"The Taiwan Bank responds to the inspection team supplies various reserves, commodities, weapons and building materials, all of which are transported to the mouth of the Wudi River by ship, and twenty infantry soldiers are allocated to the ship, and their salaries are also temporarily allocated by the Taiwan Bank. If the above expenditures are incurred by the Taiwan Bank for trade within three years, the government will compensate according to the accounting bill provided by the company. This compensation will not exceed 5,000 silver dollars at most..." Han Qian, the manager of the Taiwan Bank's Miao Street, held a notice issued by the Black Water Development Team, and his face was dark and he didn't know what to say.

The new Commander Liao has many things to do. Just the next day, he led a team to the west to the Amgong River area. He first checked the development of Henggu Township, met with a large number of heads of the East Coast, including the Barkin family, and after chatting and laughing with them, he gave some liquor as gifts. The guests and hosts were all happy.

After inspecting the place, he ignored the dissuasion from Hengguen Township and insisted on leading people west along the river. He walked more than 200 kilometers along the way and inspected a total of five agricultural villages located here on the east bank (mainly planting rye, fishing, hunting, and grazing as supplemented). At the same time, he said that the Miaojie County Transportation Bureau would purchase several inland river boats to be placed at Hengguen Township Transportation Station, specifically to run the river transportation in the middle and lower reaches of the Amgong River, and strive to connect this place with the core areas of the county as soon as possible so that the local people can enjoy more and have greater convenience in their lives.

Of course, its greater significance lies in the convenience of dispatching troops and transporting materials. After all, the Among River is the largest tributary in the lower reaches of the Amur River. It has a long navigation distance. People on the east coast have managed the main stream. Now it is time to radiate through the tributaries to rule more people. The Among River is so good, and it is a pity to have five villages established over the years as fulcrum. It is really a pity not to use them well. At present, the only thing that is worth considering is that the population of these five agricultural villages is too small, with an average of about twenty households per place, which is pitifully small. I still have to do a good job in immigration in the future, otherwise these villages will not be considered effective fulcrum. At best, they can only be regarded as a tax post with limited utility.

It is said that after inspecting the Amgon River Basin, Commander Liao sent someone to send a message to ask the Taiwanese bank manager Han Qian to immediately provide all the supplies for the upcoming expedition team. The expedition team will set out in the near future. As for the immigrants from the five villages, they will not be found for a while. So I'd just send the new Indians to the village. A hundred people in one village will be stuffed into the strongholds first. The people on the east bank of the Amgon River must be firmly controlled, and this is not transferred by the will of the local natives.

"Forget it, the trade with the Dutch Red-haired Manufacturer cannot avoid the Black Water Development Team, and Commander Liao also gave us trade privileges in the newly occupied area. So what are you hesitating about? Well, I'll go this time myself." Thinking of this, Han Qian called out several capable subordinates and asked them to go to the dock warehouse to prepare supplies immediately, including but not limited to all the goods on the list. Who knows what will happen there? It's not wrong to prepare more things.

The subordinates took a few hours to prepare all kinds of goods, while Han Qian simply ate soba noodles for lunch. Before leaving, he took out several bottles of black water from the drawer and came from the Daqu River in South Africa and then hurriedly boarded a 35-ton old steamer that looked dilapidated.

The worn-out steamer slowly started under the control of a middle-aged Malay sailor. A muscular exile prisoner shoveled coal into the boiler to make the furnace burn more vigorously. Han Qian frowned and dusted the coal ash on his clothes, thinking that the company is old and rich, why not buy some brand new 72-ton inland steamer? The 35-ton old ship is too shabby and too old, and the repair parts are not easy to find. He also has to spend a high price to find blacksmiths in Heishui County to make the production. The cost is so high that it is better to buy a new one directly.

Because the nearby sea is mostly westerly and northerly, if you want to go to the estuary of the Wudi River, except for slowly drifting along the ocean current, you can only drive over steam-powered ships, such as the 35-ton inland steamer of Taiwan Bank. This old paddlefish, which looks almost disintegrated, sailed carefully along the offshore, crossed Happiness Bay, and crossed the inhabited Dasanthal Island, and then arrived on August 17th a coast with strong sea breeze and dense forests outside a sandbank near the Wudi River.

There was a group of indigenous people on the shore who seemed to be the Feiyakans. They were wearing thin fish-skin clothing, unkempt and fishy faces, and looked at Han Qian and others standing on the deck with fear and yearning. Obviously, they knew the people on the East Coast, not the kind of natives who were extremely foolish.

