Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1286 Order Rectification ([-])

"The situation in St. Paul's Diocese is complex, with a large population and manors all over the place. So far we have only controlled a small part of the area." In the city of St. Paul, which has been renamed "Beining Town", Xiao Xi, the commander of the Second Mixed Battalion of the Army, is with the visiting guests Chatting, I just heard him say: "Our troops are insufficient, our supplies are insufficient, and the pace of immigration is too slow, so that our occupied area is basically mixed with fish and dragons, and bandits are frequent. Great efforts must be made to improve."

What Battalion Commander Xiao said actually meant something, that is, the east bank army had already occupied a large area of ​​land on the surface, and there was no longer any organized enemy army that could openly oppose them, but this did not mean that everything would be fine!In fact, although the people on the east coast—such as the diocese of St. Paul—forcibly enforced the laws of the East Coast Republic of China, and at the same time forcibly redeemed most of the land and manors of the white colonists under the coercion of bayonets, the problem is that the redemption Redemption, due to the slow pace of immigration follow-up, those white colonists are still living in the original land and houses majestically, unless there are immigrants from the east coast who actually occupy those lands and residences, they will not give up at all ( Also unwilling to give up), so this compulsory redemption seems to be empty talk at present and has not been implemented.

What's more unfavorable is that basically all Portuguese manor owners (including some small landowners) hold an attitude of extreme hatred towards the East Bank, and are also extremely sympathetic to some Sao Paulo guerrillas who persisted in resisting. It is very convenient to get supplies in the countryside, which in turn causes trouble for the people on the east coast-has the incident of attacking convoys, new immigrants and even soldiers not happening less these months?The army even has reason to suspect that there are people in the Rio de Janeiro General District bordering Sao Paulo who are helping the Sao Paulo flag squad members. Even because there are too few naval ships on the east coast (a large number of them are dispatched), it is impossible to effectively block the coast of Brazil. It is impossible to say if you have received assistance from elsewhere.

A few days ago, someone said that a British fleet sailed into Recife, and they didn’t know what to pack, but it must have brought a lot of help to the Portuguese (many people rumored that there was a Many unemployed mercenaries from the Old World).This fleet of eight ships stayed in the port of Recife for two or three days, and then left quietly. If it hadn't happened to be met by a corrupt merchant ship, people on the east coast probably didn't know about it. Woolen cloth.

People on the east coast want to reverse the current unfavorable situation. In fact, there is only one trick—and it is also a very effective trick—that is to speed up the speed of immigration to the border, use their own population advantages to dilute the Portuguese, The shore is full of loyal citizens to monitor the Portuguese, so that the space for activities of the Sao Paulo bannermen is gradually compressed, and finally there is nothing to hide. They either leave or are wiped out by the people of the east coast. This is the kingly way!

Fortunately, the leaders of the east coast are also clearly aware of this problem, and have begun to implement the strategy of emigrating to strengthen the border from two directions. Immigrants from the government, a small number of non-citizens and purchased female slaves traveled north along the southern tip of the Brazilian plateau, entered the territory of the later state of Santa Catarina in Brazil by train, horse-drawn carriage or even on foot, and poured into Portuguese towns and manors , farmland, pastures and forest farms, and start their own settled life; the second is to recruit second-generation nationals on the prairie on the east coast of the south, and also match with new immigrants from Huai'an Prefecture, non-nationals and female slaves, and take a boat to Hue Port ( That is, Paranagua), Changshun Port and the settlements - General Rio de Janeiro and Espiritu Santo have not yet fully implemented the laws on the east coast, so they are not among the first batch of immigration destinations.

It's a pity that due to the outbreak of the war, the funds of the central government on the east bank are somewhat insufficient - the war seized has either not been shipped back to the mainland, or has not been cashed out, and now there is a task of recycling military tickets - the number of resettlement is quite small insufficient.After all, the cost of allocating immigrants to old settlements and allocating immigrants to new settlements is often sky-high, not to mention the bottleneck of transportation.And because of this, the number of immigrants assigned to the new occupied area so far is only more than 8000, and most of them are concentrated in a few settlements. Many spontaneous immigrants (referring to second-generation nationals who bought land) are still staying in their hometowns , All this makes the people on the east coast have insufficient control over the place - how can you effectively control the place if you don't immigrate to the occupied area?How can you confidently say that this is your own territory?

