On October 3, 1678, on the eve of the 48th anniversary of the landing of the founders on the east bank, more than 1,000 officers and men of the 6th Mixed Battalion from Qingdao County occupied the port of Nancun on the other side of the Río de la Plata.

The battalion's acting commander, Captain Qiao Yu, set up the battalion headquarters in a Catholic church in the city, and four infantry companies were stationed in the customs building, the port terminal, the bazaar, and the large storage base in the city. Cavalry companies were stationed on the perimeter of the city to guard against any suspicious approach.

In the previous stationing process, although it was not all smooth sailing, it was not any difficulty. At the time of the initial landing, the Spanish battery fired two shells in the direction of the ships on the east coast, both of which missed. Later, for unknown reasons, until the 6th Mixed Battalion landed and occupied the battery, the Spaniards' naval defense guns were in a state of mute fire and did not fire any more shells, and it should have been an officer who stopped the blind movement of his men.

Then, on the way to the core of Nancun Port, a group of Spanish soldiers rushed to stop them, and their officers with swords in hand demanded that the people on the east coast stop immediately in a somewhat trembling voice. Captain Qiao Yu, who led the team, saw through the nature of the Spaniards' fierce inwardness, and directly ordered the 240 officers and men of the 1st Infantry Company, who were relatively good at fighting, to use their guns and bayonets and march in formation, but the Spaniards were directly squeezed to both sides of the road, and some of them even accidentally fell into the ditch on the side of the road, so they were not embarrassed. And in the process, only one Spanish soldier who seemed to have a problem with his head wanted to shoot, but he was directly held down by his comrade next to him, which was also speechless.

Finally, when Captain Qiao Yu, who led the troops directly under the battalion (baggage company, artillery company, engineering platoon and battalion headquarters handymen, about 380 people), successfully entered the center of Nancun Port City, the local Spanish colonial officials and church people only made a fierce verbal protest, and then left the city and returned to Buenos Aires City in a gloomy manner under the protection of the soldiers of the Spanish colonial army, who also implemented a policy of non-resistance.

On the whole, just as the two mixed battalions and one cavalry battalion were stationed along the Yanbu Railway and in Niuzhuang and Yinhai counties, the 6th Mixed Battalion also encountered no hostilities at Nancun Port. The Spaniards carried out the policy of non-resistance thoroughly, which was an eye-opener for Captain Qiao Yu and a cadre of merchants on the east coast inside and outside the city, and at the same time even more disdainful of these timid Spaniards.

Of course, if you put yourself in the shoes of the Spaniards, their behavior is not incomprehensible. Because anyone with a modicum of sanity knows how serious the consequences can be if a fierce armed conflict breaks out between the two sides. The enormous, well-equipped, and well-trained armies of the people of the East Coast will flood into La Plata, to occupy Buenos Aires, to occupy Rosario, to occupy Santa Fe, and even to occupy Asunción and Córdoba, and the entire colony of La Plata will be finished! The present policy of non-resistance may seem humiliating, but it also gives the people of the East Coast no additional excuse to reap more benefits, so that the Kingdom of Spain will not lose more rights and suffer greater humiliation.

After the military control of the port of Nancun, the center of trade, the 6th Mixed Battalion temporarily halted its advance, and there were no further follow-up actions. They were told by their superiors that the Ministry could only carry out limited defensive activities in the port of Nancun and its suburbs without authorization, and unless the Spanish army launched an offensive, which was obviously extremely unlikely, Captain Qiao Yu even received the message that the War Department had repeatedly stressed that it was necessary to cooperate with the negotiations between the East Coast Foreign Service and the Spaniards in the coming period, that is, when the negotiations reached an impasse and a breakthrough seemed impossible in the short term, then they needed to move.

This so-called "move a move", as long as you are not a fool, understand what it means. Battalion Commander Qiao estimated that if the Spaniards were too desperate, those secret services would have to direct and stage some events on their own, and then it would be convenient for their regular army to be dispatched. Qiao Yu didn't believe that when his Sixth Mixed Battalion appeared on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the Spaniards would still be able to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai platform.

