On March 26, 1699, Tongyuan Town, light rain.

The autumn rain in the southern cone platform is naturally extremely precious, and it is very similar to the adjacent dry Pampa. Therefore, even though the grain in the field has been harvested, the migrant farmers still cheered. The thirsty land is moistened by rain, and even if the food is no longer grown, these precious water sources can still seep into the ground to replenish some excessively consumed groundwater in summer.

Agriculture in arid areas is so ruthless! Water is the source of life and is also a famous saying!

It was in this autumn rain that General Ding and his group arrived at Tongyuan Town, an important western town. Except for a few civil servants, most of the army staff members wearing dark blue military uniforms were very different from the sky blue naval general uniforms on Ding.

Alas, there is no way! The grandsons of the Navy are so powerful. This time, they robbed the throne of the first person in the ** side, the chief of staff of the General Staff of the National Armed Forces (commonly known as the Chief of Staff of the Military Department). Ding Zhen was originally the Minister of the Navy and the rank of major general. After being elected as a member of the Executive Committee, he was promoted out of thin air and became a lieutenant general, which made the army so envious and jealous! You know, the army has not been a lieutenant general for a long time, and the highest is the Major General, the Minister of the Army, which makes people frustrated.

A few naval officers who followed Ding Zhen were full of energy. The dispute between sea and land has now become a joke. The east coast is located in South America, far away from the center of the world, but he wants to interfere in various places, interfere with the political situation of all countries, and control the trade routes. How could he not rely on the navy? Although the army has now expanded its troops into eight mixed regiments (the latter two are not yet satisfied), the navy has already occupied the majority in terms of military expenditure. On weekdays, they are born in the military headquarters.

The most proud thing about the navy's staff is to see the eyes of the army's people who almost choose people when distributing the military. Haha, there is nothing more exciting than this! More military expenditure means stronger strength, more opportunities for meritorious service, faster promotion speed, and all of them are related to wealth, status, wealth, beauty, and power, which are easier to be seized by the navy generals. The country's future depends on our navy!

"Everyone says spring rain is as expensive as oil, but I look at autumn rain is not inferior." Although Lieutenant General Ding still rides a war horse, which gives the army a little more favor. In fact, cars or cars are now popular in the middle of the navy, that is, they either ride new things bicycles or new horsepower steamed cars, which seem much higher than the army riding horses. In other aspects, the navy is also very high in size. They drink high-quality green tea, Cuban coffee, and French wine, and look higher than the army that drinks Daqu in the river. Furthermore, they only eat beef and only eat the meat at the back of their eyes. The army has less funds, so they can only make a little more money, which undoubtedly improves the navy's style. In short, the difference between sea and land is indeed quite large, one is fashionable, one is rich, and the other is poor, and it is clear.

"Although most of the newly moved immigrants here, some people are really diligent and will find ways to grow some wintering wheat. Even if they don't grow wheat, they will rush to plant some short-term beans and other things after the spring wheat harvest to increase their income." Seeing that the army officers did not have the intention of answering, a civilian official from the General Administration of Development coughed and said with a slight interest: "Chief Ding is busy with all kinds of things and will also pay attention to these people's livelihood issues. I admire him."

"Haha, it's good to be diligent. If you are not diligent, will the army transport supplies thousands of miles through the Andes in the future? How can we buy food locally? It's low cost to purchase pack horses locally? No way, these places can provide some militia and masters, how much money can they save?" Ding Zhen said with a smile.

In fact, since the East Coast government obtained the entire La Plata, it has started immigration to the inland areas and has never stopped. One of the reasons is naturally all of General Ding, who will reduce valuable military expenditures when he enters Chile in the future. Another reason is that it also adds sand to the Spaniards to strengthen the government's control over the mainland.

As we all know, because the Spaniards crossed mountains from Chile to enter La Plata, most of the colonial towns are located in the inland hinterland of the Pampa Plain, with a very large population and relatively developed economy. After the East Coast people obtained La Plata, it was naturally impossible for them to change this situation. Therefore, the construction of settlements in the inland areas occurred in order to change the local population structure in a short period of time, so that the East Coast government orders were issued without any obstacles.

