Really won.
When Geng Jingzhong was helped up to the Castle of Santiago in Acapulco, overlooking the city below, the ocean in the distance, and the surrounding lush hills, he could no longer stop crying.
The battle to capture this city in a surprise attack was incredibly easy!
Although the city is as strong as a fortress, with mountains on three sides and a sea on one side, the sea is still a bay with a small entrance. Moreover, there are fortresses on the surrounding mountains and forts facing the sea. It is completely a terrain where one man is in charge and no one can access it. But the Spanish army guarding here was surprisingly weak, and its number was far less than the legendary three thousand, only four hundred at most.
The Spanish defenders completely collapsed as soon as Kaguyama Hisakashi and Kiyohisa led his team to launch the assault.
Thirty percent of the Spanish soldiers standing on the pier to show off were killed and wounded on the spot by sharpshooters ambushing the ship with flintlocks. The rest were either picked up by the death squads led by the transfer station and Huashan with bayonets or had their soles rubbed with oil. ——Slip away! Instead of sneaking into the fortress and holding on, they fled directly, abandoning the city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and left tens of thousands of stunned and helpless citizens behind.
After the Spanish defenders escaped, Geng Jingzhong's troops occupied Acapulco easily. In less than half a day, Geng Jingzhong's troops including Fort Santiago, Coastal Fort, City Hall and the road leading to the Mexica Valley were all captured. Under the control of Jingzhong's men.
Those generals who followed Geng Jingzhong to the New World, no matter how faint they were when they were on the ship? Now everyone came running to tell him the good news like a lively tiger.
"General Zhengdong, the last general has captured the fort!"
"General Zhengdong, the last general captured the Spanish government!"
"In the end, the general captured a Catholic temple and captured the abbot who presided over it."
"The general's men have controlled the intersections entering and exiting the city, and now no one can get out!"
"emperor."
I don’t know whether it was a smooth call or intentional, but one of Geng Jingzhong’s men blurted out and called him the emperor. Geng Jingzhong, who was originally very happy, showed a look of horror. He waved his hands and said: "No, don't let me stop being the emperor. I will not be the emperor anymore. I will cause you all to suffer for this unlucky emperor. Who is this emperor?" Whoever you want to be, I am not the one to do it anyway.”
"If you don't become the emperor, what will you be in the future?"
Another subordinate asked questions.
"Be a general, a general of the Republic!" Geng Jingzhong had already thought about it. "Then Li Zhongshan was clearly in charge of the Ming Dynasty, but he did not usurp the throne to become the emperor, but just became a general. Isn't he doing well now? Japanese virtues Kawa Ieyasu also took control of the country, but he did not become an emperor but a general, so he could die in peace, and his descendants could continue to be generals and live a more comfortable life than being an emperor. Wu Sangui and I just couldn't see it through, and one ended up on the run, and the other He was defeated and died! Now Wu Sangui's son Wu Yingqi has seen through it and becomes the prime minister instead of the emperor.
It can be seen from this that the emperor really has no chance to take the lead now. It is better to be a general! From now on, I will be called General Zhengdong, and I will open a shogunate in this city of Akka and establish a republic! "
"But how to establish this republic?" someone asked again.
"This." Geng Jingzhong thought for a while and said, "Let's learn from Li Yat-sen and become national scholars and nationals!
We are our own people. All the people who followed me from Ryukyu this time, no matter what color they are, no matter whether they can speak human language or not, every one of them is a national scholar!
As for the notices posted by the compatriots, all compatriots who are willing to stay in Akka City and build a republic with me, the General, are compatriots from the Zhengtong Shogunate!
The property of all citizens of the shogunate can be guaranteed. If they have no property and are helpless, the shogunate will help them establish a manor outside the city of Akka. Also, they can worship whatever gods they want, I don’t care, General!
All Chinese people can participate in political discussions and submit letters and suggestions. "
"What if you don't want to do it with us?"
"Let them go," Geng Jingzhong said seriously, "Although I am here for the Republic, I will not force them to join the Republic with me! They are going to be slaves of the King of Spain, and I will not stop them."
"But we don't understand Spanish, how can we write this notice?"
Geng Jingzhong thought for a while and said: "Call that Gonzalez and ask him to write it. After he finishes writing, let him read it to the illiterate Acre citizens!"
"What? General, you are not here to open up a colony, but for a republic?"
In Fort Santiago, Geng Jingzhong, the former Spanish consul in Guangzhou, who had washed himself and put on gorgeous silk robes and looked like an oriental king, heard the words "Come for the Republic" After that, he became a bit incompetent.
