Donghua would naturally not agree to the conditions put forward by the manor owner.
Just in the first half of this year, the war was started by the manor owners in the eastern plains.
These plantation owners didn't care about Indians or Chinese at all.
In their minds, these yellow people are objects of subjugation, and they are only worthy of being coolies.
The white plantation owners on the east side of Shandong did not know the reality of Donghua and thought that they were as weak as the Indians.
So, these people sent hundreds of armed men disguised as bandits to attack a farm in Donghua.
But these hundreds of people never returned.
Such a small number of people is not enough for a farm below Donghua to digest.
Because the land is all connected, the farms here are very large farms.
Each farm has at least several thousand workers, of which militiamen account for more than half.
Li Daxin is the director of the operation area of Xinxiang Farm of Donghua Company, and is also the militia captain of the operation area.
He was a laborer recruited by Huaihai Company in Fujian a long time ago.
After being recruited, they underwent military training at the Nanyang Naval Base on Taiwan Island for more than a month.
He only remembered that for more than a month, they could eat meat every year.
It wasn't that Huai Haijun was rich at that time, but that these people were generally relatively thin.
After all, those who are willing to be drafted and go to sea are the ones who don’t have enough to eat at home and can’t survive. Haha.
We Chinese people, who can have enough to eat in our hometown, are generally not willing to leave our hometown.
Therefore, all the immigrants who are going to be sent to South America must first take good care of themselves before they can go to sea.
Those foreigners who sell piglets don't care about this. So after every journey, at least one-third of the workers will die on the road.
Foreigners will only regard these dead laborers as a kind of commodity loss, and when they are finally sold, these losses will be included in the cost.
Naturally, Huaihai Company cannot do this. These are all compatriots, and each of them spreads the seeds of Chinese civilization.
Huai Haijun's training this month is not only to help them master certain combat skills. The most important thing is to help them take good care of their bodies.
Li Daxin trained with many men who were recruited like him.
He learned how to use a musket, learned common military commands, and also learned some simple battle formations.
Adequate food also makes his body stronger.
In fact, everyone has a good foundation. After all, few hungry farmers are really lazy.
Long-term labor has long tempered their bodies.
It's just that they don't always have enough to eat, which makes their bodies suffer a deficit.
Daxin is from Yanping Prefecture, Fujian Province. He has five brothers in his family, and he is the eldest in the family.
The family only farmed fifteen pieces of land, and had to pay 50% of the rent to the landlord every year. The remaining food was simply not enough to feed the whole family.
Fortunately, the eldest, second and third eldest children have grown into strong laborers and can go out to support themselves.
At that time, Huai Haijun was still stuck in Jiangsu and had no control over the people's livelihood in Fujian.
Daxin would often take his second and third sons to the beach to help others carry work. So he knew that many people who could not survive would go to Xiamen and sell themselves as laborers.
It is said that not only can you get several taels of silver for selling yourself at one time, but you can also earn a lot of money overseas.
At that time, due to the Huaihai Navy's punitive actions, those foreigners who sold piglets in the name of exporting Chinese labor disappeared.
The Huaihai Company has replaced those foreigners. They specially arranged for people to recruit laborers in Fujian, either to farms in Nanyang or to overseas.
Originally, Daxin was planning to sell himself to foreigners as a laborer. Unexpectedly, he sold himself to Huai Haijun.
If it had been half a year in the morning, Li Daxin would have become a piggy.
However, as fate would have it, he became an overseas worker for the Renaissance Army.
According to the rules set by Huai Haijun at that time, farm immigrants who went to Southeast Asia were given a one-time settlement of three taels of silver, and those who went to Peru were given a one-time payment of five taels of silver.
These workers who go out are required not to come back without permission within a certain period of time. However, they can remit their wages back.
Li Daxin naturally chose to go to Peru. After all, he had five taels more money.
Also going to Peru with him was his third son, Li Sanpao.
As for the second child, Li Daxin sent him home and sent the money back.
Although this month of training in Taiwan was hard, it was the happiest day Li Daxin had ever lived.
There is no other reason than that because there is enough rice, I can still eat meat with every meal, and I can eat it every day.
Although most of the food he eats is fish, Daxin thinks that fatty pork is the most delicious.
However, farm men are not picky about food and are happy enough if they can have enough to eat.
