Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 659 Star Lake Ranch

  In the past ten years

The prices of Australian ranches have been rising steadily. In the Earls Territory with the Red River Valley and the Brisbane metropolitan area as the core, the price of land has risen dozens of times. The unit price of ranches in the vast northern Queensland area has also risen by five to six times. many.

Comparison

  The value of more fully developed land in Victoria and New South Wales has also risen, and fools can also see that these lands have broad appreciation potential in the future.

Major Bian Chunsong’s ranch is a good landlord, but his success is irreproducible. The entire B Corps has only one tank battalion, and the entire tank battalion has only one battalion commander. His field of merit is more than that of the regular army colonel commander. , Others are not envious.

  Captain Li Zhong and Captain Wu Baoli are tank squadron captains, and the merits they can get are about 50% off. Unfortunately, they can’t get them now. They can only be assigned once unless they are promoted to the Major Military Street.

"Brother Song, seeing that your ranch is so beautiful, I can't help but want to retire. When that happens, Azhong and I will be next to you as a company, each run a large ranch, and find a few beautiful ones. A white concubine of a white female, and then marry a well-known young lady who was born as his wife, and give birth to a lot of cubs." Captain Wu Baoli is fascinated by the future life, both eyes are shining stars.

  Captain Li Zhong rolled his eyes and said, "If you want to retire, you can go and retire. I won't go anyway, my head is pretty funny."

"Hehehe, that's what I said." Captain Wu Baoli sat under the eaves of the gallery, leaned his bright leather boots on the wooden railing comfortably, and took a sip of beer and said; "There is no battle to fight here. There is no military merit. It is really difficult for our rank to be promoted. It is estimated that it will take at least four or five years to climb from a lieutenant to a colonel. If you are not lucky, it is possible for six or seven years. I really want this war to continue! "

   "Come on, if you continue to fight, our majesty will go bankrupt."

"That's true. I heard from the newspapers that the war cost more than 60 million pounds. His Majesty the King has made a deficit of more than 20 million pounds. New South Wales and Victoria didn't need an inch of such good land, just The state of Tasmaia was confiscated into the royal family's private domain. No one wants to go to that horrible place!"

  "The southern states are mainly for resettling immigrants and officers and soldiers. Tasmania is said to have no plans for development. It will take decades to talk about it."

   "Hey, did you know that His Majesty the King seems to be going to visit the mainland?"

"I heard that Mr. Taishan Gu, who was appointed as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, is critically ill, and Starry Night from Borneo sent the special medicine Cinchona Cream. It is said that Mr. Gu has stabilized his condition. There will be no major problems. The matter is already high, you have to take care of it."

   "Oh, this way, I should visit as soon as possible."

"What do you know? His Majesty's travel is not a trivial matter. The knowledge inside is big, but it is not a small family who just walk away. The newspaper said that the Manchu Qing Dynasty sent a prince to the Guangdong and Guangxi regions to meet him. It is estimated that at least one must be prepared. Two months."

   "Being filial piety before the sickbed was originally something that should be fulfilled."

"Polyboy, really speaking, those of us who were orphans born in the Eagle School should take care of the old man’s love, we should knock twice before Mr. Gu’s sick bed. If there is no shelter from Mr. Gu, we will spread all over the coast of China. The young eagle schools in the region have trouble running smoothly, and the local corrupt officials are like snakes and scorpions. They can't do it without a strong background."

"Didn’t it say in the newspaper that the emperor Tarzi of the Manchu Qing gave His Majesty the title of “King Wu”. With this background, the local officials should keep a decent amount for the Young Eagle School and Guangji Hall. Bar?"

   "Huh, give them courage..."

  Several military officers sitting under the eaves of the gallery, drinking beer and talking, it was really uncomfortable.

More than 10 soldiers brought by    helped the white servants to clean the room, tidy the room, and prepare meals, and they were very busy.

  This English-style rural wooden castle-like building is divided into three houses and three living rooms. There are two dining rooms, one large and one small, two study rooms plus 14 bedrooms, and three maid rooms. Outside the main building, there are also handyman rooms, stables and other facilities, which are fully equipped.

  Two soldiers opened the barn on the side of the castle and suddenly screamed.

  After everyone heard it, they walked over and took a look. The barn was full of stuffed wool, all packed with wool, piled up to more than 4 meters high, like a hill.

   "I drop a boy, how much wool does this have?"

  "The wool is not weighed, it is similar to cotton. The wool in this barn looks like a lot, but the weight is not that big."

   "Cut, it weighs tens of thousands of pounds no matter how big it is."

"There must be. According to the current market, it should be worth five or six hundred pounds. This is a lot of money. Since the second half of last year, the relationship between North and South has been tense, and the purchase of wool in the southern state has ceased. I guess This was accumulated last year."

