On May 15, 1647, Shengzerburg (the town of Pedro Osoliu, on the Pilatini River, was named after the scholarly corps that severely damaged the Guarani people).

Zhu Heng rode on the back of a Laschek horse and was walking staggeringly on the rugged mountain road. It can be seen that if the mount under his butt was a Bulgarian Laschek horse who was walking on the mountain road, it would be difficult for him to walk like a flying under such terrain.

Shengjieburg is built in this undulating hills. A brick-red complex is particularly distinct under the lush green leaves. There is a winding river in front and behind the brick-red complex, and the river bank is surrounded by neatly planned fields.

"A rare mountain depression is so straightforward. The government orders here are clear and the officials and people are united, but they are much better than the Ming Dynasty." Mr. Zhu Heng, who is over 50 years old, sighed softly and said. Although he has been immigrating to the east coast for several years, Zhu Heng still consciously or unconsciously regards himself as a Ming person. Often when he wakes up in the morning, he will be confused and think that he is still in Qingzhou City. How can the feelings of his homeland be abandoned by saying that he can give up?

A strong man in his early thirties who was leading the horse to Mr. Zhu nodded when he heard this and said, "Although I have never studied, I can see that the Ming Dynasty is ruined. If the old Zhu family doesn't give us a way to live, we can only get up and beg for life by ourselves. The east bank is much better than the old Zhu family. The one who gives us land, houses and daughters-in-law is more righteous to us than the boss of the year. Although I am not a good person, I am Baoding in the world of this big east bank! Unfortunately, the army thinks that I have too much habits and refuses to recruit me into the army. It's a pity!"

"You are proficient in killing, eating, drinking, gambling, rape and plundering, and what other skills are there in wars besides a brute force? The generals of the East Coast Country are not blind. Will recruiting you into the army ruin the atmosphere of the army?" Mr. Zhu cursed and said, "Besides, how much do you have? I know clearly outside Qingzhou City that day."

"Hmph, we only had hundreds of pioneers and rushed to Qingzhou that day. Both of them were exhausted. Zhu Dashan, you led several hundred soldiers to attack, but you were defeated and defeated. What's there to brag about?" When Li Qun heard Zhu Heng talk about the old things that year, he immediately turned his head to refute.

It is said that Li Qun was a low-level officer in the Shun Army that year. He followed Shangguan to Qingzhou to recruit surrender to various prefectures and counties. Unexpectedly, more than ten miles outside Qingzhou City was attacked by more than 1,000 landlords and village soldiers led by Zhu Heng and others. More than 200 Shun Army suffered heavy casualties, and less than half of them successfully escaped. Li Qun was among them. However, the landlords and armed forces of Mr. Zhu and others did not last long. After Zhao Yingyuan led 500 Shun Army cavalry to Qingzhou, they were defeated in one battle and the leaders were captured or killed. Only Zhu Heng escaped and escaped to the courtyards in the countryside of other counties and villages to hide.

Coincidentally, Li Qun, who had even met on the battlefield at that time, Zhu Heng and the other two arrived in the East Coast Republic one after another, becoming new immigrants here. Compared with Mr. Zhu Heng, who was worried about his homeland, Li Qun, who was born in Henan, did not have so many messy emotions. He joined Li Zhengang and others to join the command of Marshal Mo, and had a great impression of the East Coast. After coming to the local area, he saw a prosperous side here. Although he was no longer interested in farming, it does not mean that he could not see that the court was really thinking about their life as a fighter. Therefore, his recognition of this country is still very good.

Seeing Li Qun, the "thief" glaring at him, Mr. Zhu was just looking at him with a good attitude, and smiled without saying a word. After all, he personally led his army to defeat Li Qun and others, and later, when Zhao Yingyuan led his army to find the place, Li Qun and others were not there, so Mr. Zhu still had a little psychological advantage over Li Qun.

But perhaps because he thought that the two of them had left the Ming Dynasty and came to the east coast, Mr. Zhu lost interest in continuing to fight with Li Qun. He first smiled and then said in a lonely tone: "It's all the past, and I'll mention it. Don't say it anymore, don't say it anymore. In this foreign country, it's no point to fight for these things. You and I can be considered acquaintance. If you have any difficulties in the future, I will not stand by."

"Who wants you to help?" Li Qun muttered, but he didn't say anything behind him, but instead rushed to the road with his horse about a hundred meters ahead. About a hundred meters ahead was a small wooden bridge. After crossing the bridge, he entered the territory of Shengjieburg. They would better work harder and go there early to finish the work and rest early.

