1825 My New Daming

Chapter 405 God bless, the Spanish master is back! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
Although the United States on this timeline developed relatively quickly, it was already a rather sensual industrialized country around 1830.But like another timeline, the industrialization of the United States started from the Northeast of the United States, which is rich in industrial resources such as coal mines, iron mines, and petroleum, and is close to the financial center.

In the southern states of the United States, Uncle Black's cotton farm is the mainstay of the economy.As for Florida, which has a hot and humid climate and is covered with swamps and wetlands, it is a corner forgotten by Americans that has neither the conditions for industrialization nor the conditions for growing cotton.Although it has long been a state of the United States, except for Dairy Ferry (later renamed Jacksonville) adjacent to Georgia in the northeast and Pensacola, a military port next to the Gulf of Mexico in the northwest, there is no population in other places.Especially a large piece of land in the central part of the state near the Atlantic Ocean, because it was assigned to the Semino Indians, and few whites immigrated.

Of course, rare is not non-existent.On the edge of the Seminole reservation, in a place called Golden Beach, lived a highly respected Catholic priest named Fidel Guevara.He was a tall, tall white man in his forties with a manly beard.His ancestors came from Spain, and he himself was born in Cuba, just across the coast of Florida.Because he loves God and is the youngest son in the family, he is not eligible to inherit the estate.Therefore, he was sent to the school where the church trains clergy since he was a child.

After graduating from seminary, he became a priest who loved God and his Spanish homeland.First he preached the Gospel of the Lord in Cuba, and later was sent by the church to Dairy Ferry in Florida to preach to the Indians and blacks who escaped from the United States.

As a result, within a few years of working, Andrew Jackson led American soldiers into Florida, drove away the Spanish royal army, destroyed hundreds of black villages, and took the Seminoles and The other Indians were driven into the Everglades.

However, those American soldiers did not embarrass Father Fidel Guevara, because most of the soldiers under General Jackson were French in New Orleans, and they also believed in Catholicism.After they scalped the Indians, they had to go to Father Fidel Guevara’s church to confess to God and ask for forgiveness—this was actually Father Guevara’s fault. Both Indians and blacks were baptized as Catholics.

According to the judgment of the Pope in the early years, the Catholic Indians, blacks and yellows all have souls. General Jackson is a Protestant, of course he doesn't care about these.But because the French-Catholic American invaders were afraid of going to hell after death, they had to confess to Father Guevara and ask for forgiveness.

It's a pity that there were no indulgences sold in the 19th century, otherwise Father Guevara might have become a millionaire.

But Father Guevara still made a lot of money—French Americans who received forgiveness from him donated a tenth of the bounties they earned from scalping Indians to his church.So after the first Seminole War, he bought the golden beach, built a Catholic church on the beach, and continued to preach to the Seminoles in the nearby swamp.

In addition, Father Guevara also bought 100 fugitive black slaves from General Jackson with the "blood money" donated by the French American army, and made them into church serfs with a good conscience. From slaves to serfs, this is liberation!
So, for more than ten years after the end of the first Seminole War, Father Fidel Guevara has been preaching, preaching, running farms, and worshiping God on the golden beach—pray for God to revive Spain and fight Go back to Florida and save the God-believing Seminoles and Hispanics like him!
It's a pity that praying day after day is useless. Instead of cheering up, the Spanish Empire was dismantled to pieces. In the territory of the New World, only a few islands such as Cuba remained, and it was about to end. !

Therefore, Father Fidel Guevara can only worry about the country and the people every day. From time to time, he writes two Spanish poems "Wang Shiping America Day" to express his feelings of worrying about the country and the people.

This morning, Father Guevara was in his church, reciting poems aloud in Spanish while drinking. A teenage boy with mixed education in black and white suddenly rushed into the church while shouting "Dad, Daddy".

Father Guevara glanced at him, and asked drunkenly, "Carlos, are you doing something bad again?"

The mixed-race boy shook his head and said, "No, no." Then he raised his hand and pointed to the outside of the church, "Dad, it's the Spanish king who has come! The Spanish king has come to liberate us!"

Father Guevara glared at the young man, "What nonsense are you talking about? This is a church, you can't lie, you will go to hell!"

"Father, I didn't lie." The boy said, "I can swear to God, the Spanish kings have really come, and they have already landed on the golden beach!"

"Really?" Father Guevara believed it a little bit now, and swear to God that he didn't just post it casually, and if he did something wrong, he would really go to hell!
Thinking of this, Father Guevara didn't have the heart to think about poetry anymore, he quickly stood up from a recliner, put on his slippers, and rushed out of his church with the mixed-race boy.When he got outside, he immediately saw a scene that had only appeared in his dreams.

On the sea, there was an armed merchant ship flying the yellow and red flag of Spain, and many small boats filled with soldiers in green short-sleeved military uniforms were slowly driving towards the beach under the drive of oars.On the side of the armed merchant ship, there are many soldiers with backpacks and rifles, climbing along a large net to the small boat that is constantly heaving on the sea.

This is clearly the Spanish king's counterattack against Florida!

Thinking of this, Father Guevara cried, and cried to the boy: "Carlos, go and call all the serfs. Let them carry the Spanish flag! Sing the Spanish national anthem, we want to welcome Spain. Master Wang!"

"Yes, Dad!"

Therefore, the elite officers and soldiers of the Mexican Royal Guard who sneaked onto the golden beach soon saw a scene that made them unbelievable-a tall and elderly Spanish priest led a group of Spanish red and yellow Negroes, mulattoes, and Indians in two-color flags came running to meet them, singing "Glory, Glory, Crown of the Fatherland" in Spanish.

Texas, Texas City.

"Your Majesty, the telegram from the Columbus. The landing was successful! But."

In the Texas Public Government Office in Texas City, the Mexican Emperor, who was anxiously waiting for news from the front line, finally received the news of "successful landing" at noon that day!

"But what?" asked Agustin I.

General Che de Castel, commander of the Mexican Royal Guards, replied: "Your Majesty, the Columbus reported that the landing force encountered hundreds of blacks and Semino Indians and some mixed races on Golden Beach, as well as a Spanish Father, they all held high the flag of the Kingdom of Spain and sang the national anthem of Spain. The priest was named Fidel Guevara. He said that he, the Senomi people and black people in Florida were all eagerly looking forward to the Spanish Empire to save them. them."

"What? They're still expecting the Spaniards? Isn't that too loyal?"

Zhuge Weidao could not understand Spanish, but there was an officer of the Ming Navy who could understand Spanish as an interpreter.And Zhuge Weidao's blurted evaluation immediately caused the entire public government office to boil.

"Sure enough, loyalty!"

"Don't forget the old master for [-] years, I don't want Westerners to have such a righteous man!"

"A true loyal minister!"

"Your Majesty, such loyal people should be greatly praised!"

(End of this chapter)