The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven Chapter 72

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Since ancient times, the cost of security warfare has been very high.

The same is true of the Mexican Civil War. The massacres carried out by Epra and Tasan Anna successively to eliminate the opposing forces caused a total of nearly 500,000 deaths.

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

Even the more than 60 million francs owed by the French pales in comparison.

Jose Epra decided to surrender to Tasan Anna. He wanted to go into exile in France in order to make a comeback. However, Tasan Anna only pretended to agree to his conditions and secretly ordered Jimmy and his men to get rid of Jose Epra. Epra.

Jose Epp boarded an American merchant ship, the destination of which was the port of Toulon, France, where it would take him to meet some French bigwigs and enjoy the privileges of a high-ranking political exile. treatment.

At this time, France has taken back Texas, and the income from this colony is not bad, but from a security point of view, France must take over the surrounding areas to ensure the safety of Texas.

In fact, this is also the North American policy that France has set up early in the morning, but I didn't expect it to go so smoothly.

Persimmons must be picked softly. Between the United States and Mexico, of course Mexico is easy to bully, and Jose Epra, the loser of the civil war, applied for political exile in France. Pillows were brought.

However, neither the United States nor Mexico will let the French do what they want.

On this American merchant ship, Jose Epra was attacked. The Mexican masked gunmen who had already ambushed on the American merchant ship launched an attack on Jose Epra and his followers.

Caught off guard, Jose Epra's followers soon fell in a pool of blood, and Jose Epra himself was caught in a room hung with ham and bacon.

"Who are you? Who sent you?" Jose Epra cried.

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

The sharp meat hook was inserted into Jose Epra's flesh, and his screams immediately echoed in the room. However, because his hands and feet were tied, he could only watch his muscles being torn by the meat hook crack.

"Who gave you the information?" Jimmy asked.

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

Jimmy put a knife on Jose Epra's lips.

"Hush."

"I just want to know who told you the information. As long as I get what I want, I will let you live."

"The devil will believe your nonsense! I will pay ten times what Tasan Anna can give you!" Jose Epra shouted.

Suddenly Jimmy and the masked gunmen in the room looked at each other and laughed.

One of the masked gunmen removed his veil, revealing a black face.

"What we want, you can't give."

After Jimmy finished speaking, he began to undress Jose Epra.

"What are you doing! 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 don't know!"

Jimmy had already stripped Jose Epra, lit a torch and started burning the hair on his body.

Immediately, Jose Epra screamed again and again, and Jimmy asked.

"Are you willing to speak now?"

"I'm the Mexican general!"

"It's nothing more than a traitor now."

Jimmy took out a pocket knife and put on his down jacket and apron, Jose Epra cried immediately.

"What do you want? I told you I don't know anything!"

"There is a proverb among the skinning clans of the Indians that those who have no clothes have few secrets, and those who have no skin have no secrets. I wonder if this is true?"

Jimmy was smiling, but coldly.

Two hours later, Jimmy stopped what he was doing and threw his blood-soaked apron into the trash when a young man offered a cigar.

"What now? Mr. Jimmy? Miss Jenny belongs to Mr. President..."

Jimmy lit it and took a deep breath, as if he had made a decision.

"Our allegiance is to the boss, not the boss's woman."

"I see, Mr. Jimmy."

The young man put on 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 to do with this pile of rotten meat?"

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

Jimmy and his party quietly left the cabin, leaving only a pool of blood, but no one cared that there was an extra package in their hands.

Although Mexico suppressed the rebellion at this time, the death of 500,000 people greatly weakened Mexico's potential.

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

Tasan Anna's forced relocation policy has caused complaints in Mexico, but he has no choice. If he does not do so, it will be tantamount to giving away the northern land, which he cannot accept anyway.

The French expressed their willingness to send immigrants to open up wasteland in California and New Mexico. The French immigrants will not only open up wasteland, but also pay taxes to the Mexican government, but the tax rate can only be determined after negotiation between the two countries.

The Mexicans are not fools. They know that this is a trick of the French, just like the American immigrants.

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

If Mexico really agrees to the tax rate negotiation, I am afraid that it will not even have tax autonomy in the future.

The US government proposed to buy ~www.mtlnovel.com~ California and New West Mexico from Mexico.

For this reason, the U.S. government is prepared to pay the Mexican government 15 million U.S. dollars, but it must be paid within ten years.

This is simply a joke for Mexico, where there will be an uprising every three months and a large-scale coup every six months.

Historically, during the thirty years from 1821 to 1850 in Mexico, there were 50 governments successively in Mexico, and about 250 military coups took place in the twenty-four years from 1824 to 1848 alone.

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

Now Mexico, if it wants to rely on its own strength, whether it is developing the northern border or defending the northern border, it is impossible.

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

No country expected Austria to get Californian gold, and no one could guarantee that Austrian gold mined in California would be shipped back to Austria.

And Austria and Mexico face the same problem, that is, how to hold California.

At this time, the Panama Canal was not opened. If you want to go from Austria to Arifornia, you have to go around the whole of South America, or park your ship in Mexico, change a carriage and walk on land for one to two months to reach California. This approach 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 there was no guarantee that those new Mexican immigrants would not discover the secrets of California.

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