By March 1867, the first phase of the five-year desert expedition was basically over, and the Tang Empire conquered a large territory at the southern tip of South America, with a total area of about 1.85 million square kilometers, and the southernmost point reached Tierra del Fuego.

On this basis, the Tang Empire established the Andean Governor's Palace, which was a colonial institution directly under the Imperial Colonial Department to perform government functions.

The southernmost city of the Tang Empire in South America is Storm City on the Atlantic side, which is also the southernmost starting point of the 2,960-kilometer Atlantic Railway from south to north.

The Atlantic Railway is the main railway artery bordering the Atlantic coastline, connecting Storm City, Zhengnan City, Shuguang Port, Crescent Port, Weiyuan Port, Victory Port, Glory Port and other important cities on the Atlantic coast from south to north, opening a convenient long-distance telegraph line, deepening the Tang Empire's complete control over the South American colonies.

By the end of 1866, statistics showed;

Under the Andean Governor's Office established by the Tang Empire in South America, nine provincial-level administrative regions have been established and relatively complete colonial institutions have been established.

The total immigrant Chinese population is 1.077 million, with a total population of about 1.5355 million (including hundreds of thousands of Indian women, mail-order brides, newborn children, etc.), and the population size has surpassed that of neighboring Argentina, second only to the largest South American country in terms of area and population, ~ the Brazilian Empire.

In terms of force alone, among the more than one million Chinese immigrants under the jurisdiction of the Andean Governor's Palace, at least 500,000 armed militias can be pulled, which is quite strong.

Among them, there are no less than 76,000 retired soldiers with service experience, a total of 35,600 people in two divisions formed in the region (a field expeditionary cavalry division of the Royal Army and the second division of the Royal Marine Corps), and a total of more than 110,000 active duty soldiers and reservists who have received complete military training, and the overall combat effectiveness is unparalleled in the whole of South America.

If the empire wanted to intervene in the Paraguayan war, it did not need to send troops from the mainland at all.

After five years of desert expeditions, the so-called Patagonian kingdom, the Mapuche tribe, and the native Indian tribes on the original South American continent were all wiped out and became a history that remained in memory.

With the exception of a handful of indigenous Indians who fled deep into the Andes, the rest are hard to find.

According to the official records of the empire, most of the local indigenous Indians are vaguely described as more than 100,000 people, and some say that there are about 7~80,000 people.

Some scholars in Argentina and Europe in South America believe that the Mapuche Indians were the original inhabitants of South America, and the total number was not less than one million. It was hunted by an organized Chinese armed regiment, but this view was not officially recognized by the Tang Empire at all, and it was complete nonsense.

In the families of many local Chinese manor owners, it is common to see taciturn Indian women, busy in the manor all day long or with a big belly, still working diligently.

At the peak of the construction of the Atlantic Railway, an insider once revealed;

No less than 170,000 Native American slave laborers toiled day and night on the 3,000-kilometer railway line, opening roads in the mountains and building bridges in the face of water, paving the main railway passage with their sweat and lives.

After the completion of the railway section, these indigenous Indian slave prisoners moved to new construction sites, mainly on the Andean Railway and the Central Railway.

These folk gossips are "defamation of the government" under the Andean Governor's Office under the Tang Empire, and they will be severely punished once they are discovered.

Don't you like to spread rumors, then throw yourself into a hard labor camp and experience it for yourself.

The Propaganda Department of the Reich kept a close eye on the press and propaganda and speech in the colonies, and it was a basic requirement that Chinese immigrants enjoy the blessings of the Reich and that their words and deeds should be highly consistent with the Reich government.

The territory under the command of the Andean Governor's Palace covers an area of 1.85 million square kilometers, with a maximum of more than 3,770 kilometers from south to north and 1,835 kilometers from east to west.

According to the plan;

Three railway lines from south to north will be built as a whole, the first of which is the Atlantic railway line, which is basically completed in its current state.

It is a north-south railway line bordering the Atlantic Ocean, with the southernmost point starting in Storm City and across the channel from Tierra del Fuego.

Further south from Tierra del Fuego is Antarctica, which is covered in snow and ice all year round.

The northernmost point of the Atlantic railway line ends at Ciudad del Glo, from where it continues about 41 kilometers north to the southern border of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina's most populous and prosperous province.

Since the two countries have not yet reached a cooperation agreement on extending the Atlantic Railway north into Argentine territory, it will eventually reach Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.

