Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 854 New China's New Crisis ([-])

"The investigation is clear. It is a force called the Manabo Kingdom by the local natives who is making waves." After coming to the east bank for more than ten years, Bing Taro, the former captain of the Tacheng garrison team and the new Mianhe garrison team leader, speaks Chinese in Vietnamese. I just heard him say: "This news was revealed by the Dutch on the other side of the river. They have been harassed very much by this native tribe recently, and they have almost given up all peripheral activities, such as slave hunting and hunting. Now Almost all of them have been huddled inside the high wall of the trading station. There are less than 100 soldiers and East India Company employees. It was cleaned up, anyway, life is not easy for the Dutch.”

"Don't worry about others, let's think about our own situation." Kyle, who represents the government of the New China Pioneering Team, sighed, and said worriedly: "What is the origin of the Monabo Kingdom? There are so many soldiers , and there are still muskets, what is the situation? Where did they get the muskets?"

Hearing this, both of them fell silent.Yes, these natives actually still have muskets, and there are thousands of soldiers and horses.If the power is not enough to destroy them, then we must try our best to delay their annexation of various tribes, so as not to make them bigger.

As for the muskets in their hands, it is easy to understand that most of them were secretly sold to them by Portuguese and Arab businessmen who came here to trade.In fact, as early as the beginning of the 16th century, many European colonists arrived on the west coast of Madagascar. The earliest was in 1500 (one said 1506), a Portuguese ship was blown to Madagascar by a storm. To the Europeans; in 1524, two French ships arrived in Falklands, and they wanted to land, but were rejected by the locals; in 1540, the Portuguese established a trading station on the west coast, engaged in the slave trade while preaching, and were expelled by the locals eight years later; In 8, British ships arrived at the Falklands for the first time; after the Dutch occupied Mauritius in 1591, they began to use this as a base to continuously harass the Falklands and plunder slaves along the coast; around 1598, 1640 British landed along the coast, but unfortunately The most important thing is that they encountered the main force of the natives and were repelled...

See how frequently the natives of the island come into contact with the outside world, so it is not so surprising that they have such weapons as muskets.In fact, at this time, the Sakarava people on the west coast of the Falkland Islands (that is, the savannah zone) were the only native tribe equipped with muskets on a large scale, and this is why they were inferior to the Melina people on the Central Plateau in terms of economic conditions and productivity. Under such circumstances, the reason why the military advantage can still be maintained.

They strictly controlled the outflow of guns and ammunition, firmly monopolized the channels of European slave traders in their own hands, and maintained their own wars in the South and North (the captured prisoners of war can be sold to European slave traders)—— Of course, the scale of this slave trade was so large that the Falkland natives became second only to blacks in the number of slaves exported to Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America.

Historically, at the beginning of the 18th century, the Sakaravas established two kingdoms in the western region.Among them, the Manab Kingdom, which started from the Northern Expedition on the Unirashi River, had 4000-5000 musketeers, and they were very skilled in using them, which surprised the Europeans.

The second son of the founding monarch of the Manabo Kingdom, with the support of some of his subjects, left the kingdom's territory and went north to conquer the natives in the wilderness, and finally established the Boyla Kingdom.This kingdom also attached great importance to the use of firearms. The king built thirty or forty cannons in a fort near the sea. The capital Marovoi where the king lived had thousands of houses at that time, and the population was very dense.The king's warehouse was full of guns, precious stones, gold, silver, porcelain, and a throne brought to the king from China by a French merchant.

Of course, at this time, the Sakarava nation, which started out as a conquest, had just started. At this time, they only had thousands of soldiers, and it is believed that there were only a few hundred muskets, and the territory was only a large grassland north of the Unirashi River. .This ethnic group is dominated by a mixed agricultural and pastoral economy, and maintains trade links with various countries or tribes established by the Melina people of the Central Plateau.They seldom fish, and even if they do, they do this kind of activity on the beach with simple tools. Most of them still live on farming and animal husbandry, and their temperament is relatively fierce.The Dutch should be very impressed by this, because the two sides had fought against the slave capture incident. At that time, a Dutch businessman and his men seemed to have suffered a bit.

Both Bingtaro and Kyle are not time-travelers. They don't know when and how the Sakarava people started their business in history—in fact, even the time-travelers don't know much about it. The history is too unpopular-they only know that this large tribal alliance known as the Kingdom of Manabe has begun to march northward from the Unirashi River, and has annexed several small tribes that are also Sakarawa people. Panic erupted in the surrounding area.

The Dutch trading post in the Tulare area on the south bank of the Cotton River is the first among them. At present, the staff of the Dutch East India Company has shrunk across the board and returned to the trading post. With the help of dozens of German mercenaries, relying on the thick brick and wood mixed structure The walls stand ready for help—for they have no ships to evacuate yet.

The Dutch can shrink into the commercial station, but the people on the east coast are in trouble here, because they have too many pots and pans outside, and they can't give up at all.In addition, the manors of various plantations are also relatively scattered, which is not conducive to defense, so they are relatively passive in the face of enemy attacks.God is sorry, the first thing people from the east bank did when they visited many places was to build castles. Only this time they neglected a bit in the area of ​​Mianhe Port, and they encountered a crisis as a result. The world is so nonsense!

