The sea breeze blows and the coolness hits you. At the turn of autumn and winter, the city of El Salvador, which belongs to the tropical humid climate zone, is lucky to have a cool and pleasant season.
El Salvador is located in the Todos Os Santos Bay of the Atlantic Ocean and is an important coastal town in the northeastern part of Brazil. It is 1,649 kilometers away from Rio de Janeiro, the Republic of Brazil, and 1,692 kilometers away from Sao Paulo, the commercial center of Brazil.
In early September 1879, the government of the Brazilian Republic, with the assistance of the British fleet, marched north and recovered part of the land controlled by the royalists.
In late September 1879, led by the British Minister in Brazil, the Republicans and Royalists, who were in a stalemate on the battlefield, reached a temporary armistice agreement.
The two sides use the Tinare Island, Valenca, and Sierra Grande lines in the state of Bahia as the ceasefire line. The south of the ceasefire line is controlled by the Republicans. The northern area of Bahia, Mara,
A total of eight and a half states, including Nyang, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, and Pernambuco, were controlled by the royalist army.
After the ceasefire agreement was signed, because the North and the South were facing different crises, the Republican government devoted its main energy to fighting against Paraguay and regaining the territory lost by Paraguay's invasion, while the Brazilian Imperial government began to work on solving the problem after surviving the chaos in the early days of the restoration.
Internal black rebellion and political power construction and other issues.
In the ten years from 1879 to 1889, after more than a hundred battles, the Brazilian Imperial Army, under the command of Garcia, Heber and other generals, gradually solved the long-troubled black rebellion problem at the cost of more than 17,000 casualties.
The young black men who participated in the rebellion were imprisoned together to provide supplies to the rebel forces. The black groups who provided intelligence support were isolated and relocated in batches. The black groups that used to be scattered in various towns in southern Brazil were reduced and disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It was a consensus reached by Brazilian Imperial government officials and generals to relocate the black people who participated in the rebellion and their families and relatives from towns and urban areas.
The ratio of blacks to whites in northern Brazil is much higher than that of the northern region controlled by the Brazilian Republican government. The land, natural resources, and manpower under the Brazilian imperial government are also inferior to those of the Brazilian republican government. If the republican government is followed, blacks and whites are given equal treatment.
If they have the right to participate in political affairs, then the last pillar that maintains the restoration of the Brazilian Imperial Government will collapse. Therefore, in order to consolidate the rule of the Brazilian Imperial Government and safeguard the interests of farmers and aristocrats headed by Garcia, Duke Forrobert, Heber, etc.
, continued high-pressure rule over the black people in the controlled areas became the only option for the Brazilian imperial government.
Punishing and relocating the black people and their families who participated in the rebellion, and then using the properties, land, and houses they left behind to resettle them, and rewarding the royalists who followed along. In this way, the Brazilian imperial government united the small and medium-sized farmers
The young military officers, who were the main force, quickly stabilized the situation in the country.
Ten years have passed. Although the areas controlled by the Brazilian Empire have long been in a state of war and excessive financial expenditure due to the resolute suppression of the black rebellion, they have gained the support of the white military and civilians who are the basis of the rule.
Conservative whites and young men used force to defend the dictatorial rule of the Brazilian Imperial Government, while the Brazilian Imperial Government rewarded the soldiers and civilians who participated in the war with war dividends such as land and houses.
Upon closer inspection, it is not difficult to find that the policy agenda of the Brazilian Empire has the shadow of the Han national mobilization system. It also uses rewards such as land and houses to encourage civilians to participate in wars, and it also uses wars against different ethnic groups to obtain its own development.
Strong capital, one slight difference is that the war targets of the Han State are South American countries such as Argentina and Brazil, while the war targets of the Brazilian Empire are black armed forces who participate in rebellion and disobey management.
The countries in southern South America have been at war. During the decades of intermittent wars, the Han Dynasty has constantly summarized and improved its own shortcomings and deficiencies through war. The Brazilian Empire and other countries, which have experienced several tragic defeats,
They also tried to use the Han Dynasty as a template to carry out reforms.
