The next morning, the galloping horses followed the team and continued to move northward. After walking north for four days, they had already left the direct jurisdiction of the Yizhou area, but there was still a road northward. Some pack horse teams could also be seen on the road, because this road was a branch road leading to the gold mine area.

But there were no farms or villages around. After leaving the road, there were only the trails taken by hunters and patrols. After two days of progress, it was a vast land of prehistoric land, and jungles and mountains became the main terrain.

Under the guidance of the guide, the team successfully came into contact with a small settlement, which was a house built with mud and leaves. The residents had dark skin and a short figure. Sun's army first sent the guide to contact us. After obtaining permission, they camped the brigade by the river beside the village. Sun's army only brought a dozen people into the village, and the galloping horses were also among them.

There are only more than one hundred and ten people in this settlement, only a few elderly people, most of whom are young men and women. As for the children, they are almost all children, most of them are held in their arms, most of them are Indians, and there are also mixed races between Indians and blacks.

These people were originally Portuguese slaves, a small number of whom escaped from the mines, and most of them came from plantations. After escaping here, the reorganized families and settlements had different languages, mainly in Portuguese and an indigenous language. Most of them spoke indigenous languages ​​because their tribes were conquered by the Portuguese for less than ten years and had not yet left their original languages.

The galloping horse watched Sun's troops and his men communicate with these people. The two sides first conducted trade. The expedition team provided them with salt, sugar, some medicines, iron farm tools, and some livestock, fish and other food.

Then Sun's troops introduced the situation in the Yizhou area to the people here, hoping that they could migrate south to Yizhou, but it was obvious that these people who had left the Portuguese colonial rule generally lacked trust in outsiders.

However, Sun's army did not force it, and proposed to hire a few people as guides, continue to explore and patrol northward, and invited a few men to visit the Yizhou area. It was true. In the former, the chief of the village agreed, but the latter did not. Although Sun's army was disappointed, it did not show any toughness. Instead, he introduced one of the people in the team to the chief and the men in the village.

The horses have long discovered that this person was also a temporary team. He was a traveler in Yizhou area and is very common in Yizhou area. Because Yizhou is surrounded by various plantations and farms, the daily consumer goods required are mostly brought by travelers, while some brave travelers will explore further away, carry out armed protection, and trade with some tribes in the colonies.

Obviously, Sun's army introduced this traveling businessman to the chief, hoping to increase contact with this settlement through him. Only after the two sides establish trust would someone really be willing to go to Yizhou to feel the ordinary of the empire and Portugal, and then generate the motivation for migration.

In the past fifteen years, the Yizhou region has been relying on this method to win over the surrounding indigenous peoples. Most tribes can succeed in one to two years, and the longest time has taken ten years.

"Captain Sun, what if this tribe just doesn't agree to go south?" On the way back to the camp, the galloping horse asked Sun's tribe.

"If we fail to reason, we will expel them by force. Twenty degrees south latitude is the dividing line between us and the Portuguese. These people crossed the border and violated our land. We have no reason to host them. If they insist on not accepting our arrangements, we will expel them by force, or send them directly back to Brazil."

"Have you done this?" asked Benma.

Sun's head shook his head: "We have indeed used force, but we have not really expelled or transported people to Brazil. If you are born in a tribe, you should know that tribal people are easily tempted. The prosperity and wealth of the Yizhou area can easily attract them. It is very simple to integrate these tribal people into Yizhou. The real difficulty is the chiefs or the superiors in the tribe.

You also see that only the chief's family is the richest, and when he arrives in Yizhou, all the privileges will be cancelled. Even if he doesn't go, the tribes will go, everything he will be lost. For such people, sometimes they have to use force to kill a chief, which can liberate more than a hundred people. This is what we need to do."

The galloping horse nodded slightly. He thought about his past days in the fiefdom. It seemed that his tribe had no similar experience. On the contrary, Pei Guangping, the chief of Xinhu, was still his brother.

This is the style of the Empire's Overseas Affairs Department. Everything is adapted to local conditions, not a one-size-fits-all approach.

The relationship between the fief and the Indian tribe is very harmonious, and the Indians do not force them to settle in the "civilized land", mainly because there is no huge population demand in the local area. It is completely different from the plantation economy in the Yizhou area and the highly competitive plantation economy.

Moreover, the civilization ecology of the North American fiefdom and the indigenous people in South Africa is completely different.

North America was developed later than South America. Before the empire entered, the British and French colonists and the Indians were in a confrontation. The two sides massacred each other and could not integrate completely. Due to the complex terrain, the number of colonists and the wide distribution, the Indian tribes were unable to conquer.

Therefore, most Indian tribes, especially the large number of tribes south of the Great Lakes, remained in the state before the colonists arrived.

South America is very different. The Portuguese had long conquered almost all tribes here and left a deep mark on these tribes - religion.

Except for the few who have just been captured in the colony, most of the tribes who originally lived deep in the rainforest believe in Catholicism. This is also a huge obstacle to the acceptance of these tribes in Yizhou. Generally speaking, when accepting them, the Catholic faith will be banned. After long-term practice, staff from the Ministry of Overseas Affairs found that it is difficult to turn Catholics into people without religious beliefs, but it is relatively easy to change another belief.

Moreover, these South American Indians were not only affected by Catholicism, because the Brazilian colonies purchased black slaves from Africa to engage in various plantations and mine development, resulting in the union of many tribes and blacks, not only a bloodline but also a cultural fusion. This time, Sunbu heard a lot of messages from voodoo in the mouths of the black mixed-race children of this tribe.

There is no doubt that the faith of tribal people is controlled by the upper class. If these guys who are both chiefs and ministers cannot truly control these tribal people.

