Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 264 Spring in New China Colony ([-])

On November 1640, 11, in just two days, Li Yi's fleet returned safely to the pier in Xinhua Bay.Their victorious return made the entire Xinhua Castle roar with cheers, and even the Eight Banners slaves were happily talking about the destruction of the barbarians that had plagued them before.

Seeing the Bezimisaraka people filing down from the boat, they were genuinely happy.They don't know why these barbarians took the initiative to provoke them. Maybe the East Coast people invaded their land, or violated their traditions, but who cares?Now they are all wiped out, and no one in this land can question the authority of the people of the east coast anymore.The East Coasters have shown their strength, and even the most uncivilized and stupid savages should know to be afraid by this moment.

Sure enough, in the next 20 days of this month, no barbarians peeped or harassed me.They disappeared without a trace as if overnight, logging camps, cement kilns, brick kilns, and all the places where they had been, lost their traces, as if they had never been there.

Regarding the disposal of a total of 987 Bezimisaraka people captured, after discussing with Li Yi, Shi Qinjie decided to send them to South Africa and hand them over to Mo Ming for disposal, so as to replace some relatively reliable and obedient Eight Banners with him Slaves came to the New China region to be used.In addition to these slaves, Li Yi also took away some hump cattle, a hundred preliminarily treated red sandalwood and rosewood trees-these were all to be transported back to the local shipyard for drying and then used to build ships.

After Li Yi's fleet left, on December 12, the cruiser "Chaoyong" of the Second Fleet escorted a merchant ship of the South China Sea Transportation Company to the Xinhua Castle Wharf unexpectedly.They also came with Liu Ang, the mayor of Hezhong Town and the deputy captain of the South African Pioneering Team. He was ordered by the Executive Committee to escort a batch of materials and personnel to Xinhua Castle.

"What wind brought you here?" Shi Qinjie who greeted him was also confused, he didn't know why the executive committee would send someone here at this time.Moreover, he is not very familiar with Liu Ang.Liu Ang is from the military intelligence system. He went to South Africa very early to preside over the affairs of the Hezhong Fort with Mo Ming. Speaking of which, this meeting today is actually the third meeting between them.

"It was the southeast trade monsoon that brought me here." Liu Ang also joked, "Okay, let's go to your city and have a look. It's really hot here, must be over 28 degrees? The rain is really Great, it is impossible for South Africa to see such a heavy rain. Hehe, God is really biased, you have so much rain here, but you make South Africa so dry."

"Do you think I think it's raining so much here?" Shi Qinjie handed Liu Ang the umbrella in his hand, and then said, "It's no joke that a flood will happen if one is not careful. Besides, here The climate is hot and humid, and plants grow very fast. The weeds and bushes removed today may grow back in a few days, which is very troublesome. Moreover, too much rain is not good, because the mineral components in the soil are destroyed The rainwater has washed away or penetrated into the deep soil, so the cultivated land is a little barren."

"Hehe, I know you are an agricultural expert." Liu Ang smiled and said, "I still understand the leaching effect. But it's not impossible to solve it. As long as the rice fields are well drained, this situation should be alleviated. Moreover, You can also plant a crop of deep-rooted crops such as corn and sweet potatoes after harvesting rice to make full use of the fertile soil in the deep soil. In this way, three crops can be harvested a year, one crop of rice, one crop of corn, one crop of sweet potatoes, rubbing , Don’t be too cool, it’s much better than South Africa’s once-a-year ripening.”

"It's still too early to harvest food from farming. As you know, there is not a single resident on my side. The slaves still need to repair the city walls, sewers, and houses. There is no farming at all, even logging. There is not enough manpower." Shi Qinjie shook his head and said to Liu Ang while walking.

"You've miscalculated this time." Liu Ang held up his umbrella, smiled mysteriously, and pouted on the deck of the ship behind.

Shi Qinjie turned his head and saw that on the flute-shaped transport ship, men and women in oilskin raincoats were carefully climbing the rope ladder to the pier trestle.Some of them carried a small package on their backs, and some were even more exaggerated. The package on their backs contained a lively piglet or lamb, which looked like they came here to pioneer and settle here.

"This is..." Shi Qinjie couldn't turn his head around for a while, "Is this a settler? No, it turned out that the executive committee and I agreed that the first batch of residents would come here in October of 41. Now that the construction here has not been completed, why are there settlers here? Aren’t they afraid of the harsh environment here, how can they change the plan at will, this is unscientific!”

"The situation has changed." Liu Ang briefly explained, and then said to Shi Qinjie: "Okay, you can send people to receive these new residents. We will discuss the specific situation when we get to the place."

