The body of the bandit leader Pilken was delivered in the early hours of the next morning, and the gangsters "Maniac" Virgil and Billy Clanton were all famous horse bandits with extremely high bounties, all of whom had a lot of blood debts.

The other two famous bandits "Scarface" Ek and Billy Clerburn, nicknamed "Billy the Kid", were nowhere to be found, and the encirclement team almost searched the surrounding area for more than 100 miles, but did not find any trace of these two cunning bandits.

Li Fushou didn't care about this, he took more than 50 of his men to the valley town, and arrived at dusk.

Valley Town

The black crowd greeted five miles outside the town, and from a distance, Li Fushou's returning horse team knelt down like leeks, and said;

"We and other people welcome the lord back to the town, all thanks to the lord's efforts to turn the tide, clean up the bandits in the country, and protect the joy and health of hundreds of thousands of people in the valley town.

"How dare you, thank you Sangzi compatriots for your faith, and you are ashamed to receive the ......"

Li Fushou didn't dare to slack off, grabbed the horse and thanked him again and again.

His eyes swept over the fat guy Chun who was standing in the forefront, as well as Fan Asheng and He Shoutian and others who had just returned from North America, and knew that it was these moths from the backbone of the Hongmen.

Taking the opportunity of this great victory, coercing public opinion to boost prestige, and looking at the people around who were moved to the ground, the effect is indeed good.

This group of little rabbits finally lived up to my heart of training.

Don't underestimate the Wanmin umbrella with a colorful and green ribbon, this is the true meaning of the people, meaning that Li Fushou is like a big umbrella, winging and protecting the people.

The more umbrellas you get, the higher your prestige, which is a big event that can be written into the family tree.

It's not far ahead

Li Fushou unexpectedly met Governor Frank, the leader of the state legislature, Edward, and some white legislators, and the shocking scene of falling to their knees outside the town really shocked them.

These white people looked at Li Fushou in a different way, and the importance of his ethnic leader needs to be re-evaluated.

Li Fushou and Edward hugged warmly, and the two were like good friends who hadn't seen each other for many years.

This intimate demeanor made people stunned.

After all, Edward was an old fox, and seeing that he couldn't fight the growing power of the Red River Valley, he decisively accepted the olive branch thrown by Li Fushou, and then a series of dazzling operations made people dizzy.

Edward decisively transferred several large areas of pastures in the north of Brisbane, as well as the gold mines in his hands, and obtained 95% of the shares of the Red Hill Coke Plant, which is the third largest shareholder worthy of the name, and tied his family closely to the interests of the Red River Valley.

This kind of determination is not something that anyone can make, and it can be seen from this that it is old and spicy.

Edward has been operating in Australia for decades, from nothing at the beginning, to now having a lot of money, several ranches and gold mines worth 1.87 million pounds, and a single share of the Red Hill Coking Coal Plant, obtained a 95 stake.

At this calculation, the Hongshan coking coal plant is worth a whopping 920,000 pounds, which is only the estimated price of 350,000 tonnes of coking coal per year, which is obviously undervalued in terms of profitability.

Throughout 1878, until the end of October.

The Red Hill Coking Coal Plant made a profit of £354207 11 shillings sevenpence, and at a 95 percent share, Edward would have earned more than £40,000, more than several times the previous one.

He was very satisfied with this result.

Li Fushou was also very satisfied, the pasture and the gold mine could not play the maximum role in Edward's hands, but in his own hands it was different.

Several of the Edward's farms are located in the north of Brisbane, and when included in the Red River Valley, the Red River Valley Ranches form a semicircle from south to north, enveloping the city of Brisbane.

The expanded rangeland area has greatly delayed the lack of rangeland coverage in the Red River Valley and strengthened the potential for further development.

And gold ore is a good thing, after the shallow placer gold resources are exhausted, the deeper sand gold needs to use large-scale gold screening machinery, layer by layer can be mined for many years, then it is not a small-scale mine can cope.

The most important thing is not only this, but the purchase of the bones of the horses, the stubborn Edward family and its white power, from hostility to allies.

In many cases, it is not that fighting and killing can solve the problem, but that it is necessary to divide and win over a group of white people, corrupt a group, unite a group, and fight a group of the most stubborn, which is the correct posture.

The average price of high-quality coking coal exported to North America by the Red Hill Coking Coal Plant reached US$205 a tonne, and it only paid some labor and equipment investment, so why did it earn only £454207 11 shillings and sevenpence?

This number is not too high, but too low.

From the end of December 1877, when the first set of coking coal equipment was put into operation, to the end of October 1878, the annual production capacity continued to climb from 70,000 tons to 400,000 tons, and the number of high-quality bituminous coking coal exported reached 1.17 million tons, with an income of about 23 million US dollars, which was converted into a total income of 4.6 million pounds.

It's easy to calculate, and the net profit is about 10.

This profit margin is obviously too low, so what's the secret?

The secret lies in the fact that the Hongshan Hydropower Station retains most of its profits, and it is a 100% wholly-owned enterprise owned by Li Fushou, no one is allowed to interfere, and all the accounting accounts are also secret.

Outsiders speculate;

So far in 1878 alone, the Redhill Hydroelectric Power Station has withheld three million pounds in corporate profits, and it will only be more, not less.

Li Fushou himself did not respond to these absurd and endless speculations, and no one dared to question him.

