The allocation plan chosen by Li Mu is similar to Sylvester's suggestion.

The harvest of the coup day includes two parts: precious metals and antique oil paintings. It’s easy to say that precious metals are valuable, but the valuation of antique oil paintings is actually not very accurate. After all, Raul and the others are not professional antique experts, so it’s normal to make some mistakes. Moreover, this part will not be easily cashed out for a while, so this part is directly divided.

The total value of precious metals is about four million US dollars. Headed by Li Mu, the five-member group of people who divided the spoils and established an investment company called "San Diego", specializing in investment in Cuba. The first investment was to rebuild San Diego.

It is indeed necessary to rebuild. The wars that have lasted for several years have caused great damage to Santiago. This city, which was originally the second largest in Cuba, is now almost in ruins.

After the founding of the United States of Cuba, Santiago was still capitalized, and Santiago was the facade of the United States of Cuba. Therefore, both in terms of feelings and reason should be built, so that Li Mu and the others can declare shamelessly that they brought prosperity and development to Cuba.

It is actually not difficult to rebuild. Nelson Morris has experience in urban management and after surveying the terrain of San Diego, Nelson Morris first established the city's central axis "Presidential Palace - Victory Square - San Diego Port", and then started construction around the central axis.

As for the materials needed to rebuild Santiago, there is no need to worry about it. Santiago is a port city surrounded by mountains. There is a large amount of marble and wood on Mount Maestra. It is easy to enter building materials through the port. As long as there are enough manpower and money, these are not a problem.

At this time, the United States of Cuba was strictly a planned economy country. Because of the collapse of the original social and economic system, business and industry were in a state of paralysis. A large number of urban populations were originally unemployed. After the abolition of slavery, more people flocked to the labor market, which further aggravated the seriousness of the problem.

If Sylvester wants to ensure a stable United States of Cuba, he must first help unemployed workers in Santiago find jobs, otherwise the Spanish will not attack, and the unemployed army will sooner or later become unbearable.

"There are vast plantations around Santiago, but unfortunately, most of the crops grown in these plantations are sugarcane and tobacco. In addition, there are some tropical fruits, but they are not very useful. At most, this is a dessert after meals, but the staple food is still not settled-" Li Mu directly pointed out the current problems facing the United States of Cuba at the joint meeting.

Not to mention now, even until the 21st century, Cuba's economy has maintained a single economic development model dominated by sucrose production for a long time.

This is the main way the Spaniards controlled Cuba. In such a large country, it does not produce food, which forces Cuba to maintain a strong economic dependence. Without foreign aid, the people's food will be a problem. They will never be in the mood to mess around when they are hungry.

In order to better control Cuba, the Spaniards even turned a blind eye to the rich fishery resources around Cuba and strictly prohibited the Cubans from developing marine fisheries, which forced the Cubans to concentrate on producing sugar and havana cigars for the Spaniards. If they wanted to eat meat and rice, they would organize fleets to import from other places, and the number was not too large or too small, just enough to eat.

It sounds a bit thief, right? But Li Mu also plans to do this: "The food I bought from the United States has been loaded from Miami and can arrive in San Diego within three days, so don't worry about the food problem. What you have to do now is to find jobs for unemployed workers in San Diego. As long as they have food to eat, they can stabilize their emotions-"

Li Mu then explained the concept of "work-for-relief" to Silvester and Nelson. As for how to operate it, this is the task of Silvester and Nelson. Both of them are qualified politicians. If Li Mu has proposed a solution, if they can't even handle this, they'd better go home and hold their children.

"We have a plan here. If we want to rebuild San Diego, we need at least five million dollars." Nelson looked worried and handed Li Mu a plan while speaking.

Although Darwin Andrew and Rayleigh Toynby had forced a batch of government bonds to sell, for a country, that little money is a drop in the bucket. It may last for several months to pay employees, but if it is used for urban construction, that little money cannot even splash.

"Funds - Santiago Investment Company has, but what do you use to guarantee the repayment capacity of the United States of Cuba?" Li Mu was doing his business and he had to settle the accounts clearly.

"We can guarantee it with taxes. Mr. Reim, you now have a huge plantation and mine, and we can give you tax-free treatment." Nelson blinked his little eyes. Anyway, he didn't pay for it himself, so the conditions for opening were very refreshing.

"Well, it sounds good-" Li Mu refused to comment.

