Chapter 49 The New World That Was Eliminated
The market is located in Boqi Puxi on the east bank of the Hudson River in later generations. After more than ten years of establishment, it changed from the original Indian trading post to a medium-sized city. 50% of the city's more than 13,000 registered populations are Delava or Delava mixed-race, and nearly half are the second or even the third generation.●⌒,
These new generations have long had no substantial social connection with those blood compatriots who still insist on the original tribal tradition and live in the Delava reservations in Binzhou or Songzhou. Even due to the huge differences in quality of life, many second-generation young men have a height of more than 1.6 meters.
Many of the fathers of the mixed-race Delava in the Shangjin Market were refugees from the Ming Dynasty who fled to North America. Their national ID cards also contained the Chinese ethnic label.
They said it with some gorgeous northern accents mixed with foreign or original words. Young men prefer modern clothes with concise and bright styles, while girls prefer gorgeous and luxurious Chinese long skirts.
Their three meals a day are more like families in southern China in later generations, including tea, milk, soy milk, steamed buns, buns and stir-frying. They also use rice, meat steak, ham, juice, cakes, and bread to change their taste from time to time.
They are also the lowest income group in China and America. The average annual income of ordinary families in the shopping mall is less than US$300, which is only more than half of that in Porter, the capital of Songzhou.
Shangji Market's economy was relatively simple. In the early years, it relied on the mining of a high-quality anthracite mine belonging to a state-owned energy mining group. In the past, coal was short of domestic demand. When anthracite was sold at $15 per ton, the Shangji Market government, which had a lot of taxes, took on half of the construction funds for the mining area highways.
The second is the Huayin Group of Li Xiang and his wife invested in several small businesses in the market, and the brother-in-law Moqi and his family are managed and operated. They include a cement brick and tile company, a construction company, a municipal service company, a honeycomb coal company and a large poultry farm.
Now the anthracite mine with very small reserves is about to dry up, 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 undergone economic transformation in time like Xidian Town at the time, thus becoming the first resource-depleted town in China.
Many residents of the market have chosen to move to Porter, the capital of Songzhou, the north, and even the snow city, the capital of Yunzhou, even further away. If it weren't for the high birth rate, the market would have become the first Chinese local town to decline after the 1940s.
This situation that has been in short supply for only ten years may not be directly related to the national ethnic composition here, but it also once made the cabinet reflect whether it was a mistake to choose this place to establish a town.
In order to reverse the local economic downturn, the Songzhou Prefecture Government and the Shangji Municipal Government could only carry out urban economic transformation, carry out large-scale agricultural development inland, and launched a major deforestation and logging campaign that lasted for several years.
Under the leadership of Mochi, the richest man in the market, the axe saw steam bulldozer was pushed flat, and the suburban forests were uprooted and the wetland swamps were filled.
Thousands of high-quality wood were sold at cheap prices to the wood processing plant of Huamei Wood Industry Group in Porter, and the rest were fired into charcoal. It became the raw materials for smelting high-quality steel and sold to United Steel Company, a subsidiary of the state-owned energy mining group, to fill the urban commodity exports after coal mines were exhausted.
This city-wide people's cutting and logging campaign lasted for four years before it could barely dig out an agricultural land of more than 20,000 acres from the boundless primeval forest world, and then it was quickly purchased by locals and turned into a farm.
But at present, unless agricultural land is expanded by two to three times and distinctive local agricultural projects are introduced, this slow agricultural economic transformation will not allow the market to get rid of the embarrassing situation.
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On the last day of April 1646, the last group of veteran reserve officers who were recruited to resume active service reported to the camp at the Army Base in Xinbao, Binzhou, announcing that the establishment of the Volunteer Brigade of the US Defense Forces in China was officially completed.
Mochi, who officially resumed active service three months ago and was awarded the rank of brigadier general by Congress, did not appear on the training ground with his subordinates, but stayed in the Songzhou Shangshi market to participate in a sensational public appearance event.
The style of the assembly was very strange. Several streets leading to the central square, groups of solemn city police were maintaining order. In the center of the square, Mochi, dressed in a classic Delava Indian hunter outfit, and a group of young supporters shouted and shouted around the giant bonfire that soared into the air on the central square of the city. He waved his arms in a fierce manner. The non-Indian citizens watching were stunned.
Mochi was appointed as the highest commander of an Army combat brigade whose proportion of Delava soldiers accounted for 70%, and was naturally frantically sought after by all Delava citizens of the Shangfa Market. Although most of the ordinary soldiers of the brigade come from the Delava reservations, they have no relationship with the second generation of Delava naturalized people in the Shangfa Market, but the inherited sense of ethnic pride still makes the citizens talk about it.
