This is Changhua Fort. Since the first voyage around the island, Changhua, as the first foreign fortress, has been expanded several times. It has expanded from a simple fortified bunker to a small coastal ridge.
Under the fluttering morning star, a 24-pound naval cannon on the fort controls Sanjia Port, the maritime gateway of Changhua.
Less than one kilometer away from the fortress, on the coastal wasteland near the Changhua River, a large wasteland was fenced off with wooden fences and thorny fast-growing plants, and rows of livestock sheds were built. This place is Changhua
Pasture - the main source of livestock and carnivorous livestock currently used in Lingao.
The Agricultural Committee raises a large number of the famous Changhua sheep on the seaside pasture here. The cattle are supplied by local people. Wu Nanhai and Yang Guogui have visited Changhua Pasture many times to inspect and guide the work, and continue to expand the scale of the breeding industry.
In particular, Yang Guoguo used Changhua sheep as the female parent and used frozen sperm to breed high-quality sheep. The Agricultural Committee also sows a large number of high-quality pastures that are suitable for the local soil and climate here.
Thanks to the efforts of the Agricultural Committee, Changhua now has a large number of live sheep and cattle shipped to Lingao every month.
Outside Changhua Ranch, a small regular market has been formed. People come here on the first and fifteenth day of every month to trade various local products: cattle, cotton cloth, venison and deer skin, kapok and saponaria beans are exchanged for salt, small hardware,
Sugar and various daily groceries. At other times, Changhua Fort also dispatched mobile trading caravans to conduct trade deep into the interior of Changhua.
The large amount of groceries shipped from Lingao stimulated the people's consumption** - compared with the past when there was only one basket on the back, what was sold was just some salt and hardware, and the prices were like those of traders who bought and sold dead people. The Australians provided
The products have a wide variety of products, are of high quality and much cheaper.
Although the people of Li do not store gold and silver, there are many local products in the mountains. As long as they put in the effort, there are local products everywhere that Australians are willing to exchange. If the Planning Institute had not been unwilling, they would have made the deer of all sizes in Changhua extinct and limited the number of purchases per month.
, the people probably killed all the local deer long ago.
Such a deal certainly destroyed the livelihood of some local people, but the construction and operation of Changhua Fort required a lot of manpower, and these unemployed people were quickly hired by Changhua Fort. Although some people were resentful, no one had the courage to go
Provoke "thieves" who are armed with live ammunition and cannons.
In addition to bartering with the people, Li Haiping also followed the instructions of the industrial department and hired a large number of local migrant workers to mine quartz sand to supply the glass industry in Lingao.
As Changhua Fort hired more and more people, Commander Li Haiping selected some young men from the hired people to form a "group training" of fifty people, equipped with machetes and standard spears, to defend the pasture.
of safety.
As for the local government, they turned a blind eye to every move of the Kun thieves - of course, even if they wanted to make a difference, they could not do anything. In Changhua, the Ming Dynasty's presence was quite weak.
This peaceful situation lasted until the Summer Awakening Campaign: a naval company and three 12-pound mountain howitzers landed at Sanjiagang, and then quickly drove to Changhua under the leadership of the "leading party" organized by Changhua Fort - Changhua Fort Regiment Training
At the foot of the county seat, Dian Shi, the acting county government official, did not hesitate to surrender to Kaicheng. As for Qianhusuo outside the city, although the strong men of the military households were once concentrated to prepare for the war, when the navy launched the cannon, they just fired a cannon to defend the city.
The soldiers of the station fled in all directions. Li Haiping commanded the marines to charge and captured the Qianhu Station. All the remaining people were captured without any help, and there were zero casualties on both sides.
The Han population in Changhua is very small. Except for a few officers and landlords in Qianhusuo, there is no power that can be called gentry. Because there are few villages and many Li districts, ordinary bandits have no room to move around. During the Qiongbei Public Security War, there was always
It was very peaceful and there was no armed conflict. It was a typical example of a peaceful takeover.
Despite occupying the county seat, the local governing body of the Senate has never entered Changhua County. The original Changhua classics of "Nursing the Changhua County Seal" are still in the dilapidated county government office. It is not that they deliberately maintain the Ming Dynasty.
As a matter of fact, there are really no buildings that the elders value in the entire Changhua County. Instead of staying in the county with no infrastructure, it would be better to stay in Changhua Fort, which has a much better environment.
A few months ago, a joint working group sent by Lingao went to Changhua to conduct a comprehensive census. They registered household registrations, surveyed the terrain and towns, and drew up a land inventory. At least a number of people were arrested and several people were killed.
Take all the local land, population and resources into your hands.
After some "purges", the Senate became the master of the entire Changhua County. More than 600 registered households and the same number of hidden households all came under the rule of the Senate and became a labor force that could be driven at any time.
