Chapter 395 Digging the Foundation (1)
The La Plata area, which gradually enters midsummer, is beautiful. ()
Especially on both sides of the rich Parana River, the clear and sweet gurgling water, wild flowers exuding a faint fragrance, the bison that enjoys the afternoon sunshine peacefully, and the ancient songs of the Gaocho people who vaguely float in the wind, all telling people that this is a rich place full of life.
But now everything has changed, especially in the eyes of the white Spanish residents, everything has become unrecognizable and annoying! They can no longer lie leisurely in their vineyards, sip sweet wine, and sleep beautifully for an afternoon; nor can they invite three or five friends to go out for a safari on some sunny weather, and then hold a barbecue meeting with the ladies and children; they can't stand proudly in front of the lowly Crandi, Mestiso, and Gaucho, and watch their respectful and flattering faces, and enjoy the supreme glory as the best.
It's all over now, because of the war, the damn Second La Plata War!
Liao Xiaoyao rode his horse past a fired house with some embers left behind, and looked speechless for a long time. A blood-stained corpse lay in front of the door, which seemed to be a white Spanish man. He had a spear in his chest, and there were wounds chopped by metal knives on his neck and thighs. He had been dead for some time, and the blood on the ground had solidified.
Inside the burned house, a white Spanish woman died naked on the bed. Under the bed, there were two children who had been cut off their heads. It seemed that they were the children of the family. The valuable property in the family was almost wiped out. Even the furniture that was easy to move out was gone. It can be said that the family was barely covered.
"It was done by seven Crandi people. They were slaves of this family and were abused. Later, after our army declared freedom, they joined our army's transportation team and took on transportation tasks for the front line. Last month, they secretly left the team with ordnance (spike, saber) and then sneaked back to Buenos Aires to murder the Spanish resident. Now they have been captured by our troops and taken into the concentration camp." Gendarmerie Second Lieutenant Guo Puxia reported to Liao Xiaoyaohui, the commander of the Buenos Aires security in the suburbs, who went to the suburbs to clean up the public order.
He was a little ashamed. Recently, a large number of vicious security cases have occurred in the suburbs, and almost all of the criminals are Crandy slaves. These Crandy slaves have a deep hatred towards the Spanish colonists. Therefore, after being released by the East Coast people to become free people, they often rely on their own numerical advantages to frequently attack the Spanish white colonists, creating a large number of sensational security cases. Theft, murder, robbery, rape, arson, extinguishing the family, etc. Without these Crandy people, the white Spanish residents were trembling and panic all day long.
The new conquerors seemed to have a lot of opinions about them and confiscated all the guns hidden in the civilians, but did not provide them with sufficient protection, which made these Spanish residents look so fragile when facing the revenge of Crandi people, and a large number of white residents were killed and injured in a criminal case.
To be fair, the East Coast people did turn a blind eye to the Crandy people's revenge at the beginning, but not long after, they found that these Crandy people were completely out of control, and their courage became increasingly fierce, and even the East Coast people's transportation team dared to attack. Realizing that the problem was serious, Liao Xiaoyao immediately ordered the 36th Regiment of the School Corps and the nearby Militia Brigade stationed nearby to attack and suppress those natives who did evil.
However, at this time, the riots had spread to the entire La Plata area. The soldiers on the east coast could only maintain the security near the camp. With insufficient troops, they were powerless to go deep into the distant areas of the grassland. Faced with such a situation, Liao Xiaoyao was helpless. It was already good to protect the order of the towns and areas. As for the manors and farms in the countryside, they didn't care about it. Some outrageous things may often happen there, such as the family of the Spanish settlers who were destroyed.
"The concentration camp is now full of people!" Liao Xiaoyao lost interest after walking around the crime scene twice, and then asked Guo Puxia: "I remember there are no more than two thousand people there, right?"
"As of yesterday, there were 2,088 prisoners in the concentration camp, including 291 Spanish and 1,797 Crandy." Guo Puxia immediately replied.
"Carry them up, and ships will come in two days, and all the colonies will be brought to the Crandy. Especially those Crandy people, they will focus on sending them to New China Island, where the construction requires a large amount of manpower. Especially the Tacheng coal mine and several newly established large state-owned plantations, logging farms, and farms, the manpower is not much more ordinary, and they just happened to be sent to labor reform. As for the white Spanish residents who were driven to hide in various towns by Crandy people, they cannot support them for vain and send them all to South Africa and Australia. They are hungry and full now, and they don't believe it, they are unwilling to go." Liao Xiaoyao said indifferently.