A group of street boys, don't you spend money on electricity?

To recap

The second largest shareholder is Fischer of the United States, which owns 96% of Sequoia Coking Coal, and is a strong ally of the Red River Valley in North America, and its importance cannot be overstated.

The fourth largest shareholder is Higgins & Co., which has acquired the equity of Hongshan Coking Coal Plant 535, which has further strengthened the cooperative relationship between the two parties.

It is precisely because interests are inseparable

The relationship between Li Fushou and Edward quickly changed from hatred to good friends, and they cooperated completely on the basis of naked interests, and nothing else.

With the Hongshan Coking Coal Plant's wild fishing like a sea of gold and silver, Speaker Edward's investment was very profitable, causing the Queensland upper class to blush, and they spoke with a sour taste of jealousy.

No way, wealth is moving!

Everyone wants to take the big ship of the Red River Valley and enjoy the solid feeling of rolling wealth, not to mention the news from the front that the militia under Li Fushou killed the bandit leader Pilken and won a complete victory.

What does this news mean?

A group of Brisbane upper-class people know that Li Fushou will become the top British aristocrat in the entire Queensland, and the shining Viscount.

In accordance with the British royal tradition

Queen Victoria may grant a title of nobility to someone on the proposal of the Prime Minister, but the number of people to be knighted is limited, about 20 per year.

This includes the 5th rank hereditary noblelord of the duke and uncle, who owns the fiefdom and is widely recognized by the European aristocratic circles.

In the future, it is taboo to call Li Fushou His Excellency the Lord and not Sir.

Sir means sir, which can be used to address barons and knightly nobles, as well as to prominent people who receive honorifics, and is an honorific suffix that can refer to Mr. Sir.

If Li Fushou is awarded the title of noble viscount, it is inappropriate to use the suffix sir to call him, and it has the meaning of derogatory and insulting.

The prefix indicates respect and the suffix indicates honor.

According to the etiquette of the English nobility, the honorable Lord So-and-so must be addressed, and the title must be given with the suffix Lord (Lord).

That's right, the title is indeed cumbersome and complicated, but in the aristocratic circles of the upper class of Europe and the United States, it must be highly valued.

The nobility of continental Europe was nitpicky about the symmetry, especially in England, Germany, and Austria-Hungary.

In line with the Downing Street Promise;

The news of killing the bandit leader "Wild Wolf" Pilken and completely eliminating the bandits of the troubled party has been confirmed, so a viscount and noble title cannot escape.

Even if he is the first Chinese viscount in history, this honor is a certainty, and there is no reason to regret it.

The British Empire is very face-saving, and it can't do this kind of mess for the sake of a mere viscount.

Speaking of Li Fushou, it is also a coincidence, due to the poor communication of information in this era, Downing Street has no understanding of the situation in Australia tens of thousands of miles away, and it was originally a noble title set up for white people, and he didn't expect to be picked by others at all.

Is nobility limited to differences in titles?

The case was negative.

The aristocracy of the British Empire is very valuable, and they have the qualifications to enter the House of Lords in their homeland, and they have a huge influence on the political, economic, cultural, and military aspects of the empire, otherwise how can they be called high society?

In the overseas colonies, the aristocracy was precious because of its small number, and it had priority to hold important positions.

For example, the Governor of Queensland, if Li Fushou intends to do so, age is not a problem, seniority is not a problem, experience is not a problem, and the support of the upper class is not a problem, and it is the privilege of the nobility to get a thousand times easier than ordinary people.

For example, in New South Wales, the policy of restricting the purchase of farms by ethnic Chinese must be re-examined and abolished by the state legislature, and the same is true in Victoria.

Such a discriminatory policy, which offends the majesty of Lord Viscount, is completely unforgivable.

If Li Fushou starts a war because of this and maintains his aristocratic dignity, presumably the European side will have nothing to say.

in the final analysis

What Li Fushou did was to maintain the order of the feudal monarchy society in Europe, and the dignity of the aristocracy could not be provoked, offended, or tarnished, and it could not be restricted by the introduction of bills by some civilian parliamentarians.

The aristocratic power of the 19th century was just such a dick, not just a change of title, but a qualitative change in the social status of Yuyue Longmen.

Now that I think back to Colonel Macbeth of Victoria, who would rather sleep in the wild for more than half a year, closely following the Pilken gang in more than ten bloody battles, biting all the way, the answer is about to come out.

Poor Colonel Macbeth never expected that Pingbai made a wedding dress for others, which became a background board to set off Li Fushou's great exploits.

People have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away.

Next

Brisbane's top brass confirmed the results and immediately sent a telegram to Downing Street and the surrounding states of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania to announce the exciting news.

The radio waves shuttled through the air, and immediately spread throughout Australia, and crossed the oceanic barrier to North America and the world.

The New York Times published an editorial;

shocked the bandit leader "Wild Wolf" in mainland Australia, and the first British Chinese viscount was released.

The Australian Chronicle reported;

The Australian bandits were finally exterminated, and the victims' families rushed to tell each other; Let God bless.

The Times reports;

Downing Street bounty for Chinese immigrants, is this a show?

reported by the French newspaper Le Figaro;

The revelry of the British, a ridiculous victory in exchange for a title of nobility.

reported by the German newspaper Aachen Post;

Behind Australia's exciting victory over bandits stood a group of Germans......

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