Chapter 32 Refusing to rule
With the end of the Battle of Chimbot Bay, the Imperial Navy had completely gained the control of the sea in the Pacific Ocean. Since then, there has been no fleet that threatened the Imperial Navy in the entire Pacific Rim. The only threat may be pirates.
Horayshaun, who made great contributions in the naval battle, placed the pirate fleet in Chimbot Bay for a short period of renovation. He himself only took a few brothers to Lima City to visit Prince Yu Li Junwei and received the reward he deserved. Obviously, his arrangement was to worry that he would be cooked by a cunning rabbit and a dead dog.
When the expeditionary fleet arrived at the port of Cayao in Lima, the imperial flag had already been raised here. Obviously, the Peruvian colonial capital that the Spaniards had run for a century and a half had completely changed hands, even the most difficult castle of Felipe.
The specific battle was not good. In fact, when the Lima fleet broke through the north and fled north, Lima City was on the verge of collapse. When Peru's Governor Pedro heard that the Lima fleet had left without saying goodbye, he immediately sent an envoy to contact Li Junwei to seek the possibility of negotiation.
Li Junwei asked Pedro of Lima City and Fonseca of Felipe Fort to surrender unconditionally, but was rejected. The two demanded a conditional surrender, but the conditions were not harsh. In addition to requiring Li Junwei not to harm everyone's lives, they only asked Li Junwei to protect their private property. Li Junwei asked the Honor Brigade to weigh the trade-offs. The brigade commander Xu Zichang launched a feint and simply tested the defense ability of Felipe Castle. Finally, it was determined that it would take ten days to capture the fortress and two hundred army soldiers would be killed or killed.
If the colony minion army is used, the time will be one month, and the casualties will be one thousand or even more. Li Junwei was not worried about the soldiers recruited by the colony, but the time did not allow it. Every month of delay, more than 200,000 taels of military pay will be consumed, not to mention the loss of gunpowder, weapons and morale will be damaged.
In the end, Li Junwei agreed to Pedro's conditional surrender, allowing Lima City and Felipe Castle to surrender with dignity, but on the issue of property, Li Junwei bit it very much. His conditions were very simple, allowing Pedro and Fonseca to each take 100,000 and 80,000 pesos as private property, and all the rest were confiscated, including their own property in Peru.
Pedro immediately rejected it because he had been the governor here for three years, with more than one hundred thousand pesos (90,000 taels of silver). Just as he arrived in Lima City, the local squire and merchants of Peru welcomed him and earned more than this number when he built the Arc de Triomphe for him. One of them came from Potosi, and even paved a crossroad with silver bricks made of silver to show obedience.
However, Pedro had no bargaining chips. The army was worried about the brink of the bastions like Felipe, and did not care about the city of Lima, which had a big skin and thin filling. Xu Zichang hoped to add a glorious record of conquering Lima in the history of the war.
The way Li Junwei refused was very simple, threatening to announce Pedro's conditions to Lima City. If the Lima people found out that Pedro betrayed the colony in exchange for their own life and wealth, the result would be obvious.
Therefore, before the Lima fleet was destroyed, Lima City and Fort Felipe had surrendered. When Horeshaun arrived in Lima City, he found that the colonial city was completely in a carnival atmosphere. The colonial army dispatched from Chile was ordered to be stationed outside the city. Only two infantry battalions of the military police and the Glory Brigade entered the city. There was no organized robbery. Instead, the army suppressed a group of madmen who took advantage of the chaos to rob.
The Indians, blacks and mixed-race people were declared liberated, and the occupying forces only announced that they would pay taxes. The Indians and blacks who had been serfs and slaves did not even need to pay taxes. The Occupy Command simply frozen the houses on the officials, squire and big merchants, mainly white people on the peninsula and native whites. In order to cash out the goods transported from the Panama region in the Kayao Port warehouse, Li Junwei directly sold them to legal citizens who had already paid taxes in the city at a low price.
