Rebirth of the Wealthy American Chapter 269

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On October 1, Sylvester Lopez, President of the United States of Cuba, announced the official establishment of the Republic of Cuba in Havana, and set the capital to Havana. The United States became the first country to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. U.S. President Ulysses · Grant attended the inauguration of the United States of Cuba.

Watching the sickle-hammer flag of the United States of Cuba fluttering with the U.S. Stars and Stripes, Li Mu almost broke his belly. This is one of Li Mu's few bad things in this era, although the flag of the United States of Cuba is less than the flag of the Soviet Union. A five-pointed star, but this scene is enough to contradict.

No one except Li Mu knew where the two flags were flying together, but others did not think that Li Mu's nerves were abnormal because everyone who was qualified to participate in the ceremony was a vested interest and everyone was happy. .

After more than half a month of consultations, everyone got something except Jay Gould, the outrageous "railroad king", and Henry Dupont acquired the Nipe Mountain deposit for $ 15 million. Mining right, the iron ore reserves of the entire mountain are second only to Li Mu's Baracoa Mountains.

John Rockefeller acquired the right to extract oil in the Gulf of Mexico, for which John Rockefeller paid $ 5 million in cash to the United States of Cuba.

The Vanderbilt family has obtained the right to lay the railway between Havana and San Diego. After the railway is completed, the Vanderbilt family has 20 years of operating rights. After the contract expires, the Vanderbilt family can continue to operate by lease. .

Another gain of the Vanderbilt family is the formation of San Diego Shipping Company with San Diego Investment Company. San Diego Investment Company holds 60% of the shares. The Vanderbilt family injected $ 1.5 million into San Diego Shipping Company and occupied San Diego. The shipping company has 20% of the shares and the remaining 20% belongs to the United States of Cuba.

The operating project currently owned by the San Diego Shipping Company is the development of the Asphalt Lake on Trinidad. The ownership of this Asphalt Lake now belongs to Li Mu personally. In order to obtain this Asphalt Lake, Li Mu's contribution is only one million US dollars, and the Not only this asphalt lake, but also the whole of Trinidad.

Trinidad covers an area of 4,827 square kilometers and is rich in oil and gas, but has not yet been developed. At present, the most valuable island is the plantations cultivated by French immigrants, but the ownership of the island belongs to the British. .

Like the Bahamas, it was forgotten by Li Mu before Trinidad bought it.

In 1489, Columbus discovered Trinidad, which subsequently became a Spanish colony, but there were no gold or silver mines on Trinidad, so the Spanish selectively ignored Trinidad.

After 1642, Trinidad was frequently invaded by Britain and France. In the 170 years before it was placed in Britain in 1814, Trinidad changed hands 31 times, with an average of more than five years Change hands once.

Five years-Considering the communication situation at that time, it is probably similar to that of a family. No matter who comes, you can declare the occupation of Trinidad, and then leave after the announcement. You will not be stationed in Trinidad. Because Trinidad has not shown any economic value.

This situation continued until 1814, after the second anti-French alliance was completely bankrupt, France and its allies Spain and the Republic of Batavia signed the Amiens Treaty with the British Amiens in northern France, Trinidad The island was formally confirmed to belong to the United Kingdom.

By the way, the Republic of Batavia was later the Netherlands.

On the current island of Trinidad, there are about 1,000 Chinese people who are indentured laborers. They came to Trinidad at least in 1806. They first worked in plantations and gradually got involved in other industries. So far, there are Chinese plantation owners and Chinese businessmen on Trinidad. It is rare for Chinese to work alone.

Li Mu bought Trinidad and was welcomed by the residents of the island. Now the total number of people in Trinidad is only about 20,000, of which more than half are Indians and blacks. Indians are the same as Chinese. They were also indentured laborers, and blacks were slaves brought by the French.

To be honest, Li Mu did not like Indians and blacks, so after Li Mu bought Trinidad, he announced the abolition of slavery on the island. The plantation owners on the island have two options. They can choose to release all black slaves. , Send them back to the African continent, or choose to resell black slaves to the South American continent.

No one chose the first one. Almost all plantation owners chose the second one. They have three months to deal with these slaves. After three months, if someone defies Li Mu's order, Li Mu will forcibly take it back. Those plantations in the hands of ranchers.

As for Indian contract workers, Li Mu has not moved them for the time being. These people are not free people. If they lose their jobs, they will all be repatriated to India.

