Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 440 Hill District (V)

A group of heavily armed cavalry quickly passed along the railway line under construction, and slowly disappeared into the northern horizon.

"Going to fight those gaoqiao horse bandits again! Shit, those barbarians should take care of themselves. Brother Wang, who came with me, is from Laiyang County. A while ago, because of his outstanding performance, he was rated as No by his superiors. .11. The brothers are all happy for him. He is in his thirties, and he will soon be able to get a wife. Although he is a barbarian woman, he is also a woman, isn't he?" A Ming man in his thirties shook his head and sighed. Said, "The big guy is about to go to the restaurant in the Canyon Castle to celebrate him, but who knows that when he was chopping firewood yesterday, he was killed by a group of gaucho horse bandits who came out of nowhere. The body was thrown into the woods, and a pair of leather shoes just issued on the feet was also taken away. It's really bad luck for his grandma!"

The other people who heard the news also sighed in unison. This day has just had a good start, and then suddenly encountered such a disaster, it would be a pity for anyone who changed it.The above also said that this gang of gaoqiao horse bandits was bewitched by some foreign monk in the west. They were originally bitter desperadoes, just like Daming's Jiangyang robbers. Now seeing our Daming... Uh, Dong The life of the people in the shore is getting more and more prosperous, so they stretch out their dog's paws to grab everyone, how can this work? !

It seems that the Rao Shizi militia training will be refreshed in the future. Don't wait until the Gaoqiao horse bandits kill you, and you won't even be able to fire a bird gun.But thinking of those Gaoqiao horse bandits who come and go like the wind and kill people without blinking, these Daming mud legs who have just put down their hoes are a little trembling in their hearts, but considering the serious consequences of failing to complete the militia training, they are almost in the body. All trembling.God, the land will be confiscated, and from now on, they can only farm for people.Such days are unacceptable to them, so it is more rational for the two to work hard to complete the painful militia training.

Another group of cavalry passed by slowly. This time the cavalry was relatively large, with a total of fifty or sixty cavalry. In addition to the east bank cavalry in dark blue uniforms, there were more than a dozen white men with gorgeous Latin faces. Is it Spanish?The Ming immigrants who have been on the east coast for more than half a year are not a group who know nothing about the outside world. They occasionally get some very useful information from the local garrison or those old immigrants.For example, they know that the relationship between the Spaniards and the East Coast has always been very complicated. The residents of the Spanish colonies have a good impression of the East Coast Republic, and they can even be said to be slightly friendly; The aristocrats and officials have a very bad impression of the people on the east bank, and it can even be said to be extremely bad.

For example, the Baron Bravo in front of him is like this.Although he was born in the colonies, he is a pure-blooded Spanish white man after all. Both his father's family and his mother's family have a certain influence in Spain, and he himself stays in Spain most of the time. At worst, they will stay in colonial cities with a strong Spanish atmosphere such as Lima or Mexico City.Of course, sometimes he had to go to wild areas such as La Plata or Chile to perform his duties as a special envoy to the West Indian Academy, and take care of his local industries by the way.

This is the second time for him to come to the East Coast area. The last time he came was ten years ago or eleven or twelve years ago.It seemed to be here to sign a peace treaty with the East Coasters, oh, what a not-so-pleasant experience.Although the local officials and business leaders gave him valuable gifts, some of them are still generating income for him. Get back more than [-] pesos in cash.Still, it did not please him, for he had vaguely heard that the East Coasters here were all heretics, or heretics worse than heretics.As a devout Catholic, what is more intolerable than heresy and heretics?Therefore, he has been subconsciously reluctant to come to La Plata, even though the benefits created for him here have been increasing year by year.

But this time he had to come, because the bureaucrats of the West Indian House brought him a letter from the mainland, asking him to go to the east coast to negotiate with the local people on the east coast, asking them to stop worshiping the Lord's believers immediately persecution, allowing religious freedom, and warnings against settlements that appear to have crossed the border.Because the Jesuit monks have reminded the kingdom several times that these vile east coast people are not satisfied with the land that the king "gifted" to them 12 years ago, but the land around the vast mountains of Grand Cucilia Also got coveted.

