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"How is the situation in Brazil recently? Has anything happened?"
After making arrangements to recruit technical shipwrights from Jiangnan Shipyard, Li Mingyuan began to inquire about information about Brazil.
“The situation in Brazil is very delicate. After Paraguay occupied the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in western Brazil, the two operations organized by the Brazilian army to regain lost territory failed. Moreover, because Pedro II dispatched 30,000 black soldiers to the front line, the battle After the operation, more than half of the 30,000 black soldiers were lost, causing demonstrations to resist government recruitment in several Brazilian states where blacks gathered in large numbers."
“Are the protests by black people in Brazil the work of your Security Department?”
"Subordinates do not dare to take credit for their work. The demonstrations by black Brazilians are spontaneous acts, and the Department of Security and Security did not participate in this action."
Although Shen Fushan very much hoped that this matter was done by the intelligence personnel of the Security Department, after questioning the military officer in charge of Brazilian intelligence affairs, Shen Fushan found that there was indeed no Han intelligence personnel involved in the black protests and demonstrations, and there were more than ten demonstrations. At the beginning, the activity was just a spontaneous action organized by more than a hundred black people who were unwilling to go to the front line to fight. Later, with the strong suppression of the Brazilian government, some other forces intervened in the protests and demonstrations, resulting in more than a dozen isolated demonstrations. There is a trend that is getting worse.
"Your Highness, the demonstrations taking place in Brazil are not simple. I believe there is a hidden force behind the demonstrations that is guiding the development of the incident."
"Could it be those republicans who were against Pedro II?"
Li Mingyuan guessed.
"Unlikely." Shen Fushan shook his head and said, "The people participating in the demonstrations were all Brazilian blacks. The intelligence agents hidden in Brazil did not see any white people contacting them. Instead, many black people wearing turbans secretly entered and exited the demonstrations. Therefore, the subordinates believe that the forces that provoke black people to confront the Brazilian government are probably the black Tianfang believers who launched a rebellion in the past few years. They want to take advantage of the chaos in Brazil to fish in troubled waters and control more than 100,000 black soldiers to achieve their goals. The goal of establishing a Tibetan religion state in Brazil.”
"Brazil's muddy waters are getting more and more muddy." Li Mingyuan gloated, "Since Brazil's independence, local separatist forces have become independent and rebellions have continued. Now the Brazilian army has been defeated by the National Defense Forces and the Paraguayan army one after another. I see how Pedro II will deal with it. Domestic chaos."
"Your Highness, the Brazilian Empire has always been wary of the Han Dynasty. Now the situation in Brazil is turbulent again. Even if Pedro II intends to intervene in the Argentine Unification War in the coming year, I am afraid he does not have the strength to do so.
Therefore, I suggest that the intelligence agents lurking in Brazil get in touch with the black Tianfang believers and encourage them to launch a rebellion as soon as possible, so as to contain the energy of the Brazilian army and serve our army's strategy of unifying Argentina."
"It is very difficult for the Security Department to deploy intelligence personnel in Brazil. Sending our people directly to contact the black Tianfang believers will easily be exposed. I think it is better to tell Lopez the news and let Paraguay come forward to support them. Let's not intervene for the time being and wait until the incident develops. We’ll make a decision after some time.”
The black Brazilian Tianfang believers acted in extreme ways and used cruel methods. In 1837, the black Brazilian Tianfang believers launched an uprising in Salvador, the capital of Bahia. After successfully occupying the city of Salvador, they implemented a cruel Tianfang religion system. Black people and futures who violated the teachings of the Tianfang religion had no time to escape.
The white people frequently punished them with death, causing the originally advantageous situation to quickly disappear, and were finally suppressed by the Brazilian army.
White people in the 19th century did not wear the warm and civilized coat like later generations. On the day when the city of El Salvador was recaptured, all black people who participated in the rebellion or believed in the Tianfang religion were executed on the spot, and some black Tianfang cult leaders brutally killed white residents.
The leaders were regarded as models by the Brazilian army and executed with cannon torture learned from the British.
Cannon torture is a cruel criminal method in which a prisoner is tied to the muzzle of a cannon and then the cannonball is fired directly to execute the prisoner.
The self-proclaimed civilized British gentlemen used cannon torture to deter the execution of the rebellious Indian rebels. The Brazilian army followed suit and used cannon torture on the rebellious black Tianfang believers, and achieved a very good deterrent effect.
After the rebellion of the black Tianfang believers was suppressed in 1837, until 1878, for forty-one years, the Tianfang believers did not dare to start another rebellion.
The nature of Tianfang believers is very easy to understand. When they are weak, they dress themselves up as weak people to fight for various rights. When they are strong and have an advantage in numbers, they will establish a pure Tianfang religion country and force others to act according to their rules. This method uses
It worked very well in Europe where the white left prevailed in later generations. However, in this era of colonialism where the jungle prevails, Li Mingyuan is not optimistic about the actions of the black Brazilian Tianfang believers.
It is true that Pedro II organized more than 100,000 black troops, but after deducting the casualties from previous wars and the black soldiers who dare not resist the Brazilian government, how many black soldiers can follow the Tianfang believers?
At most, the black Tianfang believers will cause some trouble to the Brazilian government. They want to rely on their own strength to carve out a piece of land from the Brazilian Empire, but it is impossible to establish an independent country. Therefore, facing an abandoned son who is bound to fail, Li Mingyuan will not give up his precious
resources, intelligence personnel expend on them.
The Chinese side watched with cold eyes the development of black demonstrations and protests in Brazil, while little Lopez, who received information from the Han government, readily agreed to support the black Tianfang believers in the uprising and immediately ordered his men to take action.
As for why little Lopez agreed to support the black Brazilian Tianfang believers so neatly, it is because the situation in Paraguay is not easy. Paraguay's young adults lost 78 out of 10 in the two wars and occupied the Brazilian state of Magroso do Sul.
It alleviated the severe economic pressure in Paraguay, but it was unable to fundamentally solve the problem. In order to resist the intense pressure from the Brazilian army, Lopez Jr., when he could not come up with funds and materials, took the advice of his cronies and moved Paraguay to the mainland.
A large number of the newly occupied lands in Magrosso do Sul and Magroso do Sul were given to his generals, nobles and ordinary soldiers.
The policy of land enfeoffment adopted by Lopez Jr. cannot be maintained forever. Therefore, in order to make time for domestic economic development, causing trouble and causing trouble to the Brazilian Emperor Pedro II is what Lopez Jr. wants to do most.
With the weapons and material support sent by Lopez's men, the black Tianfang believers became much bolder.
On April 26, the first conflict occurred between the instigated black Brazilians and the Brazilian soldiers maintaining order.
On April 29, bloody clashes broke out in the Recife area. More than a dozen black demonstrators were injured and more than 200 black people were arrested.
On May 2nd, more than 2,000 premeditated black Tianfang believers besieged the Salvador police station. The police station was occupied the next day. The black Tianfang believers declared that Bahia was independent from the Brazilian Empire, and the Bahia Tianfang Church was reestablished.
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As a result, the Brazilian black uprising broke out again.
