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Time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it is already golden autumn and October, but Taiwan, which is located in the southeast, can still feel a trace of midsummer, and the temperature at noon is still hot! However, the deep greenery in the courtyard and the microwave pond have swept away the little heat on Huoshan!

Put down the documents in his hand, picked up the love sour plum soup that Ping'er carefully prepared for herself, Huo Shan took a sip beautifully, and felt that his whole body was refreshed!

After the victory of the Battle of Pittsburgh, with the arrival of immigrants and a large number of new troops, the new territory of the Americas has been gradually consolidated, although the news of the Americans' expansion of 1.5 million troops is extremely bad, but it will not be able to form an army until at least half a year or even a year later.

And within the Huo Jiajun, with the incorporation of the new territories in the Americas and the expansion of the scale of the first five-year economic plan, there is a lot of construction everywhere, railways, factories, schools, etc., taking advantage of the economic crisis and eating the Americans' 'perfect pills', the Huo Jiajun, which has made up for its own talent shortcomings, is developing rapidly every day at a speed visible to the naked eye!

And the various base areas within the Qing Dynasty and the Indochina Peninsula are also constantly expanding, and the rule of the Huo family army is becoming more and more consolidated!

As for the Huo Jiajun, except that the British were still fighting with the Egyptians secretly supported by the Huo Jiajun all day long. The countries of the www.biquge.info were busy rectifying the chaotic economic order at home due to the economic crisis, and they also began to relax their efforts to open up and expand their colonies! It can be said that the beginning of the economic crisis has been the calmest few months in the world!

Of course, Huo Shan understood that this calm was only in the most serious years of the economic crisis, and Huo Jiajun wanted to catch up with the end of the great expansion of the colonies of various countries. Then you have to prepare early!

"Knock knock!"

A heavy knock on the door interrupted Huo Shan's contemplation!

"Fu Bo, when are you coming, come in!" Looking at the old man standing at the door, Huo Shan hurriedly got up and said with a smile.

"Hehe, excuse me, young master! But this telegram from Nanyang is more important. The old slave is not to delay!" said the old man and handed over the telegram in his hand!

"Oh, what is it that even Fu Bo thinks is important?" Huo Shan said with a curious smile. That being said, the movements of the hands are not slow. As soon as I stretched out the telegram, I immediately read it!

After a few glances, Huo Shan couldn't help but laugh and said, "Okay, haha." It's just wonderful!"

"Young Master. Are these islands really that important to our Huo Jiajun?" Fu Bo couldn't help but ask. There are too many islands under the jurisdiction of Huo Jiajun, there are tens of thousands in the Nanyang region alone, and he really can't see the use of these wild islands as big as boogers!

"Important, of course it's important!" Huo Shan said with a smile. It has been clearly written in the telegram just now that the French have agreed to exchange the Comoros Islands, Sint Maarten, and St. Pierre and Miquelon for the production technology of new rifles and machine guns in the hands of Huo Jiajun, as well as the formulation of new gunpowder!

Of course, the French were so happy, and they became the first of the nations to offer real benefits in exchange for the right to produce new weapons. The most fundamental reason is that they were held by Young Master Huo. At the beginning, Luo Fenglu only revealed a little bit about the news that some German arsenals had begun to produce machine guns and new rifles on a large scale, and equipped the troops, and the French, who had a deep hatred for the Germans, immediately agreed to the exchange conditions proposed by Huo Jiajun, although there were some modifications, but it was to achieve the ultimate goal of Huo Shan exchanging these islands.

Although he did not get the long-coveted island of Reunion, he was able to obtain a foothold off the coast of Africa, and he had already achieved Huoshan's original wish. When the time comes, with this bridgehead, then after the Berlin Conference in 1884, when the great powers set off a frenzy to carve up Africa, then Huo Jiajun will also be able to get a piece of the pie logically!

And with St. Maarten and St. Pierre and Miquelon, Huo Jiajun can be regarded as a nail in the key position of the Caribbean Sea!

"But the arrogant British are like stones in a pit, smelly and hard, is it so difficult to exchange the Cayman Islands and Cocos Islands for the new weapon production technology in the hands of the young master? Forget it, I don't want to, when the Anglo-Egyptian war lasts for a few years, coupled with the drag of the economic crisis, the young master will not believe that you will not bow your head, and the young master will let you obediently hand over these things!" Huo Shan muttered secretly in his heart.

"Young Master, now that we are handing over the production technology of these new weapons to Western countries with great fanfare, isn't it just right to strengthen their military strength? In this way, we have lost the advantages of these new weapons, and I am afraid that in the future, we will not be able to fight with Western devils as easily as it is now!" Fauber said with some worry.

