A flying scissor boat leaned on the Chinese special dock in Havana. Li Yongzhong walked down from the boat. A Dutch merchant named Cork was around him. The middle-aged merchant was chatting with Li Yongzhong with a smile, and his Chinese was also very authentic. Beside the two, Cork's servants moved the boxes one by one, most of which belonged to Cork.

Soon, the adjutant who went to the concession came back and brought four carriages. Li Yongzhong and Cork got on the passenger carriage and chatted all the way into the concession.

The Empire's consulate in Havana is deep in the concession. Li Yongzhong got out of the carriage, handed Cork a key, pointed to a hotel next to him and said, "Mr. Cork, please stay here for the time being. I have asked my adjutant to prepare a room for you. Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, some people will come to talk to you about the tobacco business.

And the White Cloud merchant ship we were on will be docked here for twelve days. Don't worry, the high-quality Cuban tobacco will fill your designated cabin. This merchant ship will also carry the imperial flag and deliver the goods safely to Amsterdam, Mr. Cork, you will definitely make a big profit."

"Thank you, if you weren't for you, I......" Cork said thanking with a humble attitude.

But Li Yongzhong did not let him finish his words, but said, "You are a profound person, I have gained a lot from walking along the way. Especially the information about Amsterdam Bank is very useful to me. I am willing to help you, and the information I need, after you return to Amsterdam, please send it directly to the Imperial Embassy in the Netherlands. Thank you for your company all the way."

In the evening, King Rong Li Sucai returned from the manor outside the city. He didn't like the city of Havana very much. Since Panama arrived here again, Li Su lived in the manor outside the city.

"Is Yongzhong resting?" Li Su entered the embassy and asked the attendant directly.

Li Yongzhong was given a surname by the emperor, and he also had the credit for saving King Ying. He was favored by King Yu. Li Su always regarded him as his own person. Although the two were much older, they were very speculative.

"Mr. Li is busy in the office. He has been writing and painting since the morning, and even lunch is used in the room." The attendant whispered.

Li Su was puzzled, and walked to the office arranged for Li Yongzhong, knocked on the door, and then walked in. Seeing Li Yongzhong buried his head in the pile of books, there were four open boxes next to him, all of which were all of various materials. Li Su held Li Yongzhong's ear and said, "Boy, what are you doing? Are you going to take the top scorer in the exam?"

"Prince Rong..." Li Yongzhong looked up and saw that it was Li Su, and threw down the pen in his hand.

"I heard that when you come, you write something here, what are you writing?" Li Su picked up Li Yongzhong's manuscript and asked while looking.

Li Yongzhong said: "Prince Yu is asking me to follow you to experience and see the world in the diplomatic field. There is nothing to do with you, so I just happen to write something."

"With time, the agreed meeting will be seven or eight days left." Li Su said, finding the first page from the manuscript, and seeing the contents really shocked Li Su.

Li Yongzhong is writing a book called "Capital has no motherland". The beginning sentence is: Capital has no motherland, and capitalists do not know what patriotism and nobility are. Their only purpose is to make profits. If they want to avoid being hurt by capitalists, the empire must create cages for capital and tie a chain for capitalists.

In fact, even Li Yongzhong didn't know that for a long time in the future, his book caused a stir in the empire, and even triggered a large social discussion, becoming an important material for the imperial government's internal propaganda. Some of the passages were even included in political textbooks.

The source of this book is that Li Junwei asked Li Yongzhong to sort out the list of imperial merchants who purchased British treasury bonds. Because many people were agents, in order to capture the people behind them, Li Yongzhong conducted a secret investigation, but found a darker and ugly side, that is, before James II restored, when the empire declared war on the William III government, there were also imperial merchants who purchased British treasury bonds in Amsterdam and London.

That is to say, someone bought the national debts of the empire's hostile states.

