The team led by Captain Pan Laoxi was in Wujia Town for two days, and after repairing, they set off to the north again, this time accompanied by 66 Wujia Town militia cavalry led by Wu Ahu, and the overall strength grew to more than 640 cavalry.

On the one hand, he had to urge the Indian slave workers to step up the construction of the Big Corner Fort, and on the other hand, he had to arrange a retreat for the entire armed team and the women and children's families.

So-called; A clever person has more than one plan.

In the territory of more than 400 square kilometers selected by Wu Erbao, there are mountains deep into the plains in both the north and south directions, and a large area of lush forests.

The capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires

The Rose Palace, the seat of the presidential palace

It is a standard 19th-century Italian-style building, with three floors in height, but the east building plus the basement floor is four storeys.

The main entrance of the Rose Palace faces Via Rivadavia, and it is from this door that important guests can enter.

In 1850, according to the then President of Argentina, Domingo Murphy. At Salmendo's suggestion, the façade was painted pink, which has been used by successive governments, so that the presidential palace is also known as the Rose Palace.

"Urquiza is playing with fire, this is trying to draw the whole of Argentina into a war that is sure to be lost. Just look at what happened to the once powerful United States of America, if you overthrow the Tang Empire, we will all be finished at that time. President Mitre shouted with an ugly face.

This is the small ballroom in the presidential palace, which is filled with high-ranking officials of the government and parliament, most of whom are black-haired white southern Europeans from Spain and Italy, the main countries of immigration, and a few blonde Anglo-Saxons, who belong to the local white British estate owners and are extremely powerful in the political arena.

President Mitre's words provoked a buzz, with most expressing strong displeasure with Urquiza's military adventure, and some scolding with emotion, but not much could be done.

Although in 1862 Argentina ended the civil war and achieved national reconciliation.

However, the province of Buenos Aires did not achieve a landslide victory, and the inter-provincial side still maintained a strong independent military and political force, and did not listen to the province on major issues.

For example; Privately sheltering desperate indigenous Indian tribes and supporting indigenous armies, mainly Indian warriors, were all decisions made without going through the central government.

The interests of the United Province and the Buenos Aires government are not identical, and the troops and armed regiments of the Tang Empire landing in the desert expedition in South America did not enter the province on a large scale and maintained a certain degree of restraint.

The Buenos Aires provincial government turned a blind eye to the Tang Empire's unscrupulous expansion and colonization to the north, and responded with the government's slow and procrastinating administrative efficiency, which simply blew up the lungs of the United Provinces;

It is not the territory of the province that is invaded by feelings, it is not about oneself, and it is too despicable to hang high, trying to borrow outsiders to weaken the power of the province!

It's been more than a year

The Tang Empire invaded hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land in La Pampa, Mendoza, San Luis, San Juan, La Rioja, Córdoba, and other provinces to the north.

The white armed colonists and the Chinese armed pioneer groups exchanged fire frequently, and the number of cases was as high as hundreds or thousands a year, and they suffered heavy losses.

Different from the indigenous Indians who were backward in productivity, the armed colonization regiment of the Tang Empire, which landed in South America, was dominated by sophisticated cavalry, with strong military organization, advanced weapons, and strong combat effectiveness.

Although these areas have not been developed for a long time and the number of local white ranchers is small, it has also had a serious impact on the strength of the provinces, and the territory has shrunk significantly.

About 70,000 or 80,000 whites fled into the province of Buenos Aires, and the number of casualties was about 2~30,000, which was already a naked invasion.

This has intensified the contradictions between the provinces and the central government-led province of Buenos Aires, and the national reconciliation that has just eased is in danger, and it is almost open to turn the other cheek.

The inter-provincial frustration is understandable, with the remaining seven or eight northern Argentine provinces with a combined population of less than 610,000. With one increase and one decrease, the population of Buenos Aires Province has reached 886,000 with the strength of the province, of which 1/10 is the absorbed fleeing population, and its strength has been further enhanced.

