Shortly after the Tunguska explosion, the world's eyes shifted to the Panama region of Central America.

Since China and France cooperated in the development of the Panama Canal, the United States has begun to actively make trouble in Panama in various ways, and the United States has lobbied the Colombian political axe, saying that the large number of Chinese entering the Panamanian area will cause an economic impact on the local Panamanians, and it is not conducive to the management of the Colombian political axe. At the same time, the United States also instigated the local people in Panama to make trouble and march again and again, protesting that the Chinese workers had snatched their wrists and put pressure on the Colombian political axe.

During the Sino-Russian War, the Colombian political axe was not optimistic about the victory of the Chinese Empire, so it heeded the advice of the United States and made every effort to make things difficult for the workers and military hostages imported by the Chinese Empire into Panama, resulting in frequent interruptions of water, electricity, and materials needed for the Panamanian project, resulting in a delay in the construction period.

Seeing that the deadline for the construction of the canal in 1904 was approaching, the French were worried that the construction could not be completed on time, which would give the Colombian political axe an excuse to raise prices or break the contract, so the French were ready to sell their 49% stake.

The Americans wanted to seize the 49% stake, but the Chinese Empire obviously could not let the Americans succeed, so China and the United States launched a game, while France took the opportunity to sit on the ground and raise the price to $50 million.

The intention of the U.S. Congress is to raise prices without limits and prevent the canal from falling into the hands of the Chinese Empire, and the United States must defend the backyard of the United States, and Panama is the gate of the backyard of the United States.

Thus, the United States, taking advantage of its deep pockets, raised the price to $100 million.

However, just as France was rejoicing and preparing to transfer this 49% stake to the United States, the situation in the Far East changed dramatically, and the Chinese Empire won a decisive victory in the war against Russia. In order not to allow the Chinese Empire to further weaken Russia, France had to make concessions on certain issues, one of the key points being the Panama Canal issue.

On the issue of the canal, the Chinese Empire with a great victory, the naval power became the second in the world overnight, surpassing the French Navy, forcing the French political axe not to offend the Chinese Empire from either the Russian side or its own side, so the French political axe reached an agreement with the Chinese Empire on the issue of the transfer of equity in the Panama Canal, and finally the French political axe was transferred to the Chinese Empire at a price of 30 million US dollars.

The U.S. political axe was very dissatisfied with this, but the powerful military power of the Chinese Empire made the Pacific Fleet of the U.S. Navy a huge threat, and the U.S. political axe did not dare to offend the Chinese Empire, so it chose to retreat.

After the Colombian political axe won the victory of the Chinese Empire in the war against Russia, it suddenly changed its face and did not dare to make things difficult for the Chinese Empire on the canal issue.

In this way, in the Sino-American game of 1904, the Chinese Empire won the victory and took full ownership of the Panama Canal. The United States not only did not get 49% of the shares of France, but let the Chinese Empire monopolize it.

In the following three years, the United States, fearing the military expansion of the Chinese Empire and being in a weak position in the great power game, switched from supporting the Panamanians to stumble the Chinese Empire into an underground activity, supporting the local Panamanians in a coup d'état in order to create a pretext for the United States to intervene in Panama, and at the same time to destroy the Panama Canal in the flames of war.

In February 1905, the Panama Canal was officially opened, and in the next three years the service facilities on both sides of the canal were to be expanded and large locks were built. Because when the Panama Canal was originally designed, it was only considered that the warships with a draft of 7 meters could pass, but with the construction of the Shengong battleships in the Chinese Empire, the draft reached 8 meters, and the draft of the future Chaoshenbow battleships would be larger, so the Chinese Empire further dug the Panama Canal deep and widened it so that it could pass through the Chaoshen Bow battleships with a higher draft.

The actions of the Chinese Empire have made the United States even more nervous, and it is clear that the Chinese Empire is using the canal as a conduit to project naval power to the Caribbean and the Atlantic, which is too great a threat to the United States. As a result, the U.S. Congress approved Roosevelt's proposal to secretly support the Panamanians in a coup d'état, take the opportunity to send troops to Panama, and find a way to destroy the Panama Canal.

