Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1314 No big waves in the small pond ([-])

The most important work of immigration transportation lasted until the middle and late April of the second year. At this time, the steam engine sailboats that had been busy for several months could be driven into Yantai, Jiaozhou, Jeju Island, Rishiri Island, In ship repair stations in Dabo, Heishui and Dinghai, etc., repair damaged canvas, fill in leaking gaps, replace old ship boards, clean up attachments on the bottom of the ship, paint wood tar on the ship’s hull, and overhaul The parts of the mechanical part, and the sailors can also have a little rest and entertainment, and prepare for another immigration transportation job half a year later.

On April 1662, 4, the ice outside Dabo Port melted very early this year. At this time, the large pieces of sea ice were almost invisible, and only some fine ice floes were drifting with the current. The "Baikal" armed transport ship of Shandong Corn, under the command of the skilled navigator, carefully avoided the ice floes on the sea, and then drove into the designated place in the harbor and anchored.

I have to say that the "Yaksa" class armed transport ship (250 tons of displacement) is really a classic ship type designed by Heishui Shipyard. The ship with a large aspect ratio has a faster speed and a higher cabin volume utilization rate. High, there is room for some small cannons on the deck, and the steam system is also a mature design with good reliability.Overall, this is a very good ship, which to some extent reflects the design and production capabilities of the Blackwater Shipyard. Designer Lola, who has worked here for many years and has trained a large number of students, should be able to feel I am relieved.

At present, due to the good response of the user (the Okhotsk Sea Squadron of the Third Fleet), this type of ship basically maintains the rhythm of launching one ship a year.I heard that the Black Water Shipyard was already preparing timber at the beginning of this year, and plans to start construction of the fourth ship of this type of ship, the "Kamchatka", and it is expected to join the battle order of the Okhotsk Sea Squadron in the fall— Of course, the squadron currently has no combat missions, and most of the "Kamchatka" will continue to be leased to the Bank of Taiwan to make full use of its capacity.

After years of development, the four villages and towns in Dabo County now have a population of tens of thousands, and the economy has improved. The main export commodities are wild goods, seaweed, honey, wood, livestock, seafood, high-grade fur, and medicinal materials. The annual import and export trade The amount is really not small—especially when a large number of sea fish are on the market in summer and autumn—in addition, there are breeding centers, horse farms, Dabo Mint and other institutions. In terms of economics, it is definitely the largest county on the island.

However, although the economic data surpasses that of Heishui County—after all, it is relatively warmer——compared with Heishui County, which has a population of about 1.2, Dabo County still has fewer industrial elements.After all, brick kilns, cement factories, lime factories, quarries, lumber mills, coal mines, flour mills (industrial windmills powered by strong westerly winds in winter and spring), lumber factories, shipyards, blacksmith workshops (imported into North Korea Iron materials for reprocessing) and other industrial enterprises have not been established here. Compared with industrial production capacity, Dabo County has no advantages. Her strength is still in agriculture.

A considerable part of the Shandong corn carried on the "Baikal" was loaded at Weihaiwei Port, where Xie Qian's headquarters ([-] soldiers) of the Sixth Division of the Shandong New Army was stationed. In response to the system, we should learn more from Yantai, Fushan, Wendeng and other counties directly on the east coast, and hired a group of graduates from the Anti-Qing Military and Political University with a lot of money (although most of them are low-level students) to serve as grassroots officials and replace them. Some big bosses who came from the army, so the economy developed faster.Especially its agriculture, which is currently mainly planted with corn, wheat and grass, strictly implements the three-crop crop rotation system. For this reason, it has spared no expense in introducing many large animals from Jeju Island and Sakhalin Island, so it has developed rapidly. With a population of [-], there is still room to export to Dabo County, which is relatively short of food. The old corn was dumped to Sakhalin Island, which was really a trick.

