Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 781 West of the Great River ([-])

"Really Zhao is injured!" Several young and strong Taoist priests rushed into the courtyard of a Taoist temple carrying a stretcher.Several medical staff who had been waiting in full force for a long time stepped forward to help immediately. A leading doctor stepped forward to remove the gauze covering the buttocks of Zhenren Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan. No poison, luckily!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the words, as long as Zhenren Zhao is fine.As a high-level Taoist, the head of the four great masters, if Master Zhao Yan and Zhao have any troubles in Laojunmiao, none of these people present can try to please them.Especially those young Taoist priests, who will spend the rest of their lives chopping firewood and burning fires in Taoist temples.

Fu Lei (formerly Second Lieutenant Frey of the Gendarmerie) who had retired from the gendarmerie and transferred to the deputy director of the Dingxi County Police Department silently glanced at the injured Zhao Yan, then grabbed several patrolmen who had followed him, and went to the side for questioning went.

"What happened? Another Guarani attack?" Fu Lei asked while lighting a pipe to calm himself down.Are you kidding, he just mentioned the deputy director a few days ago, and he is currently in charge of the security of the three counties outside the county. If Zhenren Zhao really burped in the wild outside Laojun Temple this time, he would be beaten After all, I went home to farm, and it was really scary to think about it.

Laojun Temple is the later city of Rio Pardo in Brazil, also located on the banks of the Yakuy River.The mountains and rivers are beautiful, the scenery is pleasant, and the soil is covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves. Although it is not as fertile as the black soil, it is still a rare good land.In addition, the climate is suitable and the water source is abundant, so people in the Taoist church quickly took a fancy to it, and then organized believers to donate money to come here to open up the territory.The executive committee welcomes private investment to open up new territories, so at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, a group of Taoist believers came here, built a magnificent Taoist temple, and then recruited people to open up the wasteland.

However, the new immigrant Ming people did not know what Tianzun was or not. They saw that the statue of Tianzun enshrined was very similar to the Taishang Laojun, so they called this place Laojun Temple, and over time it became the place name here.Last month, Laojunmiao Township was upgraded to an official settlement, and then in early October, along with Shifangdian Township, it was put under the trusteeship of Dingxi County.

However, these two newly established settlements have also encountered many troubles, the most important of which is security.The Shifangdian in the downstream area is okay, after all, it is closer to the east, and there are usually troops patrolling, so the security is slightly higher; but the Laojun Temple in the west is very bad, there is no city wall here, and the village head There are no gun towers, and the villagers are in a mess. There are everyone, and because the time is short, they have not received military training. Therefore, after being attacked by the Guarani barbarians, they were caught off guard for a while, causing many casualties. .

In order to solve the public security problem here, the Dingxi County Public Security Bureau, which has not officially taken office, immediately appointed a deputy director to station here with dozens of armed patrols to guard the safety of the place.But Laojun Temple is too big, with many forests in the wild and dense rivers and reeds, which gave the attackers a very good hiding environment, so the east coast patrolmen were repeatedly frustrated and depressed.No, the real Zhao Yan Zhao who came to inspect the situation this time was actually shot in the ass by an arrow. Although it was a skin trauma, everyone had to eat something.

"It's true that they are Guarani people, but they didn't come from Paraguay, that's for sure. The priests from Paraguay are generally well-dressed and have good weapons. They don't just use blowing arrows like this group. , wooden spears. I estimate that this group of Guaraní people who are fleeing and committing crimes should be the ones who slipped through the net at the beginning. They think that we have robbed their land, so they have been refusing to naturalize, and they have always been against us." The patrolman wiped the sweat from his face and said.

It is said that since the people on the east bank opened up their territory westward along the Yakui River, the conflict with the Guarani people that had been silent for many years (suspended temporarily because of the war before) has become fierce again.Because the people on the east bank found that the most mature and most arable land in the west is in the hands of the Guarani people, according to the investigation conclusion of the Ministry of the Interior: "All the land suitable for arable farming has been occupied by the Guarani people. The ideal place to relocate is the forced acquisition of the existing arable land of the original residents.”

The way to "acquire" the arable land of the Guarani people is to buy it, but those Guarani people are extremely dissatisfied with the consideration of five yuan per mu of land, and very few people are willing to sell the land, which has led to outsiders (Immigration) Conflict with indigenous peoples who have lived here for generations.But when the conflict escalated to armed confrontation, everything was irreparable: the Guarani people were driven away from their land like wild dogs, and many rebels were even arrested by militiamen transferred from Dingxi County and Pingan County, and then surrendered. They were sent to major domestic mines or construction sites for "forced labor reform".

However, the consequences of doing so are also endless.When as many as [-] militiamen from other counties withdrew one after another, the Guarani people who fled nearby began to retaliate. There were quite a few casualties under the attack, which made the superiors extremely annoyed, and had to deploy a large number of patrolmen to stay here to solve the security problem.