During this period, the U.S. Navy built a large number of former Shenbow battleships, and soon raised the total tonnage of warships to the fourth in the world, suppressing the Imperial Chinese Navy in terms of the number of capital ships. Roosevelt's big naval plan emboldened the United States, and it became even more arrogant on the Panama issue.

With the outbreak of the Sino-British War, the Americans felt that the time had come. They did not believe that the Chinese Empire could defeat the British Empire, so they decided to stage a coup d'état in Panama.

In Panama, the Americans are mainly supported by José, the owner of large estates? Augustine? Arango and Thomas? Arias, Federico? Boyd et al.

In March 1905, when the U.S. Secretary of the Army, in accordance with the president's instructions, sent intelligence officers to the Isthmus of Panama to assist pro-American elements in organizing the Reading Movement, he took a fancy to the Arango father and son, and formed the "Panamanian Patriot Group" headed by them. Amado? Guerrero joins the "Patriot Group" and becomes its leader.

On June 14, the US newspaper "New York World" published an article advocating that if the Colombian political axe insists on going its own way and watches the large-scale migration of the Chinese empire to Panama, then the Panamanian people should break away from Colombia in order to defend their own interests.

In July, the "Patriot Group" began to discuss specific plans for the Reading Uprising, and in August, Amado traveled to New York to meet with Cromwell and Varia, and received news that the American political axe would support the Reading Uprising. President Ross and Milton? Secretary of State John Hymers' unequivocal commitment that the American political axe would recognize Panamanian Reading and protect the revolutionaries.

On December 1, 1905, the U.S. State Department handed over to Varia the documents and other items needed for the uprising, including military plans, ciphers, manuscripts of the Reading Declaration, the Panamanian Constitution, the national flag, etc., and Varia himself advanced 500,000 francs to Amado as the funds for the uprising. On December 20, Amado returned to Cologne, and although he was pleased with the results of this trip, he felt that it was inappropriate to risk his fate, career, and even life on the basis of the promise of a Frenchman. Maria gave him tremendous moral support. At this time, after lobbying by the revolutionaries and a grant of $50,000, the commander of the Colombian garrison, Esteban ? Uertas's decision to join the "Patriot Group" was undoubtedly a relief for the uprising.

Soon, Amado bought a Colombian gunboat captain for $35,000, and the matter developed to this point, the Colombian political axe finally noticed the abnormal movement of the political situation in Panama, and immediately sent 2 generals with 40 soldiers to Colon in a gunboat to prevent extraordinary incidents, but at this time, the American cruiser "Nashville" suddenly sailed into the port of Colón and openly prevented the Colombian army from entering Panama City.

On January 3, 1906, the two generals had just arrived in Panama City when they were arrested by the already mutinous Uertas. Amado informed the U.S. Consulate that Panama had officially dissociated itself from Colombia, and that Arango and his sons publicly announced the creation of the Panamanian Provisional Governing Council, whose members included Panamanian elites and senior employees of the American Railroad, in Piazza del Duomo in Panama City.

That night, the Panamanian City Council held a special session to recognize the new regime. In the face of huge military pressure from the United States, the Colombian political axe did not dare to speak out and acquiesced to Panamanian reading.

On January 4, Panama held a mass to announce the election of Amado as the first president of the Republic, and Amado shouted in his speech at the meeting: "Long live the Republic of Panama!" Long live Roosevelt! Long live America! The slogan has become an interesting story in the history of world diplomacy.

Regarding Panama's reading power, a U.S. senator wrote: The people of Panama are standing up, like 11 people! Because the Panamanian Reading Revolt was planned by 7 Panamanians and 4 Americans with the support of the United States. Gustav? Adolph? Melian wrote that "Panama married the United States for cheap" and is a "mongrel country that undermines sovereignty." Eric? León, for his part, believes that Panama is a "country with atrophy."

Immediately after Panama read the book, the United States urged the New Deal to abolish the construction of the Panama Canal, and the United States paid all the compensation. Valía was also appointed Minister to the United States by the Panamanian Governor, granting him full authority to sign the Canal Treaty with the United States.

At this time, the Chinese Empire was in a critical period of war against Britain and did not want to drag the United States into it. Because Wang Chenhao knew very well that if it were not for the continuous export of strategic materials by the United States to Britain back then, Britain would have had to surrender after holding out for less than a year under the blow of Germany's submarine warfare. Therefore, the Chinese empire had to make concessions to the United States at this time.

