"Your Excellency Machar! Your Far Eastern Fleet brazenly shelled Princesa, and your army occupied Princesa after landing! Please give me an explanation!

The Philippines was the territory of our Spanish Empire three centuries ago, and our territory and sovereignty are inviolable! What your country has done is a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of our country! It is a flagrant violation of international law! Our country strongly protests against this!

Your country must explain this, withdraw immediately from the Philippines, and apologize to my country! The Spanish minister stood at the desk of Foreign Minister Mashal, pressed his hands on the table, leaned forward and said angrily.

Although this posture looked very oppressive, Marchar, who was sitting behind the table, calmly took a sip of coffee, and then replied slowly: "Don't be so excited, Your Excellency, sit down first, if you have something to say, do you want to bring you a cup of coffee first?" ”

Although he was ostensibly asking for the opinion of the Spaniards, Marcal shook the bell on the table and said to the secretary who pushed the door in, "Give our Minister a cup of coffee." ”

"Your Excellency Machar! I need an account from your government! Seeing such an understatement attitude of the Germans, the Spanish minister had a rush of blood to his brain, his cheeks were red, and he looked eager to grab the other man's collar across the table and punch the smiling face.

The Spaniards were understandably angry, as the Spaniards, who were in the process of exterminating Catipunam in Luzon, were unable to take care of a remote island of Palawan, so there was no way of knowing about the German occupation. It was not until the Germans themselves announced that Palawan would serve as a temporary settlement for German protected expatriates that the Spanish knew about it.

The Germans had already begun to build fortifications at Puerto Princesa, preparing to build it into a stronghold. Angry, but there was nothing to do, the Spaniards had to run to Mashal and make a big noise.

"Confess? Your Excellency, although it is true that we have 'entered' Puerto Princesa and have encountered some 'minor troubles' in 'entering', I do not think that this is a reason for you to accuse me, but rather that your Spanish Government needs to give us an account.

Since last year, my government has been looking forward to the restoration of control in the Philippines and the restoration of order in society. But until now, the situation has not improved, so we have to intervene.

In Cuba, with an absolute superiority of 110,000 troops, you did not destroy them for two years, and in the Philippines, the war lasted for another year, and not only did you not destroy the yellow-skinned monkeys, but Manila was surrounded by them.

Of course, what your army does with those yellow-skinned monkeys in the Philippines is your country's internal affair, and anyway, under the control of your government, there will be riots in that land every year*, but this time it is only a little larger. Martial said with a teasing look on his face. Hearing this, the face of the Spanish minister was red and white.

At this time, Machar's words changed, and his voice suddenly raised an octave: "Originally, we thought so too!" However, the severity of the situation is far beyond our imagination! Our citizens were killed in the overseas territories of your country by a group of yellow-skinned monkeys with extreme cruelty!

What was your government doing when our citizens were brutally murdered in the Philippines? Now tell me to respect the sovereignty of your country? So can you give us an account of the fact that our citizens lost their lives in the Philippines?! ”

"Your country should make representations to us on this matter, and then we will discuss and deal with it and then give you a reply. This does not justify your country's attacks on our overseas territories. The Spanish minister was stunned by Mashal's sudden rebuke, and lowered his voice in response.

"Discussion? Reply? What kind of reply can you give? Severe punishment of the murderer or deep mourning? By the time you reply, our citizens are constantly being threatened with personal safety!

At the beginning, we expected your country to be able to control the situation, so we have always exercised restraint, but it was your country that made the situation worsen and caused us to lose confidence! So we can only intervene ourselves, because we can't rely on you, we can only count on ourselves. ”

"So far, however, we have not received any information about the killing of your citizens." The Spanish minister argued.

"Isn't that normal? There is only one Manila left in the area you can control, so how can you know the situation in other areas? If it weren't for the fact that our journalists risked their lives to send photos of the Philippine region, I guess your country itself would not have known that the Filipinos were massacring the Spaniards, right? ”

Machar's words hit the sore spot of the Spanish minister, and the violence on Philippine soil* was known in Spain, but there was no report in Spain about the massacre of a large number of Spanish citizens during the violence.

