Wind Rises in North America 1625

Chapter 198 Indian "Rebellion"

At present, the grassroots managers needed for several fortresses and numerous immigrant settlements under Xinhua's jurisdiction are all temporarily selected from the immigrant group. These "cadres" are then given short-term intensive training through irregular political studies, so that they can simply and efficiently execute and supervise the many work tasks broken down by the decision-making committee.

That's right. Due to the small population of New China and the relatively simple economic structure, in order to increase the speed of development and scale effect, the decision-making committee is currently implementing a highly planned economic model.

At the end of the year, after a preliminary analysis and summary of the overall economic situation, the various development indicators and overall construction plans for the next year will be formulated based on the existing resources and manpower, as well as the current demand priorities. The various indicators and plans will then be broken down and distributed to various forts, factories, mines, and numerous colonization production teams.

If grassroots managers have a high degree of subjective initiative and can contribute other additional results after completing the various broken down indicators and plans with quality and quantity, they will naturally be given key training and more opportunities for promotion.

But if grassroots managers are limited by their own personality and ability and can only do what they are told, it doesn’t matter. As long as you can complete the tasks assigned to you on time, you can pass the government assessment and continue to stay in your position.

If the many indicators and plans issued by the higher authorities cannot be delivered on time and no reasonable reasons can be given, the person will be dismissed and a new candidate will be appointed.

That is to say, under the current unified planning and management model, as a grassroots manager, you can be a little stupid, or lack professional qualities and abilities, but you must have a high degree of execution to supervise and manage the planned tasks of your factories, mines, fisheries, and colonization production teams to ensure that they are completed on schedule and in sufficient quantities.

Liu Dazhu is one of the few Indian grassroots managers in Xinzhou Huaxia. He is the typical stupid person who doesn't know how to adapt.

However, he was one of the first Indians to surrender to the time travelers, actively seek naturalization, and even took a Chinese name. He was considered a relatively loyal and reliable "insider."

Several years ago, when his tribe was attacked by the Black Bear Tribe, he fled directly to Shixing Fort and received the shelter he deserved.

Later, when the time travelers disintegrated and divided the Black Bear Tribe and several surrounding Indian tribes, Liu Dazhu led several tribesmen to serve on the front line, contributed efforts, shed blood, and took the blame.

Therefore, after Shixing Fort "absorbed" more than ten nearby Indian tribes of various sizes, Liu Dazhu naturally became an "Indian affairs" manager.

The so-called "Indian affairs" means using both military coercion and economic inducements to force these Indians, who had been lazy for hundreds or thousands of years, to obediently follow the arrangements of the Chinese in New South Wales and carry out organized logging, hunting, farming, house building, mining, road construction and other basic production work.

Well, to put it bluntly, Xinzhou Huaxia wants to transform the "absorbed" Indians into usable human resources to speed up the construction of various infrastructure.

But no one expected that on the afternoon of September 9, when Liu Dazhu was supervising the Indians building the walls of Xinning Fort, he caused a big mess because of his rude attitude and wantonly whipping the Indian workers.

The Indians rioted!
In May, two Spanish armed ships unexpectedly broke into Qiming Island. They first attacked several whaling boats of the Nuchanuur tribe in Dayu Port and captured two new Chinese who were learning whaling on the ship.

Afterwards, they went to Shixing Port, trying to find out the actual situation of our Xinzhou Huaxia.

However, thanks to the fierce firepower of the coastal artillery, one of the ships was damaged and captured.

However, another Spanish armed ship took the opportunity to escape and wandered in the waters near Shixing Port. After being attacked by the military's fireboat at night, it eventually disappeared at sea.

After this incident, everyone in New China realized that the threat from the Spanish was imminent. At some point in the future, they would gather a large army and attack, and a fierce battle was inevitable.

To this end, after discussion, the decision-making committee temporarily revised several development plans for this year and placed the focus of work in the second half of the year on military preparations.

The weapon workshop began to increase its efforts in producing cannons, muskets, swords, spears, and armor and equipment. The ironworks and mines also increased the number of manpower accordingly to increase the scale of steel smelting.

The Marines and coastal artillery units also increased the frequency of training, so that the roar of artillery and the intensive firing of muskets could be heard constantly from the barracks and the seashore.

