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“Mr. Morgan, the Spanish side ultimately lent more than double the amount we expected.”
“You caught it right.”
boo woo-
Hamburg port, Germany.
We have joined with Barclays Bank. They handed us a copy of the contract document.
However, the special contract was attached to the copy they handed over. A lot more than the special drug we discussed first.
“…a special drug has been added?”
“Haha, it’s thanks to the foreign minister who came out with a low profile. That would be proof that the situation in the Spanish Empire is not good.”
“How much is the machine gun purchase?”
“Yeah, we put a definite limit on how much money we could spend on machine guns. If they have too many machine guns, we’re in trouble. We have also left some personnel behind to monitor the purchase of machine guns.”
“That is reassuring.”
Barclays Bank.
They didn’t say it, but maybe there were guards sent secretly from the British Empire’s cabinet as well. As long as they keep their eyes wide open and watch, they can’t play hastily.
I took an envelope out of my pocket.
“I want you to hand over this letter to me on the way home.”
“Who can I give it to?”
“10 Downing Street.”
“……!!!”
Suddenly, the Barclays executive’s hand trembled.
A What are you trying to hide between the players? The majority of these will come from the Cabinet, and many will receive orders from the British Cabinet.
I knew everything from the beginning.
“I have an eye for something.”
“Hmm.”
This letter should be properly delivered to 10 Downing Street. It is the essence of the British Empire and a government department that can be called the heart of the British Empire.
“please.”
“Leave it to me. I will make sure to pass it on.”
Royal Navy
Because it was a request from the Navy of the British Empire.
***
“The Asian fleet must be ready for war as soon as possible!”
At that time, the U.S. Navy Department, which had lost the main ship, was working day and night in a frenzy.
10 days after the main ship sank.
Secretary of the Navy John Long was away from the Navy for a vacation as scheduled, and during this time, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt took over the baton.
While Secretary of the Navy John Long was a moderate figure, Deputy Secretary Roosevelt was a radical one.
Because he was one of the main characters.
Rather than wanting to start a war with the Spanish Empire, he was certain that it would happen.
After Long went on vacation, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt convened an emergency meeting.
bang-!
“The war will break out in a few months. The Navy Department is immediately ready for war against the Spanish Empire!!!”
It would be better not to have an ignorant naval minister who left without understanding the situation.
He summoned high-ranking naval officers and ordered the entire Navy to be ready for war, and the news spread across the Pacific to the Asian Fleet in British Hong Kong.
However, the Asian fleet had a chronic flaw.
“There are currently no US-owned naval ports around the Philippines. The Asian Fleet is currently anchored in British Hong Kong.”
“Ts. Do you have no choice but to rely on eels or raisies that eat them?”
Theodore Roosevelt clicked his tongue.
There are no US military ports off the coast of the Philippines. The United States is now paying the price for its isolationism while European imperialists ripped out the papers from the Qing dynasty.
“There is a shortage of coal, and there is a shortage of ammunition. Even if it is budgeted for defense spending, most of it will flow to the entire Caribbean Sea, so supply is tight.”
“Aren’t there only four armored cruisers?”
Without coal and ammunition, four armored cruisers are just a bunch of scrap metal. It’s like fighting with a gun without bullets.
No matter how many armored cruisers there were, the odds of winning a naval battle with the Spanish Navy were half and half.
“Most of the federal government’s attention is focused on Cuba, so further support is unlikely.”
“If you can only eat Cuba, it doesn’t matter what happens to the Philippines!!!”
bang-!
Manifest Destiny
It is a concept that contains the core of American expansionism as the slogan of the era of Western pioneering.
The federal government was calling for isolationism with the Monroe Doctrine, but in the end it was just a policy of expansion to the west, and it was no different from other imperialist countries.
Now that Mexico has been slapped on the cheek and taken to California, the western pioneering of the North American mainland is over.
The eyes of the federal government, now bearing its clear fate, are on the Pacific Ocean.
The Spanish Philippines was an extension of that.
“But it seems to mean that we should definitely eat from Cuba, which is closer to the US mainland.”
“I will.”
However, at this rate, the Asian fleet anchored in British Hong Kong is in danger.
The Spanish fleet as well as the coast of the Philippine Islands were fortified with coastal artillery and mines.
