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    Whether it is Batavia or Jakarta, it is now a past tense, and it is now the Governor-General of Coconut City in China.

    The land around Yecheng was originally in the hands of Han landlords.  After the imperial court ruled Yecheng, the governor encouraged the people to open up. The original tenants continued to farm while opening up the surrounding land.

    In a few years, tens of miles of land was expanded, and the land ceded to Yecheng from Wandan Kingdom was all developed.  The local Javanese natives either went to the city to work or worked for the landlord, otherwise they could only be expelled.

    The governor said that the aborigines should be educated slowly, but the Han peasants didn't care about that many, and they even armed themselves to fight.

    They will unite and fight whoever refuses to let them reclaim the land!

    On New Year's Day in the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, Lu Baohua and his fellow villagers spent the rainy season.

    Lu Baohua was a farmer in the mountainous area of ??Guangdong. The Datong New Dynasty was established. His parents gave birth to eight sons and one daughter in succession, and only two sons died in infancy.  How can the land allocated by the government be enough?  Not to mention the mountains.

    He successfully graduated from elementary school and finished middle school, but he only got a school certificate.

    Lu Baohua could only go to work in the city and worked as an apprentice for several years. He really didn't like it, so he asked his classmates to go to Guangzhou to make a living.  One day, he met Yecheng who was returning to his hometown to worship his ancestors. He heard that the surrounding area of ??Yecheng was full of land, and as long as he went there, he could reclaim it. The premise was that he could withstand the aboriginal attack.

    At least, you have to carry it yourself until the governor sends troops to rescue him!

    After thinking about it, Lu Baohua went back to the mountains and summoned the young and strong to go out to farm.  A few people were recruited in this village, and then went to the next village, village by village, and finally recruited hundreds of people to go to sea.

    They are all poor people in the mountains, and each family scrapes together, except for the boat money, there are still a few taels of funds available.

    They took farm tools, seeds and dry food and set off from Guangzhou Port by boat.  After reporting to the Yecheng Governor's Mansion, Datong Bank loaned them 22 taels of silver, and then they were taken to a forest dozens of miles away by officials.

    In the first year, the trees were cut down to plant sugarcane, and the seeds brought were useless.

    ?Because I heard from the local people that the grain harvest in the first two years was not high, but the sugar cane can be sold at a good price.  Sugarcane seeds are bought from local Han people, and the felled wood can be sold to merchants.

    Sure enough, the sugarcane harvest was bumper, and they couldn't wait to plant it for another two or three years, and in the second year they took out half of the land to plant upland rice.

    The yield of upland rice is low, but the taste is good and the price is high.

    The main reason is the lack of irrigation canals.  So in the second year, they dug aqueducts and bought water from local farmers to irrigate the fields. The water fee was calculated according to the irrigation time.

    In the third year, Lu Baohua presided over the division of fields and divided the cultivated land reclaimed collectively.

    This year, Lu Baohua asked his younger brother to go home by boat, bringing back letters and silver coins to the young and strong, and hoped to attract more fellow villagers to cultivate.  They said in their letters home that the land in Yecheng is extremely fertile, rice can be harvested twice a year, and they don't need too much fertilizer.  The agricultural tax here is lower than that of my hometown, and the first five years of reclamation can be tax-free.  After reporting to the governor, you can get a loan for land reclamation.

    When the four miles and eight villages heard the news, half the county was shocked, and more than three hundred young and strong went to sea together.

    In fact, overseas pioneering is very difficult, exposed to the sun and rain, and the water and soil are not acclimatized.  Although the yields of sugar cane and rice are high, the prices are often lowered by merchants. Although there is no need to worry about food and clothing throughout the year, there is no money left at all.  The money I brought back to my hometown was saved by tightening my belt.

    There were two batches of young and strong, with nearly 500 people. The governor allowed them to build a village, and Lu Baohua was elected as the village head.

    Among the young and strong, there are more than a dozen peasant soldiers.

    The Datong court reduced the number of peasants and soldiers many times, and it also stipulated that every peasant and soldier had to "retire" and recruit new recruits after only three years of leisure training.  To put it bluntly, it is a reserve service that does not receive military pay, but during the period of serving as a farmer and soldier, each person can be exempted from land tax of two acres.

    Only those who have land at home are eligible to be farmers and soldiers, and urban residents are not eligible.

    Lu Baohua's village is called "Sugar Rice Village", the name comes from the crops they grow.  A peasant soldier named Ge Shun was appointed as the captain of the peasant soldier because he had finished elementary school. All the young and strong were incorporated into the team, and they took turns to practice during the slack season.

    The governor does not encourage, prohibit, or manage this kind of peasant and soldier team. Anyway, it develops in a free-range manner, and the main combat target is the surrounding aborigines.

    "Brother, the goods are here!"

    Lu Baoliang brought people back from Yecheng, and he was going to buy arms this time.  The governor only banned firearms and everything else, so someone started making bows and crossbows for sale.

    Lu Baohua opened the box and took a look, he was overjoyed and said: "Good product!"

    ? Thirty pairs of crossbows, this thing is very popular in the countryside of Yecheng, and it is a sharp weapon against Javanese natives??We can only rely on ourselves to grab it!  "

    "What if we are rich and the girl from my hometown is willing to come and get married?" Xue Fentian asked.

    The name "Fentian" is very common. It is estimated that when I was born, I happened to meet the Datong Army Fentian, just like the founding of the new China and the aid to the DPRK.

    Wan Wenqing said with a smile beside him: "The aboriginal woman who was snatched can be a wife. If she marries a girl from her hometown again, the aboriginal woman can be a concubine."

    "It's a good feeling, and I can marry a concubine." Xue Fentian grinned.

    The content of the meeting suddenly turned to how to grab and divide women.  They don't have to worry about food and clothing here, what they lack is a family, and the hundreds of young and strong have long been exhausted.

    These young people have cures for night blindness, all learned from farmers and soldiers, but many of the natives can't see clearly at night.

    The plan for dispatching troops was to attack at night. Hundreds of young and strong men traveled through the forest and touched the outskirts of the native village at night.

    The natives were unsuspecting and ran around in the dark in fright after a few huts were set on fire.  While the Han people were young and strong, they placed torches everywhere and beat the gongs loudly, creating a formation of thousands of troops to kill.

    There was no suspense in the battle. After dawn, the number of people was counted, and more than 80 people were captured, of which more than 60 were women and children.

    "Burn this place clean, move all that can be moved away!" Lu Baohua was ruthless, catching women was the second priority, he wanted to destroy this indigenous tribe.

    The Datong government may have to face, thinking about how to educate the aborigines.

    These folk Han colonists came here no matter how convenient they were.  Destroy a few more surrounding tribes, and you will be able to sit back and relax in the future, without having to worry about harvesting food every year.

    Lu Baohua brought the captives back to the village, and all the men were sold in the city, while the women stayed to marry young men.

    Who can divide the women will be determined by drawing lots.  If you don't get it, wait until next year to grab it.

    Colonization is not a treat for dinner, it will always be so bloody.

    If things go on like this, I am afraid that in less than thirty years, Han farmers will be farming outside the city of Banten.

    Banten Sultan, definitely can't bear it, and will definitely raise troops within three to five years, even if they can't win, they have to bite the bullet and fight.
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