Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1053 Discussion ([-])

In fact, what Liu Haiyang said was right. As people from the east coast continue to immigrate from the mainland, the number of immigrants available in the east coast control area is becoming less and less—the year before last, Liu Haiyang’s southern theater even began in Cixi County. Started to force immigration (this is located on the front line, it is the see-saw place between the Qing and the East), and almost evacuated the county in one fell swoop, which caused extremely bad effects in Ningbo Prefecture. People's uprisings are about to break out in Dinghai, Dinghai and other places, and the efforts of the people on the east coast to operate here for several years will also be wiped out.

What's even more frightening is that some of the generals of the servant army under the command of the people on the east bank also complained about this.After all, they are Ming people, and it is normal for them to be somewhat dissatisfied with the style of plundering people on the East Bank. Coupled with the deliberate propaganda of the Manchus and the hatred of the common people, many of these servant army officers feel that they cannot hold their heads up, and their morale is extremely high. low.At this time, the Manchus seemed to be on the side of justice, and the east bank was the uneducated and ferocious barbarians, and these servants, of course, were traitors and second-rate devils.Even under their background, many traitors who surrendered to the Manchu Qing have a tendency to wash their hands, which is really helpless.

Therefore, after seeing such signs, Shao Shude from Yantai stopped his plan of forced immigration in Denglai, Ningbo and other places since the end of last year, and instead used money to recruit immigrants, but there were not many responders.After all, the entire Ningbo Prefecture now has a population of only 70; Dengzhou Prefecture has always been the largest population in Shandong (the household registration exceeded one million in the last year of Wanli). There are only about 1643 people (this is the number after adding a lot of immigrants from Laizhou Prefecture); because Laizhou Prefecture is located on the front line (this is the limit area where the Qing army attacked the grass valley to the east), the people either immigrated to the east bank or moved to In Dengzhou Prefecture, the rest are also concentrated in a few counties with garrisons. The vast wilderness outside is covered with weeds and uninhabited. In Jiaozhou, Jimo, Yexian and other places, the remaining more than 65 people are outside the regime on the east bank. Shao Shude is even considering whether to remove them all, because the Qing army has also been robbing the east bank for the past few years. The population of Laizhou.

Therefore, in such a situation where there are so few people and so much land, how is it possible that there are still people who are willing to emigrate overseas?The Chinese people have always been hard to move their homeland. If there is land in their hometown and they can live on, who would go to sea to beg for a living?Therefore, the origin of immigrants from the east coast in the past two years basically came from wars and looting—among them, a large number of people from various prefectures in Southern Zhili were plundered from the Battle of the Yangtze River, and there were also many captured soldiers from the Qing army. Some of the orphans of martyrs sent by the Shun Army (of course they were volunteers) and the piglets sold by Li Chengdong, an unscrupulous warlord in Guangdong.

These people were scattered and resettled in Dinghai County of Ningbo, Rongcheng County of Dengzhou (Chengshan Weigai County, which is also a county directly under the jurisdiction of the Heishui Pioneering Team, not managed by the servant army) and the state-run large farms in Heishui Dabo County.According to regulations, all immigrants will study while working on the farm. They live in collective dormitories (if there are families, they can be allocated separate rooms), do farm work to support themselves during the day, and go to night classes to learn East Coast Mandarin and some superficial rules and regulations. .After working like this for 6-8 months, they will board ships in batches to go to the mainland on the east coast, and three-quarters of them will take the Indian Ocean route. The Xidi sank in the waters east of New Zealand), and could not afford the huge loss.

Today is mid-October, 1654, and two full years have passed since the last Yangtze River battle. Although the east bank has continuously sent naval gunboats along the river to raid the territory under the jurisdiction of the Qing army to rob people, Guangdong has also sold them. There are more than 10 "piglets", but there are very few immigrants waiting to be transported in the three major state-owned farms. It is estimated that this transportation season (from the end of October to the middle and late April of the following year) will not be enough. Maybe you have to ask North Korea to "borrow" some people to complete the target.

