On the busy Hudson River, a Victorian-painted British Na slowly sails in, and the dull whistle seems to be a horn, sounding a busy day on Manhattan Island. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

On the top floor of the eight-story all-Thomas Mining Building, a big hand opened the thick curtains, looking out the window at the huge cruise ship emitting billowing black smoke, Thomas couldn't help but think of that person again, for him, that figure seemed to be everywhere.

It's like the Na ship in front of him, which reminds him of a crown that changed hands again in the United States ten days ago.

Ten days ago, with the Dalian shipyard in the Far East successively delivering three 20,000-ton Na ships, the Pacific Na Ship Company, a subsidiary of the famous Pacific Freight Company, snatched the throne of the world's No. 1 Na Ship Company for the first time with a huge fleet of 15 ships totaling 10,000 tons.

When the news reached New York, the stocks of many American Nalun companies, including White Star Cruises, fell one after another, causing many investors to lose a lot.

Insults, disdain and doubts filled the entire exchange, because in the eyes of the Americans, the world's first water of the Pacific Yulun Company was too large, first of all, the royal background of the Chinese Empire behind it, because at this moment everyone knew that the investor of this super maritime trust enterprise, which already owned nearly 800,000 tons of freighters, 15 Na ships, 30 special oil tankers and a large number of other ships, was the emperor of the "China" country, and it also got a large number of ships captured by the army that were almost half-sold and half-given away. Even the five second-hand 10,000-ton ships built by the United States and sold to Russia were bought and added to the fleet, so many people think that it is not a real commercial company.

However, in the eyes of Thomas and many top businessmen, this kind of "speech" is too American, although in terms of total volume, the fifteen ships of the Pacific Nalun Company only account for 20% of the total number of Na ships in the Atlantic, and the annual transportation volume is far less than that on both sides of the Atlantic, but as China began to migrate to Nanyang and Micronesia on a large scale, "the number of people who have left the country has reached several million, and this number is still exploding, and more than half of them are to be transported through Na Lun."

The increase in the number of immigrants will inevitably increase the connection between overseas and the mainland, and when the total number of immigrants exceeds 10 million, "then the number of people who come and go with the coastal and overseas provinces every year will be at least 500,000 to flow, which will bring rich benefits to the company."

It may not be possible for other countries to gather the population of 10 million, but for China it is a breeze, especially since the 10,000-mile-long sea border itself provides a good route from the Kamchatka Peninsula in the north to the island of Guinea in the south.

Moreover, the United States and Europe have only seen the Pacific Nalun Company, in fact, the Hong Kong China Merchants Shipping Company, the Ryukyu Shipping Company and the Luzon Nanyang Transport Company "are all private transportation companies with dozens of ships, and in addition to sea freight, they have also set their sights on cruise ships and have increased their investment in Na Lun."

In fact, this is not the first time that the United States has lost its crown, and the China Sweet Sugar Company, which is controlled by the Chinese royal family and the government at the same time, has controlled 60% of the world's total sugar trade because China controls the sugarcane planting area in the southwest Pacific Ocean because of China's control of Xingxing.

The big crown is rubber, although there is also rubber in South America, but because the construction is too late, many are still small saplings, but that person has been laying out a large number of people since ten years ago, and constantly brushing the planting scale of rubber plantations in their own competition with themselves.

This is an extremely staggering figure, which means that if China bans exports, the world's booming automobile industry will lose all its wheels!

A car without wheels?

Thomas laughed playfully, trying to draw the picture in his mind, but he couldn't think of the terrible scene.

The Great China Tobacco Company, which accounts for 40% of the world's total production.

Nanyang Trading Company, 40% of the world's coffee and cocoa production.

As for the six Chinese private raw silk joint-stock companies that have just been integrated, they account for fifty percent of the world's raw silk exports!

There is also the Media Asia Oil Company, which is still lurking under the surface of the sea and has huge reserves.

