474 Puerto Vallarta riots (continued)

Puerto Vallarta is a typical trading port city, and its development began with the trade with the Tang Dynasty. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info In this port city, the vast majority of people are engaged in commerce and trade, and the dock workers are a very important force in Vallarta, with thousands of people engaged in dock-related business. Through the development of the workers' movement, the Mexican National Revolutionary Party spent several years organizing local dock workers and establishing trade unions. Although the Vallarta government was opposed to such a thing, the unions operated relatively semi-underground and had considerable organizational power over the workers.

When the workers' leader Ramores received the news of Silva's success, he immediately organized the dock workers to riot. Armed with all sorts of tools, from sticks to knives and even some guns smuggled from the Tang Dynasty, the workers immediately surrounded the Spanish colonial officials in charge of the port. It was night, and the harbour and tax collectors had no vigilance at all, and were rushed into the office by a group of dock workers, who were five big and three thick, and then pressed to the ground.

As for the guards in charge of port security, there were already Lamores men in them, and the Spanish soldiers did have some exchanges with the workers, but the number of workers was so large that they came out from behind the Spanish soldiers and wiped out the Spanish soldiers.

Soon the revolt spread from the port to the whole city, and the uprising, instigated by the Vallarta branch of the National Revolutionary Party, was attended by thousands of people, from ordinary citizens who leaned towards internationalism to some soldiers of the colonial army who had been absorbed. The barracks, which was originally resting, got the news of the city-wide riot. There was also a panic. Major Torres, as the head of the military, and several other officers went to the reception. Although there was a temporary head of the battalion, he preferred to wait for Thomas to return. So he sent only a squad of soldiers to Major Thomas. Shortly after leaving the barracks and arriving at Silva's estate, the group was ambushed by Silva's private guards.

Silva's personal guards were armed with some high-end weapons left behind by the Tang Dynasty, such as bolt-action rifles with metal cartridge casings, and even some submachine guns. The Spanish army was completely unable to resist and had no choice but to surrender.

Subsequently, in the early hours of the morning, thousands of citizens and workers rioted. Under the leadership of Miguel and Lamores, the Spanish defenders surrounded the barracks, and the Spanish defenders panicked and did not dare to break through rashly, and finally under the condition of negotiation between the two sides, the Spanish army agreed to lay down its arms and surrender.

In this way, before the arrival of the Don army in Vallarta, the Mexican National Revolutionary Party, together with local forces, took control of Vallarta in the form of an uprising. After the success of the uprising, the Vallarta branch of the Mexican National Revolutionary Party naturally took over local power. The Vallarta Provisional Civic Self-Government was also formed, and citizens' representatives were elected. Establishment of a city council.

Although it seems that such an autonomous city regime has nothing to do with the Tang people, the entire National Revolutionary Party was built by the Tang people, and although the main body of the party is local Mexican party members, its decision-making and guidance are basically controlled by the commissioners of the First International. Although there seems to be no trace of the Tang people in Vallarta's riots, Silva, a big businessman, is actually the biggest leader of the Tang people, although he is not a Tang person, his interests are inextricably linked to the Tang Dynasty, and even most of his family members are in Los Angeles. In the past, the Tang representatives of the First International also carried out many activities to train local citizens and workers. Although the uprising was improvised, the First International had been planning for a long time, and was only looking for a suitable moment.

As Miguel wrote in his later memoirs: "...... Vallarta, and indeed the whole of Mexico, have long been sitting on the stove, and the dissatisfaction of the people here with their living conditions has been magnified by the fact that some people who went to the Tang Republic and saw the happy and prosperous life of the people there. As a result, Mexicans can't help but ask, can we Mexicans live a dignified, free, democratic, fair and orderly life like ordinary citizens of the Tang people, and can we Mexicans be like ordinary citizens of the Tang people, without worrying about the next meal, and our children can go to school for free, get an education, and get proper medical treatment when they are sick? We saw an advanced country and a civilized society, so we became even more intolerable to the expropriation and cruel enslavement of the Spaniards. So in the years of trade with Datang, as a fresh wind of advanced civilization blew into Mexico, our people began to wake up. The intellectuals came into contact with the internationalist ideas of the Tang Dynasty, and the workers, peasants, and Indians began to fight for their rights, so the development of the Kuomintang was in line with the historical situation and won the support of the broad masses of the people. It is safe to assert that, assuming that the bombing had not occurred and that the War of 1788 had not broken out, at some point in time within three to five years, any small incident could have ignited a revolution throughout Mexico. For, since the day it was founded, the Internationalist Revolutionary Party has been a violent party that wants to use force to overthrow the rotten and filthy old world and build a new world for the people of Mexico in this land of hope. ”

It was not until noon the next day that the fleet of the Tang Navy slowly docked at Vallarta, when the muzzles of all the cannons of the shore defense were lowered, and the workers gathered on the dock to cheer and cheer, as if the troops were from their own country.

On the flagship of this fleet, the battleship Zhuolu of Datang, the captain Li Rong was still a little stunned, and said, "...... Admiral Bai told me that there might not be any conflict in Vallarta, and I believed it, because I thought that after seeing our Zhuolu, everyone would be so afraid that they would surrender directly, but I never expected that it would be a situation that was welcomed by everyone, which was really too confusing. ”

Ju Guochong, the commander of the group army and major general, said with a smile: "What's so strange about this, after all, we have also infiltrated Mexico for many years, especially in places like Vallarta, its rise and fall has nothing to do with the colonies and the Kingdom of Spain, it is completely dependent on the face of our Tang Dynasty, and the forces of the National Revolutionary Party have organized local citizens and workers, and a riot can save us a lot of things." (To be continued.) )