“I have no choice but to trust Admiral Dewey’s command entirely.”
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt let out a groan.
In times like these, the Navy is in desperate need of someone who can help. The US military had been blown away by disarmament once, and the $50 million passed by Congress was not enough to prepare for war.
Unless there is an additional budget.
“Are you a person who can provide a stable supply of coal and ammunition?”
Roosevelt remembered.
Coal is a mineral mined mainly in eastern states, including Pensinvania. And, according to what was picked up at a recent ministerial meeting, there was one railroad that dominated the Eastern Railroad, including Pennsylvania, among the Big Four in the railroad industry.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt rubbed his chin.
“Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). It was definitely that name. I heard that the Rockefellers got 50.1% of the vote.”
Something seems to come to mind.
Then JP Morgan Bank decided to keep the remaining 49.9%… Ah.
bang-!
“Detroit Morgan!”
With the Pennsylvania Railroad as the junction between the Rockefellers and JP Morgan Bank, he may be able to facilitate the supply of coal and ammunition to the US Navy.
Wouldn’t he be satisfied with the condition that the Philippines or the Far East gently concede one or two rights? The calculation quickly ran through Roosevelt’s head.
“aide.”
“Yes, Assistant Secretary.”
“Call Colonel Sampson.”
Detroit Morgan.
A benefactor who previously hired retired naval forces at the request of Colonel Sampson. It was a pity that I had to lean on him again, but at this rate, naval battles across the Philippines would be half-defeated.
“I wish I could help you.”
Now I wanted to borrow a cat’s hand.
***
New York port.
We sailed from Hamburg and returned to New York. Barclays executives all returned to their home countries, leaving a few.
Perhaps this is the beginning for them.
Together with the British Empire’s cabinet, he is plotting a secret plot, and he will struggle desperately to receive even a part of Spanish Morocco.
“Mr. Morgan, when will the guns piled up in the New York Port warehouse be sent to the German Port of Hamburg?”
“Right now. At least by the end of April of this year, the Spanish army should have roughly finished armed.”
Mid-April, 1898.
The United States sends an ultimatum to the Spanish Empire. Then, at the end of April, when the Spanish Empire declared war on the United States, war began.
However, there is not enough time to complete the full armament. If so, just do it as soon as possible.
‘Well, if the armed forces are incomplete, the Americans will suffer less damage. It would be enough if only a picture of the Americans were defeated by the power of machine guns.’
“Then I will go to the window of New York Port.”
“Maybe James will be there too. Take turns with James.”
“Yes!”
After a brief greeting, Veyron, along with the DWM staff, headed to the window in New York Harbor.
I looked at Veyron’s back as he left.
“Thanks to Veyron, this transaction was successful.”
Veyron’s German and negotiation skills were outstanding.
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Of course, the Spanish military slapped us, saying that they knew all our stocks were piling up. At an amount charged more than three times the list price. I mean, though.
haha.
“I don’t know if I should bow down to Henry Ford or not.”
The cost of machine gun production was minimized by automation through conveyor belts and division of labor, and as a result, the production cost was significantly reduced compared to the machine gun produced by the German headquarters.
Because it was mass-produced, as the skills of the workers increased, the cost gradually decreased.
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Oh, I’m not saying the salary was cut. It just increased production efficiency. The workers’ salaries were double the industry’s highest.
Because I didn’t want to be revolutionized.
“In the end, I was beaten and I was able to get twice the regular price. Spanish soldiers. By now, wouldn’t you be liking the 30% reduction?”
What you don’t know is medicine.
And this is a win-win for each other. If they had signed a contract with the German headquarters, would they have contracted for a higher price than us and in smaller quantities?
Less defective and how good it is.
called Hyeja.
“Master, you are back.”
James returns from the New York Harbor warehouse.
I waved my hand.
“Is there still no reply from the Royal Navy?”
“Yes, there is no British side. However, there is a phone call from the other side to the hedge fund headquarters. It looked like it was pretty urgent.”
“From whom?”
“This is Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt.”
Stop.
I stopped waving my hand.
Who?
“If it’s Roosevelt…”
“Yes, this is Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt. Why are you at odds with Secretary of the Navy John Long?”
“Ahhh. Right.”
