Li Mo, who was afraid of long nights and dreams, asked Lin Yongxiang to contact the Spanish shipyard owner early the next morning, while he took Chen Ping to the tax building on Oahu to wait for the completion of the land and shipyard delivery procedures.

Oahu is just over 1,400 square kilometers, which sounds very small, but if you are in it, you will still feel very vast, especially in this era when automobiles are just emerging, and it takes a long time to travel all of Oahu by horses and manpower.

Along the way, there are basically plantations and sugar factories, and some pineapple canning factories, other than that, there is hardly any trace of heavy industry, although I heard Lin Yongxiang say that on the other side of the island, there is a small ironworks, but the distance is too far, and now Master Li has no heart to play, so the carriage went straight to the queen's so-called palace.

Jolani Palace, built in 1879 and completed three years later, is a huge two-story luxury villa with clear traces of Renaissance hallmarks, the center of the entire Kingdom of Hawaii and the residence of the current queen, Queen Liluo Caraani.

Around the palace villas are small buildings of different styles, including the Kingdom of Hawaii's Revenue House.

Li Mo glanced at the Yolani Palace that he had visited in his previous life, and there was an indescribable feeling in his heart, but a famous palace brought him an indescribable melancholy.

"If those guys who came to play with them knew that the young master's goal was here, would they go crazy?" Li Mo thought about it, but quickly shook his head: "Those naval officers of the republic, although they don't say it, who doesn't want to replace the United States to take the whole of Hawaii, or even control the entire Pacific Ocean?" It's a pity that the vicissitudes of a hundred years have lost a lot of opportunities for the people, and most of the Republic's navy in the previous life was even focused on breaking through the so-called first and second island chains. ”

"I hope you can help me, I need a little time!" Li Mo took one last look at the luxurious palace, muttered in his heart, and then turned around and walked towards the tax building.

In the 19th century, the Kingdom of Hawaii was home to the royal palace and its humble tax building, which was a symbol of state power and a real economic center.

The current Kingdom of Hawaii controls more than 50 percent of the world's sugar trade and 70 percent of the canned pineapple processing industry, but it is ridiculous to say that except for the few large sugar cane plantations on the island of Hawaii that belong to the Queen, no assets belong to the state.

The sugar mills, the Americans, and outright monopolized.

Pineapple orchards, canned food processing, are dominated by Americans, and some other countries account for a small part.

The shipyard is about to be its own.

The steel mill is too small to be climate-friendly, and the young master has already sent someone to waive a huge check, and I believe that it will soon be his own.

So what's left?

By the way, there are more than 500 security teams, but unfortunately they still belong to the Americans, saying that they are themselves and the three major groups of Chinese, and the locals are directly excluded, so it's no wonder that they can work!

In the final analysis, in the eyes of the great powers, the Kingdom of Hawaii at this moment is just a woman who strips naked and can sleep with anyone, but for some reason she doesn't do it, and in the end, it's just that the Americans are not very kind and play alone.

Even if this kind of transaction involves a large amount of land and may endanger the security of the kingdom, the tax collector can only let the two parties sign the agreement on their own, and then make a joke and knock on the matter.

No strength! You can only let others play with it.

After waiting for a while, the Spanish shipyard owner arrived, looking at this guy who was a little unkempt, as if he had just woken up, Master Li was contemptuous: "It seems that this guy is not very good, he has such a large piece of land, and he actually makes him look like a beggar, but I think that Hawaii at this moment is basically the world of American businessmen, even if there are hundreds of thousands of Chinese, but there is no leader, they can only watch the Americans infiltrate little by little, and finally complete the occupation."

Maybe he was afraid that Li Mo would regret it, or maybe he was worried that the Yankees would make trouble for him, so the Spanish shipyard owner didn't even have a basic greeting, and when he saw Li Mo, he directly pulled him to quickly complete the land and shipyard transfer agreement.

As Li Mo quickly signed his name and handed over a check for a full 500,000 pounds, this guy's eyes were straight, I'm afraid he didn't expect that there was such a big Kaizi in this world, a dilapidated small shipyard, and a barren land, which could be sold for 500,000 pounds!

God, you can go back to Spain and become a rich man in peace!

As the two began to sign the handover agreement, a surprised gaze, with a hint of confusion and disapproval, swept over the young Li Mo, when the eyes of the two just met, Li Mo saw a Chinese man in his forties, wearing the uniform of a tax collector in the Kingdom of Hawaii, standing not far away and looking at him.

The Chen family!

Li Mo remembered Chen Ping's introduction, but at this moment, he didn't want to have anything to do with the other party, so he quickly handed over the signed check to the shipyard owner.

With the cheque handed over and the land deal finally completed, and the paperwork stamped with the so-called Hawaiian Kingdom stamp was obtained, Master Li not only became a new citizen of Oahu, but also owned thirty-five square kilometers of land, including a small shipyard.

