Five-Zero-Eight Silence
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The Palais de San Carlos, which has a history of more than 200 years, is today home to a large number of Colombian celebrities, not for politics, but for the unique business meeting proposed by Ambassador Hua. 【 I want: super fast update 】
The delegation was followed by representatives of the Chinese Empire's industry and commerce, who worked hard to promote products from China to Colombian businessmen and celebrities, and at the same time they were also working hard to negotiate huge purchase agreements.
From tobacco to coffee, from wool to gold, to Colombia's unique emeralds, almost every purchase agreement has made Colombian businessmen's eyes red, because these representatives from the Far East are pushing a huge market for them with a population of nearly 500 million, even if coffee is not acceptable to every Chinese, as long as 1 in 10,000 can drink Colombian coffee, that will bring more than one million dollars in profits to Colombia every year.
A huge market opened its doors in front of them, so almost all the merchants and celebrities came here after receiving the invitation, they were not stupid, but knew better than anyone how important the population and the market were.
For today's business meeting, even President Carlos came to deliver a speech to open the meeting, and the hall where the wine was fragrant and full of laughter, which made all the delegates feel the kindness from the East.
The relaxed and unique format makes this exchange meeting like a banquet that can be freely moved, although the specific number has not come out, but just look at the ruddy faces and laughter of the representatives of the two countries, you can guess the approximation.
Mr. Wu was talking to the mayor of Bogotá, José Hadagcha, a strong contender for Colombia's next president, the kind of figure that any veteran diplomat would never give up pursuing, but his position has been torn between the United States and China, and he is not willing to let go.
However, this is difficult for Wu Tingfang, and he didn't even take the initiative to talk about politics at all, but traveled around the world to make José very confused, isn't Hua optimistic about himself?
Just as the two were testing each other's reality, a rush of footsteps had already come from outside, and a large number of Colombian soldiers with loaded guns appeared in the hall, and before everyone could react, a general had already walked up to President Carlos, who was talking and laughing with Gu Weijun, and muttered to each other.
Seeing President Carlos, whose face changed abruptly, Gu Weijun exchanged a color with Wu Tingfang in the distance, and both of them saw the smile in each other's eyes.
When President Carlos left the venue in a hurry a few minutes later, a shocking news suddenly exploded in the hall and the U.S. Navy attacked Buenaventura, sinking a battleship of the Navy on the spot, killing more than 570 sailors! On April 29th, it was a busy day in Colombia, when the news off the coast of Buenaventura exploded in the country, all the Columias were enraged by the undeclared war of the US Navy, the newspapers began to denounce, the population began to worry, and the radical young people were surrounding the US embassy to demand the surrender of the murderer and vow to defend the country with blood!
As the news spread from Bogotá to all of South America, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, and even Chile, which had always remained neutral, were dissatisfied with the undeclared hegemony of the United States. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. On May 2, U.S. President Wilson declared a state of emergency that all Navy warships must be on 24-hour standby, and at the same time denied that the USS Georgia sank the Medellin, believing that this was a conspiracy by Colombia and the Chinese Empire, and that it was a farce directed and staged by them deliberately hostile to the United States!
But this defense is really a little pale, because the Colombian newspaper published a photo of the Royal Chinese Navy's Deng Shan braving artillery fire to rescue Colombian soldiers, and also analyzed the location of the Chinese warship at that time, no one believed that the Vantage ** ship at a distance of at least 10,000 meters at that time could effectively launch torpedoes at such a long distance, and if it was really Hua Gan, then there was no need for them to leave nearly 100 eyewitnesses.
Under pressure, the U.S. Navy Department had to suspend Rear Admiral Mayo, but instead of being dismissed, he became captain of the newly delivered New York-class battleship USS Wisconsin three months later.
As the war of words became more and more intense, another thing made the saliva become **, because the first two thousand U.S. Army soldiers were stationed in Panama on May 10, and according to the U.S. plan, there will be more than 10,000 troops here in the next month!
If the previous US denial made many South American countries only a little suspicious, then the increase in troops in Panama completely dispelled this suspicion, and Colombian President Carlos almost vied with each other to sign an order to increase troops on the border between Colombia and Panama.
