Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1088 Fresh Blood ([-])

"Ahem, let me say that the grassland allocation plan is decided like this. Do you have any opinions?" Cai Huaze, who was wearing a leather coat, sat in the open space in front of the township government compound, looked at the officials present at the meeting, and said.

Cai Huaze's current status is different. As a "noble member", although he is looked down upon by many people because of his vulgar background, but in terms of real power, it is beyond the reach of many people-although he is now in the At the administrative level, he is just a small township head, but in fact, he is in charge of the entire immigration development along the Chubut River.Gein Yang Mingyang (former county magistrate of Pingan County, now transferred away) who took charge of the development of the entire area south of 42 degrees south latitude is now stationed in Huangyanggang (later Santa Cruz River estuary) which is more south of the festival. Named after a group of yellow sheep bought with a lot of money), responsible for local development.Cai Huaze is Yang Mingyang's subordinate in name, but limited by the traffic conditions, he usually makes up his own mind, so he is quite comfortable, at least better than feeling the subtle discrimination in Dongfang County, the capital.

Ever since he was interviewed by the Mei agency, and then moved some of his family members from Cai’s hometown in the north of Shangcheng Port to Hai’an Port to settle down (and some family members moved to Haijiao Port to live with the new Lithuanians), Cai Huaze has been single-minded. Put into the reclamation business along the Chubut River.In order to speed up the development of this place, he also invited Li Zhengang, the general manager of Chuangji Investment Company, who supervised the plantation in New China, to visit the Chubut River area through some old relationships, and then successfully attracted an investment—Chuangji Investment The company (after several adjustments to the shares of the company, Mo Dashuai privately holds 30% of the shares, several generals of Dashun jointly hold 40% of the shares, the management holds 10% of the shares, and the remaining 20% ​​of the shares are sold to some veterans from the East Coast soldiers) invested 5 yuan to carry out the barren mountain fruit forest project on the slopes that are not suitable for planting in the oasis of the Chubut River Valley. Using the original local distribution of wild cherries and walnuts as female parents, we will vigorously carry out breeding and grafting improvement of fine varieties, in order to obtain good economic benefits.

Do not underestimate these investments. Later generations of Argentines built irrigation canals in these areas lacking precipitation, introduced river water for irrigation, and artificially created a large number of farming oases.Relying on the local strong sunlight and large temperature difference between day and night, local apples, cherries and other fruits are very sweet. In addition to being sold locally in Argentina, they are also exported to the United States, Western Europe and other places in large quantities, earning a lot of foreign exchange income.Therefore, it is conceivable that as long as the fruit forest projects invested by Chuangji Investment Company have passed the initial growth period, they will definitely be able to obtain excellent investment returns in the future, which is beyond doubt.

And as the number one hero who brought Chuangji Investment Company here, Cai Huaze's prestige among the local officials and people is also increasing day by day. In addition, he personally put on his armor and mounted his horse to kill the enemy during the previous raids by the Tehuelche people. "Glorious image" has made him almost unanimous in the local area-this is the case with the grassland distribution plan at the moment. No comments were made, so the proposal was adopted.

"There is not much arable land in this town. For the sake of everyone's income, it is better to raise more cattle and sheep. Sheep can be plucked, and they can be released all over the mountains and fields. These things are resistant to rough feeding and can find food. Those weeds and hard grass can also be used. to eat; cattle can be placed in those ravines, and the bottom of the ravines is full of water and grass. The soft grass that grows can be eaten by cattle. At the end of the year, a batch can be killed and exported to the mainland. Um, tallow, cowhide, cattle Bone, beef, and tendon are all useful, and they are good." Seeing that everyone had no objections, Cai Huaze made a quick decision, and he said carelessly: "As for the safety of grazing, you don't have to worry about it. , because I have received a notice from Mr. Yang that starting next week, the cavalry stationed on the outskirts of the town (in fact, only a small number of people have horses) will be divided into two teams, and the strongest Cossacks (about 800 people) will be divided into two teams. Go out to the reservoir township to be established in the upper reaches of the river (located near the Florentino Amesino Dam, where the Chico River and the Chubut River meet to form a natural lake), and use This is for the base search, clearing (or enlisting) the Tehuerqi people nearby; another 500-man cavalry team (that is, the soldiers of the Ottoman Ganishari Army) will go out to Lannigou Township upstream of the river (another soon-to-be-established Settlement, located next to the small town of Dolavan in later generations), and use this as a base to search and wipe out the Tehuelche people..."

