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"What about Guinea? They don't want to?"

"Yes, the French also refused!" After a pause, "but they are willing to sell us Mauritania! But I think the French have wronged us this time, it is all desert wasteland, and there are not even 200,000 people, and they dare to sell it for 15 million francs, and they want us to take the technology of making airships and the technology of making white-phosphorus-bombs!"

It is important to know that Mauritania at this time was only a subsidiary part of French Senegal, and the French themselves did not pay much attention to this land covered with yellow sand, two-thirds of which was covered with yellow sand, and Mauritania only became a French protectorate in 1903 and a colony in 1912. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info In 1920, Mauritania was incorporated into French West Africa.

If it weren't for the coastal area of Mauritania, with its narrow plains and excellent ports, the French would not have looked down on this place at all.

Compared to Mauritania, which is mostly covered in yellow sand, sparsely populated, has few resources, and is not a strategic location, the French prefer to make Mali their colony.

"Go and ask the French if they are willing to sell Guyana to us, and if not, then promise them!"

That being said, Huo Shan doesn't have much hope.

Although the colony of French Guiana in South America is small, it has a humid climate, abundant resources, and a large population. I don't know how many times stronger than Mauritania, which is full of yellow sand. And as the only remaining French colony in South America, its political and military value is not comparable to that of Mauritania. Even if Huo Jiajun doubled his conditions several times, he was afraid that the French would not let go.

But no matter what, you should always give it a try. Because Huo Shan himself is not too interested in Mauritania, if there is another choice, even if the land area is small, Huo Shan is not willing to want it here. Compared to northern Canada, which has a harsh climate but is rich in water, Mauritania, which is short of water, is simply undeveloped.

And in contrast, Mauritania is able to carry very limited immigrants.

"That's right. Huo Feng: When trading with the French, the airship manufacturing technology can be sold to them, but the white-phosphorus-bomb cannot. Got it?"

Now that the French are fighting against the Qing Dynasty in Vietnam, and even Huo Shan has already arranged a follow-up against them, if they let them use white phosphorus bombs here, it will have a great impact on Huo Shan's series of plans for the Indochina Peninsula. This is something he does not want to see.

"I see. Where are the Germans?"

After a slight deep groan, Huo Shan shook his head.

Compared with Britain and France, which had colonies all over the world, the Germans had too few colonies because of their rise in too short a time. Coupled with the rapid development of domestic industry, the demand for external markets and raw material production areas is more urgent. They were more interested in the African colonies than the British and French, so Huo Shan did not expect to use these two technologies to get land from the Germans.

"The Germans will let them exchange their talents and technology with us, right?"

If sold, airship technology and incendiary-bomb manufacturing technology can sell for millions of marks. But Huo Jiajun, who had just plundered most of the United States and their economic center New York, was not short of this money. It is better to replace it with the talents and technologies that Huo Jiajun urgently needs.

Compared with the scientific research ability, it is developed. The Germans, who are leading the world in metallurgy and chemistry, are really far behind in personnel training and industrial technology research and development, and Huo Jiajun, who has only been established for six years. Even now, after six years of hard work, a complete preliminary industrial system has not yet been established.

Although under the guidance of Huo Shan, the current Huo Jiajun can only maintain a leading position in several aspects in the research and development of new technologies. Therefore, for the talents and skills of the Germans, Huoshan is still very much needed.

"As for other countries, let's do the same, right? Those who can exchange land will exchange land, and those who are not willing to exchange land will take talent and technology, and if they don't have neither, let them get out!"

It is estimated that there are no two of them, that is, the ancient empires of the Ottoman Empire and the Qing Dynasty. Although Huoshan is now salivating for oil in the Middle East, now because of its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea and India, it is regarded as a forbidden territory by the British, and even the French cannot intervene, so he is even more hopeless.

After Huo Shan finished speaking, Huo Feng wrote it down. The two talked about the next thing.

"Young master, this is a telegram just forwarded from Ma Chen, a telegram sent by the prime minister himself, asking about the country name, national emblem, national anthem, national flag and other issues after the founding of our country!"

After Huo Shan took it and read it, he put it on the table.

These questions, he has been thinking about this time, the matter of the country name was originally called 'Nanyang Republic' according to his plan, but now the land of the Huo Jiajun has included nearly 10 million square kilometers of land in the Americas, and it is obviously inappropriate to use this name.

"The name of the country, it is called 'Republic of the Chinese People's Union', and it is referred to as 'Huaguo' to the outside world, and if you want the national anthem, use this!" Huo Shan said that Huo Shan took out a stack of papers from the drawer of his desk and put it in Huo Feng's hand!

