Chapter 33 Hunting Country (21)
On November 22, 1699, the Chako Plain was setting sun as blood.
Jin Zhennan rode a horse foaming at the mouth and stopped helplessly. Behind him, there were more than 20 riders who were exhausted and panting. Now the captain stopped, turned over and dismounted one by one, and collapsed on the ground exhausted.
To be honest, I took a lot of risks when I went to the northwest of the Chaco Plain to capture Indians because they did not obtain a license. The East Coast society is also developing and progressing. Decades ago, society allowed private slaves to be captured, but in recent years, this behavior has been severely restricted. Slave hunters generally need to apply for licenses, but the government has not approved this license for many years. It is conceivable that the private slave hunting team has basically suffered a catastrophe.
Instead, slave capturing teams organized by governments and military levels. The former is generally a militia self-defense organization. They use militia equipment in village-level and township arsenals to carry out slave capturing activities under the command of retired soldiers on the grounds of protecting their land reclamation from infringement. The latter actually refers to the army. The Army Department often issues local security groups and security commands to organize slave capturing activities to protect the country and the people. In addition, sometimes the regular army will also come on the stage, such as capturing slaves in the border areas of Paraguay and Southern Chile, enriching the state-owned forest farms, farms, mines, brick kilns and construction teams in the country.
Jin Zhennan and his group actually handled a hunting license. In spring, these licensed hunters switched to the Pampa Plain - some people even went to the southern cone platform to hunt Chulango camels. The fur of this white camel has always been the favorite of the ladies on the east coast, and the shawls made are in short supply. When gathering in summer and autumn, they either stayed in the Pampa Plain to catch bison or came to Chaco to hunt. Chaco is known as the hunting country, with extremely rich animal resources and no less harvest than hunting bison in Pampa, not to mention that there are also a large number of cattle, horses and sheep left behind by the Spanish wild flowers.
In the harsh winter - in fact, Chaco's winter is not difficult compared to the south - it is usually when hunters are resting and at the same time when prey are recuperating. Some of them will return to their hometowns, reunite with their families, celebrate the New Year together, and some stay in place, appear in taverns and prostitutes, and spend too much money. Hunters are generally people with temperament, so they are naturally not surprising.
Of course, the above are real hunters. For Jin Zhennan, the fake hunter, hunting wild animals is just a leisurely entertainment activity. What they really hunt is actually human, living Indians! Well, everyone knows that their hunting behavior is illegal, but so what? Local governments ignore their behavior, but on the contrary, they give some money privately, buy the Indians they captured, count them as captured by their own teams, and then devote them to the construction projects of various counties and townships to make up for the lack of labor.
This is the market for "hunters" like Kim Jin-nam. Targeting local governments with construction needs, and after the country has launched credit currency, local governments' financial funds have gradually increased, which makes this kind of transaction possible. Of course, considering that local construction funds are also tight, and local governments are also organizing teams to capture Indians, this kind of trading market is not very large and cannot support too many teams. Regarding this, Kim Jin-nam and others have long experienced this. Business is becoming more and more difficult to do, and the domestic public opinion environment is becoming less and less friendly to them. It is better to change careers as soon as possible to do something else.
This time, they found a small Qachia tribe about 100 kilometers east of Xingren Town, and immediately chased after him. As a result, they encountered the enemy's cavalry! Cavalry, the sky killed! Although there were not many people, they looked like dozens of cavalry, but it was enough to make Jin Zhennan and his group flee in a panic. Fortunately, the Indians didn't want to be too troublesome, so they gave up after chasing for a while, and then quickly moved with the men, women, young and old of the tribe.
They plan to go north first, then turn west, and live in Chile controlled by the Spanish. They are all devout Christians, and life there should not be too difficult. The church will give it the best of its ability, which is enough. Recently, more and more people from the East Coast have come to settle in the Tucuman City area, and this tribe has realized that good days will probably never return. The East Coast people are very greedy for the land. As long as they find their tribe in the wild, they can tell what the outcome will be. It is better to leave as soon as possible.
By the way, Xingren Town is Tucumman City, a very old Spanish colonial town with a large population and a good economy. At present, the East Coast people only sent some government officials to maintain the operation of the city. Most of the residents inside and outside the city are still white, Mestiso and Indians. The East Coast people who came to settle there will not exceed 2,000. Yintai Town (i.e. Salta City of the Spanish), Yanfu Town (located in the Spanish city of San Salvador de Jujuyui), and Xuande Town (in the east town (
That is, the city of Santiago del Estro established by the Spanish, Huitong Town (i.e. the Spanish colonial city La Rioja), and Jingling Town (i.e. the city of Catamarca), the situation is similar to that of Xingren Town, that is, the people of the East Coast only controlled these areas politically and militaryally, but for several years, they have not had time to make too much changes to the local social structure, economic structure and population structure, and did not make the local Spanish and Indians feel that there were too much changes in their lives.
