The conflict between Hongshuntang and Ruishengtang broke out quickly under Liu Xing's deliberate guidance, and soon evolved into a large-scale armed fight.
Ruishengtang's side had the upper hand at the beginning of the fight because of its superior numbers. Although Hongshuntang's side tried their best to resist the opponent's attack, the numerical disadvantage was difficult to reverse. Under Ruishengtang's well-prepared attacks, they continued to attack.
A member of the Hongshun Hall congregation was knocked to the ground.
The fight lasted for nearly half an hour. Except for Huang Shengui, a few people in the open space outside the hall were still being besieged by the Ruishengtang congregants. The rest of the Hongshun Hall congregants were either injured and fell to the ground, or were captured by the Ruishengtang people who held their hands.
Huang Shengui suffered a lot of scars, and the freed-up Ruisheng Hall congregants continued to join the team besieging him. Seeing that Huang Shengui was about to be captured and humiliated by the Ruisheng Hall congregants, the white police responsible for public security in San Francisco arrived belatedly.
"Master, a group of foreign devils are coming. Do you want to withdraw, brothers?"
Liu Xing personally directed his men to besiege Huang Shengui. At this time, one of his men came over and said hurriedly.
"Damn it, the foreign devils didn't come sooner or later, but they came just when I was about to catch Huang Shengui!"
Liu Xing spit on the ground fiercely and said unwillingly, "This time he is lucky, tell the brothers to retreat immediately!"
"Brothers, retreat!" With Liuxing's permission, the Ruishengtang congregants shouted loudly, gave up beating the remaining Hongshuntang congregants and quickly dispersed in all directions.
After the armed fight ended, the white policemen caught more than a dozen members of the Ruisheng Hall who were running slowly, interrogated Huang Shengui and others for a few words, and then left the Chinatown Hall.
After the white police officers left, Huang Shengui called on more than a dozen Chinese people with reasonable connections to help take care of the injured congregants, and at the same time sent two Chinese people to ask for a doctor.
"Tang Zhou, how are the brothers?"
Directing the men to move the last injured member of the congregation into the house, Huang Shengui said anxiously, regardless of his own injury.
"The people from Ruishengtang played a heavy hand this time. More than ten brothers were seriously injured and more than twenty were slightly injured. Except for four brothers who escaped by chance, everyone else in the guild hall was seriously injured.
Injured."
Zhou Suitang sighed.
Although overseas Chinese have conflicts over territorial disputes, they are generally not ruthless. In a fight involving hundreds or thousands of people at a time, the total number of minor and serious injuries may not exceed ten. However, Ruishengtang’s behavior this time was obviously bad.
learned the rules in the Chinese circle.
"Tang Zhou, after you have arranged for the injured brothers, you can help me go to Canada and send 200 people from the Tangkou headquarters with my letter."
"Master, do you want to start a war with Ruisheng Hall?"
"Others have bullied us. If we don't start a war, we will be cowards!"
"Yes, I understand."......
After Lopez Jr. was officially crowned King of Paraguay, the atmosphere in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, gradually returned to calm. The Presidential Palace of Paraguay, now the Temporary Palace of the King of Paraguay, Li Mingyuan, President Pedro of Peru, and President Adolfo of Bolivia attended the coronation ceremony of Lopez Jr.
The others were sitting in a secret room, waiting for the arrival of the main owner, Little Lopez.
"The kingdom is undergoing restructuring and affairs are busy, so I have kept you waiting for a long time."
Little Lopez, dressed in a fancy dress, walked into the room with a smile and seemed to be in a good mood.
"Your Highness, you're welcome. I've just arrived."
Li Mingyuan said politely, and then asked, "His Highness invited us to gather together. I don't know why?"
"I think you should already know that Brazilian Emperor Pedro II recruited new soldiers, purchased warships, and sent additional troops to border areas."
As he spoke, little Lopez observed the expressions of Li Mingyuan and the others. When the three nodded in recognition, he continued, "The final target of Brazil's rearmament must be the four countries that have territorial disputes with Brazil. Therefore, I think it is better to be passive."
To deal with the military threat from the Brazilian Empire, it is better for the four countries to form a closer alliance, set up a common alliance headquarters, and coordinate the four countries' response to the Brazilian threat. What do you think?"
"I agree with His Majesty Lopez's suggestion. Although the four countries of Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Rio Grande do Sul are connected to each other by land, transportation is inconvenient. Only by establishing a closer alliance can the military defense relations of each country be more effectively coordinated."
Li Mingyuan was aware of Lopez's original intention beforehand, and was the first to express his support.
"The Brazilian Empire is aggressive, and a large area of Peru's territory fell into the hands of the Brazilian Empire. I agree that the four countries will form a closer alliance and recover the lands occupied by Brazil."
