Whether it's Batavia or Jakarta, it's now a thing of the past, and it's now the Coconut City Governorate of China.

The land around Coconut City was originally in the hands of Han landlords. After the imperial court ruled Coconut City, the governor encouraged the people to open up, and the original tenants continued to cultivate while opening up the surrounding land.

In a few years, dozens of miles of land were expanded, and the land ceded to Coconut City by Bandan Kingdom was completed. The local Javanese natives either went to the city to work or worked for the landlords, or they could only be expelled.

The governor said that he would slowly educate the natives, but the Han peasants did not care so much, and they even armed themselves to fight.

Whoever does not let them reclaim the land, they will unite to fight whom!

On New Year's Day of the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, Lu Baohua and his fellow villagers spent the rainy season.

Lu Baohua was a peasant in the mountainous areas of Guangdong, and when the Datong New Dynasty was established, his parents gave birth to eight sons and one daughter, and only two sons died young. How much land is there for the government? Not to mention the mountainous area.

He successfully graduated from primary school and finished secondary school, but only got a certificate of completion.

Lu Baohua could only go to the city to work, and he did an apprenticeship for a few years, but he really didn't like it, and he asked his classmates to go to Guangzhou. One day, he met people who returned to their hometowns to worship their ancestors in Coconut City, and heard that there was land everywhere around Coconut City, and as long as they went, they could be reclaimed, provided that they could withstand the attack of the natives.

At least, you have to carry it yourself until the governor sends troops to save it!

Lu Baohua thought about it, and actually returned to the mountains and summoned the young and strong to go to the sea to farm. I recruited a few people in my village, and then went to the next village, running from village to village, and finally recruited hundreds of people to go to sea.

They are all poor people in the mountains, and each family scrapes together everything, and in addition to the boat money, there are a few taels of available funds left.

They took farm tools, seeds, and dry food and set off by boat from the port of Guangzhou. After reporting to the Coconut City Governor's Palace, Datong Bank loaned them 20 taels of silver, and then was taken by the officials to a forest dozens of miles away.

In the first year, the trees were cut down to plant sugar cane, and the seeds brought were not used.

Because I heard from the locals that the harvest of grain in the first two years is not high, but the sugarcane can be sold at a good price. Sugarcane seeds were bought from local Han people, and the timber cut could be sold to merchants.

The sugarcane harvest was so good that they could not wait for another two or three years to plant, and the next year they took out half of their land and switched to upland rice.

Upland rice has a low yield, but it has a good taste and a high price.

The main reason is the lack of irrigation canals. The following year, they dug aqueducts and bought water from local farmers to irrigate their fields, and the water was priced according to the length of the irrigation period.

In the third year, Lu Baohua presided over the division of the land and divided the cultivated land reclaimed by the collective.

This year, Lu Baohua asked his younger brother to take a boat home, brought back letters and silver taels to the young and strong, and hoped to attract more fellow villagers to reclaim. In their letter home, they said that the land in Coconut City is extremely fertile, and the rice can be harvested twice a year, and it does not need much fertilizer. The agricultural tax here is less than that collected in the hometown, and it can be tax-free for the first five years of reclamation. After reporting to the Governor, a loan can be obtained.

When Sili and Eight Townships heard the news, half of the county was a sensation, and more than 300 young and strong people went to sea collectively.

In fact, overseas pioneering is very difficult, exposed to the sun and rain, and the water and soil are not adapted. Although the yield of sugarcane and rice is high, the price is often lowered by the merchants, and although they do not worry about food and clothing throughout the year, they cannot save a few silver at all. The silver taels brought back to his hometown were all saved by tightening his belt.

The two groups of young and strong, nearly 500 people, were allowed by the governor to build a village, and Lu Baohua was elected as the village head.

Among the young and strong, there are more than a dozen peasant soldiers.

The Datong Imperial Court repeatedly reduced the number of peasant soldiers, and there was also a rule that each peasant soldier only needed to train for three years in his spare time before he had to "retire" and recruit new people. To put it bluntly, it is a reserve that does not receive military salaries, but during the period of serving as a peasant soldier, each person can be exempted from two acres of land.

