Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1734

Liu Jianguo woke up early this morning.It was a terrible feeling to live in a damp, dark birch-bark hut, and he hadn't slept well all night, so he couldn't wait to get up when the day came. It is made of fish skin (fish skin is stitched into large pieces like tung oil paper, which is a very common "basic material" in the outer Northeast region), and the ground is covered with firewood. People sleep in the fur on the firewood, which is not very comfortable. , especially for people like Liu Jianguo who usually live in good conditions.

A few attendants got out of the shack in good spirits. They had either been in the army for a long time and had suffered all kinds of hardships; I slept very soundly and felt no discomfort at all.

Some local residents of Feiyaka have already woken up, and they are now happily making breakfast after taking some small gifts.Surprisingly, most of the cooks are men, while the women wash their mouths and faces. Unlike the Oroqen, Daur, Buryats and other ethnic groups, the women of the Feiyaka ethnic group have a higher status. And they are more affectionate to outsiders. According to historical records, they are "feeling and charming, and they are affectionate." However, when facing Liu Jianguo and his party, who are obviously high-ranking officials, these Feiyaka women near Albazin still Don't dare to be so presumptuous.

The breakfast doesn't look very rich (compared to places with rich products in the South), but it smells delicious.The mixture of grains and beans exchanged from the south, such as corn, black beans, buckwheat flour, flour, etc., is boiled in the big pot, and some fruits that I don’t know where to pick are added to it, which looks quite delicious. .

Liu Jianguo sat carelessly on a piece of fur spread on the ground (this is part of the tax in kind collected in the village, a tiger skin of an adult Siberian tiger), waiting for his followers to bring him a big bowl of porridge, At the same time, there is a bowl of fresh fish that I don't know where.As for the food of the entourage, it is worse. The porridge is only a thin layer at the bottom of the bowl. The fish is also marinated and small in size, but it is still a good food for the local natives. It is reserved for cooking. Reserve food in winter, people and dogs have to eat this kind of food to maintain physical strength and calories.

Liu Jianguo drank a few mouthfuls of porridge, and then picked up the fish with the ivory chopsticks he brought with him.The fish is poached with very little seasoning except some salt, chili powder, wild garlic, wild onion and a local seasoning called "Xiaxi" (something like seaweed with tinge).Liu Jianguo tasted it, and the taste of the fish was mediocre, a little bland, but the soup looked thicker, and it tasted good, with a wild taste.

The fish that the entourage ate was boiled with wild garlic, beans, chili powder, grass roots, and tree fruits. It was relatively poor in sales, and the taste—well, it was also relatively poor. Although a lot of fish oil had been added to it, it could be dried. The hard trout made people frown when chewed, and it had a faint rancid smell, which was really unappetizing. No wonder they didn't dare to feed it to officials like Liu Jianguo.

However, even this kind of food is very rare in the eyes of the natives. They are only eaten during important festivals or weddings and funerals, and they are usually reluctant to part with it.You see, what is in the wooden bowls in front of them is boiled grass roots mixed with buckwheat flour, and sprinkled with a little animal oil or fish oil. It seems that they have no appetite, but they eat it deliciously.

"The vicinity of Albazin Castle has always been rich, and the Russians have been operating it for decades, relying on it as an important town. As a result, after a war, it turned out to be like this. It has been almost two years, and the people still haven't recovered much. , Life is still so difficult, which shows the fragility of the local ecology and the hardship of the people's lives." After eating for a while, Liu Jianguo seemed to think of something, put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand, and said with some emotion.

"It's all caused by the Russians. During the war with us and the retreat, they robbed the villagers of their food and even took away a lot of their finances, making agriculture, fishing, and hunting very depressed. Of course, the settlements of the Daur people near Heilongjiang would be better. Although they were looted more by the Russians, with our relief and help, the current living conditions have been greatly improved. That is, Fei Ya in the north It would be more difficult for the Kakh, Hezhe, Oroqen, Ewenki, and Buryats, after all, they live more scatteredly, and we didn’t have time to deal with them before.” An entourage replied immediately, sounding very optimistic in his words.

