On December 1, 1661, at the Lobster Harbor of Beidao, heavy rain.

A group of yellow, white and black-skinned workers were driven by the foreman, wearing tart-cloth raincoats and holding farm tools, and stumbled forward in the pouring rain. The workers included Europeans, Sakaravas, Betsimsalakas, Svasirs and Comoros. Early Polish workers had successfully escaped from the sea of ​​suffering. They had obtained their official status by bleeding on the battlefield. Now they have either changed their jobs to self-cultivated farmers or supervisors in major plantations or construction sites. In short, life is no longer the same as before.

At this time, the more than ten supervisors who drove the laborers to work were early Polish prisoners of war, now overseas residents of the East Coast Republic of China. They are now supervisors of some nearby spice plantations (Yilan Yilan, Huanira). The supervisors have worked in hundreds of laborers everywhere. In recent days, heavy rain has been falling near Bei Island, and the superiors are worried that the drainage in the plantations is not smooth, so they go out to work in the rain, check the water supply and drainage system, and clean up the silted drainage ditches.

The supervisors were all wearing raincoats and sabers around their waists, looking lazy. They followed the workers from afar, and were not afraid of them running away. Because everyone was not stupid, there was nothing in this wilderness, and it was rainy season. There was no second possibility of running out except starvation and illness. Therefore, the management was very relaxed, as long as the workers finished their work on time.

Next door to the vanilla plantation is the famous Beidao Sugar Factory. This large sucrose refining enterprise with hundreds of workers has various types of steam engines with a total horsepower of more than 100 horsepower, driving various newly designed sugar-pressing equipment; at the same time, there are horse-drawn trucks and light rails leading to deep-water terminals, with excellent infrastructure, which is undoubtedly the guarantee of its strong production capacity. According to rough statistics, last year (1660), Beidao Sugar Production produced more than 2,000 tons of sugar in total. Although the production capacity was not as good as Brazil (Brazil's production capacity in 1620 exceeded 20,000 tons, and the profit per ton alone reached 70-80 East Coast Silver Dollars), the African continent, the Caribbean islands and even the Far East Taiwan, the rapid development of Beidao Sugar Factory has become a rising star in the sugar market that cannot be ignored, especially for the East Coast Republic.

Such huge production capacity is naturally due to strong market demand. The popularity of emerging beverages such as coffee and cocoa powder has undoubtedly greatly stimulated the consumption of sugar. People from the East Coast who like the above two beverages are the largest consumers of sugar. In addition, compared with the relatively barren food culture in the West, the East Coast diet originating from China is also more colorful. Many sweets that are only popular in the Ming Dynasty, which are only in small areas and narrow circles have entered the homes of ordinary people on the East Coast, which undoubtedly requires the consumption of a large amount of sugar and spices. This is another major market.

Together, last year, one million people on the east coast consumed no less than 2,000 tons of sugar, an average of 2,000 grams per person, which was extremely amazing. The import price of these sugars is about 180-200 yuan/ton (double more expensive than Taiwan’s sugar sugar). Some are produced in Peru, some are from New China Island, and even a very small part comes from New Spain and Southeast Asia. The total import volume reaches nearly 400,000 yuan, which is already a big business.

The demand for sugar in the east coast is increasing, and Europe is also very similar. Just go to major cities to see. London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Paris, Bordeaux, Madrid, Lisbon, Cadiz, Florence and other places are full of new cafes. More and more people like to drink coffee, and the demand for sugar in the east coast is increasing day by day. You should know that this is a super market dozens of times that of the East coast. You can imagine how much stimulating sugarcane plantations are everywhere, and how many investors with longing come to the Caribbean to open plantations.

"Now a large-scale war broke out in Brazil, and the international market is almost the same as the annual output of 7,000-10,000 tons of sugar sugar. Although many investors have expanded the scale of sugar cane plantations on Caribbean islands - such as the British in Jamaica and Barbados - but in the end, far water cannot quench near thirst. It is a high probability that sugar prices will soar in recent years." Xinhua County Mayor Kyle, who represented Ma Wanpeng, came to see the soldiers off, said with a smile: "Last year, we sent more than 3 to Persia," said Kyle, the county magistrate of Xinhua County who represented Ma Wanpeng, and said with a smile: "Last year, we sent more than 3 to Persia.

