Section 594 Inca Kingdom
"This is the latest trend in China that you want."
On Bismarck's desk, a concise report of the foreign affairs department was placed next to breakfast, and Bismarck did not even intend to read today's morning paper, but also to pay attention to China's movements, China's movements in the Americas.
This is the practice of his practice in the past 10 days or so, and the German army has already been dispatched, and 30,000 vanguard troops have been dispatched, and the bankers have taken the lead in uniting with more than a dozen small and medium-sized shipping companies in Hamburg, Lübeck, Bremen, and other places, and the German American Shipping Company has been established to contract this transportation business.
Germany has a good port, but the shipping industry has been declining in recent years, and has never returned to the status of the Hanseatic League. There are 147 registrar ships in Germany, which is not as large as the number of ships of the first three British shipping companies, nor the huge fleet of China's four overseas companies.
In the economic crisis, shipping companies have been hit hard, and many have become insolvent and have been swayed by banks. It happened that the German prince's entry into Mexico gave them a good opportunity, and under the leadership of the bankers, more than a dozen shipping companies joined forces to establish the German-American steamship company, specializing in shipping business from Germany to the Americas. After uniting, their power is also great, their assets include 30 thousand-ton ocean-going merchant ships, and they began to place orders to build more large-tonnage merchant ships, and ambitiously entered the world shipping market.
Their first big business was to transport the German army.
However, at present, they have not yet reached their destination and have not yet started to act, but China, which Bismarck cared about, has already begun to act.
The Chinese emperor canonized Zhu Yong, who had the background of the American Company, as the king of the Incas, and claimed to rule the territory of the old Inca Empire, and within ten days, they landed in Peru, and 10,000 troops escorted Zhu Yong into Lima without any hindrance. Peru's past army was the Mexican army created by Carlos, and after Juárez seized power in Mexico, he withdrew this army, and Peru fell into a brief vacuum, and a scuffle broke out between various forces. Chinese, Chinese-Indian mixed-race, and Sinicized Indians united to form the Self-Defense Army, and native whites and Indo-European people formed the Free Army.
As a result of the civil war, the Chinese forces with stronger capital strength defeated the native white forces, after all, the number of native whites in Peru is too small, less than ten percent, less than twenty percent of mixed Indo-European race, although there are not many Chinese immigrants, even less than native whites, and the mixed Chinese and Indian are not as many as the Mestizos of mixed Indo-European descent, but they have won the support of the Indians, the number of Indians is as high as half, the largest number of all ethnic groups. Moreover, this is not a national civil war, both sides of the army, a large number of Indians are recruited to fight, in fact, the main competition is financial resources, and in this regard, after the loss of privileges, the native white and Indo-European mixed blood, completely incomparable with the Chinese power that has increasingly dominated the economic field in recent years.
After the native-born white forces were weakened in the civil war, the power was in the hands of the Chinese, but they did not establish a state, and for more than half a year, Peru was under martial law, until Zhu Yong entered Peru under the escort of 10,000 mercenaries.
The mercenaries in his hand, all Peruvians, were transformed into soldiers of the Inca kingdom and were immediately named the Inca Kingdom soldiers. The local 30,000 Chinese and Indian self-defense troops were organized as auxiliaries.
Then the actions of the Chinese came with new news every day. Through the influence of the American Company, Zhu Yong quickly established relations with the Chilean government, conducted simple negotiations, and signed an agreement. Chile was nominally under the Mexican Carlos regime, and after Juárez seized power in Mexico, Chile's ownership was problematic, but unlike Peru, Chile has always been nominally subordinate to the Mexican regime, they have established their own political system, with a parliament, a police, and an army, and Mexico's rule over them is limited to sending a nominal governor.
Zhu Yong does not intend to change this status quo, he is willing to continue to recognize Chile's autonomy, and is willing to write it into the constitution, Chile will continue to remain in the Inca Kingdom as an autonomous province, the royal government will not interfere in Chile's internal affairs, but will provide Chile with protection from being invaded by foreign powers, Chile's obligation is to hand over a certain percentage of fiscal revenue to the kingdom according to population and finance, and this proportion will be adjusted every three years. It is conceivable that the two sides have already resolved the problem in private, and the negotiation and signing of the agreement is just a process.
The next big move for the Inca Kingdom was to enter Ecuador, which was facing the Pacific Ocean, but Carlos had previously lost the competition with the Spanish Kingdom. Ecuador was historically under the Spanish colony of New Granada and was administered by the colonial government of Bogotá in Colombia. As a result, the locals were more supportive of the Spanish colonial government that controlled Colombia.
