On the deck, a few young men who had just graduated watched the sea ship slowly rise from two high poles? After passing under the steel arms, "the two cantilevers slowly flattened to form a flat bridge deck, and the eyeballs were about to fall out." ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

It was the first time they had seen this kind of strange bridge that could be lifted and lowered, and they all got closer to see it clearly, and it was really better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books, although everyone was the first batch of graduates who studied in Honolulu sponsored by the emperor and then entered the United States to receive higher education, but they did not expect that on the other side of the Atlantic, there was such a strange scene.

Tower Bridge, built in the same year and officially opened to the public five years ago, is the first bridge at the mouth of the River Thames, and will enter London, known as the center of the world.

Seeing the assistants pointing at the Tower Bridge, looking at the bridge deck of the Tower Bridge and closing it little by little, Li Xiufeng's mouth showed a smile, a few years of independent entrepreneurship, going back and forth between countries, has made him deeply appreciate the kind of moisturizing and silent changes that happen around him and all the Chinese.

When he first arrived in Europe with three ships laden with guano, he was greeted with astonishment and disdain, and the white Europeans did not bargain with you at all, "bought guano at a low price and took it to the fields, and imposed taxes far above the standard, and even suspected that you had stolen it!"

At that time, what he felt was an injustice, a humiliation!

But with a string of victories in the Far East, especially two great naval victories over Japan, news reached Europe, and when he arrived again with ten ships of guano, he was greeted with smiles, politeness, and equal taxes!

Only those who go abroad and have experienced these can deeply feel this change, and those diehards in China are still clinging to the thighs of foreigners and treating them as nurses, but they don't know that in Europe, "in the United States, and even around the world, Chinese people are no longer third-class citizens in the world!"

"Insensitive and narrow-minded" lacks self-confidence. ”

This is the headline used to criticize the south in the newly established Huadai Daily, and even the emperor applauded the newspaper when he saw it, and kept saying that it was appropriate.

On the land of China, there are still many people quietly talking about the emperor's actions, saying that the voice of his tomb country is even heard in Beijing City, but only those of them who are wandering outside know "What the emperor has done for this country."

He desperately bought warships and invested in the navy, he did not hesitate to wave his army into Beijing with a bad name, forced Guangxu and Cixi to commit suicide, and decisively knew those Eight Banner Lords, and then quickly waved the army to the north, preserving the last part of the vitality for the land of China, he let the world see the power of the Chinese through a dazzling war, and let the world close the mouth of ridicule!

Maybe the south is not so unified, maybe the war in the northwest is not so over, but there is no doubt that the Chinese nation has slowly risen!

Now, he's in London to contribute to that rise!

The freighter slowly approached the wharf, and the bright red and golden dragon flag fluttering high on the flagpole fluttered in the center of the world, attracting countless eyes and bringing a touch of color to this perennially gloomy city.

"Mr. Boone" It's great to see you here. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)"

Li Xiufeng looked at the old Swiss man who came to greet him, smiled and hugged him, this scene surprised the workers on the dock, when did the white people still be so friendly to the Chinese?

Boone is a Swiss who opened a small bank, but he was quietly acquired, and with the acquisition came a frightening amount of money, and with the help of these funds from nowhere, "now he is a well-known investor in Switzerland and even in Europe, until he recently knew that the person who bought his bank was from the Far East."

Today, "he came to London to greet the financial butler of the super-boss."

Boone is still the first time to see Li Xiufeng, although there are acquaintances to introduce, but still a little surprised, I didn't expect this person to be so young, after talking, I know that the person named Liu Xiufeng turned out to be the owner of a well-known fertilizer company founded in France in recent years.

"Mr. Boone, we don't have much time, I want to know if there is anything unusual in the exchange at the moment?" After a few words of greeting, Li Xiufeng immediately entered the work state, and after staying with Li Mo for a long time, he also became a person who didn't like nonsense.

