Chapter 186: Port-au-Prince

"However, it is great that Britain does not interfere in our war with Spain." Orni doesn't want to attract British attention either. Now Britain's attention is focused on Southern Africa.
Is the British so terrible? Sheffield smiled indifferently. In his eyes, as an island country like Britain, the status of the world hegemon can be maintained to the present, which is already the limit of the British diplomats of all generations. The local force is too small, and the navy is more real without the threat of the army.
After all, this world depends on a country with a large population and a large area, and there are too many challengers in the UK. The disadvantage of insufficient local power is magnified. Which of France, Germany and Russia is a fuel-efficient lamp? In this era, even the British themselves may not understand who their enemy is.
Don't look at William II's sense of presence in the past two years, but has Britain really listed Germany as an opponent that must be dealt with? This is not necessarily, but also consider the imperial Russia that has not fought the Russo-Japanese War. The Emperor Russia before the Russo-Japanese War, but a very scary existence, just a huge territory, spreading the map is frightening to see.
The huge territory and population are of course useful, otherwise I will be a traditional agricultural empire until the Qing dynasty. Why has n’t it been treated by India? Europe's war against Daqing began in 1840. It was quick and quick. After winning the battle, the troops were immediately closed and peace talks were avoided, to avoid the real start of the colonial war, just like it was against Africa and South Asia.
At present, the Qing Dynasty is confronted with wars between countries and countries. Britain, France, and Russia will just close at a glance, and it will be cheaper. If, as in the case of Mongolia going south to destroy the gold, it was the point of dying to push Qing to the end, to be honest, the Ottomans of Western Asia were forced to the limit, and almost all of the lost Turkic natives were left to fight the British. The gnawing British people are vague.
The duration of the war is not long. The battle that ended in several battles, the United States will soon start against Spain. The characteristic of this kind of battle is that the exchange ratio is very exaggerated, almost one-sided, but the duration is not long. The Spanish-American War and the Boer War almost started, and the United States immediately settled Spain. The British fell out of the pit directly. I believe no one thinks that the Boers are stronger than Spain.
This is also the reason why Sheffield feels that there is no problem with using Chinese labor. However, it is no problem to be a power in an industrialized society, and to be a Southeast Asian colony.
This matter was handed over to Evelyn and Huagong for communication. While sending the telegram, Sheffield now has to choose one in two directions. Of course, he wants everything, but he has only one person, only Staring in one direction, Cuba should be resolved faster under the eyes of the United States. The overall situation here is already determined to follow the US military to Asia, and it should be too late.
On the same day, Evelyn in Los Angeles received the boss's pad, looked at it and went straight to the Secretariat to push in.
"Assistant!" A dozen young and beautiful women stood up, and each one looked very capable and said hello to Evelyn.
"Meet people and go to San Francisco with us. The boss has something for us to do." Evelyn nibbled at her lips and looked at the girls of the secretariat with a complex look, but she still took care of the overall situation. "The boss asked us to Do this well, everyone will work hard. "
After all, this is the tradition of Sheffield United Company. Los Angeles also maintains this tradition, that is, when the boss is away, the woman is responsible for the matter. Now the company is in the forefront of the age of men and women in the workplace and is loved by women in the United States. , It ’s just that ordinary women do n’t know that this is a wolf den.
The bosses in these women's mouths took the train back to Texas, and then halfway down the Mississippi River to the Port of New Orleans. Boarding the battleship Maine scared the slave owners a lot. The idea that people always wanted to harm me made him think that he should still be a low-key person recently.
On the opposite side of the sea, the Kurdsack Plains are full of flowers, green grass, and the sea breeze on the beach is so warm and pleasant at all times. Port-au-Prince is the largest city in Haiti, and it is also the capital of Haiti. The largest handicraft city, the largest population gathering place, the largest and so on ... This is the case with small island nations. A city is responsible for almost all the centers of the country.
A group of people standing on the pier wear blue uniforms similar to military uniforms. On each person's left arm, an armband is embroidered on the clothes. The shape of the armband is a shield with a white lone star in the middle. On the central axis, the left half of the armband is black, and the right half is gold. The people with this armband are all employees of the Sheffield Black Gold Transportation Company, and they are now in business and have no business. .
