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  Chapter 937 933 [Colonization is bloody]

  Whether it is Batavia or Jakarta, it has become a thing of the past now, and it is now the Governor-General of Coconut City in China.

  The land around Yecheng was originally in the hands of Han landlords. After the imperial court ruled Yecheng, the governor encouraged the people to open up. The original tenants continued to farm while opening up the surrounding land.

  In a few years, the land was expanded for dozens of miles, and the land ceded to Yecheng from Wandan Kingdom was all developed. The local Javanese natives either went to the city to work or worked for the landlord, otherwise they could only be expelled.

  The governor said that the aborigines should be educated slowly, but the Han peasants didn't care about that many, and they even armed themselves to fight.

   Whoever refuses to let them reclaim the land, they will unite and beat anyone!

   On New Year's Day in the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, Lu Baohua and his fellow villagers spent the rainy season.

  Lu Baohua was a farmer in the mountainous area of ​​Guangdong. The Datong New Dynasty was established. His parents gave birth to eight sons and one daughter in succession, and only two sons died in infancy. How can the land allocated by the government be enough? Not to mention the mountains.

  He successfully graduated from elementary school and middle school, but he only got a diploma.

  Lu Baohua could only go to work in the city, and worked as an apprentice for several years. He really didn't like it, so he asked his classmates to go to Guangzhou to make a living. One day, he met Yecheng who was returning to his hometown to worship his ancestors. He heard that the surrounding area of ​​Yecheng was full of land, and as long as he went there, he could reclaim it. The premise was that he could withstand the aboriginal attack.

  At least, you have to carry it yourself until the governor sends troops to rescue!

  Lv Baohua thought about it, and went back to the mountains, calling young and strong to go out to farm. A few people were recruited in this village, and then went to the next village, village by village, and finally recruited hundreds of people to go to sea.

  They are all poor people in the mountains, and each family is scraping together, except for the boat money, there are still a few taels of funds available.

  They set off from Guangzhou Port by boat with farm tools, seeds and dry food. After reporting to the Yecheng Governor's Mansion, Datong Bank loaned them twenty taels of silver, and then they were taken to a forest dozens of miles away by officials.

  In the first year, the trees were cut down to plant sugar cane, and the seeds brought were useless.

  Because I heard from the locals that the grain harvest in the first two years was not high, but the sugar cane can be sold at a good price. Sugarcane seeds are bought from local Han people, and the felled wood can be sold to merchants.

  The sugarcane harvest was really bumper, and they couldn't wait to plant it for another two or three years, and in the second year they took out half of the land to plant upland rice.

  The yield of upland rice is low, but the taste is good and the price is high.

  The main reason is the lack of irrigation canals. So in the second year, they dug aqueducts and bought water from local farmers to irrigate the fields. The water fee was calculated according to the irrigation time.

  In the third year, Lu Baohua presided over the division of fields and divided the cultivated land reclaimed collectively.

  This year, Lu Baohua asked his younger brother to go home by boat, bringing back letters and silver coins to the young and strong, and hoped to attract more fellow villagers to cultivate. They said in their letters home that the land in Yecheng is extremely fertile, rice can be harvested twice a year, and they don't need too much fertilizer. The agricultural tax here is lower than that of my hometown, and the first five years of reclamation can be tax-free. After reporting to the governor, you can get a loan for land reclamation.

  When Silibaxiang heard the news, half the county was shocked, and more than 300 young and strong went to sea collectively.

  In fact, overseas pioneering is very difficult, exposed to the sun and rain, and the soil and water are not acclimatized. Although the yields of sugar cane and rice are high, the prices are often lowered by merchants. Although there is no need to worry about food and clothing throughout the year, there is no money left at all. The money I brought back to my hometown was saved by tightening my belt.

  There were two batches of young and strong, nearly 500 people. The governor allowed them to build a village, and Lu Baohua was elected as the village head.

  Among the young and strong, there are more than a dozen peasant soldiers.

  The Datong imperial court reduced the number of peasants and soldiers many times, and also stipulated that each peasant and soldier had to "retire" and recruit new recruits after only three years of leisure training. To put it bluntly, it is a reserve service that does not receive military pay, but during the period of serving as a farmer and soldier, each person can be exempted from land tax of two acres.

