Rebirth of South America as King

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The fleet sailed on the Guayba for half a day and arrived at their destination, Pasudo, in the afternoon.

A group of Chinese people who got the news beforehand gathered on the river bank. As soon as Li Mingyuan landed, a Chinese man in his thirties greeted him first.

"Zhao Yan, the humble job, has seen his son."

"I haven't seen him in two months, Mr. Zhao has tanned a lot." Li Mingyuan smiled and lifted up Zhao Yandao.

After Sun Bin's ambassador to Prussia, most of the specific work of retiring soldiers was transferred to Zhao Yan.

"Shizi handed over the responsibility for the placement of the retired brothers, and he dare not slack off."

Zhao Yan respectfully said.

"Brothers followed my birth and died, and finally settled down. We must arrange them properly. There is not enough food, medicinal materials, and building materials. Report directly to me. I will dispatch supplies from Porto Alegre."

"Two days ago, Chief of Staff Liu split a portion of the food delivered by the Brazilians and delivered it to Pasoudou. The food gap has been temporarily resolved.

In terms of housing construction, the Passoudu has a mild climate and abundant precipitation. There are various tall trees growing in the nearby area. The timber for building houses is easy to obtain. When arriving in Passoudu for two months, the retired soldiers who arrived earlier will cut trees, The wasteland was leveled, and fifty wooden houses and three hundred simple wooden sheds were built, which could accommodate 2,000 people to live in concentration. "

Passoudu is one of the key construction areas. It is planned to be the fourth county-level administrative unit in Rio Grande do Sul next year, so more soldiers are sent here than elsewhere.

Zhao Yan first gave a general introduction to the pre-construction in Pasoudoufeng, and then turned around and raised the problems faced in the resettlement work. "The construction of Pasoudoufeng began in early September, halfway because of the war with the Brazilians. Half of the retired soldiers were drawn to the front line to assist in the battle.

Reduced manpower, insufficient manpower for felling trees and constructing houses. The humble job has to reduce the number of people reclaiming wasteland, and concentrated most of their efforts to ensure that housing construction is completed by December. Therefore, most of the wasteland has not been developed, and the time for planting crops has been delayed. It is not until next spring that Pasoudou will become self-sufficient. "

"The second Brazilian war is an emergency, because it is not your fault to reduce the area planted by the war."

Li Mingyuan nodded and continued, "You don't have to worry about the grain problem. Liu Pu has already started to buy grain from the outside. The grain supply in Pasudufeng will not continue until next spring."

The two continued to talk for a while, then walked into the Chinese settlement.

The Pasudo wind retired soldiers' resettlement site was established on a small plain. In front, there are planned thickets of trees to be cultivated as fields. On the back, there is a small hill. On the left and right sides are small rivers that pass through the Guayba River.

The water volume of the river is too small and can only pass through small flat-bottom sand boats. Therefore, the fleet is anchored at the entrance of the river. The soldiers' materials are transported to a small boat by the soldiers, and then the boat is transported to the small river. base.

The wooden houses and wooden sheds in the resettlement site are listed on both sides of the newly repaired roads. More than 100 retired soldiers who lost their labors are lined up. Li Mingyuan is welcome to come. Li Mingyuan kindly greets these disabled soldiers and asks about their living conditions. When he heard that each of them was allocated more than 300 acres of land, and houses and agricultural tools were also allocated, Li Mingyuan was very relieved.

The disability is properly arranged, and the soldiers will not have any concerns during the battle. The disabled veterans distributed at various resettlement sites as the leadership of the grassroots can play a stable role. Therefore, Li Mingyuan never considered the disabled soldiers The burden of dragging down the troops is abandoned.

After talking to more than a dozen disabled veterans, Li Mingyuan met an acquaintance, a Ming Dynasty survivor Zhao Youde, who was in his 40s. Zhao Youde was in his forties, and after a long period of hard work, he looked like an old man in his sixties and seventies. The quality gradually deteriorated with the injuries left in the early years. Therefore, Zhao Youde was arranged by Sun Bin and more than 100 disabled veterans without having to engage in high-intensity labor such as felling trees.

"When I came here from Peru, did Zhao Laozhang get used to it?" Li Mingyuan pulled homely and chatted with Zhao Youde.

"Luo Shizi is worried, the villain is very satisfied with the life here, and Master Zhao also takes care of the villain. When he was in Peru, he never thought about people who were about to enter the soil, and he could live a life with land and land."

"The Chinese Independent Army has just ended the war. In the early days, it will be busy doing many things. After a period of time, it can be completely quiet. At that time, the day will be better. Zhao Laozhang pays more attention to his body. Good days are still behind."

"People are old and useless." Zhao Youde waved with a smile. "I thought I could do small things for Shizi, just like when I was young, but I encountered a blizzard when crossing the Bolivia Plateau. A migration team of more than 100 People froze to death for more than half of their lives, and the old man barely recovered his life, but his health was getting worse. "

After Zhao Youde said, it felt unlucky to say such words in front of Li Mingyuan, adding that "although the body is not as good as it was then, it will not be a problem for a few years."

Long-distance migration, the dead Chinese could not be taken away, they could only be buried in the jungle and mountains on the way, turned into success, and then let the dead soldiers go innocent and aggrieved them.

