A small force set out from the port of Manzanillo.

The great battle launched on the frontal battlefield did not affect the slightest thing here. The expeditionary force, which occupied the active position, successively sent small troops to sweep the surrounding area, and in addition to looting materials, money, food, livestock, chariots and horses, and even farm tools, salt and sugar, they were 'freeing' batch after batch of Indians.

The latter was almost extinct in the lighthouse country of the 21st century, but there are still many, many Indian villages in Mexico, and there are still many, many Indians in Mexico today. In the original plane of time and space, the Mexican War of Independence broke out thirty years later, and the first to make waves were the Indians who were instigated.

Mexico was the world's largest mixed-race country, with about 90% of the 120 million Indo-European people and 10 million pure-blooded Indians. At the present time, there are not 10 million people in the whole of Mexico, but there are definitely no less than 2 million Indians.

Only now, the status of the Indians in Mexico was no different from that of slaves.

The only purpose of their existence was to be exploited by the Spanish colonial authorities.

Not to mention how Chen Han assimilated these Indians in the future, it is also possible that they will be kicked out of the American continent, but now Chen Han needs them more. Even if you cross the river and tear down the bridge, you have to cross the river first.

The Indians also have a strong vigilance and rejection of Chen Han, don't think that they are yellow-skinned with China, so they can have an innate sense of closeness. For the Indians, the Chinese were also invaders. Later generations said that the Indians were descendants of the Chinese Yin Shang, which is somewhat nonsense.

Not to mention how absurd this statement is, even if it is true, they are really descendants of Yin Shang, what can this prove?

Vietnamese monkeys are also descendants of Baiyue, the rabbit was kind to them at the beginning, but later it was not the same as biting the rabbit?

Some people may say that the Yin Shang dynasty, as a 'unified' dynasty, is completely different from the barbarians like Baiyue, but the northern part of Annan was ruled by the Chinese imperial dynasty for thousands of years. If you want to talk about kinship, it is much closer than the Indians, and many of the upper-class people there are of Han Chinese blood. But the result?

As soon as they were given the opportunity, they immediately rebelled.

And Chen Ming has always been wary of these aborigines.

In the 21st century, there have been many incidents of indigenous people jumping out to advocate sovereignty. This made Chen Ming subconsciously feel that they were a hidden danger.

But now there are a lot of Indians in the Americas, and he can't think of a way to deal with them, so he can't kill them all. You can only take one step at a time.

Specific to the current stage of North American affairs, Chen Han's performance is 'pro-Indian'. Even if Chen Ming was very uninterested in the rumors of the descendants of the Indians Yin Shang, and did not have any other feelings about it, the status of the Indians in his mind was always higher than that of the Nanyang monkeys.

The troops swept in a northwesterly direction.

Over the course of a day, six villages were encountered, five of which were empty, and the people in them had either been brought back to Manzanillo or had been affected and had fled. I really can't even find a dog.

In the end, only this last place remained, and even if there was no one here, their team would rest here.

However, the squad leader who had reconnoitred first had little hope for this small village, because it was very poor, it was pitch black, and the houses seemed to be all crumbling thatched huts, about thirty or forty of them.

Even if everyone is here, they won't be able to do any good.

And such a village is very much like a gathering place of Indians, rather than a manor or plantation of some native white or peninsular.

It was precisely because of this judgment that the officers of the team only sent one squad to reconnoiter the small village.

Even the vanguard himself was slack.

And the further they went, the easier it became, they were already close to the houses, and if there were rebels in the village, the shots would have gone off by now. And there are really people in this village.

The first shift had already heard the dog barking.

It's really not easy, but I'm finally going to meet a living person.

The squad leader who took the lead breathed a sigh of relief, because if there were rebels in the village, they should have been shot a long time ago.

When they reached the first house, there was a "squeak", and an old Indian with a child carrying a lamp opened the door, and the soldier at the door couldn't help but be stunned.

The squad leader breathed a sigh of relief, this was indeed a gathering place for Indians, so the possibility of rebelling was infinitely close to zero.

……

"Go, go, everybody go west."

"Follow me. Whoever dares to flee will all be whipped by a group. ”

The next day dawned.

Early in the morning, the noise wafted over the village, and the Chinese soldiers, who had been amiable last night, immediately changed their faces today.

They forced everyone with bayonets to assemble in the open space of the village with their belongings, and then told them to leave their homes and go with them.

