Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 761 The Great Western Wilderness ([-])

In May, the East Coast has entered the harvest season.

In the shrub farm, which has invested a huge sum of more than 22 yuan and has undergone [-] months of hard development, the farm operators will also face their own "big test".Last year, after clearing the newly opened land, the Shrub Farm rushed to plant a crop of overwintering wheat on it. However, with many grass seeds and saplings hidden in the farmland, one can imagine the dismal harvest.According to statistics, only about [-] tons of wheat have been harvested in more than [-] mu of wheat fields in Shush Farm, with an average yield of more than [-] kilograms per mu, which is extremely frustrating.

This kind of harvest undoubtedly caused the Shrub Farm Development Company to fall into certain operating difficulties. In desperation, dozens of shareholders of the farm held a collective meeting, and finally passed the directional issuance of shares to Dongan Company in order to obtain new investment and maintain operations. resolution.The newly raised funds of 2 yuan enabled the farm to hire more people and rent more machines. They cleaned up the grass seeds and saplings that came out of the fields this spring, and spent a lot of money to get them from Duck Lake. The area has purchased a large number of cow dung fields, and is ambitiously planning to do it again this year.

In fact, they have done quite a lot this year. Not only has the sowing area expanded to more than 1649 mu, but they have also purchased the newly cultivated "Pioneer 2" soybean seeds from the Northern Botanical Garden, which were sown in February. After harvesting, the yield should not be too bad.The current domestic soybean market is at its hottest. At the Second Autumn Commodity Trade Expo held in Qingdao Port, orders for soybean cakes from sugar cane and tobacco plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean came like snowflakes; in addition, orders from England Soybean oil orders in China, Italy, Spain and other regions have also increased rapidly, which undoubtedly greatly stimulated the development of the domestic soybean industry on the east coast, causing the sown area of ​​soybeans to begin to increase rapidly.

The commercialization of agriculture on the east coast started from such a magical species as soybeans!

After the summer harvest of wheat last year, the shrub farm sowed "Pioneer 1649" soybean seeds on all the arable land (including the semi-crop land in the second year and the newly reclaimed land of more than [-] mu this year). While using soybeans to fix nitrogen and fertilize the field , By the way, I also hope that there will be a good harvest in the autumn harvest this year, and then ease the company's tight financial situation.All the shareholders of the company don't want to issue additional shares to a giant company like Dong'an Company because of insufficient funds, so that it can take away the controlling stake in the company. It will be a big disaster for everyone.

And when the shrub farm was working hard for their own career, a few months ago, a team of about a hundred people in military uniform also searched for a piece of wasteland with a small stream near their farm (not in Dahuang Farm range), and then began to settle down.

This team came from the Sixth Company of the Army Cavalry that had just been abolished by the Executive Committee—after all, the war was over, and the financially distressed central government seemed to no longer need to retain a large army establishment—they wore dark blue uniforms, Wearing a black brim hat, the brass five-pointed star on the red collar badge is still shining brightly.

Most of the people in the shrub farm are also veterans. They still remember that when the abolished troops arrived at their future "homeland", the company commander who had been appointed as the village chief gave an order: "Fire the gun ( Like the case of Tuobian Farm, they are still allowed to keep a certain number of guns), "unload their backpacks", and after a moment of silence, everyone began to build shacks, build reservoirs, and level the land.

Some soldiers with families were given priority to live in simple houses built with wooden boards.You know, on the east coast prairie where there are few trees (and people from the east coast need to plant trees for afforestation), wood boards are an extremely precious resource. Therefore, being able to live in a wooden board house at the initial stage of starting a business is definitely a kind of preferential treatment .

The work of clearing wasteland is extremely difficult, especially in the absence of suitable transportation facilities-which often means shortage of materials-is even more unbearable.The cumbersome work is often already very heavy and unbearable for a bachelor, but when a veteran or military officer with a family is faced with these situations, the pressure can be imagined.

The remote prairie, the simple houses, the poor and monotonous food, even the most basic convenience conditions in life are not available, but people have to suffer silently.Land reclamation is such hard work and torture. This is a very serious matter, not romantic at all, but this is often the real life.But if we look at it from another angle, when a group of people use their whole life's hard work and sweat to build a deserted wilderness full of barren meadows into a beautiful, tidy, prosperous and livable town, isn't it true? The most romantic thing in the world?

