Chapter 1077: Emergency (Fifth update, please subscribe)

Chapter 1081 (The chapters are reversed... I am very sorry, and adjusted the contents of the two chapters.)

"Wang Youling was assassinated!"

When the colonial governor, Arsenio Martínez Campos, heard the news, the champagne glass in his hand dropped to the ground.

The music in the banquet hall also stopped abruptly - this welcome banquet was held to welcome Wang Youling. That guy said at the port that he wanted to go to Chinatown, and the Governor-General certainly understood this.

But just as he was waiting for the arrival of the distinguished guest in the Governor's Palace, who would have thought that he would receive this news.

"Governor, what's wrong?"

“Cuba is finished…”

Campos uttered this sentence in a daze, and then he shouted excitedly.

"Hurry, prepare the car and go to the hospital."

Soon, all the officers and colonial officials in the banquet hall knew the news. Their faces changed drastically. Without asking, everyone knew what would happen next.

"Where's the assassin?"

Governor Campos asked as the car drove toward the hospital.

"He was arrested on the spot and is currently under the joint custody of Ming agents and us."

Major Vanes replied.

"Who is the murderer?"

"It is not clear yet, but the officer at the scene said the killer shouted "Long live Chile" in Spanish during the stabbing."

"Chile!"

The adjutant's answer made Governor Campos sit up suddenly and then speak.

"Major Vanes, you will go there in person later. You must make sure he is alive and nothing can happen. Our only hope is that he is not a Cuban!"

Why couldn't the murderer have happened by accident?

Because if an accident happened, he would really have no way to defend himself, even now!

How to explain it?

Should I put it this way - I'm really sorry, because we didn't do a good job of protecting you, which led to your people being assassinated.

Oh my God!

How could this happen?

Governor Campos, who was already troubled by the rebellion that had lasted for many years, now had an even bigger headache.

"God bless him, I hope he can survive..."

More than ten minutes later, when Campos arrived at the hospital, he learned the bad news - a bullet hit Wang Youling's heart, and he died before he even made it to the hospital.

While the doctor was reporting, Liang Weidong, the Ming Consul, rushed over angrily and protested loudly.

"Mr. Governor, the Ming Empire needs an explanation, a reasonable explanation, otherwise, you will have to explain to the Empire's fleet!"

…

Wang Youling was stabbed!

When the news of his death came, Emperor Zhu was handling government affairs in his study, and then he received a call from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Well, I understand..."

After hanging up the phone, Emperor Zhu walked to the window without saying a word, looked at the garden outside the window, and Wang Youling's voice and appearance appeared in his mind again.

Now facing his death, Emperor Zhu had complicated feelings.

I didn't kill Bo Ren, but Bo Ren died because of me!

The reason why Emperor Zhu had such an idea.

It's because he knew clearly why Wang Youling wanted to go abroad for inspection. He wanted to show his presence through this, and he wanted to make a comeback through this because he was unwilling to be lonely.

Of course, his field trips were not without results. Since he went abroad, he wrote a letter almost every three days, in which he not only recorded what he saw and heard, but also gave some very desirable suggestions. He even proposed building the Nicaragua Canal.

"…Although the French Interoceanic Canal Engineering Company is currently in charge of the construction of the Panama Canal, in my opinion, for the sake of Ming's national security, our next strategic goal should be to obtain the right to build the Nicaragua Canal. While European and American countries are focusing on the construction of the Panama Canal, we can monopolize the Nicaragua Canal, although the Nicaragua Canal is longer than the Panama Canal. The long distance means a large project, greater difficulty, and more investment. However, there are Lake Nicaragua, Punta Gorda River, Dule River, etc. along the way. Among them, Lake Nicaragua is the largest lake in Central America with abundant water. Therefore, using these natural rivers and lakes can reduce engineering expenses as much as possible. In addition, the natural rivers have abundant water, and the canal's carrying capacity will be greater.

This canal is related to the future of the empire. Although the empire has already built the Pacific Railway and the Second Pacific Railway is already in the planning stage, there is only one way for merchant fleets and fleets to travel between the east and west coasts of the empire, which is to go south around Cape Horn, and the various risks along the way are uncontrollable..."

In the letter, Wang Youling not only analyzed the pros and cons of building the Nicaragua Canal, he even conducted a field investigation in Nicaragua and finally concluded that Nicaragua was more suitable for building the canal than Panama. The reason was very simple - the local environment was better than Panama.

Why did the Ming Dynasty not pay much attention to the Panama Canal at the international conference held in Paris in 1879 to discuss the canal? Firstly, it was because it had just annexed Brazil and needed to digest the fruits and change its image; secondly, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang knew better than anyone that the Panama Canal built by the French would end in tragedy.

Because the local natural environment was so harsh, after construction began, people discovered that it was simply a hell on earth: the towering forests were filled with poisonous insects, which was unbearable, and the hot weather caused terrible epidemics to spread, claiming the lives of a large number of workers and technicians.

So Emperor Zhu's plan was very simple - wait until they failed, wait until the whole world regarded the Panama Canal as "impossible", and then the Ming Dynasty would take over.

In comparison, although Nicaragua also has a tropical rainforest environment, the canal was built along the river, and the natural environment is relatively superior.

Emperor Zhu was not sure whether the place was more suitable for building a canal than Panama, but one thing was certain: Wang Youling's private trip did allow Emperor Zhu to make some decisions from some special perspectives.

Now, he is dead!

Just like that, he died in the assassination!

As Zhu Da was looking out the window, an idea began to form. If it were someone else, he might be immersed in the memory of the deceased, but Emperor Zhu Da was not that kind of person. He was an emperor, the founding emperor of the empire. Emperors might be unfeeling, because the throne of the empire determined everything. As an emperor, he had to handle some affairs without any personal feelings.

Just like now, what is he thinking about?

How to use Wang Youling’s death to maximize the interests of the Ming Dynasty!

Even for Wang Youling, this was a kind of comfort, because his death was not in vain...

(End of this chapter)