The Chinese Independence Army repaired for seven days, and the soldiers who had been reduced in the main force were also replenished by selected soldiers of the garrison, and no tactical training was arranged for seven days, and the fatigue of the soldiers caused by the transfer of thousands of miles was also fully relaxed.

After seven days of repair, the Chinese soldiers who carried out the sweeping operation had cleared out several pieces of land inhabited by Brazilians, which were originally small towns inhabited by Brazilians, and the houses, food, and farm tools in them were complete, and as long as the Chinese soldiers were stationed in them, production could be resumed in a few days.

The land of Rio Gro Grande do South is fertile, the main industries of white European descendants in the local area are rubber, tea and other plantations, and the residents living in the countryside mainly grow corn, soybeans and other high-yield crops in South America, the time when the Chinese Independence Army launched a sweeping operation is in mid-July, at this time, the corn in southern Brazil has just entered the harvest season, and a large number of corn that is ripe or about to mature in the fields is no one to harvest because the Brazilian residents have been expelled, and the Chinese Independence Army has little food, and the golden corn of a large area of land is abandoned in the fields. The Chinese soldiers who were used to poverty were a little reluctant, so the officers of the sweeping squad below reported the situation that no one had harvested the corn to Luo Linshan, and after Luo Linshan got the news, he quickly conveyed the news to Li Mingyuan.

Corn, soybeans, potatoes, sweet potatoes are famous high-yield crops in the South American continent, but because of different eating habits, the Chinese usually regard corn, sweet potatoes, etc. as omnivorous, as a staple wheat and rice supplementary food, the Chinese Independence Army does not have much grain, the main task of the Chinese Independence Army at this stage is to build and consolidate Rio Glan Sul, there is no specific plan for the construction of water conservancy facilities to promote food income, and at this time Luo Linshan sent back the news that the corn planted by Brazilian residents in the countryside is catching up with the harvest season, A large amount of orphan corn can be used to increase the Chinese Independence Army's food reserves.

There is food in the hand, and there is no panic in the heart. With the seized grain and unharvested corn in the fields, the Chinese Independence Army's grain reserves were already sufficient to meet the development of the period of construction in Rio Gro Sul, and the construction projects that had been postponed due to the fear of rapid food consumption could also be started immediately.

The state of war between the Chinese Independence Army and Brazil, Argentina and other countries has not yet been resolved, and there was a famine in Paraguay not long ago, and the channels for purchasing grain from neighboring countries have been blocked, so for a period of time, the food of the Chinese Independence Army can only rely on the captured grain and the grain grown by the Chinese Independence Army on its own strength.

Now with the corn planted by Brazilian residents in the countryside, the food gap has been further narrowed, and there is no need to worry about the corn harvest, the work of repairing and dismantling the soldiers of the Chinese Independent Army has been completed, and more than 80,000 Chinese who have been separated from the main force are staying in Porto Alegre to wait for resettlement, and the 80,000 Chinese who are young and strong laborers can easily harvest corn in the countryside.

Because the corn left by the Brazilian residents was a windfall, Li Mingyuan did not plan to collect all the corn into the warehouse, but according to the ratio of 28 shares, two parts were given to the retired Chinese soldiers who harvested the corn, and 80 percent were handed over to the warehouse to increase grain reserves.

The climate of South America is the opposite of the climate of the northern hemisphere, and the time of grain harvesting is also different from that of the mainland, and after receiving some precautions for harvesting corn from the captive Brazilian residents, Li Mingyuan sent 10,000 soldiers as the first batch of resettled soldiers to settle down and harvest corn.

Among the 10,000 soldiers who were placed in the first batch, 1,000 were retired meritorious soldiers who were wounded bravely in battle, because of their injuries, they could not join the battlefield like other field armies, but Li Mingyuan did not look down on them because of their disabilities, and on the way to fight for half a year, the wounded soldiers as part of the Chinese Independent Army have been following the logistics troops, and in the thousands of miles of transfer, the vast majority of the disabled soldiers of the army died on the road due to physical reasons, and less than 500 people really arrived alive in Rio Grande do Sul.

The 500 soldiers who survived the expedition and the more than 500 soldiers who were wounded and disabled in the decisive battle with the Brazilian army formed the first batch of 1,000 people, and the 1,000 disabled soldiers who were brave in battle and had made meritorious contributions were selected by Li Mingyuan from thousands of disabled soldiers, and in order to commend their merits in shedding blood and mutilation, Li Mingyuan specially divided 1,000 people from the 12,000 Paraguayan women, and found a daughter-in-law for each of them, who would be reconciled with the soldiers who were resettled after they set off a few days later, so as to form a complete family.

