Chapter 369 Ideology
On September 1, 1647, Magellan Intelligence Station...
Today is a rare and good weather. The clouds that had been shrouded over Magellan Intelligence Station for many days finally dissipated a lot. The warm sunlight shone through the clouds on the snow-covered field. For example, wearing a bear fur coat sent by his friend Huang Yi from Sakhalin Island, carrying a briefcase containing important documents in his hand. With the help of several followers, he walked forward on a specially cleaned stone road.
He had never left the sea since he traveled through time and was suffering a lot this time when he came on a naval battleship. The violent sea breeze on the South Atlantic in winter almost blew out his bitter gall. In the last few days of his voyage, he lay in the hammock inside the captain of the "August 10" battleship almost all day long.
After arriving at the calm Bay of Otway, he knew that he was responsible for his shoulders and immediately went to the Magellan Intelligence Station to rest with the support of his followers. He was appointed by the State Intelligence Administration as the new director of the Chilean Intelligence District and the webmaster of the Magellan Intelligence Station. As for the original webmaster of Bilas, he was transferred to the colorful world of Saint Vicente, Brazil because of his "serious and fruitful work", and served as the head of the East Coast Commercial Station (also also a secret intelligence station), responsible for collecting various types of Brazilian intelligence, and at the same time cautiously developing informants to make arrangements for the future.
Following the example, more than 30 business backbones of the State Intelligence Administration, including analysts, intelligence officers, agents and other professional backbones, a small number of them will continue to stay in the country, infiltrating and affecting the surrounding Patagonian tribes, while training Araucan resisters to support their ongoing "just liberation cause."
But most of the intelligence personnel will go to the city of Araucan (Portugal Natales) in the name of the East Coast Advisory Group. They will work in the "freest city" of Chile. The main content of the work is to provide advice on the development and reform of the Araucan people in various aspects such as economic, military, social, and political aspects. At the same time, they will help them train a large number of government officials and affairs officials.
The Araucan people have now realized that the war on national liberation with the Spanish was a long-term cause. Therefore, the first thing they needed to do was to strengthen themselves. The city of Araucan is located in the remote mountainous area of southern Chile. The Spanish sphere of influence is far away, and it is the choice place to develop into its rear. Currently, the city and nearby suburbs live in a total of more than 6,000 Araucan people. Some of them are local residents, but more are refugees who escaped from the north. They cannot tolerate the increasing exploitation of the Spaniards and the increasing labor of the mines, so they decided to leave the core area of the white rule. They go to the cold mountains in the south to live a free life - for them, a place without the Spanish is paradise.
There are many brick and stone buildings in the intelligence station, including one office building, one grain warehouse, one material warehouse, one Taoist temple, and two artillery towers. There are two circles of walls outside the grain warehouse and the material warehouse: one circle of wooden and one circle of bricks, which shows how good the intention is. The two walls are not far apart, and there is a layer of aisle connected by wood cut nearby. From time to time, there are two-meter giant men wearing leather armor and holding muskets in their hands walking by.
These were all local indigenous people who were bribed by the East Coast people of the intelligence station and attracted to them - the Patagonians. In fact, there were many Patagonians living nearby, Madame Alakalu had a tribe, and the East Coast people were too lazy to distinguish them in detail, so they called them Patagonians. At present, more than 150 Patagonians have been hired in the entire intelligence station, of which fifty were in chores (raising pigs, grazing, and doing odd jobs). The other 100 people joined the local garrison and were assigned spears, sabers and muskets.
It is worth mentioning that these people have now joined the church and become Taoist believers who have developed here by Zhao Yan and Zhenren. During the day, they either farm and work under the church organization, or go to the intelligence station for military training, and often go to local Taoist temples to participate in religious activities at night. In Zhao Yan's view, the Patagonians who have joined the church are good Patagonians, and the others are barbarians, they are all untrusted objects and are objects that need to be transformed.
At present, the number of local Patagonians who believe in Taoism has increased to hundreds. This is due to the hard work of Taoist priests under Zhao Zhenren, the Taoist priests and the great effects of aspirin and other medicines, which has made a large number of primitive Patagonians believe in the supreme power of the Heavenly Lord from the bottom of their hearts. Even a chief of the Patagonian tribe who has relieved the pain of rheumatism for many years by the medicine has joined the clan, and more than 100 people have joined the church together, becoming a loyal helper of the East Coast people.
