May 5, fine.

Autumn in Uruguay has always been a favorite weather in Kincola because it often means harvest.

3,000 acres of soybeans have reached the harvest season, in the past, Jin Kola had already begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to run to the executive committee to ask for the allocation of manpower, and then endured the ugly faces of the heads of various departments and all kinds of rumors, and carried out the grain harvest with difficulty.

And this year, Jinkola was lucky, and he easily found the harvester. The 400 migrants who had just completed the construction of the port breakwater and had not yet had time to be assigned out of the river were intercepted by Jinkola as soon as possible. In fact, this also shows in disguise that the human resources of the East Coast company are now small-scale. Even the fact that even the construction team can easily organize a few hundred people without affecting the normal operation of other departments is already very revealing in itself.

In fact, population is really a very contradictory topic for the Executive Committee now.

On the one hand, it is the extreme thirst for manpower of the traversers, and on the other hand, it is like the sword of Damocles that hangs over the heads of the traversers forever and cannot be escaped. The food reserves of the Crossing Masses are always at a low level, and each time a few grains are harvested to lay the foundation, they are quickly offset by the rapid growth of the population.

According to the latest round of statistics, as of May 5, 1632, the total population of the Crossing Orders had reached a record 3,169. Among them, 928 were cross-border and freedmen, 317 were prisoners of war and slaves, and 1,924 were indentured slave immigrants. With such a large population, the daily consumption of food and fish is close to 10,000 catties.

And how much grain is currently in the warehouses of the East Coast Company? In April, after the sowing of 500 acres of potatoes and 500 acres of wheat of the 4th production team of the 2nd and 3rd production teams of the development brigade in April, the amount of grain in the warehouse is about: 240,000 catties of potatoes, 90,000 catties of various fish products and 6,000 catties of wheat, which is about 35 days of grain reserves, just enough to last until the 1,000 acres of potatoes harvested by the 1st production team in early June.

Fortunately, during this period, there are more than 3,000 catties of stable fish every day, so that everyone's food reserves do not have to be so tight and suspenseful. Now can be said to be the most vulnerable moment for the Executive Committee, and a few hundred more immigrants will completely break the fragile food chain of the East Coast Company. Knowing how empty the grain depot is today, you can fully understand the significance of the 3,000 acres of soybeans that are about to be harvested for the East Coast Company.

The 400 Finns and Czechs who had not yet been allocated were organized to harvest the soybeans, and in three days the diligent farmers were able to harvest and thresh the soybeans. According to statistics at the time of storage, a total of 165,000 catties of soybeans were harvested from 3,000 mu, slightly exceeding Jinkola's expectations.

When the soybeans were harvested, more than 100 students from the Navigation School and the newly established Dingyuan Army Military Academy were also brought in to help, which was part of their ideological and moral education. The youngest of the 140 student soldiers was 10 years old, and the oldest was no more than 15 years old, which was the time when they were extremely malleable. The Executive Committee has high hopes for them, as this is an important attempt to convey and maintain the core values and lifestyles of the Transcendents.

In addition to the Dingyuan Army Military Academy and the Navigation School, the Executive Committee also expanded three ordinary primary schools on the basis of the original ones, and made it mandatory for all school-age children to attend school. Parents who send their children to school will receive a subsidy of two yuan a year in addition to free three meals a day. Parents who violate the rules will receive a heavy punishment of hard labor.

The school promotes the teaching of Chinese and encourages students to speak Chinese as much as possible at home. The school's curriculum is personally approved and approved by Du Wen, a member of the Education Committee, and there are currently courses in Chinese, mathematics, nature, social studies, and art. Fortunately, there are many teachers here, and this time they can finally go back to their old jobs.

In addition to assimilating the next generation, the Crossing Masses also use various methods to strive for cohesion among the adult immigrants who make up the majority of the population at this stage.

According to the rules of the Executive Committee of 1631, every immigrant must attend night school regularly to learn the Chinese language and various rules and regulations. Of course, the content of the evening school is not all of these two things, and there are occasional changes, such as teaching some values that cross the crowd and ways of thinking about problems. However, the effect of these methods on adults whose minds have been formed is only known by God, and it is more effective to deal with them by economic means and bittersweet memories.

