Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 245 Brazilian Black Rebellion
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"How's Brazil doing lately? Has anything happened?"

After arranging the recruitment of technical shipwrights for Jiangnan Shipyard, Li Mingyuan began to inquire about information about Brazil.

"The situation in Brazil is very delicate. After Paraguay occupied Mato Grosso do Sul in western Brazil, the two operations organized by the Brazilian army to recover lost territory all failed. Moreover, since Pedro II dispatched 30,000 black soldiers to the front line, more than half of them were lost after the operation. This led to demonstrations against government conscription in several states where a large number of black people gathered in Brazil."

“Are the black protests in Brazil the work of your Security Department?”

"I dare not take credit for it. The protests by black Brazilians were spontaneous. The Security Department did not participate in this action."

Although Shen Fushan hoped that this was done by the intelligence personnel of the Security Bureau, after asking the officer in charge of Brazilian intelligence affairs, Shen Fushan found that there was indeed no intervention from the Han intelligence personnel in the black protest demonstrations. At the beginning, more than a dozen demonstrations of varying sizes were just spontaneous actions organized by more than a hundred black people who did not want to go to the front line to fight. Later, with the strong suppression of the Brazilian government, some other forces intervened in the protest demonstrations, which led to the trend of more than a dozen isolated demonstrations to intensify.

"Your Highness, the demonstrations in Brazil are not simple. I believe there is a hidden force behind the demonstrations that is guiding the development of the events."

"Will it be the Republicans who are against Pedro II?"

Li Mingyuan guessed.

"Unlikely." Shen Fushan shook his head. "All the participants in the demonstrations are Brazilian blacks. The intelligence personnel hidden in Brazil have not seen any white people contacting them. Instead, there are many blacks with weapons secretly entering and leaving the areas where the black demonstrators live. So I think the forces that instigate the blacks to confront the Brazilian government are likely the blacks who launched a rebellion a few years ago. 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 goal of establishing a black country in Brazil."

"The situation in Brazil is getting more and more muddy." Li Mingyuan gloated, "Since Brazil's independence, local separatist forces have been independent and rebelling. Now the Brazilian army has been defeated by the National Defense Force and the Paraguayan army. I want to see how Pedro II will clean up the mess in the country."

“Your Highness, the Brazilian Empire has always been wary of the Han Kingdom. Now the domestic situation in Brazil is turbulent again. Even if Pedro II wants to interfere in the Argentine Unification War next year, I’m afraid he doesn’t have the strength to do so.

Therefore, I suggest that the intelligence personnel lurking in Brazil contact the black protesters and encourage them to launch a rebellion as soon as possible, so as to tie down the energy of the Brazilian army and serve our army's strategy of unifying Argentina. "

"It is very difficult for the Security Department to plant intelligence personnel in Brazil. Sending our people to contact the blacks directly will easily expose us. I think it is better to tell Little Lopez about this and let Paraguay support them. We should not intervene for the time being and make a decision after the incident has developed for a while."

The Brazilian black rebels acted in an extreme and cruel manner. In 1837, Brazilian blacks launched an uprising in Salvador, the capital of Bahia. After successfully occupying the city of Salvador, they implemented a cruel and backward slavery system, and sentenced to death any blacks who violated the rules they set and any whites who did not have time to escape. This caused the originally advantageous situation to disappear quickly, and the system was finally suppressed by the Brazilian army.

The white people in the 19th century were not as warm and civilized as those in later generations. On the day of the recapture of Salvador, all the black people who participated in the rebellion were executed on the spot. In addition, some black leaders who brutally killed white residents were used as examples by the Brazilian army and were executed by cannonballs, which were learned from the British. Cannonballs are a cruel form of punishment in which the prisoners are tied to the muzzle of a cannon and then shot directly at them.

The self-proclaimed civilized British gentlemen used artillery punishment to intimidate and execute rebellious Indian rebels. The Brazilian army followed suit and used artillery punishment on rebellious black Muslims, and it achieved a good deterrent effect.

After the black rebellion in 1837 was quelled, they did not dare to rebel again for 1878 years until .

The nature of Brazilian blacks is very easy to understand. When they are not strong enough, 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 black country and force others to follow their rules. This method worked very well in Europe where white leftists prevailed in later generations. However, in this colonial era of the survival of the fittest, Li Mingyuan is not optimistic about the actions of Brazilian blacks.

It is true that Pedro II formed a black army of more than 100,000. However, after deducting the casualties in previous wars and the black soldiers who dared not resist the Brazilian government, how many black soldiers were willing to follow the rebels?
The black rebel forces can at most cause some trouble to the Brazilian government. It is unlikely that they can rely on their own strength to carve out a piece of land from the Brazilian Empire and establish an independent country. Therefore, facing a discarded pawn that is bound to fail, Li Mingyuan will not waste precious resources and intelligence personnel on them.

The Han side watched the development of the black demonstrations and protests in Brazil with cold eyes, while Lopez Jr., who received intelligence from the Han government, readily agreed to support the black uprising and immediately ordered his men to take action.

The reason why Lopez Jr. agreed to support the Brazilian blacks so readily was that the situation in Paraguay was not good either. Paraguayan young and middle-aged men lost 70% to 80% in the two wars. The occupation of Brazil's Magrosso do Sul eased the severe economic pressure in Paraguay, but it could not fundamentally solve the problem. In order to resist the high-intensity pressure from the Brazilian army, Lopez Jr., in the absence of funds and materials, adopted the advice of his confidants and distributed a large amount of newly occupied land in Paraguay and Magrosso do Sul to his generals, nobles and ordinary soldiers.

The policy of Lopez Jr., which was mainly based on distributing land, could not be maintained forever. Therefore, in order to make time for the domestic economic development, what Lopez Jr. wanted to do most was to cause trouble and chaos for the Brazilian Emperor Pedro II.

With the support of weapons and supplies sent by Lopez Jr.'s men, the black rebels became much bolder.

On April 26, the instigated Brazilian blacks had their first conflict with the Brazilian soldiers who were maintaining order.

On April 29, bloody clashes broke out in Recife, in which more than a dozen black protesters were injured and more than 200 black people were arrested.

On May 2, more than 2,000 black people, who had planned in advance, surrounded the Salvador police station. The next day, the police station was occupied. The black rebels declared Bahia's independence from the Brazilian Empire and the establishment of the Bahia Black State.

As a result, the Brazilian black uprising broke out again.

(End of this chapter)