When the month was up, several large ships arrived.
All men in Fujian have seen sea ships, so there is nothing strange about this.
Everyone received their own things, including a few changes of clothes, a rice bowl for eating, a kettle, and a small bamboo tube. This bamboo tube was said to be used when seasick.
Daxin thinks he doesn't need this thing.
What followed was a months-long sea voyage.
The ship will stop at some islands along the way, and small boats will replenish food and water to the larger ships.
When docking, the workers were asked to hide in the cabins, as if they were worried that someone would see them.
After leaving the port, they could go to the deck to relax.
Sometimes they also help sailors with some things.
In this way, I stumbled all the way to Peru.
After arriving on the ocean, Li Daxin realized why he had to feed them for a month.
Their original physiques were simply not strong enough to survive at sea. They were probably dead at sea before they even reached their destination.
After a month of sailing, all the fat he had gained in the previous month was gone, and he returned to his original lean appearance.
Fortunately, he has now adapted to life on the ship.
Finally, you don’t have to spit out what you eat every time.
At night, you can fall asleep while swaying while lying in a hammock.
Sanpao was much stronger than him. He didn't vomit at all after getting on the boat, but actually gained weight again.
When Daxin saw him like this, he didn't need to call him San Pao anymore, he might as well just call him San Pang.
Finally, they arrived at a continent. The people on the boat told them that this was Peru, and this was where they would work from now on.
Daxin, like many others, stood on the deck and looked at everything here curiously.
The coast here rises high, as if a wall has been erected on the seaside.
From the deck, you can see the city built along the coast in the distance.
After landing, Peruvian officials will come to help them register.
As a company that introduces these workers, Donghua Company can also receive subsidies from the Peruvian government.
However, not all labor is registered. In order to conceal the number of Chinese, many laborers enter Peru through smuggling channels.
After resting at the port for a few days, they were taken on foot to the east.
The climate here is very strange. Places close to the sea are actually deserts.
There is so much water in the sea, but why is there desert all along the seaside?
Daxin didn't understand, and no one told him.
Not long after they walked, they encountered another "wall". Continuous mountains suddenly rose from the ground, blocking the road ahead.
This country is really strange, with walls popping up to block people's way. Could it be that there is some treasure or paradise behind the wall, oh no, behind the mountain.
They traveled along the road between the valleys. They could often see streams in the mountains, and sometimes some unknown wild animals would appear.
The mountains here are covered with rocks. Grass grows between the rocks.
While walking, one can often see a kind of strange-looking sheep. They have long necks, very big eyes, erect ears, no horns, and hairy bodies. They are much larger than the sheep Daxin knows.
Daxin sometimes saw local people using this kind of sheep to carry things.
The people here are also strange. When they first landed, they saw all white foreigners. I heard that they were descendants of the Francois.
But after entering the mountain, all I saw were people with black hair and black eyes. These people's skin was a bit dark, but they were different from those black people. They looked more like Han people.
After passing through the highest mountains, they finally arrived at their destination.
At the beginning, Li Daxin and others were placed in the original settlement area of the Huning people.
When Daxin arrived here, he met many Chinese people and felt a lot more at ease.
After talking with each other, I found out that many of these people were piglets abducted by foreigners from Fujian.
Only then did Daxin realize that those foreigners were all liars. Fortunately, he was not on the wrong ship.
At that time, Dong Shutong was still leading people to build Donghua City. The scope of his activities was also limited to the Huning area.
Li Daxin participated in the construction of Donghua City and surrounding areas.
Li Daxin discovered that there were many places around the settlement of the Huning people where terraced fields could be developed, so he told his officials about it.
For this he also received awards from the Grand Council.
Datongzhi is what the Chinese here call Dong Shutong.
Because his external identity is that of the general manager of Donghua Company.
Dong Shutong is very business savvy and has strong organizational skills.
He can be said to have played an indispensable role in the gradual growth of the Juning area.
After Donghua City was built, Li Daxin was transferred to the east.
He also went down to the plain again. After arriving on the plain, the climate became humid and hot.
The vegetation here is lush on the plains, which is somewhat similar to Nanyang where Fujian people often go.
At this time, Li Daxin became more convinced that the plateau they climbed over really looked like a wall. The east side of the wall was warm and humid, but the west side of the wall was dry and barren.