Dominate the Country

Countless thoughts were turning over in Giovanni's smart head at this moment. Endless waves were rising in his heart, and his thoughts were like endless waves rolling on the sea, endlessly.

Chen Yiyuan is really the embodiment of the devil, and his plan is to target the Indians.

This is a group whose survival in Mexico is very miserable. Ever since everyone in the peninsula ruled here, squeezing as much profit from them as possible has become the most fundamental pursuit of the colonists for three hundred years.

The colonial authorities and the Inquisition were like two knives hanging above their heads, allowing the miserable Indians to accept their fate and endure inhumane harvests again and again.

In the vast Indian villages, countless Indians have no clothes on their bodies and no food to eat. In order to inhibit the development of the Indians, the colonial authorities also prohibited the Indians from planting grapes and olives, and developing high-profit industries such as beekeeping, sericulture, and winemaking.

"Indians..." What a good match.

Giovanni's mother is an Indian. He is very aware of the exploitation and enslavement that Indian farmers have suffered from peninsular colonists for three hundred years. He is extremely hatred for the colonial rule of peninsula people. As long as he calls for it, the flame of anger will immediately burn. .

Although the interests of the Reina family lay with the native whites and the local colonial army.

In the large estate of the Reina family, a banquet is held every weekend. This is a "literary and social gathering" organized mainly by native white people to oppose colonial rule and fight for the independence of Mexico. Many of the participants are local upper-class people who are influenced by European bourgeois ideas. Although the French Revolution has not yet broken out in Europe, with the introduction of bourgeois ideas, many people have begun to study the so-called "banned books" ”——The philosophical works of ancient Greece and Rome and the works of French capitalist ideological enlightenment. For example, the works of Rousseau, Montesquieu and others.

These writings are now very popular in Mexico, and even some native white people who support peninsulas are deeply influenced by these ideas, including some 'holy' clergy. They put aside their old-fashioned identities to live. They like music, dancing, and even gambling. Among the priests Giovanni knows, some openly live with women and openly give birth to their children.

Well, Giovanni didn't know whether this phenomenon was good or bad. But this is Mexico now.

In Mexico, the church is very powerful. If a war does break out, stabilizing the power of the church will be a priority. At that time, these confused priests will be the best bridge for them to negotiate and communicate with the church.

The strength of the Reina family does not come from those Indians. Even if Giovanni himself has Indian ancestry, he will not show any more sympathy to the Indians. Even though most of the property of the Reina family will never fall into his hands, and his status in the Reina family is that of a gangster, when Giovanni is thinking, he will always start from Reina. For the benefit of the family.

As for the consequences for the Indians after stoking the Indian flames, he didn't care at all, nor did he think it was a waste of Mexico's anti-Western power. Again, the strength of the Renner family has never come from the Indians.

What if... the Indians really broke out...

The Spaniards will use all their means to severely suppress the Indians, who will be found and massacred in pieces, and Indian villages and ethnic gathering places will be destroyed one by one. These can be thought of with your toes, but this is written in Giovanni had no weight in his heart.

The local militia (a local armed force formed mainly by native white people by the Spanish colonial authorities to protect themselves from Indian attacks and maintain order) is the most direct force of the Reina family and the most fundamental strength of the Reina family.

As long as the Indians riot and the Renner family is involved, they will even take the initiative to extinguish the flames of resistance in their own territory.

Because they have not yet accumulated enough strength, they still have to make do with the colonial authorities.

"Our weapons are too backward and our equipment is seriously insufficient. We need enough cannons so that the blood of the warriors who fight for freedom and national interests will not flow in vain." Giovanni said like a man with lofty ideals.

"Cannon?" Chen Yiyuan sneered in his heart. If this cannon is really delivered to Giovanni's hands, who knows if it will be an advantage for the Reina family or for himself?

Seeing Giovanni nodding his head and agreeing to 'stir up' without even hesitating for a second, Chen Yiyuan felt a little chilled by this guy. Half of the Indian blood flows in his body.

If he were in Giovanni's position, he would definitely not be able to be so heartless and righteous.

If the Indians really broke out at this time, the biggest beneficiary would naturally be the Chen-Han Expeditionary Force. According to the Spaniards' urine, the big duck would definitely kill the Indians until the blood flowed into rivers. Giovanni didn't care about so many lives at all. Can this person still expect him to remember Chen Han's kindness in the future?

