The next morning, as soon as Zhang Yunfei got up, he received an emergency appointment from Rear Admiral Sampson, the acting commander of the US North Atlantic Fleet.

Zhang Yunfei looked puzzled, what happened! So excited!

After meeting Rear Admiral Sampson, I realized what happened through him!

Zhang Yunfei was surprised when he heard this.

The Maine was sank a year earlier! Roosevelt was also killed! The entire Maine went up from the captain and ordinary sailors and became the largest casualties in the United States since the Civil War.

Zhang Yunfei was surprised by the previous news that the Maine was sunk because he did not expect his arrival, and the butterfly effect had incited the American continent. This means that the war between the United States and Spain could inevitably start a year ahead of schedule.

In history, the Maine was secretly sank by the United States in April 1898, killing 266 people, using this as an excuse to launch the Spanish-American War. Now it is a whole year ahead of schedule.

This is nothing. The war between the rising imperialist United States and the declining Spanish Empire is inevitable.

Survive in nature and survive the fittest!

It is not only suitable for humans and biological species, but also for human society.

However, Roosevelt was killed by the bombing, which made Zhang Yunfei even happier.

Nothing else, the United States lacks a strong imperialist.

Nothing else, the United States has lost its perfect policy of sticks and carrots.

Nothing else, the United States has lost its determination to invade Asia and the Philippines.

Nothing else, the development of the US naval will not be so crazy.

Nothing else, Zhang Yunfei will launch the Pacific offensive with confidence.

Nothing else,...

Of course, there may be a strong man similar to Roosevelt, but at least Zhang Yunfei has worked hard. Even if another strong man appears, Zhang Yunfei will have to accept his fate.

However, in front of Rear Admiral Sampson, he had to pretend to be extremely sad.

Rear Admiral Sampson was very grateful for Zhang Yunfei's deep condolences.

At the same time, Rear Admiral Sampson was extremely dissatisfied with the incident. He had asked the US government and the Department of Navy, and it was estimated that the war might break out at any time. Therefore, he urgently made an appointment with Zhang Yunfei and asked Zhang Yunfei to prepare as soon as possible.

Zhang Yunfei knew that after the Maine was sunk in history, the United States declared war on Spain two months later. Now the United States has been missing a year of war preparation time. Although Zhang Yunfei's strong intervention should be at least three months before the war begins.

Zhang Yunfei still has time to prepare.

After saying goodbye to Rear Admiral Sampson, Zhang Yunfei returned to his residence.

"What the hell is going on!" As soon as Zhang Yunfei came in, he felt a familiar aura.

Sure enough, the black shadow appeared again.

He was still wearing a black cloak that had not changed for thousands of years, covering his whole body, as if he was afraid of seeing the sunshine.

"My team members used the C4 you gave to blow up the Maine ammunition depot. When Roosevelt got ashore, he was shot and killed by my subordinates." The dark shadow said gloomyly.

"You are sure you were shot, not killed!" Zhang Yunfei asked again.

"Yes!" The black shadow replied with a golden word.

Zhang Yunfei believed his words and thought to himself: 'It seems that Spain deliberately hid the facts in order not to add fuel to the fire anymore. If the United States knew about it, Roosevelt was assassinated under the protection of many Spanish soldiers after he got ashore, he would be even more annoyed.'

Thinking of this, Zhang Yunfei said: "The war between the United States and Spain is inevitable and will break out in a few months. Your mission is to quickly rush to the Philippines to help our people there understand the situation there. The Philippines is an archipelago country with the largest number of ethnic groups in Asia, and they are not subordinate to each other. The members of the wolf den there will try their best to win over and be kind to us. Your mission is to eliminate those leaders who oppose us."

"You are going to sneak attack the Philippines!" the figure in the dark suddenly asked.

"Yes! Hawaii is only suitable for a bridgehead. The Philippines has a large number of strategic resources that can be used as a supply base." Zhang Yunfei replied.

"Then when will you return to China!" the black shadow continued to ask.

Seeing why he suddenly said more and more today, Zhang Yunfei was a little surprised, but he still answered him.

"I returned home soon. Now the great powers of all countries are eager to let me go back early! If I don't need to ask, they will ask the court to recruit me back."

"If you go back, how will you treat the court's arrangements for you?" asked the black shadow again.

"Just give it to the governor. I still have something to do, so you can go right away!" Zhang Yunfei said.

"Yes!" The black shadow flashed away.

