Chapter 132: navy

In early November 1868, if there were more than fifty merchant ships in the port in Joviana, an iron armored ship off the port led a team of twelve sailing ships and fifteen gunboats to form a combat fleet, and sails were ready to sail.
The peace treaty was signed, and the Chinese Army of the Independent Army withdrew from the land it belonged to in accordance with the provisions of the treaty. The Marine Division dispatched half of the ships to transport Chinese workers.
The vessels carrying Chinese workers in the agreement were provided by Brazil, but the news from Cuba was not optimistic. In order to complete the task of transporting Chinese workers as soon as possible, Li Mingyuan ordered the Chinese independent military fleet to participate in the transportation work with the Brazilian fleet.
On October 10, 1868, the plantation owner of the Cuban Colonial Province of Oriente, cmde Cespedes, held an uprising in the village of Yarra. On October 16, the Cuban Revolutionary Commission issued a Declaration to Compatriots and Peoples of the Country. The book calls on the Cuban people to immediately launch an armed uprising to fight for Cuba's independence and equality and freedom of the people, and to make demands for the liberation of slaves.
After the declaration was issued, Cuban blacks, slaves, mixed races, and plantation owners responded to the call and joined the uprising.
The insurgent army quickly increased to 12,000, and successively captured Yarra, Bailey, Higuani, Bayamo and other towns, and the soldiers pointed directly at the eastern town of Santiago de Cuba.
Affected by successive insurgent forces, armed uprisings have also occurred in Camaguey and Las Villas provinces.
In just over 20 days, the Cuban uprising has intensified. As a large group of Cuban laborers, some Chinese laborers have also joined the riots.
The Spanish colonists' response to the frustration in the early days of the Cuban riots deteriorated, but by the time Spanish support forces arrived in Cuba, the seemingly powerful insurgents would be wiped out.
The chaotic situation in Cuba has nothing to do with the Chinese Independence Army, but after the Spanish colonists extinguished the rebellion, they will definitely step up their efforts to combat slaves and Chinese workers involved in the rebellion. As a result, the introduction of Cuban Chinese workers will be affected.
Therefore, before the Chinese workers participated in the rebellion on a large scale, returning them to the Rio Grande do Sul area became the most important thing at hand.
From the end of the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth century, about 10,000 Chinese came to South America from Manila. Most of the more than 10,000 Chinese stayed in Peru and Cuba, and a small part lived elsewhere.
The Spanish-controlled Manila colony is closest to the mainland. They have easier access to labor than countries such as Britain and France. Over three hundred years later, all Chinese who came to South America in the early days died in mines and plantations, and gradually increased labor later. Adapted to the local environment and survived, but still not free, and continued to work in various forms of betrayal.
So far, the number of Chinese laborers in Cuba is about 100,000. After the Cuban uprising broke out in 1868, a large number of oppressed Chinese laborers joined the insurgent forces and fought against the Spanish army. After the uprising failed, the blacks, Indians and Chinese laborers involved in the riot were executed in large numbers. After Cuba gained independence under the auspices of the United States, the political status of the laborers involved in independence did not improve. Some of the land and wealth of Chinese workers who were free were confiscated by the newly formed Cuban government. Chinese workers who lost their freedom still had no choice.
In 1911, sixteen years after the establishment of the new Cuban government, there were only a few hundred local Chinese workers left, and Cuba changed from the country with the largest Chinese population to the country with the least Chinese population in the Americas.
As for the disappeared Chinese workers, some fled to other areas, and some disappeared slowly in Cuba's dense rubber plantations.
Compared with Cuban Chinese, the fate of Chinese laborers in Peru is much fortunate. Li Mingyuan led them to acquire their own land. Some Chinese soldiers have found their wives and settled. Facing Cuban Chinese laborers on the other side of the South American continent, Li Mingyuan extended a helping hand to them. More than 50 ocean-going merchant ships and more than 10 warships make up the first batch of transport fleets. British and Dutch merchant ships hired one month later will form larger fleets to participate in transportation.
The employment of the British fleet was an agreement reached between Liu Pu and the British representative during the negotiations. After the negotiations, Liu Pu, as ordered by Li Mingyuan, proposed to purchase from the United Kingdom two armored ships with a displacement of 3,500 tons in addition to the purchase of a large number of material orders. And the terms of employment of British merchant ships.
When Li Mingyuan instructed Liu Pu to put forward the above conditions, he just held a try. However, he did not expect that Liu Pugang proposed it, and the British representative readily agreed.
After Liu Pu returned, he recounted the words of the British representative to Li Mingyuan. Li Mingyuan suddenly realized that the British Empire was currently developing rapidly. There was still a way to go before becoming the absolute hegemony of the early 20th century. Li Mingyuan was worried that the British would implement technology in the Chinese Independent Army. The blockade was unwilling to be sold to the Chinese Independent Army ’s Iron Armored Ships, but then I thought about it. The Chinese Independent Army controlled the land of the two states with a population of only one or two hundred thousand. The British of such scale would not be regarded as a threat at all.
After all, several countries in South America have fought for their territories. However, the South American countries that fight with Europeans to eliminate weapons are just like playing with each other. Just sending a few regular regiments can sweep the South American powers, even across the ocean. The United States is not an opponent of the British regular army. In the past few years, it felt that the United States had no rivals in North America. The US ambition rose to attack Canada. As a result, the British army stationed in Canada was severely beaten, and even the capital's White House was burned by the British army.
The British agreed to sell warships and were willing to hire merchant ships to themselves, Li Mingyuan was willing to accept.
Ten large British merchant ships, thirty medium merchant ships, fifteen medium merchant ships provided by the Netherlands, forty-five ships can carry 17,000 people one way, plus the second batch of ships left by the Chinese Independent Army, quickly Twenty-three thousand people have little problem.
