Chapter 421: The Beacon Smoke of the Subcontinent
The action of the Golden Lake once again alarmed the whole world, and the citizens of the Chinese Empire had not yet recovered from the joy of the earth-shattering treasures of ancient Egypt, and the discovery of the Golden City of the Inca Empire, another ancient civilization, once again hit people's nerve endings.
The excitement of the Chinese is inevitable, but on the contrary, the Spaniards and Europeans, who have been looking for more than 100 years, are jealous and bang their heads against the wall.
As the sacrificial site of the Inca Empire, the gold lake has accumulated thousands of years of gold ornaments, some of which are even deposited in the silt at the bottom of the lake more than 100 meters deep, and the excavation work has only opened the tip of the iceberg of the golden lake, but unearthed gold ornaments worth tens of millions of silver dollars, and there are incalculable gold bricks and silver tiles dedicated to the Golden City.
Due to the abundance of gold and silver in the Peruvian region, the silver reserves are the largest in the world. According to the conservative estimate of the Peruvian colonial viceroyalty of the Chinese Empire, excluding the archaeological value of cultural relics, the gold and silver products unearthed in the Golden Lake will add 500 million silver dollars to the direct wealth of the imperial government. This huge wealth was suddenly caught in the eyes of countries all over the world.
The first thing that could not sit still was the Spanish colonial government of Granada, which was supposed to be under the jurisdiction of the Spanish colony of Granada, and Portuguese Brazil was also close to the Golden Lake area. Since there was no strict border division, when Spain handed over Peru to the Chinese Empire, it only roughly determined the colonial boundaries according to the location around the city, and there was no clear boundary line.
As the Chinese Empire unearthed a large number of gold and silver treasures from the Golden Lake, in the face of astronomical treasures, the colonial governors of South America, such as Spanish Granada, Spanish Venezuela, Spanish Argentina, and Portuguese Brazil, focused on Columbia City, the capital of Spanish Granada, to discuss the ownership of Golden Lake.
Both the Spanish and Portuguese governments wanted a piece of the Golden Lake, claiming that the location of the Golden Lake should belong to the three colonies of Central Peru, Spanish Granada, and Portuguese Brazil, and that some of the treasure wealth should be distributed to the Spanish and Portuguese governments.
The two sides even submitted an official letter to the Imperial Chinese Consulate in Columbia City, asking for a share of the wealth of the Golden Lake. However, the Chinese Imperial Government turned a blind eye to the complaints of Spain and Portugal, and how could such a huge wealth be shared with them.
No matter how noisy the consulate officials of the three countries were, the Chinese Empire was determined to take possession of the Golden Lake, and stationed troops around the lake to prevent Spanish and Portuguese officials and civilians from entering.
It can be clearly seen from the administrative division map of the Spanish and Peruvian colonies that year, that the Golden Lake does not belong to the Peruvian colony on the map, but to the Spanish Granada colony. The Spanish Viceroyalty of South America divided Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the northwestern territories of Argentina into the colony of Greater Peru. After the defeat of Spain, only the colonies of Greater Peru and Mexico were ceded to the imperial government of China in the treaty.
However, at that time, the communication conditions were extremely poor, and when the Chinese Empire negotiated with the Spanish Empire, the South American troops of the Chinese Empire were waging war against Spanish Granada, and at that time, the area around the Golden Lake was occupied by the Chinese Imperial Army.
After the armistice, because the area was inaccessible and only infested with Indians, the Spanish army withdrew far away to avoid friction with the Chinese Imperial Army, leading to the de facto occupation and domination of the area around the Golden Lake by the Chinese Empire.
Now that this kind of dispute has arisen, both sides are arguing on the basis of reason, and the dispute is inevitable.
In Columbia City, the Spanish Viceroyalty of Granada, the envoys of the Spanish colonies from Central and South America, as well as the Portuguese and Brazilian colonies, gathered to discuss the issue of joint pressure on the Chinese Empire.
However, at this time, the Spanish and Portuguese governments had basically no diplomatic influence on the Chinese Imperial Government, so the Spanish government deliberately expanded the issue, citing Britain, France, the Netherlands and other countries as mediators, and threatening the Second European Crusade as a condition.
European countries are currently waging large-scale military campaigns against the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and have already achieved considerable success, recovering much of the territory of southern and western Europe. Although they were in the name of religious wars, territorial expansion was their real goal.
The Holy See was facing Spain, with whom France had reached an armistice for territorial interests, so it proposed reconciliation to the Chinese Empire as an ally.
Although the Chinese Empire secretly ceased war with the Ottoman Empire, it did not want a truce between Europe and the Turkish Empire, and even less did it want to see the Turkish Empire recovering Egypt after taking a breather. Therefore, the government of the Chinese Empire had no choice but to use its best tactic, the trick of using the pretext, to drag on the negotiations with Spain indefinitely until the Chinese Empire had taken out all the treasures of the Golden Lake.
Spain and Portugal had no choice but to see that the Chinese Empire was so scoundrel, and France and Russia, as the coordinating powers, had done their best. Although the Spanish Empire said that it was an Eastern Crusade, it could not stop the Eastern Crusade lightly, because Spain also needed to expand in southern and western Europe.
The Chinese Empire played tricks on the Golden Lake issue, and the Spanish government did not get a positive reply, so it had to work with Portugal and other countries to secretly manipulate near the Golden Lake. Since the Golden Lake was nominally a Spanish colony, expeditions from the British, French, and Dutch countries obtained permission to enter the country from the Spanish Granada, and entered the area near the Golden Lake from the Granada border.
As a result, the area around the Golden Lake was complicated, and the sudden intrusion of expeditions from various countries forced the Peruvian Colonial Governor's Office of the Chinese Empire to mobilize a large number of troops to enter the Golden Lake area. At the same time, Spain and Portugal quietly entered with large numbers of troops from various colonies in South America. Under the mixture of dragons and snakes, the friction continues to heat up, and the entire Golden Lake area has become a huge explosive bag in South America. The expeditions of Britain, France, the Netherlands and other countries wished that the Chinese Empire would go to war with Spain again and cause chaos in the Golden Lake area, and then they would take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
As a result, the entire Golden Lake region became complicated, and as various countries secretly instigated and blamed the trouble, the friction between the Chinese Imperial Army and the Spanish Army continued to heat up, and a conflict could break out at any time.
No matter when the time bomb in South America exploded, the Chinese Empire was only concerned with pursuing an independent strategic policy and would use force at any time if necessary.
In the Indian subcontinent, wars in Rajput and Gujarat escalated as Tata territorial disputes escalated, embroiling several nearby Indian feudal lords.
A large-scale military conflict broke out between Gujarat, which was supported by Persia and Afghanistan, and Rajput, which was supported by the Yugoslav bloc led by the Chinese Empire.
The Chinese Empire hoped to expand the war and involve Persia and Afghanistan in order to implement the strategic objectives of the Chinese Empire's advance into the Persian Gulf. As a result, with the covert support of the Chinese Empire, several major feudal lords of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia sent troops to help Rajput fight, and as a result, they defeated Gujarat in the Battle of July and occupied a large territory.
Seeing that their interests had been harmed, the Persian kingdom and the Afghan feudal lords sent troops to support Gujarat in mid-September and launched a counterattack in October. Since Rajput was not prepared for war with the Persian kingdom and the Afghan feudal lords, Rajput suffered a series of defeats in the October counterattack, and it was not until the arrival of reinforcements from the Orissa feudal lords that they withstood the Persian army. V