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Opening the envelope, Huo Shan took out the telegram inside and read it, the content of the telegram was not too long, and he finished reading it in three or four minutes!

"Let's show you too!" After looking at Li Yunfeng, who was sitting opposite him, Huo Shan suddenly handed over the telegram in his hand. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Thank you, young master!" After taking it with both hands, after looking at it for less than a minute, Li Yunfeng suddenly stood up from his seat and said excitedly: "Young Master, this is up, this is ......!"

"The above things are all true, some time ago, Huo Wolf ran for me in the United States and Europe for a while, and took advantage of the economic crisis to transfer some money, and the numbers above are only part of it!" Huo Shan said with a smile.

As one of the four general departments of the military department and the director of the General Armament Department, Li Yunfeng certainly knew that in the first three years of the establishment of the Huo Jiajun, Huo Wolf, as the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, was not in Taiwan, but he was not surnamed Huo, although he was also the old man of the Huo family, but he was not as good as Huo Long and Huo Hu, who had been cultivated since childhood, so he didn't know what Huo Wolf had done in the past few years.

"Thank you, young master, for your trust!" Li Yunfeng said with a solemn expression and excitement in his eyes.

Hearing this, Huo Shan smiled, waved his hand to sit him down, and said, "Yun Feng doesn't need to say that, you are all old men of the Huo family, these news were originally intended to be sent to you at the end of this year, when all the benefits are counted, but now this time is just advanced!"

Although Huo Shan said this, Li Yunfeng knew the weight of this matter in his heart, so he had secretly warned himself in his heart that except for the most fundamental descendants of the Huo family, no matter to anyone, he could not pass on the news he had just known.

"Young master, why should we buy the national debt of the Americans, this is not a disguised support for their war potential. Let them fight with us?" Li Yunfeng asked with some puzzlement after reading the telegram jointly forwarded by Ou Yangming and Stark Roth.

"You're right, I just want to support the Americans to continue fighting, if they don't have enough money, then I will support them, if this war can be fought for a year, it will be even better!" Huo Shan's eyes were deep. said with a mysterious expression.

If the country that Huoshan fears the most in this era is that, it will definitely not be the British Empire, which now dominates the world and spans seven oceans, let alone the French Empire and Tsarist Russia at sunset, and the German Empire, which is growing rapidly. Rather, it is in North America, and the United States, which is absorbing the nutrients of Europe, is growing rapidly.

The superior geographical location and the two world wars created the United States of America, which would later dominate the world. Now that the trajectory of history is clear, Huo Shan will never allow other countries to compete with the country he leads for world hegemony. Therefore, he wants to rely on this battle to completely defeat the United States and destroy the foundation of American strength. Even if they can still recover with the support of Europe with the white skin on their bodies, then Huo Shan must prolong this recovery time as much as possible. Of course, this has not happened yet, and Huo Shan can't say it to anyone, but he also has enough reasons to convince others.

"Has Yun Feng read the report on the Americas in the government's internal references?" Huo Shan asked.

"I've seen it!"

"Then you should remember very well that in terms of population, how many of the nearly five million square kilometers of land west of the Mississippi River that we now control are not the population of our Han Chinese?"

"Remember, after two years of immigration, we have a Han population of 1.98 million, a white population of 4.5 million, and a black population of 1.82 million. There are 360,000 Indians, and 620,000 South Americans such as Mexico and Brazil!" Although Li Yunfeng is not a government official, he still remembers these population figures very clearly, because sometimes the population is often linked to the war potential, and the more the population, the more people can naturally become soldiers.

"Well, that's right, according to some figures, the Han Chinese population is only 21 percent of the total population of the Americas today, although we can continue to immigrate or continue to export to South America. Increase the number and proportion of the Han Chinese population, but this will take time. And if we want to keep the land in the provinces and cities of the Americas, then we have to build railroads, improve transportation, and develop the economy here, which will also take time.

In addition, more than 1,000,000 of these 4.5 million white people are skilled workers urgently needed for our industrial development, and the rest are also their families, although they have been looted by us from all over the United States, but they do not recognize our rule, and many of them are even strongly hostile to us, so it will take a lot of time to assimilate them and want them to work for our Huo Jiajun! How long is this time? Five, ten, or twenty years? I can't guess, but I know that if I want to develop and build on a piece of land that is almost wild, it will take at least ten years! Maybe it will be longer! Therefore, what I want to do is to weaken the strength of the Americans as much as possible, so that they will not be able to turn over for ten or twenty years, and buy more time for us to consolidate the provinces and cities of the Americas!"