It is worth mentioning that the improved varieties of corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes introduced from Dabo County by people from the East Bank are now becoming more and more popular in Terengganu Prefecture. This is not easy in the northern region where planting habits are relatively conservative.Don’t you see that crops such as corn and sweet potatoes entered China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but they were not domesticated, and the yield was just the same, and they did not become popular at all.In contrast, the botanical garden set up by Dongan people in Qinghe Township, Dabo County cultivates and domesticates a large number of introduced crops every year. At the same time, they use the pure line separation method to select good varieties, and then sell them to Dengzhou area for farmers to grow. Due to the huge demand, these fine varieties will cause looting every year, especially the potatoes brought by the people from the east coast. The increase in the yield of surviving miscellaneous grains such as corn, potatoes, etc. is astonishing. Farmers see it, and naturally they don't know the benefits of planting these exotic crops.

Even the corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes of the people on the east coast were spread to other prefectures and counties in Shandong through various secret channels, and then the people in Beizhili, Henan and other places also planted them on a small scale—although the seeds of these crops must be It has been degraded from generation to generation, but the foundation is not bad after all, and the output can still be seen - it has fed a large number of people in the Qing Dynasty in the three provinces, and it has played a great role in the recovery of the northern population. Bar.

After the "Baikal" unloaded the corn at Dabo Port-these old corn will be transported to the inland South Sakhalin reclamation area for consumption by the immigrants from Huai'an Prefecture stranded there-then waited in the port until late May, and then Shipped some salted fish, cured meat, dried sea vegetables stored in the underground ice cellar, ammunition and ordnance in the material warehouse, some North Korean tobacco, low-quality spirits, dozens of criminal prisoners exiled from the mainland (now Heishui has become a The place where the great criminals were exiled), they hurriedly pulled anchor and set sail, heading for Temple Street Port at the mouth of the Amur River.

It is worth mentioning that this group of exiled prisoners went to the newly established Gonghe County, which is the seventh county-level administrative unit under the rule of Liang Xiangjian, a member of the Standing Committee of the Heishui Pioneering Team, a district commissioner, and the head of Heishui County.In the past two years, Gonghe County has established a number of new townships, namely Xishan Township (located near the later town of Solnechne), Bolong Township (located near the later town of Erban, on the north shore of Lake Bolong, and the agricultural conditions are still relatively low. Not bad), Dongshan Township (located near the later village of Gurskoye), Tianlin Township (located near the later city of Troitskoye) and Dada Township (located near the later village of Dada), plus Republic Township, a total of Five settlements with a total of 4846 inhabitants.

This is less than two-thirds of the 3000 residents. They are naturalized local aborigines, that is, Shandan and Savage Jurchen in a broad sense, and there are about 3000 people.From the numbers, it can be seen that there is still a long way to go to naturalize the Jurchen savages from the east coast. The huge county of Gonghe County has only naturalized more than 1949 people, which is really not worth mentioning.You must know that the savage Jurchen in this era has not yet undergone massacres by the later Tsarist Russia, and the population is still very rich. Some scholars in later generations have verified that the population of the savage Jurchen (including the outer northeast) at the end of the time was hundreds of thousands, scattered in the inner and outer northeast. Unfortunately, they were massacred and captured (both Russians and later Jins) and the population dropped sharply. For example, the Daur people were only able to reach the population level of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties when the country was founded in 3000—— Not to mention the tens of thousands of naturalized people who came out, these more than [-] people are too small, so small that they can be ignored. It is no wonder that the mainland on the east coast has to continue to wander here. Various criminals.

On June 1662, 6, the armed transport ship "Baikal" arrived at Temple Street Port, and arrived with it, as well as several 5-ton old steamers eliminated by the local inland waterway transportation company, which are now owned by Heishui County Under the jurisdiction of the Transportation Bureau, transportation is carried out in the coastal waters or inland rivers of Sakhalin Island, Iturup Island, Ezo and the Amur River to connect various places and speed up the exchange of materials and personnel.

There are currently five townships in the whole county of Temple Street. As a county established earlier by the people of the East Coast, it currently has 8492 residents, which is definitely a first-class densely populated place in far and near areas.Economically, it is mainly based on rye, oats, potato planting, cattle and sheep grazing, and inland river fishing (the fishery resources in the Amur River are extremely rich, which is also the commonality of seas and rivers in cold regions). The population is more than sufficient, and some livestock, leather, wool, gold placer, etc. can be exported, and the imported goods are mainly spirits, tobacco, cloth, salt, sugar, and various daily necessities.

