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The fleet sailed on the Guaiba River for half a day and arrived at its destination in the afternoon, Pasudu Wind.

There was a group of Chinese who had received the news in advance gathered on the bank of the river, and as soon as Li Mingyuan came ashore, a Chinese in his thirties was the first to greet him.

"Humble Zhao Yan has seen the son."

"I haven't seen him for two months, and Mr. Zhao has a lot of tan." Li Mingyuan smiled and helped Zhao Yandao up.

After Sun Bin sent an envoy to Prussia, most of the specific work of resettlement of retired soldiers was transferred to Zhao Yan.

"The prince handed over the important matter of the resettlement of his retired brothers to the lowly position, and he did not dare to slack off."

Zhao Yan said respectfully.

"My brothers followed me from birth to death, and it is not easy to settle down, and if there is a shortage of food, medicinal materials, and building materials, report to me directly, and I will send supplies from Porto Alegre."

"Two days ago, Chief of Staff Liu split a part of the grain delivered by the Brazilians to Pasudufeng, and the food gap has been solved for the time being.

In terms of house construction, the Pasudu wind has a mild climate, abundant precipitation, and various tall trees grow in the nearby area, and the timber for building houses is easy to obtain, and it took two months to arrive in the Pasudu wind, and arranged for the retired soldiers who arrived in the early stage to cut down trees, level the wasteland, and build 50 wooden houses of various sizes and 300 simple wooden sheds, which can accommodate 2,000 people to live in a concentrated manner. ”

Pasudoufeng is one of the key construction areas, and it is planned to become the fourth county-level administrative unit in Rio Gro do Sul next year, so more retired soldiers are being transported here than elsewhere.

Zhao Yanxian gave a general introduction to the preliminary construction of Pasudufeng, and then changed the conversation and put forward the difficulties faced in the resettlement work: "The construction of Pasudufeng began in early September, and half of the retired soldiers were transferred to the front line to assist in the war with the Brazilians.

With fewer manpower, a shortage of people to cut down trees and build houses, and a huge reduction in the number of people who have been cleared of wasteland, and a focus on ensuring that the construction of houses is completed by December, most of the wasteland has not been developed, and the time for planting crops has been delayed, and it will not be until next spring that Pasudufeng will be able to achieve self-sufficiency. ”

"The second war in Brazil was an emergency, because you are not at fault for the loss of crops planted due to the war."

Li Mingyuan nodded and continued, "You don't have to worry about the food problem, Liu Pu has already started to buy food from outside, and the food supply in the Pasudufeng area will not be able to last until next spring." ”

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

The resettlement site for the retired soldiers of Pasuduphon was built on a small plain, with a forest of forests planned to be reclaimed as fields in the front, a hill in the back, and a small river running through the Guaiba River to the left and right.

The water volume of the river was too small to pass through small flat-bottomed sand boats, so the fleet was moored at the entrance of the river, and the supplies on board were carried by soldiers to small boats, which were then transported by small boats to the small river, where they were temporarily stored in a makeshift base by the river.

More than 100 retired soldiers who had lost their labor force lined up in two rows to welcome Li Mingyuan's arrival, and Li Mingyuan cordially greeted these disabled soldiers and asked them about their living conditions.

If the disabled are properly arranged, the soldiers will not have to worry about fighting, and the disabled veterans distributed in various resettlement points can play a role in consolidating the rule by taking on the leadership work at the grassroots level.

After talking with more than a dozen disabled veterans, Li Mingyuan met an acquaintance, Zhao Youde, a remnant of the Ming Dynasty who he met in the Peruvian region, Zhao Youde was in his forties, and his long and hard work caused him to look like an old man in his sixties and seventies, and his physical fitness gradually deteriorated with the injuries left in his early years, so Zhao Youde was arranged by Sun Bin and more than 100 disabled veterans to be together, and he did not have to engage in high-intensity labor such as cutting down trees.

"Coming here from Peru, is Uncle Zhao still used to it?" Li Mingyuan chatted with Zhao Youde in a homely manner.

"Lao Shizi is worried, the villain is very satisfied with the life here, and Lord Zhao also takes a lot of care of the villain, when he was in Peru before, he never thought that people who were about to enter the soil could still live a life with fields and land."

"The Chinese Independence Army has just ended the war, and it will be busy doing a lot of things in the early stage, and after a while, it will be able to completely calm down, and then the days will be better, Mr. Zhao will pay more attention to his body, and the good days are still to come."

"People are old and useless." Zhao Youde smiled and waved his hand, "I thought that I would be able to do something small for the prince like when I was young, but when I was passing through the Bolivian plateau, I encountered a blizzard, and more than 100 people in a migration team froze to death and died. ”

After Zhao Youde finished speaking, he felt that it was unlucky to say such things in front of Li Mingyuan, and added, "Although the body is not as good as back then, it is not a problem to last a few years." ”

After long-distance migration, the dead Chinese had no way to take them away, so they could only be buried in the jungle and mountains on the way, and then they were wronged by the obscurity of those dead soldiers.