Under the crushing and bonus of civilization, the efficiency of preaching the barbarians was indeed amazing! Now these Taoist Patagonians have moved to the east coast to live around the Magellan Intelligence Station and began to accept the control of Taoism. Under the baptism of this new Taoist ideological baptism on the east coast, the simple Patagonians have greatly improved their mental outlook. They accepted the behavior of restraint, pleasure, and waste proposed by the Taoists, and began to take care of their lives in detail.
They were no longer slaughtered at will, but began to raise them on a large scale under the guidance of the East Coast people; they also received rye and oat seeds from the East Coast people, and began to open up wastelands and plant grains around the intelligence station; they also learned to make small wooden boats and then go to the bay to fish. After doing this in all aspects, these Patagonians suddenly entered the settlement and farming society from the ignorant and barbaric primitive society, and their living standards also took a qualitative leap.
"Man is the trustee of Tianzun's wealth. As trustees, we have the responsibility to increase our wealth." "Tianzun calls on everyone to engage in industry and commerce, be honest and trustworthy in industry and commerce, cherish reputation, and never cheat." "A true Taoist is full of confidence in everything, and whether engaged in industry and commerce or production and farming, we must have the courage and confidence to overcome all difficulties and achieve extraordinary success, be good at creating and innovating, and constantly explore and conquer."
The above words are all the words that Taoist missionaries keep talking, and these Patagonians are indeed practicing these as good words. Their piety is much better than the one hundred people who have been moved to the East Coast as construction workers. And they are proud to believe that they live a more orthodox life than those people on the East Coast, withstood more tests, and overcome more temptations, and then they are the few rescued people chosen by the Heavenly Lord, and they are closer to the Heavenly Lord - and this is obviously a supreme glory.
"Although I am very reluctant, I have to say that many Patagonians have been religious for only a few months, but their mental outlook is indeed much stronger than these new immigrants from the country. Especially in this desolate, poor and lonely and cold place, they can withstand poverty and boring life more than anyone else, and their inner sense of happiness and mission are also stronger. It is obvious that the super spiritual appeal of the Heavenly Lord played a huge role, driving these simple Patagonians to work hard to devote themselves to agricultural production and military training, and achieved remarkable results." As the new director of the Southern Chile Intelligence Center, the example immediately looked at the report of the former stationmaster of the Magellan Intelligence Station, a pseudo-believers of the Heavenly Lord, the religious speculator, Bilas. The focus of the report is obviously on ideology, or rather, on religious beliefs.
At this stage, there are about 100 East Coast farmers (the construction workers who have moved here have settled in separate places), and there are about 500 Patagonians who have surrendered. Basically all Patagonians have entered the church, and only about one-quarter of the East Coast farmers have entered the church. There are quite a few differences in life attitudes and details of life for those who have not entered the church and those who have entered the church. Especially in this extremely empty spiritual world, the happiness and work efficiency of believers who have placed their hearts is much higher and bigger than that of non-confucians. And this is just the beginning. I believe that with the deepening of missionary activities and the deepening of the piety of believers, the difference will become bigger and bigger.
"All 48 of the Arakan people who came here to recuperate and receive training have been registered as Taoist believers. They are all ordinary members of the Arakan guerrillas or lower-level officers. We have established a file for everyone here. Zhao Zhenren believes that if there is a chance, we should go to Arakan City to build Taoist temples and set up missionary organizations to achieve the glory of the Heavenly Lord. I believe that this will inevitably have more positive impact on our cause." Bilas' report is still being studied, "I suggest here that the State Intelligence Administration should give
To give Magellan Intelligence Station more assistance and greater autonomy, we should set up long-term updated personal files for these 48 Araucan guerrillas, track their status changes in Araucan cities and society, and establish good relationships with them. If necessary, they can be given a limited amount of help to make their future brighter. We only need to pay a little capital, and then with the help of our influence and the inspiration of the Heavenly Lord, we can easily cultivate a group of pro-East Coast factions among Araucan people..."
"There are not many people in the mountainous areas of southern Chile, but almost all of them are under the influence of guerrillas. They either have no faith or believe in primitive natural religions. Moreover, their social organizations and structures are extremely loose and their productivity levels are extremely low. Such groups cannot resist the spread of Taoism. Whether it is the Religious Affairs Office or the State Intelligence Administration, they should increase their investment in this place, because from a faith perspective, this place is really a fertile virgin land, and we should firmly grasp it in our own hands." After reading the report written by Lass, the example was silent for a long time.
Chapter completed!