On February 1, 1687, with a harsh whistle, two 150-ton offshore/inland general steamer drove into Valdivia Port in a swagger.

When the Spanish officials at the port saw the flag of the east coast hanging high on the mast of the ship, their legs became three points weak. When they saw a team of armed soldiers carrying live ammunition on the ship, they lost even the courage to face it. They directly asked their subordinates to negotiate with the east coast and went back to the dock office to "rest".

Everyone in Valdivia City knows that these East Coast soldiers are not the ones in their city who cannot even be uniform in their clothes. They come from a regular army called the 12th Mixed Battalion. They are equipped with advanced equipment, frequent training, and high morale, which is far from something they can compete with.

These small steamers from the east coast actually violated the sovereignty of the Spanish Kingdom on the first day. When they sailed to the port for the first time, the Spanish were stunned and thought they were here to do business. But when they saw that they ignored them, they drove upstream directly, and didn't know where they were going, so they suddenly became anxious.

But what's the use of such an urgent matter? Valdivia does not have a decent coastal defense fortress now. The kingdom's investment in the Pacific side is really low, and almost all the money is poured into the Caribbean Sea. Did they really entrust the defense on the Pacific side to the third fleet of the East Coast people? What does that look like!

In this way, the small steamer of the East Coast people was going up the way, and no one dared to stop them. They drove to a far place upstream, and then unloaded the goods by a team of mules and horses coming from the land. The whole process was closely monitored by the Spanish, and their cavalry even approached a few dozen meters from the river bank. However, because the soldiers of the East Coast soldiers drove them, they did not dare to come forward to question, but it was enough to let them understand the whole story.

It turned out that the evil people on the east coast actually took a fancy to the Valdivia River and the Kayekaye River with good navigation conditions, and wanted to use it, transport a large amount of cargo to the inland with ships, and then received by local people who cross the border and reclaim the land. This method can deliver a large amount of urgently needed materials for land reclamation - especially some crude materials - to the people in need at the fastest speed and lowest cost to support their efforts in land reclamation on this land.

At this time, the Spanish suddenly realized, but they were powerless to stop it. The deep understanding of the powerful strength of the East Coast allowed them to avoid any direct conflict at all times, so they were forced to "cut sausages" step by step by step by step. They were in a very embarrassing situation. Look, when the small steamer on the east coast drove into the Valdivia River for the first time, what was the reaction of the Coral port, which was the outer port of the city and the barrier? Sorry, there was no reaction!

This city was occupied by the East Coast people when the East Coast war broke out, and the fort was destroyed. After peace, the Spaniards rebuilt. However, the rebuilt fort was controlled by a group of cowardly soldiers. They did not dare to fire at the ships of the East Coast people and let them swagger into the Valdivia River, although they were still brave when facing pirates.

After tasting the sweetness of transporting goods by using the Valdivia River and the Cayekaye River, the people on the east coast immediately became out of control. Now their ships come almost once a week, and most of the time they transport goods, sometimes they also transport people, which made the East coast more and more people farm, logging and fishing in the inland central valley. In just a few years, it exceeded the achievements of the Spanish Kingdom's colonization for more than 100 years. It has to be said to be a great irony.

Of course, Valdivia reported this violation of their sovereignty in the East Coast to Lima, but they never expected that Peruvian Governor Alango would give them any support. The superiors should have dealt with it as if nothing had happened. Pretending to be invisible is the consistent policy of colonial officials at all levels in the Peruvian Governor District over the years.

But who would have thought that the East Coast people didn't even give them the chance to pretend to be ostrich! Just yesterday, several envoys came from the south, said to have been sent by Zhao Ke, a commissioner of the Southern Chile Regional Administration of the East Coast Republic, to discuss the dredging and dredging of the Valdivian River and the Kayekaye River with Valdivia.

This is really a fucking ghost! The rivers in the territory of the Kingdom of Spain, you ran over on the east bank and said that you should dredge, dredge, or to facilitate your ship navigation, is there anything more ridiculous than this? Has the Government of the Kingdom of Spain invited you to come? Has you awarded any dredging contracts for you? There is no doubt that none of them!

So, what the people in the East Coast do is quite speechless, especially the officials of Valdivia. They don’t know how sensitive they are to these rivers that can lead to the inland. There was no way to be forced into the East Coast steamer before. Now they are still helping you dredge and dredge so that your larger ships can drive in? We are not so stupid yet. You must know that the Kayekaye River extends upstream to the foothills of the Andes, and there are many large and small silver mines in the middle. Most of them have been mined for decades, and some have even been hundreds of years. Although the single silver production is not large, it is not a small amount. It has always been the money bags of local colonial officials and local elite white families. How can you covet outsiders?

I believe that if it weren't for the notorious East Coast people who broke into this river with silver, these guys would dare to unite to kill you! In history, those envoys who either came to inspect the actual output of Valdivian inland silver mines under the order of the Madrid monarch or the governor of Peru, were either jointly bought by local governments or died inexplicably. This is already very telling. These lawless guys can definitely do anything to defend their property!

