Chapter 429: Plotting to Seize Luzon

How to deploy militarily, Yan Fu and others did not mix deeply. As long as he got Yang Hao's package ticket and confirmed that he would not occupy the revolutionary impetus of the new area because of the war, he went back with a lot of anxiety and continued to think about how to do things as well as possible while tightening his belt.

Yang Hao didn't fool him casually, this move was even prepared a long time ago. Last year, in the name of protecting overseas Chinese, he dragged the entire navy to demonstrate, grabbed the beach and landed on the beach, and ruthlessly cleaned up the Spaniards, but it was only the first time that he officially intervened in the governance of Luzon.

Now, it's time for the second step of planning.

On April 28, 1897, at the high-level military meeting held by the General Headquarters, all the main minds of the navy and land departments were present, and Yang Hao personally presided over the meeting.

He was dressed in a naval uniform without rank, his burly and muscular body exuded an undisguised ferocity, and a telegram with a faint smell of ink in his hand shook in front of everyone's eyes, and the smile on his lips looked like a carnivore had found a tender and delicious target.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have just received news from the Luzon side that the Luzon rebel army that was beaten out of Manila by the troops led by the new governor Rivera, and suddenly there was a serious infighting! Aquinas, the army leader representing the landlords and the bourgeoisie, plotted to kill Bonifaxiu, saved up more leadership of the rebel army, and forcibly disbanded the political group 'Katipnan'. Subsequently, they contacted the Spaniards through intermediaries in an attempt to obtain peace at the cost of a considerable amount of reparations. ”

He succinctly and concisely stated the drastic changes in the local area in one breath, so that the heads of the officers present were a little unable to keep up for a while, and they hurriedly looked through the information sent down at hand. After a cursory reading. Got a general idea of the whole background.

As early as two years ago. Yang Hao blackmailed the colonists of the great powers for the first time. When they were coerced and lured to buy a large amount of arms and equipment, they not only sent some weapons and ammunition to the rebel army and rebel army in Vietnam and the Asian Games in Malaysia, but also secretly contacted the leader of the 'Katipunan' who was preparing to revolt at that time. Bonifa Show and Jacinto. Not only did they sell them a full 100,000 rifles and 150 artillery pieces, but they also generously gave them an extra batch of ammunition.

From the very beginning, the rebel army had a strong armed force against the Spanish colonizers.

It's a pity that these rebel forces, which have a strong religious character, are too unprofessional. From top to bottom, not only did there be no strict military training, but the organizational structure was also extremely loose, and each team fought separately and did not belong to each other. When the uprising was launched, everyone rushed towards the area they valued.

The Spaniards were prepared! As for how they know, we can ask some people in the overseas intelligence department of the Revolutionary Army.

The commander at the time, Aguirre, and the governor Blanco seemed to be taken by surprise, but with the deep accumulation of hundreds of years of colonization and the hasty mobilization after receiving the news in advance, they gathered 20,000 troops in a short time. This is several times more than their original figure of only 1,500 regular troops and 6,000 Luzon servants!

When a battle broke out between the two sides, which had greatly increased their strength, the conflict was particularly fierce! In the end, the rebels relied on the advantages of numerous guns and ammunition to defeat the arrogant Spaniards.

Moment of truth. Yang Hao pulled the entire navy and suddenly ran over to "protect the overseas Chinese" and stabbed the Spaniard in the back. Not only did he sack the whole of Manila, but he also sold a lot of favors to the rebel junta and signed a series of "friendship secret agreements" by the way.

Subsequently, the Chinese Navy left all of them on the grounds of "completing the task of protecting overseas Chinese". After that, he turned around and captured two strategic points on Guam and Saipan, and then went to Japan to blackmail, leading the war that lasted for several months.

During this period, the Spaniards, who were taken aback by the sudden display of muscles, were relieved to find that China did not actually mean to occupy Luzon. They sent tens of thousands of regular troops, led by the new governor Polavisha, to Luzon to retake Manila from the rebels and fight them all the way out of Cavite.

The governor of Polawechia returned with a high degree of honor, and Rivera, who had succeeded him, organized troops to continue the attack. At this moment, infighting broke out in the rebel army!

Aquinato and others believed that the revolutionary army had shown itself to be strong enough, and that the continuous fighting in Tongguò had taught the Spanish rulers a hard lesson. Next, then, instead of continuing to lose the bloody conflict of Yan zhòng, we should take the opportunity to make peace with them, and by surrendering their weapons and disarming them in exchange for the establishment of a republic under Spanish control.

