Chapter 116 Jimmy's New Toy

Since ancient times, the cost of security wars has been very high.

The same is true for the Mexican Civil War. The massacres launched by Epra and Tasan Anna to eliminate each other's forces have caused a total of nearly 500,000 deaths.

At this time, the population of Mexico was only 7 million, and the United States was 17 million. The cost of 500,000 people was too high for Mexico.

In comparison, even the more than 60 million francs owed by the French seemed insignificant.

Jose Epra decided to surrender to Tasan Anna. He wanted to go into exile in France to make a comeback, but Tasan Anna only pretended to agree to his conditions and secretly ordered Jimmy and his men to kill Jose Epra.

Jose Epra boarded an American merchant ship, the destination of which was the port of Toulon in France, where he would be taken to meet some French bigwigs and enjoy the treatment that a high-level political exile should have.

At this time, France had taken back Texas, and the benefits of this colony were not bad, but for security reasons, France had to take over the surrounding areas to ensure the safety of Texas.

In fact, this was also the North American policy that France had set early on, but it was unexpected that it would be so smooth.

You must pick the soft persimmon. Between the United States and Mexico, of course, Mexico is easy to bully, and Jose Epra, the loser of the civil war, applied for political exile in France. For the French, it was undoubtedly a pillow just when they wanted to sleep.

However, neither the United States nor Mexico would let the French get their wish.

On this American merchant ship, Jose Epra was attacked. Mexican masked gunmen who had been ambushing on the American merchant ship attacked Jose Epra and his entourage.

Caught off guard, Jose Epra's entourage soon fell in a pool of blood, and Jose Epra himself was caught in a room full of ham and bacon.

"Who are you? Who sent you?" Jose Epra shouted.

However, Jimmy ignored him and hung him on the meat hook.

The sharp meat hook pierced into Jose Epra's flesh, and his screams echoed in the room. However, because his hands and feet were tied, he could only watch his muscles being torn by the meat hook.

"Who gave you the information?" Jimmy asked.

"I don't know what you are talking about, put me down, you bastard, I..."

Jimmy pressed a knife on Jose Epra's lips.

"Shh."

"I just want to know who told you the information. As long as I get what I want, I will let you go."

"Only ghosts will believe your lies! What Tasan Anna can give you, I will give you ten times!" Jose Epra shouted.

Suddenly Jimmy and the masked gunmen in the room looked at each other, and then they all laughed.

One of the masked gunmen took off his veil, revealing a black face.

"What we want, you can't give it."

After Jimmy finished speaking, he began to strip Jose Epra's clothes.

"What are you doing! Damn it! You beasts! I know nothing!"

"Then how did you get the strategic deployment of the Mexican army?" Jimmy asked.

"What are you talking about! I don't know!"

Jimmy had stripped Jose Epura naked, lit a torch, and began to burn his hair.

Suddenly, Jose Epura screamed, Jimmy asked.

"Are you willing to tell me now?"

"I'm a Mexican general!"

"Now I'm just a traitor."

Jimmy took out a knife and put on an apron, and Jose Epura immediately shouted.

"What do you want to do? I said I know nothing!"

"The Indian skinning clan has a proverb that people without clothes have few secrets, and people without skin have no secrets. I don't know if this is true?"

Jimmy was laughing, but his smile was cold.

Two hours later, Jimmy stopped what he was doing, took off his apron covered with blood and threw it into the trash can. At this time, a young man handed him a cigar.

"What should we do now, Mr. Jimmy? Miss Jenny belongs to the President."

Jimmy lit up and took a deep puff, as if he had made a decision.

"We are loyal to the boss, not the boss's woman."

"I understand, Mr. Jimmy."

The young man changed into clean clothes and left the cabin. In fact, Jimmy was not very old, but his expression was always very numb, so many people thought he was a veteran.

"Mr. Jimmy, what should we do with this pile of rotten meat?"

"Cut it and throw it into the salt water bucket. Let the Americans make it into bacon and sell it to the French."

Jimmy and his party quietly left the cabin, leaving only a pool of blood, but no one cared about the extra package in their hands.

Although Mexico had quelled the rebellion at this time, the death of 500,000 people greatly weakened Mexico's potential.

Americans and French people were infiltrating into the north of Mexico, and there were less than 100,000 Mexicans in the vast territory of northern Mexico.

Tasaoue Anna's forced migration policy caused widespread resentment in Mexico, but he had no choice. If he didn't do so, it would be tantamount to handing over the northern land to others, which he could not accept in any way.

The French expressed their willingness to send immigrants to open up wasteland in California and New Mexico. French immigrants would not only open up wasteland, but also pay taxes to the Mexican government, but the tax rate would be determined through negotiations between the two countries.

The Mexicans were not fools and knew that this was a French ploy, just like the American immigrants.

In addition to the negotiated tax rate, Mexico could not ask France to do anything with its national strength, but on the other hand, Mexico had to consider France's request.

If Mexico really agreed to negotiate the tax rate, it might even lose its tax autonomy in the future.

The US government proposed to buy California and New Mexico from Mexico.

For this, the US government was prepared to pay the Mexican government $15 million, but it had to pay it off within ten years.

This was a joke for Mexico, which had an uprising every three months and a major coup every six months.

Historically, Mexico had 50 governments in the thirty years from 1821 to 1850, and about 250 military coups occurred in the twenty-four years from 1824 to 1848 alone.

Without Franz and Austria's backing, Tasan Anna's presidential career might have ended long ago.

Mexico today cannot develop or defend the northern border on its own.

Franz also thought about sending people to California to mine gold secretly, but the problem is that mining can be done secretly, but how to transport it back?

No country wants Austria to get the gold in California, and no one can guarantee that the gold mined by Austria in California can be transported back to Austria.

And Austria and Mexico face the same problem, that is, how to defend California.

At this time, the Panama Canal was not opened. If you want to go from Austria to California, you have to go around the entire South America, or stop the ship in Mexico, change the carriage and walk on land for one to two months to reach California, but this approach is obviously not realistic.

And Tasan Anna's sudden immigration plan disrupted Franz's previous deployment.

Some plans have to be implemented in advance, because no one can guarantee that those new Mexican immigrants will not discover the secrets of California.

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