On May 15, 1647, the Château de Victor (later Pedro sur Pilatini. The town of Osoliu, named after the Cadet Corps who hit the Guarani people hard here).

Zhu Heng was riding on the back of a Raschek horse and was walking leisurely on the rugged mountain road. It can be seen that if the mount under his ass is not a Bulgarian Rascek horse who is good at mountain roads, it may be difficult to walk in this kind of terrain.

Nestled in the rolling hills, the brick-red buildings stand out against the lush greenery. The brick-red buildings are lined with a small river in front and behind, and on the banks of the river are neatly planned fields.

"A rare depression in the mountains is so good for the regular land, the government decrees here are accessible, and the officials and the people are united, but it is much stronger than the Ming Dynasty." Master Zhu Heng, who was over fifty years old, sighed softly and said. Although he has been immigrating to the East Coast for several years, Zhu Heng still consciously or unconsciously regards himself as a Ming man. Often when I wake up in the morning, I think that I am still in Qingzhou City. The feelings of the homeland, how can it be said that you can give it up?

A fierce man in his early thirties, who was leading the horse for Master Zhu in front, nodded when he heard this, and said, "Although I haven't read a book, I can also see that the world of the Ming Dynasty has rotted to the end. The old Zhu family doesn't give us a way to live, so we have to get up and beg for a living. The east coast is much stronger than the world of the old Zhu family, and those who divide the fields and houses and daughters-in-law for our small people are more righteous than the big bosses back then. Although I Liqun is not a good person, I am Baoding in the world of the Great East Coast! It's a pity that the army thinks I'm too bad. refused to recruit me into the army. But it's a pity! ”

"You. Eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling, adultery, and plundering are all proficient, what skills do you have in addition to brute strength in war? The generals of this eastern coast country are not blind, and recruiting you into the army will not ruin the morale of the army? Master Zhu scolded and said, "Besides, you have a few catties and a few taels, and the old man was clear outside Qingzhou City that day." ”

"Hmph, that day, we only had hundreds of pioneers and rushed to Qingzhou to the left. People are tired. Zhu Dashanren, you led several times the township soldiers to raid at first, but you couldn't win, what is there to brag about! Hearing Zhu Heng talk about the old things, Liqun immediately turned his head and retorted.

It is said that Liqun was still a low-level officer in the Shun army, and followed Shangguan to Qingzhou to recruit various prefectures and counties, but unexpectedly more than 1,000 landlords and township soldiers led by Zhu Heng and others led by more than ten miles outside Qingzhou City, more than 200 Shun troops suffered heavy casualties, and less than half of them successfully escaped, and Liqun was among them. However, the landlord armament of Master Zhu and others did not last long, and waited until Zhao Yingyuan led five hundred Shun army cavalry to Qingzhou. They were routed in the First World War, and were captured or slain by all. Only Zhu Heng escaped and fled to hide in a mansion in the countryside of another county.

Coincidentally, Li Qun and Zhu Heng, who had even met on the battlefield at that time, came to the East Coast Republic one after another and became new immigrants here. Compared with Master Zhu Heng Zhu, who is preoccupied and cherished for his homeland, Liqun, who was born in Henan mud legs, does not have so many messy feelings. He was originally with Li Zhengang and others to join the command of Mo Dashuai, and he had a very good impression of the east coast, and after coming to the mainland, he saw more of the thriving side here, although he himself had little interest in hard farming, but it didn't mean that he couldn't see that this court was really thinking about the lives of their small people, so his identification with this country was still very low.

Seeing that Liqun, the "thief head", was glaring at him, Master Zhu, who was in a good mood, just looked at him, twisting his beard and smiling silently. After all, he personally led the army to defeat Liqun and others back then, and later when Zhao Yingyuan led the army to find the field, Liqun and the others were not there, so Master Zhu still had a little psychological advantage over Liqun.

However, perhaps thinking that now that the two of them have left Daming and come to the east coast, Master Zhu has lost the interest in continuing to fight with Liqun, only to see him first smile to himself, and then said in a lonely tone: "It's all in the past, and why do you mention it." Don't talk about it, don't talk about it, in this foreign country, it's not interesting to fight for these things. You and I have known each other, and I will not stand idly by if you have any difficulties in the future. ”

"Who wants you to help?" Liqun muttered, but he didn't say anything more, but led the horse to the head. About 100 meters in front of them was a small wooden bridge, and after crossing the bridge, they entered the boundary of Shengjie Castle, and they had better work harder, and they could get there early and rest early.

The two soon came to the side of the small bridge, where several militiamen with rifles stood guard. After carefully checking their documents, the militiamen waved their hands and let them go, and they made their way to the settlement, which has thousands of inhabitants.

