After replenishing a large amount of food and vegetables at Xinhua Port, several ships did not stop for long, and soon set off south to Tacheng Port, and arrived at the wharf of Tacheng Port at noon on January 20. To be honest, Tacheng is now the second town in the new Huaxia area, and the development in all aspects is far inferior to that of Xinhuagang. The city has so far been limited to supplying ships with coal and water, with no bright spots, and a sparsely populated population of about a quarter of the size of Fort Neunew.

Therefore, the East Coaster's fleet of five ships (four clippers returned to the mainland) after replenishing supplies, with the wave of the 15th Anniversary of the temporary management of the local area, pulled anchor again and set sail, leaving the Tacheng Wharf, which was pouring rain, and heading south towards the 40th parallel, their next destination was the port of Gushan in Australia.

On 15 February, after experiencing the strong winds and waves of the westerly wind belt, the fleet finally arrived at the lonely Gushan Port in the southwest corner of Australia. At this time, in the port of Gushan Port, more than 2,000 Ming people were harvesting potatoes in the field under the scorching sun of the southern hemisphere summer. At the end of October, they sailed down from the snowy Blackwater Harbour and arrived at the Port of Goldhill in Australia after less than a month's voyage, where they recuperated and did what they could. For example, at that time, the potatoes in Jinshan Port were just entering the planting season, and some people began to sow the sprouted potato pieces under the guidance of local residents.

Others began planting spring wheat under the guidance of experts from the Ministry of Agriculture. However, the level of these Chinese peasants who have grown old fields is not necessarily much worse than that of the half-bucket water "experts" who come to guide them from home, and they are familiar with cultivating acres of land with ease. Then ploughing, sowing. Very skilled. Their farming skills are on par with those of the English immigrants, who are recognized as the strongest in the country. To the delight of local civil officials.

In the end, they unanimously decided to keep the old Ming Dynasty peasants, who were older and in poor health, in the local area, and distributed the fields to them. They will also be allocated a house when the resettlement houses are completed in a few months' time. With such generous conditions, these Ming people who have planted land for others all their lives scratched their ears and cheeks, and if they hadn't been stopped, they would probably have to kneel down and thank you.

Nearly 200 Ming people were left in Jinshan Port to graze and farm, most of them were Ming people who were too old or in poor physical condition to continue sailing, and their families. After adding these people. The total population of Jinshan Port has reached 600 people (including 90 black soldiers), and thousands of acres of thin fields have been cultivated, with more than 10 cattle, more than 50 pigs and sheep, and 12 military horses. In addition, there are more than 100 newly captured Australian aboriginal serfs, these Australian aborigines who are still living in the Stone Age were captured when the East Coast people were exploring the interior, and they are currently left in the East Coast people's cities to do some work such as digging soil and burning bricks, cutting wood and farming. However, I don't know if it's because of their intelligence or nature, they are always unable to do those seemingly simple tasks, and often try to escape. For this reason, the annoyed East Coasters decided to see an opportunity to send them all to South Africa to replenish the Dingkou of the Eight Banners.

Compared to the port of Jinshan in the southeast corner of mainland Australia, the port of Gushan in Western Australia is more populous. At present, it has more than 800 official residents. Its inhabitants come from a variety of origins, and most of them are Koreans from Hamgyong Province who have migrated from the past. The rest are either local technicians and their families, or families of exiled prisoners, or Malays forcibly relocated from the Falklands, and of course this place is also the station of the 2nd Squadron of the Advance Force, where more than 100 officers and soldiers of the Stand Up Force have also settled down.

Truth be told, the Executive Committee built Gushan Port as the center of East Coast rule in Australia. All of this stems from the extremely important geographical location of this place, Gushan Port is not only the only export port for the migration route of people from the east coast around the South Indian Ocean, but also an important transit point between the Blackwater region and the mainland, which is of great significance. In addition, from a military point of view, the fleet of the people on the east coast could go north from Gushan Harbor and go north to Batavia, the center of Dutch domination in the East Indies, which was of great significance in terms of tactical offensive significance and strategic deterrence. To this end, the Executive Committee has prepared to set up a deputy pioneer team leader who is directly responsible to the Executive Committee in Australia, stationed in Jiegushan Port, to fully guarantee the construction of castles, farmland reclamation, fort construction, port construction and other work here, in order to form a certain self-protection capacity and material supply capacity as soon as possible.

