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- The Merchant Market was located in Poughkeepsie on the east bank of the Hudson River. More than ten years after its establishment, it transformed from an original Indian trading post into a medium-sized city. 50% of the city's more than 13,000 registered residents are of Delaware origin. Or they are of Delaware descent, and nearly half of them are second or even third generation. ¡ñ¡Ð,
These new generations have long lost any substantial social contact with their compatriots who still stubbornly adhere to the original tribal traditions and live in the Binzhou or Songzhou Delaware reservations. Even because of the huge difference in quality of life, many second-generation young men are over 1.6 meters tall.
Many of the fathers of mixed-race Delaware children in Shangji are refugees from Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty who fled to North America. Their national identity cards also have ethnic labels of Chinese origin.
They speak with a gorgeous northern accent mixed with some foreign or primitive words. Young men prefer simple and lively modern-style clothes, while girls are particularly fond of dazzling and luxurious Chinese-style long skirts.
Their three meals a day are more like the families in southern China in later generations, including tea, milk, soy milk, steamed buns, steamed buns and stir-fried vegetables. From time to time, they also use rice, steak, ham, juice, cake, and bread to change the taste.
They are also the lowest-income people in Huamei. The average annual income of an ordinary family in Shangji City is less than US$300, which is only more than half of that in Porter City, the capital of Songzhou.
The economy of Shangji City is relatively simple. In the early years, it relied entirely on the mining of a high-quality anthracite coal mine belonging to a state-owned energy and mining group. When there was a shortage of coal in the country and anthracite coal sold for $15 per ton, the Shangji City Government, which had a large tax revenue, had to bear the burden. accounted for half of the construction costs of roads in the mining area.
Secondly, there are several small businesses invested by Li Xiang and his wife¡¯s Huayin Group in Shangji Market, which are managed and operated by his brother-in-law Mo Qi¡¯s family. They include a cement and tile company, a construction company, a municipal services company, a briquette company and a large poultry farm.
Now the anthracite coal mine with very small reserves is almost exhausted, and the city's fiscal revenue has been reduced by nearly half. The local mining economy has come to an end, but it has not carried out economic transformation in a timely manner like West Point Town did, thus becoming the first resource exhaustion in China and the United States. type town.
Many residents of Shangji City have chosen to move to Porter City, the capital of Songzhou in the north, or even further to Xuecheng, the capital of Yunzhou, in recent years, if it were not for the fact that the birth rate ranks among the top three in Songzhou. Otherwise, Shangji Market is likely to become the first Chinese and American town whose population will decrease after entering the 1940s.
This situation of lack of success in just over ten years may not be directly related to the ethnic composition of the people here, but it also once made the cabinet reflect on whether it was a mistake to choose this place to build a town.
In order to reverse the local economic decline, the Songzhou Prefecture Government and the Shangji Municipal Government can only carry out urban economic transformation. Large-scale agricultural development was carried out inland, and a large-scale deforestation and logging campaign was launched that lasted for several years.
Led by Mo Qi, the richest man in Shangji City, ax saws, steam bulldozers pushed forward waves, suburban forests were uprooted, and wetlands and swamps were filled in.
Thousands of high-quality wood are sold at cheap prices to the wood processing plant of Huamei Wood Industry Group in Porter City, and the rest are burned into charcoal. It becomes the raw material for smelting high-quality steel and sells it to the United Steel Company, a subsidiary of the state-owned energy and mining group, to fill the city's commodity output after the coal mines are exhausted.
This city-wide deforestation campaign lasted for four full years before a piece of agricultural land covering an area of ??more than 20,000 acres was dug out of the boundless virgin forest world. It was then quickly purchased by local people and turned into a farm.
But at present, unless the agricultural land is expanded two to three times and distinctive local agricultural projects are introduced, this slow agricultural economic transformation will not be able to get the market out of its embarrassing situation.
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On the last day of April 1646, the last batch of reserve veteran non-commissioned officers were called up to return to active duty. Reporting into the camp at the Xinbao City Army Base in Binzhou announced that the establishment of the Chinese and American Defense Forces Volunteer Brigade was officially completed.
Mo Qi, who had officially resumed active duty three months ago and was awarded the rank of Army Brigadier General by Congress, did not appear on the training ground with his men at this time. Instead, he stayed at Songzhou Shang Market to participate in a game that shocked the whole city. public appearances.
The style of the gathering was very strange. At the intersections leading to the central square, groups of solemn-looking city bureau policemen were maintaining order. In the center of the square, Mochi, who had changed into a classic Delaware Indian hunter costume, and a group of young supporters shouted and shouted around the giant bonfire raised in the city's central square. Waving his arms in a fierce manner. The non-Indian citizens who were watching were confused and dumbfounded.
