"I'm more curious, Paraguay still has the courage to fight?" Wen Deji felt a little puzzled. He felt that Paraguay was too good at death.

"Actually, this time it's not Paraguay that wants to fight, but Bolivia to find fault first...... "Cafu also felt embarrassed. It's only been a few years since the end of the world war, are these little fart countries in South America so eager to brush up their sense of existence?

Historically, it may have been difficult to select the most combat-ready countries, but it has been relatively easy to choose the first echelon, and Paraguay will definitely be in the middle of it.

In the nineteenth century, Paraguay was a small landlocked country in South America, with a land area of less than 500,000 square kilometers and a population of less than 500,000. But their president at the time, López Sr., was a very ambitious man, and he wanted to make the country stronger, so he worked hard for decades. Under his painstaking management, the once barren Paraguay quickly rose to prominence. The elder López encouraged foreign trade and introduced a large amount of foreign investment. British and Austrian engineers were also brought in to help build railroads, shipyards, and steel mills. European and American doctors, engineers and technicians were hired, factories and schools were opened, and the splendid National Center for the Performing Arts was built.

By 1850, a Europeanized Paraguay had emerged as a great power in Latin America. By the time his son, Francisco Solano López, took over, Paraguay was the only Latin American country with no foreign debt.

If it is found according to the normal finding, the president of López Jr. should continue to farm and make his small life more nourishing. But this second generation is not a worry-free one. He looked around him and felt that he was too powerful. This was not exactly YY either, Paraguay at that time did have the most sophisticated army in South America. And in 1845, in his first battle as a fledgling, López Jr. flew over Argentina by car, so he became an instant hit and gained a lot of international fame.

In 1859, the central government of the Argentine Republic clashed fiercely with the province of Buenos Aires. Solano López volunteered to mediate, resulting in the signing of the famous Treaty of San José de Fres and the agreement of the province of Buenos Aires to join the Argentine Republic, which successfully resolved the dispute.

Because of these achievements, he was called the "Napoleon of the Americas", and was widely respected in South America and had a huge number of fans. may have been blown too hard by the fans, and Lopez Jr. also swelled up, feeling that he was the son of the plane. He eventually believed that his soldiers were invincible and invincible.

During his visits to Europe, he also inspected the armies of countries such as France and Prussia. However, after inspecting the armies of these powerful countries, he was not impressed by the advanced weapons and magnificent military appearance of the armies of the European powers, but was more confident and proud of his own soldiers. He said with confidence: With the strong army of my big Paraguay, it is enough to deal with the intruders of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, and it does not hurt that Bolivia wants to come and kick it.

Little Lopez felt that he was so strong, and there was no one around him who could fight. At that time, Brazil and Argentina had a dispute over the Uruguayan affair (a dispute between the red and white parties), and López Jr. felt that the opportunity for expansion had come, so he was ready to take the opportunity to overthrow Brazil, master Uruguay, and find an outlet for himself to the sea. He warned Brazil not to intervene in Uruguay's civil war, but Brazil did not take it seriously.

In November 1864, Brazil marched into Uruguay to mediate the civil war between the Red and White parties. López Jr. felt that he had been slapped in the face and declared war on Brazil. In the beginning, Paraguay's army did gain the upper hand, occupying the Brazilian province of Madocoroso, capturing large quantities of arms, food, and various military supplies. He originally wanted to encircle Wei to save Zhao, but he didn't expect that Brazil was not in a hurry to return to the army at all, but continued to fight Uruguay. Soon all the resistance was defeated and a pro-Brazilian government was installed. The new Uruguayan government immediately joined the Brazilian camp and in turn declared war on Paraguay.

Well, if that's all there is to it. But López Jr. felt too good about himself, and beat not only Brazil, but also Argentina. That's right, Argentina was originally watching the excitement, but they didn't expect that Little López actually had a brain pump and gave them a brick. Oh, according to López Jr., "I'll borrow a way, I'll burst Brazilian chrysanthemums from your yard".