It was precisely this that "made Boone feel a little good about him, because although Boone was Swiss, he had heard of the strange habits of the Far East, and he didn't like it, he liked to be simple and straightforward, and many people were even laughing at him for going to America and being a cowboy."

Go to a country of eruptors with no background? Then why not go to the Far East and taste the legendary Chinese cuisine.

Boone had said this many times in private, so after hearing Li Xiufeng's inquiry, he immediately took out a document, but handed it over directly without explanation.

There is nothing strange about the English document, but there is some German in between! This made the corners of Li Xiufeng's mouth slightly upturned, what the young master said was right, Europeans will not work for the Chinese for no reason, if you want them to do things for you, you must be convinced, or even bribed, coerced!

"Mr. Boone, you said here that there has been a slight fluctuation in the price of rubber in the near future, do you know the reason?" Li Xiufeng pointed to one of the German passages, looked at him and asked.

Boone's expression didn't seem to change, but Li Xiufeng still grasped the surprise in his eyes and listened to him analyze the recent rubber trend.

Rubber speculation!

This is the reason why Li Xiufeng came to London this time, because London is currently a large international futures trading center, and the business reached through here every day is as much as hundreds of millions of British pounds, although the total economic volume of the United States has long exceeded that of Britain and France, and Wall Street is also emerging, but when it comes to large trading transactions, London's position cannot be replaced for the time being.

In the early years, Mr. Sloe's plantation investment has reached the payback period, and a large number of rubber plantations in the late Luzon period will be harvested in two years, as automobiles began to appear in various countries, the demand for rubber is increasing, and this industry has been more and more valued by various countries.

The climate of Europe makes it impossible to grow rubber, although it is produced in South America, but the development of rubber is in the South Seas, and seventy percent of them are concentrated in Luzon at this time, although South America has also begun to have plantations, but both in terms of scale and production, are incomparable.

This is the big business that the young master said, to use rubber, to make money, but also to make countries tense their nerves again, and at the same time accelerate the transformation of the South Seas!

"Let's go, go straight to the exchange. , Li Xiufeng patted the seat in front of him, and the car turned around and flew towards the London Stock Exchange.

There are only two destroyers docked in the military port of Cavite, which was once important in Luzon, and although the Luzon headquarters is still located here, it is an indisputable fact that this military port is about to be converted to a second-line use.

The construction of the large Subic naval base has already begun, and according to the plan, "it will be built into a large comprehensive military base in the South Seas, almost the same size as one Guam, and it will have more than 20 berths capable of docking 10,000-ton warships, and even the terrifying data of 50,000-ton berths directly put forward by Young Master Li."

Originally, the Subic base was not built like this, because the finance did not allow the construction of such a large military base" and the navy is currently concentrating on the construction of the Klut Island base, but I didn't expect that after the governor Zhong Wenyao heard about it, he actually took the initiative to contact the Chinese businessmen in Nanyang, and in the name of self-improvement, he took over the construction of the base, and took this opportunity to import 100,000 laborers from the country again.

The Nanyang Chinese have been really scared for many years, and under the double attack of the natives and foreigners, they have been stealing their lives and trembling, although they have huge wealth, they can't have the slightest peace of mind.

But since Luzon was defeated by the Chinese army, everyone has seen hope, especially after life has been getting better in the past two years, and there is no need to worry about it anymore, it is to regard Li Mo as a great benefactor. After hearing Zhong Wenyao say that the emperor was in financial difficulties and could not build a naval base for the time being, he burst out with great enthusiasm, and raised more than 10 million blue coins in just one month, so that everyone could see the wealth of Chinese businessmen in Nanyang, and also witnessed their concern for the huge umbrella of the navy.

Under this enthusiasm, "the speed of the construction of the Subic base has soared, and the prototype has been revealed in just half a year, and the huge base that needs at least two years in the plan is even predicted to be only one and a half years to complete."

Under such enthusiasm, Li Mo also revised the original idea of placing the Southwest Theater Command in Guam and placed it in Luzon instead, temporarily settling in Cavite, and moving there after the Subic base was built.

