Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 606 The New Order of Heilongjiang

With the sea breeze blowing and the sun shining warmly, the Heishui area in early July ushers in the most pleasant season of the year.

The Dutch had been away for three full days, and it took them several days to transport [-] tons of rice to the shore with small boats outside the crude wharf in Dabo Port.Dabo Port has never stored so much food at one time, so Wei Boqiu, the new deputy commander of the gendarmerie in charge of the economy of the entire Heishui area and the former head of the Mei Agency, immediately ordered the emergency expansion of some wooden warehouses to store these precious grains.

At the same time, taking advantage of the most important fishing season of the year, Wei Boqiu ordered the four medium-sized fishing boats just produced by Heishui Shipyard to be moored in Dabo Port to immediately transfer a batch of grain to Heishui Port.The warehouses there have a large volume, are all stone warehouses, and have good moisture-proof measures, so they can store a lot of grain.These ships can take advantage of the northward ocean current when going, and the north wind when returning. Although the speed is a bit slow, it is not a problem to go back and forth three times before the fishing season arrives at the end of the month to transport one or two thousand tons of food.

For the people on the east coast of the Heishui area, no matter how high the significance of food is, it is not wrong.You must know that the total population of each stronghold under the jurisdiction of the Heishui area has exceeded 7 (excluding the number of troops and Koreans in Jeju Island), among which: there are 2.5 Ming people on Jeju Island, which is the largest number. ; There are more than 2 people in Dabo Port, all of whom are refugees who are going to be transported to Australia at the end of October; the remaining Heishui Port, Rishiri Island, Kongtong Island, Yantai Port, and Busan all have a population ranging from 10 to 7500; In addition to these, there are still three Jiji villages in the Amur River area under the jurisdiction of the Blackwater Pioneering Team, namely Temple Street, Henggun, and Jiangdong Sanzhai. [-] people.

Marshal Mo in the Heishui area attaches great importance to this place, and has always insisted on transfusing the not-so-abundant food here to support the pioneer residents here to reclaim the fertile black land by the river to grow oats, rye and other cold-resistant grains.Although a group of immigrants (Ming people and Koreans) who could not adapt to the climate here will die every winter, but now the Blackwater Pioneering Team lacks everything but no shortage of people. Emigrated along the Amur River.

At present, Temple Street, the earliest of the three Jiji lands, has almost achieved food self-sufficiency.The [-] residents of the area (about one-third of the Ming people) have opened up [-] to [-] mu of farmland in the nearby fertile river valley, and widely planted oat seeds that spread from Russia decades ago.

Although the yield of oats is low, the nutritional value is extremely high. In addition to the geographical environment and climate near Temple Street, the only crops that can be grown are oats and rye.Wheat may also be grown as a trial, but the yield is doubtful, it is better to grow potatoes.Moreover, oats like coolness and avoid high temperature (the temperature can germinate at 1-2 degrees, and the yield drops significantly if the temperature is higher than 25 degrees), which is absolutely in line with Temple Street; in addition, it likes a humid environment and avoids drought, which is also true on both sides of Heilongjiang where precipitation is abundant. Completely suitable.Therefore, from these aspects, oats are definitely the first choice for growing grains in the Heishui area-after all, people cannot live on potatoes alone.

But when it comes to potatoes, the colder Heishui area is definitely an ideal place to grow potatoes.The temperature here is low, and the potatoes are not easy to be diseased and the seeds are not easy to degrade, because even though the potato seeds brought by the people from the east coast have been planted here for several years, the overall output can still be maintained at a relatively high position.

Last year (1646), under the supervision of efficient and severe officers on the east coast, the 40 residents of Temple Street had a "bumper harvest" of 5000 acres of oats after months of hard work—an average The yield per mu is 9 jin—well, it’s not a bumper harvest, but it’s the first year of planting.The harvest of the 45 mu of oats that have been planted this year should exceed last year's. After all, the black soil here is extremely fertile, and the local residents have a large number of livestock that the Blackwater Pioneering Team fostered in their homes (plundered from Daming ), they also have a lot of their own livestock - including wild sheep that have multiplied to more than [-] and hundreds of reindeer, these livestock provide a lot of farmyard manure; Use plant ash to fertilize the field (reduce oat lodging), so the yield will not be bad. Maybe the average yield per mu will reach [-] catties at the beginning of September this year, and there is no pressure at all.

There is such a large agricultural planting area near Temple Street, and the Walled City has also been built into a beautiful mixed civil-engineering fortress. This demonstration effect is huge, and it is also very attractive to the nearby Shandan people.These people suffered from the tyranny of the Qing Dynasty and Russia (paying taxes to Russia and the Qing court separately), and they could not live happily for a long time.Today, Temple Street's rich and powerful reputation continues to ferment on both sides of the Amur River, so more and more Shandan people come here with their families.People from the east bank naturally did not refuse these people. More than half of the people who came to seek refuge were resettled in Sakhalin Island, and the remaining half were allocated to Temple Street, Henggun, and Jiangdong Sanzhai to enrich the local population.

