In May, the East Coast has entered the autumn harvest season.

In the shrub farm, which has invested more than 60,000 yuan and has been developed after 18 months of hard work, the farm operators will also usher in their own "big test". Last year, after clearing the newly opened land, the shrub farm planted a crop of overwintering wheat on it, but with a large number of grass seeds and saplings hidden in the farmland, the harvest can be imagined to be bleak. According to statistics, only about 700 tons of wheat have been harvested from more than 30,000 acres of wheat fields in shrub farms, with an average yield of more than 22 kilograms per mu, which is extremely frustrating.

This harvest undoubtedly put the Bush Farm Development Company in a certain amount of operational difficulties, and in desperation, dozens of shareholders of the farm held a collective meeting and made an ultimatum to issue additional shares to the East Coast Company in order to obtain new investment to maintain the operation. With the 20,000 yuan newly raised, the farm has hired more people and leased more machines, and they have cleared all the grass seeds and saplings that have emerged from the fields this spring, and at the same time spent a lot of money to buy a large amount of cow manure from the Yazi Lake area, and are ambitiously preparing to do it again this year.

In fact, the scene of their work this year is indeed not small, not only the sowing area has expanded to more than 40,000 acres, but also specially purchased the newly cultivated "Pioneer 1649" soybean seeds from the Northern Botanical Garden, which were sown in February, and now they are waiting for the harvest, and the yield should not be too bad. At the second autumn commodity trade fair held in Qingdao Port, soybean cake orders from sugarcane and tobacco plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean flew like snowflakes; In addition, soybean oil orders from England, Italy, Spain and other regions have also grown rapidly, which has undoubtedly greatly stimulated the development of the domestic soybean industry on the east coast. As a result, the soybean planting area began to grow rapidly.

Commodification of East Coast Agriculture. It starts with soybeans, a magical species!

Bush farm after last year's wheat summer harvest. "Pioneer 1649" soybean seeds were sown on all cultivated land (including the semi-cultivated land in the second year and more than 10,000 acres of newly cultivated land this year), and while fertilizing the fields with soybean nitrogen fixation, I also hope to have a good harvest during the autumn harvest this year, and then ease the company's tight financial situation. All the shareholders of the company do not want to issue additional shares to a giant company like East Coast Company because of lack of funds, so that they can take away the controlling stake of the company, which will be a big disaster for everyone.

And just when the whole of the bush farm is working hard for their own cause. A few months ago, a team of about 100 people dressed in military uniforms also searched for a wasteland with a small stream near their farm (outside the Great Wilderness Farm) and began to settle down.

The contingent came from the Sixth Company of Army Cavalry, which had just been abolished by order of the Executive Committee - after all, the war was over, and it seemed unnecessary for the financially strapped central government to retain its large army establishment - they were dressed in dark blue uniforms, with large black-brimmed hats, and brass five-pointed stars on red collar badges still shining brightly.

Most of the people on the bush farm were also veterans, and they still remembered that when the retrenched unit arrived at their future "homeland", the company commander who had been appointed as the village chief gave an order: "Set up guns (in the case of the Tuobian farm, they are still allowed to keep a certain number of guns)", "Unload the backpacks", and everyone was silent for a moment. He began to build shacks, build cisterns, and level the land.

Some soldiers with families were given priority access to improvised wooden houses. You know, in the East Coast prairie, where there are few trees (and East Coast people are also needed to plant trees). Wood is an extremely valuable resource, so it is definitely a privilege to be able to live in a wood house at the beginning of your business.

The work of clearing land is extremely arduous, especially in the absence of suitable transport facilities, which often means shortages. The work is often too heavy and unbearable for a bachelor, and the stress of a veteran or officer with a family in tow can be imagined when faced with these situations.

The barren prairie, the simple houses, the poor and monotonous food, and the lack of even the most basic conveniences in life, must be endured in silence. Clearing the wasteland is so hard and torturous, this is a very strict thing, not romantic at all, but this is often the real life. But if we look at it from another angle, when a group of people use their life's hard work and sweat to build a wildland full of barren meadows and extremely remote into a beautiful, clean, prosperous and livable town, isn't this the most romantic thing in the world?