Han Qian sent a company employee from Fei Yakka to negotiate with these people, and then successfully hired these people to row a canoe to help unload the goods on the shore at the cost of a bag of Taiwanese sugar. Han Qian was very satisfied with the clever employee and said that he would reward him with an extra two yuan of salary this month, and then jumped to the shore first.

In addition to a large amount of supplies, there were four Taiwanese bank employees, including Han Qian, 8 inspectors who were responsible for the transfer from Miaojie County, and 20 infantrymen from Miaojie County Security Corps. As soon as they got ashore, these people began to cut down trees on the shore and planned to obtain some of the wood needed to build a house. Unexpectedly, as soon as they started to take action, the Feiyakans became panicked and said in a lingering manner that Cossacks had warned them that people other than the Russians were strictly prohibited from living here, otherwise they would vent their anger on the nearby Feiyakans and carry out inhumane aggression and killing on them.

After hearing the words of his subordinates translated, Han Qian snorted coldly and asked the soldiers to continue logging. If these Feiyakar people dared to stop them, then they would be polite to them! He had heard just now that the 80 Cossacks living in Udibao had been gone for a long time because they could not raise enough food. Therefore, the scumbags were probably going to Albazin to eat, or they returned to the relatively prosperous and abundant Yakutsk city, and everyone left.

However, it is still so deterrent that the Feiyakans were so scared that they were trembling. It can be seen that these Siberian Cossacks must have done all kinds of evil in their daily lives, but the Cossacks are fierce and difficult to deal with. Is it not that the swords of my officers and soldiers of the East Coast are fast? Humph, now this is our territory. In the future, all the Feiyakans and Ewenkans will have to obey our orders and pay skins, gold sand, medicinal materials, honey and wild goods on time. In addition, they must serve in the military, otherwise you will be beautiful!

When the Feiyaka people saw that the East Coast people did not listen to their dissuasion, they were very entangled. They wanted to stop them but did not have the courage. Let’s not talk about whether the infantrymen of the Miaojie County Security Corps with swords and guns could be defeated. So what if they could really do it? Do you dare to do it? Once you do it, there is only the area controlled by the desperate Russians, but life there is too difficult, so these Feiyaka people were very hesitant and very depressed, not knowing what to do.

Another subordinate of Han Qian saw that they were in a dilemma, so he stepped forward and persuaded them to surrender to the East Coast in local language, because the Russians had been defeated by the East Coast army, and these lands have now been returned to the East Coast Kingdom. If they join their families to join, they can not only continue to live nearby, but even if they can attract more people to contribute, they might also be able to get a gangster. After saying this, the subordinate dismantled two packs of Fulu Suxi series biscuits produced by Dafeng Food Factory from the cargo box, carried half a box of canned fruits, handed them over to the Feiyakans, patted their shoulders, and let them think about it carefully.

The entangled Feiyakans finally found Han Qian, the Taiwanese bank manager, before nightfall, saying that if the East Coast people could shelter their safety and provide daily necessities that they could afford, then they would not mind accepting the rule of the East Coast people, just like they paid taxes and served labor service to the Tsar officials. Han Qian was overjoyed when he heard this and learned that these Feiyakans were too far from Miaojie County, the "trading center", could only buy East Coast goods that had been sold from other Feiyakans and Ewenkans that had been sold several times (

This means the price is very high) and immediately stated that the East Coast government would provide them with shelter and convenience in life. Then, he organized the group of seventy or eighty Feiyakar people into a village called Wudi Village. The patriarch served as the village chief and trade representative. At the same time, he appointed the most brave warrior in the tribe as the militia director of the militia Bank as the vanguard of the East Coast colonization of the Far East. Naturally, he had the right to do so. The Blackwater Development Team government only needs to recognize the legitimacy of these appointments afterwards.

Han Qian, the manager of the Taiwan bank who conquered a native village, was in a good mood. The next day, he carefully inspected the commercial potential in these Feiyakan villages and around. And just as he was wandering comfortably on the banks of the Udi River, far south, the new captain of the Black Water Development Team and the commander of the Black Water Security Liao Xiaoyao had just finished his investigation there. He led a team that had expanded to more than 200 people to leave the rolling Amgong River, and headed northeast along the mountain valley road, heading towards Miaojiegang with difficulty.