In this way, they can bear the name of a country and at the same time obtain the protection of a traditional Western power, which is the best political structure.

Of course, Aguinaldo and others absolutely did not admit that under such a framework of peace, they were in fact divided by the vast majority of interests within the new government. It would be much easier and more affordable than driving out the Spaniards altogether and then redividing the profits among the rebel leaders.

There are also those who are accustomed to being foreign slaves, and have no self-confidence at all in their hearts, and are always worried that they will be invaded and ruled by more powerful countries, and may lose their existing interests.

Bonifarxiu, however, vetoed Aguinaldo's idea very firmly. He and some of his leaders firmly believed that as long as all the rebels united and continued to buy weapons and actively fight, they would be able to defeat the Spaniards and gain true and complete national freedom. Luzon can be completely dependent on no one, does not need to be a slave of any country, and will certainly be able to achieve a great national revolutionary victory!

He has a very ready-made role model, that is, the Chinese Revolutionary Army under the leadership of Yang Hao. In just a few years, the achievements of the revolutionary army have shocked the whole world! Today, the Yang Hao Group is cooperating well with the Luzon rebels, and the peaceful and enlightened cooperation method adopted since the last sudden intervention is enough to prove that this is a very good partnership. As long as this friendship between the two sides continues, they will be able to work together to resist the oppression and bullying of the great powers.

Unbeknownst to Bonifaxiu, what he was holding on to was exactly what Aguinaldo feared.

The national revolution and land reform that are breaking out in China are no secret. A steady stream of newspapers from maritime merchants and smugglers. Plus illegal publications by sleepy intelligence agents. The upper echelons of the Luzon Rebel Army clearly knew the tremendous impact of the Chinese revolutionary storm!

The landlord forces like Aguinaldo were bound to be defeated and liquidated by the forces of the proletariat. On the other hand, the 'Katipunan' led by Bonifaxiu is strongly religious, more inclined to the armed forces of the masses, and is very likely to absorb and adopt the progressive forces of the Chinese revolutionary ideas.

Once the revolution succeeds, "Catipunan" will inevitably clash with Aguinaldo's strength. It is impossible for the landlord bourgeoisie to give up its own interests, and it is also necessary for them to revolt in order to obtain greater benefits, and not really to emancipate the whole people.

Contradictions between the two sides. It erupted for the first time after the occupation of Manila.

Faced with an empty city, Aguinaldo, who was full of hope to take the capital and rob the huge profits, was extremely disappointed, and hated Yang Hao to the core. Bonifa Xiu felt that there was no big problem with this, the wealth accumulated by the colonists should have been returned to the people, and Yang Hao just took the initiative to take the arrears of weapons that had supported their uprising in the past two years. No matter how much, it was also to compensate for the deficit caused by the war against the Spaniards.

…… It has to be said that idealistic rebels tend to be more simple and cute. But in the political struggle of life and death, this kind of thinking is very deadly!

It was no surprise that Bonifaxiu was set on fire and killed, and Aguinaldo, who had finally gained absolute leadership of the rebel army, was extremely excited, even if some of the armed forces led by Macabros were extremely dissatisfied. Split - split out and continue to fight the Spaniards.

He couldn't wait for the intermediary to seek a compromise with the Spaniards, unbeknownst to him. Behind this middleman is Yang Hao, and Yang Hao has been waiting for this day to come!

The layout two years in advance, inside and out, has calculated all the aspects!

The generals who learned the truth for the first time gasped, and their eyes were full of shock and admiration when they looked at Yang Hao! What a magnificent thinking ability it must have to be to set our sights on the whole of Asia, and even the world, at the beginning of the local revolution!

However, they were not surprised, Yang Hao had already shown his powerful judgment to break through the sky countless times. Now they just need to think about how they can make the most of the current conditions and get the most out of them!

Yang Hao slapped the telegram on the table and said aloud passionately: "Excuse, we have ready-made." Support the Luzon people in their struggle for national independence, oppose the Aguinaldo group that betrayed the revolution, and protect the lives and property of overseas Chinese compatriots! ”

To wage war, we must occupy the moral high ground, and this is the correct way to do it in the world. The previous series of foreshadowing can be completed today.

