On June 10, 1657, the west wind was level 6.

The lead-gray sky was gloomy, as if a blizzard could fall on the vast wilderness at any time. On the soft sand, pairs of cowhide boots and deer leather boots were trampled around, and soon the ground was stomped tightly. Liu Ang, president of Nantie Company, wore a bear fur coat and looked at the burial coffin in front of him with a serious expression, not knowing what he was thinking.

"President, the two sons of Vicente's little boys have basically been honest. Some old guerrilla officers do not agree with their continued trouble. The merger of the Kingdom of Araucania has basically been settled." Xu Gang, the captain of the Nantie Road Protection Team, quietly walked to Liu Ang, who was attending the funeral of Vicente, and whispered.

Old Vicente's son, the king of the Kingdom of Araucania, and the young Vicente, who had been living in the country for more than a year, finally passed away suddenly at the beginning of this month after more than a year of illness. Before his death, Little Vicente, who converted to Taoism, may have been persuaded by the Taoist General Assembly, or perhaps he had understood the times himself. In short, he called his family and several senior guerrilla officers over and announced that he would accept the proposal of the Nanzhi Company to merge the Kingdom of Araucania into the East Coast Republic of China as a whole. Thirty thousand people (of which the Araucanese people account for about 75%, and the rest are all Ming people) will also be naturalized in batches. The East Coast government heard that the East Coast government will move them to more fertile land in the future and get rid of poverty and difficult life from then on.

However, Little Vicente figured it out, but it doesn't mean that his two sons have figured it out too. Although the Kingdom of Arakania only has 30,000 citizens (including 24,000 Arakans, 6,000 Ming people), the land is barren and the wind is raging, which is a standard bitter and cold place, but it can't stand it. People just like to be the king and be brave and unwilling to go to the east coast to be delighted. What can you do? This is the case with Little Vicente's only two adult sons. One is a guerrilla officer and the other is a local government official. Both of them have their own small teams, and they both want to inherit the throne and become kings. Now that I heard that the country is about to be finished and is about to be incorporated into the east coast, how can they not be anxious? How can they not try to change this situation? After the negotiations with the east coast were fruitless, the only way to violently break the deadlock was to be put in front of them.

But who is the Nantie Company? How could it not be considered like this? This large Kangcaien company, which is full of militarists, mobilized hundreds of trained road guards to stabilize the order in the city from the day Vicente died. At the same time, more than a thousand militiamen from Heishan Township, Qingniwa Township, and Midway Township also took weapons to Arakan Port on trains, guarding various strongholds and intersections, further stifling possible unrest. All the movements of Arakan society were also under the gaze of police and spies. This small country with a population of only 30,000 can basically make a fuss.

In fact, this is true. Although his two sons walked around in every way, they had almost no results. The old officers of the guerrillas knew the ability of the East Coast people and knew that if they acted rashly with their strength, they would basically be annihilated. What's more, before their death, Vicente clearly said that they would merge into the East Coast, so it was even more impossible for them to do anything. The officers were unwilling to follow, and the remaining tax officials, judges, police, etc. (all systems that were helped to establish in the East Coast) were even less powerful. Therefore, it has become a fact that the merger of this country has become and cannot be shaken.

"Continue to observe." Liu Ang whispered. "There are so many people coming to attend the funeral today. Young Vicente's two sons should also understand that some dreams are time to wake up."

Xu Gang smiled knowingly when he heard this. Liu Ang said, "There are many people attending the funeral." In fact, it means that there are 240 road guards and 100 Gao Qiao mercenaries outside the cemetery. Anyone who attempts to attack at the funeral will be suppressed by them, not to mention that there are teams of East Coast militia patrolling with guns in the city. At this sensitive moment, it is better for everyone to be more peaceful, so as not to be suppressed as rebels.

The funeral ended in the evening, and the coffin of Vicente was buried in the family cemetery specially approved by the Nantie Company. After handling this matter, Liu Ang began the substantive action of merging the Kingdom of Araucania, namely the "abolition of vassal states" plan that had been submitted to the Executive Committee and approved. In this plan, the Kingdom of Araucania will be abolished as a whole and replaced with two counties including Araucan and Snow Peak. These two counties are vast. There are many mountains, snow fields, glacier lakes and seasonal rivers in the territory. There are not many flat lands, and the agricultural conditions are not very good. The cost-effectiveness of the development of the planting industry is too low, but it is very suitable to develop fisheries and livestock industries.