Come to think of it, that was before he debuted as a Rough Rider.
I was about to make a mistake.
“Do you have any messages left for me?”
“He left a message saying it was urgent. I wrote it down in my notebook.”
James pulled a notebook out of his pocket.
“The Navy has requested the supply of coal and ammunition to the Asian fleet.”
“…Is it ok to give information about the Navy to outsiders like that?”
“Doesn’t that mean it’s urgent? I will give you a few tickets before and after the payment.”
“Lee Kwon? haha.”
If President McKinley was assassinated, he would become president, but only a few votes?
It’s not hard
This would be a sure debt to Roosevelt personally.
“Why?”
“Nothing. Wasn’t there anything else to do with it other than supply?”
“There was a message saying that it would be good to support a few armed merchant ships if possible, but it sounds like it was just stabbed once.”
‘It’s an armed merchant ship.’
If you think about it, the American-Spanish war was a war that ended very vaguely. As a result of this war, the United States cannot eat Cuba or the Philippines.
It was natural because he participated in the war in the name of independence in the first place.
It is only after the US-Philippines war that we eat the Philippines properly. No, even then, I couldn’t get enough of it, so in 1905 they signed the famous secret agreement.
Katsura-Taft Secret.
Well, the reason I couldn’t eat the Philippines properly was because the naval power to project to the Pacific was poor.
Again, the United States is still a second-class power.
But what if me and the capitalists work together to strengthen the US naval power?
Then the story is different.
“The United States can bring supremacy in the Pacific.”
Pick up and eat some of the falling Congolese. I owe Theodore Roosevelt some debt.
There is nothing in a capitalist society that money cannot solve.
“James.”
“Yes, Master.”
“I hear the news that lobbyists of large shipping companies are coming and going in the US Congress right now, right?”
“Yeah, because when a war breaks out in Cuba, the first big shipping companies lose money. They are trying to stop the war somehow.”
“Perfect.”
This deal will be a good story for large shipping companies as well.
However, only large shipping companies that satisfy certain conditions will join. Because the countries in the Qing Dynasty were the only ones who were very reluctant.
It is better not to use the ports they have, as you never know when they will be detained. Of course, shipping companies that interact with this port are excluded.
Excluding Germany.
After the US-Spanish war is over, these children lead a fleet of armed protests in the Pacific Ocean. It is the will to not hand over the Pacific hegemony to the United States. They will buy Pacific Islands in a treaty with Spain.
rejected.
Excluding France.
Now working with the British Empire and working on Spain and designing the American-Spanish war. France, which is at odds with the British Empire, is very reluctant.
rejected.
Excluding Russia.
Still playing the Great Game against the British Empire.
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Of course rejected.
Portuguese Macau?
This place was being attacked by British Hong Kong in real time, so it was becoming semi-destroyed.
rejected.
Most of the ports of the Qing Dynasty were also directly or indirectly controlled by major powers.
rejected.
British Hong Kong is, of course, your ally.
“Write.”
what’s left is
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Only the Korean port and the Japanese port.
“The port of Joseon and the port of Japan…”
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Obviously, there was a person familiar with polar animals among the railroad directors of JP Morgan Bank. A railroad giant who raised the profits of the Great Northern Railroad through trade with the Far East.
“James.”
“Yes, Master.”
“The headquarters of the Great Northern Railroad, run by Director Hill, must have been on Wall Street, wasn’t it?”
“Yes. Near 23 Wall Street.”
great.
“Before I go back to the hedge fund, I have to stop by there.”
To be honest, the deal with the British Empire is more important to me than the Pacific hegemony. However, in order to successfully complete the deal with the British Empire, the Spanish fleet must be eliminated as much as possible.
Because we need to completely blockade Spanish Morocco.
To do that, it was necessary to eliminate as much as possible the Spanish fleet sent to the Pacific.
“The British Empire should give us an answer quickly.”
“Are you nervous?”
“It seems that the master was too detached.”
“Because there is no reason to rush.”
bang-
I got into the car heading to Wall Street.
“It’s a pity that I’m no longer me.”
I would have been nervous when there was no way, but now that I have seen the hand that I have shown, it is probably the Royal Navy of the British Empire that is upset.
I just have to wait patiently.
“Branch.”
First, the U.S. Navy.
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