In Charlie's room, an assistant who followed him to Sichuan said with a gift. "Sir, we will leave Chengdu tomorrow. Is it really okay if this gift is not given?"

"Don't worry, I will give the gift when I leave tomorrow..." Charlie's face looked relaxed when he smelled the fragrance in the teacup intoxicatedly.

It has been a week since Charlie and Riddle arrived in Chengdu. In a week, the three of them discussed the details of the business many times. At the same time, Yan Guang also added some other businesses to the original arms agreement, making the total value of the entire business exceed 20 million silver dollars.

"Are you going to build railway subgrades, tunnels, bridges, track paving and other mechanical equipment? And the Chengqing Highway..." Thinking carefully, Charlie murmured. "I have a sense that this seldom may become a trouble for the British Empire in the future..."

"Sir, what did you just say?" the assistant didn't seem to hear Charlie's whisper, so he turned around and asked.

Shaking his head, Charlie smiled bitterly. "It's nothing, keep busy with yours."

In the near future, Qijiang will become the mining and smelting center of Sichuan. The iron ore mined there will be smelted into steel and then sent to Chongqing, the industrial center to process into industrial supplies and military weapons. In other words, the existing Chengqing Highway is definitely not enough, and it is not the era of motor vehicles. The efficiency of mule-horse transformation is too low. Even in later generations, the transportation tool of transportation is the most efficient vehicle (the oil cannot be burned in the era of motor vehicles).

Therefore, building a connecting railway between Qijiang, Chongqing and Chengdu is Yan Guang's latest plan. Because of this, when negotiating business, Yan Guang added various mechanical equipment needed to build railways and some equipment needed for civilian factories...

Expanding business means expanding profits, but while being happy with the increase in profits, a hint of vigilance flashed through Charlie's heart. No matter how good his personal relationship with Yan Guang is, after all, Charlie is an Englishman and a white man. Of course, as a qualified capitalist, race and skin color are obviously not what Charlie often thinks about, which is why he became the manager of Jardinet Bank.

but…

This does not mean that Charlie hopes that China will become stronger, because China that is in chaos is the most in their interests. In this case, they can maintain their privileges in China and continue to sell goods including opium to China, although the latter has been out of Jardine Mahjong's sales range for many years.

It can be said that the current chaotic but not particularly chaotic situation in China is what people like Charlie most want to see. Because in this situation, warlords will spend the last piece of silver dollars to buy arms from them, and the people under the warlords will also buy from them because they cannot buy domestic goods...

Then…

"Alien..." Thinking about Yan Guang's every move, it can be said that Yan Guang is indeed an alternative to this era.

Of course, in addition to Yan Guang attaching importance to the development of industry, the most important thing about this alternative is that he is too rich and so rich that he can take money seriously. This also allows him to expand his arms on a large scale while also having enough financial resources to build an industrial empire...

If it is possible, Charlie really doesn't want to sell goods to Yan Guang because he has a premonition that it won't take long for the Chinese to become a problem. But he has to sell these to Yan Guang because the blood of the capitalist is burning in Charlie's body. For things called "interest", they are even willing to sell ropes to hang themselves...

Moreover, even if Charlie doesn't sell it, others will sell it, because in China and Shanghai, there are too many capitalists...

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"It's really..." Standing in front of Yan Guang, Charlie and Riddle both smiled awkwardly.

They were so embarrassed not because of something else, but because they found that the gift they gave Yan Guang was the same.

"cigar"

Of course, this one is not the same. Not only is the origin the same, but the brand the same, but the production date is the same...

He smiled bitterly. Although he didn't smoke, Yan Guang still accepted the gift when he looked at the awkward expressions of the two.

After Yan Guang accepted the gift, Charlie and Riddle also breathed a sigh of relief. After all, it was indeed a bit embarrassing to have a gift crash. Because of this scene, it is hard not to remind people of their collusion.

Unknown to me, Charlie had already become a little alert to himself in his heart, and handed the gift to the guard beside him, Yan Guang intimately patted the two people on the shoulders. "Since you still have a lot of things in Shanghai, I won't keep you more, so let me send you out of Chengdu."

"Thank you then." Without Charlie's thoughts, nor was it influenced by the German Emperor's comic "The nation in the world protects your most precious property". Riddle, who returned home with a full load, also embraced with affectionately. The 20 million silver dollar arms, plus the various mechanical equipment needed to build the railway, although Riddle and his rituals and foreign companies accounted for only half of this business, Yan Guang was already more adorable than the giant panda in Riddle's eyes...

After hugging each other, Yan Guang kept sending Riddle and others out of Chengdu before stopping. After saying goodbye to other officials in Chengdu, Charlie, who was on the carriage, said to Riddle. "What do you think of Yan?"

"?" After hearing Charlie's words, Riddle felt a little confused, but after thinking about it, he replied. "A very strange Chinese..." Riddle has lived in China for many years. Although he didn't have much contact, he still met some Chinese people. Obviously, Yan Guang is the strangest one among the Chinese he knows.

"Have you ever thought that maybe what we are selling now would be ropes to hang ourselves..." Charlie continued to ask after poking his head out of the car window and taking off his hat and saluting Yan Guang.

Riddle was stunned when he heard Charlie's words, but he soon understood what he meant. "...Dear Charlie, we are businessmen, and pursuing interests is our nature. Those long-term things are what politicians want to think about. All we need to consider is how to earn more money." As a standard businessman, Riddle disagreed with Charlie's ideas.

"But many times politicians are as stupid as pigs, right?"

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ps: I read the book review area...

Nazi Party? What's that? -_-!

Chinese News Party? Actually, I also thought of Xinhua News Agency...

And the Democratic Party? It's the same as Taiwan...

The Chinese National Rejuvenation Party, I feel that there should be many people using it...

The boss party of capitalist countries-_-!

The Chinese National Democratic Powerful National Party has a long name, and it is estimated that it will eventually be a dictatorship in this article...

The Chinese Progressive Party, the Chinese Revitalization Party, the Chinese American Party, and the Chinese United National Power Party, it doesn't sound very smooth...

Next: National Socialist National Party? It is mainly to facilitate the protagonist to implement a minority elite system in order to promote the planned economic system, because I think the most suitable for early China was the planned economy. For democratic systems and market economy, I guess the war would not be able to catch up with it...

Away: I have no interest in the race of Nazi, nor am I interested in applying it. I call it "KuoShe Party" just because I think it sounds good...
Chapter completed!