Moreover, in the traditional strict industry of tea, "porcelain, etc.", they are all catching up, and small enterprises are being planned by the government to become bigger and stronger under the deliberate guidance of that person, and they are slowly beginning to join the competition of world trade. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

Yes, the United States still has the world's largest processing capacity, the world's largest iron and steel enterprises, hundreds of millions of total foreign loans, and the ability to sweep the world's equipment manufacturing industry, plus its own resources can meet demand, judging from China's current economic aggregate equivalent to one percent of the United States, so there is no need to worry about being squeezed out of the world's largest economic throne for at least 20 years.

And compared with the high-value goods exported by the United States, China is still only a distribution center for the export of raw materials in the world, even if it exports one million tons of raw silk and tea, the United States only needs to build ten large ocean-going freighters to earn it back, but the problem is that this is only the United States, except for Britain, which has a large colony in the world, and France, the second largest in the world, other countries are not aware of it, in fact, they are inseparable from the supply of raw materials from the Far East.

"One day, the world will find that it will never be able to abandon China again!"

Thomas remembered what Li Mo said to him ten years ago when he was in the Ryukyus, to be honest, he was still a little unimpressed at that time, but now he looks back and finds that these things are slowly becoming reality.

The terrible thing is that Li Mo is an extremely self-disciplined person, although he has four women, but in his career, he has an extremely strict and meticulous plan, Thomas is one of the few people in the world who has seen the plan that he has gradually prepared since he was in Canada, he doesn't know how he knew how to make such a detailed plan at the age of thirteen, but if the words above are spread, it is enough to surprise the countries of the world.

At that time, only a few people, including him, knew why he wanted Nanyang, and even at this moment many people thought that he was a madman, an arsonist who had a more greedy nature for the land than a hungry wolf, and a land maniac with greater ambition than the Russian Tsar, but in fact his fundamental purpose was to turn the endless islands of the southwest Pacific into the world's largest raw material storehouse.

When the prices of rubber, sugar, and tobacco began to rise in price in an imperceptible slow process in his famous phrase "boiled frogs in warm water", when the three major commodity transactions on the world's largest London and New York futures exchanges rose and fell under the control of Thomas Mining, Bank of America, etc., and when Limer took advantage of the opportunity of Russia's huge expeditionary fleet to pounce on the world's large sugar and rubber plantation regions to detonate the upward frenzy caused by the concern of raw materials in the international futures market, "few people know that it is actually outside the island of Sibilu, He had quietly won a bigger victory than the one that shocked the world.

Hundreds of millions of dollars of profitable funds are being quietly imported into the Far East by means of loans, acquisitions, and so on, under the slow transfer of financial institutions such as the Bank of America, and then he uses them to subsidize industry.

Another whistle interrupted Thomas's thoughts, and he packed his briefcase, ready for another big fluctuation in the capital market, and the origin of this fluctuation was just a stone's throw away.

The Philadelphia negotiations seem to be a matter for China and Russia, and the United States is only a mediator, but the problem is that if the shadow of war does not dissipate as soon as possible, the world's largest capital market established in New York will once again fall into the situation of worrying about raw materials when the Russian expeditionary fleet departed.

Before Thomas went out, he grabbed a copy of the New York Times, which still smelled of ink, from the front desk, and two pieces of news caught his attention.

In fact, Salisbury's resignation was expected by the world as early as the world expected, and he had a deep conflict with the conservative British Parliament.

He was succeeded by Henry Campbell Bennerman, a liberal party with a strong business background.

The succession of British Prime Minister of the British Empire is bound to have an impact on the world economy, and the second news has intensified the intensity of this impact.

Because the Sino-Russian negotiations in Philadelphia were at an impasse at the very beginning.

After seeing the two big words "adjournment", the corners of Thomas's mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile, and then under the escort of several "special" bodyguards, it was obvious that "today is going to be a busy day."

In fact, as Thomas understands, both the New York stock market, which is the barometer of the U.S. economy, and the U.S. government are in an unprecedented state of frustration.

Among them, the disappointment is undoubtedly the successor of William McKinley, the successor of the United States, Fairbanks, as the vice president of William McKinley, he has the same ambition and desire as his predecessor, but he inherited a stall that can be said to be rotten.

The unfinished Cuban War deprived the United States of a good opportunity to go abroad, and the aggressive posture of the Chinese empire in the Pacific made the president hesitate to choose whether to continue to infiltrate Central and South America or march into the Pacific.

