Raul? Baron Bravo walked into the slightly dilapidated Port Santa Fe, a key port city still under the control of the Army on the East Coast. Their supreme commander, Major Jiang Zhiqing, is no longer here, and it is said that this cruel and cunning man has rushed back to the east coast to receive the medal from his superiors, and this place is now taken over by an officer named Anda Fifteen. He took part of the regular army of the East Bank and a thousand militiamen (the Orient County Militia Brigade) to maintain order here, and to transport supplies, which in the eyes of Baron Bravo were the property of the Kingdom of Spain, and the people of the East Bank had shamelessly appropriated them.

I thought so, but as an increasingly qualified diplomat, Baron Bravo knew that he would never be able to say it. In fact, it did not serve any purpose in saying it, except for a little embarrassment on both sides, he did not think that the vulgar and unliterate pagan soldiers would return these goods to the Spaniards, and he never felt that the Kingdom of Spain could effectively restrain these foreign officers and soldiers who were still stranded on the territory of the Kingdom of Spain. Alas, what a loss of power and humiliation of the country, to borrow troops from invaders like the East Coast to suppress the rebellion of the Clandi, is this still the proud Kingdom of Spain? Every time he thought of this, Baron Bravo couldn't help but feel sad.

"Sir, the quarantine period is over, and the East Coast have released them." Baron Bravo's cousin, Salvador from Lima? Angel? Gilberto, Baron Bravo's butler, walked up to Raul and reminded in a low voice.

When Baron Bravo heard this, he looked into a wooden fence in a corner of the city, and saw a large group of white men and women dressed in various costumes walking out. Many of them were forced to shave their hair short, after a fifteen-day quarantine period. At this time, their eyes were confused. I don't know where to go.

The people of the East Coast are now unusually careful about disease. Thus, even though these men and women were subjects of the Kingdom of Spain, and Port Santa Fe was also part of the Kingdom of Spain, they still imposed a sanitary quarantine on these poor people who had crossed the sea from the Old Continent, and the Spaniards did not dare to object.

These were immigrants from Europe brought in by the Government of the Kingdom of Spain to enrich the territory of the Kingdom of Spain in La Plata. The Spaniards understood at this point that without a sufficient population they would not be able to resist the gradual encroachment of the people on the east coast. They need people to produce food, they need people to build cities and fortresses, they need people to fight for them, therefore. After several failed migrations many years ago, they have overcome the difficulties again and started a new wave of migration to La Plata.

The difference is that this time the selection of immigrants has quite a lot of conditions. The first is that these people must all be godly followers of the Lord who have been verified by the Inquisition; The second is that these people must all be proletarians or propertied people who have a hard life, and only then will they fight the invaders in order to protect their property. Of course, this will first require the Spanish government to carry out land rights reform in La Plata and give these new immigrants legal property. The situation of a bunch of proletarians crowded into Buenos Aires to work for the big farmers and ranchers, as in the past, will not be repeated this time, because it turns out that these people, who are about the same level as serfs, have no fighting spirit in front of the enemy.

This war with the people of the East Coast really shook the foundation of the Spaniards in La Plata. The first was the unstoppable East Bank Army. With their superior troops and superior artillery fire in Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and other places, they let the Indian soldiers from Peru know why the flowers are so red. A large amount of livestock, money, grain, timber, leather and other property were taken away by the people of the east coast in an organized and efficient manner. This led the Spaniards to redevelop without a large amount of start-up capital.

The second was the local uprising of the Clandi rebels, which ravaged almost all of La Plata for two years, during which time a large number of white immigrants from Bohemia, Naples, and Hungary from Central and Southern Europe were killed (and a considerable part were taken away by the people of the east coast). All told, the number of Spaniards at the height of the 20,000 in La Plata (there was no time and space for the East Coast Spaniards had less than 3,000 white inhabitants in La Plata) has now plummeted to less than 5,000, and most have fled to the provinces of Paraguay, Cuyo, and Tucumán.

Such a few people are obviously not enough to compete with the East Coasters! Raul? Although Baron Bravo did not know the exact population figure of the East Coast Republic of China at this time, he probably estimated that he had lived on the East Coast for a long time, that is, he thought that the population of the East Coast Country might have been no less than 200,000 at this time. Moreover, this is a terrible pagan nation of soldiers, who have no respect for the Lord Almighty, who are well-trained, trained more often than even the most elite legions in the kingdom, and who will blast all the enemies in their way with mechanical and rigid movements when attacking.