You know, there are now as many as 25 motor sailboats running the Blackwater-Jinshan route, with a total tonnage of 2.88 tons; there are also 8 boats running back and forth along the south coast of Australia (3 of which are old-fashioned paddle steamers). The total tonnage is 0.92 tons; there are also 28 "sprint champion" immigration special ships and flute-shaped transport ships running the route from Gushan Port to New China, with a total tonnage of 2.59 tons; there are also ships running the route from New China to the mainland 16 ships, with a total tonnage of 1.92 tons (the part with insufficient capacity is carried by cargo ships).In other words, a total of 77 ships of various types, a capacity of 8.31 tons (the capacity to transport goods from the east coast to the Netherlands is only a mere 1 tons per year), and 1102 sailors are fighting for the cause of immigration. Such a large capacity, Naturally, a large number of people must be devoured, so at least [-] people depart from Ningbo, Dengzhou, and Heishui every year ([-]% of them die on the road and [-]% are intercepted), so as to prevent the fleet from wasting capacity.

6 people may not be a big deal in the past, but now that the people have been immigrating for ten years, and the people in the control area have lived in peace for several years, how difficult it is!In ten years, people from the east coast may have immigrated 25 to 30 people from the controlled area, and the immigration resources are almost exhausted. If the immigration business can continue, it is necessary to find new immigration resources—— The Battle of the Yangtze River launched two years ago eased the deadline for the exhaustion of immigration resources, but now it can no longer be delayed, and more people must be found!

"At present, there are more than 2300 immigrants waiting to be transported in the saltworks of Dinghai County, more than 8200 people in the collective farms, and more than 4500 people in the road construction team; more than 7800 people in the collective farms of Rongcheng County, and more than 4900 people in the road construction team; There are more than 5400 people, more than 4000 people in the road construction team, more than 2500 people in the seafood processing factory, and more than 3300 people in the logging field; in addition, there are more than 3000 soldiers from the Manchu and Qing Dynasties who were building forts and coastal defense forts in Chongmingsha. Less than 5 people. Commander Shao means that the few thousand remaining Koreans on Jeju Island will not be sold, and all will be transported back to China, and we will first pass this year’s immigration transportation season.” Peng Yuanzhi carefully introduced Liu Haiyang According to the statistics of the population statistics of the immigrant resettlement sites under the Blackwater Pioneering Team, the data shows that if there is no new population supplement, the people on the east coast will have to restart the forced immigration plan again after a lapse of three years, and this It will inevitably lead to fierce resistance of the people in the jurisdiction and the renunciation of the servants and soldiers.

"There is indeed a shortage of manpower. Why don't we call back the surrendered soldiers of the Qing army from several regiments first? Even 8000 people can last for a while. Let's fool this year first." After thinking for a while, Liu Haiyang said. : "It is best not to remove the people in the salt field this year, and the road construction team has to save some people for me. The third-class national road from Yinxian County to Dinghai will start construction in early winter this year. The gang of children in Bingtuanbao provide technical and management The support of the road is close to [-] kilometers, which requires a lot of people."

"Uncle Liu, I'm afraid it won't work." Peng Yuanzhi shook his head and said, "Boss Shao said that the number of immigrants is not enough this year, and we have to find North Korea to fight the autumn wind. These people must be taken away. Of course, Uncle Liu You have to take into account the actual situation here, how about this, I will report to the boss when I go back, and see if I can find a way to appeal to the North Korean side and let them recruit some people to come over. Also low."

"This is a way. The North Koreans are newly defeated, and their courage is very low. They absolutely dare not defy us. Asking them for people, they dare not say that there are too many people. It is still a piece of cake to conscript 8000 people in a short period of time." Liu Haiyang nodded when he heard the words, and then said with some joy on his face: "Xiao Peng, there are two whole divisions (the third division and the fifth division, totaling [-] soldiers) going south with the ship this time, and the third division It is Guijian, the fifth division is a guest army, plus the tenth division stationed in Dinghai, there are only [-] soldiers, which is a bit insufficient. Moreover, the tenth division will have to go to Yin County to serve as a mobile force , Recently, the direction of Hangzhou Daying has been sending troops across the mountains to attack our counties, and the Tenth Division really can't move, so the force will be even more cramped!"

