Wild North America 1846

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more than half a month later

The old battalion of Wu's team has moved here, and they are orderly reclaiming the land, cutting down trees and building new houses, and putting themselves into the fervent reclamation work.

When Wu Erbao first immigrated to Paradise Island, he participated in the initial colonization and development of the island. He has been in the road construction team, logging team, wasteland reclamation team, agricultural machinery team and housing construction team, and he is quite familiar with the process of colonization and reclamation.

According to the plan;

Due to its own limited conditions, it is impossible to carry out comprehensive construction.

In the initial stage, the fertile land along the river will be mainly reclaimed, farmland water conservancy facilities will be built, food will be grown, and cattle and sheep will be herded. Only when the self-sufficiency standard can be reached as soon as possible can it stand firm and build slowly.

So in the early days of starting a business, at least in the period of three to five years, the whole team will gather together to build towns, farms, sawmills and brick kilns, houses, temples and ancestral halls, and the next step is to build the following village groups. Small ranches and estates of various families.

Another factor is huddling together to keep warm.

The area of ​​Córdoba Province belongs to the central province of Argentina. It has penetrated into the Argentine white colonization area. First, it must prevent the Argentine whites from armed counterattacks, and second, it must prevent their own people from inserting a stick.

That is to say, this fertile land must be defended after it is occupied. The Imperial Expeditionary Force does not care about immigration and colonization, it has to rely on itself.

Port of Glory, south of Buenos Aires, is stationed with an organized cavalry regiment of the Expeditionary Army, with a total strength of more than 2300 people, but it has to manage a colonial area that is more than 1500 kilometers long from north to south. How can it be busy?
The main force of the expeditionary force is in the north, from Glory Port to Victory Port, Weiyuan Port, Crescent Port, Shuguang Port and Zhennan Port, a total of 6 ports will be built from north to south, and then to the south will reach the largest port in South America. The southern tip of Tierra del Fuego.

This distance is about 2300 kilometers, and there is only one cavalry division with about 1.39 people. The central part is completely empty. A cavalry regiment is stationed in Crescent Port, Shuguang Port and Zhennan Port respectively, about 350 to 440 kilometers apart.

Each regiment can send out cavalry for rotation and mopping up, and there is only one battalion of troops. Basically, the cavalry company is the main combat unit for the expedition. Each mission is carried out for one or two months, and the strength of the troops is a bit thin.

Fortunately, the expeditionary army has a great weapon of summoning. After discovering large and medium-sized Indian tribes, the expeditionary officer has the right to recruit armed militias to participate in the siege, give credit to the team, share the capture and other benefits, including the friendship of the expeditionary army.

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The friendship from the Expeditionary Army is the most precious, because the headquarters of the Expeditionary Army has land rights, boundary markers, head rewards, loan credit records, convenience of importing materials and other things that the militia desires, so no armed militia will refuse to recruit fight.

Even if it suffers a little, it is worthwhile as long as it wins the friendship of the expeditionary army.

All the boundary posts in Wujia Town have been laid down, and the hand-drawn map declaration has also been sent to Glory Port. As for when it will be approved, it is unknown?

The Glory Port military is only responsible for forwarding the application. Specifically, the officials stationed in the Glory Port Colonial Department will handle the land ownership certificate. This requires sending personnel to Wujia Town to conduct surveys in person. After the comparison with the map is correct, the final step of approval can be entered.

It is more than 1300 kilometers from Glory Port to Wujia Town. How many civilian armed groups have submitted applications along the way?
Even if we send people down to investigate one by one, it may take more than half a year to reach Wujia Town. The place is too big and there is really no way out.

After the approval is correct, the final hurdle is to pay the fee, and then you can get the land rights certificate, and you can be your own big manor owner in a safe and secure manner.

Generally speaking

As long as the land rights certificate is approved, a sum of money can be borrowed from the bank for the management of the manor or ranch, and the interest rate is about 6.8% to 8%.

Banks review interest rate fluctuations, mainly to consider whether the situation in the region is stable?Are there wandering Indian tribes?Was there a territorial dispute with the white colonists?

Interest rates are lower in areas with good security conditions, and higher in areas prone to conflict.

This bank loan is very important for colonization and construction. With it, you can buy sawing equipment, agricultural machinery, cloth, cement, nails, various steel tools, salt seasoning, rifle ammunition, needles, threads, etc. A series of things , which are all industrial products needed in daily life.

As long as it doesn't invade the territory of Buenos Aires Province and cause unnecessary trouble, basically there is no problem with the approval of the land rights certificate.

According to the relevant preferential policies for colonization in South America;

These newly colonized lands are tax-free for six years, and the tax is halved for four years, a total of ten years of preferential tax periods.

It has been a year and a half now, and in the remaining time, Wu Erbao has the confidence to build Wujia Town into a thriving new colonial town, provided that the place can be defended.

