Of course, Emperor Yang did not really want Santos to liberate Guatemala. What he needed was a puppet and not a people's power. At this time, the president of Guatemala was named Cabrera. The protagonist of the later Nobel Prize-winning novel Mr. President was a dictator.
He came to power in an extremely weird way at the beginning of this year. He assassinated the former president, then broke into the parliament with a pistol and told the members to elect him as president, so the members also elected him as president. It was so bizarre that
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After he became president, both the American United Fruit Company and the German coffee merchants wanted to control the country. In the end, he chose the United Fruit Company because of the distance. From then on, the country began a history of being dominated by one company. The United Fruit Company was his cabinet.
The fruit company is his army. When the army is unwilling to suppress the people for him, the mercenaries of the United Fruit Company will suppress it for him. However, he has not made a choice yet. As long as he is given enough pressure, the Germans will show off again.
Given his strength, he will make a reasonable choice.
Let Santos go south to create pressure on him in the name of revolution, forcing him to agree to open land passage, and the German army will provide him with military protection to block the intervention of the Americans. This is enough. As for the United Fruit Company, it is easier to handle, as long as the U.S. military
Power cannot put pressure on this country, and a new law can solve them, so the most important thing now is to strengthen William's determination to intervene in Guatemala.
"Mr. Minister, as far as I know, many companies in your country are exploring for oil, but it seems that no oil fields have been found so far. And now I happen to have a newly discovered oil field in my hands. I wonder if your country is interested in cooperating?" Yang Feng
Seeing Haijing being called to the palace, he said with a smile.
Haijing's heart beat hard. Imperial Oil, a partnership between Yang Feng and the British, is the second largest oil supplier in the world, second only to Standard Oil of the United States. However, judging from the speed of development, its output will soon decrease.
It will reach the first place, and this miracle that only took six years to rise is entirely due to Yang Feng's ability to almost turn stone into gold, from Persia to Iran. He almost accurately located the location of each oil well to the meter, and the European capital circle
He even regarded him as a miracle, and now good things finally happened to the Germans.
However, he also knew that since Yang Feng was looking for someone to cooperate, it must not be in a place that he could control, otherwise no one would be stupid enough to share it with others.
"Your Majesty, where is the location of this oil field?" Haijing asked cautiously.
Yang Feng smiled and poked his finger at the location of Guatemala on the map and said: "But the scale of this oil field should not be as large as those in the Middle East. I estimate that if all the oil wells are developed, the annual output will only be a few million barrels, but
According to my geological reasoning, there should be oil fields in several Central American countries, but the specific situation is still under study. The only one whose location and reserves can be determined is Guatemala.
I know that your country is short of crude oil. As a friend, I am also very willing to help you. Now my Gulf Oil has just discovered a large oil field on the coast of Shandong, my country, and is unable to develop other places in the short term. Since this is the case, I will simply give it to you, but No matter which company in your country takes over the oil fields here, it must leave me no less than 20% of the shares." Yang Feng said.
Haijing's mind immediately started to spin. Combined with the recent situation in Central America. The rise of the People's Party in Mexico, the United States' blockade of the coast of Chiapas, and the brand-new advanced weapons in the hands of the People's Party, a vague clue has been revealed.
But this has nothing to do with Germany, as long as the oil fields are obtained.
Yang Feng's hand cannot reach that far. If Germany wants to expand in America, its main enemy is the United States. It is also in Germany's interest to attack the United States. In this regard, the two sides fully meet the conditions for an alliance.
"Okay, I think that's very reasonable." He said immediately.
"But I must remind you that this country may be facing an external crisis recently. You also know that their neighbors are fighting for freedom and democracy. I think the fire of revolution is likely to burn this country. The U.S. government has shown that it is not interested in Mexico.
The hostility of the revolutionaries. I am afraid that they will take the opportunity to intervene in this country. In that case, I will face a dilemma. After all, I am also friends with Mr. Rockefeller." Yang Feng told him implicitly that you Germans should control that country.
"Your Majesty, I think whether there is revolution or not should be a matter for the people of Mexico and Guatemala. Other countries have no right to interfere. If someone insists on interfering, the German government will not turn a blind eye." Hai Jing said with a smile.
"Then I can rest assured. If your country is in need, the Chinese Royal Navy's fleet in the Caribbean will be very happy to do its part." Yang Feng said with a smile.
Haijing's telegram was hurriedly sent back to Germany, causing an uproar in the German capital community. Even Kaiser Wilhelm personally inquired about the matter. Germany needed oil fields so much, even in distant Central American oil fields, that no matter what the fleet was now,
Diesel engines and the booming automobile and petrochemical industries are all eager for the support of oil fields. Unfortunately, countless German exploration teams have failed in their explorations around the world. This has become the biggest regret of the German capital community. Now Yang Feng
The oil fields come to their doorstep, so who will let them go?