"Don't worry about it, Uncle Liu." Peng Yuanzhi smiled, and only heard him whisper: "At the end of the month, a group of ships will go south from Jiaozhou Port to Dinghai to pick up immigrants. The new army of two full divisions drawn from Shandong went south—well, 5000 people from the Xie Qian Division of the Sixth Division and 3000 people from the Du Chong Division of the Eighth Division. It's fast, and the combat power is still inferior to the other divisions, so Commander Shao intends to train them. In addition, the 1000 elites of the second brigade of the Standing Squad will also go south soon to join this operation. There are 500 more soldiers. By the way, I heard that this immigration convoy will bring a large number of Moldavian prisoners of war. The number of prisoners is estimated to exceed 500. Don’t you still have a [-]-person post to come forward? Is the brigade supplemented by the brigade? With this group of people added, there will be [-] people. With them and the [-] people of the Tenth Division acting as a mobile force, it is enough to deal with the small troops of the Manchu Qing, so there is no need to worry. "

"Indeed, it's much better this way!" Liu Haiyang slapped his thigh suddenly, and said with a smile: "Also, Hao Shangjiu, the Xintai Marquis of Nanming, is here again. I heard that the four thousand soldiers had already boarded Zheng's ship. The team was repatriated to Guangdong. At the end of last year, this guy brought more than 2000 beggar-like soldiers to Daishan Island. He is currently stationed in the Chongmingsha area for drills. Hehe, more than 3000 beggars came two years ago and followed us to the Yangtze River After strolling around the coast, not only did the troops expand to [-], but the equipment was also improved, and the spirit was completely different from before. Li Chengdong probably saw the benefits, so he sent another [-] bad troops over. Let's eat with us, hmph, then his wish will be fulfilled, these [-] soldiers are more or less a force, and it is possible to go out to collect food, grass and people."

"It's just that King Lu's troops are quite difficult now. Zhang Mingzhen, Zhang Huangyan, Wang Chaoxian and others were beaten by the troops led by Qinggu Shan'e Zhenjinli. Huang Binqing also had conflicts and got along quite unhappy. At present, although it is not likely to meet swords and soldiers, the relationship is also very tense. The enemy is in the face, but he still behaves like this. What a bunch of idiots! In addition, the Zheng family Now he is attacking Fuzhou with all his strength, so Zhao Guozuo is not incompetent. In addition, Chen Jin and others are also leading tens of thousands of people in the western Zhejiang area, and they can come to support at any time. It is estimated that his strength is also very tight. I also heard that Zheng Chenggong This person treats the King of Lu very politely. He not only sends money and goods, but also sends some soldiers, horses and warships to support the King of Lu when he is in trouble. This will involve part of his troops. Therefore, it is estimated that they will You won’t agree to attack with me again.” Finally, Liu Haiyang sighed again.

"Everyone has their own destiny. Uncle Liu, we are not the Emperor Yongli, and we cannot command Zheng Chenggong. Hehe, or even if we are the Emperor Yongli who is in Liuzhou, is Zheng willing He is a great warlord." Peng Yuanzhi said with a smile, "To put it bluntly, I am afraid that whether it is the King of Lu or the Zheng family, we will loot the local people and property wherever we go. I don’t like it, it’s just that we are powerful and they have demands from us, so they have been holding back, but this does not mean that they are willing to attack with us every time. So, people still have to rely on themselves. Look, we occupy Ningbo Mansion, build water conservancy, open up wasteland and farmland, enforce strict military discipline, and never harm the people. Wouldn’t it be a great rule in a few years? I think if we didn’t force immigrants two years ago, there might not be so much opposition in the local area. Our people, haven’t they been stable in the past two years? Raw silk, tea, bamboo, and rice have become big exporters for profit. Soon, Uncle Liu, you will slowly form a fleet to go fishing here. This is another fortune. I am afraid that the common people will benefit a lot from the great source of wealth. I think that if we continue to build ten years like this, the 70 people in Ningbo Prefecture will not all be white-eyed—especially those who were born in recent years. The new generation—knowing that we are sincerely for their benefit, and when their living standard really improves, will they still remember who is the Ming emperor and who is the Qing emperor? It is impossible at all! They just You will know who the chairman of the executive committee of my Great Eastern Shore is, and who is in charge of the Blackwater Pioneering Team! Isn't it?"

(End of this chapter)