May 5th, sunny.

Fall in Uruguay has always been a favorite weather in Jinkora, as it often means harvest.

The 3,000 acres of soybeans have reached the harvest season. In the past, Jinkola had already been asking her grandfather to sue her grandmother and ran to the executive committee to request the transfer of personnel. Then she endured the ugly faces and various rumors of the heads of various departments, and was struggling to harvest food.

Jinkola was lucky this year, so he easily found the harvest staff. 400 immigrants who had just finished the construction of the port breakwater project and had not had time to be allocated were intercepted by Jinkola. In fact, this also shows that the East Coast Company's human resources are now small. Even the construction team can easily organize hundreds of people, which does not affect the normal operation of other departments. This itself is a very telling problem.

In fact, population is really a contradictory topic for the Executive Committee now.

On the one hand, it is the extreme desire for manpower by the travelers, and on the other hand, it is like the sword of Damocles, which is always hung over the heads of the travelers that cannot be escaped. The travelers' food reserves are always hovering at low levels. Every time they just harvest some food and base them, they are quickly offset by the rapidly growing population.

According to the latest round of statistics, as of May 5, 1632, the total population under the jurisdiction of the Crossing World had reached a record 3,169. Among them, 928 crossing people and free people, 317 prisoners of war slaves, and 1,924 contract slave immigrants. With so many people, the food and fish that need to be consumed every day is close to 10,000 kilograms.

How much grain reserves are there in the warehouse of the East Coast Company? In April, the second and third production teams of the Development Brigade were each 500 acres of potatoes, and after the 500 acres of wheat were sown in the fourth production team, the storage volume of grain in the warehouse was about 240,000 kilograms of potatoes, 90,000 kilograms of various fish products and 6,000 kilograms of wheat. In total, it was only about 35 days of grain reserves, which was enough to last until the 1,000 acres of potato harvest in the first production team in early June.

Fortunately, there are more than 3,000 kilograms of stable fishing catches every day during this period, so that everyone's grain reserves do not have to be so tight or so linger. Now it can be said that the Executive Committee is extremely fragile. A few hundred immigrants will completely defeat the fragile grain chain of the East Coast Company. Understanding how empty the grain warehouse is today, you can fully understand the great significance of the 3,000 acres of soybeans that are about to be harvested to the East Coast Company.

400 Finns and Czechs who had not yet been allocated were organized to harvest. In three days, these diligent farmers harvested the soybeans and threshed them. When they were put into the warehouse, they found that a total of 165,000 kilograms of soybeans were harvested, slightly exceeding Jinkola's expectations.

When harvesting soybeans, more than 100 students from the Navigation School and the newly established Dingyuan Army Officer School were also pulled over to help, which was part of their ideological and moral education. The youngest of these 140 students was 10 years old, and the oldest was no more than 15 years old, which was when the plasticity was extremely strong. The Executive Committee placed high hopes on them because this was an important attempt to convey and maintain the core values ​​and lifestyles of time travelers.

In addition to Dingyuan Army Officers' School and Navigation School, the Executive Committee has also expanded three ordinary primary schools on the basis of the original basis and mandated all children of appropriate age to enroll. In addition to allowing their children to enjoy free three meals a day, parents will also receive a subsidy of two yuan per year; while parents who violate the regulations will receive heavy labor punishment.

The school promotes Chinese teaching and encourages students to speak Chinese as much as possible when they go home. The school’s courses are personally reviewed and issued by Education Commissioner Du Wen. Currently, there are Chinese, mathematics, nature, society, art and other courses. Fortunately, there are many teachers here, so this time they can finally get back to their old career.

In addition to providing assimilation education for the next generation, the travelers have also used various methods to strive for cohesion for adult immigrants who currently account for the majority of the population.

According to the Executive Committee's 1631 regulations, every immigrant must regularly attend night school to learn Chinese and various rules and regulations. Of course, the content of night school learning is not all the same, and there will be some changes occasionally, such as teaching some values ​​of time travelers and ways to think about problems. However, only God knows how effective these methods are for adults whose thoughts have been formed. It is more effective to deal with them with economic means and to remember the bitterness and sweetness.

