Chapter 238, America's Opportunity

The 911 attacks of September 11, 1867, exposed Spain's vulnerability to the world, and the unstable attack of a group of indigenous rebels almost collapsed Spanish rule throughout Cuba. On that day, the rebels attacked almost all government institutions in Havana, killing more than 1,000 members of the Spanish colonial government and more than doubling that number. And the stupid Spaniards actually failed to catch an attacker, such stupidity can be said to have broken through the sky. Although the Spaniards in Cuba tried their best to defend this situation, "it was not because we were incompetent, but because the enemy was too cunning". But such justifications show more and more their incompetence and stupidity, and even in Spain, people's expressions of them are dominated by criticism and sarcasm.

The Governor in Cuba was wounded in the attack, reportedly having been smashed in the head, and although he was not dead, he was no longer able to take care of himself. The entire police system in Havana has been completely paralyzed. Now, the Spaniards, who had just toppled the slut, found themselves in another big trouble.

The situation in Cuba is now completely chaotic, and after such a blow to Havana, rebellions continue to erupt in other regions. Although the rebels did not directly seize the power of Havana, they took advantage of the complete loss of the ability of the colonial authorities to react, and they launched rebellions in other cities, seizing many towns in one go. Today, almost half of Cuba's towns no longer fly the Spanish flag of "blood and gold" (according to legend, the color of the Spanish flag comes from the golden shield soaked in the blood of the Gothic kings, who were wounded in battle, hence the "blood and gold").

The new Spanish government could, of course, put all the blame for the collapse of Cuba on the slut who had now fled to Paris. In fact, they did the same, and they pointed out that it was because of that slut's indulgence in lust and pleasure, that she allowed the traitors in the DPRK and China to run rampant and corrupt, and allowed those incompetent people to steal high positions, which led to such a collapse in Cuba.

However, now that the new government has overthrown the slut, they should certainly show more competence, and they should be able to settle the matter and keep Spain's last and most important colony in the Americas. So, when Cuba is in chaos and almost into a state of semi-anarchy, the new government must be able to turn the tide.

It's just that Cuba is so far away from Spain that communication between the two sides is very difficult. Fortunately, technology has advanced now, and the wireless transoceanic telegraph has been opened not long ago. So the Spaniards could have gotten through the Americans, well, rather, through Guò Scrooge's Tower in New York to keep up with the conversations.

The Spaniards didn't pay much attention to telegrams, so when the British and Prussians had long begun to use wireless telegraphy with ciphers, the Spaniards didn't pay much attention to it, so although they had the so-called ciphers, the encrypted process dù was simply unsightly, and every time they sent a telegram, Scrooge knew it clearly, and as a result, Scrooge took these messages to the University of Cleveland, and it took a little more than a week to find a group of mathematicians, and they completely cracked them. In this way, Spain's various decisions are almost completely transparent to Scrooge, and these things are transparent to Scrooge, so the Cuban "freedom fighters" and Morgan have become mostly translucent.

Morgan hasn't been idle these days. Cuba produced almost half of the white sugar on the world market at the time, and almost all of the best quality white sugar came from Cuba. In addition, Morgan, who is a big smoking gun, is also well aware of the position of Cuban tobacco in the world market. Before the accident happened, Morgan and his people released the news that Cuba was going to have a good weather and an imminent bumper harvest in agriculture this year, and successfully lowered the price of high-quality white sugar and tobacco by more than 10 percent, and then quietly bought a large number of white sugar and tobacco futures in other regions. Now that Cuba is suddenly in chaos, the promised harvest has naturally been lost, and almost all of Europeans' knowledge of the situation in Cuba comes from reports from the New York Tower in Guò Scroge, and these reports almost all depict a Cuba that is completely out of control. As a result, the futures prices of sugar and tobacco began to skyrocket, making Morgan very profitable.

"I've made a lot of money." Morgan said to Mimi, "But, even if you think about it on your heels, that Scrooge guy must be making more!" Well, during this time alone, he collected a lot of telegram fees from the Spaniards! I don't feel comfortable thinking about that. ”

However, Morgan's words are a bit wronged by Scrooge, at least at this stage, Scrooge does not make much. Of course, there is no doubt that this turmoil will bring him more money in the long run.

The new Spanish government made a decision and they ordered the acting governor of Cuba, Lord Cooper, to negotiate with the rebels in order to buy time for the repression by sending troops from within the country. As for the army at home, the Spaniards gritted their teeth and sent an army of twenty-five thousand men. As for the generals who commanded the army, well, they took the opportunity to throw in all the officers of the royalist faction. If they win, of course it's good, if they lose, that's not bad. Moreover, considering the amazing fighting power of the rebels (although the newspaper reports mainly emphasized the stupidity of the Spanish colonial authorities, the Spanish government, which had first-hand information, could still tell that this group of rebels was not a fuel-efficient lamp). The first armies may not be able to suppress the rebellion. Well, then after the royalists and the rebels are defeated, the new government will send new generals, its own, with new weapons and new weapons, to settle the battle. Well, then, a qiē will get better and better.

Thus, such a glorious and difficult task as the suppression of the rebellion fell on the shoulders of the royalist general, General Campos. The new government gave him 25,000 soldiers, well, just to suppress a group of indigenous rebels, and no one would think that such a large number of troops would be insufficient. And to be honest, the equipment of this army is not bad either. When Queen Isabella II was still in power, she liked to spend money indiscriminately, so the military expenditure of the Spanish army has not been high, and even when the US government dumped the loader guns at low prices in the world the year before last, Spain failed to come up with much money to change the clothes of its army. So, although only 10,000 of the 25,000 men are now equipped with the MacDonald 1857, which now seems to be a bit old, this is already very well equipped in Spain.