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"It's time to leave, New York; Never again, America! ”

A young man from the West, who was not very handsome, leaned on the side of a brightly lit ocean-going merchant ship, holding a bottle of the best wine produced by the Ribeiro family of Portugal in his hand, and his face was full of amazement and sorrow in front of the moon in the sky and the brightly lit New York.

Americans, these damned Americans, can make their family miserable.

Carl Rothschild from Frankfurt is only 22 years old, an age that is still very young in the tide of business, but he is already in charge of his own business. His three older brothers, Nathan Rothschild, the most pleasing third brother, were sent by his father from Frankfurt to England at the age of twenty-two to develop the Rothschild family's banking business.

So, Karl Rothschild, who is now twenty-two years old, is no longer young.

He has been working in his family's bank for two years.

For the past two years, he has spent most of his time running around for government bonds in the Lighthouse Nation. The Rothschilds' bank took over some of the American agency business in Europe, and although the majority was in the Bahrain Brothers Bank, Rothschild took only a small share of it, but this was also a huge step forward for the Rothschilds.

This is the financial business of a country, and it is not a heavy responsibility that half of the financiers can bear.

Because the Americans have the British behind their backs. And the strength of the British does not need to be said, so it is not difficult for American bonds to be sold on the market.

Mayer Rothschild is a highly enterprising banker who sent his fourth son, Karl Rothschild, to the United States last year to start the family business.

The Rothschilds, who have already made their mark in the European financial world, are only a newcomer, and they are far from being able to act as the fiscal agents of a country on their own. This family was also far less powerful than that of a brain-dead person in later generations when it was at its peak in the original plane. Although that Song brain is no longer Chinese, he has become an American, but he still feels ashamed to think about it. And what makes Chen Ming very puzzled is why an American who wrote a financial novel can become a 'famous financial historian' in China? And there are still so many Chinese who are convinced of it.

Just as Koreans think that Confucius is Korean, they believe that the ancestors of the great Korean nation once extended their borders to the interior of Chinese mainland.

Alas, that's also drunk.

Carl also came to the United States with a strong expectation that he would be able to open up a world in the distant New World, as his third brother Nathan did. In terms of land area and development prospects, the United States has great potential for development. But the development of the situation in North America disappointed him, deeply disappointed.

The trend of the war made Carl lose sight of victory in the war.

Chinese warships cruised the waters of Washington, Philadelphia and New York, and the poor little American navy had already lost in the successive collisions. The current U.S. Navy is a group of Britons wearing U.S. military uniforms.

But even so, the British could not guarantee the safety of New York and Philadelphia, both important coastal cities.

Carr was not a timid man, but he was also disappointed in the future of the Americans after two unsuccessful wars in which Chinese Marines landed on New York's flanks.

Even before he decided to return to Europe, he had sent a letter to Europe, suggesting that the family's bank reduce its proxy share of U.S. government bonds and decouple from the U.S. as soon as possible.

Now the United States is completely backed by the British, and their own strength is really difficult to defeat the Chinese, such an American government bond is too dangerous.

Soon after Carl arrived in New York, he experienced a Chinese attack, and at that time Carl had not completely lost confidence in the United States, but he did not continue to look for a suitable bank location, he chose to wait and see.

Then Karl went through the armistice between China and Spain, and the Spaniards shamelessly became deserters and retracted all their strength to fight back against Argentina. In Karl's opinion, this was definitely a stupid decision. Could it be that after the Chinese settled Portuguese Brazil and the United States, they would still show mercy to their Argentine subordinates?

If it weren't for the fact that China was in trouble, that their peaceful tactics on the Spanish island had failed, that they had to talk about force, and that the blacks on the Spanish island were very difficult to deal with, Karl would have expressed his disappointment with the future of the United States.

However, Karl eventually chose to return to Europe. In New York, he felt threatened by his life, and he didn't want to end up without the Americas.

The traces of the British's involvement in the North American war are becoming more and more obvious, and Karl is worried that one day the Chinese will not be able to resist tearing their faces with the British. And he is even more afraid that China and Britain only maintain a superficial peace, but in fact, in the vast Atlantic, they have already begun to fight to the death, so he will become uncertain even if he takes a ship back to Europe.

The only thing Carr can be sure of now is that the Chinese have strong ambitions to annex the Americas, and that it is difficult for both the Americans and the British to organize China's footsteps. Whoever made Europe produce a Napoleon, a Napoleon restrained more than ninety percent of Europe's energy, and also put an end to the possibility of Britain and France joining forces to deal with China. Now, no matter how much material wealth London can provide the United States, it is impossible to send hundreds of thousands of elite troops to reinforce them. And with the power of the United States alone, even if they have Indians as allies, it is impossible to confront China.

