African Nationhood

Chapter 156 Prince William (Please subscribe!!!)
  On October 1884, 10, Shi Jintang suddenly received an email from Whitehall.

The content of the email required him to go to Berlin, Germany, to meet with the British Ambassador to Germany, Sir Edward Mallett.

At that time, Shi Jintangzheng and Shi Jinyong were traveling around Portsmouth, Devonport, Chatham and Pembroke in the UK. They were inspecting the progress of new ships being built in various shipyards.

After having money on hand, Shi Jintang customized a total of 5 large-capacity cruise ships, with a total cost of 248 million pounds.

Each ship has a carrying capacity of about 5000 tons, and each ship carries more than 1500 passengers, of which more than 1100 are carried in steerage.

One of these new liners would enter the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Line, and four would enter the Henry Line.

As a result, Henley Line has 9 operating cruise ships with a total tonnage of more than 39500 tons.

In addition to new cruise ships, Shi Jintang and Shi Jinyong also began to inspect steel plants.

Today's steel plants are mostly labor-intensive industries. In addition to iron ore, they also need a series of supporting industries such as coke and coal.

Therefore, we cannot only consider one, but the entire industry chain must be supported.

This matter cannot be rushed for the time being and must be considered in the long run.

Just when the White Hall came to notify him, Shi Jintang had no choice but to leave Shi Jinyong behind and leave alone.

Germany has begun to convene various European powers to participate in a conference on the carving up of Africa.

The Colonial Secretary remembered him at this time and urgently needed the "Double C Plan" he had formulated.

Shi Jintang did not delay, and after explaining to Alice, he rushed to Berlin with the territory delivery contract signed by the chiefs of the two indigenous kingdoms.

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It was already the end of October when we arrived in Berlin. Shi Jintang first met up with the Mullersaid brothers who had already arrived in Berlin.

50 new Mercedes-Benz cars have been delivered to German Prime Minister Bismarck.

In September, Shi Jintang discussed with Muller and others how to get the German government to accept these new cars as transportation for welcoming guests.

Mueller came up with an idea: There was no other way than to go straight.

Everyone thought this method was very German, so Muller wrote a letter to Prime Minister Bismarck on behalf of the Mercedes-Benz automobile factory.

The letter told Bismarck bluntly that they had invented a new type of transportation powered by an internal combustion engine and wanted the Prime Minister to help with an advertisement.

After Bismarck received the letter, he was very interested in arriving and asked his men to contact the Muller brothers.

So the Muller brothers drove 50 cars from Stuttgart to Berlin.

It caused a huge sensation on the day it entered the city, and people were very curious about this rectangular vehicle.

Berlin's newspapers naturally did not miss the explosive news. The long and lengthy reports immediately left a deep impression on Berliners.

The moment Carl Benz, who was far away in Stuttgart, saw the report in the newspaper, he hugged his wife and children and cried like a child.

After riding it, Bismarck felt that this new type of transportation was very good, not too noisy and very comfortable.

At the same time, it can also well demonstrate Germany's industrial strength, so he readily accepted the request of the Muller brothers.

After settling down, the Muellersed brothers became leisurely and drove around Berlin every day.

It didn't matter that this visit actually allowed them to catch a big fish - Prince William, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Because of the car, the three of them had a pretty good time.

Shi Jintang had something to go to Gendarmenmarkt Square, and happened to meet the Muller brothers and Prince William who were driving.

The Muller brothers got out of the car and came to Shi Jintang and introduced the young man sitting in the car to him.

After the introduction of the Muller brothers, Shi Jintang met the future Kaiser Wilhelm II for the first time.

At this time, the Kaiser was still a young man, about the same age as Boss Shi.

To be precise, he is a few months older than Boss Shi. He has started to grow a beard, but it is still far from the iconic straight beard.

His slender cheeks and broad forehead are very eye-catching. This noble prince has no airs in front of the Muller brothers.

He quickly got out of the car and walked behind the Muller brothers in a few steps.

This man has a somewhat reckless and arrogant character. He took the lead in attacking Shi Jintang's skin color without being introduced by the Muller brothers.

"Mueller, why do you want to associate with ignorant and backward Easterners? Such people are not worthy of talking to us."

Prince William's words made Shi Ming, who was standing aside, very angry.

As long as the prince gave the order, he would rush forward and beat up this reckless bastard.

Mueller and Said both had awkward smiles on their faces.

"His Royal Highness, he is not an ignorant and backward Easterner. He is our boss. He designed and manufactured the Mercedes-Benz car we are driving."

After hearing Mueller's explanation, Prince William glanced at Shi Jintang in surprise, and then looked at Shi Jintang up and down for a while.

He smiled sheepishly, "Please forgive me for being reckless, I apologize to you!"

Shi Jintang chuckled, took the lead in extending his right hand, and said in English: "It doesn't matter, I have always been generous."

Prince William also smiled and extended his hand to shake hands with Shi Jintang.

But Shi Jintang suddenly reached out and patted his left shoulder, and chuckled: "You are very strong!"

Brothers Mueller and Seder's expressions tightened, and they couldn't help but laugh twice to smooth things over: "Everyone, please stop standing. Why don't you find a place to sit down and chat."

Prince William was very concerned about Shi Jintang's provocation and angrily threw away Shi Jintang's hand.

He snorted angrily and immediately turned around and left.

Shi Jintang was secretly happy to see him subconsciously hiding his left arm while walking.

The future Kaiser was born in a breech position, resulting in a disability in his left arm.

Therefore, he will subconsciously hide his flaws in his daily life.

In order to counterattack him, Shi Jintang deliberately praised his left arm for being strong.

This moment made His Highness the Prince disgusted, and he chose to leave in anger in order not to expose his shortcomings.

Prince William was gone, and now they were the only ones left, so there was no restraint.

Muller and the Seder brothers reported casually that they had received more than 300 orders so far. The princes and dignitaries in Berlin liked this new form of transportation.

Shi Jintang had already expected this result. He came here today to meet with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Heimskelke to talk about Dongwanlu City.

At the end of August and the beginning of September, Dongwanlu Lanfang Company led its troops to invade Pontianak Port and occupied the entire territory of the Pontianak Sultanate.

The Dutch Batavia colony had no choice but to deal with the powerful "righteous people" of Dongwanlu City, so it had no choice but to seek help from the mainland.

After investigation, the Dutch government discovered that the British colonial company South China Company was involved, so they directly notified the British Foreign Secretary.

The Foreign Minister is planning to get closer to Shi Jintang so that Shi Jintang can help him hold the Berlin Conference.

The foreign minister was unhappy with the untimely interruption by the Netherlands, and refused the Dutch government's request for a note on the grounds of ignorance.

The Foreign Secretary in turn sent a letter to Shi Jintang, asking him to occupy the land in Pontianak Port as he pleased and ignore the Dutch.

Shi Jintang, who had obtained Shang Fang's sword, immediately put on airs and not only did not go to the Netherlands to find them, but instead asked the Dutch Prime Minister to come to Berlin to meet with them.

Look at the time, it's time for the Prime Minister of the Netherlands to arrive.

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