June 1, 1671, Tonghe County, sunny.

The wheat in the field had just been harvested, and haystacks were stacked neatly stacked everywhere. The gorgeously dressed Goshkin gently stroked the wheat straw with his hands, and his expression seemed to be stroking his lover. Perhaps, Goshkin, who had lived in rural Russia for many years in his early years, was recalling his past time in an alternative way.

Around the farmland is a winding river. The river water winds westward, and then flows into other rivers and eventually flows into the Parana River. Of course, this river may have been called a river a few months ago. The river surface can also pass a small boat with a few meters of water, and can also provide irrigation water for the farmland, but now the river water is quite shallow.

The reason is probably because a large number of leaves, mud, weeds and even wood are washed into the riverbed year after year, causing the river water to dry up during the dry season. When there is a lot of rain in summer, the river water often begins to rise violently and surging rapidly. At that time, this small river will show its true nature. Just like most rivers in the Hejian area, it will flood the pastures, vegetable fields and small ponds on both sides, wrapping up hay, and crops pouring into the riverbed. This kind of disaster is generally difficult to avoid, unless you do not live on the river bank, or build reservoirs, canals and other water conservancy facilities.

However, even though they faced the serious threat of floods, more than a dozen Russian regular labor workers who settled here have never complained, and they are not as frowning as dozens of other Ming immigrants or second-generation citizens in the village. In the countryside of Russia, they have experienced countless times more difficult and painful things than this. What is this small difficulty in front of them? Is it because people can't survive? Obviously not!

Today, Goshkin visited more than a dozen former labor workers who had just become a regular and assigned here. He bought some spirits, sugar, spices and matte as gifts, brought three or two followers, and took a small steamer from the inland transport company to Tonghe County to "visit relatives" from Port Iguazu. As a relatively humane contractor, Goshkin has always been kind to his subordinates and is highly supported by his subordinates, which is crucial.

Tonghe County is a newly established county with five settlements: Tonghe Town, Guangrou Township, Jinya Township, Shiquan Township and Mapan Township. At the same time, the county is also the 89th county-level administrative unit in the country. Together, it is also Dongsheng County (the 90th county-level administrative unit in the country) with five settlements: Dongsheng Town, Songlixiang, Xiangsi Township, Dinglian Township and Yifeng Township; Anxi County (the 90th county-level administrative unit in the country) with four settlements: Anxi Town, Torch Township, Hu's Township, Hu'an Township and Xigou Township (formerly Pedro Castle). The county is the 91st county-level administrative unit in the country; Zhenrong Town, Lihu Township, Goya Township (located near the Goya Town in the later generations), and Dongqiu Township (formerly Shaosai Castle). At the same time, the county is also the 92nd county-level administrative unit in the country.

The establishment of the four counties of Tonghe, Dongsheng, Anxi and Zhenrong marked that the vast area of ​​land in the Hejian area (i.e., the later Coriantes Plain Plain) was also divided up and officially entered the construction and reclamation stage. The four major sub-districts in Hejian geographically, the four major sub-districts, the swamp sub-districts, the plain sub-districts, and the Hekou Delta sub-districts have basically divided the county areas except for the swamp sub-districts that have not been divided up yet.

"All the grain in the field has been collected? How is the harvest?" After Goshkin came back from the field, he sat down in a house made of branches, bark, thatch and a small amount of wooden boards. This was the residence of a labor worker from Augniz Province. He had just assigned a free five acres of land to reclaim the land here with his wife and children.

"Not very good. Because it was the first year of land reclamation, the harvest was very low, so he could only eat relief food. There were only so many relief food. My family had four children and could only barely eat enough. It was so difficult. But to be honest, life is much better than Rose." A man with a bearded face looked at the gifts that Goshkin took with gratitude and he decided not to enjoy them himself, because he could exchange a lot of flour and cured meat at the market and then said.

As if infected by his words, his wife, who was standing next to him, lowered her head in a little sad manner, but shed no tears, because such a life did not exceed their bottom line. Goshkin sighed softly and turned to look inside the house. There was no furniture, and half of the house was occupied by a dark, gloomy stove. Beside the hostess, the children were crying and the little chicks were chirping.

"The difficulties are only temporary. After all, there is hope when you have land." Goshkin lit a cigarette, took a few sips and said, "Has the cooperative in the village joined? If he could join the cooperative, life might be a little better."

"No." The man had no choice but to spread his hands, his hands were covered with calluses and cracked wounds. He only heard him complain: "This village is newly built and there are not many people. Moreover, those young people born in Ming or locally are not very friendly to us. They formed a cooperative, but we have not been allowed to join. The village chief is a veteran with injured amputation. He only knows how to drink and care about anything all day long. It's really hard for us, really! When my wife Anna goes out to mow grass and work in the wild every day, the children follow the river chicks, crying and chirping, and they are all hungry."

"This..." Goshkin was a little embarrassed when he heard this. How to integrate into the mainstream society on the East Coast is indeed a real problem. Because even a wealthy boss like Goshkin sometimes encounters Ming people or second-generation citizens with inexplicable superiority, which makes him very unhappy. On the contrary, there is very little discrimination in the upper class, which is probably because those people have more mixed races and a more open atmosphere.

However, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Goshkin has changed his son Ivan to Goywan, and plans to marry a second-generation national woman with a fairly decent status and status, and strive to wash away his bloodline. Although this sounds a bit sad, it is a reality. In a country where there are more and more yellow people, few people think that mixed-race children are the backbone of the country's mainstream. After all, their proportion in the country's total population is at best less than one-third.

