Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 316 Immigrants Swarming ([-])

On November 1641, 11, the New China Colony.

A sudden torrential rain has finally kicked off the annual troubling rainy season.In the previous two days, the large-scale harvesting of dry season farmland had just ended, and the freedmen and slaves in Fort Xinhua rushed to save a total of about 200 tons (800 tons of corn, 2400 tons of sweet potatoes) of grain before the heavy rain came. Received into the warehouse.Including the grain harvested from the previous batch and the remaining sorghum rice in the warehouse, the warehouse in Xinhua Castle is currently full of more than [-] tons of various grains.So far, the agricultural planting activities in Xinhua Castle this year have all ended, and the next four-month fallow period will be the rainy season.

这2400吨粮食加上一些采集的椰果、海货以及1000多头驼峰牛，差不多够1万人吃上一年了。而新华夏殖民地目前的所有人口算上八旗奴隶（1500余人）、马来奴隶（2500余人）、自由民（500余人）和军政企业系统人员及其他（约450人），加起来差不多共有近5000人左右，即使此刻立刻就来个五六千明国移民，现有的粮食储量差不多也能够应付得过来。

Moreover, these Ming people did not eat and drink for nothing after they came. The Xinhuabao government would also organize them to build city walls, build forts, log, quarry, burn bricks, reclaim wasteland and even dig coal mines.It's a pity that such a huge amount of labor is not well utilized. After all, they will not be transported back to the mainland immediately. During the interval of waiting for the arrival of the ship, they can be organized to build the New China Colony.Now there are construction sites everywhere, and manpower is needed everywhere, and those local natives who were recently captured by the government are lazy and stupid, have very low enthusiasm for work, and always try to escape, which annoys the supervisors. Slaves can only be used as half.

As a last resort, after communicating with Hezhongbao, Xinhuabao, the second-year Eight Banners slaves, artificially extended their service period by one year, that is, from one year to two years.The reason is that the New China region is no longer so dangerous. The incidence of various diseases, especially malaria, has dropped significantly. Currently, the annual death rate of slaves has dropped to about 15%-20%, and it may be further reduced in the future.These Eight Banners slaves are hardworking, eat less, work more, and can endure harsh environments, which is many times better than those Malays.For this reason, Shi Qinjie even had an idea to send all the Malays here to South Africa, and exchange some Eight Banners slaves with Hezhongbao.But Mo Ming is not stupid, these Malays are not easy to manage, they are lazy, and he also has a headache, but the face of Xinhua Castle is not good, so the exchange of races has been carried out on a small scale in the past two years with.

With the onset of the rainy season, most work had to be stopped.Works such as water conservancy facilities, logging, and road construction have all stopped, but no one dares to stop the construction of forts and city walls, and the wooden houses prepared for the new immigrants are also under intense rain.In addition, the technicians of the ship repair station and the newly recruited craftsmen are also trying to build some small fishing boats for offshore fishing.You must know that the fishery resources in the waters near Madagascar are extremely rich, especially seafood such as prawns, swordfish, barracuda, lobsters, and sea cucumbers are famous specialties of this place in later generations.Build more fishing boats to catch more fish and shrimp for the local area, which can not only increase the protein supplement for all residents, but also greatly reduce the food consumption rate.

More importantly, the Executive Committee's determination to develop the shipbuilding industry in the New China colony has been determined early, so starting with building simple fishing boats can also cultivate some shipbuilding talents as soon as possible, and accumulate experience and technology for building larger tonnage merchant ships in the future .

The days passed day by day like this, until more than a month later, when the time entered 1642, the long-awaited immigrants from the Ming Dynasty in the New China region finally arrived. On the afternoon of January 1642, 1, five large Portuguese sailing galleons anchored outside the headland of Xinhuaxia Bay, requesting to enter the port.After sending people to carefully inspect these Portuguese ships, the east bank allowed them to enter the port one by one, and sent the new Ming people to the shore in batches.

Almost all the residents in the city were mobilized to help settle the newly arrived Ming immigrants on the pier. Even the 3rd company of the army stationed in the fortress area of ​​No. 400 and No. [-] Forts sent some soldiers back to the pier Come up to maintain order.The more than [-] Irish people who occupy the mainstream of Xinhuaburg residents looked at these newcomers with complicated expressions, and silently prepared bath water and sweet potato polenta for them.

