The sun never sets in America

Chapter 312 South America: Nicaragua

Nicaragua is a small Central American country with a population of less than one million. It can be said that it is uncompetitive in today's America.

Nicaragua's economy is at the bottom of the entire Americas, and this country can even be described as "poor".

The largest economic source of Nicaragua is local timber and rubber, as well as part of the cultivated land. It relies on such a small industry to survive until today.

And even these small industries are mostly in the hands of foreign companies, 80% of which are Han companies.

In the local area, learning Chinese is a popular activity, because only by learning Chinese can you enter local Chinese companies with higher salaries and serve those Han people. As for the local companies, let alone mention them, it is simply "making up the numbers." of.

Since the Han-Ba War in the eighth year of Longwu, the Han Dynasty has used the remaining power of the war to continuously penetrate into the situation in Central America, and even directly controlled the armies of many countries through arms sales, Nicaragua is one of them.

Someone once commented that the relationship between Han and neighboring countries would either become a direct enemy like the United States, or become a "protectorate" like Mexico, losing a country's basic rights and dignity.

The third type is semi-puppet states. Most of these countries are economically or militarily controlled by the Han State, but they still retain the last bit of power.

To sum up, they are "enemies", "slaves" and "long-term workers".

It is also because of this international "interaction" practice that the Han State is actually very conceited in handling affairs with neighboring countries. In some words: "The Han Empire has only two friends, one is called the Army and the other is the Navy!!"

And Nicaragua is clearly not a friend! !
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Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, is the largest city in the country, with a total population of more than 150,000. This number may not be a big deal in China or the United States, but in this country with a population of only 800,000, it is already one-fifth. The country’s population.

The buildings in the entire city are basically Spanish-style buildings, and most of them are old. There are century-old buildings everywhere. The only century-old building in Han Dynasty is actually left by the Spaniards. As for the Indians, I’m sorry, you We can't expect the people at the Han Museum to regard a group of mud houses and rotten wooden houses as centuries-old buildings. The only ones that count as cultural relics may be a few stone altars.

Sun Yuan sat on the rickshaw and looked at the various shops outside. The shops were marked with Chinese and Western characters. They looked no different from some places in Han. The only difference might be that the furnishings in the shop were slightly different. It was messy, and a family selling clothes and hats started selling perfume.

Although he is very popular with those women, in the eyes of Sun Yuan, a "straight man", the smell of clothes and perfume are mixed, and it is difficult for him to distinguish good from bad.

Looking at the rickshaw driver in front of him struggling to lift his legs, Sun Yuan sighed. After all, there are such rickshaws in Han, but they are generally very expensive. On the contrary, those three-wheeled bicycles are very cheap.

But in this poor place, they probably can't afford anything.

Listening to the "whooshing" noise in front of him and the "sour smell" emanating from the surroundings, Sun Yuan took a handkerchief, covered his mouth and nose, and left the not-so-clean road in a very "elegant" posture. "The street.

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Han embassy! !

A typical Chinese-style building is just like the behavior of the Han Dynasty, "square and upright" and "upright."

"Mr. Sun, please..."

"Mr. He, I'll wait for you inside."

Sun Yuan followed a clerk in, said "thank you" casually, and then entered a living room under the leadership of the clerk.

"Oh, Mr. Sun, you are a rare visitor!!"

"Sometimes we are disappointed, we are welcomed from afar, and sometimes we are disappointed, we are welcomed from afar!!"

Before anyone arrived, the sound came first. As soon as Sun Yuan came in, he heard a "happy" sound.

Sun Yuan looked at the tall Minister He in front of him, responded a few times, and then sat down with the other party's politeness.

After sitting down, Minister He made a few "homely" remarks, both salty and mild, and then started talking about business:

"Director Sun, the current situation is like this. Nicaragua has agreed to hand over the development rights to us, but they need us to give at least 40% of the equity. You see..."

Minister He looked at the newly appointed CEO of the Canal Company and spoke in an "official tone".

After hearing this, Sun Yuan smiled "hehe", then took out a box of cigarettes, pulled out one and handed it to Minister He, then took out another one and stuffed it into his mouth, "pop", the flames rose from the silver-plated lighter. He got up and lit the burnt yellow cigarette butt.

"Huh", Sun Yuan exhaled a puff of smoke, then leaned on the sofa and answered with squinted eyes:

"Forty percent is impossible. I looked at the general construction drawings of this canal. Good guy, it is more than 200 kilometers long. It needs to be widened, repaired, and part of the silt dug out. What kind of projects are there? easy??"

"The budget above is 400 million. If we really put it into practice, it would be impossible to build it without 500 to 600 million."

When Sun Yuan mentioned the figure of several hundred million, Minister He across from him smacked his lips. He did not expect that a canal would be so expensive, costing hundreds of millions.

Sun Yuan exhaled a thick smoke again, and then said in a "disdainful" tone:

"I think these Nicaraguans are crazy about money. I don't know how many eyes Lord Ma has. It would be nice to be able to use their land and compensate them. They want so many shares. What do they think we are?" , open a welfare home??”

