Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 620 Ideology

Magellan's station, September 1647, 9.

Today is a rare fine weather. The cloud that had shrouded the Magellan intelligence station for many days has finally dissipated a lot, and the warm sunshine shines through the clouds on the snow-covered fields.Example was wearing the bearskin coat sent by his friend Huang Yi from Sakhalin Island, and carrying a briefcase with important documents in his hand. With the support of several attendants, he walked forward on a specially cleaned gravel road.

He has never been out at sea since crossing, and he suffered enough when he came here on a naval warship. The violent sea wind in the South Atlantic in winter almost blew out his gall. In the last few days of the voyage, He spent most of the day lying in a hammock in the captain's cabin of the battleship "August [-]".

After arriving in the calm Otway Bay, the model who knew that the heavy responsibility was on his shoulders immediately went to rest in the Magellan intelligence station with the support of his followers.This time, he was appointed by the National Intelligence Agency as the new director of the Chilean intelligence region and the station chief of the Magellan intelligence station. As for the original station chief Bilas, he was transferred to San Vicente, Brazil because of his "serious and effective work" World, as the person in charge of the East Coast Commercial Station (also a secret intelligence station), is responsible for collecting all kinds of information about Brazil, and at the same time carefully developing informants for future deployment.

Following the example, there are more than 30 analysts, intelligence agents, agents and other business backbones of the General Administration of National Intelligence who came to the Magellan intelligence station. The Tagoni tribe, while training Araucan resistance elements in support of their ongoing "just cause of liberation".

However, most of the intelligence personnel will go to Araucan City (Puerto Natales) in the name of the East Coast Advisory Group, and work in the city that is said to be the "freest city" in Chile-the main content of the work is to provide information for Araucan. Provide advice on the economic, military, social, and political development and reform of the Laukan people, and at the same time help them train a large number of political and affairs officers.

The Araucans have now realized that the national liberation war with the Spaniards is a long-term undertaking, so the first thing they need to do is to strengthen themselves, and the city of Araucan is located in a remote mountainous area in southern Chile, and the Spaniards' sphere of influence is far from here. It's still far away, and it's the perfect place to develop into your own rear.At present, there are more than [-] Araucans living in this city and the nearby suburbs. Some of them are local residents, but more are refugees who fled from the north with their families. Heavy exploitation and increasingly heavy labor in the mines, so they decided to leave the core areas ruled by the whites and live a free life in the cold mountains in the south-for them, a place without Spaniards is paradise.

There are many brick and stone buildings in the intelligence station, including an office building, a grain depot, a material depot, a Taoist temple, and two gun towers. A circle of wood and a circle of bricks show the good intentions.The distance between the two walls was not far, and an aisle connected by wood cut nearby was built on it. From time to time, some two-meter giants wearing leather armor and holding guns walked through the aisle.

These are the local aborigines—the Patagonians—who were bought and brought in by the people from the east coast of the intelligence station.In fact, there are many tribes of the Patagonians and the Arakalus living nearby, and the people on the east coast are too lazy to distinguish them in detail, so they collectively call them the Patagonians.At present, more than 150 Patagonians have been employed in the entire intelligence station, of which 50 are working as handymen (raising pigs, grazing, and doing chores), and the other 100 have joined the local garrison and been assigned Spears, sabers and muskets.

What is worth mentioning is that these people have now joined the religion and become Taoist believers developed by Zhenren Zhao Yan and Zhao here.During the day, they either farm and work under the organization of the church, or go to the intelligence station to receive military training, and at night they often go to the local Taoist temple to participate in religious activities.In Zhao Yan's view, the Patagonians who have joined the religion are good Patagonians, and the others are barbarians, who cannot be trusted, and who need to be reformed.

At present, the number of local Patagonians who believe in Taoism has increased to hundreds. This is due to the hard work of the Taoists and priests under Zhao Zhenren and the great efficacy of aspirin and other medicines, which makes a large number of primitive Bata From the bottom of their hearts, the Goni people believed in the supreme power of Tianzun.Even, a certain chief of the Patagoni tribe, whose rheumatic pain had been relieved by medicine for many years, came to vote with his whole family, and more than a hundred of them joined the religion collectively, becoming a loyal helper of the people on the east coast.

