Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 412 Yihe ([-])

Regarding Long Xu's thoughts, Second Lieutenant Oleg, the cavalry officer who was in charge of the security and defense work here, had a different opinion.He thought that the Charuya were hiding like rats in the mountains to the west, and that they would not be easy to find.And maybe they have a hundred fighters who can fight, maybe two hundred or more, if they don't fight head-on, but adopt guerrilla tactics, then the people on the east coast will have a headache.

"Maybe we will suffer a lot of undue casualties, but the enemy may not suffer a lot of damage." Second Lieutenant Oleg added, "I suggest that it is better to defend on the spot. During the day, our cavalry is responsible for reconnaissance, and the army infantry is responsible for vigilance, and at night. Put up barbed wire around the camp, and set up sentries, so that the savages have nothing to do with us."

Long Xu looked at the former Zaporozhye Cossack in his 30s, and had to admit that what the other party said was reasonable.It is obviously unrealistic to want to solve the problem once and for all when I come here, so it is better to keep calm as Second Lieutenant Oleg said.Ensuring the smooth completion of the railway and the completion of the construction of the walls of the Canyon Fort is his first priority, and nothing else is important.

The length of the city wall in the design of Canyon Fort is about 900 meters—a typical small inland castle. At present, there are 500 immigrants from Ninghai Prefecture, Shandong Province, and more than [-] South African construction laborers are here to build the railway station.The houses of the railway station have basically been completed, and the workers from South Africa are currently building freight yards, parking lots, repair shops and other facilities.Today, the number of South African laborers who are widely active in the East Coast Republic has reached more than [-]. Since they only need to serve for three years to obtain the status of free citizens in South Africa, the enthusiasm of these people is still high. It's high.Thanks to their efforts, domestic railways and roads have been paved, houses and warehouses have been built, and trucks of ore bricks and tiles have been produced, which has played a huge role in the construction of the East China Republic.

The South Africans are building the railway, while the Ming immigrants from Shandong are building the city walls and temporary wooden houses for themselves.The wooden house is for one person. This is what the superior told them. They don’t quite understand that the temporary wooden houses in other places are for two or even four people. They can’t figure out why they have one person here. Too much wood coming back?However, their doubts were quickly answered, which made them very excited.

About 100 Serbian slave girls wearing denim uniforms uniformly distributed on the east coast came in a dozen or so carts from the direction of the southern railway line.Following the coachman's yell, these female slaves stood next to the construction site in a daze holding a small cloth bag containing some clothes and a few silver dollars issued to them by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The canyon fort construction site, which had been buzzing with whistles, passwords, and chants, suddenly fell silent.Hundreds of Ming immigrants straightened up, staring at the large group of "newcomers" in a daze.

"It's a woman!" Someone soon spread the exciting news to every corner of the construction site, and everyone lost their minds about working.They are all able-bodied men, most of them are in their twenties, a few are in their teens or in their 40s or [-]s, but they have one thing in common—that is, they are all bachelors.

Yes!Due to various reasons, such as war, famine, poverty, etc., a large number of bachelors have been created in Shandong. It is not easy for them to even eat enough, let alone marry a wife.Those gentry's homes are full of people and maidservants, but they are so poor that they may not be able to get a wife until they die.Now I had no choice but to follow these barbarian people to the east bank, but I didn’t expect that the timing turned out to be lucky—or it can be said that it was a big luck. Not only did they have to allocate houses to them, but I heard that the land, cattle, and sheep will also be allocated in the future. , Now it is even possible to give them a daughter-in-law!God is sorry, someone can help me go back to Shandong to see if there is any smoke from my family's ancestral grave!

And the east bank cadres who had been supervising their work very strictly, did not urge them to work at this moment, but gathered together, as if they were discussing something.After the discussion, they went through the handover procedures with the person in charge of the team that escorted these women.After everything was settled, Agnelli, the interim head of the administration of Canyon Fort, announced that in the next construction work, he would divide everyone into several groups, and each group would do part of the work.The management cadres will score each person, and the top 150 people with the highest scores will be able to choose a daughter-in-law according to the ranking.

These Serbian female slaves were bought from the Ottoman Empire at a large price by the people on the east bank. These people are theoretically considered the "property" of the government of the East Bank Republic, because they are legally slaves.In other words, these female slaves bought from the Ottoman Empire did not have the right to choose their own destiny, they could only passively accept the arrangement of the "master".According to the plan, after being assigned to new male immigrants and living there for three years, they will be able to register and obtain all the rights of freedmen.And this has been clearly told to them from the first day they arrived on the east coast, and they basically accept or acquiesce to this fate-this is better than being a slave for a lifetime until death too much.

