The calm water surface rippled slightly, and the vibration amplitude of the float in the water gradually increased, and suddenly in an instant, the float was pulled under the water by the fish, and the fishing rod on the bank of the river was quickly pumped up, and a silver-white freshwater fish jumped out of the water and was pulled to the shore by the fishing line.

Li Mingyuan took off the fish on the hook and handed it to Liu Pu, who was just sitting next to him: "Is it for the founding of the country today?" As I told you, the development and construction work in Rio Gro Sul had just begun, and the announcement of the establishment of a state at this time would prematurely expose the strength of the Chinese Independent Army, attract the attention of the Western powers and even the Manchu government, and bring unnecessary troubles and difficulties to our subsequent construction and development. ”

Occupying Rio Gro Gran do Sul and establishing a Chinese state was the core strategy set by Li Mingyuan at the beginning of the uprising, and he went to Peru, fought in Bolivia, and faced the Brazilian coalition forces in order to achieve the goal of founding the country, and after arriving in Rio Gro Gran do Sul for more than a month, Li Mingyuan's promise of 300 acres of land per person had been fulfilled, and the goal of marrying wives for Chinese soldiers was gradually being realized, but there has been no movement in the establishment of a Chinese state.

If the name is not right, it is not good, the Chinese are famous for their work, occupy 281,000 square kilometers of land in Rio Grande do Sul, and if the Chinese in South America act in the name of the Chinese Independence Army, it seems to be a little inconsistent with their own strength, 281,000 square kilometers is equivalent to the area of two provinces in the Central Plains, and the land of the two provinces can be established in ancient times or during the Taiping Rebellion, and having an official national name is equivalent to getting rid of the identity of thieves and rebel forces, and having a formal official identity.

At the beginning of the sweeping operation, most of the officers of the Chinese Independence Army asked Li Mingyuan about the specific time of the founding of the country, Li Mingyuan did not understand what they meant, and deliberately led the topic to other directions.

Liu Pu visited Li Mingyuan yesterday and directly conveyed the questions of the Chinese officers, and Li Mingyuan was busy dealing with the planning of Rio Grande do Sul yesterday, and did not explain in detail to Liu Pu the reasons for postponing the founding of the country, but only rejected the Chinese officers' proposal for an early establishment of the country on the grounds that the Brazilian army might attack at any time.

Li Mingyuan rarely rested for a while today, and when he saw Liu Pu visiting again, it was easy to think that he was still here for yesterday's problems.

Put the transferred fish into the bamboo basket, Liu Pu said, "I went back yesterday and thought about it for a night, the formal establishment of the country can solve the identity problem of the Chinese in South America and improve the belonging of soldiers.

However, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Brazilian Emperor Pedro II, whether in order to stabilize his throne or suppress the public opinion stirred up by the defeat of the Paraguayan War, will once again dispatch the main force to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese Independent Army, which has experienced several major wars, and behind the victories is the serious shortage of weapons and ammunition reserves of our army, and the huge hidden danger of fatigue and lack of repair for soldiers after a long battle.

Moreover, the Chinese Independence Army isolates the South American continent and is a lone army, the Brazilian army can fail once, twice, and many times for various reasons, but our army cannot fail once, if the Chinese Independence Army and the Brazilian army show their decline in the war again, Argentina, Uruguay, and even Paraguay, which was originally an ally, will not hesitate to pounce on and tear off a piece of bloody flesh from the Chinese Independence Army.

The Chinese Independence Army is surrounded by wolves, and if it wants to gain a foothold on the South American continent, every country and force in the surrounding area is an enemy of the Chinese Independence Army. ”

Liu Pu was less than 20 years old, a young man about the same age as Li Mingyuan, at the beginning of the uprising, the Chinese Independence Army lacked talents, many young Taiping Army remnants and laborers were promoted to high positions, more than half a year of war experience to stimulate the potential of many officers, but because of the youth and lack of age experience, sometimes Liu Pu, like other young officers, will go into the wrong and lose the correct judgment of affairs.

Liu Pu thought about it for a night and understood Li Mingyuan's intentions, which made him more gratified, but because of the problems highlighted by this incident, he had to pay attention to it.

There are only one or two hundred literate scholars in the Chinese Independence Army, and after more than half a year of teaching the knowledge to the officers in the Chinese Independence Army, only the simple literacy problem of the officers has been solved, and the number of qualified civilian officers has only grown in a limited way.

During the mobile operation, more than 100,000 Chinese all belonged to the army as a whole, and the problems that civilian officers needed to solve were only in the aspects of statistics on the troops' combat exploits and logistical support, and it was not so troublesome to solve.

