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With the capture of Panama City, the rest of the cleanup and garrison work was handed over to the newly replaced new Dingzhou and local recruits. The mercenaries were transferred out to continue the cleanup and fight. The whole city is under the control of the Han Chinese regiment.

The scarce supplies and food were transported from Xindingzhou. Xindingyangzhou does not have so much food this year to make up for the loopholes. Because there are too many, the population of Xindingyangzhou that needs to eat has reached 300 million people.

It is more than half of the total population of the new Qin state.

But this time the harvest was good. In addition to capturing about 20 enemy immigrants and prisoners, they also wiped out 3 Spanish regular troops and 1 British regular troops. These 10 people happened to dredge the section of the river from Grand Panama City to the mouth of the sea and the connection between the Gatun Lake they dredged and the section from Grand Panama City.

A lot of Spanish wealth was found in the castle and the city, and these alone pulled more than a dozen carts. This war is not counted as human life, but as other costs. Panama City, occupying the narrowest channel between the two oceans, is about to open a canal, and it can be said that it will make a lot of money in the future.

The war is still going on, and countless wounded are being transported back to Cologne from all over the country. The number of wounded in Cologne has reached more than 3. This does not include those who have not been brought back from other places. There are also some captured wounded, and the number of captured wounded has reached 8 There are more than [-] people, and the lack of medicine has become the most urgent thing at present.

With the capture of Panama City, the rest of the cleanup and garrison work was handed over to the newly replaced new Dingzhou and local recruits. The mercenaries were transferred out to continue the cleanup and fight. The whole city is under the control of the Han Chinese regiment.

The scarce supplies and food were transported from Xindingzhou. Xindingyangzhou does not have so much food this year to make up for the loopholes. Because there are too many, the population of Xindingyangzhou that needs to eat has reached 300 million people.

It is more than half of the total population of the new Qin state.

Chapter 550 and six of the situation in the three countries of South America

The battle at sea became more intense with the end of the land battle, and more and more warships reinforced the Azores. The naval battles with the British always took place in this area. In addition, the Wunan Fleet Squadron of the Azores often cruised the Strait of Gibraltar exit.

There were frequent battles with the Spanish fleet, but the battles were not too intense. They always happened within one or two ships, and then when other warships arrived, the two sides restrainedly separated, without intensifying the battle at sea.

The New Qin State protected the safety of the route from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Azores Islands, allowing more merchant fleets and some supplies from the Chinese Empire to reach the mainland of the New Qin State safely through Turkey and Russian seaports and the Mediterranean Sea. .

At present, this route is the closest commercial route. To reach the local caravan of the Chinese Empire, they must bypass the coast of Africa, follow Africa to the Strait of Gibraltar, and then transfer to the Azov Islands. Therefore, this is almost the maritime trade between the two countries. The lifeline of China is not only the support and protection of the fleet and garrisons on the land of Morocco in Africa seized from Portugal, but also the protection of the fleet of the Azores Islands.

The protection tasks here are quite heavy, and Xindingzhou has to support the Panamanian fleet in the Caribbean to deal with the British and Spanish Caribbean fleets, so they can't spare energy to deal with it here, so the local fleet can support the Wunan fleet.

With the launch of another batch of capital ships and cruisers, a large number of Type [-] ironclad ships in the main fleet were also deployed to supplement the Azores fleet and the Mediterranean fleet to protect the trade routes.

Under such circumstances, the victory of Grand Panama City, although the naval conflicts here are becoming more and more fierce, but it is not yet the final moment of the decisive battle. When transporting from the mainland to the Maracai Bay of the three South American countries, the land battles of the three South American countries have become the most relevant thing.

Losing Panama, despite the advantage of a century of colonization, the Spaniards can rely on their familiarity with the terrain to attack in Panama and continue to resist the invasion of the New Qin State. Let go of reinforcements for the three South American countries, then the land war among the three South American countries will be even more worrying.

In order to protect the three military depot lines, Luo Zuo armed many captives and defected Indians and Mexicans to fight, and then put the recruits and garrison soldiers sent into the material transportation route between the military depot and the protection depot. The regiment wiped out the enemy's strength, used mercenaries to attack and occupy the enemy's territory, and wiped out the strength of the Spanish colonial army in the distance.

At present, this route is the closest commercial route. To reach the local caravan of the Chinese Empire, they must bypass the coast of Africa, follow Africa to the Strait of Gibraltar, and then transfer to the Azov Islands. Therefore, this is almost the maritime trade between the two countries. The lifeline of China is not only the support and protection of the fleet and garrisons on the land of Morocco in Africa seized from Portugal, but also the protection of the fleet of the Azores Islands.

The protection tasks here are quite heavy, and Xindingzhou has to support the Panamanian fleet in the Caribbean to deal with the British and Spanish Caribbean fleets, so they can't spare energy to deal with it here, so the local fleet can support the Wunan fleet.

With the launch of another batch of capital ships and cruisers, a large number of Type [-] ironclad ships in the main fleet were also deployed to supplement the Azores fleet and the Mediterranean fleet to protect the trade routes.