During the days of investigation in the Amgon River Basin, the harvest was quite large. The tributary of this Amgon River flows northeast, and can navigate inland river boats. It originates from the same mountain range as the Udi River, Tugur River, Breya River and Jieya River. It is called Xing'an Mountains by locals, meaning "stone, huge, continuous mountains". The big river close to the Amgon River and similar to it can navigate inland river small steamer, and the Goring River is also the Goring River.

Liao Xiaoyao, with his entourage and 50 Miaojie Security Regiment cavalry, walked along the river valley. Due to the large amount of rain in summer, they had a difficult time walking, which was also a common problem in the Northeast. Until later, during the puppet Manchukuo period, there was a lot of rain and the roads were muddy in the summer of transportation. In that era, the winter in the northeast was the busiest season for transportation. Sledges and sledges came and went, transporting a large amount of supplies to various places, effectively promoting exchanges in various places.

The officers and soldiers of the Miaojie County Security Corps who accompanied Liao Xiaoyao and others said that in winter, it only takes fifteen days to walk along the river with a dog sled, which is very fast. Some people even say that in winter, it takes about five or six weeks to ride deer from Miaojie County to Yayangbao, the Russian stronghold, in winter, it takes about five or six weeks to arrive, which is much faster than in summer, which makes people speechless.

However, fortunately, here is the Amur River Basin. Not only is the main river channel wide and vast, and it can be used for navigation, but there are rivers like the Amgon River and the Goring River that can travel hundreds of kilometers by small inland steamer. This is a great luck, especially for the people on the east coast with developed water transportation. 》≠》≠》≠》≠》≠》≠》≠》≠》≠》≠》,

The reason why the East Coast people successfully set up five agricultural villages along the Amgong River in the past few years (also military posts, taxation agencies, trading stations, and small military stations) and attracted a considerable number of natives to trade was also due to this wide and vast tributary of the Amur River. The gunboats of the East Coast Navy once showed off their power on the river surface. The live-fire training and relatively neat military appearance of the East Coast officers and soldiers also made the natives very awe and were willing to surrender to our Great East Coast.

After Liao Xiaoyao came here to inspect, he added another article, requiring each village to hold a flag-raising ceremony every day, and to allow local people to attend, and to strengthen their sense of belonging in a subtle way. At the same time, he should inform them that the people on the east coast are not as tyrannical as the Manchus or Russians. They do not want to enslave anyone. On the contrary, they should protect them from violence and not forcefully interfere with their wind speed habits, and do not want to impose things that are incompatible with their traditions on them. Of course, if possible, local residents should send their children to Hengguen Township to attend classes and recognize words, which will be of great benefit to their future.

Liao Xiaoyao and his group also had many open and honest conversations with residents of five villages (and a large number of Shandan people who came to see the news and came to see the strange Shandan people living nearby). They talked about life in the mountains, movements of the Russians, flowing through various nearby rivers, routes on sleds or boats, and various difficulties that may be encountered during the trip.

Indeed, the information provided by the Feiyakar people is crude and difficult to understand. For example, when they express the distance between two places, they cannot accurately describe it in words. Instead, they only use charcoal to draw a few levers on the wooden board, indicating that they need to sleep for a few nights on the way when riding a horse/deer, sled or rowing to a certain place. As for the customs and customs between the two places, what are the specialties, the weather, and which tribe live in it, they do not know, or they know but cannot express it in detail. This made Liao Xiaoyao sigh to the sky and also increasingly realize the importance of educating these natives. These people are brave, but their level of civilization and productivity are too low.

On August 1663, Liao Xiaoyao took his entourage, guards and more than 200 warriors selected by the tribes to miaojie Port. Then, without delaying, he immediately divided the team into two groups. One group took a naval gunboat to Wudi Bay from the sea, and the other group went from land along the post office road through Shunyi Township, and the Hamburg Township area towards the mouth of the Wudi River. The two sides would finally meet there and then go up the Wudi River together. While promoting their national prestige, they also tried to naturalize the local people to include them in the ruling system of the East Coast people.

These Feiyakha people, Ewenki people, and Oroqen people are still very large in number, and they are not afraid of death. If you don't recruit or naturalize, then they may be attracted by the Russians. Similarly, if you pull them away, then when the Siberian Cossacks return here again, they will encounter great difficulties and will be difficult to move forward. Nothing else, when the flag of the East Coast Republic of China has been raised in those villages, and the villagers have strong bows, crossbows, armored steel knives and even muskets to protect themselves from their safety, the Cossacks may no longer be able to kill and conquer these people as they did before. Once they come, their casualties will increase exponentially. This is their biggest weakness with few troops.
Chapter completed!