Chapter Eighty-Four: Sailing with the Spirit of Spaceflight, Colonizing with the Courage of War (Part II)

And then, there is, this depends on a spirit of His Majesty the King.

Ferdinand brilliantly summed it up as "(oneself) has four abilities (others)"-

(Own) special plug-in (details);

(Yourself) particularly ambitious (grand blueprint);

(self) special science and technology (invention and creation);

(own) particularly fast (rapid implementation);

(others) are particularly able to endure hardships (land and sea double);

(others) are especially capable of fighting (brave cannon fodder);

(Others) are particularly capable of tackling difficult problems (literally);

(others) are especially able to give (I take the lion's head);

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What kind of spirit is this?

This is the spirit of aerospace!

Your Majesty, this is using the spirit of astronautics to guide others!

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However, I am afraid that there are not many immigrants with this kind of aerospace spirit. How can the spirit of His Majesty be ensured? Especially in a place like Greenland?

The answer is......

The people who go there, they are not immigrants in the first place!

Those who have arrived in Greenland now are not spontaneous immigrants, nor are they people organized by the government to go to the New World, but are part of the Reclamation Corps!

Otherwise, how could a group of immigrants go to a place like the North Cape to ambush an expedition from Muscovy?

More than 200 people, including chaplains, belonged to the Greenland detachment of the Spanish Reclamation Corps.

They were meant to be His Majesty's army. After the expansion of the cantonment corps, it began to recruit qualified candidates from the vast army, including soldiers, officers, priests, and some administrative staff (petty officials and even regional heads). More than 5,000 people have gone to the New World, and a 20,000-strong Reclamation Corps has been expanded on the mainland, half of which is new and half old.

Moreover, this cantonment corps really wants to be reclaimed and is also a corps, and they often have to fight. The best year and a half, bad month and two, emergency, three days and two ends of the war with the natives.

They don't necessarily have a hoe for idle work, but they definitely have to pick up a rifle and go to battle in wartime!

This is not a later generation, the corps attributes of the Reclamation Corps are often reflected, North America is a little better, the current encounters are all natives who can coexist peacefully, but the next will definitely be a war, from Quebec to the Great Lakes region, to meet the Huron and Iroquois, war is inevitable.

Then they began to land in various parts of the United States, and they also clashed with other Indians in the American area, and not everyone was as talkative (foolish) as the Delaware Indians. Even the Drava Indians may not be able to maintain peaceful and friendly relations for a long time.

Not to mention the West Indies, the Spanish army was sweeping across the island of Hispaniola, completely sweeping away the rebellious Indians, and the Reclamation Corps and some troops under the command of Columbus were fighting Puerto Rico in the south and Cuba in the north. The Panamanian detachment of the Reclamation Corps, in search of tomatoes and potatoes, also fought with the Indians in the Darien trench.

The Spanish Reclamation Corps and the Production and Construction Corps are two different things. First of all, it is functionally divided into three parts, one of which is completely a combat force, which has nothing to do with cantonment, but a regular army that conquers cities, crosses mountains and mountains, and expands territory, which is the printing of natives and the suppression of colonial rebellions - although Ferdinand believes that the New World of America must become a territory, and currently has six provinces and appointed governors, which are always Western territories or new territories to the outside world, but in essence, it is still in the colonial stage.

In other words, in fact, all of Spain's armies in the Americas, whether they were fighting wars or being reclaimed, would be under the structure of the cantonment corps.

The other is the garrison troops in various places, which are actually not producing, and are responsible for occupying villages and towns for garrisoning, of course, there are not many of them now.

The other is the armed reclamation regiments engaged in production and construction that do not leave production, and these people cannot put down their guns, because the Americas are too vast, whether they are starting their careers now, or entering the western North American and South American deserts in the future, these reclamation regiments will inevitably fight.

In short, the Reclamation Corps was a sword and a cornerstone for Spain to open up the New World of America. The detachments of the Reclamation Corps were the basic units of Spain's implementation of the development of the New World.

This is the exact opposite of the original colonial routine.

In the early days of Spain, as well as in the early colonization of various countries, most of the government was incompetent and unresponsive, and those "people with lofty ideals" wrote letters to advise and argue on the basis of reason, so that the monarch made a move - and then the heroes rode down to Jingzhou alone, went to a foreign land to start a business, and contributed to Spain's American Empire. This is how Spain's first continental colony was established in northern Colombia. When the business is successful and someone is sent to report the good news, the government will send troops to consolidate the fruits of victory...... and plucked peaches......

Colonization was encouraged, but the government itself did not do anything of it, and it was often the governors and brave local explorers who were pushing the boundaries of territory. The first Spanish landing in Panama was in 1506 by the personal actions of Diego de Necusa, the governor of Puerto Rico. Balboa, on the other hand, sought a route to the Pacific because of his ideals and the reality of his debts, and Cortés' conquest of the Aztec Empire was very tortuous, he gave up everything he had in Cuba, and was restrained and oppressed by the governor (of course, the exploration of Mexico was also the governor's intention).

From his experience, if the King of Spain had given him a force of 2,000 men at the outset and appointed him commander-in-chief, he might have been able to complete the task four years earlier.

So much so that after Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in 1533, Charles V had to use divide-and-rule to balance the two viceroyalties of distant Peru and Chile. This was the result of the inaction of the government, and it was only by chance, chance, and the personal ability of the explorer that the speed was so fast, otherwise the conquest of the New World would not have been possible in half a century, with the virtue of Ferdinand II (the original owner) and Charles V.

The Spanish government is like a god duck, this duck wants to eat Ganoderma lucidum, but he doesn't look for it, he wants someone else to give it to him, it should have been led by the nose into the slaughterhouse, but he is a god duck, everyone has to work hard to find Ganoderma lucidum, and this duck doesn't go with you, you have to get it to its mouth before swallowing it......

This can also explain the reason why Spain did nothing about the British and French entry into North America and the cross-border expansion of Portugal, although the government is eyeing the New World, but the measures and policies are too small, and its own expansion is mainly due to the spontaneous conquest of the two empires by the colonists, who want to interfere with others, where is there enough power?

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