Chapter 211: Sweeping the South Seas: The Weakness of the King of Vietnam
For most of the migrants in Xujiazhuang, the threat of indigenous tribes is just a small episode.
The most important work is to start clearing the land, cutting wood and building houses, digging kilns and burning bricks, carrying materials, etc., and the average work is 12 hours a day.
And not long after landing on the island, the first vegetable field and the first acre of sugarcane were planted.
In addition, in order to speed up the efficiency of development, it also took the initiative to issue an invitation to merge the existing Han villages on the island, which were mainly developed by Fujianese immigrants, into sugarcane farms, and in the future, they would be treated equally and given the same treatment as villagers.
For this kind of wooing, some Fujian immigrants were moved and had the idea of joining, but more of them resisted and opposed, after all, they worked hard for so many years to turn the raw land into a mature land, and only then did they have these hard-won results, as soon as the immigrants from Xujiazhuang came, they wanted to pick their peaches, which was not too beautiful.
At this time, the Xujiazhuang technical assistance team, after reassembling the ten tractors brought over in the state of parts, was loaded with a ploughshare, poured biodiesel into the fuel tank, and then started with a bang, and put into the work of land reclamation.
Compared with the slow manpower reclamation, these tractors, each of which can open up more than 200 acres of land per day, ten units is more than 2,000 acres, plus a large number of manpower assistance, at most half a month's effort, can open up more than 30,000 acres of land to meet the needs of a sugarcane farm.
I don't know how many times the efficiency is manpower, and livestock such as cattle and horses are far from comparable.
Besides.
The immigrants of Xujiazhuang are not afraid of mosquitoes on the island, even if some people have cold fever (that is, malaria) not long after they go to the island, but after taking the miracle medicine called artemisinin, they will soon get better, and the medical team of Xujiazhuang even helped cure a number of Fujian immigrants with extremely serious cold and fever diseases, and saved them from death.
There are many other incurable diseases, and the doctors on the medical team can also deal with them, and most of them are effective.
Moreover, as immigrants, whether it is food, clothing, or all kinds of tools used, the immigrants in Xujiazhuang are much stronger than those Fujian immigrants who have taken root, you must know that this is still the first arrival, belongs to the most difficult stage, and when their sugarcane is planted, the sugar factory is running, and it begins to produce economic benefits, what kind of good life will they live?
In addition, the innocence army is strong, they also see in their eyes, those indigenous tribes in the mountains are not opponents at all, even a guiltless army soldier can't be killed, and the whole clan will be wiped out, and the innocence army will not be disbanded, it can be assembled and attacked at any time, and the business model of the collective manor is much stronger than a village fighting alone.
That is, as long as you join the sugar cane estate.
With the help of farm machinery such as tractors, the production efficiency will be greatly improved.
The standard of living will be greatly improved.
The safety will also be greatly improved, so you don't have to worry about your head not being safe, and you can farm and live with peace of mind forever.
With so many advantages in front of them, the Fujian immigrants certainly know to make a wise choice, and if they don't join now, they will have no way to join in the future, and it is useless to regret and plead, and there will be no shop in this village - that is, the sugar cane farms will not beg them to join.
In short, after this co-optation and persuasion, in the central plain area of Taiwan Island, except for a few villages that were co-opted by the Zheng family in Fujian, more than 80% of the Han villages were merged into sugarcane farms, which saved a lot of reclamation work and significantly accelerated the progress of development.
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The other side.
The migrant fleet, which stayed on the seashore, never stopped for a moment to transport it.
On November 11, after all the supplies on the sea cargo ship were unloaded, the migrant fleet set off and returned to Harbour City at full speed.
On the 15th, the second batch of 250,000 old and young immigrants, along with nearly 30,000 tons of various materials, were sent to the "White Sugar Port", and it took two days to unload and unload the goods.
At this point, the task of colonizing Taiwan Island has been basically completed.
Then, from November 18 to early December, Xujiazhuang's colonization destination was mainly on Hainan Island.
The climate of Hainan Island is hotter, there are more plains, especially in the north and south of Hainan Island, more than 3 million acres of paddy fields can be cultivated, the central hilly area, there are a large number of forest resources, including high-value rosewood, as early as more than two years ago, Xu Yuan sent more than 3,000 people to come over, established a logging field, has cut down more than 80,000 cubic meters of rosewood, but according to this trend, at most another ten years, the island's rosewood resources will be basically exhausted, Even if the loggers planted a lot of small yellow pear saplings, it would take at least 50 years for them to reach maturity.
Just over there in modern society, there is a businessman surnamed Hu, contracted and planted 100,000 acres of rosewood, after a few years will be able to become a material, Xu Yuan tried to see if he could spend billions, can he buy the 100,000 acres of Huanghuali trees, just to make up for the lack of timber vacancy, and then seek to continue to monopolize the seller's market of Huanghuali furniture, after all, 99.9% of things can be done with money, and it is really not possible to add money.
Off topic.
In the plain area of Hainan Island, there is no problem in building 50 rice estates, because there is a lot of barren and idle land on the island.
