South America

Province of Córdoba

The cavalry chase between the valleys had just ended, and dozens of corpses of local white soldiers were lying along the way, and more than a dozen ownerless war horses roamed around, and after finding that there was no danger, they began to eat the fat and tender grass leisurely.

Wu Erbao wore a wide-brimmed cowboy hat on his head, and casually inserted the Colt lever rifle with a hot barrel into the cowhide pouch in front of the saddle, and drove the horse over.

It's been a year and a half since he arrived in South America, the skin on his face has been tanned by the sun, his eyes have sharpened, and he is in his 30s and in the prime of life.

Around him, the ranks had grown to more than 470 people, methodically collecting scattered guns and horses, and in the distance the black smoke of white settlements, which had been wiped out in white Argentine villages.

At the beginning of July 1864, the province of Córdoba had just passed its coldest June, and the night temperature dropped to about 10 degrees above zero, and from now on, the temperature has risen slightly.

With temperatures around 30 to 10 degrees Celsius all year round, the region is neither too hot nor too cold, with plenty of sunshine, numerous rivers originating in the Andes, and abundant water, making it a fertile and natural choice no less than the Great Plains of North America.

"Uncle Erbao, will this territory be ours in the future?" Wu Ahu rode over and asked with great interest.

After a year and a half of fighting and fighting, Wu Ahu and Wu Abao quickly grew up and became elite civilian armed cavalry, with more or less a dozen lives under their hands.

Wu Erbao looked at the vast green mountains and green waters and the great plains in front of him with satisfaction, and the lush forests were endless, and said with a relieved expression;

"If we don't leave, we will drive down the boundary piles in the next few days, and include all the surrounding three or four hundred square kilometers of mountains, rivers and lakes, and these 30,000 or 40,000 hectares of land will be ours in the future." Wu Erbao pointed at the high-spirited horsewhip and said proudly; "In the future, this place will be called Wujia Town, let's build a prosperous town here, grazing cattle and sheep here, selling wool, cowhides and timber, do you see that big river? The river, called the Ibar, flows more than 700 kilometers downstream into the Río de la Plata, leading to Buenos Aires and to the Atlantic Ocean. In the future, our agricultural and animal husbandry products can be conveniently transported through this river. ”

"That's great, do you want to send someone to inform the old camp to move over?"

"I definitely have to move over, but before that, we must first knock down all the boundary pillars and send the map to the expeditionary force for the record, otherwise we will have to fight with the Chinese expeditionary team behind again, do you still have to fight with your own people?"

"Knowing Uncle Erbao, I'll arrange someone to do it." Wu Ahu immediately turned the horse's head and rode away in a hurry.

It's been more than a year

Wu Erbao's expeditionary force did not fail to find fertile areas suitable for development, but they were always intruded by the Chinese militia that swarmed in later, and the inability to clearly demarcate the vast plains led to many disputes.

Unable to get annoyed, he led the expedition all the way north for more than 1,360 kilometers, and finally arrived at the border of the province of Córdoba, which is the treasure of feng shui in front of him, and then stopped.

It's just that this is the land of the owner, and the white pioneers who arrived first have established a small village of more than 100 people here, and after several more conflicts between the two sides, the stalemate lasted for more than a month, and finally Wu Erbao Xinyi led the team to eliminate the white colonists, and the nest of the bird occupied the dove and settled down.

The empire did not impose clear restrictions on the armed colonization of Chinese militias, but stressed that it should not enter the province of Buenos Aires, which had been run by white Argentines for a long time, which accounted for more than half of the 1.5 million white people in Argentina and produced as much as 60% of the total economic output.

As a result, the province of Buenos Aires was able to win the civil war in the face of the combined forces of the provinces, and after ten years of division, it reunited Argentina in 1862.

Just a year later

The Tang Empire launched a large-scale desert expedition, landed in South America and rapidly expanded its colonial power, occupying large swathes of barren and fertile land and mountain territory in the south, driving the local indigenous Indian tribes to more inhospitable areas......

In this way, the Chinese armed militia has penetrated deep into the north and occupied the territory of the central and northern provinces of Argentina.

After 10 years of division and civil war, there was a deep estrangement and hostility between the province of Buenos Aires and other provinces in Argentina.

