Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 308 Ultimatum (first update, please subscribe)
On October 1869, 10, it was spring in Buenos Aires.

At ten o'clock in the morning, a courier rushed to the office of the American company in Buenos Aires, and sent a telegram that seemed to be composed of garbled characters to the reception room.

In fact, this is the most normal code.

In this era, embassies and consulates in all countries are the same. They all receive and receive telegrams through telegraph bureaus, and of course they all send and receive telegrams through codes.For the sake of confidentiality, the company's external affairs department designed four sets of passwords. In addition to the commonly used passwords, there is another password that will only be enabled under extremely special circumstances.

Soon, the secret message was sent to the confidential room, and only by checking the title of the telegram, the codecs realized that it was a third-level secret message.

"Something happened!"

After a while, as the password was deciphered, the coder's face changed slightly, and he raised his head and said to the monitor on duty.

"This, this is an ultimatum!"

Soon, Domingo, the representative in Buenos Aires, got the telegram, and after a few brief glances, he said.

"Is it really from Nanhua?"

"Yes, sir."

"Ok!"

Nodding, Domingo said.

"Okay, I know, if there are no accidents, they should already know, prepare the carriage, and I will go to the presidential palace."

When he said these words, Domingo couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Peace is over!
The Presidential Palace is located on the banks of the Rio de la Plata. Its history can be traced back to 1594, but it was only a fortress at that time. Although the castle had always been the administrative command center during the Spanish rule, after Argentina's independence, the fortress was repaired. After reconstruction, the presidential palace was finally built.

In 1850, according to the then President Domingo Salmendo's suggestion, the white exterior wall was painted pink. It is said that the choice of pink was to reconcile the disputes between the two major parties at that time. The authenticity of this statement is uncertain.But subsequent governments have continued to use this color, so the Presidential Palace is also known as the "Rose Palace".

At this time, in this beautiful "Rose Palace", Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Foreign Minister Adams and others gathered in the president's office, and everyone looked very serious.

"Are you sure? Are their accusations true?"

Sarmiento asked again as president.

"Yes, Mr. President, we did have soldiers who were attacked by them and died on the other side of the trench!"

"Damn the Chinese, they are simply provoking disputes. They killed our people, occupied our land, and now they want us to pay for the loss. Aren't they afraid of provoking the anger of a country?"

As the president, Sarmiento is full of hostility towards the American Corporation and Nanhua. Otherwise, when he became president last year, he would not have delivered the speech full of hostility, and asked the American Corporation to deal with Pan Negotiations on the Pass Prairie were also what he requested, and the current plan to cross the trench and encroach on the unoccupied area was also proposed by him.

But now, Nanhua's reaction was completely beyond his expectation.

"Ultimatum!"

Sarmiento looked at the confidential telegram sent by the representative in Nanhua, and said.

"This ultimatum is basically the horn of war. Do they think we will kneel down to them? Do they think we will kneel down to them in order to pray for peace, pay them huge compensation and admit the land they have stolen? "

Looking at everyone in the office, he said firmly.

"No! They are dreaming. We will use a strong answer to tell them that this is wishful thinking!"

After saying these words, Sarmiento pondered for a moment, and then Foreign Minister Juan said.

"Juan, their representatives will definitely come to deliver this ultimatum in a while. You refuse them directly. I will go to the British Embassy to meet Ambassador Edward Thornton. I think the British will be happy to stand by us! After all , They have already run out of patience with Nanhua!"

In fact, Sarmiento and the others also couldn't bear it!

What is it that they cannot bear?

Not only did the Chinese occupy the Pampas grassland, but more importantly, they turned the grassland into a big golden goose that lays golden eggs.

In fact, before this, Argentina had never thought of expanding to the Pampas grassland, but there was no motivation. Why there was no motivation? First, the population was sparse and the land was sufficient.Second, what is it?It's because even if they seized that grassland, it wouldn't make any sense.

Is it used to raise sheep?
The wool market in Europe is close to saturation. No matter how many sheep are raised, what is the use of unsalable sheep wool?Economic reasons have caused Argentina to have no desire to expand at all.

Expansion requires cost and economic reasons.But in the past few decades, on the one hand, the Mapuche people are really brave and capable of fighting, and on the other hand, it is not cost-effective economically, which has led to Argentina's "ignorance" of the Pampas grassland.

Even when Nanhua launched a march on the grassland and began to bring the pampas grassland into Nanhua's sphere of influence through large-scale construction of railways, the Argentines' reactions were quite tangled. The meat was eaten by others, but what about the other side?They also hope to use Nanhua to restrain the Mapuche people and prevent the Mapuche people from attacking the Argentine settlements.

In the end, Nanhua did indeed do it, and successfully restrained the Mapuche so that they would no longer cross the trench to attack the Argentines. This is the fundamental reason why Argentina can tolerate expansion.

But this attitude has been constantly changing in the past two years, especially since Nanhua invented the frozen ship, everything has changed!
The invention of the frozen ship made it possible to transport beef to Europe, and it also allowed European citizens to eat frozen fresh meat from the New World for the first time. Nanhua, which occupies the Pampas prairie, used the grassland as a pasture to produce hundreds of Ten thousand tons of cheap and high-quality beef, they supply the meat of the whole of Europe, and can get hundreds of millions of pesos of wealth every year!

Wealth catches the eye!

Faced with such a large amount of wealth, how could the Argentines, who had fought in Paraguay for several years and almost exhausted all the funds in the treasury, ignore it?
This is why Sarmiento delivered a speech in Congress and vowed to march to the grasslands-to put it bluntly, it was for money!
"Yes, Mr. President, it is necessary for us to win the support of the British. Without their support, it will be difficult for us to carry on this war..."

The Minister of Finance on the side said directly.

"If we want to carry out this war, we need at least a loan of 100 million pounds from the British..."

(End of this chapter)