This part of the national debt was abolished in the era of James II. After Queen Anne ascended the throne, she took advantage of the reason to clear the "French debt", and the British government stuffed this part of the national debt in order to help the illegal capitalists cover up, so as to facilitate the British government to formally establish diplomatic relations with the empire, and at the same time continue to raise funds from the imperial capitalists in the war of succession to the Spanish throne.

During the investigation, Li Yongzhong met Dutch businessman Cork, an employee of Amsterdam Bank's branch in Ceuta. He had just retired and was preparing to make a fortune in war before returning to China.

As soon as Li Yongzhong came forward, Cork threw out all the things he knew, but Li Yongzhong had a very strange feeling in Cork, that is, Cork felt incredible about his behavior.

In the eyes of the Amsterdam banker Cork, the things that the imperial capitalists do are very common, so why do they investigate them like investigating sinners? Li Yongzhong felt that Cork was also a capitalist, and perhaps from this guy, he could know the capitalist routines. After all, he once heard the emperor say this with his own ears--there is nothing new under the sun.

So Li Yongzhong helped the merchant ships contacted by Cork and took him to Havana to buy cheap tobacco and sugar. He successfully gained all the trust of Cork, and Cork knew everything. From his mouth, Li Yongzhong got a story that shocked him - it was the Dutch capitalist who ruined the 17th century sea coachman and the world's largest maritime power.

Before this, Li Yongzhong always believed that it was because of the competition from the empire, especially the continuous capture of the Netherlands' colonies in the East, which led to the decline of the Netherlands.

Why did Amsterdam become a European financial center? It is because Amsterdam banks can lend money to merchants at 3.5% interest, while other European banks have more than 6% in their respective eras. Why did Amsterdam banks dare to do this? It is because those who get the loan from them will invest their funds in the Dutch East India Company, a company with very stable profits.

Therefore, the cooperation between the East India Company and the Bank of Amsterdam turned Amsterdam into a European financial center. However, from the beginning to the end, both the Bank of Amsterdam and the Netherlands East India Company showed that they had no national consciousness and national identity at all. In the end, it was also this wonderful combination that made the Netherlands a second-rate country in Europe now, and would never turn around. Although the Netherlands East India Company has now been dissolved, Dutch bankers are still playing, dragging the Netherlands from the second-rate to the third-rate, and even doomed.

Spain once fought a war with the Netherlands for eighty years. During the hostilities between the two sides, the Spanish royal family could obtain loans from Amsterdam bankers without any resistance. However, in the end, Spain was defeated by the Dutch, which gave the Dutch an illusion that capital freedom and capital neutrality are correct, and a good reputation can eventually win.

But soon, the Netherlands and Britain fought several more wars. As a result, during the war, Britain could not only obtain low-interest loans from Amsterdam banks, but also directly issue war bonds specifically for the Netherlands on the Amsterdam securities market. In other words, the British borrowed the Dutch money to fight the Dutch.

The shareholders of Bank of Amsterdam are highly coincidental with shareholders of the Dutch East India Company, which creates a paradoxical phenomenon. These shareholders give their money to the UK and let the UK rob their merchant ships.

With the support of Dutch capitalists, Britain defeated the Netherlands. In the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Netherlands won and almost wiped out the British navy. However, Britain could borrow money from Amsterdam and reorganized its arms. Even in the Third Anglo-Dutch War, the British and French coalition attacked the Netherlands, which led to William III digging the seawall and dying with the enemy, the Dutch capitalists also purchased British national debts in Amsterdam.

Even when the Dutch government refused to allow the Dutch East India Company to transport war supplies to Britain during the war, the Dutch East India Company refused.

Li Yongzhong was shocked by this story and could not say anything. He also felt deeply afraid. Out of simple patriotism, Li Yongzhong was very worried that the capitalists of the empire would also sell the empire like this.

