On January 23, 1689, on a sunny day, on the outskirts of Hexi Township, a large contingent was walking on the uninhabited grassland.

It won't be long before dawn, and the air will be fresh and humid. The early birds sing beautiful songs, the squirrels sniff around in the posture of the little fluffy nobles, and the woodpeckers keep making tuk tuk sounds, like a series of greetings.

There wasn't a single cloud in the sky, which seemed to signal that it was another unusual, hot day on the Chaco Plains. Wang Dazhuang rode on his horse, planning to take advantage of the cool weather in the early morning to walk more, so as to save everyone from suffering in a hot day.

Wang Dazhuang and his team brought enough tea, cigarettes, alcohol and other supplies so that they could have some pastimes during the next month-long journey. The road is newly built, not long, from the township government to a pioneer village, a total of less than 10 kilometers, all paved with cinders. On both sides of the road there was a long wooden fence, and on the other side of the wooden fence were some big-eyed bison, who had just been captured not long ago, wild and untamed, and always had mixed feelings when they saw humans.

Maybe that's hatred? Wang Dazhuang is not very sure.

On top of the wooden fence stood some crows, which were not afraid of people, and could even be said to be a little "vicious". Because every time Wang Dazhuang heard their "quacking" noise, he always felt that they were laughing at himself for being a fool, especially after he accidentally rode into a swamp.

Caring for the bison were some prisoners of war from Russia. Their mood seems to be okay, better than expected, maybe it's because they are satisfied with the real standard of living on the East Coast? Several clergymen in navy blue robes walked by the side of the road with a warm face, they greeted Wang Dazhuang and the others, and then went straight behind the wooden fence. Getting the pagans to have the right faith is one of their most passionate jobs, and there is no one.

After walking through the cattle pen area, some green farmland gradually appeared on both sides of the road. The beans in the field look to be growing well, and some farmers with straw hats are busy in the fields. Some of them even came to the fields to hoe grass at five o'clock in the morning, for the same reason as Wang Dazhuang, to do more work in the cool morning and hide in their homes to rest at noon. They generally have some side jobs, producing some handicrafts, which are not suitable for large-scale production by machines, and sell them in the village market to increase their income level.

On the other side of the field was a cleared wasteland. The trees above had been cut down, the weeds and shrubs had been burned, and now there were many stacks of processed wood, building materials such as yellow sand and stones, and some dry branches. Wang Dazhuang knew that it was the material needed by the construction team that came to repair the irrigation canal. Floods along the Paraguay River will also affect the lower reaches of the Paraguay River, so good flood control facilities are indispensable. You know, your central government brought so many pioneers from the interior not to see how they struggled in the floods, but to let them settle down and live locally.

"Gentle, serene and vibrant, it's like a misplaced Chinese village. Oh well, maybe it's an improved version of the Chinese countryside without personal attachment and land exploitation, which I like. Wang Dazhuang looked at the scenery near and far, and naturally said to himself: "There is a good climate here, excellent farmland, and hard-working people. Well, these two years have also seen the development of some cottage industries, and the people's lives have improved significantly, and the poverty that surrounded the countryside in the previous two years has subsided much better. As their parents, I am very pleased. ”

"But-" Without waiting for the people who followed him to come over and pat him, Wang Dazhuang changed his words again and said: "But after working for a few years, I think we still have a wall here, a transparent and heavy wall. I think you are more or less aware that over the past few decades, a large number of immigrants from the Ming, Shun, Qing and other countries from the East have poured into China, and the number of them and their descendants has accumulated to the present, which is already a very terrible number, the total number must be as many as millions, accounting for more than two-thirds of the total population of our country. By contrast, the number of immigrants from Europe is much smaller and they are discriminated against. Once upon a time, the glorious and great founders set the right path of intermarriage and national integration, but now that nearly 60 years have passed since the founding of the country, this policy has existed in name only. Look at it, even in such a new place as Hexi Township, the black-haired and black-eyed people occupy the best farmland, run the best mines, and run the most profitable workshops, and they basically all have surnames from the East, and some even have prominent surnames such as Mo, Shao, Xiao, Liu, Ma, and Li. ”

