Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1141 Southwest ([-])

"Tie me up!" A middle-aged police officer riding on a horse in the countryside of Minghe Town said with a high air.

Following his order, several policemen came forward with shackles, and locked up several white men in sky blue cloth with beards.There was a slight commotion behind them, but under the gaze of a dozen or so police officers with rifles raised, the group fell silent in fear.

"Raisky, you built a church privately, organized an illegal assembly, spread a cult, and maliciously failed to pay taxes for two years. You are arrested today. Do you have anything to say?" Shaking in front of one of the white men, he said with a look of disgust.

"The barbarians from Poland are really disturbing. Not being allowed to build churches or go to worship is like digging their ancestral graves. It's really unbelievable. So no king (well, our court is now also in no king status) fatherless, lacking the most basic human ethics, it is better to send them to Tacheng to dig coal early, anyway, we don’t want to see this kind of despicable people again.” The judge looked livid and eager to defend himself the Polish man, thought to himself.

"Director Li, Judge Chen, I have something to say..." The Polish man who was forcibly shackled struggled and said loudly: "Every lost lamb has the right to serve the Lord. The Lord is loving and merciful. He The splendor of splendor..."

"Crack!" A policeman smashed the butt of his gun on the Polish man's face, interrupting his words roughly.

"It's really stubborn." The middle-aged police officer shook his head. "Believe in heresy, you're stupid. Let the Taishang Laojun—er, it's Tianzun—Tianzun chop you into ashes. Don't dawdle, Take it all with me!"

"Director, what about this church?" A policeman came over with a torch and asked.

Director Li looked at the small wooden church in front of him, shook his head, and said, "Don't mess around, put the seal on it first. Let the Taoist priests from the Taoist Association take a look later, if it can be converted into a Taoist temple or a Chenghuang Temple Words are also a beautiful thing. The country is not rich now, and it is a pity that good buildings burn down."

"Yes!" After the policeman stood at attention with his legs together and saluted, he turned around and put on the seal with his hands.

"Judge Chen, he's already been arrested. It's up to you to decide what to do next. Brother, I don't care." Director Li jumped off his horse, walked up to the town judge, and said with a smile.

"How else can I be sentenced? Exile!" Judicial Officer Chen lit a pipe for himself and Director Li, and said nonchalantly: "A few months ago, Jiang Nanqi, member Jiang (in charge of judicial and prison affairs across the country, executive committee nine One of the members of the Standing Committee) issued a document on behalf of the Ministry of Justice, asking all localities to kill less, be careful, and try to change the sentence to exile to make full use of human resources. Therefore, the death penalty for spreading cults will no longer be imposed. These Poles are **** The leaders of the Communist Party are basically exiled to Xinhua Island to do hard work for a lifetime. As for the believers in the village who often go to church, they have to be screened by people from the Mei Agency. Severely exiled to Australia, the Salmon Islands, and even the Blackwater region of the Far East, it is likely that you will never see them again."

"It's also a crime." Director Li sighed suddenly after listening for a long time, and said, "It took a lot of effort to bring these people from Poland, which was in chaos and chaos, and it has only been a year or two since they lived in peace. They were sent to another place, and I said, what's the trouble? I think it's better to bring in less barbarians in the future. These people are weird, and they make some moths. Isn't it causing us less trouble? ..."

It is said that with the outbreak of the Baltic Sea War in the past three years, more than [-] Polish and Lithuanian refugees flooded into the east coast. Although most of them were women, there were still more than [-] men.Most of these white men are currently non-citizens, but they are fortunate enough to have part of the land to cultivate (of course, the land rent is not cheap), which is better than those Italians who are struggling in construction teams, docks, lumberyards, mines and large state-owned farms. How many times happy.

Of course, these Poles were fortunate enough to be assigned to the village to live with the people from the east coast, and the corresponding corvee, taxes and so on were naturally indispensable.However, the original old citizens in the village were not good men and women. After seeing these stupid barbarians coming, they tried to find a way to shift the heavy tax burden such as movable property tax and real property tax to the Poles. ——The East Bank currently collects the above two taxes by the method of apportioning the amount after negotiation, and there is a lot of room for fraud—this naturally arouses the dissatisfaction of the Poles.Coupled with some differences in religion, it is no wonder that these Poles have no problems. Privately built churches and huddled together for warmth are commonplace, so this is why the police suppressed them this time.

