Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1399 Beining ([-])

After drinking, Shao Yuanyi returned to the temporary residence in a daze.

This is Bac Ninh Town, the core of the capital of Bac Ninh region, a young city built on a plateau of 800 meters.Although the city is stuck on the edge of the tropics in terms of latitude, which is similar to Guangzhou, but due to the existence of the plateau, the city's climate is not as hot as Guangzhou, and it is a good place to live, so it has become more and more attractive in recent years. Many second-generation citizens born in China came to pioneer and settle down. Because the public land in their hometown is more sought-after, not everyone can get it, so many second-generation citizens who can't wait can only come to the so-called "frontier areas" Due to pioneering and settlement, the population growth rate in the Beining area is relatively fast. At present, the population of the whole area has reached nearly 2000, which is already quite good.

However, we should also see that there are regional differences in the population density in the Beining area. For example, Changshun County has a good harbor and convenient transportation, so the total population of the four towns in the county has reached more than 5000. The population of Changshun Port in Changshun is approaching 55, and the prosperity is abnormal; compared with Changshun County, Beining County (established earlier this month, is the 3000th county-level administrative unit in the country, under the jurisdiction of Beining Town, Pinghu Township, Taiping Township, Cheng'en Township, Zhaoqing Township, and Rongcheng Township) have a combined population of just over [-] in the six townships in the county, and the population density is indeed relatively low.

The reason for this embarrassing situation is undoubtedly the Brazilian shield.On the one hand, this raised plateau brings a relatively cool and dry climate to the residents of Beining Town, and at the same time, it hinders the communication between the area and the coast, so that a large amount of materials from the local area can only enter the Brazilian plateau carefully through the mules and horses. , lower efficiency and higher cost.I believe that if it weren't for the local "agricultural heritage" accumulated during the Portuguese colonial era, people on the east coast would not be very interested in developing this area. Occupy it.

But even though there is the so-called Portuguese heritage in the local area, the real traffic problems have always troubled everyone, so it is only natural that the local conditions are relatively difficult.This is the case in Beining Town where Shao Yuanyi is located. The stone buildings that cost countless manpower and material resources in the Portuguese era have been occupied by the regional administration, county, and town governments; The wooden houses in the water are used as office places; the pioneers who migrated one after another are more difficult than them. They can only cut down the giant reeds in the wild, use reed poles and branches as walls, and reed leaves and dry grass as roofs. It is also very hard to act as a shelter for oneself.

There are dozens of shack-like buildings next to the two-story wooden house where Shao Yuanyi lives. This is a village closest to the urban area. There are about one or two hundred pioneers living there. There are not only non-nationals of Ukraine who have become regulars, but also a large number of people from the Ming Dynasty. Immigrants in Huai'an prefecture live by planting wheat, soybeans, corn and other crops, and also raising some livestock and poultry, making a small amount of wine, and their life is still decent.

It was already dinner time, and every family was cooking in front of the clay stoves set up outside the shack.For their daily diet, Shao Yuanyi has long been familiar with it, because he has seen too much when he was treating the villagers.To put it simply, the staple food is mainly coarse grain steamed buns and polenta. Those who have just cut off the relief food supply have a reason to save some. After all, in the future, the house at home will be renovated—or the reconstruction will be more appropriate—to buy more land, buy Large livestock, farm tools, and seeds all require a lot of money.But then again, in Beining County, where there is only a small-scale machine-milled noodle factory in the county seat, it is really difficult for you to eat some delicate staple food, let alone those mouth-watering tobacco, alcohol and candy. It's not that there are no sales, but that the quantity is small and the price is high. Even the second-generation citizens from the south have concerns about buying them.

The staple food is like this, and the non-staple food is even more unbearable.Shao Yuanyi once had the honor to eat two meals at the home of a villager suffering from beriberi. The dishes are really lackluster, except for two unknown vegetables (really hard to eat...), there is also a famous east coast dish " Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes” (probably made specially for Dr. Shao’s visit), and some marinated whale meat that is said to have been bought by the owner’s son from the county (the meat is thicker, but it’s cheaper, and of course it’s not expensive to transport it long-distance at this time) How cheap...), Shao, who is used to fine food, has mixed feelings.

