Section 228 The heroes of the revolution

At this time, the situation in Mexico was a situation that Zhou Lang could not imagine, and Napoleon did not want to see.

After Zhao Wen broke through Mexico City, he didn't go in after withdrawing from the army.

Mexico City became a Shura field, the Indians, the Mestizos killed the white people in the city, not only killed those white peninsulars from Europe, those noble immigrants, even the native whites were also cleansed, and even some white-skinned mixed-race children were affected, and then the Indians and the Mestizos also slaughtered each other, and after killing for more than ten days, the anger of both sides slowly calmed down, and the long-accumulated resentment was finally released.

It was only then that Ilgoda regained control of the army, as the team finally came to its senses.

Now some Spanish generals began to support Ilgoda, such as Allende, and some Spanish officers also joined his ranks, and Ilgoda used these officers to begin to reorganize the Indian army.

He formed a new government in Mexico City, and although he was haunted by the massacres that took place in the city, and even wanted to end his statement at one point in order to atone for his sins, he finally figured it out.

The reason for the Holocaust is the nature of human beings, the greed of the Spaniards, which caused them to inflict their pain on the Mexicans, who are now returning this pain to the Spaniards.

By thinking so, Ilgoda had begun to think as a Mexican, rather than as a purely native-born white.

He used to look at the Indians who were doing hard labor, who followed the Spanish religion and provided a good life for the Spanish aristocracy, and he couldn't help but fall into deep thought: why was this land called Mexico governed by the Spaniards, and who was the real owner of this land? Are they white and Native Americans like me, or white people who have come from Europe across the oceans???

This question has plagued him for a long, long time, since he started thinking about it when he was in school, and he was still thinking about it when he became a priest, and now in the year of the sixtieth year, he finally realized that this country belongs to the people who were born and raised in this land, no matter what color or race, only those who grew up in this land are qualified to govern this land! It was the native-born whites, the Mestizos, the Indians who were the real masters of the land.

After the knot was untied, Ilgoda quickly formed a Mexican government, he was a very prestigious person, and his status as a priest made him easily supported by a large number of Catholics, and Catholicism is already a very important religion in Mexico, as large as Mexico City, small towns like Dolores, there are Catholic churches everywhere, whether white, mixed-race or Indian, most of them believe in God.

In addition, he led the Indian rebels to capture Mexico City, which made his prestige even more high, and he began to reform, drastic reforms, he announced the abolition of slavery, and the small number of slaves on the plantations in Mexico immediately obtained the status of free people, and permanently banned the slave trade.

Then a decree was issued allowing Mexican communes (the equivalent of tribes) and villages to take back the land they had taken from the Spaniards without compensation, whether it was purchased or looted.

He also proclaimed the abolition of the heavy taxes and feudal obligations imposed on the Indian villages, and that no one, no matter how powerful, could unconditionally enslave the Indians to work for them.

These policies were imbued with idealism and the moral conscience of mankind, but they deprived Irigoda of some of his most powerful supporters, the native-born whites who were like him, because these native-born whites were the real landowners, and those who plundered the lands of the Indians were either them or their ancestors, but the lands were now in their hands, and Ilgoda wanted the Indians to take their lands from them.

These people had hoped that Irigoda would lead the people to a free Mexican Republic, but now that the republic was formed, they found that it was not the country they wanted at all.

Originally, some of the native-born white soldiers and officers left the ranks of Ilgoda and returned to their estates and began to organize a rebellion, now not against the Spaniards, but against Ilgovida. They called this messenger of freedom, this servant of God, this father of Mexico, now called a tyrant, a god, and a traitor.

The rebels roamed the countryside and the plantations, fighting the government forces and the Indian tribes only to defend their property. They even began to feel nostalgic for the rule of the Spanish colonizers, at least the Spanish king would not take their land.

Mexico and other Spanish colonies, especially the affairs of Mexico, affected other Spanish colonies that had not yet fallen into chaos.

Heroes such as San Martín and Bolívar were born.