"Alright." Shi Qingjie nodded.

The two entered the house one after the other, and Shi Qinjie ordered the orderly to bring a cup of tea to each of them.Liu Ang took a sip, then frowned and spat out the tea powder, saying, "It smells like mold."

"Is there?" Shi Qinjie was a little embarrassed, and then laughed at himself: "The weather here is too hot and humid, and many things are not easy to preserve. It's normal to have mold. Anyway, I'm used to it, so I can't smell it."

"Okay, don't talk about anything else." Liu Ang also sat up straight at this time, and said to Shi Qinjie solemnly: "This time I sent more than 400 immigrants to your New China Colony. The specific list will be later. Here you are. These more than 400 people are all British immigrants who fled from Fort Good Hope to Fort in the River. Most of them are Irish, and a small part of them are English. Except for a few of them who have obtained their ID cards and stayed in Fort in the River , I brought you the rest, and now I will hand them over to you as the first batch of settlers in Xinhua Castle. You have to settle them well. To be honest, although they have been black households before, they are also our Hezhong Fort You know, at the beginning Captain Mo was not willing to let them come here at all, and later the Executive Committee decided to add [-] French immigrants and [-] Guaranís to the Fort in the River before letting them go."

"Hehe, Captain Mo has really done a good deal." Shi Qinjie said with a smile, and then his face straightened, and he assured Liu Ang: "Don't worry, since they have come to Xinhua Castle, they are our official employees here. Residents, I will definitely not treat them badly. Now, with these people, some cultivated land can be reclaimed next to the Coconut Creek Reservoir. Well, this matter will be prepared in the next two days, and it will rain first The land should be leveled out, and irrigation canals should be built. If the time is tight enough, maybe a crop of sweet potatoes can be planted. At worst, some vegetable fields can be opened up first, and some vegetables can be planted first, so as to save money later. When the fleet comes, we have to go to the Portuguese in the west to resupply."

Seeing Shi Qinjie thinking about farming, Liu Ang was a little dumbfounded. This man really deserves to be from the Ministry of Agriculture. What he thinks about all day long is how to farm.

"Also, don't be so busy thinking about your things, there is one more important thing this time." Liu Ang looked into Shi Qinjie's eyes and said: "This time the executive committee dispatched some The technicians came, a total of 5 people, most of them were some technicians and skilled craftsmen drawn from domestic shipyards, anchor chain factories, shipyards and other shipbuilding related units, and some people were drawn from local wood products processing factories People. After seeing some high-quality timber shipped back from you in May, the Executive Committee immediately decided to speed up the progress of the construction of the New China Colony and give you the greatest resources possible. These technicians and craftsmen are the first batch Don’t worry about those who are sent here to support your construction, they have already signed an agreement in the local area before they come, and they will all be counted as Xinhuabao’s people in the future, and their family members and household registrations will be transferred here in the next step. According to the intention of the executive committee, relying on these people, Xinhua Castle will initially set up a timber processing plant, a timber drying kiln and a small shipyard. Wait until the next stage is full of staff, and then find ways to expand the capacity of these plants. Strength, and strive to fully operate it.”

Speaking of this, Liu Ang's tone became a little sour.You must know that the Fort in the River has only a small ship repair shop until now, and it can only provide some limited repair services for passing ships.Mo Ming and Liu Ang did not know how many times they applied to the mainland for expanding the scale of the ship repairing station and even setting up a shipyard in South Africa, but they were rejected every time. The reasons were nothing more than "lack of technical personnel", " Not suitable" and so on.Unexpectedly, Xinhua didn't mention anything here, and the executive committee rushed to send everyone here.

"That's a good thing!" Shi Qinjie also became excited. He rubbed his hands and walked back and forth in the room, and then said: "It is a good thing to build a shipyard and a wood processing factory. We can find a way if we are short of manpower. The aborigines around here are all descendants of Malays. They can build some canoes and build some wooden houses. There should be many people with good carpentry and boat building skills. I can send people to recruit them at that time If it doesn’t work, they will be arrested. In short, some of the population will be relocated to work in Fort Xinhua. They have a little foundation, and it shouldn’t be a problem to do a layman’s job. This will solve a large part of the personnel gap.”

Liu Ang was even more astonished when he heard this.The shit luck of co-authoring this new Chinese colony is really good, and their neighbors are not like the stupid blacks and red men at the Fort in the River, but they have entered feudal civilization or at least some technology Malay descendants close to feudal civilization.

Nothing compares to others. How will the Fort in the River compete with the New China Colony for the resources of the executive committee in the future?Thinking of this, Liu Ang felt a little sad.

(End of this chapter)