Chapter 261: Trouble in the Overseas Chinese Fleet
The Madero family was one of the wealthiest in Mexico, and in 1905 he ran for governor of Nuevo León, but was defeated by Díaz's deputies. After www.biquge.info Bill, Madero wrote a book and speech in which he declared that Mexico needed true democracy and did not need a cronyistic president who ruled for 30 years, and was thrown into prison. Later, Madero's father spent a lot of money to bribe the jailers to save Madero from prison. Madero fled to the U.S.-Mexico border in northern Mexico, organized anti-Díaz peasant guerrillas, declared an uprising, and then stormed prisons to free political prisoners and organized a larger peasant army to begin an armed assault on Díaz's rule.
Madro's uprising ignited Mexico, and the 18 states of the Mexican Republic launched a peasant uprising at the same time, and Díaz was struggling to deal with it, the largest of which was the Northern Peasant Army led by Madero, the Southern Peasant Army led by Passata, and the Eastern Gulf Peasant Army led by Juárez.
Under these circumstances, Dias was clearly struggling to deal with the Qing Protectors.
However, history took an interesting turn at this time, due to the arrival of Wang Yongan leading 5,000 overseas Chinese troops, which apparently made Dias think about whether he could hire these 5,000 overseas Chinese troops to defeat Madero's northern peasant army. After all, of all the peasant armies, the northern peasant army was the most powerful, with an army of 50,000 men.
For the compensation of 30 million pesos, Dias was initially reluctant to accept it, but after he decided to hire the Qing Protectors, he decided that he could talk. So he went to Shen Aisun and told him that the compensation of 30 million pesos was beyond the capacity of the Mexican Republic, and that these losses were not caused by the government army, but by the opposition peasant army, and that the money should be paid by the peasant army of Madero.
Shen Aisun angrily replied that the compensation for the killing of German missionaries by the Boxers was not for the Chinese peasants, but for the Chinese government, the Qing government, so according to international practice, these losses should be compensated by the Republic of Mexico.
Because of the support of the army, Shen Aisun's attitude was very tough, and Dias asked if he could talk to the commander of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army, Shen Aisun thought about it and decided to contact Wang Yongan to win Wang Yongan's attitude and support - after all, the reason why Shen Aisun dared to show his teeth and claws in front of Dias was because of the support of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army led by Wang Yongan.
Shen Aisun wanted to contact Wang Yongan, but Wang Yongan was still floating at sea and had not yet received the telegram.
Now, the Overseas Chinese Protector Army is nominally a double commander, but because of the previous hesitation of Li Zhun and other navies, it caused strong dissatisfaction among the army soldiers and protests from the navy soldiers, and Li Zhun was embarrassed to call himself the commander, and Li Zhun knew that when he returned to the Qing Dynasty, the best case would be to retire and take off his military uniform, and the worst case would be to be imprisoned and beheaded. Therefore, after Li Zhun consulted with everyone, he publicly recommended Wang Yongan as the commander-in-chief of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army, he served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army and the commander of the Overseas Chinese Protector Fleet, Gong Wuyuan served as the commander of the Army for the Protector of Overseas Chinese, and Fang Xianwu served as the chief of the general staff of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army.
There are seven ships in the overseas Chinese fleet this time, and six ships departed from Shanghai, China: Xuzhou troop carrier, Yangzhou troop carrier, Fujing cruiser, Haichou cruiser, Jiangyuan supply ship, Jiangdao supply ship, and Haiqi cruiser in the Atlantic, with a total number of 7,862 people, among which Li Zhun's personal soldiers shot and killed many League uprising students in Huanghuagang, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, so in order to avoid their retaliation, he brought out the Guangdong Navy Battalion, a total of 754 people. These people also became part of the Protector Army.
However, the number of people increased, and the cost was high, so the supply of the fleet had to be carefully divided, and a large number of supplies had to be procured at each location.
Wang Yongan reorganized the Guangdong Navy Battalion into the Ninth Battalion of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army, and still had Li Zhun's henchman Zhou Fu as the commander, and transferred them to the cruise ship. Li Zhun did not have any objection to this, he thought clearly that if he was punished by the imperial court after returning to the motherland, then the more than 700 people in the Guangdong Navy Battalion would become outcasts, and they had already offended the villagers of Guangzhou when they slaughtered the revolutionary party, and if these people could finally get the protection of Wang Yongan, it would be the best result.
Zhou Fu, a Chaoshan native who was not fluent in northern official dialect, could barely understand what others were saying after studying it carefully, but when he was allowed to speak, he still had to communicate reluctantly, so when the commanders of the nine battalions held a meeting, Zhou Fu had to become a mute with only long ears -- it was really more uncomfortable to let a Chaoshan native from Guangdong Province speak the northern official dialect than to kill him.
In order to make the officers and men of the escort fleet more comfortable, Wang Yongan finally allowed the sailors to live on the cruise ship in their free time, after all, the cruise ship is much more free than the narrow space of the warship.
The Yangzhou troop carrier cruise ship and the Xuzhou troop carrier cruise ship are not fast, the tonnage is large, and it is very stable when driving at sea, because its predecessor is a second-hand cruise ship of the Japanese Mitsui Group, so there will be some minor faults, and at the same time the ship also employs a lot of Japanese technicians.
On the two troop carriers and cruise ships, there are people from all over the world, Haibei and Haibei, including Shanghi (because of the mythical beasts, the ground is a fake word or abbreviation), Anhui Province, Henan Province, Lu Province, Jiangxi Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Guangdong Province, Fujian Province, Zhili, Northeast China, Sichuan Province, and even overseas Chinese.
So in their spare time, everyone was playing with money, everyone was deeply affected by the lack of money, and the gambling was not big, so they were happy. However, where there are people, there are disputes, especially in the oppressive space of the ship, where male hormones have skyrocketed, and many people fight every day, which makes the military hospital very headache.
Yue Wenzheng found Wang Yongan and said, "Commander-in-chief, if you don't think of a way, these little bastards will beat themselves to death and exhaust us to death." ”
Wang Yongan said with a smile: "Thank you Doctor Yue, just returned from Beijing, and he came to the ship with a medical team to serve the overseas Chinese army, these bastards still let you worry so much." ”
Yue Wenzheng waved his hand and said: "They are all children who contribute to the country, but now they haven't served the country, and they have bled over trivial things, where is it considered to shed blood for the country." ”
Wang Yongan couldn't help but laugh and said, "What you said makes sense, very reasonable. ”
Yue Wenzheng asked, "How long does it take for our fleet to travel from Shanghi to Mexico this time?" ”
Wang Yongan said: "It's probably more than a month, what's wrong?" ”
"I think the doctors and nurses need to prepare early." Yue Wenzheng said, "If you can't solve the brawl between the soldiers, we need to prepare more hemostatic cotton and liquor." ”
Wang Yongan cried and laughed: "Don't worry, I will let them have no energy to fight." ”