   "Brother Song is rich, so please treat me!"

"That is required."

  The officers all laughed lively, but Poly Tsai quietly pulled Bian Chunsong’s sleeves and cast a look towards the side of the barn wall.

  Bian Chunsong looked over with a puzzled look, and saw clear traces of footprints on one side of the barn wall. It is especially worth noting that there was fresh black mud stained on it, which made him immediately alert.

  Someone is on the pile of wool?

"It's not a trivial thing to treat me, brothers, don't hesitate to say what you want to eat, the cooks in our camp are still very good..." Bian Chunsong said in his mouth, backhand gestures to the two soldiers, and then took out the waist matching. With the gun, Paulie also took out his gun and loaded it with a bullet.

  See this scene

Others don’t know what’s going on. There are soldiers who rushed all the way to face the rain of bullets. No one was making a fuss and screaming. Instead, they calmly joked, and silently took out all the guns from their waists, being cautious. Point straight up.

  The soldiers quickly rushed over with their spears and climbed up the pile of wool on both sides of the barn.

  "Don’t shoot, please don’t shoot, we are not malicious, we just want to get a bite."

   Soon, the three of them rolled down from the pile of wool with their hands high.

  These are three young white men, the older in their 20s, and the younger, only fifteen or sixteen. They are still wearing the uniform of the Southern Army that can no longer see the colors, and their eyes are full of fear.

The soldiers found a long spear and two knives on the pile of wool, indicating that they were bandits hidden in the mountains. Somehow they walked over the mountains, crossed the blockade and hid in the barn on the ranch. It seems that they should be right. The nearby geography is very familiar.

  A brief interrogation

It turned out that one of the three people was the son of the owner of the farm. Following a group of more than a hundred robbers, he escaped the encirclement and suppression of the army and hid in the mountains. As the army continued to seal the locks, everything that could be eaten in the mountains was eaten. When it was gone, the mount also killed the meat, and later even the wild rabbit couldn't catch it. The situation was getting harder and harder and there was no hope at all.

  Continue to hide, there is only one dead end.

  So these people escaped from the mountain together, relying on their familiarity with the local terrain, avoiding several blockades and lurking back all the way.

  Unexpectedly, Bian Chunsong led a dozen soldiers to come suddenly, which really frightened them and hid in the barn in panic.

  In this case, there is nothing to be polite.

   Amid the miserable begging of mercy by the three white robbers, there were a few crisp shots, and then everything returned to calm.

  The corpse was thrown into the clear stream in front of the farm. Under the current, it would soon enter the bay a few kilometers away, and then there would be no more.

  Victoria is located at the southeastern tip of the entire Australian continent. Thousands of kilometers to the south is Antarctica. The vast ocean in the middle has no islands. The corpse merged into the sea along the stream and was soon invisible.

  Not to mention these three people. In the **** battle in Melbourne, the corpses of hundreds of thousands of white soldiers were basically thrown into the Yarra River, and disappeared without a single splash.

After solving the three white robbers, Major Bian Chunsong didn't dare to be careless. He led the people to screen all the surroundings of the castle carefully, not even the cellar, and finally determined that there were no extra gangsters hiding. Just relax.

  According to his cautious personality, guards must be set up at night, and only after taking turns can rest assured.

  After nightfall

  People surrounded the campfire in front of the castle to enjoy a delicious roast lamb meal. A bright moon in the sky reflected on the lake with a starry sky, and the sparkles were truly beautiful.

  Bian Chunsong took advantage of Jiuxing to name the ranch "Xingxing Lake Ranch". The place name Xingxing Lake must be filed with the Military Control Commission, and it will be used as an official place name in the future.

Today, after this change, Bian Chunsong plans to take over all his parents and his family as soon as possible, and also arranges for Erhu to return to the mainland as soon as possible to bring some folks from his own hometown as soon as possible. It’s better to hire someone from your own tribe than to hire other people.

  People of this era have extremely heavy local concepts.

  There are so many soldiers using the abacus like Major Bian Chunsong. Everyone is assigned to the field. The few need 10 and 8 helpers, and the more need hundreds of people. Almost without exception, they think of shaking people.

   Simply send a telegram, and many directly send people back to the mainland to carefully select honest and reliable folks, and come over to help take care of their own business.

  As a result, another wave of spontaneous immigration has been set off.

  The social environment in Victoria is undergoing fundamental changes quietly. White women who lost their families in the war lost their pastures, lost their economic pillars, and had to rely on the Chinese army officers and soldiers who entered Victoria.

Young white girls became concubine rooms, older white women became servants, and some women became prostitutes. In this Victorian state dominated by Chinese people, in order to survive, women who have always been disadvantaged groups quickly identified their positions. Live on your own way.

  (End of this chapter)