Changhua has a small population and almost no economy. Although it is rich in natural resources, it is unable to develop it at the moment. There are not many military affairs and no civil affairs to manage, so the person sent to preside over the county administration and also serve as the commander of Changhua Fort is Kong Lingyang, not Kong Lingyang
He was an officer of the Fubo Army, but an authentic agricultural technician working in the Agricultural Committee. His appointment as the commander of Changhua Fort illustrates the Senate's positioning of this place.
Kong Lingyang is a "general" in the livestock department of the Committee of Agriculture. He and Yang Baogui are half the same. They both started out as veterinarians and later worked at a breeding station. Although he is very capable in terms of academic qualifications and work experience.
, he also brought a full set of professional tools from the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station and various breeding eggs and semen of improved breeds to the Chuanchuan Group. However, after the D-Day, he has been assisting Yang Guibao in animal husbandry work in the Committee of Agriculture in a low-key manner for a long time, unwilling to show off.
Because he is too "professional" to avoid being fixed in the role of "technical staff". Based on his personal experience in the old time and space, being a "technical staff" is far faster than being an "administrative staff".
Yang Guogui is now famous in the Senate. Every time the Executive Committee holds an enlarged meeting on agricultural issues, he has to attend. It is indeed very prestigious, but in the end he will define himself as the "chief veterinarian" -
Kong Lingyang's ambition was not in this.
A few months ago, he was dispatched to Changhua as director of the County Office and commander of Changhua Fort, which made him feel that he had finally taken a solid first step in his official career. Although this appointment was mainly due to his professional skills
——The Planning Institute is currently unable to carry out in-depth development of Changhua, and its positioning of the local area is mainly agriculture and animal husbandry, supplemented by a small amount of natural resource collection.
In this way, when choosing the director of the county office in Changhua, Kong Lingyang, who signed up on his own initiative, had skills in agriculture and animal husbandry, and was not a key figure in the Agricultural Committee and the Tiandi Society, became the most suitable candidate, not to mention his
After all, I have been a civil servant and have some understanding of administrative operations.
The status of Changhua is certainly not as good as that of the large county in Qiongbei managed by Liu Xiang and others, but at least there are about a thousand households in the county, with a population of less than 10,000, a reinforced platoon of marines and a newly formed
National Army County Guard Company - the original Changhua Fort Regiment Training. Although it is known as a company, it currently only has more than fifty people and needs to be further adjusted and enriched.
Most of the members of the National Army garrison companies formed in each county are recruited locally and are currently only for emergency needs. Once the situation in each county stabilizes and a large number of immigrants arrive, the Training Directorate will adjust and adjust all the National Army county garrison companies.
Rotation training. According to the plan, some people in each company will serve locally and some will serve in other places.
At this time, a small banquet was being held in the top hall of the main tower in the bastion to welcome Major Wei Aiwen, Mu Min and Fang Jinghan from the Political Office of the General Staff who had just arrived by boat.
On the table, there are more than a dozen steaming dishes, all provided by local vegetable gardens, livestock pens and fishing boats. The most eye-catching one is a large plate of grilled lamb kebabs, sprinkled with sesame seeds, cumin and chili peppers, and grilled to a fragrant aroma.
.Although eating this dish in the hot summer weather in Changhua is a bit hard to swallow, for the elders who are seriously short of meat and consume a lot of meat, the climate will not affect their appetite.
There is no refrigeration equipment or ice in the house, but it is close to the seaside and is on the third floor. The windows are open and the sea breeze is refreshing. Together with a large number of refreshing drinks chilled in the well, several people are sweating hot after eating.
, shout happily
Except for Mu Min who ate less, Wei Aiwen and others ate haise, and soon the table was filled with bamboo sticks for skewering meat and many bottles of kvass, rice and beer.
Kong Lingyang doesn't eat much food - the food supply here is abundant, and he is one of the few veterans who can eat meat every day. Kong Lingyang is a fat man wearing square glasses, wearing a cotton summer training uniform made by Lingao, while wiping sweat with a towel
, while greeting everyone to eat and drink.
"Lao Kong, the conditions here are really good." Wei Aiwen finally finished eating. He sighed in admiration while picking his teeth.
"It's not the Senate there, the leadership of the Executive Committee is good..." Kong Lingyang avoided mentioning the names of General Wen and the Governor to avoid being too personal. Be careful not to take sides at will before the situation is clear. This is what Kong Lingyang has been a civil servant for more than five years.
One of the lessons life brings.
"Don't be so vain." Wei Aiwen chuckled, "The one who is closer to the water gets the better. We are not unreasonable people." He burped and asked the others: "Let's talk about work next.
Something?"
Mu Min nodded: "I'm full too, and it's time to talk."
Fang Jinghan and others naturally had no objections - everyone was eating to the point of being exhausted.
Kong Lingyang nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay." The caregiver cleared away the leftovers on the table and prepared tea and paper and stationery. He guessed that the "people from the central government" who suddenly arrived this time were probably related to the local Li affairs.