As the largest "goods" imported from the Ottoman Empire, the female slave trade is more and more prosperous between the two countries today.The Ottomans relied on this and livestock exports to balance the huge trade deficit between the two countries, while the people on the east coast have always followed the principle of "money is useless, materials are useful", so most of the profits earned are basically spent on Buy slave girls and horses above.There are more than 500 female slaves brought back from the Ottoman Empire. In addition to 150 people who were assigned here, another 100 were assigned to Ningjinbao (Jose Pedro Varela Village) in the south—— It is named after more than 200 military households from the Weihai Wei Ningjin Institute.In addition, about 250 more people were assigned to the Lower Yi River Fort, and they are expected to arrive at the pier before the middle of next month. They will also come with about 250 Malay women, which are considered for the bachelor residents of the Lower Yi River Fort. A little surprise and bonus.

After explaining the policy clearly to this group of Ming immigrants, the enthusiasm of these people was immediately greatly stimulated.On the same day, some individuals who overfulfilled their tasks began to appear. After the management cadres gave these people high marks, everyone was in an uproar. The next day, they immediately completed their rated tasks at a faster speed, and then began to work overtime on their own initiative. .Even when it was time to eat, the public cafeteria, which had been bustling with people before, became much quieter. As far as the eye could see, there were only a few dozens of older Ming immigrants in their 40s and [-]s eating.Their bodies are not as good as those boys, they are already exhausted after completing their own tasks, why work overtime?forgive me!Anyway, I heard that there will be a second and third batch of women coming in the future, so what's the rush?Those immigrants who voluntarily asked to work overtime went to the cafeteria to pick up a few beef buns, and continued to work after eating in a hurry, until it was getting dark when the management cadres came to urge them to stop working, and they were a little reluctant to quit.

Faced with such a situation, Agnelli, the person in charge of civil affairs in Canyon Fort, was overjoyed, and Long Xu, the commander of the 103rd Company of the Army, who had been serving as a security mission for the past few days, also felt a little funny. Hormones are really the best excitement for men. agent.In his opinion, these Ming people are like animals in heat in spring, full of boundless energy.However, the progress of the construction is really much faster. More than a dozen warehouses, town government, military barracks, residences, etc. have been repaired, and even the underground drainage ditch has been dug for a long time.Immediately, another group of about [-] to [-] old French and Livonian residents may be transferred to the east to live with these new Ming immigrants. After these new labor forces are in place, the construction speed will become faster.And when the city wall was built, the Charuya barbarians had nothing to do with them.

During this time, Lieutenant Oleg's hundreds of cavalry have been cruising around the canyon fort, and even bumped into several groups of gaucho horse bandits.According to him, those gauchos like to act in groups. There are as few as five or six people in one group, and as many as seven or eighty people. These people are equipped with flintlock pistols, rifles, leather armor, Spanish spears, etc. The sword has been cruising on both sides of the West Ridge, waiting for an opportunity to attack the lonely farmers, herdsmen, policemen, messengers and others on the east bank.I don't know where these people got supplies, and where their lair is, but what is certain is that these people are definitely in collusion with those Charuya barbarians, because according to some captured gaucho horse bandits, They have never raided Charuya villages, and sometimes get supplies from them.

They didn't attack the Charuyas, perhaps because these warlike savages were poor and had nothing to offer, but it was impossible to say that there was nothing tricky about them.Perhaps it was the hateful Spanish missionaries who made a bridge, allowing these gaucho horse bandits who had no fixed place to rest and resupply in the Chaluya villages living in the Negro River Basin, thus gaining continuous support. ability to fight.

What a jerk!Long Xu's left hand tightly held the handle of the command saber at his waist, feeling a little annoyed in his heart.From the end of August to the current mid-September, he has lost a messenger who delivered messages to and from Fort Lower Yi, three immigrants who went out to chop firewood, and a patrolman who was killed while patrolling at night.Although the losses of the gauchos were greater, such incidents continued to be extremely irritating.Those gauchos obviously seldom get anything from the people from the east coast, but they still haunt them. Don't they need to eat?Who sends them money?Hmph, the Jesuit monks, their hearts and deeds are damnable!

(End of this chapter)