After a pause, Huo Shan's face became even more condensed, "Then what can most weaken the strength and heritage that the United States has accumulated over the past hundred years? War! There is only war! It can only be war! As long as we continue to fight this war, then the Americans will put all their family resources into it little by little, and grind it up little by little! Of course, it is not enough to let them put in the accumulation of the past, I will continue to use the war to overdraft their future!" Huo Shan's face was as cold as frost. Now, for the sake of the present war, the Americans, who have exhausted their families, have adopted the method of issuing treasury bonds in China to raise funds after they are unable to obtain the loan support of Britain and France, but it is a pity that their previous depreciation of the dollar has caused heavy losses to the major families in the United States, and no one has bought them at all, so Alan Arthur and his federal government have to raise the interest rate on the treasury bonds to 20 percent! Yunfeng, do you know what this means?

"For a $100 million national debt, the U.S. government will have to pay $20 million in interest after a year!" Li Yunfeng said.

"Not bad! 20 million dollars! If we buy all the 1 billion dollars that we are currently stranded in the United States but cannot exchange for the US war treasury because we do not have enough gold, silver, machinery and equipment, or other valuable things, then the US government will have to pay 200 million dollars in interest every year!"

"Two hundred million dollars?" Li Yufeng said with a shocked face.

Although the US dollar has depreciated a lot after the economic crisis, according to the current interest rate, one dollar is still equivalent to six yuan of flat treasury silver, and Huo Jiajun's own currency also has 0.6 silver dollars, so that 200 million US dollars is equivalent to the current Qing government's fiscal revenue for two years! Even if the Huo Jiajun Administrative Council has invested heavily in economic and industrial development in the past five years, the current fiscal revenue for one year is only this amount! However, it is only one year now, and the United States has to come up with so much money to repay the interest, and in addition to the economic crisis and the devastated domestic economy after the end of the war, this burden is indeed too great! It is enough to weigh down the United States from nearly 30 years of recovery without receiving blood transfusion from Europe before World War I.

"Don't you think it's incredible?" Huo Shan looked at Li Yunfeng with a look of surprise on his face, and couldn't help but ask with a smile.

"This, young master, will the Americans spend so much money and carry such a heavy burden to fight this war with us?"

"Hehe, this needs to be laid out by ourselves, as long as the Americans feel that they still have an advantage in military strength, and still have the opportunity to defeat us and regain all the former American lands west of the Mississippi River, then they will continue to fight!" Huo Shan said with an affirmative expression.

"Then Wu Guangzong, the pressure they are under is even greater!" Li Yunfeng said.

"Yes, yes, but we have been building a strong defensive position along the Mississippi River since two years ago, and we still control the river, if it is only a defensive operation, I believe that with the current strength of the American theater of operations, it will be no problem to defend! In addition, in this way, it can also put us in a weak position, and when the Americans cannot fight and prepare for negotiations, it can also get the British to support us and rightfully swallow the land west of the Mississippi River!"

"The young master is really resourceful, take one step and look at three steps, and calculate the Americans to death!"

In the face of the admiration of his subordinates, Huo Shan, who has been thick-skinned for many years, although his face has not changed much, his heart is still beautiful, after all, he is willing to listen to good words.

"Young Master, what if the Americans are burdened with such heavy foreign debts, and they turn their faces and refuse to admit their debts in the future, then our losses will be great?" Li Yunfeng said with some worry on his face. In China, a country with an official position, businessmen have been a cheap industry since ancient times, and although they have a good life in fine clothes and food, they have no status, and they have been in the role of being slaughtered by others since ancient times! The so-called rich is not as good as power, and this is the truth!

"Don't worry, Europe pays attention to freedom, equality and natural human rights, and regards the safety of personal property as more important than life, so no one dares to openly rob private wealth, even the government, and the issuance of national bonds is fundamentally the country's reputation, if the US government dares to repay its debts, then in addition to the credibility of the ground, their own people will not let them go in the first place!" Huo Shan said confidently.

"By the way, this time I come out, I will also go to Nanyang, you also follow me, let's go together!" Huo Shan picked up the letter on the table and said.

"Yes, young master!"

"Hmm!" Huo Shan nodded, put away the telegram on the table, and stood up, "Okay, it's time for dinner, let's go!