Looking at the direction of his disappearance, Zhang Yunfei's face, which was originally happy about Roosevelt's death, suddenly became mute. He was thinking in his heart: "He performed very abnormally today. What is the purpose of it? Are you my or that person's!'

"Report! Li Dakui is ready. Please let the head of state set out together." The captain of the guard came in and reported.

When he heard that he was going to find the treasure, Zhang Yunfei smiled again and said, "Let's go! Go and have a look!"

Near Key West Min Port, several large salvage boats are moored at this moment, and a few coastal gunboats are patrolling and guarding nearby, driving away the ships trying to get closer.

At the beginning, Rear Admiral Sampson heard that Zhang Yunfei was here and sent someone to ask. Zhang Yunfei said he was having some fun, looking for the ancient shipwreck, and seeing if there are any antiques or something.

After hearing the soldiers' report, Rear Admiral Sampson just smiled and thought Zhang Yunfei was just a greedy guy. When was it time, he was still thinking about finding some antiques to sell money. He shook his head helplessly and told his soldiers that he should not harass Zhang Yunfei, let him do whatever he wanted!

The US military did not respond, and the Spanish patrol boats were even more afraid to come up and interrogate. Now that the matter of the Maine has not been resolved, they are already very nervous with the United States, and the war is about to break out. Knowing that Zhang Yunfei's fleet is docking in the US Key West military port, he dare not offend Zhang Yunfei, a super warlord.

In this way, Zhang Yunfei started his career of treasure fishing even more unscrupulously. In order to speed up the progress, Zhang Yunfei ordered Li Dakui to hire several salvage boats, and after changing into his own people, they stopped at the pre-explored positions and immediately started the salvage work.

Looking at the sea surface where only the rubber snorkel and rope were exposed, Zhang Yunfei and others were praying in their hearts.

After a while, a signal from underwater was heard from the rope on the salvage machine. Li Dakui knew that it was a signal to be prepared to lift, so he ordered the boatman to start the lift.

With the thunderous sound, the first treasure chest was salvaged out of the water soon.

It is a standard Spanish treasure chest. Although it has been corroded into green and smooth moss outside, Zhang Yunfei, who is a thief business in later generations, could still see it at a glance.

Crack!

The box was easily pried open.

It's really a treasure chest.

It was filled with gold coins, as well as a small amount of jewelry and jewelry. Everyone was filled with joy, and Zhang Yunfei was the same. After all, finding a baby is a very desirable and exciting thing.

Zhang Yunfei told people to move the things into a safe place immediately and find some people to count the records.

Then a few more boxes came up and opened them. They found that they contained Spanish silver coins and silver bars, as well as a large number of silver vessels and crosses.

The box that came up again was full of messy things. The main thing was some seamen who used daily items. Although they were very valuable in later generations, Zhang Yunfei obviously did not dare to be interested at the moment. He only had the most direct war materials, gold and silver.

Afterwards, the salvage personnel who went into the water surfaced one after another. Zhang Yunfei knew that the ship had been salvaged. Although Zhang Yunfei was just a little happy because it was not the biggest treasure he wanted, the other people were different. They had never experienced the Spanish treasure ships that were salvaged from the sea and fished out so many gold and jewelry. In their opinion, they were already very lucky. So they were much happier than Zhang Yunfei.

Li Dakui naturally knew why Zhang Yunfei was just slightly happy, so he stepped forward and said, "Don't worry, the head of state, I believe that I will definitely find the real Mrs. Atoka!"

"Tell all those who go into the water that they must pay attention to searching for suspected places. After all, it has been two hundred years. The shipwreck may be covered up into a living mound of soil underwater in the coral reef. Tell them if anyone is the first to find it, they will be rewarded with $30,000 and promoted to two levels."

Seeing that Zhang Yunfei just nodded, Li Dakui ordered: "Everyone, go to the next position immediately. All the people who went into the water have paid attention to me to see if there are any missing shipwrecks around. The head of state said that there was also a very large Madame Atoka that had not been found, with hundreds of boxes on it. Whoever discovered it first, rewarded 30,000 US dollars and promoted to level 2. I widened my eyes and searched carefully! I understand if I understand!"

"I understand!" said the sailors.

"I'm not fucking full! Tell me louder!" Li Dakui shouted.

"I understand!" the sailors shouted.

Next, Li Dakui conveyed Zhang Yunfei's words to the sailors on several other salvage boats. As a result, all the sailors tried their best and asked for the order to go into the water to search. In view of the more people, the more chances of discovering, Li Dakui agreed to their request.

