Chapter 113: Dividing the Land
The development and growth of a team is inseparable from the correct command of the core leaders, in the peasant uprising war, a small armed force needs a wise and resolute commander, leading the team to constantly defeat the enemy, development and growth, when the team size develops to a certain extent, the initial armed forces to obtain one or several stable bases, at this time the team needs not only a dare to fight entrepreneurial leaders, but also need some professionals to manage the entire team to ensure the good operation and progress of the team.
The Chinese Independence Army grew from small to large, from a rabble composed of the remnants of the Taiping Army and laborers in a chaotic manner, all the way to an emerging force that fought thousands of miles and had more than 100,000 troops, and Li Mingyuan's rational planning of the troops played a major role in the early days, and at the same time, a complete set of perfect promotion rewards and punishments within the Chinese Independence Army dredged up the space for ordinary soldiers to rise, and tapped and mobilized the development potential of more than 100,000 Chinese to the greatest extent, so that a group of capable Chinese stood out in the troops, such as Liu Pu, Chen Guozhu, Luo Dacang, and Wang Dashan, Luo Linshan, Sun Bin and others, except for Luo Linshan, who later launched a Chinese uprising in South America, which can be regarded as a recorded commander in history, the others are unknown ordinary people in the vast history, if there is no Li Mingyuan to arrive, their fate is either to survive under the oppression of South American whites, or they are unwilling to be enslaved and rise up to resist, and then because the Chinese forces are scattered and there is no influential and persuasive leader to command, they are finally annihilated by South American whites one by one. Just like the result of the Chinese labor uprising in history, it went to failure.
In ordinary times, because there is no opportunity to perform, people with special talents will be as obscure as others, and when the country is chaotic and encounters a major crisis, those characters with potential talents in their bones will take advantage of the situation and go to their historical stage.
Because of the emergence of Li Mingyuan, more than 100,000 Chinese in South America were eliminated through brutal battles, and a group of backbone military personnel and logistical management personnel were screened out, and these people ensured the normal operation and strong combat effectiveness of the Chinese Independent Army, and they were the solid cornerstone of maintaining Li Mingyuan's rule.
After fighting thousands of miles and spanning more than half a year, the Chinese Independent Army arrived in Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil, and on the way in, 15,000 Chinese died in battle or illness, and many soldiers embarked on the journey with the tempting promises of land and property promised by Li Mingyuan, among them, some soldiers died on the way to the expedition, but most of the South American Chinese persevered, because they had nothing and were oppressed by the white South Americans, and they understood how valuable a piece of land belonging to them was, With the yearning for the land and a stable and free life, and the trust in Li Mingyuan, they overcame many difficulties and finally came to Rio Gro Sul, and now, Li Mingyuan is ready to fulfill his promise in advance, and every Chinese soldier who arrives alive will receive 300 acres of land, and the soldier who has made meritorious contributions in the battle will receive additional land rewards.
The 300 mu of land is not a reward for a single Chinese soldier, but for the Chinese soldier who has obtained the land as the master, forming a normal family, one man and one woman, two young laborers, plus a child born a year or two later, and 300 mu of land for a family of four or five, which is the perfect family structure envisioned by Li Mingyuan.
The population of the Chinese Independence Army is relatively small, and it takes a long time for immigrants from the mainland and Nanyang areas to bear fruit, so advocating more children among Chinese soldiers and new women of appropriate age is the main policy to be implemented in the early stage.
In Li Mingyuan's plan, the first and second generation children grew up, leaving the eldest son to inherit the family's land and property, while the second son, the third son and the fourth son, were arranged by the government to divide the land on the newly expanded land.
Families with fewer offspring will ostensibly not be punished, but they will suffer more than those who have more children in the distribution of newly expanded land, and Li Mingyuan intends to use this covert method to encourage Chinese families to have more children.
After Li Mingyuan's method of encouraging Chinese people to have children was sorted out, he discussed it with Liu Pu, and Liu Pu roughly agreed after reading it, but he also added a sentence: The Han people have been paying attention to having more children and more blessings since ancient times, as long as the living conditions at home permit, raising more children is the primary choice of the vast majority of Chinese, so to solve the problem of Chinese soldiers' singleness, and then distribute 300 acres of land to Chinese soldiers, without Li Mingyuan's encouragement, Chinese soldiers with fields and daughters-in-law will naturally strive to pass on the family lineage as a top priority.
Li Mingyuan came from later generations, when the country implemented a birth restriction policy, each family was only allowed to have one child, and later the evil consequences of birth restrictions came out, and the country relaxed birth restrictions, but the people at that time were unwilling to have more children because of economic and other pressures, which gave Li Mingyuan a preconceived impression, if you want to encourage South American Chinese to give birth, the government should implement a lot of policy propaganda and rewards, and after hearing Liu Pu's words, he reacted, now is not the future generation of rapid economic development, there are three unfilial pieties, It is still an orthodox concept in the hearts of the Chinese.
The concern of dividing the land and marrying wives to have offspring has disappeared, and the most important task of dividing the land should be put on the table.
Li Mingyuan followed the first batch of 20,000 field troops to Rio Grande do Sul first, and in the following ten days when most of the South American Chinese had not yet arrived, the work of counting the exploits of all soldiers and officers has been carried out in an orderly manner, and most of the follow-up troops arrived in Rio Grande do Sul, and the various units were temporarily stationed around Porto Alegre, Li Mingyuan convened all the senior generals, except for the plan to expel the Brazilian residents that had just been discussed with Lorraine Hill, and the rest of the time was mainly discussed around the division of the fields.
The principle of dividing the land is very easy to confirm, but the specific division of the land, where the land is divided, and how fertile the land is, a series of questions cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences.
Rio Grande do Sul has a vast area and fertile land, and more than 100,000 Chinese can be resettled in Porto Alegre alone, the most stable occupation of the Chinese Independent Army, but Li Mingyuan is not looking at Porto Alegre or Rio Grande do Sul, but a larger area of fertile land in South America, scattering more than 100,000 Chinese in Rio Grande do Sul on 281,000 square kilometers of land, expelling local Brazilian residents, reclaiming land, building small forts, and using fortresses in Rio Grande do Sul. The smooth roads of the trade were connected into a group of fortresses that communicated with each other, and at that time, if the Brazilian army took the initiative to attack, they would be greeted by a ubiquitous blow and an all-out attack by the main force of the Chinese field army, and finally the Brazilian army that dared to set foot in Rio Gro Sul would have no place to die.