Under the watchful eye of the Tang Empire's tidal tide of armed militias, it is difficult to resist the power of the provinces alone, and the central government, mainly the province of Buenos Aires, has not acted, and the anger of the provinces is completely understandable.

The big problem now is;

Argentina has not produced strong evidence that the lands of these central provinces have belonged to Argentina since ancient times.

These central provinces are the territories that the white Argentines have snatched from the Mapuche in the past ten years, coupled with the interference of the 10-year civil war, the real operation and development have not lasted long, and they are basically in an extensive laissez-faire state.

That is, the white colonists drew the land at will, who occupied whom, there was no government management, no deed documents and land ownership certificates, and there was no clear where the boundaries were?

This is where the Tang Empire launched a war of conquest against the Mapuche people, and these territories can be identified as the places where the Mapuche people have been nomadic for generations in the past, so why should they be considered white Argentine?

“……

Well, well, the situation we are facing is very serious, and we can't continue like this.

Paraguay's military dictator, López Jr., has made a frantic war cry against Brazil and Argentina for the sake of Uruguay, and I think war is in fact inevitable.

At such a time, it is impossible for Argentina to go to war with Paraguay and the Tang Empire at the same time, which is neither realistic nor possible, and it is tantamount to self-destruction. Prime Minister Milian del Brasso stopped everyone's rambling speeches, looked around with a solemn expression, and continued;

"The demands of the interprovincial side must be taken seriously, in order to prevent their reckless actions from dragging the whole of Argentina into the abyss.

It is imperative that the government act quickly and organize a delegation to negotiate the territorial demarcation with the Tang Empire.

If it drags on any longer, I wonder what other dangerous moves Urquiza will make?

The attitude of the government is to avoid a territorial war with the Tang Empire in any case, and concentrate on uniting Brazil to solve the big problem of Paraguay and avoid being attacked on the back, and this move has been approved by Mr. President.

Ladies and gentlemen

A united Argentina is facing the most serious situation, and we must focus on the overall situation, prudently handle the differences with our neighbors, manage the contradictions, and avoid escalating into large-scale conflicts and even wars, which we cannot afford to pay for in the face of the big picture......"

"Mr. Prime Minister, how can the government stop a possible military adventure in Urquiza? I'm referring to the indigenous Indian tribes he took in, I heard that more than 20,000 people have been trained, and they are procuring guns and ammunition everywhere, probably not to deal with wild beasts in the wilderness, right? ”

"The issue mentioned by Mr. Samier is important and one of the current focuses. I will personally lead a government delegation to the city of Paraná, in the province of Entrerios, to make all-round contact with the inter-provincial radical forces represented by Urquiza, with a view to persuading them to stop their irrational and reckless behaviour and to return to the established track of the Government. ”

"Returning to the government's track at the expense of the provinces, right? We will never accept a humiliating treaty of loss of power and land, let alone make a deal with power, and the people of the province will defend every inch of territory to the death, is the government ready to compromise? Deputy Speaker Gutarez angrily stood up and asked.

Gutarez is the representative of the political forces of the inter-provincial side in the government in Buenos Aires, and his doubts are very representative, and this is where the contradiction between the inter-provincial side and the central side lies.

Prime Minister Milian del Brazo saw that the people of the United Province had come forward to express their objections, and he immediately had a splitting headache, and he subconsciously glanced at President Mitre, and saw that Mr. President was staring at the picture on the dome with full attention, as if he was about to copy it.

He sighed to himself, and then explained in a gentle tone;

"Now the focus of the contradiction is; The area occupied by the militias of the Tang Empire conflicted with the demands of the provinces, but no one could come up with a legally valid basis, nor could they come up with a historically reliable demarcation treaty.

The early Argentines who entered the central region drove out the Mapuche with muskets, and armed immigration groups from the Tang Empire also swarmed into the region, creating a dog-tooth situation.

