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February 25, 1647, former Montevideo, Spain.

A group of bright-faced civilians in uniform denim overalls wielded hammers and smashed stones at a stone quarry by the sea. After the large stones were blown apart by black powder, they also needed to be broken by manpower before they could be used to pave the road. As for the steam breaker, I'm sorry, Montevideo is a qiē from Jane, there is no such advanced equipment installed here.

Most of these Ming people have been shaved in Heishui and Dabo, and there is no way to shave it, three meals a day after shaving: two dry and one thin, and occasionally mixed with some meat foam and dried fish to eat. If you don't shave, you can only do one dry and one thin and two meals, and the work is even harder, and many people can't hold on to it, so they are 66 and continue to shave. It's rare to see someone who hasn't shaved in that place now, and we countrymen don't pay so much attention to it, and the world is probably the biggest belly.

Oh, by the way, Montevideo is the name given by the Spaniards, and now it's called Qingdao. The name Qingdao is still a little unfamiliar to the Ming people from Jiaozhou, Shandong in front of them, well, it seems to be the name of a small fishing village? I don't know what the old man thinks, but he actually named this harbor after a small fishing village. Although some of them are fishermen from Qingdao Zuojin, it is a bit strange to name them like this. But in fact, this is nothing, and the current Qingdao Port on the east coast is only a few hundred poor sticks from fishermen, isn't it just a small fishing village.

They arrived at Dongfang Port by boat from Xinhua Port in early December. After the initial quarantine period, they walked all the way to this place, a beautiful bay, led by some doll officers who were said to have come from the Legion Fort. The bay is a deep-water anchorage with a depth of 8-1o meters, which is very suitable for use as a large commercial port, after careful measurement by naval survey ships.

However, it is precisely because the port is wide and deep, and it is not suitable as a military port, so the main base of the navy is still located in Zhenhai Port. In fact, there is really no place on both sides of the Río Plata River suitable for a military port, and the security that the first priority of the military port is Gaine cannot be achieved. If the Navy really wants to pick a military port. It would be better to go to the banks of the Uruguay River, but it is close to the Spanish sphere of influence, and it is not suitable at the moment, so the navy can only put the nest in the north. In any case, it is now a port, a waterway, a lighthouse, and a shipbuilding industry, and it deserves to be the home port of the Navy's First Fleet.

In addition to the more than 600 immigrants from the Greater Gelatin Prefecture and Gaomi, there are also more than 700 peninsulars from Bilbao and Santander, all of whom were settlers from the original Spanish colonies here. After the initial period of panic, these people have now basically stabilized. The dozens of gauchos who had plagued them were said to have been redeployed by the East Coasters to Mar del Plata, Puerto Blanca and other places in the south. Scourge the inhabitants there.

The discipline of the 6th Company of the 6th Army of the East Bank, which has been stationed here recently, is indeed very good, and they have not done anything to oppress them on the peninsula except for training people all day long. If you really want to look closely, these East coasters actually brought some benefits to the local Spanish population. For example, at the beginning of this month, when the wheat fields cultivated by more than 700 Spanish residents were harvested, these East Coasters bought most of the wheat from them at a fair price. Then they brought in a lot of cotton cloth, salt, salted fish, cured meat, leather goods, farm tools, beer, wine and other goods, and sold these consumer goods at a price that the Spaniards considered extremely low (in fact, the domestic price on the east coast), which allowed the local Spanish residents to get rid of the chronic shortage of materials, and the living conditions were improved to a certain extent.

Today's Qingdao Port is like this. More than 700 local peninsulars farmed their land, tended sheep, did some farm work, and were sometimes recruited to build houses and walls. Originally, the Montevideo outpost was considered an important Spanish stronghold on the east coast, so a beautiful two-storey stone building was built in the area - typical of the Baroque style. The sturdy two-story building was originally a residence for Spanish officers and doubled as a warehouse. However, it has now become the headquarters of the 6th Company of the 6th Army, and it is said that it will become the seat of the Qingdao Township Government in the future.

