Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1545 Shandong Earthquake ([-])

In April 1669, it was the season of warm spring and melting ice and snow along the Yalu River.

Captain Liao Degong hurried from Changdian Township (belonging to Kuandian County) to Kuandian County, which has just received a lot of immigrants and is busy with preparations for spring plowing. Zhong is still here, intending to see the situation here.

Kuandian County just received more than 120 immigrants.It is worth mentioning that, apart from some of these immigrants were victims from the four prefectures of Shanxi Province, there were also more than [-] immigrants from the southern Ningbo prefecture.This may sound unbelievable, but if you think about it carefully, it’s actually quite normal. It’s just that the population density of Ningbo is a bit high now. According to estimates, the total number is no less than one million (optimists even speculate that there may be [-] million. ), had to export the population outward.

A population of more than one million is crowded within the ten counties of Ningbo Prefecture (including Linhai, Ninghai, Tiantai, the northern half of Taizhou Prefecture occupied by people from the east coast, and Zhoushan County, which was converted from the Zhoushan Islands). It is indeed a bit dense, especially Except for the Ningshao Plain, the southern half of the area is mostly mountainous. Although it is conducive to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea, the grain output is insufficient after all, and it has to import a large amount of Nanyang rice from the Dutch East India Company every year to survive.

Economic prosperity, sufficient food, and the development of relatively good hygienic habits have led to the rapid growth of the population of Ningbo Prefecture. Shandong and Heishui once became Ningbo's food, meat and fish source bases, exhausted every day. It can supply the growing demand of Ningbo.

Such an economic model was working pretty well, but it was a pity that it was broken by successive years of disasters: Shandong floods, droughts, locust earthquakes and four disasters occurred frequently, and a large number of refugees flooded into Denglai (Liang Xiangjian also carried out a certain degree of expansion), leading to a complete lack of food in Denglai, and the people are facing the threat of starvation and death.Faced with such a situation, the Ningbo government was also forced to destroy mulberry and replace it with grain. A large number of farmlands were replanted with grain to reduce their own consumption. Even some tea gardens were planted with beans, sweet potatoes and other miscellaneous grains to replenish their stocks so that they could be imported from Nanyang. More rice can be transported to Shandong*dong for emergency relief, which undoubtedly contributed to the transformation of the economic model of Ningbo Prefecture-the grain planting industry does not require much labor (compared to the raw silk industry), and because The sharp drop in foreign trade has led to a decline in commerce, and a large reduction in the number of employed people. As a result, a lot of urban poor without food and clothing have popped up in the once prosperous Dinghai Port overnight. They have lost their jobs, but they still have wives and children at home. Waiting for food has almost become a social problem in Ningbo Prefecture.

Under such circumstances, expanding outward and exporting immigrants has become an inevitable choice, otherwise troubles are likely to occur.After repeated negotiations, the two pioneering teams of the South and Denglai have preliminarily determined that the land of Liaodong on the right bank of the Yalu River will be the destination for the first batch of Ningbo immigrants.More precisely, Dandong and Kuandian counties, which are currently under the jurisdiction of the Denglai Pioneering Team and are sparsely populated, will become the first batch of places to receive immigrants from Ningbo.

Considering that the cost of reclaiming wasteland in the Liaodong area, where the security situation is complex, is bound to be high, the reception of immigrants is not free.In fact, according to the regulations, every immigrant from Ningbo must pay up to seven yuan per mu of wasteland, otherwise he can only rent the wasteland of state-owned farms on the land of Liaodong.In the same way, it is impossible for the disaster victims in Dandong and Kuandian counties to get the land that has been distributed to them free of charge. They also need to pay ten yuan per mu for their own land, and There is no right to choose whether to rent or not, and the required funds will be deducted from their future land income and interest will be calculated.

Such conditions can't be said to be very generous, but they are definitely not harsh.Naturally, the disaster victims in Xisifu had no choice but to accept the government's arrangements honestly, while the immigrants in Ningbo Prefecture were forced by the withered economic situation, in fact, they didn't have much choice, they could only come up with their own The only savings—some people even need to borrow from relatives and friends—paid the land purchase fee to the Denglai Pioneering Team in one lump sum (starting at five acres, capped at [-] acres), and then brought their own luggage and family , sadly left Ningbo, where he had lived since childhood, and embarked on the road of making a living at sea.