But it's a matter of to each his own.

The expeditionary force needs the Spanish backyard fire, and the Reina family represented by Giovanni also needs to deepen contact with Chen Han.

Mexicans are very smart. They know that if they want to be independent, they cannot do without the support of their neighbors to the north. It is not yet thirty years later in the original plane of time and space, and Spain has not yet been turned around by that little dwarf with a broken wheel.

Such powerful strength makes it almost impossible for the large estate owners headed by the Reina family to see any hope of 'freedom'.

You know, the big estate owner class represented by the Reina family, their foundation is only native whites and some Indo-European mixed-race people, and not all of this group of people support them. Some people still tend to Madrid, and their mass base is far worse than that of the Thirteen States.

In this case, they have to hold on to China's big legs even more tightly.

For this reason, they are afraid that they are willing to cede land.

And what is their "rely"? That is the sharp contradiction between China and the West.

If the hidden danger of Spain is not completely eliminated, the war between China and the West will continue for a long time, just like the Ottoman Empire and Russia.

You know, many Mexicans are not optimistic about China, and they have not changed their views even now.

Because in the battle situation on land, the Spanish colonial army still maintains a greater initiative.

They recognize the strong combat effectiveness of Chinese soldiers, but China's roots in the Americas are too shallow, and they can't compare with the Spaniards who have been rooted in the Americas for three hundred years. Even if they have a strong homeland to continuously transport immigrants and military materials to North America, the cost is beyond imagination.

And no matter how powerful a country is, it cannot support a long-term war thousands of miles away.

The Spanish, who have extensive colonies in America, obviously have an advantage in this war of attrition. Moreover, the war on the east coast of North America is about to end, and the French may also help the Spanish at that time.

Because starting from the west coast of North America and crossing the Rocky Mountains inward, theoretically that is the sphere of influence of the French.

The landing of the Chinese on the west coast of North America threatens not only the interests of Spain, but also the French.

Many Mexicans believe that France, which has won the war on the east coast of North America, will definitely regain its interests on the North American continent, and Louisiana will be an important part of the French interests in North America.

It seems reasonable to think so.

The Mexicans need China, and China also needs Mexico, and the two sides complement each other.

And Spain's colonies in the Americas are not limited to Mexico. In the future, Mexico can just serve as a shield for the Chinese and resist the threat of the Spanish to the south.

The two sides are natural allies.

Many Mexicans believe that China needs a "shield" to separate them from the "border" with the Spanish, and Giovanni and his father are convinced of this.

Chen Yiyuan certainly didn't know what Giovanni was thinking, and he couldn't even tell the difference between the Reina family and people like Franklin in terms of attributes, except for wealth.

He didn't know that the bourgeoisie and the big landowners were actually not the same kind of people.

But he didn't need to know that, he just needed to know that Giovanni agreed to "start the fire" neatly. Then tell himself to be careful of cold-blooded animals like Giovanni in the future.

Chen Yiyuan readily offered the conditions: "Five hundred flintlocks, ten cannons, 50 pistols, fifty breastplates, and 100 sabers."

Giovanni looked at the ten two-jin cannons in front of him with dissatisfaction, "This is too small. It's just a whirling cannon." The whirling cannon belongs to the small-caliber artillery series, mainly installed at the rear of the warship to make up for the area that the ship's side guns cannot cover.

"I need bigger cannons, bigger ones. Otherwise, it can't handle the castles of the Peninsula people at all."

"Bigger caliber cannons are good, but can those Indians use them?" Chen Yiyuan held back this batch of arms to give to the Indians, using the Indians' ignorance as an excuse. "Anyway, they can't shoot accurately, whether it's small-caliber or large-caliber cannons, it's a waste to give them." Chen Yiyuan reminded Giovanni that these small cannons were earned by them for free, so he shouldn't be ungrateful.

Giovanni's face was embarrassed by Chen Yiyuan's blunt words.

It wasn't until everything was loaded on the ship and Giovanni was about to leave Batello that Chen Yiyuan said again: "Since the Indians have been selected, I will report to my superiors and mobilize a batch of mortars as soon as possible."

