Chapter 975: Placing Negroes

A mountainous region on the banks of the Nasas River in northern Mexico.

As a place where more than 80% of the area is highland and mountainous, when the people here start to rebel, it is really not easy to clean up.

Walnuts with a thousand furrows on the skin are always much more difficult to clean than apples. It's a truth!

After the peace agreement between China and Spain, or when China completely occupied the Mexican land, Chen Han's 'alliance' with the Mexicans was completely bankrupt.

Their common enemy is gone, and with them they become each other's most formidable enemies.

This is like the rabbit and the fruit, when the small book was defeated, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the rabbit and the fruit then regarded each other as their competitors, and a civil war inevitably broke out again.

Mexico would have had a population of 4 million. But that was before the Chinese entered the Americas.

The continuous wars and internal strife caused the population of Mexico to plummet, especially the massacre of the local Indian tribes by the Spaniards under heavy pressure, and the bloody revenge of the 'liberated' black slaves against the peninsulars [Spaniards], and even the Mexicans [native whites] and mestizos, and finally with the defeated Spanish colonial army on the south side of the white race, anyway, by the time Chen Han entered Mexico, the population here was at most 3 million.

After the peace between China and the West, a large number of Peninsulars and Mexicans, and even mixed-race people, turned to South America.

Chen Han had an agreement with Spain not to prevent the transfer of local Western colonists to South America or Europe.

Those peninsulars and Mexicans stranded in Mexico supported the Spaniards in the early years, but now they have tasted the bitter fruit, and the Chinese, after occupying Mexico, turned their faces and did not recognize people, and there are still smiling faces when they smuggled goods, and they were not treated as well as the Spaniards. Regretting it, they went south one after another, but there were always some who chose to resist.

Then, because of Mexico's complex and changeable terrain, the whole of Mexico was caught in a beacon fire.

The American garrison army is a bit like the appearance of the Japanese army invading China, their combat effectiveness is strong, and a team can sweep away ten times or more than ten times the chaotic army, but they have few people, and Mexico has a large territory.

The rebellious army formed by those peninsulars and Mexicans, and even mixed-race people, was not at all rigid and rigid with the garrison army, but only harassed and attacked villages and towns. This greatly slowed down Chen Han's digestion of Mexico.

In the end, the garrison army came up with a solution, that is, while fighting tooth for tooth and blood for blood, they wantonly organized the Indian Volunteers and the Heishu Li Volunteers to hunt down and kill the rebels.

Whenever there was a rebellion in a certain place, all the local Caucasian people would be sent to the labor camps and all property would be confiscated.

Therefore, under the iron-fisted rule of Chen Han to the extreme, more and more Caucasians retreated to the south, but it was easy for them to go on their own, and it was not difficult to go with floating wealth, but they could not move the manors, the fields, and even more difficult for cattle, horses, livestock and slaves.

In a word, most of the fruits of the Western colonizers' more than 200 years of operation in Mexico were plundered by Chen Hanshi.

In the previous four million people of Mexico, pure whites did not account for the majority, and Indians and mestizos did not account for the majority, and the real main force was the Black Shuli from Africa. The wealth of the Western colonizers was inseparable from these black Shu Li, and in the Americas of this era, the vast majority of the population in the Western colonies were slaves.

The number of slaves is often 5~10 times that of free people, for example, the total population of the French colony of Santo Domingo [Haiti] is only 536,000, and there are as many as 480,000 slaves.

Mexico was a mestizo in later generations, and it was also the place where the largest number of Indians survived, so many Indians were oppressed by the Spaniards, they were either rounded up, and the entire tribe was reduced to slavery, or became slaves after the failure of the resistance, which reduced the import of black slaves to a certain extent, and the price of the latter was not cheap.

But this only makes the number of black Shuli relatively reduced, and the population is reflected in the performance is not as exaggerated as in the Caribbean.

It's just that Hei Shuli's hatred for slave owners will not decrease because of the decrease in his own numbers.

In French Santo Domingo, the revolting black rebels burned 1,200 coffee plantations and 200 sugar cane plantations of slave owners, as well as many luxury mansions, to the ashes in just two months. The Negroes of Mexico were also as dark as the Spaniards in the 'darkness before dawn', and their methods of revenge against the whites were as bloody and determined as the Indians.

Many of those methods are put on the garrison army, the vassal army, and the dispatch army, which are all against military regulations and military discipline.

Now, in the mountains on the banks of the Nassas River, a battle to the death is underway.

The Naxas River is located in the north of Mexico, where the land resources are not abundant, but the forestry resources are vast, and the mineral resources are very large, including gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, zinc, coal, etc. Therefore, this generation of Western colonizers mostly engaged in mining and logging as an industry, rather than engaging in plantations.

And naturally, how 'bloody' the mines in this era are, outsiders can understand. Any mine is a monster that eats people and doesn't spit out bones.

Moreover, before Chen Han's army swept the area, the Spaniards also organized the killing of slaves in the mines, but it was liberated by Chen Han's army before the matter was completed. The more than 10,000 healthy Indians and blacks who were liberated from the local mines became a sharp sword in the hands of the garrison army from the day they were liberated. These Indians and blacks, who hated the Spaniards, were the strongest militia of the garrison to suppress Mexico.

