Chapter 745: Layout of Mexico
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After reaching an agreement, the Chilean government immediately contacted the Chinese side and said that Chile would accept China's goodwill. And assured that Chile will become China's staunchest ally in South America.
At the end of August, Chile's Foreign Minister Baerque, as the plenipotentiary envoy of President Helmánlescoela Suris, secretly arrived in China and signed a cooperation treaty with China on behalf of Chile. Under the terms of the treaty, China sold 10 infantry divisions to Chile at a low price and sent a 500-strong officer corps to Chile to help Chile train its troops and upgrade Chile's command system. At the same time, Chile once again purchased two 'Chengdu-class' heavy cruisers, five 'Tianshui-class' light cruisers, and 10 'Dujiangyan-class' destroyers from China to strengthen the Chilean navy. The required qiē expenses are all repaid with mineral resources such as saltpeter and copper ore! China, for its part, assured the Chilean government of its full support for Chile to defeat Argentina and Brazil and seize territory in the eastern Andes. At the same time, China pledged not to interfere in Chile's internal affairs while Chile did not infringe on China's interests.
Immediately after the signing of the treaty, the equipment of the officer corps and infantry divisions sent by China to Chile set sail. At the same time, in the shipyards off the coast of China, the construction of four 'Santiago-class' battleships for Chile has also begun! It is expected that in four years, when the four 'Santiago-class' battleships are ready to fight, it will be when Chile will launch an attack on Argentina and Brazil. And in the next four years, China will help Chile to improve its military strength as much as possible. In addition to sending officers to train Chile's military, China will help Chile build an arsenal that will give Chile the capacity to produce rifles and light artillery. These. For South American countries that are extremely backward in industry and rely entirely on the purchase of weapons and equipment, this is a very big support.
As soon as you get it, you can wait for the war four years later. Both China and Chile firmly believe that in four years' time, Chile will win the war. At that time, Chile will become a big country in South America, and China will also have a pawn in South America. Or rather, a thug. China's interests in South America, at least in the south of South America, can be guaranteed!
Perhaps China's series of expansions in South and Central America have stimulated the United States. The U.S. government has repeatedly increased its investment in the Panama Canal, employing a large number of locals to participate in the construction of the canal. Panama Region. It belongs to the tropical rainforest climate, the forest is dense, and there are many poisonous insects. Many of the workers who built the canal died as a result. However, the U.S. government does not seem to be deterred at all, and still declares the date of the opening of the Panama Canal. There will be absolutely no delay, only the possibility of advance. At the same time, shipyards on the East Coast of the United States are also frantically building battleships for the United States. So that after the canal is opened, it will be able to pass through the Guò Canal and enter the west coast to protect the interests of the United States. At the same time, American shipyards on the West Coast. Cruisers and destroyers were also being built on a large scale, although forced by treaties with China. The United States cannot keep warships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons on the west coast, but cruisers and destroyers with a displacement of less than 10,000 tons are not restricted. The power of the Chinese Navy's submarines frightened the United States, and they wanted to build a large number of heavy cruisers to protect the battleships and thus reduce the threat of Chinese submarines!
Naturally, the Chinese side is well aware of the US intentions. At the same time, in order to counter the United States, other actions are also being planned. In order to further combat the United States, China began to secretly infiltrate Mexico. As a country bordering the United States, if China can overthrow the current pro-American regime in Mexico and prop up a pro-China regime, it will undoubtedly pose a mortal threat to the United States. At the very least, the squadron will be able to land in Mexico and then attack the heart of the United States from the southern part of the United States without facing the fortified West Coast of the United States!
Although Mexico's current president, Boferiodias, is a pro-American activist, most Mexicans are still very hostile to the United States. The reason is very simple, a large part of Mexico's territory has been occupied by the United States, and now many territories in the south and southwest of the United States belonged to Mexico in the past!
After winning the Revolutionary War in 1776, the United States decided to control the whole of America. In 1823, President James Monroe put forward the slogan "America is the America of the Americans", and established the basic national policy of expanding territory and dominating the Americas.
Soon, the aggressive eyes of the U.S. government fell on Mexico, a neighboring country. In 1835, American immigrant slave owners in Texas and California, Mexico, launched an armed rebellion, and the Mexican government sent troops to suppress it. The United States went so far as to directly intervene with troops. and supported Texas' declaration of independence the following year.