To be honest, Wang Dazhuang, like most members of his family, is an old leftist on the East Coast who upholds universal values. They are very concerned about the living conditions of European immigrants and the precarious situation of the Native American people, and have been writing articles in various media criticizing certain policies of the East Coast government. When the policy of mixed-race ceiling was broken and the three generations began to prevail, the diversified nature of the East Coast, a country of immigrants, has been slowly weakening, which has made the leftists led by Wang and Montessori very dissatisfied, believing that this has limited the attraction of foreign capital and talents on the East Coast, reduced the firepower of cultural self-renewal, and seriously affected future development.

"If you look at the Hexi region, there are Chinese, Russians, Italians, native-born East Coasters, and even a handful of Ottoman Turks. Among these people, only the East Coast and Chinese can really be superior, and the Russians, Italians and Turks can only work as hired hands and low-level farmers, which is obviously a form of discrimination. It is even ridiculous that some of the Quechua Indians who have come to us on their own initiative should be regarded as a 'harmful race' and accused of all sorts of vices and indulgences, as well as being physically weak and mentally retarded, and having to be sent to the African colonies. Wang Dazhuang continued.

As he spoke, the horses crossed a wooden bridge, at the head of which two Italians, who were about to cross the bridge, hurriedly stepped aside and took off their hats in a trembling salute. Wang Dazhuang saw that they were actually not very old, probably in their early thirties, but their faces were full of furrows, and their skin was darkened by the scorching sun and sand, and it seemed that their usual life was very hard.

Wang Dazhuang sighed, and suddenly lost the interest in continuing to speak. He was disgusted with the current bad atmosphere on the east bank in terms of ethnicity and race, but ironically, this time he also went to Salta and Tucumán on the west side of the Chaco Plain, and asked the Spanish colonial government to restrain some of the cavalry units deployed on the Chaco Plain, so that the pioneers, hunters, and other bandits who crossed the border on the east bank could more easily slaughter and capture the Indians. Perhaps knowing that this is a bit disgraceful, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not plan to send official diplomats to the west at all, but let local officials like Wang Dazhuang, who have not yet been established in theory—the Hexi region is still Spanish territory, and although the government on the east bank has also sent a management agency, in theory, these people have not yet been regularized, and they are all unstaffed—it is also a must to go to work for them.

Of course, this behavior seems a bit self-defeating. Nowadays, the number of people from the East Coast who have flocked to the Chaco Plain of all kinds has been extremely large, and even in Qingdao Port, the most prosperous city on the East Coast, a kind of bond with a coupon rate of 4.5% is being issued on the market to raise the expenses required by the East Coast government for various colonial activities on the Chaco Plain, including some shady funds allocated to the intelligence agencies, which is indeed quite shameless to say.

Wang Dazhuang has seen too many unorganized and undisciplined adventurers from the mainland in Hexi Township, and considers these people to be "bandits with extremely poor military discipline" and "genocidal mercenaries". These people engage in all kinds of sinister activities on the Chaco Plains, rob all kinds of prey, encircle all kinds of resources, and when they make money, they spend all kinds of mobile caravans, spend all their days drinking, looking for fun, and live like rotten dolls.

But the damage they have done is enormous! The traditional hunting grounds of the Quechua Indians were seized by a large number of 1,000 East Coast hunters, and the bison herds, which were an important source of food for them, were discovered and captured by East Coast adventurers, and there were also some ruthless and warlike East Coast bandits (many of whom were intelligence officers) who were interested in capturing the Quechua themselves. All of this has undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to the Quechua people, who have lived here for generations, with insufficient food sources, fewer children born, malnutrition and a serious crisis for the entire community.