"March of the Chinese People!" After turning a few pages, Huo Feng was surprised: "The young master can also write songs?"

Hearing this, Huo Shan touched his nose, and a trace of embarrassment flashed in his eyes. This was written by him, and it was completely stolen from the national anthem of later generations, but it was just a name change.

"It's okay, I think of it occasionally!" To avoid Huo Feng continuing to entangle on this issue, Huo Shan hurriedly changed the topic.

"As for the national emblem and flag, I'm ready too!

Hearing this, he took the document from Huo Shan's hand, and after taking a look, Huo Feng also felt very good. Although the artist's craftsmanship is not flattering, it is still no problem to understand.

The national emblem painted by Huo Shan, in the middle is a hovering five-clawed golden dragon, the two hands below the golden dragon grasp the olive leaves and a rifle, symbolizing the war and peace, and then in the middle of the golden dragon is erected a shield, representing defense and persistence, there are five gold stars on the shield, symbolizing the five provinces established by the Nanyang Huo family army when it was just established.

Then on the ring on the outside of the golden dragon, two ears of wheat are encircled to symbolize agriculture, and then where the two ears of wheat meet, there are two crossed hammers, symbolizing industry.

After reading the explanation recorded above, Huo Feng was very satisfied, and felt that the national emblem designed by his young master was very atmospheric and eye-catching.

"Young Master, how did this national flag become six stars?" Huo Feng said in surprise.

Previously, Huo Jiajun's army had five stars for both the army flag and the navy flag. And there are also five stars in the national emblem!

"Hmm!" agreed, looking at the national flag he had drawn, Huo Shan's eyes showed a hint of remembrance. Because except for an extra star, the flag he painted is exactly the same as the flag of the motherland in later generations!

"The six stars on a red background, the largest star in the middle represents all of us Chinese, and the five stars around are the five constants of Confucianism, benevolence, loyalty, courtesy, wisdom and integrity!"

The reason why he deliberately explained this was also because Huo Shan felt that the society of later generations was in decline, the culture of the sages was declining, and his morality was declining, and he didn't want Huo Jiajun to become like this in the future.

"As for this red ......!"

"Is it right to defend our country with war and blood, young master?"

Hearing this, Huo Shan smiled and nodded with satisfaction, and then the expression on his face gradually became serious.

"Our country and people need the virtues and etiquette of the P5, but there are too many jackals in this world, it is useless to reason with them, only blood and war can protect our country and people, this piece of red is to always remind us not to forget war! Peace is not easy to come by!"

Speaking of this, Huo Shan and Huo Feng's hearts fluctuated, and it took a long time before they calmed down.

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"By the way, Huo Feng has one more thing!"

He pondered slightly, "Liberia and all the blacks in our future in Africa, don't let them go to the Huojia Farm in South America, let them go to Youzhou Province." ”

Because the 2.4 million square kilometers of land in northern Canada that had just been bought from the British were too desolate, with a population of less than 50,000, and the environment was extremely harsh, Huoshan did not set them up as a separate province, but was ready to directly assign them to Youzhou Province. Therefore, the current Youzhou Province includes the northernmost part of the entire North America, including Alaska, and contains more than 4 million ordinary kilometers of water and land, which is larger than all the islands in the South Ocean combined.

In the end, the Government Council simply assigned Greenland, which had not many people, to Youzhou Province, and with this, the land area of Youzhou Province immediately jumped to 6.2 million square kilometers.

And Youzhou Province has also become the largest of all the provinces in the entire Huo Jiajun.

However, although the land area of Youzhou Province is comparable to that of most of Europe, the current population is less than 200,000, and the economic level is not even comparable to that of an ordinary county in Nanyang, Huojiajun, which is really too different from its huge land area.

"Young Master, is this appropriate?"

Although since the establishment of Huo Jiajun, the indigenous people of the entire Nanyang have been turned into slaves, and this has also laid the foundation for the rapid economic development of the entire Nanyang. But if you still enslave the blacks like enslaving the natives of Nanyang, it makes the military a little resistant, after all, the reason why the Huo family army was able to achieve the final victory in the American War was that the sacrifice of the American blacks was very heavy. And the black Liberians are the descendants of the black Americans!

"I can't help it, how bad the environment in Youzhou Province is, do you know how bad it is, if we don't use black people, can we use our own lives to fill it?"

After listening to Huo Shan's words, Huo Feng was silent, if he was asked to make a choice between Huo Jiajun and the black Americans, Huo Feng would undoubtedly choose the former. (To be continued.) )u