Alvarez Rodriguez returned to Buenos Aires with his son Jose.    .

A meeting was held in the Pampa Plain and was forced to subscribe for more than 10,000 yuan in stocks. At the same time, it was also hinted to donate some of the food, cured meat and forage to the American Railway Company to relieve their pressure on purchasing supplies. All of these messy things made Rodriguez extremely upset, and they jointly called them over to make an levy. It was really depressing.

In addition, protesting against the East Coast people against the "Ma Bandits" attack ended in vain. Vice President Chen of the American Railway Company just refused the matter and did not belong to his business scope, so he asked him to respond to relevant departments through formal diplomatic channels. Of course, it is difficult to satisfy Rodriguez, but he had no choice. The railway company does not care about this matter, and it is useless to say it. What about the so-called formal channels? That is even more effective, whether it is General La Plata or

Even the ambassador to the East Coast could not achieve any positive results. The huge bureaucratic machine on the East Coast seemed to have no special reaction to their accusations, or even if there was a reaction, it would not be the result they wanted. Alvarez still remembers that when tens of thousands of East Coast immigrants had already arrived at the Pampa Plain, the East Coast government sent an investigation team to investigate because of the Spanish protests, and the result came to the ridiculous conclusion that only "more than one hundred" pioneers operated agriculture in the Pampa Plain.

If you really want to talk about these things, you have to blame yourself for your lack of strength! The people on the East Coast are extremely realistic people and they value strength extremely. If you don’t have strength, he will never take you seriously. Look at their warships coming and going in La Plata River, showing off their power, and their tax police forces even openly anti-smuggling in the territory of the Kingdom of Spain. When did they respect the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Spain? Therefore, Alvarez has accepted his fate now. This matter is probably like most protests in the past. People on the East Coast have been endlessly ruling, and their disputes have slowly disappeared, and no one has paid attention to it.

However, the "horse bandits" on the East Coast can be noted for the time being, but what are the damage and purpose they caused? Alvarez had a while ago talked to some owners of the manor who suffered losses, and felt that things might not be that simple, because the intensity and time of this attack were far beyond the past. It seemed that it was not just a simple act of revenge, but also mixed with some other factors. As for what other factors were, Alvarez had a vague understanding, but he dared not confirm it, because it was too horrible and too nonsense. It was because the people of the East Coast wanted to drive them away from Buenos Aires!

This is actually not impossible! As we all know, how rich the surrounding area of ​​Buenos Aires is, how critical its geographical location is, and how urgent it is for people on the east coast to get the city, especially when the railway has been built to the suburbs of the Pearl of La Plata.

But there are many obstacles that lie in front of the East Coast people. The biggest one is undoubtedly Putrajaya's important position and the many Spanish farmers, herdsmen, soldiers, merchants, priests and other personnel living here. If these people and their families do not leave, the East Coast people will never succeed in occupying the city, unless they obtain legal ownership of the city through political means, but this seems impossible at present.

So they used such despicable means? Alvarez was a little uncertain, but felt that the possibility was still high. But then again, this speculation was not enough to convince the President of the Prosecutor's Court of Buenos Aires and General La Plata to take decisive measures. Putrajaya's layer was already rotten, and she lacked enough courage when facing the East Coast people, and was invincible when extorting merchants. If it weren't for some particularly conclusive evidence, those men would definitely continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb until their term was exhausted. There was no other possibility. Alvarez knew those people too well.

Could it be that the East Coast pagans continue to rage in the vast Pampa Plain? Looking at his son Jose's wrinkled face because of his long-term efforts in family affairs, he remembered his grandson Pedro's attachment to the prairie, and then his grandfather Manuel and his father Alvaro worked hard to run the family business. Alvarez was very sad. He felt that he should do something, but he thought about it and let go of these plans, because the risks were too great. The family business created by the Rodriguez family for generations cannot be ruined by his personal likes and dislikes. This is an unforgivable thing.