And just when Captain Qiao Yu was wondering if the Spaniards would be able to hold on when his troops marched towards Putrajaya, Constantin de Ovando had just finished an important meeting in Buenos Aires. The meeting was held in the General's Office, and he, who was the president of the court of prosecution and the general, summoned all the important officials under his command to discuss the current situation that had changed dramatically, and intended to come up with a detailed countermeasure.

However, it was clear that General Ovando had overestimated the quality of the officers, judges, prosecutors, town officials, and nobles, who were so divided that they did not want to confront the people of the East Coast head-on, nor did they want to submit so disgracefully and directly, so they were never able to come up with a convincing plan. At the end of the meeting, most people still felt that it would be delayed any longer, and they would talk to the people on the east coast to see what the situation would be.

This result was somewhat unexpected by General Ovando, because these people, who were still angry before, were shamefully frightened one by one after seeing the 6th Mixed Battalion of the East Coast people landing in Nancun Port, what kind of people are these! Moreover, what was more frustrating than the fact that the officers, the Buenos Aires defense system built by two generations of General de La Plata, did not dare to confront the East Coasters? You know, there was a regiment of gentlemen, a Mestizo infantry regiment, and a cavalry regiment stationed in and around Buenos Aires, with a total number of more than 3,000 men, which was twice the number of the 6th mixed battalion of the East Coasters, and they also learned from the East Coast that they had been fully firearms many years ago.

But such a force does not have the courage to confront the East Coast army, which is absolutely inferior in numbers, how can this not make people despair? General Ovando was very disappointed in his officers, knowing that these people had become completely corrupt and degenerate, and could no longer be used as a safe source for the city of Buenos Aires, so they could put on a façade and suppress any possible changes from the Indians.

And since everyone below has this attitude, then General Ovando has nothing to insist on. He usually pays more attention to safeguarding the interests of the Kingdom of Spain, but the current situation really can't be maintained, and the enemy is coming to the city! On the other hand, of course, General Owando was not defending the interests of the Kingdom of Spain by choosing to negotiate with the East Coasters (although not yet fully authorized by Lima or Madrid). You know, now it may just be a small piece of meat for the people on the east coast, but if a war breaks out, no matter how big and strong it is, the Spaniards will be forced to cut off a large piece of meat.

In this way, the first negotiations between the Buenos Aires Prosecutorial Court of the Kingdom of Spain and the diplomatic department on the east coast were officially launched on October 8 at the headquarters of the 6th Mixed Battalion of Nancun Port. In the midst of the bayonet jungle where the soldiers on the east coast were blazing, the two Spanish negotiators were obviously a little out of order; when faced with the question of the construction of the Yanbu Railway and the management of the area east of the East Bank, which were of great concern to the representatives of the East Coast, they at first hesitated and hesitated and were unwilling to give a positive answer, but then they could not resist the pressure and had no choice but to relent, saying that there was no problem in the construction of the Yanbu Railway according to the established plan, and as for the question of authorizing the operation of the vast area of land east of the railway line, they looked embarrassed and said that they still needed to go back and ask their superiors for instructions.

It is clear that obtaining the right to build the railroad is not the ultimate goal of the East Coasters. In fact, the railway line was almost planned, and a large number of people, equipment and tools had been transported to the site in sections, and the Spaniards agreed or disagreed that they would have to be repaired anyway. They were still more concerned about the fertile Pampa plain east of the railway, that is, the Spaniards had to agree that the people of the East Coast could engage in agriculture and animal husbandry here, and the people of the East Coast were only trying to get such a legal instrument from the Spaniards. Therefore, they were very much looking forward to what the Spaniard would answer next.

On 13 October, at the urging of the East Coasters, for which the 6th Mixed Battalion had to dispatch an infantry company to attack a Creole estate suspected of having wounded merchants on the east bank of the port of Nancun, arresting more than a dozen people, General Ovando's representatives finally reluctantly returned to the meeting again and held a second round of consultations with the East Coasters.