The families of these veterans who have been relocated here in one piece, especially their wives and mothers, have been moved to distant and inhospitable inland areas far from their familiar living conditions, and although they have been compensated for their coveted land, they have been brought to tears more than once in the face of the hardships of life. Of course, tears do not indicate complaint or regret, but resigned to fate.

It's not surprising that there is despair, loss of confidence, and discouragement about the future in these newly opened wastelands, but you rarely see this among these resilient Ming pioneers and their Slav couples. The Akito, who had gone through the military career, were calm and resolute, and their Sthra husband and wife were also quite stoic, they seemed to be very accustomed to being under great pressure - which may have something to do with the environment in which they were raised - and they were never discouraged, they were adept at fighting the most difficult and hostile circumstances, and they were able to encourage each other with those around them.

In remote frontiers such as bush farms and wilderness farms, the men maintain their hospitality and generosity, while the women show their cordial warmth. Despite the lack of supplies, the pioneers never hesitated to help each other, and whoever made a delicious meal would inevitably invite their neighbors to taste it together, and some housewives would even help their single neighbors wash some clothes. And it is their hard work and positive attitude that keep the young veterans from being discouraged all day long, so that they develop bad habits such as drinking and gambling.

In short, neither the harshness of nature nor the adverse conditions from elsewhere could make these pioneers hang their proud heads, and they may often be discouraged, but the next moment they always summon up the courage to devote themselves to more arduous labor.

In addition to the hardships of the work and the harsh environment, attacks by barbarians from the interior are often very troubling. With the steady expansion of the eastern bankers along the shores of the Uruguay River, a large number of the Charuya who had originally lived there did not want to be included in the ruling order of the eastern bankers, so they began to migrate inland areas. But the precariousness of life exacerbated their poverty, so robbing the relatively wealthy East Coasters became their last choice.

Prior to this, the Great Wilderness Farm and Bush Farm had been subjected to several organized attacks by the Charua, who were armed with iron refrigeration weapons (I don't know where they got them, perhaps they were left to them by the Spaniards in the past), and suddenly attacked the shacks where the pioneers lived in the dark night, causing some casualties, as well as some property damage to the farm operators (such as the looting of livestock, the destruction of machines, etc.).

The pioneers took up muskets and resolutely fought back against the raids of the Charuya, while reporting to their superiors. After learning of the situation, the Xiling District Office not only requested the army to send more cavalry to increase patrols, but also gave these pioneers a certain amount of financial subsidies to encourage them to persevere. The retrenchment of the disarmament officers and their families in the vicinity of these two farms did not fail to use their organizational discipline and combat effectiveness to counter the harassment of the Charruya.

The people of the East Coast and these Charruas are clearly immortal. For no other high-sounding reason, the East Coasters did not bother to whitewash their plundering of other people's lands, they encroached on the land of the Charua, reduced their living space, and at the same time plundered them either to build railways or exiled them to overseas colonies to pioneer, so that the contradictions between the two sides were acute and irreconcilable, and the dispute was destined to be resolved only when one side fell completely.

And with the imminent introduction of the Homestead Law on the East Coast, and the "trafficking" of more cheap labor pioneers from the Old World by famous labor brokers Valentino and Mendes, the pace of the East Coast's advance inland will become faster and faster, and the conflict with the indigenous people is destined to become more and more intense. In the case of obvious disparity between strength and weakness, perhaps Charua, a nation with a small population, will completely disappear in the long river of history in a few years.

This does not cause any guilt on the East Coast. Because according to the ideas of the East Coast, which is now becoming more and more popular in the country, these inferior Indian peoples are not entitled to such a vast and fertile land, and the East Coast people have the most advanced system and culture in the world, they are the best people, and they have fought a war of blood and fire with the Spaniards in order to obtain this land, so they have the right to take the land under the sun from these inferior peoples.

If the inferior people obediently cooperate, they will have the opportunity to go to overseas colonies to start from scratch, and if they resolutely resist, then only death awaits them. The princes of the East Coast Executive Committee, who are familiar with all kinds of bad things in later generations, know very well that they will never leave such a bunch of troubles for their children and grandchildren. (To be continued......)