In July 1845, U.S. President James Polk, known for his frenzied expansion, officially announced the incorporation of Texas into the United States. At about the same time, Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor to quietly move into the Nueses River on the Texas-Mexico border. Waiting for an opportunity to launch a war of aggression.
In November of that year, Polk demanded that Mexico recognize the Rio Grande as the border between the two countries on the threat that Mexico should repay the $3 million debt owed to the United States, and the United States "bought" New Mexico and California for $15 million to $40 million, which was flatly rejected by the Mexican government.
On May 13, 1846, the U.S. government declared war on Mexico, and the Mexican-American War officially began. The declaration of war was nothing but a trick to deceive the world, and the US military operation had been going on for more than four months before that. At the outbreak of the war, although the US Army had only more than 8,600 personnel, it could recruit a large number of volunteers, and its weapons and equipment were relatively advanced, and it had a fleet to cooperate with the army's operations. The Mexican Army has a large number of officers and few soldiers, and its weaponry and tactical thinking are relatively backward and backward. Moreover, without the cooperation of the fleet, the result was a complete defeat under the blow of the American team by sea and land.
On February 2, 1848, the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The United States has seized nearly half of Mexico's territory, totaling about 2.3 million square kilometers. This is most of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in the United States today, as well as parts of Colorado and Wyoming. The United States paid Mexico only $15 million as "compensation."
Through the Mexican-American War, the United States became a great power in the transatlantic and Pacific oceans, and has since become the dominant power in the Americas.
U.S. ambitions did not stop there, and for more than half a century, the U.S. government frequently interfered in Mexico's internal affairs. And with its military and economic superiority, it controlled many of Mexico's railroad and oil resources.
In the 20th century, the situation in Mexico became more and more turbulent, and the great dictator Boferidias relied on the army and the village police to carry out a reign of terror. The brutal suppression of the bourgeois democrats and the broad masses led to the expansion of workers' strikes and the revolt of the peasants for the land. At the same time, it also gives China the opportunity to infiltrate Mexico. As early as the end of the Second Sino-American Pacific War, China had already begun to deploy in Mexico. It's just that Mexican President Boferodias is pro-American, and the United States has a very large influence in Mexico, and it is very difficult for China to succeed in Mexico!
In La Paz, the capital of Baja California South, in a seaside villa, a young Caucasian man is arguing with a young yellow man. The villa was guarded on all sides, and no one else could break into it without permission. At the same time, there is a ship parked on the beach, and if there is an accident, the people in the villa can quickly get on the boat and escape from the sea!
"Xu, listen to me, it is too radical to overthrow Diaz's rule in a revolutionary way. Besides, now that the entire Mexican army is under the control of Dias, there is no possibility that we will win if we launch a revolution! The young Caucasian said loudly. He was one of the opponents of Madero, Díaz. The person who argued with him was Colonel Xu Mao, a Chinese military intelligence agent stationed in Mexico.
"Nope! No! No! My friend, it is precisely because Díaz's power is so powerful that we can only resort to violent revolutionary methods. And that's the only way to be useful. Moderate measures against a dictator like Dias will not have any effect. The fair elections you wish for are impossible to survive in Mexico today! Colonel Xu Mao said loudly. It's been three years since he came to Mexico, but he hasn't been able to open up the situation, which makes him very depressed. Madero, who was born into a landlord family, was the person he mainly supported. However, Madero, who had studied in France and the United States, was deeply influenced by bourgeois liberal ideas, and called for the restoration of the constitution and the method of guò elections to defeat Díaz and overthrow the dictatorship of Dias. It's just that, in Colonel Xu Mao's opinion, Madero's idea is too naïve. How could Díaz, who had fully grasped the military and political power in Mexico, sit idly by and let him be elected in an unfavorable manner? Therefore, he advocated that Maderol raise a team to resist the dictatorship of Díaz with the support of China, and use the means of violent revolution to gain power in Mexico. It's just that he has never been able to convince Madero.
"No, perhaps, the power of the state has been handed over to the people to decide, and the people use their votes to decide who will lead the country. This is the most appropriate system! Madero said loudly.
"Madero, if you want, you can implement a democratic constitutional government in Mexico after we have taken a violent revolution to overthrow Dias!" Colonel Xu Mao persuaded. It's just that his persuasion is destined not to have much effect!