Yang Hao raised his hand to signal, Shi Jianfei stood up and said: "There is no need to make a big move in this operation, we only need to send the first squadron led by two battleships to the South China Sea to cut off the maritime support of the Spaniards, and then send weapons, ammunition and military advisers to the armed forces of Macarbros, which is enough to ensure that they grow strong and win the war." After that, we need to support them in setting up a legitimate government and signing a series of agreements to help develop local mineral resources. ”

Show one’s true colors in the end! This last sentence is the core of waging war!

All the generals suddenly realized that they looked at these two people with meaningful eyes. It's not profitable, it's too early, it's like Yang Hao. Without a large enough interest, how could he be so enthusiastic about pulling the fleet out? If it is really to protect the overseas Chinese, in fact, a heavy cruiser is enough to sweep the Spanish navy for the capital. A trip between a battleship and a bunch of ships costs millions, who has so much spare money to toss around?

Yang Hao also practiced his cheeks, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with fighting for interests by means of war. He propped his hands on the table, and said with bright eyes: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Luzon Islands are the first chain around our maritime borders. For the sake of the country's future security, we must grasp this strategic point. If we do not take the initiative to attack, it is foreseeable that in the future, no matter which great power gains the dominance of the region, it will definitely do its best to blockade us, and provoke the Luzon people to conflict and friction with us, and even fight for control of the South China Sea! ”

The generals had no objection to this. They were instilled with the idea of sea power from the very beginning, and unswervingly supported Yang Hao's efforts to invest in naval construction and deploy strategic defense to the outer island chain.

In the well-known strategic planning of the interior, the island chain of Vladivostok, the Korean Peninsula, the Ryukyu Islands, the Treasure Islands, and the Luzon Islands, which had been seized by Russia, must be fully controlled. In this way, the threat of foreign powers to the homeland can be completely shielded.

The Kuril Islands, the Japanese archipelago, Saipan, and Guam form the second island chain. It should be used as a Pacific shield against the offensive of the great powers. their storage zài. It will buy valuable time for the Navy to go out and consolidate the first island chain.

As for the expansion of greater ambitions. They targeted the Hawaiian Islands and the Aleutian Islands to defend against the United States, and south to the Indonesian Islands and the Malay Peninsula to control the Indian Ocean Pass and defend against European powers.

In the coming decades, the entire Chinese navy will build a solid maritime defense chain around this core idea of strategic defense.

There are countless advantages of this, and the key ones are that the disputes between the surrounding countries and neighboring countries will be eliminated in advance; The second is to turn neighboring countries into vassals of the Greater China Circle, and turn hundreds of millions of people in these countries into dumping markets for China's industrial products; The third is to turn these countries into suppliers of China's industrial resources. Completely solve the shortcomings of China's mineral resources, which are generally poor and scattered.

The future map thus created will be enough to confront the entire Western world without falling behind.

For three years, the disposition of the Northern Dynasties seems to have been very successful. The Northern Dynasties have become a very powerful mineral resource area, and the mining and rough processing of minerals created in the local area have been incorporated into the industrial chain of China's basic industry, and the operation is quite stable. At the same time, it has also received the gratitude of the people of the country, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop.

Now, it's Luzon's turn.

In the appendix of the information in the hands of the generals. The list cites the rich mineral resources of the Luzon Islands. When they saw the shocking numbers, they couldn't help but be amazed!

Copper ore. 4.8 billion tons! Just one Southcotabato copper-gold mine has 10.442 million tons of copper reserves and 227-369 tons of gold! How much is this light worth?

Lajap, Domaco and Agusan in Northern Kemaren Province have 140 million tons of rich iron ore, 300 million tons of poor iron ore, 300,000 tons of copper metal and 1 million tons of long-term resources, 200 tons of gold ore, 200,000 tons of associated molybdenum ore, and 300,000 tons of lead-zinc ore...... It's got you covered!

So many mineral deposits are concentrated in a narrow line, and a port with a 50,000-ton wharf can be built next to it, which is extremely convenient for mining and transportation! Here, alone, can provide a steady stream of industrial raw materials for the country!

In addition, there are more than 30 million tons of chrome ore in Luzon, and there is the world's largest Coto chromite mine! There are total reserves of 1.09 billion tons of nickel ore, most of which are bauxite, and 0.1% cobalt ore - an indispensable element for high-strength alloys!

There are also 242 million tons of bauxite with a content of up to 40%, and various gold, silver and copper ores are innumerable, with a total of 7.1 billion tons! Among them, a Rapu-Rapu island has discovered gold-copper-silver deposits with reserves of more than 6 million tons, containing 3 grams of gold and 37 grams of silver per ton of ore; The copper content is 1.46% and the zinc content is 2.33%.