The domestic problems are equally bad, William McKinley was assassinated before the antitrust trust bill was first proposed, and although the murderer claimed to be a "liberal" activist, many people knew the inside story that the oligarchs did not like the bill.

So Fairbanks slowed down again and again, and finally made up his mind last year to continue to implement the promotion bill, but he didn't expect that at this time there was news of a war between China and Russia, when the huge Russian expeditionary fleet set off, worries about raw materials and the situation in the Far East made the U.S. financial circles rumor, and even the physical economy was greatly affected, and the U.S. Gold Federal Reserve Board, despite the government's opposition, successively lowered its forecasts and prospects for the U.S. economy, exacerbating this turmoil and unrest.

So the United States was a country that had long intervened between China and Russia, but the problem was that at that time, the Russian fleet was killing in a mighty way, and neither side would listen to the opinion of the United States, and at that time the United States realized its international status!

It wasn't until the Russian expeditionary fleet arrived on Sibilu Island that the world's third navy sailed to the Far East in six months, but it only took two days to collapse and sink in the sand, which made him and the entire United States realize that strong economic power does not mean strong deterrent.

When the results of the Battle of Sibilu Island reached the United States, "while the financial community breathed a sigh of relief, the US government fell into a huge, even panic, that Limer's madness had already achieved the Northwest Pacific and continued to penetrate into the Southwest Pacific," and because of Honolulu and its existence, the Eastern Pacific was slowly shrouded in an iron curtain.

The United States is being drawn into a military race, whether intentionally or unintentionally, that no one can predict, and the United States is not afraid of this kind of competition, whether it is the level of the economy or the manufacturing industry, but in science and technology, especially military science and technology, the United States is far inferior to Europe, not to mention that it is far inferior to Europe.

When it took only 50 seconds for the eight capital ships of the Chinese Empire to sink the battleship Huangtai, which was known as the double pride of Russia and France, with its devastating main guns, "the world seemed to have been smashed hard, and the leaders of countless countries and countless admirals fell into anxiety and deep thought."

Britain and Germany took the lead in initiating the research and construction of second-generation battleships, France decisively abandoned submarines, abandoned the theory of small torpedoes to win, and joined them, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and even the Ottoman Empire continued to work hard, while the world's first economic power "had to continue to build old battleships because of lack of technology."

What a ridiculous thing this is!

So when the Russian expeditionary fleet was wiped out, the largest riot in history broke out in Russia, and after the Battle of Angarsk, Fairbanks immediately sent Secretary of State John Hay to Beijing, even faster than Salisbury's outgoing visit.

Because the United States knows that if it no longer wants to find a way to contain Li Mo, if Li Mo's army continues to open Petropavlovsk, the gate into Siberia, to the west, and even advance to Yekaterinburg, the junction of Asia and Europe in the Ural Mountains, then the land threat of the Chinese Empire will disappear completely, and Li Mo can devote all his attention to the Pacific Ocean wholeheartedly, and the already sluggish United States will be completely swept out of the Pacific Ocean!

Therefore, the United States needs Russia, even more so than Europe, so after Fairbanks sent John Hay as a representative to mediate the Sino-Russian war, he immediately contacted Britain and France to Nicholas II to offer a guarantee of an armistice loan, and at the same time, a steady stream of munitions was also on standby and ready to set sail at any time, hoping to help Nicholas II suppress the domestic riots after the negotiations were over.

But the problem is that three days after the start of the negotiations, they were suspended!

And it was an indefinite adjournment!

Seeing that the truce was about to end, the smoke began to fill again, Fairbanks personally went out and called Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Austria, and finally under his tandem, Beijing and St. Petersburg agreed to a one-month truce at the same time.

At the same time, Tang Shaoyi, the foreign minister of the Chinese Empire, rushed to Washington non-stop, and in the U.S. Congress, in fluent English, delivered a speech that "the world should learn to listen to the East." In his speech, he unceremoniously accused Russia of the fact that it has been annexing Siberia for hundreds of years, condemned some countries for ignoring the voice of a country with a population of 400 million, and said that what China is doing at present is only to recover its homeland, and China is willing to dismantle more than 200,000 tons of warships in the next year under the supervision of various countries, but then he also said that all this is based on the current negotiations, if there is still no progress between the two sides within this month, then China will immediately withdraw from the negotiations, Instead, a military solution was sought.

