Chapter Ninety-Nine: Bolivia Matters

Adolfo and Melgarejo negotiated peace, but the final peace treaty required the consent of the Chinese Independence Army.

In Sucre City, in addition to the three parties participating in the peace talks, there was also a group of Indians wearing various ornaments on their heads, and they stood behind Liu Pu, the representative of the Chinese Independent Army, and looked at the white Bolivian presenters with complicated eyes.

The Aymara Patriarch was one of the Indian chieftains who followed Liu Pu to the peace talks, and because of his early defection to the Chinese Independence Army, and the bravery of the Aymara in a series of battles that followed, the Aymara received a large amount of land rewards.

As soon as the northern part of La Paz fell into the hands of the Indians, the tribes began to divide their territories according to the pre-divided lands.

Each Aymara warrior who participated in the war obtained a large amount of land, and with the support of the Chinese Independent Army, the Aymara tribe attracted more than a dozen Indian tribes to form a new tribal alliance, the original Aymara old chief served as the new tribal chief, and the newly formed tribal alliance surpassed the Indian tribes in the north of La Paz, and in the upcoming Indian Autonomous Region, the Aymara Tribal Union will occupy one-fifth of the land and one-sixth of the population of the autonomous region.

The Indians were never unified, and the various tribes were scattered and culturally different, and even in later generations, there were still hundreds of Indians in Bolivia, and even more than 1,000 Indian tribes.

The newly formed Aymara Tribal Confederation did not have a dominant presence in northern La Paz, but it was able to gain dominance in northern La Paz in the face of other scattered Indian tribes.

Attending such a large-scale meeting for the first time, the old patriarch of Aymara was both excited and apprehensive.

For a long time, the fate of the Indians was in the hands of the Western colonizers, whether it was the Spaniards and the Portuguese who divided the South American continent, or the British and Dutch who were always eyeing each other, in their eyes, the Indians were just talking goods, these goods could cultivate the land for them, dig coal mines, and be their tools to create wealth, while their lives were like ants, sick and dead were thrown in the barren mountains and forests, and then continued to enslave the next group of Indians to do things for them.

For hundreds of years, in the face of the oppression and exploitation of Western colonizers, the Indians have risen up and resisted, and also shed blood and sacrificed, but their efforts have not brought hope for the future of the Indians.

Today, with the help of the Chinese troops, the Indians stand in Sucre and participate in negotiations involving the vital interests of the Indians on an equal footing.

The old patriarch of Aymara was not sure that the white Bolivians could agree to the conditions of Indian autonomy, but this peace negotiation was the most favorable opportunity for the Indians in Bolivia to fight for autonomy, and once the Chinese troops left Bolivia, it would be more difficult for the Indians without the support of force behind them to fight for autonomy, so knowing that the negotiation process would not go smoothly, the old patriarch of Aymara still insisted on the bottom line of autonomy.

Only by seizing this opportunity can there be hope for the future of the Indians, and the old patriarch of Aymara has a determined light in his eyes.

Liu Pu brought the Indians to negotiate, although it was a little strange in the eyes of the Bolivian high-level, but it did not attract much attention from them, in the eyes of the Adolfo side and the representatives of Melgarejo, the Chinese troops were the negotiating force that could be equal to them, and the Indians were never in their consideration.

Negotiations began soon after the arrival of representatives of the parties, and as Adolfo and Melgarejo had agreed in advance on the terms of the negotiations, consensus was quickly reached on the arrangements for the Melgarejo side.

One: not to hold Melgarejo and his brother accountable for the crimes committed in power, but to nationalize half of their property and the land they owned in Bolivia,

2. Within a period of half a month, Melgarejo and Balivian are to leave Bolivia without the permission of the Government, and they are not allowed to enter Bolivian territory without permission.

Three: Melgarejo's troops are under the command of Adolfo, and officers below the rank of major are retained in their original positions, while officers above the rank of major are transferred to serve in other units.

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15: All soldiers who participated in this civil war are not guilty, and the captured soldiers are repatriated and released.

The content of the agreement was written in a dozen articles, the two most important of which were the personal disposition of Melgarejo and the other on the ownership and resettlement of his troops.

When the conditions for the peace talks are reached, it is natural for the representatives of the three parties to sign and confirm, but at this time, Liu Pu put down the pen in his hand and said: "Everyone, the problem of Melgarejo has been solved, but the problem of the Indian tribes behind me has not yet been settled, and they are also the side that followed our army to resist the tyranny of Melgarejo, I think, they are eligible to obtain a status commensurate with the results of the war after the war." ”

"Your Excellency, are you joking? A group of uncivilized Indians also want to divide the profits! The joke is not funny at all. ”

"No, I'm serious, the Indians have always been allies and friends of the Chinese Independence Army, and we have always treated our friends sincerely and equally, so, Lord Baliviaan, please retract your insulting words just now, otherwise I dare not guarantee that the Indian friends will not make drastic moves."

Liu Pu's tone was flat, but Balivian didn't dare not take his words to heart, because the dozen or so Indian warriors standing behind Liu Pu were glaring at him angrily, and what they were holding in their hands was not the wooden sticks and sticks of the past, but short guns that could kill people at close range.

Balivian didn't dare to joke with his life, and when he saw the Indian warrior with a short gun, he kept his mouth shut, but he couldn't make him apologize to the group of Indians he looked down upon.

Naturally, it was impossible for Liu Pu to force the Ballyvian to apologize to the Indians, which would only make the subsequent negotiations more difficult, so after Liu Pu dispelled the momentum of the Ballyvian, he raised it high, put it down gently, and then put forward the conditions for the establishment of the Indian Autonomous Region.

The previous conditions for the peace talks were negotiated smoothly, but in the face of the conditions for the establishment of an Indian autonomous region proposed by Liu Pu, it was like a bomb thrown into a pond and suddenly exploded.

Adolfo's negotiators did not relent, and the negotiations did not come to a conclusion because of the huge differences between the two parties.

On the second and third days, the two sides were still at a stalemate and did not give in to each other, while Adolfo secretly mobilized his troops to prepare for the war after the failure of the negotiations.

The situation was suddenly tense and war was imminent, and at this critical point, Adolfo suddenly sent someone to inform him that he had agreed to the conditions of the Chinese Independence Army and allowed the establishment of an autonomous Indian region in the northern part of La Paz province.

Adolfo's abrupt concession was not a finding of conscience, but a message from Brazil that the Triple Brazilian coalition had defeated the main force of Paraguay, and that the army was now marching towards Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, while at the same time a Brazilian army invaded Bolivian territory and occupied the land ceded to Brazil by Melgarejo.

A layer of wind swept a thousand waves, because the sudden invasion of Brazil made Adolfo feel in danger, so he had to agree to the request of the Chinese Independence Army.