What really caused the whole city and even the entire Peruvian Governor's area to carnival was that in front of the copper fountain in the Weapon Square in the city center of Lima, King Yu dragged Pizarro, who had become a mummy from the glass coffin of the cathedral, burned the fire and declared fearlessness to the Spanish colonists.
"Everyone here is celebrating the kindness and greatness of the Prince of the East. The city of Lima, which was originally dominated by white people and blessed by God, has now changed its appearance. You and I must be careful not to go out on the streets. If there is anything that must appear in public, we must contact the military police. Now we can only have basic security under the protection of the military police." Horayshaun came to the Governor's Office under the protection of the military police, and accompanied him was Sir Thomas, the plenipotent representative of the British East India Company. The two of them attracted much attention because of their white people, but the eyes projected by the people on the street were malicious.
The two entered the Governor's Mansion together, and the people who entered and exited were all military police and civilians, especially civilians from the army. Thomas said: "This is now Lord Zhao Wenting's official residence. His Highness Yu is just living here. It seems that all local military and political power has been left to Lord Zhao Wenting, but only His Highness Yu should decide on you and me."
There was no barrier-free communication between Thomas and Horayshaun, because Horayshaun was a Scotsman and spoke the same language as Thomas. Under the guidance of the military police, the two came to a small conference room where maps and some equipment were hung, but there was only one person sitting and waiting in the room. But it was not King Yu, but Antonio, a special prisoner. Thomas already knew that Li Junwei wanted Antonio to take the message to Spain, so he kept him.
"You all ask to see King Yu, but Your Highness is busy inspecting the local customs and people, inspecting the work of the chicken, so you can't see you now, so you have to wait." When the three of them didn't know what to do, a guard officer appeared in front of the three and introduced.
Thomas asked, "Your Excellency, when will His Highness Yu see us?"
"It's definitely not at noon. Because Your Highness has invited a friend to have lunch, I have asked someone to prepare your lunch and you can have lunch in the restaurant at noon. As for whether it will happen in the afternoon, it depends on your highness's time, but Your Highness said that you want to see you today, so you will definitely meet. If you are bored, you can go around the Governor's Mansion as long as there is no place to guard by the gendarmerie." said the guard.
After introducing the arrangements, the guard officer chose to leave directly. Thomas was helpless and sat on the chair. The black tea and coffee sent by the mixed-race waiter, Horayshen picked up the Latin books on the bookshelf on the side and read them. Antonio had obviously waited for a long time, got up and loosened his muscles and asked, "Captain Horayshen, how is the Lima fleet?"
"The entire army has been destroyed, haven't you heard of it?" The news has been completely made public, so Horayshen did not hide it at all. Antonio asked about some detailed situations, and Thomas wanted to know, so Horayshen introduced it.
"What do you mean is that General Zhao Longcheng not only authorized you to recruit any non-white crew members after the war, but also allowed him to attack Spanish colonies freely?" Thomas was also surprised and asked.
Horayshoen said: "No entry into the Governor General of New Spain, the rest are OK. Of course, if we fail, the expeditionary fleet will not come to rescue us."
"How could this happen..." Thomas said to himself, and people were in deep thought.
Horayshaun looked at the two of them with thoughts, and in his opinion, this was the most appropriate treatment. After all, he has only occupied Lima. The Peruvian Governor's area is a territory comparable to most of Europe, authorizing itself to expand its strength and launch attacks. There is no difference between European countries sending privateers during the war.
"Two, what's wrong with you? Is there anything wrong with this?" Horayshaun couldn't help asking. Although he was from a Scottish farmer family, he was still different from a great noble like Sir Thomas and Antonio, for fear that these two people would think of something they hadn't thought of.
Antonio walked to the door and opened it gently, and found that there was no one in the corridor outside the door. He walked in the corridor again and saw that the houses on both sides were locked, and there were only a few mixed-race servants on duty in the tea room at the end. After confirming that no one was monitoring it, Antonio said in Spanish: "Two, I have a premonition that the Chinese do not seem to want to rule the Governor General of Peru."
