Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 652 New Qingdao, New Life ([-])

In fact, the so-called new guests mean new immigrants in the context of these immigrants.Thousands of people from Yancheng in Qingdao Port came here a year ago as "new guests". At that time, they were "welcome" by hundreds of local Spanish settlers. A newcomer said to be of the same blood as the conqueror.

Fortunately, the people on the east coast have controlled the situation very well. The government's super control ability has made Qingdao Port a total of more than 2300 residents have lived in peace for nearly a year.Now, after a year, the newcomer came again, which made everyone look forward to it.There is no other reason, but the main reason is that this place is too desolate. Humans live in groups and are social animals. The vast land is sparsely populated, and Qingdao Port is full of barren meadows.

Well now, there are finally newcomers here, um, the number should not be less than a thousand.

The new guests didn't make these "old immigrants" wait too long, and soon, a group of Ming people in various costumes appeared on the Shugang Highway ahead.To everyone's surprise, this group of new guests was mostly old people, children and women, and almost none of them were young and middle-aged.

"Be honest with me, especially you, Chen Ergou!" A policeman from the police station who was a veteran was walking in the front of the line, only to hear him yelling in a full-bodied voice: "Last time you molested Catalo! I only fined you two yuan, a woman from Niah. If you remain a thief this time, I will not be able to protect you. These newcomers are either orphans of the Shun army, or the families of officers and soldiers of the Volunteer Squad. If you can’t hold your own, then you will be subject to military law, and even I will suffer, so get the hell out and cook for me.”

When the man named Chen Ergou heard the policeman warning him by name, he immediately laughed twice, and walked back in despair, annoyed as he walked: Do you think I want to molest women, don't you? Let no daughter-in-law make trouble.Last time, I finally managed to call [-] Persian and Greek girls, but my job score didn't make it into the top [-], so naturally I could only continue to be a bachelor.But it's time to pay attention. I heard that this year, the top will continue to import [-] Polish women to Qingdao Port. Last year, it was not my turn. This year, no matter what, I should ask for a wife. The premise is that I don't commit any crimes again.

The new immigrants were directly arranged into the exhibition area of ​​the commodity expo hall. They sat on the grass in the open air, and some of them even took out their water bladders and began to drink water.The police from the police station who were in charge of escorting them here were very surprised to see these new immigrants sitting in place in an orderly manner, silently waiting for their meals, because they were so orderly, which was quite different from the messy immigrants in the past.

As expected, they were born as orphans of the Shun Army. The life of running around with the camp all year round gave them a good physique and strong discipline.The patrolmen could see that even the "old men" who looked quite old (actually only 50 to [-] years old) in the team had very good physical strength, otherwise they would not have been able to withstand the long journey to the mainland.If they open up wasteland, they will definitely be better than those mud legs with loose discipline.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the belated lunch was finally pulled over by some peasants in a heavy freight wagon.After some consultations with local officials, everyone temporarily took out some short-stock commodities such as beef and mutton, tallow, salted fish, and vegetables from the warehouse, and came to add meals to the new immigrants, as a welcome gift up.

Sorghum rice, steamed salted fish, stewed meat in a large pot, the delicious lunch made everyone salivate.Not only the new immigrants had a great time eating, even the old immigrants who had lived here for more than a year began to chew and eat with their cheeks off. Chinese New Year is almost.

Wearing a khaki military uniform, Pei Qin was eating in a temporary prefabricated wooden room outside the expo hall.His military cap is hanging on the hanger behind him, and his command knife is at hand.He just ate his own lunch in front of him, lit a pipe for himself after eating, and smoked happily.He is quite addicted to cigarettes now, just as he disembarked from the boat, he saw a small shop selling goods on the shore, so he ran over to buy a bag of shredded tobacco: it was very cheap, only four cents a pack, and he couldn't buy it in the Far East.After buying shredded tobacco, he thought about it and bought another bottle of red wine from the counter.

At that time, the salesperson of the store took a few silver coins that Pei Qin handed over and looked at them for a long time, and stood there stunned, not knowing what to say.Because these three silver coins are very weird, the obverse is almost exactly the same as the silver coins circulating in the East Coast—except for the words "Dabo Mint" written on the lower part.But the pattern on the back of the silver coin is quite different. For example, the pattern on the back of the one-yuan silver coin is actually a fish (salmon), the two-yuan silver coin is a bear (brown bear), and the five-yuan silver coin is actually a fish (salmon). It seemed to be a huge deer (moose). The clerk had never seen this kind of silver coin, so he hesitated to accept it. It seemed that he wanted to discuss with Pei Qin which country's currency it was. What is the exchange rate? If it is really not good, you have to weigh the weight and check the fineness.