"I heard that many villages and towns are now suggesting to reduce the importation of immigrants, especially those Catholics. Director Li, is there no rumor about this in your public security system?" Judge Chen looked around, and suddenly turned to Li in a low voice. asked the director.

Director Li nodded heavily when he heard the words, and said softly: "You know, my colleagues are basically from the Yuyuan Army, and they don't think much of these barbarians. Now I heard that someone suggested tightening With the introduction of these big noses, many people within us followed suit and clamored to stop—or at least tighten—the entry of Catholics. But whether this will happen or not is open to debate. Will be able to make this determination, after all, our country is short of people, it has always been short!"

"I hope this can be done. Now the tax burden is indeed a bit heavy. The country spends a lot of money on immigration every year. As a result, these big noses that are not worrying are introduced. It is really not worth it to think about it." Chen Judicial The member also said with a sigh.

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In the administrative building of the Executive Committee hundreds of kilometers away from Minghe Town, Judicial Committee member Jiang Nanqi also said in the same tone towards Jiang Qiangquansheng: "Chairman, I suggest that we should bring in fewer European immigrants in the future. At least men should be brought in less. After all, the country has absorbed too many people in the past two or three years, and is currently in a state of mild indigestion. It is basically a self-contained rhythm. Not to mention that there are underground lectures, churches that violate the rules, etc. that have sprung up like mushrooms, which have caused a great negative impact on local security.”

"I also know that there have been more European immigrants in the past two or three years, but let's wait until this year. Do you think that the population surge in the past two years will continue for a long time? It's a good idea!" Qiang Quan Shengbai Glancing at Jiang Nanqi, he said, "It's just that the war brought in a large number of refugees. This kind of good thing doesn't happen every day. But it's true that the Catholic immigrants you said are hard to digest, although the number of white men in China currently only accounts for the total population. 14% of them, but most of them are Catholics with faith, it is very difficult to naturalize, and indeed we should restrict the introduction. We are certainly short of people, but we should not accept everyone, otherwise it will be troublesome in the future.”

"But—Old Jiang!" Qiang Quansheng took a sip of Baiyan camellia, closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, and said, "Next year, the number of European immigrants will decrease (the number of immigrants from the Baltic Sea will decrease, and the number of female slaves will increase slightly on the contrary). The number of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty in the Far East is likely to remain small, so the growth rate of the country's population will slow down accordingly. For this reason, the cadres in the industry, agriculture, transportation, etc. have great opinions. Their demand for labor It's never going to be satisfying."

"Slow down, slow down, it's better to lay a solid foundation first. Otherwise, if the ethnic groups continue to be fragmented, how will our new nation be formed and tempered?" Jiang Nanqi said, "It's time for our immigration policy to be revised. In the past few years, the ratio of immigrants from the Far East to the East Coast has been between 3:2. This is not very suitable. I think it should be adjusted to 4:3 or even 1:1. Ming people are always our basic base. They don't have such a stubborn Catholic belief, and they are naturally difficult to be bribed or instigated by Europeans. They are much more reliable than those Italians, Poles or Germans. I don't want to work hard all my life, and my grandchildren will believe me after I kick my legs and close my eyes. Foreign religions have been abandoned, and the entire country is flooded with Catholics, so we can change our country’s name, why not call it the Chinese Republic, Italy, or the Polish Republic..."

Unexpectedly, Jiang Nanqi's nationalism is so intense, so he couldn't help but look at him twice, and finally said: "It is not a problem to rely on foreign population for the increase of the country's population, and the side effects are very serious. Really high-quality new growth The population is still the second generation born in China, but their average age is not high now, and they cannot make their own contributions to the country's construction immediately. But everything must look on the bright side. The natural growth rate of the national population in 1656 has already broken through 7%, our efforts in medical care, food supply and sanitation improvement are finally paying off. I believe that as long as we persevere in this effort, the annual natural growth alone will be enough to make the country's population steadily increase , the foreign immigrants may be just some embellishments when they arrive at that time.”

On November 1657, 11, the nationwide special action against cult organizations and underground lectures in the East Coast Republic came to an end, and the prisons in various places were overcrowded for a while—according to incomplete statistics, there were more than 20 "cult elements" in the country He was sentenced to exile overseas, setting a record for exile on the East Coast.And it is precisely because of the impact of these Catholic immigrants that inadvertently and indirectly contributed to the fine-tuning of the immigration policy on the East Coast, which is bound to have a certain degree of impact on the future development of the country.

(End of this chapter)