But the problem is that the East Coast people threaten their property, which is difficult to deal with! As the forefront of trade with the East Coast, every Spaniard in Chile knows that the East Coast army - especially their army - is a vicious group of people who are cruel and ruthless in dealing with the enemies they think they think are cruel. Take this eradication of the Araucan Indians who flee in southern Chile as an example (this is an agreement reached by the two governments), their only way to deal with any tribe that disobeys and insists on resisting is to eliminate them all

, No one left! Everyone who visited the scene was frightened. After the victory of the battle, the soldiers of the East Coast Army, holding the bayonet rifles, slowly chased the Arakan people everywhere, and then stabbed them to the ground one by one, and the earth and rivers were stained with blood. The only one who received pardon was the Arakan tribe who announced their surrender before the battle began. They would be escorted to the coast by the East Coast people, and then shipped to South Africa to compete with the black people for the land in the sun and become a member of the Yellow and Black Dividing Line.

Until now, it is said that there are still two infantry companies and one cavalry company, operating between mountains and valleys in southern Chile, clearing out the few Araucan Indians who are already left. This is part of the cooperation between the East Coast government and the Governor of Peru in exchange for their acquiescence to the East Coast people's act of setting up prison reclamation areas north of the border river.

Therefore, the Spaniards in the central and southern Chile really intuitively realized the combat effectiveness of the East Coast Army. Therefore, these guys who dared to fight against the sky and the earth and the air for the sake of the silver mine, and even dared to kill the investigators sent by their superiors, did not dare to fight against the East Coast people because they knew that the East Coast people would really take action against them, including force measures. They did not want to fall from the sky with rifles in the middle of the night, kicked open their doors a few times, and then put a bayonet on their necks. That would be too bad.

Therefore, although the East Coast people were shameless, they sent people to discuss dredging the Valdivia River and the Kayekaye River, they could not refuse flatly, so they could only accept it with their noses. At the same time, they cursed Governor Alango in their hearts, and actually asked the East Coast Army to enter the country to help clear out the disobedient Indians. Now they are slowing down and not leaving yet. What should you do?

The two sides had been talking in Valdivia for more than half a month, but they didn't talk about anything. After learning that the group of Spaniards had not reported to Lima at all, the East Coast representative was angry and simply refused to talk to them. They went directly to the Southern Chile Regional Administration to report to Commissioner Zhao Kezhao.

Zhao Ke was both angry and funny about these Spaniards. Then he made a decision. Regardless of the thoughts of the poor Spaniards, he would dredge the Valdivia and Cajekaye River by himself, and he would not dare to stop them. It just so happened that there was a special "hat" fund in the district office. He originally planned to use it to dredge the border river (Bueno River), but this river had a fatal weakness, that is, the strange rocks near the estuary, shallow water and silt, and the project volume was large, and it was not suitable for a port. There was no way out, after all, in addition to the Maolin River that had been dredged and silted in the southern Chile area, now a large area of ​​irrigation agricultural areas have been established on both sides of the river, and huge amounts of wheat, soybeans and grass are produced every year, gradually becoming the second largest barn in the southern Chile area, second only to Fenggu Island. Zhao Ke really couldn't think of any places where this special transportation fund could be used.

Now, the Valdivia River and the Kayekaye River entered his eyes. He only gestured a little on the map about Valdivia, the Four Forts of the Corps, the Red Flag Prison, Biarica and several small silver mines and small mercury mines, and immediately gave up the immature idea of ​​dredging the boundary river and planned to use the funds allocated by the Transportation Lottery Fund for Valdivia. Anyway, in his opinion, those areas will be the territory of the East Coast Republic of China in the future, and they will develop one day earlier and one day later. There is basically no difference, so there is no need to think too much.

Based on this idea, he made a decision almost in the shortest time, and then ordered various departments to start operations. At present, the contract for dredging work has been awarded to an engineering company under the jurisdiction of the Canal Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation (formerly Canal Affairs Office). They have professional "Qingtang Army" series of dredgers, with rich experience and low prices, so they were awarded the contract by the regional administration as soon as possible.

As for nonsense that such behavior may cause protests from the Spanish and in turn affecting relations between the two countries, Zhao Ke would not be worried at all. He is a middle-level official of the government. Of course, he is aware of the current situation in Europe and knows that the French army is still eroding the Southern Netherlands territory of the Spanish Kingdom. The Madrid court is panicking and is contacting allies everywhere to raise courage. And the East Coast Republic of China, which once beat them up and helped them in recent decades, is naturally the target of the Spanish Kingdom to win over and win. Therefore, it can be imagined that they do not want to have conflicts with the East Coast.

In fact, there are a lot of such moments in history. It seems that the East Coast people can always seize various interests, including territory and commerce, and use the crisis of the Spanish Kingdom in Europe to seize various means of cutting sausages. After decades of accumulation, they have made quite amazing gains. The Spanish have also thought about trying to reverse this unfavorable situation, but they fail every time. The main reason is that they are too troublesome in Europe, and there are many enemies who are eyeing them, so that they may be attacked if they do nothing. So what else can they say? Keep their own European land first, and find other ways, as long as the East Coast people don’t touch their wallets.

Now even local officials on the east bank know about this attitude of the Kingdom of Spain, so Zhao Ke openly ordered the infringement of the Kingdom of Spain and dredging the Valdivian River and the Cajekaye River. Once these two rivers are dredged, ships can directly drive from the sea to places very close to the Andes, then they can directly contact the wealthier Dingnan, Luyang and other counties on the other side of the mountain, which greatly facilitates material exchanges on both sides of the mountain.
Chapter completed!