However, even if the Chinese Empire made a temporary concession, it had a purpose, and the negotiations with the Panamanian political axe continued to drag on for time. Panama wanted to take back the canal, so the Chinese Empire offered a sky-high price of $2 billion, thinking that it could scare the Panamanian political axe. Unexpectedly, in order to seize the rights of this canal, the Americans actually supported the Panamanian political axe to agree.

Faced with this situation, the Chinese imperial government already knew that the United States was bound to win the Panama Canal. In Wang Chenhao's view, the Panamanian political axe's $2 billion acquisition of the canal must be paid by the Americans, and then the Americans will get the right to operate the canal, but it will take at least 12 years to recover the cost.

At this time, the Chinese Empire has formed a certain advantage over Britain, and the Chinese Empire is secretly forming the G-8, once the Eight-Nation Alliance's war against Britain is completed, then Wang Chenhao can sit back and relax, because Britain will definitely not be able to defeat the Eight-Nation Alliance, and defeat is inevitable.

Wang Chenhao knew it in his heart, but the Americans had always been against the Chinese Empire on the Panama issue, and they had to teach the Americans a hard lesson, so that the Americans could suffer a big loss in order to relieve Wang Chenhao's anger.

In April 1906, the Chinese Empire agreed to Panama's request and was willing to return the Panama Canal to Panama for $2 billion.

The representative of the Chinese Empire deliberately emphasized that it was to return the Panamanian political axe, not to the United States, and this term was not taken seriously by the Panamanian political axe and the American political axe. The two sides soon signed a contract, but the Chinese Empire demanded that the money be paid before the canal could be transferred to Panama.

In this regard, the Panamanian political axe and the American political axe immediately agreed after consultation.

In September 1906, the Chinese Empire had achieved a brilliant victory against Britain and signed an armistice agreement with Britain, which made the United States feel a huge military threat from the Chinese Empire, but at this time, the American political axe thought that the Chinese Empire had signed the contract and naturally could not go back, so the American political axe urgently raised 2 billion US dollars and asked the Panamanian political axe to immediately exchange the treaty with the Chinese Empire. But $2 billion was not so easy to raise, and the American political axe borrowed money from the big American businessmen, and it was not until the summer of the following year that the huge amount of money was raised.

On July 13, 1907, the Chinese Empire signed a contract with Panamanian Axe for the return of canal rights to Panamanian Axe, and Panamanian Axe transferred $2 billion obtained from the United States to Empire China.

According to the contract, the Chinese Empire handed over the canal to Panama after receiving a ransom fee of $2 billion. Subsequently, the Panamanian political axe immediately negotiated with the United States to sell the canal to the United States. Previously, the United States had already spent $2 billion and did not want to spend any more money at all, but the Panamanian political axe had just been established, and it was in urgent need of funds, so it had to ask the United States for money. So, the two sides started a war of words, and a stalemate came to an end.

The United States was very dissatisfied with Panama's political axe, and on 20 September issued a warning and threat to Panama. The U.S. Navy fleet approached Panama from both Atlantic and Pacific directions, forcing the Panamanian political axe to give in and eventually cede the canal rights to the United States for $1 million.

However, at this time, the Panamanian Political Axe Assembly did not recognize the status of the Chinese in Panama, demanded the expulsion of the Chinese, and set a timetable for leaving within three months. The total population of Chinese in Panama has reached 500,000, more than 10 times that of Panamanians, and they have obtained Colombian nationality issued by the Colombian political axe. However, Panamanians refuse to recognize the legal surnames of Panamanian nationality of these 500,000 Chinese.

The Chinese Empire then put pressure on the Panamanian government to agree. Panamanian political axe saw that the Chinese Empire had defeated Britain and its military strength had jumped to the first place in the world, so it did not dare to force it at all, so it had to admit it.

In March 1908, in the Panamanian parliamentary election, the Panamanians refused to let the Chinese vote, which was strongly protested by the Chinese, and the Chinese Empire came forward again to put pressure on the Panamanian political axe, the Atlantic Fleet sailed outside Cologne, and the Pacific Fleet sailed outside Panama City. So the Panamanian political axe had to give in and declare that the Panamanian Chinese had the right to vote.