"In 1626, Wallenstein imposed war taxes in Upper Hungary, and more than 25,000 people went bankrupt; in 1627, 2,000 farmers in Silesia were robbed and murdered by the Wallenstein army; in 1628, Mecklenburg was captured, and the residents in the city were robbed by the Wallenstein army, and more than 500 people died in murder."

"In 1627, King Christian IV of Denmark was defeated in Lut, and the Danes who retreated in a hurry robbed the surroundings; in 1629, Denmark signed a contract with Austria. In order to pay the compensation, taxes were greatly increased in Norway, Schleswig and Holstein areas, a large number of farmers went bankrupt, and many died of illness and hunger."

"In 1631, the Earl of Tilly captured Magdeburg, and after a series of looting and killing, the population of Magdeburg decreased by a quarter."

"In 1631, King Gustav II of Sweden recruited a large number of male soldiers in Pomerania."

"In 1631, Prague was captured by the Saxons, and mercenaries robbed the city, with unknown deaths."

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These black materials from all parties fighting in the Thirty Years' War were compiled and sorted by Foreign Affairs Commissioner Gao Mo, and then distributed to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd production teams in which the immigrants in North Germany were concentrated. The working group sent by the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Education was widely promoted in night schools. Since these materials are based on facts and most of these things happen around these immigrants, they can resonate with these German immigrants.

The publicity department then added a fire to compare their lives before and after immigration. Several secretly bought immigrants came to the stage to speak, telling their previous life of wandering and struggling to survive due to war between the states in North Germany, and their stable and peaceful life after immigration to Uruguay. Since this is completely the true nature of immigrants, the effect looks quite good.

In addition, the civil committee member Xiao Mingli has also established a new religious affairs office within his jurisdiction. Currently, it has five people: Assistant Pastor Ye Yongxing, Reverend Francis, Father Pedero (the guy who was captured in the Chalua village), registered Taoist Wang Bao, Yu Ci, and Ye Yongxing is also the director.

These religious people are either traveling through time or European charlatans who have defected to them, and their integrity is completely a cloud of ecstasy.

Director Ye Da of the Religious Affairs Office assigned these people to different regions to develop believers, and at the same time, through the entry point of religion, he promoted the remarks of carrying private goods across the country to immigrants on various occasions, and transformed their thoughts bit by bit in subtle influence.

Since most of the European immigrants have had a solid belief, Wang Bao and Yu Ci simply regard the Chalua people, whose number has reached nearly 300 due to recent continuous capture, as the target of missionary missions. These Chalua people have been sentenced to five years of labor and are currently centralized on both sides of the Dayu River. Men are responsible for logging, women are planting vegetables under the guidance of the agricultural department, and children are sent to schools for forced Chinese education.

Since they were traveling through time, it was very easy to go to the Religious Affairs Office and the Civil Affairs Department to run funds and policies. In order to increase the success rate of mission, Wang Bao and the other two not only came from Ye Yongxing, the Religious Affairs Office, to provide 50 yuan of funds and some materials to allocate, but also obtained the promise of a reduction in sentence from the Ministry of Internal Affairs that they believe in Taoism.

This despicable policy made their missionary cause soar into the sky as if they were installed with a rocket engine. Not only were many of the Chalua people enrolled in the church, but even the European prisoners of war who were digging hard in limestone mines expressed their willingness to believe in the true god of the Supreme Lord.

Father Pedero was jealous of this situation. Since most of the immigrants were Protestants, Father Pedero couldn't afford it at all. In addition, the Religious Affairs Office delayed his application for missionary funds and was perfunctory. This unconscientious guy simply secretly ran to Wang Bao to express his willingness to convert to the true god of the Supreme Lord.

The amused and crying Wang Bao reported the situation to Ye Yongxing. Ye Yongxing was speechless at this slutty but greedy priest. Finally, he comforted him and promised to add additional missionary funds in the future so that he could be the signboard of the executive committee with peace of mind.
Chapter completed!