After the war, all the mobilized soldiers began to demobilize and return home. At this time, the families who saw their relatives return were naturally ecstatic, but there were more than 400 families on the east coast who fell into great grief because of their loss.

Anda Shiwu sat quietly under the pine tree at the door of his house, drinking tea while watching the distance. There was a man dead in a village in Coal River. Anda Shiwu still remembered that he was a tall and majestic rifleman who died in the shooting of the British muskets. His body had been buried on the spot in the lush forest on the banks of the Gambia River.

The town god temple in the village sent two Taoist priests to perform rituals, telling the family that the name of the deceased had been entered into the ancestral hall of the local Heroes' Temple, and at the same time, some condolences were distributed to the family. At this time, the ritual was over, and the owner burned the deceased's tablets and close clothes under the guidance of the two Taoists, and the ritual was completed.

Looking at the grief of the families of the deceased, Anda Shiwu sighed secretly. This is a cruel war. Every time he goes to the battlefield, he doesn’t know whether he can survive. However, as a glorious East Coast soldier, death is not a terrifying thing. The soldiers who died in battle have generous pensions, and their families are exempted from tax for ten years. The village will arrange people to help him farm the fields within three years. Children or relatives can also arrange work. These points basically solve the soldiers’ worries in all aspects, greatly improving their morale and fighting will. This is one of the reasons why the East Coast soldiers can maintain strong combat effectiveness.

A muffled sound of "bang!" interrupted Anda Fifteen's reverie. His Tatan wife went out to pick up the two playful children in one hand, and then closed the door heavily.

Anda Shiwu smiled self-deprecatingly. The girls from the grassland have a very big temper. Who would dare to get angry at their husbands and throw a tantrum?

However, Anda Fifteen's wife and he got angry are not without reason. This matter has to start in May. Since returning to Dongfang Port from South Africa on a South China Sea Transportation Company's transport ship in May, Anda Fifteen took the time to go to Henan Fort to visit Liu Dayou's family.

Before the battle began, he promised that Liu Dayou would visit and take care of his family. As a glorious and proud East Coast Army sergeant (with one level of improvement due to his combat courage), Anda Fifteen kept his word. What's more, Liu Dayou saved Anda Fifteen on the battlefield, so he could not break his promise and become fat, otherwise his conscience would not be calmed down.

After accompanying the village chief to Liu Dayou's house, Anda Fifteen found that it was indeed as the young man said. His family was in a difficult situation. Liu Dayou's sister and brother-in-law planted thirty acres of soybeans, and his mother tanned some animal skins at home and earned a meager fee. Apart from that, she had no source of income.

When Anda passed by, it happened to be the May soybean harvest season. Wearing a full military dress, he immediately rolled up his sleeves and took a sickle to get off the field. He and Liu Dayou's sister and brother-in-law finished harvesting the soybeans in the field. After the harvesting, they threshed the soybeans with them, dried them, and stored them. In the next few days, buyers from the Henan Fort Local Reserve Grain Depot will come to collect the soybeans they should pay. At the same time, they can also choose to sell the excess soybeans to the national reserve grain depot, which is one of the few ways for them to obtain cash.

In addition, Anda Shiwu also took out his combat bonus and went to Shanchang Township to buy a cow and a cart-pulling horse for Liu Dayou's family to facilitate his sister and brother-in-law to do farm work. He heard that Liu Dayou's mother was in a bad condition, Anda Shiwu even asked his old superior Lieutenant Xie Hansan to join her old superior Lieutenant Xie Hansan. Through Xie Hansan's relationship, a senior doctor from the county people's hospital was specially sent to Henan Fort for checking Liu Dayou's mother's body, and according to the doctor's instructions, he bought many expensive supplements to nourish her body.

After doing this, Anda Fifteen found that he not only spent all the combat bonuses and veteran demobilization fees, but also owed his comrades fifty yuan in debt. However, he did not regret it. On the contrary, his heart was much more peaceful than before.

Of course, his Tatan wife was not so open-minded. After hearing that Anda Fifteen not only spent all the bonuses but also owed dozens of yuan in debt, he never gave him a good look. However, Anda Fifteen did not care. As a high-income class with an annual income of more than 300 yuan, he did not take this money seriously. What he pursued was peace of mind, that is, fulfilling his comrades' obligations and fulfilling his promises.

In late May, Anda 15th, he took a return coal transport ship to Ping'an Town, and then took a supply ship to Meihe Township, which was upstream of the Yazi River. Now the supply ships between Meihe Township and Ping'an Town have been reduced to two shifts a day, because Meihe Township has achieved self-sufficiency in grain, and what needs to be supplemented from the outside world are only some means of production or building materials.

Anda 15 heard that the people from the Ship Design Institute are trying to replace all the small inland shallow water transport ships sailing on the inland river with steam power. However, in Anda 15's opinion, it is almost impossible to realize this plan in recent times. The steam engines for civil production have not been made smoothly yet, so who dares to install them on the ship? Let's talk about the steam engines in the factory first to run stably for a year and a half before it is discussed.

After thinking about it for a while, Anda Fifteen finished tea in one sip, and then walked towards the upstream of the Coal River with both hands on his back. As the Coal River became more prosperous, and the area was on the northwest frontier of the Republic, there were also Brazilian Mameluko ​​people with ulterior motives and a large number of Guarani indigenous residents. Therefore, the Executive Committee decided to station a force. The organization was initially set to two platoons, all of which were full of professional soldiers. The personnel were drawn from Meihe Township and Ping'an Town. The commander was held by Bai Shui, the chief of Ping'an Coal Mine. The daily training and patrol tasks were chaired by his adjutant, Sergeant Anda Fifteen.