Chen Yiyuan didn't explain to Giovanni what a mortar was. Giovanni certainly knew what a mortar was. This small cannon was very light, easy to operate, and less dangerous, and was very suitable for Indians who lacked training and experience.

Hearing this, Giovanni smiled sincerely on his face. "The Chinese are anxious, aren't they?"

Watching the Batello shrinking little by little and finally turning into a small black dot, Giovanni finally got excited, "Come on. Open all the boxes for me and take out the breastplate for me. I want to check the goods."

Giovanni laughed. How could the Indians use this thing? They have horses, and some of them can play with knives on horseback, but it would be a complete waste to equip them with these breastplates.

"Ding!"

Giovanni waved his sword and split the breastplate in one go, which of course would be useless. Then he put the breastplate on a wooden man, put it five steps away from him, and pulled the trigger of the pistol.

"It penetrated, but the lead bullet was hung on the breastplate."

"If it is pulled five steps away, this pistol may not be able to penetrate it again."

The inspection results are gratifying. The quality of this breastplate proves the quality of this batch of goods. The breastplate is not meant to resist bullets at close range. It is much better than the things made by the Reina family themselves.

After this batch of weapons is equipped to the local militia controlled by the Reina family, the strength of the entire family will become stronger.

The native whites in Mexico have been divided into two major factions, but this does not mean that there is no fighting between the people of each faction, especially the big landowners who tend to be independent. Although they are also considered a powerful class in Mexico, they are also exploited by the colonial authorities and restricted by the church. The combined power of these people is still quite strong, but there is no unified leadership among them. Take the Reina family as an example. The so-called "Literary and Social Society" is a small force led by the Reina family.

Although Giovanni is not sure how many people there are in such a small group, he can understand how bad this situation will be when the war really comes. That means that after the war of independence begins, the Reina family will not only fight with the Peninsula people, but also compete with "their own people".

The wolf king in the wolf pack needs to ascend the throne in the fight, even if it is a group of hyenas.

Therefore, the people of the Reina family are sincerely excited about this batch of arms and sigh at the strength of the family.

This is really beautiful, isn't it?

...

It's dawn.

It was a gloomy morning, with dense clouds for thousands of miles, and I don't know when it will rain.

Three medium-sized sailing ships slowly sailed into the port of Manzanillo, which was captured by the expeditionary navy two days ago, and unloaded a team of construction workers and more than 5,000 stones of supplies.

Outside the port, two cruisers, two destroyers, and two medium-sized clipper ships were on alert. On the flat ground in the port, more than 300 construction workers were divided into several groups, busy in the planned areas, and there were also many Spanish prisoners of war as "temporary prisoners of war". They were specially assigned to continue building military fortresses on the hills east of the port.

Two days ago, the navy fleet attacked this port.

- Manzanillo Port.

An ancient seaport that has been established for two hundred years is one of the most important ports for the Spanish on the west coast of North America. The port of Acapulco, which maintains the large sailing trade between Mexico and the Philippines, is not far from Manzanillo. Although it has declined in the past two years.

But there are still many Mexican and Spanish garrisons here, and the latter has an understaffed battalion.

Then they were beaten and fled in the raid, and almost all of them were captured.

Obviously, this will become a stronghold for the expeditionary force to harass the core areas of Mexico. They will no longer move to another place after firing a shot, but will prepare to stay for a long time and fight a protracted war.

In this way, in conjunction with the activities that the Military Intelligence Bureau is about to launch, it should be able to tie up a lot of energy in Mexico City.

Because the port of Manzanillo is located in the manpower-intensive area of ​​Mexico, although it is thousands of miles away from Mexico City, the political and economic center of Mexico, there are cities on both sides. From here along the horizontal line due east, all the way past Mexico City, to the Bay of Campeche, this is the essence of the entire Mexican region.

A row of wooden houses were urgently built in the port area, which is the new residence of the captives. With special wooden boards, it is very simple to build such a house.

The local natives were all stunned. They did not expect the Chinese to occupy the port of Manzanillo. This is incredible. It is also completely different from the previous Chinese strategy. The former fired a few shots and left, taking advantage of the coastline and tying up a lot of power of the colonial authorities.

But now... the Chinese are not leaving.