Chapter 211 Sweeping the South Seas: The Weakness of the King of Vietnam
For most immigrants in Xujiazhuang, the threat from indigenous tribes is just a minor episode.
The most important tasks include reclaiming land, logging and building houses, digging kilns and burning bricks, transporting materials, etc. On average, we have to work 12 hours a day.
Not long after arriving on the island, he planted his first vegetable plot and his first acre of sugar cane.
In addition, in order to speed up the efficiency of development, they also actively issued invitations and invitations to merge the existing Han villages on the island, which were mainly developed by Fujian immigrants, into the sugar cane manor. In the future, they will be treated equally and given the same treatment as villagers.
In response to this kind of wooing, some Fujian immigrants were tempted and had the idea of joining, but most of them were resistant and opposed. After all, they had worked hard for so many years to open up wasteland and turn raw land into mature land, and they had these hard-earned resources.
As a result, as soon as the immigrants from Xujiazhuang came over, they wanted to pick their peaches. Isn’t this too beautiful?
At this time, the Xujiazhuang technical assistance team brought ten tractors in parts. After reassembling them, they installed the plows, poured biodiesel into the fuel tanks, and then started the work of clearing up land.
At work.
Compared with the slow manual reclamation, each of these tractors can open more than 200 acres of land per day, and ten tractors can open more than 2,000 acres. Coupled with a large amount of manpower assistance, it can be completed in half a month at most.
More than 30,000 acres of land were opened to meet the needs of a sugar cane estate.
The efficiency is many times that of human power, and livestock such as cattle and horses are far behind.
besides.
The immigrants in Xujiazhuang were not afraid of the mosquitoes on the island. Even if some people got cold and fever (i.e. malaria) not long after arriving on the island, they recovered quickly after taking the magic medicine called artemisinin. Xujiazhuang
The medical team even helped cure many Fujian immigrants who had extremely serious cold and fever illnesses, saving them from certain death.
There are many other difficult and complicated diseases that doctors on the medical team can also deal with, and most of them can be effective.
Moreover, as foreign immigrants, the Xujiazhuang immigrants have much better food, clothing, and tools than the Fujian immigrants who have already taken root. You must know that this is the most difficult stage for newcomers.
, after their sugar cane is planted, the sugar factory is up and running, and it begins to generate economic benefits, what kind of good life will they live?
In addition, they also see how powerful the Innocence Army is. The indigenous tribes on those mountains are no match for them. If they can't kill even one of the Innocence Army soldiers, they will end up with the entire clan being destroyed. And the Innocence Army will not
After disbanding, they can assemble and attack at any time. The business model of collective estates is much better than villages fighting alone.
That is, as long as you join the Sugar Cane Manor.
With the help of agricultural machinery such as tractors, production efficiency will be greatly improved.
Living standards will be greatly improved.
Safety will also be greatly improved. You don't have to worry about your head being damaged at all, and you can farm and live in peace forever.
With so many advantages in front of them, the Fujian immigrants certainly know how to make a wise choice, and if they don't join now, they will have no chance to join in the future. It's useless to regret and plead. After passing this village, there will be no store - that is, sugar cane.
The estate will not beg them to join.
In short, after all this wooing and persuasion, in the central plain area of Taiwan, except for a few villages that were won over by the Zheng family from Fujian, more than 80% of the Han villages were merged into sugar cane manors, saving a lot of reclamation work.
volume, significantly speeding up development progress.
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the other side.
The immigration fleet staying at the seaside never stopped its transportation work.
On November 11, after all the supplies on the shipping cargo ship were unloaded, the immigration fleet immediately set off and returned to the Harbor City at full speed.
On the 15th, a second batch of 250,000 immigrants, young and old, and nearly 30,000 tons of various materials were sent to the "Sugar Port". It took two days to complete the unloading of people and goods.
At this point, the task of colonizing Taiwan has been basically completed.
Then from November 18th to early December, Xujiazhuang’s colonization destination was mainly on Hainan Island.
Hainan Island has a hotter climate and more plain areas, especially in the north and south of Hainan Island. There are more than 3 million acres of rice fields that can be cultivated. In the central hilly area, there are also a large number of forest resources, including high-value yellow rosewood.
More than two years ago, Xu Yuan sent more than 3,000 people to set up a logging field. More than 80,000 cubic meters of huanghuali wood have been cut down. But according to this trend, it will take another ten years at most to cut down the trees on the island.
The huanghuali wood resources will be basically exhausted. Even if the loggers plant a lot of huanghuali saplings, it will take at least fifty years before they can become useful.
It just so happens that in modern society, there is a businessman named Hu who contracted and planted 100,000 acres of yellow rosewood. It will become useful in a few years. Xu Yuan will try to spend several billions to see if he can make use of these 100,000 acres.
They bought all the huanghuali trees to make up for the shortage of wood, and then sought to continue to monopolize the seller's market of huanghuali furniture. After all, 99.9% of things can be done with money. If it doesn't work, just add more money.
Off topic.
There is no problem in building fifty rice estates in the plain areas of Hainan Island, because there is a lot of vacant land on the island.