After the occupation of Rio Gro Sul, more than half of the Chinese soldiers were transformed into settled residents, except for some settled Chinese soldiers who were also soldiers of the garrison, and the rest of the retired soldiers became normal residents, and then from among them were divided into peasants engaged in agricultural planting, mining workers, skilled workers operating textile machinery, cement production, steel smelting, military manufacturing, etc., a complete and complex social division of labor management requires a large number of professional administrative officials, and according to Li Mingyuan's observation, The Chinese Independence Army (CAA) is sorely lacking in this type of talent, and there are less than 20 civilian officers who can manage this kind of work.

The number of 20 people is too small, and once the state is formally established and all kinds of industrial production machinery needed for national production are introduced, the current Chinese civil and professional officials will not be enough at all.

The best way to attract talents is to emigrate from the mainland, but the Manchu government has implemented more than 200 years of servile rule, coupled with the perseverance of the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties, the civil officials in the mainland have long recognized the Manchu rule, and it is not realistic to poach people from them in the short term.

The method of poaching talents from the mainland is difficult to work, and Li Mingyuan can only move his eyes to Western countries.

In 1868, the United States had just ended the Civil War and was busy developing industry at home and expanding overseas.

Prussia had just finished fighting the Austro-Prussian War and the Prussian-Danish War, and at the same time was busy preparing to deal with France and complete the great cause of unifying Germany.

The British suppressed the Indian uprising, and were able to live a good life of exploiting the Indian people, and the center of expansion also shifted to the area around the East Asian continent.

France was busy invading Vietnam and Cambodia and expanding its sphere of influence in Southeast Asia.

Tsarist Russia advanced all the way in the Middle East and Siberia, grabbing territory and having no intention of caring about anything else.

In 1868, the first year of the Meiji Restoration, Japan was just beginning to become the hegemon of East Asia.

In 1868, the situation changed, World War I and World War II several major powers have shown signs of rise, at this time in the South American continent, Brazil, Argentina and other countries still have strength, the United States at the end of the Civil War has just entered the fast lane of development, from the South American state as their own backyard time is still early, Brazil, Argentina do not need to look at the United States face to act.

The overseas colonies of Britain and France of the old powers are vast, and the huge overseas interests feed the two countries, and the two countries that have eaten enough need time to digest the food they have swallowed, and their strength is not enough to carry out new expansion, while Prussia, Italy, Austria, and the United States are busy with development and also have no intention of expanding.

In Europe and the United States in 1868, the first industrial revolution was completed and the second industrial revolution had just entered the embryonic stage, and the overproduction of industrial facilities needed to be digested by buyers.

At this time, European and American countries had not yet implemented a technological blockade, and Brazil, Argentina and even Japan, which had come later, introduced a large number of new technologies from the West and the development talents they needed.

In the face of the most suitable period of development, Li Mingyuan will not allow opportunities to pass by in vain, and it is imperative to introduce talents and industrial technology from Western countries.

Li Mingyuan told Liu Pu his thoughts, and planned to hand over this matter to Liu Pu.

"Shizi, it is necessary to bring in Western talents and technology, but before this happens, the administrative arrangements and institutional planning of Rio Grande do Sul need to be determined."

Liu Pu made a start and continued: "In addition to the consideration of determining the identity and status of the Chinese in South America, the current chaotic institutional arrangements in various resettlement sites are also a major factor, so the formal establishment of the country can be postponed, but the establishment of the preliminary state system and government organizational structure should not be postponed. ”

"What are your specific plans?"

"The humble post intends to adopt the national governance system of the previous dynasty, and design the six ministries, the Inspectorate, and the Dali Temple as the highest management units, and the first assistant of the cabinet and the bachelors who have entered the cabinet are responsible for managing the specific affairs of the country, and at the same time are responsible to the prince."

The cabinet system during the Ming Dynasty was close to the constitutional monarchy of the West, which was conducive to the monarchy to manage the country in the feudal period, but now it is 1868, more than two hundred years have passed since the Ming Dynasty, and the reasonable system at that time is not very suitable now. Then the composition of the state administration was also structured:

1- Household Department: management of domestic household registration, resettlement, land distribution, management and protection of mountains, forests and rivers

2.- Ministry of Finance: currency issuance, collection of taxes, distribution of official salaries,

3-Ministry of Officials: official assessment, promotion, appointment and dismissal, knighthood, etc

4-Ministry of Rites: presides over large-scale sacrificial activities, cultural inheritance and protection, policy publicity, guidance of public opinion, and approval and management of culture-related industries.

5- Ministry of Education: the management of schools at all levels in China, responsible for the preparation of higher education universities.