In May 1908, the Chinese in Panama formed the Panamanian Mingchu Party and participated in the Panamanian congressional elections. Since the Panamanian Chinese are more than five times the number of Panamanian natives, the Ming Cook Party won the majority of seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Panamanian Congress in one fell swoop, and the leader Wu Yaohua won the Panamanian President Ma in one fell swoop.

Wu Yaohua was elected as the Panamanian President Ma, which immediately made the Panamanians feel extremely sad and angry, and European and American countries were even more shocked.

After Wu Yaohua was elected president, he immediately declared that the United States had obtained the right to operate the Panama Canal illegally, because the Panamanian political axe spent $2 billion to buy it back from the Chinese Empire and transferred it to the United States at a low price of $1 million.

The U.S. political axe is obviously very angry, does this clearly mean that it is cheating the United States? The U.S. political axe did not agree to pay for it, so Wu Yaohua announced the resumption of the Panama Canal rights.

On August 3, 1908, the U.S. Congress issued a warning to Panamanian political axe, saying that it was declaring war on the United States.

The next day, Wu Yaohua announced the establishment of a national defense force in Panama, conscripted 30,000 Chinese into the army, and at the same time declared himself a vassal to the Chinese Empire, asking the Chinese Empire to protect Panama from aggression.

On August 5, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire formally accepted Panama's request to list Panama as one of the vassal states of the Chinese Imperial Federation, with the same status as the Kingdom of the Ryukyus, the Kingdom of Korea, and the Kingdom of Burma.

The move sparked protests from the indigenous people of Panama, and the two sides soon erupted in bloodshed and intensified.

On August 10, Amado announced the reorganization of the Panamanian government and organized an army of 1,000 men.

On August 12, Wu Yaohua completed the formation of the National Defense Force, because the National Defense Force itself was composed of retired soldiers of the Chinese Empire, so simple training formed combat effectiveness. Coupled with the fact that the Atlantic Fleet brought the weapons and equipment they needed, the 30,000-strong Wehrmacht soon became a tiger armed to the teeth.

On August 18, Wu Yaohua ordered the suppression of the aborigines, and the 30,000 wolf-like Wehrmacht immediately suppressed the Panamanian aborigines, crushing Amado's resistance in less than a day, and taking the opportunity to expand the scope of the attack, and a large number of Panamanian aborigines were killed in the name of "resistance".

On August 20, the Panamanian Defense Forces seized the Panama Canal and expelled all Americans in Panama.

The American political axe was extremely angry, and the hawks demanded an immediate declaration of war on Panama, but Roosevelt did not dare to declare war, because Panama had become one of the federal vassals of the Chinese Empire, and declaring war on Panama was a declaration of war on the Chinese Empire. Obviously, the United States [***] is unable to compete with the Chinese Empire, and the declaration of war is self-inflicted.

The U.S. political axe then tried to solve the Panama Canal problem through diplomatic channels, proposing that the $2 billion that Panamanian political axe used to pay to the Chinese empire was the money paid by the U.S. political axe, and if Panamanian political axe wanted to recover the canal, it needed to return the huge amount of money to the United States.

However, Wu Yaohua resolutely refused to admit that there was such a thing. Saying that it was an illegal contract signed by Amado with the United States, Panama's New Deal has no record of it. The Chinese Imperial Political Axe also said that the $2 billion was obtained from Amado, and it had nothing to do with the current Panama New Deal Axe, and even if the United States returned the cost of purchasing the Panama Canal, the Panamanian New Deal Axe only needed to give the United States one million dollars.

It was only at this time that the American political axe suddenly realized, no wonder the Chinese Empire was so eloquent in the first place to give up the Panama Canal, and it turned out to be calculated long ago. This time, it really pitted the United States severely.

The American political axe was extremely angry, and the American people were constantly protesting, but Roosevelt's political axe still did not dare to start a war against Panama.

At this time, it was the presidential election in the United States, and Roosevelt's re-election was suddenly in vain, and Roosevelt was forced to resign en masse.

(To be continued)