It is precisely because of this that when King Yu asked Li Yongzhong to make a list, he decided to write a complete report, but even after the report was finished, he felt that there were still many things in his heart, so he decided to continue writing. Therefore, there was a manuscript that had not been completed on the table.

Li Su put down the manuscript and smiled and invited Li Yongzhong to have dinner together. The relationship between the two was good, but they said very little at the dinner table. Li Yongzhong still had many things in his heart that were not written on paper, so he naturally didn't want to talk about anything else. Li Su didn't even eat much, just smoked cigarettes one by one.

During dinner, Li Su thought of one thing. Perhaps Li Yongzhong was not just here to train, but he might not know his real errands. Li Su thought that his uncle Yu, Wang Wang, sent Li Yongzhong to give him some advice on his real life.

In fact, after understanding what Li Yongzhong thought and thoughts, Li Su fell into deep guilt and self-blame, and he almost became the capitalists written in Li Yongzhong's book.

Especially in the Panama Railway project, Li Su almost stood opposite the empire and colluded with a group of capitalists. From obtaining line approval from the Railway Bureau Planning Office through bribery to changing the route at will, Li Su was actually involved. He just didn't expect his partner to do it as amazing.

Even though Li Su has now distanced himself from Panama United Railway, in retrospect, Li Su's guilt has increased a little bit, because he distanced him from his relationship not out of patriotism and national interests, but only out of loyalty, fear, and exchange of interests to the emperor.

Because he was loyal to the emperor and feared the emperor, Li Su agreed not to keep an eye on those capitalists, but the real distance between them was because he received actual compensation for his interests.

This method was made by Li Junwei. Around Panama City, Li Su approved the development rights of several pieces of land, and even thought of specific projects for him, asking Li Su to arrange for people to hire local Indian tribes to grow bananas.

It seems that things like bananas are inconspicuous, but they are a big business in tropical areas like Panama.

A banana is almost equal to the calories provided by half a bowl of rice. In Panama, a new empire territory where grain cannot be produced by itself, the price of large-scale bananas is enough to compete with any grain, and the profit is also considerable.

In the 36th year of the empire, Prince Rong's Mansion began to operate banana plantations in Panama. Last year, the Imperial Government and the shareholders of Panama United Railway Company completed asset reconstruction. After a dispute, the state-owned capital of Panama United Railway Company accounted for 70%.

Because the Empire had mastered the company, the Panama Railway was quickly promoted, and in July last year, the railway construction site started again. The reason for this was that many Japanese workers came to the canal construction site.

At the beginning of the 37th year of the empire, severe earthquakes occurred in North American provinces and triggered tsunamis, which even affected Japanese waters, causing great disasters to Japan.

Because the tsunami is caused by the earthquake in the Americas, the Japanese are puzzled because they think that tsunamis are related to earthquakes. Why did this time there be no earthquake? Therefore, the Japanese call this tsunami a ghost tsunami.

Taking advantage of the disaster caused by this tsunami, Panama United Railway recruited workers in Japan for the second time and headed to the Panamathio Railway. Li Su's banana plantation became the cheapest source of food for these workers, so he made a fortune.

Li Su was ashamed of the purpose of what the two did. Yesterday, Li Su saw a color and a light in the eyes of Li Yongzhong, a young man. His understanding was fanatic, but he also felt that his understanding was wrong. Li Yongzhong did this, perhaps, himself, but it was mainly for the benefit of the empire and the interests of the nation, because no matter what he got, he could not compare to what he lost.

Just the name of that book, the first sentence in the book, Li Yongzhong was going to offend the most powerful group of people in the empire besides the noble system, and it was also the largest interest group in the empire.

And what I am trying to do is nothing more than profit.

Speaking of which, Li Yongzhong's ancestors were still the Mongolian Tartars who were sent by the Qing Dynasty to be enemies of the empire. It was just because of the Supreme Emperor's Zasak system that his father became a little noble without inheritance, and because of King Yu's expeditions, he won status and glory.
Chapter completed!