"Yes, the south is better because of our help. But in the next period of time, we will focus on the north, focusing on supporting and naturalizing the natives here, and expel the influence of the Russian forces. At the same time, establish a good reputation among the aborigines, guide more aborigines to vote here, and increase the population of our control area. You all know that in the Northeast, there are people who have everything, and no one can do nothing." Liu Jianguo said : "Now that the locals and the Russians are engaged in boundary negotiations, the boundaries between the two countries will probably be fixed soon. By then, they will not be able to use force at will to solve various problems, such as the violence against the various ethnic groups in Tunguska. At this time, we should give full play to our own advantages. We have a high level of productivity, commonly known as 'rich', so we must try our best to use our advantages in this area to attract more natives to join us. Then open schools, spread education, and completely naturalize them as our people."

"This is indeed the truth, a century-old plan, people-oriented, it is really important to attract people." The entourage replied in a hurry.Tunguska savages have lived between the vast white mountains and black waters for generations. There are hundreds of thousands of them. They are simple-minded, hard-working, brave and good at fighting. They caught themselves.However, many Tungus people do not live in one place, but have a wide range of activities. They have strong nomadic, nomadic farming, and hunting habits. Shuttle between the east bank controlled area and the Russian controlled area is simply commonplace. It is indeed a very serious and important task to win these Tungus people to settle on our side.

"Magistrate Lu, Albazin—ah, it's called Yaksa now—is very important. It is an important town in the west of our country. It is a frontier fortress during wars and a trading port in peacetime. It is very important in every way. .I’m handing this place over to you now, and I hope you can manage it well, develop this fertile land, and become an important city in your jurisdiction. It is rich and has all the necessary conditions to become a city, I hope you will pay more attention to it." Liu Jianguo turned his head and said to Lu Xiaofeng who came with him.

Lu Xiaofeng had just been promoted to a new level before, and he was a serious deputy bureau-level cadre, equivalent to a deputy commissioner of a local regional administrative office.This time, Liu Jianguo was dismissed from the post of deputy county magistrate of Hailanpao County and transferred to the post of the newly established Yaksa Garrison Commander. And some achievements in trade recovery.Otherwise, Commander Liu has many warriors who can fight and fight, so why choose Lu Xiaofeng, a civilian official with a tough personality, to serve as the garrison commander of an important border town.

Lu Xiaofeng was also a little depressed as the county magistrate of Hailanpao County. Although he opened up a lot of arable land and built a lot of water conservancy facilities in the local area, many Tungus people settled down. The output of fur, salted fish and other local specialties It is also increasing day by day, which can be said to be quite outstanding, but the problem is that these are not what he likes.As far as work is concerned, he still likes more challenging ones. For example, he was very happy to serve as the garrison commander of Yaksa this time, and he repeatedly patted his chest to Liu Jianguo and said that he would promise to complete the various tasks assigned by his superiors. The Russians took advantage.

Liu Jianguo also appreciated his drive, so he was given a lot of freedom. At the same time, he also approved a batch of goods to Yakesa in the relatively tight material reserves and water surface transportation capacity, which was obviously a tribute to them. high hopes.

At this time, Lu Xiaofeng had just finished his unpalatable breakfast. Hearing what Liu Jianguo said, he immediately assured him: "Captain Liu, please don't worry, I will definitely help you guard this Yaksa. The Russians in Nerchinsk People’s three melons and two dates are not in my eyes. After this backlash, they should have put down the idea of ​​​​being hostile to us, and now the two countries are also negotiating peace. There should be a lot of During a long period of peace, I know what to do. Develop the economy and trade, increase the speed of commodity circulation, improve people's living standards, attract more Tunguskas to settle down, and build Yaksa into a well-known border town, Russia We will fully cooperate with your plan to go south."