Only those who have land at home are eligible to serve as peasant soldiers, and urban residents are not eligible.

Lü Baohua's village is called "Sugar Rice Village", which takes its name from the crops they grow. A peasant soldier named Ge Shun, because he finished elementary school, was appointed by him as the captain of the peasant soldiers, and all the young and strong were organized into the team, and they took turns to practice during the slack season.

The governor did not encourage, prohibit, or manage this kind of peasant army, and anyway, it was developed in a free-range manner, and the main target of the war was the surrounding natives.

"Brother, the goods have been bought!"

Lu Baoliang brought people back from Coconut City, and he went to buy arms this time. The governor only forbade firearms and nothing else, so some people began to make bows and crossbows for sale.

Lu Baohua opened the box and looked at it, and said with great joy: "Good goods!" ”

Thirty pairs of crossbows, this thing is very popular in the coconut city, and it is a sharp weapon against the indigenous people of Java. Lu Baohua asked the villagers to raise funds and empty their families to buy these, and even used up all the pioneer loans.

When the grain harvest season comes, war is coming.

At first, it was the aborigines who robbed the Han people, and the Han people were forced to fight back. Gradually, the Han villages organized their armies and began to take the initiative to rob the natives.

In the first year of Lu Baohua's arrival, he was looted by dozens of natives. They could only flee and find nearby Han people to move rescue troops, and now they have the ability to take the initiative to kill them.

The rainy season is over, that is, in January and February, when the rice harvest is in time.

There are special people standing guard on the outskirts of the village, and the villagers will help them harvest the rice from the sentry's house.

"Dangdang, dang!"

Working in the golden rice fields, there was a sudden sound of gongs, followed by warning smoke, and the Javanese natives were killed.

The Han people were very tired of this, and felt that the local natives were too hateful, and they were not good at farming, but they came to rob the Han people of food.

The natives occupy the fertile soil, but their ancestors have not wanted to make progress for generations. The great land does not know how to dig ditches and ditches, does not know how to cultivate intensively, only knows how to set fire to the forest, plant it for two or three years and then change the forest to burn. What a waste of land!

This act of burning forests for reclamation is called "burning" and has existed even after hundreds of years. Every year, Indonesian farmers burn ba, and the smoke drifts to Singapore, and Singaporeans have to wear masks to dare to go out.

"Peasant soldiers assemble, peasant soldiers assemble!"

The young men in the fields everywhere took up their sickles and rushed up to the ridges.

The ridges are equipped with improvised ordnance and are ready to fight at any time. There were spears, wooden shields, leather armor, and they looked decent when they were arrayed.

The leather armor was sewn by themselves and made from pigskin.

The landlord's house killed the pigs, or the butcher killed the pigs, and the pigskins were quickly sold out. Farmers in the countryside all buy pigskin armor and decorate it with some bamboo chips, which has a little bit of defense.

More than 400 young men quickly assembled, and the command was handed over to Ge Shun, the leader of the peasant soldiers.

Both sides moved towards the open area, and the scale of the indigenous bandits surprised Lu Baohua and Ge Shun.

In previous years, there were only dozens of enemies, and at most there were only about 100 people, but this time there were more than 300.

Those natives also seemed to be surprised, when they came to rob last year, there were only about a hundred Han people here, how did they suddenly become four or five hundred?

It can only be said that the scale of the "war" is getting bigger and bigger!

The Sultan of Banten did not dare to provoke China and turned a blind eye to the Han Chinese's efforts to open up the land. The indigenous Javanese continued to lose their territory, but finally learned to unite, and two or three tribes gathered together to send troops.

These tribes, men and women, young and old, often numbered only two or three hundred.

They burn the forest for a year or two, and then move to another forest. Occasionally, tribal clashes erupted, mainly over forest land, and now the Han Chinese are forcing indigenous tribes to join forces.

