Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1595: New Atmosphere of the Amur River ([-])

In late March, the Outer Northeast is still a frozen world. Liu Jianguo, the former South Chile Regional Commissioner who has recently assumed the post of acting captain of the Heishui Pioneering Team and commander of the Heilongjiang Theater, is riding a horse all the way under the escort of some officers and soldiers of the Third Infantry Regiment of the New Army. Going west, inspecting the situation in various places.

The area where he is now is almost out of Udi County - a newly established county, under the jurisdiction of Udi Town, Duki Township (located in the Russian town of Duki in later generations, on the banks of the Amgon River), Tugu Township (in later generations In the small village of Tugul along the Gulf of Udi), there are about 8000 to [-] people including immigrants and naturalized aborigines (estimated), but there are only about [-] people living in the city and the suburbs (this is the people from the east coast) Can be actually controlled)——so it was inconvenient for a group of officials in the county to send them off again, so after a confession, they all turned around and returned to the county.They also have a lot of things to do in the future, the most important of which is probably to continue to drill the valleys, promote the various benefits of the Great East Bank, continue to naturalize the natives, and strengthen their own strength. Those Oroqen who currently live in towns and suburbs Humans, Kiryaks, etc., were naturalized by such means.

There is still some snow on the ground, the temperature is still hovering below zero, and the black water horse under the crotch is constantly spitting out a mouthful of white steam, which makes people more intuitively understand how cold it is here-caused by the subtle changes in the earth's axis. The slow periodic changes in the eccentricity of the earth's orbit, the inclination and orientation of the earth's rotation axis have changed the evaporation, rainfall patterns, and seasonal cycles in the past few hundred thousand years, which has made the earth constantly in the extreme cold period and short warm period It is obvious that the ice age has just ended and the temperature has turned from an extremely low value for a few years (but it is obviously colder than at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because the temperature cannot be changed in just ten years. At the moment of rapid ascent), in high latitudes such as the outer northeast, the ocean oscillates still greatly, the cold air mass above has not decreased significantly, and the winter blizzard is still surprising, even in the south in late March after the beginning of spring , if you don't wear a coat or leather jacket in the field, it will still feel very cold.

The horses Liu Jianguo and others ride are cold-resistant black water horses.Thanks to the horse administration system established during the period of Marshal Mo, after spending a lot of time cross-breeding with Chinese native horse breeds, Korean horses, Mongolian horses and foreign horse breeds, the people on the east bank have successively bred some genetically stable, shoulder horses. A new breed of horse with high weight and some Far Eastern characteristics, which is commonly known as the Black Water Horse.What Liu Jianguo and others are riding now is the relatively cold-resistant variety in Heishui Dama, which is very suitable for riding and fighting in the cold outer northeast.

Now, the Heishui horses (generally past stallions) exported to Nanming, Dashun, North Korea and even Japan have become an important income for the Heishui development team.Many people in Denglai still remember that when food was in short supply, the Heishui Pioneering Team coordinated and exported a large number of old Heishui horses to Dashun (most of them were eliminated by the horse administration system, but For the Dashun regime, it was still an excellent war horse or riding horse), and it was exchanged for a huge amount of grain.Otherwise, whether the Denglei region can survive those long famine years is still unknown.

After riding for a long time, everyone passed by a tall wooden pole with three big characters "Udi Boundary" engraved on it, which means that Liu Jianguo and others have already left the Udi County boundary, and further on, it is Jieya County .This is also a newly established county for less than two years, with jurisdiction over Jieya Town (located near the later city of Jieya), Kubei Township (located near the later Bomnak Township), Enshun Township (located in the later Buleya City near the small village of Stoiba on the riverside), Shiyue Township (located near the small village of Shiyue District in later generations), Xishun Township (located near Magdagachi City in later generations), a total of five settlements, under the control of the east bank The population looks like 8000 people, but one-third of them are immigrants from Shandong or Ningbo, and the rest are the Daur, Oroqen, Ewenki, Buryat and other aboriginals in the Northeast who have naturalized over the years. .

