Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1149 Going North (Part [-])

"Woohoo! Those who destroy the Six Kingdoms are also the Six Kingdoms, not Qin Ye. Qin Ye, who belonged to the Qin family, is not the world..." In a verdant courtyard in San Juan Port, Anda, the deputy battalion commander of the Fourth Mixed Battalion of the East Coast Army, Fifteen is writing brush characters stroke by stroke.As a true samurai, Anda Fifteen has always insisted that calligraphy is the essence of Chinese culture. Only by seeing the knives of knife and brush in the hair and comprehending the true meaning of calligraphy can it be possible to truly understand Chinese culture.

A soldier (samurai) must not only be brave and unstoppable on the battlefield, but also have certain attainments in calligraphy and poetry. This is an absolutely indispensable basic quality. Otherwise, it is a He is a reckless man who cannot be called a real soldier—due to the unremitting training of Peng Zhicheng and Mo Ming, two generations of army chiefs, there are many young officers on the east coast who hold this view, especially in the base camp of the Communist Party of China. In the army, there are a bunch of people in it who can go to battle to kill the enemy, and can practice calligraphy to nourish their spirits. The white shirts of the executive committee are stunned.

After writing the whole "Ode to Abang Palace", Anda Shiwu breathed a sigh of relief, then walked to the washbasin placed aside, picked up the towel inside and wiped his hands.At this time, the orderly Nanjiro brought his breakfast, a bowl of millet porridge, a stack of pickles, and a piece of salted fish. This was his unshakeable breakfast.

After eating breakfast in 15 minutes, Anda Fifteen looked at the Dorado fish that had been gnawed on a pile of white bones, and sighed in his heart that the stock was running out, and I am afraid that he would not be able to eat this delicious fish in the future——Dora Multi-fish and Suluwei fish are new foods that Major Anda Fifteen likes during the training period led by the river. Major Anda Fifteen specially asked his orderlies to purchase some before departure.

After breakfast, Anda Fifteen walked around the yard to take a breath of fresh air, and then went to the study next door, looking at a large hand-painted map of the Caribbean Sea hanging on the wall, in a trance. .After a long time, he stretched out his hand and stroked the island of Jamaica below Cuba, as gently as if he was stroking his lover's face.

"Ah..." he sighed, and muttered to himself: "It's a pity that the troops are not enough, otherwise this island can be captured and used as my base of operations on the east coast. And then there is Barbados Island, the English are here The island is full of sugar plantations, which continue to generate profits for London day and night, it is really hateful, and it will be taken away in the future."

This time the east coast convoy entered San Juan Port on a large scale. Although nothing can be seen at present, as time goes by, it will have an increasing impact on the situation in the region-three double-decker battleships, six Although the lineup of two escort gunboats is not very luxurious, it is enough to affect the balance of the situation between the various parties in the region.

In addition, the Caribbean Shipping Company fleet, consisting of four decommissioned escort gunboats and two old flute-shaped ships, also successfully anchored in the Port of Mobile. In the future, this place will be the territory operated by the Caribbean Shipping Company, and they have already paid the Indians a certain fee for this-of course, this fee is ridiculously low in the eyes of the people on the east coast.

Speaking of this, I have to say a digression. Since the people from the East Coast visited this area four years ago and have contacted the Mobile, Natchez, and Choctaw successively, these Indian tribes are not without any Variety.At least, now they know that cotton, tobacco, flax, fur, and oak can be sold to the people on the east coast in exchange for the food, medicine, weapons and ammunition they urgently need, so their social structure has also begun to slowly transform, just like the new Nigeria It is the same as those Indian tribes in Teland who specialized in commerce and handicrafts (meaning giving up hunting, fishing and gathering) because of commercial prosperity.Not to mention that there have been more than a dozen members who went to the east bank to study and returned to the tribe (sent hundreds of them successively, except those who were still studying, and dozens of people died of illness halfway). They brought back civilized people from the east bank. The fire will burn throughout the entire North American continent in the future—at least, the agricultural technology of the Indians will advance by leaps and bounds, and feeding more people will become a reality in the future.

The Black Eight Banners of the Free State also acquired a piece of land near the mouth of the Mississippi River, roughly in the vicinity of New Orleans in later generations.The first batch of more than [-] blacks (including the families of officers and soldiers of the Black Eight Banners) are currently logging and building houses. They plan to settle down first, and some local experts from the Ministry of Agriculture will stay there for a long time to assist these blacks in clever use of sand. The dam is used to construct the Zonggang terrain in order to drain the swamp water as soon as possible, and then start agricultural production.In order to guarantee their livelihood in the early stage, the Executive Committee also instructed the New World Friendship and Mutual Bank to issue two low-interest loans to the Free State, which were mainly used to purchase food from the adjacent New Spain area. As for how to return it, it would depend on the future land The output is offset.