San Martín served in the expeditionary force formed by the United States of La Plata, and soon gained control of the army because of his ability. Born in the colony of La Plata, he was born in La Plata, a native of La Plata, and belonged to a relatively high-level native white family, and his father had served as vice-governor of La Plata. When San Martín was 8 years old, he moved to Madrid with his parents, where he received a systematic education and read many of the works of Enlightenment thinkers. Admire Rousseau's "Social Contract", Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, Holmach and other Enlightenment thinkers.

Completed blood at a regular military school, and then entered the Spanish Murcia Infantry Regiment as a cadet. Fought with the Spanish army against the Moors in Africa, against the British and Portuguese. After Napoleon occupied Spain, he joined the rebel army and fought against the French army, and in the Spanish war against Napoleon, he was repeatedly promoted to major.

When he heard that his country had become independent, he immediately returned to his country, his family had considerable influence in La Plata, and it was their family that now held the power of the United States of La Plata, so he was easily able to take up important positions in the army through his connections, and then relied on his military qualities to win constantly, and then succeeded in becoming the commander of the expeditionary force in La Plata. There are few native-born whites like him who are regular officers and have a lot of fighting power, so he stands out.

San Martín served in the expedition to Bolivia, where he led most victories over the Spanish colonizers, and then led the expeditionary force north, uniting the forces of the Peruvian Viceroyalty to attack the Viceroyalty of New Granada, which bordered Peru on what would become Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

By this time, Bolívar had already launched an uprising in Venezuela, and had successfully overthrown colonial rule and formed an army to move south.

Bolívar, like San Martín, was born into the upper class of native whites. His parents were native Spanish nobles. However, his parents died when he was young, and he had to go to Spain to study, where he was married, and in 1803 he returned to his hometown to inherit the family business, but his wife died of illness. He returned to Europe in 1804 and became Napoleon's entourage.

Such a person, of course, was more deeply influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution, and it was impossible for him to be without learning military technology around Napoleon.

He was also determined to overthrow the Spanish aristocracy, like the French, and in 1805 he made a vow atop Mount Aventine in Rome that he would fight for one day if his country was not liberated from Spanish rule. When he heard that the Chinese invasion had ignited a fire in the Spanish colonies, he immediately rushed back to Venezuela from Spain to form an army in his hometown to rebel against Spanish rule.

Since the colonial area of New Granada was not attacked by the Chinese army, the Spanish army was still relatively strong here, which led to the failure of the Bolivarian uprising, which was suppressed by the Spanish army driven from Colombia. He had to go into exile in Haiti, then received a large amount of arms from Haiti's new president, Pétion (the brutal de Salin was assassinated), and returned to Venezuela again, and this time he succeeded. Because San Martín had already entered Ecuador, the Spanish army in Bogotá rushed to suppress it, and the Venezuelan army was drawn and relatively empty.

After destroying the Spanish colonial establishment in Venezuela, Bolívar formed the government of the Republic of Venezuela, and then sent troops to Colombia to seize Bogotá, the capital of the colony of New Granada.

The Bolivarian family was a big plantation owner and a big capitalist, but he announced the abolition of slavery and won the support of a large number of black slaves. confiscated the property of the Spanish crown and the great nobles, promised land to revolutionary soldiers, abolished the poll tax on the Indians and guaranteed land distribution to them.

Bolívar succeeded in recruiting blacks, Indians, and a large number of poor native whites, and with this army he embarked on an expedition to Bogotá.

San Martín was in Ecuador, defeated the Spanish colonial army with the Peruvian coalition, and then also entered Colombia, and soon the two heroes were in Bogotá, and the meeting of the two heroes marked the independence of the entire Spanish colony and the collapse of the Spanish colonial system.

But the colonial story is not over, because the Chinese who led this wave of uprisings obviously did not come to help them gain independence, and their old suzerains, the Spaniards, were by no means willing to lose such huge assets, and their fate was probably not determined by themselves, but had to be drawn at the negotiating table of world powers.

At this time, the question of the handling of Spanish colonization had already begun to be discussed among some major powers.