Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 723 From South to North ([-])

The Heishui area in midsummer is full of vitality, especially on Sakhalin Island, the core land with an increasing population. After years of development, this small society has initially formed a system. Under the kneading of political, economic and military means, they were gradually firmly tied together.

Although Heishui Port is the first settlement in the region to build a complete castle—so far the only one—it is also the most important industrial center in the region: it has shipyards, wood processing plants (including lumberyards, wood ovens) dry kiln), coal mine (including coal washing plant, honeycomb coal plant), salt cooking plant, building material factory (including brick and tile wheel kiln, lime kiln, cement kiln) and many other enterprises, but Dabo Port is undoubtedly beyond the economic and population many.

The first is the population. As of August 1648, the resident population of Dabo Port has exceeded 8, scattered in seven or eight surrounding natural villages.It is worth mentioning that the proportion of handicraftsmen among these people is quite high. There are a lot of masons, carpenters, blacksmiths, doctors, bamboo craftsmen, jewelry craftsmen, etc., almost all of whom were robbed by the whole family and transported here.

They now wear leather clothes in Dabo Port, live in large pointed brick houses with fireplaces and heated kangs, and often eat fish. In addition to the climate that they are not used to, their living standards are also better than those in the troubled times in Shandong. Much stronger.After a long time, many people also lost their thoughts of looking for an opportunity to return to the mainland, slowly accepted the status quo, and began to take root in Dabo Port.

After living for several years, some of them have been mobilized and boarded a ship with their families to go to the legendary east coast where everyone has land and meat to eat—this is no joke, there are now some The Ming people who immigrated to the east coast many years ago are now sent back to the Blackwater area by the local immigration department to do immigration work. The personal experience itself is very convincing.

Of course, there are many people who don’t want to go to the east bank anymore, because it’s too far away, but at this time, it’s up to the higher-ups to identify them. If there are craftsmen who are lacking in the east coast, then I’m sorry, you may be forced to “please” "Go; if there is no urgent need for manpower, the east bank government has begun to respect your personal wishes. You can settle in the Heishui area on the spot, but you can express your opinions on which city needs to be adjusted. But not much autonomy.

A population of [-] is already scary in the cold temperate zone where the temperature is low all year round, especially in summer and autumn each year, these areas will also accept as many as [-] floating population (waiting to board the ship to go south in winter and spring) Immigrants), although the urban area of ​​Dabo Port has expanded again and again, it is still overwhelmed.Therefore, considering that a serious epidemic may wipe out half of the population here, with the application of Wei Boqiu and the approval of Shao Shude, the Heishui pioneering team set up a series of villages along the long and narrow mountain valleys from Dabo Port to the north. And finally set up an institution to manage these reclamation villages on the original site of the later Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: the Southern Sakhalin Reclamation Bureau.

The Southern Sakhalin Reclamation Bureau manages as many as 20 reclamation villages and more than 20 mu of farmland in the fertile mountain valley from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Dabo Port. They even have an established armed force : The Southern Sakhalin Garrison (400 personnel, including [-] infantry and [-] cavalry), basically ruled these areas effectively.

In each reclamation village, there are only a few dozens of people, including the village head and a few villagers, who are permanent residents, and hundreds of others are temporary residents, that is, they are all immigrants waiting to board the ship.These people usually arrive in spring and leave in late autumn, and spend half a year tending crops in the stockade in order to "earn enough" for their rations and other expenses on the road.People on the east coast don’t expect these people to be more attentive when farming, as long as they can harvest a little per mu of land, it will be a fortune for the Heishui area that has been suffering from food shortages. Food that cannot be ignored has arrived.

Every year in mid-October, after these people start boarding the boats one after another, the left-behind people (residents) in the reclamation villages start to go out to hunt, cut grass, and at the same time dry a piece of grain at the end to make full preparations for winter.Generally, after the first heavy snow falls, the gates of the villages will be closed, and they will not be opened again until the spring of the next year.If there is any urgent business, it is quite convenient to communicate with each other by sledge.

This year, the permanent population of these villages has been supplemented again. The source is mainly from the officers and soldiers who have been wounded and retired after fighting the Qing army on the front line in Shandong this year. There are 1275 people, almost all of whom have lost part or all of their ability to work. Wounded soldiers (amputated after injury, mainly from the stand-up team system).Among them, there were 501 Ming people, 229 Poles, 208 Xhosa blacks, 109 Tatars, 106 Japanese, 96 Shandan people, and 26 Koreans.

