If Li Mu is still the unknown young child in the United States, then Li Mu may still have the opportunity to return to the Qing Empire, but now it is impossible, the value of the Junma Group has far exceeded the level that Washington can accept, Li Mu can only be an American in this life, as long as Li Mu shows even a little suspicion of transferring assets, Washington will take measures immediately, for a tycoon like Li Mu, Washington cannot be defenseless, such as the guards around Li Mu, I don't know how many secret agents placed by Washington.

It's not just Li Mu, such as Rockefeller and J· P. Morgan, Washington will also find a way to monitor, as long as Li Mu and these tycoons do not do anything that violates the interests of the United States, Washington will willingly take the blame for Li Mu and protect their interests, but as long as Li Mu and their behavior violates the interests of the United States, Washington will definitely not tolerate it.

Therefore, Li Mu could only refuse Lei Haobo and had no choice.

Of course, not all refusals, Li Mu can not return to the Qing Empire, but this does not mean that Li Mu can do nothing, as a qualified "arms dealer", Li Mu can help overthrow the Qing Empire in his own way.

"Before you want to do anything, I suggest you prepare first, for example, you can recruit some men and send them to Ryukyu or Luzon for training, and at the same time, the Horse Arms Company can provide you with all the help you can, repeating rifles, light and heavy machine guns, and even all kinds of artillery, and if you don't have enough money, the Bank of America can even offer you an interest-free loan, of course, you need to have the right collateral." As long as Li Mu is not allowed to go into battle shirtless, anything else is easy to say.

Regarding this collateral, there is actually a lot of flexibility, such as the customs of the Qing Empire, which was mortgaged to the British.

Objectively speaking, this is not a bad thing, since the British Hurd began to take charge of the Qing Empire's customs, from 1865 to 1875, the Qing Empire's customs revenue increased steadily from 8.3 million taels of silver to 12 million taels, and at this time the entire income of the Qing Empire was only about 60 million taels of silver, and the customs revenue has accounted for nearly 20%, and the 16 million taels of military expenses to compensate Britain and France after the Second Opium War were allocated by tariff revenues.

By 1866, in fact, the Qing Empire's foreign indemnity had been paid, so the six achievements of customs revenue were distributed by the imperial court to the provinces for the Westernization movement throughout the country, such as the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, the Jinling Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau and the Shipbuilding School, the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, the Yangtze River Estuary to Nanjing Xiaguan and other 9 forts, and later the Jingshi Tongwen Museum, young children to study in the United States and other projects, the funds all came from the customs.

It is a very sad fact that customs control in the hands of the British will generate more tax revenue than in the hands of the Qing Empire, so Hurd is still the Qing Empire's General Customs Department.

The collateral that Li Mu said is a tax similar to the national customs, which is basically a flower in the mirror for Lei Haobo, who has not yet made an incident, even if Lei Haobo's rebellion is successful, the customs control is in Li Mu's hands, and it has no impact on Lei Haobo, and if Lei Haobo rebels successfully, then it doesn't matter if the impact is not affected, the money given to Lei Haobo by the Bank of America is equivalent to Li Mu's waste.

In other words, this is Li Mu's private assistance to Lei Haobo, just through the Bank of America, the money immediately became justified.

"Master Li's great grace, Lei is toothless and unforgettable." Lei Haobo is also an old oilman in the business, and he immediately heard what Li Mu meant, and he was overjoyed for a while.

Just kidding, asking people to give people, asking for money to give money, and not coming to fight for power, such a boss is a real angel investment, Lei Haobo never imagined before that Li Mu would be so easy to talk to.

"By the way, if you need an instructor, then don't be polite, I recommend Far East Company or Ezo Company, I believe they will definitely meet your requirements." Since he decided to help, Li Mu simply helped more thoroughly, not to mention the Ezo Company, the Far East Company is a mercenary enterprise that has been registered in Washington, as long as Lei Haobo's connection with the Far East Company is limited to the business scope, no one can find Li Mu's.