The population of the island is around one million, which is not very rare. The Han people account for about 60%, and the Li, Miao, Zhuang and other ethnic minorities account for about 40%. This has created a situation where Han and Yi people live together, and intermarriage often occurs, which has formed a
With a deeper integration and submission to the management of the Han government, it can be considered half-baked.
Only some Li tribes in the mountains disobey the government and often break out in rebellion.
Therefore, after the immigration fleet from Xujiazhuang arrived and more than 200,000 young immigrants landed on the island, the process of building rice plantations not only received strong support from the local government, but also merged many local villages, and the officers and soldiers of the local Qianhu Station
With the assistance of the police, Sun Chuanting led an innocent army of 50,000 people (this was the second batch of the innocent army) to launch an attack on the most powerful Li tribes in the mountains. In just five days, they
Very significant results were achieved.
Four Li tribes were wiped out and more than 27,000 young, old, women and children were captured.
The Li rebellion, which could not be brought down for at least hundreds of years, can be suppressed for at least fifty years after this attack.
The innocent army's casualties were less than a hundred.
But as the coach, Sun Chuanting still doesn't have much sense of accomplishment. He doesn't think it's anything great, it's like a trivial matter.
His attention was focused on the Hou Le Dynasty in Vietnam, and he began to brew a bigger plan.
Not only must we achieve the goal of establishing at least 30 grain estates in the Red River Plain, we must also deal a harsh blow to the Hou Li Dynasty, so that it will no longer pose a threat and have to admit the existence of grain estates.
, dare not take any hostile or destructive actions.
The reason is very simple. The Later Li Dynasty was a feudal state power.
Even though the current king Li Weiqi is a puppet, the domestic affairs and power are in the hands of the powerful minister Zheng Jie and another feudal official Ruan Fuyuan, forming a confrontation between the north and the south. The situation of Zheng and Ruan's dispute can be said to have no real power at all.
Not only that, in the north of Vietnam, there is also a small Mo Chao regime occupying the Cao Bang area, and a Long Binh Chao occupying the Tuyuan Quang area.
Forming a kingdom with an area of only a few hundred thousand square kilometers, there are four independent powers of Mo, Zheng, Ruan and Longping.
It can be described as a loose sand, which is a period of opportunity for external forces to take advantage of.
Even so, one should not underestimate this kingdom too much.
Its total population is approximately 10 million.
The number of troops exceeds 100,000.
Deeply influenced and influenced by Confucian culture.
The people have a tenacious character and will not compromise easily. They have a strong sense of independence and cannot accept the rule of external forces.
So Sun Chuanting had the idea of supporting a puppet and using the king to control Vietnam.
He asked people to call Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhibao from the Zheng Group (the Zheng family fleet had already dispatched and arrived at Hainan Island, but Zheng Zhilong did not come in person), and held a meeting to discuss how to colonize Vietnam and establish security
And long-term stable development mechanism to reduce consumption and losses.
Sun Chuanting said to them: "Two generals, I have asked people to inquire and find out that the current Vietnamese King Le is just a puppet with no real power. He is bullied by the powerful minister Zheng every day. There are many conflicts between the two sides. I am already worried.
If there is dissatisfaction, we can take advantage of this and send a special operations army of 5,000 people to attack Thang Long City, break into the palace, rescue King Li Weiqi, and then make a deal with him to cooperate with us. We will send troops to help him defeat the powerful minister Zheng.
, to regain real power, in return, he will permanently cede a piece of land to us, allowing us to build fifty grain estates, of which thirty will belong to the Xujiazhuang and twenty to the Zheng family. The total occupied land is about 1.5 million acres.
, less than one percent of Vietnam’s land, the loss is minimal, but it can be exchanged for real power. I believe Li will agree to such a transaction."
"Well, Sun Shuai, Vietnam has always been capricious. What if King Le turns his back on us after getting real power and attacks us instead?" Zheng Hongkui asked.
"Then support the powerful Zheng family, or the Ruan family in the south, and join forces with them to seize the real power of King Li and continue to become a puppet, or capture the king into our manor and control it directly, which will not only protect us
If our interests remain unchanged, we can still control the entire Vietnamese government with the help of King Le, forming a situation where we control the country of Vietnam with grain estates. Those who obey will be rewarded, and those who rebel will be punished. I believe there are 50,000 people.
The Zheng Family Army of the Innocence Army is in Vietnam, and they should not be able to escape our control."
That is to say, there are fifty grain estates in total, which not only complete the task of growing food, but also act like a controller, controlling a kingdom.
"Then give it a try. If it works, maybe it can be promoted in Nanyang." Zheng Hongkui thought for a while and expressed his support.
"I don't understand much about this. Sun Shuai, just do whatever you say." Zheng Zhibao had no objection.
"Okay! Since the Zheng family supports it, the strategy of using manors to control a small country will definitely succeed!"
Sun Chuanting nodded excitedly, and immediately began to formulate a special action plan, and planned to dispatch the most elite Xu Jiajun Marine Corps. This chapter has been completed!