Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 646 Excavating the Foundation ([-])

The La Plata region, which gradually enters midsummer, is beautiful.

Especially on both sides of the rich Paraná River, the clear and sweet gurgling water, the wild flowers exuding a faint fragrance, the bison enjoying the afternoon sun peacefully, and the ancient songs of the Gauchos faintly floating in the wind are all there. It tells people that this is a rich land full of life.

But now everything has changed, especially in the eyes of the white Spanish residents, everything has become unrecognizable and disgusting!They can no longer lie leisurely in their own vineyard in an afternoon, sip sweet wine, and take a good nap; they can no longer meet with friends on a sunny day Going on a safari, and then having a BBQ with the ladies and the kids; They respectfully flatter their faces and enjoy the supreme glory of being a superior person.

It's all over now because of the war, the damned Second La Plata War!

Liao Xiaoyao rode his horse past a burning house with some embers left, staring at it for a long time without saying a word.In front of the door lay a bloodstained corpse of what appeared to be a white Hispanic man, who had been stabbed in the chest and had gashed metal knives on his neck and thigh.He had been dead for some time, and the blood on the ground had frozen.

Inside the burned house, a white Spanish woman died naked on a bed, and under the bed lay two children whose heads had been cut off, apparently the children of the family.The valuables in the house were almost wiped out, even the wardrobes, chairs and other furniture that were easy to move were gone.

"It was done by seven Kelandi people. They used to be slaves of this family and were tortured. After being declared free by our army, they joined our army's transport team to undertake transport tasks for the front line. Last month They secretly left the team with ordnance (spears, sabers), and then sneaked back to Buenos Aires to murder this family of Spanish residents. They have now been captured by our department and detained in a concentration camp.” Gendarmerie Second Lieutenant Guo Puxia went to the suburbs to clean up Liao Xiaoyao, Buenos Aires Police Commander of Public Security, reported.

He was a little ashamed. Recently, there have been a lot of vicious security cases in the suburbs, and almost all the criminals are turned Kelandi slaves.These Kelandi slaves have deep-seated hatred for the Spanish colonists, so after being released as freemen by the East Coasters, they often rely on their numerical advantages to frequently attack the Spanish white colonists, creating a large number of sensational security cases .Theft, murder, robbery, rape, arson, extermination, etc., there is nothing these Kelandi people can't do. The white Spanish residents are trembling and panic all day long.

The new conquerors seem to have a problem with them, confiscated all the guns hidden in the people, but did not provide them with sufficient protection, which makes these Spanish residents look like that when facing the vengeful Kelandi Vulnerable, a large number of white residents were killed and injured in waves of criminal cases.

In all fairness, the people on the east coast really turned a blind eye to the Kelandi's revenge at the beginning, but it didn't take long for them to find that these Kelandi people were completely out of control, and they became more and more courageous. The bigger it is, even the transport team of the East Coast people dare to attack.Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Liao Xiaoyao immediately ordered the 36th regiment of the Xuebing Corps and the Xihu County militia brigade stationed nearby to attack to suppress those aborigines who committed crimes.

However, at this time, the riots had spread to the entire La Plata region, and the soldiers on the east bank could only maintain law and order near the camp, and they were powerless with insufficient troops to go deep into the distant areas of the grassland.Faced with such a situation, Liao Xiaoyao had no choice but to be able to maintain order in the urban areas. As for the manors and farms in the countryside, he couldn't care less.There may often be some heinous things happening there, such as the whole family of Spanish settlers who were wiped out at the moment.

"The concentration camp is overcrowded now!" Liao Xiaoyao lost interest after walking around the scene of the crime twice, and then asked Guo Puxia: "I remember there are no less than 2000 people crammed there, right?"

"As of yesterday, there were 2088 prisoners in the concentration camp, including 291 Spaniards and 1797 Kelandi." Guo Puxia replied immediately.

"Clean up for them. Ships will come over in two days, and all the fucking colonies will be sent. Especially those Kelandi people will be sent to Xinhua Island, where construction requires a lot of manpower. Especially Tacheng Coal Mine and Several newly established large state-run plantations, lumberyards, and farms require a lot of manpower, and they just happened to be sent there for labor reform. As for the Spanish white residents who were driven by the Kelandi rioters to hide in various towns, they also We can't raise them for nothing, and send them all to South Africa and Australia. They are starving and full now, and I don't believe they don't want to go." Liao Xiaoyao said indifferently.

