Chapter 33 The Town of Babu
The town of Babu in the early morning, in the sunlight, looks so beautiful. The wooden building seems to exude the smell of nature. However, when you walk in, you find a smell of human excrement. Like the cities of Europe, even if it is a newly established town, it is still troubled by the bad habits that the white colonizers brought from Europe. A white man had just woken up, opened the door and came out to dump the excrement of the previous night, when out of nowhere, a figure galloping on a horse crashed over, and the contents of the bedpan in his hand were splashed on himself.
"Shit!
The rider ignored the angry civilians behind him and hurried to the mayor's office. The mayor of this town lives in a large three-story villa with a small garden in the center of the town, which is also the best building in the town. Although the town is not worth mentioning compared to the big cities of London, the mayor of the town, Babu, is very satisfied. And this town named after him is more like a country that belongs to him, and here, he is like a soil emperor.
Babu was originally a mercenary, one of the most famous Hessian mercenaries. Babu was a formidable warrior who rose to the rank of captain of the hundred. It's just that as a mercenary, there will never be a bright future. Babu was originally a peasant in a small German village, and because he couldn't stand the poverty and boredom of life, he tried his best to become a mercenary. After more than ten years of fighting, he finally became the mayor of a small town with a scale of more than 5,000 people with the support of the Addams family.
Moreover, because it is in the unfamiliar interior, there is still a standing army of 1,000 people in the town. They are not a regular British army, but they are not badly equipped. Among them were 100 experienced Hessian mercenaries, all of whom were former subordinates of the Báb. Relying on these forces, as long as the Báb did not keep the civilians alive and launched a rebellion, there was no problem in ruling the town. Babu lived a life without shame and irritability with the three beautiful women he snatched all day long.
It's just that, during this time, the Báb also had his own troubles. The masters behind him, the Addams family, have a problem. As a member of the Addams family, each successor has to start their own business, and the current patriarch will decide who the future patriarch will be based on their performance. And the patriarch's most valued son, Tony Adams, who is brave and responsible, chose this side, intending to build a town on his own. Therefore, the Báb had to take care of it.
Tony's chosen place was not close to the town, and even riding a horse would take three or four days, so he usually traveled once a month to exchange supplies and deliver news. It's just that Babu didn't expect that something would go wrong in the first month, and suddenly there was no news. Babu originally thought that in the first month, there should be no major problems, because they had just arrived, and they would not be discovered by the enemy at once. And even the Indians would not have gathered a large army to encircle them so quickly.
According to the fighting power of the Indians, it would take at least 600 soldiers to take out dozens of white colonists with the best and latest muskets. That's the number of warriors that a powerful medium-sized tribe can have. What's more, the daughter of a down-and-out viscount he had been courting now agreed to marry him. Originally, her father still looked down on him, but because of investment problems and serious losses, the whole family couldn't sustain itself, and there was no way to agree to him as a rich man.
The Báb was triumphant, and all his energy was put into it. He wanted to eat the white and tender noble lady in his mouth as soon as possible, so he was in a hurry to prepare for the wedding. In this way, Tony's matter is ignored. It wasn't until more than two months had passed and the wedding was over that he remembered it. This is a terrible situation, there has been no news for more than two months, and the Addams family has sent people to ask. If Tony had done anything else, Babu would have been miserable, and with the Adams family held accountable, he would not be able to secure everything now.
You know, the current patriarch of the Addams family is an earl. They first exchanged their wealth for knighthoods, and then encroached on them step by step, taking a lot of power into their hands. In the entire British colony, he can be regarded as a powerful family, and he can't compare.
Babu dealt with the Adams family first, and then immediately sent all the elite cavalry scouts to investigate the situation. It doesn't matter if you check this one, something really big has happened. The place and most of the people are still there, but completely changed. Not only did he mingle with the Indians, all sorts of novelties appeared, but the leader was changed from Tony to a more civilized-looking Indian.
At this time, it was the opening of the bazaar chosen by Sholin. They were busy with the bazaar, so they didn't notice the scouts sent by the Báb. Let them have a complete understanding of the current situation, and let Babu know that the big things are not good. As soon as the Báb received the news, he began to gather all his men. Either way, it's important to figure out what's going on with Tony. If he lives healthy, he can make up for it by rescuing Tony. If he died, he could still take his men to find another way.
Babu also came up with the idea of the Shorim Bazaar, and according to the scout's report, he could already see that the bazaar had more wealth than he had. If you grab a handful, you can live in style no matter where you go. Now if you want to get along, it's also very important to have the right and left sources. Babu knew a powerful viscount of a French colony, and he had been under this viscount a long time ago, when he was still in Europe, and the viscount admired him, but Babu felt that he did not see much future with him, and left later.
Unexpectedly, this viscount also came to the American continent and became an important figure in the French American colonies. The Báb overheard of this and exchanged letters with him, selling him some information about the British colonies. If you take the army and a large amount of looted property to him, how can you save your life? Having taken his attention, the Báb began to prepare.
The first was to get the army of the territory to move, and the news was that Babu was going to take them to rob the Indian tribes. Then it was for the faithful servant and steward to pack up his belongings, prepare the wagon, and quietly move out of the town, and if something was wrong, the Báb would send someone to inform him, and they would take the things directly to the place appointed by the Báb.