However, this situation obviously will not last long. The people of the East Coast have gradually developed the La Plata area controlled by the former Spain, and generally follow the principle of east-west, south-west, and north-west, in order to better utilize the original resources and improve efficiency. Now the development of the Pampa Plain and the new capital Luoyang Prefecture has entered a stable period, so we can naturally divide some of our energy into other places. As the essence of the north of Luoyang Prefecture, the development of the Chaco Plain has gradually begun to enter a period of acceleration. The influx of foreign capital and population is becoming more and more frequent, and various transportation trunk lines have also begun to plan and pre-map surveying. These undoubtedly made the local Spaniards feel a certain impact.
It’s okay for native whites to say, because according to the policy, as long as they learn simple daily Chinese dialogues, they can become official citizens of the East Coast. But the Mestiso and the Indians were not so lucky. They all knew that they would definitely not be able to stay in the East Coast. In the past, there might have been overseas colonies on the East Coast, but now the best place is the yellow and black dividing line in South Africa. I heard that several puppet countries controlled by the East Coast people were established there, and they should be able to barely live there if they went there, as long as their luck was not too bad.
Ah, by the way, there are other options now, that is, the Sioux Pirates Group in North America. The vicious guys have controlled most of the Texas General Region - it's embarrassing that the New Spain governor is helpless, but this is a fact - now there is a very shortage of people, farmers, herders, craftsmen, merchants, clerks, and even soldiers. It can be said that there is a lot of trouble. If you go there, maybe your future is better than going to southern Africa.
Unfortunately, the Florida colony that is so close to you is not yet able to go, maybe because it is still under the rule of King Carlos. It would be wonderful if His Majesty the King and the Florida General could let the poor people immigrate there. They could live comfortably in a relatively familiar environment and work safely.
But all this is just delusion after all! At least it seems to be delusion at the moment. People with Indian ancestry are sad, they are the money that everyone can walk in their eyes, especially those nomadic or trespassing Indian tribes who are free from government control, do not pay taxes or are willing to perform labor service, and are also the key targets of the East Coast people. Although Jin Zhennan and his gang kicked the iron plate this time, in fact, they are dominant most of the time. The Quechuas who wandered on the grassland were driven and arrested like dogs, which is tragic.
As long as Kim Jin-nam is willing to be shameless and willing to share information with others and give up some profits, then there are at least more than 100 people in the Xingren Town Hotel and Restaurant that can join his team at any time. He can even sell clues to the local garrison and directly take some money away. Although he is a little disliked by this little money - as a member of the Kim family in North Korea, Kim Jin-nam gave him a lot of money before Kim Sanpao and Kim Yue-ban gave him a lot of money, otherwise he would not have been so easy to start such a team in a short period of time.
"Brothers, take a break. Those Quechuas shouldn't be chasing them. Damn it, it's evil, sabers, spears, and muskets are all in place. When will the equipment of the Quechuas be so good? It's so unlucky." Jin Zhennan took out a cowhide water bag from the saddle bag, which was full of light beer, which was the most thirst-quenching time.
"This is a big fish. If we can eat it, we can withdraw from this business in advance." A rider who immigrated from North Korea with Kim Jin-nam said: "This business is not a long-term solution. Damn, those magazine reporters are really dogs and rats, scolding us for catching slaves all day long, and not seeing how much we have made to the country. The newspaper building they work in, the wide roads they walk at work, the fruits and vegetables they eat, the tables, chairs and benches they buy, which one does not require a massive amount of labor to support? We are exhausted to help the country work, but they are good, and they accuse us of immorality. They really pick up the bowl and eat, put down the chopsticks and scold my mother! A bunch of fucking guys!"
"Swear! Swear! Swear! Swear! Swear! Can you still scold those big reporters to death?" Jin Zhennan kicked the guy, then sighed and said, "You don't say that slavery is really not good-looking, especially slavery at the national level. Our court, I have studied it, has not supported slavery since decades ago. Look at the state-owned farms, forest farms, etc., the Indians in it, and the Mestiso people are not slaves at the legal level, but workers who have signed labor contracts seriously. Although they have no personal freedom and their income is also very low."
Chapter completed!