But when the tax officer who handled the formalities for him thought that the transaction was completed and he could go home to sleep, Lin Yongxiang took out a large number of land certificates again, which immediately made the tax officer dumbfounded, because these lands and plantations were all traded by him not long ago, but he didn't expect that all of them were merged into the name of the small young man in front of him at this moment, and suddenly the tax officials in the building looked at Li Mo's eyes and changed.

And the son of the Chen family, who had been looking at Li Mo from afar, frowned even tighter, although judging from the total amount of land, it was not as good as the Chen family's giant sugar cane plantation on the big island of Hawaii, but Li Mo's young and unconventional identity and the kind of ease of waving a huge check made this big brother Chen feel worried.

"Is the Chinese power going to be re-divided again?" The Chen family watched the transaction in silence, and finally didn't say a word, and waited until Li Mo completed all the formalities before quickly getting into a carriage and disappearing into the palm groves.

Although the Kingdom of Hawaii is located in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, the ubiquitous bankers obviously will not let this treasure be lost, so the banking system on the island is very developed, not only Citigroup, HSBC and other giants, but even Italy, the German National Bank have opened branches here, which shows how popular the sugar industry is at this time, how profitable.

The Americans even laid an undersea cable connecting San Francisco and Hawaii for telegraph services in order to better control the place, and if they waited a few more years, when the radio technology matured, I am afraid that it would be even busier here.

After the transfer was completed, the Spanish uncle's eyes were about to narrow, and after politely taking Li Mo around his land and shipyard, he took the family to the United States that night.

Although the shipyard is a little smaller, it has a good location, with two dry docks of about 5,000 tons, and a well-built wharf, so it is not a problem to stop four or five battleships, and the geography is empty, which can fully meet the needs of expansion.

As for the facilities of the shipyard, it is a little dilapidated, and there is still a shortage of everything in Master Li, but there is no shortage of money, and I believe that under the temptation of a huge check, it should not be a big problem to quickly establish a large shipyard of his own.

It's just that! Li looked behind him, the dozens of sparse boatmen who accompanied the visit, his brows furrowed suddenly, the shipyard can be expanded, equipment can be purchased, but skilled skilled workers can not be trained in a day or two, because the shipyard has no business, usually do some small repairs and repairs, so this kind of technicians left by the Spanish factory owner is completely untrustworthy.

Chen Ping seemed to see Li Mo's worries, walked to his side and said quickly: "Young master, don't worry, I have already told Duan Fei to try to dig some skilled workers from the American shipyard." ”

Li Mo nodded, he can only do this first, but this method of digging talents can only quench his thirst for a while, and if he really wants to have his own team, I am afraid that he needs to use other brains.

"It seems that my ship-building plan is really a huge project that is far away!" Li Mo stretched his waist and said to Chen Ping: "Tell Duan Fei to see if we can buy a medium-sized shipyard on the West Coast of the United States, in this case, we will also have a training base!" ”

"Yes." Chen Ping nodded.

"By the way, what's going on with that little steel mill?" Keep asking.

"I guess I'm impressed by our price, but that guy doesn't know where he got the news that we bought the shipyard for 500,000 pounds, so now it's raised the price to 200,000 pounds, not counting the surrounding land, but in my opinion, he won't last a few days, because I've already let out the wind and is going to find a German businessman to build a new steel mill next to the shipyard."

Seeing that Chen Ping had learned his own set of things to suppress people cleanly, Li Mo smiled and said, "Wait, don't worry!" I really can't build it myself. ”

Li Mo is indeed not in a hurry, what are you afraid of if you have money! What's more, with the current appearance of the shipyard, I am afraid that it will not cost a few tons of steel a year, and there is no iron ore in Hawaii, there is no high-quality coal, and it is strange that a steel mill that relies on external imports is not squeezed!

"Wait a minute, you can take someone to visit the German and British ministers, bring some gifts, and by the way, see if they can get their ministers to contact the merchants of the two countries, expand the shipyard a little, and buy some large machines."

Li Mo thought for a while, and then added: "By the way, go and meet the Americans, negotiate with them, and hand over all our sugarcane and pineapples to them for processing!" ”

"Young master, isn't all the profits made by foreigners in that way?" Du Dazhuang, who was on the side, saw that the young master had finally bought a sugarcane orchard and a pineapple orchard, but he had to hand it over to the Americans to take care of, so he hurriedly scratched his head and asked puzzled.

"Hehe, Da Zhuang now knows how to use his brain, okay!" Li Moxu kicked the big man and praised him a few words, before he smiled and asked, "Are we still short of money now?" ”

"There is no shortage!" Du Dazhuang smiled innocently, although he didn't know much about the value of pounds, but hundreds of thousands of dollars could buy a shipyard and buy such a large piece of land, and he also knew the value of it, not to mention that your Young Master Li had almost sprinkled nearly a million pounds in the past few days, how could he be short of money!

