Although the United States developed relatively quickly in this timeline, it was already a quite impressive industrialized country around 1830. But like another timeline, the industrialization of the United States began in the northeastern United States, which is rich in industrial resources such as coal mines, iron ores, and oil, and is close to the center of the financial industry.
In the southern states of the United States, Uncle Black's cotton farms are the mainstay of the economy. As for Florida, which has a hot and humid climate and is full of swamps and wetlands, it is a forgotten corner of the United States that has neither the conditions to develop industrialization nor the cultivation of cotton. Although it has long been a state in the United States, except for the city of Cow Ferry (later renamed Jacksonville) adjacent to Georgia in the northeast and the military port of Pensacola next to the Gulf of Mexico in the northwest, there is no population elsewhere. In particular, a large piece of land in the center of the state near the Atlantic Ocean was allocated to the Seminole Indians, so few white people settled there.
Of course, being rare does not mean there is none. On the edge of the Seminole reservation, at a place called Golden Beach, lived a highly respected Catholic priest named Fidel Guevara. This is a tall white man in his forties with a very masculine beard. His ancestors came from Spain, and he himself was born in Cuba, on the other side of Florida. Because he loves God and is the youngest son of the family, he is not qualified to inherit the manor. Therefore, he was sent to a church training school for clergy from an early age.
After graduating from seminary, he became a priest who loved God and his Spanish country. First he spread the gospel of the Lord in Cuba, and later he was sent by the church to Cowherd in Florida to preach to the Indians and blacks who had escaped from the United States.
As a result, after only a few years of work, Andrew Jackson led the American soldiers into Florida, drove away the Spanish army, destroyed hundreds of black villages, and brought the Seminoles and Seminoles who did not want to be slaves into slavery. The other Indians were driven into the swamp.
However, those American soldiers did not embarrass Father Fidel Guevara, because most of General Jackson's soldiers were French from New Orleans and were also Catholics. 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. Indians and blacks were baptized Catholics.
According to the early judgment of the Roman Pope, the Catholic Indians, blacks and yellow people all have souls. General Jackson is a Protestant and of course does not care about this. But the French Catholic American invaders were afraid of going to hell after death, so they had to confess to Father Guevara and ask for forgiveness.
It's a pity that no indulgences were sold in the 19th century, otherwise Father Guevara might have become a rich man.
However, Father Guevara still made a lot of money-the French American soldiers who received forgiveness from him would donate one-tenth of the bounty earned from scalping Indians to his church. So after the First Seminole War, he bought Golden Beach, built a Catholic church on the beach, and continued to preach to the Seminoles in the nearby swamps.
In addition, Father Guevara used the "blood money" donated by the French American army to buy 100 fugitive black slaves from General Jackson, and conscientiously turned them into church serfs. From slaves to serfs, this is liberation!
Therefore, in the more than ten years after the end of the First Seminole War, Father Fidel Guevara has been preaching, evangelizing, running farms, and worshiping God on the golden beach - praying to God to help Spain regain its strength and fight against the epidemic. Go back to Florida and save the God-believing Seminoles and Spanish remnants like him!
It's a pity that praying day after day is of no use. Instead of cheering up, the Spanish Empire was dismantled in pieces. Only a few islands such as Cuba are left in the New World. It is about to end. !
Therefore, Father Fidel Guevara could only worry about the country and the people every day. From time to time, he wrote two Spanish poems on "Master Wang Xiping America Day" to express his feelings of concern for the country and the people.
This morning, Father Guevara was in his church, drinking wine and reading poetry loudly in Spanish. Just when he read "Generosity should be generous, sorrow will be unforgettable; the only way to relieve sorrow is rum", a man The teenage boys who were mixed in school suddenly rushed into the church while shouting "Dad, Daddy".
Father Guevara glanced at him and asked drunkenly: "Carlos, have you done something bad again?"
The mixed-race boy shook his head and said, "No, no." Then he raised his hand and pointed outside the church, "Dad, the Spanish King is here! The Spanish King is here to liberate us!"
Father Guevara glared at the boy, "What nonsense are you talking about? This is a church, you can't lie, you will go to hell!"
"Dad, I'm not lying," the boy said, "I can swear to God that the Spanish King's Army is really here, and they have landed on the golden beach!"
"Really?" Father Guevara now started to believe it. He swore to God that he didn't just say it casually. If he did something wrong, he would really go to hell!
Thinking of this, Father Guevara stopped thinking about poetry. He quickly stood up from a deck chair, put on his slippers and followed the mixed-race boy out of his church. When he got outside, he immediately saw a scene that had only appeared in his dreams.
There was an armed merchant ship flying the Spanish yellow and red flags on the sea, and there were many small boats filled with soldiers wearing green short-sleeved military uniforms, which were slowly sailing towards the beach driven by paddles. On one side of the armed merchant ship, there were many soldiers carrying backpacks and rifles, climbing along a large net to the small boat that was constantly undulating on the sea.
This is clearly the Spanish King's Army counterattacking Florida!
Thinking of this, Father Guevara cried. He cried and said to the young man: "Carlos, go and call all the serfs. Let them bring the Spanish flag! Sing the Spanish national anthem. We want to welcome Spain." Master Wang!"
"Yes, Dad!"
As a result, 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, older Spanish priest, leading a group of people holding high Spanish red and yellow flags. Blacks, mulattoes, and Indians with two-color flags came running to greet them, singing "Glory, Glory, Crown of the Motherland" in Spanish.
Texas City, Texas.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, a telegram from the Columbus. The landing was successful! But..."
In the Texas Public 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?" Agustin I asked.
General Che de Castello, commander of the Royal Guards of Mexico, replied: "Your Majesty, the Columbus reported that the landing force encountered hundreds of blacks and Seminoles Indians and some mixed blood on Gold Beach, as well as a Spanish The priests all held high the flag of the Kingdom of Spain and sang the national anthem of Spain. The priest's name was Fidel Guevara. He said that he, the Senomi people and black people in Florida were all eagerly looking forward to the Spanish Empire's rescue. them."
"What? Are they still waiting for the Spaniards? Isn't this too loyal?"
Zhuge Weidao could not understand Spanish, but there was a Ming naval officer who could understand Spanish present as an interpreter. Zhuge Weidao's blurted comment immediately made the entire Gongfang Yamen office boil.
"True and loyal!"
"I have not forgotten my late master for twenty years. I don't think there are such righteous people in the West!"
"A true loyal minister!"
"Your Majesty the Emperor, these loyal and righteous people should be greatly praised!"
(End of chapter)
