Chapter 254: The Beginning of the Uprising

Dolores, a small town in the middle of the Mexican region of New Spain, is a small town with only a few thousand native Indian 'slaves' and a large number of half-breeds!

Since the conquest of the Americas, the Kingdom of Spain has carried out a policy of high-pressure enslavement, not only the native conquered Indians, but also the poor white people from the European mainland and their mixed descendants with the natives, have also become the object of oppression by the greedy and decadent Spanish aristocracy!

The rule of the Spanish kingdom in South America was entirely used as a raw material plunder and grain production base, and the Spanish rulers invested very little in local development except for the annual shipment of large quantities of gold, silver and jewelry to the mainland!

Over time, this behavior gradually aroused the resentment of the majority of the population, including the South American capitalist class, and the small and medium-sized capitalists were disgusted with the harsh taxes of the Spanish kingdom, and the administrative methods like slaughtering fat sheep, and the local Indians at the bottom were used like slaves!

In the small town of Dolores, there are thousands of native Indians, most of whom do not even have a complete set of clothes, although it is rich in products and can create a large number of food crops every year, but the Indians who produce so many crops cannot even fill their stomachs!

You can see how ferocious the exploitation of the colonies by the Kingdom of Spain was!

Before the rise of the Han Empire, the Kingdom of Spain had the coercion of destroying the two great Indian Empires in South America and slaughtering tens of millions of Indians.

However, under the leadership of Zhao Dutian, the Han Empire rose independently, and the achievements of repelling the Spanish and French powers greatly encouraged the spirit of resistance of the lower classes of people in South America, especially those native-born white intellectuals who had the ability to be educated.

Different from the South America in Zhao Dutian's previous life, there was a very good example of the Indian Empire erected next to the Spanish colony at this time, which made these oppressed and exploited lower-class people extremely enthusiastic about national independence!

Crowds are often like this, once they see that others have a precedent of breaking free from the shackles and moving towards freedom, the already numb heart, as long as it is slightly instigated by someone with a heart, will erupt like a volcanic eruption!

This time, the Han Empire's operation against the Viceroyalty of New Spain caused almost the entire mobile forces in Mexico, including the militia, to be pulled to the fortress of Tucson, and except for a few large cities, the control of the Viceroyalty of New Spain over the colonies declined unprecedentedly!

The town of Dolores doesn't even have a garrison, it's just a few white sheriffs who keep the law!

Mikel Hidalgo Kostya, who came from a large family of lords, served as a servant of the gods in the small town of Dolores, and organized the prayer work of the Indians and local whites who had been infected by Christianity. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, the successful invasion of the Christian Church in the Americas did not make these Indians who believed in God identify with the Kingdom of Spain, on the contrary, the church power was the second largest beneficiary of the exploitation of the Spanish colonies!

In the entire region of Mexico, more than one-third of the arable land is the property of the Church!

The oppression of the Church apparently made the Indians even more dissatisfied with the Spanish colonial rule!

Hidalgo was born in a wealthy family, and when he was a child, he was given the opportunity to study in Europe, and in the course of his studies in Europe, Hidalgo was inspired by the flourishing bourgeois rights ideas in Europe, and was also influenced by the enlightenment ideas of equality and freedom!

After returning to his home estate, he became increasingly dissatisfied with the Spanish government's brutal and predatory rule in Mexico, and at the same time felt sympathy for the poorly clothed Indians and the native-born low-class whites!

As a local servant, Hidalgo had a benevolent and loving image among most of the lower classes, and the Indian serfs who worked on his estate were treated the best, and were one of the few Indian serfs!

There is a gap where there is a contrast, Hidalgo has not done it in vain for many years of buying people's hearts, and has almost become the most prestigious and well-connected person in the entire Dolores!

Under the influence of the ideas of the European Enlightenment, Hidalgo was also full of disgust with the rotten Spanish regime, and secretly used his own property and trusted Indian serfs to make weapons!

The Spanish authorities are brutal but not stupid, they have naturally long been aware of the inappropriateness of this Hidalgo in the small town of Dolores, before the Han Empire declared war, Hidalgo's manor was often destroyed by the black hands hired by people with intentions, and he himself was repeatedly imprisoned by the colonial authorities for clumsy excuses, squeezing his property!

This undoubtedly filled Hidalgo's heart with resentment!

The Han Empire's war against the Kingdom of Spain, and the large-scale imperialist civil war on the European continent itself, gave Hidalgo a great opportunity to estimate that South America would have at least a few years to fight for independence and freedom, and that if it had passed the first difficult stage, the uprising would engulf the entire oppressed South American colony!

When the time comes, even if he fails, he Idalgo will surely ignite the fire of national independence and create a great era!

In fact, the original purpose of some of the pioneers of the uprisings in history was not for the sake of power and to ascend to a unique throne, but often with the simple intention of forging a path to a liberal and democratic future for themselves and other suffering people!

When he rang the church bell in the small town of Dolores, he originally held this purpose, he didn't think about what status and rights he would gain in the future, he just wanted to simply overthrow the corrupt and degenerate colonial government, and let himself and all the oppressed people gain real freedom and independence!

The day chosen by Hidalgo coincides with the day of prayer of the Christian week, and it is rumored that God created the world to rest on the seventh day, and for devout Christians, the day of God's rest is the day of their prayers!

After thousands of Indians finished praying, Hidalgo stood in front of the crowd and counted the brutality and incompetence of the Spanish government, spoke freely about the importance of freedom and independence, and told the hidden truth that the Spanish colonial army was attracted by the Han Empire at this time!

Hours of agitation, combined with the prestige that Hidalgo had accumulated on weekdays, had thousands of Natives and native-born whites boiling!

On this day, the cry of freedom and democracy appeared for the first time on the American continent! (To be continued.) )