"So..." Having said that, Cai Huaze paused for a moment, then stood up, and raised his voice: "After the two troops left, there were only two hundred Russian soldiers left in the town. I think everyone knows how bad it is, and they are all two-legged infantry, so they can guard their old dens. Therefore, after the meeting, everyone went to each village to count the people who could ride horses, and then collected the names. Starting tomorrow, I will bring out the fifty army horses belonging to the village, and everyone will take turns accompanying the grazing sheep or cattle to set off to prevent the natives from attacking. If anyone does a good job, when the police stations are replenished in the future, I will Choose from among them first, do you hear me!"

Cai Huaze’s last words were spoken to some people standing outside the courtyard of the township government. They followed the tradition passed down from the South Railway, and the township government made any major decisions in the courtyard in front of the office. The villagers listened outside the fence, and if anyone raised an opinion, the officials of the township government could answer the question on the spot to clear up everyone’s doubts—President Liu of the Southern Railway said it well, everyone worked hard to reclaim these wild lands, After paying a huge sacrifice, the officials are obliged to explain some things clearly to everyone, which is more conducive to mobilizing everyone to work.Although Cai Huaze is not very used to this, he has always admired Marshal Mo and President Liu, so he has transplanted this style in full, and plans to promote it in the upstream towns of Lannigou and Reservoir in the future.

At this time, there were only a few dozen or so people standing outside the fence listening, most of them were some Buryats and Daurs who just wandered around after lunch, and some veterans who were born as cavalry soldiers who were relatively lazy on weekdays. .These people may not be very good at farming, but they are good at killing enemies on horseback. Although they have all been disarmed and returned to the fields at this moment, their skills have not degraded significantly. It is estimated that there is no big problem as a militiaman to protect herdsmen.At this moment, I heard that Cai Huaze said that the future recruitment of police officers from the police station might be selected from the herdsman team. These people immediately clamored loudly and responded, patting their chests to assure that there would be no problem.

After the meeting, Cai Huaze took some entourages and rode to the suburbs to check the regularity of the fields.Passing the wharf area on the way, I saw a large sailing ship stranded on the river beach. Some "fresh blood" (that is, newly arrived Ming immigrants, about a hundred people) from the mainland were unloading various types of ships under the guidance of sailors. Supplies—mostly food, seeds and farm tools, and a dozen or so camels, all prepared for reclamation along the Chubut River.

Due to the limited manpower in Hai'an Port, the pier has not yet been built, which has brought great trouble to the loading and unloading of materials.Fortunately, the wisdom of the people on the east bank is infinite. They have noticed the majestic tide phenomenon near the estuary of the Chubut River (in fact, all rivers in Patagonia have this phenomenon, and the tidal range near some estuaries It is as high as 9.45 meters, and the tidal energy is extremely rich), so it is quite convenient to use the tide to load and unload materials.

Recently, ships have frequently entered the estuary to load and unload materials, which has also aroused some discussions among local residents. At first, everyone speculated that the executive committee kept sending immigrants and materials here. Is it to expand the territory?At that time, there was everything to say, but basically it was all guesswork, and there was no conclusion.But after the two horse teams stationed in the outskirts began to move to the upper reaches, the local residents knew that the executive committee might really want to expand the territory, which meant a fierce conflict with the Tehuelche people— ——However, Cai Huaze and other local officials later told the pioneers that the development along the Chubut River will still be dominated by Hai'an Port in a short period of time. It was still for the purpose of establishing two forward strongholds as a supply base for attacking the natives and protecting Hai'an Port. Shepherd protection operation——Northwest Reclamation Bank made a big deal this time, saying that it would lend everyone tens of thousands of sheep in one go, so it couldn't be careless.

The group soon came to the outskirts of the agricultural planting area located in the river valley.These agricultural planting areas will be mainly planted with wheat, corn and vegetables in the future. At this time, I saw a few large steam water pumps installed by the workers of Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory, pumping and irrigating the river water with a lot of silt into the well-leveled river. In some fields, this can effectively increase the fertility of the soil.In addition, there is not a lot of local precipitation, so there is no risk of flooding. As long as the problem of farmland irrigation is solved, nature will reward human labor with extraordinarily generous rewards.In fact, the yield per unit area of ​​farmland on irrigated oases in Argentina has far exceeded the national average level in history. This may be related to the nutrients carried in the river sand and the highly intensive local agricultural production. Because the land in the river valley oasis is very precious, it is divided Farmland owners generally practice intensive cultivation, so the yield per unit area is higher.

"Do it well, don't embarrass Lao Cai, Lao Cai must build this river valley beautifully, so that no one can speak." Cai Huaze pointed at Chubut, who was quietly flowing, with a horsewhip He said vigorously: "Good job, let's eat delicious and spicy food together in the future, Lao Cai, I will do what I say!"

(End of this chapter)