Why not have many white farmers who had lost their land and estates and had to move their families into the province of Buenos Aires, weakening their enemies and strengthening themselves?

In today's pan-Argentine region, there are still two camps, one for unity and one for division, each with a large number of loyal supporters.

The United Provinces are the strongholds of the separatists, and seeing the invasion of the territory of these hostile political forces and the displacement of white colonists, it is estimated that it is too late for the Buenos Aires government to steal pleasures, so where will it care about these idle things?

On the one hand, the Tang Empire is strong, and on the other hand, Buenos Aires pretends not to see it with the filthy mind of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight.

Judging by the history of grievances between the two sides;

Year 1852

The Argentine dictatorship of Rosas collapsed after being defeated by the coalition of provinces, and there was no political leader in the Argentine political circles who could take charge of the country, and the country began to enter a period of division and fragmentation.

In 1853, Argentina's secession caused discontent among the financial oligarchy and white ranchers in Teenos Aires, who, in order to maintain their privileged position, reached an agreement with General Urquiza to promulgate the Constitution of 1853 and strive for the return of Argentina to the era of unification.

One wants to split, the other wants to reunify, and the opinions can't be achieved!

In 1852, after the fall of the Argentine dictatorship of Rosas, Argentina was divided into two independent states, the province of Buenos Aires and the rest of the provinces, called the "Provincial Federation", and the two sides began a decade-long period of division.

In the beginning, the Argentines opposed the Rosas dictatorship in order to establish a new unified democracy.

But after the overthrow of the Rosas dictatorship, Argentina found that things were not as simple as they thought, and the infighting nature of South Americans led to the dizzying grass-headed kings who emerged everywhere, and no one obeyed anyone, and the social order became more chaotic.

As a matter of fact

The history of the development of the South American region shows that the region is subservient only to iron-fisted authoritarians, and that society can enter a period of stability for a long time, and once there is a liberal democracy or power belongs to the people, it will be all over.

This is the case with the Chilean military junta, and the same is true with the Paraguayan father-son succession government, and it is not without reason that military junta rule in South America is prevalent.

After the overthrow of the Rosas government, Urquiza considered the most important thing to do was to keep the situation stable. While ordering the shooting of important members of Rosas to prevent the restoration of the dictator, he did his best to preserve the private property of the big landowners and big businessmen in Buenos Aires.

But Urquiza's approach was unflattering on both sides, and the revolutionaries saw him as a departure from the will of the people, and regarded him as the spokesman of the landlord class and opposed it.

The landlord class of the opposition, on the other hand, considered Urquiza to have ulterior motives and was strongly hostile to him.

What is the future for Argentina?

Opinions within the revolutionary parties began to split, and the most striking man was called Mitre, a man of high prestige in Argentine political circles, who wrote in a newspaper;

Urquiza has moved closer to the big landlords and has become the new dictator, and we should rearm ourselves and fight hard for the creation of a unified nation.

Mitre was widely respected for his role in the Battle of Caceros, the decisive battle to overthrow the dictatorship of Rosas, and his views won the approval of many people, but also met with opposition from the large landowners of Buenos Aires.

These landowning classes believed that Buenos Aires had an independent constitution due to its economic importance and that the other provinces could not be compared with it, and that they were burdensome.

The idea of secession with the other provinces was in sharp opposition to Mitre's ideas.

The same unification, Urquiza, the ruler of the new government, did not agree with Mitre's unification point of view.

Urquiza believes that the new government faces a complex situation and advocates a federal system of equal equality for all provinces in order to balance the interests of all parties.

Mitre believed that a centralized government similar to the Tang Empire should be established, and that the economy of Buenos Aires was too strong, and without the regulation and control of the central government, the federal system could not truly achieve equality, and could only end up favoring the landlord class in Buenos Aires.

The conference was held in the small Argentine city of Arroyo, and the debate focused on whether to eliminate Buenos Aires' economic privileges, and senior provincial officials from the interior insisted on the abolition of Buenos Aires' privileges, favoring Mitre's claims.

With Urquiza's concessions, the Treaty of San Nicolas was signed through negotiation, recognizing Urquisa as the provisional governor of the Confederacy of the Argentine provinces with the right to organize an army.

