Chapter 263: Plotting for Mexican Territory

Wang Yongan was furious after learning of Zairen's provocation, he wanted to refuse, but Zairen sent someone to reply, if he could not accept the competition, it would be regarded as an automatic abandonment, and Japan's major shipping companies would never provide shipping services. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info this is a bit of a bully, Wang Yongan has already contacted the shipping ships of Mitsui Company, and even the coal and other supplies have been loaded on the ship, and he paid forty percent of the commission in advance. Zairen used his connections to interfere with Mitsui, and if the ship could not run, Mitsui would never compensate a penny, which means that Wang Yongan would lose 40,000 taels of silver on the ship hired by Mitsui, not to mention the other effects caused by the insult.

Therefore, this competition cannot be ignored, and if it loses, it will not only embarrass China, but also hit the morale of the overseas Chinese army, so this is a game that can only be won and cannot be lost.

Wang Yongan found all the army and navy officers to hold a meeting and announced: "Tomorrow morning, we will delay for half a day, and we will have a game with Little Japan and set off at noon." If we win, we will give the Chinese a long face and earn military expenses by the way, and if we lose, we will give them the flag of the Daqing Protector Army. ”

"What!"

"Little Japan, you bastards!"

"How dare they be so shameless."

"It's too much!"

"Little Japan, my ancestor is your ancestor!"

Wang Yongan waved his hand and pressed down, and said lightly: "So I said to the people of the Guards Division, what is more than it, we need to decide." Tomorrow morning, we have three events, the first one, the shooting competition; the second, stabbing and stabbing; The third event, a five-kilometer weight-bearing march with 15 kilograms of baggage, followed by 12 people selected for each event, for a total of 36 people. Ladies and gentlemen, please go and choose, and if you can't pick them, you officers will participate in the competition. ”

"Yes."

After a night of preparation, the thirty-six men were strictly selected, and each of them knew his obligations, especially the Japanese who tried in vain to win the military flag, which made these thirty-six people even more indignant. In order to let them rest well, Wang Yongan specially arranged for them to live in a local inn that was not famous but very quiet, and sent soldiers to protect them from anyone from making trouble.

Little Japan is not a good thing, in order to win the game, Little Japan can do anything, Wang Yongan has to guard against them. Fortunately, King Zai Renqin was a proud person in his heart, and he did not pour out any indiscriminate means, and spent the night quietly.

This person, Wang Yongan was preparing for the match with the Third Brigade of the Guards Division early in the morning, but suddenly received a transoceanic telegram from Mexico, Shen Aisun, the chargé d'affaires of the Qing Consulate in Mexico, asked if he could be hired by Mexican President Díaz to suppress the rebels after the overseas Chinese escort arrived in Mexico.

If Wang Yongan was only the commander of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army of the Great Qing Dynasty, if Wang Yongan was a qualified politician, if he did not know the future history, then he would definitely reject Dias sternly, there were too many reasons for refusal, and according to international practice, the Overseas Chinese Protector Army was a serious violation of international law for interfering with the local government.

But as a traverser, Wang Yongan understands that Dias has not been running for a few days, and he can't jump for long, if he doesn't take advantage of his anxiety at this time and the last opportunity to blackmail a sum, then I'm sorry for the identity of the traverser. So Wang Yongan temporarily put aside the game with the Guards Division, and thought carefully about how to get the most benefit from Dias.

Now, Díaz is in a state of exhaustion, and the rebels are marching on Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, from the north, south and west, and despite the fact that the city is two thousand meters above sea level, Mexico City has no decent fortifications. The Americans don't seem to have built cities with the problem of defense, nor the question of function, perhaps because the Americans did not have experienced as many unscrupulous wars in the history of Asians and Europeans, resulting in Mexico City being almost impossible to defend - if the plateau is also a fortification, then Mexico City is still defensible.

However, Wang Yongan knows that because Dias is pro-Western capitalism, Western countries are very supportive of Dias, and the Dias government has a large number of deposits in the United States and France, and when the Dias government falls, these deposits are handed over to the next government, but because the next government changes too quickly, it finally becomes a bad debt, and finally the money is swallowed by the United States, France and other countries. Ten years later, when Mexico finally stopped the civil war, the new government remembered that the deposit was rejected by foreign banks, and the new government could not provide any proof, and finally cheapened the Americans, the French and other powers.

Money!

Now all Díaz can offer himself is money!

Wang Yongan restored Shen Aisun, and the bottom line of compensation for overseas Chinese was 15 million pesos, while the cost of hiring overseas Chinese guards was 45 million pesos, and the deposit was 10 million pesos, and the deposit needed to be handed over to Shen Aisun, the consul charge d'affaires of the Great Qing State in Mexico, and Shen Aisun would deliver it to the overseas Chinese protectors. If Dias can't come up with the money, then the Baja California Sur area can be used as collateral.

Anyone who sees this kind of request can't help but have two words: shameless.

Baja California Sur is one of Mexico's 31 state regions, with an area of 73,700 square kilometers, the size of two Taiwan provinces, and a population of 6,000 people, or 30,000 if you count the indigenous population. And even more than 100 years later, Baja California Sur has a total population of only 300,000 people, making it the least densely populated and most hostile state in Mexico – not one of them.

Baja California Sur is the southern half of the California Peninsula, surrounded by the sea on three sides, with nearly 2,200 kilometers of coastline, few rivers in the area, mountainous deserts as the main land composition, coastal islands, and an important local economy is fishing and salt production. Baja California Sur is hardly home to any farmers, only fishermen and fishing companies, and barely one percent of the Mexican government's tax revenues due to its unsuitable area for farming.

If it weren't on the California peninsula, President Díaz would hardly remember a region that, well, the Mexican Revolution had nothing to do with this week, including the current rebels — and not even with it.

But Díaz is the president of the country after all, he is not a child, and he will not give up the territory at will because Baja California South is not important, and the Mexicans, who have occupied 2.4 million square kilometers of land by the United States, have a very sensitive sense of the territory, so he immediately rejected this proposal, but said that he could provide 8 million pesos as a deposit to compensate the Chinese people 12 million.