The war in which Wang Chenhao and the United States joined forces to rob Spain ended, but the aftermath was far from achieving the desired goal.

On the American side, the United States sent troops to receive Spanish cities in the Philippines and Cuba. In the Philippines, the U.S. military only allowed the Spanish army to surrender to them, and the American military action displeased the Philippine Revolutionary Army, but most of the Philippine Revolutionary Army generals had illusions about the United States, so they chose to acquiesce to the U.S. military taking over some cities. However, the Philippine Revolutionary Army was not entirely stupid, and some of the generals took the initiative to attack the cities defended by the Spanish army and occupy them.

Over the next three months, U.S. forces occupied most of Manila and Luzon in the Philippines, and the rest of the island fell to the Philippine Revolutionary Army. The U.S. military has only 15,000 expeditionary forces in the Philippines, while the Philippine Revolutionary Army has several hundred thousand. After the US military occupied most of Luzon Island, its forces were too scattered and could not form an effective deterrent to the Philippine Revolutionary Army, so in order to paralyze the Philippine Revolutionary Army, the US political axe agreed to let the Philippine Revolutionary Army organize the Republic of the Philippines, but secretly the American political axe continued to mobilize at home and requisitioned tens of thousands of troops to the Philippines to prepare for the next US-Philippine war.

Similarly, on the island of Cuba, the United States is playing the same tricks and tricks. However, the treatment of Cuba is different from that of the Philippines. The Philippines is of the yellow race, and the Americans are ready to take control of the Philippines by force. However, in Cuba, there are many European and American immigrants, especially many Americans, so the US military chose to support a pro-American regime to administer Cuba, and for the sake of insurance, the US military and the Cuban Revolutionary Army signed a treaty, concessioning Pine Island as an army base and Guantanamo as a naval base, so that Cuba became a US protectorate or a semi-colony.

On the side of the Qing Empire, because Guangxu and Qing Zhengaxe only had the name of a big victory, they actually did not care about Guam, Puerto Rico, the Caroline Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and other overseas islands at all, and these islands that seized Spain were directly handed over to Wang Chenhao himself.

With regard to Guam, the Caroline Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands, Wang Chenhao can send people to directly manage the military and build a large military base on Guam. However, Puerto Rico is different, there are descendants and immigrants from European and American countries on the island of Puerto Rico, black people account for two-thirds of the population, and it is surrounded by the forces of various powers, and the forced military management is not in line with the national image, so Wang Chenhao imitated the United States' method of administering Cuba and ordered the expeditionary force to find suitable candidates to organize a pro-China political axe.

This is the management of the vested interests of China and the United States, and at the same time, there are still unresolved issues between China and the United States that need to be resolved urgently.

Wake Island, 3,700 km west of Honolulu. It consists of 3 coral islets with a total land area of 6.5 square kilometers. The three islands spread out in the shape of a crescent, with a lagoon in the middle. Wake Island is just a small island with an area of only 9 square kilometers, belonging to the Mariana Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Because it is located between Guam and Hawaii, it is an intermediate station on the transpacific route, so it is also known as the "stepping stone" of the Pacific Ocean. Wake Island was first discovered by the Spanish in 1568 and occupied along with the Northern Mariana Islands. Beginning in 1840, the Americans began to build a coaling station on Wake Island, intending to take it for themselves.

The United States had intended to take the opportunity to annex Wake Island after winning the Spanish-American War. However, Wang Chenhao sent troops to occupy the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Spaniards deliberately transferred the Northern Mariana Islands to the Qing Empire, resulting in the sovereignty of Wake Island belonging to the Qing Empire, but the United States actually occupied Wake Island, which caused a territorial dispute between China and the United States.

For this reason, Wang Chenhao made a special appointment to meet with Charles, the US minister to China.

On the issue of Wake Island, Charles's position is very clear, saying that Wake Island has been occupied by the US military and will not be returned.

Wang Chenhao knew that it would be difficult for the Americans to spit out Wake Island, but Wang Chenhao knew the important surname of Wake Island. Wake Island is a transit point in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between Guam and Hawaii, and ships with short-range endurance can go directly to Guam and the Ryukyu Islands after refueling.

