The housing area built for Indians in Los Angeles has a much worse standard of living than the average Los Angeles resident. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoMost of the Indian inhabitants here were Tunwa prisoners of war, and now they have turned to hired labor, and most of them are women. The Native American hunters belonged to the military establishment, so they had better conditions to live in barracks.

As an inseparable part of the city of Los Angeles, Zhao Daling, President of the Tang Republic, and Liu Tian, Minister of Civil Affairs, came to the Indian District. It's not much different from other neighborhoods, most of the people are out for work at this time of day, and a small number of elderly people and children stay in the community to do some cleaning work.

"When we planned this community, we had already taken into account the growth of residents, so it wasn't too much of a problem to accept those 'bankrupt' Indians into our city life," Liu said. The Department of Civil Affairs has made preliminary estimates that if news spreads widely in the Southern California area, at least 1,000 to 2,000 Indians may leave their tribes and come to live in Los Angeles. This is indeed beneficial for us to plan for local Indians, but at the same time it poses a relatively big challenge to our food reserves. ”

Zhao Daling waved his hand and said: "Last month, the Ministry of Agriculture counted the catch of our California fishing grounds, which has reached 900 tons, with the sophistication of our operation, this catch will continue to grow, a large number of aquatic products have alleviated our food problem to a large extent, if Bai Nan successfully brings back some grain in Mexico, we can ensure that before the autumn harvest, we can ensure that the food problem of all the people of Datang is guaranteed." ”

Liu Tian smiled: "No wonder I think the seafood supply in the canteen has increased these days, I think it is to improve my life, it turns out that aquatic products have become an important source of food for us now." ”

Zhao Daling pointed to the south and said: "At the beginning of the crossing, we planted a lot of potatoes and sweet potatoes on several commune farms, and these food crops have a relatively short growth period. ”

Most of the California Indian tribes are already in a relatively high degree of clan stage, and during this period, the tribes have developed a stage where the family is the social unit and owns private property. Therefore, families in better situations can survive the period of lack of food, and those who do not have food reserves and cannot gather and hunt anything outside have to think of other options. Some of the more powerful tribes began to loot other tribes, and the sacked tribes were even more miserable. Therefore, when it was rumored that there was a huge tribe nearby, willing to accept everyone, as long as they worked in the past, they would be able to eat enough, attracting a large number of Indians who were worried about their livelihoods, leaving their tribe to come to Los Angeles, and even more, moving the entire tribe over, but it was impossible for the Tang government to allow the original tribal organization to be retained in the city.

The Indians who joined Los Angeles were unable to do too complicated work, and basically carried out some simple repetitive labor, such as logging and mining, and some of the more intelligent ones had begun to enter the commune farm and began to learn the skills of planting. For most Indians, it is a mythical thing to be able to ensure that they have enough to eat, and the cooking in Los Angeles has a 5,000-year-old Chinese history, even if it is not too complicated, it is much more delicious than the food of primitive societies, which makes many Indians not want to leave after coming.

Zhao Daling said: "Our construction team, under the escort of the Hunter Cavalry and the First Brigade of the Army, has entered the central homeland and built three farm facilities, each farm is enough to accommodate three hundred to five hundred people. Now we only control the Los Angeles area, we have San Diego to the south and Monterey to the north, and while they don't have much power, if we really want to prove to Spain that this area is under our actual control, it is not enough to control Los Angeles. So, we're going to have more than 28 colonies throughout California, with Los Angeles as the capital. The rest of the colonies will be dominated by agricultural production, where we will build commune farms and try to absorb the local Indian workforce. In San Francisco Bay, we're building a second city, San Francisco, which along with Los Angeles will be our major industrial city. However, we still need to brew the conditions for the establishment of San Francisco, at least until we have enough food, that is, we will build the city of San Francisco as soon as this winter. ”

Liu Tian was also shocked when he heard it, and said: "This kind of progress is really fast, and it seems that we are really going to establish our country in California." ”

A few days after Bai Nan left for Mexico, the second colony of the Tang Republic in California was officially established. In another plane, the second colony is called Bakersfield, which is not a well-known city in California, because of the extremely fertile land around it, so the cabinet decided to name it Toyobara County, and the farm established here is called Toyobara Farm. Toyohara Farm can also catch a little bit of the tail of spring and sow crops in the fields, and there is no problem in expecting production this year.

