Chapter 420 Distinguished Guests

  More than an hour later

  Li Fushou sat neatly in the small living room and had a happy conversation with the visiting Rear Admiral Philip Howard. He is the heir to the Duke of Norfolk and assistant to the Secretary of the Admiralty. He has a distinguished status and a respectable position.

  "Brigadier General Hugh Howard entrusted me to bring this letter back, and I will hand it over to the General." Li Fushou handed over the thick letter.

  Major General Philip Howard accepted the letter and nodded in thanks gracefully; “Thank you for everything you have done. I heard that Hugh Howard has had a good time in Australia, and I am very pleased with that.”

   "Don't say thank you for your help."

  Both sides are carefully looking at each other. Although Queensland and the Duke of Norfolk have formed a close cooperation for a long time, it is the first time that the two masters have met each other, and there is a sense of heroic sympathy.

  As one of the shareholders, the Duke of Norfolk has demonstrated unparalleled influence in the arrival of finished wool products on the British market, and has effectively eliminated all criticisms, and will receive nearly 200,000 pounds of income every year.

The entry of Australian wool products into the British market, in addition to creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and a large amount of taxation for Queensland, various factories and trading companies can earn millions of pounds in profits, which is a huge amount of thousands of pounds. A huge market of ten thousand pounds.

  The cooperation between the two parties is based on the solid benefit transmission.

"Mr. Earl, I really appreciate your leadership skills in Australia, especially your outstanding business talents. Compared with you, those old nobles, big and small, who only know how to live with their own rents, are simply stupid. It is unacceptable, and the comfortable life has consumed the courage and fighting spirit of the past, and it has to be sighed."

"Your Excellency General, if I can, I would also like to enjoy the ancestral sprouts at ease." Li Fushou smiled bitterly, and his expression at the moment seemed particularly sincere; "Perhaps you can also see that I have many expectations on my shoulders, and I am here. One step can no longer stop. In the huge social group of Queensland, there are Chinese, English, Scots, Germans and French. They are contributing their wisdom and talents at all times to support the entire Queensland society. Even I... can't ignore the mainstream public opinion in society."

  "Do you specifically mean..."

"The increasing separatist tendency of Southern New South Wales and Victoria. Although through the mediation team of the Ministry of Colony, there are still a few hardline ultra-right white organizations that have moved against the trend of history, disregarding the mainstream public opinion, and constantly taking actions that harm Australia’s overall interests. Small movements, crowding out and serious violations of immigrants continue to occur, which is really extremely infuriating."

   "Oh, you mean this."

  Major General Philip Howard nodded suddenly, feeling a little bit dumbfounded. This kind of thing will happen everywhere, but the severity of the plot is different.

  To be honest, there is no good solution.

  And that remote place in Australia, who cares about London?

  "I personally sympathize with this, but I am sorry that I cannot help with this issue. As a very influential person in Australia, I think Mr. Earls can do more."

  Major General Philip Howard’s statement is very vague, without any substantive content, and no specific tendency is visible.

  He is obviously unwilling to intervene in internal conflicts in Australia. What the Duke of Norfolk can focus on is only political interests and income worth 100,000 pounds. In addition, there is a lack of interest.

  Li Fushou did not achieve the purpose of temptation and was not discouraged. Anyway, it will be a long time in Japan.

The future Duke of Norfolk is nearly forty years old. He is thin and tall, with a typical British hooked nose. He is severely flat. He always looks at people with a taste of scrutiny, which is very suitable for conspirators. Potential.

  Through initial contact, Li Fushou felt that this person was keen on the exchange of interests and was a typical materialist.

  As for other factors in the character, it takes a long period of observation to be able to figure it out.

  The advantages of this situation outweigh the disadvantages, and the most feared is the kind of die-hard white racists who are fanatical about religion and can’t get in at all.

  In the first meeting between the two parties

Major General Philip Howard cautiously did not mention Protestantism. Although Li Fushou was naturalized in Australia and was a nominally Christian, he knew from his wife and concubine Ruyun that this guy was just in the team. Hypocrites.

  If you are a rigorous Protestant Christian, you must not rub the sand in your eyes.

The two parties further exchanged views on the construction of the subsequent sister ships of the Majesty-class battleship that the Royal Navy is concerned about, and further expanded the sales of Australian wool products in Scotland and Ireland, and expanded their sales in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. Wang Guo and other northern markets reached an agreement on sales.

  The Duke of Norfolk family will actively exert its influence to provide assistance for Australian wool products to enter the above-mentioned markets and deepen the cooperative relationship in this field.

  Ended this pleasant meeting. After Li Fushou had lunch, he met again with Lord Ayton and Viscount Edward Nelson of the Duke of Victor’s family, and was invited to attend the grand royal dinner held at Kensington Palace.

  The dinner was specially organized by Prince Edward in order to welcome the Deputy Prime Minister of France, Jean-José. The guests attended the event in costumes. Li Fushou, Australia’s largest farmer, was well-known and was invited.

  Lord Ayton is the second son of Duke Victor, and one of the main aristocratic shareholders of the British Sales Company of Fulinmen Gas Cooker Company.

  Duke Victor, as the leader of the domestic royalist party, was the first nobleman that Li Fushou took refuge in. As a result, he was marked with a distinctive royalist mark. He was taken care of on Shangri-La Island and many other major issues and benefited a lot.

  Li Fushou also paid a heavy price, thinking that he gritted his teeth and took out a share certificate worth 1.6 million pounds, which is almost equal to a quarter of the entire net worth.

Lord Victor took the money to do things. It is precisely because of the protection of Lord Duke and the Royalists that Queensland has strongly developed the Coast Guard and National Guard, large-scale Chinese immigration, and naked expansion policy. No one makes a fuss about these issues.

  Under the big tree, it is good to enjoy the cool, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign.

  This trip to Europe

The meeting with Lord Gulliver, Minister of the Colony Department, is the highlight, which will affect the policy direction of Queensland in the next few years. There are many things that are not suitable for publicity and need to be discussed closely. This is one of the important purposes of this trip, but it is not the only purpose. .

use this opportunity

  Further consolidating and deepening contacts with major European families, and intensifying cooperation between the two sides, laying a solid foundation for the wide circulation of Queensland goods into Europe is also one of the tasks of this trip.

  By observing the Berlin talks up close, it is undoubtedly the best opportunity to personally participate in major international events. You can learn a lot from the diplomatic situation of various countries. This is also an excellent opportunity for Li Fushou himself to improve and must not be missed.

  In addition, the collection of some talents and artworks is incidental. After all, they are world-class multi-millionaires. Wherever they go to buy, they are in line with the personality of the Earl of Queensland.

  (End of this chapter)