On the riverbend pier

The second batch of migrants and supplies has arrived, this group of more than 1,000 migrants, accompanied by a large amount of grain, flour, tea, thousands of chickens, ducks and geese, more than 200 large fat pigs, 4 dock loading and unloading machinery and 20 tractors.

In the terrible screams of the big fat pig, the new immigrants set foot on this strange land with great longing, and looked at the surrounding lush greenery, and the air was filled with the fragrance of earth and plants, which made people feel intoxicated.

The construction and development of Yuheng Town has been carried out in accordance with the established steps, and it has entered the fiery construction, and the bright prospects for the future are worth looking forward to.

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Semuda

This is the heart of Central Kalimantan, a vast area of more than 80 kilometres long in Semuda Sampetite, dotted with hundreds of white Dutch plantations of varying sizes, which originally had a population of more than 300,000 indigenous people.

Palangkaraya and other areas are also home to a large indigenous population and a number of plantations, which are the main economic areas of the region.

The delta region, dominated by Semuda, Sampit and Palangkaraya, is the oldest and most mature region in the whole of Central Kalimantan, and is also the most populous and fertile land area, where the vast majority of white plantation owners are concentrated.

But after the war, that all changed.

The portrayal of Queenslanders as ferocious devils caused great panic among the plantation owners of white Dutch descent, who fled with their families.

As a direct result, the vast majority of plantations changed hands at pitifully low prices, mainly from Queensland's big banks and powerful institutions, as well as a small number of British consortia.

In an indigenous village

A small unit of a regiment of the 2nd Kalimantan Division was carrying out the task of clearing the township, and the lieutenant company commander Hu Dachuan, wearing an Australian-style wide-brimmed military hat, crossed out the name of the village with a pen on the mission map in his hand.

You can see it

More than a dozen villages and nearby plantations have been crossed out on the map, connecting them into a large area, indicating that the area has been combed through many times and the clean-up work has been completed.

The unit raided the village in the early hours of the morning and arrested several young indigenous men who had fled into the dense forest during the Qing Township, along with more than a dozen young indigenous women, who were imprisoned in mud huts in the villages.

Since the Dutch were defeated and evacuated, a large number of indigenous servant armies were either annihilated, captured, or scattered in the countryside.

These indigenous young men are suspected of having been attacked, and because of the language barrier between the two sides, only a very small number of early Chinese immigrants can act as interpreters, and they belong to the level of two knives that cannot bear to look at directly, so the army adopted the strategy of preferring to catch mistakes rather than let them go, and arrest all from teenagers to young adults.

There must be something wrong in this, but it is limited to the conditions and cannot distinguish and screen, so you can only be considered unlucky.

The final destination of these indigenous prisoners of war was various mines, such as koi copper-gold mines, Hongshan coal mines, iron mines, and other large mines, and as mine slaves, they washed away their sins with sweat and labor, and when they arrived in these places, they did not have the luxury of hoping to come out one day.

As for the young indigenous women, it is incidental, and the crime is to sympathize with and help the indigenous war criminals to hide, or their immediate family members, or whatever, anyway, the two sides do not understand the language, what ...... It's better to make a mistake than to let it go.

Australia and Shangri-La have a great demand for young Aboriginal women, and there are many businessmen in Semuda who are in the business of human beings, waiting in hostels to wave money and buy as many as they want.

Hu Dachuan sighed secretly;

It was time to finish, and now that the work of clearing the countryside was coming to an end, there were no prisoners of war from the indigenous villages and white plantations, and only a few old and infirm people who no one wanted, who would be repatriated by the follow-up civil affairs personnel and arranged to be left to fend for themselves in the indigenous reserves.

according to the deployment of the division headquarters;

The army will also return to the barracks from specific military operations to rest and train, except to leave a squad of soldiers in each village for security guards and the training of local militias for a period of three months.

After three months, the security of the village will be the responsibility of the local militia.

The remnants of the indigenous men and women who hide in the jungle are left with nothing but endless despair......

It won't take long

A large number of Chinese immigrants will flock to occupy indigenous villages and plantations, and there will be a unified construction team to flatten the indigenous mud thatched huts, build cool and comfortable wooden huts for each family, and distribute free farm tools, chickens and ducks to help the newcomers adapt and settle here.

These Chinese immigrants came here as hired laborers, because a large area of the vicinity was swallowed up by the Red River Valley Industrial Corporation, and was planned to be a large tobacco plantation, rubber plantation, sugar and spice plantation, concentrated on a large scale.

The fare for the Chinese hired peasants to come to Borneo averaged about £5 and 11 shillings per person, which would be paid by the Red River Valley Industrial Corporation, while the peasants had to work for two years, and the two parties signed a contract of employment before they boarded the ship.

After the arrival of the Chinese hired agricultural workers, most of them first lived in indigenous thatched huts, and when the beautiful cottages on stilts were built, they could apply for a wooden cottage with a fence in front and a yard in the back.

Of course, it's not free.

The delivery of batches of cottages built by the construction team will be graded by the plantation managers according to the performance of the employees, and those with excellent performance will be the first to apply for housing and sign a permanent employment contract.

The unified construction of the cottage wooden house is a row of four, all of which are stilted bungalow structures, the front is surrounded by a bamboo fence in a yard, about 200 square meters, and the rear is also surrounded by a bamboo fence in a courtyard, about more than 100 square meters, and there is a dry toilet behind the yard, separated by a bamboo wall area.

The cottages are lined up, and the front and back are wide roads, making them look orderly.

