A bitter cold wind blew, and the earth was depressed. In an office of the Tushan Township Government, a group of heavily armed men are huddled together for a meeting.

Tushan Township is a pioneer settlement that has just been established not long ago, located on the east side of the Yanbu Railway, south of the La Plata River, near the small town of Chascomus in Argentina in the future, with a population of about 2,500 people.

Together with Tushan Township, there were several other settlements, namely Fuli Township near the later Ciudad de La Plata, Jiaocheng Township near the town of Magdalena, Chengfu Township near the town of Beronica, Shansang Township near the town of Ranchos, Luyi Township near Colonel Brandon, and Geliu Township near the suburb of Buenos Aires in the later suburbs of Gelu, a total of seven settlements were established in one go, basically controlling more than 100,000 square kilometers of land east of the entire Yanbu Railway.

In addition, a series of settlements set up in the south in the early years were also arranged by the above, and county-level governments were established in February at the beginning of this year. Among them, Luming County has jurisdiction over Luming Township, Sanyi Township, Shiqiu Statue, Ruyi Township and Wuxing Township, with a population of about 27,000 people, and is the 131st county-level administrative unit in the country; Gaoyuan County has jurisdiction over Gaoyuan Township, Xinying Township (formerly Franco Township, Spain), Liugu Township, Xita Township, Beita Township and Tieqiu Township, with a population of more than 26,000 people, and is the 132nd county-level administrative unit in the country; Wanji County has jurisdiction over Wanji Township, Wapeng Township, Niutun Township, Waihuang Township and Changluo Township, with a population of about 23,000 or more, and is the 133rd county-level administrative unit in the country; The last one is Chenqiang County, which has a total population of more than 21,000 people, including Chenqiang Township, Guiling Township, Heqiu Township, Dajiao Township and Tongxu Township.

From the above, it can be seen that the State Development Administration really adheres to the meaning of the central bigwigs, and desperately sends population and resources to the Pampa Plain. Several newly established counties have a population of no less than 20,000, and when the population on the east coast is so abundant, it can only be said that the executive committee is "biased", and there is no other possibility.

Naturally, transporting people cannot simply be transported by boat to the land. As a matter of fact, the State Administration of Development must also invest a large amount of resources in advance for preliminary construction, and the cost of this is huge. After the resettlement is completed, these people are organized to build houses for themselves (unfortunately, there are no trees in the Pampa Plain, and building materials are still relatively scarce, which means additional costs), and to develop production, in short, it takes a huge amount of energy and financial resources, which will naturally affect other places.

However, this all-or-nothing investment has also led to the rapid development of the Pampa region. Taking Niuzhuang and Yinhai counties as examples, various industries have developed rapidly, investors have flocked to the county, the county's grain, fruit and beef output has repeatedly reached new highs, and the machine flour mills, leather processing factories, soap factories, and seafood processing factories near the coastal wharf are even more prosperous, and they have to work overtime every day, and the supply of products exceeds demand. The brick kiln factory, lime factory, cement factory, quarry, etc. in the inland area are also making money every day, which makes the proprietors laugh from ear to ear, and sigh again and again that there are many opportunities and rapid development in the Pampa Plain.

This time, the central government established seven new settlements in the north, near the Río de la Plata, and at once filled the east of the Yanbu Railway. The population of these places, combined with the population of the six counties that already exist, adds up to more than 230,000, which is also staggering. The Spaniards have worked the Pampa plain for so many years, and the total population of the mixed-race Mestizo is only one-tenth of this number, and this is still the number at the peak, and now many people have moved to the north in Rosario, Santa Fe, Resistencia and Paraguay, and there are not many Spaniards living in the Pampa plain south of the Río de la Plata (except for the city of Buenos Aires), which is really not worth mentioning compared to the huge immigrant population of the people on the east coast.

The Spanish Inquisition Court of Buenos Aires often sent officials to the east of the Yan-Buenos Aires Railway to investigate—according to the agreement between the two sides, they had the right to do so, because the land was open to the citizens of both sides—and the officials looked like dirt and disbelief every time they came. The last one to come was Mr. Pedro at the beginning of the year, a member of the Buenos Aires City Council, a typical white native of La Plata, with a large farm and ranch on the outskirts of Putrajaya, employing more than 50 Walloons from the South Netherlands, but was also speechless to see how well the East Coast "business" had run in a few years.

He understood that although the large area east of the Pampa Plain still nominally belonged to the Kingdom of Spain, as the small number of Spanish nationals was slowly squeezed out—in fact, it was useless not to squeeze them away, and a few thousand people were really insignificant to hundreds of thousands—and the change of surname here was basically a sure thing. Originally, the governor of Peru wanted to use this large area of land to curb the appetite of the people on the east coast a little, so that they could not expand so quickly, but now it seems that it is a bit hanging. Although the people on the east coast had promised not to expand into the vast area west of the Yanbu Railway for a few years, what about the rest of the world? No one can guarantee it!

However, although the reason is clear, from a practical point of view, the Spaniards are completely powerless to resist. The East Coast people can organize more than 200,000 people to reclaim the land in this place, and of course, they can also organize tens of thousands of heavily armed people to enter Buenos Aires and even Paraguay, and the key to the matter is here! The people of the East Coast had to swallow a small piece of land every certain number of years, and in order to curb this, the Spaniards needed to have enough force and social productivity to match them, but this was obviously impossible, so they had to get by and let God decide the fate of the future.