Thus, for the foreseeable decade or two, the City of Glory will be the northernmost terminus of the Atlantic Railroad.

Second, the main trunk line of the north-south railway is the Andean Railway, also known as the "Pacific Railway", which is a railway line bordering the Pacific Ocean, due to the influence of the Andes Mountains, the construction of the railway line needs to cross many branch mountains, but also across more than 20 large rivers, the construction difficulty is quite high.

The current state is just under construction, the first phase is mainly to build a relatively gentle plain area railway line in sections, with a total length of about 2,550 kilometers, and is expected to be completed in 6~7 years.

The second phase of the project will focus on railway lines and tunnels and bridges that cross the mountains, and strive to overcome difficulties in the construction, and strive to connect the segmented plain railways together to form a complete Pacific railway traffic artery.

This stage is expected to take 7~8 years, a total of 14~15 years, and will be completed and opened to traffic by the end of 1880.

The third is the Central Railway, which is about 1,800 kilometers long and is located in the north-central region under the jurisdiction of the Andean Governorate, and the northernmost part reaches the northern border of the former Argentine province of Córdoba, which is now controlled by the Chinese armed militias.

From here, continuing northward, across the Argentine provinces of Santiago del Estero and Chaco, from Córdoba of the Tang Empire to the southern border of Paraguay, it is also the northernmost point where the armed militia of Chinese Americans arrived.

The construction progress of the central railway is very fast, and the railway line section has reached more than 1,100 kilometers, and the remaining 700 kilometers will be completed and put into use within the year.

The Central Railway is an important railway channel for the Tang Empire to project its power to the focus area of South America with Paraguay as the core, which is of great strategic significance.

It is connected to the Atlantic Railway by the east-west railway line, which can smoothly receive large quantities of supplies from the seaports along the Atlantic coast and transport them to the front line.

This important railway line is also a big stick for the Tang Empire to exert pressure like the countries of South America.

After the signing of the Treaty of Military Alliance between Tang and Pakistan, the Tang Empire intervened strongly in the war.

On February 23, 1867, as the hegemon of the Americas, on the one hand, proposed to convene a new round of peace talks to resolve the problem of the turmoil in South America caused by the Paraguayan War and restore the peace and tranquility that the people desired.

On the other hand

The Andean Governor's Office issued a summoning order, and the strength of two regiments and another artillery battalion of the Second Expeditionary Marine Division of the Royal Navy, totaling about 5,700 men and a large amount of equipment, was transported to the province of Córdoba by the Central Railway.

32,000 armed militia groups have responded to the call, and horses and equipment have been transported to Córdoba Province through the Central Railway, which has suddenly made the situation in the region tense.

A series of tough moves by the Tang Empire showed;

I am not asking you to come back to the negotiating table, but if you are sensible, it would be better not to go against the expectations of the Empire for the restoration of peace in South America, and to seize the rare opportunity for peace.

Otherwise, you do so at your own risk.

This move has already shocked the top brass of Brazil and Argentina, and the Brazilian negotiating delegation, which had just returned to Rio de Janeiro, hurriedly embarked on a long journey back to Buenos Aires before they had time to settle their luggage.

This incident also alarmed the British, and London sent a high-level dialogue request to the cabinet of the Tang Empire through the long-distance cable under the Atlantic, hoping to understand the Tang Empire's South American policy in detail to avoid miscalculation.

Prime Minister Yoo Hyun-jun, who is already in his second term, is really not too skillful in dealing with the UK's high-level dialogue request!

This year down

There are more than 20 times, such as the Austro-Prussian War in Europe in recent years, the policy of the Tang Empire towards Europe, the Yukon issue, the situation in Guatemala and other regions in Central America, the coordination of the policies of the two countries towards Cuba and Suriname, the coordination of East Asian policies, and the policy of curbing the eastward expansion of Tsarist Russia, etc., there is a smooth high-level liaison mechanism between Britain and Denmark.

There is also a similar liaison mechanism between the royal families of the two countries, which is a dialogue at the highest level and is used less frequently than high-level intergovernmental dialogues.

Last time

After successfully completing his visit to Europe, Emperor Richard of the Tang Dynasty wrote a letter of thanks to Her Majesty Queen Victoria to express his sincere gratitude.

