Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2289 Black Banners

"My lord, those thieves have been arrested!" In a certain inspection hall outside Yongchang City, a group of soldiers escorted several heavily tied Indians up.

Yongchang City is located west of the Mississippi River in later generations, that is, Lafayette City. It is the land that the Black Eight Banners of the Free State took from the Indians through war. In 1692, Mo Zhe, the lord of the country, ordered to build a city here, which took three years to complete, and named it Yongchang, implying its eternal prosperity and providing a steady stream of money and food for the imperial court.

The system of the Free State is actually quite interesting.Because there are a large number of Chinese scholars joining, its system is quite ancient, especially its ruling class, the Black Eight Banners nobles, require those Confucian children to imitate the design of official positions for them in the Song Dynasty.Helplessly, these scholars from the mainland are not particularly educated, and may not be familiar with the official systems of the past dynasties, so how to say the final system is a bit strange, like a hybrid of the Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties, which makes people feel inexplicable .

For example, this Yongchang City is the land laid down by the Xinjing Mo family after many years of fighting with the Hexi Indians. According to the administrative level, it is a mansion, that is, Yongchang Mansion.But there is no magistrate in this mansion, and there is no governor. It is really surprising that the chief executive is a Jiedu envoy.Yongchang Mansion belongs to Hexi Road. This road is the administrative division of the Song Dynasty. The highest chief executive is the transfer envoy, but there is no mention of officials such as criminals and prisons to divide its power.There is no supreme military officer along the way, and the governors of each government are the de facto leading generals who are responsible for military work.

There are currently two roads under Xinjing Mo's, namely Hedong Road and Hexi Road, and there is only one mansion under Hedong Road, namely Xinjingfu.Because it is related to the capital city, Xinjingfu does not set up Jiedushi, but is directly led by the royal family. In the future, it is not ruled out that Xinjingfu will be separated from Hedong Road and become a separate administrative region.

In addition to the areas directly under the royal family, there are two prefectures, Fengtian and Rehe, which are basically autonomous by local Jiedushi.The highest chief is the Jiedushi. For example, the Fengtian Liang family and the Rehe Mo family directly hold the official position of the Jiedushi.

In general, the Free State is currently divided into these three forces. The Mo family in Xinjing occupies two branches and two mansions, controlling nearly 1000 people.The Fengtian Liang family and the Rehe Mo family each control a population of about [-], and support more than [-] full-time professional soldiers. They are more than enough to protect themselves, but they cannot shake the rule of the royal family.Of course, their main task is not to compete for the throne. This is not allowed by the East Coast Advisory Group. The purpose of their existence is to expand the territory of the kingdom of the Free State, expand the living space, and realize the strategic intentions of the East Coast people. .

Well, some people will definitely ask what the strategic intention is. In fact, it is very simple. It is nothing more than blocking the expansion of Europeans to the middle of the North American continent and preventing them from acquiring more land.In addition, if the time is right in the future, people on the east coast will find a way to make multiple countries appear along the Mississippi River.Each of these countries controls a section of the river, so that this traffic artery can completely become an international river, and it cannot become the traffic artery of a complete country. This will completely eliminate the possibility of a big country emerging in this river basin.As for the origin of these countries, these separatist regimes are naturally reserve forces, and there may be some Indian regimes or East Coast colonial regimes. In short, they will make clear arrangements.

By the way, here is one more word.Of course, the Indian students trained by the East Coast painstakingly did not seem to play much role after returning from their studies.The reasons are very complicated. Some of them were not reused and were left idle, and some were killed in internal struggles. Of course, these people could not rely on their own power to change the huge tribe. It is a pity that the window of communication.The only two successful cases were also greatly reduced due to the war between the tribe and others.

It can be seen from this that low civilizations are low civilizations after all.The Indians have not been in contact with the outside world for thousands of years. Before the arrival of European colonists, they have been hunting civilizations, and they are still hunting civilizations using inferior and low-quality tools.Such a civilization, even with the support of the outside world, seems to be very difficult to achieve quickly.After long-term follow-up by the National Intelligence Agency on the East Coast—they even sacrificed more than a dozen people because of tribal vendettas and wars—they finally announced that the first phase of the Indian training program had failed, and believed that resources should be invested in the Black Banners. It's more likely to happen.

Based on this point of view, the newly developed Hexi Road by Xinjing Moshi has been strongly supported by people from the East Bank.First of all, the Ministry of Agriculture on the East Coast signed a series of cooperation agreements with the Kingdom of the Free State, and dispatched dozens of agricultural experts to help with the planning. Where to build reservoirs, where to open up farmland, where to raise aquatic products, and where to graze cattle and sheep, all arrangements are clear. Chu.They even issued a relatively detailed soil research report (whether the other party can understand it or not) for the unplanned farmland area, and provided a new batch of improved varieties.For pastoral areas, they also conducted on-the-spot investigations to assess the possible impact of the local environment on livestock, and then gave a specific grazing plan to ensure that the Free State can obtain as much animal husbandry output as possible.For the above, they only charged a total of more than [-] yuan, which is really a very conscientious price.