Thinking of this, Alvarez had a headache: this time, he agreed to the subscription of the salt-cloth railway stocks of nearly 15,000 silver cords by the East Coast people. How could this convince other old guys to subscribe and invest? You should know that there are several people in this industry that were damaged in the mad dog attack of the East Coast "horse bandits". It is indeed a very challenging thing to make them pay for it when they were just stimulated. Alvarez was not sure how to accomplish such a feat! It is hard to say that in the end, their Rodriguez family still had to find a way to spend some of the money themselves to make up for the shortcomings.

Why is it so difficult? Alvarez sighed a long sigh, then held the cross hanging on his chest, and then silently recited it, and then returned to his villa accompanied by his son Jose. He planned to take a two-day rest to calm down. After all, he was not young anymore, and he was not the young man who followed his grandfather and his father to smuggle goods back to La Plata from the east coast. After the rest, he planned to visit the top figures in the city, exchange views with their current situation, and then visit the old friends one by one to see how to solve the problem of subscribing to stocks.

The spring breeze blows on my face, full of greenness.

The third-class national highway was temporarily built outside Xinying Township to build a railway. A long horse team had just finished supplying water and was heading north. They were troops from the Yanbu Railway Guard Command, commanded by Deputy Commander Major Inigo. The destination was Nancun Port in the north. They would meet with a tax police officer commanded by Cai Dao there. While receiving some weapons and ammunition, they also added the fifty new recruits who were transferred down from their heads.

Today is October 25, 1684. They have been in the northern part of the Pampa Plain for almost a month. The more than 70 guard soldiers he commanded are now about fifty, all of whom are heroic and incompetent. At first glance, it is not nonsense to call them "horse bandits", because they do look very similar.

Inigor's people had just been chased by a Spanish cavalry team, and they were so excited that they got rid of the enemy and entered Xinying Township to replenish supplies. The township head of this settlement knew that they were powerful and arranged food and accommodation for them as soon as possible. At the same time, he summoned only a few medical staff to treat the wounded. He was so attentive.

A few dozen meters away, the villagers of the Spanish Kingdom of Franco Town watched the team return with complicated expressions. As a colonial town in the southernmost part of the Pampa Plain, Franco Town was not ignorant of what happened recently on the grassland. Considering that they lived next to the East Coast pioneers, the taste was even more complicated. They were afraid that the killing East Coast "horse bandits" rushed here, and then worked with the East Coast pioneers next door to take over the hundreds of remaining colonists in Franco Town.

Fortunately, such a thing did not happen in the end. The East Coast "horse bandits" did come, but they just came to buy some supplies and sold stolen goods on a small scale. Then they left swayingly without even looking at their town. This behavior made Franco town breathe a sigh of relief and was even more confused: Is it said that the East Coast people are interested in Buenos Aires not just speculation, but real facts? If you think about it this way, things are terrifying and shocking. If Buenos Aires is lost, then what is their lonely town of Franco?

Inigo had no control over the idea of ​​the Spaniard. He only knew that it was said that Guo Handong, who was about to serve as the Minister of the Army in the next government, praised him very much, and personally sent someone to pass a message to him, encouraging him to work hard and work hard to broaden the living space for the people of the Great East Coast. At the same time, the Qingyuan County Government of his hometown also recruited Inigo's two sons to the county school for free, and the future prospects were limitless. All of this made Inigo's mind more passionate and unstoppable. This once desolate Spanish soldier, a veteran with excellent swordsman, was promoted by the trust, respect and reasonable incentives given by the East Coast people, and fought for the colonization cause of the Great East Coast. It was really a pity to fight and kill his former compatriots.

Nancun Port is the end of the Yanbu Railway and one of the most important outer ports in Buenos Aires. The business has always been very prosperous. Since the establishment of the tax police camp on the East Coast, a company has been stationed here and used it as a base to attack various tax evasion smuggling activities. Now the company stationed here is led by Cai Dao, who had fought nearby. Together with many East Coast commercial institutions established here, they have almost bound the entire city and turned Nancun Port into a territory of the East Coast people.