Therefore, the important local units of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs include the religious system.

But unlike the domestic religious bureau, the three Christian sects such as Catholicism, Christianity, and Orthodox religion in the empire have two main points when the religious bureau is in charge. First, do not contact the European church and do not be affected by it. The second is to control its religious activities and missionary activities.

After decades of religious policies, there are few believers in the empire.

As for the Tianfang Sect, the empire not only ensured the first two points, but also continued to promote religious reform and secularization.

In Yizhou area, the overall policy is the same as treating Tianfang Sect, but the methods are completely different.

In the treatment of Tianfang Sect, the cultivation and appointment of all religious persons monopolized by the Religious Affairs Bureau, while in the Yizhou area, the Religious Affairs Bureau personnel are given considerable freedom. If this tribe enters the Yizhou area, the Religious Affairs Bureau people will connect with it, after removing the chief who controls his faith, fully understand his beliefs, and then improve it on the basis of it.

What they pursue is secularization and polytheism. Some religious figures who have performed extraordinaryly will not know what faction the reformed religions in Europe will be in just a few years.

The believers who sing Hallelujah worshipped the Grand Hisang at home, and such operations are everywhere in Yizhou.

Of course, the Ministry of Overseas Affairs does not necessarily have to adopt a murderous approach to treating privileged classes like chiefs. As long as they are tamed, the way of cooperation can also be changed.

For example, some more enlightened people can also integrate into Yizhou and obtain land to become farmers, but there are very few of them. Most people will choose to change places, which is Bolivia.

There was a colony controlled by the Imperial Mining Company. There were not so many rules. The mining company's rule over the grassroots was simple and crude, and even slavery could acquiesce.

Since these chiefs like the life of superiors so much and like to control people's hearts, they can just throw them all to Bolivia, and it is best to bring those unpopular black and mixed-race children with them.

After hearing this, the galloping horse fell into deep thought, because the complexity of the empire's colonial policies far exceeded his expectations. From the mouths of Sunbu and others, the galloping horse heard a lot of information, including real and false, hearsay, and personal experiences. These messages mixed with the complex policies of the Empire's Overseas Affairs Department in South America.

Among these news, there are warm deeds of humanitarianism and kindness, as well as evaluations and policies full of discrimination and prejudice.

But the more you listen to the horse, the more you feel that the problem is big. But as the communication deepens, especially when you come into contact with a few small communities or refugees, escaped slaves, and horses who have escaped from Brazil feel how positive the ones you have heard are.

For many things, I am afraid of comparison. The empire's overseas policies have never been perfect, nor have they ever advocated freedom and humanity. However, compared with the things done by colonists such as Portugal and Spain, it has a strong sense of justice.

This is why the Yizhou area can accommodate a large number of Indians. It is difficult for those Indians hiding deep in the grasslands and rainforests to deal with, but the Indians who fled from the Spanish and Portuguese colonies quickly merged into it.

They will not be too entangled in the differences between customs and religions, nor will they be entangled in whether they have political status, because the enjoyment in the Yizhou area is in the original place, and they dare not even think about it.

Six days later, the team came to the Chako area and found traces of the Japanese in the lower reaches of the river. According to the indigenous people, the Japanese were very strong in this area. They were very violent and would cut off people's heads, hang them on trees or insert them by the river to serve as a border line, and prohibit the indigenous people from entering their territory.

And on the side of this river called Paraguay River, Sunbu and others saw a head hanging from a tree.

Sun's army was a jungle warfare expert. Instead of following the river, he arranged the brigade in a valley and only brought seven good players into the jungle and investigated upstream. The terrain here included forests and grasslands, which was the hottest place.

"Stop." The galloping horse walking in the middle suddenly said.

Sun Bu and others hid behind the bushes, and the galloping horse said, "There is a trap in front of it."

As he said that, he used the musket in his hand to pick the front less than two meters away from Sun's army, and lifted up a simple lid made of fallen leaves, revealing a square pit. There was a sharpened wooden pole buried inside. It is conceivable that if a person stepped in, his feet would definitely be pierced.

"What a cruel method, I actually soaked animal feces." Sun Bu glanced at it and cursed.

The horse ran over and said, "Fortunately, I wouldn't have heard of it."

"Did you smell it?" Sun Bu and others looked at the galloping horse in disbelief.

The galloping horse nodded: "I said that I am the best hunter of the Sioux."

As he said that, he climbed up an extremely tall tree, looked far away, and pointed to the distance and said, "There are they gathered there, and I saw their village and cotton fields. Now we can go and talk to them."

Sun Bu shook his head: "No, let's not expose it. Racing horses, it's time to show your ability as an excellent hunter. We want to catch the prisoners and go back."

"Why?"

"That's a Japanese. If it were an Indian, he wouldn't grow cotton." Sunbe said.

"Okay, I'll catch someone, do you want a woman or a man?"

"Let's go together."

"If the sir is only one person, I'll go alone."

"I need at least two people because I need to compare intelligence." Sun Bu explained.

The horse nodded: "If this is the case, it is best to catch a family and go back. Men may lie, women may lie, but a family cannot lie."

Sun's theory was very much accepted, and the galloping horse asked Sun's and others to return the same way, and he sneaked in alone. It took only an hour to bring back a child who was knocked out, a boy.

"I saw his parents. They should have only such a child in their family, so they will definitely come to search. Two days ago, everyone would come out to search, but two days later, the only ones they are still looking for are their parents and relatives, and they can catch the relatives of this child at that time." Benma said skillfully. Obviously, he did a lot of such things in his hometown and in tribal wars.
Chapter completed!