July 3, 1867

In the previous six months, the Hero Company had occupied about five-sixths of the entire territory of Mexico, and the current dividing line between the United Mexican States and the Second Mexican Empire was:

Veracruz – Córdoba – Puebla – Tracósra – Cuernavaca – Iguala – Sivatanejo

The land in the north that is suitable for industrialization, agriculture, and contains a lot of minerals is firmly controlled by the Hero Company.

The United Mexican States can only struggle to engage in guerrilla warfare in the rainforest areas of the south, trying to restore the glory of Mexico from the miasma and the beast.

In terms of population, Mexico had a population of more than 8 million last year, and now only about 1.5 million people remain.

Among them, the United Mexican States has a population of one million, and they are basically Indians.

The Second Mexican Empire had a population of 500,000, and these 500,000 were employees of the Hero Company.

Strictly speaking, the Second Mexican Empire was left without a population.

What happened to the seven million native Mexicans who lived in northern Mexico before that?

They have dreamed of serving God since they were young, and Hero Company is just helping them fulfill their dreams.

Today is the day of peace talks between the Second Mexican Empire and the United Mexican States and other forces.

The venue for the peace talks was San Luis Potosí, once one of Mexico's largest cities, north of Mexico City.

It is also the hinterland of the area currently occupied by Tom's Knights, the Second Mexican Empire.

At the peace talks, there were seven delegates sitting around the table, representing the seven major forces.

They are:

Representative of the Second Mexican Empire - Tom Smith.

Representative of the Second French Empire - Minister René.

Representative of Austria-Hungary.

Representative of the Spanish colonial empire.

For the representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

For the representative of the Kingdom of Belgium.

Representative of the United Mexican States — President Benito.

Of the seven delegates, in addition to two "Native Americans", the remaining five European nobles began to discuss the conflict of interests.

After chatting "peacefully and amicably" for more than half an hour, a consensus was finally reached on the Mexican issue.

"The Habsburgs wanted to continue Massimiliano I's rule over Mexico, and the Habsburgs would find a suitable nobleman to continue the rule."

"It's the same with Belgium."

The ruling families of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Belgium were direct relatives of Massimiliano I, and they were more concerned about whether the new ruler was a member of their own line.

"The meaning of our big union is very simple, we only want the new Mexican government to pay the debt on time, and we don't care who will pay the debt."

"It's the same in Spain as it is in the United Kingdom."

"The Second French Empire is also more concerned about whether the new government in Mexico can pay back the money on time."

The appeal of these three old colonial empires is simple, only money.

Now these three empires are now because of too many colonies around the world, often fighting for independence or something, and they really don't have the leisure national strength to compete with a few other big forces for Mexico.

"We in Mexico will not give in to your aggressors!"

President Benito stood up and sternly rejected the aggressors who wanted to carve up their homeland.

It's just that these five representatives of the "aggressor" did not look at the "president" of the Mexican orthodox government at all, and all looked at the current representative of the Second Mexican Empire - Knight Tom Smith.

What about Tom?

"Huh~Huh~Huh~"

Tom was snoring now, and he was so tired from the hard work of the past few days, even more tired than he had worked three hours a day.

John, who was standing behind Tom, gently patted Tom, who was already asleep, and Tom slowly opened his eyes, looking at the five European representatives with sleepy eyes.

"Ah~"

Tom stretched out and began to negotiate with the five delegates in a bit of a daze.

"The Habsburgs must still want a monarch back to Mexico, right?"

"Hmm."

"The other important points are asking for money, and I'm right."

"Hmm."

Several delegates were a little surprised, wondering if Tom was pretending to be asleep.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, I've agreed."

"No! The Mexican people will not ......"

"Why are you sitting here, John, get him out of here, and tell him to come in and sign when the time comes."

"I'm the ...... of the United Mexican States"

"Your Excellency, huh? You're a fart, and if you talk nonsense, I'll make the Indians of Mexico, and even Central America, a thing of the past. ”

"You!"

"What are you, you can't beat and beat, it's good enough to leave you a dog's life, don't get out yet!"

President Benito's eyes turned blue by Tom's unadorned humiliation, and a mouthful of blood surged into his throat, and he was directly stunned by anger.

Where does a weak country come from diplomacy?

The weaker country of the victorious side sometimes becomes the "bargaining goods" of the powerful at the negotiating table.

Not to mention the defeated weak country.

Didn't you see that the representatives of the Kingdom of Belgium have always been "on the side" with the Habsburg "Austro-Hungarian brother"?

After carrying President Benito away, Tom continued to discuss with the five delegates how to "carve up" Mexico, as if there was no such thing at all.

"Let's go ahead with the six of us."

"One by one, let's talk about the monarch."

"Monarchs of Europe, I have no objection."

"The question is what kind of monarch this monarch is, and how he is going to rule Mexico."

"What kind of monarchy is Mexico?"

"British?"

"Or Prussian?"

"Or is it the best of the two of the French Empire?"

The four types of monarchies mentioned by Tom are constitutional monarchies, and the monarchy is completely unified but not governed by the British constitutional monarchy.

Prussia's constitutional monarchy was a dual monarchy, with great power in both the monarch and the parliament.

The two monarchies of the French Empire were those of Napoleon III and Napoleon I.

Napoleon III was the monarchy of parliament with a little power.

And Napoleon I was a complete dictatorship.

Needless to say, the Habsburgs certainly wanted the outright dictatorship of Napoleon I.

But this is not realistic, the Habsburg-ruled Austro-Hungarian Empire now has no favorable access to the sea for expeditions to the Americas.

If it really tore with Tom Smith, the de facto controller of Mexico, Austria-Hungary could only stare dryly.

"Austria-Hungary thought that the Prussian system was the most suitable for the present situation in Mexico."

"It's the same with Belgium."

After carefully weighing the pros and cons, Habsburg decided to propose the Prussian monarchy as the founding of Mexico.

Tom was a little unhappy, thinking that these Europeans are really greedy, I told you that these are just polite and polite, and now that I am the actual controller of Mexico, you can't honestly make a big Britain set and send me a "vase", I will serve it well and be done.

"The Prussian set doesn't work."

"Since it's all from your Habsburgs, let's go directly to Austria-Hungary."

"What do you say?"

Can the Austro-Hungarian set still be carried out in Central America? What does that mean.