"Young Master." With Chen Ping there, Duan Fei couldn't help but salute subconsciously.

Li Mo looked at him quietly, he had been out for more than half a year, and the guy had obviously lost a lot of weight and darkened, but he was in very good spirits. "Sit down, I don't have that many rules here." Pointing to the sofa opposite, he asked Du Dazhuang to make a pot of tea before asking, "It's all done?" ”

"That's it!" Duan Fei's eyes flashed with excitement, and he quickly took out a thick official document from his leather bag and said, "Slow is not lying, his uncle is indeed the governor of Guam. ”

It's really about the position of governor of the island! Li Mo wondered, shouldn't Guam be under the jurisdiction of the Philippine and Spanish colonial political axes at this time? How can a governor have the power to read? But soon Duan Fei's words answered his doubts.

Although Guam belongs to the Mariana Islands, but after Magellan discovered Guam, he thought that Guam was the largest island, so he proclaimed himself the governor of Guam, and later discovered the entire Philippine Islands through Guam.

However, compared with the rich Philippines, the governor of Guam is not very happy, Guam is only more than 500 square kilometers, less than half of Oahu, and there are no natural resources, the total population at this time is only more than 40,000 people, most of them are local Chamorro people, and the Chinese and Yue himself account for only a small part. In addition to one governor, only a hundred soldiers maintained his rule.

Since Guam's land is not suitable for tobacco cultivation, the biggest income now is fishing and a coal station to refuel passing ships, and the source of coal is also imported from the Philippines, which can be said to be very poor, according to intelligence, the island's monthly income is less than 1,000 pounds.

A thousand pounds! Li Mo smacked his lips, it was better than a pineapple plantation on Oahu, when would he be able to pay off his million pounds?

Listening to the young master's words, Chen Ping held the corners of his mouth tightly, trying not to let himself laugh out loud, for this eldest young master's strange way of thinking, he, like everyone else, really couldn't agree. I don't know what he thinks, but he actually forced his teacher to write a million IOU, which may be unprecedented.

Duan Fei also held back a smile, shook his head, took out a hand-drawn schematic map of Guam, and said: "This is the Apra Harbor you said, young master, but now the channel here is too narrow to pass through large ships, and even the Spanish coaling station is not placed here, if you want to use it, you must expand it, and this bay is very dilapidated, surrounded by gravel mudflats, and it may cost a lot of money to clean it all out." ”

Apra Naval Base, this is one of the largest naval bases of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region in the future, and it can berth 80 warships, including aircraft carriers.

What's more, Guam is the gateway to and from the Micronesian islands, as long as it is strangled here, half of the islands in the Pacific Ocean will be shrouded, and the most important thing is that through Guam, the power of the Pacific Army can be extended to the South Seas and even Australia, which is a recognized strategic node in the Pacific for generations!

Thinking that Guam was already in front of him, not to mention Young Master Li, even Chen Ping was short of breath, although he had not yet conceived Guam as a strategic node in his mind, but just a foothold in and out of the South Seas was enough for him to be willing to take any danger!

"Money is not an issue." Young Master Li waved his hand boldly and said, "You can let the Government Council first come up with money for the preliminary guidance and construction." ”

Duan Fei nodded, and knew that for the young master, money was indeed not a problem, and now just the Heavenly Scattered Profits secretly remitted to the Swiss bank through his hands were now no less than 50,000 pounds a month, and it was still growing explosively.

Now the big problem is land! Although Oahu and Kauai are taken, it sounds like they are more than 3,000 square kilometers, but in reality the land that can be used is very small.

Kauai, which is mostly mountainous, was originally a plantation-based island, which is not at all suitable for the development of heavy industry. Oahu is in good condition, but with the expansion of shipyards, steel mills and munitions factories, it is already very crowded, so finding a new piece of investable land for the young master has become a top priority.

After hearing Slow say that his uncle was the governor of Guam, Li Mo immediately assigned Duan Fei to go to Guam secretly, and he had coveted that small island for a long time.

Of course, Duan Fei knew what Li Mo meant by sending him to Guam with Slo, so after seeing Li Mo looking at the map in a daze, he hurriedly said in an irrepressible excited tone: "Young Master, I have already taken all the land near Apra Harbor. ”

With that, he picked up the pen and made a sharp circle in the place that looked like an appendix. "Shhh Chen Ping sighed, isn't this the young master's enclosure technique? How did this guy learn too?!

"Ahh Done so quickly? How is this possible? Looking at the circle drawn by Duan Fei, Li Mo's eyes also widened, how could this be possible? Is that Mr. Governor stupid? Just for an inexplicable IOU, you sold a third of Guam's land?

"Young master, you forgot, we have Heaven San!" Duan Fei glanced at Chen Ping, and a sly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Heaven scattered!

Chen Ping shuddered for a moment, he only recently learned about this very popular thing in the United States, at first he thought it was a conspiracy made by Roosevelt, but later he learned that this turned out to be a good thing that the young master made up to poison the Americans.

After some explanation, the two gradually understood. It turned out that after Duan Fei arrived in Guam with Slow, the governor was so angry when he saw the IOU that he almost sent troops to kill the two of them, and directly refused to pay off Slowe's debt! But how could Duan Fei be willing to come back empty-handed? Immediately gave him boxes of Cuban cigars mixed with Paradise Scatter.

