In the more than two decades from 1824 to 1846, there were about 250 military coups in Mexico, and 31 presidents were replaced. Among them, more than a dozen presidents were replaced in the five years from 1841 to 1846, with an average of
Replace it every 4 months.
The level of chaos within Mexico is evident.
During this series of coups, the most famous military dictator was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the actual controller of Mexico today.
In the more than 20 years after the founding of the Federal Republic, he relied on the military power at his disposal, used various cunning and conspiracy methods, or supported puppets, or acted personally, and successfully achieved his goal of manipulating and controlling the government of the Republic several times.
Between 1833 and 1846, he became the president or actual dictator of Mexico four times.
These military dictatorships, including Antonio López de Santa Anna, after coming to power, instead of trying to stabilize the situation and develop the economy, they used their power to plunder people's wealth arbitrarily, making the people miserable.
In this turbulent situation, the Mexican government was unable to effectively govern and control the northern border provinces. In northern California, the Mexican government failed to even set up an orderly government, and there was almost no communication line between Mexico City and Monterey.
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Although Mexico achieved independence, the land system has not fundamentally changed, and the backward feudal large-scale real estate system still dominates. Coupled with the turbulent political situation, the wanton plundering of dictators and the destruction of war, Mexico's agricultural development has been hampered for a long time.
Lagging behind, the development of industry and mining is also extremely limited.
Overall, the Mexican economy developed very slowly after independence.
As a neighboring country, the United States showed a booming economy during the same period. The central, eastern and northern regions were undergoing a vigorous industrial revolution, and the gap in economic strength between the two countries continued to widen.
The United States, whose national power is gradually becoming stronger, covets Mexico's resources and land and begins to continuously infiltrate and provoke the northern provinces of Mexico. However, Mexico, which is weak in national power, has been doomed to its tragic fate of failure in this contest of aggression and counter-aggression.
Chen Mo had no intention of stopping the United States' war of aggression against Mexico. The United States has been coveting the northern territory of Mexico for more than a day or two. It is a weak and chaotic country, but it has vast land and rich resources, but it doesn't know how to use them.
And protection is like a rabbit sent to a hungry wolf, it will be eaten sooner or later.
Chen Mo could not stop the outbreak of this aggressive war, nor did he intend to stop it. After all, Mexico was not Chen Mo's country, and he could not afford to fight for others. Moreover, this was the general trend and a historical necessity.
It is enough to make economic arrangements. Chen Mo does not want to intervene too much or even change the outcome of the war, which will have unpredictable effects on the future.
In fact, Chen Mo not only had no plans to organize a war, but was even looking forward to the coming of this war.
When Chen Mo was enclosing land in the west and building many large ranches, Victor and James were also killing people in the Rocky Mountains. With the cooperation of Indian warriors, Jim Breed's Rocky Mountains were soon wiped out.
The armed men of the fur company massacred most of them and completely seized control of the fur trade in the Rocky Mountains.
After all, the armed personnel of the fur company are private armed forces, and their numbers and strength are very limited. With the rapid improvement of their strength, these opponents no longer pose much of a threat to them, and the battle can usually be ended without damage.
They need stronger opponents to help them continue to improve their strength, and the army is obviously the best choice.
Of course, as the opponents become stronger, it means that the dangers they face also become greater.
However, after this period of battle training, their strength has been greatly improved. Not only their physical fitness has far exceeded that of ordinary people, but their self-healing ability has also been greatly improved.
At first, it took more than ten minutes for the two people's more serious injuries to fully heal, but now, this time has been shortened to less than three minutes.
In other words, even if they are hit by a bullet in the heart or brain, the two people will not die, but will be "resurrected" again three minutes later!
Of course, if they are accidentally hit by a bullet in the brain, although the two of them can still survive, their original memories will be lost.
However, the improvement of the physical fitness of the two people is accompanied by the repair of injuries, so the strength of the entire body, including the bones, is much stronger than that of ordinary people. As long as it does not hit weak parts such as the eyes, with the power of the current musket, the bullet will hit directly
In the case of hitting two people in the skull, it is not necessarily possible to shoot through their skulls.
Therefore, Chen Mo was relieved to let the two of them embark on the battlefield and continue to hone themselves in a harsher environment.
In the movie, Victor and James first set foot on the battlefield during the Civil War, sixteen years ago. At that time, they were already in their twenties and had grown from two skinny teenagers who had left home.
There were two burly men.
After the two people awakened their abilities, they naturally formed a warlike instinct due to the need to improve their strength through fighting. Naturally, they were eager to fight. However, in the movie, they did not participate in the U.S.-Mexican War, because at that time they were just two people who had just left.
Home, they are just homeless teenagers. Without Chen Mo's care and training, and without so many armed personnel to help them hone themselves, their strength improvement should be very slow.
Even the two of them may have been hiding their identities and did not dare to reveal their special abilities, let alone fight to their heart's content. Therefore, in Chen Mo's memory, the strength shown by the two of them when they participated in the Civil War was not even as strong as they are now.
Not to mention this time period, in the movie, the two of them probably haven't even left Canada yet.
But now, with Chen Mo's deliberate training and teaching, not only their strength has been greatly improved, but their bodies have also undergone great changes.
In less than a year, both of them have grown taller quickly, and their bodies are no longer as thin and thin as before. They have become taller and stronger, and their originally childish faces are also fighting again and again.
Under the training, I have become much more determined and steady.
Now at first glance, the two of them look like they are sixteen or seventeen years old. They are completely different from when they first met Chen Mo.
In order for the two of them to participate in the US-Mexico War, they naturally had to join the army first, and Chen Mo was already prepared for this.