As someone valued by Zhang Yunfei, Li Dakui knew that he wanted to show his loyalty in front of Zhang Yunfei, so he went into the water to search.

For this reason, Zhang Yunfei was very satisfied with him.

In the following time, every once in a while, a batch of treasures would be salvaged out of the water. However, none of them were the treasures on the Atoka Madame Zhang Yunfei asked them to look for.

Due to backward technology, there were no advanced metal detectors from later generations. They searched the seabed entirely with faint dim light and leaned on their eyes to search, and were lucky to find several treasured Spanish shipwrecks.

In the next few days, there were a lot of harvests every day, but the water was filled with some small-scale treasures. Since no one was salvaging the treasures under the sea everywhere, although Zhang Yunfei's salvage team did not find large-scale treasures, the number of them added together was also considerable. However, Zhang Yunfei was already impatient. In addition to the United States urging him to stop looking for treasures and hurry back and prepare for war, Zhang Yunfei gradually lost confidence in whether he could find the Atoka Madam.

In the past few days, the whole of the United States has been in trouble.

The report said that the "friendly visit" in Cuba was actually a big explosion in the port of Havana, a USS Maine, which was demonstrating to Spain, causing the death of all 488 crew members, including the Minister of Navy Affairs Theodore Roosevelt and Captain Charles Siegsby.

The news came out and the world was shocked.

All major newspapers in the United States, under the secret threats and bribery of McKinley and other major war members, published a large number of publications to promote the tragedy of the Maine and the unfortunate death of Secretary Roosevelt of the Admiralty, as a way to get strong support from the American people to prepare for the next war.

Therefore, American newspapers all said that it was a terrorist attack launched by the Spanish. At that time, US-Swiss relations were at a loss, and Spain's bloody cage policy towards Cuba was given an evil face in the US media. Under the incitement of public opinion throughout the society, the people naturally believed it. Although experts from some countries pointed out that the explosion was mostly caused by internal mechanical failures, the American media and the public, which lacked professional knowledge, neither understood nor wanted to listen.

‘RemembertheMaine!’ became a widely circulated slogan at that time. Under the crazy promotion of the public and the request of the American businessman with interests in Cuba, the US government also followed suit, actively preparing for the war while conducting formal diplomatic negotiations.

In order to launch a war, US President McKinley issued an extremely harsh ultimatum to Spain, demanding that Spain compensate $50 million and all the pensions for the victims, and publicly apologize to the US government and the public.

McKinley thought that Spain would never agree, but what surprised everyone was that he didn't expect that the Spanish government actually agreed, and quickly agreed to the request made by the United States.

Because revolutions were brewing in Spain at this time, the Spanish cabinet was afraid that excessively agreeing to the unreasonable demands of the United States would directly trigger a domestic revolution in Spain. However, if the requests of the United States are not agreed to the United States and the anger of the United States are calmed, what should we do if a war breaks out?

However, Spain is not a fool, and of course it will not easily believe that after agreeing to the unreasonable demands of the United States, the United States will give up its covetousness with Cuba.

On the second day of the Maine incident, the Spanish cabinet conducted research and believed that war should be prepared. So the Spanish Navy issued an alarm to the Spanish Navy and warned the Rear Admiral Pasqual Severa, who commanded the local fleet, to prepare for war. Once American invading troops appear in Cuba, Puerto Rico or the Caribbean waters, they will immediately go to destroy the US Navy base in Key West and then block the US coast.

Major General Severa was not optimistic about this matter, and in his opinion, the order was extremely ridiculous, because his combat warships only had a few old and ragged cruisers and several lightning strike ships. He believed that his navy could not compete with the U.S. Navy. Because Spain did not have strong military bases across the Atlantic Ocean, his fleet would likely not receive adequate logistical support in Cuba and Puerto Rico.

Once a war breaks out, the Spanish Navy's most practical action plan should be to preserve its strength to protect its territory. Severa emphasized that as long as Spain gathers a maritime alliance that can help with equipment and supply, its fleet can make the U.S. coast a profitable military target.

Accordingly, the Cabinet revised its instructions, but insisted that the naval power should at least defend Puerto Rico. Severa still believed that his mission was hopeless. On April 8, 1897, he led a fleet from Cadiz to the Cape Verde Islands, waiting for further development of the situation.

Even the Spanish citizens did not understand why the government's efficiency suddenly became so fast.

McKinley shrugged without any embarrassment and said to the members of Congress: "It's okay to fight."
To be continued...