Wild North America 1846

Chapter 398 "Tang Zhi Northern Border Treaty"

"Ferguson, where did you hide?"

"Here we come, here we come..." Ferguson, who was as strong as a bear, rushed out from the shack on one side, hurriedly lifted his pants in one hand, and ran out with a gun in the other, and replied in a panic; "Here comes the deputy captain , are you looking for me?"

"Could you fucking take a break? The woman assigned to you can't run away. Do you need to plow the fields day and night? It's like a walking animal." Tian Fuguang scolded him a few times, and then Greeted him to follow, and walked to one side of the camp with more than 20 volunteer militiamen armed with live ammunition.

there

Many Indian women were busy loading their vehicles, and another week passed. The cavalry escorting the captives had returned, and the food for another expedition was ready. The news that the scout cavalry had returned was exciting.

In a large river bend about 1700 kilometers away from here, there is an Indian indigenous tribe with a population of about 300. Although this tribe is small in number, it has more than [-] horses, a lot of cattle and sheep, and many muskets. , appear to be relatively rich.

The leading co-captain, Wu Erbao and Guan Datou, have already discussed and planned to raid this aboriginal Indian camp. After they are defeated, they will use this aboriginal Indian camp as a base to develop to the surrounding area.

No, the team is ready to go.

Some cassava and potatoes that could not be carried were left where they were, and they could be used if other teams passed by. Now the team has grown to nearly 200 horse-drawn carts and ox carts, with a total of more than 1300 people. Except for 220 volunteer cavalry, most of them are Indian women.

"Are you ready? Then let's go." The hand that closed the head waved an order.

Guan Datou is another co-captain in the team. He is a standard retired cavalry captain. He has 76 men under his command, which is a little more than Wu Erbao. Therefore, he is the cavalry captain with the strongest combat effectiveness and one of the two co-captains.

All the Indian women silently climbed into the carriages or ox carts, forming a long convoy, escorted by the cavalry towards the northwest, and soon disappeared at the end of the lush bushes.

Chilean coast on the Atlantic side
In early March 1863, the 3rd Regiment of the [-]st Marine Division belonging to the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire landed in the Osorno area and occupied this sparsely populated town in southern Chile, and renamed the town here as Torch City .

After the news came out, there was an uproar in Chile.

This is because the area is located north of Chiloe Island. In 1825, the Chilean government after independence held the Tapihue Conference with the Mapuche people. It ended the more than 300-year territorial dispute between the Mapuche and the Chilean Republic (formerly the Spanish colonizers).

The Osorno area should undoubtedly belong to Chile. Although it is located in a remote area in southern Chile, it did occupy and own the area during the early Spanish-Mapuche wars. There are more than 570 Spaniards in the area. White descendants settled for a long time.

If the Torch City is occupied by the Tang Empire, then the 5600-kilometer-long Pacific coast of Chile will be cut in half, leaving only 2460 kilometers, and the southern 3150 kilometers will be lost...

Fortunately, in the 19s, Chileans did not expect to have such a long coastline. The focus of their attention was on the Osorno region. As descendants of white Spanish people, Chileans expressed extreme anger at the invasion of the southern border.

The biggest problem is
The Chileans couldn't come up with a legal basis for the ownership of the Osorno region, they just clamored that the region belonged to them and was invaded by the Tang Empire, but they couldn't come up with evidence.

At the Tapihue Conference in 1825, although the Biobio River was established as the boundary between Chile and the Araucania region, no legal intergovernmental agreement was signed between the two sides.

This is because Chile is still greedy for the vast land further south, and does not want to stop its colonial footsteps by the Bio Bio River, but it is temporarily unable to do so, so it is a vague concept left intentionally.

The second reason is that the indigenous Indian tribes were a loose war alliance. They united to fight the Spaniards. After the battle, they went back to their homes and found their mothers. After reaching a peace agreement, they scattered like birds and beasts.

never expected

The Great Tang Empire, which is thousands of miles away in North America, unexpectedly sent troops southward, occupied the Osorno area without reason, and renamed the area Torch City, and garrisoned troops grandiosely.

All of a sudden, the Chilean government and people were dumbfounded.

For the Malpuche people, the muskets and conquest of the white people are simply a blow to reduce dimensionality, and the indigenous Indians with backward productivity are just fat on the sticky board, allowing them to be cut and bullied.

For the Chileans, the strong ships and guns of the Tang Empire were a dimensionality reduction blow, and the little Chile couldn't resist at all, so it wisely shut up after shouting for a while.

Think carefully, the lessons learned from the United States of America (Northern) are there. No matter how arrogant the Chileans are, they know that their small physique is far from being able to touch the Tang Empire, so their actions are;

Send a high-level delegation headed by Prime Minister Gonzalez to visit the Tang Empire urgently, seeking to reach an agreement on the southern border issue.

In other words, decisively counseled.

In the dictionary of Chilean whites, there is no shame in bowing to the strong, and the Osorno region was originally snatched from the Mapuche, so it is not a pity to lose it.

It is a pity that the attempt to continue expanding to the south in the future was aborted, and it became completely impossible.

Now the top priority is to determine the southern border with the Tang Empire, if the army of the Tang Empire invades north again, it will be a big trouble.

as expected
After Chilean Prime Minister Gonzalez arrived in Chang'an, the imperial capital of the Datang Empire, he started an urgent secret consultation with the imperial government. In the Tarot area, the ownership is questioned.

This startled the Chileans, and they argued in secret consultations, presenting facts and preaching that it has been more than 130 years since the Spanish colonists ruled the Lautaro region. From a moral and legal point of view, The area is all Chilean territory and there is no dispute.

After arguing with reason, the Tang Empire reluctantly accepted this point of view.

Then the disputed area was transferred to Panguipui, south of the Lautaro region. Panguipui is located more than 120 kilometers north of Torch City. It was also a mountain city in the Andes that was captured from the Mapuche people. The terrain is very dangerous. .

After more than a month of tug-of-war between you and me at the negotiating table, on May 1863, 5, the Datang Empire and Chile formally signed a bilateral border survey treaty. In the "Tang-Chi Northern Border Treaty", the two parties agreed;
The city of Panguipui is owned by Chile. The two sides are bounded by the valley river 11 kilometers south of Panguipui city. The north belongs to the territory of Chile, and the south belongs to the territory of the Tang Empire.

In this way, the Datang Empire acquired about 109 square kilometers of land 2.72 kilometers north of Torch City through blackmail, and formally confirmed it through legal forms to thoroughly clarify the border issue with Chile.

The official signing of the "Tang Zhi Northern Boundary Treaty" immediately put Argentina in a dilemma, and the reason is very simple;
Whether it is the Panguipui area or the Torch City area (Osorno), as long as you climb over the tall Andes Mountains, the east of it is the province of Neuquen, Argentina, which is the most prosperous and wealthy Buenos The province of Ellis is adjacent and within easy reach.

(End of this chapter)