Fortunately, the manager of the store is quite knowledgeable. He had advanced training in the capital. At that time, Director Hai Da Fuhai, who was trained by the State Administration of Precious Metals, once said that the Ministry of Finance had authorized overseas Xinhua Port and Dabo Port to set up A mint that melted and stamped gold and silver bars and foreign currency obtained from local trade into silver coins on the east coast.The fineness, size, weight and even shape of silver coins are basically the same as those of local silver coins, but the patterns are different.

Among them, the silver coins of the Dabo Mint are as mentioned above, and the reverse patterns of the silver coins of the Xinhua Mint are hump cows, tuna and baobab trees.The silver dollars and banknotes in the local format are circulated in the East Coast and the river region of South Africa, the silver dollars in the Xinhua Mint format are circulated in Xinhua Island, and the silver dollars in the Dabo Mint format are circulated in the Heishui area and Australia.

Pei Qin was the deputy captain of the second brigade of the original Standing Squad. He had served in the Far East for many years. This time he came to the East Coast to bring with him silver dollars in Dabo format. No wonder the clerk didn't recognize them.After careful identification, the store manager also learned that they were soldiers who had returned to the mainland from the Far East, so he was in awe immediately, and then within his authority, he gave Pei Qin a [-]% discount on the products he bought - this is a great deal. Discounts that are only available to officers of a certain level.

At noon, I ate half a cod, two meat pies, a bowl of miscellaneous fish soup, and drank some beer during the meal.After drinking and eating, Pei Qin went outside the Expo Hall to inspect his troops.In addition to the more than 1000 orphans of the Shun Army and the families of officers and soldiers of the Standing Force, the new immigrants who came to Qingdao Port this time also included the Far East reinforcements dispatched by Marshal Mo himself at the request of Army Veteran Peng Zhicheng.They set off in mid-October 1646, and arrived at the mainland from Yantai Port after a 10-month voyage (including rest and waiting time for the ship). After the quarantine period, they arrived at Qingdao Port by boat.

According to the above, their family members should have settled in Qingdao Port and its surrounding areas on the spot.As for them, hehe, everyone was enlightened when they set off from the Far East, Qiu Ba, isn't that just the material for going to the battlefield?I heard that the homeland is now fighting with the Spaniard in full swing. They are afraid that they will be sent to the battle line to meet people in a few days after they come here.Fortunately, everyone is not working hard in vain now, and everyone does not need to be driven to death like pigs and dogs for a bite of food.Everyone is now working hard for the future of themselves and their possible family members in the future.That doesn't sound too bad, does it?

Wang Jiazhong also went to inspect the troops with Pei Qin.This person was one of the first Shandong local armed leaders who surrendered to the east bank together with Zhai Cong'e, Qin Shangxing and others. He had been stationed in Jingyi County, Jeju Island for a long time, and he was relatively loyal to the east bank.

Of the 4500 soldiers transferred back from the Far East this time, a full 2500 were his subordinates.Of course, they are only subordinates in name only. In fact, over the years, his more than 2000 troops have been tossed by Marshal Mo in the form of disarmament, training, reorganization, deployment, and supplementation. Now his influence on the troops has been exhausted. very limited.Many mid-level officers in the army often expressed their loyalty to the officers on the east bank headed by Marshal Mo behind his back. He had heard about this a lot, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

Didn't he foresee the situation today when he came to invest in Shiqiong? Now that the military power has fallen to the side, why not be more chic and just let go and become a rich man.Wasn't it because the world was so messed up that we couldn't survive when we rebelled with the brothers?I didn't have much ambition at first, but the situation has become so big today, with two to three thousand subordinates, and also on the wanted list of "thief chiefs" by the governor of Shandong Province in the Qing Dynasty, I have really reached the limit of my ability.If you don't let go and keep fooling around like this, most of them will die in the encirclement and suppression war of the Qing army one day. Now that the military power is handed over, Wang Jiazhong only feels relieved, and he no longer has to worry about being under his subordinates in fear. The safety of thousands of people was exhausted.

Therefore, even if Wang Jiazhong will resign from the military in two days and take up the post of senior adviser in the United Front Work Department, he doesn't care much about it.On the contrary, what he was more interested in was the huge house on the shore of Milin Lake, the deposit certificate of the Northwest Reclamation Bank worth as much as 2000 yuan, and the expensive consulting work with a monthly salary of 40 yuan.As for the others, whatever you like, anyway, our old Wang will not care about Jianghu affairs in the future, and concentrate on enjoying life and doing some small business by the way.

In this way, Pei Qin, who was full of thoughts, and Wang Jiazhong, who was relaxed, came to the temporary camp outside the Expo Hall one after the other. Their subordinates were also sitting on the ground full of construction waste at the moment. I ate my lunch in a sputtering bowl.

(End of this chapter)