According to prior communication with the Portuguese, there are nearly 3000 newly arrived immigrants from the Ming Dynasty.However, there are also Koreans and Japanese who are misleading among them, and there are even a few Vietnamese among them.The army soldiers in charge of screening picked them out one by one according to the official comparison manual, and then counted the number, preparing to bargain with the Portuguese for a while.

It was still raining lightly today. Accompanied by his secretary Rodrigo holding an umbrella, Shi Qinjie walked slowly by the pier, carefully watching these new arrivals.I don't know where the Portuguese collected these people. The sources seem to be very mixed, which can be seen from their looks, figures and occasional accents.They could have been identified from their attire, but at the moment it seems that most of these people don't have any attire at all, in other words, they are all dressed in tatters.

Some children even had their buttocks completely bare, but they didn't take it seriously. They looked at a group of well-dressed soldiers with armor and knives on the pier with curious and fearful eyes. Among these people, there were even some they had never seen before. Big beards, blue eyes, or blond hair, it makes them curious.But they didn't dare to look too much, the fear of the unknown was also affecting them, making them turn their gazes away for a short while occasionally, but quickly retracted them.

The adults are generally dull, honest, and numb. It can be seen that most of them are peasants who have stayed in the village all their lives.Their knowledge of the outside world is limited to the narrow area of ​​the village where they live, and their social relations are extremely simple, mostly confined to neighbors or landlords.Many of them are estimated to be the same as the previous batches of immigrants. Many of them could not even fully express their feelings or meanings in words at the beginning.

They need a long-term makeover.Shi Qinjie sighed secretly. Years of poverty, hunger, disease and war have seriously destroyed their physiology and psychology. They need a long period of recuperation and transformation before they can slowly integrate into the existing system on the east coast.I don't know where these Portuguese found them. These people look like the common poor people in the north of Ming Dynasty, weak and numb.It's no wonder that the Manchus were able to drive straight in and steal China. Years of wars have completely collapsed the order in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.Landlords and literati are corrupt and depraved, ordinary people are poor and numb, and it is of no benefit to them to rise up against the Manchu Qing, and even the new Manchu conquerors may not be more cruel than the original Han landlord class who exploited them go.What a fucking society this is, Shi Qinjie couldn't help sighing, if such a Ming Dynasty doesn't perish, it's really unreasonable.

Over the past few years, the immigrants from the Ming Dynasty have been miserable year by year, and it can be seen that the situation there is deteriorating rapidly.Travelers don't even need to learn about these things from the pile of old papers, they only need to see some clues from the status of the Ming immigrants who came to the east bank.And this is one of the reasons why many people in the army and the government have accelerated the development of the Far East route.

The Irish militiamen organized the immigrants who disembarked into groups of 50, and then led them to a large wooden structure house next to them, where men and women were separated for personal hygiene activities such as bathing and hair washing.Several large bathhouses were built with bricks and cement in the room, and some Eight Banners slaves poured buckets of hot water into them from time to time.Thanks to a large amount of industrial preparation of sulfuric acid, a certain proportion of precious copper sulfate solution is added to the bath water in the bathhouse, which is mainly for sterilization and disinfection.After each group of people went in to take a bath, the Eight Banners slaves standing at the door took away the tattered clothes they took off and sent them to the stove to burn them together, and then gave each person who took a bath a set that was shipped from the east coast. denim pants.

After taking a bath, the immigrants from the Ming Dynasty were led to eat in the cafeteria next to the bathhouse.Meals are nothing more than simple sweet potato polenta and pickles.At this time, only these foods are the most suitable for them.After all, their weak bodies will not be blessed to enjoy those delicious fish in a short period of time, so let's take these simple foods for a while to recuperate.

The resettlement of [-] immigrants from the Ming Dynasty continued until the next morning.Whether it was the military and political officials of Fort Xinhua, or the Irish and Eight Banners slaves who were actually working below, everyone was exhausted.But we can't relax now, because the wooden houses for the new immigrants have not been completely completed. In the next few days, they will organize these new immigrants to do it themselves, and use the wood processing factory to pick out the remaining wooden boards for themselves. Build temporary huts.Moreover, the common sense of life in tropical areas, some taboos and things to pay attention to in life have to be clearly explained to them.Of course, before all this, the first thing to do is language learning, that is, to let these Ming people learn the official language of the East Coast Country, so as to avoid poor communication in the future.In short, there are many things going on, and for a long time to come, I am afraid that everyone will be too busy to touch the ground.

(End of this chapter)