President Hidalgo said in surprise: "Let's borrow money from him, and the money will be in our hands, and we will go back immediately, and then they will take 150,000 yuan in interest for nothing, and then we will give them 30% of the money we borrowed from other places, and then we have to pay back the 30% of the money and interest?" Hey, we're too ...... too"

"Your Excellency President, you are mistaken, when I said 37 percent, I mean that they take 70 percent, and we take 30 percent!" The smart man hurriedly corrected.

"Huh?!" President Hidalgo was amazed, "They didn't do anything, why should they take so much!" ”

"Because Your Excellency, with all due respect, no government in the world has recognized your government. So no one is going to lend you money, and if your government is now a government that is recognized by the whole world and is not in danger of dying, then your government can easily borrow money at that rate. But now, if you don't work with them, you can't borrow money.

You think that once you fail, everything that the Mexicans have is gone, and they all become Spanish again. What a loss? And if you succeed, it is true that your country will be saddled with a lot of debt, but if you don't, your country itself may not be able to survive. It's like, a person who is seriously ill and has only one medicine to treat it, and if he doesn't take it, he will die; But after taking this medicine, his skin will become as dark as a black man. So does he eat or not? It's better to be black than a corpse.

We can calculate that we have about five million francs left to buy weapons, train soldiers, and defeat the Spanish expeditionary force. In this way, we only need to borrow seventeen million francs. The annual interest is only 2,550,000 francs. In this way, even if it is paid off in ten years, the interest rate in ten years will only be about 8.5 times. Now you go directly to those banks and see which of them is willing to lend you money at this rate? Besides, the damned Spaniards plunder much more than that amount of wealth from Mexico every year. So, my president, what more do you have to hesitate about? ”

However, President Hidalgo was hesitant and said he needed to think twice about the issue.

However, Hidalgo could not hesitate any longer, for he had reliable information that the Spanish expeditionary force was ready to set out, numbering as many as 30,000, and all armed with the latest weapons, namely rifled guns, rifled guns, and revolvers and melons.

President Hidalgo knew that the current Mexican army could not defeat such an expeditionary force, so he had to borrow money immediately to expand his army to deal with the Spaniards who had come to plow the court.

Moreover, judging from the size of the Spanish expeditionary force, borrowing only five million seemed to be somewhat insufficient, so President Hidalgo decided not to do anything, but simply borrowed 35 million francs from him in one go and killed the Spaniards with the money. As for the future, if there is no present, where is the future?

Soon after, the Development Bank of Louisiana announced that it had reached a loan agreement with the Republic of Mexico, whereby the Development Bank of Louisiana would provide a loan of two million francs to the Republic of Mexico.

Almost everyone knows about the relationship between the Louisiana Development Bank and the military-industrial complex, and they naturally know about the relationship between the military-industrial complex and the French government. Therefore, this move by the Louisiana Development Bank is naturally seen by many people as an unspoken statement by France. If the French were really on the side of the Mexicans, few would have believed that the Spaniards would be able to keep Mexico.

As a result, the number of banks willing to lend to the Hidalgo government suddenly increased. The government of the Mexican Republic smoothly obtained loans of 35 million francs from various banks, and then these loans were divided into 37 according to the previous agreement between the two parties, and a large part of them quickly flowed into the treasury of the Development Bank of Louisiana, and the other small half was basically sent to the treasury of the Development Bank of Louisiana, and was sent to the "Mexican government" in various materials.

With the supplies in hand, President Hidalgo was immediately emboldened, and he began to reorganize the army with financial strength. In addition, drawing on the painful experience of the previous victory, President Hidalgo also invited a number of French instructors from Louisiana to his army.

A little more than a month later, the Spanish fleet arrived in Cuba. Soldiers come ashore in Havana to recuperate in preparation for the coming battle, while the reorganized "Mexican government forces" seize this last opportunity to intensify their training to deal with the imminent war.

After a week's rest in Cuba, the Spanish expeditionary force got on board again, crossed the Gulf of Mexico, and landed in Veracruz.

In Veracruz, the expeditionary force was warmly welcomed by the Spanish governor in Mexico, Gomez, and other patriots who were truly loyal to Spain, most of whom were peninsulars. The commander of the expeditionary force, General Franco, told everyone at the reception that he and his "loyal soldiers" would be able to restore order in Mexico and completely eliminate the rebels.

The expeditionary force stayed in Veracruz for another week to prepare various supplies with the intention of launching an attack on Mexico City. A week later, the expeditionary force of 30,000 left Veracruz and began to advance in the direction of Mexico City. General Franco felt that with his well-trained soldiers (although the training level of Spanish soldiers was one of the best in Europe, if compared to those militias in North America, General Franco felt that his soldiers were definitely well-trained), advanced weapons, and his own learning of the most advanced French army tactics over the years, he should be able to defeat these rabble with relative ease.

However, when he began to approach Mexico City with his army, his confidence was slapped in the face when he saw the rebels.

"Hell! This is the position of the rebels? This...... Is this TMD a traitor? General Franco's eyes widened in anger, "Trenches, barbed wire, minefields...... This...... Where did they learn Joseph's defense? Damn the French, this must be a French conspiracy! ”

As soon as he saw the "Joseph Defense", General Franco felt his scalp tingle for a while, although not long ago, the French army had just shown how to break through the Joseph defense in a short time, but it was the French army, and Franco's expeditionary force did not have such ability.

However, General Franco thought that the "defense of Joseph" had a drawback, that is, it was quite expensive. Therefore, in the military circles of European countries, this kind of defense has a nickname, called "decorated with gold shields". For those poorer countries, the low-profile and shrunken version of the "Joseph Defense" is often jokingly called the "gilded shield" or even the "brass shield".

"Maybe this one in front of me is a 'gilded shield' or even a 'brass shield'. If it doesn't look like it, it must be 'decorated with a golden shield'. It will take a dozen to know what the quality of this thing is. However, even the 'gilded shield' and the 'brass shield' are not necessarily much easier to fight......" General Franco thought.