But the agreement clearly stipulates; Abolition of domestic tariffs on inter-provincial shipments, with Buenos Aires as the national customs office. Buenos Aires' economic privileges look like they're being canceled.

The San Nicolas Agreement infuriated the large landowners and magnates of Buenos Aires, who openly vetoed the content of the agreement and threatened not to rule out the use of force to achieve their goals.

Seeing that the outcome of the negotiations could not be implemented, Mitre began to rally the armed forces to prepare for a rebellion. Soon after, when Urquiza left Buenos Aires for a conference, he suddenly staged a mutiny and seized power in Buenos Aires.

This detonated the Argentine Civil War, and General Urquiza immediately responded by moving the government to the city of Paraná in the province of Entrerios and organizing a large army to regain power.

From 1853 onwards, the schism led to a civil war.

The civil war was evenly matched and neither could conquer the other, thus beginning a decade-long period of division in Argentina.

When the Tang Empire Expeditionary Force landed in South America, Argentina had just crawled out of the quagmire of division, covered with wounds, silently licking its wounds, and was powerless to stop the Chinese armed militia groups from swarming north, and they didn't want to care.

"Uncle Erbao, if you want to encircle three or four hundred square kilometers of land, I'm afraid the 1,600 boundary pillars we prepared are not enough?" Wu Ahu came with his younger brother Wu Abao and dozens of militiamen, and reported with a somewhat embarrassed expression.

The boundary pillars were numbered wooden stakes issued by the Imperial Expeditionary Force, about two feet long, with a sharp lower end and a depression in the middle, and when they were pounded to the ground, a small number of numbered piles below would break and be buried deep in the earth.

This is a voucher used to distinguish the territory of the Chinese militia group.

According to the rules, whoever occupies it first is his, as long as the boundary pillar is driven down, it will be over.

In the event of a dispute in the future, the piles left in the land shall be used as evidence.

Of course, it is not possible to expand the territory indefinitely, and the upper limit for each person is 100 hectares, excluding family members.

Therefore, Wu Erbao's armed team of more than 470 people should occupy more than 400 square kilometers of land, make maximum use of preferential policies, and maximize benefits.

This pillar is 40 yuan to buy with money, and it can also be exchanged for the scalp of the Indians, and a scalp can be exchanged for a boundary post, and the two are basically the same value.

So the boundary pillar is not as much as you want?

Wu Erbao smiled when he heard this, and said in a tone that was both maintenance and reprimand; "You stinky boy doesn't know how to use your brains? What's so hard about that?

If you look at the topography of this plain mountain range, the south and north are mountains one or two meters high, and each team of people should be arranged to bury boundary stakes along the ridgeline, leaving a distance and paying attention to leaving eye-catching marks.

The east side is a vast open terrain, this part should be buried more boundary pillars, half of the total number of boundary pillars should be buried here, pay attention to follow the trend of the river to demarcate, draw a map to leave marks, to save a lot of boundary pillars.

The deeper you go to the west, the higher the mountain, and it is enough to symbolically bury some boundary posts.

Isn't that enough?

You must use your brains to do anything, and the main thing that may have conflicts with others in the future is the terrain of the large open area in the east, and the other three directions are fine.

You must put more effort into leaving secret notes, understand? ”

"Uncle Erbao, I know, I'll do it." Wu Ahu is a cheerful character, and he immediately waved his hand and left with people.

Wu Erbao stood on this wilderness and looked around, everywhere he could see would be the land of the team, and he would be the mayor of Wujia Town in the future, the big farmer and rancher of this land.

As for the specific distribution, it is still the Wu family that occupies the dominant force, and the core areas are allocated to the children of the Wu family, and the surrounding corners are allocated to some subordinate forces, so we will discuss it again.

The territory is so big, you will be satisfied with any division of it.

The Wu team had a large old battalion, and basically every militia had three or four Indian women, some of whom had big bellies. There were also more than 1,000 strong Indian slave laborers and a large number of cattle, sheep, livestock, grain and other materials.

After migrating to Wujia Town, it will soon be able to take root and multiply, and become a prosperous agricultural and animal husbandry town.

(End of chapter)