The core of the rule of the Brazilian Empire is the royalist party, and the basis of the royalist government's rule is the young military officers represented by Count Abel.
Young people are often synonymous with radicalism and impulsiveness, but in the face of the impact of foreign ideas, they sometimes become representatives of progress and openness. Twenty years ago, when the crisis of the failure of the Paraguay War continued to spread and brew in Brazil,
At that time, Count Abel, who was only a junior lieutenant (in 1889, Queen Isabella ascended the throne and was canonized as a count), drew on the military and political ideological system of Han Dynasty in South America and established the "Knights of Brasilia", and then named it "Brazil".
In the name of the "Knights of Maria", he actively spread the ideas of borrowing and modifying the national salvation among the lower-level officers. As a result, with the help of his influence among the middle- and lower-level officers, he became a member of the core of the rule of the Brazilian Empire.
It has accepted the influence of new foreign ideas and gradually learned from them to build its own value system. Even if it has been polished over time, the essence of its ideas will hardly undergo subversive changes.
Twenty years have passed since Abel formed the "Knights of Brasilia". Twenty years later, he himself has grown from an unworthy low-level lieutenant to an imperial count and a general who holds the core authority of the imperial army.
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Because of his seniority and military prestige, although Eberl was ranked lower than Field Marshal Garcia in the rank of lieutenant general, Field Marshal Garcia was nearly eighty years old and his physical condition was deteriorating. Eberl's daily affairs in the army were dominated by him.
In charge, Marshal Garcia was only the nominal commander of the imperial army, while Abel was the actual commander in charge of tens of thousands of troops of the Brazilian Empire.
After realizing the reason, Lieutenant General Abel was not dissatisfied with his current status in the army. However, as a military leader with clear political revenge, Abel's ambitions were not limited to the military. He also learned from the history of the founding of Han Dynasty in South America.
, moving from the army to the core of government leadership and becoming the de facto military and political leader of the Brazilian Empire is the only driving force that attracts Ebel to continue to climb the peak of power!
To become a military and political leader and then lead the Brazilian Empire towards unification and rejuvenation, Abel needs to make the greatest efforts and energy. However, the current development and situation in the Brazilian Empire does not satisfy Abel!
The total population of the Brazilian republican political control area is more than 6.6 million, including 2.4 million white people. The total population of the Brazilian Empire is more than 2.3 million, and the white population is 480,000. Comparing the two parties, the Republic of Brazil occupies a leading advantage in terms of both total population and white population.
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In terms of military, the Brazilian Empire adopted a compulsory military service system based on the Han Dynasty's system of all-people soldiers. The total number of regular troops and reserve militia reached 80,000, including 45,000 white regular troops and militiamen, and about 35,000 second-line militiamen composed of blacks, mulattoes, and Indians.
people, and can mobilize 50,000 troops.
As for the Brazilian Republican Government, the total number of front-line regular troops and militia is 140,000, and it can mobilize 120,000 reserve troops.
In terms of diplomacy, because of betraying national interests, the republican government has the support of the United Kingdom, while the Brazilian imperial government in South America only maintains a paper alliance with Peru and Bolivia. If a war breaks out, the substantial help that the two countries can provide is very limited.
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As for the South American country of Han, although the two parties share common interests in dealing with the Brazilian republican government, due to the impact of the early Paraguay War, the relationship between the two parties has not made effective progress.
Looking at the external political and diplomatic situation, the Brazilian Empire is completely at a disadvantage. As the key to solving the external dilemma, Abel and the main officials and generals of the Brazilian Imperial Government have begun to consider the possibility of improving diplomatic relations with Han. In terms of internal aspects,
Faced with the promising situation of the black rebellion initially subsided, Abel is planning a major plan in his mind, a huge plan that can completely solve the black problem in the control area, reopen the immigration door, and bring urgently needed European white immigrants to the Brazilian Empire.