Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1172 Terrace ([-])

"I declare that Hai'an County will be officially established from today!" With Cai Huaze's imposing wave of his hand, outside the newly renovated Hai'an County Government, bursts of "cracking" firecrackers sounded, and the crowd may sincerely , or congratulate Cai Huaze with a strong face and a smile - there is no way, there are only so many county government positions, and the competition is so fierce, there will always be someone who is proud and someone who will show it, which is normal.

The newly established Hai'an County has jurisdiction over seven townships including Hai'an Township, Lvxiang Township, Haiping Township, Polu Township, Baitao Township, Reservoir Township, and Lannigou Township, with a total population of 8141 and a vast territory. The records of the county—well, well, maybe the industry and commerce are still relatively sluggish at present, but judging by the momentum, it will develop sooner or later.

According to the decree of the Government Affairs Council, Cai Huaze will serve as the acting county magistrate of Hai'an County (the formal appointment needs to be confirmed by the members of the executive committee at a meeting). He is now the No. [-] person, so he also looks very excited: after so many years of operating in the northern Patagonia region, he finally has some team members, and finally he is no longer the new representative of the National People's Congress who may be manipulated at any time .

After the brief ceremony, Cai Huaze announced that he would pay hundreds of yuan out of his own pocket to invite everyone present to have a dinner together, which aroused cheers from the crowd—hezhong daqu, snow mountain beer, and xiangshan dry red wines are based on the current income level of Haian County residents It can't be considered cheap, now that someone treats guests, everyone is naturally happy.

"What happened over there?" Li Zemin, a naval lieutenant who boarded a small boat at the port of Shanghai, pulled his old acquaintance, He Yuan, the deputy head of the customs, and asked suspiciously, "Is someone getting married and having a happy event?"

"Basically, who cares." He Yuan is in his 20s this year. He was born on the east coast. He used to be a top student who graduated from a nautical school. Liu Dafa, one of the elders, was chosen as his son-in-law.It's just that his luck was relatively bad. He was injured in a battle a few years ago and was forced to retire with the rank of second lieutenant in the navy. His official career suffered a great setback.Now, with the help of his father-in-law, he has found a position as the deputy chief of customs at Hai'an Port Customs, but the room for improvement is naturally much inferior to that of the navy, so it is no wonder that he has been depressed now.

"Actually, it was Cai Huaze who became the county magistrate, and all his subordinates were celebrating with each other." He Yuan added later.

"Let me tell you." Li Zemin took off his military cap and put it between his armpits, then winked at He Yuan and said, "I just heard from your Port Authority that a group of Italian girls came here recently, maybe ten or ten." How old are they, where are they doing business? I took my brothers to take care of the business, and after going to sea for so long, everyone has long been dissatisfied with their desires."

He Yuan took a speechless look at this guy who had been married for many years and was still hanging around outside, and reminded him kindly: "It's okay to tell you, but are you sure you want to go? God knows if there are any infectious diseases in those Italian bastards. If you get syphilis, you will suffer. And - there is something I wanted to tell you just now, but I forgot for a moment, that is your sister is here."

Li Zemin was taken aback when he heard the words, then burst out laughing, and said, "This girl must have come to look for that kid Guo Handong again? She is really determined. He is currently staying at your house, right? Are you afraid that I will take her away?" Take it back?"

"It looks so right." He Yuan stuffed the notebook in his hand into his bag, and then asked, "Aren't you going to meet her? She received a gift from Guo Handong this morning, and she is very happy."

"It's still gone." Li Zemin hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Time is a bit tight. We encountered a storm when we returned from Ningnan Port. We had to rest in Xingnan Port for a week. The time stipulated by the Ministry of the Navy is already very tight. Now, we must rush to the capital pier as soon as possible, otherwise we will miss the deadline. This little girl, Zexin, help me watch carefully, don't let her get into any trouble, and don't let her be bullied."

"No problem." He Yuan nodded, and said, "In Hai'an Port, I'm still a bit thin-skinned. Besides, Zexin is also Minister Li's beloved daughter. To provoke her to such an extent? Are you tired of work? However, you are in such a hurry this time, are you going north to the Caribbean Sea?"

"It's just to go north to the Caribbean Sea." Li Zemin looked at Second Lieutenant Lu An who was directing the sailors to purchase supplies, gestured to him, and then walked towards a tavern not far away with his arms around He Yuan's shoulders: "We It’s only a few hours to go ashore to purchase supplies. Didn’t you see that the warship is still parked in the open sea? This time the ministry’s order to send us north to the Caribbean is quite surprising. It seems that we are still worried about what will happen there. Smuggling in the Caribbean Trade—well, we are now called smuggling trade, it is a formal trade—the profits are huge, and the money is touching. The sooner we can stabilize the local situation, the sooner we can make money. From this point of view, the Navy It’s not so surprising that we’re heading north.”

