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"As of January 31, 1651, there had been 48 indigenous attacks in the four township-level settlements of Yiling, Laojunmiao, Modaoshi, and Shifangdian. In recent times, the attacks on the four townships have been markedly reduced and weakened, and it is clear that the fighting power of the Guaraní remnants in the wilderness has been greatly reduced, which is very good news for the many settlers in the area. The words of Army Major Zhu Liang still echoed in his ears, and Anda Fifteen, who replaced Zhu Liang and came to Yiling to preside over the security work, straightened his collar and strode out of the temporary barracks.

This site is Fort Taiping, a settlement fort that is under construction and is located near the town of Pantanou Grande do Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This time, the Communications Construction Group dispatched the newly established Fifth and Sixth Bureaus of Communications and Construction, and brought thousands of labor workers to the south bank of the Yakuyi River to build a series of settlements, so as to prepare for the resettlement of the immigrants from the Ming Kingdom in the East, who were about to arrive. This area is a so-called "safe zone" that has been cleared by the slave catchers in São Paulo, Brazil, and the arable land is ready-made, and as long as the fort is built and the population is filled, then it will develop as quickly as possible.

By the way, there are two more settlements to the east of Taiping Fort that are being built at the same time. One is named Fighting Tiger Forest. It was named after the construction team surveyors who came here to kill a jaguar that burst out and injured people. Located near the intersection of the later Francisco Ño River and Route 290; Another settlement is called Baicaogou, located near the small town of Butia in Brazil, and is named after the wide variety of grasses that grew in the ravines selected by the Ministry of Immigration.

The three settlements are basically in the same straight line, and the easternmost Baicaogou is not far from Darat Township in Dingxi County, and the construction team that is building several settlements intends to build a sandy road between these settlements after completion, so that they can be connected. Of course, this is not easy, as you will need to cross several wooded areas along the way, and there may be hidden villages of Guarani in between. Therefore, it needs to be taken slowly. As for the construction of a railway roughly parallel to the Yakuí River that Brazil later generations built here, it is not realistic for the people on the east bank at present, and it is basically impossible to wait for the scale of three or five counties to be built here and the population reaches 70,000 or 80,000.

The materials needed for the construction of Taipingbao were still transferred from Dingxi County by steamships and carriages, and as for the personnel, the construction was naturally filled by labor construction workers, and the development was filled by immigrants. At this time, there were only more than 200 immigrants in Taipingbao, nearly half of whom were the second and third sons of families in coastal counties, and they all received at least a complete primary education. Therefore, it is up to them to set an example and assimilate the new immigrants to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

With the increase in the number of immigrants over the years (in absolute terms. However, the proportion remains undecided) and the in-depth development of the construction of the western inland areas, relying on the Ministry of Immigration alone to organize a series of work including the transportation, health and quarantine, resettlement, relocation, settlement, and development of migrants. But it's a bit out of place. To this end, in the first half of this month (January), the Executive Committee formally established a vice-ministerial-level organization dedicated to development -- the General Administration of Development. From now on, the General Directorate of Development will be responsible for the planning, land development, resettlement, and settlement construction of the western inland areas, while the Ministry of Resettlement will only be responsible for the transportation and quarantine of migrants, and the burden will be greatly reduced.

The highest official of the Directorate General of Development is the Director-General, who is directly accountable to the Prime Minister of the Government Council. The Director has two deputies, a Deputy Director in charge of the Reclamation Division and the Extension Division, and a Deputy Director in charge of the Land Division and the General Affairs Division. Among the above four secondary institutions (departments), the Reclamation Department is composed of the Training Section (organizing migrants to conduct labor skills training, and the township armed forces department is responsible for military training), the Supervision Section (supervising the construction of infrastructure such as houses, roads, and water conservancy), and the Reclamation Section (organizing migrants to carry out reclamation work); The extension area is composed of the Intelligence Investigation Division (which organizes people to investigate the intelligence of the aborigines) and the Business Division (which is responsible for negotiating with the barbarians); The Land Division consists of the Land Survey Division (which investigates the geology, soil, minerals, forests, biology and other conditions of the land) and the Land Use Division (land use approval). The General Services Division consists of the General Services Section, the Planning Section, the Managers Section and the Labour Section.

The main purposes of the establishment of the General Administration of Development are as follows: 1. To promote and assist inland development; 2. Surveying, publicizing, and introducing pioneering undertakings to attract new young people from the coastal counties to settle in the western interior, because the coastal industrial zones do not need too many industrial workers, so the new generation who have completed their primary education can only go to the interior to find a new life; 3. To negotiate with the domestic departments and the external barbarians for the sake of the pioneers; Fourth, to train the skills of pioneers; Fifth, to complete the various tasks required for the development of the land more efficiently.

