In fact, the so-called Sao Paulo flag team in history was a colonial expedition spontaneously composed of local Brazilians (mainly Sao Paulo people). At that time, as the Pernambuco area became the largest sugar-making center in the world, Brazil's name of wealth began to spread in Europe. Therefore, many poor Europeans came to the New World with the idea of ​​getting rich, but only a few of them could make money, and most of them lived a hard life. In this case, many people had the idea of ​​expanding inland to try their luck, especially when the legend of gold mines in Brazil was rampant at that time.

Therefore, in the 1580s, the "entradas" and the "bandeiras" composed of the people, went deep into the inland Brazil, searching for gold mines while hunting Indians. Even these adventurous guys crossed the border of the Spanish Portuguese stipulated by the Pope Meridian to enter the Spanish colony to capture slaves. It was these people who went on a stroll and developed the vast mainland that created Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world, with an area of ​​8.51 million square kilometers in the future.

"There are only dozens of people in these flag teams, and the most are hundreds or thousands of people. For example, in 1629, the flag team led by Antonio Tabares included 69 whites, 900 Mameluco and 2,200 Indians; in 1639, the number of flag teams attacking the Paraguay Mission District exceeded 2,000; even in history, a super flag team composed of more than 1,000 whites and 12,000 Indians."

Xu Xin, who is familiar with these historical allusions, talked freely, "That is to say, for the Brazilians, manpower will never be a problem. In the past 25 years, the Sao Paulo people have plundered more than 300,000 Indians from the inland areas. They can easily organize an army of thousands or even tens of thousands of people. Of course, the equipment of these troops will be very problematic. Maybe even the spears and bows are not matched, and the combat quality is also poor, but their numerical advantage is really great."

"Then why don't the Brazilians find ways to recover the seven Northeast generals occupied by the Netherlands?" Ding Yiyu was a little puzzled. Are these Brazilians stupid? If you have the strength, why don't you quickly recover the lost territory?

"I can't give you a satisfactory answer to this question. In my opinion, this may still involve a question of the strength comparison between the two sides." Xu Xin thought about it and said: "The large-scale flag teams of Brazilians, mainly composed of Indians, can only be used to beat the edge drums, and it is definitely not enough to be the main force to fight. The Spanish conquest of South America at the time proved the weak combat power of the Indians. I think the Brazilians themselves are very clear about this, otherwise they would not have traveled thousands of miles to find mercenaries in Europe to find mercenaries. I think the Brazilians themselves are very clear about this, otherwise they would not have traveled thousands of miles to search for mercenaries in Europe to find mercenaries.

. These Indians can rely on the army with whites as the main force to cooperate in combat, so that their numerical advantage will be enough for the Dutch to have a headache. But that's all, and the Brazilians don't trust them very much. The Brazilians only trust whites and Mameluco (whites and Indians mixed race). I think the large number of weapons ordered from Brazil this time are mainly used to arm the whites and Mameluco in the territory. As for the Indians who depend on them, I think the order for those ten thousand spears is prepared for them."

When Qi Wangping listened to the two of them, he never interrupted, but this did not mean that he had no thoughts. Xu Xin's explanation did not completely convince him. He remembered that before leaving, he had read some scattered news about Brazilian history recorded by everyone in the information room. One of the news written by Gao Mo once attracted his attention, that is, the news about the current head of the New Netherlands region of the Dutch West India Company - the Count of Joao Morris (called John Morris Van Nassau-Siggen in Portuguese and John Mauritz von Nassau-Siggen in German).

Earl Morris has a prominent background. His father was the second son of Prince Orange, the silent William of the Silent. When he was in power, he used his military talents to reform the Dutch army, making it a combat-effective professional army, and defeated the Spanish many times. As the saying goes, the tiger father has no dog son. Since Earl Morris has adopted a policy of free trade to encourage agricultural development in January 1637, he has adopted a policy of free trade to encourage agricultural development.

The land was returned to the Brazilian families who obeyed the Dutch rule. Morris also had a tolerant attitude towards non-Protestant Brazilians and Jews, allowing them to continue their original beliefs, and also established a parliament in New Holland that covers all classes. He also used his noble reputation and deep connections to attract a large number of artists and architects from Europe, who came to Recife, who made outstanding contributions to the urbanization of Recife.

Making achievements in civil affairs and art, Count Morris is also good at military affairs. Under his command, the Dutch army fought south and north, defeating Portugal, Spanish and Brazilian armies several times, causing the area of ​​the Dutch occupied area to continue to expand. Today, it has already included the seven most prosperous generals in northeastern Brazil.

