Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 982 Walking in the Mountains ([-])

Shao Yuanyi walked carefully on the hilly road after the rain. The road was narrow, rough, and slippery at the same time. The three of them, the master and the apprentice, led a mule and drove forward with difficulty.

On the right side of the path is a dense forest, and on the left side is a meandering river - the Kamaquan River. The condition of the road is very bad, or this road has never been repaired, it is just stepped on by many people It's just a mountain road; the condition of the river is also very boring. The nearby river section is winding and the water is gentle. The huge amount of sediment carried by the river from the upper reaches is gradually deposited here, so its water depth is very problematic.During the dry season in winter and spring, large shoals will be exposed in the center of the river, which will bring great difficulties to navigation. Therefore, if it is not dredged, the steam steamers downstream may only go up the river in summer and autumn. This is obviously very unfavorable to the development of the upper reaches.

The mountain road ahead gradually opened up—but only in relative terms—it seemed to be approaching the place where people lived.It can be seen that many open spaces on the side of the road were originally forests, but now there are only tree pits or stumps left, perhaps made by the pioneers here.

Sure enough, within 10 minutes of walking, Shao Yuanyi saw a wooden sign on the side of the road from a distance, with the words "Arhat World" written on it - this was the destination of their trip, a newly established settlement ——Luohan Township, located at the junction of the Pedras River and the Camacán River in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is named after the densely-covered Podocarpus pine forest.

There are more than 1200 residents in Luohan Township, of which about 700 are from Xiangshan County, Zhejiang Province, Daming, 300 are from Ukraine (female slaves), and there are more than 200 second sons and second daughters from families in eastern coastal counties.These new generations on the east coast could not get land in their hometowns and were unwilling to work in factories, so they signed up to move to the new settlements to open up wasteland in order to be able to share the [-] acres of arable land they depended on for survival—not to mention the hilly mountains. Everyone can get an additional [-] acres of grassland, slopes or woodland, which is quite attractive.

A few dogs barked from the giant reeds by the river bank, and then Shao Yuanyi saw four heavily armed militiamen walking out with guns.After seeing the "civilized" attire of Shao Yuanyi and others, these immature-looking young people lowered their guns, and then they carefully checked the certificates and letters of introduction of Shao Yuanyi and others. After they became medical staff, the faces of several people showed obvious joy. While sending people back to inform the village, they happily went forward to help Shao Yuanyi and others lead the horses and carry the luggage. They were extremely attentive. up.

The settlement will arrive soon. Looking from the pass where he is, Shao Yuanyi sees a large area of ​​houses built along the flat land at the foot of the mountain. Rivers, fields, and woods are intertwined. It looks like many villages.The most magnificent three-story building in the housing complex is probably the office of various government departments in the township, and it is also used as a material warehouse, weapon warehouse, prison and other facilities.

The entire building complex is cut into a mess by the irregular hills and the trend of the river. There are two wooden houses by the river, the machines inside are noisy, and there is a large pool of black coal piled up at the door, which seems to be a steam lift. Water station; behind the water station is a green grassland, on which there is a tall watchtower, on the top of the watchtower are two militiamen with guns standing guard, and two horses are tied to a small tree under the watchtower. A few of them are grazing quietly.

After the group arrived at the township government, a left-behind deputy head warmly greeted everyone to sit down, then took out the tea pot, poured some tea foam for everyone, brewed it, and brought it over.Shao Yuanyi was a little speechless, co-authoring this village is so poor!But think about it, it’s not easy to find some tea leaves for a newly established settlement that’s only a few months old, what else do you want?You know, this tea is not very cheap in the east coast. The price of the famous Baiyan camellia is 2 yuan per catty. Yuan/jin.But even so, Portuguese businessmen from the Gerard Mountains often come to collect tea from the east coast in order to resell it to Europe to make a fortune (there are not many tea drinking places in Europe, mainly concentrated in the Netherlands and surrounding areas), This shows its value.

Therefore, the loose tea leaves that the deputy township head poured out for everyone at this time are not inconspicuous, but they are definitely not cheap, but Shao Yuanyi, a "local tyrant", is usually used to drinking the Song Dynasty tribute "Xue Dou Qu Hao" (produced in Fenghua County ), just a little unaccustomed to it for a while.You see, didn't his two apprentices drink the tea with slightly surprised expressions?

