Chapter 254 This is indeed a characteristic of a beautiful country

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 254 This is indeed a characteristic of a beautiful country

Chapter 253

Wu Shangzhi's news was relatively delayed and not accurate enough. On the land around thousands of square kilometers around Taal Lake, the 104th, 105th and 106th regiments that had been sent out seemed to have come again. These Zheng's recruits discovered their wealth code.

, beheaded to the first level, and rewarded with five taels of silver or five acres of land.

The combat effectiveness of the Luzon natives is far inferior to that of the slaves, and not as good as the Spanish or Dutch colonial troops, so their rewards are not that high. If each person is given fifty acres of land, I am afraid that even if Luzon is divided, it will not be enough.

Admiral Ning's.

Of course, Ning Haijun's army only counts adult men or women, but not children. This can be regarded as Cheng Shijie's kindness.

The settlement of the indigenous people in Luzon is directly equated with the welfare benefits of Ning Haijun. After killing all the indigenous people, the land left behind will be distributed to the soldiers for free, and the materials and wealth seized will also become

Their welfare, so these recruits' eyes are already red.

In the eyes of the recruits, these natives are not considered human beings. They are just walking money. They eat food as soldiers and train hard for a month, and the salary they can get is only one, two or five cents.

After these three regiments swept through, there were no more natives left around Taal Lake.

When Cheng Shijie and Wu Shangzhi arrived at the banks of Taal Lake, they saw a village with about seven to eight hundred people. The village had turned into ruins, with some wooden houses and a little smoke, and the air exuded an unpleasant smell.

There was the smell of vomiting barbecue, and several charred corpses could be vaguely seen in the ruins.

"These Zheng soldiers... are too crazy and cruel!"

Wu Shangzhi is still complaining to Cheng Shijie about the atrocities committed by the soldiers of the Zheng Group.

Cheng Shijie pointed at Cheng Shi beside him and said, "Cheng Shi!"

"Father is handsome!"

"These corpses must be dealt with immediately!"

Cheng Shijie said: "The corpse cannot be left for too long. Let's check and find out which army did this work. It's too rough. In the name of this commander, I give an order!"

"Yes, handsome father!"

Cheng Shi went to investigate and quickly obtained the results.

"Reporting to Commander-in-Chief, after investigation, it was found that this was done by the Chaoqun Department of the Fourth Company of the 101st Regiment!"

"Order to report criticism to Yue Chaoqun, commander of the fourth company of the 101st Regiment, and inform the entire army that the battlefield was not cleaned thoroughly enough. Once the corpses are not burned and buried deeply, it will easily cause a plague. All officers and soldiers in the army must prevent such things from happening again!

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"It's my handsome father!"

Cheng Shijie turned to look at Wu Shangzhi and said: "Commissioner Wu, you have also seen that this place has become a no-man's land. It is very close to Taal Lake and has caused several ditches. There is no need to worry about rain and waterlogging. Everything here is

It’s a good place!”

As we walked along the road from Manila to Batangas, we soon saw a large number of indigenous captives beginning to build roads, cut trees, or dredge ditches under the supervision of overseers.

This made Cheng Shijie a little strange. A veteran of the Zheng family introduced to Cheng Shijie with a Hakka accent: "There is no one in this area anymore!"

"Wait a minute, what do you mean there's no one left?"

"There is no one left, that is, there is no one left. They have all been wiped out!"

The veteran thought that Cheng Shijie was a nobleman who wanted to buy land, so he introduced to Cheng Shijie: "Those monkeys are hiding in the mountains and forests and constantly attacking us. They are so annoying. We will destroy all their strongholds and kill everyone who dares to resist."

Qingguang, who did not dare to resist, was sold to Xiyi as a slave, so now there is basically no one in the northern mountainous area."

When talking about these shocking things, the veteran looked very matter-of-fact and didn't even feel the slightest bit guilty.

"Commander, we must restrain them, if this continues!"

"There's no one here anymore, let's set up a town!"

"The commander-in-chief means..."

Wu Shangzhi no longer felt compassion for others: "These lands...can be sold?"

As the saying goes, the butt determines the head. In fact, Wu Shangzhi does not sympathize with the indigenous people, but because these indigenous people are also human resources and have people, the Luzon Management Committee can receive more taxes. For example, the six groups of the Zheng Group have more than 30,000

The men and horses were released and massacred. I believe these natives should know that Luzon has changed its owner.

If they are smart, they will definitely pay taxes to the Luzon Executive Committee. With taxes, the Luzon Executive Committee can develop better. In Cheng Shijie's plan, schools will be built in Luzon, and all Chinese school-age children will need to enroll in school.

Schooling is free, and the Luzon Executive Committee is naturally responsible for the school expenses.

As a member of the Executive Committee, it is natural to consider issues from the position of the Executive Committee.

"This is natural. The land without an owner belongs to Luzon and belongs to me. In addition to setting aside enough land to accommodate Ning Haijun and his family, other land can be sold!"

Cheng Shijie did not have detailed statistics on the amount of cultivated land in Luzon. According to later data, the cultivated land area of ​​the Philippines is more than 106,000 square kilometers, which is almost the same as the cultivated land area of ​​China. Although the cultivated land area of ​​China is nominally twice that of the Philippines

, however, more than two-thirds of the land is dry farmland that occurs once a year, and faces serious water shortages.

However, more than 38% of the entire Philippines is usable arable land, and 85% of the arable land is cultivated in two or even three types a year.

