Rise of the 1630s South America

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Gaomo’s villa is located on the bank of the North Reservoir of Dongfanggang City, surrounded by green trees and sparkling lakes. Standing on the balcony at the top of the villa, you can see the endless prairie as far as the eye can see, with a unique distant, Desolate and rough style.

Although it is the villa of the country's senior leaders, it is nothing more than a three-storey small western-style building made of marble, blue bricks, and red tiles as the main materials.In the 21st century, it may not be as beautiful as the houses built by some local tyrants in rural China. The only thing that is better than those local tyrants may be the materials used.

For safety reasons, the walls of these villas are uniformly made very thick, and the walls are usually made of smooth polished large stones, which are thick and dignified.The floor between the upper and lower floors is made of cement prefabricated panels that have been widely used in various occasions, which are cheap but durable.A wooden floor is laid on the ground, the floor is not colored, and it still maintains the stripes when it was harvested from other places, which looks very natural.There are several windows on each floor, and the windows are made of colored broken glass—just like those ancient churches in Europe, they are assembled into various patterns, which look extremely pleasing to the eye.

These villas were slowly developed and built by the Construction Bureau of the Ministry of Communications for several years. They were originally intended for the people who traveled through the village. In the early stage, less than [-] villas were built.However, after the completion, it was embarrassing that most of the time travelers were not very impressed with these standard villas built by the Construction Bureau, thinking that these houses looked too bulky, with poor lighting and not bright enough, and the style was too old-fashioned.They would rather spend a little more money to buy land on the shore of the lake to design and build houses of their own style, rather than come to buy such "cheap goods".

In the end, there was no way, the remaining [-] or so houses could not be completely vacant there, could they?In the end, Xiao Bailang came up with an idea, that is, to open these houses to some special talents among the immigrants, and sell them at cost price. While getting back the funds, he took the opportunity to win over these talents who have gradually become the backbone of the East China Republic. Set an example for those who immigrated later.

As soon as this policy was promulgated, it really caused a sensation among immigration officials, soldiers and technical personnel.They regard this kind of treatment as a great honor to be able to live with a group of people who hold the highest power on the east coast, because it means that they have gradually entered a relatively core circle.In the future, as the East Coast Republic of China grows stronger, their wealth and power will also increase.

In the end, the remaining 24 villas, each priced at 24 yuan, were finally divided up after a fierce competition.Among them, many people originally couldn't come up with the huge sum of five hundred yuan to buy a house, but some of their senior superiors generously donated money at this time and lent them money to buy villas.Especially some senior officers in the army, they can take out hundreds of yuan of funds without blinking an eye, and lend them to some of their confidantes and beloved generals who have made repeated military exploits.Therefore, 18 of these 6 villas were finally taken away by a group of martial artists, and the remaining [-] villas were respectively funded and sponsored by Mo Ming. Xu Wenxuan from the oil workshop, Pierre, a senior technician from Ping'an Iron and Steel Plant, Fabian, the Minister of Armed Forces of Dingyuan Township, and Grote, the deputy head of Dingyuan Township who was the first to "conglong".

Many of these people can't live here most of the time after buying the lakeside villas. They just regard this kind of villas as a status symbol.To be able to be neighbors with some of the five hundred "nobles" who hold the highest power in the country is already a great honor in their eyes.

Gao Mo pushed open a sliding wooden door and walked to the balcony on the second floor of the villa.Different from the general cross-travelers, most of the eleven Central Executive Committee members of the East Coast Republic of China chose to purchase these standard villas, and Gao Mo was one of them.The neighbor on his left is Shao Shude, Minister of Materials, and on his right is Jiao Tang, a low-key internal affairs committee member.There are several unpainted tables and chairs on the balcony. The wood used for the tables and chairs is extremely precious. It can be seen that it seems to be red sandalwood and red sandalwood from the New China region.This is also the tone that people on the east coast like nowadays, that is, the decoration style is as simple and low-key as possible, but the materials are all extremely elegant.

"Try the tea from the Ming Dynasty in the East." After the servant stepped forward to make tea for the two, Gao Mo reached out his hand to signal Blanco to take it himself.

Blanco's face was tense, and he said thank you in a low voice, then sat down in front of the tea table with a heavy heart, looking at the scenery outside the balcony.

The balcony faces north and faces the sun.Not far in front of the villa is the sparkling Dongfang County Reservoir. People on the east bank of this huge artificial reservoir have been repairing it for about seven or eight years. After many expansions and renovations, it has now become a huge nearby Artificial freshwater lake.Many fruit trees are planted around the lake, embellishing the lakeshore very beautifully. Of course, the most planted here is the oak tree, which is an excellent shipbuilding material.It is said that at the bottom of this artificial reservoir, there are several underground water pipes leading to the drinking water treatment plant in Dongfanggang City, providing a huge amount of domestic water for the residents in the city.