The central government, of course, was keen to defend Argentina's interests, but it had to take into account reality.

It is clear to all of you: why were we reluctant to define our borders with the Mapuche in the first place?

Because we wanted to settle the internal strife, we continued to expand our land to the south, until we reached Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost point of South America, to conquer the Mapuche and use it as the backyard of Argentina.

The reality is extremely cruel, since the Tang Empire launched a desert expedition, this kind of Greater Argentina territory has been shattered and turned into an unattainable delusion.

And in the territorial entanglement with the Chinese colonizers in central Argentina, what kind of criteria will the government base on negotiating?

We have no convincing evidence, and the provincial assertion of a return to the pre-1 May 1863 borders is merely a fantasy of some people who have had too much marijuana.

With the domineering style of the Tang Empire, how could it be possible to accept such a territorial claim?

Before January 1863, the Tang Empire had not yet set foot on the soil of South America, should they all be allowed to go back to their homeland?

Who has the strength to do this?

Do you have a joint provincial side?

In order to guard against unrealistic fantasies and impulsive acts of arms on the part of the United Provinces, the Argentine Government has decided;

In the event of an unauthorized act by the interprovincial side, the Argentine Government will declare a complete severance with the interprovincial side, and will neither endorse the unauthorized act of the interprovincial side, nor will it contribute a single soldier or a peso to the dispute, and all serious consequences will be borne by you.

Don't think about kidnapping the Argentine government, no one in Buenos Aires wants to go to war with a huge empire of 40 million people, that's the bottom line. ”

Prime Minister Milian del Brazo spoke very harshly, and there was a brief silence in the small ballroom, which was then drowned out by angry shouts.

It was the political forces that stood up to express their excitement on behalf of the interprovincial side, but they were met with-for-tat counterarguments from the local forces in Buenos Aires, and the two sides quarreled.

Looking at the noisy government magnates in front of me, President Mitre was silent and put on the appearance that you are arguing and arguing, but do not affect my thinking about important issues.

The Argentine government urgently needed to establish a border with the Tang Empire, which was a basic claim based on territorial disputes, and also sought to avoid further losses.

As for what losses will expand, of course, they are afraid that the armed militia of the Tang Empire will continue to go north.

If you're in a hurry, the rabbit will still bite!

But now the debate is what scale to take to survey the boundary?

Is it the pre-May 1, 1863 border line advocated by the hardliners in the United Provinces, or is it the Line of Actual Control between the two forces today, or is it more concessions on the territorial issue, lowering the posture and making false promises?

That's all

The interprovincial side has quarreled with the Argentine central government, and the positions of the two sides are far apart, and the possibility of reaching an agreement is very slim.

Look at neighboring Chile, why was it able to reach a border mutual understanding agreement with the armed militias of the Tang Empire earlier? Determine their respective spheres of influence?

That's because Chile is a military junta in power, speaking with one voice from top to bottom, making a slight retreat in the face of the hard-line Tang Empire, and determining the final demarcation line in the form of a border survey treaty early.

This simply doesn't work in Argentina, where insiders are arguing at home, so how can they be unanimous with the outside world?

Many short-sighted white Argentines are hot-headed, impulsive, more enthusiastic than intellectual, clamoring to follow the hardliners; "We will drive all the Orientals out of South America with muskets." This is a very dangerous tendency to speak.

President Mitre and Prime Minister Milian del Brazo are the few sober people in the Argentine government who know in their hearts what a terrible behemoth the Tang Empire is.

How powerful was the United States in the past?

Even the British Empire gave three points of courtesy, and discussed everything with good words, but was beaten under the body by the Tang Empire, and was almost wasted.

Such a ruthless character, if you can't provoke, try not to provoke.

The thought of sharp internal divisions makes President Mitre's head ache again, and things in Argentina are really not easy.