Everyone knows what the outcome of these people going to overseas colonies. The Spanish are okay because they immigrated in disguise and have free status. Although life is difficult, it is not too bad. But for those Crandy natives, life is much more difficult and bumpy.
The East Coast people's attitude towards indigenous people is undoubtedly extremely cruel and inhumane. Historically, Westerners may have saved their lives for the colonies because they are mostly pursuing commercial interests. However, for the East Coast people, their only pursuit of the colonies is land and resources. Their attitude towards the indigenous people is extremely cruel. Basically, they are either killed or exiled. It can be said that the East Coast people are the most brutal and least popular with barbarians. Therefore, the attitude towards the Crandi people, Liao Xiaoyao and others is the same as that towards the Guarani people and the Chalua people, that is, killing! Those who cannot be killed will be exiled overseas!
Considering that the East Coast people now appear in La Plata as liberators, they have many inconveniences for random massacre of the Crandi people, so they can only find reasons to arrest some of the Crandi people who committed the crime, and then escort them to the transport ships overseas, exiling these prisoners to overseas colonies to fend for themselves.
The first concentration camp set up outside Buenos Aires came into being against this background. The concentration camp was detained with a large number of criminals who committed crimes - it is obvious that there are many innocent people among them, but who cares? Some of these criminals may have committed minor crimes such as stealing a chicken, and some may have been serial murderers. However, in the La Plata area where military control is carried out, their ends are the same, that is, exile.
Of course, exiles are divided into different levels. For example, those who are less guilty and do not have much hostility to the East Coast Republic will be exiled to farm in the rivers of South Africa in relatively good conditions; those who are slightly more serious and have little hostility to the East Coast Republic will be exiled to two Australian settlements. Although the land is barren, the commerce is not prosperous, and there is no fishery or mineral resources worth mentioning, it is not impossible to survive if you grazed there; the rest of the world will be left to the rest.
Of course, those people are stubborn people who are extremely guilty or have great hostility towards the East Coast Republic. For these people, the gendarmerie mercilessly sent them to the New China Island, which is scary of talk. The plantations, mines and logging farms on Tacheng Port, Xinhua Port, and St. Mary's Island will be their destination for the rest of their lives. They will use their lives to contribute their strength to the East Coast Republic of China's development of tropical land in the tropical wilderness where malaria is rampant.
"A lot of Spanish people have expressed their willingness to go to overseas colonies." Gendarmerie Second Police Lieutenant Guo Puxia replied, "Since the registration of Spanish residents who volunteered to go overseas this month (December), 129 households, 577 Spanish residents have come to register. The local group said that it is inconvenient to accept, so they have all been arranged to farm in the Gundam Township (formerly Gundam Fort) in South Africa. In addition, a few Crandy people who are tired of the chaos - less than a hundred people - will also be assigned to Hezhong Town, South Africa, where they will engage in their old business - grazing. To be precise, grazing the sheep in the state-owned ranch will not be officially allocated five acres of land after the three-year period."
In fact, most of these more than 500 Spanish residents are not Spanish whites in a narrow sense. Most of them are residents from Naples, Austria, Sicily, Hungary, and Bohemia, and there are also very few whites from Catalonia. These people have little recognition of the Spanish Kingdom, and they are basically new immigrants who were brought to La Plata by the Spanish king in the past decade. At this moment, facing the chaotic situation in the local area and the dangerous situation of the whites, they all immediately accepted the conditions for the East Coast people to settle in South Africa. After all, life there is said to be very stable, and the barbarians were defeated by civilized people, and their personal safety seems to be guaranteed.
"Continue to strengthen publicity." Liao Xiaoyao smiled after hearing this and said, "For example, we can promote and promote such cases well. This can make the white Spanish residents and some Crandi people who are unwilling to make trouble realize that they are unsafe and they need to go to a safer place. Remember, everything we are in is digging the foundation of the Spanish in La Plata, and at the same time strengthening our own strength. Even if we have to return La Plata to the Spanish for some unscrupulous reasons in the future, we must ensure that what the Spanish get is a piece of white land. If they want to restore this place to curb us, I don't know how many years and money it will take. I really doubt whether the Spanish can do this at that time." (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!