Under such circumstances, the victory of Grand Panama City, although the naval conflicts here are becoming more and more fierce, but it is not yet the final moment of the decisive battle. When transporting from the mainland to the Maracai Bay of the three South American countries, the land battles of the three South American countries have become the most relevant thing.

Losing Panama, despite the advantage of a century of colonization, the Spaniards can rely on their familiarity with the terrain to attack in Panama and continue to resist the invasion of the New Qin State. Let go of reinforcements for the three South American countries, then the land war among the three South American countries will be even more worrying.

In order to protect the three military depot lines, Luo Zuo armed many captives and defected Indians and Mexicans to fight, and then put the recruits and garrison soldiers sent into the material transportation route between the military depot and the protection depot. The regiment wiped out the enemy's strength, used mercenaries to attack and occupy the enemy's territory, and wiped out the strength of the Spanish colonial army in the distance.

At present, this route is the closest commercial route. To reach the local caravan of the Chinese Empire, they must bypass the coast of Africa, follow Africa to the Strait of Gibraltar, and then transfer to the Azov Islands. Therefore, this is almost the maritime trade between the two countries. The lifeline of China is not only the support and protection of the fleet and garrisons on the land of Morocco in Africa seized from Portugal, but also the protection of the fleet of the Azores Islands.

The protection tasks here are quite heavy, and Xindingzhou has to support the Panamanian fleet in the Caribbean to deal with the British and Spanish Caribbean fleets, so they can't spare energy to deal with it here, so the local fleet can support the Wunan fleet.

With the launch of another batch of capital ships and cruisers, a large number of Type [-] ironclad ships in the main fleet were also deployed to supplement the Azores fleet and the Mediterranean fleet to protect the trade routes.

Under such circumstances, the victory of Grand Panama City, although the naval conflicts here are becoming more and more fierce, but it is not yet the final moment of the decisive battle. When transporting from the mainland to the Maracai Bay of the three South American countries, the land battles of the three South American countries have become the most relevant thing.

Losing Panama, despite the advantage of a century of colonization, the Spaniards can rely on their familiarity with the terrain to attack in Panama and continue to resist the invasion of the New Qin State. Let go of reinforcements for the three South American countries, then the land war among the three South American countries will be even more worrying.

In order to protect the three military depot lines, Luo Zuo armed many captives and defected Indians and Mexicans to fight, and then put the recruits and garrison soldiers sent into the material transportation route between the military depot and the protection depot. The regiment wiped out the enemy's strength, used mercenaries to attack and occupy the enemy's territory, and wiped out the strength of the Spanish colonial army in the distance.

At present, this route is the closest commercial route. To reach the local caravan of the Chinese Empire, they must bypass the coast of Africa, follow Africa to the Strait of Gibraltar, and then transfer to the Azov Islands. Therefore, this is almost the maritime trade between the two countries. The lifeline of China is not only the support and protection of the fleet and garrisons on the land of Morocco in Africa seized from Portugal, but also the protection of the fleet of the Azores Islands.

The protection tasks here are quite heavy, and Xindingzhou has to support the Panamanian fleet in the Caribbean to deal with the British and Spanish Caribbean fleets, so they can't spare energy to deal with it here, so the local fleet can support the Wunan fleet.

With the launch of another batch of capital ships and cruisers, a large number of Type [-] ironclad ships in the main fleet were also deployed to supplement the Azores fleet and the Mediterranean fleet to protect the trade routes.

550 Chapter VII Canal Engineering and Post-War Population

Although the three countries in South America are still relatively difficult, Panama has already settled down. After half a year of fighting against them, Panama no longer has a native, a Spaniard, or other hostile Mexicans. Of course, there are hidden ones. In front of them, they are just jumping beams and clowns, and they can't make any big waves.

The area within 150 kilometers from the north of Gatun Lake belongs to the territory of Xindingyang Prefecture of the New Qin State. In order to eliminate the Spaniards from the south to Colombia, Zhuang Lin and the others did not attack far to the north, about [-] miles. It was [-] kilometers. After sweeping the enemy, they withdrew to a range of [-] kilometers and turned to defend the Gatun Lake River. They did not attack the Spanish forces in those places deeply.

Through this battle, they obtained the place from the south of Gatun Lake to the interior of Colombia, that is, the border with Colombia, and even a long way into Colombia to reach the newly established large assembly point of the military depot. Where is the division? His own defense circle and other Colombian places are ignored for the time being because of the strength of the troops and the absence of people.

In the south of Panama, due to the canal project devouring a large number of people and manpower, due to the invasion of war, most of the area here has become an uninhabited area, and it has become extremely desolate in the past six months. There are more Han Chinese, about 30 people, but most of the 30 people live in the two port cities protected by the army, and some live in small towns on both sides of the canal, in the villages, in some big towns, Near the barracks.

Many people, many young men joined the army, at least the novice battalion, and the old men joined the organized militia battalion, and after a week of training, could take arms and ride on horses to help with the construction of the canal, and guard the captives and slaves, or Work and earn money.

