Wild North America 1846

Chapter 781

With the arrival of the Holy Spirit, Hekou City, 13 feudal kings gathered here, and a large number of high-ranking dignitaries from South American countries flocked here, making it very lively for a while.

The historic castle palaces, manors and top hotels in the city are full of people, all of them are luxuriously dressed ladies and gentlemen, and luxurious night banquets are held one after another.

Inside

Among foreign dignitaries, the most distinguished ones are Paraguayan President Zheng Jianguo and Uruguayan President Dai Yicheng. Both of them brought their families to attend the gathering of the top aristocrats.

elaborate
General Zheng Jianguo, President of Paraguay, is the eldest son of former President General Zheng Fengrong. He has been in the military for 27 years. After the death of the old president, he took over the cobweb of authority in the military and became Paraguay's new generation of military strongman.

Uruguayan President General Dai Yicheng is in a similar situation, except that he is the second son of former President Dai Xueli, and he stood out through internal competition.

In the era when power was not checked and balanced, South American republics often had a family of power inherited from father to son.He is especially keen on maintaining this feudal inheritance relationship, which is true for whites and Chinese, and is generally accepted by the public.

The little Lopez family that triggered the first South American War in 1864 was a typical family military dictatorship. This style is very popular in South America.

After Lopez Jr. returned from his European inspections, he was appointed Secretary of the Army by President Lopez Sr. in 1855, and was appointed Vice President two years later.

Shortly thereafter, he was designated by his father as the "legal" heir to the presidency.

After the death of Paraguayan President Carlos Antonio Lopez on September 1862, 9, Lopez Jr. took over the presidency, inherited his father's mantle, and implemented family dictatorship.

In order to suppress opposition forces and strengthen his ruling position, he threw hundreds of opponents into prison and consolidated his dictatorship with a butcher knife.

nowadays

Similar situations have emerged in both Paraguay and Uruguay. Paraguayan President Zheng Jianguo and Uruguayan President General Dai Yicheng are two popular dictatorial warlord families in South America.

In fact, they wanted to go one step further, to be able to obtain the imperial decree from His Majesty the Tang Emperor, and transform the Republic into an independent kingdom and become a vassal state of the Tang Empire.

This vassal state is different from the original one. The original state belonged to the people, but the current state belongs exclusively to the Zheng family and the Dai family, which can be legally inherited from generation to generation.

Emperor Li Cha was well aware of their earnest thoughts, but he didn't express anything.

As a superior, you still have to make some decisions.

These two military dictatorship groups were born out of the Tang Empire. After taking control of the upper-level power of the country, they tried to establish a closer sectarian-vassal relationship with the Tang Empire and were granted imperial decrees.

From the perspective of the Tang Empire, this is more in line with geostrategic interests.

After all, the inheritance of the South American independent kingdom is more stable, and the bilateral relationship can be deepened through various methods such as marriage, trade, and investment, which will do more good than harm to the Tang Empire.

After the emperor of the Tang Dynasty came to Hekou City, he issued an order to summon the thirteen vassal kings in the first few days, and then summoned the presidents of Paraguay and Uruguay respectively.

There are many encouragements and expectations in the words, encouraging them to play a more active role in the process of further strengthening bilateral relations.

Shortly thereafter
Lin Wanqin, the deputy prime minister of the empire, was left behind to deal with the high-level leaders of South American countries, participated in one after another high-end social reception of various vassal kings, and launched many heavyweight private talks, which seemed to be a grand diplomatic event in South America.

Emperor Li Cha took some of the accompanying ministers to various towns, farms, and plantations in Dahe Province, visiting fields and even people's homes.

With Emperor Li Cha's usual temper, he didn't want to be led by the nose.

He could only see the scenery that he wanted to see, and could only understand those things that had been beautified. Then he would lose the original intention of the southern tour, which was to see the truest side of society.

The province of Rio Grande was formed from the merger of the former states of Santa Catarina and Paraná in the Brazilian Empire. It has been included in the empire's territory for 38 years. With the influx of large amounts of Chinese capital, it has developed quite well.

This area was originally a relatively mature area, adjoining the prosperous state of Sao Paulo in the former Brazilian Empire to the north. There are many tributaries of the Paraná River and a well-developed inland water system, which is a natural treasure for inland waterway shipping.

