Soon after Anthony and Mary left, more than a hundred cavalry roared out.

"Make way for the troops in front of you, and don't get in the way of them entering the city." Out of the city gate, Li Mingyuan ordered the cavalry guards behind, and then the troops bypassed the center of the road and marched side by side with the troops moving on the official road.

"Call the head of this unit, I have something to ask him." Li Mingyuan slowed down his horse speed and said to the guards beside him.

"Sun Bin, deputy director of the Logistics Department of the General Staff, visited the prince." Returning with the guards was a man in a long robe, in his thirties, with a delicate face, and it was inconvenient to walk on his right foot, obviously a lame man.

"Director Sun doesn't need to be polite," Li Mingyuan jumped off his horse, handed the horse to the guards beside him, and smiled.

"Director Sun, I found that there are many alpacas carrying goods in the army, what's going on?" In his previous life, Li Mingyuan had heard the story of alpacas, which had a gentle temperament and were fed as pets by many people.

"Hehe, these alpacas are not wild alpacas, but tamed by the local natives, and the Indians here are usually the total alpacas transporting goods." Sun Bin explained with a smile.

"Oh, it's good to use alpacas to transport goods, Chief of Staff Liu, how big is the gap in the pack horses of the troops?" Li Mingyuan turned his head and asked.

"There are now 23,000 pack horses collected, plus the 20,000 promised by the Peruvians, for a total of 43,000, a shortfall of about 3,000." Liu Pu lowered his head and recalled the data for a while, and then spoke.

"Director Sun, how does the alpaca's transport capacity compare to pack horses?"

"Adult alpacas carry 40 to 60 kilograms, which is slightly lighter than pack horses."

"Director Sun, is there a way to get together five thousand alpacas. Use them instead of the notches for pack horses. ”

"It's not easy to do, the alpacas have been hunted by the Spanish colonizers, and the number has been reduced to one-tenth of the original number.

The remaining alpacas were either driven to the harsh highlands or in the hands of some Indian tribes.

If it weren't for the popularity of alpaca fleece in Western countries, the number of alpacas would be even lower. Sun Bin shook his head and said.

Hearing that alpacas can not only be used as a means of transportation, but also that fluff can also be used to produce wool products, Li Mingyuan's interest in alpacas has become even stronger.

The vast pampas savannah in southern Brazil has a lot of free land that can be used as good pasture for animal husbandry.

The Merino sheep that Li Mingyuan values are also valued by Western countries, and it is difficult to achieve a large-scale introduction of Merino sheep in a short period of time, but the emergence of alpacas can temporarily fill the vacancy of Merino sheep.

Alpacas are produced in South America, and the southern region of Brazil that they want to occupy is also suitable for alpacas.

As long as the Chinese Independence Army obtains a large number of alpacas, and then controls the export of alpacas as in Peru and Bolivia in the previous life, then it can initially monopolize the market for alpaca wool and obtain considerable benefits.

"Director Sun, how many alpacas can we search for at this stage?" After thinking for a while, Li Mingyuan asked.

"The descendants of the local Chinese can provide 1,000, and they can search for 2,000 from the surrounding occupied areas, and at most they can only get 3,000."

"Are there still Chinese people in Peru?" Li Mingyuan knew that in the second half of the 19th century, Chinese laborers went to work in South American mines, but he had never heard that there were Chinese living in South America before that.

"Yes, these Chinese are different from Chinese laborers, they arrived in South America during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and now their appearance is the same as that of traditional Indians, but they still retain the Chinese language and living habits." Sun Bin told Li Mingyuan what he knew.

"Are the people who drove the alpacas that looked like Indians the remnants of the Ming Dynasty?" Li Mingyuan was enlightened, and pointed to a middle-aged man in his forties.

"Yes." Sun Bin nodded.

"Go, he's called." Li Mingyuan called a guard beside him and suppressed the excitement in his heart.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, there were 300 years from now, and 300 years of living in a foreign land have not changed their national symbols, which is worthy of Li Mingyuan's admiration.

There is no China after Yashan, and there is no China after the death of the Ming Dynasty. This sentence is not only the contempt of the Japanese for China.

China and China are an organic whole composed of cultural ties. The beauty of uniforms is called the flower, and the etiquette is called the summer.

The representative of Huaxia is the cultural connotation composed of clothing and etiquette, and the entry of Yuan and Mongolia into the customs broke the discipline that the Han people were not completely ruled by foreigners, and it was the first time that the Han people died in the country.