Under the crushing bonus of civilization, the efficiency of missionary to barbarians is astonishing!Now these Patagonians who believed in Taoism have all moved to live around the Magellan Intelligence Station on the east bank, and have begun to accept the control of Taoist temples.Under the baptism of this brand-new Taoist thought on the east coast, the spiritual outlook of the simple Patagonians has been greatly improved. They accepted the behaviors of abstinence, pleasure, and waste proposed by the Taoists, and began to take care of themselves carefully. life.Livestock were no longer slaughtered at will, but began to be raised on a large scale under the guidance of the people on the east coast; at the same time, they also received rye and oat seeds from the people on the east coast, and began to open up wasteland and grow grain around the intelligence station; They also learned to make small wooden boats, and then went fishing in the bay. After doing this in an all-round way, these Patagonians immediately entered a settled farming society from an ignorant and barbaric primitive society, and their living standards improved. A qualitative leap has taken place.

"People are the custodians of Tianzun's wealth. As custodians, we have the responsibility to increase the value of wealth." "Tianzun calls on everyone to engage in industry and commerce, and to be honest and trustworthy in industry and commerce, cherish reputation, and never cheat." "A true Taoist Believers should be full of confidence in everything, and whether they are engaged in industry, commerce or farming, they must have the courage and confidence to overcome all difficulties and achieve extraordinary success, and they must be good at creating and innovating, and constantly develop and conquer."

The above words are the words that the Taoist missionaries keep talking about, and these Patagonians are indeed practicing these as golden and jade words, and their piety is higher than that of the hundred construction workers. The East Coast people who were relocated here are much stronger.And they are also very proud to think that they live a more orthodox life than those on the east coast, have withstood more tests, and overcome more temptations, so they are the few rescued people selected by Tianzun , and getting closer to Tianzun—and this is obviously a kind of supreme glory.

"Although I am very reluctant, I have to say that many Patagonians have only been religious for a few months, but their spiritual outlook is indeed much stronger than these new immigrants from the mainland. Especially in this In a desolate, poor, lonely and cold place, they can endure a poor and boring life more than anyone else, and their inner happiness and sense of mission are also stronger. It is obvious that Tianzun's super spiritual appeal has played a huge role It has driven these simple Patagonians to devote themselves to agricultural production and military training, and they have achieved outstanding results." As the new director of the Chilean Southern Intelligence Center, Fan Li immediately looked at the original site of the Magellan Intelligence Station Long—a report by Bilas, a hypocrite of Tianzun and a religious speculator, and the focus of this report is obviously on ideology, more precisely, on religious belief.

At present, there are about 500 East Coast farmers (construction workers who have immigrated here and settled in sub-districts) in the Magellan Information Station, and there are also about [-] Patagonians attached to them.Basically all the Patagonians have been converted into Christianity, while only about a quarter of the farmers on the east coast have been converted into Christianity. There are not small differences in life attitudes and details of life between those who have not been converted to Christianity and those who have been converted to Christianity.Especially in this place where the spiritual world is extremely empty, the happiness and work efficiency of believers who have sustenance in their hearts are much higher than those of non-believers.And this is just the beginning. I believe that with the deepening of missionary activities and the deepening of believers' devotion, this difference will become bigger and bigger.

"Among the Araucans who came here to recuperate and receive training, 48 people have been registered as Taoist believers. All of them are ordinary members or low-level officers of the Araucan guerrillas. We have established a record for each of them. A file, Zhao Zhenren believes that if we have the opportunity, we should go to Araucan City to build a Taoist temple and set up a missionary organization, so as to amplify the glory of Tianzun, I believe this will definitely have a more positive impact on our career." Bilas's report is still being read, "Here I suggest that the Directorate-General of National Intelligence should give Magellan Station more assistance and greater autonomy, and that we should set up a long-term Updated personal files, track their changing status in the city and society of Araucans, and establish good relations with them. If necessary, give them limited help to make their future more Bright. We only need to pay a little capital, and then with our influence and the appeal of Tianzun, we can easily cultivate a group of pro-East Coast factions among the Araucans..."

"The number of Araucans in the mountains of southern Chile is small, but almost all of them are under the influence of guerrillas. They either have no beliefs or believe in primitive natural religions, and their social organization and structure are extremely loose and productive. The level is also extremely low. Such a group cannot resist the spread of Taoism. Whether it is the Religious Affairs Office or the National Intelligence Agency, it should increase investment in this place, because from the perspective of belief, this place is really a fertile virgin land , we should firmly hold it in our own hands." After reading the report written by Russ, Paradigm remained silent for a long time.

Bilas's report put forward a brand-new idea to increase the influence of the East Coast, that is, to use religious weapons to gradually infiltrate, evolve, and control the surrounding indigenous people in terms of ideology and use them for my own use.As for this point, Paradigm is actually somewhat inclined to agree, but since this is a big matter, let's report it to the local people first.If the native land approves, then ask them to send more magic sticks to vigorously preach, so as to gradually expand the influence of the people on the east coast.

(End of this chapter)