After decades of hiatus at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the immigration of the Chinese—or descendants of the Yellow Emperor—in Northeast China slowly reopened.Unlike the immigrants from Shan*dong and Hebei at the end of the Qing Dynasty, this time it was mainly immigrants from the four prefectures of Shan*dongxi and Ningbo in the south; the immigrants who would cross the Guandong at the end of the Qing Dynasty first went to western Liaoning, then eastern Liaoning, and finally to northern Manchuria. Filling up the blank black land, and there is more or less a kind of immigration competition with the Russians and Japanese (of course, this kind of competition that started around 1904 ended with a complete victory for the Chinese, because after more than 20 years The Chinese already have 3000 million people, while the Japanese are only a few hundred thousand, and the Russians are no more than 100 million at most), this time it is Liaodong first, then Liaoxi, and the outer northeast and northern Manchuria have already had Pretty basic, barely any competition.

After all, the vast and fertile land of the three provinces in the Northeast fell into the hands of the descendants of Yan and Huang (this time there was an extra Northeast), the difference was only which regime led the action.

"Immigration and resettlement work must be done well, otherwise everyone will be worried all day long, how can they care about planting land and reclaiming wasteland?" Captain Liao Degong patted a wooden pillar full of bullet holes on the ground with his heart full of thoughts, and said: " Dandong County’s land reclamation harvest last year can only be said to be so-so, and it can’t even cover the food consumption of tens of thousands of land reclamation immigrants, so the North Koreans had to send a batch of food urgently to close the gap. How can this work?”

Speaking of this, Liao Degong became a little angry. He turned around and looked at the distant horizon, and said: "The reason is that the Tartars harassed us too 'powerfully', which greatly affected us. food production! Not to mention the fact that many migrants scattered away, many wheat fields that were about to be harvested were also set on fire and destroyed, which is really unreasonable! This year, there are more immigrants than last year. Dandong and Kuandian counties resettled Shan* things The number of disaster victims in the four prefectures has exceeded [-], and with the addition of thousands of immigrants from Ningbo Prefecture who have successively purchased land, the number will exceed [-] in an instant. With such a population size, I don’t want to see the endless stream of people like last year. The so-called law and order incident! The harassment of the Qing army must be contained, and you must find a way for me!"

Hearing what Liao Degong said, everyone could only look at each other.To be honest, they have done well enough in Liaodong. In such a difficult situation last year, after the elite [-]th mixed battalion and most of the cavalry withdrew to Shandong*dong for garrison, they only relied on a stand-up infantry brigade and half a cavalry brigade , The more than [-] soldiers of the Heilongjiang Security Regiment seconded from the Amur River basically maintained the overall situation of reclamation in Dandong County, preventing it from being overly damaged by the Qing army's rangers. Later, it even opened up Kuandian County. The two reclamation sub-bases can be said to have contributed a lot.

As for the total casualties of no more than a few thousand people (mostly victims of land reclamation), as well as losses in seeds, agricultural tools, livestock, and supplies, it is really good under such a large scale of land reclamation, but the requirements for going up to the peak are too high , Too high!

But what if the requirements are high? Now everyone is rumoring that Liao Degong will officially take up the post of commander of the Liaodong Theater under the Denglai Pioneering Team, and his position will also be officially promoted to major. His future prospects are limitless.This kind of person can't leave a bad impression in his mind no matter what, because he can climb up to a high-level position in the army system because he can't keep it in the future. Wouldn't he die ugly if he offended?

"Sir, to deal with the Qing army's raids, harassment, burning and killing activities, it is necessary to cut off the source of supplies for the guerrilla cavalry. In this way, the attack on Phoenix City and other Qing army strongholds that are close at hand must be put on the agenda." A Chinese The lieutenant officer who had died at the age of one year stepped forward and said: "According to the information of the gendarmerie, in the second half of last year, no less than 5000 Green Battalion soldiers came from Shenyang and stationed in and around Phoenix City. The main military force in Phoenix City. The [-] troops may not be enough to go in, but they are more than enough to defend, especially the green battalion of the [-] Han army. The firepower is also quite fierce. The tentative attack launched by the [-]th Division of the Shandong New Army failed because it underestimated the opponent's firepower. Therefore, if you want to pull out Phoenix City, you must mobilize a large army to attack. The mixed battalion must be present, otherwise there may be another bad battle."