That's Karl's judgment. Therefore, Carl felt that it was better to stay away from the lighthouse country for a second.

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And in Asia, which is also already in winter, a news is spreading rapidly on the Japanese mainland.

Thanks to the heroic performance of Japanese soldiers in the Americas, China will cede some land in Africa and India as a reward for Japan.

There are different opinions about this news, and no one dares to be sure whether it is true or false.

But for the upper echelons of the Tokugawa shogunate, the news was half-true. Rather than carving off a piece of land from India and Africa to Japan, China is giving Japan a choice between seeking colonies in India or new territories in Africa.

The representative of the Chinese side made it very clear that India's land is very likely to be a colony, and a colony is not a territory, because India has a very influential religion and customs and culture, which is difficult to assimilate by Japan, and of course it is very rich. As far away as Africa, it is indeed a little more distant than India, and it is very barren compared to India, but it is a vast and sparsely populated place, and Japan may not be able to turn it into a new Japan in the future.

This was a difficult choice for the Tokugawa shogunate, both of which were extremely tempting, and it was painful to abandon either one. And this also stimulated them to work harder for Chen Han.

The 'reward' given by Chen Ming is not small. India is the Alleppey region in the southwest, where the land is moist and flat, and the land is quite pleasing to both agriculture and commerce.

The land of Africa is on the island of Madagascar, the local tribes are not the opponents of Chen Han's South African expeditionary force at all, and the relatively powerful kingdom of Merina, the old king, who is revered by his subjects, has just died of illness, and its control area is more concentrated in the center of the island of Madagascar, the southwest of the sea, the local Sakarava people and the territory of the Bezanozano people are all unwilling to obey the rule of the Merina Kingdom.

If the Japanese enter the island of Madagascar at this time, they will be able to take advantage of it. Moreover, neither the British nor the French established ports or settlements on the island, and the closest connection between Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and other European countries and Madagascar was the slave trade.

Although Madagascar was one of the least developed regions in the world, it was large enough to almost reach the size of two Japans. And it is rich in resources, with a vast forest area and huge mineral reserves.

The countries of Africa are generally rich in mineral deposits, and the poverty and backwardness of this place is due to the low level of Africans themselves, and they cannot develop them, not because the place is really poor. Japan is not the same as Africans!

Both options have their merits. Those who agree with colonizing India are because India is very rich, and Indians are 'honest and duty', and they are easy to exploit and exploit. The Falklands are in favor of the Falklands because they can open up a new world, and the entire Falklands are estimated to have a population of less than one million, which is completely heavenly compared to Japan, which has a population of 30 million.

A 'new Japan' can be born there!

Although the Falklands are also located in an earthquake zone, which makes the Japanese slightly unhappy, the Falklands are a whole piece of land, not an archipelago like the Toei Islands.

But no matter what, in the upper echelons of Japan, they have a better sense of Chen Han.

This boss is interesting enough, he didn't let Japan only contribute and not take money, the boss not only gave money, but also gave a lot, and the Japanese were very satisfied. Today's Japan is not afraid of fighting and dying, but it is afraid that there will be no return.

As long as there is enough income, not to mention the 20,000 or 30,000 Japanese soldiers in the Americas today, it is 200,000 or 300,000, and the increasingly large samurai class can also make up it, and it does not take much effort.

Chen Ming stood aside and saw clearly that today's Japan still maintains the privilege of the 'samurai' class - joining the army. The army let civilians go away. Such a Japan is obviously not conducive to its own strength, but Chen Ming is happy to see Japan maintain its own traditions. Because of this, Japan will never pose a threat to China.

Chen Ming didn't know about the Southwest War in Japanese history, which was a samurai's 'rights protection war'.

Kido Takayoshi (Katsura Kogoro) and Okubo Toshitsu, who controlled Japan's political power, wanted to abolish the privilege of joining the army only for samurai and conscripted civilians on a large scale, but a group of people led by Saigo Takamori sympathized with the difficult life of the lower class samurai.

Oh, I've been living a miserable life, and now you're going to blow up my rice bowl, pull the calf!

A war in the southwest cost the little devils 20,000 or 30,000 casualties, and military spending exceeded 40 million, which is not a small price. However, Japan has not experienced the 'Emperor Rebellion' movement, and the Tokugawa shogunate and local daimyo who were in power were all representatives of the noble clan, and this privilege of the samurai class is unlikely to be abolished in the short term.

The result of this is that Japan is harmless.

Nowadays, the Japanese army is like the lobster soldiers of the British, the elite is very elite, but the number is too small.