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Chapter three forty zero

Sunbu didn't know if the Pranma was the best hunter of the Sioux, but Sunbu knew that Pranma was a very good hunter because he really caught two captives from a man and a woman, but Pranma was wrong. These two people were not the child's parents at all, but his servants.

By interrogating three Japanese, Sunbe figured out the general situation.

At the border between the Imperial Colonies and Brazil, there were about two thousand Japanese active, but they also controlled about four thousand black, mixed-race and Indians, who were their slaves.

These Japanese have been in Brazil for at least three years, and the majority have been more than ten years.

Most of them were farmers who lost their land, while a few who were in leadership were from the samurai class.

There are two types of samurai who came to help, one was the samurai who lost his master's family during the Japanese civil war. During the Anti-Sky War, a large number of daimyos who were loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan were destroyed, and the samurai and land under their command were annexed by daimyos in the southwest, and the southwest vassals became western vassals.

Later, the Japanese shogunate worked hard to carry out reforms, mainly turning the Tokugawa shogunate, which turned the feudal system into a centralized system, which led to many samurai unemployed. These samurai left their hometowns and went to the west to make a living, which was discriminated against, so most of them immigrated overseas.

When the empire recruited Japanese laborers, it was discovered that using these wandering samurais could recruit more people.

Some samurai were also guys who lost their status under the command of Daming of the West. This was because Daming of the West went to the capitalist path and integrated into the global economic system. Twenty-five years later, Daming discovered that what he needed was not samurai who protected himself and suppressed the people, but some talents who assisted internal political management, corporate management, law, diplomacy and other professionals, that is, real bureaucrats.

The Daming people trained some samurai to do similar jobs, but the problem is that samurai may not be willing or able to do such jobs. For the sake of interests, the Daming people promoted many businessmen or civilians, and many samurai lost the support of the master's family.

Obviously, they are no longer warriors, but ronin.

In the Portuguese colony in Brazil, the Japanese were discriminated against by the Portuguese. The Portuguese colony had strict hierarchical divisions. Even the samurai who were once arrogant was only higher than the slaves, and not even as good as the whites.

The Japanese had to bear high pressure rule and high tax exploitation. As long as they resisted or could not afford the tax, they would be thrown into the plantation as slaves.

During the 36th year of the empire, Japanese immigrants in El Salvador joined forces with some mixed races to launch an riot and sought support from the empire. However, it is obvious that Brazil, as the origin of the empire's raw materials and product market, stability is the most important.

Therefore, the empire ignored it. The help of the same text, same species, same roots and roots that the Japanese expected did not exist at all.

The Portuguese had great experience in dealing with the riots, and directly compromised with the mixed-race Mestiso people, attacked the inside and outside, and dealt with the Japanese.

The South American Bureau of the Imperial Overseas Affairs Department and Cape Town have only come forward to save a group of Japanese women and children to prevent these people from becoming slaves. This is of course out of humanitarianism, but it is also in one's own interests.

Whether it is the four provinces of South Africa or South America, the imperial immigrants have a great demand for women with Eastern appearances. These rescued young women can marry immigrants as wives, and the saved children are all children under the age of four. It is said whether it is still considered a Japanese.

However, resisting oppression can only be stopped by the fire. Suppression cannot solve any problem. The Japanese, who were captured on the plantation as slaves, launched another riot under the leadership of several samurai. They not only killed the slave owner's family, but also ambushed the colonial army that came to suppress it, and then retreated into the inland.

If it were twenty years ago, the Brazilian colonists had symbolically captured such escaped slaves and gave the planters an explanation, they would not have much benefit in the inland. Negro slaves had formed a republic inland, and the colonists had not exterminated for a long time.

But the times have changed. In the past, Brazilian colonists only planted sugarcane on the coast. Now, with the rise of South Africa, Brazil's cotton, sugarcane, coffee and other plantations have developed rapidly. A large number of immigrants from China have come, and Africa has bought a large number of slaves, and the plantations have long been deep inland.

So the governor of El Salvador, Brazil, carried out a full year of clearance, and the Japanese could only retreat deeper inland, heading south along the St. Francis River, and retreating to the Victorian region.

Here, they were expelled and wiped out again, but they were not completely wiped out, but they retreated into the inland area again.

The Brazilian colonies could not withstand the high military expenditure, so they chose another way to hand over the task of clearing out these Japanese people to a Portuguese baron named Piedo in the Victorian region.

This baron was once a confidant of King Pedro II and served as the governor of Salvadur. At this time, he had settled in the colony and had a large plantation in Victoria, mainly planting cotton. He himself controls a vast land and a population of more than 20,000 people. He is already a very powerful planter.

Piedo was ordered to deal with the Japanese, but was not asked to eliminate the Japanese, but just asked these people not to cause trouble in the inland and harass the inland plantations.

Piedo simply cooperated with the Japanese, allowing them to continue to move south, enter the border area, and develop there.

Because Piedo had long discovered that the most suitable place for Brazil to grow cotton is at the junction of the inland and the imperial colonies. Piedo cooperated with the Japanese, and the Japanese opened plantations and planted cotton. He monopolized the sales of his cotton and provided daily necessities and even slaves to the Japanese.

The Japanese agreed, not only settled themselves, but also took in many escaped slaves and reclaimed the plantation together.

The two sides had been in peace for four years. By the time of the 42nd year of the empire, the Japanese cotton plantations had already reached a considerable scale. Piedo directly brought the army to the door and notified the Japanese directly, either handing over the plantations or starting a war.

But Piedo agreed that as long as the Japanese hand over these mature cotton fields, they could reopen their homes in more inland areas.

