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On April 28, 1661, after two days in Cheng'en Township, Xu Yu was also ready to set out on the way back to Beining Town.

"This place is pretty good, it is fertile than the land we had on the banks of the Dayu River. If you work hard, there is no reason to do it worse than we were back then." Xu Yu, who had just walked around outside, said to Liu Houfei when he came back: "Do it well, the land is all mature fields in the manor, not bad. I remember that the land here has not been bidding and auctioned yet, so lend it to these new immigrants first, and repay the purchase money after they have harvested it. You'd better find people from the Brazilian rural financial cooperative, who are specifically responsible for this kind of matter."

"After several townships such as Chengen, Chengping, Pinghu, Beining and other towns were built, the prototype of a county emerged. In the future, we can rely on this county to radiate to the surrounding areas and actually control a wider land." Xu Yu finally said, "I hope the faster the process, the better. I am not young anymore. I hope to contribute as much as possible to the East Coast before the end of my life. You must also remember this. Whoever contributes more to the country will gain the greatest benefits. National interests and personal interests are not contradictory and opposition."

Liu and Qiao still humbly accepted the instructions of Xu Yu, a senior senior (now still the immediate boss). On the same day, Xu Yu led the militia and the convoy to leave Chengen Township, and Liu Houfei and Qiao Yu (deputy township chief, township armed minister, and also served as the police station director), the civil and military partners of Chengen Township also officially started their work.

To be honest, the village is really poor now! The new immigrants and the original advance team members have a total of 352 people. On the southern grassland, there is a village population, but here it is a township settlement. At the same time, they are also in short supply, especially various daily necessities. A convoy from Beining Town will be transported every half month (it is difficult to transport materials from Changshun Port to Beining Town, and the rate of mules and horses and vehicles is very high). Therefore, all things have to be saved because no one knows whether there will be any accidents in the convoy, which will fail to arrive on time; production materials are not very short of hoes, rakes, plowshares, shovels, pickaxes, axes, tug-of-war, hardware and tools, etc. Maybe the superiors hope that they will do as much work as possible here, so all kinds of production materials are given quite sufficient.

The most common here are probably the hundreds of various livestock left by the former manor. These can be used to plow the land, pull carts, or ride, and the effect is still very great. The daily feed consumption is huge, so the previous advance team cannot support it, so they can only let these livestock find food themselves - of course, such livestock cannot do heavy physical work, and the best cattle and horses were taken away by the owner of the manor who left, as if they were used for food and disposal along the way (historically, Uruguayan President Rivera brought more than 500 cattle by his side during a long trip, hiring two people while walking.

While eating, I occasionally sell some cattle for money when I encounter a town. Because the South American continent was vast and sparsely populated, it was only like this. This made the East Coast people very dissatisfied when they knew about it: That's right, the livestock in the manor had been forced to be purchased by the East Coast army with military tickets, but before they could send people to pick them up, you'd better, you robbed yourself and took away a large group of people as vehicles and money. It's really outrageous! For this reason, the military police had issued a wanted order for the family, asking all localities to arrest them, but this hope was very slim, and it was even less likely that they would be robbed of Indians in the wild.

"The most important thing now is to resume production. Winter sowing can no longer be delayed. This afternoon, we will organize people to go to the fields and divide the fields for people first. Let the livestock, seeds, and farm tools be divided, so that everyone can start production as soon as possible. The temperature here is not low in winter, and there may be no snowfall. Overwintering wheat can be planted. After the summer harvest next year, we can plant another season, and the grain reserves will be abundant all of a sudden." Liu Houfei sat on a stool made of a tree stump and said to his partner Qiao Yu.

"The people from the Brazilian rural financial cooperatives have not arrived yet. We have borrowed land, livestock, agricultural tools, seeds, etc. Will there be any problems?" Qiao Yu asked.

