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Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and the four southern provinces of Brazil are mainly based on animal husbandry, and millions of cattle, sheep, horses and other economic livestock are grazing on the 1.5 million square kilometers of the 1.5 million square kilometers of the plain of La Plata.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the pastoral areas where livestock are raised are water-scarce areas with precipitation less than 400 mm, because of the poor local natural conditions, people only adopt the inefficient agricultural production method of grazing, and when the local natural conditions are suitable, the Chinese living there will reclaim the land they occupy as arable land, and plant rice, wheat and other crops, in southern Xinjiang, as long as the local annual precipitation reaches more than 350 mm, the people in the interior who move there will give full play to the characteristics of the farming people. Cultivating barren and water-scarce land into valuable arable land, and putting a lot of effort into careful farming.

The Han people missed the global colonization period of the Great Voyage Period, and more than 400 million people were crowded on the land that had been cultivated for thousands of years, and they seemed to be very eager for the possession of land, while the white South Americans, as the descendants of the colonization, had a rich heritage left by their ancestors, and in the face of a large amount of fertile land, the degree of cherishing was far less intense than that of the Han people.

The La Plata Plain, which is mainly distributed in the four provinces of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil, covers an area of 1.5 million square kilometers and has an annual precipitation of about 1,000 mm, which is nearly twice the area of China's four major plains.

Among the four major plains, the Northeast Plain covers an area of 350,000 square kilometers and has an annual precipitation of 350-700.

The North China Plain covers an area of 310,000 square kilometers and has an annual precipitation of 500-1000.

The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain covers an area of 160,000 square kilometers, with an annual precipitation of 1,000-1,500 square kilometers and an area of 40,000 square kilometers in the Guanzhong Plain. Annual precipitation 300-600.

With a total area of 860,000 square kilometers, the four plains carry more than half of the mainland's population, and the four plains, which were originally the main grain-producing areas, are overpopulated, and only the northeast plains still have the ability to export grain, while the other three plains have changed from grain export areas to grain import areas.

The vast land area and abundant fertile arable land are necessary conditions for a country to become a big country, the vast arable land area of the Rio de la Plata, the precipitation and natural climate are similar to those in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and it is a very suitable place to live, and at the same time, even the Patagonian wilderness, which is regarded as a desert by white Argentines, has an annual precipitation of about 350 mm, which is fully equipped with the natural conditions to develop it as a pastoral area.

After the southern region was occupied by the Han state, millions of Chinese immigrants who had nothing often led a hoe and a few axes issued by the government, and carried dry food for a few days into the undeveloped forests of southern Argentina, and then inherited the tradition of the Han ancestors in the loess high slopes, the northwest desert and the southeast mountains and hills to prevent sand and fix fields, cut down forests and fill in the mountains and fields, and reclaimed pieces of land that the Argentine whites were unwilling to develop into square farmland.

Before 1876, the Han government stipulated that each adult Chinese immigrant could subscribe to 30 mu of land, but after May 1876, in view of the rapid increase in the number of immigrants and the need for a large amount of labor in domestic industry, Li Mingyuan adjusted the area of land subscribed by Chinese immigrants, reducing the area of land purchased by Chinese immigrants from 30 mu to 10 mu per person.

For Chinese immigrants who choose to live in inland mountain and forest areas, the government has relaxed the restrictions on their land ownership, stipulating that each person can own three acres of flat land and 30 acres of mountain land, as for the mountains, forests and hilly fields reclaimed by the Chinese privately, as long as the area does not exceed 50 acres, and does not damage the local natural environment, the government acquiesces that they have the right to use the reclaimed land for ten years, and after ten years, the government will use the land according to the number of descendants of the immigrant family. Ownership of privately cultivated fields will be reconfirmed.

From 1870 to 1878, 3 million of the 5.3 million Chinese people in the Han Kingdom lived in the 700,000 square kilometers of land seized by the First Argentine War, forming thousands of settlements. The possibility of regaining the northern territories was completely cut off by the Argentine whites.