Through inland waterways, we can easily connect with landlocked Paraguay and Bolivia, and radiate to the northwest of Uruguay. Northward inland waterways can lead directly to Sao Paulo.

The territory has large areas of fertile plains, forests and convenient inland navigation. Only in the central and northwest of the province, there are a few hills and mountains.

The mountains are neither high nor widely distributed, but there are large areas of forests and swamps.

More than [-]% of the land in the Grande River Province is fertile plain forest and swamp area, suitable for farming and grazing, with excellent water conservancy and irrigation conditions, and has a large area of ​​rice planting area second only to Colombia.

The province has a total population of more than 256 million, of which 71.2% are Chinese, 21.9% are white, and less than 7% are naturalized Indians.

What is naturalized Indian?

It is these Indians who are the descendants of Chinese soldiers. After being abandoned, they grew up with Indian mothers. This is not uncommon in all the colonies of the Tang Empire.

During the war and subsequent occupation, the high energy of the soldiers of the imperial army had nowhere to vent, and there was no proper contraception, resulting in the birth of many children.

When the army of the Tang Empire was ordered to evacuate, a small number of lucky women would leave with their children and husbands, while more were abandoned.

These children have received free Chinese charity education since they were young, and they can speak Mandarin fluently.A small number of them can also use the indigenous language proficiently, which comes from their mothers.

When these children grow up, they tend to belong to the Chinese ethnic group in terms of identity, but they maintain some of their own Indian characteristics, such as indigenous languages ​​and totem beliefs. They are called "naturalized Indians".

The real Indians almost no longer exist in the Thirteen Kingdoms and the River Province in South America.

During the Desert Expedition which began in 1862
Many scholars believe that there are more than 220 million indigenous Indians, some believe that there are more than 160 million, and some believe that there are more than one million. People have different opinions.

The official caliber of the empire is
There are about 12 to 13 indigenous Indians in the area. When imperial immigrants poured into the area in large numbers, they were enlightened and infected by the advanced Chinese civilization. They have got rid of the primitive life of caring for hair and drinking blood, and actively integrated into the Chinese family and became An inseparable part and so on.

Emperor Li Cha discovered a characteristic of this area during his inspection tour in Dahe Province;
That is, there are many large and medium-sized farms and ranches, with hundreds or thousands of people at every turn, and the area of ​​pastures is tens of thousands or even tens of millions of acres.

A ranch is a town, a medium-sized ranch is a village, and a large ranch is a town. The internal armed militia organization is quite mature, and its combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.

Hearing the explanation of the accompanying officials, he also understood that the origin of these large and medium-sized ranches still originated from the historical desert expeditions.

At the beginning of the desert expedition

Most of them are expedition teams sent by relatives, friends and local noble families organized by military officers with rich combat experience, and launched a campaign to conquer this vast and rich continent by force.

Starting from the central area adjacent to the province of Buenos Aires, dozens of hundreds of desert expedition teams began to attack everywhere, launching one after another armed conquest against the indigenous Indians.

years later

The desert expedition team is getting more and more, deeper and deeper, reaching south to Storm City on the edge of the Strait of Magellan, and going west deep into the Andes Mountains.

The vast and fertile Pampas and La Plata plains gave birth to the sturdy and skilled Datang militia cavalry, which shocked the whole of South America.

During the 1st South American War
The Andean Governor's Mansion only dispatched two regiments of a regular division, and most of the others were conscripted armed militia forces, beating Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to throw away their armor and armor, and they fell thousands of miles.

The legendary soldiers of the Tang Dynasty dealt with Indians in the early stage, whites (Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay) in the middle stage, and their own people in the later stage.

on the barren field

The law of the forest of the weak and the strong is very obvious. Bullying the weak will not restrain you or even stop your fire just because you are also of Chinese descent.

In many cases, the neighbors around you are precisely the most dangerous enemies.

When the enemies around are defeated, the more fertile pastures, sweet and clear water sources, and good places to find gold, iron ore and coal resources, all become the boundaries to fight for.

The small number of people and troops in the former Andes Governor's Mansion can only be regarded as better than nothing for the large and small scale battles that broke out in the wilderness all the time.

in this harsh environment
Only by keeping warm with relatives, friends or acquaintances in arms can we have enough strength to defend the farm, our wealth and family, which leads to large and medium-sized farms blooming everywhere.