"Everything is done according to the rules. The loaned items are calculated according to the national regulations, so that each of these immigrants will sign a loan contract and then hand it over to the people of the Agricultural Finance Society. What's the problem? In theory, we helped them do their work in advance." Liu Houfei said indifferently, "After this matter, we will settle a major event in our hearts. Later, I can hand over the people to you, train them hard, and cultivate some group consciousness through collective training and collective labor. Otherwise, how can we gain a foothold in this wilderness where there is a crisis?"

After the two main officials of Cheng'en Township reached an agreement, the work was quickly carried out. However, something happened a few days later brought a shadow to the land reclamation work of this newly set up settlement: an Indian leader brought dozens of soldiers outside the township (i.e., the manor), stopped the East Coast immigrants who were logging and building houses, and then asked to meet the leaders of the East Coast people.

Liu and Qiao were soon informed that they called over 40 militiamen who were gathering in the open space behind the manor to train, mostly trained old citizens and some Ottoman Ganeshari soldiers, and asked them to load ammunition for the rifle, and then walked over together.

Liu Houfei had an elective Portuguese when he was studying at the Youth Cadre School, so he was able to have a simple exchange with the Indian leader named Calderon (perhaps a pseudonym), although the other party's Portuguese seemed very unstandard. Before meeting Calderon, Qiao Yu also told Liu Houfei an anecdote about the barbaric Indian tribe in Brazil that he heard:

An Indian tribe hiding in the forest, whose chief was a terrifying legend for a new Portuguese town in the parish of St. Paul. This leader once led tribes to attack the town twice a year. He was happy to blackmail whatever he had to give (just like the people of St. Paul's town redeem the city's expenses for the East Coast army). No one dared to resist him. For the first time, he led a thousand people to attack, and then gradually reduced the number of people he brought to hundreds, and then, according to the growing power he had established in that small town as he saw (because people were terrified by the mention of his name.

The statute was reduced to one hundred, and finally he felt that he was the undisputed owner of the town, so he came alone, as if his entire tribe was following closely behind, preparing to let the city experience the baptism of fire and sword - this kind of thing was actually widespread until the Brazilian Empire in the 19th century. There were a large number of unnaturalized "mountain people" and "barbaric Indian tribes" in southern Brazil, and they often had a close relationship with the Sao Paulo flag team and had considerable influence on the owners of the manors in the countryside of Brazil, but this was not something that the people on the East Coast today could know.

This time, the Indian leader named Calderon is not guaranteed, and they are also of this kind. They should also regularly go to Portugal manor to collect "tributes" and collude with the Sao Paulo flag team (the Sao Paulo flag team even dares to fight against the official team of Portugal, which shows its rebelliousness). They are one of the makers of order in the outfields of the city and have always been accustomed to being arrogant. But why did this guy suddenly come here? Could it be that he came to collect "tributes"? Thinking of this, Liu Houfei and Qiao Yu both looked ugly, and this matter was difficult to deal with.

"This is Chief Calderon!" exclaimed a free Indian who had worked in the manor. He pointed to the middle-aged man with four pistols and a dagger around his waist and said: "Chief Calderon is famous far and wide. If anyone dares to disobey him, he will definitely be in trouble. I think he should give him what he wants. If his conditions cannot be met, I think things will be very troublesome, and he may kill people in anger."

"We East Coast people have not yet given the precedent for benefits to the barbarians." Qiao Yu glanced at the Portuguese-speaking Indian and said coldly: "How many Chief Calderon have? Have you ever sieged towns before?"

"The chief has about two hundred strong warriors. I mean, are they malnourished under the custody and servitude system in the manor who are malnourished under the custody and numb, as if a gust of wind can blow down, but really warriors who can fight." The Free Indian swallowed, as if the man named Calderon had put a lot of pressure on him. He continued, "Chief Calderon's strength is not enough to make him attack towns, even in small towns. He is not enough to make the treacherous merchants pay for it. But he had tried to attack the manor, and that time he mobilized two hundred warriors to siege the manor.

