Argentina also has the problem of uncertainty about its southern border, which was originally considered a good thing in the eyes of white Argentines and could continue to encroach on Mapuche territory in the south.

As a weakling, no one will stand up for justice for the Mapuche people.

This logic used to work, but now it doesn't.

Chile is a stark example;

Originally, in 1825, Chile and the Mapuche tribal alliance agreed to use the Biobío River as the boundary, but Chile did not abide by this verbal agreement in the following 10 years, and continued to invade hundreds of kilometers south, including Lautaro, Panguipui, Osorno and other areas into Chilean territory.

There are no contracts or certificates, and if you occupy it, you will occupy it.

Now that the Tang Empire has come, it has swallowed the Torch City (Osorno), Panjipuyi and other vast areas in one go, almost swallowing most of the fruits of Chile's 10 years of colonization, leaving only the Lautaro region.

Other words;

Chile's southernmost territory could only reach the Biobío region, and the Araucaccia region belonged to the Tang Empire, and the loss was not small.

Historically, Chile has a slender territory of 5,600 kilometers along the Pacific coast, but now only 2,351 kilometers are left, and the 3,250-kilometer-long Andean region on the Pacific coast to the south of the Biobío region belonged to the Tang Empire, including the southernmost island of Tierra del Fuego.

In this way, Argentina is embarrassed.

Sure enough, it didn't take long

From the end of May 1863, expeditionary forces and armed militias from the Tang Empire appeared in Neuquén Province and engaged in armed clashes with sporadic white Argentines in the region, killing and wounding 10 white Argentines.

The Tang Empire's arrogant and domineering behavior prompted the Argentine government to urgently dispatch a government delegation to Chang'an in early June to try to find a mutually acceptable plan for the division of the territory.

At this point, the drawbacks of Argentina's lack of a government agreement or written agreement with the Mapuche tribes were revealed;

They were unable to prove that the Mapuche lands occupied by white Argentines were reasonable and legitimate.

While the Argentines and Chileans were anxious about this, the Tang Empire Expeditionary Force (consisting of the 1st Royal Marine Division and the 204th Division of the Army, the former landed on the Pacific coast to establish a stronghold, the latter landed on the Atlantic coast to establish a stronghold) and more than 33,000 volunteers poured into this fertile land full of hope, massacring local indigenous Indian tribes and establishing their own vast pastures.

In the meantime

The influx of armed militias of Chinese descent from the north into the Neuquén and Negro regions, as far north as the La Pampa region, often engaged in armed clashes with local white Argentines and exacerbated the instability in the region.

Far north, Paraguayan President Andrés López López expressed a warm welcome to the Tang Empire's brazen meddling in the situation in South America, he said;

"With sincere respect, all the Paraguayan people welcome the Tang Empire's intervention in South American affairs, which will redefine order in the chaotic South America, and Paraguay is optimistic about its success and is willing to strengthen close ties with the Tang Empire."

Paraguay does not have a backache when it speaks purely by standing, because to the north of the Andean region occupied by the Tang Empire is the territory of Chile and Argentina, and it does not border Paraguay.

Only by completely destroying these two countries can the Tang Kingdom border Paraguay, which is actually impossible.

However, Paraguay's statement has undoubtedly added another fire to the chaotic situation in South America.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the independence movements that emerged in Latin America in 1810 forced Spain to abandon its colonial rule over most Latin American countries. Paraguay, a Spanish colony, also declared its independence in June 1811.

But the Spaniards left behind the tail of numerous territorial disputes, and as the central governments of Brazil and Argentina gradually consolidated, they also began to look to neighboring Paraguay and Uruguay.

Paraguay's new president, Francisco López, is a thorn in their side, a thorn in the flesh, eager to eliminate it as soon as possible.

Both the Brazilian royal family and the Argentine president demonized López, saying he had territorial ambitions and coveted Uruguay, northern Argentina and southwestern Brazil.

substantively

Both Brazil and Argentina have ambitions for the region along the Paraguay River where Paraguay's yerba mate is abundant, a major export to Europe that generates huge profits each year.

The deep contradictions between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay stem from Uruguay's question.

As a landlocked country, Uruguay is Paraguay's only gateway to the Atlantic Ocean and a de-escalator in the territorial dispute between Brazil and Argentina.

During the Argentine Civil War in 1861, the Uruguayan Red Party supported President Bartolomé Mitre of the Liberal Party, which was the ruling party in Argentina.

So, Argentina supported the rebellious Uruguayan Red Party.

Brazil also supported the Red Party rebellion because of the policy of restrictions imposed by the Uruguayan White Party government on Brazilian immigration in Uruguay.

Paraguayan President Andrés López, who supported the White Party government, harshly criticized Argentina and Brazil for their "imperialist policies" towards Uruguay and warned them not to upset the regional strategic balance, and issued an ultimatum to the Brazilian Imperial Government.

Brazil not only turned a blind eye to Paraguay's ultimatum, but also intervened in Uruguay, and López ordered the Paraguayan army to attack Brazilian merchant ships.

The Tang Empire's large-scale southward movement into South America made Paraguayan President López see new hope, so all kinds of praise and enthusiastic support came one after another, expressing the joy in Paraguay's heart.