   Only those who have land in their families are eligible to be farmers and soldiers. Urban residents are not eligible.

  Lv Baohua's village is called "Tangmi Village", the name comes from the crops they grow. A peasant soldier named Ge Shun was appointed as the captain of the peasant soldier because he had finished elementary school. All the young and strong were incorporated into the team, and they took turns to practice in the slack season.

  The governor does not encourage, prohibit, or manage this kind of farmers and soldiers. Anyway, the development is free-range, and the main combat target is the surrounding aborigines.

   "Brother, the goods are available!"

  Lu Baoliang brought people back from Yecheng. He was going to buy arms this time. The governor only banned firearms and everything else, so someone started making bows and crossbows for sale.

  Lu Baohua opened the box and looked overjoyed, "Good product!"

  Thirty pairs of crossbows, which are very popular in the countryside of Yecheng, are a sharp weapon against Javanese natives. Lu Baohua asked the villagers to raise funds to buy these, and even used up the pioneering loans.

   Every time the grain harvest season comes, it means that war is coming.

  At the beginning, the natives robbed the Han people, and the Han people were forced to fight back. Gradually, every village of the Han people organized and trained troops, and began to take the initiative to attack the aborigines.

   In the first year Lu Baohua came here, he was robbed by dozens of natives. They could only run away and find the nearby Han people to rescue them, and now they have the ability to take the initiative to kill them.

  The rainy season is over, that is, January and February, which coincides with the rice harvesting season.

   There are special personnel standing guard on the outskirts of the village, and the villagers will help them harvest the rice in the sentinel's home.

   "Dang Dang Dang Dang!"

  While working in the golden rice fields, there was a sudden sound of gongs, followed by warning smoke, and those Javanese natives really came to kill them.

  The Han people are very annoyed by this, and feel that the local aborigines are too abominable. They don't farm the land well, but they come to rob the Han people of food.

  Those aborigines occupy the fertile soil, but their ancestors have not thought about making progress for generations. The good land does not know how to dig ditches and dig ditches, does not know how to cultivate intensively, but only knows how to set fire to the forest, plant it for two or three years, and then burn another forest. What a waste of land!

  This kind of behavior of burning forests for reclamation is called "burning ba", and it still exists even after hundreds of years. Every year, Indonesian farmers burn barley, and the smoke will drift to Singapore. Singaporeans have to wear masks to dare to go out.

   "Assemble farmers, assemble farmers!"

  The young and strong in the fields everywhere, picked up the sickle and rushed to the ridge.

   Improvised ordnance is placed on the ridge of the field, ready to fight at any time. There are spears, wooden shields, and leather armor, and they look decent after being arrayed.

  The leather armor is sewn by themselves, made of pigskin.

  The landlord’s family slaughtered pigs, or the butcher slaughtered pigs, and the pig skins were sold out quickly. Farmers in the countryside buy pigskin to make armor, and add some bamboo pieces to it, which has a little defensive power.

  More than four hundred young and strong gathered quickly, and the command was handed over to Ge Shun, the leader of the peasants and soldiers.

  Both sides moved towards the open area, and the scale of the aboriginal bandits surprised Lu Baohua and Ge Shun.

  In previous years, there were only dozens of enemies, at most a hundred, but this time there were more than three hundred.

  The natives also seemed surprised. When they came to rob last year, there were only about a hundred Han people here. Why did they suddenly become four or five hundred?

   It can only be said that the scale of the "war" is getting bigger and bigger!

   Banten Sultan did not dare to provoke China, and turned a blind eye to the behavior of the Han people to open up the land. The Javanese natives continued to lose their territories, and finally learned to unite, and two or three tribes gathered to send troops.

  In these tribes, the total number of men, women, old and children is often only two or three hundred.

  They burn the forest and reclaim it for one or two years, and then they will move to another forest. Occasionally, tribal conflicts will break out. The main reason for the conflicts is the competition for forest land. Now the Han people are forcing the indigenous tribes to join hands with foreign countries.

