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After finishing speaking, Huo Shan sighed again with some unfinished feelings: "It's a pity that I didn't get Iceland in my hands, otherwise it would have been more perfect!"

"Hehe, young master! When the time comes, I think even if the Danes are willing to sell Iceland to us, the British may not allow it!" Huo Feng said with a smile, after taking these islands, the territory of the Huo family army in this important sea area of the Caribbean Sea will be tripled, and from the Cayman Islands, the Dutch Little Andres, and St. Maarten and the Virgin Islands, it will become an irregular triangle, and the scope of activities of the Huo family army and the navy here will also expand!

After listening to Huo Feng's words, Huo Shan also nodded in agreement, Iceland is located in the middle of the North Atlantic, close to the Arctic Circle, and more importantly, it is less than 800 nautical miles southeast of Wales in the United Kingdom, which is too close! Moreover, Iceland, which is more than 100,000 square kilometers, can not help but provide a place for human beings to live and reproduce, and can also station a large number of troops here! Such an important place is well controlled by Denmark, which is weak and friendly to the British, but if it falls into the hands of the Huo Jiajun, which is on the rise and the size of the navy has expanded dramatically, the British may not agree!

I can't say, how to eat it, you have to spit it out, after all, little Japan in history has suffered a big loss of 'three countries to interfere and return Liao'!

Thinking of this, Huo Shan sighed deeply with some joy and regret!

"Young master, the acquisition of the Dutch Little Andres Islands and the Virgin Islands has increased our land area and power in the Caribbean Sea, and it is also very beneficial to the development of the navy! But why would we spend so much money to buy Greenland? In addition to the endless glaciers and it reaches 2,166,000 square kilometers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info is there anything we need beyond the land area of the world's largest island?" asked Huo Long.

There is no way, no matter who seems to buy this wilderness in this era. More than 80% of the island is covered by glaciers, and with less than 1,000 indigenous people on the island, the islands with no resources are a loss-making deal!

Listening to Huo Long's words and looking at Huo Shi's inquiring eyes, Huo Shan really couldn't come up with any convincing reasons except for a bitter smile in his heart! After all, in this era, Greenland is a wilderness in the wilderness. And it's still a wilderness that can't be exploited!

Only Huoshan, a person from later generations, understands how rich the resources are buried under this huge glacier-covered island! In addition to the abundant fishing and shrimp fishing resources along the coast. The island is also rich in flora and fauna, and there are large resources such as lead, zinc, cryolite, chromium, coal, tungsten, molybdenum, iron, nickel, uranium and oil, and more than 50 billion barrels of oil and gas are stored in the northwest and northeast of the island alone, which is more than a third of the world's second-largest oil producer, Iraq. Of course, this figure is not accurate. Because the thick ice sheet limited exploration and exploitation, the Americans used a number of surveys in the 21st century to show that Greenland contained the largest untapped oil field in the world at that time!

Moreover, the discovery of a very large gold deposit in 1989 and the discovery of the world's largest rare earth metal deposit on the plateau near Nahsak in the south all show that under the thick ice sheet lies a wealth of resources that all countries in the world will covet!

In his previous life, this baby bump was held in the arms of the Danes, but now Huo Shan does not want China to miss this opportunity, just like his greed for Alaska. Even if there are many people who don't understand, Huo Shan also gave a death order to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Even if it is impossible to acquire any of the islands in the Caribbean Sea, it is necessary to first guarantee that Greenland will be taken out of the hands of the Danes! As for the struggle between Denmark and Norway over the sovereignty of the islands, in Hoshan's view, everything can be solved with money in the economic crisis! And so it is!

Huo Shan did not answer Huo Long's question, and to be honest, he could not find any convincing reason! He had to discuss the Second World War between China and the United States and the security of these islands newly ruled by the Huo Family!

Seeing that the young master didn't want to say anything, of course Huo Long didn't ask again, after all, the young master's long-term vision of the current situation they had already learned countless times!

Looking at the back of Huo Long and the others leaving together, Huo Shan grabbed the telegram just now and looked at it again, and at the same time he was happy in his heart, he also sighed secretly!

The Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark are small and not strong, and an economic crisis that has lasted for two years but still has not ended has forced them to the point where they can do nothing, and in order not to further collapse the domestic economy and then trigger a crisis that will plague the whole country, they will sell these islands of low economic value at a high price, and then stabilize the national economy is also a last resort! After all, Europe is their foundation!

