oppression the most, and he has always been committed to rescuing those oppressed peoples, and this is the reason why the three major subhuman races of the subcontinent have taken refuge in the Chinese Lord, not to mention that the people under Her Majesty the Queen have the same skin color as our Chinese." ”
Huang Weihua This is pure nonsense, anyone who knows a little about the international situation can hear the problem, but unfortunately the entire Wahu Kingdom is a group of turtles who have never seen the world, they actually believe in Huang Weihua's words, looking at the group of ministers of the Wahu Kingdom nodding with a smile on their faces, Huang Weihua's words changed.
"But ......," Huang Weihua's words lifted the queen's heart again. Huang Weihua said: "But you also know that our naval base is too far away from the Oahu Kingdom, and if the fleet of the Boston Empire comes, we will not be able to rescue it in time, so my lord wants to lease Honolulu Island as our naval base, and a fleet will be stationed here to protect the safety of the Ohu Kingdom." ”
Queen Akaliana's heart followed Huang Weihua's words a few times, and finally calmed down. Now she is very grateful in her heart to this 'grand duke' Lord Fang Xiaoyu, who is actually willing to protect her country for free, and even does not hesitate to lease land to garrison a fleet to protect herself, as for whether Fang Xiaoyu wants to annex her territory, the queen didn't think about it in that direction at all.
Originally, he gave the whole country to others, and people didn't want to covet one of their own islands, which didn't make sense in any way, so the queen decided very happily to lease this big island to the Chinese consulate for an indefinite period of time at the price of one Lanfang currency per year, and at the same time, the territory of the Ohu Kingdom will provide all the convenience for the Chinese consulate navy and expatriates, and the queen also ordered the Saar pound, which has been used as the official currency in the country, to change the Lanfang coin, which is an indirect show to the Chinese territory.
Huang Weihua overshadowed the Boston people, and took this opportunity to annex an island in the strategic place of the Ohu Kingdom without much effort, and even made people thank him, which is indeed a clever method.
As for the hapless Bostonians in the Kingdom of Oahu, they were mercilessly slaughtered by the Queen on charges of rebellion, and although the Boston Empire wanted to take this opportunity to annex the Kingdom of Oahu, it could be said that it suffered a big dumb loss.
The Chinese leader has already entered this area, not to mention that they have already made a gesture not to annex the Oahu Kingdom to leave such a strategic buffer, and it is not easy for the Boston Empire to attack immediately.
It's just that this time the Boston people on the island were all handled by Huang Weihua's guards, and the Wahu people, who had little concept of gold and silver, didn't know the value of it at all, and as a result, these precious metals and some valuable luxury goods were cheaper than Huang Weihua, allowing him to ship more than 30 million Lanfang coins to the country.
Those bulky furniture, carpets and other relatively low-value items were given to the Wahu soldiers who came with them, and they praised the generosity of the Chinese army, and actually gave them the most useful things.
With the outpost of the Wahu Kingdom, the strategic environment around the Chinese Territory, at least the maritime environment has begun to improve a little, and now although the forces of all parties have put a lot of pressure on the Chinese Territory, but in the face of the strong Chinese Territory, the forces of all parties do not dare to attack at will, with this rare buffer of stalemate between the parties, Fang Xiaoyu vigorously develops the economy and strengthens his own strength, and what Fang Xiaoyu lacks at present is the time and funds for development.
Because the stall of Zhonghua Lingdian is too large, even the profits of Zhonghua Group Company are a little insufficient, but fortunately, a large number of overseas businessmen have begun to invest in Zhonghua Ling, and with the living water of this capital injected into the construction of the territory, Fang Xiaoyu can concentrate most of the energy of Zhonghua Group Company on the development of the Wild Continent.