   "Crossbowmen step forward, sword shields and shields in hand!"

  Dao Dun held the lid of the cauldron in his hand and the sickle in his hand, standing nervously and firmly in front of him.

   There are also wolf fighters and spearmen, which are exactly the same as the early Datong army.

  The native Javanese on the opposite side, without any formation, charged forward with a machete in hand.

  More than 400 Han people were young and strong, and they were divided into several small groups and marched slowly. Thirty crossbows were fired first, and the natives also shot bows and arrows, but they were self-made clay bows with little power.

  Although the crossbow was powerful, the crossbowman's aim was not enough, and he only hit a few natives with one shot.

  The two sides engaged in battle, the aborigines were disturbed by the wolves, and the momentum of the charge slowed down. Most of the aborigines were blocked from the wolves, and some of them pushed through the wolves, but were stabbed to death and wounded by spears.

   Less than five minutes into the battle, the aborigines completely collapsed, and Ge Shun took advantage of the situation to chase and kill them.

  In this battle, more than 60 enemies were killed and 27 people were captured.

   They didn’t chase too far, they still had to come back to harvest rice, and the wars belonged to wars, and they couldn’t miss the farming season.

  Captives can be taken to the city to sell, and big landlords are willing to buy.

   Half a month later, the rice was harvested.

  Lu Baohua convened a meeting of young and strong leaders: "You can't be beaten every year, you have to go out this year, so that the natives dare not come again!"

Ge Shun said: "There are indigenous tribes not far to the west. They burned the forest last year, and the forest fire burned a large area. So much land was burned, but less than half of it was used to grow food. It's really a waste of money." land!"

Lu Baohua said: "Every year when the governor buys women, he sells them first to the Han people in the city, and then to those Han people in the east. The newcomers we cultivate in the west don't even have a woman. Girls from my hometown don't want to go to sea to get married. We can only rely on ourselves to grab it!"

   "What if we are rich and the girl from my hometown is willing to come and get married?" Xue Fentian asked.

  The name "Fentian" is very common. It is estimated that when I was born, I happened to meet the Datong Army Fentian, just like the founding of the new China and the aid to the DPRK.

  Wan Wenqing laughed beside him and said, "The aboriginal woman you snatched can be your wife. If you marry a girl from your hometown again, the aboriginal woman will be your concubine."

   "It's a good feeling, I can marry a concubine." Xue Fentian grinned.

  The content of the meeting suddenly turned to how to grab and divide women. They don't have to worry about food and clothing here, what they lack is a family, and the hundreds of young and strong have long been exhausted.

  These young and strong people have the cure for night blindness, they all learned from the peasants and soldiers, but many of the natives can't see clearly at night.

  The plan for dispatching troops is to attack at night. Hundreds of young and strong people travel through the forest and reach the outskirts of the native village at night.

  The natives were unsuspecting, and after being set alight with a few thatched huts, they ran around in the dark in fright. While the Han people were young and strong, they placed torches everywhere and beat the gongs loudly, creating a formation of thousands of troops to kill.

   There was no suspense in the battle. After dawn, the number of people was counted, and more than 80 people were captured, of which more than 60 were women and children.

   "Burn this place clean, and remove everything that can be moved!" Lu Baohua was ruthless, and arresting women was the second priority. He wanted to destroy this indigenous tribe.

  The Datong government may have to face it, thinking about how to educate the aborigines.

  These non-governmental Han colonists came here no matter how convenient they were. Destroy a few more surrounding tribes, and you will be able to sit back and relax in the future, without having to worry about harvesting food every year.

  Lu Baohua brought the captives back to the village, all the men were sold in the city, and the women were left to marry young men.

  Who can divide the women will be determined by drawing lots. If you don't get it, wait until next year to grab it.

  Colonization is not a treat, it will always be so bloody.

  If things go on like this, I am afraid that in less than 30 years, Han farmers will be farming outside the city of Banten.

   Banten Sultan, definitely can't bear it, and will definitely raise troops within three to five years, even if they can't win, they have to bite the bullet and fight.

  (end of this chapter)