6- General Staff: the command and management body of the national armed forces

7- Criminal Department: trial and judgment of criminal cases

8: Ministry of Industry: large-scale project planning and management, industrial development, railway construction, traffic management

9- Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Liaison with foreign countries, management of the development of diplomatic relations

10- Ministry of Commerce: private business management, collection of commercial taxes,

11- Inspectorate: Inspectors, impeachment and whistleblowing officials, the Imperial History of the Inspectorate and the Ministry of Justice.

12- Legislative Yuan: Constitution, enactment, amendment and promulgation of laws,

Abolish the rank of officials of the ninth class and eighteen grades, and implement it

Cabinet, Ministry, Bureau, Division, Division, Section and other six and ten levels of officials.

Among them, the prime minister of the cabinet is at the level of the main cabinet, the cabinet scholar is the deputy cabinet level, and the ministers of the ministries and the heads of the two houses are ministerial-level officials.

Other officials and so on.

After the composition of the administrative organization was created, the administrative hierarchy of various parts of Rio Grande do Sul also began.

Porto Alegre, as the headquarters of the Chinese Independence Army, was named Xinjing, which means the new capital of the Chinese in South America.

Santa Maria is Hexi County, named after the county located on the west bank of the Guaiba River.

Bare was renamed Yongan County

Erekhin was renamed Changning County,

The three counties of Beijing formed the first-level local administrative units of the Chinese Independence Army, and new county towns were established after the population increased.

After the administrative hierarchy and local regional planning were completed, Li Mingyuan asked about the situation in Brazil.

"After the defeat of the Paraguayan war, Garcia led the remnants of his army into the mountains and forests, marched in the mountains for seven days, and arrived in Guaira, a city on the banks of the Paraná River, where he traveled north in a local Brazilian boat and then returned to Rio de Janeiro by rail."

"Walking alone in the mountains and forests for seven days, lacking food and supplies, I think Garcia's life is not easy!"

After passing through thousands of miles of desert and mountain forest areas, Li Mingyuan personally experienced the difficulties of long-distance transfer, while Garcia's troops were not in camp and were short of supplies when they fled for their lives.

"Garcia is also a capable figure, it is said that during the seven-day march, 2,000 soldiers were abandoned by Garcia in the mountains and forests because of diseases, and 3,000 other soldiers were lost in the mountains and forests due to lack of food and other reasons, and less than 5,000 Brazilian soldiers finally reached Rio de Janeiro safely."

"Marching in the mountains and forests, infected soldiers are easy to infect other soldiers, and Garcia's behavior was a rational choice at that time."

There were many factors for the victory of the Chinese Independence Army in the Paraguayan War, and Garcia's command ability cannot be denied because of the defeat of a war, and Li Mingyuan regarded Garcia as an opponent worth paying attention to in his heart.

"Garcia judged the situation and was an excellent general who escaped from the encirclement with a broken wrist at a critical moment, but the aristocratic bureaucrats in Rio de Janeiro would not see it that way, they paid attention to the fact that when Garcia took over the command of Mitchell, the Brazilian army had 50,000 people, and now he only brought back 5,000 people, and there is not one out of ten soldiers on the expedition, and Garcia cannot escape the main responsibility for the defeat of the Paraguayan war anyway."

"According to what they say, if Garcia had not taken over the command of Mitchell, Garcia would not have launched a roundabout operation, and the subsequent series of battles would have changed, and the Chinese Independence Army did not attack the main force of the Brazilian army according to the passage opened by the Brazilian roundabout troops, and the battle might have been another outcome, and the Chinese Independence Army would have paid a greater price if it wanted to defeat the main force of the Brazilian army."

Liu Pu said with a smile, "The dismissed Brazilian Field Marshal Mitchell said similar to the son, after hearing that the main Brazilian army was almost wiped out, Mitchell, who was under investigation by the Judge Advocate General of the Brazilian Army, first jumped out and accused Garcia of being greedy for merit and rashness, resulting in the annihilation of the main Brazilian army.

Mitchell's words are usually not believed by anyone, but after Garcia's accident, the original subordinates and cronies in the Brazilian army began to build momentum for Mitchell, advocating that Mitchell was old and stable and prescient. ”

"Anyone else believed Mitchell?"

"How can you not believe it, the main force of the Brazilian army has been lost, and other generals in the country have not performed particularly well in the Paraguayan War, and although Mitchell is conservative and slow, but the Brazilian army is still intact under his command after all, in contrast, both the Brazilian political and military circles are inclined to Mitchell, and the Brazilian Judge Advocate General also recently announced that Mitchell was conscientious and derelict in his duties during his tenure as commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, and after the results of the investigation, Mitchell returned to the command of the Brazilian Army, responsible for recruiting soldiers, Choose the opportunity to launch a counterattack against our army. ”