In addition to these two counties, the Dong'an people also newly established Hailanpao County in the east.The county has jurisdiction over Hailanpao Town, Guining Township (located near the later Shimanovsk City), Huashulinzi Township (located near the later Raichshinsk Township), and Songshupo Township (located near the later Sofisk Township) , Beigou Township (located near the later town of Konstantinovka), the same five settlements, the population is larger: the population under the control of the east bank exceeds 4000, of which [-] are from Shandong in the south immigrants, and the rest are naturalized natives.

Judging from the location of the settlements in Udi County, Jieya County, and Hailanpao County, it can be seen that the purpose of the people on the east bank is basically to build a series of settlements with a large number of people living in a point-to-surface way. , Establish the postal post road system.And once this system is fully rolled out and refined, it will be like a giant net covering the Tungus people who live on the banks of the river, in the mountains, and in the jungle.

As long as they still live within the scope of this net, they will be caught by this net sooner or later, and then they will be slowly tidied up by the people of the East Bank by various means, and become Dingkou under the household registration system of the East Bank——Liu Jianguo After arriving in Heishui County, he read a lot of various files, from which he learned a lot about the naturalization of the outer Northeast. He clearly remembered that last year (1670) alone, various local militias and policemen in Heishui Even the troops of the Third Infantry Regiment exchanged fire more than a hundred times with various indigenous tribes living east of the Zeya River, killing and injuring hundreds of people successively.

Of course, the casualties were so great, and the results of the battle were extremely brilliant. They used this to recruit a total of [-] Shandan aborigines. The established villages have more concentrated residents. For the Blackwater Pioneering Team, their strength has undoubtedly been greatly enhanced. After all, population is wealth, which is an undoubted fact in every place.

A group of dozens of riders soon arrived outside the government compound of Kubei Township.This township government compound is actually a slightly larger wooden building (covered with a layer of soil for fire protection, just like the Russian Yaksa Fortress), surrounded by a wooden fence.A flagpole was erected on the top of the building, and the national flag of the East Coast Republic of China was hung; besides the national flag, there was also a lamp, which would emit a bright light at night to light up the dark night sky, which was very eye-catching.

A barely recognizable road twisted into the distance, lined with old larch and fir trees.Although the weather is cold, many convicts (generally captives obtained in battles in the Northeast) and exiles (exiled from the local area) are clearing the road. The road traffic (or the postal system) is extreme in the eyes of people in the Northeast. Important, so remember that in this season of poor traffic conditions, convicts and exiles can only do these jobs day after day.They didn't dare to escape, because in this season, it's freezing outside, and if no one helps them, it would be a death sentence, and with the fierce image of the people on the east coast, how dare the residents in the village outside accept a casually He looked dressed as convicts and exiles, so the few guards looked lazy and relaxed.

Liu Jianguo and others were quickly greeted by the officials of Kubei Township, and then ate the first steaming meal in the government compound in many days, and there was wine to drink, which made everyone's body and mind involuntarily Relaxed.

After the meal, Liu Jianguo visited the villages around Xiangchang. As far as the overall impression was concerned, he felt that this place looked like an uncivilized countryside.Adult men sat idle in the sun, scratching each other's lice; there were rows of wooden shelves at the door of the house, with many dried fish and bacon hanging on them, and women were constantly tying new ones on them. There are surprisingly many children, which is probably because the safety of the people from the east coast has greatly improved and some bad hygiene habits have been changed.Like the local children on the east bank, the children in the outer northeast are also keen to play a kind of "war game" or "horse riding game". Liu Jianguo noticed that they played very attentively and happily, and some naughty children even ran to tease them. A few sleepy dogs after a full meal add a touch of life-like warmth to the cold land.

