A few days later

A group of more than a dozen carriages were filled with precious perfumes, red wine, treasures and paintings of famous French artists purchased in Paris. They drove out from the mansion on the Champs-Elysées and headed towards Port Calais.

There, the Golden Years Express cruise ship is quietly anchoring in the port waiting.

This is a medium-sized cruise ship with a displacement of more than 4,000 tons. This time, it will return to Australia across the ocean and bring back more than 400 students who have returned to Europe and those who have been transferred back with them.

Here are the employees of major companies in Europe, banks and import and export companies. They have experienced in Europe for several years and their horizons and abilities have been greatly improved. After returning to Queensland, they will enter the middle and senior management level and further improve their advanced management level in line with the international community.

The same is true for Queensland.

The Berlin Conference was successfully held at the end of 1884. Bismarck, the Prime Minister of the German Empire, presided over the meeting as the convener, gathering fifteen European and American countries including France, Germany, Mexico and Biho, to jointly discuss the plan to colonize Africa.

After the meeting

The participating countries proposed their existing spheres of influence in Africa and informed other countries in order to fix the existing colonies and gain international recognition and avoid international disputes in the future.

As for areas that have not yet been colonized, the Eight Immortals cross the sea and each show their own abilities.

The Somalia occupied by Queensland was proposed by the British representative and was approved without dispute at the Berlin Conference. This is an undisputed area. No other European and American countries proposed and actually occupied the area, so it was directly assigned to the Queensland territory to which the Commonwealth belongs.

Guinea is a transaction between Lisbon and Queensland, after being recognized by the Portuguese delegation, this small piece of West African land near the Atlantic Ocean was undoubtedly included in the Queensland territory without any dispute.

From then on

Queensland has its own territory on the eastern coast of the Atlantic Ocean, where it builds trade ports and transit bases, and eventually develops into a prosperous port city facing Europe and the United States.

This is a later story, so I won't mention it for now.

Given that Britain and France were attacked by representatives of various countries at the Berlin Conference and asked them to expose some of the interests they occupied in Africa, the British diplomatic delegation played a trick to divide the Somalia region by using the Queensland territory to which the Commonwealth belongs.

In other words, Somalia is not owned by the UK, but owned by the UK's younger brother.

Queensland has separate legislative and administrative powers, and is a dominant at a level lower than the country. The occupied territory does not care about my affairs.

France is also playing this trick. In the name of French Libya, the territory near Libya in North Africa was greatly expanded, and all the surrounding 310,000 square kilometers of land were included, arguing that this was the right of French Libya and France had no right to interfere.

In fact

French Libya is truly in power, white immigrants from France, nicknamed "Blackfoot". They control the economic lifeline of Libya, North Africa. From cities, railways, ports, manors to mines, the local indigenous people who believe in the best can only work hardworking for the whites.

Well, true absolute fairness never exists.

The promised things in the "Cafe Talks" are being fulfilled bit by bit, and the rest will require a practical response from Queensland.

At this moment, something went wrong again.

The Golden Years Express cruise ship was detained in the Suez Canal. A British officer rushed to the ship with his subordinates and searched carefully. He also found that the Earl of Queensland and Ms. Nicole, "France Rose" were both not on the ship and rushed in the air.

But the sudden attack has been done, and there is no turning back.

After the news came

Li Fushou was furious at it. He had been wary of His Highness Edward's group of people who were foolish. This group of people really had no moral bottom line. They were so weak that they could not be tough for their own selfish desires. They would always force themselves to take the blame. What promises can they expect him to keep? What tacit understanding?

Therefore, during the trip back to Australia, Plan B has been launched.

Li Fushou, Nicole and the few key personnel accompanying him had already boarded a freighter to Australia in advance and entered Xi'an Town in Somalia to wait for the arrival of the "Golden Years".

After all, there is still a long voyage from Somalia to the Red River Valley in Australia, with a slow speed and poor living environment. It takes nearly 40 days to sail at sea to arrive.

The Golden Years Express cruise ship only takes half of its time, and has a luxurious cabin that can supply hot water at any time. You can even play a game of snooker billiards in your spare time, which is far from being compared with an ordinary cargo ship.

The most important thing is that the "Golden Years" fast cruise ship has an oversized coal-fired bin with an amazing range and can directly reach Queensland without any supply in the middle, which is a huge advantage that no other cargo ship can match.

There was a crisp "bang" sound

The blue and white vase from the Qing Dynasty was smashed to pieces. Li Fushou's face was flushed with anger. He couldn't help but fall and cursed, "It's just a villain with poor character, so shameless!"