The Tang Republic adopts a unitary system of local administrative divisions, with the largest administrative region being a state, and now there is only one state-level administrative region in California, and then there is a county, which is equivalent to a county in the administrative division of the United States, or a prefecture-level city or region in the administrative division of China. Further down the county are the counties, but until now, the core of the county is still a few commune farms, and it will take some time to build a county and a city.

The newly established Fengyuan Farm mainly produces grain crops, mainly wheat and potatoes, and as a second colony, Xue Yue of the Ministry of Agriculture also has high hopes for this, and a part of the cash crops are also distributed here. On the modern Zhongchang Mao ship, there is a batch of cotton varieties that have been aided to Africa, and Xue Yue assigned the cotton planting experts among the volunteers to Fengyuan for cotton planting.

The cabinet is also very excited about the cotton production in Fengyuan, and if this batch of cotton is successfully produced, then the colony will be able to open its own textile mill to produce cotton cloth, meet the local demand for garment manufacturing, and even export to other places. In the era of the Industrial Revolution, the textile industry is a representative industry, and Datang's textile production must have huge advantages and can form competitiveness.

A total of 367 people came to Fengyuan Farm in the early stage, except for a few modern people who were engaged in management work and technical consultants, most of them were members of the Republic of China and the Ming Dynasty. Some of them are peasant families in the Republic of China, and their own structure is relatively stable, and there is no difference wherever they join the agricultural cooperatives for production. In addition, there are relatively large numbers of soldiers of the former national army of the Republic of China and warriors of the Ming Dynasty. These people are basically the children of peasant families, and there is no big problem in doing farm work. Perhaps to balance the gender ratio, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Civil Affairs also brought 100 Indian women to Fengyuan Farm.

Buildings such as farmhouses and warehouses were built in advance, there were even fences to keep out wild beasts and Indians, and watchtowers were built on the farms, and the able-bodied laborers were given the necessary weapons to live unthreatened.

Sumuri led a platoon of Indian cavalry, plus two seconded cavalry hunters, to Toyohara Farm with the wild boar and reindeer they had just hunted.

On the side of the farm, he saw a group of cavalry rolling up dust, and knew that it was his own cavalry, and the members guarding the farm opened the gate to welcome the cavalry inside.

"Comrade, this is your meat this month, ask your secretary to sign it." Su Muli now speaks Chinese very fluently, and his life in Los Angeles makes them no longer look like Indians, and he is straight, deliberately learning the appearance of those soldiers, so that he looks more handsome when wearing military uniforms.

The farm secretary ran out, and he was actually the cotton planting expert, named Wang Xin.

"Hello Captain Su, take a saliva, you've run so far." Wang Xin did not look down on Su Muri, in fact, Su Muli was somewhat of a figure in Los Angeles, because he was cultivated by the cabinet as a model of naturalized Indians, so he was valued by people.

"Thank you." Sumuri took the jug and took a big sip.

The farms were not completely self-sufficient, and when they immigrated from Los Angeles, they brought with them enough food, but not enough non-staples. Therefore, after hunting the prey, the hunters will send a portion to the colony to meet their protein needs. In Los Angeles, the catch is also salted and sent to Toyohara Farm.

Wang Xin said to Su Muli again: "Captain Su, the Yokuz tribe north of our farm is not very honest, we bought these lands from them at a cost, but recently they are a little restless and seem to want to rob us of food, you see if you can report the situation to the top and think of a way." ”

When Su Muri heard this, his face was serious, and he said, "The Yokuz people don't know how to plant, they lack food, and if they really attack us, the hunters will definitely not let them go." Well, I'll take a team to that tribe to warn that if they really don't change their minds, they will only be wiped out. ”

In fact, all kinds of dangerous thoughts were tumbling in Sumuri's head. Slowly, he has come to consider himself a Tang man, because he feels that the Tang people are advanced and live a better life than the Chumash people. As for the other Indian peoples who did not know what to do, Sumuri felt that it was long overdue to wipe them out, but the cabinet had always disapproved of his approach.