Paraguayan women choose their husbands on the basis of a voluntary principle, and choose the Chinese they can see as their husbands, but the scope of their selection is limited, first according to the size of the military exploits, the first batch of soldiers and officers who have made major military achievements as the first batch of marriage candidates, selected by Paraguayan women, and in order to ensure that every meritorious soldier can find a daughter-in-law, Li Mingyuan stipulates that every Paraguayan woman must select a Chinese as her husband, otherwise the Chinese Independent Army will forcibly appoint a candidate.

The range of choices was limited, and Paraguayan women, who were already mentally prepared, quickly made a choice and chose their own candidates.

12,000 Paraguayan women quickly formed families with 12,000 Chinese in this way to form a complete family, and 12,000 Paraguayan women were naturally officially classified as Chinese, and more than 100 literate scholars in the Chinese Independence Army were divided and taught to learn the Chinese language and Han customs and culture in their spare time, so as to integrate them into the Chinese as soon as possible.

The newly formed 12,000 families live in different areas according to the size of their soldiers' exploits, among which the soldiers who live in the big cities such as Porto Alegre and Santa Maria are soldiers and officers who have made great achievements, and in addition to obtaining 300 acres of land in the suburbs of the neighboring cities, they will also get a house in the city, while the land of ordinary soldiers is mainly distributed in the countryside and areas far away from the city, and they also have 300 mu of land per person, but the geographical location of the land and the degree of suitability for living in it are not as good as those of the Chinese living in the cities.

Li Mingyuan promised that each Chinese soldier would receive 300 acres of land, but the fertility and geographical location of each person's land would be different depending on the size of the battle.

Brave soldiers were given fertile land and comfortable housing in the city, while ordinary soldiers had to live in the countryside and reclaim 300 acres of land, because there was a clear difference in the fairness of Li Mingyuan's actions and the competitiveness of the soldiers to fight bravely.

Three hundred acres of land is not a small area of land in either the mainland or Europe, because the first batch of Chinese workers who fought with Li Mingyuan belonged to the old brothers of the fathers who fought the world together, even if the physical fitness was not good and served as the logistics supply of heavy personnel still played an important role in the early days of the Chinese Independence Army's business, so Li Mingyuan divided a large piece of land to reward them, but in the face of more and more immigrants in the future, their treatment will not be so good.

Although there is a lot of land in Rio Gro Grande South, it was fought by Li Mingyuan and his soldiers one by one, if Li Mingyuan is like the other protagonists, a large area of land is given to the Chinese immigrants for free, maybe in the early stage will gain the gratitude of the new immigrants, but after a long time, it will incur their resentment, fighting Mien, promoting rice hatred, getting a piece of land without paying will only increase the greed and inertia of the new immigrants, since there is land and houses without doing anything, then why can you work hard to farm?

With such a mentality, they will not contribute to the development of the newly established country, and will even ask Li Mingyuan to pay more to satisfy their greed.

Although Li Mingyuan was the head of state after the newly established country, all the land nominally belonged to him alone, but the Chinese Independence Army that supported Li Mingyuan's rule, the land occupied by South America was not only Li Mingyuan's, but also the soldiers who fought the world with him, and a large number of land were sent to the new immigrants free of charge without considering the wishes of the Chinese Independent Army. Even if Li Mingyuan had been supported by all the soldiers before, he would eventually lose his military morale and fall into the consequence of being ousted by his soldiers.

The policy of obtaining land for new immigrants still needs to be concretely implemented, and Li Mingyuan will not be stupid enough to give land to new immigrants for free, and the plan for acquiring new immigrants will take some time before it can be implemented, and the work of resettlement and dismissal of soldiers has been carried out in full swing, the first batch of resettlement teams composed of 10,000 soldiers have successfully arrived in the resettlement area, and some of the soldiers who have completed the sweeping operation have assisted the resettlement soldiers in harvesting corn under the command of their own officers, and the vast rural areas of Rio Gro Sul have been expelled from Brazil. A group of three or four hundred Chinese was responsible for harvesting a large area of land, and more than a dozen Chinese soldiers with guns stood guard next to the field to prevent the small number of Brazilian guerrillas who had escaped from attacking the working Chinese.

The small Brazilian guerrillas who used the mountains, forests, and plains as their hiding places lost the ventilation messages and food and material support of their compatriots, and gradually became difficult to maintain, and the Brazilian guerrillas, who lacked weapons, ammunition, and food supplies, were forced to leave their hiding places and attacked and attacked the Chinese who had been resettled, and as a result, they were constantly discovered by the patrol and vigilance of the sweeping forces, and then they were eliminated.

He Yanliang was one of the responsible persons responsible for the resettlement of the demobilized soldiers, and he was solely responsible for the resettlement of the first batch of 10,000 Chinese.

He Yanliang, who had his left arm amputated, was a well-known figure in the Chinese Independence Army, He Yanliang was originally a platoon commander in the broadsword team, and withdrew from the main force after being shot and amputated in the left arm during the battle, and was arranged by Li Mingyuan to take charge of the management of the wounded soldiers in the wounded army.

