Chapter 627: One Hundred and Ninety-Seventh Political Art

The energy of the French government is much greater than that of a few capitalists. After obtaining the authorization of the Paris government, Minister Tom's confidence was all at once.

In less than a month, the right to develop the Panama Canal was obtained from the Colombian government, and the price paid was only a batch of material assistance.

The main thing is arms. Colombia's domestic armed forces have not fought, and the most important thing is to be forced by external pressure.

Everyone is afraid that the civil war will break out, and people will take advantage of it and become a colony again.

In particular, they are afraid of the neighboring Austria, which is a colony in Central America, and already has a military force that threatens their survival.

Due to the lessons learned by the Central American countries, the Colombian government does not dare to accept European immigrants at will, for fear that the regime will be peaked from within.

Colombia itself has a small population and dare not accept a large number of European immigrants, so its economic development is naturally unhappy.

Now the authorization of the Panama Canal to the French, in addition to material assistance, also means introducing French power to check and balance Austria.

These are small issues, and neither France nor Austria take Colombia seriously. If you want to play a balance, you also need to see if you can control it. If you can't control it, you will be attacked.

If the Panama Canal has been navigable, then for the sake of profit, a conflict between France and Austria may indeed break out. Unfortunately, the current canal is only on paper.

It is impossible for two great powers to clash over possible interests. To put it bluntly, digging a canal also requires prerequisites. If the geological conditions are not suitable, it is not surprising that the canal cannot be dug.

Everyone is very realistic, and it is far-sighted to be able to consider what will happen in the next ten or twenty years.

If you think about what will happen in a hundred years, it is nonsense. The world is changing so fast, who knows what will happen in the future?

The price offered by the French was good, and the Vienna government did not interfere.

The establishment of the Canal Company was very smooth. Nino, the president of the pot man, organized the personnel to explore the terrain in high spirits.

The headquarters of the Paris Canal Company has already begun preparations for listing and financing. There are no exploration reports, and the design plan has not been released, so the listing plan came out first.

This is not a joke, but reality. In the face of interests, these procedures are not important, and capitalists have ways to avoid them.

There are still many such scams in the capital market. As long as you can make money, the success or failure of the project does not matter.

Nino still has some abilities, otherwise he wouldn't be a scapegoat. Looking at the investigation report in his hand, President Nino had a headache.

The Panama Strait has a tropical marine climate with abundant rainfall and loose soil.

From a purely construction point of view, loose soil seems to be a good thing, and it is easy to excavate earth. But for the canal project, it was a disaster.

In the opinion of President Nino: "sufficient rainwater + loose soil = landslide + silt", this not only means that the cost of the canal development process will increase, but even the operating cost will increase in the later stage.

In addition, there are many poisonous insects in the local jungle, and diseases often occur, which is also a trouble to be encountered in the construction of the canal.

"Dead man" President Nino doesn't care. There is a classic case of the Suez Canal. He knows very well that if the Panama Canal does not have tens of thousands of lives, he may not be able to dig it out.

The Panama Strait seems to be narrower, as long as it is only 61 kilometers short, it is only slightly more than one-third of the Suez Canal, and the construction difficulty is actually higher.

After a preliminary assessment of the incomplete information in the opponent's hands, Nino reluctantly came to the conclusion he least wanted.

Secretary Ralph Shen Shenghui reported: "President, the embassy has just received news that the Colombian government has refused to provide us with labor under the pretext of lack of labor."

Everyone knows that the casualties of digging the canal are high. In order to dig the Suez Canal, the death of hundreds of thousands of laborers is not a secret at the high level.

Naturally, the Colombian government has also heard about it. The Egyptian government jumped into this huge pit and made the domestic people feel miserable, so that the French took advantage of the situation and occupied Egypt.

Colombia has a smaller population, and it is simply impossible for them to provide hundreds of thousands of laborers.

It is enough to recruit indigenous laborers. If you dare to use white people as laborers, it is estimated that if there are not enough laborers, there will be chaos in the country first.

Nino frowned: "Contact the embassy and let them continue to communicate with the Colombian government. In any case, they must first provide a batch of emergency workers.

The board is trying to find cheap labor, and once the project is over, they won't be needed later. "

No way, there are too many pits these days, and investors are not easy to cheat. You have to start work earlier so you can get money more easily.

How can a project on paper be compared to a project that has already been implemented? The Canal Company's IPO plan was bragging to the sky, and the board of directors urged him to start work every day.

Secretary Ralph: "Yes, President."

Just as he was about to leave, Nino added: "Wait, report the information we have surveyed to the board of directors.

Remember, leave out the possibility of a disease outbreak. Even if there is a possibility of disease outbreaks in the local area, shareholders will not want to see such a remark. "

Without doing a cost analysis, Nino also knew that the canal plan had exceeded the original cost estimate, and it was a fool's errand to build a canal with one-third of the cost of the Suez Canal.

After finally becoming the head of the project, Nino didn't seem to see the canal plan die. If he misses this opportunity, he may never have the chance to go further in this life.

The best way is to let the luck

The River plan was launched first, and the capitalists were reluctant to give up and had to bite the bullet and continue.

As for whether the big guy behind the scenes will cause trouble, Nino is not worried at all. The Panama Canal Company is going to be listed for financing, and these costs can be passed on to investors.

It is normal for there to be loopholes in the work. As long as it does not bring huge rewards to everyone, everything is not a problem.

Nino is very confident about the Panama Canal project. As long as the canal is open to navigation, he is confident that the cost will be recovered within ten years.

This is only an obvious benefit, and the secret revenue should be several times the general shipping fee. Such a generous return is enough to quell the grievances of shareholders.

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In London, Prime Minister Benjamin is worrying about the battle paper. He has already thought about what will be written in the newspaper tomorrow.

The opposition party will definitely take the opportunity to do things and attack the prestige of the government.

This is what everyone does. When they are on stage, they work hard, implement their own political propositions, and profit by the way; when they are offstage, they try their best to demolish their competitors.

At the cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin threw the telegram on the table: "This is the telegram for that rubbish Ismail. The war has just begun, and we have lost one-fifth of our troops, including an army regiment. The establishment was crippled.

As for the result of the battle, it was really brilliant, wiping out 200,000 enemy troops.

I would rather believe that the sun will come out of the west than that this victory is real. Twenty enemy troops have been wiped out, and there are still requests for distant troops. Does the enemy have millions of troops? "

Falsely reporting the Warring States period has become a chronic problem for the British Army. Especially when losing a battle, in order to escape responsibility, it is necessary to create a glorious Warring States period.

It's just that this time I played a little too much. If I reported 10,000 to 8,000, the London government would recognize it. After all, if the lid is lifted, the government will also be scolded.

In line with the principle of making big things small and small things small, usually when this kind of thing happens, everyone quietly covers up the past.

The Secretary of the Army, Fox, said with an embarrassed expression: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, it may be that the operator made a mistake and gave an extra zero.

We have sent people to verify that our army suffered 5,876 casualties, three-quarters of which were Indian colonial troops, and annihilated a total of 15,796 enemy troops, which is 20,000 rounded up. "

This data is much more acceptable. More than 5,000 casualties and nearly three times as many enemies were annihilated, which is barely acceptable.