Chang'an Daming Palace

Emperor Richard held a report on the situation in South America in his hand, put it aside after reading it carefully, silently took a sip of tea, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Paraguay is also trying to get caught in the fire?

"Liu Aiqing, what do you think?" Richard asked.

Duke Liu Xianjun, the prime minister, smiled freely, and after standing up generously and bowing, he said;

"South American countries are pecking at each other, and the empire can keep an eye on it, and you don't have to spend too much effort on it.

Now that the demarcation of the border between the Empire and Chile has been determined, the Ministers believe that it is a good thing, and the obedience shown by the Chilean government should be a very wise choice for the Empire to subdue a loyal fan in South America.

So-called; Outbred and close attack.

Nowadays, in the Empire's southern conquest of the desert, the only one that can have a dirty friction with the Empire is Argentina, mainly on the question of the final ownership of the surrounding areas of the province of Buenos Aires.

Until the final border was drawn, bilateral relations between the Empire and Argentina were difficult to calm down.

On the issue of Paraguay and the Brazilian Empire, Wei Chen thought that it was better to adopt a friendly and neutral attitude, and it was more suitable for diplomatic mediation to strive for the maximum interests of the imperial side. ”

The opinion of the Prime Minister, Duke Yoo Hyun-jun, was very clear, the territory of the empire's southern expedition only bordered Chile and Argentina, and after the settlement of the border demarcation of Chile, the only thing to deal with was Argentina.

The current attitude on the part of the Empire is; Argentina's southernmost border should be bounded by the province of Buenos Aires, with Argentina in the north and the Tang Empire in the south.

This division scheme

The existing Neuquén region (93,400 square kilometers), the Negro River region (203,000 square kilometers) and the La Pampa region (143,400 square kilometers) of Argentina will be swallowed in one gulp, with a total area of more than 441,000 square kilometers.

The good appetite of the Tang Empire has frightened Argentina, but it cannot be argued.

The root cause was the civil war that ended in 1859, the successive civil wars between the province of Buenos Aires on one side and the north-western provinces on the other, and the sharp contradictions between the two sides, which left Argentina with no time and energy to set up new provincial administrations and to manage the newly conquered areas.

At this time, the Tang Empire came, swallowed the above-mentioned areas in one bite, and advocated the division of the territory of the defeated Kingdom of Patagonia.

The Tang Empire did not know where to find a map of the indigenous Indian parchment, its geographical drawing was extremely crude, and even crossed out a small half of the province of Buenos Aires, which is said to have originated from the Indian tribal alliance more than a century ago, and I don't know if it is true or false.

Now that the secret negotiations between the Tang Empire and the Argentine government delegation are at an impasse, it is estimated that it will be difficult to reach a mutually satisfactory division plan.

The Tang Empire was not in a hurry, because the expeditionary force and the armed volunteer militia were constantly expanding, occupying more and more land with abundant water and grass, forcing the Argentine whites to constantly retreat and give up large tracts of fertile land.

No way

The Imperial Expeditionary Force and the Armed Corps are far from being comparable to the rookies of Brazil or Paraguay, while the Tang Empire's huge scale of nearly 40 million people, military and economic strength, is by no means comparable to the small countries of Argentina with a population of 1.5 million.

Although he was unwilling, he could only retreat.

The ministers in the hall were full of ambition, and no one took Argentina seriously, so they put it aside after some discussion.

This kind of big matter cannot be decided for a while, and it will have to be a year or two of arguing, and the current Argentine government does not dare to make a decision, for fear of arousing a strong backlash, including from the northwestern provinces.

White Hispanics have always been closely associated with Europe, and the traditional concept of territorial issues is quite important, and if it is not solved well, it is easy to cause chaos.

So don't rush now, just wait and see.

The topic of the imperial meeting quickly turned to the Fusang Islands, and in response to the surging "Respect for the King" movement on the Fusang Islands, the Tang Empire, Britain and France and other countries all expressed considerable disgust.

Britain dispatched 5 warships from the Far East Fleet, France 3 warships, 2 Dutch warships and 6 warships from the Tang Empire arrived all the way to form a four-nation alliance, the Tang Empire sent 7,860 troops, France sent 4,320 troops, Britain sent 1,710 troops (mainly Weihai Weihua Yong Battalion), and the Netherlands sent 366 troops, and the four countries jointly intervened in the situation in Fuso.

In May 1863, in order to expel the foreigners, the Choshu Domain began to blockade the Shimonoseki Strait (now the Guanmen Strait) and bombarded the Tang and French merchant ships in the voyage.

In June, the combined fleet of Tang, Britain, France, and the Netherlands retaliated by attacking the Choshu warships and batteries in the Shimonoseki Strait, and after being heavily shelled, the Choshu Domain immediately repaired the forts with the support of reinforcements and civilians, and occupied part of the Ogura Domain on the other side of the river, and established forts, hoping to continue to blockade the strait.

In the face of Choshu's stubbornness, the Combined Fleet decided to intensify the crackdown and impose severe punishment on the Japanese.

From June 5 to 7 of the same year, the fierce shelling of Maguan (now Xiaguan City) began, especially the advanced artillery bombardment of the Tang Empire, which ignited the city fire in Maguan, which was dominated by wooden buildings, and the whole city became a sea of fire, and the local residents and rebels suffered heavy blows, and the losses were incalculable.

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