How to control Panama?

In fact, Li Mengyang has a complete set of means, but there is one of the most critical points in this, that is, he must give the opponent a strong coercion militarily!

There must be someone who can fight, and this person, Li Mengyang chose for a long time, it seems that there is only Matthew.

Matthew is an old comrade-in-arms who has been following Li Mengyang out of the silver mine in San Juan Mountain, basically, he knows some of the tactics that Li Mengyang has used, and don't forget, controlling Panama is actually sticking to it, so what is the best tactic to stick to now?

Trenches!

Yes, it is to dig trenches, it is this tactic, in the battle at this time, trenches are the best tactics, and this tactics are known to Li Mengyang, and will be widely used in the First World War in the future.

The First World War, also known as the trench war, was where the two sides basically faced each other in the trenches, which is interesting.

Then this shows that the trench is absolutely OK and absolutely easy to use in this year!

So, in the case that Li Mengyang is going to conquer California and he has to leave, Matthew is his best choice, this guy knows how to play trenches.

Naturally, Matthew was left behind.

But can Matthew agree?

"I'm not staying! This place is a nice view, but it's hot, I don't want to stay! Matthew's reason is obviously a pretext.

"Hehe......" In fact, Li Mengyang understands Matthew's psychology at this time, this guy has been following him before, and he can be said to have eaten and drunk spicy food along the way, and he has enjoyed a lot of happiness, so he has to come up with some benefits. Brother, you are in Panama, then you are the governor here, don't you know how many ships pass by in this part of Panama? The benefits in this are very large, and the tax collection will be soft! ”

"......" Matthew about collecting taxes...... It seems that someone else used to tax him.

Li Mengyang added another fire, "And I can assure you that in the future, Panama's taxes will be even higher, so high that you can sleep in a bed made of gold coins, believe it or not?" ”

"The ...... made of gold coins" Matthew was really tempted, "You didn't lie to me?" ”

"When did I lie to you?" Li Mengyang asked rhetorically.

"Good!" After some tossing, Matthew agreed.

Since then, Panama has had an Irish governor!

Is Li Mengyang really not fooling Matthew? Is it really possible to significantly increase taxes in Panama? You know, there is no such canal in Panama today!

Yes, no, but Li Mengyang believes that it won't be long before that canal will appear!

Because Li Mengyang has confidence in his compatriots, we Chinese are best at construction! If we can build such a difficult central railway, can't we dig a Panama Canal in advance now?!

In fact, the Panama Canal itself has many contributions from Chinese workers, without whom it would not have succeeded, then the French have failed!

Of course, this is all a later story, Li Mengyang needs to take California to carry out this project, so now it is still mainly about Panama.

Leaving Matthew, then there are some people left, the first one, is Erickson, because there are no canals here in Panama now, so the Erickson, and even the ships of the entire fleet of the ** army, have to stay on the west bank of Panama.

There's no way around it, but you know, most of these ships are merchant ships, which means we can actually do business now, but the premise of doing business is safety, so Erikson, an old drunkard, still has to cruise in the Caribbean with his old friend Erikson.

Two ironclad ships, that can basically guarantee that the coast of Panama on the western front will not be attacked, and the current naval strength of New Granada is not even comparable to that of the United States, and it is not enough to see at all.

With a ** army of nearly 20,000 people, Li Mengyang decided to leave 10,000 people to stick to Panama, anyway, he will definitely not give this place to anyone, no one!

On the other hand, that was Uncle Xie's mission, and Li Mengyang decided to let him go back to Cuba and contact that Cespedes.

Why contact him?

It's very simple, Li Mengyang is going to contribute some money to support the warlords in the melee in New Granadaria!

"Why is that? Meat buns beating dogs? ”

When Xie Zhong learned about this plan, his whole person was not good, looking at Li Mengyang's eyes, it was like looking at a loser.

Li Mengyang's answer was, "This matter is very simple, the enemy of our enemy is our friend." ”

Yes, that's the truth.

The one who has the best hope of quelling the civil war in New Granada right now, or has already cleaned up his opponents, is called Thomas. Simpliano. Morality. Mosqueira, this person is not young, he was with Bolívar back then, and he is considered an old-timer.

However, Li Mengyang decided not to give face to the old-timers, and he was ready to support this old Mosquera's nemesis, named Mariano. Ospina. Rodriguez's guys.

In fact, during the previous period of the United States of Gran Colombia, both of them were presidents, and these pieces of information were only known through some intelligence collected by Uncle Xie.