In order to deal with this troublesome Guarani bandits, the new Director Fu Leifu formulated the following measures: [-]. Strengthen patrols to ensure that there are no Guaranis wandering around the village and on the main roads; [-]. Strengthen the military training of the militia and strengthen its Courage, so that they will not have no resistance when encountering a sudden attack by barbarians; [-]. Ask the Immigration Department to allocate as much as possible military experience when assigning immigrants here (mostly servants and their families eliminated from Shandong); [-]. Prohibit the farmers in each village from planting sorghum or corn, making it more difficult for the enemy to hide; [-]. Contact the Mameluco and Sao Paulo people on the mountain and ask them to bring a message to the Paraguay area and ask the Guarani people there Cut off any aid to the Guaranís on the east coast.

"Have the people from St. Paul in the north got in touch? What did they say?" Fu Lei took a few puffs of cigarettes, looked at his subordinates, frowned and asked, "Do they agree to come?"

"I contacted the leaders of several St. Paul's flag teams that are often active nearby." Hearing his immediate superior's question, the patrolman immediately replied: "Two of them expressed some interest. If we provide them with drinking water during this period , medicine supplies, they will go south to help us capture the Guaranís. But they remind us that all the proceeds from the sale of the Guaranís will belong to them, and we have no right to share the proceeds with them.”

"Greedy Sao Paulo people." Fu Lei cursed bitterly.The Sao Paulo flag team is an old-fashioned slave-catching team. They are composed of whites or mixed-race whites as the backbone, and Indians serve as grassroots soldiers. With weapons and horses, they roam around the junction of southern Brazil and La Plata, capturing Indian slaves everywhere, and then selling them. To the Brazilian plantation owners for profit.

In the past, when the people on the east bank had not yet fully controlled the current land, some St. Paul's flag teams would occasionally come to this activity. At the farthest point, they even went to the hilly area west of the lake on the east bank.However, with the acceleration of the development of new land on the east bank and the strong strength they showed, the Sao Paulo people finally gave up their activities in the east bank and turned to the Paraná River Basin to grab business.

"Tomorrow, you go to the county to see when the entry certificates and employment letters for the St. Paul's flag team can be processed. If possible, try to urge them as much as possible. This time can't be delayed any longer. Laojunmiao objects here We have at least 2000 Guarani people, and if we don’t solve them, we will suffer greater losses, which is unacceptable to everyone.” Fu Lei solemnly told his subordinates.

Even a big man like Zhenren Zhao was injured here. It is conceivable how arrogant the Guarani people are, and the cleanup work on them really cannot be delayed any longer.It's a pity that the military strength in the country is tense now-the group of shallow-sighted civil servants are even clamoring for the reduction of the army-and it is the busy farming season, and the militia cannot be recruited, so they can only rely on the group of "professional slave catchers for 30 years" "The St. Paul's flag team came to help the people on the east bank clean up, and the condition was to provide them with food and lodging and a small amount of hard work during the period. In addition, all the proceeds from the sale of slaves belonged to them.This condition was not unacceptable to the people on the east coast, so the superiors quickly approved the proposal to hire the Sao Paulo flag team to deal with the Guaranís.

"By the way, let's talk to those people from St. Paul and ask them to send someone to Paraguay in the west. Whether it's a warning or an exhortation, let those churchgoers settle down and don't give the Guarani people in our country Aid of any kind. Some of the Guaranís we captured recently carried Spanish rapiers and some had leather armor and hand bombs. Must have flowed from them. If they don't listen, If you insist on continuing to assist the barbarians in our country, then our government has the right to retain all freedom of action." Fu Lei thought for a while, and then told another subordinate.

When the Sao Paulo flag team in Brazil was the largest, it once organized a team of tens of thousands of people to capture slaves in Paraguay.At first their operations went smoothly, capturing a large number of Guaranís and making huge profits.It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. With the Spanish missionaries' great aid to the Guarani people, these aborigines in Paraguay were quickly organized and possessed modern weapons such as muskets and armor. Dried it up and whacked them a few times.

After seeing the resolute resistance of the Guarani people in Paraguay, the St. Paul flag team immediately changed their attitude. They promised not to plunder the Guarani people in Paraguay, and then started business with them.Of course the Guaraní people were very happy, because it meant that they could buy smuggled goods from Portugal for very little money, instead of paying several times the price for those expensive Lima goods.Therefore, after so many years, the Sao Paulo flag team from Brazil actually has some connections and connections in Paraguay. The goods smuggled there by people from the east coast are also represented by them, and the sales are still quite good.

After giving orders to his subordinates, Fu Lei decided to take the team out for another patrol.Now is the busy season before the start of spring sowing. Farmers often go out in the field, and safety issues must not be sloppy.

(End of this chapter)