With the sound of a ship whistle coming from far away, a freighter slowly approached the shore with the ship whistle, and the guests above came down one after another, and everyone had the same armband on their clothes, at a glance, just The positions of black and gold are better opposite.
"It's a hurry, and after getting your telegram, we will get on the boat immediately. If the boat is the property of the United Company, I want to kill two people to express my anxiety." The leader of the boat got off , Stomping his foot hard, "This is floating on the sea, I feel that my body does not belong to me."
"Don't complain, Brown! What do you mean to those black people every day in Liberia, although there are indeed many smugglers like ivory and jewelry to be busy, but there is something interesting here." John Connor came to a friend for his friend 'S hug, chattering in his mouth, "Isn't the boss asking you to come back? Isn't there always something you want! Did you bring everything?"
Is there no black people here in Haiti? Brown was uncomfortable with John Conner's consolation and nodded. "The majority of the personnel in the station were transferred. The heavy machine guns and army guns needed were all on board. Naturally, they also brought shotguns that everyone has."
"That's fine, although there is no shortage of weapons in Haiti, but there are some armed forces of the boss's friends, they are also coming, so if you can bring more, bring more." John Connor nodded and pulled Brown toward Walking inside Port-au-Prince, as for the problem of unloading, who said that the goods will be unloaded, do you have to swim to Cuba after unloading?
Port-au-Prince is a base that the United Company has been cultivating for many years. In fact, if Cuba is not a Spanish colony, the overseas residence of the Black Gold Company is actually more suitable for Cuba. The current ruling class in Haiti is a black-and-white class. As for why there are no white people, there are actually some. The Poles have a gathering place on the island.
As for the descendants of other white colonists, it is not. Do n’t think that the colony is a risk-free thing. It is not surprising that the colonists of different countries catch and fight each other, but once the homeland is changed, it happens to catch up with the resistance of the colony, and the colonizer's head will not be harder than the colonized. Haiti ’s original colonists suffered this kind of treatment. The Polish survived because they violated the military order and were pardoned by the Haitians.
Bang ... After the gun was blasted, the person who fired praised with satisfaction, "The power and range are also far, and it is also very suitable for the environment of Central America. The shotgun produced by the gun factory is really good."
Citizens of the United States have always been particularly fond of shotguns and are the hometown of modern shotguns! As early as the Western era, in the face of the attack of the sturdy Indians, the white farmer who was not dominant was equipped with large-caliber shotguns. In this way, one shot can kill multiple Indians. Similarly, the US team also developed and equipped with various shotgun weapons in all wars.
This time is no exception. If the war breaks out, the main battlefield is Cuba in the Caribbean, and the Philippines is thousands of miles away. They are all fighting in the tropical jungle. In the face of the enemy forces that are extremely easy to hide and appear suddenly, the US military relies heavily on the shotgun that can knock down the enemy soldiers in an instant without aiming.
"This is a shotgun jointly developed with Browning, and the domestic army is also equipped with such a shotgun." John Connor did not object to the test shot, but explained on the side, "If Really fight, we use the same weapons as the federal army. "
"Then I think the Spaniard is going to be unlucky!" The man who tested the gun wiped the shotgun very carefully. "Relax, when we were in Brazil, when we were fighting with the Brazilian government army, it was similar to the environment here. It should be Not a problem. "
"Of course it can't be better. Now, besides our black gold company, there are now more than 8,000 people, and there are still constant armed arrivals every day. It will be a problem to cooperate with us. Our bosses are all The closest friends, I hope that when we fight, we can also be intimate. "
John Conner said this not only to the man who tested the gun, but also to the others present. Hearing this sentence, everyone nodded. The two most important protective cruisers are in the hands of John Connor. They do n’t want to be fed fish before they get there. If something goes wrong at sea, it ’s really impossible for them to be able to use them all.
"It's a bit of logistics that needs people to worry. I don't know if the Black Gold Company and the Haitian government are intimate!" Some people are worried about the current situation. After all, they are fighting across the sea, and all risks have increased a lot.
"If the war really starts, you just tell the Haitians to fight Spain and they will support it." John Connor smiled and said, "Don't look at this small island country's impoverishment. It used to support the Dominicans against Spain. rule."
As time went by day by day, more and more private armies gathered from Central American countries to Haiti, and soon reached 10,000 people. Many people were waiting for the war to start in some way, or it may be a wrong judgment. Can't get up.