No one wants to leave their home. However, China's knives and guns are not for show.

The poor Indians really had no property, and the whole village did not even have a cow and, naturally, no horses. The main property was only four pigs, and together there were three or four thousand catties of corn and potatoes.

Although there was a lot of shouting and swearing, whips and clubs were wielding and whizzing throughout the whole period, if these Indians could really calm down and think about it, they would know that these devils with the same skin color as them did not actually kill them.

And when the Indians dragged on for almost two days before they were dragged to the port of Manzanillo, the Indians, who had been depressed and depressed for the past two days, were instantly cheered up as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

For they saw here many Indians like them, with healthy flushes on their faces, neat clothes that they envied, uniform black cloth shoes on their feet, and even an army of Indians.

What's more, all the Indians had a relaxed smile on their faces, and they had no rattling iron shackles on their feet except for their shoes.

Apparently the Indians were treated differently than they had imagined for the past two days, especially the army of Indians.

"Don't worry, you're in heaven." Others shouted at them from afar.

The Indians' heartbeats quickened, not only because of what they saw and heard, but also because of the army composed entirely of Indians, although their number was only one hundred and ten, but it gave these Indians who had just been frightened for two days really felt different.

Every Indian soldier was tall and fit.

The expeditionary force also deliberately selected a few people who could speak Spanish to serve as their teachers, and also taught them Chinese.

Iron arrowheads, bows and arrows, standard sabers, spears, monoculars, hemostatic bandages, rattan armor, muskets and bayonets, these are the weapons that equip them, and these Indians are armed to the teeth compared to their savage compatriots in the wilderness of western North America.

And the Indians of the Americas are not those lazy monkeys in the South Seas, nor are they those third brothers in India, the Indians still have courage, these selected Indians have an unforgettable blood feud with the Spaniards, when the weapons are distributed to them, everyone's eyes are flashing with the flame of revenge, and every weapon makes them love it.

These Indians caressed the muskets, like a young man caressing the body of his lover, so gently.

And the price they paid was the need to put their own handprints on a loan number, and almost no Indians knew how to write, not even Spanish.

A musket [plus bayonet] is 500 yuan, is it expensive?

All they had to do was rush to the Spanish plantation and grab a handful, two horses or two cows, and 500 yuan was enough.

A saber costs 200 yuan, which is the price of a horse.

So is it expensive? It's a bit expensive indeed. Because the price of horses is too cheap. But who but the Chinese will sell these things to their Indians?

This is a group of Indian troops that the expeditionary force itself planned to organize, and the expeditionary force will lend them basic weapons, and as long as these Indians can recover their belongings, the expeditionary force will cash them in one by one.

It's a very vicious trick.

And the target is not limited to the current one, as long as the natives are willing to stand on the opposite side of the Spaniards, they can receive the 'Pacific Rim Alliance' flag representing the same camp from the expeditionary force.

As long as they waved this flag, they pulled up the team, and when they had a harvest, they could already come to the port of Manzanillo to exchange all the materials they needed, as long as the expeditionary force of Manzanillo had it.

The rivalry between China and Spain was a long-term problem, and the expeditionary force would not withdraw from the port of Manzanillo until an armistice was reached.

Where, it is a nail in the body of the expeditionary force in the Spaniards, and it will not give up until it achieves its goal.

The Indians did not think about it at all, took out a loan, bought.

Not only are they willing to owe the most basic loan amount, many of them take out additional loans and then wave paper tickets that shatter their entire worldview – which also counts as money? Huge purchases of arms and materials.

For example, two horses and a carriage dragged by them, such as powder kegs and buckshot, a barrel of gunpowder is only fifty pounds, a barrel of lead bullet has 1,000 pieces, and only one ox or one horse is needed, and then twenty Mexican eagles.

Many people have exchanged rattan armor, and some have even exchanged cuirasses.

Although the expeditionary force has not yet received a single Mexican eagle, as long as this plan is put into operation, it will definitely bring huge wealth to the expeditionary force.

The benefits of this arms trade are too great, and it is no longer 30% or 50%, but 100% of the start.

Mexico's purchasing power should not be a problem, as it has the largest number of silver mines in the world. For many years, Mexican silver ore flowed to Spain, which in turn flowed to continental Europe and China.

As long as this team is moving, it will definitely not lose money.

