Dominate the Country

"Boss, this is all the Chalua I can buy without disturbing the Spaniards." Outside Punta del Este, a Chinese man in his twenties dressed as a businessman said to his The boss, Feng Yueshenghui, chief of the Operations Section of the Uruguay Division of the South American Division of Chen Han's Military Intelligence Bureau, reported.

Feng Yuesheng is the younger brother of Ming Fei Feng's family. The direct line of the old Feng family has been cut off, but this does not mean that Feng Yinglian and his ancestors are all descended from a single line.

Feng Yuesheng is from the Feng family, and his bloodline is not far away.

Although he is now only the chief of the operations section of the Uruguay office, this does not mean that his rank is low.

South America is the key business area of ​​the Military Intelligence Agency. For some unexplainable reason, the ranking of the South American Division has surpassed the European Division for several years. The title of his top leader is only half a rank lower than that of Chen Liang, and he also serves as deputy director of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

Uruguay is an extremely dangerous intelligence frontline, and the title of the director is only half a level lower than that of the director. And Feng Yuesheng's title in the Operations Department is only half a grade lower than that of Chief.

So his position is not low at all.

Chen Liang is only from the second rank, the head of the South America Department is a third rank official, the person in charge of the Uruguay Department is a third rank official, and Feng Yuesheng, who is only thirty-two years old, is a serious fourth rank official.

If he is transferred back to China with such a rank, he can be in charge of the provincial-level National Security Bureau.

Feng Yuesheng nodded slightly, and then looked at the unkempt and ragged Charuya people with a dead look.

There were about two to three hundred of these people, varying in height and age, but they all looked thin.

Of course, ‘thin’ does not mean ‘weak’.

Although these people look thin, as long as there is a burning fire in their hearts, they are strong.

Their physical thinness is a sign of overwork and chronic malnutrition. Many of them still had scars on their bodies, as if they had been abused by their owners. Their hands and feet were still shackled, and they made a few clattering noises when they walked.

But despite how miserable they were physically at the moment, they were very excited mentally. Because their new owner is very kind, they each received a thick piece of bread and a small piece of salty dough when they arrived here.

Moreover, the people who distributed the cakes to them were people who looked exactly like the Charuya people. These people could speak fluent Aboriginal language. Obviously, they were also Charuya people.

Therefore, these two to three hundred Charuya people all looked at those foreigners who also had yellow skin but were obviously different from them with respectful and friendly eyes. Will they treat everyone well? As long as there is enough food to eat every day, each of them will work with all their strength. And when many people think about having enough food to eat every day in the future, the hostility in their hearts dissipates a lot unconsciously. Those days are so beautiful!

"Boss, if there are not enough of these people, we will have to buy their slaves directly from the Spaniards."

The young man said to Feng Yuesheng.

The natives of colder regions of South America, such as the Chalua and Mapuche, were not suitable races for slavery.

These Indians advocate freedom and are aggressive by nature. They are far less docile than black people, and they are not as durable as black people in doing heavy work. It is not cost-effective to capture them as slaves unless necessary.

So the Spaniards didn't feel any pain at all when they killed these natives.

It has only been 17 years since Spain completely conquered Uruguay in 1777 AD - they defeated the Portuguese in Brazil. The number of Indians in Uruguay has decreased by 50,000 to 60,000.

According to the investigation by the Military Intelligence Bureau, the Spaniards slaughtered entire tribes no less than twenty times. On average, more than once a year!

Where there is oppression, there is resistance. The wars between the Chalua and the Spanish and Portuguese continued for one or two hundred years. Although the Spaniards controlled the entire Uruguay, the Chalua people not only fled everywhere, but also frequently rebelled. In turn, they attacked Spanish colonial points, attacked Spanish yeoman farmers who entered Uruguay, and destroyed the plantations of Spanish upper-class slave owners and aristocratic bureaucrats. Moreover, they also launched a long-term war of harassment with the secret funding of suspicious foreign forces, causing the Spanish to frequently dispatch troops to suppress it.