Li Mingyuan paid close attention to the physical recovery of the wounded soldiers and the progress of the cultural education of the wounded soldiers, and always went to the wounded soldiers to comfort and encourage the wounded soldiers after each battle, and encouraged them not to give up on themselves because of their disabilities with a good life in the future, such as dividing the land and marrying a wife.

The Chinese Independent Army settled down in Rio Gro Sul, and Li Mingyuan designed the wounded team for nearly half a year, and in the half year he served as the captain of the wounded team, He Yanliang's thinking gradually changed.

Before the amputation of his left arm, He Yanliang's goal was to become a brave and warlike general, although the idea of becoming a field army general has always existed in his heart after the amputation, but the knowledge learned from the staff officers who taught him in the wounded corps and the contact with different wounded soldiers changed his mind.

It is impossible to amputate the left arm and then become a fierce general who charges into battle, and the absence of the left arm does not mean that it is useless, and the knowledge of management and combat command and the experience of managing the wounded team learned from the staff officers are valuable assets.

Li Mingyuan checked He Yanliang's performance in the wounded soldiers' team, and praised his progress, so the first batch of resettlement work was handed over to him, and Li Mingyuan did not disappoint Li Mingyuan, and He Yanliang, who took over the 10,000 immigrants, divided the 10,000 resettlement of Chinese into five detachments, each with 2,000 people, and occupied a total of five small towns left by Brazilian residents.

The retired officers among the resettled Chinese were responsible for leading each squad to carry out production and construction work, and after some arrangements and commands, the resettlement team of 10,000 people quickly stabilized and entered the work of harvesting corn.

The cornmeal harvest was not all smooth sailing, and on the third day of the harvest, the weather suddenly turned cloudy and it was about to rain heavily. He Yanliang commanded the retired soldiers in the field to buy corn at that time, and after seeing the weather change, he immediately gathered all the retired soldiers who worked to rush the corn, and finally moved all the corn to the temporary shelter before the heavy rain, avoiding the loss of a large amount of corn.

Rio Gro Sul had abundant rainfall, and the heavy rain on the third day of the harvest lasted for two days before it stopped, and the heavy rain lasted for two days, and the Chinese soldiers who were resettled could not harvest the corn, and several Brazilian guerrillas active in the vicinity were also uncomfortable, lacking food and clothing, starving, and always worried about the encirclement and suppression of the sweeping troops, and several Brazilian guerrillas who could not bear to live a hard life in the mountains and forests got together and attacked a small town inhabited by Chinese on the second day of heavy rain.

Because the heavy rain has been falling, the Chinese in the town accidentally suffered a small loss, part of the grain and livestock stored in the town were robbed by the guerrillas, and the Chinese also suffered more than 10 casualties, the news of the sneak attack of the Brazilian guerrillas soon reached He Yanliang's ears, according to the losses of the sneak attack on the town, He Yanliang judged that the Brazilian guerrillas lacked materials seriously, and the stolen grain and livestock were not enough to maintain the survival of the Brazilian guerrillas.

To make a judgment that the Brazilian guerrillas might attack again, He Yanliang organized 2,000 militia troops, and used muskets, knives, guns and other weapons eliminated by the field troops to secretly ambush the places where the guerrillas might appear; as He Yanliang expected, two days later, another group of more than 300 guerrillas attacked the town, and He Yanliang commanded the 200 soldiers in ambush in the town to drag the Brazilian guerrillas, and then completely annihilated the attacking Brazilian guerrillas after other ambush troops arrived.

Killing a group of Brazilian guerrillas was not He Yanliang's main goal, his plan was to interrogate the captured guerrillas and obtain from them the hiding places of the various guerrillas in the mountains and forests, so as to wipe them out.

After the interrogation, He Yanliang handed over the captured Brazilian guerrillas to the sweeping force, and then led his militia and a part of the regular army under his command to encircle and suppress the guerrillas hiding in the mountains in batches, the encirclement and suppression operation lasted for five days, and the seven nearby Brazilian guerrilla strongholds were all wiped out by He Yanliang, in addition to annihilating more than 1,100 guerrilla members, more than 1,000 Brazilian residents were also captured from the mountains. They were ordinary residents who had taken refuge in the mountains with the guerrillas, but they were also expelled from Rio Gro Sul after being captured by He Yanliang and finally taken over by the Brazilian government.

He Yanliang made meritorious contributions in combat, and Li Mingyuan took advantage of the situation to promote him to the commander of the First Garrison Brigade and concurrently the chief manager of the resettlement of retired soldiers, responsible for commanding the First Garrison Brigade and the militia units in his jurisdiction, and his rank was promoted to lieutenant colonel.