On September 1, 1897, Seris Yanjing Zhongnanhai, 8:45 a.m.

"Sir, is the Huang guard waiting for you outside?"

When Chen Zeyu woke up with his beloved wife's delicate body in his arms, the sound of the maid laughing came from the edge of the bed at the right time.

"Oh, I see."

Chen Zeyu gently pulled his hands and feet from his octopus-like beloved wife Wu Xiatong, and shook his head with a wry smile, his husband and wife were still a little too crazy last night.

It's not that he doesn't know how to control the life of husband and wife, Chen Zeyu knows that his beloved wife is stimulated by his aunt, just a week ago, Nanyang's uncle's family also moved to Yanjing with the Chen family in Huzhou, and the baby girl Annie who was born to Aunt Helen is now 3 years old, and it is the time to be lively and cute, which makes Wu Xiatong, who has not moved in his stomach for several years, feel very urgent, and forced himself to actively cooperate.

While he was getting dressed, Chen Zeyu found that his beloved wife's eyelashes on the bed were trembling slightly, and he couldn't help but smile in his heart.

"Wake up, wake up, what's so embarrassing."

Bearing her husband's teasing, Wu Xiatong opened her eyes with a red face, half sat up on the bed, and sighed after half a sound, "Hanyin, when will we have our own children?" ”

Chen Zeyu laughed and hugged her slender waist from behind, "Don't worry, let's work hard, it will be soon." ”

"Well, Hanyin, I'll help you change your clothes, why do you always wear these clothes."

Wu Xiatong was taken aback, thinking that her husband wanted to say Xuanyin in vain, so she covered up with a red face.

"Hehe, no need, I love to wear this, this is made for me by my wife." Chen Zeyu didn't pay attention to her look, and got up from the bed with a smile while getting dressed.

"You were tired yesterday, you don't have to get up so early, go to sleep again."

Wu Xiatong's face became more and more ruddy when he heard this, and his fingers gently stirred the quilt, thinking that the maids outside had heard these words, and his heart was even more shy.

……

"Führer! Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Wu Dinh Phuong called! ”

Walking out of the inner hall, the oncoming guard Huang Hanlin saluted and handed over a telegram.

"Hmm." Chen Zeyu nodded and took the message, and after unfolding it, he couldn't help but smile on his face, "Go out for a walk with me." ”

The Spanish royal family agreed to his proposal and sold all the Mariana Islands, including Guam, to the Republic. However, this result was also expected by Chen Zeyu, you must know that Wu Tingfang came with a whole naval fleet.

Chen Zeyu gave an order early in the morning, if the soft one doesn't work, the hard one will come, and Tianyu will take the blame instead of taking it. At this time, Guam's defense was at its weakest stage, and the German Far East Fleet next to Seris would not let them go if he did not move. It's just that to Chen Zeyu's surprise, Spain actually rejected the offer of 50 million Chinese dollars from the Seris side, and instead wanted to use the money to buy several active ships of the Republic Navy.

"Send a telegram to the Ministry of National Defense and Vice Minister Wu respectively—"

After strolling for a moment on the beautiful island in the middle of the lake in the South China Sea, Chen Zeyu suddenly turned his head and replied.

"I can agree to the request of the Spanish side, didn't the lead ship of the Luzon class 'Zhanjiang' be injured on the starboard side, so sell this capital ship to them, and by the way, don't forget to ask the technician to dismantle all the electronic equipment on the ship for me." In addition, the Taiwan class can be appropriately given a few more, anyway, it is also a type of ship to be eliminated, so let's do it first. ”

"Yes! Monarch! ”

……

At the same time, the U.S. Navy fleet was also showing its might, sinking several Spanish supply ships one after another in the Caribbean. However, what is not in harmony with the smooth progress of the naval blockade is the successive fiascos on the land battlefield, and several tragic white-knuckle battles on the Cuban battlefield have frightened all American soldiers in a very short period of time, of course, some people have deliberately ignored the factor that the Spanish army is equipped with a large number of automatic weapons, which naturally includes the layout of Chen Zeyu himself earlier.

At a time when the US government was angry and ready to mobilize its forces again at home and intensify its land offensive against Cuba, public opinion in various countries around the world suddenly became unfavorable to the United States......

The nosy Italians scolded the Americans for their arrogance in their own newspaper, the Rome News, and the Italian newspapers did not make much of an impact, but the situation changed when the Swiss newspaper La Monital published a report on August 29 called "The Rise of the American Cowboys."

This article, which was anonymously published in a Swiss newspaper by an unknown and mysterious person, first spitted on the unreasonable war deeds of the US political axe like the former, but then began to explain in detail the development of the United States since the beginning of the Reading Power War and the development situation in recent years and the various great industrial achievements it has achieved.

