On the morning of October 3, 1659, Chen Ke arrived in Dashikou Township, located on the west bank of Wujiang River - a town that was besieged by the natives a year ago. Chen Ke himself was also a witness at that time. Fortunately, the armed police, township militia and merchant guards worked together to completely defeat the Guarani natives. Now, a year has passed, and the enemy has never organized such a large-scale offensive at that time. This can also show how much their losses were.

"Section Chief Chen (Chen Ke's position has always been vague. Although his superior authorized him to lead the development of the northern half of the Hejian area, his position is still just a section chief). Come with us to Wildfire Township. Local Spaniard officials came over to block our land reclamation." A clerk from the Joint Township Association brought a horse and said humbly.

These guys are so humble at this time. Where did they usually have the attitude of being unshakable? Humph! Chen Ke whispered a little in his heart. The so-called Lianxianghui is actually a loose joint self-protection organization formed by the five settlements developed in the north of Hejian - Shanchabao, Dashikou Township, Liushuwan Township, Xinji Township and Wildfire Township. The five towns communicate with each other, and respond to each other when they encounter enemy attacks. In a sense, there is a

It effectively makes up for the shortcomings of the government's superior forces. But in the eyes of "airborne officials" like Chen Ke, this kind of organization is abominable thing. Damn, it is not worth it to give me face, do not accept discipline, and vaguely unwilling to let him interfere in internal affairs. This is awesome! Therefore, after being so angry, it is no wonder that Chen Ke moved his office to the south and gave priority to guiding the development of Xiaolou Township, Liziyuan Township and Fengyu Township. As for the five towns in the north, there are opportunities to clean up slowly in the future.

"There are already militias over the Camellia Castle, let's go now." The officer who led the horse urged. Behind him, there were more than a hundred militiamen carrying rifles. Their clothes were varied, and less than a quarter of them had horses. The others probably could only walk or take a carriage.

"Let's go, tell me what happened while walking." Chen Ke waved his hand and greeted the police officers who came with him to get on the horse and set off.

"The Mestiso regiment is back and is stationed in the Spanish town of Posadas." The officer said straight to the point. "When they saw us clearing the land in the wildfire town, they sent officials to stop us. As a result, the young people in the local area were very worried and hung up the Spanish officials overnight, which led to Spanish soldiers. Fortunately, both sides were more restrained and there was no accident of accidental guns, but the tense situation was also true."

It is said that because of the Crandi riots in the core ruling area, the newly established Buenos Aires Procuratorate Court once transferred this infantry regiment of more than 1,000 people back to suppress the riot. The arrogance of Spanish officials and priests suddenly plummeted, which undoubtedly encouraged the people of the East Coast to pioneer wilderness at that time. Many towns were established later, and the illegal cross-border reclamation business was prosperous. But now it seems that the Spaniards may think that the "blind movement" of the East Coast people in the Hejian area should be curbed, so they not only set up a fortress-like town in Posadas (based on the original infrastructure), but also transferred a whole Mestiso regiment to station. The purpose is already very obvious, which is to interfere and prevent the people of the East Coast from pressing step by step.

The so-called wildfire town is located near the city of Leondro Alem in later generations, and is named after the spectacular wildfires of the East Coast people burned wilderness. The settlement currently has less than a thousand people, and the establishment time is very short. It is mainly based on growing corn and grazing cattle and sheep, a typical natural agricultural economy. However, the location of the wildfire town is also quite subtle, and it is basically the closest place to the Spanish city of Posadas. No wonder the Spaniards took action to stop the pioneering behavior of the East Coast people. Perhaps they cannot tolerate the existence of the wildfire town, but they just cannot tolerate the erosion and reclamation policy of the East Coast people's continuous greed and rush.

Chen Ke and others rushed to Wildfire Township the next afternoon - a township settlement that built a wooden fence and a piece of low earth wall on the outside. Here, he unexpectedly met an old acquaintance, Fu Lei, who had been promoted to lieutenant of the army.

Lieutenant Fu Lei has been training soldiers in the north recently and building a local security and defense system. He is basically busy. Chen Ke saw that his temples were a little white. He was only in his forties, which shows how worried he is on weekdays.

