1855 United States Tycoon

The Marquis found that General Juan Primm was so confident in the success of this "Glorious Revolution" for all reasons. Because all the garrisons in Madrid and various key departments have participated in this plot, and there are even some key officers of the Royal Guard.

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On September 2, 1867, the United States Radio Broadcasting Corporation broadcasted a message in their international news program: a revolution in Spain and Queen Isabella II in exile in France.

At the beginning, not many people paid attention to this news. Spain and United States are separated by vast oceans. What happens in Spain is completely irrelevant to the average United States.

Several newspapers published that day, well, including those that were originally the initiators of the Associated Press, and those that joined the Associated Press after Scrooge’s talk with Morgan, confirmed this. News.

In the report on this news, the advantages of the newspaper were immediately revealed. The New York Daily Times first analyzed the possibilities after the Spanish Revolution and its impact on the European situation. The New York Daily Times pointed out in their report that the relationship between Prussia and France may deteriorate further around the issue of Spain's new monarch. This may lead to the most serious confrontation in Europe in recent years, and even an unprecedented war.

The newly launched Wall Street Journal analyzed the possible impact of the contradiction between Prussia and France on the European financial capital market, and pointed out the possibility of various fluctuations in the European economy.

However, almost no newspaper predicted that the changes in Spain, thousands of miles away, would bring opportunities to Cuba, which is close to United States.

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On the morning of September 11th, before dawn, Suai got up, prepared the stove, bake the bread skillfully, and warmed up the milk. Then she went back to the bedroom in the attic and called for Joan Shan who was still lying on the bed.

Joan Shan's body is covered with a thin towel. Although it is September, Havana is different from New York. It is tropical and it is not cold all year round.

"Hey, kid, it's time to get up and eat!" Su Ai sat down by the bed and stretched out his hand to gently push Qiongshan's shoulder.

"Well... it's early!" Qiong Shan still didn't open her eyes, but muttered vaguely, "Isn't the sun coming out yet? Let me go to sleep."

Su Ai is so gassy and funny again. He stretched out his hand and twisted it affectionately on Qiongshan's smooth face: "Little guy, don't forget, we are going to Havana Bay today to paint the sunrise. The sun will come out. It's too late."

"Well, what time is it now?" Qiong Shan still did not open her eyes.

"It's three o'clock!" Su Ai said, "We freshened up and we finished breakfast. It should be half past three at the earliest. Then we rushed to the beach to set up a drawing board, and the sun should come out. Get up, little lazy pig! "

"It's only three o'clock." Qiongshan still closed her eyes, "I'm not eating breakfast, let me sleep for another twenty minutes! Please, good Big sis!"

"Huh, I don't seem to give you a good look, you are not willing to be honest and obedient." Su Ai sneered, pulled off the towel covering Qiong Shan, then stretched out his hand to scratch Qiong Shan. Itchy. Qiongshan could no longer sleep with her eyes closed. She giggled and stretched out her hand to tickle Suai. Amidst the laughter, the two girls both fell on the bed.

Suai held Jones's hands with both hands, making her unable to tick her own tickling. Although it was Suai who actively used the tickling trick, in fact, Suai was more ticklish than Qiongshan. So when it comes to tickles, Suai usually suffers. However, the form today is a bit different. Suai has the advantage of the position now. She held Qiongshan's hands with both hands, and at the same time, her own body firmly pressed Qiongshan on the bed.

Su Ai knew that Qiongshan had already woken up after such a trouble, and she was about to open her mouth and say something like stop making trouble and get up quickly. No, just as her mouth opened, Qiong Shan kissed it directly...

"Oh, Joan, stop making trouble." Su Ai said vaguely.

"Good Big sis, accompany me to sleep for a while." Qiong Shan's voice was extraordinarily charming.

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"Blame you!" Suai said with a sinking face while tidying up his clothes, "It is you who said to come to Havana to sketch from life, and it is you who said to get up early to paint the sunrise. If you can't get up in bed, you can still hold it. It's you who made people get up! Look, the sun is all high, right?"

"Good Big sis, I was wrong. Don't be angry." Qiongshan took Suai's hand and shook it gently, as if a child was acting like a baby with his parents.

Su Ai couldn’t help but stretched out her hand and gently pinched Qiong Shan’s little nose: “Forget it, don’t care about you, or else, I’d be mad at you...I can’t draw a sunrise, we What are you doing?"

"Or let's go to the Gulf of Havana. The scenery there is very good. Even if you don't paint the sunrise, you can paint something else. But in fact, what I want most is to paint the beaches of Naples." Say.

"Okay." Su Ai was already dressed, she stood up and said, "The milk is probably cold. I'll go to heat it first. You can eat some bread first... don't hurry up and get dressed!"

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Two hours later, the two girls came to Havana Bay with the drawing board on their backs. Well, it was already late anyway, so the two girls didn't have to slow down when they arrived. They built a place next to Morro Castle, set up the drawing board, and started today's sketching. At this time, two ships just sailed out of Havana Port in tandem.

"Suai, you see, there are two boats." Qiongshan said, "It's a pity it's a steamship, if it's a sailboat, how beautiful it would be. It's just that sailboats are becoming rarer now."

In the eyes of female literary youths like Su Ai and Qiong Shan, the steamboat with the ugly chimney is far less attractive than the sailboats with "white sails like clouds in the sky". Now, as Qiongshan said, there are fewer and fewer beautiful sailboats. Even the current steamship is far less attractive than before. There were rotating paddle wheels on both sides of the previous steamboat, just like the ferris wheel in the park, and there is a special beauty, but now this thing, there is no paddle wheel, it is so ugly that people can’t wait to curse it. Why didn't you sink into the sea?

Maybe it was Joan Shan’s curse that worked. The boat that was walking a little behind suddenly shook abruptly. Even though they were far apart, Su Ai and Joong Shan could clearly see that the boat around them suddenly turned upside down. After a lap of white waves, the ship began to sink quickly at a speed that the naked eye could clearly see.

"This is..." Su Ai opened his speech in surprise, and a shipwreck happened directly in front of own!

At this time, the faint low explosion sound penetrated the ears of Su Ai and Qiong Shan. All the people nearby stood up, staring at the scene with wide eyes. The boat that was walking in front noticed the changes in the back. It slowly turned a turn and drove back. The sailors on the boat desperately threw lifebuoys and boards into the sea, probably trying to save as much as possible. Get off the sailors who jumped into the sea. However, the ship sank extremely fast. In a blink of an eye, the bow of the ship began to tilt upwards, and then suddenly broke in two from the middle, slammed into the water, igniting white waves, and then The whole ship sank immediately. The ship sinks so fast that it only takes a few minutes from the time a problem occurs to the sinking. Although Suai and Qiongshan did not know much about ships, they also felt that in such a short period of time, most of the sailors might not have time to escape. From now on, the sunken ship that has been broken in two will become their grave.

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