Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 133 East Coastism ([-])

In the early morning of July 7, it rained lightly.The privateer fleet, which had been stationed in Bordeaux for eight days, was finally ready to set sail.

A total of more than 900 immigrants boarded the five warships of the privateer fleet. They dragged their families and had a lot of luggage, so it took several hours to complete the boarding work.The follow-up immigration work is still in progress. In September, the merchant ship "Butterfly" of the Pasquale family will go to the east coast to load goods. At that time, they will carry the second batch of immigrants to Dongfang Port.

The officers and sailors of the privateer fleet had rested for a week at Bordeaux, and were presently in good spirits.It has been half a year since I came out, and I don't know how my family is. All the naval officers and soldiers can't wait to fly back now.

Xu Xin also rushed to the pier to see off the navy.Of course, he had one more person to see him off—Mo Ming, the head of the intelligence station, decided to go back to Dongfang Port once with the ship, and personally ask the "bureaucrats" of the General Administration for money, people, and equipment to expand the strength of the Bordeaux station. Strive to expand the commercial station (information station) all the way to Toulouse, Albi, Montpellier, La Rochelle and Marseille, covering the entire southern part of France.During his return to China, the work of the intelligence station will be presided over by Inspector Sun Heiqi, but under Xu Xin's restraint, until Mo Ming returns to Bordeaux again.

When everything was ready, the "Eastern Eagle" and the "Red Trout" led the way, followed by the "August [-]", and the "Beagle" and the "Sea Writer" followed. Loaded with immigrants, trophies and some cargo, the battleship cleaves the waves and heads for the South Atlantic.

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In mid-October, the privateer fleet met the second ship of the "August 10th" class battleship, the "Common Market", off the coast of Zhenhaibao. The six warships joined together and sailed to the Afterwards, Dongfang Port dropped anchor and berthed.

Due to the adequate preparations before the voyage: sufficient food (especially fruits and vegetables), relatively good physical condition of the immigrants, multiple temporary stops during the voyage and a relatively spacious living space, the trip lasted for three months. The death rate of immigrants and crew members during the sea voyage was greatly reduced. Less than ten crew members and about dozens of immigrants died due to various reasons, and most of them reached the east coast safely.

The new immigrants flooded onto the deck, looking anxiously at the city on the shore of the blue sea.What a majestic city this is!

The French bumpkins who are used to the crowded and cramped Bordeaux and rural towns, looking at this majestic city with a circumference of more than 4000 meters, a height of more than six meters, and several sharp protrusions of the city wall, can't help but feel one by one. They all opened their mouths.In particular, the many cannons placed on the city walls and the protrusions shocked the hearts of these immigrants from the Old World.

There are such magnificent cities in the New World!It seems that this place is completely different from the primitive and wild Quebec mentioned by those businessmen!

God!There are so many horses on the grassland outside the city, and there are countless sheep and beef cattle!

There are a large number of birds inhabiting the rippling artificial reservoir; the naive big otters are playing freely among the water plants, and from time to time they grab a fat big fish and put it in their mouths to chew and eat; Those water birds floating on the water are drooling... The beautiful and rich scenery made the new immigrants feel dizzy for a while-this is a feeling of happiness.

The neat and sturdy trestle and breakwater, the majestic coastal defense fort, the eye-catching lighthouse and the towering pulley boom tell people that this is a modern and excellent port all the time.There are many ships moored in the port, some are commercial ships, some are military ships, and some are even fishing boats from La Plata and Brazil. These ships are neatly sorted and moored in their own dedicated docks, and everything seems to be very orderly. .

The breakwater keeps the turbulent South Atlantic sea water out of the embankment, and the surge inside the embankment is very gentle and the sea water is also very clean.Unlike Bordeaux's port, where there are a lot of garbage, rotten wood, and even corpses floating on the water, there is no unpleasant smell in the air other than the salty smell of sea water in other ports.

The port is also very busy.A large number of two-story or three-story brick buildings have been built on the edge of the dock yard. According to the Chinese and Spanish signs hanging at the entrance of the buildings, we can see that most of these buildings are comprehensive retail stores, commercial hotels, pubs, Restaurants, pawnshops and other commercial facilities.Since the incident of the Spanish spies broke out, the crew members of the temporarily docked ships were prohibited from entering the city wall. They could only choose to move around the pier, and the East Coast Republic of China did not care about earning the little money in their pockets.As for the visits of foreign envoys or important business partners, the reception staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the East Coast Republic of China will arrange them to live in the Dongfang Hotel in the city.

