Chapter 1007: Demons
Juan is a very common name in Spanish, and even among the Indians who are influenced by Spanish culture, there are many people who call Juan. For example www.biquge.info one of the three martyrs of the Harbor of Na Lieyang Indian Congress, he is also called Juan.
However, in La Paz, Bolivia, East Peru, a highland city above 3,500 meters above sea level, the name 'Juan' has a devilish deterrent power that can stop children from crying at night.
La Paz is one of the most important cities in eastern Peru, with a history of more than 250 years, and the Spaniards call it the "City of Peace", but now this "City of Peace" is full of violence and ferocity.
Luis Alberto Juan, the commander of the Spanish colonial garrison, used his terror to affect the entire city of La Paz, driving a large number of Indians, mestizos, black slaves, and even some whites to work day and night to continuously mine and smelt gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, and other wealth and metal materials urgently needed by the current Spanish colonial government.
La Paz is above 3,500 meters above sea level, with a dry and cold climate, with the Peruvian plateau in the west and south, and the eastern slope valley of the Cordillera Mountains in the east, with a subtropical climate and dense population; The northern part is a lowland of the alluvial plain of the Amazon, with high temperature and rain, dense forests, and some indigenous peoples. As the central city of the Spaniards in East Peru, La Paz's mining industry is the main pillar of its position, and there are abundant reserves of tin, bismuth, copper, gold, silver, antimony, tungsten, lead, zinc and other metal minerals.
This land was the heart of the Inca kingdom and was later known as the "donkey sitting on the gold mines".
As one of the main sources of gold in Peru, La Paz's 'security' has a very important position in the Peruvian region. There were already a large number of Indians and blacks here, who were driven by the Spaniards to engage in heavy manual labor such as mining all year round. But the Spaniards before them also knew what it meant to be 'in moderation', and the Indians and blacks before them were at least not forced to death by the Spaniards, and the latter still knew a little bit about sustainable development. But that's all different now.
Spain in Europe suffered from Napoleon's invasion, and King Carlos IV was deceived by Napoleon's vile deception. The Spanish colonial government in the Americas faced the catastrophe of war, but the mainland could not support them with even a single soldier or a single silver coin.
30,000 French troops under the leadership of Juno, with the cooperation of the Spanish army, marched into Lisbon in six weeks, Napoleon easily occupied Portugal, although the Portuguese royal family escaped from the capital on a British warship two days ago, Portugal did not really submit, but Napoleon still did not hesitate to tear up the treaty signed with Carlos IV, and turned to Spain.
Carlos IV was a stupid idiot who was toyed with by Napoleon, and Spain was full of contradictions. Because Carlos IV himself was completely under the control of the queen and Godoy, the favored person. Prime Minister Godoy, with the unlimited power conferred on him by the king and queen, has done evil and reckless in the country. Spain's economy was in recession and the political situation was so unstable that there was an uprising among the people. Crown Prince Ferdinand was also ambitious, and gathered a group of powerful people to openly oppose Godoy. However, Ferdinand was not strong enough to overthrow Godoy's rule, knowing that Napoleon, who was in power in Europa, was Godoy's ally. Ferdinand's people came up with the idea for him to propose to one of Napoleon's relatives, so that Napoleon could remain neutral in the political turmoil in Spain. They thought that by marrying the powerful French emperor, they would gain the tremendous support of Napoleon and thus settle Godoy. But Ferdinand formally proposed to Napoleon's niece, but Napoleon refused. At the same time, Carlos IV also wrote to Napoleon for help, believing that Ferdinand's opposition to Godoy's attempts was to depose him. Both father and son wanted Napoleon to support them against each other, so much so that they lured the wolf into the house and opened the door to the thief.
Napoleon effortlessly took control of the Spanish crown in his own hands. At that time, the Carlos father and son were still thinking about their own throne, but how could Napoleon still let the Carlos father and son take power again? He sent the King and Queen of Spain to Fontainebleau, and the Crown Prince Ferdinand and the other heirs to the throne to the castle of the Duke of Valenstaleland. Napoleon then appointed his brother Joseph as King of Spain, and his brother-in-law Murat succeeded Joseph as King of Naples.
Then the war of Spain - the vast sea of people - officially began.
The French army, invincible on the frontal battlefield, was embarrassed by the swarming Spanish population, the uprising in Madrid was suppressed, and the streets of Cádiz, Seville, Catarina, and especially Valencia were stained red with blood.
The Diémes army was besieged by the Catalonian mountain people and could not play in Barcelona; The Monses army was beaten back by the inhabitants of Valencia; Dupont's army suffered even more losses, as they were attacked by a Spanish army led by General Castaños and local rebels in Bailan, and after several fierce battles, the French suffered heavy casualties, and DuPont had to surrender with his army. The richest part of Spain was liberated from the French, and Castaños's lightly armed troops continued to advance with great strength and invincibility. Within 10 days, the new king, Joseph Bonaparte, could not sit still in Madrid, packed his bags and fled north to Victoria.
