Chapter 236 Changhua Fort
This place is Changhua Fort. [Full text reading] Since the first voyage around the island, Changhua, as the first independent fortress stationed abroad, has been expanded several times. It was originally a simple fortified bunker and expanded into a small coastal bastion. Under the fluttering morning star flag, a 24-pound naval cannon on the bastion controlled Sanjia Port, the maritime gateway of Changhua.
Less than a kilometer away from the bastion, on the coastal wasteland near the Changhua River, a large wasteland was surrounded by wooden fences and thorny fast-growing plants, and rows of livestock sheds were built. This place is Changhua Ranch - the main source of livestock and carnivorous livestock currently used in Lingao.
The Agricultural Committee raises a large number of famous Changhua sheep on the seaside pasture here. Cattle are supplied by local people. Wu Nanhai and Yang Guoguo visited Changhua Ranch many times to inspect and guide the work, and continued to expand the scale of the breeding industry. In particular, Yang Guoguo used Changhua sheep as the female parent locally and used frozen sperm to breed fine-bred sheep. The COA also sows high-quality pastures here in large quantities that are suitable for the local soil and climate.
Thanks to the efforts of the Agricultural Committee, Changhua now has a large number of live sheep and cattle transported to Lingao every month.
Outside Changhua Ranch, a small regular market has been formed. People come here on the first and fifteenth day of every month to trade various local products: cattle, cotton cloth, venison and deer skin, kapok and sapodilla beans are exchanged for salt, small hardware, Sugar and various daily groceries. At other times, Changhua Fort also dispatched mobile trade caravans to conduct trade in the interior of Changhua.
The large amount of groceries shipped from Lingao stimulated the people's consumption** - compared with the past when there was only one basket, what was sold was just some salt and hardware, and the prices were like those of traders who bought and sold dead people. The Australians provided The products have a wide variety, are of high quality, and are much cheaper.
Although the people of Li do not store gold and silver, there are many local products in the mountains. As long as they put in the effort, there are local products everywhere that Australians are willing to exchange. If the Planning Institute had not been unwilling to exterminate the deer of all sizes in Changhua and limited the number of purchases each month, the people would have killed all the local deer.
Such a transaction certainly destroyed the livelihood of some local people, but the construction and operation of Changhua Fort required a lot of manpower, and these unemployed people were quickly hired by Changhua Fort. Although some people are resentful, no one has the courage to provoke the "thieves" who are armed with live ammunition and cannons.
In addition to bartering with the people, Li Haiping also followed the instructions of the industrial department and hired a large number of local migrant workers to mine quartz sand to supply the glass industry in Lingao.
As Changhua Fort hired more and more people, Commander Li Haiping selected some young men from the hired people to form a "group training" of fifty people, equipped with machetes and standard spears, to defend the pasture. safety.
As for the local government, they turned a blind eye to every move of the Kun thieves - of course, even if they wanted to make a difference, they couldn't do anything. In Changhua, the presence of Ming Dynasty is quite weak.
This peaceful situation lasted until the Summer Awakening Campaign: a naval company and three 12-pound mountain howitzers landed at Sanjiagang, and then quickly drove to Changhua under the leadership of the "leading party" organized by Changhua Fort - Changhua Fort Regiment Training Under the county seat. Dian Shi, the acting county government officer in the county, surrendered without hesitation. As for Qianhusuo outside the city, although the strong men of the military households were once gathered to prepare for the war, when the navy launched the cannon, the soldiers of the guard station had just fired a cannon. They fled in all directions. Li Haiping commanded the sailors to capture Qianhusuo with one charge. The remaining people were all captured without any help, and there were zero casualties on both sides.
The Han population in Changhua is very small. Except for a few officers and landlords in Qianhusuo, there is no power that can be called gentry. Because there are few villages and many Li districts, ordinary bandits have no room for activities. During the Qiongbei Public Security War, there was always It was peaceful and there was no armed conflict. It is a typical example of peaceful takeover.
Despite occupying the county seat, the local governing body of the Senate has never entered Changhua County - the original Changhua dianshi "nursing the Changhua County Seal" is still in the shabby county government office. It’s not that I deliberately wanted to maintain the title of Ming Dynasty. In fact, there were really few buildings in Changhua County that the elders liked. Rather than staying in a county town with no infrastructure, it would be better to stay in Changhua Fort, which has a much better environment.
A few months ago, a joint working group sent by Lingao went to Changhua to conduct a comprehensive census. They registered household registrations, surveyed the terrain and towns, and drew up a land inventory. At least a number of people were arrested and several people were killed. Take all the local land, population and resources into your hands.
After some "purges", the Senate became the master of the entire Changhua County. More than 600 registered households and the same number of hidden households were all under the rule of the Senate. Become a workforce that is always driven.