"There are too few regular soldiers, and many people are even unwilling to serve. Of course, this is related to the lack of abundance of population." Lieutenant Fu Lei felt bitter as soon as he met. "I once suggested that the mercenary service system be implemented among pioneers to cope with the new normal of security and defense. The core of this policy is that families with better economic conditions give financial subsidies to the service members to prevent the sparsely populated peasant families from being taken away from the last healthy labor force, but no one agreed. Later, I suggested that soldiers be recruited among all the proprietors to serve. These guys were also hesitant and unwilling to agree. Damn, is this still the land of our country? Are these people really nationals? Some of the early Corps and Fort cadres supported my opinion, but they spoke too little, especially in the Chen family and Xu family relatives' townships, where the Chen family and Xu family were gathered, and they had a loud voice, so they had to be well rectified."

"Then these soldiers..." Chen Ke pointed to the hundreds of gun-carried soldiers standing on duty on the fence and asked.

"Many of the garrison soldiers I brought from Chacha Castle are non-nationals, and less than one-third of the nationals who volunteered to participate in the garrison." Lieutenant Fu Lei sighed and shouted: "Doroshenko, please introduce our team to Section Chief Chen."

"Yes, Lieutenant." Doroshenko stood behind Fu Lei. He had been listening to the conversation between the two sides for a while. He only heard him say: "Many of our team are warriors from Poland and Ukraine. They are not only good at fighting, but also not lazy to work. You know, they are not like homeless people in southern Italy. They will not lose their jobs when they eat enough and sleep in the dirty bed. As long as they have enough money or the men have orders, they will continue to work until they are exhausted."

"Tell the point!" Lieutenant Fu Lei coughed, so as not to get the topic out of the way, the editor of Doroshenko, Cossack, was the editor of the previous volume.

"Ah, yes, the point." Doroshenko patted the 1633 flintlock pistol on his waist and said proudly: "We are all heroes who are not afraid of death. I can kill two Indian bastards with one shot. We have 165 people here. There are also 400 men in Wildfire Township. In addition, Section Chief Chen, you seem to have brought more than 100 militias here. Well, there are two small cannons. Haha, no problem, I don't know the combat effectiveness of the Mestiso regiment, and it's not a big problem to keep it here."

"I came here to negotiate with the Spaniards rather than fight." Chen Ke breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, then turned to ask Lieutenant Fu Lei: "It costs a lot of money to maintain such a team, how did the money and food come out?"

"I'll collect it locally. For those people don't want to join the army. If they don't want to pay even money and food, do you really think I have no means to deal with them?" Lieutenant Fu Lei said with a serious face. "A soldier in the garrison needs at least 320 kilograms of grain, 80 kilograms of meat, 8 kilograms of salt, wine worth 20 yuan, diverse non-staple food and medicines, clothes and other expenses for 5 yuan, and the business of camellia is prosperous, and I can afford it. Of course, if they tell me that I can't afford it, I have a way to make them pay. Do you really think there is no king here?"

It seems that Lieutenant Fu Lei also has no good feelings for those who live together (the Chen family, Xu family and even each have two or three hundred relatives and villages living together). They may be good at farming and management, but in the Hejian area where there is no royal law, they have occupied too many powers that originally belonged to the government, which makes Lieutenant Fu Lei a little disgusted - they are like those Italian families, at first, they are pitiful people in rags and lack any identification documents (many of them escaped from the Southwest Railway Construction Site). The police first

They were detained because they were extremely poor and stole food and hunger along the way (there was no "bread of justice" on them) and were unwilling to return to Italy. Then these people were sent to the Hejian area to open up land to enrich the labor force here. These Italian escaped workers did not even know the place name they were going to, but their desire to move was particularly strong and they tried to leave earlier. Many of them could not wait for the official permit documents to come down and even registered, so they went out in a daze.

As a result, after several years of picking tea, logging, grazing, fishing, beekeeping and even farming in the Hejian area, many of them had savings and then paid for Valentino, a famous labor broker, to help bring relatives and family members from their hometown in Italy. As a result, more and more Italians exist in the form of large family settlements in the Hejian area, which caused great trouble to the control of the East Coast people - who made the local area lack formal government agencies, officials, laws and even ********* machines?

"You have suffered in the north." Chen Ke sighed after hearing this, "The local support for us is still too little. Not only is there a shortage of supplies, but even people are short. At that time, Member Shi Qinjie and Shi told me that the central government would immigrate 30,000 new and old citizens to the Hejian area within a few years, but this promise has not been fulfilled yet, and I don't know what to do. No one can do anything! Well, it seems that after dealing with this matter, I have to take time to go back to the capital. Among the 30,000 people promised by the central government, many of the new citizens born in their own country. If these people are brought over and mixed with sand, I think what other clans can do?"
Chapter completed!