To be sure, China's exploration of the Rocky Mountains in the western part of the Americas was a latecomer, and DeCaronado led an expedition north from Mexico to what would become New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, passing through the northeast corner of Colorado on the way back to Mexico. Therefore, the first expeditions to the location of the gold mining area should have been the Spaniards, but unfortunately the Spaniards did not find gold.

In 1682, the French explorers Cavillé and Lasali went on an expedition along the Mississippi River, claiming the vast land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains as French ownership, and named Louisiana after the then French king Louis XIV.

After buying Louisiana from France in 1803, the Americans began a large-scale expedition into the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The Americans insisted that the land that France sold them all the way to the Rocky Mountains. So they kept sending expeditions and heading towards the Rocky Mountains. But the Spaniards never recognized the territory of Louisiana claimed by France, and the Spaniards considered themselves more qualified than France to claim sovereignty here. Therefore, the Spaniards were always unkind to these American expeditions, which led to the seizure of the American Pike expeditions.

The location of the gold mine is located in the many streams near Pike Place Mountain, and there are golden sands in the streams that originate in the north and south of the peaks, and can still be seen more than 100 kilometers to the north, so this is a huge gold mining area. If the Pike expedition had been able to climb over the mountains, or scrutinize the nearby rivers, perhaps they would have found gold easily, but they returned south for the winter and entered Spanish territory, where they were held for half a year.

After the Napoleonic Wars, China seized California from the Spaniards, bounded by the Colorado River, which happened to be the source and watershed of the Colorado River and the Arkansas River.

It was a decade before the Americans made a real large-scale entry into the western region, and by that time the Americans had already carried out many surveys. Although no gold has been found, the headwaters of the Arkansas River all the way to the Rocky Mountains have been figured out. But Americans believe that Colorado is a barren plateau in the Rocky Mountains, completely unsuitable for agriculture and human habitation.

In 1819, the United States negotiated the Adam-Onis Treaty with Spain, which defined the Arkansas River as the boundary between the Louisiana Territory of the United States and the Spanish colony of Mexico. But the U.S. hasn't been developing here, because there's really no value to be developed here. Later, after the outbreak of the crisis of European powers intervening in North America, China had also expanded into the Mississippi River, re-signed treaties with the United States, and most of the Colorado Plateau became Chinese territory.

However, because the Chinese could not find development value, they did not have any interest in this arid area where even mountains and rocks did not grow grass, and it has always been a place for Indians to hunt.

It wasn't until an American expedition found a large amount of gold along the Arkansas River near Pikes Hill that a large number of gold prospectors poured in, followed by the independence of the Republic of Texas.

On the map marked by the Americans, they believe that the stream where the gold mine is located flows into the Colorado River from south to north, so it belongs to the Spanish territory, but after the Chinese sent people to investigate, they suddenly found that it has nothing to do with the Colorado River, although it is near the source of the Colorado River, but it is located in the eastern part of the watershed, and the river here flows from north to east, just across a watershed from the Colorado River.

Geographically, Pikes Hill is indisputably located north of the Arkansas River, and due to agreements with the United States and Spain, west of the Mississippi River and north of the Arkansas River are Chinese territory.

I don't know if the Americans marked the river here as flowing to the Colorado River by mistake or by purpose, but this is undisputed Chinese territory and extremely rich gold reserves, and the crown prince immediately informed the Spanish and American governments that they had declared sovereignty over this place, and both sides were stunned at once.

When the news reached the people, the people of the two countries were immediately angry, regardless of the map evidence presented by China, because of China's strong expansion policy in the Americas, the people of the United States and Spain were paranoid that this was the Chinese forcibly grabbing land and gold.

Therefore, the two countries announced at the same time that they would not accept China's investigation, but that the two countries that were fighting over the independence of Texas began to unite with the outside world at this time.

The wars of each era have certain economic factors, all for the sake of competing for a specific resource, in ancient times, the most was the struggle for arable land, for the control of the river, so it was mainly a matter of territorial contention; In the industrial age, various resources began to cause war; Prussia went to war with Austria, France, and Russia at the same time as the seizure of metal deposits and Silesia, the center of the metallurgical industry; Spain destroyed the Aztec and Inca empires in the Americas for gold and silver; Britain bullied the weak Boer state for the sake of gold and diamonds.

Later, oil led to wars again and again. Before the oil wars, it was clear that the most war-sparks were the scramble for precious metals. And gold, a metal, is clearly worth fighting for it.

As the most populous force in North America, the crown prince has nothing to fear, and he has been very solid in the Americas over the years, and can mobilize a large number of manpower and material resources here to fight a major war.

Thinking that he had absolute reasons, the crown prince directly sent troops to occupy the gold mining area first, so as to avoid a large outflow of gold.

Who would have thought that under the stimulation of gold, the American adventurers who were digging for gold could burst out with so much energy, and they defeated the Spanish army before, not because the Spaniards were so weak, but because they relied on the mountainous terrain, it was really a headache.

They were most familiar with the terrain, and the crown prince had sent an army of 100,000 men, but they were unable to drive them out of the Pikes Hill area with a sneak attack. The transportation and supply of 100,000 people is a difficult task.

The most unfavorable thing was that the United States and Spain secretly reached an agreement, and the United States received the support of Britain, and a tripartite situation between Britain, the United States and the West began to take shape on China and the Americas.

Then the three countries simultaneously presented an ultimatum to the Chinese government, demanding that China give up the invasion of the territory of the United States and Spain and withdraw its troops!

The attitude of the three countries won the sympathy of the whole of Europe, and everyone felt that it must be China that was plotting to seize the territory of the United States and Spain, where the gold mines were located.

The crown prince, believing that he was strong, rejected the three-party ultimatum, and the three parties actually declared war on China on this ground!