As for Yang Feng's conspiracy, no one cares about this, isn't it the United States? Let alone the current U.S. Navy, even if they built all eight battleships, they are not worth mentioning in the eyes of the German Navy. Until now
So far, Germany has only four of its latest diesel engine battleships in service, and six more are under construction. Adding in the old battleships, even if the United States develops again, there will still be a double gap between the two sides. As for the army, let alone the US Army.
The European army seems to be a complete joke now.
After some internal competition, Deutsche Bank and BASF acquired this piece of meat. They will form a joint venture with China Gulf Oil Company to form Central American Petroleum Company. Of course, Gulf Oil does not have to pay a penny. All it takes is Emperor Yang to take over Guatemala.
It is enough to hand over the location of the oil fields, but before that the German army must control the country.
At this time, Santos also followed Yang Feng's instructions and raised the banner of liberating Central America. While leaving 50,000 people to continue to defend the Chiapas base, he personally led 50,000 people into Guatemala. In fact, he already had many people under his command.
There are few Guatemalans. These countries in Central America were independent from the former Spanish colonies. They are all composed of Spanish and Indian mixed races. They have the same ethnicity and the same language. They even belonged to the same country at the beginning of independence, and they also had an emperor, Chiapa.
The state itself is divided into two, one part belongs to Mexico and the other part belongs to Guatemala. It is too easy to burn out the revolutionary fire. Basically, you can walk across the border and shout a slogan, and groups of people will come and defect.
After entering Guatemala, these uninvited guests began to follow the same pattern as they did in Mexico, destroying plantations one after another. Whether they belonged to Guatemalan landowners or foreign investors, they all were directly confiscated and then distributed to farmers without land, including
All their property was equally divided, and some landowners who were more indignant were even held in court and then hanged. American plantation owners were directly deprived of all their property and then expelled, and it didn't matter where they went.
The frightened Cabrera quickly mobilized the army to fight. Unfortunately, Santos supported the People's Party of Guatemala at this time and also promoted their ideal People's Republic of Guatemala. This move not only won him the support of the poor people of Guatemala, but even some of the army
The soldiers welcomed him. Cabrera, who had just used a pistol to force the congressmen to elect him as president, was a joke compared to Díaz, who had been a dictator for twenty years. The 20,000 soldiers sent to the front line
Five thousand actually defected to the Guatemalan People's Party, and the remaining more than ten thousand were instantly defeated. Soon Santos' army was approaching Guatemala City.
Even Yang Feng didn't expect the Guatemalan government to be so vulnerable, but he didn't want the country to really turn into a republic. He needed Cabrera to continue to be president, and then to be a puppet for the Central American Petroleum Company. Cabrera was in dire straits.
When the country was preparing to defend its capital, the manager of the Central American Oil Company came to visit.
It is very simple. If the oil exploration and exploitation rights in Guatemala are granted to Central American Petroleum Company, then the German troops in Haiti and Colombia will come to help him defeat the rebels. Of course, he can issue the invitation as the president of Guatemala.
It was so urgent that Cabrera and his bureaucratic congressmen could not control so much. They signed an agreement without hesitation to sell oil exploration and exploitation rights in all areas of the country to Central America at a price of 10,000 pounds per year.
The oil company also invited the German army to help him suppress the rebellion.
After receiving his invitation, the 10,000 German troops who had already been loaded onto ships in Port-au-Prince and on standby quickly set off. At the same time, the U.S. government announced that it would send U.S. troops to protect the people in Guatemala on the grounds that the People's Party had violated the legitimate rights and interests of the United States in Guatemala.
Dangerous immigrants.
Five landing ships loaded with 10,000 German troops landed at Port Barrios in eastern Guatemala as quickly as possible, and then headed straight to Guatemala City. The U.S. military that set off from Tampa did not expect that the Germans had already prepared, and there were no large landing ships.
, so when the German troops landed, they had just sailed through Cuba.
The German troops who landed, with a cavalry force of 2,000 men as the vanguard, and with the cooperation of the Guatemalan government who did not know the inside story, marched day and night and entered Guatemala City in only two days.
"Your Excellency, President, you must issue another statement. In the name of the Guatemalan government, you refuse the US government to send troops to protect their expatriates. The German Army has the ability to protect any foreign citizens on this land." The German commander who personally led the cavalry came.
General Schumann, fully armed, said to Cabrera who greeted him.