The life of the pioneers is still too hard!Of course, Shao Yuanyi, who has lived on the east bank for a long time, has forgotten what kind of hard life he lived in Daming. Compared with the life in Beining area today, it is far worse. The old mainland laborers who have become regular workers are actually quite satisfied with their lives, and they are also full of confidence in living a better life in the future, which is enough.

Shao Yuanyi, who had drunk at least half a catty of baijiu, opened his coat, moved a smooth tree stump and sat outside the threshold, smoking while looking at the vibrant rural scenery in front of him.It's already late autumn on the east coast, the days are relatively short, it's only after five o'clock, and the sky is getting dark.A few urchins aged seven or eight were still playing the war game of "Red through the entire East Coast countryside", but the role of the enemy changed from Portuguese, Spanish, and English to Tupi. Shao Yuanyi looked over and saw Several "Indians" with bird feathers on their heads were thrown on the haystack by a group of children wearing big caps, and the laughter kept ringing until the adults of each family rushed over and grabbed their ears. until you pick it up.

A certain family at the head of the village seemed to have caught several crocodiles. Shao Yuanyi reckoned that they should have been caught by the Tiete River, and he didn't know what tools they used.This ferocious animal is widely distributed on the east coast, and the southernmost point can even reach the southern end of Duck Lake. There are dozens or millions of them. There are not many crocodiles in the watershed, even to the extent that the government has to issue licenses to restrict hunting.

The slaughter at the head of the village should have been finished, and according to the tradition of mutual cooperation when the village was established, each household could get a piece of meat, and Shao Yuanyi saw a few older children carrying baskets there to collect the meat.Well, their food is destined to be good tonight, and every family can eat crocodile meat, which can be regarded as improving their lives.It's a pity that because of the inconvenient transportation here, the amount of spices is very small, and the price is too expensive, so it can't set off the deliciousness of crocodile meat. It's a pity, a pity!

There was a sound of passwords coming from the front. Shao Yuanyi, who was drunk, looked around and saw five or six militiamen with guns changing their guards. There was a wooden sentry tower there. Several militiamen were stationed there all year round to monitor every move in the field. In order to avoid being suddenly attacked by the enemy but still not knowing it.However, I heard that this sentry tower is about to be dismantled. The field near Gein has been plowed several times by the military police and militia on the east bank. Basically, there are no hostile forces—some have been wiped out—so some It is necessary to lift the alert status of some villages on the outskirts of the county, so that the villagers can devote themselves to the arduous work of land reclamation.

Speaking of these Indian hostile forces, Shao Yuanyi thought of the meeting held during the day today.At this district-wide cadre work meeting convened by the regional administrative office, cadres Lu Xiaofeng and Jiang Ning from Zhaoqing Township, and cadres Liu Houfei and Qiao Yu from Chengen Township made special reports on the security work in their respective jurisdictions. , Judging from the content of the report, the security situation in the countryside is quite optimistic.

Chief Calderon, who was originally active in Cheng'en Township, was believed to have been killed by opponents of his own tribe in an internal strife last year. After a fierce fight, the whole tribe was divided into three parts. Two of them were hostile to each other, and the other surrendered directly to Liu and Qiao. It was regarded as a formal surrender to the east bank. It has been sent to Changshun County and is waiting for ships to go south to settle in Yicheng, South Africa.

Liu Houfei, who has been officially promoted to the mayor of Cheng'en Township, optimistically predicts that after this winter, even if the district administrative office and the county government do not send any military police to fight against them, the two Indians who have been fighting for two years will not be able to continue. up.Lacking food and all kinds of daily necessities, they will inevitably fall completely after a bloody battle, while the other is extremely weak. At this time, the Cheng'en Township Government only needs to organize 100-200 The armed militia, under the guidance of a few leading parties, can easily break into this Indian entrenched area, and then wipe them all out, completely solving the public security problem in Cheng'en Township and many nearby villages.

