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Cruz smiled wryly and said, "Master Governor, are we really going to declare war?"

Sandras said: "Declaration of war! Must declare war!"

Cruz smiled sadly and said, "My lord, how much do you know about China?"

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

Cruz asked with a smile, "Is that all?"

Sandras said: "Aren't so many enough? How can a country that cooks such delicious food be interested in fighting a good war?"

Cruz said helplessly: "My lord, recently there is a word called 'cainiao' in China. I wonder if you have heard of it?"

Sandras shook his head and said, "I only care about Chinese food and nothing else."

Cruz laughed and said, "My lord, the 'rookie' refers to those who know nothing. In the eyes of China, we, the Philippines, and our Spanish Empire are all rookies."

Sandras frowned and said angrily, "They are all rookies? What does this mean?"

Cruz said: "China once defeated the British Far East Fleet, and now it has occupied all of Japan. Spain is no longer an empire with an invincible fleet that spans the world. How can we rashly declare war?"

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

Cruz said helplessly: "My lord, our garrison is more than vulnerable! It's simply 'vulnerable'. Don't use 'strike', let's just talk about our fleet. The high-quality coal has long been sold by the fleet commander. , Now the warehouse is empty; the money to buy shells from the arms dealer has also been embezzled by the Minister of Armament, and now the oldest shell in the fleet is bigger than the mistress of the Minister of Armament.”

Sandras frowned, and said, "Why don't I know about these things? I must investigate thoroughly in the future!" Cruz smiled secretly in his heart: "Mr. Give you less!" At this moment, Sandras continued: "Hurry up and invite the British envoy Alex Charlton."

Cruz nodded, and went out to invite Alex Charlton. Speaking of Alex Charlton, he is Lin Yuan's "old friend". Lin Yuan promoted RMB in Shanghai back then, seized The foreign factories that squeezed the blood and sweat of the Chinese people had a lot of competition with the Ministry of Industry in the British Concession, and the highest leader of the Ministry of Industry was Alex Charlton.

When it was not too late, Charlton walked into the living room, and Sandras said: "Mr. Charlton, you are responsible for the anti-Chinese and anti-Chinese affairs. Now Lin Yuan has given us a 'thunder shock'. We You have lost face in the international community, so you can think of a way for us."

Charlton said with a smile: "There is only one way, declare war!"

Sandras looked back at the press officer Cruz, and said to him: "You can convince Mr. Charlton that we cannot declare war."

Cruz said: "Mr. Special Envoy, please think about it more. The strength of Lin Yuan's troops is far superior to ours. How can we be their opponents?"

Charlton said with a smile: "Do you think Lin Yuan has the strength to attack the Philippines in an all-round way?"

Cruz nodded and said, "I think there should be."

Charlton said with a smile: "Then why didn't Lin Yuan attack in an all-out way? Instead, he made a thunderous deterrent action?"

Cruz shook his head slightly, and Charlton smiled and said, "You can see, the war in Japan has only ended for a few days? Lin Yuan doesn't have the energy to start the next war right now, so Lin Yuan wants to pass the war." A thunder and deterrence action to force us to protect the Chinese, if we declare war, Lin Yuan's troops will definitely not attack in an all-out way, and our face will be restored by then."

Cruz thought to himself: "What are you talking about! The reason why Lin Yuan didn't launch a full-scale war is that there was only a large-scale anti-China riot in Paranam. If Lin Yuan attacked in an all-out way, it would be an unknown cause. Lin Yuan is the most particular How can it be possible to attack the Philippines in an all-round way with the idea of ​​"the division is famous"? If China is really annoyed and a full-scale war is launched, the Philippines will be completely owned by China within a week."

However, although Cruz thought clearly, he didn't say anything. Instead, he thought: "Who made you officers? I don't want to fight with you. If you want to declare war, you can declare war. Anyway, I have made enough money in the past two years." Now, I will surrender as soon as Lin Yuan's troops arrive, and then go home and live like a king."

Cruz then said: "Okay, then I will go to hold a press conference and announce the declaration of war to the world." So at 1898:9 on September 22, 14, the Philippines officially declared war on China!

Lin Yuan laughed when he heard the news of the declaration of war. Although China did little intelligence work on the Philippines, Lin Yuan also knew about the corruption of the Spanish garrison. Their corruption was not the corruption of a few people, but from top to bottom, from All-round corruption from inside to outside. From the fleet commander to the ordinary soldiers, they are all proud of corruption and ashamed of incorruptibility. How can such an army be the opponent of Lin Yuan's army?

Nevertheless, Lin Yuan made a careful deployment. The first thing he did was to divide and disintegrate the interior of the Philippines. At this time, in the Philippines, Spain was the colonial ruler, and the Filipinos were the ruled. The terrorist organization has been wiped out by the Spaniards and the Americans, so Lin Yuan decided: unite the Filipinos and attack the Spaniards.

Lin Yuan ordered the radio stations in Guangdong and Taiwan to broadcast to the entire Philippines in Filipino. The broadcast pointed out: The Chinese people believe that the anti-China riots in Palanan were only caused by the Filipinos being bewitched by the Spanish rulers. The people regard the Filipino people as friends and welcome the Philippines into China's economic system.

The broadcast of Lin Yuan’s troops covered almost all frequencies, so that Filipinos could hear the voice of Lin Yuan’s troops when they turned on the radio. While broadcasting to the common people, Lin Yuan’s troops also broadcast to the Spanish garrison. The broadcast said: "Brothers, your home is thousands of miles away in the Pyrenees Peninsula, 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, and ignored Lin Yuan's rebellious broadcast. The Zhiyuan ship and the Jingyuan ship of the Yuan army, two beast-class destroyers, approached the port of Manila.