"Liu Pu, count the brothers who died during the expedition, as well as the soldiers who died in previous battles, record their names and specific circumstances, and build a synagogue dedicated to the sacrificed soldiers after a period of time."

"My subordinates understand." Liu Pu carefully wrote down.

"And next year, when we send people to the mainland to absorb immigrants, we will inquire more about the situation and see if we can find the family orphans left behind by the sacrificed brothers, who died in the war and buried their bones in the wilderness, and no longer let their families be left uncared for."

There are more than 100,000 Chinese in Rio Gro Gran do Sul, of which less than 10,000 belong to the remnants of the Taiping Army, and all the rest are ordinary Chinese workers who have been abducted or trafficked or deceived into the Americas.

Chinese laborers in South America mainly come from the coastal zone, of which Liangguang and southern Fujian are the main distribution areas.

Liangguang is set up next year to obtain immigrants, from where you can get immigrants at the same time to find out the news of the relatives of Chinese workers, although the situation of some of the families of the sacrificed Chinese workers is not specific, and it is somewhat difficult to contact their families, but from the big picture, Liu Pu still agrees with Li Mingyuan's idea.

"The prince is kind-hearted, and those Chinese brothers who sacrificed are knowledgeable, and they will definitely thank the prince for his great kindness!"

Zhao Youde has long been integrated into the large group of the Chinese Independence Army, and has a deep affection for the Chinese workers who have come along the way.

"That's what I'm supposed to do." Li Mingyuan said softly.

After discussing the handling of the Chinese soldiers who had sacrificed their lives, the conversation became relaxed again.

"Thanks to the gift of the son, Erlang of the little old man's family married his daughter-in-law three months ago, and six days ago Erlang took his daughter-in-law to Langzhong in the army to see a doctor, and learned from Langzhong that his daughter-in-law was just two and a half months pregnant, and by the summer of next year, there will be a new Ding in the family."

"Congratulations to Mr. Zhao, I met Erlang, a very energetic young man, I didn't expect to become a father so soon."

"It's not early, after the New Year, Erlang will be nineteen years old, if it weren't for the poverty of the family, I would have thought about marrying him a daughter-in-law."

Zhao Youde was full of smiles, but he didn't notice that Li Mingyuan was only 17 years old when he was old, but habitually treated him as a leader like other Chinese generals, ignoring his real age.

After Zhao Youde was happy, he continued: "I used to have no land, and I dreamed of having a piece of land of my own, but when I settled here, I was allocated a large piece of land, but I couldn't plant it, so I could only use it as a pasture to raise five alpacas and more than a dozen pheasants I caught. ”

"How much land does Uncle Zhao's family get?"

"In the army, 400 acres of land were approved according to my work of collecting alpacas in Peru, and Erlang's land as a soldier in the army plus meritorious service awards was also 400 acres, a total of 800 acres of land, only the old man, his son, and his daughter-in-law were manipulated, and now my daughter-in-law is pregnant, and she can't do the heavy work of cultivating the fields, and Erlang and I have worked hard for more than ten days to reclaim and level out 200 acres of land, and there are 600 acres of land that are barren and have no time to take care of."

"The retired soldiers in the Rio Gran do Sul area are all old brothers who participated in the uprising with me, and the land cannot be hidden, and 300 acres of land per person now looks like a lot, and after ten or twenty years, the soldiers who have been allocated the land will marry a daughter-in-law and have five or six children, and there will not be much land left after each child is allocated."

Having more children and more blessings is a tradition recognized by ordinary Chinese, and 300 acres of land looks like a lot, but according to the fertility wishes of Chinese people in peacetime, after two generations, a household of 300 acres of land will be reduced to a household of dozens of acres.

Zhao Youde obviously didn't think about it decades later, and when he heard Li Mingyuan say it, he immediately became worried, "If Erlang's daughter-in-law gives birth to five sons, each son will have five more sons, and eight hundred lands will be distributed to twenty-five great-grandchildren." One person is less than forty acres of land. ”

Zhao Youde finished his calculations and was taken aback by the results, "Eight hundred acres of land is not enough, I want to talk to Erlang, let him make more meritorious contributions in the army, and earn some land back." ”

Li Mingyuan said that considering the situation of the Chinese in the early decades after the founding of the South American state, with the development of the economy, ordinary Chinese will become accustomed 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 gives birth to five children, it is difficult to guarantee that all of them are boys, let alone the next generation.

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

If 800 acres of land cannot be planted, you can choose more than 30 acres of land to grow crops, and the rest of the land is used to plant precious timber such as bitter wood and sand tuomu, or open up for pasture to breed alpacas, cattle, sheep, etc.

The states of Rio Gro do Sul and Santa Catarina are the base of animal husbandry in Brazil, with dense forests and high-quality pastures suitable for cattle and sheep.

However, because the three southern states of Brazil are geographically closer to Argentina, the economy has not developed well.

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