In addition to these peninsulars, more than 600 Ming immigrants basically came to work as construction teams. Here they expanded the city, built the city wall, leveled the wharf and freight yard, built the port road, in short, the work was very large. It is said that another 1,000 Ming immigrants and 300 English indentured slave fugitives will soon be sent here from the north to build a railway station north of the harbor. Obviously, the gentlemen also plan to extend the railway line at Rocha Port to allow for better communication between the north and the south.

Today's sky is not very good, and last night it rained in the middle of the night. In the morning, the rain stopped, but the air was still damp. Mr. Simenez hated the rain because his leg joints were always a little sore at this time. But Montevideo is a rainy place, and the Anda company commander from the east coast says that the annual rainfall here is more than 11oo millimeters, and Mr. Simenez does not know exactly what this means. He wasn't interested in knowing, he just knew that his leg was going to hurt again.

In the past, when faced with this situation, he always seemed helpless, and could only endure helplessly until the pain gradually subsided. But that doesn't have to be the case anymore. I saw him sigh, pick up a pill from the vial on the table, and swallow it with water. This is a famous hall made by people on the east coast, called "aspirin", which has a certain effect on the treatment of rheumatism and other diseases. The company commander Anda, who knew him well, had given him a few pills in return for discussing the geography of Cuba with him. After taking it, he felt that the effect was good, so this time he bought ten pills at a time from the shop of the East Coast people at a whopping price of two pesos a pill.

Although the price of this drug is very poor, the effect is really good. And I heard the store clerk say that the current price is only a tentative price during the trial sales period, and when the large-scale sales officially begin, the price of the drug will be adjusted to a certain extent depending on the market situation, and it is likely that there will be a large increase at that time. What a devilish heretic! A pill actually sells for two pesos, why don't you rob it, after all, the money comes faster! Mr. Simenez muttered a few words, then carefully put away the rest of the medicine, and then sorted out the lesson plans on the table, ready to go outside to teach the students.

Outside the window, there was a burst of military trumpets and passwords, which were the 6th Company of the 6th Army on the East Coast conducting military training on the playground. Unlike the soldiers of the Spanish 6th Army, who gambled and slept and fought in their free time, the 6th Army on the East Coast looked more like a real army. At this time, almost all the big 6 countries in Europe were scumbags, villains, liars, and beggars who came to serve as soldiers and eat, but the soldiers of the 6th Navy Army of the East Coast Republic were all citizens with official status and real estate, and their sense of honor was far away from that of the Spanish army, not to mention the frequent and hard training. The long-term victory against Spain has cultivated their high morale, and they have a psychological advantage in face-to-face battles, and it is easier for them to show their usual training level, which is no wonder they will win many battles, this is not a world army at all.

Even as an enemy, Mr. Simenez still had an appreciative attitude towards the East Coast Army, but yesterday a bad news notice made his perception of these people to a minimum: Yesterday a young officer came to tell him that this was already the territory of the East Coast Republic of China, and the Central Executive Committee decided to set up a complete primary school in Qingdao Port, and all school-age students must be compulsorily educated on the East Coast. Yesterday, the principal and teachers of the elementary school arrived here by boat, and Mr. Simenez's church was requisitioned as a school building, which will officially open tomorrow.

The officer told Mr. Simenez very clearly that today would be his last day of teaching Spanish, that tomorrow he would be taught Chinese, and that anyone who tried to disobey this order would be punished with fines, detention, imprisonment and hanging. As an erudite scholar, Mr. Simenez could choose to go to the East Coast to study Chinese, and then he could continue to teach while still receiving a salary. Of course, if he is not willing to learn Chinese, then he will lose the qualification to continue teaching these students.

After some consideration, Mr. Simenez decided to accept the invitation and go to the capital of the people of the East Coast for further study. Of course, this is not to come back and continue to be a teacher, in fact he has lost that interest. He did this only to acquire an extra language that he thought might be of great use in the future, and in addition to the fact that he wanted to see more of the country on the east coast. He wondered what was driving this little young nation with a population of less than 100,000 to fly so much that they dared to declare war on the great and glorious Kingdom of Spain, how reckless and unruly it was! There must be a deep reason for this, and Simenez decided to figure it out.

Of course, before this qiē, he still had to complete an important thing.

"Kids." In a slightly sad tone, Mr. Simenez said, "Today may be the last lesson I will teach you in the beautiful Spanish. ”