Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1142 Southwest ([-])

With the sound of lively firecrackers, Mr. Jimenez laughed and clapped along with the crowd.

This is Fort Huairen on the banks of the Wanghai River (Coya River), a newly established settlement, located near the city of Rosario, Colonia Province, Uruguay. Yibao (located near the small village of Cufrey in the later generations) is also not very bright. It is estimated that it will be dominated by agricultural planting for a long time, with limited income.

However, the luck of these two newly established settlements is not bad. After the Executive Committee put them into the newly established Shangcheng County (under the jurisdiction of Shangcheng Township, Junmachang Township, Caishi Township, Yewu Township, Huairen Fort, Huaiyibao six townships, with a total of about 1.6 people) under the jurisdiction of Shangcheng County Government, which has gradually become rich due to trade with the West, invested in the construction of a complete primary school for it, which is a great achievement for more than [-] local people. great thing.

As the new vice-principal of Huairen Township Central Primary School, Jimenez accompanied a group of cadres from the county to attend the inauguration ceremony of the school. The teaching staff clapped their hands vigorously - for the sake of money.

Because of his responsible work and excellent teaching (teaching four courses of Spanish, music, art, and arithmetic), Mr. Jimenez was just transferred from Qingdao County earlier this year, and was promoted to the vice principal of the newly established Huairen Township Central Primary School. This has brought about the great expansion of schools on the east coast and the shortage of teacher resources.

However, as an "amateur spy" and a sympathizer of the Catholic Church, Mr. Jimenez was not happy about this promotion. Gein came from the booming Qingdao County to the newly established township in the inland of the birds, and the living conditions were poor. It goes without saying that the efficiency of information transmission is also greatly reduced.However, this was an arrangement made by his superiors, and Mr. Jimenez had no right and no reason to refuse, so before he set off, he compiled a book of the east coast knowledge he had collected over the years and quietly handed it to the Almeida family's connector, and then packed his bags. Came to Fort Huairen.

"I hope they quickly overcome the technical difficulties of the steam engine one by one. This is the source of all the magical magic of the pagans on the east coast." Mr. Ximenez looked at a rumbling steam water extractor in the distance, thinking to himself with.

In other words, it has been more than seven years since Mr. Jimenez leaked the steam engine technology (relatively general, vague and fragmented) of the east coast to Europe through the Almeida family.During the period of about seven and a half years, the Almeida family conducted a lot of research and experiments in Lisbon, trying to perfectly replicate the steam engine on the east coast. They did not hesitate to spend a lot of money for this, and their determination was not small.It's a pity that God didn't seem to see their efforts. Although the Almeida family has produced two prototypes of steam engines over the years, the results are very unsatisfactory. Among them, the one in 1652 leaked badly. At the end of 1656, the Almeida family came up with a small steam engine, which was able to pump water this time, but the efficiency was even lower. It is not as good as a donkey, but in terms of cost, it can buy hundreds or thousands of donkeys, which is extremely discouraging.

At present, the Almeida family has spent nearly [-] silver pesos successively, but they can only produce an expensive "toy" that makes people laugh, and the voice of opposition within the family has also begun to grow.According to some unreliable rumors, the Almeida family has publicly peddled the "source of pagan corruption" (that is, steam engine technology) in Lisbon, asking for [-] cruzado gold coins, provided that the family still retains and continues to research and improve The power of the steam engine—the auction is said to have gone well. A Venetian merchant, a French merchant, two English merchants, two Dutch merchants, and a Hamburg merchant have respectively paid for the Almeida family. All the research results, and then I plan to take them back to my hometown for research, but if I want to produce results, I don’t know the year of the monkey.

And it was precisely because of the failure of acting as a technological spy this time that Mr. Jimenez later turned to collect some other information, such as the social system on the east coast, the elementary school textbooks he often came into contact with, and other things, but with little success ——Leaving aside the social system, it is basically impossible to copy it in Europe at this time, and it is even difficult to improve it; Simple practical texts and official documents", "strong body, able to undertake heavy work", "cultivating national concepts", etc., are completely different from the "technical teaching materials" that the Portuguese want, and the Portuguese don't like them at all.