Argentina could not sit still and joined the fight. And then there was no then, and the war was fought for more than five years, and finally Paraguay completely swept the streets, cutting 160,000 square kilometers of land. North of the Paraguay River was ceded to Brazil, and south of the Bilgomayo River to Argentina.

Most importantly, the population of Paraguay has grown from 530,000 to less than 220,000, of whom less than 30,000 are men, and most of them are children, the elderly and the wounded. Since most of the men died on the battlefield, because there were not enough men, the women fought fiercely for men. Paraguayan society has thus become polygamous, with a man responsible for the procreation of several or even a dozen women. In the 50 years after the war, 80 percent of the children were half-born.

In addition, the fruits of the previous decades of farming in Rapuay were completely completed, Paraguay's national infrastructure was almost completely destroyed, economic activities were completely suspended, and he had to bear war reparations totaling up to 1.39 billion pesos, and the army was disbanded and occupied by the Brazilian military for six years. It can be said that he rushed to the end of the street.

Paraguay is a small country in the first place, because the blind arrogance of President López Jr. actually provoked two big countries, Brazil and Argentina, at the same time, which can be described as a trick to death. Old López has maintained the peaceful development of the country for nearly 50 years in an environment surrounded by strong enemies, but his broken son has been in power for less than 5 years, and his father's family has been ruined, which is really a typical loser!

As a result, this is not the end, only 55 years have passed since the tragic Paraguayan war, and the scars have not healed, and now they have forgotten the tragic situation of the beating back then. Now I'm ready to do it with Bolivia again.

However, their opponent this time, Bolivia, is also quite miserable, since independence has been completely defeated by the outside world, and the wars with the surrounding countries are all kneeling, and the current territory is only about two-thirds of the territory when it was first independent.

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"Well, the biggest cause of this Pakistan-Poland conflict, apart from the previous territorial disputes, is that a group of European businessmen discovered oil at the foot of the Andes Mountains in the western border area of the Mansion Valley last year, so ......," Cavour said.

Wen Desi was a little disapproving: "There is indeed oil there, but there is not much, Mansion Valley is mainly natural gas, and oil is just a byproduct...... "Of course, Mr. Wen from later generations knows what resources there are, and there is oil, but not much."

The territory that Bolivia and Paraguay are now ready to fight for is the Valley of Mansions. The Valley of Mansions, also known as Gran Chaco, is one of the most inhospitable areas in the world. Bordered by the Paraguay River to the east and the Andes Mountains to the west, the Valley of the Mansion is an arid semi-desert region. Until then, the only meaningful economic value of the Mansion Valley area was the denim extracted from locally grown white solid wood, as well as the abundance of pasture for cattle.

It's a mess left behind by the Spaniards, and the site has been a disputed area between the two countries since the independence of the South American countries.

The Bolivians considered themselves de jure heirs of the Spanish colonial government, and were rightfully the owners of the Valley of Mansions. However, Bolivia has very little connection to the Vale de Loudes region, where no Bolivians live or exploit its barren resources. The Bolivian Government, however, has made no effort to develop the Vitifice Valley area.

Paraguayan pioneers have been grazing cattle in the Edifice Valley area for a long time, and they have also established industrial facilities to extract denim from white solid wood. The Paraguayan government has been active in developing the area, allowing immigrants from all over to settle in the valley of mansions and selling large tracts of land to Argentine land developers and livestock companies. Then there is the Guarani, the main ethnic group in Paraguay, who are culturally and linguistically closely related to the inhabitants of the Vale de Loudes area.

When Spanish rule ended, Paraguay's claim to the valley of mansions was based on actual use and possession, while Bolivia's claim was based on jurisprudence and theory. This kind of controversy is not something that can be explained in a short time, to put it mildly, they are all colonizers, and the aborigines here are Indians.

If the situation continued in this way, the conflict between the two sides might not be serious, and Bolivia, although claiming sovereignty over the Vallée Valley, would not be interested in the wilderness area at all, while Paraguay would quietly and slowly continue to develop the area.