"That's it, since it's not bad for sugar, wouldn't it be better to be a favor, so that the Americans think that we are just in trouble and have no other thoughts?"

"The young master just thinks farther than me!" Du Dazhuang hurriedly patted his ass.

"Tired, go home and sleep!" Li Mo smiled and turned his head: "Da Zhuang, go tell Xiao Xiao to let him sleep with the young master tonight!" ”

It's this sentence again!

"......", Du Dazhuang and Chen Ping couldn't cry or laugh, the young master is indeed commendable and indomitable! Knowing that the little girl would never come, he didn't give up.

"Hey......!"

At the end of the day's inspection, Li Mo took Chen Ping and the others back to the big bungalow he called Qingshan Villa, and after everyone was caught off guard and completed the transaction, not to mention how beautiful it was in his heart!

"The young master also has a territory!" Li Mo was laughing while lying on the bed.

At this moment, a house the same size as Castle Peak Villa on the east side of Oahu is brightly lit.

However, unlike the Western style outside the villa, the villa is a completely different scenery, the square hall front, placed a sandalwood incense table long table, on which the golden body of Mazu Niangniang is enshrined, below the incense case, two Taishi chairs back against the incense case, facing the south and north, a typical Chinese layout.

At this moment, an old man was sitting on the Taishi chair on the left, looking at the two sons sitting on the left and right below, and said, "Have you checked?" ”

"Checked."

It was the son of the Chen family, the tax officer of Oahu, who replied, and after seeing him frowning slightly, he immediately said: "It is said that he came out of the Great Qing Kingdom, and the surname of the master is Li, which is the young master Li who went through the formalities, in addition to a dozen family members, there are also three or four hundred subordinates, and after the transfer of the shipyard was completed today, they went to contact the German and British businessmen, and heard that the shipyard will be expanded by four or five times, and three large docks will be built." ”

"Great Qing Kingdom?" The old man's eyes flashed.

"Father, now that the Qing Dynasty is in turmoil, didn't some people with a lot of wealth run out and flee that day? In my opinion, this Young Master Li is just a waste born with a golden key, otherwise how could he want Sykes's broken shipyard? And that gravel field, you can't even grow sugar cane plantations! What is there to worry about. ”

The one on the right is the second child of the Chen family, Chen Kangan, wearing a floral shirt and looking a little impetuous.

"Humph! Know how to eat, drink and be merry all day long! The old man glared at him and reprimanded: "Learn from your eldest brother, and say that others are waste, I think you are waste!" Have you ever seen a waste that can be pulled out at any time in the hundreds of thousands of pounds? Have you ever seen the waste of at least a million pounds to expand the shipyard as soon as it comes? Besides, there are only a few rich people in the Qing Dynasty, and I haven't heard of anyone with the surname Li. ”

The eldest Chen Kangning glanced at his younger brother and agreed: "Father is right, there are so many rich people surnamed Li in the Great Qing Dynasty, but if you want to come up with millions of pounds at once, there are only a few rich princes who are comparable to the country, not to mention that except for a few old people, they are all braided, in my opinion, they are either the descendants of wealth in Beijing, or they are from somewhere else at all." ”

"Kyochu?" The old man narrowed his eyes and asked after a while, "What is the reaction of those Americans?" ”

Chen Kangning shook his head: "They moved too fast, although the Americans have long been interested in that piece of land, but after Sykes got the money, he immediately left here by boat, and now they have no other way, originally planned to go to the queen and exert some pressure, but the Li family has already sent representatives first, found the Americans, promised not to build sugar factories and canning factories, and handed over the sugarcane and pineapple orchards purchased by this period to the Americans for processing and purchase, I heard that an agreement has been reached!" ”

"Hiss......" After hearing this, the old man suddenly gasped: "The action is so fast!" ”

"Yes, I heard that their young master also sent people to visit the British, German and French ministers here, not only gave gifts, but also ordered a few cargo ships from the three countries, so we didn't have time to react at all." Chen Kangning was also a little surprised by the speed of the Li family's movements, and continued: "Father, you know, those foreigners care about money the most, not to mention that now that the wood is in the boat, since the Li family will not participate in sugar production, the Americans have nothing to say, not to mention that they also took the initiative to hand over all the sugarcane to them for processing and sales, such a big gift, I estimate that the Americans will also give in!" ”

"Old".

After listening to Chen Kangning's words, the old man narrowed his eyes for a long time before leaning back and sighing.

"Kang Ning, I will give orders in a while, this Li family" The old man pondered for a moment: "The water is too deep, let everyone wake me up!" ”

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