Although the Spaniards know very well who the foreign power is, besides the Portuguese in Brazil next door, who else can it be?

At that time, in order to protect their rule in Uruguay, the Spaniards mobilized troops from Chile, and also bribed Indians from other tribes to cooperate with them in fighting. They spent countless money and a long time before the wave of resistance was suppressed. Suppressed.

Punta del Este is a port city on the southern coast of Uruguay, not too far from Montevideo and located at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata.

Indian life has long ceased to exist in this place. But the people in the Action Department can quietly buy two to three hundred Charuya from here. Of course, those Charuya are also slaves.

After the previous wave of resistance launched by the Charuya people, the Spaniards did not reduce the oppression of the Charuya people. On the contrary, they intensified their efforts and enacted stricter control measures. A large number of Charuya people died under the cruel tyranny of the Spanish colonists. A similar number of Charuya people were also sent to plantations and other places by the Spanish colonists. slave owner.

These people are the seeds of hatred.

It is a pity that no matter how the war between Chen Han and the Spanish proceeds, it will not reach the mouth of the Rio de la Plata.

Otherwise - Feng Yuesheng felt it was necessary to send a fleet to sweep the mouth of the La Plata River at a critical moment, release the Charruya people and black slaves in the Spanish plantations, and even white indentured servants, give them weapons, and let them go to settle accounts with the Spaniards, which would definitely greatly shake the Spanish rule in the La Plata River mouth area - this place would become a bloody hell, or even completely destroy it.

In Uruguay, the Charruya people hated the Spaniards. What the Military Intelligence Bureau had to do now was to select a group of fire seeds, carefully cultivate them, let them take care of their bodies, learn to use weapons and make simple destructive weapons such as gunpowder, and then create trouble, let them "free", and let them ignite the raging flames of war.

When Feng Yuesheng announced to the Charruya people in front of him that he would give them freedom in life in five years, and those who were honest and obedient would have enough food to eat, and announced their living conditions in the next few months and that they would be taught to use weapons, these people immediately cheered.

Two months after getting the weapons, these people "escaped from prison" and stole the weapons, fled to farms, ranches and manors in the countryside, attacked the Spanish farmers and slave owners who had cruelly enslaved them, divided their money and cattle, killed all the Spaniards they could see, and burned down all the manors, warehouses and houses that had been built with a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources.

The flames of revenge are irrational.

A large group of Charruya people joined their team, and a large group of Spanish free farmers fled to Montevideo in a panic. There was the ruling center of the Spanish in Uruguay.

Of course, the Spanish immediately sent troops to suppress them. But their way of suppression was to slaughter and kill the Indians together, which made more and more Indians rise up to resist. The Charruya people who had just gained freedom were not stupid. They certainly knew that their team was no match for the Spanish. The leaders among them were carefully cultivated by the Military Intelligence Bureau for several months, because they happily played guerrilla warfare on the vast land of Uruguay.

It is not difficult to crack this kind of battle.

But it requires a lot of troops and wealth, as well as material resources and time.

Summer is the harvest season. After all things have been sown and grown in spring, they enter the maturity period at this time. Grain and fruit are the main pillar industries of Uruguay's economy. The Uruguayan "uprising" that started at this time created too much passivity for the Spaniards.

No matter when this new uprising was suppressed by the Spaniards, Uruguay's "economy" this year was finished.

The war soon burned in Uruguay.

The rough management model of the Spanish in Uruguay gave the Military Intelligence Bureau too many opportunities to take advantage of. A large number of arms and gunpowder substances were sent to the hinterland of Uruguay without anyone noticing.

Although the Spanish disliked China, they were not disgusted with China's cheap and high-quality goods. Especially the influence of the French Revolution, Spain, the traditional market for French goods, lost its largest source of goods. A large number of British goods have flowed into Spain today, but in the Spanish colonies in America, whether it is Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, or Uruguay, a certain proportion of the market share belongs to Chinese goods. Regardless of whether the latter comes from formal entry or smuggling.