The results were reported by the Germans, and there are photos as evidence, and the Spaniards were also excited to see the tragic situation of their compatriots, and the unfavorable remarks condemning the government for suppressing bandits were endless, and the Spanish government was also under great pressure at this time.

Of course, it is also their own business to make trouble in the country, but the behavior of the Germans is red. Naked robbery while the fire is burning. The Spanish minister didn't bother to go around in circles with Mashal anymore, and directly pointed out that the Germans were not at ease: "Palawan has no citizens of your country at all, if your country only wants to protect your citizens, why do you want to forcibly occupy Palawan?" What protects your citizens? It's all an excuse for your country! What your country is doing is violating the territory of the Spanish Empire! It is against international law! Our country ......"

Before he could finish speaking, Mashal's fluttering words made the guy shut up: "Your Excellency means that there are no citizens of our country in Palawan, so our country's behavior is unreasonable, right?" Well, you have a point, the area where our citizens were killed was in Cavite, and we will order the Far Eastern Fleet to go to Cavite to protect our citizens. ”

"You are robber logic! The Philippines is the inherent territory of our country, which is sacred and inviolable, and any occupation of the Philippines by your country is a violation of our sovereignty, and my country strongly protests against this act of defiance of international law! We advise your government to stop this provocative act immediately, otherwise you will bear the consequences! ”

In response to the clamor of the Spanish minister, Mashal's tone also cooled: "Really? The Philippines is the inherent territory of your country, so the fact that the killing of our citizens on Philippine soil should also be borne by your government?

His Majesty the Emperor of our country was originally kind enough to think that it was the Filipino monkeys who slaughtered our citizens, so we decided to punish only those Filipino monkeys. Now it seems that we have made the wrong target, and we should go directly to your government to seek justice?

In this way, we were not prepared to carry out large-scale military operations in the consideration of your country's face, but now it seems that there is no need for this.

Two Brandenburg-class battleships and two Irene-class heavy cruisers of our Navy are ready to leave at any time to escort two divisions of marines to Manila. On the contrary, I would like to advise Your Excellency that the consequences of the incident will be borne by your Government at its own expense. ”

Red. Naked threat of war! The Spanish minister was overwhelmed with grief and indignation, when did the Spanish Empire be bullied to this point?!

Once upon a time, the Spanish navy was a great armada. Asia, Africa, and the Americas left the footprints of the Spaniards everywhere, and the fleets of the empire spread all over the world. What a glory, what a splendor!

But now? Faced with the annexation of Austria, the German Empire, which was unprecedentedly powerful in terms of national and military power, Spain had no room for bargaining. The imperial sunset, the prestige is no longer there!

However, the Spanish minister did not give up, and still struggled to the death: "Your country has trampled on the rules of the whole of Europe, are you not afraid of the opposition of the whole of Europe?!" ”

"Against? Who would oppose a desolate Far Eastern island where most people do not know where? What's more, ours is taking such actions to save the humanitarian catastrophe, protect our own citizens, and end the massacre of whites by the yellow-skinned monkeys.

We are the saviors of white Europeans, so who would object?

The British are now busy in the Transvaal in South Africa, and the Russians are involved in too much energy in the Balkans and the Far East, who else can stand up but us? "Martial is talking serious nonsense, with an attitude of what you can do with me.

At this time, the Spanish minister felt a burst of despair, indeed, as long as the Germans bit to death this is an overseas Chinese protection operation, a humanitarian rescue, then as long as there is no nerve, no one in European countries wants to be unhappy with the current Germany for a small broken island. Fuck humanitarianism! There are many inhumane places in the world, and I don't see you Germans taking care of it!

Looking at the Spanish minister's gloomy face, Machar smiled and said: "Your Excellency, don't always think about the bad things, my country really wants to help your country solve the current problem.

Don't you want the chaos in the Philippines to end soon? We are the only country that has the strength to help you solve your problems. Your country has already involved too much energy in Cuba, and the power that can be invested in the Philippines must be very limited. Your Government must not want to see a situation like Cuba's.

So why not use our power to help your country solve the problem quickly? And as long as the situation in the Philippines is restored to stability, then our goal of protecting our citizens and stopping the humanitarian catastrophe will be achieved, so why should your country worry about the further expansion of our power in the Philippines? ”RS