But the actual utilization rate is even higher than that in China. How could this make Cheng Shijie not salivate?

Wu Shangzhi asked: "Commander, how can I sell this land?"

"One tael of silver for good farmland!"

Cheng Shijie did not immigrate to the mainland for free like the Ming Dynasty, because in the subsequent settlement process, a large amount of military expenditures were needed, and with the Ning navy occupying Luzon, Chinese people from all over Southeast Asia who could not survive would definitely first settle in Luzon. These Chinese

They are all rich people.

Let them spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy tens of thousands of acres of land, and they don't have much of a burden.

Wu Shangzhi acted very quickly. In the afternoon of the same day, the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Luzon Executive Committee began to measure the land. Only in the northwest of Taal Lake, that is, the newly planned Yatai Town in Luzon was newly released. Yatai Town is different from the towns in the Ming Dynasty. It is horizontal and vertical.

Straight, bounded by the Batangas Official Road, 30 kilometers long from north to south and 20 kilometers wide from east to west. The total area of ​​Yatai Town is 600 square kilometers. Excluding hills, lakes and virgin forests, the actual cultivated land area is about five

More than 137,000 acres of land.

The Civil Affairs Bureau of the Executive Committee took three days to mark these lands from No. 1 to No. 100, ranging in size.

Wu Shangzhi and the executive committee began bidding in Luzon City. He adopted a block-based bidding method. Each piece of land was divided into thousands of acres, or tens of thousands of acres, and the bids could be hidden.

The first piece of land, which was more than 7,700 acres, was successfully bid by Yang Rui, a local Chinese from Luzon. His bid price was 10,800 taels of silver, and he won the bid with an advantage of 800 taels of silver.

The second piece of land, which was more than 14,000 acres, was acquired by Qin Wanli, a Chinese immigrant from Batavia. He bid 25,000 taels of silver, almost double the price.

The third piece, the fourth piece, the fifth piece...

A total of 100 pieces of land were released for the first time. The largest piece of land was bought by Zhang Shi'an, Cheng Shijie's cheap uncle, who obtained 72,000 acres of land for 18,000 taels of silver.

For 537,000 acres of land, a total of more than 1,239,000 taels of silver were obtained, and the average price per mu of land was as high as 2,000 taels of silver.

As Yatai Town was packaged and sold, Shanyang Town, which was adjacent to Yatai Town, was resettled into Ninghaijun Tuntian Town. About 6,000 Chinese who had no assets and could not afford to buy land were reorganized into 15 farms.

Hundreds of households.

As the land was planned, these farms began to be cultivated. The first people to enter were naturally the natives captured by Ning Haijun. These prisoners of war worked hard under the whips of the supervisors and contributed to the construction of Shanyang Town...

...Please make up your own mind about that scene.

If there were too many prisoners of war, they would be worthless. Similarly, the Chinese would naturally not be polite to those prisoners of war. They could not bear the heavy physical labor and died of injuries and illnesses, so they were buried and used to fertilize the fields.

Due to the day and night work of prisoners of war, Shanyang Town developed faster than the first established Yatai Town. When Yatai Town had just formed several plantations, Shanyang Town had already completed at least 6,000 wooden pavilions.

The houses of more than 10 Chinese people have been built. This kind of construction is not completed in one step, but develops slowly.

First, they built easy-to-build wooden houses to solve the problem of temporary residence. The prisoners of war began to collect stones and became busy building Shanyang Town.

Shanyang Town was absolutely crazy when it came to laboring prisoners of war. In just over half a month, more than a thousand people were fertilized on the land. They had to grow three crops of rice a year, four seasons of vegetables, and cut down trees to mine. All those who were unwilling to work were slaughtered.

With the fertile land and the hard work of these prisoners of war, Shanyang Town has developed rapidly. Within three years, this place will surely become Luzon's famous rice, sugar, and timber supply place!

When Liu Qingsong had six new regiments in his hands, the ensuing battle became smoother. In fact, it was no longer a battle, but turned into a one-sided massacre.

With mental arithmetic and unpreparedness, coupled with the advantages of equipment, Zheng's recruits performed better and better in the battle. As the new army's cooperation became more and more proficient, Liu Qingsong decisively divided the troops, with each company as a unit.

, six regiments totaling seventy-two combat companies, expanding rapidly like a big network.

"Damn, you're so unlucky!"

Yue Chaoqun lamented that the fighting power of these natives was too weak. Although they captured a lot, these natives were too poor. If they hadn't liked gold, all they would have captured would have been a pile of junk.

What makes Yue Chaoqun more troublesome is that because he has been criticized by the entire army, unless he makes a great contribution, he will not have a chance to be promoted within a year.

The Fourth Company has been reduced to nineteen soldiers. Three of the soldiers died of infection after being accidentally bitten by a locust. Five soldiers died of poisoning after being bitten by a venomous snake. Nine soldiers died because they could not control their pants.

Belt, under military law, only two people actually died in the battle.

"Pu Chi Pu Chi..."

Two new recruits who couldn't control their belts had their heads chopped off.

In front of the entire company's soldiers, Yue Chaoqun pointed to the group of ragged indigenous women on the roadside with unkempt hair and dirty faces and said: "How can you keep talking about such ugly and smelly women? You are really worthless!"

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Huang Liulang, who had been promoted to squad leader, asked cautiously: "Company commander, is this too harsh? It's not easy for the brothers... I don't mind taking them as concubines!"
To be continued...