However, compared with them, the economic affordability of Britain, France and Germany is undoubtedly more than ten times stronger, or even more, just like the British in Egypt on the battlefield, the military has spent nearly 300 million pounds, but they are still holding on, refusing to take out the northwest of Canada, which Huo Shan has long been optimistic about!

"British, hey, wait and see, the young master doesn't believe that if he beats you even worse, you won't sell it!" Huo Shan stared out the window, the sky was already a little dim, and sneered in a low voice.

The day after Huo Shan received the news of the successful exchange with the Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian islands, a telegram was sent to the Government Council and the Military Department, as well as to the provincial capital of Youzhou Province, as well as the 47th Division of the Army stationed there, ordering the 47th Division to take out a battalion of troops, bring all the cold protection materials, and quickly march eastward from western Canada, quickly occupy the entire Greenland Island, and maintain the rule of Huojia's army there! As for the order of the Government Council, 10,000 criminals should be quickly taken out and sent to Youzhou Province!

After all, Greenland is still in a wilderness, and there is not much land there, coupled with the cold climate, no Han immigrants are willing to go there, so using criminals to pioneer is the best choice!

The reason why they were sent to Youzhou (Alaska) first was also to let them adapt to the cold climate there first, so as not to adapt to the water and soil! In addition, it is already October, Greenland is about to enter winter, and it is also the coldest month of the year, it is too difficult to migrate at this time, after all, it will take a month and a half to feel Youzhou Province from Nanyang, and the low temperature and biting cold wind of Greenland in November will definitely make people who have never been there understand what is called a real winter!

Although I don't know why Huo Shan is so interested in a wild island, the government affairs and military department that received the telegram quickly arranged according to his wishes, and the 47th Division stationed in Youzhou Province and Northwest Canada also quickly sent a battalion, and nearly 1,500 troops began to rush over before the arrival of winter in Greenland!

Time passed little by little, and both the Huo Jiajun and the United States were preparing for the upcoming big war, because each of them understood that the next war was the last chance to decide who was the real hegemon in North America!

The vast Pacific Ocean has become more busy than ever, huge cargo ships loaded with military supplies sailed from the base of the Huo Jiajun in the South China Sea to the North American continent, and the American ** trains sailing from the eastern part of the United States to the Western Front battlefield were also crowded with major train battles, and more and more soldiers from the two countries began to slowly gather along the Ohio River and the Mississippi River, and then under the leadership of their respective commanders, they formed a team equipped with rifles, Machine guns and artillery, revealing the killing spirit of the army, and then rush to the camp or fortification that has been prepared long ago with the military mission they have received, either offensive or defensive!

Weapons, food, clothing, and ammunition, both the United States and the Huo Jiajun are checking over and over again whether their military supplies are sufficient, and whether or not the reserves have exceeded that of the other side, they are still constantly urging the rear quartermaster departments to replenish them as quickly as possible! Both sides are bowing their heads and checking what they still lack!

Then, until that flashpoint in the hearts of both sides appears, then stand up, wave your fists, and fight with all your strength until you knock one side out and admit defeat!

This kind of arms race, which can be regarded as tacit understanding between China and the United States, has set off an increasingly solemn cloud of war in the skies over North America! It has also attracted more and more countries to turn their attention here!

Even Britain, which was mired in the war and economic crisis in Egypt, and the "Times," which is the mouthpiece of the state, carried a front-page headline on 29 October, with the headline "The Largest War of the 19th Century, the Battle for Hegemony in the Americas!" and reported in detail the growing whirlpool of war between China and the United States! The report that the total number of people on both sides of the war is likely to exceed 2.5 million has caused all those who see this newspaper to exclaim in amazement. Compared to the Second World War between China and the United States, which had not yet broken out, the war of the British in Egypt was like a child's thing!

In addition, the day after the publication of the "Times," mainstream newspapers in France, Germany, and other European countries also reprinted it one after another, with the result that Huo Jiajun suddenly became a household name and a powerful force in Europe! And the number of talents from all over the world who immigrated here has also increased, which can be regarded as an unexpected gain!

However, no matter what the outside world said, it did not affect the two sides that were preparing for war, and even the newspapers within the United States and Huo Jiajun rarely had news of this war! However, more and more military movements still made the people of the two countries feel a sense of depression that 'the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings'! )