Peng Yulin, commander of the Chinese Imperial Expeditionary Force, who occupied the former northern Kyushu of Mexico, announced in Monterrey the establishment of the New Mexico Overseas Autonomous Province of the Chinese Empire, and the original nine states were transformed into nine prefectures, and the provincial capital was Monterrey. Soon, the emperor of the Chinese Empire would issue an edict of appointment.

The province of New Mexico covers an area of exactly 1 million square kilometers and has a population of just over 700,000. It is no wonder that Peng Yulin learned that Mexico is a backward agricultural country by consulting information and inquiring about local surrender officials, originally before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, it had an area of more than 4.1 million square kilometers and a population of more than 7 million, but after the defeat of the United States, it ceded 2.2 million square kilometers of land and the population was sharply reduced to only 3.6 million people. Through the "Four-Power Treaty", Mexico was divided into two major parts of the imperial autonomous province of New Mexico and the Mexican Empire, and the vast majority of the population was mainly concentrated in the plateau around Mexico City and the former southeastern Mexico regions such as Veracruz and Harisk, and the nine states controlled by the Chinese Empire had only 700,000 people, and on average, the population of each state was less than 80,000. Moreover, this is still an old statistic, and if you add in the recent continuous exodus of Mexicans, especially conservatives, from the province of New Mexico to the Mexican Empire, it is likely that the population of this newly incorporated overseas autonomous province of the Chinese Empire will be even more sparse.

Peng Yulin finally understood why Mexico is so vast but still so poor, no one. At the same time, it is also clear why this country was defeated in the Mexican-American War, and it was also defeated in the war with France and the Chinese Empire. According to the Mexican soldiers who surrendered, the original Mexican armed army was just over 50,000, and this included many local garrisons, and this was the combined strength of the conservative and liberal sides. If it weren't for the fact that after several years of war with the United States and the civil war, the command level of the army was higher, and with the current situation of the army at the bottom lacked training, discipline, and equipment, I am afraid that it would have lost quickly.

Faced with the current situation of the vast and sparsely populated New Mexico Autonomous Province, Peng Yulin can only smile bitterly, whether he can keep it when he occupies this territory is a question. Once the United States or Britain really sends troops to fight them head-on, it will be really difficult to resist with the Pacific Fleet and 20,000 land forces led by themselves.

However, this is the emperor's order, and he Peng Yulin will resolutely carry it out. After all, this is the credit of opening up the territory, and for him, it is not inferior to the great achievements of Wei Qinghuo in ancient times. Such a large area of land is almost equivalent to most of the area of the south of the Yangtze River. As the emperor said, when the population of the empire increases, how many people can immigrate here to live and reproduce?

Therefore, Peng Yulin didn't think about it so much, he was busy leading his subordinates to settle the newly occupied land, and the headache was the language problem. These local natives, or semi-natives, are, because 90 percent of these natives are mixed Indians and white Europeans, and there are very few pure foreigners, and if there are, they have fled to the southeast of Mexico. Peng Yulin had no choice but to occupy the cities and towns in the original nine states under his jurisdiction, and as for the vast countryside, he really couldn't take care of it for the time being. But even so, it still encountered resistance from many local forces.

For these people who look a little similar to the Chinese, Peng Yulin still has good intentions, and did not directly order force to suppress them, but while lining up to threaten, he sent guides who understand Spanish to communicate and persuade them to lay down their arms.

While the Imperial Chinese Expeditionary Force was busy pacifying the nine northern states of Mexico in the Treaty, the British Ambassador to the United States, Chad Lyons, rushed to the border town of Matamoros in Tamaulipas and Texas to meet with the U.S. Secretary of State Lewis Cass and the French Foreign Minister Count Alexandre Vaniewski, and the commander of the Chinese Imperial Expeditionary Force, Peng Yulin, who negotiated the current situation on behalf of the four countries.

Chad Lyons expressed strong dissatisfaction and protest against France and the Chinese Empire, and he demanded that the Chinese Imperial Expeditionary Force withdraw from the Americas, return the nine northern states occupied to the native Mexican population, and be governed by their own elected leaders, and at the same time, in order to prevent the situation in Mexico, the British and the United States jointly formed an army to garrison it.

Peng Yulin directly pointed out that the nine states of Mexico were the territories purchased by the Mexican Empire for 30.84 million US dollars, witnessed by France and Spain, and the purchase terms signed by the Emperor of the Mexican Empire were part of the territory of the Chinese Empire. The groundless accusations made by Chad Lyons were extremely rude, and the town of Matamoros was also part of the Chinese Empire, and hostile British people were not welcome to set foot on the territory.

French Foreign Minister Count Alexander Vaniewski also helped, saying that the Four-Power Treaty had long stipulated that Britain and the United States should not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.

After a quarrel, Chad Lyons and U.S. Secretary of State Lewis Cass demanded that the Chinese Empire restrain its troops from crossing the border into U.S. territory and that no additional troops should be stationed in northern Mexico. On the French side, Count Alexander Vanievsky may also be afraid of the expansion of the Chinese Empire's power, and also exerted pressure, and Peng Yulin also verbally agreed when he saw that the other side recognized the Chinese Empire's occupation of northern Mexico.

A month later, the more than 20,000 troops formed by the Mexican Empire, with the cooperation of the French and Spanish expeditionary forces, continued to march south, capturing Honduras, Costa Rica and other places in succession, and directly entering the Panama Canyon, as if preparing to control the strategic Panama Canyon in one fell swoop.

It is clear that this is a calculation on the part of the French side, which wants to occupy the Panama Canyon area. But at this moment in the Panama Canyon area, there is already an American businessman William Henry Aspinwal who founded the Panama Railroad Company and built a railway from the city of Colon to Balboa, near Panama, with a total length of about 76.6 kilometers.

Naturally, the United States immediately began to openly condemn the aggression of France, supporting the Republic of Colombia, all the countries of the Panama Valley, in sending troops to resist.

However, the Pacific Fleet led by Peng Yulin immediately set out from Mazatlan and rushed to the west coast of Panama to land, supported France with practical actions, and announced that the Chinese Imperial Expeditionary Force had come to protect the thousands of Chinese laborers who were building a railway in the Panama Valley.

Seeing the arrival of a large army in the small Panamanian region, the Republic of Colombia, all countries, offered to settle the dispute through negotiations. As a result, France, Spain, the Mexican Empire, the Chinese Empire, and the Republic of Colombia excluded the United States and Great Britain and held negotiations in Panama to declare the independence of the Panama Valley region from the Republic of Colombia and form the Republic of Panama.

France, Spain, and the Chinese Empire signed another four-nation treaty with the Republic of Panama, which provided for the establishment of a Panamanian company by a joint venture between France, Spain and the Chinese Empire, and the right to use the Panama Canal Zone in perpetuity for a one-time payment of $5 million and an annual rent of $100,000 after 10 years, and a one-time payment of $7.5 million to buy out the American businessman William Henry Spinwall to establish the Panama Railroad Company and control all the Panama Railways and canals. In addition to this right, the three countries were given the right to continue to build railways, open mines, trade, and fortify their garrisons.

The establishment of the Panamanian company was completed, and the two main tasks of Peng Yulin's visit to the Americas have been completed. Instead of celebrating with the French and Spaniards, however, he bitterly transported back to New Mexico nearly 2,500 skinny Chinese laborers stranded in Panama.

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