The Sonora Desert, located on the border of the Kingdom of New Spain and the Kingdom of Jiaqing, is a very special desert. This desert is not sandy at all. The rainfall even exceeds that of many wealthy villages in the Shaanxi-Gansu area of ​​the Ming Dynasty. There is more rainfall in summer and winter.

As for frequent flooding!

Before Westerners came here, there was a group of Indians called the Hohokam people living here. They built cities in the desert, developed agriculture, and built irrigation canals, until a big flood hit.

That forced them to move from their homes.

After the arrival of the Spanish, due to plague and massacre, the number of Indians in New Spain was greatly reduced, with only a few million remaining. Therefore, the Sonora Desert, a desert that often suffers from floods, naturally became an inaccessible and desolate place.

land.

However, the Battle of the Flood River Valley more than ten years ago made the Sonora Desert become lively again. Because this desert, which was not sandy at all, became the Kingdom of New Spain and the Kingdom of New Spain after the Battle of the Flood River Valley.

The border area of ​​the Kingdom of Jiaqing - this is not only a trade port between the two countries, but also an important border defense town of the Kingdom of New Spain.

After Don Juan Jose became the regent of the Kingdom of New Mexico, he immediately established the province of Sonora and appointed Salvador de Iturbide, a noble officer who came with him from Europe, as the governor of Sonora.

The provincial governor also encircled a large piece of land on the Sonora River and granted it to Iturbide. He also made Iturbide a count in the name of the King of New Spain, and also allowed Iturbide to

He canonized a group of mestizos (descendants of Spanish and Indians) as knights on his own.

Finally, Count Iturbide took his knights and moved to the desolate Sonora Province to settle. He also led them to conquer all the Indian tribes in Sonora Province and turned the local Indians into his own serfs——

This is the so-called "Xia Jun Yin Min", oh, to be precise, it should be "Xi Jun Yin Min", a standard feudal colonial model!

Of course, this kind of feudal colonization cannot be achieved anywhere, and it was not possible in Zhu Hehao's United States.

First of all, there must be an independent or semi-independent feudal state. Without the Kingdom of New Spain and the powerful regent Don Juan José, there would be no way to create many white (native white) counts, viscounts, and barons in New Spain.

Forget about the knights of Mestizo below. It is impossible to ask the Spanish king to enfeoff in the mainland. Those kings with low intelligence may not even be able to recognize the local nobles. How can they understand the nobles of New Spain? Now Tang.

Juan Jose is based in Mexico City. He can at least block out a group of nobles, big and small, who look similar, right?

Secondly, you have to conquer one or several farming peoples! Serfs must be able to farm! How can you be a serf if you don’t know how to farm? Therefore, it is difficult to conquer nomadic, fishing and hunting peoples...hard to conquer and hard to capture.

Not to mention, after being captured, you have to be taught how to farm. The language is not fluent, and people may not be willing to learn. It gives me a headache just thinking about it.

Therefore, the local tycoon's United States of New Zealand does not recruit Xia Jun Yimin, but directly immigrate from the Chinese circle. The United Kingdom of New England on the east coast does not recruit Xia Jun Yimin, and also relies on immigrants from Europe (mainly the Republic of England).

develop.

The conditions in the Kingdom of New Spain are very good. There are many Indian farmers who grow corn. Farmers are easier to conquer than herdsmen and hunters. They have weaker fighting power and will not run around. America is such a big country. How can you conquer it if people want to run around?

It was precisely because of the de facto independent Kingdom of New Spain and the millions of Indians who grew corn that Don Juan Jose was able to transform the New Spanish colony into a feudal kingdom of "European monarchs and Indians" in more than ten years.

Although the country that has completed the transformation has gradually drifted away from the Spanish motherland across the ocean, Mexico City's ability to control the core areas of the kingdom has been greatly improved, and the country's financial and military power have also been greatly improved, so that it can

In places like the Sonora Desert, a long wall is built to the border!

That's right, it's a border wall that separates New Spain and the Kingdom of Garching, stretching eastward from the Gulf of California to the mountains east of the Sonora Desert, with a total length of nearly six hundred miles.

This side wall is made of wood and sandbags, and a "sandwood structure" watchtower is built every five miles. There is also a beacon tower to communicate with Fort Sonora, the capital of Sonora Province.

Of course, this 600-mile border wall was not used to stop the invading armies of the United States and the Kingdom of Jiaqing - in the eyes of Don Juan Jose and Count Iturbide, the Sonora Desert and the desert

The desolate area in the south is enough to block any army that attempts to invade.

More than 2,000 miles of desolate area! Although there are some manors along the way, these manors are feudal manors centered on castles, which are difficult to attack.

Therefore, it is difficult for the invading army to obtain supplies along the way, and they must march with at least a month's worth of rations!

Instead of taking the fast and comfortable sea route, we decided to go to the Sonora Desert. Isn't this crazy?

Therefore, the main function of the border wall built under the leadership of Count Iturbide was to prevent illegal immigration - the Japanese in California could not be allowed to illegally enter New Spain to serve as "eighth-class Japanese".

Oh, I'm kidding of course, but quite a few Japanese actually crossed the border into the Sonora province of New Spain!

But these people did not go to the Kingdom of New Spain to work as "eighth-class people" because they believed in God, but they were evil smugglers and robbers!

Since Don Juan Jose adopted the policy of cracking down on smuggling and raising tariffs after taking office, smuggling by sea has been greatly reduced. The Sonora Desert, which was originally ignored, has gradually become a new smuggling hotspot——

The goods transported by the Pacific sailing ship will first be sent to the "Gyeongju Port" (San Diego) controlled by the Kingdom of Gacheng, and then transported to Sonora through the Sonora Desert by a smuggling group composed of Hwa merchants and warriors from the Kingdom of Gacheng.

Guaymas is a port city in La Province.

These human smuggling groups are all armed smuggling groups with very strong combat capabilities. They often beat Count Iturbide's border militia to the point of losing their armor.

Fortunately, the warriors of the Jiaqing Kingdom have no interest in conquering the Sonora Desert, otherwise Count Iturbide would have lost his territory long ago.

However, the silk, lacquerware, porcelain, tea and other commodities smuggled in through the Sonora Desert every year still made Don Juan Jose very angry.

Under his supervision, Count Iturbide had to mobilize the militia and serfs in the territory to build a 600-mile border wall.

After the border wall was completed, there was less smuggling. The Japanese smugglers in Gyeongsang Province also changed their profession, not smuggling, but robbery... A large number of Gyeongju warriors would break through the border wall and swarm in!

Of course, the objects of their robbery were not the cacti in the desert, but the serfs in the noble manors in Sonora Province. Sometimes they also robbed white or Indo-European noble women!

And the people robbed by them will soon appear in the slave market of Gyeongju Port... Whether it is the United States of New South Wales or the Kingdom of Gakyung, they all need serfs. And white people or mixed-race Indo-Europeans

Girls are better at taking action!

Because the business of robbing people was so profitable, more and more Japanese bandits joined in, and Sonora's losses increased.

In order to resist these hateful bandits, Count Iturbide has worked extremely hard in the past few years. He almost never takes off his armor or his horse from its saddle. As long as the beacon fire comes, he will personally lead the cavalry to fight against the breach in the border wall.

The "eighth day" comes.

So when the war broke out again on January 20, 1674, the old veteran earl did not realize that today's war was different from the past (it looked exactly the same!). He did not realize the danger at all.
Chapter completed!