Families of veterans who have been relocated here in their entirety - especially their wives and mothers - have seen themselves removed from their familiar surroundings, moved to remote and inhospitable inland areas, despite being given the land they have always dreamed of. As compensation, but in the face of the hardships of life, she still shed tears more than once.Of course, tears express not complaints or regrets, but resignation to fate.

Despair, loss of faith, and discouragement about the future are not surprising in these newly colonized wastelands, but you rarely see such emotions among these tough Ming pioneers and their Slavic wives. kind of situation.The Ming people who have experienced military careers are calm and resolute, and their Slavic wives are also quite stoic. They seem to be very accustomed to bearing great pressure-this may be related to their childhood environment-they never get discouraged, and they are good at dealing with the most difficult situations. Difficult, the worst environment to fight, but also to encourage each other with the people around.

In the remote frontiers such as the bush farm and the wilderness farm, the men maintain their hospitality and generosity, while the women show their kindness and enthusiasm.Despite the lack of supplies, the pioneers were never stingy with helping each other. Whoever cooked delicious food would inevitably invite neighbors to taste it together. Some housewives even helped single neighbors wash some clothes.And it is their hard work and positive attitude towards good that prevents young veterans from being discouraged all day long and thus developing bad habits such as alcoholism and gambling.

All in all, neither the harsh nature nor the unfavorable conditions from other places can make these pioneers hang their proud heads. They may often be discouraged, but they will always cheer up again in the next moment. Courage to plunge into more difficult labor.

In addition to the hardships of work and the harsh environment, attacks from barbarians in the inland areas often troubled everyone.With the steady development of the East Bank people on the banks of the Uruguay River (Uruguay River), a large number of Charuya people who originally lived there did not want to be included in the ruling order of the East Bank people, so they began to migrate to the inland areas.But the unstable life exacerbated their poverty, so robbing the relatively wealthy people on the east coast became their helpless choice.

Prior to this, the Great Wilderness Farm and the Shrub Farm had been attacked several times by the Chaluyas. These barbarians held iron refrigeration weapons (I don’t know where they got them, maybe they were left by the Spaniards before) Theirs), suddenly raided the huts where the pioneers lived in the dark night, causing some casualties, and also caused some property losses to the farm operators (such as livestock being robbed, machinery being damaged, etc.).

The pioneers took up muskets and resolutely countered the Charuya's robbery while reporting to their superiors.After learning about the situation, the Xiling District Office not only requested the army to send more cavalry to strengthen patrols, but also gave these pioneers a certain degree of financial subsidies to encourage them to persevere.And this time the officers and soldiers and their families who were laid off from the disarmament were collectively resettled near these two farms, and it may not have been the purpose of using their organizational discipline and combat effectiveness to counter the harassment of the Chaluyas.

The East Coasters and these Charuyas are apparently immortal.There is no other high-sounding reason, and the people on the east coast don't bother to whitewash their behavior of plundering other people's land. They invaded the land of the Charuya people and compressed their living space. At the same time, they either plundered them to build railways, or They were exiled to overseas colonies to pioneer, so the conflict between the two parties was extremely sharp and irreconcilable. It was destined that only one party would completely fall, and the dispute would be eliminated.

And with the imminent promulgation of the East Coast version of the "Homestead Law", and the "smuggling" of more cheap labor pioneers from the Old World by famous labor brokers Valentino and Mendes, the people of the East Coast are moving to the inland areas. The pace of advancement will become faster and faster, and the conflict with the indigenous people is destined to become more and more intense.Given the obvious disparity between strength and weakness, perhaps Charuya, a nation with a small population, will completely disappear in the long river of history in a few years.

This doesn't make East Coasters feel guilty.Because according to the East Coast doctrine that is becoming more and more popular in China, these inferior Indians are not qualified to enjoy such a vast and fertile land. The East Coast people have the most advanced system and culture in the world, and they are the best The nation, who fought blood and fire with the Spaniards in order to obtain this land, so they have the right to take the land under the sun from these inferior nations.

If the inferior ethnic groups cooperate obediently, they can still have the opportunity to go to overseas colonies to start from scratch. If they resist firmly, then only death awaits them.The princes of the East Bank Executive Committee who are familiar with all kinds of troubles in later generations are very clear in their minds. They will never leave such a lot of trouble for their descendants.

(End of this chapter)