From the occupation two years ago to the construction of large bases two years later, Luzon is undergoing earth-shaking changes, Li Mo originally proposed that the railway around Luzon Island has been built for most of the time, in the stimulus of 100 million blue coins, Chinese businessmen and local Luzon businessmen have burst out with great enthusiasm, countless plantations have been reclaimed, rubber, tobacco and sugar cane have become the main investments, plus Li Mo proposed a bold rice purchase protection price, grain development has also made great progress.

The unique environment of the rice bowl here can be planted three seasons a year, which greatly alleviates the problem of food shortage in the north, and the dream of planting base is slowly taking shape.

In the past two years, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have been imported through the name of coolies, and the proportion of Chinese from all over the country has been rising rapidly, and if the five-million-year immigration plan proposed by the Prime Minister's Office is completed, the worrying problem of population ratio will be reversed.

The influx of a large number of people, although some Luzon people began to feel uneasy, but most of them still accepted this change, not to mention that according to the plan of the Prime Minister's Office, Zhong Wenyao began to promote the development of light industry, such as rubber, grain processing, garment making, sugar, and daily necessities factories, which reduced the pressure of the population on the land, and also promoted the development of commerce, and the population was no longer rich, but scarce.

However, the land of Luzon Island is limited after all, and some people have begun to focus on the neighbors, especially Borneo, which is only separated by a strait, but the Lanfang tragedy made many Chinese unwilling to return to that sad land in person, but they did not want to see such a good waste of land, so under the hint of Zhong Wenyao, they contacted the local farmers in Luzon to jointly invest and let them be sentinels to explore the way.

But at this time when the cattle machine is booming, a letter of appointment makes people nervous.

Commander of the Southwestern Theater of Operations!

Huang Fuqi was speechless in surprise when he saw the letter of appointment, you must know that according to the previous division of the theater, the southwest theater includes the southwest Pacific Ocean and the entire China Sea, and even Taiwan belongs to it.

Although it is temporary, but at this time, he was promoted to the commander of the theater, what kind of medicine did the emperor and the general staff sell in their stomachs?

Huang Fuqi would not be stupid enough to think that the world could be peaceful because he saw the prosperity of Luzon, but at this moment, the north has not yet been unified, and the southern provinces are trying to secede with the support of the great powers, so why did he suddenly appoint the Southwest Theater Command?

"It's nothing, the emperor is going to squeeze the south."

Huang Fuqi turned his head, and it was the commander of the Second Fleet, Le Fei, who was also the controller of the large naval fleet in this sea area except for Britain and France, and officially because of his existence, Luzon could quickly attack without outside interference.

"Squeeze the South! What does squeezing the South have to do with moving the South Seas? ”

"Very simply, the reason why Britain and France and other countries can sell arms without scruples and support those guys in the south is because they have a stable shipping lane, the Strait of Malacca!"

Malacca!

Huang Fuqi muttered the name, and seemed to understand a little, that is, because Nanyang is too peaceful, so all countries can project their attention to the southern Zhuxing without any scruples, if Nanyang is turbulent again, even if it is a small-scale war, they have to be distracted, after all, this place is too important!

Young Master Li is not a warmonger, nor is he crazy, and he does not want to see the Chinese persecuted, especially when the support of the Chinese in the overseas has become the main pillar of his support, and the safety of these people has become his top priority.

Although the status of the Nanyang Chinese has improved a lot, the essence has not changed, and the strong people are not willing to continue to grow the Chinese, so the restrictions on the Chinese are still very strict except for Luzon.

The Nanyang in Li Mo's heart, even if it can't all be incorporated into the embrace of Greater China, should become a paradise for the Chinese, not just one Luzon!

But where do you start?

It will definitely not work to move the territory of those powerful countries, so only ...... remain.

"Borneo!"

Huang Fuqi's eyes suddenly focused on this place that had brought great pain to the Chinese!

It's time for the Chinese to go back, too!