50 tons of sugar defeated the Dutch East India Company (they only exported about 150 tons of Taiwan sucrose to Persia), Ottoman, Oman and other places also jointly digested about 600 tons (the demand for Ottoman fluctuates greatly, depending on the strength of their attack on cafes...), Italians also transported about 300 tons, including the local consumption of South Africa, Australia and New China Island, everyone is joking. If the local sugar purchase price does not increase, we will not sell it to the local market, and will all sell it to the international market."

"If you really dare to do this, I bet the Executive Committee will adjust most of the cadres of the New China Development Team. Those white shirts have always had this kind of virtue." Xiao Baitu, who was wiping a saber with silk cloth, said disdainfully: "But those people are indeed too greedy. The major companies that have taken over most of the sugar export trade in New China Island are probably not here. I remember that they are either the capital or Qingdao County, and there are no Xinhua County anyway. In this way, most of the profits and tariffs are left in the local area. You, hehe, just make some hard money."

What Xiao Baitu said is true. Nowadays, except for the sugarcane plantation in Xinhuaxia Island, which is located in the local area, the Beidao Sugar Factory, which monopolizes the refining of sugar, and the East African transportation companies that monopolize the transportation of various specialty commodities, including sugar, have all been forcibly invested by the local Ministry of Finance. A large amount of profits flowed from the world's fourth largest island to the east coast, nourishing millions of east coast citizens and allowing them to live a relatively prosperous life - of course, the residents of Xinhuaxia Island are not bad, because there are only 60,000 to 70,000 people here. Relying on the rich local natural resources and the advantages of Indian Ocean re-export trade, their average living standards are actually not lower than those in the local area, and may even be slightly higher.

Perhaps Xiao Baitu said this a little too explicitly. County Magistrate Kyle, who had been in the East Coast bureaucratic system for many years, dared not go deeper on this topic, so he could only interrupt: "Commander Xiao (Xiao Baitu is the commander of the Daqing Basin Security Bureau), and the Xinhua County Security Corps has gathered here. All combat materials will be delivered one after another in the next period of time. When will you take action? I'm pointing out the action to attack Ma Renjia."

"Wait first." Xiao Baitu put the sharp and bright sabers on the table next to him, stood up and said, "I have also seen the Xinhua County Security Corps who just arrived. There are two thousand people full of military experience. Among them, there are definitely a few people with military experience. The large group of people are all raw melon seeds, so they usually do some militia training, which is still a distance from going to fight. Therefore, I decided to train these people well, just at this Lobster Port of Beidao. Besides, it is the most powerful time for the rainy season. Although it does not rain every day, it will greatly affect military operations. When fighting at this season, unless the Sakarava people are idiots and are waiting to behead us, I don't want to take any risks. I should wait. I will practice our own kung fu first, and everything else will naturally be easy."

Kyle felt relieved when he heard this. To be honest, he was really afraid that Xiao Baitu, a more radical soldier, would mess with him. However, considering that he had outstanding military achievements, almost one person in the western half of the island was pacified by the entire western half of the island, so he couldn't say anything, so he would not be accused of overusing the business. Fortunately, Xiao Baitu was a long-time general and had a relatively sensible head. He was not arrogant until the rainy season and went on a battle with Ma Renjia. If that happens, he might happen.

After Magistrate Kyle left, Xiao Baitu immediately used his deputy to draw experienced non-commissioned officers from various departments, fully took over the training power of Xinhua County Security Corps, and planned to train this Xinneng army so that it could keep up with the rhythm of old troops such as the Xinhua Infantry Battalion, such as the Xinhua Infantry Battalion. In addition, he also took the "Shangfang Sword" given by Ma Wanpeng, went deep into various herbs and pepper plantations, read all the simple information of all labor workers, and selected cannon fodder suitable for going to the battlefield. This is also the tradition of New China Island. At the beginning of each war, people on the east coast would select military experience from the group of foreign labor workers, and then incorporate them into the minion army to fight, just like Xiao Baitu led his army to attack the Kingdom of Sakarava.

