For more than ten years

The price of Australian ranches has been rising, and the price of land in the Earllands, with the Red River Valley and Brisbane metropolitan area as the core, has risen dozens of times, and the unit price of pastures in the vast northern region of Queensland has also risen by as much as five or six times.

Comparatively

The value of land in Victoria and New South Wales, which are more fully developed, is also rising, and even a fool can see that these lands have great potential for appreciation in the future.

Major Bian Chunsong's ranch is a proper landowner, but his success is irreproducible, there is only one tank battalion in the entire B Corps, and there is only one battalion commander in the entire tank battalion, and his meritorious fields are more than the colonels and regiment commanders of the regular army, and others cannot envy him.

Captain Li Zhong and Captain Wu Baoli are both tank squadron leaders, and the meritorious fields they can get are almost fifty percent off, but unfortunately they can't get them now, and they can only be assigned once unless they are promoted to major military streets.

"Brother Song, seeing your ranch so beautiful, I can't help but want to retire, when the time comes, Ah Zhong and I will be your companions next to you, each run a large ranch, find a few beautiful Caucasian women to serve as concubines, and then marry a lady from a famous family as a wife, and give birth to a lot of cubs." Captain Wu Baoli is leisurely fascinated by the future life, and both eyes are shining stars.

Captain Li Zhong rolled his eyes when he heard this; "If you want to retire, you can retire, anyway, I won't go, my head is funny."

"Hee-hee-hee, that's what I said." Captain Wu Baoli sat under the eaves of the porch, comfortably put his shiny leather boots on the wooden railing, took a sip of beer and said; "There is no war to fight here, and there is no military merit to take, it is really difficult for us to rise to this rank, it is estimated that it will take at least four or five years to climb from a lieutenant to a colonel, and it is possible to be unlucky for six or seven years, I really want this war to continue!"

"Come on, if we continue to fight, our Majesty will go bankrupt."

"That's right, I heard in the newspapers that the war cost more than 60 million pounds, His Majesty the King pulled down a deficit of more than 20 million pounds, and New South Wales and Victoria didn't want an inch of such good land, just to make Tasmaya a private territory of the royal family, and no one wants to go to that hellish place!"

"Several southern states are mainly for the resettlement of immigrants and soldiers, and Tasmania is said to be unprepared for development, and it will have to be discussed in a few decades."

"Hey, you know what, His Majesty seems to be preparing to visit the mainland?"

"I heard that it was Taishan Gu Lao, who was appointed as the governor of Liangguang, was critically ill, and Borneo sent a special medicine Cinchona Cream under the stars, it is said that Gu Lao's condition has been stabilized, and there will be no major problems, but he is old and needs to be carefully recuperated."

"Oh, in that case, I should visit as soon as possible."

"You know what? His Majesty's travel is not a trivial matter, and the knowledge in it is great, but it is not a small family that just leaves. The newspaper said that the Manchu court sent a prince to the Liangguang region to meet him, and it was estimated that it would take at least a month or two to prepare. ”

"Filial piety before the sickbed is originally something that should be done."

"Poly boy, really speaking, we lonely teenagers born in the Eagle School want to take care of the boss's love, we should kowtow twice in front of the sickbed of Gu Lao, if there is no protection of Gu Lao, it will be difficult for the Eagle Schools in the coastal areas of Shenzhou to operate smoothly, and those local corrupt officials and corrupt officials are like snakes and scorpions, and they can't do it without a tough background."

"Didn't the newspaper say that the Tartar Emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty gave His Majesty the title of "King Wu" of the prince, and with this background, the local officials should leave a decent amount of dignity for the treatment of the Eagle School and Guangjitang? ”

"Hmph, give them a guts......"

A few officers sat under the eaves of the porch, drinking beer and talking, which was really pleasant.

The more than 10 soldiers who were brought with them were busy in the room to help the white servants clean up, tidy up the room, and prepare meals.

This British-style rustic wooden castle-like building is divided into three rooms with three living rooms. There are two dining rooms, one large and one small, two study rooms plus 14 bedrooms, and three maid's rooms, and there are also miscellaneous rooms and stables outside the main building.

The two soldiers opened the barn on the side of the castle and suddenly screamed.

When everyone heard this, they walked over and saw that the barn was full of baled wool, piled up more than 4 meters high, like a small mountain.

"I'm a good girl, how much wool does this have?"

"Wool doesn't weigh this thing, it's about the same as cotton, and the wool in this barn looks like a lot, but it's not really heavy."

"Cut, no matter how big the weight is, it's tens of thousands of pounds."

"There must be, according to the current market how should it be worth five or six hundred pounds, which is a lot of money, since the second half of last year the relationship between the North and the South has been strained, and the wool purchase of the southern states has all stopped, I estimate that it was accumulated last year."

