Chapter 611: Displaced people are everywhere
The army planned to bring 100,000 migrant men, and after successfully taking the foothold of the "old port" on Sumatra, the 500,000 or 600,000 families of these 100,000 men arrived one after another.
Then immigration will become the norm, after all, the land is vast, and it is enough to go to a few million people to make a living.
Most of the people who are preparing to emigrate to Sumatra are from the Central Plains, and they are now under militarized management, and their job is to build roads and water conservancy facilities.
When they come to the new territory, they will get land reclamation, of course, each household will have five acres of self-reserved land that does not have to pay taxes, and immigrants with meritorious service can get more self-reserved land, and grass-roots officials such as the chief of the bao, the chief of the first, and the chief of the lieutenant will have more self-reserved land.
The climate of Sumatra is an equatorial rainy climate, with high temperatures and rainfall throughout the year, even distribution of seasons, and no dry periods. The exercises of the Huang family and horses are all targeted, mainly to adapt the soldiers to fighting in rainy and hot conditions.
Fortunately, the exercise ground is in Hainan Island and Toe Province, where the climate is relatively close to Sumatra, and it is also hot and rainy and quite humid.
Ge Chengjie's Qianzong is seriously overstaffed, because most of his original Qianzong formed by foreign nationalities has more than doubled, and the Goryeo, Ryukyuan, and Franc people who have successfully signed up and passed the selection have taken the initiative to sign up, and of course, there are also Kunlun Nu and Japanese ronin.
It is not surprising that there are so many foreigners, because sea raids occur almost every day, and on such a long route from Liaohai to Malacca, there are nearly 1,000 warships and armed merchant ships of the Huang family's navy.
The men of the Huang family who ran to the sea were all brave, and even the No. 2 Fu ship converted from a warship with only a few dozen sailors and gunners dared to use their unparalleled artillery to escort merchant ships, and they grabbed rabbits and robbed the merchant ships of other countries that appeared in their field of vision.
In order to save costs, there are now more than 1,500 merchant ships running trade routes in this vast sea area without force at all, and the total number of merchant ships and warships owned by the Huang family has reached nearly 3,000, of which more than 70 percent are sea ships of more than 400 tons.
But Huang Sheng still thinks that it is too little, and it must be doubled within three years, at least the total tonnage of the ships of the Huang family system must reach half of the Dutch who are the coachmen of the sea, and then it will take another three years to strive to surpass this Xiyi.
Since the rise of the Huang family in the China Sea, the sea coachman's sea meal is actually not delicious.
The Dutch were the first to venture out to build a merchant ship that could only transport goods and not be equipped with artillery.
The cost of this makes every voyage a risky gamble of fate, but it has the benefit of low shipbuilding costs, half the price of British merchant ships, so that freight rates are unrivalled competitive.
This kind of Galen ship can only use the speed of the ship to escape from the fate of being plundered by pirates, but the warships and armed merchant ships of the Huang family have obvious speed advantages, and they are equipped with fixed telescopes on a large scale, which can detect the merchant ships of other countries in advance.
Therefore, seventy percent of the Xiyi merchant ships seized in recent years came from the Dutch.
If Huang Sheng succeeds in seizing Malacca, he will inevitably expand the scope of his raid to the Indian Ocean, and at that time, he will seize a large number of Galen ships from Xiyi, and it will not be far before he becomes the largest maritime power in terms of transportation capacity.
The Huang family is developing greatly, training troops intensively, conducting actual combat exercises, and all the military and civilians are always preparing to go south to Malacca to expand their territory.
At the same time, a legal dictionary was also printed and distributed to the grassroots level, and the content was concise and to the point, not very mature, belonging to the Basic Law, and only a few dozen pages.
In the army, there is one general flag officer and above officer, and all civil officers are covered, and even the chief of the security department who manages 30 households must be familiar with it.
Most of the content does not conflict with the Ming law, but it gives the concubines and concubines relative human rights, eliminates clan power, and prohibits all civil lynching.
There is also a law that does not allow any woman to bind her feet, whether she is active or passive, she will be held accountable, and of course she will not be beheaded, and it is essential to sentence her to community labor re-education for more than one year.
In contrast to the thriving Huang family system, Daming has not had a good time this year.
In the winter of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the sad emperor was once again disturbed by the bad news brought by the six-hundred-mile rush.
It's not that the henchmen are in trouble with Jiannu Koubian, but I really can't imagine that the Shaanxi Liukou is actually becoming more and more intense and spreading rapidly to Shanxi, Henan, and Sichuan.
On November 24, several Liukou joined forces and jumped out of the encirclement of the Ming officials and troops who were waiting and watching by the freezing of the Yellow River.
The three counties of Liukou, Lianke, Michi, Lushi, and Xuanyang, which escaped from the sky, entered Henan from Shaanxi, and since then, the Central Plains has been plagued by military disasters year after year, and the common people who have suffered from famine and unspeakable hardships have made their situation worse.
Henan Governor Xuan Mo gathered heavy troops to intercept and prevent the rogues from escaping into the land of Gyeonggi, at this time, the rogues had no specific goal at all, they just walked all the way to the scourge, and they could loot as much as they could.
Since the preparation to go north to Beizhili and rob was blocked, the rogues turned to the south, passing through Ruzhou to Xichuan, Neixiang, Guanghua, and Nanyang, so the proletariat was artificially created by madness, and the Central Plains was eroded overnight.
In the snow, on the official road of Mianchi County, Henan Prefecture, in western Henan, many hungry and cold refugees helped the old and the young to stagger eastward, they were all good people who refused to follow the thief, and now there is still a glimmer of hope in their hearts.
That's because they've heard that as long as they find the home of the "God of War", all the common people will have a way to live. It is said that there are many people in Guide Province who can't live for a long time, and they have defected to the "God of War", and now they can not only survive, but also have a full stomach.
Some ordinary people told everyone that a few days ago, there was a family member of the "God of War" in Mianchi County.
They also pasted pictures in many eye-catching places and left texts on which it was clearly written, and if the common people could not survive, they could go to the fiefdom of the "God of War".
There are many fields that can be cultivated for everyone, and no one is guaranteed to starve to death.
"Brother Li, is the rumor of the 'God of War' true?" A middle-aged man with a wrinkled face and gray hair asked Lao Li, a native of Honzhuang who was trekking hard.
His name is Wang Laoshi, and he fled from the border of Shaanzhou to come here, and he is lucky to have three powerful sons, and the family of nine is still there.
The man surnamed Li affirmed: "Brother Wang, how many times have I said it, it's true, that day I went to the county to sell pumpkins and saw Nanguogong's family with my own eyes, they were painting on the wall, and at the same time chatting with many ordinary people on the sidelines, just let everyone not survive and defect to the Huang family." ”
Wang Laoshi decided to flee with his family because he heard the rumors and learned that the "God of War" family would give food to the people who went to defect and would cultivate the land in the future, but he was skeptical, and asked when he saw his fellow villagers, as if he felt more comfortable after getting confirmation.