However, in 1884, Bolivia lost the saltpeter war (the South American Pacific War) and ceded all of their coastal areas to Chile. In this way, Bolivia is a landlocked country far from the sea. Countries that have no access to the sea are destined to not be strong, so Bolivia is eager to find an outlet to the sea again, and if it wants to regain its original territory, it will have to do a game with Chile, although this is also an option, but it is not too safe after all.

You must know that the current Chile is stronger than the original time and space, not only one of the top three South American powers, but also has a very good relationship with China, the top power. As the world's largest copper ore producer, Chile is China's key trading partner, importing a large amount of copper concentrate from Chile every year, accounting for about 75% of Chile's total copper ore exports, and the copper concentrate exported to China last year alone reached 2 million tons.

Especially after the start of World War I, Britain, which originally had a lot of resources in Chile, was hit hard and its power shrank significantly, while China took the opportunity to increase its investment in Chile, and China's methods were more moderate and willing to share benefits with Chile. Happiness is comparative, compared to the shameless British and American capitalists, China is much better-looking, so Chile is also very happy to cooperate with China. By the end of World War I, Chinese capital had essentially controlled two-fifths of Chile's copper mines.

Chile and China are now cooperating in close economic cooperation, not only in the development of copper, but also in the development of saltpeter, iron, coal, iodine, lead, zinc, manganese, mercury and petroleum. In addition, there are many Chinese enterprises cooperating with Chile to develop local forestry and fishery resources, among which logs, pulp and aquatic products are also exported to China in large quantities, and the deep-processed products of copper smelters, paper mills, beverage factories, canning factories and other enterprises jointly owned by the two countries have become the bulk of Chile's exports. Chile's natural resources are exported to China, and cheap and high-quality Chinese goods are also pouring into Chile.

Moreover, the Chilean army has also introduced a large number of Chinese weapons, and now many of the ships of the Chilean Navy and the weapons of the army are made of Chinese goods, and the Chilean Air Force is completely established in accordance with Chinese standards, and there are also a number of consultants and instructors from China in the Air Force.

Moreover, Chile had already joined the Shanghai Economic Cooperation Organization in 1921 and was a member of the Half-Fellow Revolutionary Union. So Bolivia is quite entangled, and if it wants to do something against Chile, then it must take into account China's attitude. With China's consistent style, it absolutely cannot tolerate problems in its own copper mining areas.

Chile alone is already a bunker, and if you add a China, it's a piece of. Even if ten Bolivians are added together, they are only on their knees.

What should we do about the problem of access to the sea? Then we have to find a soft pinch of persimmons, and we can't do Chile, can't we still do Paraguay, a street fighter? Well, some people may ask, Paraguay is not close to the sea, why is Bolivia bothering it? Yes, Paraguay does not rely on the sea, but there is a Paraguay River that leads directly to the sea, which is also the main channel of Paraguay to the sea, and this river flows through the valley of the mansions.

In the beginning, Bolivia and Paraguay did not intend to do anything, Paraguay was afraid, and Bolivia was not absolutely sure, both sides were inclined to solve the problem through negotiations, to achieve their own goals, coupled with the mediation of Argentina, the United States and other countries, the two countries reached a series of arbitration agreements and interim solutions. At this stage, both sides are basically talking about it, burying their heads in the pile of old papers, trying to find evidence in their own favor from their own history to support their claim to sovereignty over the Mansion Valley area, which is relatively calm.

Last year, however, the situation took an unexpected turn, when a group of European geologists discovered oil here. As a result, Bolivia is not calm.

With the aviation and automobile boom that China began in 1910, as well as the petrochemical products such as plastics and chemical fibers that were successively produced during the First World War and in the years after the war, oil became a popular thing in various countries earlier, and became an important industrial raw material and chemical raw material earlier. Having an oil field is equivalent to having a gold mine.

In fact, oil fields have also been discovered in Bolivia in recent years, but because there is no access to the sea, they have to pay a large amount of transit fees to neighboring countries near the sea when exporting, which makes Bolivia very unhappy. Now that there is a large oil field, it also involves an important outlet to the sea, so it is no wonder that Bolivia is not excited.

"Well, Bolivia is for oil fields and access to the sea, but what are Brazil and Argentina for?" asked Wendesi.