Worse still, the Spanish colonial government, which nominally ruled them, did nothing about it, and sat back and watched the people of the East Coast stir up trouble in the land, as if none of this had anything to do with them. Of course, not all Spanish colonists were like this, and there were some priests or soldiers who tried to intervene and stop all this, but their power was too small, and it seemed that they would soon be gone—no, Wang Dazhuang adhered to the will of his superiors and went to Salta, Tucumán and other places to "protest", protesting that some Spanish soldiers had harmed the interests of merchants and people on the east coast, and asked them to correct all this immediately.

For all this, Wang Dazhuang could only sigh. He is a native of the East Coast, so he naturally thinks about and fights for the interests of the East Coast Republic, but he also does not want to see the current phenomenon of demons and serious genocide on the Chaco Plains. However, he also knew that he was powerless to change all this, he only hoped that as many Quechua Indians would survive, even if all of them were eventually forcibly relocated to Africa, Australia and other places by the East Coast government, it would be better than death. At the same time, he hopes that the East Coast government can be more civilized in the future and stop killing people at every turn, because it is not humane at all. The strength of humanitarianism is undoubtedly an important indicator of social progress.

Wang Dazhuang's group traveled all the way west, and there was almost no obstacle on the way, but when they approached the city of Salta a hundred kilometers, they were intercepted and interrogated by a Spanish cavalry. After learning that they were the messengers, the Spanish cavalry did not bother any more and happily let them go. Although the Indian or mixed-race Indian soldiers in the ranks were not very interested in the Easterners, the aristocratic officers from the Iberian Peninsula were well aware of the Easterners' energy, so they strictly restrained the ranks and sent several cavalrymen familiar with geography to lure them to Salta.

Salta was the center of Spanish domination in the western part of the Chaco Plain. Strictly speaking, this is no longer the jurisdiction of the Buenos Aires Prosecutor's Court, but is under the jurisdiction of the Charcas Prosecutor's Court, but because of the high mountain barrier, it is basically autonomous at present, and only one mule and horse team climbs the mountains a month to and from Upper Peru and Chaco, and the ruling foundation is not very deep.

Therefore, when Wang Dazhuang and the others came to the city, they finally saw a certain general under the jurisdiction of the Chalkas Prosecutorial Court District. But it doesn't matter, Wang's task is to send a letter and negotiate briefly, it doesn't matter if you don't see the big guy, just bring it anyway. This general named Vicente does not seem to be a fellow with patriotic enthusiasm, but a standard politician-type soldier, and he is older, has passed the stage of blood, and now he is bent on making money, and what he is most afraid of is the instability of the jurisdiction, which will lead to the accountability of his superiors, and eventually lose his current position.

Therefore, the result was basically predictable, and General Vicente immediately instigated after receiving the protest from the East Bank, saying that he would strictly restrain his subordinates and strictly prohibit any Spanish soldier from doing anything harmful to the interests of the merchants and people on the East Bank. Such a statement basically declared that the people on the east coast could carry out all kinds of activities on the Chaco Plain at will, while the Spaniards could only watch, which made Wang Dazhuang and his party breathe a sigh of relief, and the goal had been achieved.

General Vicente was of course well aware of the covetousness of the people on the east coast of the Chaco Plain, and also understood that the existence of the Chaco Plain was related to the smooth backup routes for their country's transportation of gold and silver in the Americas. But so what? As a veteran of the colonies for half his life, Vicente knew better the strength of the East Coast army, and knew that once they made up their minds, the Peruvian governor could not do anything. Therefore, it is ineffective and unwise to use a hard-line attitude to exacerbate contradictions at this time.

If the people on the east coast want land, let them ask for it, at least they are still civilized and will give money, which is good for everyone. It is said that the royal family of Madrid has worked hard in recent years, wanting to imitate and learn from various systems on the east coast, sweep away the decline of decades, and make Spain great again. But to be honest, this kind of so-called reform also requires the full support and cooperation of the East Coast government, especially the introduction of industrial technology and the establishment of systems, all of which hide countless big holes, and it is unimaginable without the help of the people on the East Coast.

And in order to reward the people of the east coast for their help, the cession of some land seems to be inevitable. General Vicente thought he had a deep understanding of this.

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