Overall, a nice, clean, tidy port.At least in the New World, no port can match it in these aspects.

The newly bankrupt textile workers and their families were uniformly arranged in accordance with the old rules in the quarantine area under the Sanitation Bureau outside the wharf for a [-]-day quarantine period.During the isolation period, they will be taught the rules and regulations of the East Coast, elementary military training and language teaching.

As for the specially collected children, according to the plan of the executive committee and the government affairs council, they will be sent overnight to the Luocha area in the south.There, the Executive Committee established a new unit directly under the leadership of the Executive Committee-the Executive Committee Guards Academy.This special unit—or this special army is composed entirely of children under the age of 12, and the average age may be less than 10 years old.

At present, the development focus of the East Coast Republic is on the west and the north. "West" refers to the Changshanbao iron ore project that has just dredged a complete transportation channel; "North" refers to a series of factory construction near Pinganbao at the northern end of Yazihu ​​Lake.In comparison, Luocha's side is basically a barren area.

In order to accommodate these children, the executive committee mobilized already extremely tense manpower to build a simple port on the basis of the facilities left by the Spaniards for the transportation of supplies.In addition, benefiting from the good habit of the people on the east bank to fortify and fortify every time they settle in a strange place, the Executive Committee also built a small bastion here with a circumference of 700 meters—Bingtuanbao.

The Bingtuan Fort is made of masonry and cement. There are two gates in total, and 12 small and medium-caliber artillery are placed on the city wall.Facilities such as wells, toilets, canteens, bathhouses, warehouses, dormitories, schools, training grounds, weapon arsenals and other facilities are all available within the city walls, enough to accommodate five to six hundred people living at the same time.

Immediately outside the city wall is a large area of ​​land that is being reclaimed.According to the plan, all these lands will be planted with long-staple sea-island cotton. First, it fits the main theme of the development of the textile industry across the country. Second, through a certain intensity of labor, these children will be trained to bear hardships and stand hard work and the spirit of unity and cooperation.Each field is subdivided into each person's name, and the growth of cotton in the farmland will also be a major item for the instructors of the Academy Corps to assess.

The 73 boys, girls and children who arrived earlier have been arranged to attend classes there for several months.Different from the content taught in general compulsory primary education schools, the content taught in Xuebingtuan schools is more.In addition to traditional Chinese, mathematics, art, nature, and ideological politics, the school also set up public and professional courses following the old time and space university education model.

Public courses include: "Foundation of Law", "Development of Military Technology" (as of the 17s), "Historical Commentary" (Chinese History to the Year of Tianqi), "Elementary Economics", "Elementary Psychology", "Elementary Society Studies", "Elementary Management Art", "Evolution of Religious History", "International Relations", "Industrial Competition and Development", "Foreign Languages" (choose one of Spanish, French, English and other foreign languages) and other courses.

All students spend the first five years studying traditional courses and public courses. After five years, the instructors of the Academy Corps will teach in different classes according to each individual's talent and performance. At this time, they will start to contact professional courses.Professional courses are mainly divided into humanities and society, economics and management, natural sciences and military. The ratio of students in each category is fixed at 1:1:2:3.

For example, in the military category, they will come into contact with "Military Staff System", "Artillery Technique and Tactics", "Soil Engineering and Barracks Technology", "Cavalry Tactics" compiled by the Ministry of War, and "Illustration of Maritime Navigation Signal Flags" compiled by the Department of the Navy. ", "Battle Line Artillery Combat Theory", "Ocean Currents and Routes", "Fleet Command Art" and other in-depth courses.

The textbooks for these courses are all compiled by the time-travelers with their collective brainpower and painstaking efforts, and they are definitely the core competitiveness of the time-travelers.The Executive Committee has high expectations for the Academy Corps, because it is not only a military group, but also a cradle for cadre training.The most important thing is that these students are still very young, and they are basically orphans, with no one to rely on in the local area.It is obvious that the instructors and the executive committee who get along with them day and night will be the objects of their closeness and allegiance.

The Corps of Students will implement closed management and set up a strict work and rest system.Classes are held from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm from Monday to Friday, full-day training on Saturdays, labor in the morning and half-day rest in the afternoon on Sundays, and a separate schedule for busy farming seasons.

The executive committee intends to rely on ten years of continuous education, and build the Academy Corps into its own basic board through ideological indoctrination, value guidance, and heuristic teaching.Ten years later, members of the Academy Corps began to enter enterprises, governments, and the military. They will become the most powerful arm of the Executive Committee to rule the entire country and demonstrate their will.

(End of this chapter)