This time, the Inca Kingdom sent troops into Ecuador on the grounds that it was historically the territory of the Inca Empire, and naturally there was a war with the local Spanish colonial army.
How could the rotten Spanish government be a rival to the rapidly rising Chinese power, which was quickly driven out of Ecuador by the Spanish colonial army. But after the capture of Ecuador, the Inca army did not stop, continued to advance, and invaded Colombia, quickly sweeping Colombian cities on the Pacific side along the narrow coastal plains west of the Cordillera.
Britain was extremely unhappy with this situation, and while fully supporting the Spanish government in resisting the Chinese invasion, it protested to China.
The Kingdom of Spain also seemed powerless to deal with this situation, and was no longer willing to continue to consume in the Americas, and Germany received information that Spain was secretly negotiating with China.
Bismarck wanted this outcome of the negotiations.
And today's report is out, the Chinese can accept peace, but demand that the border between the Inca Kingdom and the Spanish colony be divided by the Cordillera Mountains, and the Eastern Cordillera Mountains, which are the most favorable to China, which means that the eastern part of the Colombian colony should be divided into the Inca Kingdom, and this eastern region is across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Seeing this news, Bismarck's heart that had been hanging finally let go, the Chinese power is determined to enter the Atlantic, which means that the British people's eyes will always be attracted to China, the rule of the German prince in Mexico, and the expansion of German influence in Mexico, in the documents and archives of the British Foreign Office, will be placed in such an important place.
The only thing to consider is the attitude of the United States.
Unlike ordinary Europeans, Bismarck did not underestimate the United States, and the United States was blessed with unique conditions in terms of territory, geographical environment, natural resources, and conditions; Bismarck believed that there was no country in Europe that could compare with the United States in terms of conditions, except for France and Germany, but the combined territory of France and Germany was not as large as the current United States.
The United States is geographically divided into two parts, the coastal area east of the Alabachian Mountains, the Great Plains area between the mountains and the Mississippi River to the west, the conditions of the Great Plains can be compared with the Bode Plains, but the area is larger, the coastal area is needless to say, the transportation is convenient, that is, the Alabachian Mountains, which are the most economically unfavorable, are simply a coal mountain, and the coal fields run through 9 states from north to south along the Appalachian Mountains, and there are other rich mineral deposits. Before the development of minerals, the water power of the mountain region was the earliest driving force for the industrialization of New England in the United States, and even in the age of railroads and steam, the mountain itself was not imposing, and there were many access roads in and out of the west, which did not impede transportation.
Such a country, of course, should not be underestimated, attracting millions of European immigrants every year, and today the total population is no less than that of large European countries, with a population of nearly 40 million, which is about the same as the population of Germany, but the per capita income is more than three times that of Germany. It is truly the richest country in the world.
Such a country, just because it is too far away from Europe, has no influence in Europe, and its colonial background has always been looked down upon by some prejudiced people, who think that this is an insignificant country, but Bismarck thinks that the potential of this country is very terrible.
Today's Chinese expansion into the Caribbean on the Atlantic side is also a huge threat to the United States, which can also somewhat share some Americans' wariness of Germany.
Bismarck saw this as a good opportunity for Germany to play the role of a mediator in the Americas, and he did not want to be a pawn of Britain, if he united Britain and the United States against China, it would allow Britain and the United States to be friendly to Germany under China's current aggressive expansion momentum, but then they would be involved in the whirlpool of great power competition for hegemony, far from being advantageous as a mediator.
This good news made Bismarck have a great appetite, and he ate two more slices of bread for breakfast.
But he still has to wait for concrete actions from Britain and the United States before he can take measures, and he intends to intervene in the mediation of the confrontation between Britain and the United States and Chinese forces on the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
Once the mediation is successful, it will be tantamount to setting the tone for Germany's future role in the Americas, and Germany will not only be a big country with considerable interests in the Americas, but will also play the role of an intermediary, and no one will be able to do without it, not everyone will be excluded.
But alas, Bismarck's breakfast could not be eaten the next day, because the United States intervened in the negotiations between Spain and China.
Although the Inca Kingdom was an autonomous kingdom, according to the system of suzerain-vassal relations formulated by the Chinese Imperial Court, this kind of state that received the legal rights of China as a canonization, internal autonomy, and foreign affairs were all represented by China. This is true in North Korea, Vietnam, and Siam.
The only exception was the Kingdom of the Urals, which was given complete independence because it was co-ruled with the Russian Tsaress.
Bismarck got the news that China gave the United States a big face and made significant concessions on the territorial issue.