Such a dazzling figure staying in Recife is not good news for both the Brazilians and the East Coast people. However, this is mainly a trouble for the Brazilians and has little to do with the East Coast people. The East Coast people have no intention of directly giving the Dutch people. The maximum support they can provide to the Brazilians is weapons and materials. Perhaps there is personnel training, that is, to send instructors to train the Brazilians' army. As for sending the army into Brazil to fight directly with the Dutch army, this seems unlikely to be achieved at present, but the Brazilians still have extravagant expectations for this and have raised huge military expenses. They even tactfully stated to the East Coast people through Blanco that they could waive the debts owed by the East Coast people.

Although the conditions offered by the Brazilians were very attractive, the East Coast people did not intend to accept them. Of course, the East Coast people did not directly reject the Brazilians on the surface. On the contrary, they fought with the Brazilians in a high-profile manner. The fleet of the return trip was docked in Saint Vicente, and the two companies of the army appeared at the dock was part of the plan. The East Coast people tried to demonstrate to the Dutch in this way, so that they realized that the East Coast people could also threaten their major interests. This chip is important to the East Coast Republic. When they open the Eastern route and conflicts with the Dutch in the future, this chip can be taken out and repeatedly put pressure on the Dutch in order to strive for the Dutch to give convenience to the East Coast people on the Far East route.

Of course, it is not without anyone pointing out that this plan to provoke the Dutch was a "madman behavior" and a "risk of gambling on national destiny". This argument is extremely popular among civil servant factions that advocated the pursuit of technology and peaceful rise. They could not tolerate the military or political adventures of the soldiers again and again, and could not tolerate the soldiers provoking a huge colonial empire in the face of huge differences in national strength. The soldiers naturally ignored the criticism and accusations of civil servants, and stubbornly pushed the country forward step by step according to their own ideas.

"By the way, in addition to expressing the exemption of a large amount of debt, the Brazilians also expressed that they could further open up the market in Sao Paulo, set up Sao Vicente as a trade port, and allow our goods, especially textiles, to be directly sold here. You must know that before that, a group of local Brazilian merchants were acting as agents to sell our goods, and this time they really invested a lot." Tao Chenxi, director of the General Administration of Textile Industry who had been silently listening to the other people's talk, suddenly spoke, and his words made the rest of the people shook their heads after hearing this. The Brazilians were so anxious, but in the end they might still disappoint them.

"Hey, Lao Tao, pay attention to your butt. Don't sit there just because you become a Brazilian son-in-law. Your wife's pillow is blowing very hard recently, haha." Xu Xin said to Tao Chenxi jokingly.

"The pillow wind blows every day, and it's only the past two days that I'll be more quiet after she lives in her parents' home." Tao Chenxi also said with a smile, "My cheap brother-in-law Blanco has come to me twice, so that I can do activities in China, especially in front of several members of the Executive Committee, so that the Executive Committee can make up its mind to directly interfere in the Brazilian war. So, in order to give me some motivation, they also promised to give me a cotton plantation near Sao Paulo. Hehe. Unfortunately, the current policy trend is wrong, and I can't make this cheap."

The few of them chatted again, and finally went back to their room to rest.

On June 9, 1641, the East Coast fleet, which had been resting for several days in the Port of St. Vicente, once again set off on the journey back to the east coast. Before that, Xu Xin, the plenipotent representative of the East Coast Republic of China to Saint Vicente, began to frequently attend banquets held by local Brazilian nobles and landlords. He promoted support for Brazil in many public places, believing that the content on Brazil in the peace agreement signed by the Kingdom of Portugal and the Dutch was "inappropriate", and clearly stated that the East Coast Republic would provide Brazilians with sufficient weapons and equipment to arm thousands of people at extremely favorable prices.

In addition, he even hinted to the outside world that the East Coast people might sell heavy siege artillery that never exported to the Brazilians, as well as the light 12-pound steel long-tube cannons. His expression made the Brazilians ecstatic and also confirmed the East Coast people's pro-Brazil position. Of course, this also annoyed the senior executives of the Dutch West India Company in the New Holland region. Because they knew that with the limited intervention of the East Coast people, the Dutch people would have to spend a greater price to deal with the Brazilian militia who hated like bed bugs. They are businessmen and are extremely disgusted with any behavior that increases costs. It seems that it is necessary to have a good talk with the East Coast people. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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