Chapter 369: Ideology
September 1, 1647, Magellan's intelligence station......
Today was a rare good day, and the clouds that had been hanging over Magellan's intelligence station for many days had finally cleared a lot, and the warm sun was shining through the clouds on the snow-covered fields. Wearing a bearskin coat sent back from Sakhalin by his friend Huang Yi and carrying a briefcase containing important documents, he walked forward on a gravel road that had been specially swept out with the support of several attendants.
He had never been out to sea since the crossing, and he was sufficiently sin when he came aboard a naval battleship, and the violent winds of the South Atlantic in winter had almost blown out all his bitter guts, and for the last few days of the voyage he lay almost all day in the hammock in the captain's room of the battleship "10 August."
After arriving at the calm and calm Otway Bay, the example, who knew that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, immediately went to the Magellan intelligence station to rest with the support of his entourage. He was appointed by the General Directorate of National Intelligence as the new director of the Chilean intelligence district and the head of the Magellan intelligence station, while the original director of Bilas was transferred to the flowery world of San Vicente, Brazil, because of his "serious and fruitful work", as the head of the East Coast trading station (which is also a secret intelligence station), responsible for collecting all kinds of information in Brazil, and at the same time carefully showing informants for the future layout.
The example was accompanied by more than 30 analysts and agents from the Directorate General of National Intelligence, a small number of whom would remain on the ground to infiltrate and influence the surrounding Patagoni tribes and train the Araucan resistance in support of their ongoing "just liberation cause."
However, most of the intelligence officers will travel to the city of Araucan (Puerto Natales) under the guise of the East Coast Advisory Group. He went to work in what is said to be the "freest city" in all of Chile - the main part of the work was to provide the foundation for the economic, military, social, political and other aspects of the development and reform of the Araucans. At the same time, it helps them train a large number of administrative officers and affairs officers.
The Araucans have now recognized the national liberation war with the Spaniards as a long-term undertaking. Therefore, the first thing they needed to do was to strengthen themselves, and the city of Araucan, located in the remote mountains of southern Chile, was far away from the Spanish sphere of influence, and it was the perfect place to show itself as a large rear. The city and its nearby suburbs are home to more than 6,000 Araucans, some of whom are locals, but many more are refugees from the north, who could not bear the increasing exploitation of the Spaniards and the increasing labor in the mines, so they decided to leave the core of white rule. To live a free life in the cold mountains of the south - for them, a place without Spaniards is paradise.
There are many brick and stone buildings in the intelligence station, including an office building, a grain depot, a material depot, a Taoist temple, and two artillery towers. The two walls were separated by a corridor connected by nearby logs, and from time to time a number of two-meter men in leather armor and carrying muskets walked by.
These are the indigenous Patagoni who have been bought and co-opted by the East Coast people at the intelligence station. In fact, there are many tribes of Patagoni and Arakalu who live nearby, and the people on the east coast are too lazy to distinguish them, and they are uniformly called Patagonis. At present, more than 150 Patagoni have been employed in the entire station, and 50 of them are engaged in miscellaneous work (pig raising, herding, miscellaneous work). Another hundred joined the local garrison and were armed with spears, sabers, and muskets.
And it's worth mentioning. These people have now become believers in Taoism and Zhao Yan and Zhao Zhenren are exhibiting here. During the day, they either farmed and worked under the organization of the church, or went to the intelligence station to receive military training, and often went to the local Taoist temple to participate in religious activities at night. In Zhao Yan's view, the Patagonian who has become a religion is a good Patagoni, and the others are all barbarians, untrustworthy objects, and objects that need to be transformed.
At present, the number of local Patagoni who believe in Taoism has increased to several hundred, thanks to the tireless work of the Taoist leaders under Zhao Zhenren, the Taoist priests, and the great effect of drugs such as aspirin, which makes a large number of primitive Patagoni people believe in the supreme power of Tianzun from the bottom of their hearts. Even, a certain Patagoni chieftain who had been relieved of rheumatic pain by medicine for many years came to vote, and all of them fell to more than 100 people to join the church collectively, becoming a loyal helper of the people on the east coast.