Temple Street Port is the end point of the "Baikal". Whether it is goods or exiled prisoners, they will disembark here and wait for further arrangements (usually take a fishing boat to the upper reaches). Han Qian (the son of Han Keda, ranked fourth among the Han brothers) began to purchase a large number of high-end furs, medicinal materials, wild goods and other commodities, and prepared to sell them to the south—of course, they would also help the Blackwater Pioneering Team government to bring some taxes along the way. , mostly made of placer gold or leather, and sometimes livestock to offset - after all, this is the distribution center for all kinds of goods in the eastern bank of the Amur River Basin (about [-] people), and there is no need for them to travel upstream .

Unlike the "Baikal", the four 72-ton inland river steamers under the jurisdiction of the Heishui County Transportation Department continued to puff and puff black smoke after a little supply of coal, water and food, carefully avoiding Amur Small pieces of drift ice in the river, arriving upstream.They will travel all the way through Miaojie County, Jiangdong County (currently has less than 3500 residents), and the river section in Gonghe County, and then arrive at the Model Fort further upstream. Daily necessities were transported there, and some livestock were transported back to Heishui County from there.

On June 6, several small steamers arrived at the wharf of Fort Model and were warmly welcomed by the residents here.After the de facto cease-fire with the Qing court, there was no longer an established East Bank army stationed here, replaced by a militia system dominated by local residents, but the number was extremely limited.After all, the current resident population of Model Fort is only 17, which is pitifully small, but it is enough to meet general defense needs.

Model Fort is not the end of several small river steamers. On the afternoon of June 6, after several days of sailing, four small steamers arrived at their final destination: Harbin Fort, which was built before the ceasefire with the Qing court. (Located in today’s Daowai District, Harbin City)—Of course, Harbin Fort only had a rough prototype at that time. Now, after a period of renovation, the whole fortress has been basically completed, but there are still some peripheral facilities that have not been completed. There is a small steamer sending building materials from Heishui County.

Harbin Fort now has more than 2200 settlers, mainly Ming immigrants, and there are also a few naturalized Shandan natives and exiled Italians.Because of the peace talks, they were able to safely open up many fields outside the city to grow rye and oats. Although they are not completely self-sufficient in food at present, they can also solve a large part of the consumption, which undoubtedly reduces the pressure on material transportation.At present, there is a security regiment of Miaojie County (the original Heilongjiang security regiment has been disbanded, and its soldiers are under the jurisdiction of each county) stationed here, with hundreds of cavalry as the armed force to guard the place.

Undoubtedly, the establishment of Harbin Fort was definitely a bad news for the Manchu Qing court.Gaiyin not only separated the jurisdiction of Ningguta, but also caused many indigenous tribes in the west to be pulled over by the people on the east bank, and they no longer served the Qing court; The Ningguta Group led by Sarhuda was firmly restrained—there were about thousands of Eight Banners soldiers, and it was the largest regular armed force of the Qing court in the nearby area—making it extremely uncomfortable like a thorn in the back. .

And Sharhuda felt uncomfortable, so for Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Zhiqing, the commander of the Amur River Theater, it was obvious that he had achieved his goal.It would be good if they could force the other party away, so that the people on the east coast could easily go to the local area to recruit the aboriginals, set up villages and towns, and bring their majestic land into their own rule; It doesn’t matter if you prefer to stand upright rather than the ancient pagoda. People on the east bank have the Amur River, Songhua River, Ussuri River and other arterial roads to transport supplies and personnel. He didn't dare to attack with Sharhuda's courage, otherwise he would be taught how to behave in minutes.

It can be said that the people on the east bank who can freely use the Northeast water network for transportation really occupy a great strategic advantage here, making everything under their own control, and no one else can even think about doing anything, as the so-called Xiaochi There are no big waves.

(End of this chapter)