A large manor that had been running for several generations failed, of course, but the owner of the manor was fed up with this endless harassment and agreed to give Chief Calderon some property as a plea, which led the villains to return to the forest. However, since then, regular collection of tributes in the manor outside the forest has become a fixed long-term income for Chief Calderon. The owners hated him for his teeth but lacked strength. The merchants and priests in the town were unwilling to do anything about this. Therefore, Chief Calderon has been free to this day. Now he should have come here to collect tributes. We should listen to what he wants..."

After hearing what the Indians said, Liu and Qiao probably understood a little. In their opinion, attacking the Portuguese manors - especially some large manors operated by generations - is not necessarily much easier than attacking small towns. First of all, the manors generally have solid walls, but not in the towns; in addition, there are often three generations of colonists in the manors, which may be dozens of people (mostly from mixed-race descendants). In addition, there are a large number of Indian thugs, dog legs, and supervisors who are the same ruling class as them. These people are more fierce and united than those in the town. It is not surprising that Chief Calderon was disappointed in front of them, but this does not mean that his men are not powerful. After all, more than two hundred strong warriors (and perhaps firearms) should not be ignored at any time.

Chief Calderon was not very good at speaking Portuguese, but with his language and gestures, the East Coast people quickly understood: three buckets of brandy, twenty cows and some cloth, salt, sugar, and tobacco were all essential, otherwise he would "destroy" the manor. After saying that, he put down his arms that had been waving before and exposed the four pistols on his belt more clearly. Behind him a group of Indian soldiers - perhaps Tupi, or Guarani - also waved muskets or cold weapons and kept clamoring, which made the faces of the immigrants of Huai'an who had just arrived here pale, and even some timid women cried softly, which added to the excitement of the Indians, who felt that they had already gained the upper hand.

"It's really a person who doesn't know how ugly he is, and a horse doesn't know how long his face is." After a while of silence, Qiao Yu suddenly snorted coldly, stood in front, and also revealed the command knife and pistol on his belt, saying in Chinese: "Don't panic, if we are here, we will be able to protect you well, and retreat first, and don't stay here to get in the way."

When the immigrants who were originally building houses and digging drains heard this, they immediately retreated to the manor like an amnesty, but dozens of immigrants who were cleaning the fields were still at a loss in the wild. They instinctively felt that this place was dangerous, but they didn't know what to do next. Although the Indians on the opposite side did not understand what the East Coast said just now, they immediately became alert. The soldiers behind Calderon raised their muskets and arrows, looking alert. Qiao Yu and Liu Houfei and more than 30 militiamen raised their rifles when they saw this, they also raised their rifles. The two newly-established sentry towers at the entrance of the manor also climbed up with rifles and pointed at the group of Indians below from a high point. Their meaning was already very obvious.

After more than ten minutes of confrontation between the two sides, perhaps they felt that there would be no result if this continued - although the number was more than twice that of the East Coast people - Chief Calderon raised his hand angrily, then led his subordinates to retreat step by step to the range of the musket, cursed fiercely in Indian language, and then quickly disappeared into the woods not far away. The East Coast people were concerned about the enemy's superior forces and dozens of unarmed immigrants who had not returned in the fields in the wild (perhaps there was a complex mentality of not wanting to completely intensify the conflict), so they allowed them to retreat.

"This is not a good thing. If Chief Calderon angers, he will definitely appear again. At that time, he will definitely bring all the strongest soldiers. We will pay the price of bleeding..." The Free Indians saw this and held the small cross on his chest and said with a look of dismay.

"Shut up!" Qiao Yu kicked the free Indian after hearing this, and said angrily: "The soldiers come and the generals come and block the water and the soil. We people on the East Coast do not have the habit of accepting our fathers and handing out tributes to ourselves. If Calderon comes, I will beat him so that his mother doesn't know him, I promise!"
Chapter completed!