Several streams converged on the north bank of the lake. On both sides of the stream, dozens of men who looked like soldiers were washing their horses.While they were intimately exchanging feelings with the horses, they were talking to each other, and bursts of enthusiastic laughter burst out from the crowd from time to time.They wore uniform white cotton shirts, dark blue trimmed army trousers, high riding boots on their feet, and cooked cowhide belts around their waists. The whole look was simple, clean and majestic.

These soldiers have young faces and bright smiles, and they don't seem to be from the same world as the mercenaries who are sad and glib all day long in Sao Paulo, Brazil.They seem to be born with a sense of honor and superiority—well, maybe not born with it, but at least cultivated. Blanco knows that this kind of temperament requires good living conditions, high social status and continuous improvement. The self-confidence accumulated from victory can create success.But those beggar-like armies in Europe couldn't be compared with them. They weren't even professional soldiers, but were assembled in a hurry just before the start of the battle. It was self-evident how powerful they were.

Blanco sighed. Based on this alone, those unreasonable demands made by the people on the east coast had to be carefully considered.

"Our friendship for so many years was ruined because of the greed of those Spaniards?" After a long time, Blanco finally spit out, "Gao, why don't you join us? Fight with us? We will pay you enough Satisfactory military spending. You know yourselves that a conflict with the Dutch is inevitable, so why push such a ready ally like us out at this time? Gao, I am so disappointed! I have been convincing for so many years My family and my friends wanted to befriend the East Coasters, and that's what you ended up doing to us."

"From my personal emotional point of view, I am very willing to support your proposition." Gao Mo comforted Blanco, and said in his mouth: "But there are many people in our government who disagree with me. They think that The invitation from the Spaniards was timely, and the Spaniards also gave us a territorial promise, which they could not refuse. Moreover, your recent succession of failures in the Paraguay area has also made many people see opportunities. "

What Gao Mo pointed out touched Blanco's sore spot.Since 1639, when the Spanish government approved the arming of the Guarani people in the missionary area, the Sao Paulo flag team, which had repeatedly penetrated into Paraguay to capture slaves, was hit repeatedly.The Guarani fought for their own freedom, and they fought valiantly against the São Paulo raids; and they no longer trusted stranger priests so easily that they would not be caught by the São Paulo who often dressed in priestly clothes and pretended to be Jesuits to trap them When.In the latest large-scale battle in Paraguay, a Brazilian flag team of more than 2000 people was defeated and only 30 people survived. The combat effectiveness of the flag team was even more sneering.

Blanco was silent for a long time, and finally said slowly: "Gao, I know what you want. I am very grateful that you can persuade your colleagues not to agree to the shameless request of the Spaniard for the time being, but this is destined to cost us A certain price. Well, you won, Gao. Our new king is at war with the Spaniards on the peninsula. He has no time to take care of us. He even wants to cede the land where our ancestors lived for generations to the Dutch. We are in a terrible situation Dangerous. I will try my best to convince the other families when I go back, and I will also try my best to convince the representatives of Joao Fernandez Vieira. I think they should recognize the situation and make a correct judgment at this time. Alright , I think they will probably agree to provide you with low-interest loans of no more than 25 yuan in the next few months. The annual interest is one cent, and the loan period is five years. You can choose to repay in kind, But not more than half of the real thing. This is the limit of what I can do, and all you need to do is to sever any secret agreements with the damned Spaniards!"

Gao Mo nodded subtly.Blanco gave him a fixed look, then walked out without saying a word.

After Blanco left, Gao Mo walked gently to the next room, where Ma Ganzu, Liu Weimin, Jiao Tang, Xiao Bailang and other big men were sitting in the room.Gao Mo smiled at them: "The show is finally over, I'm so tired. Hehe, I got almost 25 yuan. It's a pity that 20% of the money will be given to the greedy Governor Gutierrez of Peru as a reward." His wonderful assist. It is said that the governor's mind is really good. It is not acceptable to just rely on the king to let him act on the camera and attack the Portuguese colonial forces. "

And just after the people on the east coast extorted a sum of emergency money from the Brazilians happily, Blanco, who had just returned to his ship, immediately found his personal servant.The personal servant understood what he meant and reported softly to him: "I have managed to bring two bighorn goats from the east bank onto the boat. One male and one female are alive and kicking. In addition, the people on the east bank have been collecting dung to make nitrate. But it is not clear why they are so efficient at making nitrate. According to scattered information, people on the east bank seem to think that sprinkling plant ash will help increase production. The last piece of news is that the production of sulfuric acid has suddenly increased recently. They I must have found some great solution, but unfortunately the people on the east coast are very strict about this, and we have been unable to obtain effective information."

"Let them not worry, take your time, as long as they are willing to spend money, they will always find someone who is willing to sell information to us. Well, this matter must be kept secret, you know? In case the people on the east coast know what we are doing No one can afford the consequences." Blanco said in a low voice with a serious face.

"I understand." The other party also nodded with a serious face.He didn't want to be one of the new dangling corpses added to the gallows at East Coaster's Wharf Square almost every day.

(End of this chapter)