Madagascar has officially entered the rainy season in December. In Xinhua Port, Tacheng Port, St. Mary's Island Naturalization Port, Bay Island Lobster Port and other places operated by people on the east coast are shrouded in white and heavy rain. Endless rain pours down from the sky, filling rivers, streams and lakes.

The karst rock terrain in the mountains cannot hide too much water. Soon, the turbid mountain torrents carried a large number of dead branches and leaves, and even whining animals, and rushed out of the valley with an unstoppable momentum, and then flowed downstream along the east bank's river that people have been widening for many years and deepening. After Gungu entered the Coconut Shuxi Reservoir, its momentum was slightly slowed down, but as the water inflowed upstream became larger and larger, finally, after approaching the warning water level line, Coconut Shuxi Reservoir had no choice but to open the gate and release water, allowing these excess fresh water resources to rush into the New Huaxia Bay.

At this time, a series of hydraulic mills, hydraulic circular saws, hydraulic planers, hydraulic hammers and other mechanical equipment that were originally built along the river have all stopped operating. The workers stood nervously on the watchtower and stared at the surging river water to prevent them from coming to the shore if they accidentally came to the shore.

The storm, the thunder and lightning, the mountain torrents, and the power of nature is fully demonstrated at this moment.

However, in the tropical grassland area west of the Central Plateau of New China Island, the sun was hanging in the air like a hot fireball, constantly projecting the scorching sunlight onto the ground, scorching all objects on the ground. The cracked land was filled with smoke and dust, and it was extremely thirsty. A large group of animals were crowded on both sides of the Mian River, competing for the source of life such as water. Some small animals were accidentally dragged into the water by the Nile crocodile (Madagascar subspecies) in the Mian River, and then disappeared into the tumbling waves.

Today is December 15, 1648. For the cotton planters on the east bank of the Cotton River Harbor, it was just an ordinary day of dry and hot smoke. In the fields, a group of Comoros employees in linen clothes (actually serfs are more precise) were working hard. They held shovels and dug ditches in sections of the scorching sun, while their children grazed goats next to them, and patrolled the transplanted cactus fence walls from time to time - this was set up to prevent wild boars that often roamed nearby.

These Arabs and Bantu blacks were basically raped to the island by East Coast people through violent means. They lived in the ground nests built by the opened farmlands through their hard work. Through their hard work, they created benefits for East Coast employers (well, they are actually employers who do not pay wages).

The people of the East Coast were "kind" serf owners. They even allowed these serfs to continue living with their original families, which obviously prevented their morale from being too low. After the initial period of emotional instability, these serfs soon discovered that in addition to the restriction of freedom, their living standards were not affected too much, and even slightly improved.

For example, they can eat enough corn or sweet potato porridge now, and occasionally eat some cheap pickled fish and shrimp when they are heavy. You should know that even in tropical areas where food is rich, not everyone can fill their stomachs. If people in tropical areas can fill their stomachs, then the Dutch food trade in East India will not be popular. There is also famine there, and the severity is not much lighter than that in temperate areas.

In contrast to such a living standard, the resentment of these people has also disappeared a lot. Now, except for the hard work that cannot be adapted, they feel that everything is fine. In addition, their employers spontaneously united to form a supervisory team, with weapons, armor and horses, and were rotating to supervise serfs. Therefore, most of the serfs who had already taken their families to take up their families temporarily extinguished their thoughts of running away.

According to incomplete statistics, in the past seven months, the East Coast slave hunting team led by the infamous slave trader Ma Wanpeng swept across the islands near the Xinhuaxia region and captured a large number of native people to sell in the Mianhe River Basin to serve as labor force to develop the place. Of course, Tacheng Coal Mine, St. Mary's Island Coffee Pepper Plantation, and Xinhua Port Silk Coffee Plantation were also its main customers. A large number of Swasili people were sold to major plantations at an amazing cheap price, and then became agricultural workers in the legal sense of the East Coast Republic of China, and serfs in the actual sense, exerting every vitality of their own for these plantations that are still in the fortification period.

In addition to the planters and serfs of these pioneering wastelands, some Ming immigrants have been arranged here since August. These people are new immigrants this year. The New China Development Team "drifted" about 3,000 people as usual, and about one-fifth of them (nearly 700 people) were arranged to Mianhe area.