It can be seen from this that the main business of the Directorate of Development is to formulate and approve the relocation plan of the pioneers, to assist and guide the pioneers, to carry out surveys of the land used, to coordinate with the various departments of the country, and to undertake foreign relations and to develop the available land in the inland areas, and to develop the inland wasteland (including the construction of farmland, logging grounds, pastures, fish ponds, etc.), to promote industrial development and the actual control of the country.

In addition, the General Bureau of Development also has a research institute that reports directly to the director, which mainly conducts systematic research on the agricultural economy, rural construction, land development and utilization, production technology, peasant life, and rural culture in the development area, and has begun pilot experiments. In order to apply and popularize its own research results, the institute can also report to the director for approval and specially train pioneering instructors.

In view of the various practical difficulties faced by the pioneer enterprise, the Government Council also authorized the establishment of a separate rural credit cooperative in the pioneer area (which is a parallel organization to the General Bureau of Pioneer in case the bureau has too much power) to provide financial services to the peasants in the pioneer area, such as taking deposits, providing cash and in-kind loans to the pioneers, and providing loans to the undertakings established by the pioneers, so as to better promote the development of the pioneer areas.

Although there are only about 200 settlers in Taipingbao, the branch of the General Development Bureau has been established in advance, including two development instructors, one manager of the General Affairs Office, one member of the General Affairs Section, one member of the Supervision Section of the Reclamation Department, and one staff member of the Rural Credit Cooperative. These seven people are the organizers of the pioneering work here, and when all the Qiē in Taiping Fort are on the right track, and the government sends personnel to take over the local area, the General Bureau of Development will remove all the staff and transfer all of them to the next development site to start the construction and development work from scratch.

In other words, there are many ways to carry out inland development activities in the East Coast today, including official immigration development organized by the government (such as those organized by the Ministry of Immigration and the General Administration of Development), as well as private investment in the development (such as the pioneer farms in the Western Great Wilderness, the logging fields in the Yazi Lake Basin), and the pioneer and resettlement activities organized by Taoist churches.

In order to escort the pioneering work, the War Department had to be on guard against the threat of barbarians at all times, and at the same time undertake the task of preparing for the establishment of local armed forces and training the militia in military skills. Although the army had dispatched a large number of main forces and militia forces (more than 3,000 men) to strike at the large Guarani tribes on both sides of the Yakuyi River some time ago, it was difficult to ensure that there were still small Guarani villages in the vicinity, as evidenced by the recent successive surrender to the east bank of the Guaraní villages, and if a tribe hostile to the people on the east bank rose up and attacked the pioneers on the east bank, causing casualties, it would not be a trivial matter that could be settled at will.

It is precisely for this reason that after the War Department withdrew the main force of the army, the Sixth Company of the Anda 15 th Army was transferred here, along with 1,000 members of the newly formed Jingjiang County Militia Brigade, which had not yet been on the battlefield, and they would be responsible for the defense and security of the Taipingbao-Dahulin-Baicaogou line, and ensure the personal safety of the construction workers of the Communications Construction Group, which was under intense construction, so that the project could be completed in this way. Time is running out for delay, as the first batch of migrant ships from South Africa has officially docked a few days ago and is currently undergoing quarantine and will arrive in about 20 days. Therefore, we must hurry up, and the construction period must not be delayed, otherwise everyone's assessment will not look good.

According to information from South Africa, the number of migrants from the Far East is expected to exceed 18,000 this year, a record high (16,000 last year, 17,000 the year before) - if it were not for the fact that two 1,200-ton sailing ships did not sink in the ocean east of the Philippines and lost 2,500 migrants, the number of migrants from South Africa this year could have been even higher.

If the 18,000 Ming immigrants, plus the self-funded Livonian immigrants and intermediary laborers, are all distributed to the banks of the Yakuyi River, along the Northwest Railway, and in the Wujiang region, it will certainly greatly enrich the population of these areas, accelerate the economic and social development of these areas, and gradually extend the tentacles of the Executive Committee to all corners of the Republic of China on the east coast of China.

As one of the first soldiers to serve the dragon, Anda 15 was naturally overjoyed that the country had developed so prosperously, so he was full of enthusiasm at the moment.

"Take my horse out and go on patrol in the Tiger Forest!" Anda XV slung his katana around his waist and commanded his lieutenant. There are more than 100 Japanese immigrants in Dahulin, and these people have spontaneously set up an organization called "Industrious Fengshi Team", and they are very diligent in doing all kinds of work to open up wasteland. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)