He originally thought Geng Jingzhong and the others were bad guys who were coming to the New World to grab money and territory. It turns out that they were the heavenly soldiers who came to export the Republic and liberate the oppressed people of the New World, but the bad guys seemed to have turned into the brutal Spanish colonists and the Habsburg dynasty!
"That's right!" Geng Jingzhong nodded, "No matter who you are, as long as you are willing to stay in Akka City and join the Republic, you are a Chinese!"
This Chinese people should mean citizens, right?
Gonzalez knew what the Roman Republic and the Greek city-state of Athens were like, and he immediately substituted the Ming Republic for the Roman Republic.
He thought for a moment and then asked: "General, whoever you are talking about includes the native Indians?"
"Of course!" Geng Jingzhong nodded, "The natives are also human beings! Listen carefully, regardless of the natives, Spanish, or hybrids here in Aka, as long as they are human, those who are willing to stay and join the Republic are all Chinese!"
This seems to have surpassed the Roman Republic and the city-state of Athens! Gonzales thought: There are still slaves in Rome and Athens!
"We are all Chinese. So what rights do Chinese have?"
Gonzalez inquired again.
"Power?" Geng Jingzhong said, "Of course we have power. Our property can be protected from infringement. You can follow whatever religion you want. If you are really too poor, you can also be allocated land outside the city of Akka. That's OK. Submit a letter of advice to the shogunate, and add one more countryman to discuss the government. That’s all!”
What do you mean by this?
Gonzalez said to himself: Although the Chinese people do not have the power to remove the general, it is still much better than the hereditary republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands! Now the Spanish Habsburg Dynasty is in trouble!
This is not a matter of losing a small colony in North America, but the Habsburg dynasty, no, the feudal dynasties of the entire Europe may be overthrown by advanced systems from the East!
"Citizens of Acapulco! I, Gonzalez, from Seville, the advisor to the General of the Ming Dynasty in the East, now represent the General, explain to you why the General came, and how the Ming Republic will conquer the New World in the future. The policies adopted! The Ming Republic did not come to snatch your wealth and land. They have more wealth than the rest of the world combined except India! Acapulco and even the entire New World are not worthy of them at all. To plunder the wealth.
And the purpose of this expedition is only one, which is to overthrow the inhumane and illegal monarchy implemented by Spain in the New World, and to let the glory of the Republic spread to every corner of the New World."
In the square of Acapulco, the citizens who were frightened by the sudden change and turned pale were already being escorted by the menacing Geng Family Army soldiers.
Although they are all Hispanic, except for a very few, all were born in New Spain, and many have lived in Acapulco for several generations in peace, prosperity, and comfort. Therefore, they are not the same thing at all as the "Old Spanish True Flag" in mainland Spain, which has been living in a state of endless war. Encountering a sudden war, I was completely confused!
In addition, only a small part of them are relatively noble native white people, and the rest are of mixed Indo-European descent. They were third-class citizens in New Spain. They had never thought that third-class citizens like them needed to defend the empire and the king (Westerners generally refer to huge territories including colonies as empires). Of course, they never thought about opposing the reactionary and conservative Spanish Habsburg dynasty, which was enjoying a good life. What was the point of opposing this and fighting that?
As a result, this group of Hispanics who had lived comfortably for too long were controlled by the enemy without even organizing a resistance.
When they were escorted to the municipal square, they thought they were going to see Heavenly Father. Many people were so frightened that they cried and kept making the sign of the cross to pray for Heavenly Father’s blessing.
Now when Gonzalez spoke, these people were all stunned.
What are you doing? You came all this way not to colonize, but to overthrow the Spanish monarchy and establish a republican system in the New World?
Also, why did Gonzalez say that the Spanish monarchy in the New World was inhumane? Does the Ming Republic want to uphold justice for the Indians?
Thinking of the extermination and suffering of the Indians, the citizens of Acapulco felt guilty.
At this time, Gonzalez continued: "Citizens, pioneers and indigenous peoples of the Americas, what you own is an endless vast continent. It has the most magnificent mountains and rivers in the world, the richest land, and the richest land. The resources here are richer than any other part of the Old World. Although it has not been cultivated on a large scale, this also means that we can write the most beautiful poems on this land.
In the Old World, we humans can use our hard-working hands to cultivate and graze on the most barren land, carry out handicraft production, and trade. We use our own blood and sweat, and through the efforts of generations, finally build brilliant cities and even splendid cities. civilization. This is civilization, a truly amazing and great civilization!
But in the New World, what are we doing? Why did the Habsburg dynasty have to rely on inhumane slavery to establish the so-called civilized colonial rule?