"Fauber, it's been nearly three years since we invented the recipe for new rifles, machine guns, and smokeless gunpowder, and Europe, the most technologically advanced country in the world, is on the verge of making a breakthrough in this area, maybe tomorrow, next month, or in the next few years. Therefore, instead of making the production technology of these weapons worthless at that time, it is better to take them out now and exchange them for what we need!

According to Huo Shan's memory, although the famous father of automatic weapons, Hiram Stevens Maxim, invented the Maxim machine gun in 1884, but his previous research on automatic weapons had already begun when he immigrated to Britain in 1881.

"Since the young master is sure in his heart, then the old slave won't say anything! The old slave came over today, and there was another important thing I wanted to tell the young master, the matter that the young master explained some time ago. The old slave has almost done it!"

With the outbreak of the economic crisis, Huo Shan has earned an astronomical fortune from more than two years of arrangement, in addition to the nearly two billion silver dollars brought to the Government Council, and nearly six billion pounds of wealth specially left for trade with European countries, the remaining more than one billion pounds of money will be exchanged for machinery and equipment and steel materials, as well as a large amount of gold and silver from Europe little by little to withdraw to the South Seas. With these things. Previously, Huo Shan sold almost more than 90% of the Huo family's property in order to raise funds, but now the task is completed and there is money in his pocket. Of course, the factories that were sold before will be reopened!

Therefore, Huo Shan established six super-large group companies in one go on the basis of the only remaining Bank of China and Pacific Shipping in the Huo family, namely Pacific Group, Changfeng Group, Global Group, North Industries Group, American Industry Group and Nanyang Industry Group!

Among them, the Pacific Group has Pacific Bank, a purely broken commercial bank within the Huo family, and Pacific Shipping, an old company. and the newly formed Pacific Fisheries, Pacific Oil Company and the Palace Hotel Chain, while the Changfeng Group owns the Changfeng Agricultural Bank. Changfeng Agricultural Company, Changfeng Supermarket, the group's business center is in South America, Huoshan bought so much land, it is operated by Changfeng Agricultural Company!

The Global Group is mainly engaged in mining, as well as the construction of railways, highways, urban construction, bridges, wharves and other construction industries, and its subordinates mainly include the Global Mining Company, the Global Railway Company, the Global Construction Company and the Global Transportation Company! The remaining three major groups are very well understood, and heavy industries such as steel, shipbuilding, and machining are the main businesses of the three major industrial groups. However, the base of NORINCO Group is mainly in Youzhou Province. That is, Alaska in the past will expand like Canada in the future, and the business scope of the American Industrial Group will be occupied by the Huojia Army east of the Mississippi River! The Nanyang Industrial Group will be the islands of the South Seas and the Pacific Islands!

In this way, in addition to light industry, basically all industries of the Huo family have been taken into account!

As for the Bank of China, Huo Shan intends to make it the function of the central bank of various countries in the future, in charge of the finances of the Huo family; in addition, after many years of collection, the Huo family's gold has now exceeded 2,000 tons, and it will continue to increase in the future, so Huo Shan wants the Bank of China to obtain a part of the currency issuance rights after the Huo Jiajun implements the gold standard! In this way, the Huo family's position in the financial and economic circles will be unshakable! Of course, not yet, because the Huo family's army has not yet formally established the country!

"Fu Bo has worked hard for you this time, after Huo Yu and Huo Zhou come back from Europe, plus Huo Huang and Xiangwei help, you can also relax!" Huo Shan said with a smile.

"It's okay, young master, don't worry, my old bones can still support the Huo family and the young master for twenty years!"

"Hehe, by the way, Fauber, do you have any news about the people we sent to the Republic of Transvaal and the Republic of Orange in South Africa?" Huo Shan asked again, the Alaska gold mine that was originally in his hands has been handed over to the Huo Family Military Administration, so Huo Shan naturally has to find other sources of gold, and South Africa, which is a famous gold and diamond source in later generations, has naturally become Huo Shan's first choice!

Especially at this time, the Rand gold mine, which claims to occupy half of the world's gold reserves and reaches more than 60,000 tons, was discovered by George Walker and George Harrison in 1886, and directly led to the rise of Johannesburg, which is known as the 'Golden City'.

"Fu Bo, immediately send out the secret guards, buy all the land there, and we will mine it quietly!" Huo Shan stood up from his chair and said with a somewhat excited expression.

"Don't worry, young master, I've already told Huo Huang to do it!" Fu Bo said.

"Okay, it's better for Fubo to do things safely!"

"Then it's time for our Huo Jiajun to develop with all its might!" Huo Shan looked at the bright sunlight outside the window and said with confidence. (To be continued.) )