Everyone knows that Colombia is no match for the United States, even ordinary people in their country know it, so Colombia must look for a big enough back-up!
But Europe is too busy to take care of itself at the moment, so Colombia immediately set its sights on the Pacific hegemon, the Chinese Empire! On May 12, Wu Tingfang, the special envoy of the Chinese Empire, delivered a speech at the Colombian Parliament, expressing that China was willing to help South American countries build a great South America that was owned by the people, and said that China did not intend to single an inch of the land of South American countries, and of course did not want other major powers to oppress South American countries by force.
This is a formal statement, which has made South American countries breathe a sigh of relief, because the rise of China is almost a history of foreign expansion, coupled with China's lightning action in Ecuador a few years ago, so many people are afraid of being invaded so they dare not get too close, and this guarantee dispels everyone's worries.
At the same time, he also broke the silence since the conflict between Colombia and the United States for the first time on behalf of the Chinese Empire in the Parliament, saying that as a major power on the Pacific coast, China is willing to maintain the security and stability of the entire Pacific region, and will not allow any forces and countries to undermine this pattern.
After several meetings with Wu Tingfang and a personal phone call to Chinese Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi, President Carlos immediately began to push for a proposal to lease the port of Buenaventura to China and build it into a common naval base between the two countries.
Although the pro-American forces in parliament were not satisfied with the bill, in the face of the outpouring of popular anger, the parliamentarians passed the bill with lightning speed, and on May 20, the "Sino-Colombian Friendship Treaty" was signed in Bogotá, according to which Colombia handed over the port of Buenaventura to the administration of the Royal Chinese Navy, and it will serve as a common station for the Chinese and Colombian navies.
At the same time, in order to ensure the security of the base, the Colombian government will allow the Chinese Empire to station no more than 3,000 army soldiers to protect the base.
After handing over Buenaventura and allowing the garrison, Hua also assumed the heavy responsibility of ensuring that Colombia was protected from foreign aggression and that Colombia's territorial integrity was ensured.
At the same time, in order to help the Colombian Navy regain its strength, China, Chile and Colombia reached an agreement to sell a Polar Star battleship to Colombia, and Hua and Colombia will jointly bear half of the funds.
On May 28, when this article was exposed by reporters, it immediately aroused a strong protest from the United States, and the US government even said that it would never allow the Chinese Army to be stationed on the South American continent even if it did not hesitate to fight!
Such a tough statement "naturally caused an uproar."
On 1 June, the same day that the Second Balkan War broke out, 15 warships and four large troop carriers of the First Fleet of the Royal Chinese Navy, including four Ruihebei-class battleships and two Jilin-class battleships, arrived at Panama Bay, broke through the blockade of five American battleships like lightning under the cover of night, and forcibly sent 3,000 marines ashore when the US Navy did not dare to open fire, leaving two Jilin-class battleships to continue monitoring in the open sea.
When the news reached the United States, President Wilson immediately convened an emergency meeting, and he knew that this was a step for Hua to counterattack Taft's big trouble, "but he couldn't come up with any way, according to the intelligence, in the past month and a half, Hua has sent 60,000 people from three army divisions to Honolulu, which means that once the war starts, these 60,000 people can quickly pounce on the west coast of the United States, not including a marine division that has been stationed in Honolulu."
At this time, the US Army was abolished because of the large number of veterans and volunteers after the end of the Cuban War: "Although it was also strengthened in the middle of the war, the total number was only 150,000, but by the end of last year, Hua had quietly completed the formation of 30 army divisions, plus four marine divisions with a total strength of 680,000."
In the absence of a guarantee of superiority at sea, "the US Navy does not dare to easily guarantee whether it will be able to block the landing."
President Wilson faces a big test after taking office!
It is not permissible to allow China's ground forces to enter South America, because the army is not a navy, and it is still the army that will eventually solve the problem in any war, and no matter how strong the Chinese navy is, it will not cause trouble to the east coast of the Atlantic, and the only way to really threaten the United States is the army, so the 3,000 marines that Hua Xun sent to Colombia have become a big problem!