On the other hand, at the army base in Newcastle City, Binzhou, driven by veteran soldiers and officers who have resumed active service, more than 2,000 young men who were driven from the reservation by the elders in the name of volunteers have been under the guise of old-fashioned and boring recruit training for nearly four months.
The volunteer brigade has a total of 2,880 officers and soldiers, and the number is almost the same 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 were composed of formal Chinese and American citizens. The other three infantry battalions and a light baggage battalion were basically composed of volunteer soldiers from various Indian reservations in Algonquin, and the main ones were the Drava tribe.
All combat engineer companies in the infantry battalions were cancelled and replaced with standard infantry companies. The fire support platoons in each infantry company were also cancelled, and the four infantry platoons were all combat infantry.
Using complex and troublesome 60mm mortars and 32a heavy rotor guns, a brigade-directed heavy weapons company will be organized, and the official Chinese nationals will be responsible for the operation. In addition, in order to strengthen the management of the troops, the original brigade-directed gendarmerie platoon was also expanded into a gendarmerie company in the volunteer brigade.
Even the training outline of the brigade is very different from the combat brigades of other National Wehrmachts or foreign legions.
According to the standard training practices of the US Army, all new recruits must undergo two stages of military training: the first stage is basic military discipline, physical fitness, queue and weapon training, including square line tactics similar to modern European modern times; the content of the second stage is even richer, including field scattered attack and defense tactics in modern modes, infantry and artillery joint offensive and defense tactics, field fortification construction, etc.
Each training stage will last for three months, so the entire training cycle of recruits will last for half a year. After that, they will participate in large-scale joint military exercises to simulate actual combat. Only then can the Chinese and American recruits truly have combat effectiveness.
The Volunteer Brigade of the National Defense Forces failed, and the Army Command directly canceled most of the training content of the second phase, and greatly strengthened the content of the first phase, and extended the training time to five months. The officers and soldiers of the brigade were only required to master a set of enhanced quadron line tactics, simple synthesis of insidious artillery, and field fortification defense tactics.
In the eyes of some people in the Army Command, this different outline of the organization and training of the troops is entirely determined by the poor personal cultural qualities of the Indian reservation volunteers.
Although there are reservation community schools, those Indian youth who yearn for a gorgeous life are still relatively familiar with Chinese American language. Apart from daily language, most of them can only understand simple military commands, and it is difficult to command them to achieve complex offensive and defensive tactics and infringement cooperation.
They cannot operate complex weapons. The maintenance of the 30a rifle and 32a heavy-duty rotary machine gun alone requires veterans to spend a long time teaching, not to mention the operation of the 60mm mortar with extremely high safety requirements. God knows whether those Indian volunteers will not even know how to lift the shell service insurance when they are nervous. Similar idiot stories have happened in foreign legions more than ten times.
Before 1635, these serious problems also existed in the National Wehrmacht and foreign legions, so the first-stage training of the recruits would be immediately put on the battlefield, practice with the indigenous savages in the combat area, use battle to lead training, accumulate experience in actual combat and gradually complete the second-stage training content. With the training of a large number of grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers, the second-stage training content was truly implemented during the training period of the new recruits in the US Army.
At present, there are still insufficient grassroots officers and experienced non-commissioned officers in China. Therefore, the National Defense Forces Volunteer Brigade, which is regarded as a second- and third-rate unit, has chosen a low-level route in terms of organization and training. It is only necessary to rely on the advanced Chinese infantry weapons to be superior to European colleagues in terms of comprehensive combat effectiveness, and does not expect to be in line with other Chinese combat brigades.
On the training ground, there were many new recruits who were scolded by the non-commissioned officers after making mistakes. Some veterans from naturalized national families from Delava were speaking Algonquin. They used incredible fast speech speed to catch the red-faced recruits on the playground track, and used an outrageous punishment to keep them in mind the discipline and combat regulations.
When Huamei recruited soldiers, there were strict standards for the physique, weight and height of the conscripts, but in the face of the organizational needs of this army, the standards in all aspects had to be lowered: even if they wore military boots with a certain visual height increase effect, the average height of Indian volunteers had just exceeded the 1.6 meters pass line, and there were only a handful of people who could weigh more than 60 kilograms naked.
So in private, other Chinese American Defense Force officers and soldiers at the Binzhou Newcastle Army Base also jokingly called the National Defense Force Volunteer Brigade "Dwarf Brigade". Of course, this kind of words would definitely not be heard from the brigade commander Brigadier Mochi.