Therefore, in the face of such a powerful country and adversary, if the Spaniards wanted to keep the vast area of La Plata, then they had to emigrate and resettle, taking advantage of the rare time of peace, to pile up the population of La Plata, and then build fortresses and train militias, so that they would not be completely defenseless in the event of another invasion by the people on the east coast. After all, even the most idiotic person has understood by this time that the appetite of the people of the East Bank will never be satisfied, they will never be satisfied with the territory east of the Uruguay River, and they have ulterior ambitions for Patagonia, the Great Plains of La Plata, Paraguay and even Chile. The so-called peace agreement now signed between the two countries is, in the eyes of many Spaniards, nothing more than a truce, and sooner or later the war between the two sides will resume again, and unless the Spaniards make heavy concessions on territory, war is almost inevitable in the near future.

"The cost of this migration was shared between the Viceroyalty of Peru, the Viceroyalty of New Spain and the mainland, mainly from the hard-to-live, overpopulated regions of Italy and Austria that had not been ravaged by war." Gilberto looked at the migrants who were boarding the carriage and heading west under the command of the Spanish officials, and said: "The Rodríguez family, the big businessmen of La Plata, have returned from Chile, and they have donated 200,000 pesos to the new General Valdés de La Plata, as the cost of immigration, General Valdés and Governor Gutiérrez have greatly appreciated this, and hope that more businessmen will come forward and donate actively to alleviate the financial difficulties of government immigrants." ”

"But I heard that this cunning old man secretly sent his son to make contact with the people on the east coast and bought the bonds of the Southern Railway Company worth 240,000 pesos in the financial market of Qingdao on the east coast. Hell, I don't even know what this company does. "Raul? "I've even heard that he's going to persuade some people to join forces to invest in the East Coast Southern Rail," said Baron Bravo hatefully, "and it seems that he is determined to bet on both sides." ”

"There's no way they're going to get together with the East Coasters." Gilberto said cautiously, "Their family owns vast farms and ranches in La Plata, and the people of the East Coast will not allow such large landowners to exist in their country, which would destroy their foundations." The reason why the Rodriguez family did this was nothing more than to continue to do business with the people of the East Coast, who were mercenary businessmen. However, my Excellency, I must say that in this difficult time, it is not a bad thing to trade with the people of the East to rebuild La Plata, as it will greatly reduce our costs. You know, it's not cost-effective to bring the supplies that have settled down from the far Old World. ”

"There are also all kinds of machinery needed for the development of factories and workshops." Baron Bravo added quietly, "We need to build a mill, a winery, a dried fruit factory, a cheese factory, and all the necessary facilities for life in Tucumán, which need to be provided by the people of the East Coast." God, while it is true that importing machinery and equipment from them will save a lot of money, it will really make me unhappy, because it means that these yellow-skinned infidels have an increasing advantage over us, and this realization makes me very upset. ”

"And ......," continued Baron Bravo, add, "His Majesty is determined to emigrate to La Plata, but I doubt really how long his enthusiasm will last. We are still in a life-and-death struggle with the French, and we spend almost too much money every day. I really doubt how much, ten thousand, would be able to support immigrants with all this pitiful amount of money raised by the House of West India? Twenty thousand? I can't be sure, all of them are terrible. ”

Baron Bravo's words silenced the crowd for a while. Yes, the power of the Spanish Kingdom in La Plata is really too weak, and the opponent of the East Coast is too strong. They don't know how long the peace between the two sides will last, and perhaps the next time there will be a war, the East Coast, a country that is growing faster and faster, will have an even greater advantage.

In order to balance the heavy pressure on the East Coasters, in addition to trying to develop themselves, Baron Bravo felt that the only way to do this was to bring in another European country, such as the Netherlands or England. Although the peace agreement signed between the government of the Kingdom of Spain and the people of the East Bank clearly states that the Kingdom of Spain shall not sell the territory or commercial interests of the region of La Plata to a third country other than the Republic of the East Bank, once the aggressive people of the East Bank have pushed them into a corner, then who cares about this bullshit agreement? Anyway, now that the East Coast people are so conspicuous, there will be more and more countries that have doubts about them, so it is much better to promote more East Coast heretic threat theory in the Old Continent and win over some countries as allies at a critical moment than to fight the East Coast people alone. (To be continued......)