Zaifeng, Xu Shichang, Yixuan, Na Tong and others urgently negotiated, because the overseas Chinese protection was supported by Zaifeng this time, but the overseas Chinese protection army now only has one warship, the Haiqi cruiser, and more than 100 sailors, and the overseas Chinese protection is a bit unworthy of the name, so if the army joins, it will definitely give a great deterrent to the Mexican government. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, fearing that the move would provoke opposition from the European powers, the veteran Yixuan found an excuse to interfere in China and take the opportunity to seek benefits again. Although Yixuan's words are ugly, it is not that he is ignorant, but because the four countries of Britain, France, Japan and Russia are constantly encroaching on China's territory, and there is nothing to do, not to mention that there is an accident in China now.

When everyone hesitated, Shen Aisun, the chargé d'affaires of the Great Qing State in Mexico, sent a telegram saying that due to the influence of Mexico's exclusion of Chinese, Cuba, Colombia, Bolivia, Guyana, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and other South American countries have risen up a wave of anti-Chinese movement.

Even the third-rate South American countries looked down on the Qing Empire, not to mention the second-rate Eastern and Southern European countries and the first-class Northern and Western European countries, Shen Aisun said, this trend must not grow, otherwise the face of the Qing Dynasty will be ruined, and overseas Chinese will not be protected by the state, and they will definitely be separated from the mother country and join Sun Bandit and others.

"How's that okay?" Zaifeng said anxiously.

Na Tong said: "Eventful, eventful, now that all parties are not calm, and the imperial cabinet is about to be established, how could I have expected such a lot of events." The Wang brothers are also troublesome people, why can't they be quiet? ”

Xu Shichang said: "Now the most important thing is not to protect overseas Chinese, but to announce the cabinet, and in the past few months, the members of the advisory bureaus from all over the country have come to Beijing again. I found out about their frequent interactions, and visited the ambassadors and ministers of Britain, France, the United States, Japan, Germany, Russia and other countries."

Yi Xuan said angrily: "These people are really unsafe. ”

"Britain and Japan strongly support our country's constitutional monarchy, so ......," Xu Shichang said again.

Na Tong immediately said: "So we must set up a cabinet as soon as possible, otherwise there will be many dreams at night." ”

Shanqi cleared his throat, and everyone's eyes looked at Shanqi, Prince Su in the corner. At this time, he was not the old orphan who ran around for the establishment of Manchukuo, and finally gave his daughter to the Japanese and renamed Yoshiko Kawashima. Shanqi was one of the few people in the Manchu imperial family who supported the constitutional monarchy, so he was isolated, but there were few talented people among the royal family, so Zaifeng Yixuan and others had to rely on Shanqi. Although Shanqi rarely speaks, he can affect the court situation every time he speaks, he said: "Now the top priority of the imperial court is the establishment of the imperial cabinet, now that Wang Jingyun is willing to take on this trouble, let's be a favor, this little guy is willing to toss, let him go to a foreign country to toss, see what tricks he can toss." ”

"Good." Zaifeng and others unanimously agreed.

So the imperial court sent a telegram back a day later announcing that Wang Yongan was promoted to the Jiangbei Protector of the Qing Dynasty, and served as the commander of the protection of overseas Chinese, with full responsibility for the protection of overseas Chinese in Mexico.

Wang Yongan was ordered to select 5,000 members of the Jiangbei army to form an overseas Chinese protection army, and to join the overseas Chinese protection navy in Shanghai, and the naval and land forces set out to Mexico to protect overseas Chinese on a certain day, and finally joined the cruiser Haiqi.

The Overseas Chinese Naval Division is composed of the Beiyang Naval Division and the Nanyang Naval Division, of which the Nanyang Naval Division is the cruiser Fujing, and the Beiyang Naval Division is the Haichou cruiser, and includes two supply ships, the Jiangyuan and Jiangdao.

This time, the two forces of water and land to protect overseas Chinese are also composed of two commanders, but it is not stated who is big and who is small, and the Qing court has always had the rule of giving priority to the navy, so on the surface it is composed of two commanders, but in fact, the main contact of the court must be Li Zhun.

Wang Yongan didn't care about these side matters, he was more concerned about two places, the first was that he became the nominal supreme military governor of Jiangbei for this reason, the Jiangbei Protector Envoy, and the second was that the Overseas Chinese Protector Army was formed by the Jiangbei Army, with a scale of 2,000 people, that is to say, he could arbitrarily transfer and adjust the Jiangbei Army, and since then Jiangbei has completely become the territory of the Wang brothers.

However, the imperial court asked the navy to escort 5,000 soldiers to Mexico, but Wang Yongan was very unhappy, he knew how uncomfortable the naval fleet was, so he offered to pay for his own money to hire a cruise ship to transport 5,000 overseas Chinese army. Seeing that he was willing to spend money himself, the imperial court naturally would not stop it, so it immediately allowed this order, and the navy did not object, after all, the navy was not willing to spend more money.

Wang Yongan proposed employment conditions to China Shipping Group, which has four 8,000-ton cruise ships, although these four cruise ships are second-hand cruise ships, but they are properly maintained and can still ride the wind and waves on the sea. Luo Shitong, the general manager, leased the Yangzhou and Xuzhou among the four cruise ships to the overseas Chinese army for transportation, and the household department squeezed out 30,000 taels of silver for the cost of protecting overseas Chinese, and the people in various places actually raised 50,000 taels of silver to support the protection of overseas Chinese, which was more generous than the imperial court.

The Qing court appointed Wang Yongan as the commander of the overseas Chinese protector, and it also meant to throw the trouble on him, after all, in terms of the national strength of the Great Qing State, the protection of overseas Chinese was only a nominal act, and the Great Qing State did not have the ability to go on expeditions. But the Twenty-Four Mixed Association is willing to take on this responsibility, which undoubtedly makes the imperial court much easier. Since the end of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the autonomy of warlords and officials in various parts of China has become more and more serious, and the army is in the hands of local dignitaries.

One of the advantages of this is that Wang Yongan has a nominal motive to unify the Jiangbei Army, and the second advantage is that the people of the people, especially the people of Guangdong and Fujian provinces, know Wang Yongan's name for the first time, because the people of these two provinces are the most foreign, and almost all the people of South American countries are Chinese in Fujian and Guangdong provinces.

Wang Yongan immediately sent a telegram to Chief of Staff Feng Heng, asking him to immediately reorganize the army, the first standard of infantry, the third standard of infantry, the artillery battalion and the new battalion, and the special brigade to prepare for Mexico, the five units totaling more than 7,000 people, from which Wang Yongan asked to select 5,000 people. He also took the opportunity to ask the court lion for 500,000 military salaries, as expected, the court did not have money for him, but only gave him some equipment, weapons and ammunition, and Wang Yongan had to pay for most of the money.

As the so-called crying child has milk to eat, Wang Yongan's purpose in asking the court for silver is to divert the attention of the court to hide his real purpose of annexing other armies in the Jiangbei region next.

Because of the next step, he began to integrate and annex the Jiangbei Army.