Of course, these people are free people - whether they are free people in the legal sense or practical sense. They built houses within the territory unilaterally designated by the Republic of the north bank of the Mian River: they are all mud walls because the local lacks corresponding building materials. These adobe houses are not a big problem in the Mian River area where there is less rain, and it will not collapse like the Xinhua Port area in the north. Of course, after the local brick kiln factory is built and the economic strength of new immigrants is enhanced, these houses will eventually be gradually replaced with solid brick and tile houses.

New immigrants are basically men, only about one-quarter of them are young women (childless elderly women in the East Coast generally do not transport them unless they happen to be the families of some young and middle-aged immigrants). However, compared with the local area, the New China region has never been worried about the shortage of women. Because the local supreme leader Shi Qinjie always considers the people and spends huge amounts of money every year to buy large amounts of Persian and Balochi female slaves from Muscat merchants who have long-term cooperative relationships with East Coast people, and then sells them to Mingren in a fair price - if you have financial difficulties, the government will even arrange loans for you.

Today, among the immigrants transported from the Far East Ming Kingdom, young and middle-aged men still account for the vast majority. In the early days, people on the East Coast were mainly recruiting refugees, and it was not surprising that the people transported were mainly males. However, when the East Coast was able to plunder the population on a large scale in the Far East, young and middle-aged men still account for the majority of the population, which has to be said to be due to policies.

The local executive committee members have always believed that transporting men from the Far East will help the development of the country. After all, there is only so much tonnage for transportation. Transporting one woman more will lead to less. It is more difficult for men to create value than women, and it is also more helpful for crossing the same races of blood to control the country. Therefore, over time, transporting more men and women from the Ming Dynasty became the basic national policy. Even some radicals even claimed that in the future, it is prohibited to flow into men from Europe, and only women are allowed. All men will come from the Ming Dynasty, and we "grassed" a new nation. Unfortunately, the number of women in Europe has not been very close, so this bold statement has never been fully implemented. Now, among the new immigrants who flow into the East Coast every year, there are still a certain number of white men, and the proportion of men and women among the Ming Dynasty immigrants is roughly maintained between 2:1 and 3:1, which is the current normal East Coast immigration policy.

Although the pioneer team continues to intercept the population every year, although the local people exiled here every year, and although the local people buy female slaves every year, the harsh natural environment, raging deadly diseases and arduous land reclamation work still cause a large number of laborers to die. Especially those exiled Indians, almost one-tenth of them died, and it would be good if one-tenth of them survived.

According to statistics, the population mortality rate in six townships in Xinhuaxia region in 1647 was 13%. Even if the number of immigrants imported (Ming people immigrants, exile prisoners and purchase female slaves) and natural population growth, the annual population growth rate was only 1%, which was incomparable to the annual growth rate of 20%.

The data in 1647 are like this, and 1648 is also different. Therefore, Shi Qinjie has done the most things he has done in New China for so many years is to transform the environment and increase the population, but the result seems to be inconsistent with his efforts. Whenever he thinks of this, he can't help but feel very distressing.

With the intentional guidance of the government, the plantation economy in the New China region began to heat up gradually in the past two years. There is no doubt that the demand for labor in the plantation economy is very huge, which obviously led to the prevalence of the slave trade. A large number of Comoros and Swasily people were caught on the New China Island (according to incomplete statistics, there may be nearly 6,000 people), opening up wastelands for the East Coast people and regular plantations, which greatly alleviated the local labor tension.

After tasting the sweetness of armed slave hunting, more and more planters in the New China region tend to expand the scale of slave hunting and accelerate the development of the local economy. However, this voice seems to have been strongly suppressed recently, because Shi Qinjie, the captain of the New China Development Team, seems to be a racist. He has a discriminatory attitude towards the mixed races of Arabs and blacks such as Comoros, Swahilis, and he has emphasized on informal occasions that after the labor required for existing plantations is raised, the behavior of capturing Swahilis should be stopped, and New China Island should not introduce people with black skin color.

Therefore, under such a wind, the newly born group of slave traders on the east coast suddenly jumped and couldn't help. Ma Wanpeng, the leader, was even more discouraged. He said in public that he would return to his hometown to retire and take out all the income obtained from the slave capture to build stadiums, theaters and other cultural and entertainment facilities, which caused a big storm.

Since Shi Qinjie obstructed the dream of turning New China Island into a black paradise, he could not ignore the problem of insufficient local labor. Therefore, at his request, the local people have now begun to use multiple methods to accelerate the exile of Indians to the New China region. So, the local people's expedition fleet to Persia shipped more than 2,000 Crandy exiled prisoners this time, and quietly approached their destination, Mianhe Port, New China Island, on December 15, 1648. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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