“…… At the end of 1896, the population of the United States of America was 72.9 million, twice that of France, and its population growth was expected to reach 100 million by the end of the century; Its annual steel output exceeded 10.3 million tons, seven times that of France and twice that of Britain and Germany; Coal production is 248 million tons, twice that of the United Kingdom, six times that of France, and fifty times that of Italy; The total length of railways built is 260,000 kilometers, which is six times that of Britain, France and Germany, and 20 times that of Russia; For the first time, its share of world industrial trade also surpassed Britain's 20%, reaching 23.6%, twice that of Germany, four times that of France, three times that of Russia, and seven times that of Austria; According to the analysis of authoritative experts, if the overall strength of Britain's industries is compared to 100, then the United States' score has reached 217.5, which is four times that of Germany, nine times that of France, eighteen times that of Austria, and forty times that of Italy......

“…… What worries us even more is that while the Americans are actively developing their own industries, they have not given up on developing their military strength. In the American Civil War, the North alone organized a standing army of more than 3 million, and its strength was enough to crush the entire European countries, and its navy has suddenly developed from less than 40,000 tons in the 60s to more than 400,000 tons of total displacement tonnage today. The Americans' naval military budget has risen fivefold since 1890, and its share of domestic revenue has increased every year...... Considering that the United States does not have a large number of overseas colonies and merchant fleets to protect like Britain, France and other European countries, we can't help but ask, Americans, what do you want to do?! ……”

“…… The situation is already obvious, the cannon of the American fleet in the Caribbean is their answer to all our Europeans!! Look at their Monroe Doctrine, America is America for Americans!! No! If you want me to say, they are still too modest! It should be said that the world is the world of the Americans!! Europeans, please do not think that I am alarmist, because at the current rate of development of the United States, in less than three years, their national strength will surpass that of the whole of Europe combined and become a superpower that surpasses that of the British. No! In fact, compared to the UK, they have long surpassed! And now their fangs have been lit up, the first to fall is the Spaniards, and who is the second? French? Briton? We can't help but ask the Imperial Navy officials who are planning to celebrate the 92nd anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar next month, how many more similar celebrations can you have?! In front of the Americans, all European countries have become rickety old men! Even the most powerful United Kingdom in the past was not enough to maintain its advantage, and the young cowboy was howling with excitement! Tremble, Europeans! The future belongs to the United States, and Europe deserves only to be America's backyard!! ……”

Rigorous analysis combined with accurate data suddenly frightened all Europeans. In particular, the data listed in the entire report are all well-documented. Fortunately, as soon as these data were first released, even the military observers and politicians of Britain, France, Germany and other European powers were deeply shocked!

In just three days between September 2 and 4, the British Times first reprinted the report every post, and then newspapers from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Greece, Portugal and other countries throughout Europe also rushed to reprint it.

Encouraged by this article, British news commentator Octave Noel, who had been hostile to the United States, published his book "The American Scourge" shortly after, in which he drew heavily on the internal data of "The Rise of the American Cowboys" and went a step further in his views, directly pointing out that Americans are full of hatred for the old European continent, and that the Spanish-American War marked that the United States was about to move towards a stage of military expansion, and the article was even more naked...... This time the robbers are coming, so let's think about how to deal with it together......"

In the book, Noel further predicts that "it will not be long before the United States will inevitably come into conflict with all of Europe in all parts of the earth, and the United States will seize the colonies, resources, and market dumping grounds of European countries." The struggle between the two sides for economic hegemony will be inevitable, and war will become an inevitable choice! ”

The United States is a scourge! The United States is about to conquer the world!

In the midst of the fermentation of public opinion, coupled with the deliberate promotion of certain forces, intentionally or unintentionally, media people from various countries vied to write and publish a large number of demonized articles in the United States on the charges of "threat theory", "clash of civilizations", "axis of evil" and so on! Spain, in particular, was the most ruthless in its own situation, while the British, although they felt that the American naval fleet was still "insignificant" compared to themselves, were also deeply alarmed by the industrial potential of the other side, and began to be unconsciously wary of the development of the Americans. Perhaps only the Russians will be happy, because the actions of the Americans are precisely distracting the attention of countries from their expansion in the Far East.

In order to deal with the "scourge of the United States," some Europeans have even called on all European countries to unite and jointly wage war against the United States. Some officials of the British Navy even jointly submitted a bill to the House of Representatives on the 11th of November to launch a war "aimed at Copenhagenization of the United States." German Congressman Pierre Lottie even openly declared in his own newspaper that the Spanish-American War was a challenge to all European countries and a test of Europe's will and ability: "I hope Europe will understand this!" Learn from this, don't put your sword in the sheath! European countries need to join forces to deal with a common enemy! ”

For a time, words such as "American threat theory" and "American scourge" became popular words in the entire European society......

lt; /agt; lt; agt; lt; /agt;;