In December, spring in South America has just ended, and the La Plata region has a cool summer.

Spring is the season of recovery and animal reproduction, but in the core area of the La Plata region, the Pampas Plain, due to the migration of Chinese families, a large number of bison, wild horses, wild deer and other large wild animals were hunted and captured, and the number of bison distributed throughout the savannah decreased by about one-twentieth in just two or three months because of overcapture.

The bison and wild horses in the Pampas area were originally domestic animals released by Spain hundreds of years ago, and they were more likely to be captured by Chinese families than real wild animals. The Pampas and the primeval forests of northern Argentina are subject to a one-year closed rotation period, during which people in the grasslands and surrounding areas are not allowed to enter the forests to hunt wild animals and pick and cut down rare plants.

South America is vast and sparsely populated, and the unique and precious animals such as guinea pigs, pampas deer, Ouemur deer, anteaters, aguaret jaguar, and Andean cats in the native areas are scarce, and the probability of escape is low in the face of experienced Chinese hunters. It is necessary to prohibit overhunting of wild animals and plants. …………

Focusing on the big picture and planning ahead of time for a national development strategy can lead to unexpected results more than a decade later, even if it seems like an inconsequential matter.

Ten years later, the headquarters of the Ministry of Intelligence and the Taiping Society in the mainland have expanded from only one station in Shanghai to five stations in Shanghai, Xiangjiang, Tianjin, Yangcheng and Rongcheng.

Most of these stations were set up in the British and French concessions, and under the cover of foreign companies or overseas Chinese businessmen, they engaged in activities such as commodity trading, smuggling, migrant transportation, and arms smuggling transactions.

The customs in the mainland area are subject to foreign supervision, the maritime power of the Manchu court is weak, and the Beiyang Naval Division, which was later famous, is in the period of purchasing ships, and there are still three or five years before the official formation of the army, and the sea smuggling is lucrative, and the company sites set up in the coastal areas of the mainland are mainly derived from the smuggling of arms and industrial products, and batches of muskets that have been eliminated in the local area are disguised as German firearms by employing ships from Germany, France and other European countries, and then at a price lower than that of Western countries. Sold to local officials in the south, while those locally produced bicycles, video cameras, rubber cloth shoes and other trendy goods were sold to the southern gentry officials at high prices, on the one hand, to win their favor and open up sales channels for the smuggled Han goods in the mainland, and on the other hand, to earn a lot of economic benefits, to maintain the daily expenses of the site itself and to earn some foreign exchange funds for the development of local industry.

The impact of Argentina's victory in the war had reached the Manchu government through the diplomats of Britain, France, and Germany on the mainland, and the rise of a Chinese empire overseas had apparently alarmed the Manchu court, and the Qing court had sent spies to the port cities in the south where the immigrant population was concentrated, preparing to find out the real situation of the Chinese immigrants and obstruct the Han side's plans to transport the migrants.

"News came from the three sites of Rongcheng, Shanghai, and Tianjin, and we found secret agents of the Qing court in the immigration reception points we set up there, who were mixed in the ranks of ordinary people, disguised as refugees from the north, and wanted to take the opportunity to enter the mainland to spy on intelligence."

In the Chang'an Imperial Palace, which was being expanded, Shen Fushan, minister of state security, conveyed to Li Mingyuan the information from the mainland.

"I had expected that the establishment of the emperor would provoke the Manchu government, but I didn't expect them to react so quickly."

Li Mingyuan stood up, looked at the corner of the Far East on the huge map, and said firmly, "The Han thieves are not separated, hundreds of thousands of Taiping brothers and sisters died tragically at the hands of the Manchu Qing Tartars, my father and my uncle all died because of the Manchu Dynasty, and the oath of the three arrows is like yesterday in my ears, but we can't be hindered by the temporary immigration action, recognize the orthodoxy of the Manchu Dynasty, and bow the knee to the Tartars!" ”

"Your Royal Highness is wise, called the emperor system, and maintaining the orthodoxy of the Han family is the great righteousness, if you compromise and retreat because the Manchu government threatens the import of immigrants from the mainland, I am afraid that those inferior gentry and traitors will succeed and be arrogant."

Shen Fushan echoed.

"It is impossible to compromise and retreat to the Manchus!"

Li Mingyuan once again reiterated his position, and solemnly said: "The Jiangnan region is an important place for the Manchu government, and the nobles of the Eight Banners still maintain a certain deterrent effect on the local governors in the south. ”

Considering the worst-case scenario in the mainland, Li Mingyuan came up with a pre-formulated response plan and ordered, "Give Liang Xing, Minister of Military Intelligence, an order to evacuate the intelligence personnel who have been exposed, suspend the immigration activities in the mainland, and send someone to contact Yang Fuqing and order his people to cooperate with our actions. ”

"Report to Your Highness, because of the fear that the site in the mainland will be exposed, Minister Liang has already left for Hong Kong from Nanyang after relaying the information back to the mainland, and now he should have just arrived in Hong Kong."

After Shen Fushan reported Liang Xing's whereabouts to Li Mingyuan, he explained, "General Yang took the name of the auxiliary king of the Taiping Army, with weapons and funds supported by the Military Intelligence Department, and his armed personnel recently exceeded 2,000 people, and I heard that there was a great victory in South America, and General Yang wanted to take advantage of His Royal Highness's momentum to take the opportunity to raise troops on the mainland to oppose the Qing Dynasty. Hope persuaded him to stop the idea of starting an incident on the mainland. ”

"Hmph, stubborn!"

Li Mingyuan felt a burst of anger in his heart, "For the sake of his friendship with his father and uncle, in recent years, he has asked people to give people and guns to guns, and the kingdom of heaven has been destroyed for fifteen or sixteen years, and he is still holding the frame of the heavenly emperor, he really doesn't know how to lift it!"

Another order was added, allowing Liang Xing to use our armed forces lurking in the mainland, and if Yang Fuqing relied on the old and betrayed the old and insisted on launching an armed uprising, he would immediately jointly arrange the men around him to tightly control Yang Fuqing, and Liang Xing would temporarily take over the armed forces under him. ”

"Yes, Your Highness............

While giving them batches of obsolete muskets and ammunition, the instructors and latent intelligence officers sent by the Han State in the open and secret were also slowly infiltrating them, gradually attracting the armed personnel at the bottom to be used by the Han State, as short as one or two years, and at most three or five years. It has gradually become a secret force in the hands of the military intelligence department, and when it is really necessary to launch an armed operation, I am afraid that those armed leaders will find out that they have lost the command of their subordinate forces.