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"History is always driven by countless accidental events, and when the events occur, people never notice the impetus of these small events for history, but when they look back on history, people will always sigh at all this...... When a small event happens, who can think about what kind of changes this small event will eventually lead to. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Perhaps, this is what scientists describe as the butterfly effect – "a butterfly in the Amazon rainforest of South America, with a few occasional flaps of its wings, can cause a tornado in Texas, North America, two weeks later." ”

On May 15, 1911, when Francisco? When the "Mexican Revolutionary Army" led by Madero and the thugs of Torreón committed heinous crimes in Torreón, when the frenzied peasants, with the support of the Mexican Revolutionary Army, cut off the heads of Chinese expatriates with scythes, they must not have imagined what would happen in the months that followed. ”

Modern and Contemporary History of the World

At 8:17 a.m. on May 26, 1915, Mexico time, 56 nautical miles west of the city of Tepic, the flagship of the First Air Mobile Force, with the USS Goldfin aircraft carrier as the core, arrived here in the evening of last night, and for the past fourteen hours they have been waiting, waiting for final orders from home.

Just a few hours ago, the order was given - bomb Tepik!

The morning sun was already hanging in the air, but the middle and rear of the flight deck of the "Golden Wing" were already full of planes, and with the help of the lights on the sides and the ship's island, the deck ground crew wearing vests of different colors were methodically refueling and reloading the planes of the first attack wave.

All aircraft, including Type 8 fighters, were mounted with bombs, which was the first combat mission received by the fleet since the commissioning of the ship's mother, and it was also the first combat order received by the imperial navy since the founding of the Chinese Empire.

While the ground crews on the deck were making final preparations for the attack mission, in the pilot's waiting room below the island, Major Ding Zhanpeng, of the 1st Carrier Air Wing, led his subordinates who were about to go on the expedition and respectfully bowed to the portrait of His Majesty the Emperor on the wall.

Everyone's expression was a little excited at this time, raising soldiers for a thousand days, using soldiers for a while, now is the time to show their value to the world.

After the ceremony, Colonel Shen Honglie, who was the commander, personally presented the pilots with Zhuangxing wine one by one, which was just a small glass of whiskey, which to a certain extent, also illustrated the Westernization of the navy, just as there is always Western food on the table of the navy, red wine and whiskey are the standard of the navy, and his mouth kept pleading:

"It's all up to you, come on, work hard, kill the enemy and serve the country......"

When the wine ran out, Ding Zhanpeng, as the captain of the wing, took the lead in raising his glass:

"Brethren, for the sake of the Empire, for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor, for the honor of our Navy, for the sake of the three hundred compatriots who died - raze Mexico to the ground!"

This is a simple pre-war mobilization, in fact, as pilots, they know very well that even if all the bombs on the "Golden Wing" aircraft carrier are dropped, it will be difficult to achieve this goal, but ...... It's just to vent the anger in their hearts!

The death of hundreds of overseas Chinese has made each of them feel as if they were feeling angry, and now for them, the way to vent their anger is to drop a bomb on the heads of Mexicans, so that Mexicans can feel the anger from China.

"Long live the Empire! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! ”

The blood-boiling warriors drank the liquor in their cups together, and their eyes and noses seemed to immediately erupt with fire, and they had the urge to turn heaven and earth into ashes!

At the same time, under the command of the captain, the aircraft carrier began to adjust its course and sail at full speed against the wind. In the headwind, one after another planes laden with bombs flew away from the "Golden Wing" aircraft carrier.

What is our goal?

Tepik!

On the plane, Ding Zhanpeng once again thought of the target of this mission, different from the usual search targets on the ocean, what they need to attack now is a city, which means that they only need to determine the direction, latitude and longitude in the air, and then they can fly directly to the target, and the distance is only less than 60 nautical miles, not even an hour.

But where do they need to bomb Trepik?

In this regard, the commanders did not give direct orders, but fortunately, more than an hour ago, the reconnaissance plane brought back some reconnaissance photos, and the commanders marked some objects that met the requirements - large landmarks. This is their bombing target, even the church is no exception, just like Ding Zhanpeng's target, which is a church.

"I have to make those Mexicans remember me 100 years from now!"

The order of the commander was very clear - bomb!

Tepic City, on the banks of the Terpic River, a tributary of the Rio Grande, is a city in the central west of Mexico and the capital of the state of Nayarit.

The market of Pyrrhus is a large market in the city, every morning, there are always hundreds of vendors and thousands of people gathered here, people here to sell goods, buy all kinds of necessities for life, at ten o'clock in the morning, it is the busiest time of the market, those who speak Spanish are haggling, suddenly, there is a strange roar in the air, the sound comes from the air, when people look up, they only see a small black dot in the sky.

"What's that?"

Just when people were curious, the black spot in the sky became clearer and clearer, it was an airplane! A handful of people recognized it as a plane that had appeared in the newspapers?

How can there be so many planes?

Could it be that the dictator sent it?

At that moment, there were more black dots underneath those planes.

"Hoo ......"

As the black dots fell, there was a terrifying whistling sound in the air, and in the next moment, an earthquake-like explosion accompanied by a loud bang was heard. St. Mary's Church, far away in the explosion, was enveloped in gunsmoke......

"Church, church collapsed ......"

In a violent explosion, one of the two massive towers of the Church of St. Mari was blown up, and chaotic screams were heard from the crowd, and by this time, the plane had appeared above the people's heads, humming and circling in the air, while black dots continued to fall in the city......

Almost at the same time, in Washington, USA, north of Mexico, ******.