In other words, these two people actually have a mass base, you know, at the beginning, Gran Colombia was called the United States, that is, the United States, and they also engaged in democratic elections.

So, now that Li Mengyang has taken out a sum of money to support a guy who is about to be defeated, is the civil war in New Granada revived?

Yes, that's the purpose!

If you fight the civil war, and you fight with each other, then naturally you won't care about Panama that we occupy, what a simple thing.

But you must know that this money can't be given by Li Mengyang, they are Chinese, and they contributed to the occupation of Panama, if they directly pay the money, then no one is stupid, and they can naturally see the purpose of you Chinese.

So, you have to find that Sespedes and let this old boy pay, there is another advantage to his pay, everyone is Spanish in their ancestors, and they are all ** comrades-in-arms now!

As for these strategies, Li Mengyang made them completely based on the local political ecology at this time, as well as some relevant conditions such as geography, history, and economy, and it seems that they are indeed ......

God help me!

Really, Li Mengyang was originally an atheist, and when he faced such a good situation, he had to sum it up, is God helping him?

Where does that money come from......

Li Mengyang doesn't worry about money at all now, he has robbed New York and Boston, and even the United States of America, which is the matter of printing and distributing treasury bonds.

This money is enough for him to spend, and the current Li Mengyang is a super tyrant in the mid-19th century. And the person in charge of taking care of the money is the big man Bill.

This old boy still hasn't forgotten to ask Li Mengyang for the antidote, but he is very afraid of death, so he is out of his strength in the transportation and storage of money.

Panama's strategy is so arranged, it should be foolproof, now that the ** army is left with 10,000 people, then the people who follow Li Mengyang to California will definitely be less than 10,000, so can such a small number of people take California?

Li Mengyang is very clear about the strength of California, maybe the local government forces are not enough, but the people over there are very strong, he tasted it back then.

At this time, the California gold diggers are conservatively estimated to be more than 300,000, and at least eighty percent of them are old men, these guys are all kinds of strange things, what robbers, murderers......

In other words, a team of less than 10,000 people wants to capture California, especially a big city like San Francisco, and it seems that there will be some problems, so what to do?

"Third master, are you there?" After Li Mengyang and Matthew had a Panamanian occupation meeting, they came to find Huang Sanye.

"Oops! Isn't this Li Boy? Why are you calling me the third master? Where am I, what are you and what a third master? "Huang San will enjoy it when he has money, he has a two-story stone building in Panama, as soon as he saw Li Mengyang coming, Huang San hurriedly came out to greet him.

"Then, I'm not called Third Master, what's my name?" To be honest, the interval is a bit long, and it's really a bit raw.

Back then, Li Mengyang and Huang San had a conflict of ideas, if it wasn't for Huang Rong, that ......

"What do you call me, you don't know? Why don't you call me dad in a hurry? Huang San said this...... Take advantage?

"Daddy! What are you talking about? Li Mengyang didn't shout out, but someone inside shouted out, needless to say, it was naturally Huang Rong's sister.

"Hehe......" Li Mengyang smiled, he could imagine Huang Rong's sister's face at this time, it must be red.

"What's up? Are you ungrateful kid? It was our father and daughter who helped you in the first place! You are developed now, and you don't admit it? Besides, I've promised you my daughter! Do you still want to regret it? "Huang San's questioning is a storm!

Li Mengyang was a little helpless, he really wanted to talk about big things when he came back, but he didn't expect that this Huang San had to talk about family affairs first.

Come on!

I only heard Li Mengyang bow down and bowed: "Sister Rong is naturally my wife, Lao Taishan is above, please accept the son-in-law!" ”

"Hey, hey! Good! Good! Good! "Huang San, this is a dog's face, just turn it over, and it will be all smiles immediately.

"Daddy!" Sister Huang Rong was overjoyed in her heart, but she still didn't come out like that, I'm sorry.

Li Mengyang felt funny in his heart, this girl gave herself to him, and she turned out to be so arrogant, hehe......

However, Huang San didn't forget what he said just now, "Mengyang, what are you looking for me to say?" ”

Li Mengyang laughed, he really couldn't help it, because he could think of Huang San's expression, and only heard him say: "It's still that thing, it's a matter!" ”

Huang San saw sweat on his head, and he felt that this virtuous son-in-law of himself would not be anything else, so he knew that he was fighting the official mansion! R1152