Mexico City, in the Presidential Palace.

Conservative President Felix Zorag welcomed a distinguished guest, the resident Archbishop of Mexico City, Lázaro de Garza.

As a representative of Mexico's military class, Felix Zorague went from general to the latest president after Alvarez and Ignacio Comontert, and he knew that a purely military regime could not completely control the country, and even he himself was only a representative of the military elite who had been pushed to the front. But even so, he enjoyed the process of this representation, and even thought of uniting the military class, the church aristocracy, so that the entire Mexican conservative wing would support him. But this is undoubtedly very difficult. Because of the internal strife among the conservatives, not to mention the infighting between the military clique and the church forces, even within the military clique, there are many factions and contradictions, which is also the real reason why Mexico has been infighting for many years and the country cannot be stable. Zolag and other high-ranking generals in the army could see this, but they could not solve it, so they could only develop their own forces and unite foreign aid. And Archbishop Lázaro de Garza is undoubtedly the head of the ecclesiastical forces. Zolag was a little surprised by this noble archbishop, who despised everything, and what made him come to his presidential palace in person.

"Your Excellency, have you heard the news from the outside world?" Archbishop Garza asked straight to the point.

"What's the news?" Zolague was a little surprised, since he became the president of Mexico, in order to consolidate his power, he has reduced all the troops under his control to Mexico City, so that the news is very closed.

But what he didn't expect was that the liberal General Álvarez led the rebels all the way from Veracruz to attack the rebels, and the momentum was so overwhelming that even the famous conservative general General Miramon couldn't resist it, and he lost his troops and barely relied on Puebla City to stop the rebels. For this Miramon, he still knows that although he is slightly weaker than him in politics, he is stronger in military command than him. Therefore, he wanted to concentrate his forces even more, shrink all his soldiers in Mexico City, and hold the city.

"Alas, my Excellency the President, you are so well informed that I really don't know if it's Mexico's sorrow or ours' sorrow." Archbishop Garza spoke in a bad tone, "Miramón has surrendered to Juarez, the leader of the liberal rebels, and has sacrificed the city of Puebla. The city of Puebla has been captured by the Alvarez rebels......"

"What?" Zolag was so frightened that he almost jumped out of his chair, the city of Puebla is Mexico's southwestern gateway. Once Puebla City is occupied by the rebels, Mexico City will be opened, and he will be able to directly attack Mexico City, and he knows very well that even Miramon's men are not as good as Miramon's men, if Miramon can't stop the rebels, his own Mexico City will also be in danger.

However, what shocked him even more was in the back.

Garza sighed and continued: "Didn't a group of soldiers enter Mexico City from the southwest yesterday? It is likely that Miramon sent him to infiltrate the city in advance as an internal response. Your Excellency, you and your men are not even guarded? If the liberal rebel Alvarez attacks and Miramon's men in the city act as an internal response, Mexico City will be in danger! ”

Zorag's face changed greatly, he turned pale in an instant, and hurriedly said, "The archbishop reminded me of something." I'm going to send someone to investigate and arrest all the sergeants who Miramon infiltrated! And, that abominable Miramon, I hereby order the court to issue an arrest warrant declaring him treason and arresting him! ”

Archbishop Garza nodded, although he despised this interim president in his heart, but now that Mexico City was in his hands, he could not be too offended, so he said: "Your Excellency the President does not need to worry too much. According to secret information from the Church, Napoleon III, a close ally of my Catholic Church and Emperor of the French Empire, has joined forces with Spain and the Chinese Empire in the East to help us defeat the Liberal rebels. Today, their vanguard has landed in the rebel stronghold of the port of Veracruz. ”

Hearing this, Zorag's face changed again, and his face changed from pale to black.

How can this be? These hateful ecclesiastical forces, the moths who betrayed Mexico, have lured wolves into the house! Liberals and conservatives alike have always been mexicans, but in order to pacify the other faction, isn't it directly putting foreign powers, especially the former colonial overlord Spain and the aggressive French Empire, into their hands and reburying the whole of Mexico?

It must be this damn Archbishop of Garza, the Holy See's doing! Zolague instantly came to his senses: I heard that the French Emperor Napoleon III was dissatisfied with the fallen Holy See because of his indulgence in the Kingdom of Sardinia to attack the power of the Holy See, so Napoleon III wanted to ease relations with the Holy See by supporting the Church power overseas.

Zorag was indignant for a moment, he wanted to slap the archbishop in front of him to the ground, but he didn't dare, although his army controlled all of Mexico City, he didn't dare to stand up to the Holy See. But just watching Mexico fall completely into the hands of the Holy See and the French? When the time comes, I'm afraid that he Zorag will not even be able to be a puppet president, and once Mexico is in the hands of the French and the Holy See, he will definitely do the same thing as the Holy See to crown the emperor and restore the Mexican imperial system, even if he is stupid, he can think that the emperor must not be himself, but their people. No, neither in terms of the general interests of the Mexican state nor their own personal ambitions, they cannot be allowed to succeed!

Zorag made up his mind and made up his mind.

…….

At the same time, Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, USA, inside the presidential palace.

The new President of the United States, James Buchanan, who has been in office for more than a year, looks old. The collapse of the Ohio Insurance Company caused a nationwide economic panic that had caused him to suffer, and the public seemed to feel that he was too old and incapable, and he himself could clearly feel the declining prestige of the government he had formed. But he really couldn't find a way to reverse the situation, or he knew the root causes of the problems facing the United States today, but he was powerless to make the right changes.

Who in the upper echelons of the United States did not know that the existence and abolition of slavery in the northern and southern states caused huge disputes, and even bloody conflicts between Kansas and Missouri over the existence and abolition of slavery continued to occur. James Buchanan also knew that his government was entirely the product of a compromise between the North and the South, and that the slave states and the free states were balanced in his government. On the most fundamental question of slavery, his attitude was ambiguous. He was also helpless, after all, the first priority was to maintain the unity of the Constitution and the Union, so he ostensibly declared that he was against slavery, but slavery had a legal basis, and he had to uphold the Constitution as president, so he did not oppose slavery in some states. In his view, both the Fugitive Slave Act and Kansas becoming a slave state were legitimate. But he knows very well that it is precisely because of his swaying from side to side that both sides cannot please him, which makes the people complain more and more about him.

At this moment, his assistant ran in and shouted, "Mr. President, something big has happened!" ”

As the Mexican Civil War intensified, liberal troops moved into the conservative-controlled city of Puebla and marched into Mexico. Externally, France, together with Spain and the Chinese Empire in the East, sent troops to capture the port of Veracruz under the guise of rescuing the Church and preventing the Mexican liberal rebels from persecuting the Holy See and the French diaspora. ”

Hearing this, James Buchanan exclaimed excitedly: "Great! God knows my difficulties and deliberately created opportunities to get me out of this situation! ”

The assistant asked in surprise: "Mr. President, what do you mean by this?" ”

James Buchanan laughed without saying a word. He has already thought of a way to turn the attention of the people and resolve the internal contradictions, and that is to intervene in Mexico's internal and external wars!

Ten years ago, the United States annexed millions of square miles of land through the war against Mexico, and five years ago, the United States purchased more than 30,000 square miles of land in the southern states of Arizona and New Mexico through the purchase of land by Gatesden.