"…Ecuador will usher in true change and liberation, and freedom will truly come to this land…"

Ecuador's new government was established in a timely manner. An exiled university professor and several celebrities formed a provisional government. Uchis's telegram solemnly promised everyone that the future Ecuador would be a free and fair country.

Although ambassadors from various countries are very suspicious that everything happening in this country is just a conspiracy planned by the Ming Dynasty, at least for now, it seems that Ecuadorians are still governing the country there.

European newspapers barely mentioned the coup, but the Washington Post in the United States published a news report saying that the dissident faction in the Ecuadorian army launched a coup the night before and overthrew the president. A temporary committee will temporarily govern the country before national elections. Of course, the newspaper also pointed out directly that Uchis, who controlled the temporary committee, was a puppet, a pro-Ming puppet.

"The Ming Empire is adjusting their invasion methods towards South American countries."

In the presidential palace in Washington, Secretary of State James Gillespie Bryan looked at President Benjamin Harrison and said,

"In the past, their invasions of Chile, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia were direct military invasions, but now? They are using the locals to launch a military coup and then support a puppet regime, Mr. President."

As a Pan-Americanist, Bryan has always advocated that the United States should expand southward to prevent the expansion of the Ming Empire. During his tenure as Secretary of State, he once again reshaped the US foreign policy. While doing his best to pave the way for the US's overseas economic expansion, he proposed policies and suggestions to challenge the Ming Dynasty's economic dominance in the Americas, especially to seize the South American market. In fact, this is also the mainstream in the United States - to confront the Ming Dynasty.

"Now, compared to military occupation, the Ming Dynasty adopted a smarter approach - they brought their lifestyle, culture and other aspects to those Latin American countries by building railways. In their "Voice of America", they not only created the false impression that the Ming Dynasty was civilized and the South American countries were barbaric. They even incited the local people every day. They seemed to be deliberately creating confrontation. What kind of confrontation did they create?"

Looking at the silent president, Brian emphasized.

"It's the conflict between the rulers and the people of South American countries. Although those warlords and politicians have controlled everything in South American countries for many years, the local people were used to it. But now, because of the instigation of the Ming Empire, they believe that they must change all this, and only the Ming Empire can help them change all this."

"Yes, they succeeded..."

Benjamin Harrison said as he took a cigar from the cigar box, lit it and took a puff.

"The Ming Dynasty has successfully incited discontent among the people. Just as the newspapers said, in the past, people were full of fear of the Caudillos who held power and wealth, but now... they have prepared weapons and are ready to overthrow everything. Brian, in this case, is it possible for us to stop them?"

"this……"

Faced with the president's question, Brian hesitated for a moment and then spoke.

"We may not be able to stop the Ming Empire in Ecuador, but Mr. President, we can make Colombia, Venezuela and the Central American Federation realize the threat of the Ming Empire to them. We can at least stop them before the Ming Empire unifies South America. If we allow them to expand, we will soon have to face a reality - the reality of the Ming Empire unifying South America..."

The Secretary of State's suggestion made Benjamin Harrison ponder for a while, and then he spoke.

“We do have to stop them, but how do we stop them?”

How to stop the Ming Dynasty?

This is the biggest problem. The incident in Ecuador not only made Americans feel powerless, but also confused the British. After learning the news, Federico, the ambassador to the Ming Dynasty, was stunned for a long time before he spoke.

"It's still possible..."

Then he asked again.

"Are those guys really Ecuadorians? They can't be Ming people..."

The reason why he came up with such an idea was very simple, because the Boer War was not triggered by a scandalous "expedition". In his opinion, the coup in Ecuador was most likely a drama directed and acted by the Ming Empire itself.

Of course, what the British Empire directed and acted out was a failed "farce" and a political scandal.

And what about the Ming Empire?

They directed and acted out a successful military coup.

Comparing yourself to others will make you feel thief!

How could the Ming Empire do this?

When fighting a war, they can use different tactics, and even when occupying a country, they can use different tactics.

Are Chinese people really smarter than white people?

"Mr. Ambassador, based on the intelligence we have so far, those who participated in the coup are indeed local Ecuadorians. Most of their leaders have studied abroad in the Ming Dynasty. We have reason to believe that they must have received support from the Ming Empire..."

Major Anderson's answer made Federico sigh.

"So what? We have no evidence to prove this, and even if we did, what would it matter?"

Federico looked helplessly into the distance and said.

"It is impossible to change the status quo, Major. Have you noticed that we know almost nothing about this place? Since we have no intelligence or information about this, we are just facing all this blindly... Alas!"

Federico sighed.

"Now I kind of miss Lawrence. Damn it, why did he go out to sea? He ran into a storm and got lost at sea. Damn it..."

"Do you believe it?"

Said Major Anderson, the Royal Navy intelligence officer.

"Mr. Ambassador, do you believe that Lawrence disappeared at sea? I strongly suspect that the Ming people killed him. You know, Lawrence's intelligence network was also destroyed, and about a dozen people were arrested..."

After a brief pause, Major Anderson spoke.

"More than a dozen people... If I remember correctly, there are at least fifty people in his intelligence network, which means..."

Before he could finish, Ambassador Federico spoke excitedly.

"That is to say, there are still people lurking in the Ming Dynasty, right? Is there any way for us to contact them, Major? We really need to know the movements of the Ming Dynasty now!"

His voice sounded a little excited at this time, and he looked at the major in front of him and said.

"No matter what, we must get in touch with them again. Find them and rebuild this intelligence network. Only in this way can we gain the upper hand in the future competition with Ming Dynasty. God can testify that we know nothing about them. But those people must have penetrated into various fields of Ming Dynasty. They can definitely provide us with a lot of intelligence. We must find them."

"Yes! Mr. Ambassador."

Major Anderson said.

"So now we need to do one thing..."