Chapter 175: The East Coast of the Pacific Ocean (5)
Li Shaoxian is making every effort to build the narrow coast of New Luoyang, there are still some new machines, as for steelmaking, there is no difficulty, the craftsmen left behind are specialized in this, those students who graduated from Daming Technical College are in this place rich in mineral resources, there is nothing that cannot be manufactured, as long as it is something that Daming has, as long as the time is not too tight. Technically complex work, there are technicians to do, those can be divided into many simple steps of the process, this is also the originality of the Ming Dynasty, just find those indigenous Indians who are willing to work in the factory to do, there is no compulsion here, only the question of whether you are willing to do it, you can earn more money than hunting, farming, enjoy a more comfortable life, only fools do not dare, and the salary is not deducted, there are rewards for doing more, so these factories are built very quickly.
The development of New Luoyang is changing with each passing day, and the development of Lima is also very rapid, and they clearly know that if they don't build this place as soon as possible, once the Spaniards attack them, there is only one way to escape, but fortunately, Li Shaoxian does not hide his selfishness at all, and tries his best to help them. Yidao and Bull all helped Li Shaoxian formulate their local governance plans, which were very lenient for ordinary people, in addition to meeting the cost of building the army, the yamen did not spend much, and they themselves also had more land than ordinary residents, which belonged to public land, and whoever became an official would belong to whomever it was. Li Shaoxian also told them not to rush to expand their territory, but to focus on a solid foundation for now, and wait until the economic foundation is well developed, and then expand outward.
In terms of the army, their team has expanded to 10,000 people, equipped with the muskets of captured Spanish soldiers, Li Shaoxian personally led the team to train for three months, and then handed over to the bull to continue training, at least at the current level, the Spaniards come over three or five thousand people are not afraid, and if there are more, Li Shaoxian's Ming army will have to participate in the war. In order to strengthen the defense of the city, Li Shaoxian also arranged several forts along the Rimac River, the artillery was repaired Spanish artillery, the fort was made of complete large stones, and ordinary solid bullets could not be broken.
Li Shaoxian's own new Luoyang is now very prosperous, all kinds of factories, workshops, shops abound, most of them are opened by Ming merchants, there are also local smart people opened, they are the first to accept the Ming culture, and can already fluently deal with the Ming merchants. Li Shaoxian also recruited more than 2,000 Indian soldiers, but their current task is to maintain law and order in the city, which is equivalent to the armed police force in later generations, and Li Shaoxian's Ming soldiers are the main force in foreign warfare.
Along the long coastline, Li Shaoxian used a small number of spare steam engines, these steam engines were installed on small merchant ships as fishing boats, and can also be used as communication boats, which can not only find out the situation at any time and report it quickly, but also fish to improve the lives of soldiers, each soldier has his own land, most of the soldiers soon married locally, in this place of this era, the soldiers of the Ming army are the most popular people, many women are vying to marry them, Li Shaoxian is no exception, He married the daughters of the chiefs of the two largest local tribes, and set an example for the soldiers, anyway, the skin color is basically the same, which is completely acceptable psychologically, and the soldiers saw that Li Shaoxian did this, so what else was there to worry about, so in just a few months, most of the soldiers pressed a home in the local area.
With the continuous development of New Luoyang, the indigenous people north of the Dillera Mountains also began to move to the coastal area, many people began to live here, and more people got the advanced goods of the Ming Dynasty from here, and the smart people began to exchange their native products, food, and prey, and then went back to sell, and many people became rich because of this, so they drove more people to participate. With the activities of these merchants, the economy of the coastal area developed faster, and the cultural traditions of the Ming began to spread in the north of the Dillera Mountains, this time not a bloody invasion, but a natural development, the result of this development, but more popular than the bloody invasion, but also more hidden, so that people in the natural process of the Ming civilization.