The so-called "plan to go south" mentioned by Lu Xiaofeng just now is actually the strategic focus of the next stage of the Blackwater Pioneering Team. To develop further, to seize the relatively open Beiman area as the heartland in the future.After all, compared with the Outer Northeast, it is warmer, has a larger area, and more plains, and has all the external conditions to develop into a population core area (compared with the Outer Northeast). Commander Liao Xiaoyao in Denglai had approved it before. Allocating [-] Liaodong land reclamators who temporarily took refuge in North Korea to settle and cultivate wasteland in this area has already explained everything.

Of course, considering the difficulty of reclaiming wasteland and the efficiency of people on the east coast in transporting materials, these 1 people also went to the local area in several batches, and most of them moved to the Wusuri River Basin in the early stage, hoping to establish several villages here. Reclamation towns - According to the plan formulated in advance, it is planned to initially build in this area that later became the Primorsky Krai by the Russians, including Beishun Township (located near the later Luchegorsk City), Heicheng Township (located in the later Dalney Rechensk City), Pinggang Township (located near the later Lesozavodsk City), Fengrun Township (located near the later Kirovsky City), Licheng Township (located in the later Spassk Dalini City The five townships and several villages including nearby) are quite impressive.

There is no doubt that this is the century-old plan of the Blackwater Pioneering Team, and it is a move to further squeeze the living space of the Qing Dynasty. Once it is implemented step by step in the future, it will have a considerable effect.What's more, if a regime in mainland China unifies the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Guan in the future, and puts forward sovereignty claims to Ningbo and Denglai under the rule of the Dong'an people, and then a full-scale war breaks out, then the long-running Heishui Pioneering Team's jurisdiction will be Another surprise attack, especially when they pushed the line of defense to the Mongolian grassland-Yanshan Mountains-Shanhaiguan line, after all, the unified regime in the mainland was confronted with enemies from many sides, and it was strategically in a passive position.The benefits of this, the members of the Executive Committee will not fail to see, and this is one of the reasons why they have opposed the expansion of Denglai and Ningbo over the years, but are relatively tolerant of the expansion of the Heishui area. We must plan ahead!

As the captain of the Blackwater Pioneering Team, Liu Jianguo is naturally aware of this strategy and is also one of the active promoters.He felt that the focus of the expansion of the people on the east coast should always be Manchuria. The series of armed conflicts that broke out with the Russians before were actually aimed at dispelling their ambitions to expand eastward and driving their attention back to the necessity of the West. Act of.Don’t the Russians just want to find an outlet to the sea? Now I tell you clearly that the Far East is impossible. It is the territory of the people on the east coast. If you dare to come, you will be beaten all over the place!What's more, this is not your core ruling area, and the tsar's people are not many, it is better to manage the west, shift the focus of expansion to the old land of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania (that is, Belarus and Ukraine), and seek a place in the commercially prosperous Baltic Sea. Ports are more tangible.

It is also based on this kind of strategic thinking that the locals on the east coast started active talks with the Russians in London, trying their best to guide them westward, and did not hesitate to give a little benefit to go out.And the Russians seem to be more up-to-date at present, perhaps because they realized that the officials of the tsar in the Far East really could not compete with the people on the east coast, so now the Russians are more enthusiastic about the strategy of going west and going south (going south may not be what the people on the east coast are willing to do) Seen), the growing urgency to find a "foot-washing place" for the Tsar in the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea, this is undoubtedly what the people on the east coast are very willing to see, and everyone agrees that if the Russians can focus on this for 100 years Putting in the energy, that is really too wonderful, because it means that the people on the east coast can calmly plant their flags all over Manchuria, and take all this vast black land into their pockets.

After finishing a chapter in a hurry, I have to get up at six o'clock tomorrow morning. I am really tired these days.

(End of this chapter)