This instructor, of course, depends on how you understand it, military affairs, in fact, the boundaries are not so clear, as long as the procedures are legal, the instructor can even be used as a mercenary, which also belongs to the commercial category.

"Master Li, is it okay to send people to the Far East Company for training and hire instructors from Ezo Company to teach in China?" Lei Haobo was very smart and immediately understood what Li Mu meant.

"Hahahaha, of course you can." Li Mu is very satisfied, if he wants to overthrow the Qing government, he needs a clever person like Lei Haobo, and if Lei Haobo is stubborn, Li Mu's support for Lei Haobo will also be discounted.

Of course, before the official erection of the anti-flag, Lei Haobo still has some work to do, such as Lei Haobo's nationality will be changed to a European country, and Lei Haobo's family will also immigrate to Luzon, so that Lei Haobo can wholeheartedly rebel without distractions.

On November 20, Jimmy's expedition finally landed on the island of New Guinea.

It's not right, in fact, within the Far East Company, the name of the island of New Guinea has been replaced by Jurassic Island, and those who haven't seen "Jurassic Park" probably don't understand why Li Mu used this strange name instead of "New Guinea Island", but this is no problem, don't say the name "New Guinea Island", even if it is "Guinea", the origin of the name is not very logical, it is said that a French navigator arrived on the coast of West Africa, and after he went ashore, he asked a local woman: "What is this place?" The woman, who did not know French, said "Guinea" in the native language, indicating that she was a woman, and the navigator mistook it for the name of the place, and so it spread.

What logic is there in this?

Jurassic Island in the eighteenth century, still retains the original ecology, there is no trace of human involvement, Jimmy's landing location is located in the northwest of Jurassic Island, that is, the location of the Dutch landing on the island in 1828, unfortunately, the Dutch did not carry out any form of development of Jurassic Island, there are two abandoned wooden houses on the landing site, and there is a stone tablet engraved with Dutch, indicating that Jurassic Island belongs to the Dutch, in addition, there is no trace of civilization.

Of course, now, this stele has no effect, Baron Riem has transferred all the rights of the Dutch on the island of New Guinea to Li Mu on behalf of the Dutch East Indies colonial government, so the first thing Jimmy did after landing was to order someone to destroy the stele erected by the Dutch, and then replace it with the emblem of the Steed Group.

The size of this stele is quite large, I don't know how much effort it took the Dutch to send this stele to Jurassic Island, it is very simple to destroy it, two mercenaries giggled and buried a bag of explosives under the stele, after a loud bang, the stele was blown into pieces, these rubble, will become the foundation stone for the construction of the dock in the future.

The two wooden houses are no longer worth repairing because they are in disrepair, and Jimmy has no intention of repairing them, so several mercenaries went over and directly knocked down the wooden houses and set them on fire, and the fire ignited the dead grass nearby, burning a large open space, which made Jimmy very satisfied and decided to set up a forward base here.

It's explosives and arson, and it definitely can't hide from the indigenous tribes on the island, but Jimmy doesn't care, this is not Luzon, there are no Chinese on the island, and Jimmy can finally let go.

The construction of temporary camps is very troublesome, the Far East Company has strict regulations on the setting of temporary camps, the spacing between tents, the trenches and barbed wire outside the camp walls, the height of the outer walls, etc., there are detailed standards, the biggest advantage of this is that materials can be prepared in advance, and there is no need to use local materials, which greatly reduces the workload of the expedition.

In order to complete the pruning of the camp as soon as possible, Jimmy also picked up a hammer and smashed the three and a half meters high and one meter wide part of the wall that had been made into a sharp triangle deep into the ground.

Fortunately, the process of setting up the makeshift camp went smoothly, there was no trouble, no wildlife, no tribal indigenous people, and the weather was clear.

Jimmy didn't dare to be careless at night, and before going to bed for the last time he made his patrol, Jimmy told the Heavy on the guard tower that if the sun went down, any creature that tried to get close to the makeshift camp would be killed.

Jimmy's worries were not unfounded, as at night, the makeshift camp was pitch black, and the mercenaries strictly followed the rules, even if they went to the toilet, in their own tents.

