April 2, 1651, sunny and breezy.

Wandering on the soft impact plains of the Hejian area, breathing in the fresh air with the smell of grass, and bathing in the warm and soft sunshine, Tian Xing felt very good. This is the area west of the Wu River and east of the Paraná River, which is commonly known as the "Inter-River" area on the east bank - although it was still theoretically the territory of the Kingdom of Spain.

Under the terms of the Peace of Valladolid, the Spaniards were only able to build a garrison in the Transoconda area, stationing a small number of soldiers (the exact number of which was limited, even the caliber and number of artillery), making this vast area a de facto buffer zone between the two countries.

Today, there are tens of thousands of Crandis natives in this vast buffer zone – including the Krandi tribe who originally lived on both sides of the Wujiang River, as well as the Krandi people from the west who were forced to flee after the failed uprising. To be honest, these people are not in harmony, or in a state of hostility, and there are many reasons for this tension among the indigenous peoples, but the main one is the competition for land and other resources.

In fact, the name Cranti is still divided by the Spaniards, and they call some aborigines in the west and central part of La Plata and on both sides of the Wujiang River as Cranti, which is very unscientific. In fact, in the vast plain of La Plata, the hundreds of thousands of Crandis living scattered together cannot be the same people, hold the same customs, and speak the same language, for example, the so-called "Crandis people" in the western interior are mainly agricultural, the south-central are mainly herdsmen, and the aborigines of the north-central and eastern forest-swamp areas are mainly hunter-gatherers. There are so many differences in customs and cultures. How can it be a people?

The Spaniards did not bother to carefully distinguish between them. He gave them a random name - the Krandi. Ironically, the East Coasters are similar, and they are equally uninterested in understanding and listening to the voices of these indigenous peoples. Is there a need to understand these barbarians? That's what a lot of people on the East Coast think.

The same is true of Tian Xing himself, as a cadre from the intelligence system, he is naturally ruthless than ordinary people, ruthless to himself, and ruthless to the enemy. Over the years. The army and militia on the east bank have killed and wounded more than 20,000 Guaraní people on both sides of the Yakuyi River and in the hilly areas west of Huxi, and more than 33,000 have been expelled and exiled.

In response to such a miserable plight of the Guaraní people, it is not without Our Lady in the country who sympathizes with them and constantly calls for the Guaraní to be granted formal national treatment. But Tian Xing has always scoffed at this, and has raised his hands in favor of the state's policy of vigorously suppressing such voices, searching for and destroying written works called for by the Guaraní, and increasing efforts to crack down on indigenous peoples. If the foreign robbers don't kill the original owner of this land, can they still live in peace? Still delusional to integrate and absorb these aborigines? There is no limit to what you can do.

To put it mildly, the people of the East Coast can absorb the Ming, the Japanese, the Koreans, the Europeans, and even the Muslims and Malays. However, the only thing that could not absorb the Indians was that the "wrong" policy of absorbing the Indians in small quantities in the early days has now been completely stopped. In its place was a ruthless policy of exile and servitude. The reason why the Guaraní, Charua and Klandi people are so miserable on the east coast at this moment is, in the final analysis, the aura of "natives" on their heads - they naturally enjoy a right to this land, and even their mixed descendants have more power to occupy this land than pure-blood outsiders, which is one of the important reasons for the racial divide in the South American countries in later generations, and the Executive Committee will not fail to ignore it.

As a result, this led to a very different ethnic policy between the East Coast and Spain. At that time, the Spanish conquered South America, relying on opportunistic shortcuts, dividing and co-opting the Indians, and coercing a large number of Indian servant soldiers to serve them, so although they miraculously quickly seized such a vast land, but as the so-called "winning the country is not right", there are a large number of Indians in their ruling area, which is a big hidden danger.

The Spanish colonies were not without people of insight, and many people also saw the disadvantages of absorbing and integrating the Indians, but the Indians had become a success, and now they would have to break their muscles and bones if they wanted to move, and no one could make up their minds. In addition, the people of the peninsula in the Old World did not really care about who lived in their vast colonies, they only cared about whether their own interests could be protected, and the massacre of Indians would obviously affect their profits for a certain period of time, so they did not approve of this.