In order to speed up this process, Li Mu ordered Gabriel Corton to acquire French plantations on Trinidad, so that when those French lost their plantations, they had little reason to Settled on Trinidad.

After the ceremony, Sylvester held a dinner at the Presidential Palace in Havana, thanking Ulysses Grant who came to the dinner.

The Presidential Palace is the former residence of the Governor of Spain in Cuba. It is located near the port of Havana. When the artillery of the Guantanamo Infantry Corps bombarded the port of Havana some time ago, the Presidential Palace was hit by artillery shells. The grass and sculptures in front of the Presidential Palace were damaged. The inauguration ceremony has been dragged on until now to repair the sculpture in front of the presidential palace.

Although Silvester's identity is the President of the United States of Cuba, Li Mu's position has always been beside Ulysses S. Grant, which shows that Li Mu's weight in Ulysses S. Grant's mind.

During the banquet, Ulysses Grant and Li Mu celebrated with a toast.

"Rim, you did a great job, your results exceeded my expectations." Ulysses Grant was full of appreciation.

It was indeed beyond expectation. Ulysses Grant had envisioned that the Cubans could drive away the Spaniards, but in the view of Ulysses Grant, it took at least several years. Now within half a year, the United States of Cuba has It was a beautiful turnaround, and that really made Ulysses S. Grant glamorous.

Although Sylvester is the President of the United States of Cuba, Ulysses Grant knows exactly how he came. Without Li Mu, the war would probably be the same now, but the estimate of winning the war is not large. May be Cuban.

"This is not my credit. Without George, I would not be able to defeat the Spaniards on the battlefield, and Arthur of New York. He also helped me a lot. Of course, the biggest credit belongs to the beauty in the army. As instructors, they are the ones who are really fighting on the front line. "Li Mu does not contribute, anyway, the advantages that should be taken have been accounted for, and now a few good words can show Li Mu's imagination.

"Don't be modest, you are not from the Qing Empire, but from the United States." Ulysses Grant quipped.

Ulysses Grant is very proud that the United States has talents like Li Mu. Look at Li Mu 's achievements and look at Li Mu 's age. I do n't know what kind of achievements Li Mu can achieve in another 50 years.

The only thing that regrets Ulysses Grant is that because Li Mu was not born in the United States, it is impossible for Li Mu to serve as president of the United States.

This may be a good thing. Li Mu, who cannot be president, will reduce Li Mu 's threat. As long as Li Mu makes enough achievements, the US government will definitely give Li Mu some compensation.

"There is no humility. In fact, Mr. President, you know, through this war, I have got everything I want, so I now hope to do something for our officers and gentlemen." Li Mu brought the topic to For those two hundred officers, it would resonate with Ulysses S. Grant, who was also a soldier after all.

"Yes, they deserve more, so what are you going to do?" Sure enough, Ulysses Grant immediately hooked.

"I thought about setting up a foundation for them, but then I realized that this might not solve the problem, Mr. President, you know, they are all excellent officers and have a noble personality, so they cannot accept the mercy of others. No one else has the right to have mercy on them, so all I can do is look for a long-term job for them so that they don't have to worry about losing their jobs. "Li Mu stated his purpose and encouraged Ulysses Grant to promote the United States The government has a standing army.

The United States currently does not have a standing army. Excellent officers like George Dewey have to take up a part-time job to earn extra money when there is no war. More people can only choose to retire sadly. This is definitely not what Li Mu wants to see. Li Mu However, arms traders can only have a stable financial path if they push the U.S. government to set up a standing army.

"I haven't considered the problem you mentioned, but it involves too many aspects. This problem is not easy to solve." Ulysses Grant also knows the plight of the American soldiers, but this problem is really difficult to solve.

Military expenditure is only one aspect. To be sure, the establishment of a standing army will dilute the original military expenditure, which will cause a strong naval rebound. At the same time, it is unlikely that Congress will pass such a resolution because the United States has no enemies in the continental US. So the United States does not need to have a standing army.

"What is difficult to solve-Mr. President, without an enemy, we can create an enemy-" Li Mu ignited the wind, it is not just to find an enemy, this problem is too simple.

"How to do it?" Not only Ulysses Grant is interested, the surrounding George Dewey, Benjamin, Mahan are more interested, which is closely related to their immediate interests.

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