The allure of Cuban cigars was enormous, and after a few days of enjoying it, the governor of Guam finally fell into the trap of drugs, and finally agreed to Duan Fei's plan to lease the harbor and land to pay off the large debts owed by Slow, and the only requirement was that Duan Fei must continue to provide "Cuban cigars".

According to Spanish colonial law, the governor had the ultimate control over the land under his jurisdiction, so they quickly finalized the lease agreement and asked people to return to Spain overnight with the agreement to file with the political axe.

It took three months to come back, and with the return of the messenger, after paying the so-called down payment of fifty thousand pounds, he finally took the land for Master Li in the name of the Pacific Shipping Company, and although there were some mountains except for the harbor, the value of the harbor alone was far more than a million pounds.

It's good to travel through people! At least you can have a foresight, and you have traveled to this era when the land trade is very loose and the industrial revolution has not long begun, which is simply the best year to use the golden finger!

I just got out of the electron tube, and it became a vomit image of the big-headed monsters, but I didn't expect such a piece to become a big landlord in Guam again, could it be that the young master has started to have good luck again recently?

Li Mo almost jumped to his feet, pointed to the map and shouted: "Development, development immediately!" Go to Li Enfu and ask him to immediately arrange for 20,000 laborers to be recruited from the Qing Dynasty, settle me there with my family, dredge the channel for me as soon as possible, and build the port of Apra, and tell Lin Yongxiang that we must arrange the best people to sit there, and let him send people to Italy and Spain to buy equipment and build a 50,000-ton shipyard here."

"Remember, all the work has to be done with our people, and there are skilled craftsmen who can be sent from Hawaii, and no one can tell that we are building a military base here."

"Fifty thousand tons?" Chen Ping and Duan Fei were both surprised, what is the young master doing here? Why are there so many large shipyards needed? And for such a big project, it is not easy for people to see that the construction of a military base is not possible!

"Nonsense, of course, it is to prepare for the young master to build super battleships and aircraft carriers in the future, if it weren't for technical limitations, the young master would still want to directly launch a 50,000-ton or even 100,000-ton dock!" Of course, he can't say this now, otherwise Duan Fei will definitely think that Young Master Li is crazy. As for secrecy, hehe, then you can figure it out yourself, anyway, you can hide a little bit.

Taking Apra Port is equivalent to adding another piece of land to the young master, although it is not big, Duan Fei is still quite excited, but when he thinks of the recent frequent telegrams sent from China and the book, he is a little uneasy, and asks: "Young master, I heard that you are preparing to return to China?" ”

"Returning home? Why do you want to go back to China? Li Mo's eyes widened, and he glanced at Chen Ping, who was also full of doubts, and didn't understand why Duan Fei would ask this, even if he wanted to return to China, it couldn't be now?

"Not going back? But I heard that you recently sent the Nighthawks back to Liaodong? Don't......? This time it was Duan Fei's turn to be depressed, and he glanced at Chen Ping, could it be that the previous guesses were all wrong, and even Chen Ping and the others didn't understand the young master's intentions?

Finally knowing why the two of them had this idea, Li Mo hurriedly smiled, only to know that during this time, he shot at Liaodong and Ryukyu one after another, so that the following misunderstood, and hurriedly picked up the map, pointed and said: "This is Yuben, this is Ryukyu." ”

"I asked people to go back to Liaodong, not to return to China immediately, but to have resources where, what I need is here!"

"This is?!"

Duan Fei and Chen Ping looked at the circled place on the map in amazement, and then they realized that the young master had gone around in a big circle, it turned out to be here! Li Mo didn't care about the two people who were shocked, not to mention that he also felt that it was necessary for his intelligence chief and number one staff officer to know his strategic concept unmistakably, so he continued: "Only by taking this place can Hawaii, Ryukyu and Nanyang be connected. ”

"But if you want to connect, you have to defeat Yuben and beat them forever! Otherwise, we won't be able to continue southward with confidence! As for domestic ....... Li Mo pursed the corners of his lips: "I will go back, but not now......!" ”

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"There's a big piece of land again."

After sending Duan Fei and Chen Ping away, Li Mo returned to the room, looked at the map he had outlined, carefully drew a circle at the location of Guam, and began to look towards the Philippines near Guam.

What a place! It's a pity that the young master is not strong enough now.

Li Mo swallowed his saliva, looked at the large island near Papua New Guinea to the south of Guam, and smacked his mouth. "Woo woo...... it's all occupied, the young master is really not at the right time, woo woo ......."

Young Master Li, who was still lamenting the ease of Apra just now, began to pout at the map again, when will he complete his plan to monopolize the Pacific Ocean?

Looking at the blue sea outside, Li Mo just started to wander outside, and it wasn't until Zhao Long knocked on the door of the study that he woke up. "Young Master, here is a list of some young officers who have been promoted recently." While Zhao Long handed over a list, his eyes were completely attracted by the map.

"Okay, you can just ask Chen Ping about this in the future." Young Master Li stuffed the list with confidence.

Zhao Long took the list and continued: "Young Master, I just received a telegram that the Yoshino has returned to China!" ”

"The Yoshino is back to its roots!"

Li Mo put down his pen in a daze, not noticing the names of Zhang Zuolin and Sun Jiugong that appeared on the first page of the list that was slightly blown open by the wind in Zhao Long's hand