Minister He on the side also nodded. He also thought that the Nicaraguans were a little "whimsical." Good guy, I am a big man spending so much money, but you do nothing and just provide some worthless land. That's all you want. , what a joke! !

At this time, Sun Yuan held the half-eaten cigarette between his arms and continued:

"The requirement given to me by the superiors is that it cannot be higher than 20%."

"If you ask me, you can't even give this 20%. It's better to keep it below 20%, and 10% is best."

Hearing this, Minister He raised his eyebrows, and then heard Sun Yun's words:

"According to our estimates, once this canal is built, it will collect at least 100 million yuan in tolls a year. Such a lot of money will be earned by these Nicaraguans. God is not so blind!"

Minister He's eyes lit up, and he said: "Currently, these Nicaraguans are just testing us. They don't really want our 40%. It's easy to suppress them. Just let those newspapers report a few corruption articles." .”

"Ha ha……"

When Sun Yuan heard this, he burst out laughing. Then he crushed the cigarette butt into the ashtray in front of him, took a sip of the hot coffee, and finally said to Minister He:

“It’s better that fewer people know about this matter, and it’s better to act under other banners.”

Minister He was stunned for a moment, and then replied with a smile:

"sure!!"

Sun Yuan nodded with satisfaction, then made some "nonsense" remarks to the woman, and left in a rickshaw on the street.

Minister He ordered his secretary:

"Let No. 57 come to see me."

After the secretary left, Minister He picked up a piece of news about next year's presidential campaign from the table, with a smile on his lips.

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(Tommy: There is huge corruption in Nicaragua. These damn ants eat most of the tax money)

(Daily Nicaragua: Someone recently reported that the new speaker of Congress received half a million pesos from unscrupulous businessmen for the current year...)

(A Nicaraguan victim: I don’t know why they demolished my home. I tried to stop them, but they said to me: This is Nicaragua, and this is the era of President Misia)

(Nicaraguan Legal News: A large number of young children were found on a small island, most of them little boys. According to the revelations of patriotic people who did not want to be named, we learned about an evil plan. A group of perverts are ruling our country. Country, they are conspiring to create everything!!)

(El Pais: It’s time for this to end. Hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans have had enough of this. We must use shotguns to drive away the bandits and drive away the bandits who lie on us and suck our blood!!)

In just a few days, words such as "conspiracy," "evil," "perversion," and "president" were flooded in Nicaragua's major media, as if they had been rehearsed.

"Hang Misia!!"

"Hang this sinner and make him repent to God!!"

“Perverts are ruling Nicaragua, we are going to save Nicaragua from the darkness!!”

"kill him……"

In the streets and alleys, Nicaraguans carried various banners and "twisted" cartoons, and kept marching towards the presidential palace. The police along the way were "unstoppable", or in other words, they did not intend to stop them at all.

When passing the Han embassy, ​​Minister He picked up his wine glass and said to Sun Yuan:

"No one can stop the Empire, not even God!!"

"Of course, in fact, it is only possible if God comes alive, but can he come alive??"

"Ha ha!!"

In the dark room, Sun Yuan and Minister He exchanged glasses of wine, while outside, the demonstrators had surrounded the Presidential Palace, besieging President Misia in the place that once symbolized the highest power. Looking at the crowd outside who wanted to kill him, President Misia asked his secretary tremblingly:

“What do the Han people say??”

The secretary quickly replied:

"No reply."

bump! !

Upon hearing this, Misia shuddered and smashed the vase next to her.

It was not until the end that he said in a "weak" tone:

"Tell the Han people that we can accept 10% of the shares, but they must hire Nicaraguans. This will be beneficial to my election. If I can't agree to this and I step down, they can't expect the next person to be so obedient. …”

"Go and say it quickly..."

"Yes, I'll go right away!!"

Seeing the "crazy" President Misia, the secretary was so frightened that she ran out of the back door.

Outside, the demonstrators had already clashed with the guards, like sponges that were constantly being squeezed, and no one could do anything about them.

On the other side of the Han embassy, ​​Minister He and Sun Yuan were still "chatting" after receiving the reply.

The two kept discussing a recent major domestic event.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is engaged to the daughter of Marquis Weiyuan. This is a big deal."

"If you ask me, Weiyuan Hou's life has been worthwhile. He was granted the title of marquis and became a general, led the army to conquer the country, returned to his hometown with honor when he was old, and his daughter became the crown princess. She will be the queen in the future!!"

"Throughout the past and present, how many people have had this blessing? Among my veteran generals, only Weiyuan Hou is the most prosperous, and the rest may not be able to match..."

When Minister He talked about the recent engagement between Prince Liu Yu and Marquis Weiyuan's daughter Li Zhenxiu, he was "sighed" for a while. They are considered local tyrants in Nicaragua, but in China, they are still foreign ministers who cannot stand on the stage. .

Sun Yuan seemed to see what Minister He was thinking, and said with a smile:

"When the canal matter is settled, Brother He's promotion will not be far away."

"I'm afraid that when the time comes, I will have to bring my own name sticker and sing a promise when I see Brother He!!"