Not to mention the military supplies that cost a total of one team, but the expeditionary force has tens of thousands of people, isn't this a drop in the bucket? The important thing is that this model works, as long as it works smoothly, the Spaniards in Mexico will not only be unlucky, but the expeditionary force will also make a lot of money.

What the? You say you know of an Indian gathering village, are you going to pull a queue?

Absolutely. We can even sponsor you a horse first.

What do you mean by this gesture? Oh, do you mean you know that there is a manor that is very wealthy, and the manor is very luxuriously built, can you exchange it for money?

Of course you can. You're ready to lead the way, and we're going.

……

People learn well very slowly, but learn bad things very quickly.

When the Indian team had completed its first battle, the first plunder, the Indians of Manzanillo were excited.

Compared with the labor that was divided in Manzani Yoan, and then there was food to eat and clothes to wear, the 'warriors' who wielded knives and spears to snatch food from the hated old men seemed more enviable and rich.

When the Indians finished their second raid, a lucky man who had been specially created appeared, who was almost a copy of a certain sailor marine, and had much more to gain. He was lucky enough to find a secret vault of the Peninsula man, and the lucky man made a fortune.

He not only paid off his arrears in one fell swoop, but also paid a full 50,000 Chinese yuan.

He could choose to buy a field, a house, in Manzanillo and live happily ever after. If it is really a natural lucky person, it is really possible to make such a choice.

Lying in a warm room, sleeping on a soft quilt, eating fragrant barbecue, drinking sweet and mellow wine, he no longer had to starve and freeze, he no longer had to eat damn baked tortillas, he ate brioche bread, honey bread, slept as a beautiful woman, and he could enjoy everything he wanted.

Those natural Indians really can't resist such temptation.

But the lucky one was not purely natural, but artificially made, and not only did he not put 50,000 yuan into enjoyment, but he bought arms without a penny, and then pulled out a dozen people from the original ranks, and recruited thirty or forty people himself, forming the second Indian team of Manzanillo.

Then the 'luck' of this lucky man still did not disappear, and in the next sortie, he brought to Manzanillo more than 20,000 catties of corn, fifteen cows, more than twenty horses, pigs of no less than that, and a pile of gold and silver utensils.

What's more, he also brought back two white women.

This artificially created lucky man broke a manor, captured the lady and the lady, and harvested a large amount of wealth, at the cost of three dead and two wounded.

By the end of the year, the legend of Manzanillo was as hot and intense as the eruption of the Colima volcano.

Countless Indians, mulattoes, and native whites have heard such legends.

When a team of native-born white people came to Manzanillo and found that Manzanillo not only had the arms they needed, but also the various materials they needed, Manzanillo's popularity went to the next level.

Since Mexico City only thought that it was far away from Manzanillo, and that they might not be able to mobilize troops to recover Manzanillo, they chose to turn a blind eye. Then the expeditionary force will be relieved to fanning the flames boldly.

Manzanillo is a large-scale stolen goods den, an armed smuggling port.

When the talent for smuggling civilian materials was opened, the trade of various daily necessities also quickly became hot and extremely hot. Whether it is spirits, cloth, cotton clothes, leather boots, iron pots, axes, shovels, sickles, hammers and metal knives and other old goods, or Chinese commonly smoked cigarettes, wind oil essence, cool oil and other things, have achieved good sales.

Although this is not as profitable as the arms trade, it is not to be underestimated.

A large number of silver ingots, silver coins, gold coins, gold sand, and obsidian such low-grade gemstones, as well as a large number of horses and cattle, were brought into the hands of the expeditionary force, which made the entire expeditionary force smile with joy.

Moreover, because of the rampant activities of the Indians, the robbery of mestizos and native whites, the order within a hundred miles east of Manzanillo has been destroyed, and the dignity of Spain has been trampled into the mud by a leg.

It's a great business!

Although many of these goods are not easy to value, obsidian is called glaze in the East, which is natural glaze, and glaze as a Buddha treasure, it is still very marketable. What's more, a large number of cattle and horses really solved the urgent needs of North American immigrants.

Cattle can be used for agriculture and industry, as can horses, of course, but they can be of great military value to expeditionary forces.

In just two months, Manzanillo has generated at least 5 million benefits, which is a staggering number.

In particular, the loss of order in the region and the flight of a large number of Spaniards to the east have had irrepressible negative effects on the entire Mexican region. It's really great, great!