Among them, Araucan County reaches the north of the Heishan Coal Mine and the south of Araucan Bay. The county boundary to the east is between Zhongtu Township and Qingniwa Township, and to the west it reaches the sea. It includes all the vast island groups south of Contreras Island (inclusive) and north of the Magellan Strait, including Araucan Town, Heishan Township, Qingniwa Township and Niushi Township (the place where the Nantie Company trades livestock with the Araucan people, and the fief of the second son of Little Vicente has been military occupied by the Nantie Company), with a total population of more than 20,000.

It can be seen that Araucan County is vast and its population cannot be considered small even in the local area. However, in terms of land output, it can only support one-third of its population. The remaining food gap can either be supplemented by fishing or imported from Peru. Of course, after the increase in population, the Southern Railway Company also plans to expand the scale of the animal husbandry industry and strive to make food self-sufficient as soon as possible. The pasture here is so vast. Later generations are famous wool and frozen meat exports in Argentina and Chile. What would it be like if the residents still go hungry?

Compared with Araucan County, Xuefeng County is much colder. There are few Araucan people in this area. Most of them are Araucan people who crossed the border into Patagonia for a living under the instigation of the East Coast (as in history). They conquered some tribes and occupied some territory in the local area. However, after the Spaniards had packaged and sold the land south of 42 degrees south latitude to the East Coast people, these villages and towns established on the territory of the East Coast people were very eye-catching, and they were just taking advantage of the implementation of the "abolition of vassals and established counties" plan.

So far, people on the east coast have expanded several towns based on the existing territory of the Araucan people, namely the Bedema Township (El Chalten Town), located on the north bank of the Bedema Lake (Zechalten Town), located in Zhen'an Township, the original site of the town of Tres Lagos in later generations, and Jing'an Township (near the bandera Pier on the shore of the Argentine Lake in later generations). The four towns (including Xuefeng Township) together have only more than 2,500 residents, pitifully few. Almost half of the area in the territory is occupied by two large lakes. The land is barren but the grassland is still vast, so they can only engage in animal husbandry and limited planting.

It is worth mentioning that whether it is Araucan County or Xuefeng County, its population does not currently include the number of residents of the Kingdom of Araucania. These people have to wait for the opportunity to naturalize thousands of Ming people in batches. However, Araucan people are very troublesome, and most of them may be moved to other places to settle down, so the statistics will not be done for the time being.

In addition, due to the agreement between the Executive Committee and Nantec Corporation, Xuefeng County is in the area north of the Liangyang Railway and is in principle directly under the government's jurisdiction. However, considering that Nantec Corporation has a solid foundation in the area, the county is temporarily assigned to Nantec Corporation's trusteeship, and all of its taxable income is also paid to Nantec Corporation's finances, but there is not much money anyway.

After the establishment of these two counties, even if the Kingdom of Arakania was completely digested, its original officials (many of which were helped by the East Coast people) would be transferred to the East Coast local area. The East Coast local area and the South Railway Company will send some officials to fill their vacancy and fully complete the officials of governments at all levels of the two counties. As for the Kingdom Army with a scale of more than 1,000 people (formerly adapted from the Arakan People's Liberation Army), they were forced to disband by the South Railway Company. At present, a considerable number of these people have paid the weapons to the designated locations of the East Coast people under the leadership of the officers, and received twenty yuan of severance per person. It seems quite stable. Of course, the reason why they are so "behaved" is because they are very clear about how much they have. The hundreds of soldiers in the South Railway Company's road protection team are not vegetarians.

After the Araucanian Kingdom abolished the vassal state and established counties, the number of counties under the jurisdiction of the Southern Railway Company reached four. In addition, some isolated settlements, the overall layout has been established. In addition, the Port of Araucan and Xingnan Port each built large-scale battleship special terminals, and the situation of controlling and striking the two oceans was quite obvious. In the future, if Spain and the East Coast were in conflict, the Southern Railway Company could easily arm thousands of soldiers to conquer the central Chile under the cover of naval ships, cooperate with the main army to capture La Plata, and finally meet in the central and northern Chile to attack Peru.

In addition, no European colonial country in the future attempting to enter the Eastern Pacific will be able to bypass the Strait of Magellan, which will eliminate most countries' covetousness over the West Coast of North America, and at the same time, it will turn half of the Pacific into the sphere of influence of the East Coast people. For example, Peru and the two major governors of New Spain have great interests. You should know that the United States developed in later generations by sucking blood from South American countries, and now they all belong to the East Coast people.
Chapter completed!