"The crossbowman comes forward, and the sword and shield hand raises the shield!"

The sword and shield hand held the lid of the cauldron and the sickle in his hand, standing nervously but firmly in front.

There are also wolf millers and pikemen, just like the early Datong army.

On the other side, the Javanese natives did not have any formation, and rushed forward with machetes.

More than 400 Han people were young and strong, divided into several teams and slowly advanced. Thirty pairs of crossbows were the first to be fired, and the natives also shot bows and arrows, but they were homemade earthen bows with little power.

Although the crossbow is very powerful, the crossbowman's accuracy is not enough, and only a few natives are shot in one shot.

The two sides engaged, and the natives were disturbed by the wolves, and the momentum of the charge slowed down. Most of the natives were blocked out of the wolf milling bush, and some pushed the wolf mill forward, but they were stabbed to death and wounded by spears.

In less than five minutes after the battle, the natives completely collapsed, and Ge Shun led the young men to take advantage of the situation to chase and kill.

In this battle, more than 60 enemies were killed and 27 people were captured.

They didn't chase too far, they still had to come back to harvest rice, and the war was a war, and they couldn't miss the agricultural time.

Captives could be taken to the city to sell, and the big landowners were willing to buy them.

Half a month later, the paddy harvest was finished.

Lu Baohua convened a meeting of young leaders: "You can't be beaten every year, you have to fight out this year, and the natives don't dare to come again!" ”

Ge Shun said: "There are indigenous tribes not far to the west, and last year they burned the forest, and the forest fire burned a large area. So much land was burned, but less than half of it was used to grow food, so much good land was really blind in vain! ”

Lu Baohua said: "Every year when the governor buys women, he gives priority to selling them to the Han people in the city, and then to those Han people in the east. The newcomers we went to the west to cultivate didn't even have a woman. The girl in my hometown doesn't want to go to sea to get married, so we can only rely on ourselves to rob it! ”

"What if we have money, and the girl from my hometown is willing to come and get married?" Xue Fentian asked.

The name "Fentian" is very common, and it is estimated that when he was born, he happened to meet the Datong Army Fentian, just like the founding of New China and the aid to Korea.

Wan Wenqing smiled beside him: "The robbed indigenous woman can be a wife." If she marries a girl from her hometown, the indigenous woman will be a concubine. ”

"This dare is good, I can also marry a concubine." Xue Fentian grinned.

The content of the meeting suddenly turned to how to rob women and divide women. They don't have to worry about food and clothing here, what they lack is family, and hundreds of young people have long been suffocated.

These young men and women had the methods to cure night blindness, and they all learned from the peasants and soldiers, but many of the natives could not see clearly at night.

The plan for sending troops was to attack at night, and hundreds of young men would cross the forest and touch the periphery of the indigenous stockade at night.

The natives were defenseless, and after being set on fire to a few huts, they were so frightened that they ran around in the dark. The Han people, on the other hand, were young and strong, and they planted torches everywhere and struck the gongs loudly, creating a formation of thousands of troops to kill.

The battle was uneventful, and after dawn the number of people was counted, and more than 80 prisoners were captured, of whom more than 60 were women and children.

"Burn this place down and remove everything you can!" Lu Baohua is ruthless, and catching women is secondary, he wants to destroy this indigenous tribe.

The Datong government may still have a face, thinking about what to educate the natives.

These folk Han colonizers, but how convenient and how to come. If you destroy a few more surrounding tribes, you will be able to sit back and relax in the future, and you will not have to worry about harvesting grain every year.

Lu Baohua returned to the village with the captives, and all the men were taken to the city to be sold, while the women stayed to marry the young man.

Who can divide the women, the lottery is decided. If you don't get it, you will grab it next year.

Colonization is not a dinner party, it will always be so bloody.

In the long run, I am afraid that in less than 30 years, Han Chinese farmers will be farming outside the city of Banten.

The Sultan of Banten will definitely not be able to bear it, and he will definitely raise troops in three or five years, and even if he can't win, he will have to fight hard.

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