The establishment of Tushan Township and other places further extended the control of the East Coasters to the vicinity of the bustling city of Buenos Aires, and the vibration of the Spaniards can be imagined, although they had expected this day when they signed the agreement. Therefore, regardless of the mentality, whether it is the fear of the local elite landlord class or the counterattack of the church forces, Spain has made a lot of small moves this year to do everything possible to delay and delay the expansion of the people on the east coast and ensure the temporary security of Putrajaya.

Of course, the people on the east coast will not be ignorant of this, but this behavior of the Spaniards is within the scope of the rules of the game, and it is inconvenient to say anything clearly. However, if you don't say it on the surface, it doesn't mean that the people on the east bank will not do anything, no, the deputy commander of the garrison, Inigo, who is in charge of security in some areas south of the Río de la Plata, held a meeting in the Tushan Township government compound to discuss how to deal with some of the small actions recently made by the Spaniards.

Because the settlement had just been established and the township government had limited conditions, they were loaned a mud house converted from a warehouse. It was just after dinner, and the only oil lamp in the room was dancing with a pale yellow glow, and under the shadow of the lamp, saws, axes, powder kegs, and other things were piled up in a mess. In addition to this, there was not even a decent chair, and a few key officers had to sit on empty powder kegs and listen to Iñigo's instructions.

"The security of several new settlements is very important. According to common sense, we should station a certain number of garrison soldiers in each settlement, and at the same time send men to patrol the towns and villages, closely search, and respond at any time, so as to cut off the idea of the enemy from prying eyes. Holding his thigh in his left hand and a polished sword in his right hand, Inigo said solemnly: "Everyone, I can't hide it, I have also been questioned and reprimanded by my superiors. They couldn't understand why a garrison detachment of more than a hundred experienced soldiers could not settle down in the precinct. I can't explain it, I can't complain about the lack of men under my men, and I can't complain about the lack of horses and ammunition, my character does not allow me to do this. ”

After saying this, Inigo took a breath, and after glancing at the expressions of several officers in the room, he added, "I think it's time to come up with some measures." Passive defense is always very bad, and the best way is to replace defense with offense, to suppress the arrogance of the enemy, and to make them afraid to oppose us, so that the best way to completely eradicate security threats, do you think? ”

"Deputy Commander, do you mean that we want to take the initiative and attack the Spaniards? So where do we attack? What is the right size? And in what name? "An officer asked, and to the point.

"That's a good question." Inigo praised, then said, "That's what I thought. Although there is no definite evidence of the small action for us this time, it should be those large ranchers and large landowners who live in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Naturally, they were outraged by our large-scale reclamation operation south of the Río de la Plata, which had taken away large tracts of pasture that would have belonged to them, but the issue of compensation remained unresolved, so it was not uncommon for them to do something drastic. This time, I'm going to launch a surgical raid on them to deter those who dare to provoke us. Please note that if they are united, they can also organize a force of thousands of people (most of them are Klandians), we can't give them time to react and a chance to unite, they must move steadily, accurately, and ruthlessly, and if they hit it, they will be completely defeated. ”

The fact that Inigo had just mentioned the occupation of the Spanish colonists' pastures was a real thing, and the reparations that have not yet been resolved (in fact the East Coasters do not intend to compensate them) led to a bitter conflict. Those old native-born white families, who have lived in the vicinity of Buenos Aires for generations, have huge influence, and have a lot of power at hand, they are indeed more difficult opponents. To the east of the Yanbu Railway and south of the Río de la Plata, the source of all the problems now is the land they hold in their hands on a scale that the people of the East Coast cannot get around if they want to exploit it, because of the legacy of history – the early Spanish colonial government arbitrarily divided the fiefdom of land at ridiculously low prices, which is now the source of all the problems.

It was no surprise that the conflict broke out when the people of the East Coast were willing to spend a lot of money on building houses and granting loans (in kind) to the dirty settlers rather than give them a reasonable compensation for land acquisition, so the conflict broke out unsurprisingly. Having worked south of the Río de la Plata for several years, Inigo knew these old colonial families well and understood that there was no room for reconciliation between the East Bank government and these people, so there was no choice but to fight!

However, although I decided to beat them, I was still very particular about how to fight. According to Iinigo's meaning, since he wants to do it, he should simply take this opportunity to make it bigger, take the initiative to go to other people's territory, and uproot his forces, so as to achieve the effect of deterrence as much as possible. He even had a vague idea of Buenos Aires, which was to isolate the purely consumerist city by harassing the estates, villages, and ranches on the outskirts of Putrajaya through a long, incessant campaign of raids, so that it gradually lost its sources of food, fruits, vegetables, wine, cheese, and meat products, and then gradually became untenable, and eventually abandoned the city or sued for peace with the people on the east coast (in the name of negotiating a solution to the law and order problem, of course).

It's just that such a thing will inevitably make a big fuss, and it may not be something that he Inigo can handle. What's more, just relying on the more than 100 men under his hands, I am afraid that he will not be able to do it, so he still has to be cautious and not self-defeating. But there is no doubt that this can be operated as a long-term problem-solving idea, which is to bankrupt the Spanish colonists on the outskirts of Putrajaya in large numbers through a long period of economic and military means, so that they have to leave this place and move to live elsewhere (preferably to Córdoba and other places in the west), and then the people on the east bank will not face any resistance when it comes to building railways, stations, and redistributing land - what a joke, Those lands were sold by the East Coast Government to return some of the resettlement funds, and if you keep them, aren't you robbing the East Coast Government of the money? That's not going to you!

Therefore, from this point of view, Inigo's matter is actually in line with a certain intention of the superiors, at least they will not vigorously oppose it. Even the regional administration, county and township governments at all levels will give him a certain degree of assistance, after all, this is for their benefit!