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Chapter 1132 What the people want (third update, please subscribe)
In 1883, although there were still some resistance forces in the remote areas of Peru and Bolivia, with the signing of the surrender agreement, the imperial occupation of Peru and Bolivia had become a foregone conclusion.

Whether the people here accept it or not will not change this reality.

The annexation of the Peru-Bolivia Federation also allowed the southern mainland of the Ming Empire to exceed 1500 million square kilometers, but even so, the Ming Empire was only the second largest country in the world—even with the 170 million square kilometers of the Royal Dependency of Alaska km, Beihai Governor's District 94.4 square kilometers, and Northwest China 117 million square kilometers.

Ming is still the second largest country in the world... No way, Russia, no, the Roman Empire is too big.

Of course, if you add the 700 million square kilometers of African colonies, the 37 square kilometers of the Japanese Protectorate, the Pacific territories, and the royal territory of the Persian Gulf, Ming can still compete with the Roman Empire.

However, those places are just colonies, and even the three northern provinces are also overseas provinces in the administrative system of the empire, and the laws they implement are completely different from those of the empire itself.

From this point of view, the 300 million European and Indian Indians in the Peru-Bolivia Federation are undoubtedly lucky. The reason for their luck is that once the annexation is completed, they will become an empire. Citizens, if the people of Dongpu had known the news in advance, they would have rushed here to wait for the annexation of the empire, and then turned into citizens of the empire.

Such preferential treatment is like the incense of the previous generation.

But what?

The Peruvian-Bolivians of today simply don't realize how lucky they are.

Time and reality will make many people compromise.

Especially when forced by life, many people will compromise and let them face reality.

And what is the reality now?

That is Peru-Bolivia is a thing of the past.The Empire has begun to rule the land.

No, in fact, the Peruvian-Bolivian Commonwealth still exists today, and even after the surrender agreement was signed, a new government has been formed - a puppet government under the control of the Empire.

"Gentlemen, the future of the Federation is in the hands of all of us, and our destiny will be decided by us..."

In Tacna, Aniseto Arce, the interim president of the Federation, stood in front of the balcony and appealed loudly to everyone on the day he arrived in Tacna.

As the earliest capitulator, he chose to cooperate with the empire, why should he cooperate?As the owner of the silver mine, he hoped to keep his property through cooperation. He even began to choose a husband for his only daughter—a school-level officer, preferably an imperial noble family. In a word, he voted for empire.

"I believe that under the rule of the empire, the people of Peru-Bolivia will live happily ever after! In the name of the federation, please let the empire allow us to merge into the empire and become a member of the empire..."

In his New Year's speech in 1883, Arce said so sternly to the officials of the Provisional Government.

"Damn it, it's just a show!"

Justice Guerra of the Supreme Court - He had signed the surrender agreement on behalf of Bolivia. In return for the capitulation faction, he was appointed as a justice of the Federal Supreme Court.

It can be said that the empire has always been generous to its collaborators, and many surrenders have been appointed as high-ranking officials in the interim government, but they all know their responsibilities—that is, to prepare for the merger.They will preside over the government and preside over the ensuing annexation.

No, not annexation, but a vote to join the empire at the request of the Peruvian-Bolivian people.Legally complete the last step.

"What vote, what fate is in our hands, God can testify, all this is just a show. It is just to show the world that their annexation is based on the will of the people..."

These people know nothing about voting, they have been voting since independence, sometimes twice a year.

When they vote, they send troops to a certain town, usually a few soldiers with guns led by an officer.Once the soldiers got there, they went door-to-door confiscating shotguns, machetes and even kitchen knives before handing out ballots to men over the age of 21: blue for one side's candidate and red for the other. ticket.

On the day before the election, the local leader, Lord Quan, personally read out an order: from midnight, within 48 hours, the sale of alcohol is prohibited, and gatherings of more than three people are prohibited, and gatherings of people who are not a family are prohibited.

When the elections start, a wooden ballot box is set up in the town square, guarded by a few soldiers.Voting is absolutely free, and everyone will believe it. Even if you watch it all day, you will not see anyone cast an extra vote.

When the voting is finally announced, the local leader will affix a seal with his signature on the ballot box, and at night, the sergeant will tear off the seal and count the votes.Red tickets are almost equal to blue tickets, but the sergeant will tear off part of the red tickets and add a few more blue tickets.Then they put a new seal on the ballot box, and at dawn the next day, it was sent to the provincial capital.

They've been doing this all these years.Regardless of the coup d'état or the military détat, he can always be successfully elected as a president or a senior official in this way.

"It's just a complete lie!"

Faced with the speech of the traitor Arce, almost all Peruvians and Bolivians—of course, mainly those pure white people who have been ripped off from the high platform of power, complained so much, they didn’t believe it at all, they didn’t believe the so-called elections are fair.After all, that's what they've been doing for more than half a century after independence.

"They are simply judging the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain!"

Facing the complaints from those people, Ren Huabang, the commander of the occupying force, said directly.

"They don't even know what the people's will is!"

"No, sir, those white people only think that they are the hearts of the people, because in their eyes, people other than them, including those of mixed race, are not human beings. Since they are not human beings, of course there is nothing wrong with them." People's hearts are in the right place. Bolivia has a population of more than 100 million, but less than 2 people are eligible to participate in the elections, and they are all white without exception, and the same is true in Peru!"

While sneering, Yuan Tianxi looked at Ren Huabang and said.

"After the land reform is completed, if you become an officer, the hearts of the people will come to our side!"

(End of this chapter)