And if you want to carry out construction, you can't do it without people, and this naturally needs local support. And the number of prisoners and their families who are exiled from the mainland every year is only a few hundred, plus some Ming and Korean immigrants who have settled in the local area, the new population may range from 300 to 500 per year, what can this kind of population scale do? Not to mention that the Executive Committee also has a policy of controlling the use of indigenous people, which further blocks the way for Gushan Port to use the rapid development of local Australian aborigines. Not to mention the fact that there is also a rather troubling problem among immigrants, namely the imbalance between men and women.

In fact, this problem of uneven ratio of men and women has existed for a long time among the native European immigrants, and the majority of those who are willing to go to the New World are young and middle-aged men, and the number of women is very small, otherwise the French would not have given every French woman who was willing to go to North America a very rich "dowry". Many of the early European colonists who went overseas had no choice but to marry local indigenous women, such as Spanish men marrying Indian women, Dutch men marrying Indonesian women, Portuguese men marrying Indian women, etc., all of which resulted in a very large number of mixed-race people in the colonies. The political rights enjoyed by these mestizos varied according to the policies of each country, with Dutch mestizos enjoying the same rights as white Europeans, while Portuguese and Spanish mulattoes only partially enjoying the rights.

Of course, if there was a choice, these colonists were still willing to marry white women from Europe, which had nothing to do with anything else, mainly due to various factors such as language, aesthetics, living habits, and religious beliefs. In other words, it is extremely unlikely that intermarriage between different races will occur spontaneously, unless they do not have a choice. Just like the Spanish men killed those indigenous men and married the indigenous women, if there were white women to choose from, they would never look at those indigenous women more, unless you forced it, otherwise the process of spontaneous integration of the race will be infinitely prolonged.

In fact, the ratio of men and women among European immigrants to the East Coast is already quite good, thanks to the fact that the East Coasters have been paying attention to this matter for several years, and have also given every woman who is willing to go to the East Coast a very good amount of money. But Rao is like this, the ratio of European men to women coming to the East Coast is still about 3:2, that is, theoretically, one in every European man who comes to the East Coast will not be able to marry a wife. This problem is even more prominent among the Ming immigrants, due to the chaotic situation in the Ming Dynasty, the ratio of men and women among the Ming immigrants sold by the Portuguese is even more disparity, basically between 2:1 and 3:1, that is, there is only one woman in every three to four people.

This is actually a very easy question to understand, men are more capable of surviving than women in troubled times, and are less likely to be eaten as food by the hungry. The ratio of men to women among the Ming refugees who were collected by the people on the east coast in Shandong is also about the same, which can be seen from the more than 2,000 Ming people who were transported to Gushan Port this time, and there are only more than 500 young and middle-aged women with childbearing ability, while there are more than 1,500 men, a ratio of 3:1. This is still in Shandong, where the situation is relatively stable, and if it is in Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Shanxi, and parts of Nanzhili, where displaced people are concentrated, the disparity between men and women is probably even greater.

Therefore, in order to develop the population of Gushan Port, the most important thing is to marry the existing large number of local single residents and let them reproduce on their own, which is the most sustainable way to develop in the case of limited local blood transfusion capacity. However, this is not easy to say, there are still a large number of singles in the country, and the Executive Committee spends a lot of money every year to buy female slaves from the Ottoman Empire and some Middle Eastern merchants. In the past two years, the number of Ming people transported by the Portuguese to Xinhua Port has become smaller and smaller, and it has been less than 1,000 for two consecutive years, so the large amount of money saved has been used to buy Balkan and Caucasian female slaves from the Ottomans, in addition to increasing the purchase of strategic materials and repaying debts, but the number gap is still very large.

In such a situation, it is not easy to get some female slaves to come to Australia! Moreover, the Executive Committee has so far made no new moves, except for the distribution of a small number of indigenous women to the first batch of Irish residents who came to the New China Reclamation Forest, which shows that they are to some extent wary of Malay, black, and Indian women, and do not even want to see their mixed-race descendants further increase in the number of their mestizo descendants in the country. Thus, under this self-imposed national policy, it was so difficult to increase the population of the overseas colonies that there was no other possibility than to rely on local blood transfusions.

However, these policies are the collective will of the upper echelons of the ruling strata in the country, and at least so far there is no possibility of a change in course, and the colonies will have to wait honestly for local arrangements to develop.

Among the five ships in Gushan Port, two special ships for migrants will be in the port for a long time, and it may not be until early May when the trade winds rise to carry migrants and leave to return to Xinhuabao; After the remaining three ships were repaired, they left the dock under the leadership of Navy Lieutenant Liu Haiyang and headed east to Jinshan Port on February 28, and after a short rest, their next destination would be Yantai Port in Shandong. (To be continued......)