Chapter 42 Letter From Afar

No matter how the Americans beautify the Texas War, it cannot change its aggressive nature, so Franz intends to help.

The Americans' method of subverting Texas is not very clever, that is, to dilute the local Mexican population by means of large-scale immigration, just like boiling a frog in warm water. When the Mexican government found out, the number of American immigrants had exceeded the Mexican population.

Because the new American immigrants and the local indigenous Indians and Mexicans had constant friction over water and land, the Mexican government had to take action and issued a new decree to prohibit American immigrants from entering.

However, because Texas was vast and sparsely populated at the time, and the Americans did not intend to comply, the Mexican "Anti-Immigration Decree" was like a piece of waste paper.

In 1824, Mexico announced the abolition of slavery at the strong request of domestic Catholic forces. By 1830, there were no slaves in Mexico except Texas.

American immigrants did not intend to abide by Mexican laws. They still established plantations everywhere to buy black slaves.

Demanding the release of slaves was unacceptable to American immigrants at the time.

You must know that before the end of the Civil War, black slaves were an important economic pillar of the southern United States.

Cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing their parents, which destined a war between Mexicans and these American slave owners.

By 1835, seeing that the time was ripe, the United States simply instigated Texas to become independent directly.

After that, the Mexican president personally led the army, but suffered heavy losses at the Alamo and was captured at the Battle of San Jacinto. He was forced to sign the Treaty of Velasco to recognize the independence of Texas.

The Mexicans were defeated so badly, although the United States was far stronger than Mexico in military strength and social organization, but the Mexicans were not completely without a chance, and at least they should be able to scrape off a piece of American meat.

On January 1, 1836, Mexican President Tassan Anna decided to personally lead the expedition to Texas.

"Mr. President! Mr. President! There is a letter for you!"

Tassan Anna's newly appointed Vice President Ruvel shouted anxiously.

"Ruville, you are the vice president now, not my messenger. As a senior official of the country, you should act like a senior official."

"Yes, sir!"

Ruville has been following Tasan Anna since he became a messenger, and is Tasan Anna's most trusted subordinate.

Tasan Anna is essentially a soldier. He is not interested in politics, but he is sentimental about power, which does not prevent him from handing over all political affairs to former Vice President Valias and hiding in the barracks as a general.

After obtaining the presidential power, the latter wanted to do something. He first launched a series of government projects, then cut the army, increased taxes, and restricted the power of the church, causing the treasury to be in deficit and complaints.

Finally, under the joint pressure of the army, the church, and the people, Tasan Anna had to remove Valias and replace him with his adjutant, Lieutenant General Ruville.

However, Lieutenant General Ruville was just a messenger, but Ruville was rarely so excited.

Tasan Anna was a little curious about the origin of the letter.

"Whose letter is it? Let me guess, is it Andrew Jackson?"

"No, sir, it's from the royal family."

"The royal family?"

"It's from the royal family of the Austrian Empire, sir."

Tasan Anna took the letter with some excitement. The letter was signed by Archduke Franz Karl.

"You can go, sir."

"Yes, Mr. President!"

After Ruvel left, Tasan Anna was very excited when he saw the letter, because it said "My dear brother, Tasan Anna."

Tasan Anna joined the army at the age of 16 to join the Mexican War of Independence. He first joined the Spanish army and later joined the rebels. In 1829, he was called a national hero for his tenacious resistance to the last attack launched by the Spanish.

After Mexico's victory, some people even called him "the savior of Mexico", but Tasan Anna humbly replied "I am Napoleon of North America."

At this time, North America, whether it was the United States or Mexico, was regarded as a barbarian land by Europe, and it was very difficult to gain recognition from Europeans.

Now, an Austrian royal family member actually calls Tasan Anna a brother. You should know that after Napoleon III came to power, he was not recognized by European countries for a long time, and even the Tsar used the title of "my friend" to deliberately humiliate Napoleon.

At this time, Tasan Anna was as excited as when the Japanese country was named "Japan".

After Tasan Anna opened the letter, he was in a good mood after reading two paragraphs. In his heart, he regarded Archduke Franz Karl as his half-brother.

For such an arrogant person, of course, he must be praised first.

Franz highly praised Mexico's abolition of slavery, affirmed Tasan Anna's achievements, and strongly condemned the aggressive behavior of American immigrants.

These are what Tasan Anna hopes to see most. He is ready to send envoys to Austria to establish diplomatic relations.

Tasan Anna continued to read, and the next words shocked him.

That is the current situation in Mexico. There are many factions in the country, and it is torn apart. The treasury is in deficit, the military is seriously insufficient, and the weapons are all antiques from the last century. The most important thing is that there is a traitor around him.

Franz himself guessed that there was an American traitor around Tasan Anna.

After all, the Battle of San Jacinto was too bizarre. Let’s not talk about how the Americans cut off the Mexicans’ retreat without the Mexicans noticing, and successfully launched a sneak attack in broad daylight.

The route of Tasan Anna’s actions alone should not be so easily known by the Americans.

You know, there were no mobile phones at that time, and many messages had to be delivered by people.

The message was passed to the military camp, the troops were assembled, and the infantry arrived, and then the enemy’s retreat was cut off, and finally a sneak attack was launched.

In the end, the Mexican army lost 700 people, and the Texas army was killed and 11 people were injured.

If all this is a coincidence, then the probability is too low.

Franz believes that there must be spies around Tasan Anna, and no matter whether there is a date or not, he will try it twice, just in case he hits it.

The domestic factions are numerous, the treasury is in deficit, and the military force is seriously insufficient. This is the current situation in Mexico.

Tasan Anna couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Although he believed in his subordinates, a Grand Duke far away in Europe could clearly understand the current situation of his country, which made him doubt his subordinates' confidentiality work.

Finally, Franz gave a solution, winning over the Catholic Church and building good relations with the media. At the same time, Austria planned to sell a batch of 20,000 rifles to Mexico, and send two military observers and a professional tabloid editor.

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I got home late today, I'm afraid it's only two chapters.