While the Spaniards were still trying to organize an expeditionary fleet, the war first began in the Philippines in Asia. The U.S. Navy had long been prepared for the arrival of war, so on the third day after the Caribbean Pearl incident, Admiral Dewey left Hawaii with the U.S. Pacific Fleet and headed for the Hong Kong dock under the pretext of ocean-going training. After a few days in Hong Kong, Dewey received an order from China to immediately attack the Spanish-controlled Philippines.

Just as the Cubans had been rebelling against Spanish rule in various ways, the Filipinos had also waged a constant struggle against the Spaniards. It's just that the Filipinos' road to independence is even more bumpy. In the original history, since 1896, the Filipinos have launched a major uprising against the Spaniards, but unlike Cuba, the Cuban uprising has always attracted the attention of the entire Western world, while the Filipino uprising has been largely ignored. Although they were all uprisings against the colonizers, and even the opponents were Spaniards, the rebels in Cuba were mostly native-born, while the rebels in the Philippines were authentic and indigenous. In the eyes of civilized people, indigenous people are actually just a creature between humans and monkeys, and whether they can be regarded as human beings needs to be seriously studied and studied. Since this is the case, their political demands can naturally be ignored. After all, even if you sell cuteness and sell earth-shattering rolling, you can't get the right to vote, let alone those Filipino humanoids who are not cute at all compared to rolling?

However, there are times when humanoids are treated as humans, for example, now, Aguinaldo, who was forced into exile in Hong Kong because of the failure of the uprising, is again regarded as a human by the Americans. Speaking of this Mr. Aguinaldo, it is also a very interesting person, of course, this is a very gentlemanly statement, and the less polite way of saying it is: this product is a wonder.

At the beginning of the Philippine Revolution, Mr. Aguinaldo did not join in. Life. Shape. When the situation was good, Aguinaldo, as a large landowner, also joined in, and became one of the important leaders with the financial and human resources in his hands. Later, Spain mobilized troops from within the country to suppress the revolution, because the resistance of the Filipino humanoids did not receive as much assistance as Cuba, and the natives in the tropical rainforest climate seemed to be generally not strong in combat, (in general, such natives belonged to the chaotic neutral camp, and they really couldn't fight or anything), and as a result, the rebels suffered defeats. At this critical moment, the same Mr. Aguinado staged a coup d'état within the rebel army, killing the military leader of the first uprising, Bonifazus, and then running to negotiate with the Spaniards. In the end, they also reached a very strange result: Spain paid Aguinaldo's group 850,000 pesos and agreed to carry out so-called administrative and legislative reforms, and Aguinaldo promised to stop the armed struggle and go into exile. He also called on the other rebels to surrender. Compared to the original history, because the Spaniards were anxious to put an end to their uprising and deal with the imminent arrival of American troops, Aguinaldo was given better terms, such as giving him 50,000 pesos more than in the original history. Of course, Mr. Aguinaldo surrendered even more simply, in the original history, he did not surrender until December 1897, and this time, because of the extra 50,000 pesos, Mr. Aguinaldo did not even care about the "Republic of the Philippines", and surrendered directly in early November 1897, and then took the money given by the Spaniards and ran to Hong Kong to live a small life.

As soon as he arrived in Hong Kong, he was taken by the Americans, and the people from Blackwater immediately got in touch with the goods. After coming into contact with the goods, Scrooge's representative described the Philippine "revolutionary leader" to his colleagues as follows:

"Although I have always prided myself on being well-informed, I now have to admit that I have never seen anyone so brazen! I thought that this man was also a revolutionary who revolted for the sake of a nation in any case - you know, we had a lot of dealings with revolutionaries of all kinds, and in general, these people were all sorted, some shrewd, some honest, but most of them had the courage to die for the sake of justice. So even though I only came into contact with those people for the economic benefit of the company, I still have a lot of respect for those revolutionaries, and I would actually be quite happy if I could help them. Yet this man is more despicable than any stinky rat you can find in the gutter, and he cares almost nothing but his personal visible interests. Seeing this person, I really believe a little bit of what those people say, that is, Filipinos are not actually humans, they can only be regarded as some kind of humanoid creatures...... However, I also have to admit that it is absolutely reasonable for the company to support such a person, because if this person is really in power and buys the country, it is absolutely unambiguous. And such a guy also has a great advantage, that is, the buyer country can't sell it for money...... But I also admit that as long as you shake the money in front of him, he will become extraordinarily brave and will not even be afraid to go to hell......"

In short, Mr. Aguinardo took Scrooge's money again, and then began to cooperate with Scrooge. This guy contacted a few Filipinos, issued a "Philippine Declaration of Independence" in Hong Kong, and then appointed himself president of the "Republic of the Philippines", and by the way, signed a series of agreements with representatives of McDonald Ventures, and sold a series of land in the Philippines with iron ore, copper mines, gold mines, molybdenum mines, and other things, and sold them to McDonald Ventures Bank for a symbolic price of 20,000 US dollars. In addition, Mr. Aguinaldo is said to have signed a secret pact with the Americans, promising to respond to the U.S. military in the event of a conflict with the Philippine rebels in the future. Of course, there are definitely more than $20,000 for a series of things, and rumor has it that McDonald Ventures actually paid $500,000 for this series of agreements.

After General Dewey's fleet arrived, Mr. Aguinaldo immediately contacted the U.S. Navy under the arrangement of the McDonald consortium, and boarded the U.S. warship, preparing to go with the U.S. military to "liberate the Philippines." At the same time, his henchmen also became active, preparing to lead the way for the American troops after they landed. R1058