Mochi was ordered to serve as a military unit with 70% Delaware officers and soldiers.As the supreme commander of the military combat brigade, he is naturally wildly sought after by all the Delaware citizens in the market. Although most of the rank-and-file soldiers in the brigade come from various Delaware reservations. It has nothing to do with the second generation naturalized Delawareans in the market, but the same ethnic pride still makes the citizens talk about it.
On the other side, at the Army Base in Xinbao City, Binzhou, driven by veteran non-commissioned officers who had resumed active duty, more than two thousand young people who had been driven from the reservation by the elders in the name of volunteers had carried out nearly four Yue's rigid and boring recruit training.
The volunteer brigade has a full strength of 2,880 officers and soldiers, which is almost the same number as other combat brigades, but the specific organization is a bit strange.
The light field artillery battalion and the cavalry company directly under the brigade are composed of official Chinese and American nationals. The other three infantry battalions and a light heavy baggage battalion are basically composed of volunteers from various Indian reservations who speak the Algonquian language, and the majority of them are Delawares. .
Combat engineer companies in all infantry battalions have been eliminated and replaced with standard infantry companies. The fire support platoon in each infantry company was also cancelled, and the four infantry platoons were all combat infantry.
If the 60mm mortars and 32a heavy-duty miniguns are used, which are complex and troublesome to maintain, a separate heavy weapons company directly under the brigade will be established and operated by official Chinese and American citizens. In addition, in order to strengthen troop management, the original gendarmerie platoon directly under the brigade was also expanded into a gendarmerie company in the volunteer brigade.
Even the brigade¡¯s training syllabus is very different from other combat brigades of the Wehrmacht or the Foreign Legion.
According to the standard training drills of the Chinese and American Army, the military training of all new recruits must go through two stages: the first stage is basic military discipline, physical fitness, formation and weapons drills, including square formation tactics similar to those in modern Europe; the second stage The content is even richer, including modern and modern field skirmisher offensive and defensive tactics, infantry and artillery joint offensive and defensive tactics, field fortification construction, etc.
Each training stage lasts for three months, so the entire recruit training cycle will be as long as half a year. Later, they will also participate in large-scale joint military exercises to simulate actual combat. Only the Chinese and American recruits are truly capable of fighting.
Fortunately for this National Defense Force volunteer brigade, the Army Headquarters directly canceled most of the training content in the second phase, and greatly strengthened the content in the first phase. The training time was also extended to five months, and only required the officers and soldiers of the brigade to master one set of Enhanced version of phalanx line tactics, simple infantry and artillery synthesis, and field fortification defense tactics.
In the view of some people at the Army Command, this different troop organization and training program is entirely determined by the poor personal cultural quality of the Indian reservation volunteers.
Although there are reservation community schools, those Indian young people who yearn for a Chinese and American life are still less familiar with Chinese American language. In addition to daily language, most of them can only understand simple military commands. It is difficult to command them to implement complex offensive and defensive tactics and infantry and artillery coordination.
They cannot operate complex weapons. The maintenance of 30a rifles and 32a heavy-duty rotating machine guns alone requires veterans to spend a long time teaching them, not to mention the operation of 60mm mortars with extremely high safety requirements. God knows if those Indian volunteers would not even know how to release the artillery service insurance when they were nervous. There were more than ten similar idiotic stories in the Foreign Legion.
Before 1635, these serious problems also existed in the National Defense Forces and the Foreign Legion. Therefore, as soon as the first phase of training was completed, recruits would often be put into the battlefield immediately. They would practice with the indigenous savages in the combat area, train with battle, and accumulate experience in actual combat. Experience and gradually complete the training content of the second stage. With the training of a large number of grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers in place, the second phase of training content has been truly implemented during the recruit training period of the Chinese and American Army.
At present, Huamei grass -roots officers and experienced officers are still insufficient. Therefore, the National Defense Forces Volunteer Brigade, which is privately regarded as a second- and third-rate unit, has chosen a low-end route in terms of organization and training. It only requires that the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the Chinese and American advanced infantry weapons can be higher than that of its European counterparts, and it does not expect to be on par with other Chinese and American combat brigades.
On the training ground, there are many recruits who were scolded by the sergeants after making mistakes. Some of the veterans, who came from Delaware naturalized families, spoke Algonquian. Using an incredibly fast speaking speed, he drove the red-faced recruits onto the playground track, and used the outrageous punishment of running laps to make them remember discipline and combat regulations.
When Huamei recruits soldiers, it has strict standards for the physique, weight and height of the recruits, but it faces the need to organize this army. Standards in all aspects have to be lowered: even if they wear military boots that have a certain visual heightening effect, the average height of Indian volunteers has just exceeded the passing line of 1.6 meters, and there are only a handful of them who can weigh more than 60 kilograms naked. .
So in private. Other Chinese and American defenses at Xinbao Army Base in BinzhouThe officers and soldiers also jokingly called the National Defense Forces Volunteer Brigade the "Short Brigade". Of course, such words would certainly not reach the ears of the brigade commander, Brigadier General Mochi.