Conquering Phoenix City and opening up the activity space in Liaodong is the established plan of Liao Degong and others, but it was originally planned to be implemented after several years.But now it seems that the Qing army's harassment of the Liaodong Land Reclamation Group is very crazy, and it has reached the point where it will spare no cost, causing a lot of trouble for the people on the east bank.Therefore, it is becoming more and more urgent to pull out the sharp knife that is stuck in the soft belly of Phoenix City at the right time. However, as the lieutenant's subordinate just said, this requires the mobilization of the seventh mixed battalion, the cavalry regiment, the main force of the stand-up team, etc. Otherwise, it may not be possible to defeat the Qing army, which is becoming more and more powerful and innovative in tactics, but this is not his Liao Degong's decision. It depends on his family who is the captain of the Denglai pioneering team.

And once the front-line strongholds such as Phoenix City are conquered, and the immigrants and land reclamation in Liaodong gain a firm foothold, then the next step is to slowly infiltrate to the west of Liaoning, and at that time, the North Manchurian side will gradually move south to colonize, and jointly squeeze the Qing army in the Northeast. .This time node is about 15 years later, that is, when the Junggar moved eastward in history and caused great trouble to the Manchu Qing. Of course, it may be earlier in this time and space.

The eastward advance of the Junggar is definitely a major event in Chinese history, and the people on the east coast are aware of this historical fact no matter how poor their historical knowledge is.In fact, Galdan was very persistent in unifying Mongolia and looking into the land of Han. It can be said that he was the life and death enemy of the Manchu and Qing courts who regarded Mongolia as the foundation of their rule. It will also consume a great deal of national power of the Qing Dynasty—you must know that Junggar, the Mongolian regime that believes in Lamaism, is not a soft persimmon. It is a great nomadic empire that spans Mongolia, the Western Regions, Qinghai-Tibet, and Central Asia, and its combat effectiveness is still very strong—— This is the opportunity for the people of the East Bank, that is, when the Manchus and the Junggars were fighting life and death and had no time to care about others, the people of the East Bank could siege land in Liaodong and occupy as much territory as possible at lightning speed.At this time, the foundation laid by the land reclamation in Liaodong more than ten years ago has become the material source to support such large-scale actions of the people on the east coast. One day's clock counts wherever it hits, although this plan is only spread by word of mouth among Liang Xiangjian, Liao Xiaoyao, Jiang Zhiqing, Wei Boqiu and other high-ranking officials who traveled through time.

Simultaneously with the Liaodong plan, there are actually several military defense lines based on some rivers flowing from north to south in Laizhou. This plan is already being implemented. The river is one of the steps. In the future, there may be a series of forts and forts to build a steel defense line there to resist the possible attacks of the regime that unified the Chinese mainland.

This is not unfounded worry. Judging from the current situation on the mainland, as the pace of military modernization of the various regimes begins to start, if the East Bank does not increase its troops in the Far East in the future (such as dispatching at least six or more troops equipped with Miniguns and The main mixed battalion with a large number of artillery) will lose control of the situation on the mainland more and more. If a certain warlord finally emerges to unify the mainland, then it is necessary to discuss the core issue of Ningbo and Denglai with the East Bank. Bloody battles are unavoidable, so it is necessary to prepare in advance-faced with the founding army, which may number as many as hundreds of thousands, unless the people on the east coast also carry out comprehensive military mobilization in South America, and the nearest North Korea, Otherwise, it will be difficult to confront the Chinese for a long time if Heishui establishes a military production base, because the economic burden is too great!

"It is not feasible to mobilize the army to attack Phoenix City in the short term. We have expanded a lot of territory in Laizhou this year. The Seventh Mixed Battalion, the various brigades of the Standing Squad, and the Cavalry Wing have important tasks to defend. We can't be separated for a while. The safety of the land reclamation in Liaodong depends more on ourselves, alas!" Speaking of this, Liao Degong regretted that there were too few troops at hand.He always felt that now that the strength of the Shun Army, Qing Army and even the Ming Army had increased, it was time for the people on the East Bank to properly strengthen the combat power of the various troops at hand, otherwise, they might not be able to do what they wanted in the future!

I finally rushed out a chapter before 24 o'clock. I only slept for 4 hours last night. After another busy day during the day, my legs were shaking when I walked.Not to mention, continue to stay in the hospital today and leave.

(End of this chapter)