Compared with the bloodless battles in Cheng'en Township, the local situation reported by the head of Zhaoqing Township, Lu Xiaofeng, was somewhat responsible.Because according to some news jointly sent back by the Infantry Battalion of the Zhongguo Army and the Gendarmerie, Chief Vargas, who was taken away from his old nest, has recently become active in the nearby area. In the past year, a total of 59 pioneers on the east coast were killed and injured, and 25 cattle, more than 100 sheep and a large amount of food were taken away. In Zhaoqing Township, Rongcheng Township and Jingsai Town area are also very arrogant.

In order to eliminate this threat, a few months ago, under the overall planning of the regional administrative office and the allocation of personnel and materials by the Beining County Government, the infantry battalion of the Zhongguo Army and the militia from the three towns of Zhaoqing were mobilized together, bringing together more than 2200 people. A large-scale search and suppression operation was carried out - the regional administrative commissioner Xu Yu named the "Iron Wall Encirclement" operation for this reason - and finally the troops of Chief Vargas were attached to a certain place. After ten days of continuous pursuit and fighting Finally, the two or three hundred Indian warriors who followed him were finally wiped out on the banks of the Tete River.

Not to mention, Captain Xu Xiangdong, who was on the frontline commanding the battle, also interrogated the captives and learned of several small Indian tribes that helped them, and then led the army to attack these tribes while the iron was hot, and wiped them out one by one, almost No prisoners were left - Captain Xu explained this to give the enemy the necessary deterrence, otherwise any cat or dog would dare to stab the pioneers on the east coast in the future, so that the loyal nationalist army, with less than a thousand people, would have to be exhausted ah!

The demise of Calderon and Vargas, the two major Indian chiefs, basically means the end of the opposition forces on the existing territory in the Beining area.Since then, basically no organization or force can pose a threat to the pioneers on the east coast, and the transportation line along the river from Beining to Jingsai will also be unimpeded, which is undoubtedly crucial to the future economic development of the Beining area of.

Of course, even if the law and order situation in the Beining area improves, the State Development Bureau probably won't make too many immigrants here.Shao Yuanyi vaguely heard that the superiors were extremely troubled by the poor traffic conditions in Beining, and had decided to detain the 72 immigrants who were originally sent here, and sent them to the southeast coastal area, where they built several pioneer settlements. Here, they are: Longchi Port, located near the small city of Iguape in the later generations-the port is located at the mouth of the river, and there is an island (Complida Island) in front of it to block the turbulent waves of the outer sea, so the inside of the port is calm and the conditions are quite good. All kinds of ships are berthed; located in Chunliang Township near the city of Leystru in the later generations, the classic [-]-ton inland river steamer can enter the vicinity through Longchi Port, so the traffic is not bad; it is located in the small town of Cananeia in the later generations The nearby Zhouluo Port - this is also a harbor with relatively good conditions, and the transportation is more convenient; and Dingchuan Port, which is located near the small town of Alili in later generations, is a small riverside town, but because of the suitable water depth, it is also It can be docked by offshore vessels, and the transportation conditions are not bad.

In short, these four newly-established settlements are either near the river or the sea, and they are all places with convenient transportation, which is convenient for the State Development Bureau to transport a large amount of materials and personnel to the above-mentioned places. Collective development guidelines for the Bac Ninh area.In Shao Yuanyi's view, such guidelines are definitely not good news for the residents of Beining County. In the future, the development of Beining Town, where the regional capital and administrative office is located, will not be as good as the newly established coastal towns. Strange things are in line with the law of economic development.

"Hehe, why do I care about these shitty things? Tomorrow, I will pack up my luggage and go back to my hometown after I finish the health and epidemic prevention class for the cadres in the whole region. This place in Beining is really meaningless. It is poor, remote, and bitter. Everything is included. Yes, I don’t know when it will develop. Last time I heard that someone from the Ministry of Agriculture came to investigate whether the environment here is suitable for growing coffee, a cash crop that is in short supply. I don’t know what the conclusion is. I hope this can help them. , otherwise it will be difficult here, so take your time.” Looking at the rural scene at dusk for a while, Shao Yuanyi got drunk and went back to sleep under the service of his students.

(End of this chapter)