"Now the best-developed city in General San Vicente is undoubtedly Changshun Port, which has attracted the largest number of immigrants (more than 400 people), and also has a large number of Portuguese. It’s about two hundred, and most of them are unattached bachelors, very easy to govern.” Major Xiao Xi said to Xu Yu, who has been confirmed to be transferred to Beining Town to set up a regional administrative office, “The local Portuguese manor has also been cleaned up. It’s almost time. We have already sent away the white people who are willing to leave, and the rest are willing to stay. Of course, Indians and people with Indian blood cannot stay and must be sent to overseas colonies. There are still about [-] of these people. Many, the immigration department will arrange a boat to pick them up. It’s a pity that the transportation between Changshun Port and the inland is extremely inconvenient, and only mules and horses can pass through the mountains. , blacksmiths, slaughterhouses, bakeries, and craftsmen such as coopers, cobblers, tailors, cheese makers, butter makers, shoe makers, candle makers, etc., it is difficult to serve the inland areas. After all, the cost of transportation is too high. Be self-reliant.”

"I understand." Xu Yu, the former cavalry battalion commander who had just retired from the army in an emergency last month, said, "I have this mental preparation, isn't it just poor and white? We were also poor and white when we opened up the banks of the Dayu River. Now there What is it like? You won’t throw all your pride and aspirations out of the sky just because you’ve lived comfortably for so many years, right? Hehe, Lao Xiao, let’s show those quail-like young people that the world is right. How to open it?"

Xu Yu was originally a cavalry major, and he was over 50 years old.This time the army captured the huge territory in southern Brazil, and there was an urgent need for a senior official with rich military experience to sit in command. Therefore, under the game of civil and military officials on the east coast, Xu Yu took office as the regional commissioner, and he will be in charge of the large formation in the future. array and security matters.As for local construction, financial services (Brazilian Rural Financial Cooperatives), foreign trade and other affairs, the Government Affairs Council will naturally send personnel to take over.

"The martyrs are full of ambition in their old age. Old Xu, you can really take those young people with you. This time, you will send a group of new immigrants to Taiping Township. There will be a group of our young cadres accompanying you. You can talk to them well." Xiao Xi laughed. Said.

It is said that another group of immigrants came to Beining Town via Changshun Port recently. The number of them is not large, less than a thousand. The Gein Sao Paulo area has been in chaos for the past year. The grain production has plummeted and it is difficult to recover in the short term.What I prefer to die is that on the road from Changshun Port to Beining Town, even mules often accidentally fall down the mountain, and it is very difficult to walk. Therefore, the cost of mobilizing large-scale material support from overseas is too high, so it is difficult to It is doomed that the development of the Beining area can only be done step by step, and it is impossible to spread tens of thousands of people at once like other coastal areas, that is unrealistic.

The thousand new immigrants, together with the previous population, will be scattered and resettled in a total of four settlements. In addition to the established Beining Town and Taiping Township, there is also Pinghu Township (near the small town of Ribeirão Piris in later generations) And Cheng'en Township (the small town of Barueri on the Tiet River in later generations) two settlements to be built.These settlements were all built around the former town of St. Paul, with flat terrain, fertile soil, and a suitable climate (located on a plateau, the hottest summer can hardly exceed 35 degrees, and winter is also above zero), and there are rivers The advantage of the lake is that it is an excellent agricultural land. It is no wonder that there are Portuguese colonial manors all over the vicinity. Even those white land farmers who are new to the local area also like to obtain farmland in these places. The conditions are really excellent. !