Temple Street harvested 720 tons of oats last year, and if the local residents eat their own food, there will be more than 100 tons of surplus grain.According to the rules set by the Heishui Pioneering Team, the surplus food should be requisitioned and used for blood transfusions to Henggun Village and Jiangdong Village to maintain the existence of these two settlements.Of course, people on the east coast don’t forcefully take away their food without giving anything out. They will take out some fish and shrimp stored in the underground ice cellar—this is not a rare commodity in Sakhalin Island at all, as well as some daily necessities Make an exchange.

This kind of exchange is of course unequal from an economic point of view, and it is tantamount to treating these areas as economic colonies of the people on the east coast in disguise, but the local Shandan people have no objection-in fact, they are very happy to have someone to conduct exchanges with them. Trade, therefore, was strictly enforced.Now Henggun Village, which was established almost at the same time as Temple Street, is close to self-sufficiency in grain, while Jiangdong Village still needs to donate a considerable part of grain from other places—about 400 tons, and the pressure is not great.Moreover, after the Dutch brought in [-] tons of rice (technical patent fees), Wei Boqiu even ambitiously prepared to take a step forward in the Amur River Basin: he sent an expedition team to investigate the area around the Komsomolsk-on-Amur River in later generations. Is it possible to set up a walled city there to extend the tentacles of the East Coast people further upstream.

People on the east bank went so deep into the Amur River that the chances of collision with the nearby Manchu (Ninguta Zhangjing) and Russia (mainly the fleeing Cossack grain collection team) forces would increase infinitely.But the people on the east bank didn't care, Marshal Mo supported Wei Boqiu's idea very much. He thought that once the people on the east bank built a complete and strong city in the local area, they would deploy a few cannons and train a group of archers and musketeers. Walled cities are generally set up on the riverside, supported by naval gunboats on the east coast regularly patrolling the river, and the general forces are really indestructible.

The Russians are few in number. It is said that there are hundreds of Cossacks in the sky, and it is difficult to capture the east bank city that is also guarded by muskets and cannons.In the Qing Dynasty, because of the painful traffic conditions in Heilongjiang and other places, the sparse population and scarce resources on both sides of Heilongjiang could not support a large-scale army for long-term operations.Didn’t you see that in the 16s, the Qing government fought two wars with Russia, the first time there were only 50 people (two thousand and eight banner soldiers were severely injured by the 2000 Cossack grain requisition team led by Khabarov, and returned after a disastrous defeat, with two cannons seized , six or seven hundred casualties); the second time, it was considered that 170 people repelled hundreds of Cossacks and recovered Nerchinsk, but soon retreated due to lack of food, and the regained land was occupied by the Russians.

Therefore, in such a situation, the people on the east bank are backed by the big river, and the transportation and deployment of materials are convenient and quick. In addition, there are many veterans who have fought for many years to command the defense of the city.As long as they give the people on the east coast a few years of respite to take root locally, their chances will become smaller and smaller, and they may face the dilemma of being reversed by the people on the east coast in the future.

The land in the Heilongjiang River Basin is fertile and the products are abundant. The only thing that is lacking is the population.Due to the harsh climate and backward agricultural production technology, the local Shandan aborigines have never been able to increase their population.After the people from the east bank came here, in addition to the improvement of agricultural technology, what they brought to the local people was more of an improvement in organizational strength.The people on the east coast established a relatively rudimentary micro-industrial society in the central and southern part of Sakhalin Island, and through militarized management (the area under the jurisdiction of the Blackwater Pioneering Team is still a military-administered area), the administrative efficiency has been improved to the extreme.Therefore, all local developments have embarked on the fast track, at least much faster than their neighbors - Japan, North Korea, Manchu and Russia - and the government's control over various places is far stronger than these, so People from the East Coast are often able to fully mobilize and allocate limited resources to achieve maximum development.

I believe that with the in-depth implementation of the grand immigration strategy formulated by Marshal Mo to persevere in the Heilongjiang River Basin, Sakhalin Island, Jeju Island, Busan and other places, the strength of the East Coast people in the Far East will become stronger and stronger.Especially in the Heilongjiang River Basin, the people on the east coast, who have geographical advantages and logistical supply advantages, actually have some kind of strategic initiative against the Manchu Qing. Maybe one day Marshal Mo will raise a large number of troops and enter the Ningguta area of ​​the Qing court by boat. At that time, it will definitely shock the Manchu and Qing courts in Beijing.

Although today's Northern Manchuria is a remote frontier for the Manchus, it is their place of prosperity after all, and it is also the most important source of troops for the Eight Banners soldiers. The troops were dispatched to fight the Russians who invaded this place. In fact, they still value this place very much.However, as the people from the east coast enter the Heilongjiang River Basin strongly, I believe that the tranquility here will be broken several years in advance. At that time, the Manchu Qing will have hostile forces such as Nanming, Daxi, Dashun, and Zheng in the south, and Russia, Dongfang, etc. in the north. An waited for the tiger to watch, and believed that life should not be too easy.

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