The city walls, which were the most important part of defense, also began to be built on a large scale.

Previously, only Shixing Fort in Xinzhou Huaxia had a relatively complete wooden wall, while Guangfeng Fort (now the city of Saanich) and Xinning Fort, which was built only last year, only had a simple wooden fence.

Such defensive measures may be of some use against wild beasts in the forest or weak Indians, but if faced with the Spanish army equipped with artillery and muskets, it would probably be powerless.

Therefore, in order to cope with the impending military threat, the three forts began to build city walls in June so that all the people could be evacuated into them in time of war.

The walls were constructed entirely of cement and large bricks, with large, solid stone blocks used in key areas. This ensured that the three towns were built into impenetrable fortresses, capable of withstanding the fierce sieges of the Spanish army. To expedite construction, in addition to mobilizing a large number of civilians during the slack season, over 1,500 Indians were also conscripted to work overtime, pushing the deadline to the limit.

To be honest, Indians are naturally undisciplined and do not like to be constrained. If they were not afraid of the powerful military force of the new Chinese and the various tempting goods and food, they would never be willing to obey management and be driven.

Even when forced into farms, mines, or even construction sites, these Indians were extremely slow and perfunctory in their work, always trying to slack off and avoid work.

The boring and tedious farming activities are actually quite anti-human in nature. It took thousands of years for the Chinese nation to develop the character and spirit of hard work and perseverance.

However, it is really difficult for these "innocent" and "unrestrained" Indians to farm the fields and work in construction in an orderly manner.

Now the construction progress of the city wall is required to be more stringent, and it must be completed before winter to deal with the invasion of the Spanish.

With only a few days left, the city wall of Xinning Fort was only half built, prompting managers at all levels to urge them to speed up the construction.

Under such circumstances, Liu Dazhu, while supervising the work of hundreds of Indians, could not help but use various rough methods on these "compatriots" who were slacking off in order to force them to speed up.

He would whip and beat some lazy Indians without mercy.

After noon, he saw many Indians still lying lazily on the ground basking in the sun after lunch, so he immediately waved his stick to drive them to work quickly.

Perhaps he hit the Indian woman a little too hard, and she fell to the ground unconscious after being hit on the head.

However, this fool thought that others were acting when they were lying on the ground so that he would stop punishing them. He continued to beat them with the stick in his hand without any mercy.

He was trying to use this as a warning to all working Indians not to be lazy anymore.

As a result, this behavior angered the other Indians who were working.

The crowd took advantage of their unpreparedness, rushed forward, knocked Liu Dazhu and the other two supervisors to the ground, beat them half to death with punches and kicks, and then fled like birds and beasts.

All ran away!

When Lei Mingxu, the person in charge of Xinning Fort, summoned dozens of armed militiamen to the scene, he saw only a mess in the city wall construction site. Several supervisors, including Liu Dazhui, who had been beaten to a bloody mess, were sitting on the ground with bitter expressions on their faces.

Perhaps out of fear of retaliation from the new Chinese, these Indians knew how to restrain themselves and did not attack the dozens of Chinese craftsmen on the construction site, allowing them to disperse.

They just grabbed some tools and food, then fled into the nearby dense forest.

Faced with this sudden change, Lei Mingxu quickly sent people to report the situation here to the decision-making committee, and at the same time issued early warning information to the surrounding colonial production teams to guard against the runaway Indians attacking the immigrants.

Damn it, this really caught me off guard!
The autumn harvest season is approaching. In order to harvest the crops in the fields, almost all the manpower must be mobilized, which will inevitably make it impossible to get more manpower to build the city wall.

These hundreds of Indians all jumped into the forest and disappeared without a trace. It would be very difficult to "summon" them all out again.

Without so much labor, many construction projects, including the construction of city walls, will inevitably be greatly affected, and may even lead to large-scale delays and stagnation.

This matter must be dealt with decisively to avoid possible major troubles later.

Although Liu Dazhu was rough in his work and acted rashly, he ultimately represented the authority of the Xinhua government and could not be offended.

These Indians refuse to submit to the "king's rule" and even dare to openly "rebel". They must be dealt a thundering blow so that they know that Xinhua not only has a kind heart of a bodhisattva, but also a fierce-eyed Vajra.

(End of this chapter)