Due to its small population, Changhua has almost no economy. Although natural resources are abundant, they are currently unable to develop them. There were not many military affairs and little civil affairs to manage, so the person who was sent to preside over the county administration and also serve as the commander of Changhua Fort was Kong Lingyang. Kong Lingyang was not an officer of the Fubo Army, but an authentic agricultural technician working in the Agricultural Committee. His appointment as the commander of Changhua Fort illustrates the Senate's positioning of this place.
Kong Lingyang is a "general" in the livestock department of the Agricultural Committee. He and Yang Baoguo are considered half peers. He also started out as a veterinarian and later worked at a breeding station. Although he is very good at everything from academic qualifications to work experience. He even brought a full set of professional tools from the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station and various breeding eggs and semen from improved breeds to the Cross-Training Group. However, after D-Day, he has been working in the Committee of Agriculture for a long time. He will assist Yang Guibao in animal husbandry work in a low-key manner, and is unwilling to show that he is too "professional" to avoid being cast into the role of "technician". Based on his personal experience in the old time and space, being a "technician" is far less successful than being an "administrator".
Yang Guogui is now famous in the Senate. Every time the Executive Committee holds an enlarged meeting on agricultural issues, he has to attend. It is indeed very prestigious, but in the end he will define himself as the "chief veterinarian" - Kong Lingyang's ambition was not in this.
A few months ago, he was dispatched to Changhua as director of the County Office and commander of Changhua Fort, which made him feel that he had finally taken a solid first step in his official career. Although this appointment was mainly based on his professional skills - the Planning Institute is currently unable to carry out in-depth development of Changhua, and its positioning of the local area is mainly agriculture and animal husbandry, supplemented by a small amount of natural resource collection.
In this way, when choosing the director of the county office in Changhua, Kong Lingyang, who signed up on his own initiative and had skills in agriculture and animal husbandry, and was not a key figure in the Agricultural Committee and Tiandihui, became the most suitable candidate, not to mention his After all, I have been a civil servant and have some understanding of administrative operations.
The status of Changhua is certainly not as good as that of the large county in Qiongbei managed by Liu Xiang and others, but at least there are about a thousand households in the county, with a population of less than 10,000. There is a reinforced platoon of marines and a newly formed National Army County Guard Company - the original Changhua Fort regiment training. Although it is called a company, there are currently only more than fifty people, and it needs to be further adjusted and enriched.
Most of the members of the National Army garrison companies established in various counties are recruited locally and are currently only needed for emergencies. After the situation in each county stabilizes and a large number of immigrants arrive, the Training Directorate will conduct adjustments and rotation training for all National Army county guard companies. According to the plan, some people in each company will serve locally and some will serve in other places.
At this time, a small banquet was being held in the top hall of the main tower in the bastion to welcome Major Wei Aiwen, Mu Min and Fang Jinghan from the Political Office of the General Staff who had just arrived by boat.
On the table, there are more than ten dishes steaming hot, all provided by local vegetable gardens, livestock pens and fishing boats. The most eye-catching one is a large plate full of kebabs, sprinkled with sesame seeds, cumin and chili peppers, and grilled to a fragrant aroma. . Although eating this dish in Changhua during the hot summer is a bit unpalatable, for the elders who are seriously short of meat and consume a lot of meat, the climate will not affect their appetite.
There is no refrigeration equipment or ice in the house, but it is close to the seaside and on the third floor. The windows are open and the sea breeze is refreshing. Coupled with a large amount of refreshing drinks chilled in the well, several people were sweating and shouting happily after eating.
Except for Mu Min who ate less, Wei Aiwen and others ate haise, and soon the table was filled with bamboo sticks for skewering meat and many bottles of kvass, rice and beer.
Kong Lingyang doesn't eat much food - the food supply here is abundant, and he is one of the few elders who can eat meat every day. Kong Lingyang was a fat man wearing square glasses and a cotton summer training uniform made by Lingao. He was wiping sweat with a towel while inviting everyone to eat and drink.
"Lao Kong, the conditions here are really good." Wei Aiwen finally finished eating. He sighed in admiration while picking his teeth.
"It's not as good as the leadership of the Senate and the Executive Committee there..." Kong Lingyang avoided mentioning the names of General Wen and the Governor, lest they have too distinct personal characteristics. It is important not to arbitrarily take sides before the situation is clear. This is one of the lessons Kong Lingyang has learned from his more than five years as a civil servant.
"Don't do this in vain." Wei Aiwen chuckled, "The one who is closer to the water gets the better. We are not unreasonable people." He burped and asked the others: "Let's talk about work next. Something, right?"
Mu Min nodded: "I'm full too, and it's time to talk."
Fang Jinghan and others naturally had no objections - everyone was eating to the point of being exhausted.
Kong Lingyang nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay." The caregiver cleared away the leftovers on the table and prepared tea, paper and stationery. He guessed that the sudden arrival of "people from the central government" was probably related to local Li affairs.
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