Can't we all cooperate as equals to share and develop this continent? This continent is so vast, and it can give us far more than we need to live a prosperous and decent life, and everyone can live well. Then why do we still enslave each other, why are we so greedy, and are everything we have done in the past and now consistent with the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ?
And how much wealth have our sins bought us? Is this wealth really in our pockets?
No, without them, they all became the war funds of the Habsburg Dynasty and were used to launch one war after another in the Old World! And in the name of Heavenly Father! This is so evil that Spain cannot be blessed by Heavenly Father, so that it spends all the money of a continent and still suffers defeat in Europe! Even our Spanish Habsburg dynasty is now determined to be extinct.
Isn't this a divine decision? Now the republican wind is coming from Asia to end the sins of the Habsburg dynasty. Isn't this the will of the Father? "
What Gonzalez said is so good. He is a diplomat who is good at deceiving! Moreover, he also received rigorous training at the best missionary school in Spain and has mastered various skills in using language to impress people.
Moreover, what he said is also true!
The Kingdom of Spain did not do anything in the Americas. Not only was it greedy, it occupied land that they could not digest at all, wiped out countless indigenous people, and enslaved the remaining people inhumanely. The wealth obtained from exploitation was not used for improvement. The welfare of Spain itself is used in the endless war for hegemony on the European continent.
What is even more speechless is that the Habsburg dynasty still failed to achieve hegemony on the European continent even after spending all the wealth it plundered from the Americas and owing huge debts.
Now, the Habsburg dynasty in Spain is definitely on the verge of extinction, and the republican winds are coming from the west, and the entire Spanish world empire is coming to an end!
"Long live the Republic! Down with Wang Zheng!"
The people in the square suddenly became excited!
"Bang bang! Bang bang!"
On the other side of the world, the sound of soldiers changing the guard could be heard outside the capital door of the general's residence in Nanjing City. Thick-soled old cloth shoes made a dull sound on the bluestone floor tiles. Four model soldiers from the General's Guards Regiment saluted each other, exchanged positions, and then two of them left.
Li Zhongshan raised his head from the pile of official documents and rubbed his eyes. The sound of the change of guard outside reminded him that he had worked hard for the country and the people for another hour.
It is now the winter of the fourth year of the Republic, and the wars between the Ming Dynasty, the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Great Qing Dynasty have been suspended for several months. But for Li Zhongshan, it was just a change of battlefield, from the battlefield of bullets to the battlefield of fighting against fiscal deficit and land annexation.
To be honest, compared with the battlefield filled with bullets and bullets, the new battlefield made Li Zhongshan feel more uncomfortable. Because on the battlefield where bullets are raining, he still has the "Golden Finger" to shoot. He knows how to line up to shoot, how to combine artillery, infantry and cavalry, how to use column tactics, horizontal formation tactics, hollow square formation tactics, diagonal line tactics, and how minion bombs work. What's going on? We also know the general development direction of artillery and rifles.
Although this knowledge is far from the level of a military strategist, the skills he possesses in this life include how to command a medium-sized army in the era of alternating hot and cold weapons - the original Wang Zhongxiao was regarded as a Future generals are trained from an early age. So when the knowledge from the two eras was combined, Li Yat-sen had a military "golden finger."
In addition, he also has a relatively deep understanding of the "national republic" and knows how to organize a Tiandihui to serve the republic.
But at the same time, he also knew that the above alone was not enough to maintain a republican system for a long time.
As long as you have a sufficient understanding of the history of Rome and ancient Greece, you will know that although a good national republic system can be very powerful, it is also difficult to maintain. Because the foundation of the national republic is actually a huge middle class, which is underdeveloped in productivity. era, they were rich peasants and small landowners.
Only when there are enough rich peasants and small landowners and can be sustained, the National People's Republic will be strong and effective. Once this class declines due to various reasons, then the Republic will also decline. Even if it survives in name, it will only survive.
For example, Rome after the Phoenician War, and Athens, which restored its republican system after the Peloponnesian War, may still have the name of a republic, but the essence has completely changed.
For the Ming Dynasty ruled by Li Zhongshan, the power of small and medium-sized landowners and rich peasants was actually not strong, while the strength of large landowners and big businessmen should not be underestimated.
For example, King Yi Zheng Jing, Shangshu Zuocheng Chen Yonghua, Shangshu Youcheng Lu Sanhao, they actually represent maritime merchants, silk merchants and southeastern gentry.
Just when Li Zhongshan was thinking about Zheng Jing, Chen Yonghua, and Lu Sanhao, Zhou Chang's voice suddenly came from outside his capital room door: "General, King Yi and Chen Zuocheng have something to ask for!"
(End of chapter)