Everyone knows what happened to these people when they went to overseas colonies.Those Spaniards are okay, because they immigrated in disguise and have a free status. Although life is difficult, it is not too bad.But for those Kelandi aborigines, life will be much more difficult and rough.

The attitude of the people on the east coast towards the aborigines is undoubtedly extremely cruel and inhumane.In history, Westerners may still save the lives of the aborigines in the colonies, because most of what they pursue is commercial interests, but for the people on the east coast, their only pursuit of the colonies is land and resources, and their attitude towards the aborigines Extremely cruel, basically they were either killed or exiled. It can be said that the East Coasters are the most brutal and least popular colonists among barbarians.Therefore, the attitude of Liao Xiaoyao and others towards the Kelandi people is the same as that towards the Guarani and Charuya people, that is, to kill them!Those who can't be killed will be exiled overseas!

Considering that the people from the east coast now appear in La Plata as liberators, it is inconvenient for them to massacre the Kelandi people casually, so they can only find a pretext to arrest some Kelandi people who committed crimes, and then unify them Escorted on a transport ship going overseas, these prisoners were exiled to overseas colonies to fend for themselves.

It was against this background that the first concentration camp set up on the outskirts of Buenos Aires came into being.The camp housed a large number of ex-criminals - obviously a lot of innocent people too, but who cares, some of these criminals might have committed petty crimes like stealing a chicken, or Serial murderers, but in the La Plata area where military control is enforced, their fate is the same, that is, exile.

Of course, exile is also divided into grades and grades.For example, those who committed minor crimes and did not have much hostility to the East Coast Republic were exiled to farm in the South African River area with relatively good conditions; Settlements, although the land in these two places is barren, the business is not prosperous, and there are no fisheries and mineral resources worth mentioning, but it is not impossible to live there if you graze there; the last remaining people are naturally heinous. , or diehards with great hostility to the East Coast Republic, for these people, the Gendarmerie mercilessly dispatched them to the frightening Xinhua Island.Tacheng Port, Xinhua Port, and the plantations, mines, and logging fields on St. Mary's Island will be their home for the rest of their lives.They will use their lives to contribute to the expansion of the tropical land of the East Coast Republic of China in the tropical wild areas where plagues are rampant.

"Many Spaniards have already expressed their willingness to go to overseas colonies." Gendarmerie Second Lieutenant Guo Puxia replied after hearing the words, "Since the registration of Spanish residents who volunteered to go overseas this month (December), there have been 12 Spanish residents from 129 households. Come to register. This group of local people expressed that it was inconvenient to accept, so they have all been arranged to farm in the area of ​​Gaoda Township (formerly Gaodabao) in South Africa. In addition, a small number of Kelandi people who are tired of the chaotic situation—probably less than 577 people— — will also be assigned to the town of Hezhong, South Africa, where they will engage in their old profession—grazing. To be precise, grazing sheep in the state-run pasture, and they will be officially allocated five acres of land after the three-year period expires. "

In fact, most of these more than 500 Spanish residents are not Spanish whites in the narrow sense. Most of them are residents from Naples, Austria, Sicily, Hungary, Bohemia, and there are very few residents from Catalonia. white people.These people do not have a high degree of identification with the Kingdom of Spain, and they are basically new immigrants who have been brought to La Plata by the King of Spain in the past ten years. Accepted the conditions of the people on the east coast asking them to settle in South Africa.After all, the life there was said to be very stable, the barbarians were defeated by the civilized people, and the personal safety of themselves and their families seemed to be guaranteed.

"Continue to strengthen the publicity." Liao Xiaoyao smiled after hearing this, and said, "For example, we can publicize and publicize such cases well, which can make those white Spanish residents and some Kelandi people who don't want to make trouble realize that they are Not safe, they need to go to a safer place. Remember, everything we are doing now is to dig the roots of the Spaniards in La Plata, and at the same time strengthen our own strength. Even if there are some unavoidable reasons in the future The reason is to return La Plata to the Spaniards and we also want to make sure that the Spaniards get a piece of white land. They don't know how many years and how much money it will take to restore it to contain us, I really doubt it Will the Spaniards be able to do that by then?"

(End of this chapter)