At present, the people on the east coast have really cleaned up a small area around Beining Town—relatively speaking, in fact, the places a little further from the outskirts of the town are still the same—a large number of Indians in the surrounding area will either be arrested. They rose up to build houses, roads, warehouses, walls, canals, kilns and other facilities, or were organized to serve as military troops to transport supplies, and even thousands of people were sent to Rio de Janeiro as cannon fodder, so there were no wandering criminals in the countryside, and the order was relatively good. Stability is good for the people to settle down in the wilderness-provided that you ignore those St. Paul's flag team members who are doing all kinds of evil.

On April 1661, 4, the first thing Xu Yu did when he took office was to escort a group of 25 immigrants to settle in Cheng'en Township, and by the way, condolences and encouragement to the dozens of advance team members who had been built there in advance.He also went with two civil servants who graduated from the Capital Youth Cadre School. One was Liu Houfei and the other was Qiao Yu. The Beining area can be regarded as an affirmation of their working ability.

However, it is not a small test for them to jump from the "straight" organization of the central government to the "block" unit of the local township.If you pass the test, you can naturally continue to climb up to meet greater tests; if you fail the test, then I'm sorry, the future only ends here, you should go home and raise your children, your generation is hopeless, the country Don't allow incompetent people to take the helm. This will destroy the careers created by our parents.

The few Indian guides at the front are identifying the direction. They are all members of the former St. Paul’s flag team. 1611), Taubate, Itu and other nearby towns, these people wisely brought a group of brothers to join them, completely different from the other unruly bannermen.

Major Xiao Xi liked this kind of Indians who were familiar with the enemy's situation and took the initiative to surrender. He praised him as a "junior" who knew current affairs, and at the same time made a clear promise to these people that as long as he served the people on the east coast here for one year, he would be able to Get a bonus (not a military ticket...), and then go to the overseas colonies of the East Coast Republic to settle—well, South Africa, Xinhua Island, Australia, and Blackwater can be chosen at will, unlike other Indians who can only obey the arrangement, No choice.

This time escorting the new immigrants to settle in Cheng'en Township, these people acted as guides—in fact, they were also the guides when they sent the advance team there for the first time, and they did a good job of leading the way—they clearly understood Know where the road is easy to walk, where it is difficult to walk, where there is a sweet spring to drink, and where the road is only a swamp full of mosquitoes and rancid silt, it is not so clear to others!

Behind the guide are more than 1.5 heavy-duty cargo carriages with a load of [-] tons (taken care of by Indian soldiers). The carriages using improved shock-absorbing springs, forged steel axles, solid rubber tires, and ferromanganese sliding bearings have gradually begun The old-fashioned models of the South Vehicle Factory are more and more Mercedes-Benz on the vast east coast land, and are deeply loved by users, playing an increasingly important role in domestic construction.

The goods on the truck are nothing more than metal farm tools, seeds, flour, dried fish, bacon, salt, wine, tools and other daily necessities, as well as a lot of weapons and ammunition, because some of the people who went to settle were in the deep south Immigrants who have been trained by the militia for many years—maybe there are also a few exiled Ottoman Ganishari soldiers and their family members, which are also specially arranged by the superiors—they will also be responsible for training the newly arrived Ming immigrants from Huai’an Prefecture To sweep away its luxurious and weak citizen habits, and gradually transform it into a pioneer who can survive in this barren land.

Behind the convoy is the immigrant team lined up in two rows. They have changed their clothes in Changshun Port and they look pretty good, but they are a little afraid of the wild geographical environment around them. Maybe they are in the crowded and prosperous Qingjiangpu. Beside the immigrants, there are a total of more than [-] soldiers from the security regiment of Taoyuan County, carrying rifles loaded with ammunition, walking carefully on both sides, ready to deal with all kinds of emergencies at any time—— This is not a joke, because according to the gendarmerie, ten kilometers away from Beining town is already a little unsafe. I heard that many Portuguese manor owners and homeowners in Cheng'en township are still hanging on. This situation is a bit delicate. It's better to be careful, after all, the head can't grow back if it falls off.

(End of this chapter)