In the new year of 1869

Perhaps it was His Majesty's dissatisfaction that put great pressure on the Andean Viceroyalty, and from April onwards, it began to assemble an army of 68,600 armed militias, converging more than 70,000 men from six servant divisions stationed in Paraná, with a total of about 140,000 troops and soldiers in two ways to enter the province of São Paulo, and fight with the 350,000 troops of the Brazilian Empire, which was waiting for the battle.

Experienced several battles

From May to June, the Andean Viceroyalty defeated the Brazilian army with heavy casualties and captured most of the state of São Paulo.

The cavalry of the Tang Empire crisscrossed the wealthy state of São Paulo, conquering countless white estates and farms by force, capturing a large number of women and wealth.

In the midst of the fire, he forced the Brazilian Emperor Pedro II and a group of high-ranking nobles to flee the city of São Paulo, and fled to Rio de Janeiro for a while.

São Paulo, a famous city with a long history, fell into the hands of the Triple Alliance.

The Tang Empire was sharp, and once it got serious, the Brazilian army was irresistible.

The Viceroyalty of the Andean period mainly recruited armed militias to fight, and of course it was necessary to give some sweetness to the soldiers.

The specific policy was to bring back the wealth of the women who had been plundered, and whoever grabbed it would go to whomever it wanted, and whoever had the ability of the various volunteer militia divisions would take more of it, and the Governor's Office would not ask any questions in the occupied areas.

The young Brazilian men captured by the army, whether white, Indian or black, were all handed over to the task, and whoever dared to hide them privately was punished by military law.

In the first half of this year alone, 233,000 prisoners were escorted to the Nicaragua Canal construction site, which was strongly supported by the full launch of the canal construction site, for which it was commended by the Empire.

The Andean Viceroyalty also held a large number of prisoners of war and black deserters, numbering about 100,000 people, in the occupied territories, waiting to be taken to the Nicaragua Canal construction site.

After the war, the Brazilian government asked for it several times, but the Governor's Office only gave a few thousand people, and the rest were all sent to the Nicaragua Canal construction site to replenish labor, which was criticized by the Brazilian government for a long time.

July 13th

The Brazilian Empire officially recognized its defeat and will, under the mediation of the British, set to start post-war peace talks with representatives of the Tang Empire in Rio de Janeiro to discuss a series of post-war matters......

In fact, the defeated country has nothing to talk about, only to accept a series of unequal treaties imposed by the victorious country, and there is no second possibility.

At a time when the armies of the two countries are disengaged, and in fact the South American war has come to an end, the Brazilian Empire is no longer able to sustain itself, and unconditional acceptance of the defeat pact arrangement is the only way forward.

As reparations for defeat, harsh territorial cession was one of the main conditions.

According to the territorial cession scheme

The cession of Rio Grande do Sul (281,700 square kilometres) to Uruguay will result in a dramatic doubling of the country's territory and laying a solid foundation for a larger population in the future.

The cession of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul (357,000 square kilometers) to Paraguay will increase the territorial area of Paraguay by another 71.2%, and its territory has surpassed that of castrated Argentina to become one of the largest landlocked countries in South America.

The states of Santa Catarina (95,200 square kilometers) and Paraná (199,200 square kilometers) were ceded to the Tang Empire, which was also a reward for the empire's military exploits.

In this battle, the Brazilian Empire lost the land of the four southern states and lost 935,000 square kilometers of territory, which greatly damaged the vitality.

Moreover, most of the ceded territories were due to the fact that the southern region was more mature for farmland and water conservancy development, and the land was fertile and flat, with a loss of about 1.3 million people (Note; In the third phase of the war, more than 227,000 people were killed and wounded, and about 30~350,000 women were taken captive, and about 60~700,000 were sent to various forced labor camps.

The territory of the Brazilian Empire was reduced from 8,517,000 square kilometers to 7,582,000 square kilometers, and the losses were very serious.

The two younger brothers of Uruguay and Paraguay, who participated in the coalition, have gained a lot, and they feel more and more that they have meat to eat with the Tang Empire, and their confidence has doubled from top to bottom, and they have taken this opportunity to set off a new round of Chinese immigrants.

Two years after the war

With the influx of a large number of Chinese immigrants, the population of Paraguay has grown rapidly from 227,100 after the war to 523,000 today, and Chinese families account for more than 9 percent, because the vast majority of Paraguayan women are married to Chinese immigrants, and of course Chinese should be filled in the column of the head of the family.

Uruguay's population has skyrocketed from less than 150,000 to more than 380,000 after the war, with Chinese families accounting for more than 90 percent, and the majority of Uruguayan women marrying Chinese immigrants, contributing to a fundamental demographic shift.

For these two vassal states that respected the Tang Empire as the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, the empire was particularly generous in the post-war meritorious deeds.

By mid-July 1869, the empire had increased its territory by 83,400 square kilometers in Beihai Province, and with the addition of 294,400 square kilometers of the two states ceded by the Brazilian Empire, the empire's territory had grown from 15,355,000 square kilometers to 15,742,800 square kilometers.

The second is the war reparations, taking into account the huge war loans originally borrowed by the Brazilian Empire, under the mediation of the British, the war reparations were finally set at 65 million Tang Yuan, which was mortgaged by Brazilian customs revenue, with a repayment period of 20 years and an interest rate of 5.8%.