The situation in Uruguay has gone out of control with the dedicated support of the Military Intelligence Bureau. The Charruya people, who have learned guerrilla warfare, made full use of their advantage of being familiar with the geography and began to roam the countryside with weapons issued by the Military Intelligence Bureau (a considerable part of which are cold weapons).

They will not easily attack the Spanish towns, but for the manors and plantations in the countryside, or the free farmers in Spain, they have a great advantage. The weak Spanish farmers could not resist the attacks of the Charruya people at all. There were gunshots and shouts of killing in the countryside every day, and there were countless cases of robbery, murder and rape. Just as the Spaniards treated the Charruya people, the Charruya people also treated the Spaniards in the same way. In the end, countless Spanish peasants could only carry part of their food and property, mount their horses, and flee to the vicinity of Montevideo for refuge. At least here, those devil-like Indian thugs dared not kill them.

Around Montevideo, some Spanish nobles and large slave owners, large landowners, and large merchants also had the power to protect themselves.

Guns and cannons were not rare for them.

They still had considerable manpower. You must know that some large slave owners already had armies, and the overlap between large landowners and large merchants was very high. They already had a large number of hired workers in the farms and manors outside the city to produce wool, meat, leather, etc. As long as the people were properly organized, those farms and manors could be transformed into fortresses.

The men in the manor could easily resist the attack of the Charruya people with their firepower.

But such "people" were only a minority after all. In this sudden wave of resistance in Charuya, a large number of white immigrants lacked sufficient self-protection capabilities. Most of them were killed, their estates were destroyed, and their property was plundered. The colonial rule that the Spanish had spent so much effort to build in Uruguay was returned to the pre-liberation era overnight, except for the areas around Montevideo and along the Rio de la Plata.

What made the Spanish panic was that the Portuguese firmly denied that they were behind the scenes. So if it wasn't the Portuguese who were behind this, who else could it be?

The Spanish were not stupid, and there were also smart people in the colonial authorities.

Although the Military Intelligence Bureau was cautious in doing things, since it had been done, it would inevitably leave traces.

So soon after the war in Uruguay started, the Spanish locked on the mastermind behind the scenes - the Chinese.

This made the whole of Spanish America feel cold in the bones.

What are the Chinese going to do?

Are they going to provoke a new Central and Western American war?

Taking advantage of the opportunity that Spain was caught in the anti-French war, they once again attacked the Spanish American colonies?

The Spanish had to be vigilant. In the previous Central and Western American war, their losses were too heavy. The little benefit that Carlos III got from the British could not make up for Spain's losses at all.

And now that the two sides have been at peace for only ten years, are the Chinese going to target the Spanish American colonies again?

Compared with this "hypothesis", the resistance war that is happening in Uruguay does not seem to be so important.

The resistance wave that was originally prevalent only in the southeast has now spread to the central and western regions of Uruguay. Slaves continue to escape from various Spanish settlements, villages or farms, or are rescued by the rebels. Not to mention the Indian tribes, the Charruya people joined in large numbers, and the Chana people, the Yaro people, the Boaner people and the Genoa people also joined.

Some of them had stood on the side of the Spanish in the previous war. But after the war, they did not get the "different view" of the Spanish.

A large number of Spanish civilians died, or their whereabouts were unknown - no one was seen alive or dead.

The brutality of the rebels was comparable to that of the Spanish, so much so that they did not even let go of white children. Under the guidance of the Military Intelligence Bureau and the panic of the Spanish, the situation deteriorated step by step.

But the main focus of the Spanish at this time had been attracted to China.

The leaders of the Spanish American colonial authorities certainly knew that they had to send the news to Madrid as quickly as possible, but they also knew that Madrid would not easily withdraw from the anti-French alliance.

Because the war in Italy was not going badly at the moment.

The Jacobin Revolutionary Government had enemies both inside and outside. The First Anti-French Alliance not only could not see the cloud of failure, but on the contrary they could see the hope of victory. So Madrid would not easily withdraw from the war - that would completely offend many European powers led by the British. Then the Chinese would take the opportunity to start a war. Could Mexico City still be saved?

"British, we need the support of London."