Faced with the elite Portuguese army and excellent firearms, the Japanese were no match for them, and they were not the escaped slaves they had, and they had a home and cotton fields that they could not bear.

In the end, the Japanese fought a war with Piedo. The war was won and lost. In the end, both sides compromised. Instead of hurting each other, it was better to benefit each other. Piedo bought the Japanese cotton fields at a price equivalent to 120,000 Chinese silver dollars and supported the Japanese to open up new cotton fields deeper.

However, Piedo was set up by the Japanese. The Japanese did open cotton fields in the inland, so Piedo thought that they could snatch them again after three to five years. But who knew that the cotton fields opened by the Japanese inland were just to build a plank road, and most of its resources and manpower were invested in the area south of the 20th degree south latitude.

By the time Piedo reacted, it was too late and the Japanese had entered the empire.

But the two sides did not completely break up. Piedo discovered that the Japanese did not dare to let people know that they had entered the South American colony of the Empire, so they did not dare to contact the Empire. The industry they opened was still planting cotton. The result was that the Japanese sold cotton, but Piedo still had to go through him. Therefore, the two sides compromised again and reached cooperation. Piedo monopolized the foreign economy of this Japanese-led plantation and made a lot of profits. Therefore, they also began to support them on a large scale, and even sold black slaves to them.

The child captured by the galloping horse is the son of a ronin. In this Japanese settlement, he belongs to the upper class of rule. The man and the woman are responsible for taking care of the child. They are desperately searching because they will be killed if they cannot be found.

It is also the reason for telling the relationship between the Japanese and the Portuguese. Anyway, it is time to die when you go back. It is better to seek protection from the empire. Anyway, the two of them have not had children or property for a while.

After the Japanese settled in the Chaco area, they warned the south to prevent being discovered by the empire. At the same time, they explored northwest and north. Indian tribes, or some wood with higher value, can be found northwest, and Bolivia.

There was still enslavement there, so a large number of blacks and mixed races fled. The Japanese took these people and expanded their strength. Although the Japanese also enslaved them, the treatment was much better than miners in the silver mines in Bolivia with an average working life of less than five years.

Whether in Bolivia or Brazil, black people are slaves. If they go south to the empire, they will be sent back. Only by seeking the Japanese can they survive.

"The situation has been cleared, let's go back."

Sunbu marked the area where the Japanese were active on the map and then issued an order.

The galloping horse was surprised: "Sir Sun, aren't we going to fight? The enemy hasn't discovered us yet. As long as we choose a good opportunity and location and launch a sneak attack, we can create great results."

In the eyes of the Rain Horse, although the expedition team is small, it is very elite. Only a dozen of them are chefs, doctors, guides and translators. The rest are soldiers who are good at fighting and equipped with rifled guns. Many people have pistols that can be fired continuously.

"No, we don't have to fight. They have thousands of people, and who knows how many muskets there are. The terrain here is too complicated. Even if we launch a raid, we will easily fall into long-term combat. What's more important is whether to adopt violent policies against these people, and we must make decisions on the top of the mountain." Sun said.

The galloping horse shook his head. He had no idea about the slave owner. The Japanese enslaved people but still had to enslave others. In his opinion, it was also extremely hateful.

But the galloping horse did not act without authorization. After all, facing so many people, no matter how outstanding he is, he will not play any role.

The inspection team went south and continued to explore westward, but bypassed the Japanese's range of activities. During this period, a black settlement was also discovered, with only more than 40 people, most of whom were mine slaves who had escaped from Bolivia for a short time. The Sun tribe directly ordered the raid of the black settlement and captured its leader. According to his physical characteristics, the leader's name was successfully found on the wanted list given by the Yizhou Military Control Commission - Carl.

According to the wanted order, Carl attacked caravans traveling between Bolivia and the South Port area and committed no less than ten cases.

The expedition team's armed behavior found legitimacy, but there seemed to be some problems in order.

But no one cares about these things. According to the orders of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, when encountering black people, mixed races, etc., they will be arrested and transported back to their hometowns. However, violence may not be necessary, but in teams like the expedition team, almost everyone takes action first.

The reason is very simple. These escaped slaves did not engage in agricultural production at all. Most of them made a living by robbing passing business trips and plantations.

On the way south, the expedition team encountered a caravan heading north to Bolivia, and directly handed over the more than 30 prisoners captured to the leader of the caravan and took him to Bolivia. Only Carl and his few confidants were taken to the Yizhou area, and continued to investigate and then tried and dealt with.

When you go south along the river, you will encounter a village or station every other day, and most of the people who run these are Gao Qiao or Indians.

"Sir, you should leave this dog thing for us!" When passing a small village, the village chief Gao Qiaoren said to Sun's army indignation. The village chief said, "I know him, his name is Carl, we usually call him a butcher. He is a cruel person. He came to our village and asked us for money and food, but was driven away by us.

Seeing that he could not beat us, he harassed us all day long and killed many of the cattle we were stocked outside. My nephew went to chase him, got ambushed, and was dismembered by him. There were others, half of the people in this village had a grudge against him."

Of course, Sun's army cannot do this, because Carl is famous enough. If the inspection team wants to receive more private sponsorship, it must be promoted. Catching such criminals is the most useful.

"No, I want to take him to Yizhou City for trial." Sun's army said to the village chief, but when he saw everyone surrounded him, many people were still holding guns, Sun's army could only take a step back and said, "I promise that he will be sentenced to death. At that time, it will be executed by you."

Seeing that everyone was still surrounded, Sunbu said, "You must believe us. Go to Yizhou in three months to get people. By then, everything has been settled. How about it?"
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