Hiring a large number of merchant ships within a month, the Chinese Independent Army paid a high price. Liu Pu took British business representatives from Brazil to return to Rio Grande do Sul, handing over ten tons of gold in Rio Grande as a mercenary fleet and purchase warships. Deposits for purchasing materials.
At this time, the British currency, the British pound, was linked to gold, and the Chinese independent army directly offered gold for trading. The British were very happy. They did not ask the mentally handicapped questions about the origin of gold. They contacted Merchant Marine to gather at the designated place.
The total cost of purchasing machinery, purchasing warships, and hiring merchant ships was calculated. The Chinese Independent Army ’s reserves of gold were spent more than half, and the resettlement of Cuban Chinese laborers also required a large amount of money. Lin Mingyuan spent a lot of money, and new financial issues became Li Mingyuan. Important issues to consider.
Watching the first fleet leaving the port, Li Mingyuan temporarily put aside the issue of opening up new financial resources, and Liu Pu and others entered the port of Joinvia under construction.
There are five large and small ports along the coast of Santa Catarina. Among them, the hydrological environment of Florianopolis on the islands of Joviana and Santa Catarina is better, which is suitable for the construction of the naval base of the Chinese Independent Army.
The Chinese Independent Army's naval division experienced the Naval War of Naval and the intensive training of nearly half a year, it can formally become an army.
The naval division will formally become an army after carrying out the transportation of Cuban Chinese workers. Prior to this, the three ports of Porto Alegre, Joinvia and Florianopolis were built as naval bases, and the main naval force docked in Afghanistan. The Port of Regrige is responsible for guarding the maritime security of the headquarters of the Chinese Independent Army. As a naval sub-base, Reinvia and Florianopolis deploy certain warships for security tasks. At the same time, the officially formed Marine Corps base is located in Ruo Invia,
In addition to the defensive facilities destroyed by artillery in the area under construction in the port of Joviana, the rest is the Marine Corps camp.
The Chinese Independent Army knows a lot of people, but not many can serve as senior naval commanders. Chen Sen is barely qualified in the Marine Division, but his military skills and qualifications are not high, so Li Mingyuan sent him to the Caribbean. Try to master a fleet alone. If he performs well, he will have a seat in the officially established high-ranking navy.
Chen Sen could not return in the Caribbean for a short time. Liu Pu was temporarily in charge of the naval affairs, while Feng Guoan, the former Marine Corps, was handed over to Feng Guoan, who served as the head of the Chinese Independent Army.
Feng Erhu's battle was decisive and decisive, which was quite different from his name, so he was renamed Feng Guoan by Li Mingyuan.
Li Mingyuan inspected the progress of the construction of the port of Ruovia. Feng Guoan followed him. After inspecting the port battery, he came to a coastal camp near the sea. Hundreds of Chinese soldiers were training against the current in the sea water.
"Shizi, more than one hundred people in front of the waves are veterans of the Frogman unit, and three hundred people in the back are recruits trained for three months. The total number of Marines is here, and there are two hundred from the six hundred you requested. gap."
Feng Guoan saw Li Mingyuan's attention focused on soldiers trained in the seawater, and complained when he saw the stitches.
"There aren't enough soldiers, just go to recruit, and I'll teach you about this."
Li Mingyuan didn't return.
"Shizi, to tell you the truth, in order to recruit soldiers, one army is humbled to run, but no matter how good the humble words are, the number of people who meet Shizi's requirements has not been recruited.
If it weren't for Shizi's inspection base today, I will report to you in person tonight. "
"Oh, don't other troops allow you to recruit their soldiers?"
Li Mingyuan turned his head and laughed.
Feng Guoan has not spoken yet, and Liu Pu smiled and replied, "I know something about the Marine Corps recruitment.
Commander Feng recruited four divisions and three mixed brigades in accordance with Shizi's orders. At the beginning, the chiefs of the various departments also cooperated. Later, Commander Feng did not know where to get a training plan and selected soldiers according to the standards on the training book In this way, the chiefs of the various units were unwilling, not only did they not let Commander Feng recruit troops, they also sent the report to me. "
"What training book did you get?" Li Mingyuan noticed a hint of nasty.
"It is the training book that Shizi gives to the humble job. Humble job is done in accordance with Shizi's request."
Li Mingyuan looked at Feng Guoan, saw an unnatural expression in his eyes, and understood the truth of the matter.
"Commander Feng ~ EbookFREE.me ~ You take the training plan I arranged for the frogman troop as a recruiting standard, is that right?"
Feng Guoan nodded without denying.
"Your boy asked me for a frogman troop training plan. I didn't expect it to be used for recruiting." Li Mingyuan felt a little funny. Feng Guoan recruited troops using the standard of the frogman troop. No wonder the other officers were not willing. The elite soldiers in each troop were very Precious, dug up by Feng Guoan alone, how can they manage the army.
"So, the recruited soldiers will return a hundred people to the original army, and I will send you one hundred soldiers from the Guards Regiment, the First Mixed Brigade, and the Second Mixed Brigade respectively. You will first recruit 600 people."
"Shizi!" Feng Guoan opened his mouth to oppose it and was blocked by Li Mingyuan in a word. "Okay, this is the end of this matter. If you object again, I will return all the soldiers you have recruited and let you recruit ! "
Feng Guo'an hurriedly stopped talking and didn't finish talking. He recruited himself and caused dissatisfaction among the leaders of the various ministries. If he recruited again, they would let them choose at will.
Feng Guoan's incident was just an episode. After inspecting Ruovia, Li Mingyuan returned to his residence and continued to work on resettlement in the newly occupied area.