Thomas could barely understand Spanish, while Horayshaun was very good at this language. Thomas immediately echoed: "Mr. Antonio is right, I feel the same way."
"This is a joke. In order to seize the Peru Governor's Governor's area, I saw four more troops in the port of Kayao. Most of the soldiers who came down were black soldiers, but all the officers were Chinese. I heard from the sailors that this was a division of Yi from Dongfei. There were 14,000 black soldiers alone. God testified that the Chinese have invested more than 25,000 army soldiers here. I don't believe that they don't want this rich land." Horayshaun was very reluctant to believe Thomas and Antonio's words.
The East African Yishou Division was recruited by Li Junwei, who ordered the army to recruit from the jurisdiction of the African Development Company. Many of them were originally armed by the African Development Company. This army only required one-third of the salary of the army soldiers, because these people served more to obtain citizenship. Of course, this so-called citizenship was not the citizenship of the empire, but the citizenship of the colony. The difference is that the imperial citizens were imperial citizens in any corner of the world, while the citizens of the Yishou Division were counted only in the colony.
The reason why Li Junwei asked to recruit black soldiers was also very simple. Army soldiers showed great discomfort with the tropical areas of America, with a high injury and death rate, far exceeding the proportion of deaths. The local Indians and mixed-race recruited locally have problems such as collusion, hiding, sheltering, etc., which is not very useful. Blacks have no such problems at all. Anyway, they can just send them back after the war is over.
Although Horayshaun said this, it could not convince Thomas and Antonio. The three people had different classes, so the height of looking at problems was naturally ordinary. In the eyes of pirates, war was a business, and the greater the investment, the greater the determination. However, for people from the ruling class like Thomas and Antonio, their perspective on problems was completely different.
In the Americas, there has been no problem of colonies changing hands. The Brazilian colonies competed several times between Portugal and the Netherlands, the Caribbean islands changed hands several times, and Sweden and the Netherlands' colonies in North America were also annexed by the British.
Generally speaking, when everyone annexes the colonies of other countries, they almost completely accept everything from the colonies for their own use, because only in this way can the regime change be successfully completed and the new colonies become cows that can produce milk. In the future, through immigration and various economic policies, they can boil frogs in warm water, and convert local plantations, mines, etc. into their own home. However, what King Yu of China did in Peru was to kill cows, in Chinese, it was to kill chickens and get eggs.
After occupying Lima, the decree issued by King Yu had only two purposes. First, the local people should not be enemies with the occupying military government and should not engage in any sabotage activities. Second, the more money, the better, whether it is to confiscate white people, collect taxes, or sell a large amount of real estate directly to cash in. The silver obtained was put on a ship of warships and sent to the port of Valparaiso, and then to the South Port by land, and then to the vault of Cape Town.
After occupying Lima, Li Su and Xu Zichang, who were in charge of commanding the army, immediately sent troops to pursue them. These troops included cavalry infantry and a small number of light artillery. With the Honor Brigade as the backbone and the Yi Cong Division as the main force, they were equipped with a large number of locally recruited servant troops to go to various inland towns.
These armies have not treated the same policies for administrative regions at all levels. When dealing with some plantations, their policies are the same as those for Indian tribes. They only collect the leading Kashik, collect their entire family, vehicles, mules, horses, gunpowder and weapons, and other troops that can be used directly. Similar to land and real estate are sold directly to locals, and the top ten of the plantations or Indian tribes must be purchased.
In a town with a crowded population, the army will not enter the city to rob, but will only point the finger at the landlords, bureaucrats and gentry. After scouting their homes, they will select locals to establish order and pay military taxes. In small towns and rural areas, the army will not destroy order at all. Only in cities will point the finger at all white people, liberate slaves and Indians, and conduct large-scale pursuits.
Chapter completed!