"Brother Song has made a fortune, he wants to have a treat!"

"That's a must."

The officers all laughed lively, but Poly Tsai quietly pulled Bian Chunsong's sleeve and glanced in the direction of the barn wall on one side.

Bian Chunsong looked over with a puzzled expression, and saw clear footprints on the barn wall on one side, especially noteworthy, there was fresh black mud stained on it, which made him immediately vigilant.

Someone on top of a pile of wool?

"It's not trivial to treat you, what do you want to eat, brothers, even if you say it, the chefs in our battalion are still very good......" Bian Chun said in his mouth, gestured with his backhand to the two soldiers, and then took out the matching gun on his waist, and Poly Tsai also took out the pistol, pressed the bullet and loaded.

See this scenario

The others didn't know what was going on, they were all soldiers rushing all the way in the face of the rain of bullets, no one screamed in fuss, but calmly joked, silently took out all the guns on their waists, and cautiously pointed upwards.

The soldiers quickly rushed with spears and climbed up the piles of wool on either side of the barn.

"Don't shoot, please don't shoot, we have no ill intentions, we just want to find something to eat."

Soon, three men rolled down from the pile of wool with their hands raised.

These were three young white men, the older in their 20s and the younger only fifteen or sixteen years old, still wearing the uniforms of the Southern Army that could no longer be seen clearly, and their eyes were full of fear.

The soldiers found a spear and two knives on the pile of wool, indicating that they were bandits hiding in the mountains, and somehow trekked over the mountains, crossed the blockade and hid in the barn of the pasture, and it seemed that they were familiar with the geography of the vicinity.

A brief interrogation

It turned out that one of these three people was the son of the owner of the farm, and with a group of bandits of more than 100 people escaped the encirclement of the army and hid in the mountains, as the army continued to be tightly sealed, everything that could be eaten in the mountains was eaten, and the mounts were killed and eaten for meat, and then even the hares could not be caught, and the situation became increasingly difficult, and there was no hope at all.

If you continue to hide, there is only one way to die.

Therefore, these people escaped from the mountains together, and with their familiarity with the local terrain, they dodged several blockades and lurked all the way back.

Unexpectedly, Bian Chunsong led more than a dozen soldiers to arrive suddenly, which really scared them out of their minds and hid in the barn in a panic.

That being the case, there is nothing to be polite about.

Amid the miserable cries of the three white bandits for mercy, a few crisp gunshots rang out, and then everything returned to calm.

The corpse was thrown into the clear stream in front of the farm, and soon down the river it would enter the bay a few kilometers away, and then it would never be again.

Victoria is located at the southeastern tip of the entire Australian continent, thousands of kilometers to the south is Antarctica, and the vast ocean in the middle does not even have islands, and the corpses flow down the creek into the sea, and soon they are no longer visible.

Not to mention these three people, the corpses of hundreds of thousands of white soldiers in the bloody battle in Melbourne were basically thrown into the Yarra River, and they disappeared without even splashing a wave.

After solving these three white bandits, Major Bian Chunsong did not dare to be careless, and led people to carefully screen the entire castle perimeter, even the cellar, and finally made sure that there were no extra bandits to hide, so he was relieved.

According to his cautious character, he also had to set up sentry posts at night and take turns to be on duty at night to be able to rest assured.

After dark

Everyone enjoyed a delicious roast lamb feast around the campfire in front of the castle, and the bright moon in the sky with a starry sky reflected on the lake was beautiful.

Bian Chunsong took advantage of the wine to name the ranch "Xingxing Lake Ranch", and the place name of Xingxing Lake should be filed with the Military Management Commission, and it will be used as an official place name in the future.

Today's accident happened, Bian Chunsong plans to take over all the old parents and family as soon as possible, and also arrange for Erhu to return to the mainland, and bring more villagers from his own clan and hometown as soon as possible.

People in this era have a very strong sense of locality.

There are a lot of soldiers who are abacus like Major Bian Chunsong, and everyone is assigned to the fields, the few need 10 or 8 helpers, and the more need hundreds of people, almost without exception, they all think of shaking people.

Simply send a telegram, and many directly send people back to the mainland to carefully select honest and reliable villagers, and come over to help take care of their own business.

As a result, another spontaneous wave of immigration was set off.

The social environment in Victoria is quietly undergoing fundamental changes, and the white women who lost their families in the war, lost their pastures, lost the economic support they relied on, and had to rely on the Chinese army officers and soldiers who entered Victoria.

In this Chinese-dominated Victoria, where young white girls became concubines, older white women became servants, and some women became prostitutes, women who had always been vulnerable quickly found their way to survive in Victoria, a Chinese-dominated state.

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