"Haha... Brother Sun knows how to make jokes."

Minister He pointed at Sun Yuan with his finger, which was trembling constantly, and the beard at the corner of his mouth was spreading continuously, looking very "happy".

After chatting for a while about domestic affairs, Minister He took the initiative to ask:

“Brother Sun, what do you think of this matter in South America??”

Sun Yuan took a sip of the hard-earned tea, moistened his throat, and finally spoke:

"Things in South America don't seem complicated, but they are actually complicated. I used to work as a bridge builder in Paraguay, which is quite simple. The locals were very happy when they heard that I was Chinese. It's like Uruguay and the United States. The place where we have made good friends is no longer good, and they are basically wary of us..."

"The current situation in South America is actually divided into two factions, the Chinese faction and the American faction. As for whether there is a centrist, based on my many years of experience, there should be no centrist."

Sun Yuan talked about his original engineering experience at the South American Bridge Company under the Ministry of Infrastructure.

(Government-owned enterprises in the Han Dynasty also have to participate in market competition, and among them, the infrastructure companies that go overseas the most are the ones that go overseas.)

Minister He on the opposite side kept frowning and then replied:

"In this situation in South America, there is still a force, and that is the British. However, they have been ostracized by us in recent years. Most of them are active in Peru and Chile."

"Occupied the local copper mines and guano..."

Speaking of this, Minister He felt a little "jealous". After all, Peru and Chile were definitely "rich" places in the "desolate" South America, but such two rich places were occupied by the British. Although according to the Four-Nation Treaty, British warships can no longer come in as before, but British map capital is still affecting the development of these two countries.

Even the direction of the country! !

In fact, this is the main reason why the Han Dynasty opened the Nicaragua Canal. At the end of the Spanish-American War and the Philippines has already been obtained, it is the best choice to draw attention from the Far East Pacific back to the Americas.

After hearing this, Sun Yuan couldn't help but nod. After all, as an "old backpacker" who has traveled all over South America, the British influence, although not as good as before, is still there. This is why the current situation in America is chaotic and cannot be stabilized. The reason is that there is a country that is constantly "making trouble" behind it. How can it possibly settle down?

Just when Sun Yuan and Minister He were "talking happily", the secretary of the legation ran in and whispered a few words in Minister He's ear.

After hearing this, Minister He burst out laughing, and then said to Sun Yuan with a smile:

"Mixia has surrendered, and Brother Sun can do big things!!"

After hearing this, Sun Yuan's eyes were shocked. Then he picked up the teacup on the table, replaced the wine with tea, and said respectfully to Minister He:

"As soon as the canal opens, He Gong's promotion will be just around the corner!!"

"Tongsheng, Tongsheng!!"

Minister He also immediately picked up the tea cup and clinked it with Sun Yuan. On his smiling face were the four characters "Flying to a Success".

"Swipe," Minister He signed the document in his hand with a smile on his face, and then exchanged it with the Nicaraguan official opposite.

During the final photo session, Minister He deliberately put his arms around each other to show off his "tallness".

The next day, the project related to Nicaragua's "rubber" expansion was placed in a corner of the newspaper.

No country in the world cares about this kind of news. After all, this kind of news happens not only a hundred times a year, but also fifty times.

Only the British and Americans paid special attention to it and looked at the topographic maps of Lake Nicaragua and several surrounding waterways. In the end, due to the lack of actual drawings, they could only come to the conclusion that "the Han people had a conspiracy."

In Xijing, especially the cabinet, those who know the inside story are naturally "tight-mouthed". After all, according to the requirements above, no information is allowed to be released before construction starts next year.

Even people in Nicaragua who knew the news were ordered to keep quiet. As for those who were unwilling to keep quiet, they could only be treated as "mental illnesses."

"Father, I lost again!!"

On the chessboard in the back garden, Liu Yu, who had just been engaged for less than a week, lowered his head in embarrassment.

Opposite him was Liu Peng, who took out the black chess piece from Liu Yu's flag basket and pressed it on the critical point. Immediately, more than half of the black dragon was killed or injured.

"Remember, a strong man will never show mercy if his wrist is cut off!!"

Liu Peng threw all the white chess pieces in his hand into the white jade chess basket with a bang, then got up and walked out, Liu Yu immediately followed.

After walking for a while, he passed by the pond and looked at the carp below. Liu Peng reached out for fish food and sprinkled some. Suddenly, dozens of fish swam over, vying for food.

Liu Yu just watched this scene silently until Liu Peng reminded him, and then he threw it in.

"Crash", there was another roll, and water splashed everywhere.

Liu Peng held the fishing rod in his hand, "swiped" it in, and then said:

"Tell me, what is a canal??"

"Reporting to my father, the canal is a passage, an important way for our country to connect with the ocean."

Liu Yu answered quickly.

"I think it's a bait, a bait that stirs up the storm."

Hearing Liu Peng's words, Liu Yu frowned and finally lowered his head.

At this time, a voice suddenly came:

"The canal is the bait, America is also the bait, and the world is also the bait!!"

　Monthly tickets, rewards, rush rush

　　

　

(End of this chapter)