It was a threat, but it was a threat that had to be listened to by the world, and later historians agreed that if Long Guozhang's famous phrase "The empire is waiting!" opened the curtain of imperialism in China and even the world, so Tang Shaoyi's article "The world should learn to listen to the East" represents that the world has begun to listen carefully to the voice of the East.

With Tang Shaoyi's words, unilateral, multilateral negotiations are one after another, from St. Petersburg to Paris, from London to Washington, from Philadelphia to Beijing, the whole world is almost involved, and what is strange is that in the case of escalating domestic riots, the Russian negotiator, Count Sergeivet, has never said a word, and would rather continue the stalemate.

This situation began to make the United States feel very troubled and restless, and no one knew what the plenipotentiary minister was paying attention to, and they began to turn to Nicholas II, but a telegram from Witte caused Nicholas II to stop negotiating, but to concentrate on dealing with the riots that began to spread to the countryside in the country.

Sergeivet's telegram was simple, with only a short sentence, "If Your Majesty no longer trusts me, please remove me from my full power." ”

What the hell is this Russian Minister of Finance, negotiating plenipotentiary, doing?

Fairbanks couldn't figure it out, Long Guozhang couldn't figure it out, and Zhao Long, who was still on the front line, couldn't figure it out, and even there was a verbal and written attack on Witte in Russia, and he couldn't figure out why he dared to watch Russia fall into more and more violent turmoil, watch the riots spread from the cities to the countryside, and watch the Chinese Army continue to assemble on the Western Front, but continue to be indifferent, what does he want to do?

"Yuanshou, what the hell do you think this Sergey Witt is doing? Although he was the most powerful minister in Russia, and Nicholas II regarded him as a confidant, he was really not afraid of our invasion of Yekaterinaburg? Long Guozhang lay on the desk with a sad face, half because of Sergei's strange behavior, and the other half because of the captured Russian ** ships in his hand.

Chen Ping smiled slightly: "Why can't you sell it?" ”

Long Guozhang smiled bitterly and shook his head, so many old warships, if they were placed in the past, it would definitely be a more tempting cake, but the problem is that after the power of the Chinese type battleship was seen by all countries in the world, the ghost was willing to buy these old guys.

In addition to selling a few protective cruisers with a small displacement to Thailand through Sino-Thai friendship, he personally went to North Korea, and after "selling" three of them, almost none of the big guys asked about the buyers, which saddened him, because he also wanted to raise a lot of money and build a few more capital ships.

"Don't worry, someone will rush to ask for it in a few months." Chen Ping smiled mysteriously.

"Rushing to get it?" Long Guozhang was speechless, and looked at Chen Ping, which means that he believed that you had seen a ghost, so he took the initiative to return to the topic and asked, "Yuanshou, you haven't answered my words yet?" ”

Chen Ping pinched the newspaper, looked at it twice, and hooked the corners of his mouth: "It's a pity that this person was born in Russia, if he is in another country, he is a terrible person." ”

"Why do you say that?" Long Guozhang was surprised.

"Because his eyes are no longer limited to negotiations, but have crossed the negotiating table and begun to use this opportunity to fight for sufficient interests for Russia!"

Long Guozhang glanced at the newspaper a few times in a daze, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "You mean that he is taking advantage of us, and also taking advantage of the United States and Europe, who do not want the fall of Nicholas II, deliberately delay, and then get a loan!" ”

Ping nodded, with a serious expression: "There is no doubt that this Werther knows very well that Russia has no confidence, so he wants to take a gamble, and take advantage of the opportunity that Europe and the United States do not want Nicholas II to really fall, and try to win the support of all countries as much as possible." ”

"I asked the emperor, and he also said that if Russia can recover quickly after the negotiations, then this person will definitely take a great credit!"

"Damn, dare to love this Werther has also started to calculate us!" Long Guozhang burst into foul language