In the eighties and nineties of the nineteenth century, Argentina and Uruguay missed the opportunity to receive Italian and German immigrants after the continuous harassment and attack of the Han troops, and the population was less than 1.7 million due to factors such as war, disease and death and flight from foreign countries, compared with ten years ago, the population not only did not increase, but decreased by about 100,000 people.

In addition to the changes in the strength of Argentina and Paraguay, Brazil has lost two wars and will not rashly attack Han, while the United States is still busy fighting wars with the Indians in the west at home, and has no energy or strength to interfere in Han's actions, so Li Mingyuan plans to take advantage of Han's population and military strength to form an absolute advantage over Argentina to launch an attack, quickly occupy Argentina and Uruguay, and lay the cornerstone of Han's rise.

The close and detailed combat readiness meeting lasted until noon, and while Li Mingyuan was seriously arranging various combat readiness work, a guard officer walked into the conference room and whispered a word to Li Mingyuan.

"Let him in."

Li Mingyuan nodded and temporarily suspended the meeting.

Ye Chenglin, who had changed into a gray and cyan school-level military uniform of the National Defense Army, stepped into the conference room, raised his hand and saluted, "Ye Chenglin, my post, come to restore my life!" ”

"Did the road go well?"

"I encountered an Argentine patrol ship patrol and was dodged by my subordinates." Ye Chenglin said as he took out a letter from the pocket of his military uniform, started forward, presented it with both hands, and handed it to Li Mingyuan, "The Mapuche people invite His Highness to be the king of their tribe, this is a letter written by the thirteen chiefs to His Highness. ”

"The people of Mapuche know the news of Antoine's death?" Li Mingyuan looked down at the letter and asked.

"Yes, Your Highness, the Mapuche believe that after Antoine's death, they need to choose a new king who can lead them against the oppression of Argentina and Chile."

"Very well, you go back and tell the Mapuche that the Han and the Mapuche are one family, and I will defend them from the invasion of the white people as I do with the Han nationals."

Li Mingyuan looked through the letter of allegiance of the Mapuche chieftain and said happily.

"Congratulations to His Highness on subduing the Mapuche people, with the Mapuche people behind Argentina's back, the operation to occupy the plain of La Plata next year has another chance of victory." Liu Pudao.

The Mapuche people are the main Indian tribe of Patagonia, based on the important role of Patagonia in the Han migration route, Li Mingyuan sent a number of Chinese detachments into the local area, on the one hand, to trade with the Mapuche people, on the other hand, to attract the Mapuche people to join the Han country, but because of the influence of white colonists for hundreds of years, the Mapuche people are very different from the Chinese in religion and living customs, and various tribes also refuse to take refuge in the Han country due to their ignorance of the Chinese.

"The Mapuche were good at nomadic warfare, and if they refused to accept Han rule, it would be a lot of trouble to occupy Patagonia in the future."

From the letter of allegiance written by Chief Mapuche, Li Mingyuan sensed that they were willing to take refuge in the Han State not only because of the help provided by Ye Chenglin and others to the Indian tribes, but also because Chile and Argentina continued to advance the Patagonian wasteland, which caused heavy losses to the Patagonian Indian tribes.

The trust between two different races cannot be established overnight, and Li Mingyuan did not intend to fully gain the trust of the Mapuche people, because the brave and warlike Mapuche people have only less than 30,000 people left in the population after hundreds of years of fighting with the white South Americans, and the Indians of 30,000 people are very limited in the face of the size of more than 5 million in the Han State.

After thinking for a few minutes, Li Mingyuan arranged for Ye Chenglin, "Patagonia is a foothold in the strategy of occupying Argentina, I authorize you to form a mixed army of less than six thousand in Patagonia to cooperate with the main force to fight, the weapons and ammunition of the mixed army are supplied from the country, and the soldiers need you to recruit from the Indian tribes." ”

"Your Highness, although the Indians of Patagonia are brave in battle, they generally have no formal training, and your authority hopes that some officers will be sent from within the country to enrich the organizational structure of the mixed regiments."

"Yes, I will send thirty lieutenant-level officers and four colonel-level officers to support you." ……