"Liu Pu, statistics of the brethren who died during the expedition, as well as soldiers killed in previous battles, recorded their names and specific circumstances, and later established a synagogue dedicated to the soldiers who died."

"Subordinates understand." Liu Pu wrote down carefully.

"And when sending people to the mainland to absorb immigrants next year, find out more about the situation and see if we can find the orphans of the family left by the sacrificed brothers. The brothers died in the wilderness and can no longer leave their families unattended."

There are more than 100,000 Chinese in Rio Grande do Sul, of which less than 10,000 belong to the remnants of the Taiping Army. All others are ordinary Chinese workers who have been trafficked or deceived into the Americas. Most of them have relatives on the mainland and killed them. The relatives of the Chinese workers received the state of Rio Grande do Sul for their responsibility, and also for the peace of mind of ordinary Chinese soldiers.

South American Chinese workers are mainly from coastal areas, with Guangdong, Guangdong and southern Fujian as the main distribution areas.

Guangxi and Guangdong are the areas for immigration set up next year. While getting immigrants from there, you can inquire about the relatives of Chinese workers. Although some of the sacrifices of Chinese workers ’families are not specific and it is difficult to contact their families, Liu Pu still agrees with Li Mingyuan in general. idea.

"Shizi's heart is kind. Those Chinese brothers who sacrificed know that they will thank Shizi for his graciousness!"

Zhao Youde has long been integrated into the large groups of the Chinese Independent Army and has deep feelings for the Chinese workers along the way.

"This is all I should do." Li Mingyuan whispered softly.

After discussing the handling of the sacrifices of the Chinese soldiers, the conversation became easier again.

"Thanks to the gift of Shizi, Erlang of Xiaolaoer's family married his daughter-in-law three months ago. Six days ago Erlang took his daughter-in-law to Lang in the army to see a doctor. It was learned from Lang Zhong's mouth that his daughter-in-law had just been pregnant for two and a half months. By the summer of next year, we can add another new home. "

"Congratulations to Mrs. Zhao, Erlang, I have met, a very spirited young man, did not expect to be a father so soon."

"It's getting late. After the New Year, Erlang will be 19 years old. If he wasn't poor, he would have thought of marrying his wife."

Zhao Youde smiled, but did not notice that Li Mingyuan was only 17 years old. Instead, he used to treat him as a leader like other Chinese generals and ignored his true age.

After Zhao Youde was happy, he continued, "I used to dream of having a piece of land without my land. When I settled here, I could not plant a large piece of land. I could only use it as a pasture for five alpacas and more than ten. Pheasant. "

"How much land is allocated to Zhao Laozhang's family?"

"Four hundred acres of land were approved in the army according to my work of collecting alpacas in Peru. The land of Erlang in the army plus the reward for merit is also four hundred acres. There are a total of eight hundred acres of land. All right, now my daughter-in-law is pregnant, and the heavy work of reclamation ca n’t be done. The two people, Erlang and me, also reclamed and leveled out 200 acres of land after more than ten days of hard work.

"The retired soldiers in the Rio Grande do Sul are all my old brothers who participated in the uprising. When the land was shot down, we could not hide it. The three hundred acres of land per person are now watching more. After ten or twenty years, The soldiers who came to the land married their daughter-in-law and had five or six children. Each child would not have much land left after being allocated. "

Multi-child and multi-blessing is a tradition recognized by ordinary Chinese. Three hundred acres of land look at a lot, but according to the reproductive will of Chinese in peace time, after two generations, one 300 acres of land will be reduced to one dozens of acres.

Zhao Youde obviously didn't think about what happened decades later. He heard that Li Mingyuan said immediately that he was worried. "If Erlang's daughter-in-law has five sons, each son will have five sons, and 800 of the land will be divided into 25 grandsons. Less than forty acres per person. "

Zhao Youde's calculation was over and he was taken aback by the result. "Eight hundred acres of land is not enough. Talk to Erlang and let him do more work in the army and earn some land to return."

Li Mingyuan said that considering the situation of the Chinese in the early decades after the founding of South America, UU reading www.uukanshu.com With the economic development, ordinary Chinese are used to a stable life, and the biological level will drop to a normal level.

Zhao Youde's own calculations are also wrong. Even if his daughter-in-law has five children, it is difficult to guarantee that they are all boys, not to mention the next generation.

Li Mingyuan began to explain so that he didn't have to worry so much, and then gave him an idea.

There are more than 800 acres of land to plant, and you can choose more than 30 acres to plant crops. The other lands are used for planting precious woods such as bitter wood and sand sapwood, or they are opened for pasture farming of alpaca, cattle, and sheep.

Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina are Brazilian animal husbandry bases. The dense local woods and high-quality pastures are suitable for cattle and sheep.

However, because the three Brazilian states are closer to Argentina, the economy has not developed very well.

The agricultural and industrial development plans of the two states are huge and complicated. Li Mingyuan has ordered Sun Bin to invite relevant experts from Prussia to Rio Grande do Sul, and when they return with industrial equipment and experts, the large-scale construction of the Rio Grande do Sul will officially begin. start up.