Article 3 of the post-war "Rio de Janeiro Treaty" stipulated that the Tang Empire had the right to garrison troops in Brazil, and successively opened 17 military bases in several coastal provinces, just like controlling the United States of America, castrating its national sovereignty.

In addition, there are a series of other articles and contracts involving various fields, such as the "Brazilian Peace Constitution", "Memorandum of Understanding on the South American Unified Market", "South American Agricultural Unified Market Agreement", "South American Customs Union Agreement", "Tang Empire Garrison Act", "South American Industrial Revitalization Act", "Protocol of the South American Railway Union", "South American Financial Cooperation Treaty", "Agreement on the Replenishment of 1.5 Million Chinese Laborers", etc., which have brought Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and other countries into it. A rudimentary form of the Union of South American Nations was formed.

All of these treaties only dealt with South America, not the territorial rights and interests of the empire in North and Central America, and unilaterally opened the door to the economic invasion of the Tang Empire in all aspects of political economy, military finance, and transportation, and would have a lasting influence.

The provisions of the Agreement on the Replenishment of 1.5 Million Chinese Laborers between the two countries alone would have a profound impact on the Brazilian Empire.

Due to the heavy losses in the South American war, coffee, cotton and sugar, the pillar industries on which the Brazilian Empire relied for export, were severely hit, and the labor force was in short supply, which greatly affected the normal functioning of society.

Originally, Brazil was a place where there was a shortage of population, and the Portuguese transported 50,000 or 70,000 black slaves to Brazil every year, but they were abandoned by such a scourge of the Tang Empire, and as many as 30~350,000 white women were taken captive, and São Paulo and the four southern states were barren after the war.

It is based on this situation

Considering that the populations of Paraguay and Uruguay are gradually returning to their former conditions, or even better than before, and the demand for Chinese immigrants is no longer urgent, the focus of the South American migration wave dominated by the Tang Empire can be shifted to Brazil, and the Chinese population will continue to be imported to Brazil.

In the original history

Brazil once hoped to reach an agreement with the Qing Empire to import a million people to alleviate the shortage of labor in the country, but the Qing Empire officials rejected it.

Brazil was forced to find Fuso, and the two sides hit it off, which led to a boom of millions of Japanese immigrants to Brazil, and Brazil became the largest gathering place for Japanese immigrants overseas.

In today's times

Since Brazil is in dire need of immigration and the costs of immigration are borne by Brazil itself, the Tang Empire, which has extensive experience in the field of transnational immigration, will lead the continuous immigration boom to Brazil for the next 10 years, because it has cultivated a strong immigrant fleet, why not?

In the Agreement on the Replenishment of 1.5 Million Chinese Laborers, the two countries agreed to grant Chinese immigrants who emigrated to Brazil the treatment of legal settlement, non-discriminatory remuneration levels, legal rights to do business and real estate, the sanctity of private property, the legal right to marry and have children, etc., all of which enjoyed the reciprocal treatment of white freemen.

Under the pervasive penetration of the Tang Empire into Brazil, Chinese immigrants were even able to receive a certain degree of preferential treatment.

For example, in the factories, docks, financial institutions, trading houses or restaurants set up by Chinese businessmen, they are naturally more willing to hire Chinese workers of the same language and species, which invisibly increases some sense of security in this foreign land.

It took five years from the outbreak of the Paraguayan War in 1864 to the South American War, and finally the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro was signed on August 2, 1869, symbolizing the end of the South American War.

In this war involving the five countries of South America on an unprecedented scale, tragic and abnormal, the Tang Empire, Paraguay and Uruguay had the last laugh.

The Brazilian Empire and Argentina suffered severe castration, and for more than 150 years they were in decline. can only follow the butt of the Tang Empire and shout, becoming the second South American country in the sphere of influence of Chinese Americans.

The various treaties tied to these defeated countries gave the Tang Empire's strong capital the ability to infiltrate and control these South American countries, dominate the economic, financial, military and transportation aspects of these countries, and invade the cultural field on a large scale.

This is manifested in the Chinese schools that have blossomed all over South American countries, from primary and secondary schools to colleges and universities, which have almost monopolized the education sector, and none of them are fluent in Chinese, and they are not even able to become police officers.

Why?

Leaving aside Uruguay and Paraguay, South American countries where almost all of them are ethnic Chinese, in Brazil and Argentina alone, the local ethnic Chinese population dominates important aspects of the country's economy and finance, accounting for half or more of the ethnic Chinese population.

They can't understand Mandarin, and the police can't even enforce the law normally.

Most of the colleges and universities in South American countries are schools run by Chinese capital, and if they can't understand Chinese, they are like dumb and deaf people.

Many years later

The official languages of South American countries are either Mandarin and Portuguese, Mandarin and Spanish, or Mandarin and English, and Mandarin cannot be lacking anyway.

If you don't speak Mandarin, you can't understand anything in Central America, North America, or Asia, and you can't move an inch in the Pacific Rim, let alone do business, politics, cultural or artistic exchanges, and you can't even read the signs.

All of the above shows the importance of the Chinese language.

(End of chapter)