Cai Dao was very clear about what Inigo and others did in the Pampa Plain. Therefore, after Inigo's people arrived, he readily opened his arsenal and took out a large number of stocks of weapons, ammunition and other military items. Under the supervision of the representatives of the Army Department, he handed them over to Inigo and others in full.

Inigor was very satisfied with those things. The brand new rifle rifle can eliminate the old flintlocks on their hands. In the future, they will be more at ease when facing the Spaniards who are only equipped with smoothbore flintlocks. You must know that the East Coast government has relatively strict control over rifle rifles. To date, most of them are equipped in the regular military system, and very few are flowing into the reserve force. Inigor was able to receive 100 rifles and a large amount of ammunition at one go. It was really Hong Fu Qitian and Feng Chuan was in love, so he was very satisfied!

Of course, Inigo also has something that is not so satisfied. Before leaving, I rushed to Nancun Port for some reason to discuss loans with bank officials. The CEO of Amtrak asked him if he could pause his harassment of the Spaniards and reduce the tension between the two sides, because Amtrak is trying to raise funds from Spanish merchants recently. Inigo's actions may have hurt the interests of those merchants, resulting in the failure of financing operations, and thus affecting the construction progress of the Yanbu Railway.

To be honest, Inigo is a bit fucked by Chen Jia's words. These civil affairs officials always feel that the army system is causing trouble for them and destroying their various tasks. Therefore, there is always a strong desire to "guise" them, and to some extent, they even want to establish the Ministry of National Defense and take the Army and Navy under the jurisdiction of the State Council. As a member of the army, Inigo has long been indoctrinated by his colleagues, and naturally lacks goodwill in the white shirts, especially after many military-to-armed cadres who were flooding the railway department that year gradually lost their power.

Because of this, he was just perfunctory to Chen Jia's various persuasions and did not take it seriously at all. He planned to return to his jurisdiction and rectify his subordinates as quickly as possible, and then give the Spaniards a big surprise. The pearl of Buenos Aires will sooner or later make it pale! Since the Spaniards have caused so much trouble to the East Coast people in the construction of the railway, it is time to give them retribution.

Chen Jia saw Inigo's attitude and knew that he would not listen to him. Therefore, in his anger, he had nothing to say. He could only smoke a cigarette in depression and began to think about where to get money. After thinking about it, he could only persuade the Ministry of Finance to add a temporary tax to raise funds. There seemed to be no other way to give up this. But tax increases have always been very sensitive. It is really hard to say whether the men from the Ministry of Finance are happy or not, so a major boss in the Iron and Central Committee has to coordinate this matter to see if the resolution can be passed in the end.

"How can the military expenditure of the army and the navy soar so much at once? This is entirely at the cost of squeezing national construction funds!" Chen Jia said with a frown. Of course, he knew that the country's vigorous investment in the army and the navy must have some purpose, but as the saying goes, the butt determines the head. Because of the surge in military expenditure, the railway construction is unsustainable, which of course will make him, the railway official, angry.

Moreover, this is just the early expansion of the army. After the construction is completed, the annual maintenance cost will be a very amazing number. Chen Jia can't calculate how much it is for a while, but it will always increase by 50% or 60% from the existing foundation. Moreover, this is still a figure in peacetime. Once a war breaks out with other countries on the east coast, even if the scale is not large, the cost will be lost. At that time, I am afraid that not the entire country's construction will be re-planned, and the short-lived organization of the Planning and Production Management Committee will also come back?

"What is the idea of ​​this country investing huge sums of money to build the army (mainly the navy)? Who are they targeting? Portuguese, Spanish, French? It's not very likely! It's also possible for the Dutch and the English, but in the current situation, there is no possibility of deterioration in the short term. Could it be that it is necessary to expedition the Earth Sea to help the Ottoman Empire's mud that has no walls to support the Ottoman Empire? Impossible?" Chen Jia was a little irritated, not knowing where this country will go in the future. At the same time, he was also worried about the future of the Yanbu Railway, a railway that had received a large amount of government subsidies a year ago.
Chapter completed!