During this consultation, perhaps because of sufficient authorization, the two Spanish representatives finally listlessly agreed to allow the East Bank nationals to operate agriculture and animal husbandry east of the Yanbu Railway, which greatly encouraged the officials of the East Bank diplomatic departments involved in the negotiations, and at the same time seized the opportunity to directly start more in-depth talks on some detailed issues without giving the Spaniards a chance to breathe. For example, the amount of the lease or royalty of the land east of the Yanbu Railway, the duration of its use, whether the Kingdom of Spain could be taxed, whether the nationals of the east coast had extraterritoriality, and so on, the two sides negotiated for two full days before reaching a preliminary agreement on these details.

In the next two days of talks, the ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain to the East Bank, Count Sebastian, also participated in the whole process, but did not speak, only attended. After the negotiations, the count, who had been ambassador for many years, looked very depressed, and said that he would not sign the text of the agreement, and that he would resign as ambassador in the near future and return to live in the Toledo countryside of the Iberian Peninsula.

Count Sebastian did not have to sign the agreement, but Constantín de Ovando, president of the Buenos Aires Court of Prosecution and general of La Plata, could not escape it. On 20 October, after waiting for news from Lima, General Ovando, who had no choice in the face of the aggressive East Bank army, finally signed the negotiation agreement, sealed it and sent it to Lima by cavalry for the Governor's review.

General Ovando must have been frustrated by this outcome. He had been in charge of the Court of Attorney of Buenos Aires for many years, and although many accused him of being too flattering to the East Coast, General Ovando could not have done a better job than he had done in his position by any other decent man, for he had really done his best to protect the interests of the Kingdom of Spain.

It's a pity that now it seems that some of his cleverness on weekdays is still not enough in the face of absolute strength! No, the five thousand armies of the infidels on the east bank were thrown into the Pampa plain, and the gentlemen of Buenos Aires were like frightened quails, unusually honest, and did not dare to talk any more nonsense. And now, General Ovando has woken up from his dream: the goal of the people of the East Coast has never changed, they have been eyeing the Pampa Plain from the beginning, and the attraction of this vast land to them is unparalleled. As a weak party, the ill-fated Kingdom of Spain is destined to not be able to keep this land, and the Buenos Aires Court of Attorney District, which has only been established for a few years, is a complete joke, and the most realistic goal of the Spanish Kingdom today should be to try to keep Chile, Chalcas and other neighboring courts of Justice, and do everything possible to adjust the direction of the expansion of the East Coast to the Brazilian side, and throw the trouble on the Portuguese.

On 25 October, just five days after the agreement was negotiated (it is not yet known what the attitude of Lima and Madrid will be), two transport ships from the Courier liner company were hired by the Ministry of Migration on the East Bank to land on the south bank of the Río de la Plata River with more than 800 migrants. According to the pre-formulated plan, these "urgent" immigrants will establish several settlements in the vicinity, namely Ruyi Township near the town of General Lavalle, Wuxing Township near the town of Santa Teresita in the later period, Luming Township near the town of General Conesa, Shiqiu Township near the town of General Juan Madariaga, and Tieqiu Township near the town of Flores, a total of five new settlements, with the initial intention of rehousing more than 5,000 people.

This step-by-step move shows the character of the new government, especially Chairman Liao Xiaoyao Liao, who is quick to cut through the mess, and at the same time indirectly tells the Spaniards that you have no other choice but to honestly follow the path we have drawn! Since we dare to bring so many immigrants over and arrange for them to settle down, then we will never bother to move them out again, so you have to agree this time, and if you don't agree, you have to agree, we are going to settle on this land!

As soon as these settlements are established, they are basically not far from Yinhai County in the south. It will take only five to ten years for the coastal strip east of the Salt and Buenos Aires railway to be completed, and then the people on the east coast will probably build settlements not far from Buenos Aires, and I wonder how the Spaniards will react – and probably not very strongly.