"We should try our best to integrate into the mainstream society on the east coast." Goshkin handed the man a whole box of cigarettes that he had only smoked, and then said to him with a serious face: "The situation is still very optimistic now. Discrimination is everywhere. I say that the people in the Augnets province are not despised by the people of Moscow? And the semi-civilized barbarians in the forest in the northern ice fields and the forests are not looked down upon and excluded by you? But in fact, everyone is the people of the Tsar, and the legal sense is the same and equal. The conditions on the east coast are still very good, with a mild climate and a fertile soil. The most important thing is that there is no tax collector who pays tribute to people's lives. The burden of ordinary people is actually not heavy. As long as you work hard,

Life will improve bit by bit. You now have five acres of land. In the future, two people can own up to sixty acres. They will raise cattle, horses, sheep and other livestock, and can eat delicious meat and fish, honey-sweet bread, and delicious wine. This is not my brag. Many of your predecessors have achieved this goal elsewhere. Moreover, when your living conditions improve in the future, you can also find ways to take over relatives and friends who are still suffering in Russia and let everyone live a good life together. Now, many Italians from Sicily and Naples are already doing this. We Ross people cannot let them compete, and we must not let the number of Italians go beyond us."

However, when it comes to increasing the Russian population on the east coast, Goshkin's mood suddenly became gloomy and his expression gradually became a little sad. He just remembered his nephew and a large number of old friends who died tragically on the southern Russian grassland. For the benefit of the east coast, they resolutely okay and said resolutely a little exaggerated, because they were obviously forced to follow the capable agents of the General Administration of Intelligence of the East Coast into Astrakhan and other places. Unexpectedly, they were all in a difficult journey and suffered first.

The horse bandits attacked and robbed and lost a lot of manpower and wealth; later they were loyal to Tsar Alexei (non-Crimean Tatars, referring to the Eurasian mixed-race descendants on the southern Russian grasslands after the collapse of the Golden Horde). The Kalmyks surrounded and attacked. Although the mercenaries who were with them fought bravely, they were eventually outnumbered. Except for a few people who fled back to Azov, the rest were either killed or captured (later publicly executed), and ended up in a miserable end.

This incident had a profound impact on both the East Coast government and Goshkin personally. At the government level, the Russians closed the East Coast Merchant Station in Arkhangelsk and Moscow, and put all the merchants in prison. In addition, they detained two East Coast Merchant ships stranded in Saint Nicholas and Arkhangelsk, which was a serious warning. Of course, the East Coast technicians and managers in the Tula Arsenal and the Little Star Shipyard were fortunately not affected, perhaps because the Russians needed them. However, it is said that Tsar Alexey was also sending people to persuade these professional talents to become Russian nationality and promised to give them generous treatment, just like the Germans and Dutch who served in the shooting army.

For Goshkin personally, the current situation is indeed quite critical, because it is difficult for his construction company to collect enough fresh blood from all over Russia to replenish it. However, the number of labor workers who have passed the Chinese test every year (just be able to have simple daily conversations) has never decreased. If this situation lasts for a few years, wouldn’t he be without anyone available to Goshkin? At that time, why should he take over the construction project? Because even if the East Coast government owes you Goshkin Construction Company again, the problem is how can you work without anyone under your command?

Therefore, Goshkin, a tycoon in the construction industry, is really facing a difficult problem now. It is not reliable to wait for the East-Russia relations to recover, because who knows when the trade will be reopened? If it does not reopen in five years, wouldn’t his company be closed? We must find another way and find a way to collect manpower to overcome the current difficulties. This is the consensus view of Goshkin and his core followers!

As for where to introduce new personnel, after thinking about it, Goshkin and others think that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which is also Slavs, is the most suitable. To put it bluntly, it is the Poles, Lithuanians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians! Poland has been in great chaos over the years, and the national power has declined, and the trend of going downhill is quite obvious. The Russians who were beaten by them arbitrarily a few decades ago are now beginning to overtake their heads and piss. Doesn’t this tell the problem? Moreover, as a kind of aspect, there is a

Some relationships, a building tycoon with rich sources, Goshkin also vaguely heard that the relationship between the country and the Ottoman Empire has deteriorated greatly in recent years. The Turkish Davizikoprulu has already made a statement that he would personally conquer Poland. This is undoubtedly a godsend opportunity for Goshkin, because everyone knows that Poland is unprepared in normal times. Once the war breaks out, it will inevitably be a result of being pushed evenly. Therefore, this means that the invaders have a great opportunity to plunder its population. For example, the Tatar cavalry in Crimea often do this.

You know, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth has more than 9 million people (before half of Ukraine was lost, there were about 11 million people, and the core crown territory directly under the Chinese king was 3 million, Ukraine was 3 million, and the remaining Polish territory plus half of Livonia, Prussia, Lithuania, Belarus and other places had about 5 million people). The southern region was particularly rich and prosperous. Once the Crimeans broke in, they would really catch as many people as they wanted. At that time, they might have to come to buy some of them. Anyway, they had no money to buy them. Why not do it?

The only thing that is worth worrying is that I have to spend a lot of money to buy people, which is much more than the settlement fee I had to pay for recruiting personnel from Russia in the past. Fortunately, the superiors also hinted to myself that if the working capital is tight, then I can go to the United Industrial Credit Bank and the Northwest Reclamation Bank to apply for a loan. The government will make proper arrangements. After all, I cannot let honest people suffer losses! What he said is also a person who has made contributions to the country!

It would be pretty good that this thing could be done like this. Thinking of this, Goshkin breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the bearded man sitting in front of him, patted his shoulder gently, and encouraged him: "Do it well, Maxim, good days are waiting for you later. The Hejian area is more difficult now, but once the water conservancy facilities are built and the population is increasing, industry and commerce will definitely develop. You people who settled early will benefit from it in the future, believe me."
Chapter completed!