In order to enhance the physical fitness of these Indian volunteer soldiers, and to be worthy of the huge military expenditure spent on arming them, in addition to compulsory vaccination, the brigade's logistics supply standards during the training period also had to be greatly improved. They did not require them to be reborn within a few months, but only hoped that everyone's weight would increase.
Not only that, the brigade has also reduced many high-intensity training programs, and the field bag equipment of combat infantry is also lightweight to adapt to their weak physiques as much as possible. For example, reducing the carrying capacity of one-quarter rifle bullets and grenades, reducing the daily field rations, etc.
When General Chen Liwen, the commander-in-chief of the Army, personally approved the brigade's composition and training outline, he made a very vivid private summary with "an ancient army wearing a Chinese military uniform, holding a Chinese weapon, but using a queuing to shoot the brigade".
The only thing that is commendable is that these volunteer soldiers were mostly hunting experts in reserve before joining the army. They were agile and had strong adaptability to the environment in woodlands and mountains. However, these advantages are now offset by the heavy rifles and military backpacks.
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The Huamei Volunteer Brigade is preparing for the last two months of training sprint, while in the inland mountainous area east of Dongfu City, Haizhou, a chilling disease is spreading in a Massachusetts Indian reservation community.
Local trade was officially banned, and Dongfu City and Fuhe City both sent national police troops to block all land traffic to the reservation and carried out military isolation in the epidemic area.
The cause was measles. A Huamei businessman from Bermuda who returned from overseas to Dongfu City did not show any symptoms at that time. Then he went to the local Massachusetts reservation to purchase local products.
There are five Massachusetts villages in this reserve, with a total population of about 3,000. Of course, this is the data from more than two months ago.
Death from hemogloss, death from pneumonia complications, death from respiratory failure, death from liver failure... According to the news brought back by the Dongfu City medical team entering the epidemic area, the number of deaths in Massachusetts in the reservation area has exceeded 500, the same number of patients are bedridden, and there is a tendency to expand the infection.
The measles detoxification vaccine research and development project, hosted by Mr. Huang Nian, twenty years ago, has entered clinical application in the early years, but local neonates have not yet been able to provide all employees, let alone Indians in remote corners of deep mountains and old forests. Most of the vaccines that can be left in the month are transported overseas.
It can be said that since the first year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the expansion of Indian trade, some Indian settlements will always occur in various parts of North America, ranging from colds to cholera and typhoid fever. In 1632, the measles epidemic in the Moxican village near Porter City, Songzhou, and in 1634, the mumps epidemic in the Wapinger village east of Heping City, Haizhou, almost all the people in the same village died.
Faced with this almost irresistible invasion of the old continent, the U.S. government can only adopt the model of isolation in the epidemic area to prevent expansion. It is unknown whether it is powerless, or if it is too willing but not enough, or even gradually numb.
Those who survive will naturally become lucky people who continue the ethnic group, while most people become victims of the Old World's "close" to the New World.
Of course, the syphilis, a specialty of the New World, also launched a counterattack without mercy, especially in some relatively remote towns. New immigrants have been infected by local Indian women, which has always been a big burden on Huamei's health and medical care.
On the other hand, after Quebec was blocked by the U.S. Navy, the French colonies, which even had difficulty gaining their own foothold, had to stop aiding the Iroquois Indian Union. The latter finally fell apart under the oppression and strangulation of U.S. year after year, and a very small number of survivors retreated further north.
The last few "red zones" within the Yunzhou area marked on the Huamei Map have finally disappeared, leaving only the "green zones" representing safety and a few "yellow zones" with limited danger.
The fate of the five Indian tribes in the Iroquoi League was settled: the most stubborn Senica and Mohawk suffered heavy losses under the key blow of the beautiful country, and were then swallowed up by the vengeful Erie and Hurons; the Onanda, Ononda and Cayuga who were divided by the beautiful sweet dates and big sticks chose to surrender, and the remaining elderly, weak, women and children were forced to move to the Iroquoi reservation in the southwest of Yunzhou near the Alabachian Mountains.
The Iroquoi Alliance, which once dominated the northern part of North America, lasted for a full twenty years in the magnificent war of territorial expansion. The tenacious struggle that was swearing to die was ultimately futile and became an eradication of history.
In the past twenty years, thousands of Iroquois Indians were captured and spread throughout the country's local mines or overseas territories as prisoners of war. A few who performed well and received pardons were placed in the South African Governor's District or the Indian Ocean Governor's District, becoming the most inconspicuous part of the overseas colonial expansion of China. (To be continued.)
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