Acre State is a region that protrudes in central Peru. Because Acre State is controlled by the Brazilian Empire, the strategic depth of central Peru has been compressed, and the country's territory is wide on both sides and narrow in the middle. The strategic situation is bad. Once Brazil
The empire launched an attack on Peru from the state of Acre. Peru was likely to face the dilemma of having its territory cut off in the middle, so Pedro had always hoped to completely recover the state of Acre and eliminate Peru's strategic disadvantage.
Li Mingyuan, Pedro on behalf of Rio Grande do Sul and Peru successively expressed their support for Pedro's proposal. As the party with the weakest military strength, Adolfo on behalf of Bolivia also chose to support the establishment of a closer alliance.
Representatives from the three countries unanimously agreed to Lopez Jr.’s proposal. At the same time, as the initiator of the proposal, Lopez Jr. was successfully elected as the leader of the alliance.
After the alliance was established, the first thing to do was to establish the cooperative relationship between the four countries. Therefore, Lopez Jr. first proposed establishing formal diplomatic relations among the four countries, establishing embassies of the other three countries in each country, and raising the diplomatic relations between the four countries to
The highest level of Ambassador level.
Before the establishment of the alliance, the four countries had already set up offices for each other. Lopez Jr.'s proposal is equivalent to formalizing the offices. As a fixed base for information and intelligence exchanges among the four countries, it will be of great benefit to each country in obtaining external intelligence, so it will also receive
Agree to pass.
After the first clause after the establishment of the alliance was passed, Lopez Jr. immediately put forward the second suggestion: to adjust the number of armies of each country, and to deploy the armies of the four countries in different zones to disperse the military pressure of the Brazilian Empire.
"On August 25, after receiving loans from the United States and France, Pedro quickly expanded the size of the Brazilian army. According to intelligence, the number of regular Brazilian army now numbered 120,000, and the number of volunteers composed of blacks was 50,000.
people, and the size of the Brazilian regular army is still expanding, and it is likely to reach 150,000 people in the end. When the expansion is completed, the Brazilian Empire will have a standing army of more than 20 people, five times the number before the Paraguay War, and once war breaks out again, Brazil will
If we can recruit more young men to join the army, then the pressure faced by the Four-Nation Alliance will be far greater than the previous wars."
Lopez Jr. introduced the military threat from Brazil, and then said, "Based on the military pressure in the border areas between the four countries and Brazil, I established Rio Grande do Sul to deploy no less than 30,000 troops on the front line of Santa Catarina state.
Peru has deployed about 25,000 troops in the state of Acre, Bolivia has deployed 20,000 troops at the border with Brazil, and Paraguay will be responsible for facing the main military pressure of Brazil, near Magrosso do Sul in the north and Magroso do Sul in the east.
The Paraná region each deploys 20,000 troops to defend the Brazilian army. If a war breaks out between one of the four countries and Brazil, the other three countries should immediately put pressure on Brazil from other directions, forcing the Brazilian Empire to disperse its forces and create conditions for the alliance's final victory in the war against Brazil.
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"His Royal Highness Lopez, the number of Bolivian regular troops is only 40,000. The 40,000 troops need to maintain domestic order and defend against the military threats of Chile and Brazil. If half of the army is used to defend Brazil, the remaining 20,000 troops will not be able to fulfill Bolivia's other threats.
, Bolivia can maintain a maximum of 10,000 troops in the area close to Brazil. If the number of troops is larger, the government finances will be difficult to support it."
"The population of Rio Grande do Sul is less than 400,000, and our country is also unable to maintain a force of 30,000 in the border areas."
Lopez Jr.'s suggestions were rejected by Adolfo and Li Mingyuan. Disappointed, Lopez Jr. set his sights on Peruvian President Pedro.
"Peru is divided among warlords. The government forces need to station the main force in the country to deter the warlords. They cannot mobilize 25,000 troops to station in the border areas."
Stationing a large number of troops in border areas during peacetime will not only arouse the vigilance of Brazil, but will also drag down the domestic economy and put huge pressure on the government's finances. No one, including Pedro, Adolfo and Li Mingyuan, is willing to harm their country's interests.
The cost was to share the military pressure from the Brazilian Empire for Paraguay. As the head of the newly established alliance, Lopez Jr. did not want to split within the alliance, so he took a step back and said, "Not long after the last war ended, each country faced a certain degree of economic difficulties.
I can understand your difficulties, but coordinating the defense against the expansion of the Brazilian Empire is a major matter related to national security. We cannot sit back and watch the border areas have empty defenses because of temporary economic difficulties. This will only create opportunities for the Brazilian army to invade our territory.
I hope that you will deploy more troops in border areas as much as possible based on the actual domestic situation to consolidate the defense of your respective border areas."