"Zhao Zhenren is injured!" Several young and strong Taoist priests, carrying a pair of stretchers, rushed into the courtyard of a Taoist temple. Several medical personnel who had been waiting for a long time immediately stepped forward to help, and a leading doctor stepped forward to uncover the gauze covering Zhao Yan and Zhao Zhenren's buttocks, and after carefully examining it, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The blow arrow wound is not poisonous, fortunately!" ”

Everyone was also relieved when they heard this, Zhao Zhenren was fine. As a high-level Taoist and the head of the four real people, if Zhao Yan and Zhao Zhenren have any three strengths and two weaknesses in Laojun Temple, none of these people present will want to please him. Especially those new little Taoist priests, just wait for the rest of their lives to be tired and tired of chopping wood and burning fires in the Taoist temple.

Fu Lei (formerly Second Lieutenant Frey of the Gendarmerie), who had retired from the gendarmerie and was transferred to the deputy director of the Dingxi County Police Department, silently glanced at the injured Zhao Yan a few times, and then grabbed a few patrol officers who had returned with him and went to the side to interrogate.

"How? Another Guarani attack? Fu Lei asked as he lit a pipe for himself to suppress his shock. What are you kidding, a few days after he was mentioned as the deputy director, he is currently in charge of the security of the three townships outside the county, this time if Zhao Zhenren really burps in the field outside the Laojun Temple, he will be dragged home to farm, it is really scary to think about it.

The Laojun Temple is the city of Riopardo in Brazil, which is also located on the banks of the Yakui River. The mountains and rivers are beautiful, the scenery is pleasant, and the soil is covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves, although it is not as fertile as the black soil, but it is also a rare good land. In addition, the climate is suitable and the water source is abundant, so it was quickly favored by the people of the Taoist church. Then organize believers to donate. It's time to carve out territory. The Executive Committee welcomes private sector funding to develop new territories. Therefore, at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, a group of sub-Taoist followers came here, built a magnificent Taoist temple, and then recruited people to pioneer the land.

And the new Ming immigrants don't know what Tianzun is not Tianzun, they look at the statue of Tianzun enshrined and Taishang Laojun is very similar, so they call this place Laojun Temple, and over time it has become the name of the place. Last month, Laojunmiao Township was upgraded to an official settlement. Then, at the beginning of October, together with Shifangdian Township, it was included in the trusteeship of Dingxi County.

However, the two new settlements have also encountered a number of problems, chief among them security issues. Shifangdian, which is in the downstream zone, is okay, after all, it is closer to the east, and there are troops patrolling in peacetime, so the security is slightly higher; But the Laojun Temple, which is further west, is very bad, there are no city walls, there are no turrets at the head of the village, and the villagers are even more chaotic and there are everyone. And because he was still short and had not undergone military training, he was attacked by the Guarani barbarians. It was caught off guard for a while, causing many casualties.

In order to solve the problem of public order here, the Dingxi County Public Security Bureau, which has not yet officially taken office, immediately appointed a deputy director with dozens of armed patrol officers to be stationed here to protect the security here. However, the place of Laojun Temple is too large, there are many wild forests, and the rivers are densely covered with reeds, which gives the attackers a very good hiding environment, so the patrol officers on the east bank are repeatedly deflated and depressed. No, Zhao Yan and Zhao Zhenren, who came to inspect the local situation this time, were actually hit by an arrow in the buttocks, although they were all skin injuries, but everyone had to eat some hanging.

"It's Guaraní, yes, but not from Paraguay, that's for sure. The parishioners from Paraguay are generally well-dressed and have better weapons, and they will not be like this group who can only use some blow arrows and wooden spears. I reckon that the Guaraní people who are scurrying around must be the ones who slipped through the net, and they think that we have robbed them of their land, so they have always refused to naturalize and have always opposed us. A patrol officer wiped the sweat from his face and said.

It is said that since the easterners carved out their territory westward along the Yakuyi River, the conflict with the Guaraní people, which had been dormant for many years (which had been temporarily suspended due to the war), became fierce again. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the people of the east bank of Gaine found that the most mature and cultivable land in the west was in the hands of the Guaraní, and that "all the land suitable for agriculture has been occupied by the Guaraní, and the only way to obtain the desired resettlement is to forcibly confiscate the existing arable land of the original inhabitants." ”

The method of "taking" the Guaraní's existing land is to redeem it, but the Guaraní are extremely dissatisfied with the consideration of five yuan per acre of land, and there are very few people who are willing to sell the land, which leads to conflict between outsiders (immigrants) and the indigenous people who have lived there for generations. When the conflict escalated into armed confrontation, it became irretrievable: the Guaraní people were driven from their land like wild dogs, and many of the rebels were even arrested by militias transferred from Dingxi and Ping'an counties and sent to major mines or construction sites in China for "forced labor reform".