Under the crushing bonus of civilization, the missionary efficiency of the barbarians is indeed extremely amazing! Now these Patagonians who believed in Taoism have all moved to live around the Magellan intelligence station on the east coast and have begun to accept the control of Taoist temples. Under the baptism of this new Taoism on the east coast, the spiritual outlook of the simple Patagoni people was greatly improved, and they accepted the Taoist priests' behavior of temperance, pleasure, and waste, and began to carefully manage their lives. Livestock were no longer slaughtered at will, but began to be raised on a large scale under the guidance of the people of the East Coast; They also received rye and oat seeds from the East Coasters, and began to open up wasteland and grow grain around the station; They also learned to build small wooden boats and then go to the bay to fish, and after doing all kinds of work, these Patagoni people suddenly entered a sedentary agricultural society from a primitive society of ignorance and barbarism, and their living standards also made a qualitative leap.
"People are the custodians of Tianzun's wealth, and as custodians of our wealth, we have the responsibility to increase the value of our wealth." "Tianzun calls on everyone to engage in industry and commerce, and be honest and trustworthy in industry and commerce, cherish reputation, and never be deceived and deceived." "A true Taoist should be full of confidence in every qiē, and whether he is engaged in industry and commerce or production and farming, he must have the courage and confidence to overcome all difficulties and achieve extraordinary success, and he must be good at creating and innovating, and constantly explore and conquer."
These are the words that are constantly on the lips of the Taoist missionaries, and these Patagoni people do practice them as good words, and their piety is much better than that of the hundred people who were emigrated to the east coast as construction workers. And they are also proud to think that if they live a more orthodox life than those on the east coast, have withstood more tests and overcome more temptations, then they are one of the few who have been saved by the Heavenly Venerable, and they are closer to the Heavenly Venerable - and this is obviously a supreme glory.
"I am very reluctant, but I have to say that many of the Patagoni have only been religious for a few months, but they are much more spiritually oriented than these new immigrants from the country. Especially in this desolate, poor, lonely and cold place, they can endure the poor and boring life more than anyone else, and their inner happiness and sense of mission are also stronger. It is evident that the spiritual charisma of Tianzun played a huge role in pushing these simple Patagoni people to devote themselves to agricultural production and military training, and the results were remarkable. As the new director of the intelligence center in southern Chile, the example immediately looked at the report of the former head of Magellan's intelligence station, a pseudo-believer and religious opportunist of Tianzun, and the focus of this report was obviously on ideology, or more precisely, on religious beliefs.
At this stage, there are about 100 East Bank peasants (construction workers who have moved here, who have settled in the sub-land), and about 500 Patagonians who have joined the station. The Patagoni are basically all converted, while only about a quarter of the peasants on the east coast have been converted, and there is no big difference between those who have not been converted and those who have been converted to religion in terms of their attitude and details of life. Especially at the ends of the earth where the spiritual world is incomparably empty, the happiness and work efficiency of believers who have sustenance in their hearts are much higher than that of non-believers. And this is just the beginning, and I believe that this difference will grow as the missionary activity deepens and the believers become more devout.
"Forty-eight of the Araukan people who have come here to recuperate and train are now registered as Taoists, and all of them are ordinary members of the Araukan guerrillas or low-ranking officers. We have already set up a file for everyone in this group, and Zhao Zhenren believes that if we have the opportunity, we should go to Araukan City to build a Taoist temple and set up a missionary organization to magnify the glory of Tianzun, and I believe that this will have a more positive impact on our cause. "I would like to propose that the General Directorate of National Intelligence give more assistance and greater autonomy to Magellan's intelligence station, and that we should establish a permanent and up-to-date personal file for these 48 Araucan guerrillas, to track their changing status in the Araucan city and society, and to establish good relations with them." If necessary, they can be given limited help to make their future brighter. We only need to pay a little capital, and then with our influence and the charisma of Tianzun, we can easily cultivate a group of pro-East Coast factions among the Araukan people......"
"The Araucans in the mountains of southern Chile are small in number, but almost all of them are under the influence of guerrillas, they are either unreclusive or professed in primitive natural religions, and their social organization and structure are extremely loose, and their level of productivity is extremely low, so that such a group cannot resist the spread of Taoism. Both the Department of Religious Affairs and the General Directorate of National Intelligence should invest more in this place, because from the point of view of faith, this is really a fertile virgin land, and we should firmly grasp it in our own hands. After reading the report written by Russ, the example was silent for a long time.
Bilas's report proposes a new way of increasing influence on the East Coast, that is, using religious weapons to gradually infiltrate, evolve, and control the surrounding indigenous people in terms of ideology and use them for our own use. As for this, the example is actually somewhat inclined to agree, but the matter is big, so let's report it to the local area first. If the locals approve it, then ask them to send more gods to preach vigorously, so as to gradually expand the influence of the people on the east coast. (To be continued......)
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