Start 1861: I just inherited the Dutch throne

Chapter 674 Distribution of forces in Argentina
Argentina, presidential palace.

"It's unreasonable. The Netherlands actually carried out large-scale arms sales to Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru in just one day. Almost all arms sales were in spot mode, and all the weapons could be in place within two months. In this way, , almost all countries in South America have become countries with strong military capabilities.

Argentina has always been the leader of South American countries in guarding against Brazil. Countries are very dependent on Argentina. At this time, the Netherlands is completely evading our power and balancing our influence on other countries."

After saying that, Argentine President Mitre was very angry and smashed the coffee cup in his hand on the floor. The cup shattered when it hit the ground, and the cup shattered.

The people next to him were all Mitre's confidants or political allies.

Vice President Sarmiento, Interior Minister Joyno, Finance Minister Shakes, Food Minister Sekalo, Industry Minister Tut, Mayor Carter of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, etc., are all Argentine political leaders. A character who can shake the earth even when he stamps his feet.

Argentina's political system is different from that of the Netherlands. The latter is a constitutional monarchy, while the former is a federal system like America.

In federalism, the relationship between the country as a whole and its constituent parts is an alliance. The federal government is the state-sovereignty and is the main body of foreign exchanges.

Therefore, in Argentina, President Mitre is the most important external figure, while other local forces respect him as the leader, but he is not necessarily the boss. At most, he is the head of the most powerful force.Sarmiento is currently the leader of the second largest force in Argentina.

By analogy, the current division of positions within Argentina is based on this.

The Argentine federal government has the highest legislative, administrative and judicial organs of the country, which exercise the highest power of the country and lead its members of the federal government.Well, that includes members of the major forces in Argentina.

Argentina implements a federal system, so all forces agree with Argentina's unified federal laws and abide by Argentina's unified laws that represent national interests.

Under the enactment of federal law, each local member of Argentina has its own legislative, administrative and judicial organs, its own constitution, laws and unified nationality, and manages its domestic finance, taxation, culture, education, etc. Public administration matters.

This is a power shared by both the central and local governments of the Argentine federation. The division of powers between the Argentine federal government and the members of the government composed of local forces is stipulated in the federal constitution. If the federal constitution conflicts with the constitutions of member states, the Argentine federation shall prevail. The Constitution and laws shall prevail.

To put it simply, Argentina, a federal country, is divided into various local administrative divisions. Based on other countries such as America and France, Argentina also adopts a valley country composed of its local forces and regional members. Local administrative divisions Zoning is the foundation of federal governance such as Argentina. The result of regional division according to certain principles is that national sovereignty meets the presence of the forces of each administrative region. Within each member of the federation, each member unit gives priority to the common government with the country.

Miter is the most powerful force in Argentina. His territory is located in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, La Pampa, Cordoba, and Paraná, which are the most fertile lands in eastern Argentina. Province.

The Vice President Sarmiento family is entrenched in the south and owns the provinces of Rio Negro, Chubut, Little Uquen, Santa Cruz, and Tierra del Fuego.

It can be regarded as the central area far away from the northern part of Argentina's most prosperous headquarters.

This is why President Mitre is reassured by Sarmiento.

The family of Interior Minister Joyno occupies the provinces of Mendoza, San Luis and San Juan in western Argentina.

The influence of the Shaks family of Finance Minister is in the provinces of La Rioja and Catacamaca, and Tucumán.

Food Minister Cecalo and his father-in-law are in the provinces of Santiago del Estero, Salta and Jujuy.

Chaco and Formosa provinces of Industry Minister Tut.The remaining provinces of Corrientes and Misiones are currently the territory of Argentine Senate President Long Paixes and House of Representatives Speaker Hamm.

Therefore, except for Senate President Paixis and House Speaker Ham, who are not here, everyone else here is a prince from Argentina.Or the spokesperson of the family's power.

“The people here are the ones who overthrew Presidents Justo José de Urquiza, Santiago Delqui Rodríguez and Juan Esteban Pedernera when I overthrew them The most effective assistant."

Mitre said with dignity and seriousness: "You can say that we share the joys and sorrows together to create the great foundation of Argentina today, and we have also received tangible benefits for the expansion of the power of each family.

Now, from December 1861, 12 to the present, I, Bartolome Miret, have ruled the federal government of this country for 12 years. The country is relatively prosperous and stable, and its strength has steadily increased. Argentina's economic aggregate strength has Not weaker than Denmark to catch up with Portugal and enter the top ten in the world.

With the technical support of military strength from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, we already have the production capacity of old-fashioned firearms, which can be regarded as self-sufficient for part of the demand.

We have always been fighting with Brazil over who is the boss in South America. Now Brazil’s King Pedro II and Prime Minister Fonseca are competing for power seriously, and as Pedro II’s superior, Portugal’s status in Europe is increasingly visible. micro.Fonseca, on the other hand, has the support of the American Federation, and his strength makes it difficult to decide the outcome.

Therefore, our country, Argentina, is definitely the most united and the most powerful in South America at present. Everyone must have a dream. My dream is to one day make Argentina a presence that all countries in South America look up to.

Although Argentina has now become one of the most powerful forces in the world, on par with Brazil, it is difficult to achieve my goal."

As if he had finished his sigh, Mitre suddenly said half-consultantly and half-firmly: "So we must seek a breakthrough."

The others couldn't help but feel moved when they heard this, and they all looked attentive.

Mitre looked around, and felt proud and satisfied after seeing the respectful expressions on their faces. Then he softened his tone and said: "The Netherlands relied on us to gain influence in South America, and then exerted influence in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador." For Argentina, it was right for us to selectively support the Netherlands when faced with the threat from Paraguay to Uruguay.

Later, in order to guard against Brazil and Portugal, Argentina had to rely on the Netherlands to check and balance European countries when the original ally the United States' separatist power was reduced.

Of course, we also want the Dutch economy and technology, so we came together.

Now after nearly 20 years, the Netherlands has become strong enough to threaten the United Kingdom. In turn, our cooperation with the Netherlands has now become that the Netherlands is too strong and we are too weak. In South America, there are only Brazil and the Netherlands. The relationship between the two countries is neither good nor bad, and other countries are under the influence of the Netherlands.

This is inconsistent with our original intention. We in Argentina cannot become the slaves of a European country besides Brazil.So, I decided"

Sarmiento's heart was pounding. He knew that Mitre's next decision would be related to the future fate of himself and the people here, especially himself, because he had already learned from some intelligence what Mitre was going to say. decision.

The entire conference room could hear a pin drop, and no one dared to take a breath.

Seeing that the atmosphere was in place, Mitre announced: "I decided that we in Argentina need to check and balance the influence of the Netherlands in South America, so I decided to push the [-] Argentine troops currently stationed in Mendoza City, Mendoza Province, westward to threaten Arturo Lauzon’s Santiago, of course, we declare that we do not recognize Arturo Lauzon as President of Chile”

(End of this chapter)