Tax exemption, the conditions are quite good. Before, even the plantations and mines under Darwin Andrew and Rayleigh Toinbi had to pay taxes. With tax exemption, Li Mu's company later became the "country of the country" in Cuba.

"There is also the lease right of the Port of San Diego. If you come to invest, Mr. Reim, we can lease the Port of San Diego for you for a certain period of time, and then use the tax you collect to repay the investment." Nelson continued to sell, which was the rhythm of promoting Li Mu as the "Supreme Emperor".

"Of course we still have sucrose - I wonder if Mr. Reim, do you have any interest in the agency rights of Cuba sugar?" Nelson continued to increase his investment, and spared no effort to help Li Mu dig the corners of the United States of Cuba.

"Very good, that's it. I'll pay the money." Li Mu was finally satisfied.

Compared with duty-free and port operating rights, Li Mu attaches more importance to the agency rights of Gu Basugar Sugar.

Since the 16th century, Cubans have begun to plant sugar on Cuba Island. Until the uprising of the Republic of Cuba, one-fifth of the world's sugar sugar was produced in Cuba, and this is not the limit. In the future, Cuba's sugar production once accounted for 40% of the world's world, so the current production still has potential to be explored. Although the United States of Cuba has not yet unified Cuba Island, the value of sugar agency is not high, as long as the Spaniards are driven away, the agency of sugar will provide Li Mu with countless money every year.

This is also the cunning point of Sylvester and Nelson. The conditions they offered must be fulfilled until the future. If Li Mu does not want his own interests to be damaged, then Li Mu can only support the United States of Cuba and drive away the Spaniards.

Well, it is not easy to explain who takes advantage of this transaction, which is a complementary thing in itself.

After the joint meeting, Li Mu returned to the San Diego military camp and listened to the report compiled by Raul: "Around San Diego, you now have a total of 30,000 acres of plantations, two sugar factories, as well as four mines in the Maestra Mountains, a quarry, and two logging farms. In these plantations and factories, there were more than 20,000 workers. The problem now is that the machines in the factory are intact and the sugarcane in the plantations have not been harvested yet, but we have no workers. After the Abolition Order, almost all the workers in the plantations and factories have escaped. Manpower is a problem that we must urgently solve."

Sugarcane is a perennial herb. Once planted, sugarcane can grow continuously for nine to twenty years. Cuba is hot and rainy, making it a paradise for sugarcane growth.

Spring is the season for sugar harvest. It will enter the "harvest season" that lasts about January. In just three months, sugarcane must be harvested and then sent to the sugar factory. If it is too late, it will affect sugar production.

The situation this year is different. Because the continuous wars delayed the harvest of sugarcane, the sugarcane in the plantation has not yet been harvested. At this time, the United States of Cuba launched a coup and issued the "Abolition Order", which was a heavy blow to a "big slave owner" like Li Mu.

"First find the workers in the sugar factory, which will not affect normal production in any case. As for the harvesting workers, there is no need to worry about this, I will deal with it." Li Mu had a solution and was not worried about the shortage of staff at all.

In Guantanamo, Li Mu stationed more than 9,000 workers. Even if half of these workers were transferred back, it would be enough to solve the problem of insufficient staff in the factory. As for harvesting the army, haha, the most people in the barracks are people. At most, George Dewey can be invited to have a meal, so you don’t have to worry about not finding enough workers.

"Mr. Fernando wants to see you, and he wants to negotiate a new sales contract with you." Raul continued to report.

Fernando is a middleman who is responsible for purchasing sugar from San Diego and then transporting the sugar to the United States for sale.

Although Cuba is a Spanish colony, it is economically heavily dependent on the United States, and more than 90% of the sucrose produced by Cuba is to be shipped to the United States for sale.

In the past, Darwin Andrew and Rayleigh Toinbi were slave owners, but neither was good businessmen. Perhaps because they had no way, the sugar produced in their sugar factory was sold to middlemen like Fernando, and then sold to the United States by middlemen.

This is not true for Li Mu. Li Mu himself is an American. In New York, Li Mu has a tough background and even the customs chief was bribed by Li Mu. It is not too easy to transport some sugar, so if Fernando still wants to do sugar business, he will definitely have to negotiate a new contract.

"Tell him I don't have time now." Li Mu didn't want to see Fernando. This was not because Li Mu didn't need a business route, but because Li Mu had better partners.
Chapter completed!