Napoleon was furious, and the myth of the invincibility of the French army was shattered. The British also landed in Portugal and defeated the French occupation forces led by Juno in battle. The British continued to ship weapons and money to Spain and Portugal, supporting their resistance struggles.
But what about the Americas, thousands of miles away?
They don't have much outside help, so they can only rely on themselves. The Spanish colonial government and the Portuguese colonial government in Brazil had reached an alliance agreement, but they had received no support from home.
Even after the Portuguese royal family of Bragança fled to Brazil, they demanded that the Brazilian colonial authorities send gold, silver and materials to Europe.
In this situation, the colonists of South America had to be self-reliant.
Juan is also becoming more and more perverted in this situation, becoming more and more distorted in human nature. Because the colonial government at this time had nothing left to restrain his perverted and distorted humanity, Juan could indulge his own recklessness more and more.
His superiors no longer care how angry Juan was doing in La Paz, they just needed to receive a steady stream of gold, copper, iron, lead, zinc and other strategic materials.
From this point of view, Juan's work was excellent, and he made a significant contribution to the Spanish Empire. The colonial authorities were very satisfied with Juan's actions, even if the local white descendants of La Paz could not stand Juan, and some people even reported Juan's problems upwards, which were not worth mentioning in the face of gold and copper, iron, lead and zinc that could be seen and touched.
Juan adopted the dual means of divisiveness, bribery and high-pressure deterrence, so that the Indians 'settled' to accept the fate of their enslavement.
The Indian resistance group assassinated him several times, including suicide attacks, but Juan was unscathed, in exchange for more frenzied revenge.
Luis Alberto Juan, who is now Chinese New Year's Eve two years old, has slightly curly black hair, turquoise eyes like a pair of dazzling sapphires, and his facial features are well-defined and deep, like Greek sculptures, very charming, and his perfect figure can be fully revealed in a straight military uniform. Before this war, Juan's smile was a calling card of La Paz, and I don't know how many ladies and ladies were so infatuated with him that they could dream of him in their sleep.
But man cannot be a face. Who would have thought that Juan, who is handsome and personable on the outside, is essentially a bloodthirsty demon? Now, Juan's image in the minds of many people is that of a demon with a strong smell of blood, and anyone who dreams of him in his sleep can be frightened to wake up.
La Paz is the central city of East Peru, with more than 10,000 residents, plus the population of the estates outside the city and the population of the mines, the population of La Paz can exceed 30,000. But now in La Paz, there are no less than 30,000 refugees in the swarm. The population of the entire city is more than 100,000.
How to expand its own production during the war was a headache for the Spanish colonial government. And Juan of La Paz opened up a new model for them - how to use the abundant human resources to create greater value for the colonial government? That's treating them like slaves.
Of course, whites would win better placements, but young men and men also needed to work hard, and many were recruited by Juan into the local army. The Indians and the large mestizos, on the other hand, faced the problem of being centrally managed, working as hard as cattle for the Spaniards as blacks.
No one wants to give for nothing and not get anything in return, so as commander of the garrison in La Paz, Juan spends most of his day thinking about how to suppress the rebels.
Juan entered the headquarters in a carriage, and the guards at the door hurriedly saluted him with their legs together, and he returned the favor with a gentle smile. The executioner, who was regarded as a murderer by the Indians, mestizos, and blacks, was always polite to his own people, and his aristocratic and reserved smile was admired by the Spaniards.
Arriving at the headquarters, Juan rushed to the interrogation room as soon as possible. It was a row of low-lying bungalows, and before you reached the door, you could smell a thick smell of blood, and you could hear terrible screams coming from here.
When the guards in the interrogation room saw that it was Juan, they immediately stood up and saluted, and then silently opened the iron door for him.
Juan smiled and nodded as usual, and asked, "What happened to that half-blood bastard who was captured yesterday?" ”
"The bullet has been removed, but his body is very weak, and we are afraid that we will kill him by too much torture, so we haven't pried his mouth open yet." After getting the news, the person in charge of the interrogation room, who immediately greeted him, whispered.
The interrogation room at the headquarters is a place that scares and terrifies everyone in La Paz, where hundreds of people have been killed in more than half a year since last year. No matter how strong-willed a person is, when he enters here, he will inevitably speak. This is a large oil press, and it can squeeze oil out even when it is hard.
Although the Indians, mestizos, and black slaves in the rebel group all hated Juan and Spain from the bottom of their hearts. But in the end, no one can bear the torture to extract confessions, and sometimes people are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of being tortured. It's better to live than to die, it's not a joke!
And because of Juan's efficient repression and interrogation, the rebel groups around La Paz never developed.
You know, on the Peruvian plateau west of La Paz, the resistance army composed of Indians and some mestizos and black slaves has developed in full swing.