"Your Excellency, you must not do this!" Just before Willaire was about to pull the trigger, the attendant beside him snatched the pistol with a quick eye.

Velaire's finger squeezed on the trigger, and with a thud, the bullet flew into the sky.

The surrounding guards knew that they really let Velier die here, and Huaxia Army would investigate it, and he might never be able to go back to Europe, so more than a dozen people rushed up, hugged Velair, and held his hands, just to prevent him from taking any suicidal actions.

The soldiers of the Huaxia Army rushed over, and saw a group of white European officers in beautiful and polished clothes throwing away all their weapons, standing quietly in place, raising their hands and saying: "Valeriano, the governor of the Spanish colony of Luzon. Admiral Velaire is here! ”

"Velier is here!"

Hu Zhen ordered that each company be equipped with a portrait of Willier, and asked that this person be captured alive, and when he heard such a shout, a soldier immediately took out the portrait and looked at Velier for a while, and only after confirming that it was true, he cheered: "Velier has surrendered!" ”

Hearing that Velaire had surrendered, Hu Zhen came in person and said to Velaire, whose face was like ashes: "Honorable Governor, you have been defeated, in order to reduce unnecessary casualties, please immediately order your subordinates to give up useless resistance, surrender to us, and go back to your European hometown after negotiations!" ”

At this point, Willaire had nothing to say, he had to order the attendants to draft an order, sign his name, and order all the Spanish troops in Luzon to surrender to the nearby Chinese army.

Velier's order still played a certain role, and some of the Western troops who were still sporadic resisting were justified in laying down their arms and surrendering according to the orders of the governor.

The Chinese army never encountered any more resistance, and without paying the price of casualties, they quickly occupied 300,000 square kilometers of land in the Luzon Islands.

In order to launch a financial strategy in Spain, Hu Zhen ordered the news of the capture of Manila and the surrender of Velier by the Huaxia Army to be blocked for seven days, so that Zhang Suan, Ou Lang, Frodo and others in Europe were completely arranged before the news was released to the world.

This is another major news of the Huaxia Guild that shocked the world.

The media of the European powers and North America have reported extensively on this, saying that in addition to Europe and North America, the Huaxia Guild has risen as a powerful and advanced region in the Far East, West and South Pacific.

The media in Spain could not afford to report on it so unconcernedly. only half-concealed mention of the half-stark news of Luzon's defeat made its domestic stock and bond markets fall like an avalanche.

Zhang Suan took the opportunity to command thousands of vest companies and personal accounts of the Olane Group and Frodo Group, and made a big move to short the Spanish financial market. To make it even worse.

In the city of Madrid, the glamorous Queen Maria Cristina learned the shocking news of the total fall of the Luzon Islands, and she didn't even have time to put on her dress, so she called Prime Minister Praxades Matteo Sagasta at three o'clock in the morning to discuss: "Prime Minister Sagasta, face such a situation in Luzon. What do we do now? ”

Through the dim candlelight, Sagasta saw that the queen, who was only in her early thirties, had a haggard face, messy hair, and seemed to be twenty years old overnight, so she bowed her head and replied: "Your Majesty, for the sake of today, it is to negotiate with the Huaxia Guild as soon as possible, so as to stabilize the hearts of the people in the country and stabilize the domestic situation." ”

"What else is there to talk about negotiating with the enemy who has robbed us of our colonies?" I heard that I had to negotiate with the Huaxia Guild. Queen Christina gritted her teeth.

"Your Majesty, there is no way to do this, the two battleships in the Luzon fleet are the only two battleships in our country, and after the destruction of the Luzon fleet, our country no longer has enough naval strength to expedition to the Far East. Besides, the Huaxia Guild still has hundreds of thousands of Spanish citizens and military prisoners in its hands, and the families of these people are at least two or three million, if they don't negotiate and ask the Huaxia Guild to let these people return to China, they will definitely not agree, I'm afraid that there will be a big trouble at that time. The consequences will be unimaginable! ”

As a descendant of the Habsburg family, Queen Christina has been accustomed to all kinds of political intrigues, compromises, and negotiations of her elders since she was a child, and she knows that when her strength is weak, she cannot be forced. In particular, I heard that two or three million people want to negotiate a solution, and if they do not respond, a vigorous revolution will definitely break out, and the position of the Spanish royal family will be in jeopardy.

Thinking of this, she immediately became anxious: "Then what should we talk about with our enemies?" ”

"Let them follow the example of the Dutch East Indies colony. Financing the purchase of the Lower Luzon Islands, we recognized the territory of the Luzon Islands as legally belonging to them through a treaty, and I guess this will have some attraction for them, and we will be able to save a little face and loss in it, and most importantly, let these hundreds of thousands of Spaniards return to their European homeland. ”

The queen stood up, paced back and forth in the hall, and thought for more than half an hour before she said helplessly: "Prime Minister Sagasta, I authorize you to immediately organize negotiations with the Huaxia Guild, without further ado, try to contact the diplomats of the Huaxia Guild for negotiation matters now, and announce the news of the negotiations at dawn tomorrow to calm the people in the country." ”

Hu Zhen, who had completed the Luzon Islands raid, returned to Pontianak and received the news that Spain had proposed to negotiate, and smiled happily: "Aha, this Spanish queen really wants to negotiate with us!" ”

Foreign Minister Niu Quyun asked, "Sir, what do we need in this negotiation besides taking the Luzon Islands?" ”

Hu Zhen pointed to several places on the world map and said: "All the territorial waters of the Luzon Islands belong to us as a matter of course, and in addition, I want to take Guam, connect with Hawaii to form a large area, and control the Pacific Ocean, and finally, I want to take a piece of Cuba, a Spanish American colony!" ”

"We're going to take Cuba?" Niu Quyun was very surprised by Hu Zhen's broad mind.

"That's right, haven't you been negotiating with the Republic of Gran Colombia about the Panama Canal? If we win the right to build and operate the Panama Canal, and take one or two ports in Cuba, then the security of the Panama Canal will be more guaranteed, and we will choke the throat of the United States! ”

What Hu Zhen never forgot was how to put a coffin nail in the United States, which was about to climb to the pinnacle of the world's powers.

As for Hu Zhen's request, Niu Quyun of course complied with it 100 percent: "Yes, I will follow Mr.'s instructions, and I will immediately go to negotiate with the Spaniards and take Guam, Cuba and other places." ”

"The degree of negotiation is left to you, for Guam, Cuba, Panama and other places, it doesn't matter if you can spend a little money, as long as you can spend money, it is not a thing at all!"

Now Hu Zhen can be described as wealthy, just now he has received a telegram from Zhang Suan, saying that the financial war against Spain is going very smoothly, the Spaniards are not at all guarded, and now they have more than 40 million pounds of profits in their pockets, and in the next step, it is estimated that tens of millions of pounds of profits will be in their pockets. (To be continued.) )