In order to enhance the physical fitness of these carefully selected Indian volunteers and make them worthy of the huge military expenditures spent on arming them, in addition to compulsory vaccination with several types of vaccines, the brigade's logistics supply standards during the training period also had to be greatly improved. I don¡¯t expect them to be completely transformed within a few months, I just want everyone to gain weight.
Not only that, the brigade has also reduced many high-intensity training items, and the combat infantry¡¯s field bag equipment has also been configured as lightweight as possible to adapt to their weaker physiques. For example, reducing the amount of rifle bullets and grenades carried by a quarter, reducing the number of field rations per day, etc.
When General Chen Liwen, the commander-in-chief of the Army, personally approved the formation and training outline of the brigade, he made a very vivid private description of "an ancient army wearing gorgeous uniforms, holding gorgeous weapons, but using the tactic of queuing to kill" Summarize.
The only commendable thing is that most of these volunteers were good hunters in the reservation before joining the army. They are agile and adaptable to woodland and mountainous environments. However, these advantages are now offset by the heavy rifles and military backpacks.
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The Chinese and American Volunteer Brigades are working hard for the last two months of training. However, in the inland mountainous area east of Dongfu City, Haizhou, in a Massachusetts Indian reservation community, a chilling disease occurred. is spreading.
Local trade was officially banned. Dongfu City and Fuhe City both sent National Guard troops to block all land transportation to the reservation and conduct military quarantine in the affected area.
The cause of the disease was measles. A Chinese businessman from Dongfu City who returned from overseas in Bermuda did not show symptoms at the time, and then Shi Shiran entered the local Massachusetts reservation to purchase native products.
There are a total of five Massachusetts villages in this reservation, with a total population of about 3,000 people. Of course, this is the data from more than two months ago.
Died from vomiting blood, died from pneumonia complications, died from respiratory failure, died from liver failure According to the news brought back by the Dongfu City medical team that entered the epidemic area, the current number of Massachusetts deaths in the reservation has exceeded Five hundred, the same number of patients are bedridden, and there is a tendency for the infection to spread.
The measles detoxification vaccine research and development project chaired by Mr. Huang Nian twenty years ago has also entered clinical application in the early years. However, the supply of local newborns has not yet been guaranteed, let alone the Indians in remote corners of the mountains and forests. . Occasionally, the small amount of vaccines that can be spared in a month are mostly shipped to various overseas consulates.
It can be said that since the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the expansion of Indian trade, there have always been epidemics of diseases in Indian settlements across North America, ranging from colds to cholera and typhoid. In 1632, there was a measles epidemic in the Mohican village near Songju Porter City, and in 1634, there was a mumps epidemic in the Wappinger village in the east of Heping City, Haeju. Almost all people in the same village died.
Faced with this almost unstoppable invasion of the Old World, Chinese and American officials can only adopt the isolation model of epidemic areas to prevent expansion. It is unknown whether he is powerless, or he is full of energy but not strong enough, or even gradually becomes numb.
Those who survive will naturally become the lucky ones to continue their ethnic groups, while most people become victims of the Old World's "closeness" to the New World.
Of course, syphilis, a specialty of the New World, also launched a merciless counterattack, especially in some relatively remote small towns. New immigrants were often infected from local Indian women, which made China and the United States have a huge health care burden.
On the other side, after Quebec was blockaded by the Chinese and American navy, the French colony, which had difficulty even establishing itself, had to stop aiding the Iroquois Indian Union. The latter finally fell apart under the oppression and strangulation of Huamei for years, and a handful of survivors retreated further north.
The last few "red zones" within Yunzhou marked on the gorgeous map have finally disappeared, leaving only a large "green zone" representing safety and a few "yellow zones" with limited danger.
The fate of the five major Indian tribes in the Iroquois Confederacy was settled: the most stubborn Senecas and Mohawks suffered heavy losses under the heavy blows of Huamei, and were then swallowed up by the feuding Erie and Huron people; Huamei Sweet Under the division of date and stick, the Onada, Onondaga, and Cayuga people chose to succumb, and the remaining old, weak, women, and children were forced to move to the Iroquois Reservation in southwest Yunzhou near the Appalachian Mountains. .
The Iroquois Confederacy, which once dominated the northern part of North America, persisted in the glorious war of territorial expansion for twenty years. Their tenacious struggle to the death was ultimately in vain, and they became a discarded product of history.
Over two decades, thousands of Iroquois Confederate Indians were captured and used in the war effort?The status of laborers was spread across various mines or overseas territories in China and the United States. A few who performed well and received amnesty were placed in the South African Governor-General or the Indian Ocean Governor-General, becoming the most inconspicuous part of China's overseas colonial expansion. (To be continued.)
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