Chapter 116 Jimmy’s new toy
Since ancient times, the cost of security warfare has been very high.
The same is true for the Mexican Civil War. Epula and Tasan Anna successively launched massacres to eliminate the opposing forces, resulting in a total of nearly 500,000 deaths.
At this time, Mexico's population was only 7 million, compared with 17 million in the United States. The cost of a population of 500,000 was simply too high for Mexico.
In comparison, even the more than 60 million francs owed by the French seemed insignificant.
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 kill Jose Ephra. Epra.
Jose Epra boarded an American merchant ship. The ship's destination was the French port of Toulon, where it would take him to meet some French big shots and enjoy the treatment that a high-level political exile should have. .
At this time, France had taken back Texas, and the benefits from this colony were pretty good. However, from a security perspective, France had to take over the surrounding areas to ensure the security of Texas.
In fact, this was France's North American policy that had been set long ago, but I didn't expect it to go so smoothly.
Persimmons must be picked on the weak. Between the United States and Mexico, Mexico is of course the easy one to bully. And José Epra, the loser of the civil war, applied for political exile in France. This is undoubtedly a problem for the French when they just want to sleep. Pillows were brought.
However, neither the United States nor Mexico will let the French do what they want.
On this U.S. merchant ship, Jose Epra was attacked. Mexican masked gunmen who had already been ambushing the U.S. merchant ship launched an attack on Jose Epra and his retinue.
Caught off guard, Jose Eppura's followers soon fell into a pool of blood, and Jose Eppura himself was captured into a room hung with ham and bacon.
"Who are you? Who sent you?" José Eplar shouted.
However, Jimmy ignored him and hung him directly on the meat hook.
The sharp meat hook was inserted into Jose Eplar's flesh, and his screams immediately echoed in the room. However, since his hands and feet were tied, he could only watch his muscles being torn apart 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 pressed the knife to Jose Eplar's lips.
"Shhh."
"I just want to know who told you the information. As long as I get what I want, I will let you live."
"Only a devil would believe your lies! I will pay you ten times what Tasang 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 hood, revealing the face of a black man.
"You can't give us what we want."
After Jimmy finished speaking, he began to take off Jose Eplar's clothes.
"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 stripped José Eplar naked, lit a torch and began to burn the hair on his body.
Suddenly, Jose Eplar screamed repeatedly, and Jimmy asked.
"Are you willing to say it now?"
"I'm a Mexican general!"
"Now he's nothing more than a traitor."
Jimmy took out a knife and put on his reverse coat and apron, and José Eplar immediately shouted.
"What do you want to do? I told you I don't know anything!"
"There is a proverb among the skinned Indian tribes: He who has no clothes has few secrets, and he who has no skin has no secrets. Is this true?"
Jimmy was smiling, but it was cold.
Two hours later, Jimmy stopped what he was doing, took off his bloody apron and threw it into the trash can. At this time, a young man handed him a cigar.
"What should we do now? Mr. Jimmy? Miss Jenny belongs to Mr. President."
Jimmy took a deep breath, as if he had made a decision.
"Our allegiance is to the boss, not the boss's woman."
"I understand, Mr. Jimmy."
The young man put on a pair of clean clothes and left the cabin. In fact, Jimmy was not very old, but his expression always looked very numb, so many people thought he was a veteran.
"Mr. Jimmy, what should I do with this pile of rotten meat?"
"Cut it up, throw it into a bucket of salt water, and let the Americans make it into bacon and sell it to the French."
Jimmy and his group 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 put down the rebellion at this time, the death of half a million people greatly weakened Mexico's potential.
Americans and French are all penetrating into the north of Mexico, and there are less than 100,000 Mexicans in the vast territory of northern Mexico.
Tasan Anna's policy of forced relocation caused widespread dissatisfaction in Mexico, but he had no choice. If he did not do so, it would be equivalent to giving away the northern land, which he could not accept under any circumstances.
The French expressed their willingness to send immigrants to open up wasteland in California and New Mexico. The French immigrants would not only open up wasteland, but also pay taxes to the Mexican government, but the tax rate could only be determined through negotiation between the two countries.
The Mexicans are not fools and know that this is a plan of the French, just like the original immigrants in the United States.
Coupled with the negotiated tax rate, Mexico's national strength cannot ask France to do anything, but in turn, Mexico has to consider France's demands.
If Mexico really agrees to tax rate negotiation, I am afraid that it will even lose its tax autonomy in the future.
The U.S. government proposed to purchase from Mexico, California and New Mexico.
For this purpose, the U.S. government is prepared to pay US$15 million to the Mexican government, but it must be paid in full within ten years.
This is simply a joke for Mexico, which has an uprising every three months and a major coup every six months.
Historically, Mexico had 50 governments in the thirty years from 1821 to 1850, and about 250 military coups occurred in the twenty-four years from 1824 to 1848 alone.
Without the backing of Franz and Austria, Tasan Anna's presidential career might have ended long ago.
Now, if Mexico wants to rely on its own strength, it cannot develop or defend the northern border.
Franz also thought about sending people to California to mine gold mines secretly, but the problem came. The mining could be carried out secretly, but how to transport it back?
No country wants Austria to get California's gold, and no one can guarantee that Austria's gold mined in California can be shipped back to Austria.
And Austria and Mexico face the same problem, which is how to hold California.
The Panama Canal was not open at this time. If you wanted to go from Austria to California, you would have to go around the entire South America, or park the ship in Mexico, change carriages, and walk overland for one to two months to California. However, this approach is obviously Not very realistic.
Tasan Anna's sudden immigration plan disrupted Franz's previous deployment.
Some plans had to be implemented in advance because no one could guarantee that the new Mexican immigrants would not discover California's secrets.
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