Wild North America 1846

Chapter 398 "Tangzhi Northern Boundary Treaty"

"Ferguson, where the hell are you hiding?"

"Here it comes, here it comes..." Ferguson, who was as strong as a bear, rushed out of the shack on one side, holding up his pants in one hand and a gun in the other. He responded in a panic; "Here comes the deputy captain.

, are you looking for me?”

"Can you fucking take a break? The woman assigned to you can't escape. Does she need to plow the fields day and night every day? She's just like a walking animal." Tian Fuguang scolded him for a few times, and then

Inviting him to follow, he led more than 20 volunteer militiamen armed with live ammunition and walked towards one side of the camp.

over there

Many Indian women were busy loading the vehicles. Another week had passed. The cavalry team escorting the prisoners 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 80 kilometers away from here, there is an indigenous Indian tribe of about 1,700 people. Although this tribe is small in number, it has more than 300 horses, many cattle and sheep, and is equipped with many muskets.

, seems to be relatively wealthy.

The leading co-captains, Wu Erbao and Guan Datou, have already discussed and are preparing to raid this Indian native camp. After defeating it, they will use this Indian native camp as a base to develop to the surrounding areas.

No, the team is ready to go.

Some cassava and potatoes that could not be carried were left where they were. If other teams passed by, they could be used. Now this team has grown to nearly 200 horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts, with a total of more than 1,300 people. Except for 220 volunteer cavalry, most of the others are

Indian women.

"Are you ready? Let's go." He waved his hand and ordered.

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 more than Wu Erbao. Therefore, he is the cavalry captain with the strongest combat effectiveness and is also one of the two co-captains.

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

Chilean coast on the Atlantic side

In early March 1863, the Third Regiment of the First Marine Division, affiliated 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 Torch City.

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

This is because the area is located north of Chiloe Island. In 1825, the post-independence Chilean government held the Tapihue Conference with the Mapuche people. This conference determined that the Bio Bio River was the boundary between Chile and Araucaní.

The boundary between sub-regions ended more than 300 years of territorial disputes between the Mapuche people and the Republic of Chile (formerly Spanish colonizers).

There is no doubt that the Osorno region should belong to Chile. Although it is located in a remote area in southern Chile, the Spanish did occupy and own the area during the early wars with the Mapuche people. There are still more than 570 Spaniards in the area.

White descendants have settled for a long time.

If the Torch City was occupied by the Tang Empire, then the more than 5,600 kilometers of Chile's Pacific coast would be cut in half, leaving only more than 2,460 kilometers, and all the more than 3,150 kilometers in the south would be lost...

Fortunately, in the 1860s, Chileans did not expect to have such a long coastline. The focus of their attention was the Osorno region. As descendants of Spanish whites, the Chileans showed an extremely angry attitude towards the invasion of the southern territory.

The biggest problem is

The Chileans could not provide any legal basis for the Osorno region to belong to them. They only claimed that the area belonged to them and was occupied by the Tang Empire, but they could not provide any evidence.

At the Tapihu Conference in 1825, although the Bio Bio River was determined to be the boundary between Chile and the Araucanía region, the two sides did not sign any legally significant intergovernmental agreement.

This is because Chile still covets the vast land further south and does not want to stop its colonization at the Bio Bio River. It is just that it is temporarily unable to do so, so it is intentionally left as a vague concept.

Secondly, this is because the indigenous Indian tribes were a loose war alliance. They united to fight the Spanish. After the war, they went back to their respective homes and found their own mothers. There was no unified token and no royal government. In words,

After reaching a peace agreement, they dispersed.

Never imagined

The Tang Empire, which was located thousands of miles away in North America, actually sent its troops south, unreasonably occupied the Osorno area, renamed the area Torch City, and garrisoned the area in a grand manner.

This sudden incident stunned the Chilean government and people.

For the Malpuche people, the white man's muskets and conquests were simply dimensionality-reducing blows, and the indigenous Indians with backward productivity were like fat meat on a sticky board, allowing them to be cut and bullied.

For the Chileans, the powerful ships and cannons of the Tang Empire were a dimensionality-reducing blow. Small Chile could not compete with them at all. After shouting for a while, they wisely shut up.

If you think about it carefully, where is the lesson learned from the United States of America (North)? No matter how arrogant the Chileans are, they know that their small body is far from being able to compete with the Tang Empire, so their move is this;

A high-level delegation headed by Prime Minister Gonzalez was dispatched to make an emergency visit to the Tang Empire to seek agreement on the southern border issue.

In other words, I was decisively cowardly.

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 people, so it would not be a pity to lose it.

It is a pity that future attempts to expand southward failed and became completely impossible.

The top priority now is to determine the southern border with the Tang Empire. If the Tang Empire's army invades north again, there will be big trouble.

as expected

After Chilean Prime Minister Gonzalez arrived in Chang'an, the imperial capital of the Tang Empire, he launched urgent secret consultations with the imperial government. During the consultations, Prime Minister Gonzalez was shocked to discover that the Tang Empire actually controlled labor more than 270 kilometers south of Osorno.

Tarot area, raising questions about ownership.

This shocked the Chileans, and they immediately argued in secret consultations, presented facts, and preached that it has been more than 130 years since the Spanish colonists ruled the Lautaro region. From both a moral and legal perspective,

This area belongs to Chilean territory and there is no dispute.

After arguing hard, the Tang Empire reluctantly accepted this view.

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

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After a back-and-forth tug-of-war at the negotiation table, more than a month later, on May 14, 1863, the Tang Empire and Chile formally signed a bilateral border survey treaty. In the "Tang-Zhi Northern Boundary Treaty," the two parties agreed;

Panguipui City belongs to Chile, and 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 Tang Empire obtained about 27,200 square kilometers of land 109 kilometers north of Torch City through blackmail, and formally determined it through legal forms, thoroughly clarifying the border issue with Chile.

The formal signing of the "Tangzhi Northern Boundary Treaty" immediately put Argentina into a dilemma. The reason is very simple;

Whether it is the Panguipui region or the Torch City region (Osorno), as long as you cross the tall Andes Mountains, to the east is the Neuquén Province of Argentina, which is close to the most prosperous and wealthy Buenos Aires.

Ellis Province is adjacent and within easy reach.

(End of chapter)