The population of the island is about one million, not rare, the Han people account for about sixty percent, and the Li, Miao, Zhuang and other ethnic minorities account for about forty percent, and form a situation of Han Yi mixed living, intermarriage also often occurs, has formed a deep integration, and obeys the management of the Han government, can be regarded as the first half of the land.
Only a few Li tribes in the deep mountains did not obey the constraints of the government and often broke out in rebellion.
Therefore, after the arrival of the migrant fleet in Xujiazhuang and the arrival of more than 200,000 young and strong immigrants on the island, in the process of building the rice manor, not only received the strong support of the local government, but also merged many local villages, and with the assistance of the officers and soldiers of the local Qianhu Institute, Sun Chuanting led a 50,000-strong innocent army (this is the second batch of innocent army) to launch a crackdown on several of the most powerful Li tribes in the deep mountains, and in just five days, very significant results were achieved.
Four tribes of the Li people were destroyed, and more than 27,000 women, women and children were captured.
The rebellion of the Li people, which could not be solved for at least hundreds of years, can be stopped for at least 50 years after this blow.
The casualties of the innocent army were less than 100.
But as the coach, Sun Chuanting still doesn't have much sense of accomplishment, and he doesn't think it's a big deal, like a trivial matter.
His attention was on the Hou Li Dynasty in Vietnam, and he began to brew a larger plan.
Not only did he have to accomplish the goal of establishing at least 30 grain estates in the Red River Plain, but he also had to deal a heavy blow to the Hou Li Dynasty, so that he could no longer pose a threat from now on, and had to admit the existence of grain estates and dare not take any hostile or sabotage actions.
The reason is very simple, the Later Li Dynasty was a feudal state power.
Even if the current king Li Weiqi is a puppet, the domestic government and power are in the hands of the powerful minister Zheng Jie, and another feudal official Ruan Fuyuan, forming a situation of confrontation between the north and the south and the dispute between Zheng Ruan, which can be said to have no real power at all.
Not only that, but to the north of Vietnam, there was a small Mo Dynasty regime that occupied the Cao Bang area, and a Long Binh Dynasty that occupied the Tuyen Quang Township area.
It has formed a kingdom with an area of only a hundred thousand square kilometers, and the four independent forces of Mo, Zheng, Ruan, and Longping have been formed.
It can be described as a plate of loose sand, it is an external force, which is very suitable for a period of opportunity to take advantage of the void.
Even so, this kingdom should not be underestimated.
Its total population is about 10 million.
More than 100,000 troops.
Deeply influenced and influenced by Confucian culture.
The people are stubborn, will not easily compromise and give in, and have an extremely tenacious sense of independence, unable to accept the rule of foreign forces.
Therefore, Sun Chuanting moved to support the puppet and blackmail the king to order Vietnam's mind.
He had Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhibao of the Zheng Group called over (the Zheng family fleet had already arrived on Hainan Island, but Zheng Zhilong did not come in person), and held a meeting to discuss how to colonize Vietnam and establish a safe and long-term stable development mechanism to reduce consumption and losses.
Sun Chuanting said to them: "The two generals, the general has already let people inquire and know that the current Vietnamese king Le Thi is just a puppet with no real power, and he is bullied by the powerful minister Zheng every day, and there are many contradictions between the two sides, and there is already dissatisfaction in his heart, we can take advantage of this and send a special operation army of 5,000 people to attack Thang Long City, break into the palace, rescue King Le Wei Qi, and then make a deal with him, cooperate with us, we send troops to help him defeat the powerful minister Zheng Clan, regain real power, in return, He wants to cede a piece of land to us permanently, and let us build 50 grain estates, of which 30 belong to Xujiazhuang and 20 to the Zheng family, and the total land occupied is about 1.5 million mu, less than 1% of Vietnam's land. â
"Well, Sun Shuai, Vietnam has always been capricious, what if after getting real power, King Le Thi turns his face and doesn't recognize it, but attacks us?" Zheng Hongkui asked.
"Then support the powerful ministers of the Zheng family, or the Nguyen family in the south, unite with them, seize the real power of the king LĂŞ clan, continue to become a puppet, or capture the king to our manor and control it directly, not only can we maintain our interests unchanged, but also use the king Le clan as the grasp, control the entire Vietnamese government, and form a situation of controlling the country of Vietnam with grain estates, whoever is obedient will be rewarded, and whoever rebels will be punished, I believe that there are 50,000 innocent troops + Zheng family army in Vietnam, and it should not be out of our control."
That is, a total of fifty grain estates, not only complete the task of growing grain, but also control a kingdom like a controller.
"Then give it a try, if it works, maybe it can be promoted in the South Seas." Zheng Hongkui thought about it and expressed his support.
"I don't know much about these, Sun Shuai, you can do what you say." Zheng Zhibao also has no opinion.
"Good! Since the Zheng family supports it, the policy of making a small country with a manor system will definitely succeed! â
Sun Chuanting nodded excitedly, and immediately began to formulate a special operation plan, and planned to dispatch the most elite Xu Jiajun marines.