African Nationhood

On June 6, the South China Expeditionary Force captured the city of Budapest.

Faced with such major news, the Allies and the Entente had mixed reactions.

The Allied Powers trumpeted the grand significance of the South China Army's march into the interior of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the media. This move made it clear that the Allied Powers were completely just.

Qu Sangqian became the most famous person in Europe besides Chairman Shi in Nanhua.

The Allied media blocked the news. Except for the high-level officials of the Allied Powers, no one else, not even their soldiers, knew the news.

Senior officials who knew the news were in mourning, and many suffered emotional breakdowns.

In addition to cursing the officers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as useless people, these officials were also worried about their future. Many of them had even begun to make suicide plans.

The emperors of the world, including the Kaiser, the Austrian Emperor, and the Ottoman Turkish Sultan, were all filled with panic at this moment.

The former Tsar Nicholas II, who was detained in Yekaterinburg, lived a leisurely life, dreaming of the day when he could regain his freedom.

Little do they know that their end is coming!
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As for the food, the Nanhua Army kept half of it, and the rest was distributed by the workers' organizations that had previously helped the Nanhua Army.

This is more important than God. How could ordinary people not support the South China Expeditionary Force?

Such a luxurious place is now the headquarters of the South China Expeditionary Force.

The government doesn't care about the lives of the people at the bottom, so these people will resist Habsburg rule.

As a result, the city of Budapest fell under the control of the South China Expeditionary Force.

After the trial, these people were imprisoned and kept for later use.

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When he arrived at the deputy capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Qu Sangqian would stick to his previous effective strategy and first stabilize the government here to facilitate the smooth occupation of the South China Expeditionary Force.

The air conditioning is on in the room. Construction of this building started in 1896 and was completed and opened in 1904. It took 8 years. The building is 96 meters high (about 32 floors high).

Confiscated physical luxuries such as gold and gemstones were all placed in secret warehouses.

Qu Sangqian was sitting in the Parliament Building on the banks of the Danube River, leaning behind his desk and looking at the Danube River outside, very relaxed.

The first thing the Nanhua Army did when they entered the city was to arrest all the wealthy businessmen in the two cities, and then began to pay them.

It's impossible not to distribute food. Because of the war, people here can only get a daily ration of 100 grams of bread.

Their houses, grain, land bonds and other properties were all confiscated, and all wealthy businessmen were examined.

The battle outside Pest lasted only one day and ended.

In addition to using 40 bricks and 100 million precious stones, the entire building also luxuriously used 40 kilograms of gold as building materials. At that time, it had fully adopted advanced technologies such as electric lights, elevators, mechanical ventilation, and heating and cooling air conditioning. Equipment etc.

When I came from Belgrade, the people I met along the way didn’t even have bread rations.

As for what will happen after Nanhua Army leaves, that is none of his business.

Now that Nanhua has come, he not only distributes food, money, but also land to them.

Facing the mechanical torrent of the South China Expeditionary Force, the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had no power to resist, and they simply surrendered.

The Shihong United Forces, which succeeded in seizing the bridge, had just entered the city and fired a burst of gunfire. The defenders in Buda City quickly surrendered.

Now he has more than 3,000 tons of grain in his hands, which he uses as capital to recruit female immigrants.

Female workers, widows, or orphaned teenagers in the city were all targeted by Nanhua. Those who were willing to go to Nanhua were directly given 500 kilograms of wheat.

The family will be given another 50,000 yuan in local currency, and they will also enjoy priority in the allocation of land.

If you don't want to go, just wait for relief from the workers' organization. When you get hungry enough, you can decide whether you want to go to Nanhua.

In just a few days, Qusanggan has taken in more than 5 people, all female immigrants of childbearing age, and more than 1 orphans, both boys and girls.

These are high-quality immigrant resources, and Qusangqian prioritizes arranging railway buses to transport these immigrants back.

As for the surrendered soldiers, they were organized and trained to form a security force. In addition to maintaining security inside and outside the city, they also had to help the people around the two cities harvest food and sow new seedlings.

With food and timely sowing, people here can feel at ease.