These wounded soldiers had been assigned to various stockades by the South Kuril Reclamation Bureau a few days ago. In addition to receiving 20 mu of cultivated land, [-] mu of woodland and [-] mu of river ponds, each of them also received black water development The one-time compensation of [-] yuan and ten large and small livestock issued by the Finance Bureau of the brigade will continue to receive a monthly subsidy of [-] yuan from the Finance Bureau, and the payment will not be terminated until [-] years later.In addition, the residents of each village are also obliged to do farm work for these disabled military families during the busy season of sowing and harvesting. Dare to neglect this matter.

It can be seen from this that the worries of the officers and soldiers who were worried about the loss of life after retirement have been basically solved.The Blackwater Pioneering Team will resolutely implement these policies without hesitating to bear a huge financial burden, and continuously improve the social status of the soldiers, hoping that the soldiers will be more loyal when fighting.Although the soldiers worked hard for money, they were not slaves without the slightest dignity. The prestige of an officer came not only from the whip, but also from not really thinking about them.If you really think about the vital interests of being a soldier, then the soldiers on the battlefield may give you a surprise. If you just blindly fool them, then most of them will fool you too!

After the first batch of more than 1000 disabled soldiers were placed on the east bank, the effect was quite good. At least the morale of the officers and soldiers of the volunteer team was greatly improved.There is no way not to improve, the disability in the battle originally meant the end of the world to the soldiers, but now it seems like they have an iron rice bowl, so what a fart!How many able-bodied people in the troubled times starved to death in the wilderness in the end, they can still have a good way out, if they don't fight hard during the war, I really feel sorry for my conscience.

Today is the first ten days of August, and as the troops from the east bank retreated into the junction of Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture in Shandong, the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia, who had been chasing madly all the way before, finally stopped their pursuit.It's not that they don't want to destroy this army of yellow-clothed thieves who are like thorns in the flesh, but that they can only draw more than 1 people now. Facing the elite yellow-clothed thieves with excellent equipment, well-trained, and fierce artillery fire, the loss is not to be taken lightly.In addition, if they chased to Laizhou, the supply line at the rear would be too long. In the current situation where there are wars everywhere in Shandong, this is tantamount to taking death, so they stopped decisively in Qingzhou Prefecture. While vigorously searching the local prefectural and county grain depots that had been carefully combed by the people on the east coast, while waiting for the follow-up army to quell the shocking local banditry, they came to join them.

Throughout July, the two sides passed through this kind of overall confrontation and local small-scale fighting. After entering August, the army on the east coast under the command of Mao Desheng has regained stability in Weixian, Anqiu, and Gaomi. line of defense.At this time, the unbearable so-called "Rebel Army" had been driven back to Dengzhou for training, and a large amount of supplies, livestock and people also returned to Dengzhou in advance under their escort.After successfully slimming down the army on the east coast, after receiving a supply, their combat strength aside, their morale has not decreased but increased. Basically, under the leadership of the core troops, they can compete with the Qing army—of course, only limited to the green battalion.Compared with the Eight Banners, their combat effectiveness is still not enough, and they still need the South African heavy infantry and the East Coast regular army to fight.However, their number is limited. If the Eight Banners of the Qing Army are willing to fight against them regardless of casualties, the East Coast Army may not be able to withstand it.

It's just that if the Eight Banners soldiers are willing to kill and injure thousands of people to attack the elite army on the east coast, is it still fucking wild boar skin?Is the commander who gave this order still alive?Now it's not like when you just started, you need everyone to fight for your life. Now everyone has a family, a business, and a coat, and you're beating a fart!We can pinch soft persimmons, don't expect us to come to tough battles that will kill many people.

The army of yellow-clothed thieves in front of me is quite evil, especially those guys with firecrackers and cannons, who seem to be quite organized in fighting; there are also those ghost slave soldiers from the black feudal domain, all of whom are taciturn and silent, but dozens of With a heavy iron armor on his body, and a one-foot-long iron spear with one stroke, his aura is extraordinary.In the past, the Khitan people of the Liao Kingdom had a tradition of "lined up and not fighting" against the Imperial Army of the Northern Song Dynasty. Now the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia are fighting against the ghost slave soldiers of the Black Fan and the regular army on the east bank (commonly known as "True Yellow Clothes Thieves"). A reward of 20 taels of silver) also has an unwritten rule of not fighting, after all, too many casualties will only damage one's own morale.

Under such circumstances, both the east coast of Shandong and the Manchu and Qing parties entered a period of adjustment.Especially the people on the east coast, after successfully mobilizing the Qing army and capturing a large amount of personnel, materials, money and food, they also continued to expand their influence in Shandong, and the gains were quite large.

However, the battle in Shandong stopped in the middle, and the battle in Jiangxi in the south and Ningguta in the north has just entered the most intense moment.

(End of this chapter)