At this time, Europe had already ended the noise" The beginning of the Second Balkan War made everyone foresee the inevitability of war, so Europe ended the noise "All countries began to prepare for war wholeheartedly!"
Conscription plans and military budgets have become extremely important, so no one cares about the sudden outbreak of disputes between the United States and China.
Long and Japan, President Wilson, who was unwilling to go to war, decided to solve the problem through diplomatic means instead of war, and sent Secretary of State William Jane Nisbrian to Beijing as a special envoy, but at the same time as Burian set off, out of concern for the homeland, he still pushed the Assembly to pass the Army Bill, which increased the current 150,000 Army personnel to 400,000 to ensure the security of the American homeland.
For Li Mo, the expansion of the US Army is neither good nor bad news, the United States is not Europe that has fought thousands of years of ground wars, it is not China that has fought for thousands of years, the Army is seriously lacking in heritage, hundreds of thousands of Cuban guerrillas have lost their troops and will have to withdraw their troops, plus the United States is not a superpower at the moment, and China was severely suppressed by Britain before its rise, so it can only be regarded as a regional power, the domestic ethnic complex, racial conflicts are continuous, and the sense of national honor has not been propagated for many years. So 400,000 troops are just a thing!
On the other hand, the United States finally moved from the Navy to the Army, which means that the United States has completely embarked on the road of an arms race, and after taking Colombia, the United States has begun to find it difficult to even give full play to its financial advantage, because its main industries are on the East Coast, and in the case of the inability to ensure the safety of the Panama Canal, the only way to support the Pacific Ocean in wartime is the British Falkland base in the Atlantic, a distant and time-consuming route!
So this is a perfect move to seize the power, because it means that in the competition with the United States, China has completely grasped the initiative in the Pacific!
With Burian arriving in Beijing and receiving a verbal promise that he would not attack Panama and that the garrison would only guarantee the safety of Colombia, the unprepared United States could only swallow the bitter pill of getting too close to Britain.
On 1 July, after spending half a year abroad, Li Mo set off from Luzon to return to China, and at the same time did not approve the idea put forward by the General Staff to intervene in the increasingly fierce Mexican crisis, and only allowed the sale of 50,000 Type 91 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition to Mexico through a third country, and at the same time terminated all foreign interference actions.
His telegram means that China, like Europe, has entered a stage of strategic contraction, and at the same time, the Chinese Senate and the House of Representatives simultaneously passed the bill proposed by the Prime Minister's Office on the issuance of 10 billion blue currency special treasury bonds.
After the economy grew year after year, Li Mo adopted the strategy of using the government's large-scale investment to enrich the people first after suffering for more than ten years of lack of money, and finally began to erupt after suffering from a shortage of money for more than ten years, and the 10 billion special treasury bonds seem to be frightening, but in fact it is less than 20 yuan per person, and the rapid economic growth for ten consecutive years has made the people accumulate a large amount of wealth, coupled with the previous method of subsidizing military spending from outside, so that China's economy has not been damaged by the competition for several years.
Moreover, Hua has also launched small-scale treasury bonds many times before, and the people have seen the rate of return on treasury bonds, so they were subscribed in just one month, among which Li Xiufeng, the royal governor, subscribed for as much as 200 million yuan in one go after getting Li Mo's hint.
After successively resuming the 10 percent annual military appropriation budget, a bill on the issuance of a large amount of treasury bonds in history has been passed, which means that China is ready to meet a major challenge.
The special treasury bond bill did not cause much sensation abroad, because at this time countries began to issue a large number of treasury bonds, among which the large European countries had already issued more than 30 billion US dollars, about 42 billion blue coins.
On September 20, Germany's Austria-Hungary took the lead in announcing the military budget for the next year, and the entire budget was as high as an unprecedented 000 million marks, or about 700 million British pounds, accounting for one-fifth of the GDP of the two countries that year!
At the same time, Britain and France were also not to be outdone, and also submitted a military budget totaling 5.4 billion British pounds!
Two astonishing military budgets, which were supposed to be explosions, sinked to the bottom of the sea like bubbles, and the whole world fell into a silence that was almost breathless!! ~!