When the wind was blowing, a team turned out, and the sentry standing on the watchtower in the city of Polu Fort (the town of Telson in later generations) immediately pulled up the bell, and followed by a raised green signal flag.?

The village gate was suddenly opened, and more than twenty cavalry rushed out like a whirlwind, and then joined hundreds of stairs and riders who came from afar. They were welcoming the soldiers returning from the war.

"Rhusi Guizhu is an Andean mango bamboo that grows in deep valleys in the mountains. It can withstand the wind and snow, resist the coldness of the long winter in the south and the harsh summer sunshine in the short summer. The height of the bamboo pole can usually reach several meters, hard and tough, and the light green color of the leaves is full of the joy of the mountains." In the simple military camp of Polu Fort, Meng Xiaohu leaned over and whispered, then teased and said, "Lieutenant Guo, are you writing a letter to a girl?"

Guo Handong, who was naked, asked the orderly soldiers to apply medicine to medicine when he heard this, gave Meng Xiaohu a blank look and said, "I am just feeling. The ruciferous bamboo is an indispensable thing for the residents of Patagonia and one of their totems. They used the ruciferous bamboo to build tents, and they used the ruciferous bamboo to make spears to resist our cavalry, which was too useful."

Meng Xiaohu nodded without saying a word. He is a special expert of the Ministry of Geology and the second son of Meng Hu, the famous "Holy Mother" on the East Coast. This time he went deep into the hinterland of western Patagonia with the army, mainly to collect various local intelligence. However, after seeing the Tverches being "exiled from dogs and chickens" by the East Coast army along the way, his Virgin habits were made again. On the way, he even lamented in front of Guo Handong that "Our officials only saw the economic potential of Patagonia. The prodigal merchants and warlords coveted this land that they would never love, coveted the nutrients that would fatten them, coveted the so-called worthless and wrong honors" and other words. This made Guo Handong feel that it was true that one had the same father as one, one had the same son. 1?

After talking about Meng Xiaohu again, Guo Handong took the orderly soldiers who had changed his gauze to bring the door, then sat at the table, and continued the letter he had not finished just now: "The ruciferous bamboo is not only useful, but also because of its tragic and reliable oracle power. Every time the ruciferous bamboo blooms, the time of pain and destruction is coming. Its flowers are strong and predictive red. The Tverches will record their age according to the number of blooms they see. If they are lucky enough to see more than twice, then their age will definitely be enough to let him sit by the stove and tell the children about the fresh past that has long disappeared in the wind and snow."

After writing a letter, Guo Handong called the orderly soldiers and asked him to go to the post office in the fort to send the letter together with a great shaman of the Tverche (made by Jusiguizhu) to Miss Li Zexin of Dongfang Port. This magical scepter is said to be able to keep people young (although the great shaman is old), and is most suitable for making gifts to young ladies.

After doing all this, Guo Handong pushed open the door and came to the street. It was already winter, and the biting cold wind mixed with snow head hit the tiles on the roof, making a rustling sound. There were a lot of granular sheep dung on the road, and a small shop selling seafood braised rice was crowded with sheephers, soldiers and township officials, huddling while eating and talking vulgar jokes. There were laughter in the shop from time to time. Guo Handong enjoyed this atmosphere very much. They were brothers who slept on ice and snow on the Gobi Desert. They might look extremely rude and unqualified, but they were all straightforward men with no bad intentions. As long as you truly understand their joys, angers, sorrows and sorrows and get along with them, you will find that they are more reliable than anyone else.

There are many sheep in the livestock outside the shop, and the owner's wife and children are chopping hay to feed the sheep. Seeing this prosperous period when the demand for wool is gradually increasing, the export of wool in Patagonia is increasing day by day. Representatives of the Dayuhe Machinery Textile Factory have built a purchasing station in the city to purchase wool, which has brought vitality to the local economy for a while. According to incomplete statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture, the sheep ownership in the six towns in the lower reaches of the Chubut River has now exceeded 90,000. If the 50,000 sheep loan promised by the Northwest Reclamation Bank has reached only a small part, this number will be even larger.

Guo Handong walked to the end of the street, where there was a fence. Outside the fence was an endless wilderness, and more than a dozen transplanted vermicelli bamboos grew tenaciously outside the fence. Unfortunately, it was a pity that the days were still short and they could not see the scene of them blooming bright red flowers. However, I heard that the mountainous areas where the Tverches often grazed had a large area of ​​vermicelli bamboos bloomed last year. Many people said that it predicted that misfortune and pain would fall from the sky, and the whole of Patagonia would also be dyed red by this charming flower.