Outside the temporary camp, more than a dozen bonfires were burning, all the trees and bushes within fifty meters of the outer wall of the camp had been cleared, the sentries on the sentry tower did not dare to be careless, and the light machine guns in their hands had been turned on in any corner outside the wall of the vigilant patrol.

"Hi Tom, do you have any cigarettes, get me one." One of the sentries felt a bit dazed and needed a bit of stimulation to focus.

"One for another, or don't think about it." Tom took the opportunity to blackmail, and when the mercenaries set out, each of them had a quota of thirty packs of cigarettes, which was one of the benefits of the operatives, and this rule was only enforced when they were on a mission.

"Vampires!" The guy who forgot to bring cigarettes considered himself unlucky, although the tent was twenty meters away, but no one dared to leave the post without permission, otherwise the price would not be as simple as a pack of cigarettes.

In the 1st Cavalry Division, there was a case in which Sherman, the current Minister of War, led his army to attack the Indians, and as a result of a sentry leaving his post without permission, the camp of the 7th Cavalry Regiment was raided by the Indians, and in that battle, all 211 cavalrymen, including Lieutenant Colonel Custer, were killed, and it was not until Alfred Terry's troops arrived two days later that the remaining troops were relieved.

No one paid attention to the real reason for the death of Lieutenant Colonel Custer and 211 cavalrymen, but this case became an unforgettable warning to all the mercenaries of the Far Eastern Company, and since then, no one dared to joke with their own lives and the lives of their comrades.

"Tom, this island is said to be home to tens of thousands of natives, and perhaps more, and if we kill them all, is it possible for Mr. Ream to pay us a gratuity at the price of the Indians?" The guy who got a cigarette for a pack of cigarettes has nothing to say, and this is the best way to stay sober.

"Bob, don't think about it, there are no natives on this island, not one." Tom lamented that the absence of natives meant one less opportunity to make a lot of money.

"How could it not be? Let me tell you, as long as we get rid of the natives, Mr. Ream will not be stingy. Bob hugged the light machine gun in his arms, as if he saw countless dollars flying towards him.

"Bob, look over there, I feel a little wrong." Tom is very vigilant, and before joining Far East Company, Tom was a veteran cowboy, and he had excellent Scouting test scores when he joined Far East Company.

"Where?" Bob threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and looked intently in the direction Tom had intently indicated, "You're a genius, there are things there, but it's not native, maybe it's a wolf, maybe it's a wild dog, maybe it's an owl." ”

Bob didn't take it to heart, the direction Tom was pointing out was indeed wrong, but it wasn't indigenous, but it was a common wildlife on night duty in the wild.

In the eighteenth century, the wild was full of dangers, there were many wild animals, wild wolves, wild boars and something could be seen everywhere, sometimes tigers, lions and other big cats were also very common, similar to Jurassic Island, an unknown land that had not yet been developed, even if there were unknown creatures it was not impossible, under normal circumstances, as long as the wild animals did not take the initiative to attack the sentinels, the sentries could not shoot, because at night, the gunshots represented the enemy, unless the sentinel's life was in danger, otherwise it was not allowed to shoot.

"No way, Bob, there's someone there, there must be someone." Tom was sure that what he had seen just now must have been people, and there was more than one, but to Tom's disappointment, the camp was not attacked in any way, which made Bob laugh at Tom for the rest of his shift.

Early the next morning, Tom reported to his platoon commander what he had found the previous night.

"Someone, are you sure?" The platoon commander first determines the authenticity of the news, and the sentries sometimes do make mistakes, but regardless of whether the news is true or not, they must be treated with caution, think about it, there are only more than 100 mercenaries on an island of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and no matter how careful you are, you can't be too careful.

"I'm sure there must have been people outside the camp last night, but they didn't attack the camp, maybe it was just reconnaissance." Tom was very sure, although after dawn, Tom went to look after the sentry and found no traces, but his subconscious intuition told Tom that he must have been right last night.

"Okay, I'll take you to Jimmy, I hope we don't get scolded." The platoon commander didn't dare to be careless, he would rather believe it than believe it.