However, the consequences of this are endless. When the 1,000-strong militia from other counties withdrew one after another, the Guaraní who were wandering in the vicinity began to retaliate against them, and the pioneers on the east bank organized by the church were not trained and organized enough, so they suffered some casualties under the blows of these barbarians, which greatly annoyed the superiors, and had to send a large number of patrols to the place to solve the law and order problem.

In order to deal with this intractable group of Guarani bandits, the newly arrived Director Fu Leifu formulated the following measures: 1. Strengthen patrols to ensure that there are no Guarani wandering around the village and on the main transportation routes; 2. Strengthen the military training of the militia and strengthen their courage so that they will not be completely defenseless in the event of a sudden attack by the barbarians; 3. Require the Ministry of Immigration to allocate immigrants here as much as possible with military experience (mostly the servant soldiers and their families who have been laid off from Shandong); Fourth, the peasant households in the villages were forbidden to plant sorghum or corn, making it more difficult for the enemy to hide; 5. Contact the Mameluco and São Paulo people in the mountains and ask them to bring a message to the Paraguayan area, and ask the Guaraní parishioners there to cut off any aid to the Guaraní on the east coast.

"Are the people of São Paulo in the north in contact? What do they say? Fu Lei took a few puffs of cigarettes, looked at his subordinates, frowned and asked, "Do they agree to come?" ”

"I contacted the leaders of a couple of São Paulo flag teams that are often in the neighborhood." Hearing a question from his immediate superior, the patrolman immediately replied: "Two of them have expressed some interest, and if we provide them with food and medicine supplies during this period, they will go south to help us capture the Guarani." But they remind us that the proceeds from the sale of the Guaraní will be theirs and that we have no right to share the proceeds with them. ”

"Greedy São Paulo." Fu Lei scolded hatefully. The São Paulo Banner was an old slave hunter, with whites or mixed-race whites as the backbone and Indians as grassroots soldiers, armed with weapons and horses, roaming the southern part of Brazil and La Plata, capturing Indian slaves and selling them to Brazilian plantations for profit.

In the past, when the people on the east coast had not yet completely controlled the current land, some São Paulo flag corps occasionally came to this area, and they even went to the hilly area of Huxi on the east coast. However, with the acceleration of the development of new land on the east bank and the strength they demonstrated, the people of São Paulo eventually abandoned their activities on the east bank and went to the Paraná River valley to steal business.

"Tomorrow you go to the county and see when the entry certificates and employment letters for those São Paulo flag teams can be issued. If possible, try to push as much as possible, and this time cannot be delayed any longer. There are at least more than 2,000 Guarani people who oppose us here in Laojun Temple, and if we don't solve them, we will have to suffer even greater losses, which is unacceptable to everyone. Fu Lei sternly admonished his subordinates.

Even big people like Zhao Zhenren have been injured here, and it is conceivable how arrogant the Guaraní people are, and the cleanup of them really can't be delayed any longer. It is a pity that the domestic army is now tight - the low-eyed civil officials are even clamoring for the reduction of the army - and it is the busy agricultural season, and the militia cannot be recruited, so they can only rely on the St. Paul's banner team of "professional slave hunters for thirty years" to help the East Coast people clean up, on the condition that they are provided with food and lodging and a small amount of hardship in between, and that all the proceeds from the sale of slaves will also belong to them. This condition was not unacceptable to the East Coasters, so the superiors quickly approved the proposal to hire the São Paulo Flag Team to deal with the Guaraní.

"By the way, I would also like to speak to those people of São Paulo, and ask them to send to Paraguay in the west, whether to warn or admonish, in short, let those parishioners be in peace, and not to provide any kind of assistance to the Guarani people in our country. Some of the Guarani we have recently captured are carrying Spanish swords, some with leather armor and hand-thrown bombs, which must have flowed from them. If they do not listen and insist on continuing to aid the barbarians in our territory, then our government has the right to reserve a single freedom of action. Fu Lei thought for a moment, and then admonished the other subordinate.

When Brazil's São Paulo Flag Team was the largest, it once organized a team of 10,000 people to hunt slaves in Paraguay. At first, their actions were quite smooth, capturing a large number of Guarani and making huge profits. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, as the Spanish missionaries vigorously assisted the Guarani, these indigenous people in the Paraguayan region were quickly organized, and equipped with modern weapons such as muskets and armor, and then fought fiercely with the São Paulo flag team, and severely defeated them several times.

Seeing the resoluteness of the resistance of the Guarani people in Paraguay, the São Paulo flag team immediately changed their attitude, and they promised not to plunder the Guarani people in Paraguay again, and then went into business with them. The Guarani were of course happy to do so, because it meant that they could buy smuggled goods from Portugal for very little money, rather than paying several times as much for the expensive Lima goods. Therefore, after so many years, the São Paulo flag team from Brazil actually has some connections and connections in the Paraguayan region, and the goods smuggled by the East Coast people there are also agents by them, and the sales are still quite good.

After instructing his subordinates, Fu Lei decided to lead the team out on patrol again. It's the busy season before spring sowing begins, and farmers are often in the wild, so safety concerns are not sloppy. (To be continued......)