"In 1626, Wallenstein imposed a war tax in Upper Hungary, bankrupting more than 25,000 people; In 1627, 2,000 farmers in Silesia were robbed and murdered by Wallenstein's army; In 1628, Mecklenburg was conquered, and its inhabitants were sacked by Wallenstein's army, killing more than 500 people. ”

"In 1627, King Christian IV of Denmark was defeated at Lute, and the retreating Danes sacked the surrounding area; In 1629, Denmark signed a treaty with Austria to pay reparations, which led to large tax increases in Norway, Schleswig, and Holstein, bankrupting large numbers of peasants and dying of disease and starvation. ”

"In 1631, Count Tilly captured Magdeburg, and after a series of looting and killings, the population of Magdeburg was reduced by a quarter."

"In 1631, King Gustav II of Sweden conscripted a large number of men into the army in Pomerania."

"In 1631, Prague was stormed by the Saxons, and mercenaries looted the city, killing an unknown number of people."

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These black materials from the warring parties of the Thirty Years' War were compiled and collated by the Foreign Affairs Commissioner, Gao Mo, and then distributed to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd production teams where immigrants from North Germany were concentrated, and a working group sent by the Propaganda Section of the Ministry of Education publicized it in night schools. Since these materials are based on facts, and most of these things happen to these immigrants, they are very resonant with these German immigrants.

The Propaganda Section then added fuel to the fire, comparing their lives before and after immigration. And a few secretly bribed immigrants came to the stage to tell about their previous lives in the war between the states of the North German region, struggling to survive, and the stable and peaceful life after immigrating to Uruguay. Since this is completely the true colors of the immigrants, the effect looks quite good.

In addition, Xiao Mingli, a civil councilor, also established a new religious affairs office within his jurisdiction. At present, the establishment is 5 people: Assistant Pastor Ye Yongxing, Pastor Francis, Father Pedro (the guy who was captured in the village of the Charua), registered Taoist priests Wang Bao and Yu Ci, and the director is Ye Yongxing.

These religious people are either from the crowd or from the European gods, and the festival is a complete cloud to them.

Ye Da, director of the Religious Affairs Office, assigned these people to different regions to develop believers, and at the same time used religion as an entry point to preach to immigrants on various occasions that they were carrying through the people's private goods. Transform their minds bit by bit.

Since most of the European immigrants already had a solid faith, Wang Bao and Yu Ci simply targeted the Charua, who had reached nearly 300 due to their recent captures. The Charuya, who were sentenced to five years of hard labor, are now housed on both sides of the Dayu River, with the men in charge of logging, the women growing vegetables under the guidance of the agricultural department, and the children being sent to schools for compulsory sinicization.

Since the two of them are traversal, it is very easy to run funds and policies from the religious affairs office and the civil affairs department. No, in order to increase the success rate of the mission, Wang Bao and his wife not only received 50 yuan in funds and the right to allocate some materials from Ye Yongxing of the Religious Affairs Office, but also obtained a promise from the Ministry of the Interior that they could get a commutation of their sentences for believing in Taoism.

This anti-heaven policy caused their missionary undertakings to soar like rocket engines, and not only many of the Charuas converted, but also many of the European prisoners of war who were mining hard in the limestone mines expressed their willingness to believe in the true god of Taishang Laojun.

Father Pedro was furious when he saw this. Since most of the immigrants were Protestants, Father Pedro could not eat at all, and the Religious Affairs Office procrastinated and perfunctory his application for missionary funds, so this undisciplined guy simply secretly ran to Wang Bao and expressed his willingness to convert to the true God of Taishang Laojun.

Wang Bao, who couldn't cry or laugh, reported the situation to Ye Yongxing, and Ye Yongxing was also speechless to this dead-faced but profit-hungry priest. After that, he comforted him and promised that he would increase his mission funds in the future, so that he could feel at ease to be the signboard of the Executive Committee.

On May 31, 1632, the first Taoist temple was built on the south bank of the Dayu River, and more than 100 believers attended the inauguration ceremony of the Taoist temple.