"Once you leave, the domestic naval power left behind will be empty. Unfortunately, the military expenditure is huge now, and the Executive Committee does not seem to have plans to build new ships..." He Yuan is a former naval officer, and he is still very concerned about naval construction: "Not to mention that the military department is now dominated by the army's horse manure, and the call for the establishment of the fifth mixed battalion of the army is raging. The matter of the navy's new ship building is even more obscene, right?"

"Who says it's not." Li Zemin also sighed at this time, and then felt a little gloating: "Don't always say that our navy is now raised by a stepmother, and his army is not in a recession now. I heard a while ago that Boss Mo strongly The executive committee was asked to increase military expenditures to form the fifth mixed battalion of the army in Meilin County, but the executive committee rejected it on the grounds of financial difficulties—not to fool people, the financial situation is indeed very tight. This time we went to the East Four newly completed flute-shaped transport ships (ordered by Air Canada) were assembled in Hong Kong, loaded with a batch of commodities, construction materials and more than 1500 black laborers whose contracts had expired, and headed to the Caribbean Sea. The number is filled by trained militiamen, and I think there are hundreds of people."

In fact, the transport ships waiting to go north in Dongfang Port this time are far more than the four ships of Air Canada. Li Renjun, Li Wenchang and others also dispatched four transport ships under their own names (old ships taken from the Navy). Loaded a batch of production and living materials such as grain seeds, fertilizers, hydraulic machinery (old equipment eliminated in the east coast, mainly used for processing wood), logging tools, hemp fiber, metal utensils, rubber products, etc., and went to the north coast of the Caribbean Sea together The Xinjing Port was sold to the local Black Banners, and the money was naturally paid by the East Coast Loan.

In addition, the army also carefully selected 500 top militiamen who had always performed well in the Yihe area this time, and organized them into half a brigade, intending to transport them to San Juan Port for dispatch.After all, the local situation is extremely complicated, and the navy alone without the army will not be able to control the situation, so the first batch of 1659 people was sent there—it is said that in early [-], a second batch of [-] trained militiamen would be transferred to the to strengthen the strength of the people on the east coast there.

There were two batches of 2500 militiamen before and after, plus a mixed battalion-sized army (the vacancy of the battalion has been gradually filled in the past few months), with a total force of nearly [-], and a complete range of technical arms. The sea is definitely a big force.With the cooperation of the navy, it will not be a problem to take some time to firmly control the Spanish customs, so that the economic interests of the people on the east coast will be guaranteed.As for the thing that the Spaniards are eagerly expecting to go to war with the British fleet, I'm sorry, but it seems that there is no chance at all, and the Navy has been telling them to try their best to avoid conflicts so as not to affect the overall situation—of course, the executive committee is also afraid of the British fleet. People are crazy, no, the three-decked battleship "Executive Committee" is also heading north, just in case.

By the way, the more than 1500 black laborers newly sent to North America this time have basically served on the East Coast for 5-7 years, and their contracts have expired.According to the previous plan, these people were all going to South Africa to join the Black Eight Banners, but now it was different, each of them received a ticket to North America, and they would settle there in the future.

These more than 1500 laborers are different from the Black Banners. They have been doing road construction, mining, and moving bricks on the east bank, but they can't fight in battle.Therefore, in the early days, it was necessary to receive several months of training at the Mobile Commercial Station on the East Bank before heading to Fengtian City, the final destination. It's just marked on the map.

According to the plan, Fengtian and Xinjing are both towns under the jurisdiction of the Free State. They develop independently and have greater autonomy, but they still need to respect the Mo family of Xinjing as the monarch, and they also need to pay some tribute to the Mo family every year; To fight against foreign countries, Fengtian also has the obligation to send troops, which has been confirmed and endorsed by the people on the east coast.

"Take care of yourself, and wait for you to come back to drink. I will let Liu Wei watch over your sister, and I won't let her run around, and I won't let some things that don't have eyes to harass her. However, this last thing may also be important. Don't worry about me, Guo Handong has been in the army for several years, he has more contacts than me, and the news is better than me, with him, nothing will happen." He Yuan said that he was already a little praised at the end , it can be seen that his impression of Guo Handong is quite good.

Hearing this, Li Zemin slightly recalled the group of children who were younger than him in the naval compound back then. Guo Handong was already the king of children at that time, and was dubbed the "leader of the second echelon" by the older children. Thinking of this, he also Haha laughed, and said: "When I come back this time, I want to meet this bastard who actually abducted my sister here. Okay, not much to say, I will go to see how the procurement of materials is going, and we will go again when we come back." Let’s meet those little Italian girls and see if their fighting power is okay!”

He Yuan, who was always afraid of guilt, turned green when he heard Li Zemin bring up that bad thing again, and could only evade it again and again, which caused Li Zemin to laugh again and again.

(End of this chapter)