Since ancient times, the cost of law and order warfare has been very high.

The same was true of the Mexican Civil War, where nearly 500,000 people were killed in the massacres carried out by Epra and Tasan Anna to wipe out each other's forces.

At this time, Mexico's population was only 7 million, and the United States was 17 million, and the price of 500,000 people was too great for Mexico.

Even the more than 60 million francs owed by the French seem insignificant by comparison.

José Epra decided to surrender to Tasan Epra, who wanted to go into exile in France in order to make a comeback, but Tasan Apra only pretended to agree to his terms, and secretly ordered Jimmy and his men to kill José Epra.

José Epra boarded an American merchant ship destined for the French port of Toulon, where he would be taken to meet some of the biggest French figures and enjoy the treatment of a high-ranking political exile.

At this time, France had taken back Texas, and the benefits of this colony were not bad, but for security reasons, France had to take the surrounding areas to ensure the safety of Texas.

In fact, this is also the North American policy that France has set a long time ago, but I didn't expect it to go so smoothly.

Persimmon must pick up the soft pinch, between the United States and Mexico, of course, Mexico is easy to bully, and José Epra, the loser of the civil war, applied for political exile in France, which is undoubtedly for the French as soon as they want to sleep someone brought a pillow.

However, neither the United States nor Mexico will let the French get their wish.

It was on this American merchant ship that José Epra was attacked, and Mexican masked gunmen, who had already been ambushed on the American merchant ship, launched an attack on José Epra and his henchmen.

Caught off guard, José Epra's henchmen soon collapsed in a pool of blood, and José Epra himself was caught in a room full of ham and bacon.

"Who are you? Who sent you? José Epra shouted.

However, Jimmy ignored him and hung him directly on the meat hook.

The sharp meat hook was inserted into Jose Epra's flesh, and his screams echoed through the room, but because his hands and feet were tied, he could only watch his muscles be torn apart by the meat hook.

"Who gave you the information?" Jimmy asked.

"I don't know what you're talking about, let me down, you bastard, I.."

Jimmy stabbed José Epra on the lips.

"Shh

"I just want to know who told you the information, and as long as I get what I want, I'll let you go."

"Devils will believe your nonsense! What Tasan Anna can give you, I'll give you tenfold! José Epra exclaimed.

Suddenly, Jimmy and the masked gunmen in the room looked at each other, and then they both laughed.

One of the masked gunmen removed the face scarf, revealing a black man's face.

"We want it, you can't give it."

Jimmy began to pick up Jose Epra's clothes.

"What are you going to do! Damn it! You beasts! I don't know anything! ”

"Then how did you get the strategic deployment of the Mexican Army?" Jimmy asked.

"What are you talking about! I do not know! ”

Jimmy had already stripped José Epra naked, lit a torch, and began to burn the hair on his body.

Suddenly, José Epra screamed and Jimmy asked.

"Are you willing to say it now?"

"I'm a Mexican general!"

"Now he's just a traitor."

Jimmy pulled out a knife and put on an inverted apron, and José Epra immediately shouted.

"What do you want to do? I said I don't know anything! ”

"There is a proverb among the skinning clans of the Indians that those who do not wear clothes have few secrets, and those who do not have skins have no secrets, I wonder if this is true?"

Jimmy was laughing, but it was cold.

Two hours later, Jimmy stopped what he was doing, took off his bloody apron and threw it into the trash, just as a young man handed him a cigar.

"What now? Mr. Jimmy? Miss Jenny is Mr. President's."

Jimmy lit up and took a sharp puff, as if he had made up his mind.

"We owe allegiance to the Boss, not to the Boss's woman."

"I see, Mr. Jimmy."

The young man changed into clean clothes and left the cabin, in fact, Jimmy was not very old, but his expression was always very numb, so many people thought he was a veteran.

"Mr. Jimmy, what about this pile of rotten meat?"

"Cut it up, throw it in a saltwater bucket, and let the Americans make bacon and sell it to the French."

Jimmy and his party quietly left the cabin, leaving only a puddle of blood, but no one cared about the extra package in their hands.

Although Mexico put down the rebellion at this time, the death of half a million people greatly weakened Mexico's potential.

The Americans, the French, are infiltrating the northern part of Mexico, and in the vast territory of northern Mexico, there are less than 100,000 Mexicans.

Tasan Anna's policy of forced relocation has caused a lot of resentment in Mexico, but he has no choice, and if he does not do so, he will be tantamount to giving away the northern lands, which he cannot accept in any case.

The French expressed their willingness to send immigrants to California and New Mexico to clear the land, and the French immigrants would not only open up the land, but also tax the Mexican government, but the tax rate would have to be negotiated between the two countries.

Mexicans are not stupid and know that this is a ploy of the French, just like the American immigrants were in the past.

Coupled with the negotiated tax rate, Mexico's national power simply cannot ask France to do anything, but conversely, France's demand Mexico has to consider.

If Mexico does agree to the tax rate negotiation, I am afraid that even the tax autonomy will be lost in the future.

The U.S. government offered to buy from Mexico, California and New Mexico.

To that end, the U.S. government was prepared to pay the Mexican government $15 million, but it would have to be paid off within 10 years.

This is simply a joke for Mexico, where there is an uprising every three months and a large coup d'état every six months.

Historically, Mexico had 50 governments in the 30 years from 1821 to 1850, and there were about 250 military coups in the 24 years from 1824 to 1848 alone.

Without the backing of Franz and Austria, Tasan Anna's presidency might have ended long ago.

Now Mexico wants to rely on its own strength, whether it is to develop the northern frontier or to defend the northern frontier, it cannot do it.

Franz also thought about sending someone to California to mine gold secretly, but the problem is, the mining can be done secretly, but how to transport it back?

No country wants Austria to get its hands on California gold, and no one can guarantee that Austrian gold mined from California will be shipped back to Austria.

And Austria and Mexico face the same problem: how to hold California.

At this time, the Panama Canal was not opened, and if you wanted to get from Austria to California, you would have to go around all of South America, or park your ship in Mexico and travel overland for a month or two to get to California, but this is obviously not realistic.

And Tasan Anna's sudden immigration plan disrupted Franz's previous deployment.

Some plans had to be implemented in advance, because no one could guarantee that the new Mexican immigrants would not discover California's secrets.

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