The Manchu Qing ruled the Central Plains, and shaving their hair and changing their crowns completely interrupted China's cultural heritage.

Later generations of 55 ethnic groups all had their own national costumes, but the Han people took the horse coats worn by the Manchu people as their national costumes, and when a few young people wore traditional Hanfu, others either thought it was a kimono or thought they were grandstanding.

The cultural inheritance has been interrupted, and in the absence of a strong revival, it is normal for the national culture not to be inherited by its own people.

"Grass people Zhao Youde see the son." Zhao Youde, who followed the guards to arrive, greeted Li Mingyuan and dragged Li Mingyuan back from his reverie.

"Uncle, please get up." Li Mingyuan reacted and helped Zhao Youde, who was saluting.

Zhao Youde's face was parched, his palms were dry, his face was dark, and a trace of Chinese could be faintly seen in the face of the Indians.

"Don't dare to bother the son of the world to support you." Zhao Youde broke free of Li Mingyuan's hand.

When he learned from the guards just now that the young man in front of him was Li Mingyuan, the leader of more than 100,000 South American Chinese, Zhao Youde still couldn't believe it.

But after getting in touch with Li Mingyuan at close range, Zhao Youde not only felt Li Mingyuan's approachability, but also felt a kind of kingly spirit, and Li Mingyuan's image suddenly became tall in his eyes.

After Zhao Youde stood up, Li Mingyuan asked, "How did the old ancestor get to South America?" ”

According to the records in the village, in 1603, the Spanish colonists encouraged the local aborigines to participate in the massacre of the Chinese, killing more than 20,000 Chinese in total.

At that time, five or six thousand surviving Chinese were transported to Peru, but only five or six hundred survived, and the others either died at sea, or died of fatigue and disease, and some of the surviving Chinese married Indians and gathered together to form our current village, which still has seven or eight hundred people. ”

Overseas Chinese have always been unable to escape the fate of being slaughtered, and once overseas Chinese have accumulated enough wealth, European colonizers and local natives will launch a massacre of the Chinese.

The Chinese are used as leeks to grow, and one stubble is cut and the next stubble is cut.

Li Mingyuan hated the massacre of the Chinese by the colonists, but he had no ability to retaliate at the moment, so he could only comfort him: "The Central Plains are Manchurian and the Qing Dynasty is difficult to protect themselves, and if overseas Chinese want to live with dignity, they must defend the safety of the Chinese with the sword in their hands."

The blood of overseas Chinese will not be shed in vain, and one day, I will seek justice for the Chinese who have been killed. ”

"Thank you, Shizi." Zhao Youde said and knelt down to Li Mingyuan.

"My husband can't help it." Li Mingyuan hurriedly went to help him.

"The prince led the rescue of countless Chinese, and he has great kindness to the little old man, and he is worshiped by the little old man." Zhao Youde's eyes were red, and he insisted on bowing before standing up.

After chatting with Zhao Youde for a while, Li Mingyuan asked, "My husband helped us transport the goods, why didn't he want to go in and leave with us?" ”

"The grass people look the same as the barbarians, and there are still women, children, old and weak in the village, so they don't dare to put forward any wrong thoughts."

"My husband is too worried, although there is a slight gap between his appearance and the Chinese, he retains the ancestral inheritance, and he still has the blood of the Chinese in his bones, and he is still a part of the Chinese."

Li Mingyuan took the initiative to accept them, and Zhao Youde was moved to tears.

Seven or eight hundred Chinese descendants are like homeless children, the Peruvians do not accept them, and their appearance is different from the traditional Han people, so Zhao Youde felt inferior, and could only do his best to help the Chinese Independent Army transport goods, and did not dare to ask for relocation together.

After persuading Zhao Youde to move with the Chinese Independence Army, Li Mingyuan walked into the transportation team and met with more than 100 descendants of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty who had the same identity as Zhao Youde.

Knowing that he could move in with the Chinese Independence Army, more than 100 young people excitedly surrounded Li Mingyuan and paid tribute to Li Mingyuan.

After the excitement of the crowd passed, Li Mingyuan asked them about the situation of the local Indians, and finally decided to trade alpacas with them with the surplus grain in his hand and the eliminated muskets.

Turning into southern Brazil, there is a long mountain road on the way, and it is difficult to transport too much food, so it is just right to exchange the excess food for alpacas.