Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1135 Opportunity ([-])

Naval Minister Li Yi hurried into the Joint Staff Headquarters with two staff officers, but was stopped by the guards at the door. The reason was that Chief of Staff Mo was holding an emergency meeting and asked Minister Li to wait for a while.

Li Yi glanced preoccupied at the closed conference room behind the iron fence door, turned around and entered the tea room next to him, and waited with two staff assistants.Army officers wearing large caps came in and out of the tea room. They generally looked at several naval officers wearing barrel caps with unfriendly eyes, which was quite provocative.But when they happened to see the slightly frosty old officer sitting in the corner with the rank of lieutenant colonel on his shoulders, they all fell silent again—at any time, the rank Both make sense, especially if the opponent is many levels higher than you, because it means a huge difference in the ability of the two parties to control resources.

Li Yi didn't wait too long. After the military meeting ended, he was received by Mo Ming soon.

"Boss Mo, you must have heard about the recent rumor that some ships of the Spanish Treasure Fleet were destroyed by the British?" Li Yi sat opposite Mo Ming, who looked much younger than him, and spoke about the British-Spanish War. Topic: "The Spaniards were paralyzed. Their coastal defense forts failed to withstand the attack of the British fleet. As a result, many Spanish transport ships anchored in the port were destroyed and suffered heavy losses. This time, they are really struggling. Maybe they will It is almost inevitable to come to our government for help, otherwise they will inevitably suffer a major military defeat against France, and then they may need to cede land and pay compensation. The French also need to cede land, anyway, so it is better to cede land to the New World, so as not to weaken the continent of Europe..."

Mo Ming listened patiently to Li Yi's words, and then asked, "Commander Li, what exactly do you want to say?"

"Hey, look at my head. When I'm old, I like to digress." Li Yi first smiled at himself, then approached mysteriously and asked, "Boss Mo, this is a good opportunity for us. Does the army have any ideas? Our navy thinks this is an excellent opportunity to expand the influence of the army and at the same time enter the Caribbean Sea, what do you think?"

Mo Ming glanced sideways at Li Yi, thinking to himself that the navy has always been closer to the executive committee, and it is considered to be weaker in expansionism (for this reason, it has been ridiculed by the army officers and soldiers), but now it has offered to propose Taking the opportunity to enter the Caribbean Sea, it seems that the opinions within the Navy have also been divided in recent years-maybe they have seen the scenery of the English Navy flying across the sea and taking the initiative to attack, so they also want to follow suit.But Mo Ming also knows that the navy and the army are different after all. They are natural nationalists, relying on the country's industrial production capacity everywhere, and it is basically impossible to kill the government and establish a new regime, so it is very easy for them to combine with civilian officials. Naturally.

However, soldiers are soldiers after all. Civil officials want to use them as dogs and tools, but they don’t want to give them too many benefits. They will naturally have ideas. This time they even offered to enter the Caribbean Sea (in fact, this kind of voice has always existed. In the Navy, the last time I wanted to win Recife was the embodiment of this trend of thought), it seems that Li Yi, Lu Ming's appointed successor, couldn't suppress the internal emotions, so he came to find Mo The matter of Mingxiang's discussion-but Mo Ming guessed that Li Yi must have already got through with some members of the executive committee before coming to him. Humph, the navy is really unreliable!

"Commander Li, don't get excited." Mo Ming asked the secretary to make a cup of Ningbo green tea for the old navy senior, and then said: "Now the news about the Spaniards' big losses is rather confusing, and the words are vague and inconsistent. How much they have suffered? , We don’t know what the current situation is like. After all, the brief summary of information submitted by the General Directorate of National Intelligence cannot make us make any decisions. But you are also right, if there are rumors that Spain has lost nearly ten million pesos To be honest, this is indeed an excellent opportunity! Last time at the executive committee meeting, I proposed to enter the Caribbean Sea at the invitation of the Spaniards. I hated the committee members of finance, industry and commerce, agriculture, health, and education. This matter is basically dirty. Why? It’s not that they are afraid of war! They are afraid of confronting the British! Now everyone knows that the British are tough, bachelors, and crazy. They dare to attack anyone and grab their territory , So they shrink back, they are afraid that the country will lose the market and the economy will collapse. Hehe, there are too many pots and pans, and everyone’s courage is getting less and less.”

"Mr. Mo, you really say that..." Li Yi took off his military cap, smiled wryly, and said, "To be honest, I also don't approve of going to war with the British, but I also don't agree with the attitude of the members of the Executive Committee who are afraid of the head and the tail. The attitude of your army is too radical and dangerous, it is easy to drag the country into the quagmire of war, and the executive committee is too conservative and weak, it is easy to miss the fate of the country, I always think it is better for you to neutralize. But this time, I I support your army, hehe, don’t get me wrong, what I mean is that our navy only supports you in the matter of marching into the Caribbean Sea, and I closely follow the executive committee and raise both hands against your other untimely moves.”