Even if you are both armed with the Chinese People's League, you must be wary of the other party's evil intentions.

With such a large territory in Wujia Town and so many armed militias grouped together, other Chinese armed groups are weaker, and they will also murmur in their hearts.

The Tang Empire pursued a wolf-like culture, which was unleashed on the pampas prairie in South America. There were frequent incidents of bullying the weak, and there were even vicious incidents of annihilation of small armed groups. Not unusual.

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A tall wooden fence gate was erected, and here is the large open plain in the east, where the Yiba River turned a bend and flowed eastward, so this place was named "Big Bend", the alluvial plain for thousands of years Form an extremely fertile black soil.

The wooden fence gate was erected about seven or eight kilometers east of the big bend, and extended to both sides for a dozen meters, and the remaining vast plain was buried with boundary pillars every other section to form a boundary line.

If there are conditions in the future

You can dig out ridges or pull barbed wire, or even build a road to distinguish them. At least it will save a lot of effort when patrolling.

The words "Wujia Town" are written on the wooden fence gate. There are about 30 kilometers from here to the town. More than 300 Indian coolies are building a stone fortress here. The fortress is more than 40 meters wide and 72 meters long. It is planned to build a 3.2-meter-high building, and set up a beacon in it for warning.

This fortress is called "Big Bend Fort". After it is completed, 45 to 50 cavalry can be stationed. When defending, they will guard against the wall. They can patrol the 47-kilometer-long large open border between the two mountains on a daily basis, combining peacetime and wartime.

Going in from the boundary is the big belly terrain, with vast plains and dense rivers and forests densely covered with fertile land and lush vegetation. It belongs to the designated Wujia Town and is also a private sacred and inviolable property.

Due to the importance of Great Bend Fort, Wu Erbao led more than 110 armed militiamen and more than 300 Indian coolies, and was busy building a solid stone fort day and night. At this time, Ferguson led several patrol cavalry back at high speed, which caught his attention.

"Report sir, there is a group of unknown armed forces approaching us. They have crossed the mountain range in the southwest and shot at us." Ferguson was one of a dozen white Germans picked up by Wu Erbao at the pier in New York Harbor.

Over the past year, he has grown rapidly and become his right-hand man.

"How many people are here?"

"We saw no less than nearly 300 riders. After they shot and chased them, I withdrew them back with my men. I don't know how many more there are?"

"How far is it?"

"About thirteen or fourteen kilometers, it should be closer now."

After hearing this, Wu Erbao's face darkened, and he immediately ordered: "Assemble all, prepare for battle, and light the beacon for warning. Ah Bao led 40 people to stand firm in the fortress as a fire support point."

The warning gong sounded quickly, and the busy Chinese armed militia quickly dropped their work and quickly picked up their rifles and gathered together.

Some people followed Wu Abao into the half-built fortress in an orderly manner. At this time, the stone wall had been built up to the neck and had basic defensive functions.

As long as you stand on the back pad mound, you can shoot outwards, providing reliable fire protection.

Another part of the cavalry gathered, Wu Erbao didn't say much, but gave the order with a serious face; "Check the weapons and equipment, load the bullets, and prepare for battle. Take the time to feed the horses some concentrates, Ah Hu brings 10 Echizen reconnaissance, and see How many troops does the opponent have?? What is the origin?"

"Of order, sir." Wu Ah Hu replied with a serious expression.

Wu Ahu quickly selected 10 cavalrymen, formed three cavalry squads from the left, middle and right, and galloped towards the southwest direction. They were already familiar with executing similar orders.

The beacon tower was lit, covered with a large amount of damp licorice, and after a while, thick smoke billowed into the sky, conspicuous on the clear plain.

after half an hour
Wu Ahu galloped back with two cavalrymen at high speed, and brought a piece of news that made Wu Erbao dumbfounded; those who came were the team of the eighth cavalry company of the third battalion of Glory Port, and three civilian armed teams expanding to the north.

Because they saw Ferguson and others were white through the binoculars, they thought they were Argentines, so they shot and chased them for a while.

Unexpectedly, Ferguson was also quite a thief, and he didn't approach at all. He found that the cavalry who had outflanked him from the side and back immediately ran away with oil on their feet, and ended up having a big oolong.

"Understood, continue to monitor." Wu Erbao is a cautious person, and he will not let down his vigilance until he fully understands the other party's intentions.

not for a while
A large number of armed cavalry appeared on the grassy slope in the distance, densely covering the hillside, which made the atmosphere tense immediately, and many people couldn't help but clenched their weapons tightly.

Fortunately, after the beacon warning signal was sent out, many armed cavalry came in groups of thirty or fifty from Wujia Town to support them, which made the armed cavalry on Wujia Town's side grow rapidly, and they also gained some confidence.

Wu Erbao raised the copper binoculars in his hand to observe carefully for a moment, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said; "It seems that it was a false alarm, it is the brothers of the expeditionary army."