In this relatively backward place, iron is a luxury for the aborigines, although it is rich in copper ore, but there are also a lot of iron ore, Li Shaoxian through field investigation, found that the production of iron here is better than mining copper ore, there are higher profits, he let the craftsmen build an iron-making plant, a steel-making plant, because the scale is not large, so the construction is very fast, and after the sale of goods on the merchant ship, the steel plant here can already be produced. The things produced are very simple, that is, iron pots, shovels, sickles, hoes, etc., and many tribes here still use wooden agricultural tools, which can be imagined how inefficient it is. In addition, they also made a large number of machetes, although not as good as the local production of the Ming Dynasty, but not too much, used for chopping wood and hunting much stronger than the copper knives they originally used, in short, it is to use iron tools to make common items in life. Because these things are all valuable things here, the things in exchange are enough for Li Shaoxian to raise troops and train here.
The Spaniards found that the Doge's Office no longer urged the payment of taxes, and they did not care, thinking that now that the land was no longer needed, who would be stupid to go up the pole to pay the taxes, but by the time they knew that the Indians had taken the Governor prisoner, and that thousands of soldiers were being called up as coolies, half a year had passed. Now there are a large number of Spanish colonies in the northwest of South America, especially in Bogota, Colombia, which is also one of the colonial centers of the Spaniards, but the Spaniards have one of the biggest shortcomings, that is, many of the expeditions organized by themselves at the beginning, after finding a suitable territory, they began to make their own decisions, plundering or operating their own territory, and waited until there was a large-scale indigenous rebellion and attack later, and then began to link up with each other to suppress, so that they began to pay taxes to the royal government, Seeking refuge in the military, but still not active in paying taxes.
It is now found that the coastal area has been occupied by the natives, and it is still developing very well, especially the iron farming tools they bought from the merchants. So they united again and organized more than 10,000 soldiers to come, intending to retake the land that had once belonged to them, and by the way, plunder the craftsmen who could make iron tools. However, their large ships are on the other side of the South American continent, so they can only come by land, which can take a long time.
The actions of the Spaniards naturally did not hide from their eyes, and the bull, who was often instructed by Li Shaoxian, also constantly sent detectives to the territory of the Spaniards to investigate, such as consulting merchants who sold goods, and dressing up as hunters to investigate, and these things they did were still very effective. In the face of more than 10,000 Spanish soldiers, Yidao and the bull naturally did not dare to be careless, so they quickly told Li Shaoxian and asked for his help. Li Shaoxian left 1,000 soldiers to guard Xinluoyang, and he rushed to Lima with 2,000 soldiers and more than a dozen warships.
Li Shaoxian, Yidao and Bull They went through a total and thought that the Spaniards would not pass through the hot primeval forests of the Amazon, and the most likely thing was to come along the foot of the Andes, and there were more than a dozen warships of the Ming Army at sea, and they would definitely not be able to pass, because they did not have large ships, and those large ships were all along the east coast.
Li Shaoxian led a knife and a bull, led more than 8,000 Indian soldiers and 1,000 Ming soldiers to meet the Spanish approach, they found many small basins in the middle of the Andes, connecting the small basins are all mountain paths, through reconnaissance learned that the Spanish are coming along this mountain path. It turned out that they also wanted a surprise attack, they thought that these Indians would not think of ambush at all, it would be good to dare to resist, how could they have the courage to come and send them to death themselves, when they appeared in front of those natives unexpectedly, they would definitely be frightened and scattered.
The bull went with more than a thousand Indian soldiers to lure the enemy, and the rest lay in ambush around the small basin, waiting for the Spaniards to enter the ambush circle. The bull did a good job, and after meeting the Spaniards, he fought and retreated, trying to keep a distance to avoid unnecessary casualties, but the Spaniards thought that the natives were only armed like that, so they chased after them closely, and the line was too long.
The Spaniards' excessively long line saved their lives, and the Indian soldiers who went to the battlefield for the first time were still inexperienced after all, if they blocked a little and let the people behind them enter the ambush circle, this could be a big victory, but they swarmed at the Spaniards and killed them, and the Ming soldiers were afraid that they would suffer, so they had to fire their guns in advance. Seeing the flying sky*, the Spaniards quickly retreated back, and the soldiers who had gone crazy with a knife chased after them vigorously, which made the Spanish soldiers lose the will to attack, and finally retreated in defeat, no longer considering the wealth and craftsmen.