Huaxia yuan is the currency used by the new Qin State. People from the Huaxia Empire have no resistance to it, and they are not unaccustomed to it. It is almost like the Huaxia Empire came from the north to the south, but the journey is far away, and most of the journey is It's just a sea route.

With the completion and delivery of the canal project and ship lock from the port of Coron at the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean to Gatun Lake, nearly 20 people in that section began to disperse and transfer, leaving only 1 people for maintenance and cleaning.

Of the remaining 19 people, more than 1 people have retired and lived in port cities and rural areas. Most of them are elderly people, foreigners, some former Han people, and some who have been allowed to become ordinary people. Captured by the Spanish and British, they built about a third of the canal with their lives and sweat.

More than 3 of them died of exhaustion or were punished and executed.

The remaining more than 1 people joined the ranks of mercenaries, but they were only transferred to the newly established overseer battalions on both sides of the strait, and let them be in charge of overseeing the work. Then some recruits and working people could be withdrawn and began to migrate to the south of Panama near the Villages within 150 miles of the canal lived. The retreated population consisted of about [-] Han Chinese recruits and [-] mercenary families and civilians.

In this way, the most difficult section of Gatun Lake has a large number of construction workers, about 60 people, divided into two parts on the north and south banks.

More than 5000 of the 150 recruits were retired, because they may be more suitable for labor rather than serving as soldiers, that is, they did not meet the conditions for serving as soldiers. The retired recruits, including Han Chinese recruits and mercenary recruits, were disrupted. Their family members took them and included them in the population migration list of [-] miles along the coast, so that every town and village was filled with foreign people, captives were transformed into civilians, and the retired Han recruits and mercenary recruits reached a relatively balanced ratio. In order to avoid conflicts.

In fact, the construction of the three sections of the canal has population adjustments. From here, the people, their families, and the recruits are slowly retreating and reincarnating. The purpose is to use these populations to fill in after the Spaniards leave, or after the local indigenous people are cleared. There is no population problem on both sides of the Panama Canal or in the vast areas in the south.

This wave of population was placed in an environment about 150 miles away on both sides of the canal to consolidate and defend the canal. The Han people from the Chinese Empire who were constantly being transported were also disrupted and distributed to these places, making the two sides of the canal a relatively densely populated place, resulting in Once the canal is opened, it can prosper immediately and become a major tax point and a dumping market for materials and commodities in the new Qin state.

This wave of canal construction population with a population of about 20 people and guard recruits, garrison battalions, families of retired soldiers from the regular army and them will also be mixed with about 10 Han people from the Chinese Empire. They will gradually come from the port of Cologne It migrated out of the port city on the opposite bank and merged into the land on both sides of the canal.

It is only now that Panama's overseas territories have achieved initial results. With the population and territory, tax revenue will become a pillar of this overseas territory. Relying on the transfer of trade with European countries will not last long after all, and it will be too affected by changes in the relationship between countries. In the past, Spain was the main source of tax here, but now it is almost zero, which shows how big the impact is.

Gatun Lake is actually divided into two parts. The one near this side is a large lake in the lake area, and then a small section of narrow lake is connected to another lake that is about half smaller than this one. Of course, it cannot be used. Now, what the New Qin State wants is just a canal, so the two sides of the Gatun Lake are actually when they reach a relatively narrow lake, the scope of the New Qin State will be terminated, and any small lake will not be controlled. Because it goes too far into the north, it is almost equivalent to the distance of reopening a canal, about 150 kilometers. The military strength and population of the new Qin Dynasty and the new Dingyang Prefecture cannot control such a large place. You can only learn when you first came, just control suitable for control.

This area is included in the area around the 150 miles mentioned earlier, that is, adding the width of Gatun Lake, and then extending [-] miles outward, only controlling important places, some places are not controlled at all, especially north shore.

After taking Panama City, the reconstruction here was also put on the agenda. The recruits were stationed while cleaning up the ruins. The ruins were cleaned up within a month, and then some captives and Han people came here to rebuild the houses. Live here first, and then build slowly. Now there is no such department as the Planning Bureau.

There is a large island in the middle of Gatun Lake, Colorado Island, on which there are also a lot of troops and manpower stationed, mainly the Marine Corps, some Han Chinese fishermen and some merchant mercenaries, providing supplies and food for the passing ships, resting, a place to stay.

All the [-] Han Chinese who came later arrived in Panama City and Colorado Island to fill the population gap in these places.

As for the captives and slaves who are still building the canal, their fate is either to be redeemed as prisoners of war in future negotiations, or to be sold to the French as slaves. Now the French overseas colonies are very short of slaves. , it is impossible for them to survive in the new Qin State.

Because the New Qin State itself has many foreigners, natives and Indians, Mexicans, and British and North American immigrants. It is impossible for a country dominated by the Canal to take them in. The large proportion of foreigners in the country is a headache, and it is even more impossible to keep them, although they have made a lot of contributions to the excavation of the canal.

The first thousand and five hundred and fifty-eight chapters of food and retired soldiers

"It's a pity for these cannons, and I don't know where they can be used," said the Panama City Major, stroking the heavy captured Spaniards' outdated coastal artillery and many salvaged naval cannons, and said with some regret.