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Chapter 424 Zhu Xianhai's big plan (first update, please subscribe)
The 19th century was an era when the world was changed. 20 years ago, it took at least a month to send a letter from the Governor’s Mansion in Alaska to Putrajaya, but now the telegram only takes a few hours. After purchasing Alaska, Nanhua invested several One hundred thousand yuan, the telegraph line was laid from Vancouver to Sitka, the capital of the former Russian colonial period. Two years ago, after Fuyang became the capital of Alaska, the telegraph line was laid to Fuyang.

With the telegraph, Alaska is no longer a corner of the world.

On this day, in the manor outside Putrajaya, after lunch, Zhu Xianhai strode back to his desk, sat on the luxurious leather chair next to the desk, and faced the record book spread out on the table. The letter glanced at it.There was a wax seal on the envelope with markings that only he could read.

This is a secret message from the Governor of Alaska.

This secret telegram can be sent directly to Zhu Xianhai's case without the intervention of the secretary's office. A few years ago, with the expansion of Nanhua's control area, it became inevitable to send officials to the local area.At the suggestion of Wang Yingjiu, the former governor of Zhejiang Province, Zhu Xianhai borrowed from the Manchu "Secret Book System".

In fact, it is just a reference. The secret telegram sent by the local "big border official" can go directly to the front of the imperial court without passing through any organization or personnel.This method is both fast and confidential, allowing Zhu Xianhai to obtain information more directly, improving the efficiency of decision-making, and strengthening the control of the bureaucracy.

When those high-ranking officials took office, they would all get a cipher book and the corresponding mailbox, and a full-time codecutter would be in charge of deciphering the telegrams, and then they would seal them with wax and send them to Zhu Xianhai.

"A telegram from Alaska?"

There is no nonsense in tearing open the letter, after all, the telegraph fee is very expensive.The summary of the report is short and to the point.There is a river found in the Yukon, there is a lot of gold placer in Hanoi, the only problem is that the river is in the upper Yukon, a little bit farther from Alaska.Although the distance is a bit of a problem, there is a lot of gold placer in the river.

"Yukon, Klondike..."

Sitting on the swivel chair, Zhu Xianhai glanced at the report in front of him again, and said softly:

"This... should be the so-called "Klondike Gold Rush"!"

No one will answer his question.

Zhu Xianhai’s understanding of the “Klondike Gold Rush” comes from Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush”, and then he searched for information on the Alaska Gold Rush, and he also has some understanding of the distribution of gold mines in Alaska, such as Juneau, the capital of Alaska. , It originated from the gold rush. An engineer named Juno discovered a large amount of placer gold in the Avalanche Valley in the Alaskan narrows, which triggered the "Juno Gold Rush".

Although he knew that there was gold in Juneau, Zhu Xianhai did not have the idea of ​​developing it, because there was a larger gold mine near Alaska - after gold was discovered in the Klondike River in Alaska on August 1896, 8, it was discovered that News of the gold reached continental America in January 16.In July of the same year, two steamships loaded with gold worth 1897 million U.S. dollars arrived in San Francisco. The news shocked the entire United States and triggered a gold rush. From 1 to 7, 1550 immigrants went to this area, and this frenzied gold rush history lasted for about 1897 years before it came to an end. The reason why it ended was because the Canadian government banned gold mining on the grounds of environmental protection.

The gold deposits of the Klondike River are simply unpredictable. Even if it has been "mopped up" by hundreds of thousands of people for decades, new gold mines will emerge after a while. In addition to gold, there are also platinum and rhodium in the river. and other precious metals.It is also the reason why the Klondike River is called the River of Gold.Even in the 21st century, it has become a tourist destination. Tourists experience gold panning in the Klondike River. The gold they find is completely owned by individuals, but mechanical mining is prohibited. Some tourists only spend tens of minutes here. Nearly 8 grams of gold.

"I didn't expect to find this golden river so soon..."

The news of Jin He's discovery not only didn't make Zhu Xianhai happy, he was even a little annoyed.

"At this time, it is not a good thing to find this golden river!"

Standing up from behind the desk, walking across the room, Zhu Xianhai walked to the map on the wall, staring at the map of North America on the wall, his brows knit together.

Gold is a kind of metal, but it is different from any kind of metal. It is precious in any era. From ancient times to the present, it is the hardest currency in the world. Especially in this era, the settlement of international trade is What?It's gold!
Even when banks issue currency, they rely on gold!

Gold is precious!

But even so, Zhu Xianhai never mentioned Juno’s gold mines, not because he didn’t want to mine Alaska’s gold mines, nor because he knew the truth of “children crossing the market with gold”, but because he still has a Ambition - land!
"Hudson's Bay Company..."

Even on the world map, the Hudson's Bay Company neighborhood is still clearly marked - its total land area is roughly equivalent to more than 3/5 of the territory of later Canada, and twice the size of Louisiana purchased by the United States many.

The Hudson's Bay Company was born in 1670. It has the right to franchise the royal family, and can privately set up armed forces and build fortresses.After it merged with the Northwest Company in 1821, the Hudson's Bay Company became the company with the most land in the world.

In front of the Hudson's Bay Company, Zhu Xianhai's American Company is nothing to mention, even if the land owned by the Hudson's Bay Company is almost Siberia in North America, but so what?
The important thing is how much land!
However, it is useless to have more land. The Hudson Bay Company, which started from the fur trade, fell into serious losses due to the decline of the fur trade.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Xianhai focused on the 770 million square kilometers of land.But it is not easy to get British companies to sell land, especially to foreigners!

"This is millions of square kilometers of land! Compared to land, gold? Simple is nothing worth mentioning!"

Zhu Xianhai pursed his lower lip, his gaze became a little complicated.

In the past two years, under his instruction, the company used the Alaska border demarcation dispute to negotiate with the Hudson's Bay Company, trying to use the negotiation to finally reach the purpose of acquiring the Rupert area and the Northwest Territory. For the Hudson's Bay Company, land sales are the last option for them to get out of the predicament.

But once the Hudson's Bay Company knows that there is a large gold mine on their land, they will definitely not sell those lands.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Xianhai did not take action on Juno's gold mine, because he was worried that it would affect his grand plan.

But now that Jin He found out, Zhu Xianhai had no choice but to speed up his plan.

"Now, the negotiation process must be accelerated..."

(End of this chapter)