After meditating by the map for a while, Anda Fifteen sighed softly, then picked up the saber hanging on the wall, turned and left the study, called Nanjiro, and drove to the pier together.

The "Swordfish" gunboat by the pier has completed its replenishment. This gunboat belonging to the Caribbean Shipping Company is about 25 years old, but it is still "old and strong". It has become one of the most important assets of the company when it was established. .According to the plan, today they will carry a group of army soldiers and newly arrived cadres (mainly tax officials) to Cata in the Spanish mainland (that is, New Granada under the jurisdiction of the Governor General of Peru, roughly in present-day Colombia and Venezuela). The port of Herna established a customs and commercial station.Since Long Xu, the battalion commander of the [-]th Battalion, and some other officers have led people to San Augustine, Havana, Vera Cruz and other places, so the trip to Cartagena can only be led by him and the deputy of the Anda Battalion ——Well, there are two hundred soldiers accompanying me. The reason why I brought them with me is because the people on the east coast know that the local situation is complicated. The smuggling ships and pirates appearing on the sea, the stolen goods merchants who are hostile to the east coast, the unpredictable colonial officials, and the more difficult local religious forces are all powerful challenges for the people of the east coast. If you want to settle these things, sometimes you can't rely on force deterrence. Although the King of Spain has never allowed the East Coast Army to reach any place other than San Juan Port, what if they take off their military uniforms to cover their ears and steal the bell?With the current situation and the attitude of the upper echelons of Spain towards the East Coast, will the local Spanish colonial authorities take care of it?Dare to control?

Together with the "Swordfish" is also the escort gunship "Sage Cod", which is also an old ship belonging to the Caribbean Shipping Company. It can be seen that it has been in service for a long time. In fact, this ship has participated in many naval battles, and has also been to the mouth of the Amur River in the Far East. There is no way to send a batch of supplies at the station. Now is the start-up period of Air Canada, and everything is difficult, so even the battleship has to be used to transport things.

After the soldiers boarded the ship, Anda XV was invited by an executive of Air Canada to drink tea in the captain's room of the "Swordfish".Since both of them had served in Xinhua Island, the conversation was more speculative.

"Major Anda, this time I will go to Cartagena to open a commercial station and customs (many employees of Air Canada also serve as government officials, such as collecting customs duties). The bones are about to be thrown there, and Mr. Anda should pay more attention to prevent the local Hidalgos from violently injuring people. After all, we are grabbing food from them, although we also use some of them to serve as Agents try to resolve this part of the conflict, but there will always be losers in the process of redistribution of benefits, and we can imagine what they will do. I heard that a Chinese official who went to Veracruz for preliminary contact a while ago Has been assassinated on the street, and the murderer has disappeared without a trace, what a headache..." An executive surnamed Zhou of Air Canada, who is in his prime, sighed and said: "That young man just graduated from the Dayuhe Youth Cadre School three years ago. Graduated with outstanding talent and ability, many people are optimistic about his future, who knows that he died in a foreign country all of a sudden, it is really pitiful."

"Cartagena is an important military town in the Viceroyalty of Peru. The Lima Legion has troops stationed here, but it is said that their combat effectiveness is very poor, and they have been beaten up by hundreds of pirates. Don't worry, Mr. Zhou, these troops I brought will return soon. I will not evacuate, and I will protect you well and prevent you from being harmed by the evil Hidalgos." Hearing this, Anda Shiwu put down his teacup and said, "As for the arrangements after we evacuate, Mr. Zhou may have to I have troubled myself a lot, I heard that your company intends to recruit a group of soldiers from the Eight Banners of South Africa and the Eight Banners of the Islands in South Africa and New China to serve as guards here, this is a good thing, Mr. Zhou can fight for it."

"Then I would like to thank Mr. Anda for taking care of me here." The executive surnamed Zhou got up and bowed, "I brought 22 business station managers (most of them are part-time customs officials) and 4 intelligence personnel this time. As well as 2 translators, the manpower is still quite insufficient. To support the normal operation of the trading station and customs, it is still necessary to recruit people locally, but it is difficult to say what background and intentions the recruited people have, and there is no time. There is no way to screen and test them, so at the beginning, Mr. Anda and his officers and soldiers really needed to protect us, thank you Zhou."

"Everyone is a loyal and courageous generation, why do you need half a word of thanks, this is my duty, don't worry." Anda Shiwu said solemnly: "My department will be stationed in the commercial station for a while, and the interruption cannot be tolerated. Any small troubles."

(End of this chapter)