The two soon arrived at the small bridge where several militiamen with rifles were standing guard at the bridge. After carefully checking the documents of the two, the militia waved their hands to release them, so they successfully arrived at the settlement with thousands of residents.

Shengjieburg was established at the beginning of this year. The first batch of immigrants were from Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, with a total of about 1,000 people, including about 600 adult men, and the other 400 were women of childbearing age. When the merchant ships heading to Europe returned, hundreds of Greeks would be moved here, and perhaps a few (one or two hundred) old citizens from the three southern counties.

This settlement is located on the banks of the Pilatini River and has good agricultural conditions. However, due to the late development time and insufficient manpower, only more than 10,000 acres of land were developed here this year, and only one crop of corn had to be planted. The harvest was naturally terrible, with an average yield of only more than 200 kilograms per mu, which was very disappointing.

The special commissioner of the Ministry of Agriculture just came here last week to urge local township government officials to promote the three-crop rotation system as soon as possible, and to reclaim more wasteland before the end of autumn sowing at the end of this month to achieve self-sufficiency in food as soon as possible. However, there are many necessary conditions for promoting the three-crop rotation system, the most important point is that a sufficient number of livestock is needed - 8-10 cattle per family, otherwise the land may not be able to maintain sufficient fertility (lack of manure), and the large amount of alfalfa planted on fallow land is also nowhere to be digested.

If you want to get livestock, based on the current domestic situation, purchasing from the government is the only way out. However, all parts of the country are vigorously promoting the three-crop rotation system, and the demand for livestock has risen sharply. Calculated by one farmer needs 8 livestock, 10,000 farmers need 80,000, not to mention that the number of farmers in China is far more than 10,000, at least more than 50,000 (last year's data), this demand has gone soar.

A while ago, the army fought for such a long time in La Plata, and had been trying hard for half a year, before they could get more than 50,000 cows from there. Half of these cows went directly to the state-owned ranch in Ranch Township, Dongfang County, the capital. The other less than 30,000 were publicly subscribed nationwide and were quickly robbed. Now there are no extra cows? The chief officer of Shengjieburg went to the regional administration several times for this, but he had to come back only two thousand thin ones. The remaining beef cattle were not enough to be divided! What's more, the Northwest Reclamation Bank has not yet set up a branch office here, and local farmers have no way to buy cows even if they want to borrow money to buy cows - because they have any cash at all.

In fact, it is not accurate to say that they have no money on hand, so they just harvested a crop of corn a while ago, and they could sell corn in exchange for cash, so that they could buy some beef cattle to go back to raise. This is the reason why Mr. Zhu Heng and Master Zhu came here to see if there is any opportunity to purchase grain.

Nowadays, the country has controlled the franchise of staple foods (wheat, barley, rice, sorghum, mainly wheat and sorghum) and has vigorously cracked down on private grain trading among the people. However, there is no special restriction on the transaction of non-staple food potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, but allows free trading among the people. In fact, with the rapid decline in the sowing area of ​​potatoes and sweet potatoes in the East Coast China (because harvesting is troublesome, it cannot be harvested mechanized, and labor-intensive), the output of these grains, which are called "mixed grains" according to the East Coast standards, has also dropped rapidly. Corn is not bad because it is easy to harvest, but the sowing area of ​​potatoes and sweet potatoes is decreasing at a rate of 10% every year.

This time, Mr. Zhu Heng raised nearly 3,000 yuan in huge amounts of money from various domestic commercial partners (all of which were originally entourages) - all of them. They had been doing La Plata wool trade for almost two years, so they naturally had a lot of circulation funds. When they began to try to issue bank acceptance bills in China, this guy went against the opposition and asked those who did not trust these "broken paper" to acquire them.

Especially those Spanish farmers who had accumulated a large amount of bank acceptance bills because of forced repurchase of land, Mr. Zhu Heng and Mr. Zhu collected the bills at a price of 20% or even 30% off in their hands, and paid them silver dollars at the same time. For this reason, when he spent all the 3,000 silver dollars on his hands, he had already held one-year bank acceptance bills issued by the Northwest Reclamation Bank with a face value of more than 4,000 yuan. Liqun, who was hired by him, also held hundreds of yuan in bank acceptance bills on hand. This young man with a very speculative mentality seemed to be planning to use these bank acceptance bills to purchase grain.
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