Krutz smiled bitterly and said, "Lord Governor, are we really going to declare war?" ”

Sandras said, "War declared! War must be declared! ”

Krutz smiled gloomily and said, "Your Excellency, how much do you know about China?" ”

Sandras thought for a moment and said, "Chinese food is delicious."

Krutz smiled and asked, "Is that all?" ”

Sandras said, "Isn't that enough? How can a country that makes its dishes so delicious have the heart to fight a good war? ”

Krutz said helplessly: "Your Excellency, there is a word called 'rookie' in China recently, I don't know if you have heard of it?" ”

Sandras shook his head and said, "I only care about Chinese food, not anything else." ”

Krutz smiled: "Your Excellency Governor, this 'rookie' refers to those who don't know anything, in the eyes of China, we in the Philippines, our Spanish Empire, are all rookies." ”

Sandras frowned and said angrily: "All rookies? What does that mean? ”

Krutz said: "China once defeated the British Far East Fleet, and now it has occupied all of Japan, and we in Spain are no longer the empire with an invincible armada, which dominates the world, how can we rashly declare war?" ”

Sandras's expression darkened, and his voice decreased a lot, so that Crutz instantly felt that the house was safe, and Sandras said: "If you don't say that I forget it, China is indeed very strong, but our Spanish garrison is not vulnerable, right?" ”

Krutz said helplessly: "Your Excellency the Governor, our garrison is more than vulnerable! It's simply 'untouchable', no need to 'hit', let's just say our fleet, high-quality coal has long been sold by the fleet commander, and now the warehouses are empty; the money for buying shells from the arms dealer has also been embezzled by the armament minister, and now the oldest cannonball in the fleet is larger than the armament minister's mistress. ”

Sandras frowned and said, "Why don't I know these things?" Be sure to investigate thoroughly in the future! Krutz smiled secretly in his heart: "Lord Governor, don't pretend to be confused, the fleet commander has embezzled a lot of money for you!" Then Sandras continued: "You hurry up and get the British envoy Alex?" Charlton, please. ”

Crutz nodded and walked out, going to ask Alex? Charlton, speaking of this Alex? Charlton, but Lin Yuan's "old friend", Lin Yuan implemented the renminbi in Shanghai back then, seized the foreign factories that squeezed the blood and sweat of the Chinese people, and competed with the British Concession Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, and the top leader of the Ministry of Industry Bureau was Alex? Charlton.

Charlton walked into the living room after a short time, and Sandras said: "Mr. Charlton, you have done all the anti-Chinese things, and now Lin Yuan has given us a 'thunder deterrent', and we have lost face in the international community, you can think of a way for us." ”

Charlton smiled: "There is only one way, declare war!" ”

Sandras glanced back at Krutz, the press officer, and said to him, "Convince Mr. Charlton that we can't declare war." ”

Crutz said: "Mr. Special Envoy, please think about it, the strength of Lin Yuan's troops is far above ours, how can we be their opponents?" ”

Charlton smiled: "Do you think Lin Yuan has the strength to attack the Philippines in an all-out way?" ”

Crutz nodded and said, "I think there should be." ”

Charlton smiled: "Then why don't you say Lin Yuan won't attack in an all-round way?" What kind of thunder deterrent action did you come up with? ”

Crutz shook his head slightly, and Charlton smiled: "You can see, the war in Japan has only been over for a few days?" Lin Yuan simply didn't have that much energy to start the next war right now, so Lin Yuan figured out a thunderous deterrent action to force us to protect the Chinese, if we declared war, Lin Yuan's troops would definitely not attack in full force, and then our face would come back. ”

Crutz thought to himself, "What are you talking about!" The reason why Lin Yuan did not launch a full-scale war was that there was only a large-scale ** riot in Palanan, if Lin Yuan attacked in an all-out way, it would be a nameless division, and Lin Yuan paid the most attention to 'the division was famous', how could it be possible to attack the Philippines in an all-out way? If China is really provoked and an all-out war breaks out, the Philippines will be all Chinese within a week. ”

But although Krutz thought clearly, he didn't say anything, but thought, "Who made you chiefs?" I don't want to fight with you, you will declare war if you are willing, anyway, I have made enough money in the past two years, and I will surrender as soon as Lin Yuan's troops come, and then go home to live like a king. ”

Krutz then said, "Well, I'm going to hold a press conference and announce the declaration of war to the world." So at 14 o'clock on September 22, 1898, the Philippines officially declared war on China!

Lin Yuan immediately smiled when he heard the news of the declaration of war, although China has done relatively little intelligence work on the Philippines, but Lin Yuan also knows the corruption of the Spanish garrison, their corruption is not the corruption of a few people, but the all-round corruption from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, from the commander of the fleet to the ordinary soldiers, they are all proud of corruption and ashamed of being honest, how can such an army be the opponent of Lin Yuan's troops?

Despite this, Lin Yuan still made careful arrangements, the first thing he did was to divide and disintegrate the Philippines, at this time in the Philippines, Spain was the colonial ruler, the Filipinos were the ruled, and the various organizations that resisted the colonizers in Lin Yuan's era had been eliminated by the Spaniards and the Americans, so Lin Yuan decided: unite the Filipinos and fight the Spaniards.

Lin Yuan ordered radio stations in Guangdong and Taiwan to broadcast to the entire Philippines in Filipino, pointing out in the broadcast: The Chinese people believe that the ** riots in Paranam are only the Filipino people who have been bewitched by the Spanish rulers, and the Chinese government and people regard the Filipino people as friends and welcome the Philippines into China's economic system.

Lin Yuan's troops' radio coverage covered almost all frequencies, so much so that the Filipinos could hear the voice of Lin Yuan's troops when they turned on the radio, and Lin Yuan's troops broadcast to the Spanish garrison at the same time as the people, and the radio said: "Brothers, soldiers, your home is thousands of miles away in the Pyrenees, and the Philippines is not worth your life!" "On the Philippine side, the senior officials of the Spanish garrison were moving their family property onto the cargo ship bound for Spain like crazy, ignoring Lin Yuan's counter-broadcast, and the next day, at ten o'clock in the morning of September 23, Lin Yuan's two Divine Beast-class destroyers, the Zhiyuan and the Jingyuan, approached the port of Manila.