Wake Island is very important to the defense and security of Guam and the Ryukyu Islands, and if the US military makes good use of it, it will be very easy to use it as a springboard to raid Guam and the Ryukyus, and it will also increase the defense pressure on Guam and the Ryukyus.

Wang Chenhao hopes to take advantage of the fact that the United States is still not paying attention to the construction of island bases in the Pacific Ocean, and get Wake Island from them. Otherwise, if the Sino-US contradiction rises to become the main contradiction in the Pacific Ocean, both sides will regard Wake Island as a strategic location at that time, and it will be difficult to get it again.

It's just that no matter what Wang Chenhao says, how much money to pay for this Wake Island, Charles doesn't agree.

Wang Chenhao couldn't turn his face with the Americans, so he had to find another way.

Soon, Wang Chenhao found an opportunity.

During the Spanish-American War, U.S. troops suffered more than 3,000 casualties. After that, the U.S. military increased its troops to Cuba, but the U.S. Army was ill-prepared, and tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers contracted yellow fever and were in urgent need of treatment. Yellow fever is an acute infectious disease that occurred only in Central and South America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with the Caribbean being the main endemic area. The U.S. Army underestimated yellow fever in the Caribbean, and when it spread on a large scale in the U.S. military, it was too late for the U.S. War Department to mobilize drugs from the country.

At this time, two hospital ships near Cuba were helping the officers and men of the expeditionary force to treat various diseases. Since Wang Chenhao had long anticipated the yellow fever epidemic in the Caribbean, the two hospital ships carried a large number of medicines for the treatment and prevention of yellow fever.

Of course, there is no specific medicine for yellow fever, and the two hospital ships carry only drugs that can control the early and intermediate stages of the disease, but despite this, the two hospital ships are the only hope for tens of thousands of American troops.

Wang Chenhao then made a fuss about this issue, allowing the U.S. Army to choose to give up Wake Island, or sacrifice the lives of tens of thousands of U.S. troops. In order to put pressure on the US political axe, Li Guodong issued a secret order to the US intelligence station, asking them to create public opinion. The U.S. Department of the Army was under tremendous pressure from public opinion and had to request two Chinese hospital ships to rush to Cuba to treat U.S. soldiers.

Under the pretext that the Chinese expeditionary officers and soldiers and local residents on the island of Puerto Rico could not do without treatment, the two Chinese hospital ships planned to leave for Cuba in five days. But it was clear that after five days the cucumber dishes were all cold.

As a last resort, the lobbying work naturally fell on Charles's shoulders. Charles had no choice but to come over and beg Wang Chenhao, because of the urgency of time, Wang Chenhao deliberately procrastinated, and Charles was anxious to burn his eyebrows.

Fortunately, Charles was not too stupid and understood what Wang Chenhao was asking for, so he immediately expressed his willingness to negotiate with Wang Chenhao on the issue of Wake Island.

But Wang Chenhao asked to talk about the matter of Wake Island first, and Charles knew that Wang Chenhao took the opportunity to sit on the ground and raise the price, but the lives of American soldiers could not be delayed. As a last resort, Charles had no choice but to help Wang Chenhao persuade the American political axe to abandon Wake Island. Fortunately, the American political axe did not attach much importance to Wake Island, and in the end, the American political axe agreed to hand over Wake Island to Wang Chenhao, but there were conditions. The U.S. political axe has a coal station on Wake Island, so Wang Chenhao needs to pay a million dollars to buy Wake Island. In this regard, Wang Chenhao immediately nodded in agreement.

From negotiation to signing, the two sides do not take more than six hours before and after, and the faster the treaty is signed between countries.

After the treaty was concluded, Wang Chenhao immediately ordered two hospital ships to sail to Havana and Santiago de to treat American soldiers. After a week of intense treatment, the casualties were kept within 300, for which the US political axe awarded the Medal of Honor to all the personnel of the hospital ships Hua Tuo and Bian Que.

As a result, the positive image of the Chinese was able to spread in the United States.

(To be continued)