The first batch of immigrants from Jinan Province in Shandong Province was set up at the beginning of this year, with about 1,000 people, including about 600 adult men and 400 women of childbearing age. When the merchant ships to Europe return, hundreds of Greeks will be relocated, and perhaps a few (one or two hundred) old nationals from the three southern counties.

This settlement is located on the banks of the Pilatine River and has quite good agricultural conditions. However, limited by the late opening time and the lack of manpower, this year only more than 10,000 acres of land were roughly opened here, and only had time to plant a crop of corn, the harvest was naturally miserable, and the average yield per mu was only more than 200 catties, which was very disappointing.

A commissioner from the Ministry of Agriculture visited the area just last week to urge local township officials to do everything they can to promote the three-crop rotation system and to reclaim more wasteland before the end of autumn sowing at the end of this month to achieve self-sufficiency in food. However, there are a number of conditions necessary for the promotion of the three-crop rotation system, the most important of which is the need for a sufficient number of livestock - 8-1o cattle per family, otherwise the land may not be able to maintain sufficient fertility (lack of manure) and the large amount of alfalfa grown on the fallow land will not be digested.

And if you want to get livestock, in today's domestic situation, buying from the government is the only way out. However, now all parts of the country and counties are vigorously promoting the three-crop rotation system, and the demand for livestock has risen sharply, with a farmer needing 8 heads of livestock, 10,000 farmers need 80,000 heads, not to mention that the number of farmers in China is far more than 10,000, at least more than 50,000 (last year's number), this demand is going to the sea.

A while ago, the 6th Army fought for so long in La Plata, and tossed it for more than half a year by means of either light or covert means, before the general got more than 50,000 cattle from there, half of which went directly to the state-owned pasture in the pasture township of Dudong County, and about 30,000 of them were publicly subscribed throughout the country, and they were quickly looted. The chief officer of Shengjie Fort went to the district administration office several times for this reason, but he only had to come back with a mere 2,000 thin beef cattle that others picked leftover, which was not enough at all! What's more, the Northwest Reclamation Bank has not yet set up a branch office here, and local farmers have no way to borrow money to buy cattle because they don't have any cash on hand right now.

In fact, it is not accurate to say that they have no money on hand, so they have just harvested a crop of corn a while ago, and they can sell the corn in guò for cash, so as to buy some beef cattle to raise back. And this, the official reason why Master Zhu Heng and Zhu came over, this guy is to see if there is an opportunity to buy grain.

Nowadays, the state controls the monopoly of staple foods (wheat, barley, rice, sorghum, mainly wheat and sorghum), and vigorously cracks down on the private trade in grain, but there are no special restrictions on the trade of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn that are not staple foods, but allows the private sector to trade freely. In fact, with the sharp decline in the sown area of potatoes and sweet potatoes in the East Coast (because of the difficulty of harvesting, the inability to harvest mechanically, and the cost of labor), the production of these grains, which are called "miscellaneous grains" according to the standards of the East Coast, has also declined rapidly. Corn is fine because it is easy to harvest, but the sown area of potatoes and sweet potatoes is decreasing at 1o% per year.

This time, Master Zhu Heng and Master Zhu raised nearly 3,000 yuan from various business partners in China (all of whom were original entourage) -- all silver dollars for white flowers. Originally, they had been trading La Plata wool for almost two years, and naturally had a lot of circulating funds on hand, and when the country began to experiment with bank acceptance bills, this guy tried his best to take a large amount of silver dollars on hand to ask those who did not trust these "broken pieces of paper" to buy.

Especially for those Spanish peasants who had accumulated a large number of bank acceptance bills because they were forced to buy back their land, Master Zhu Heng and Zhu received the bills of exchange at a price of eight or even seven percent in their hands, and at the same time paid them silver dollars. For this reason, when he spent all the 3,000 silver dollars he had, he already had a one-year bank acceptance bill with a face value of more than 4,000 yuan from the Northwest Reclamation Bank. And Liqun, who was hired by him to come here with him, also had hundreds of yuan of bank acceptance bills in hand, and this extremely speculative old man and young seemed to be preparing to use these bank acceptance bills to buy grain.

Seeing that someone came to buy grain, the residents of Shengjiebao were naturally very happy, because everyone knew that the township government had brought in more than 2,000 lean cattle, each of which was sold for only seven yuan, which was very cheap. But the problem is that people don't have enough money on hand to buy these cows, which can make many people worry about not being able to eat. As a result, selling part of the harvested grain for cash seems to be the only option. Compared with the government's fixed purchase price of miscellaneous grains (2o yuan per ton), the purchase price of small merchants in other places has generally risen by about 5% on this basis, and they are also responsible for door-to-door receipts, so these farmers are happy to sell their grain to them. (To be continued......)

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