June 1st is the date of official reporting, so Anda Fifteen is still on holiday these days. He walked to the island of Hexin in the Coal River, where his vineyards and vegetable gardens were founded. When he was hanging out in the police station, Anda Fifteen and several colleagues jointly established this plantation together to plant grapes and vegetables and sell them to nearby residents or enterprises. At the same time, they also made wine with grapes themselves. The wine they made was neither good nor bad. However, it was a rare delicacy in rural areas like Meihe Township, so the sales were sloppy.

Several Guarani employees bowed their heads respectfully. They lived in the society of the Eastern Coast Republic for a long time and knew that their boss had been promoted again and was in charge of the management and monitoring their positions as foreign Guarani people, so they all seemed cautious.

There was originally a large Guarani tribe near Meihe Township, and the Ayagi tribe who was the first Guarani tribe to come into contact with people from the east coast. In recent years, with the gradual strictness of the central indigenous policies, this tribe has gradually disappeared from history through repeated suppression, splitting and forced migration. A small number of people who opposed the central policy were either suppressed or exiled. Most of them were forcibly dispersed to various towns in the country, and a small part of them quietly integrated into local life.

These Guarani people are all "foreigners" who come from the north and west to live on the east coast, and are of the same nature as those Italians who cross the West Ridge and rush into the east coast to find jobs. Due to the country's desire for manpower and the low labor costs of these people, many formal residents of the East Coast Republic, who have a wealth of families, like to hire these people to farm, do work, guard the door, and do chores.

Moreover, in order to achieve the goal of long-term exploitation of their labor, many East Coast people who hired them would block these outsiders from going to towns to apply for naturalization. For this reason, the central and local governments severely cracked down on this bad trend. Anda Fifteen treated these people well, and they were all medium and high-quality in the nearby areas. They also applied for a household registration for one of the Guarani young men who had worked for three years. This made these Guarani people very grateful to him.

"How is the effect of the struvite transported from Peru?" Anda Fifteen asked casually. At this stage, the proportion of agricultural population in the East Coast of China is relatively low, and the total number of land reclaimed in China has just reached 25,000 acres. Crops such as potatoes, wheat, corn, soybeans, rice, etc. are planted, among which potatoes and soybeans are the main ones. If it weren't for the high-yield potatoes, it would be difficult to support the country's more than 20,000 people, let alone have the spare time to export to Europe.

Considering that a large number of new immigrants may pour into the country in the next few years, and the State Council's determination to reduce the proportion of potatoes from domestic grain production, if it is impossible to increase the scale of existing arable land on a large scale, it can only increase the yield per cultivated land, and the means to rapidly increase the yield per produce is nothing more than a kind of method - using fertilizers.

At this stage, the embarrassment of the three acid and two alkalis in the East Coast Republic can only be prepared under laboratory conditions. There is no way to talk about the industrial production of chemical fertilizers, so we can only find ways to find some alternatives. For example, human and animal manure (nitrogen fertilizer), wood ash (potassium fertilizer), struvite (phosphorus fertilizer), etc. The first two types of the first locals can be found, but struvite can only be imported from Peru and Chile.

There are many coastal islands in Chile and Peru, and a thick layer of crystallized birds and beasts has accumulated over the years on the surface. The locals did not know the value of this substance at this time. When the East Coast people commissioned La Plata to the local merchants selling cotton cloth to purchase struvies, they purchased several tons at a free price in an instant. After being transported back to the local area, they were allocated to various towns for trial purposes to see how the effect was.

"The effect is limited." said An Dahai, a Guarani man. "A technician came from above and said that this kind of stone is not...insoluble in water, and it takes a long time to take effect after being applied to the ground. It can only be used as a base...a base fertilizer."

"Well, then that's it." Anda nodded and said, "It's certainly reasonable for the superiors to let us do this. You just do it. Anyway, this struvite is very cheap."

"Yeah." An Dahai nodded, and then suddenly said to Anda Fifteen with some embarrassment: "Boss, I... I may not do it after this month. I am really sorry. I have applied for my ID card and recruited the garrison troops to Hezhong Fort. I signed up and have... been selected."

"Oh? You actually joined the army?" Anda Fifteen asked with a little surprise, "Don't feel embarrassed. You are only in your twenties this year and are strong. You have been studying literacy in the night school these two years. I see your efforts. Now that you have a good future, I can't delay you anymore. Take it, this is ten yuan. You have worked with me for three years, which is also a kind of love. This money will be regarded as the money I give you. No matter where you are, don't forget us."

An Dahai silently took the money, his eyes turned red. "I will not forget everyone. I must make a name for myself in South Africa, and then return home with my clothes...."

"It's a return home in glory." Anda Shiwu smiled and patted An Dahai on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry. South Africa has a mild climate, a good environment, and there are no epidemics. There is no big problem when going there. However, if you want to make a name for yourself, you still have to work hard. In summary, you must be loyal to the country, obey commands, and fight bravely. Life should be frugal and faith should be firm. Come on, everyone in our Anda Farm will cheer you."
Chapter completed!