"Don't stand here and talk nonsense." Ma Wanpeng, who was rarely wearing big pants, appeared behind the two of them. He pointed to Bingtaro and said, "Captain, I will organize people to build the fort this afternoon. The hardwoods brought in are built. The fort aims to accommodate 3000 people, and it will be built next to the coastal defense fortress. At that time, it will be able to rely on these permanent fortresses for defense and accommodate more people. Well, these are the next steps Things to do, but at the moment, all you need to do is send someone to contact the Kingdom of Manabor to see what these sons of bitches are up to. We don't care about their warlord melee, but they must not harm our interests , otherwise we will react strongly."

"By the way, Director Kai, I heard that Captain Shi sent you here because you know some Sakarawa language? How about that? I'll send some soldiers to accompany you to visit a few small tribes nearby. See what kind of charter they are? Are they standing with us, or are they simply going to the Kingdom of Manab? If they are annexed by the Kingdom of Manab, please move them to a nearby place, and we will distribute sabers, breastplates and spears to them to help them defend against the enemy, so let’s do this!” Er gave orders.

Bingtaro and Kyle looked at each other after listening, and then they split up to act, while Ma Wanpeng himself stayed near the port area to supervise the laborers (mainly Comoros and Poles) on the island and the plantation. ) to build wooden fortresses.As for the [-] newly arrived Polish soldiers, intense training began. They were originally soldiers of the Polish army. At this moment, they only needed a few words from the officer, and they quickly entered the state and regained the old feeling. .They are full of confidence, and they are full of confidence in defending the port of Mienhe—it’s just that they can’t beat the Cossacks and Tatars, can’t they still beat these natives?Many people think so, which fully reflects the sense of superiority at the level of civilization.

Time passed in the busyness of everyone. In late March, two flute-shaped transport ships arrived at the port of Mianhe Port from Xinhua Port along the Mozambique Warm Current.More than a thousand Ming people came out of the cabin in a file with armored swords and spears. They were the strong and strong detained by Shi Qinjie from the immigrant ship coming from the direction of Gushan Port—many of them were cut down from the servants of various Shandong ministries. , more or less have some combat experience.

The arrival of these people has greatly enhanced the defensive power of the people on the east bank of the Mianhe Port area, and at the same time stabilized the increasingly floating hearts of the people in various plantations.Especially those Comorians who don't even have the qualifications of laborers, they seem to think that the Sakaravas will do them no harm, so all of them were a little inexplicably excited a while ago.At this moment, seeing more than 1000 soldiers from the east bank arriving here, these people suddenly fell into great disappointment, and they couldn't even get up to eat.

And the pioneer team officials who came with these people also brought Shi Qinjie's latest instructions, that is: 1644. Avoid conflicts as much as possible. Try to maintain a good relationship first, and don't engage in unnecessary fights; second, if war is inevitable, then strive to defeat the enemy's main force with defensive warfare. Presumably, it will no longer be able to unify the entire western peninsula, which is good for the long-term interests of the East Coast Republic; third, the pioneering team government will interview the Portuguese on the Mozambique island and ask them to suspend the sale of weapons and ammunition to the Manabo Kingdom.In addition, the main force of the Second Fleet of the Navy will begin to cruise the Mozambique Strait. Based on the principle of "strictly maintaining neutrality in wartime", try to prevent the ships of the French East India Company (formerly the French Oriental Company, renamed in [-] and currently colonizing southern Madagascar) from colliding with the ships of the Manabor The kingdom trades.

The arrival of this instruction immediately gave Ma Wanpeng a clue in his mind, knowing what to do next.At this time, the news from the inland grasslands almost came one after another. The founder of the Manabo Kingdom and the first king, Andrian Dashifuqi, had led his army to defeat many Sakarawa tribes and sent their subordinates , cattle and sheep, and land are all merged.

At present, in the area north of the Unilaxi River, only some independent tribes exist near the St. Augustine Bay where the river empties into the sea, and most of the rest have been destroyed.Moreover, these surviving tribes are currently panic-stricken, and they don't seem to be able to resist the army of the Manabo Kingdom at all, and their destruction will happen sooner or later.

However, what is surprising is that the founding monarch of this country (or the tribal alliance), Andrian Daxi Fuqi, is believed to have temporarily stopped his progress and began to digest the fruits of victory this time. It is trying to start a trade with the Westerners, exchanging the prisoners of war on hand for guns, ammunition and even artillery.It's just that the Portuguese and French are being artificially suppressed by the people on the east coast, and they haven't rushed to buy the slaves in his hands for a while.But this is also a matter of time. It is impossible for the people on the east coast to suppress these profit-seeking businessmen for a long time. The western coastline is so long that it is difficult for people on the east coast to find any place to trade.

Naturally, the people on the east bank also inquired about the news that the war had ended temporarily, but this did not make people feel any sense of relief.Ma Wanpeng himself even breathed a sigh of relief and frowned secretly, feeling faintly in his heart that this King Andrian Daxifuqi might be a big trouble in the future!

(End of this chapter)