"Hehe, Commander Li, you're making it sound like our army is all war-crazed." Mo Ming smiled and said, "Let's wait for the news to settle and see what happens. Of course, if If this is true, then we, the Army and the Navy, must unify our opinions, and then submit a proposal to the executive committee in the name of the military department. Those white shirts in recent years are not a bunch of children and relatives who are doing European trade and making money. You must be dizzy. They are naturally unwilling to fight against Europe. They are afraid that their business will be cut off and their interests will be affected because of the war. Therefore, we, the army and the navy, must not have any suspicions about this matter, lest those white shirts have Loopholes can be exploited."

Li Yi was silent when he heard the words.In fact, if he hadn't seen that the personal or family interests of many white shirts were not in line with the national interests, he would not have come to the army to collude with the army this time.You know, their navy has always been famous for keeping up with the pace of the Executive Committee, especially during the time when the former Navy Minister Lu Ming was also the Chief of the General Staff of the Military Department, the entire Joint Staff Headquarters almost became the Executive Committee. The puppet of the army and the radicals in the navy are extremely dissatisfied.

But what are the white shirts doing now?They have lost their vigor, and their eyes are only on their one-acre three-point land, fearing that the trade will be cut off because of the war.After all, they are selling a lot of goods on the east coast. Maybe a war with the UK is good for the future of the country, but it may not be good for their family. If you let them give up their small family for everyone, not everyone will be like this noble.So at this time, another force must be considered to check and balance them, such as the power of the military. The source of their interests is not trade, but more brutal wars.

"Since Chief of Staff Mo said so, let's do it first. I'll contact you later, as long as you remember this." Li Yi came to the Joint Staff Headquarters today to communicate with the army in advance. Now that he had achieved his goal, he took his leave and left.

After the navy left, Mo Ming also fell into deep thought.In fact, he was not surprised that people from the navy came to him today, because it is not a day or two since the navy wants to enter the Caribbean Sea, especially when the Spaniards veiledly proposed that the port of San Juan in Puerto Rico and the east coast After "sharing", their emotions became more and more high.Now this incident happened again with the Spaniards. If it is confirmed to be true, then one can imagine how excited the navy is. No matter how Li Yi listens to the executive committee, he can't suppress his emotions at this time.

However, Mo Ming's thinking at this time is from a higher and more comprehensive perspective than that of the Navy Station, because now he has a whim, whether he can organically combine the "China-Black Partition" plan that is raging in South Africa with this ——that is, taking advantage of the east wind of the east coast navy’s march into the Caribbean Sea, transport some of the black eight flags that are not well placed in South Africa to the North American continent in batches, and establish a country for them—the country’s diplomacy, military, and economy will be controlled by The East Coast Republic conducts guidance, and Chinese is their only official language—thinking that the East Coast will intervene in North American affairs in the future to make arrangements in advance.

Even now, Mo Ming is also considering whether to include Indians in this bureau, that is, to combine friendly Indian tribes such as Choctaw and Natchez who have still sent people to study in schools on the east coast with this black country. Form an offensive and defensive alliance to strengthen their resistance to white colonists in the next hundred years.In addition, can a bunch of Guarani, Araucan, Krandi, and Tehuelche people in China be sent to North America?Before that, the east coast government used boats to send these Indians to New China to pioneer, and the death rate was extremely high. So now, can we send them to North America in a different way?Anyway, the small number of Indians in North America is a flaw. Now we are sending more Indians to North America on the East Coast in order to increase the obstruction of the white colonists. I believe it cannot be regarded as a loss-making business.

Of course, if we diverge our thinking a bit more and focus on the more than one million descendants of Malays on Xinhua Island, then there will be even more demons dancing on the North American continent. At that time, blacks, Malays, Indians, Sri Lankans The Vasili people and even some Han people will continue to multiply along the banks of the Mississippi River.By the time the white colonists have digested the land on the eastern coast, perhaps a hundred years have passed. At this time, these people sent from the east coast have multiplied by almost one million, right?Moreover, there is the structure of a modern civilized country, the weapons are not bad, and the Black Banners have considerable combat effectiveness, so can the white people occupy the entire North American continent as they wish?

The more Mo Ming thought about it, the more he felt that this idea was good. Anyway, it is impossible to enslave blacks, Indians, Swahili and Malays indefinitely on the east coast, so after enslaving them for several years (usually 5-7 years), send them away A ticket to North America, and by the way, vacate the South Africa and Xinhua Island they originally occupied for the people on the east coast. I believe it is a solution acceptable to both parties.

(End of this chapter)