A rare winter thunder came from the sky, and the snow gradually became heavier, covering the entire earth in a vast white area. Guo Handong was preparing to rest in the house, but there was a sound of footsteps behind him, but a commander soldier. He handed over a military order to Guo Handong and said, "Captain Guo, the captain of the detachment ordered you to send these captured barbarians to Hai'an Port. In addition, he gave you three days off."

"Thank you." Guo Handong was stunned at first, then smiled and patted the messenger on the shoulder, and said, "I'll drink with my brothers when I come."

The snow gradually became heavier in the afternoon, but this did not become a reason for people to be lazy. On the road under construction from Polu Fort to Haiping Port, more than a thousand black laborers from Congo were driven by supervisors, wearing shabby cotton coats and struggling to level the land. Fortunately, there was not much precipitation here, otherwise when the ground was frozen, some of these Congolese workers would suffer.

This is a third-class national highway connecting two township settlements, or the East, Ping'an counties invested and built by providing 1,000 Congolese laborers and some construction materials. Most of the laborers were sold by the Kurlans, and a small number were transported from Jacob Port by slave traders such as Li Renjun (actually from New Courland). The price was extremely cheap. If you pick it up at home, you can even only cost 354 yuan per person. It is so cheap that it makes people wonder if the Kurlans captured thousands of black slaves all at once, otherwise the price would have dropped so much.

In fact, the truth is quite different, because the Latvians, Estonians, Lithuanians and even Poles who recently ran away from the Baltic Sea to New Korland were more and more. The number of people even exceeded 10,000 in two years, and most of them were relocated to their families. This is surprising. In fact, it is relieved to understand. No, the Swedes took over the capital of the Principal of Korland and the largest city of Wendao Port. More than 6,000 Kurland troops (including 3,000 German mercenaries) stationed in Wendao Port for half a month after resistance, were transported to Lubek by Grand Duke Jacob's fleet and people and supplies, and then began to travel to New Korland in batches based on family. At this point, the Duchy of Korland, a small country with a population of only 200,000, was destroyed like this!

Fortunately, Zheng Yong reminded Grand Duke Jacob several years in advance that Grand Duke himself had made sufficient preparations, such as packing and transporting some property, art, antiques, etc. to New Korland in advance, and persuade talents from metallurgy, glass, shipbuilding and other industries to work in batches, such as recruiting farmers who volunteered to reclaim land in New Korland, such as searching for Polish and Lithuanian refugees to settle in New Korland, etc. In short, they moved several years in advance, and Grand Duke himself went to Hamburg shortly after the outbreak of the Polish-Russian War, and "traveled" in the area around Lubek, so the loss of the Duke of Korland in this unforgettable disaster was actually far from as great as imagined.

However, the land of the Old Great Six was destroyed, and the losses of the Kurians could not be said to be small. Especially after a large number of local war refugees poured into New Kurians, causing the number of white people here to exceed 15,000, the financial situation of New Kurians immediately became tense. Governor Hubert de Beveren was extremely worried about this. While he organized the retreating Kurian standing army to start advancing deep along the Congo River, clearing up and arresting the black people he met (sold to the East Coast people to raise all kinds of urgently needed daily necessities), he organized farmers to start cutting down trees, opening up fields, building ships and fishing, and in short, he did everything possible to resettle the surge in the Old Great Six refugees.

At the instruction of the Executive Committee, the New Da 6 Friendly Mutual Aid Bank of the East Coast Republic of China also provided a five-year low-interest loan of 60,000 yuan (annual interest rate of 1.5%, mostly in the form of materials) to help them build two new towns, one is the town of Baojian Bay located on the original site of Soyo in later generations, across the river from the Knights Fortress; the other is the Duke Town (located to the original site of Boma City), a settled town mainly engaged in slave hunting and logging. After the establishment of these four colonial strongholds, the Kurranians completely gained a foothold along the Congo River. Because the colonization process relied heavily on the help of the East Coast, New Kurran was very close to the East Coast, both economically and emotionally, which can be seen from the establishment of the Grand Duke of Kurran to build the Heavenly Lord Taoist Temple in Jacob Port.

The Kurians sold more than a thousand Congolese workers to the East Coast in the past two years, but there are only so many people assigned here, of course it is far from enough. Fortunately, they have also captured a large number of Tverches in the past two years. Although these Indians are not as durable as blacks, they are considered a rare supplement to labor. This will bring hundreds of people escorted to Hai'an Port by Guo Handong to repair the fort. In a poor place like Patagonia, they can only make do with it like this, otherwise what else can they do! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!