At present, the East Coast government has built several settlements around several large colonial cities of the former Spanish such as Tongyuan Town, Datong Town, Ande Town, etc., including: Enkong Township (located near Enkong Town in later generations), Yinyue Township (located near General Roca Town in later generations), Bishui Township (located near Luhan Town in later generations), Zaoshu Township (located near Candelaria Town in later generations), Lixin Township (located near Elmiguero Town in later generations), Baihu Township (located near Urapes Town in later generations), Guanting Township

(located near the small town of Chepes in later generations), Wacun Township (located near the small village of Malayes in later generations), Jiahetan Township (located near the small town of Qiukuma in later generations), a total of nine settlements, which have resettled about 20,000 people, and completely connected the three big cities of Tongyuan, Datong and Ande. Even after the road is built, we can communicate with Yuquan and Mingjing District 2 of the new capital Luoyang Prefecture to form an entire economic circle, which will benefit greatly from the development of the entire inland area of ​​the central and western Pampa Plain.

There is no good plan for the economic development of these places. In addition to some small-scale mining industries, most areas are still mainly agriculture and animal husbandry. Of course, this is also in line with the central government's strategic deployment. These places now want to develop industries, and the superiors probably disagree. Their main job is to farm and grazing, just like the strategic deployment of China in later generations, that is, farming and grazing, a certain province in the Central Plains will be forever farming, and the provincial government will be criticized by the central government for a plane industry project, and then provide grains, fruits, meat, livestock and even the Master to the passing army in the future. It is probably only when the East Coast takes over the entire Chile, the industrial projects in these places can be developed to a certain extent.

By the way, they also have an important task, which is to build roads. The roads in the Spanish colonial era were so bad that they were terrible. If you take a carriage, the bumpy roads and maintenance costs would make you cry to death. Therefore, the East Coast government has now begun to invest in the construction of local highways, and the level is not low. It has both second-class national highways and first-class national highways, which is also quite amazing. It can be said that they have invested a lot of money. Therefore, immigrants who moved to the local area usually farm and grazed, and go to construction sites to build roads during the slack farming period, and have a low income. In addition, the tax exemption policy for several years before the new settlement, the lives of local people are still acceptable.

The arrival of General Ding and his group did not alarm the local officials too much. He just asked about the training of the local security regiment and the places where the disbanded former Spanish colonial army officers and soldiers were going, and then he went to inspect the combat readiness road under construction.

The lighter Ding is, the more stressed the local officials are. They understand that the future attack on Chile is likely to start an action from them, so the preparations for various wars must not be ignored. The East Coast shipping industry has developed for so many years, and the tonnage of ships is amazing, but considering that the future is global and the transportation tasks are heavy, normal trade and transportation must be ensured. It is impossible to requisition civilian ships to transport soldiers and materials without restrictions. Therefore, it is better to occupy less transportation tonnage, or to occupy less. Chile is connected to the east coast land and can attack from land, so it is definitely not necessary to use sea routes. Anyway, the Spanish army in Chile is like a bear, no matter how you fight, you will win.

As for Lima and other places further north, there is no way to use ships. According to the plan of the military headquarters, some warships in the Third Fleet will be dispatched, but it is enough to deal with the Spaniards to escort, and then requisition civilian ships to transport personnel and materials, implement targeted landing operations, give priority to the capture of valuable big cities, and then divide troops to sweep away smaller towns, in order to occupy the coastal area in the shortest time. As for the inland hinterland, the East Coast government’s own family knows its own affairs, and there is not so much force to squander. Anyway, most of its wealth is on the coast. If the coastal areas are built, it can be said to be occupied, and there is a basis for negotiating the cemetery with the Spanish government (or the French government).

After all, it’s not enough ships! Moreover, the East Coast government has too great ambitions and wants to occupy too much place, but it only listed 200 million French dollars in war expenses to put it off topic. If the war lasts for three to five years, the money will be a joke. It will definitely not be enough. I don’t know how the countries in the continent have survived.

After wandering around the dry Pampa area for almost a month, General Ding planned to return to the capital. After all, he was born in the navy and was more concerned about the development of the navy. He had done a good job of caring for the army. Anyway, the people in the Army did not trust him. No matter how much they did, they would be a glancing look for the blind man. It would be better to go back. Moreover, the navy's shipbuilding has been in full swing recently, especially the mysterious iron-armored warship. He felt that he needed to take a look. Although he was old and could no longer go to sea to command the fleet to fight, it was still possible to cheer up the navy men.
Chapter completed!