Over the past two years, it has been in the United States that ****** Secretary of State Philland? Under Knox's leadership, the United States began to implement "gold-dollar diplomacy" and used economic expansion to control the economies of Latin America and other regions, making all countries, especially those in Latin America, increasingly dependent on the United States. But now the secretary of state, who is always tied to his waist in newspaper cartoons with a huge bag full of gold coins, is full of surprise to face Gu Weijun in front of him, the ambassador to the United States, a well-known conciliator in China's foreign ministry.

"Are you sure? My friend? ”

The reason why he asked such a rhetorical question was because the information told to him by the other party was really amazing.

"You have to understand that this is bound to lead to a series of disturbing events!"

Perhaps in the past two years, under the auspices of President Taft and under the leadership of Knox himself, "gold dollar diplomacy" has replaced Roosevelt's "stick diplomacy", but this does not mean that the United States has abandoned the "big stick".

"For the past eleven days, we have been waiting for a response from the Mexican side, but what have we been waiting for?"

Gu Weijun, who seems to be calm, is full of deep dissatisfaction in his heart, in his opinion, the reason why the Mexican side is "holding on to fear" now is entirely because of the support of the United States behind the scenes.

"Your Excellency, you must understand that the Mexican government is in the midst of a change, and in this chaos, I don't think they will be able to give you a positive response at the first time, but please rest assured that the United States will definitely be on the side of justice!"

Knox's words reveal the fact that, with the support of the United States, the Mexican peasant army that supported Madero as a revolutionary had already occupied most of Mexico, and many of Mexico's provincial capitals were now occupied by the peasant army. On 10 May, representatives of the Government signed an agreement with Madero in Ciudad Juárez, agreeing to the resignation of Díaz and Riemantour and the presidency of Madero.

"As we all know, after the events in the Plaza two days ago, Díaz, who had nothing to do, had to announce his resignation, we have reliable information that he has secretly left Mexico City and is preparing to go into exile in Europe, and now Madero is preparing to go to Mexico City to take up his post, once he takes office, Mexico will definitely properly deal with the aftermath of the Torreón incident!"

The situation is always so chaotic, the old government in Mexico has collapsed, the new government is still not in power, and it is precisely in this situation that the diplomatic negotiations of the Chinese have been frustrated several times, so that they cannot find a person to approach, and it is because of this that domestic anger will grow. Now the notice handed over by Gu Weijun is undoubtedly a manifestation of domestic anger.

"Mr. Secretary, please understand that the Chinese national anger is at its peak right now, and they have had enough of the arrogance of the Mexicans...... Now, it will be the last option! ”

This is the last and only option to quell national anger.

"So ......"

Looking at the diplomatic letter in front of him with a puzzled face, this is a notice from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, taking the document from Gu Weijun's hand, Knox took another deep breath, the secretary of state, who is usually calm and steady, and has flexible diplomatic skills, raised his head and looked at Gu Weijun and reiterated again:

"My friend, you must know what this means!"

What does this mean?

Now Knox has no way to give any answer, but he knows very well what China's ultimatum means for the United States, which means that the United States will never accept the Chinese in Mexico.

"Of course"

Gu Weijun looked directly into his old friend's gaze.

"Although it is a pity that I can only obey the orders of the Imperial Government."

Yes, as a diplomat, Gu Weijun can only choose to obey, perhaps, he does not agree with this ultimatum issued to Mexico, but he has no other choice, and to a certain extent, he also understands that Nanjing also has no choice, Nanjing must use its own actions to protect the more than 13 million overseas nationals, otherwise, the Chinese diaspora is very likely to become the fat of others.

After the Torreon incident, Gu Weijun, as a diplomat, once reflected on this incident, and he did not use idiotic arguments to declare that "overseas nationals should be provided with weapons, help them build militias, and even build fortresses in ghettos", those people's ideas are completely brainless, how can any sovereign country tolerate other nationals doing this? Even if it was the Wanguo merchant group in the Shanghai Concession in the Puppet Qing Dynasty, there was a concession first, and later during the "rebellion", those foreign merchants organized a merchant group.

How many strange things are there in the world like the pseudo-Qing Dynasty? What's more, I am afraid that China has not intended to do so, and those people will use this as an excuse to legally expel Chinese nationals in the name of the law, after all, it is impossible for any normal country to tolerate such a thing happening on its own soil.

Hmph, there are some idiots who always think that the whole world is "my Daqing", but they forget that there was once only one "I Daqing" in the world.

As a diplomat, what does Gu Weijun reflect on? What he is reflecting on is not how could an event have happened? Rather, it is reflecting on the discrimination of Westerners against people of color! For Western countries, the countries of the Western Caucasian race are equal, at least to a certain extent! But between Caucasians and people of color, that inequality is natural.

This is the root cause of the incident, for the Mexican thugs, they see not the strength of China, they see a group of "rich, greedy yellow monkeys", that's all, this kind of discrimination from the bones, not a victory in a naval battle can be reversed, it is the contempt in the bones that makes them not take the Chinese in their eyes at all, of course, this is also fundamentally related to the incompetence of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty.

It is for this reason that, although he opposes the ultimatum at home, he agrees with it to some extent.

"Is there no other choice?"

"I think this is the final decision of the Imperial Government, and based on diplomatic courtesy, we deem it necessary to inform your country, our final decision!"

After Gu Weijun left, the iron-faced Knox just sent him out of the office, he turned around nervously, strode to the office, grabbed the telephone on the table and said.

"Pick up the White House, I'm going to talk to the president!"

A moment later, when the president's voice came from the phone, Knox said in an excited tone.

"Mr. President, the Chinese don't just want to take revenge on the Mexicans!" (To be continued.) )