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Vienna sent people to negotiate, hoping that the South China Expeditionary Force could release prisoners of war and the commander of soldiers outside Pest. Qu Sangqian directly rejected the special envoy's request for negotiation. He told the other party bluntly that the South China Expeditionary Force would attack Vienna soon, and asked the Austro-Hungarian Emperor to sit in the Vienna Palace and wait for him, and they would discuss it in detail.

The negotiating envoy responded with great helplessness.

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After replying to the special envoy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Qu Sangqian recruited two regiment commanders, Shi Honglian and Zheng Tong.

The two officials were summoned to divide their forces to attack the Austro-Hungarian Empire in accordance with the strategy previously decided in Belgrade.

Shi Hong's coalition led 10 troops and 1 military police troops towards Vienna.

Zheng Tong led 10 troops to Prague, the border city of Austria-Hungary.

Qu Sanggan is based in Budapest, transporting female immigrants as well as the treasures and antiquities collected here.

When Shi Hong's coalition attacked Vienna, it was bound to encounter the greatest resistance, so he put 1 military police troops under his command. As for Zheng Tong's main purpose in going to Prague, it was the Skoda Arsenal.

This factory is the largest arsenal in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This time, we are going to transport as many engineers there as possible back to South China.

In addition to engineers, the two teams also had to implement Nanhua's previous strategy when entering Europe, collecting immigrants and property.

Nanhua spent huge sums of money to allow the expeditionary force to enter Europe. If it could not recover the money from the capture of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it would be a huge loss.

Before leaving for this expedition, Chairman Shi had given many instructions, and Qu Sangqian would naturally not forget them.

In addition, Qu Sangqian, on behalf of the former enemy headquarters of the expeditionary force, ordered Commodore Ou Haiwa to launch an attack on the naval base of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so that Nanhua no longer had to hide his strength.

On July 7, Shi Hong's Liaison Department and Zheng Tong's Department set off one after another, marching in different directions.

Because the distance between Budapest and Vienna is nearly 300 kilometers, Qu Sanggan sent Xue Yingxiong to lead 4 troops more than kilometers forward to occupy the city of Gyor, a hub city on the railway line, and build an airport there to support Shi Red Liaison Department.

As for Zheng Tongbu, he needs to build the airport while advancing.

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After taking care of the march, Qu Sangqian was able to take some time to summon representatives of the previous workers' organizations and ask them what kind of political power they wanted to form.

These workers' organizations did not have their own political parties. They naturally yearned for the Soviet power in Tsarist Russia.

Hearing what the workers said, Qu Sangqian instinctively felt something was wrong.

He informed the representatives of the workers' organizations that the matter was so important that he needed to consult the country.

The representative of the workers' organization nodded in agreement.

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Qu Sangqian called Chairman Shi and informed Chairman Shi of the situation in Budapest.

Chairman Shi directly instructed Qu Sangqian that it was impossible to form a Soviet power.

The new government can only be a government that unites the working class and the bourgeoisie. Only in this way can it fool Britain, France, the United States and other countries.

After Qu Sanggan received the instruction, he immediately asked people to release Mihai Karoli, who he had previously imprisoned in prison.

When this bourgeois nobleman learned that the commander of the South China Expeditionary Force was going to interrogate him, he was shocked and thought that the expeditionary force was going to execute him.

So when he saw Qu Sangqian for the first time, he knelt down and begged Qu Sangqian with tears in his eyes not to kill him, so that he could hand over all his property.

Qu Sangqian had no patience for such weaklings and told him straight to the point.

"I'm meeting you to tell you that I plan to let you, workers' organizations, and surrendered soldiers jointly form a provisional government. Are you willing?"

The moment he heard the news, the Hungarians' eyes widened and their smooth foreheads became even brighter.

He nodded and shouted in English: "I do, I do."

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With Mihai Karoli's campaign, a large number of penniless bourgeoisie turned into the country's parliamentary politicians.

In addition, representatives of workers' organizations and representatives of surrendered soldiers joined forces to form a new republican government.

On the day the new government was established, it announced its independence from the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and became the independent Hungarian Democratic Republic. (End of chapter)