Coupled with the fact that many of the middle- and lower-level officials in the two viceroyalties of Peru and New Spain were mixed-race whites, and more than seventy percent of the soldiers of the Lima Legion were also Indians, it was even more impossible to move, unless you wanted to cause the Indians to mutiny, and at the same time completely disintegrate the ruling order of the Spanish Kingdom in Central and South America, and then cause other colonial powers to take advantage of the situation - this result is disastrous and unaffordable for everyone. Therefore, having chosen the wrong path in the first place means that the Spaniards will probably never have the opportunity to correct this fatal mistake.

On the other hand, the people of the East Coast were very sober from the beginning and had a very resolute attitude towards the aborigines. Perhaps in the early days, when the state was weak, it took the initiative to absorb a small number of Charuas and Guarani (no more than 2,000 in number), but after more and more immigrants, the country became stronger and stronger, and the foundation became more and more solid, they showed their hideous faces and began to forcefully purge their own territory of Indians. The Spanish priests who had been missionaries in the Yakui Valley even claimed that the people on the east coast had slaughtered more than 100,000 Indians - the Kingdom of Spain was "surprised" by this, but it was only amazed, who would care about the life or death of the barbarians; The East Coasters firmly denied this, and at the same time did not pause, but stepped up the progress of cleaning up the Indians. Are you kidding? You foreign monks jumped up and down and wanted us to let go of these barbarians who had been brainwashed by your missionaries? Stop dreaming, we don't want to leave problems for future generations.

"Section Chief Tian, this is the site of the Spanish outpost, which was destroyed a year ago, and an officer and sixteen soldiers in the outpost all died." After walking for a while on the swampy and forested land, they finally came across a dry grassland, and everyone was a little happy that it had arrived in a ripe area that had been artificially developed.

Tian Xing wore waterproof boots coated with latex, and walked towards the ruins of the outpost on the solid, dry soil. The outpost is small, a mix of earth and engineering, and the wall is ruined everywhere you look: rain-washed adobe, fire-scorched wood, and moss-covered red bricks all speak of the ruins of the site.

The year after the signing of the Valladolid Peace Treaty, the Spaniards eagerly set up a military post here, intending to expand it gradually over a year or two to eventually garrison more than 500 soldiers. But this plan was doomed to stillbirth from the start, because at the secret direction of the Easterners - Tian Xing himself was even one of the main players at the time - part of the Crandi rebels who had retreated from the south rose up and launched a desperate sneak attack on the outpost at its weakest moment, using the iron armor, spears and some hand-thrown bombs provided by the Easterners.

The result of the battle was clear: seventeen Spanish officers and soldiers were caught off guard, and the Krandi sacked the post before leaving again. The Spaniards then sent a force of nearly 100 men to restore the outpost, but the barbarian raids and a sudden outbreak of the plague caused the team to lose more than two-thirds of its manpower, and the wolf was forced to withdraw.

After two defeats, the Spaniards finally extinguished the idea of setting up a military post in the inter-river area (which was also of limited use), and began to work hard to run the cities of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, and began to train new armies and expand production, intending to use the Paraná River as a link to connect these series of strongholds, and finally curb the territorial ambitions of the people on the east bank of La Plata. Of course, it is difficult to say how effective it is, anyway, every time the people on the east coast fight with them, the men, guns, and artillery far surpass them, not to mention the logistics and supplies, and the poor population base of the Spaniards is really difficult to block a blow.

"Pack up this old outpost, clean it up, and we'll stay here at night." After "admiring" the ruins of the Spaniards' outpost, Tian Xing gave orders to the nearly 100 patrol police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs police who followed him. And with his order, the patrol police officers, the police officers, the police detachment commanders, squad leaders and squad leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also began to give orders to their respective subordinates, everyone is on alert, building camps, fetching water for cooking, feeding horses for horses, in short, all in an orderly manner, showing that they have been doing these things all year round, and they are already familiar with the road.

This time, Tian Xing brought so many people to the riverside area, firstly, to understand the situation of the Klandians here, and secondly, to make some deals with them, that is, to buy a large number of prisoners of war and slaves produced by them in the tribal annexation war, which is an extremely scarce "material" on the east coast today. In order to support the development of the Wujiang area, the Executive Committee even promised them that the "Hejian Nu" (the name of the Wujiang area) purchased from the Klandi people in the Wujiang area would in principle remain in the local area for construction, and this undoubtedly greatly aroused the enthusiasm of the military and political officials in the Wujiang area, and this is also the reason why they recruited a large number of patrol officers and borrowed a large number of heavily armed Ministry of the Interior police from the Ministry of the Interior -- who does not think about themselves? (To be continued......)