The Volunteers in Mexico are not the same as the Amaru Servants, who are more determined to fight than the latter.

On the banks of the Nasas River today, hundreds of volunteers have forced a rebellious army of thousands of men to retreat into the mountains.

Chen Han's control in Mexico is really not high, and this chaotic army of thousands of people actually stayed on the banks of the Nasas River for more than half a month before it was detected by the reconnaissance force. That's a big, big deal. Although the Volunteers were immediately killed, the rebels were not a rabble with no children at all. They also rose up because they were oppressed, and they also had a very rebellious spirit.

And the image of the Chinese in their minds is not only a tyrant like a bandit, but also a traitor without morality. Their will to resist is also very strong. It's just that the weapons in their hands are very backward, except for the flintlock pistol, which is a flintlock pistol, not even a cannon, and the rifled gun is the treasure of the treasures.

The number of Mexican volunteers has grown from 10,000 to 30,000 or 40,000 now, and there is no big military expenditure, only need to arm them with a part of the ordnance seized from the Spaniards, and supply them with some military supplies, food, cloth, etc., which is enough. The cost of 30,000 or 40,000 volunteers is not even as good as that of a regiment of vassal troops.

But these volunteers, who were full of hatred for the Spaniards, were able to greatly squeeze the space for the rebels to survive. The biggest role of these volunteers is not to eliminate the rebels in the field, but to protect the territory. Just like a watchdog, when a thief is found, while warning him, he catches up and bites, as long as he can decorate the back of the thief, that is their biggest role.

The bones are too hard for them to gnaw on themselves. The garrison is not blind in vain. The four or five hundred volunteers on the banks of the Nasas River came from three places, and when the rebel army here was discovered, as soon as the news spread, the three cities centered on the Nasas River immediately sent the volunteers, and with the movement of the rebel army, instead of taking advantage of the scattered strength of the volunteers, the three volunteers quickly gathered in one place, with a total strength of four or five hundred people, and it was difficult for the rebels to counterattack at this time.

However, the rebel army, which had been recuperating on the banks of the Nasas River for more than half a month, also broke out into a fighting force. The Volunteers lost more than 100 lives and withdrew from the mountains in disarray.

Under a mountain range, Jiang Kui's face was gloomy, looking at the volunteers who had fallen from the mountain, he knew that he was a step too late. The bandits had already formed a line of defense against the top of the mountain. Now the rebels are condescending, occupy a favorable position, and have won the previous battle, their morale is not down, and their confidence is even stronger. Although he has a hexagonal cannon and a new rifle, he doesn't want to fight if he attacks from the back. The rebels are enough to have a headache just throwing stones down.

Thankfully, this time I'm on their ass.

"Tuanzao, the rebel army has a favorable location, and it is inconvenient to fight during the day, so let's wait for the evening to do it." A battalion officer said to Jiang Kui. Anyway, it won't be long before the volunteers gather more and more, and when the time comes, it will be up to the thieves on the mountain to resist.

And at the moment they have only come to two companies.

"Let's make a lot of effort at night!"

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Such a scene also occurred in Honduras, at the southern tip of Mexico, in Guatemala, and it can be said that the newly occupied land of the whole of Central America is not stable.

A lot of white people, whether they are new immigrants or native-borns, have moved to Colombia like they have burned their butts. But there are still some who insist on staying there. The war engulfed the entire Viceroyalty of Mexico in the Middle Americas.

As the first governor of Central Mexico, Huang Jie ruled over all the newly occupied North American lands, Chile under the direct jurisdiction of the American garrison.

In such a war, how many white and mixed-race families were broken and mutilated because of it, Huang Jie didn't know, and he didn't want to pay attention to it. There is always a sacrifice to be gained.

It's better for this sacrifice to fall on these foreigners than on the Han Chinese, isn't it? But what about the more than 2 million blacks in the country?

This is a problem that has not been seen before - the land seized from Spain in the last war is vast and sparsely populated, with a total population of less than 20,000 or 30,000, which is very different from the current situation.

Now this problem must be seriously faced.

A million blacks in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, ......, this is again a million blacks. Although two million laborers were precious, Chen Ming was reluctant to let them take root in the Americas.

But where are these two million people going when they are no longer in the Americas?

Later data show that throughout the 18th century, Europeans sent at least 7 million black slaves to the Americas. Therefore, in the Americas of later generations, from the lighthouse countries to Latin American countries, there are more or less mixed-race children, and the existence of black people cannot be ignored more or less.

Later, thinking of the reputation of black people in later generations, Chen Ming would never want to see the black Shu Li flourishing on the American continent he had conquered.

"My father doesn't want the blacks to stain my blood, so why don't I send the blacks back to Africa. From a certain piece of fertile soil, settle black people,...... "even help these black people establish one or several countries, so that they can be Chen Han's thugs in Africa?"

Chen Ding said.

"Big brother Mo is not confused? That's two million people? And the number of black slaves in the whole of America was 5 million. Chen Ding's little brother was 'shocked'.