Chapter 462: End of British Minister

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"Martinez, check where the assets of the three consortiums are transferred. I want to know where the financial consortiums of Lloyd, Kimbass and Barclays transferred their assets in the Republic of Brazil."
Send off the principals of the three consortiums, Williams returns to the council room, turns around and tells the assistant beside him.
"The assets of the three consortiums should be transferred to the Han Kingdom. Before meeting you, the three of them have already passed part of their financial assets to the Han Kingdom through the Counselor. I mentioned this matter with you a week ago."
"Well, I think of it. A week ago, the Lloyds consortium and the Cleveland Mining Corporation in the United States had a commercial dispute. At that time, the Lloyds consortium seemed to have a harbinger of shrinking the business layout in the Republic of Brazil."
Williams recalled a business dispute that his assistant reported to himself a week ago, frowning: "The U.S. capital consortium ’s business expansion overseas is becoming more and more excessive. They did not position themselves at all and did not understand respect at all. The interests of Great Britain are always like a group of wild dogs, smelling the breath of interest, and rushing into it impatiently. It is really a group of uncultivated barbarians! "
"Americans always regard them as the masters of the South and North American continents, and arbitrarily interfere in the normal economic and trade activities of the Empire on the American continent."
The aide echoed: "I heard colleagues working in Canada say that US presidents, high-ranking generals, and officials will meet with leaders of overseas capital consortia in the White House, the State Department, or other more hidden places every once in a while to plan and Organize joint operations and prepare to send military troops to occupy and control the Caribbean and northern South America.
American ambitions are growing, they always dream of driving the empire and other European countries out of the Americas, and then enjoying the economic benefits of North and South America alone. "
"Yes, Americans are more and more confident in their own strength, and they are less and less concerned about the interests of the British Empire."
Williams said: "Twenty years ago, Americans only threatened the Empire and European countries to abandon the colonization of the already independent American countries in the name of independence. In recent years, the actual controllers of major US consortiums have repeatedly On a formal occasion, it was publicly announced that it opposed the imperial and European countries ’economic cooperation activities in the Americas. At the same time, the US government also began to use their strength and military power to exert pressure on the Caribbean countries one by one.
Even threatened to land with the "Marine Corps", asking these countries not to concession and sign contracts with the empire and European capital, and even forced these countries to repeal agreements already signed with the empire and European investors.
A year ago, in 1878, an economic consortium in the empire, in order to obtain normal economic and trade permits in Baja California, began negotiations with the Mexican government.
And when the two sides were about to reach a formal cooperation agreement, the news leaked and reached the ears of Americans. Within a few days, the US government threatened the Mexican government to cancel the economic cooperation with the imperial consortium.
At that time, because some members of the Empire's native parliament advocated a compromise with the United States and eased the political relationship with the United States, the excessive demands of Americans were met, which in turn encouraged Americans' expansion ambitions in the Americas. In turn, it leads to the passive and unfavorable empire of the economic and political activities in the Americas. "
American dominance and the compromise and compromise of the British government made Williams very dissatisfied, but intellectually, Williams also knew that the United Kingdom is a global empire. The United Kingdom not only has interests in the Americas. It also exists on other earths. Correspondingly, the potential enemies facing Britain are not only the United States, but also Russia, Germany, France and other countries.
What is different from other countries is that the United States has the greatest comprehensive strength and development potential, and also poses the greatest challenge to the British maritime hegemony.
Pieves are not guilty, they are guilty! The United States has the strength to threaten the British global hegemony, but also shows the ambition to expel the British power and dominate the Americas. If other countries are honestly coexisting in accordance with the British balanced strategy, then the United Kingdom may not be determined to fully suppress the United States overseas Regional expansion, however, international diplomatic relations and cooperation and competition between countries is not a simple black and white relationship. It is a mixed relationship of intricacies, cooperation and competition, friendship and hostility.
Britain maintains temporary peace with Russia, Germany and France, but it is in Africa and the Middle East. France is the UK's biggest competitor.
In the Far East and Central Asia, Russia is the main enemy of Britain.
And in Europe, Germany and the United Kingdom have serious economic conflicts and competition.
For example, such complicated international relations involve a lot of energy and military strength of the United Kingdom. The impact of such international games is that the economic and military strength that the United Kingdom can invest in the Americas region does not occupy an advantage compared with the United States. .
And with the rapid development of the US domestic economy, the overall strength of the United Kingdom and the United States in South America will be more unfavorable for British changes.
Based on the changes in the power balance between the two countries in South America, Britain ’s response to the United States is also constantly being adjusted. At the very least, for British diplomats in Latin America who often deal with the United States, they pay attention to the changes in the real strength of the United States. It has become their consensus to use the political and economic advantages accumulated by Britain in the early days to weaken and slow down the speed of the United States becoming the dominant player in the Americas.
In the eyes of most British politicians, the trend of the United States becoming the hegemon of the United States is almost an unstoppable trend. What they can do is to find allies as far as possible and delay the footsteps of the United States to become the hegemon of the Americas. As for the early support of Mexico, the current support is Countries such as South America and the Republic of Korea are only pawns with value in use, and they do not have the strength to compete with the United States alone.
It is precisely because of this concept that Britain and the United States have both competition, hostility, and compromise and concession in South America.
Even when it's really time to give up South America's dominance ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Britain will not leave vainly, but choose a relatively favorable way to quit South America decently.
Of course, the point of exit from South America may be between ten and eight years, or may be decades later, and when to start the evacuation plan depends on the speed of American expansion abroad and the British government ’s The measurement of political and economic value and the coordination of American allies.
The Second Paraguayan War ostensibly involves Paraguay, the Republic of Brazil, and the South American Han Kingdom. But behind the invisible, Americans used the war to expand their influence in southern South America.
Many secret meetings between the US consortium and senior officials of the Brazilian Republican government. The US Minister in the Republic of Brazil took the initiative to find a consortium for the war bonds issued by the Republic of Brazil.
Americans secretly move frequently. Although the British side has not obtained detailed information for the time being, but by analyzing some of the information provided by the pro-British Republican Comprador of Brazil, Williams also probably guessed the purpose of the American.
Is nothing more than persuading the government of the Republic of Brazil to accept capital investment from the United States, requiring the United States as the first economic cooperation country to expel British capital and investment in the Brazilian Republic.
And speculation goes a little deeper, and it is not impossible for Americans to lend military bases to the Republic of Brazil on the pretext of maintaining peace in South America and to deploy military forces and other conditions. .
Williams basically determined that behind the withdrawal of the three British consortia from the Republic of Brazil, there must be Americans making trouble.
Only faced a situation of unbreakable competition between the United States and Britain, but he did not have an appropriate countermeasure.