The Red River Valley Industrial Corporation sells the property to the employees at the construction cost price, and the employees are repaid monthly from their labor remuneration without interest.

This is a preferential policy for long-term employees, and when these long-term employees start a family, marry a wife and have children, even if they are completely rooted in this fertile land, they will not be able to get rid of them.

There will be an enlarged version of the cottage and the two-story wooden building in the future, and that will be for a later time.

At this point, even if the Chinese hired peasant workers officially owned a home, they could marry a daughter-in-law or snatch an indigenous girl to go home to live, and this kind of thing happened in other places, and everyone turned a blind eye and pretended not to see it, and acquiesced in this happening.

Then, you can raise some chickens and ducks in the courtyard, you can also take out a loan to buy some piglets and cattle, and you can reclaim wasteland around the village, up to 1 acre (about 6 acres), and the reclaimed wasteland can be privately owned after being registered and certified as a plantation, but you must pay a tax per acre every year.

After completing the plantation work, you can cultivate your own land and create a beautiful home for yourself with your hard work and sweat, and multiply.

It won't take a few years

This land will completely erase the imprint of the Dutch colonizers and the imprint of the indigenous people, eliminate the root causes of turmoil, eliminate ethnic conflicts and contradictions, and turn into a peaceful and peaceful Chinese village and town.

Because Borneo has large areas of mature plantations and fields, the rate of immigration is much higher than in Shangri-La.

Since June 1882, a large number of Chinese immigrants have entered East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan, and the imported population has reached as much as 170,000 in half a year, with an average of about 28,000 per month.

Entering 1883

The rate of migration in the region continues to grow rapidly, reaching 33,000 in the highest month, and the annual immigration population is about 327,000, bringing the number of Chinese immigrants in the occupied areas of Borneo to more than 500,000 (excluding the local garrison).

Especially after the signing of the armistice agreement, the influx of Chinese immigrants into Central Kalimantan Province has become a new craze, and every month 6~7 ships of immigrants arrive at Semuda Port, quickly filling the indigenous vacancy and becoming the dominant force in the region.

This wave of migration is expected to continue for another two to three years, with a shift to new colonization and development after the gap has been fully filled.

As a grassroots officer, Hu Dachuan did not know the specific plan for the development of Borneo, there were too many vast forests and fields, and the territory was unimaginably large, so he would be similar to Shangri-La, throwing out a plan for an eight-star town or a nine-star town.

"Company commander, the lunch in the house is ready, the brothers caught two pigs in the morning, and they all killed the stew to eat, but today there are chickens, fish and meat, do you want to have some wine?" The company guards rushed to report, interrupting Hu Dachuan's thoughts.

He raised his eyebrows and said with interest; "Yes, there are two pigs?"

"Company commander, it must be the fish that slipped through the net in the previous few clearances, it must be those brutal natives hiding in the dense forest, trying to provide it to the rebels, this is the most powerful evidence of the crime."

"Well, that's right." Hu Dachuan nodded approvingly and asked with a serious expression; "What are you going to do with all this incriminating evidence?"

"Company commander, the cooking squad in the room said that the pork has been stewed after peeling and deboning, and the brothers will destroy it at noon, and if you can't finish eating, take it back and continue to destroy it, just keep two big pigs' heads."

"It makes sense, but don't waste the big pig's head, salted it, and you can improve the food in a few days."

"Understood, company commander."

The guard raised his hand in a solemn salute, turned around and ran out to convey the order, and then there was a crisp whistle sound, which was to gather the troops to prepare for dinner.

Hu Dachuan walked out of the round thatched hut of the indigenous chief, raised his eyes and looked around, the strong smell of meat came from the house not far away, and more than a dozen soldiers with guns on their backs had gathered, holding steel lunch boxes in their hands, giggling and laughing and preparing to eat.

It is a large indigenous village of about 1,000 people, centered on the circular thatched huts of the indigenous chiefs and the sacrificial fire pits, which spread out radioactively, and are full of low mud thatched houses, which appear disheilled and disorderly.

Now the village is quiet, only less than 100 people are left, there is only a faint smell of blood in the air, and half of a human leg is exposed on the edge of the thatched hut in the distance, which is the remains of the rebels who attacked the village in the early morning and were killed.

"Platoon Commander Shi, why haven't the corpses been cleaned up?" Hu Dachuan asked coldly.

"Report to the leader, I'll do it right away."

The platoon leader Shi Gouzi followed his gaze, and anger suddenly appeared on his face; This is another rabbit cub who gave himself eye medicine.

In accordance with the rules of the Township Clearance Operation;

Dead bodies in the tropics cannot be kept for a long time to avoid breeding for plague and must be properly disposed of as soon as possible.

Proper treatment generally refers to throwing it directly into a nearby river and letting it float to the sea, which is a time-saving and harmless treatment.

The Semuda area is low-lying, and there are five large rivers flowing into the sea from here for more than 270 kilometers around the area, showing a magnificent pattern of five dragons going to the sea, and the amount of water discharged under the rivers is quite large, and the self-purification ability is super strong.

Near the village, there is a wide river, and more than a dozen corpses were carried by the local indigenous elderly and infirm to the river and thrown into the water.

In the distance, you can see the wide water surface, and there are corpses discarded from the upper reaches floating and sinking all the way down, which is probably because the brother troops are also seizing the last time to clear the township, this situation is not uncommon.

After escorting the natives to dispose of the corpses, it was the dog platoon leader who led his subordinates to trot all the way back, but there was a feast of wine and meat at noon today, and it must not be missed.