As a result, Mr. Jimenez's enthusiasm for work dropped sharply, and he was now transferred to the countryside of Shangcheng County to teach, so after sending the last batch of materials to the connector of the Almeida family, he also turned off his work. Continuing to act as a spy (in fact, he didn't receive any compensation for passing on information on the east coast to the outside world, purely because of his strong religious feelings), and planned to work quietly in the local area.Moreover, it is not far from the San Jose Cathedral in Port of Mall, where he can go to worship once a week to seek spiritual comfort—although most of the priests there are controlled by the East Coast government and have no connection with the Holy See , but at least it's the Catholic Church, isn't it? It's better than nothing.

However, although he made up his mind not to be a spy anymore, as a Catholic and a white man, Mr. Jimenez still sincerely hopes that the old continent can research the steam engine technology that the East Coast is famous for, and then apply it to industry and even the military domain, breaking the monopoly of the pagans on the east coast on the South Atlantic in one fell swoop—although this seems a bit unrealistic.

"Only if the believers of the lord of the old continent master the technology of steam engines, can they catch up with these yellow-skinned heretics, and then rely on absolute manpower and material resources to 'liberate' the entire east coast prairie, and restore the glory of the lord Spread it here.” After glancing at the Taoist Temple and Town God’s Temple across the street from the Central Elementary School with a slightly disgusted look, Mr. Ximenez quietly crossed himself on his chest.

The infiltration of New Taoism has become more and more excessive these years. While these priests of pagan gods win over adults through their daughters-in-law (in name, they are all the daughters of the church), they infiltrate among minors through the patriotic education of the Temple of the City God. Power is growing very fast.Coupled with the fact that they have invested in the research and development of a variety of drugs (such as anti-diphtheria serum) over the years, and then spread the teachings under the guise of the blessing of Tianzun, the trend of overwhelming momentum in the Duck Lake area is extremely worrying.Mr. Jimenez has vaguely heard that the number of Catholics who go to worship at the Peace Cathedral in the north has grown sluggishly in recent years, which may not be due to Taoism's competition for believers. Thinking about this makes people shudder.

After the brief ceremony, the cadres of the County Education Bureau had lunch with the school teachers, and more than 200 elementary school students who came to the ceremony were also arranged to have lunch on the pasture.For this reason, the chef of the school took his two apprentices to kill several cows, and made a famous east coast dish of beef stew with potatoes. It is not easy for ordinary people in the mainland to eat some beef, but in places like the eastern prairie, this is simply an ordinary food. Some picky eaters even eat the meat behind the eyes of the bull. Mr. Jimenez was scared and prayed again and again when he saw it for the first time, and then he lamented how rich the east coast is, and at the same time he became more determined to return this rich land to the Lord’s rule—it’s just after many years, Jimenez The husband feels more and more that this possibility is getting lower and lower.

Among the students, there are several "transfer students" who are eye-catching, because they are all adults, and some of them are black, and some of them wear North American Indian hair accessories.Mr. Jimenez knew these people, because he helped them enter the school status at that time. Some of the blacks belonged to the Black Banner tribe, and the Indians came from the North American continent. They came to the east coast to learn some basic knowledge, such as writing, arithmetic, etc. ——The principal even explained that during the labor class (usually every Saturday afternoon), these people should be specially "opened" to let them master as many agricultural technologies as possible, such as planting, irrigation, Fertilization and simple breeding knowledge, so that when they return to the tribe, they can spread this knowledge and improve their civilization level as much as possible.

This matter once made Mr. Jimenez extremely worried, because he inquired round and round, whether it was the Black Banners or the Indians, they would eventually return to the banks of the Mississippi River, because their future homeland was there.If these people really learned some knowledge on the east coast—Mr. Jimenez certainly wouldn’t think that they were the only ones who accepted such students in their primary schools, and there must be quite a lot of Indian and Black Banner students scattered all over the east coast—then Their agricultural production level is likely to be improved, and this is undoubtedly an important prerequisite for population growth.In addition, they learned language and characters on the east coast, so they are almost sure to be able to pass on all kinds of knowledge mastered by their predecessors through written records. In this way, the possibility of civilization retrogression is greatly reduced, and the civilization level of the tribe Steady progress.

Mr. Jimenez didn't know how bad it was when he first learned about it, but recently he has figured out the joints and he is more and more worried about the future of the North American continent: Indians and blacks began to take root and multiply on that land, and their civilization It doesn't seem like a good thing for the Lord's believers to have a stable level of inheritance.

"I hope God will bless you." Thinking of this, he crossed himself again in frustration.

(End of this chapter)