It's all a bonanza, invaluable, immeasurable!

In addition to the lack of resources such as oil and coal, the abundance of metallic and non-metallic minerals is outrageous! In addition, there are incalculable quantities of rubber, coconut palms, bananas and other crops, which can also be developed to fill the domestic bottomless pit.

Seeing the estimated value, everyone couldn't help but breathe heavily, and their faces turned red!

People in these years are thin-skinned, and those who are scholars are even more ashamed to talk about money and are not good at talking about profits. But when they really saw that this unit was calculated in 100 million taels of silver, a large string of zeros could barely be counted, and they decisively threw the shyness in their hearts out of the clouds!

Yang Hao likes to see such a change very much, and he hopes that all Chinese decision-makers will have the courage to face their inner greed, dare to expand outwards and compete for resources for the sake of the country and the nation!

Although China is huge, more than half of its territory is not suitable for human life. China is rich in resources and has a complete range of mineral products, but the vast majority of them are poor and difficult to mine, with high smelting costs, low quality and lack of competitiveness.

However, the Chinese population base is the largest in the world, and in the foreseeable future, even if family planning for two children is implemented, it will not take decades for the population to exceed one billion. At that time, the grain output was not enough to eat, and all kinds of resources were not enough, so how difficult it was to go out and fight for it!

China in this world, with only a small effort, has completely hollowed out its own resource supply capacity, and has to search for supply places all over the world. But at that time, the whole world had already been carved up by the powers led by the United States, and they joined forces to raise prices and encircle them on all sides. Every step of China's industry has to pay several times more than others!

Yang Hao doesn't want to pass on such hardships to future generations, he wants to solve them completely in the hands of this generation!

"This place must be taken! Even at any cost, you have to take him down! Good fellows, this whole cornucopia! It's right under our noses, not in our hands, I'm sorry for future generations! ”

Tan Sitong was rubbing his hands, full of gangsterism, and he couldn't wait to take it upon himself to snatch that place.

The Social Democratic Party, which he headed, is now infinitely closer to the National Socialist Party. Within it, the concept of a nation, a nation, and a leader was formed. China, the Chinese nation, Yang Hao, the trinity is inseparable, and the whole country is seized by armed struggle. With Han culture as the core, we will completely complete the great cause of the ancestor Qin Shi Huang -- the same book and the same track, unify the main language, and bring religion and belief under the banner of the country and the Chinese nation!

This is the Great Chinese imperialism of Totoer, but he did not feel that there was anything wrong with it, and unswervingly promoted it, thus winning the wide support of the younger generation.

Yang Hao was extremely worried, maybe one day, there would be a large group of Na-Purist party members under his hands, .......

Driven by more extreme ideas, the Shaozhuang faction led by Tan Sitong did not have any psychological obstacles to military expansion, and as long as it was beneficial to the Chinese nation, he did not care about waging war at all. But fortunately, I came out of reading Confucianism, and I always have a bottom line in my heart, and I will never exterminate other nations for my own survival.

The relatively moderate and conservative Republican Party headed by Yan Fu united the enlightened and progressive gentry and the older generation of scholars in China, who adhered to the traditional Chinese culture as the ontology, actively absorbed Western mechanical ideas and industrial civilization for external use, and took the integration of their own forces as the first priority, and did not approve of excessive expansion.

However, in the face of Yang Hao's huge interests, the old masters were also a little nervous.

Yan Fu sighed: "This is the foundation of China's eternal existence, and God will take it, but it will be blamed!" However, we must always take care of the interests of the Luzon people, and we should not be like the great powers who plundered with barbarism. ”

Yang Hao nodded affirmatively: "We have always adhered to the principle of common development and common prosperity, and we will definitely reasonably exchange for the resources of Luzon." There is a precedent for the Northern Dynasties, and I believe that we will be able to win the unanimous approval and support of the Philippine people. ”

Needless to say, the other party doesn't support it, what if someone finds fault and picks trouble? There are so many warships and troops in our house, not to look good!

Everyone unanimously expressed their support for sending troops, and Yang Hao made a final decision: "Okay, we want to build a century-old foundation of stability at one time!" (To be continued......)

ps:ps: It's progressive.,I can show specific sensitive words.,Save yourself to find it.。 R1292