Back to the point

The Argentines were not unprepared, and on the border of the provinces of Santiago del Estero and Chaco, Argentina amassed about 35,000 cavalry and 27,000 Indian infantry, with a total strength of more than 62,000 men, occupied important river and valley passes, and built 10 large barracks and hundreds of outposts to prevent the northern invasion of armed militias of Chinese ethnic defence.

Even at the height of the Paraguayan war, Argentina did not drain its border forces.

Let's be honest

The Argentines were really overwhelmed by the Tang Empire's rampant armed militias, which were fierce and domineering, often fighting skirmishes with local white estate owners, exterminating local white farmers and occupying doves' nests.

Fighting but not being able to fight, turning the other cheek and not daring, this is the ambivalence of the Argentine government now in a dilemma.

Tough calls for the reconquest of lost territories grew in the Argentine provinces, which angrily denounced the government as "a bunch of cowardly cowards trembling at the bluff of the Orientals."

Isn't it a show of humor that the big white landowners and capitalists in the province of Buenos Aires are not willing to be the first to go to war for the interests and sovereignty of the province?

The owners of the Buenos Eniz estate, who control the Argentine government, know that they are not stupid enough to kill themselves.

The two sides quarreled in parliament and even fought violently.

It is precisely because Argentina's internal contradictions are difficult to bridge that the border survey negotiations between the two countries have been inconclusive, and they have dragged on for four or five years.

The three main railway lines connect the north and south in the shape of "Sichuan", and together form the trunk railway grid bureau under the jurisdiction of the Andean Governor's Palace, interspersed with 11 east-west railway trunk lines planned for construction (a few have been started first, and most are still in the planning and drawing stage), forming a complete and smooth trunk railway network.

With the advancement of railway construction, organized Chinese immigrants have established thousands of villages and towns, tens of thousands of farms and manors in the vast land of South America, and have shown a gratifying situation with their hard work in pioneering and cultivating land.

The grain warehouse is full, the cattle and sheep are flocked, and there is a scene of abundant harvest everywhere from north to south.

The government transports large quantities of grain by rail to port cities on the Atlantic coast, where it is further processed into flour, cooking oil, wine and canned beef and mutton, which are exported to Europe by sea.

Locally produced high-quality wool is processed in woollen mills in coastal ports to make combed and carded wool tops, which are gradually becoming the mainstay of the Andean Viceroyalty's exports, and are popular with consumers in Europe and North America.

The new refrigerated vessels for use on the transatlantic route, which export large quantities of cut frozen beef to Europe, take only 21 days from the southernmost Storm City to Manchester, England, and 16 days from the northernmost Glory City.

Colt Industries, the world's largest arms manufacturer, plans to build its largest gunpowder production base by setting up a large chemical plant in Torch City (Osorno), on the Pacific side, to produce yellow gunpowder from the abundant saltpeter resources in the area.

The products are exported to Europe and the imperial army, and this chemical plant and several saltpeter mines in the surrounding area alone need more than 10,000 young and strong labor force to provide inexhaustible new impetus for the economic development of Torch City.

It is precisely because of the full confidence that the empire showed a tough stance after intervening in the Paraguayan war, and played very slippery with butter in one hand and a big stick in the other.

Brazil and Argentina are also not on good terms, and while they are actively responding to the process of opening a new peace talks in Buenos Aires, they are seizing the time to storm the fortress of Oumeta, the fortress of the Great River, in an effort to create a fait accompli.

This kind of duplicitous tactics would be strange if there were no British people secretly instigating it!

It was the British who secretly supported Brazil and Argentina, and these two countries withstood the pressure of the Tang Empire, and continued to increase troops to the front line to storm the fortress of Umaita, beating the Paraguayans bitterly.

Two weeks later

The Andean Governor's Office of the Tang Empire announced a new round of conscription **** to form 20 militia divisions, each with a strength of 3 to 5,000 people, which is a mixed cavalry and infantry unit, and each militia division is reinforced by the imperial military An artillery company, equipped with 3-pound or 6-pound towed field guns.

meanwhile

The Tang Empire set an ultimatum for both sides of the negotiated Paraguayan War;

By April 3, 1867 (i.e., three days later), the Triple Coalition of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay ceased all military operations, as did the Paraguayan side, retreating 10 kilometers each from the current front and disengaged.

Create an atmosphere of sufficient sincerity for the next step of peace negotiations, any side that violates the ultimatum will suffer a ruthless blow from the army of the Tang Empire, please act cautiously.