Dahe Province is naturally no exception, and the current situation has been formed over time.

It should be particularly pointed out that;

Duke of Panama.When His Highness Tang Li Geng, the second prince, took office as the governor of the Andes, in view of the barbaric fighting that was raging all over the country at that time, he launched three powerful policies to stabilize the chaotic situation in one fell swoop.

The first measure is to completely stop the issuance of new land title confirmation registrations, and all land transactions will be stopped regardless of whether they are bought or sold or seized by force.

The Governor's Office will only recognize private land rights before the deadline, and will not recognize them after the deadline. They will be regarded as illegal and not protected by imperial law.

The second measure is to establish 2 immediate courts in the entire Antis Governor's Mansion, and go to the vast inland hinterland pastoral areas in turn to judge right and wrong on the spot, decide cases on the spot, and punish criminals on the spot.

Each province established a "horse court", and its judgments were recognized by Governor Andes and endorsed by the powerful empire.

Each "immediate court" is composed of more than a dozen judicial personnel. The core is three judges, one principal and two deputy officers, plus clerks, 4 to 5 freelance lawyers, cooks, and coachmen.

Depending on the mission route, the Immediate Court will also be equipped with accompanying cavalry protection, all of which come from the regular imperial army. Most of the peaceful areas have a cavalry platoon, and even a cavalry company is sent to areas with relatively chaotic law and order.

Such an armed force, together with the local militia cavalry, is extremely deterrent with the name of righteousness.

Even the leaders of local militias who are bold and reckless dare not openly commit chaos, that is tantamount to a dead end.

The third initiative is that the Andean Governor's Palace contact the Imperial Taoyuan School of Administration, and send a large number of graduates to the Governor's Palace every year.

Under the leadership of experienced colonial officials, these young graduates went deep into every town and village to help them establish a sound management system.

For example, the establishment and operation of village and town institutions, financial management system, combined management of grazing and planting, dispute resolution mechanism, village and town planning and construction, etc.

This series of measures has contributed to the development of the armed militia from the original barbaric development to the correct track with planning, steps, goals, and orderly progress.

These three important measures have restored the tranquility of the vast area under the former Andean Governor's Mansion, entered a relatively long period of peaceful and stable development, and established a relatively standardized village and town system.

The smooth success of the 13 vassal kings in South America is inseparable from the good foundation at the beginning.

Looking around, Emperor Li Cha also saw the pros and cons.

Large and medium-sized farms are really good, which is conducive to concentrating forces to guard village boundaries, organizing cavalry armed patrols, promoting agricultural machinery planting, concentrating forces on farmland water conservancy construction, and so on.

There are also many disadvantages. Some people in power in some villages and towns have gradually evolved into local snakes, using their power to repel dissidents and suppress their clansmen, causing public resentment in many places.

To sum it up, it's all selfishness.

Although the interests of farms and pastures are distributed through the shareholding system, how difficult is it to be truly impartial?
About thirty to seventy percent!

Thirty percent of villages and towns operate well, with transparent and open accounts every year, and village elders' associations or town committees are formed by some respected gentry.Responsible for supervising the distribution of interests in the village and town, which can generally be done fairly.

The other [-]% of the villages and towns are much worse, and various problems are simply countless.

For example, the income from the sale of cattle and sheep fur is not disclosed, the income from the sale of grain disappears, the agricultural machinery purchased by Murakami is used for personal use or even occupied, those who complain are ostracized and attacked, and they even disappear into the wilderness for no reason.

All kinds of chaos will also be the focus of governance in the next step.

The imperial government should not leave the land privatized and just collect some taxes every year, that would be completely irresponsible.

We should pay attention to the problems reported by the public, and send capable teams to go deep into the villages and towns to find out the problems in time and solve them in time, so as not to let the abscesses grow bigger and bigger.

The government should stand as a referee and a fair person, help these local towns to make up for loopholes, find deficiencies, crack down on village bandits and bullies, and restore justice and order.

Only in this way can we win more people's support, establish a fairer environment, and be more conducive to long-term rule.

If he had followed the arrangements of the local government, it would have been impossible for Emperor Li Cha to hear these voices from the bottom of the society, perceive all kinds of disadvantages and injustices, and would often be confused by the superficial prosperity and development.

In this way, the original intention has changed.

(End of this chapter)