Several shepherds drove a group of cattle and sheep back from the outside, and there seemed to be more than 100 heads.The sounds of bleating, mooing, yelling, whipping, children chasing and shouting, and the low sound of horses' hoofs beating on the road full of dung made the quiet afternoon in the countryside suddenly lively.Liu Jianguo smelled the cold air, which was filled with a milky smell, intoxicating.

And when he walked in front of a cleared vegetable field (obviously now it was bare), he suddenly found that not far ahead was a river meandering to the later Shijieya Reservoir. There are still some green coniferous forests showing greenness on both sides of the Huihe River.The river was frozen over at this time, and there was no sound, as if he had fallen asleep.

"I heard that the owners of a quarter of the land in Zeya County do not cultivate it. How can this be done? Even though it is so necessary to raise livestock and horses, you cannot give up the land to grow food. You all know the grain Flour and leather are in short supply and need to be exchanged with people for leather, gold dust and livestock, so why don’t you farm? Those hunters who moved out of the deep mountains don’t matter, and those Daur people who have been farming for generations have no reason not to farm I think they just need to clean up!” After breaking a branch from a willow tree by the river, he turned around and looked at the officials following him, and said, “I saw it in Dabo County, where all Almost all landowners grow grain, and they also raise livestock. The output of vegetables, potatoes, and fruits is not low, and the agricultural activities are well managed. Why is it like this in Jieya County? This situation must be changed, I am not Just kidding. Anyone who has heard of me should understand my experience. Yes, I am Liu Jianguo who has been farming in southern Chile for many years. I still want to say this when I come to Heishui. Growing grain, raising livestock, and developing productivity are the top priorities The second is to carry out military training, to fight against the Russians and the Manchu forces, and you should not put the cart before the horse."

The reason why Liu Jianguo said these words was related to what he saw and heard along the way.He walked all the way from Temple Street, Udi, and Jieya. Because Temple Street is an old district and there are many Han people, the food planting is still relatively good. Coupled with the large amount of fish caught during the annual fishing season, the food production is still quite good. Adequate.However, in the two counties of Udi and Zeya, because a large number of naturalized aborigines live together, the pressure on grain production is extremely high, and a large amount of grain has to be imported from the outside world, which increases the burden of transportation, and at the same time makes the above two counties naturalized There is a bottleneck in the indigenous people, that is, they are restricted by food reserves.

Moreover, if considering the relatively excellent agricultural conditions in the Zeya River Basin, it would be a foolish thing to give up COFCO here and turn to grazing, because even the Russians who used to like to rob other people's grain now don't Honestly, you have planted rye, oats, and barley in the vicinity of Albazin Castle. Why do you have any reason to be lazy?Therefore, Liu Jianguo, a civilian cadre with farming background, is now planning to do a lot in Jieya County, trying to build it into a grain base in the middle reaches of the Amur River, and relying on this place to continue to naturalize the nearby natives and strengthen strength, and will finally turn their attention to other places.

That is to say, in the outer northeast region including Jieya, Udi, Hailanpao and other counties, the most important thing to do at present is to develop agricultural production, improve road traffic, promote Chinese language education, and naturalize the aborigines of Shandan, that is, our It is often said that "practicing internal skills hard".And only when this step is achieved, can the people of the East Bank establish a foundation for their rule over the Northeast. In the future, they will be able to use this foundation to continuously expand their territory, conquer refusals, and achieve various strategic goals of the East Bank.

As for the fact that some people are worried about military issues, Liu Jianguo has always sneered.Not to mention that the Russians have already signed a demarcation agreement with the East Bank, even if the two sides did not sign it at the beginning, given the current level of strength comparison between the two sides, the Russians are extremely afraid to provoke.

But the Russians dare not come to stroke their beards, and the influence of the Manchu Bogd Khan has gradually been expelled to the farther south in recent years, so the main threat to the people on the east coast is actually the disobedient native tribes , and this has never been worth mentioning in the eyes of sensible people.Therefore, the most important task of the Outer Northeast right now is indeed to practice hard internal skills.

(End of this chapter)