The labor workers in New China Island are also very excited about such things, because this is a shortcut for them to quickly get rid of their miserable plantation "slave" status and gain freedom, provided that you obey orders in the battle and then survive successfully - to be honest, this is not a difficult task in New China, because the natives on this island obviously cannot cause much casualties to them. Therefore, most labor workers yearn for getting rid of the awkward and miserable status of labor workers by joining the army, turning over to become overseas citizens of the East Coast, and living a good life from now on.

"Although our country's laws do not give planters and sugar shop owners the power to torture slaves to death like the Europeans - think about it, black slaves were forced to cut sugarcane from morning to night in the scorching sun; they had to keep sending sugarcane from hugs into a crusher; they had to work for a long time by the red stove in spring and winter; their living environment was extremely harsh, they ate cassava noodles boiled into mud, and lived in mud-built sheds - but their situation was still not optimistic, heavy labor and evil.

A poor environment greatly damages their health. A healthy man will usually deteriorate within seven years (which happens to be the longest service life of a laborer) and lose some of his labor force, or even die. Therefore, they are very eager to change their identity by joining the army." Xiao Baitu's words most pointed out this situation, and this desire often makes the laborers who join the army have a high enthusiasm for fighting, and at least they will not flee for no reason in the battle, which is stronger than the local soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Islands.

Xiao Baitu and others finally selected nearly 200 such labor workers in major plantations in Beidao, and then conducted concentrated military training with 500 Transylvanian, Ukrainian and Polish labor workers selected from cotton plantations in the Daqing Basin, in order to successfully combine these labor workers from prisoners of war after the arrival of the cool season (and also the dry season) in 1662, and have a certain combat effectiveness.

Such military training continued until early April 1662, when the last downpour of the rainy season ended, and the last hurricane came to Xinhuaxia Island. Four months of military intensive training have improved the combat effectiveness of each of the troops under Xiao Baitu's command to a certain extent, and their coordinated combat capabilities have also been greatly enhanced than before. Especially for the 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Xinhua County Security Regiment, which was not long after its establishment, the combat effectiveness has been significantly improved compared to four months. They can basically go to the battlefield to compete with the elite musketeers of Qimaladongna, and this is obviously the purpose of Xiao Baitu.

On April 13, 1662, the East Coast army, mainly composed of the Xinhuaxia Infantry Battalion, Xinhua County Security Corps, the Eight Banners of the Island, and the Labor and Staff Army as the auxiliary, had more than 5,000 people. Under the transportation of the East African Transportation Company fleet, they arrived outside the sea of ​​Marenga Port and officially started the last battle against the Boyra Kingdom.

In history, the king of the Boyla Kingdom had a large number of musketeers and forty coastal defense cannons at its peak. The Boyla Kingdom in this time and space was chased by the people on the east coast and his life was a bit cramped. Therefore, the king of the country Qi Maladong did not spend a lot of money to buy cannons like in history. Therefore, there were only a few more than a dozen old bronze cannons on the dock at the Marenga Port at this time, and I don’t know where they found it.

What's worse is that perhaps because of insufficient training (which is almost inevitable), the Sakarava artillery who operated artillery was also extremely bad. As a result, the second fleet "Free Trade" battleship that rushed into the port was bombarded and four or five cannons were silenced on the spot. The remaining artillery also scattered under the threat of the East Coast landing troops - the biggest obstacle to landing disappeared, and the process was as easy as a joke, which made the east coast army a little excited, and they all felt that this might be a good omen.

At noon that day, just as the east coast army was still landing in a hurry, Qi Maladonna, the king of the Boyla Kingdom, personally led the army to drive the East Coast people out of the sea in one fell swoop. This guy brought a total of 6,000 officers and soldiers, of which about 1,500 were elite convoys, and they have always been their killer move to defeat other tribes. This time, in order to deal with the East Coast people, they were also transferred together. It can be said that all the elites gathered, and they became successful if they failed.

The East Coast people were naturally very happy about the decisive battle posture set by the Sakaravas, because it obviously saved a lot of effort. So, the four companies of the New China Infantry Battalion, which landed in advance, immediately completed the whole team. Together with some artillery, they formed a dense formation near the landing field, waiting for the enemy to fight.
Chapter completed!