Secondly, the East Coast Department of Geology also signed an exploration agreement worth 10 yuan with the Free State.They sent a total of four capable teams to Hexi Road to help prospect for supplies and discovered several small metal deposits.In this way, the exploration funds of 10 yuan have also been settled. The Free State mortgaged the mine to the east bank in exchange for a considerable part of the loan to purchase extensively on the east bank, including ship repair equipment, dock equipment, etc. Hire the East Coast Communications Construction Bureau to help build a high-level combat readiness road.These have undoubtedly greatly enhanced its national strength and will be of great benefit to its future development.

The bulk of the cooperation between the East Coast and the Free State will always be military cooperation.Not to mention the officer advisory group, they are stationed here all the year round to help the free state build a modern army, which is very important for a country in the place of the Fourth World War.On Hexi Road, the Dong'an people sent armed police and regular military officers to help Yongchang Mansion train a full-heated weaponry force of more than a thousand people.This army has more than 100 rifles, eight cannons, and more than [-] horses, and its combat effectiveness is still very impressive.

In addition, given that this area is already an immigration development area, the construction of local police work is also on the right track.Just like the inspection hall with more than 20 inspections in front of me, it was established with the help of two east coast policemen.The inspection hall is actually equivalent to the East Coast Public Security Bureau, but it is usually located in a strategic location in the wild. The main responsibility is to protect the safety of the saltworks and arrest suspicious persons.

The Inspection Office is not responsible for the public security in the city, that is the responsibility of the prefectural police officers, just like the difference between the police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (that is, the armed police) on the east bank and the ordinary police stationed in the city.There are currently thirteen inspection offices in the entire Yongchang Mansion, which are set up in different places, such as strategic locations, relatively densely populated reclamation land, locations of important supplies, and so on.The reason for this is to worry about the Indians!

Indians, after all, are a hunting people!Well, after the foreign colonists landed, the Indians along the coast got the planting technology, and they no longer lived simply by hunting, fishing or gathering, but they didn’t actually settle down, and most of the so-called cultivated land was still wandering It's just plowing.This seems to be related to their ethnic habits, and it is difficult to change in the short term.Therefore, although the Yongchang Jiedushi on Hexi Road had defeated the Indians, most of them went to live in other places, and ran back after a year or so. This is very possible.

Do not believe?These poor fellows captured by the inspectors are spies!Although the interrogation has not yet started, the Qipin patrol inspector sitting in the hall and the two east coast police consultants have already concluded that this is a spies who went to the nearby Indian tribes for nomadic farming or hunting.This conclusion is both bad and good for them.The bad thing is that war may break out again, which will consume a lot of money, food and materials-compared with materials, human life is actually not that important-and both Hexi Road and Yongchang Mansion are really poor; The good thing is that the population is coming again. The Indians have a low level of civilization. Once they are conquered, it is not difficult to assimilate them.You must know that among the population of the Free State, pure blacks only account for about [-]%, and another [-]% are yellow, white and Indian, and mixed races account for a full [-]%. Assimilated by Indians captured in war.

"Take him down for interrogation." The inspector waved his hand and ordered in standard Chinese.He is a distant branch of the Mo family in Xinjing, so it doesn't matter in Xinjing, otherwise he wouldn't be sent to Yongchang Mansion as a seventh-rank inspector.But his attitude at work is nothing to say, he is very serious and responsible, much better than some princes and aristocrats in Xinjing.Moreover, his attitude towards the East Bank is very respectful, which won the goodwill of the two consultants. If they choose officials to study in the East Bank in the future, they will definitely recommend this inspector, even though he is already in his 30s.

"Consultant Duan, since this Indian spy has appeared, his brigade may be nearby. After the interrogation results come out, I will report to Mr. Lu, the transfer envoy of Hexi Road, and Liu Junmen, the Jiedu envoy of Yongchang Mansion, and let them hurry up. Send them out at night to investigate, so that the enemy doesn't know it when they get close." After instructing his subordinates, the inspector said to an East Coast consultant sitting behind him: "Of course, this officer will select capable patrol officers in the afternoon. Ding went out to have a look, and asked Consultant Duan to adjust the training plan, I wonder if it is possible?"

Because the inspection office had just been established not long ago, and the inspectors hadn't completed the original training plan, the inspectors didn't dare to interrupt the course at will, and felt that it would be better to ask the East Coast consultant for instructions.After this consultant Duan heard this request, he agreed without even thinking about it. Naturally, you can’t take it seriously when you ask for instructions politely. Try not to interfere with daily affairs at will. People are disgusted.

At this time, Consultant Duan also secretly lamented that the survival pressure of the Free State was really incomparably great.Although the East Road side borders the plantation area delineated by Air Canada, the control is very low. Indian tribes come here every few days, and small-scale conflicts will never stop.As for Hexi Road, the situation can only be more complicated. There are wars almost every month (of course, the scale is not very large), which has a great impact on agricultural production.

I hope the guys from the Free State can survive.A difficult environment can temper people's will and make people feel more crisis, which is very critical to the shaping of national culture.The Black Eight Banners have been trained by the East Coast people for decades, and the regularization work has been carried out for many years after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Now they are no longer a mob.It's ridiculous that those white colonists in the east still look down on black people. Hehe, conflicts are really going to break out in the future, and it's still unknown who will win the battle.

(End of this chapter)