"The establishment of this settlement was less than half a year ago. I was also transferred here after retiring from the army. Hehe, a small official like a sesame seed. When we were in Ming Dynasty, he was not even a low-ranking official. Officials." The deputy head of the township, who was about 35 or six years old, was very talkative, and he only heard him say: "Oh, last time I went to the village officials training class run by the district administrative office. Many brothers in the same class came from the army. Everyone kept sighing, the villages and villages are really suffering now. Places with conditions are better, with more or less income, and the financial resources of the local township government are guaranteed, and some work can still be carried out. But like me It is really difficult for a poor place like our Luohan Township to be newly established."

The deputy head of the township didn't put away his chatterbox once he opened it. He only heard him say: "The little money allocated by the State Development Administration is not only for construction, but also for maintaining the operation of various departments in the township. It is really beyond the means. Although each Adult males have to serve 15 days of unpaid corvee every year, but the problem is that this is not enough. In many cases, they still have to spend money to hire people to do construction. There are more than a dozen teachers in the central primary school in the township, plus school running funds, which costs More than 3000 yuan has to be deducted, and the village primary schools are still unable to build (in fact, there is no need to build village primary schools in new settlements), but the funds for one or two part-time teachers have to be paid. The first expenditure is education expenses, followed by construction expenses, medical expenses, and finally personnel expenses. It is common for the finances to make ends meet, but we can’t collect public grain from farmers here, so it’s difficult..."

It is said that the tax system of the East Coast Republic of China is becoming more and more perfect. Some miscellaneous taxes that were piloted and promoted in the past few years have been abolished by the National People's Congress because of the high cost of inspection and collection, and then changed to levy personal income tax on urban residents (state-owned enterprises It is based on the actual wages paid and collected proportionally, and employees of private enterprises are collected at a fixed amount, which is [-] cents per person per month); at the same time, the National People’s Congress also passed a proposal to collect public grain from rural residents—in fact, from the very beginning It has been levied, but this time the tax rates of counties and townships have been fine-tuned according to regional differences.However, according to the regulations of the executive committee, the first three years of the new settlements are tax-free, and the State Development Bureau provides food subsidies and financial subsidies to the new settlements, but these money and food are definitely not enough in the construction tide, and this is also It was the deputy mayor who complained.

Shao Yuanyi and the others are not officials, and they don't care about these things at all, but at this moment, because of their feelings, they can only accept the language bombardment of the deputy mayor while drinking tea.Fortunately, they didn't have to wait long. The head of the township who went out to inspect the land reclamation work in several remote villages came back on horseback. He also came back with him, a deputy head of the township who was a soldier from Bingtuanbao, and a deputy section chief of the State Development Bureau. long.

"Dr. Shao, you are a well-known medical master. This time, the county sent you to explain the knowledge of disease prevention to everyone. I, Liu, am really grateful. I won't say anything extra. If Dr. Shao is in Luohan Township in the future If you have any doubts, as long as I, Liu, are here on this day, feel free to come to me." This [-]-year-old township chief was born in the Jiaodong bandits, and he was the first group of people to follow Marshal Mo. He immigrated to the east bank and served successively as the director of the village army, the minister of the township armed forces, and the deputy head of the township. Now he has finally climbed to the throne of the township head, which can be regarded as a fast promotion.

Although Shao Yuanyi is considered a rich man in Mucaoling Township and even the entire Xihu County, he is a doctor and still has to make frequent visits to doctors, take care of apprentices, and carry out disease control promotion. To be honest, he is still quite busy.Although his property is enough to support him to sit at home all day and not work, but in the east coast republic where there is an extreme shortage of talents, it is actually impossible and not allowed to have such a phenomenon of wasting talents.In particular, Shao Yuanyi usually has a lot of money lending business, and he often has to deal with government departments. Some people find it difficult for a good doctor to be a rentier. Therefore, he still spends more time on him now. On the job of medicine.

For example, this time he was entrusted by the Xihu County Health Bureau to bring two apprentices to the most remote Luohan Township, just to do some medical science popularization work for the new immigrants here, so that they have a rough understanding of the disease. It can reduce the incidence of disease more or less.

Luohan Township is a newly established township that has only been established for half a year. At present, there is a severe shortage of talents of all kinds, and many of them hold multiple jobs (in fact, the bigger reason is that the local "eating finance" cannot support too many full-time workers), so this Most of the people who were arranged to come to listen to Shao Yuanyi's lectures were new-generation immigrants from the eastern coastal provinces.Most of them have at least completed primary education, and they can be regarded as the intellectual class in the east coast. Therefore, they will learn this kind of knowledge, and after they are done, the village will send them some funds to send them back to the village to promote it. It's almost done.

Shao Yuanyi had no objection to this, so after the two sides made a total calculation, they set the time in two days - this is to make it easier for people scattered in various villages to have time to arrange their affairs at hand, and then gather at the township government.

(End of this chapter)