"Mr. Yuan Ding, please extinguish the thunderous anger. This behavior can only demonstrate their stupidity." Tian Shan, the accompanying deputy director of the Secretariat, twitched fiercely and persuaded softly.

"Immediately sending personnel to negotiate with the Canal Management Committee, negotiate with the British Army Command in the Suez Canal, and ordering them to release people and ships immediately, punish the relevant responsible persons and prevent such incidents from happening again in the future. It is simply arbitrary and lawless."

"As for orders, I'll go and do it right away."

"It seems necessary to put further pressure on London and send a telegram to the Red River Valley immediately. There is a possibility of a small fire at the shipyard, and the construction of the majestic battleships will be postponed indefinitely until I get a satisfactory reply."

"Uh... Lord Yuanding, is this reaction too fierce?" Tian Shan stopped when he walked to the door, hesitated, and still said what he said in his heart. "If you take action, it may be interpreted as a threat by unfriendly people in London. Can you first look at the negotiation situation and then make a decision? This will be more secure."

"Okay, just do what you said."

Li Fushou waved his hand impatiently, watching Tian Shan leave in a hurry, barely suppressing the anger in his heart sat on the chair. He was only wearing a wide, large, thin linen long-sleeved shirt, and sweat was still on his forehead.

Somalia is the hot pole on Earth. Now the weather in December still reaches nearly 30 degrees Celsius. Fortunately, Djibouti is near the seaside. In the evening, cool breeze blows on the sea and the heat disappears. This is the most pleasant moment of the day.

Two years ago

In May 1882, the British took advantage of the time when France was dispatching troops to suppress the Tunisian riots, and warships gathered in Alexandria and landed in large quantities, firmly occupied a large piece of land in the canal area, and took this opportunity to seize Egypt in one fell swoop, controlling the Suez Canal, which was crucial to the fate of the empire.

At its peak, Britain stationed nearly 80,000 troops in the Suez Canal area, facing the French army from afar, and jointly mastered the key to communicating between the two oceans.

Calm down and judge;

With His Highness Edward's ability, it is impossible to instruct the Egyptian governor and garrison to do shameful things for him. His hands are not as long as they can affect at most a few officers close to the little nobles, relying on His Highness to support him to seize the "Golden Years".

In this way, negotiations may result in the desired results.

The seized Golden Years and a group of crew members were released unconditionally. It is impossible to apologize, and it is impossible to hold the responsibility accountable. Just forget about saying this, don’t take it seriously.

In this world, no one can hold His Highness Edward accountable.

Li Fushou shook his palm-leaf fan with annoyance, and looked through the window to see the oasis in the distance and the mature fields of wheat seedlings. Today, Xi'an Town has a small piece of furniture, and most of the houses under construction are made of red rocks, which looks like a fiery red world under the dazzling sunlight.

A few months have passed

With the arrival of Chinese immigrants, the population of Xi'an Town has further increased, from more than 3,000 to more than 5,600. A new immigration ship with more than 1,000 people will arrive in the near future, sending a steady stream of labor and a large army of construction to this place.

By the end of this year, the population of Xi'an Town is expected to exceed 7,000 people.

This trip to Europe really stimulated Li Fushou's sensitive nerves, and he had made important decisions;

A huge sum of no less than £350,000 will be allocated to build the outpost of the Great Hanish Island and Xi'an Town, striving to exceed 30,000 by the end of 1885, becoming a stable base in Queensland in Africa, an important transit and logistics supply station connecting the Mediterranean, Red Sea and Indian Ocean routes.

Due to the sensitivity of the region, all immigrants in Xi'an Town will conduct militia military training, build a small cement factory, and invest in the construction of complete fort defense facilities, gradually building Xi'an Town into a fortress-type city.

No matter what enemy attacks, you must first break a piece of gum.

The construction of Guinea Port will also be carried out as soon as possible, with small cement plants to gradually develop into fortress-type towns.

As for the impressions of Britain, France and other countries, Li Fushou no longer cared about it.

No matter whether you are happy or not, I just did this, do whatever I like!

It cannot be said that such decisions are inadvertent, as men always have some bloodiness, and I believe that London will also consider these situations.

Djibouti has a drought and rainy weather, so Xi'an Town does not have sewer facilities, but has laid slate pavements on the main streets, which is an extremely rare infrastructure in Africa.

Except for Egypt, South Africa and French Libya, there are few streets built with such high specifications, neat and clean.

There are many shops along the street, and there are endless businessmen and residents.

A melodious music came from afar. When I heard it carefully, it turned out to be an authentic erhu song. This greatly relieved Li Fushou. He picked up the herbal tea on the table and took a big sip. He felt much better.

It is a joy to be able to hear the local accent and music in Africa thousands of miles away!
Chapter completed!