Although the bureaucrats of the West Indian House have always been procrastinating, the Jesuit monks have been asking them to negotiate with the East Coast people in the name of the kingdom for several years, asking them to stop the Charuya and Guarani Catholics. persecution, and sent the so-called East Coast archbishop they appointed to Lima for inquisition.The efforts of the Jesuit monks were not in vain. In the end, even the king seemed to have heard about the matter, so the bureaucrats of the West Indian House had to bite the bullet and instructed the Viceroy of Peru to send someone to La Plata to "see Look what happened."

None of these bureaucrats are smart, and they all know that this kind of thing is not easy to deal with. If the local conflicts are intensified and the people on the east coast are angered, they will gather their hands and kill them in a mighty manner under the city of Buenos Aires. The Spaniards will have a lot of fun.Now that the king has inquired about the matter, it seems that there is no way to suppress the matter, so let Lima send someone to "investigate" it.If the people sent there are smart enough, it doesn't matter if the investigation lasts for three to five years. Everyone knows this kind of thing.The huge but bloated Kingdom of Spain has no interests in the east coast, but Buenos Aires and Asunción are major interests that the Kingdom cannot part with, and anyone with any sense (well, this is disrespectful to the king ) will not want to have a large-scale conflict with the people on the east coast on an east coast prairie full of weeds. This is not good news for La Plata, which has a weak defense.

And that's why Baron Bravo came here.He was looking for sex in Lima and was kicked to La Plata by jealous husbands because he had been here 12 years ago.Damn, 12 years ago, Madame Valerie was a newlywed and delicate flower, and his faithful servant Gilberto had a thick hair on his head, and now Madame Valerie is a slut who can be loved by everyone Wife, and Gilberto's head is now more radiant than a mirror.This is ridiculous!

However, Baron Bravo's complaints are nothing but complaints. Now that the matter has come to this point, he still decided to complete his task well.Moreover, he was also very angry at the persecution of the believers of the Lord by those barbaric people on the east coast. Although those so-called believers were untouchables in the uncivilized world, the behavior of the people on the east coast was still unbearable. The pious believers of Baron Bravo know.

The cavalry marched northward along the long railway line. Baron Bravo looked in amazement at the large number of black South African laborers on the side of the road who were hard at work consolidating the foundation, and he was greatly surprised.He is not uninformed. This kind of track railway has been widely used in European mines, but the distance is generally very short. No one has ever built such a long distance like the people on the east coast.Moreover, these rails look very unusual, not only are they much wider than those in Europe, but even the material used is not comparable to that of iron-clad wooden rails, um, it seems to be pure iron?Thinking of this, Baron Bravo's face was clouded. What are the people on the east coast trying to do?What is their purpose in building these roads?Is it for easier penetration into the inland area to the west?

The railway stretches tenaciously north along the edge of rolling hills until it reaches the end of the road - a castle under construction.Seeing this, Baron Bravo's expression became even uglier.Damn it, the bureaucrats in La Plata are a bunch of idiots, especially that Torres who was transferred to Cuba last year is an idiot.They have been in La Plata for so many years, and no one has ever reported to Lima the movements of the people on the east coast here, so that the governor of Peru and even the officials of the Kingdom of the West Indian Academy can only pass some words and phrases handed down by sailors, So as to make up the current image of the East Coast people in his own head.

Castles, railways, piers, farmlands, villages, and outposts, Baron Bravo saw too many of these things along the way, and these things undoubtedly further confirmed the ambitions of the people on the east coast. It seemed obvious to Baron Vaux that sooner or later they would cross the border into the west of the Gran Cucilia Mountains—a land that legally belonged to the Kingdom of Spain.Humph, people on the east coast don't even bother to hide their ambitions anymore, but the officials in La Plata are still playing dumb.Only the monks of the Jesuits are still concerned about the country. They try their best to arm the Charuyas and Guaranis in the mission area, and recruit the impoverished gauchos in La Plata to attack the colonies of the East Coast people. This somewhat restrained the ambitions of some people on the east coast, but it was not enough after all!

Baron Bravo took a deep breath. At this moment, he suddenly felt a supreme sense of mission coming to him.For the sake of Spain, for the believers of the Lord, the wrongdoing of the people on the east coast must be severely stopped!Many things must be corrected, the Kingdom of Spain is not something the barbaric East Coast Tatars can provoke, they must repent for their crimes!

(End of this chapter)