At the end of April, a second batch of weapons arrived in San Diego, along with 20,000 men's equipment, a large number of grenades, and ten Gatling heavy machine guns specially requested by Li Mu.
When the weapons arrived in San Diego, the shortage was finally alleviated, the recruits in the San Diego barracks no longer had to train with a wooden gun, and the non-commissioned officers on the El Cristo front finally had enough grenades, and ten Gatling heavy machine guns were of great significance, killing and wounding more than 3,000 Spaniards on the first day they were delivered to El Cristo.
In those years, the level of medical care was still at a rudimentary level, and injuries meant permanent attrition to some extent.
The heavy machine guns were undoubtedly lethal to the group's charge, and during the Battle of the Somme in World War I, the Germans deployed a large number of Maxims on the front line, resulting in the British losing nearly 60,000 men in a single day.
Compared to the British, the Spaniards' losses were not severe, but if one considers that after a few days of fierce fighting, the total number of Spanish soldiers was only about 40,000, then this level of casualties meant a basic loss of offensive ability.
At the beginning of May, Willennicolau, believing that he could not continue the offensive, voluntarily withdrew to Bayamo, ending the First Battle of El Cristo.
From mid-April to early May, the First Battle of El Cristo lasted about twenty days, with more than 15,000 Spanish casualties, including nearly 6,000 Spanish regulars; The Republic of Cuba lost about 7,000 men, including 12 American officers.
If there is one word to describe the first Battle of El Cristo, it is "both sides lost".
The only one who profited was Li Mu, who, in twenty days, assembled a Guantanamo infantry regiment of more than 2,000 men, while gathering about 9,000 construction workers at Guantanamo Bay.
The 9,000 men have been divided into two routes, about 4,000 of whom are building a road from Guantanamo Bay to Guantanamo Town, and the other 5,000 are building a new Guantanamo Town.
One day at the end of April, a colonial force led by Spaniards attacked the town of Guantanamo, taking all the belongings of the French living in the town and then setting fire to the town before being driven away by the Guantanamo infantry regiment.
Well, for the sake of the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment driving out those Spaniards, the French in Guantanamo Town finally accepted the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment.
In fact, there is no reason not to accept it, there are more than 100,000 acres of land around the town of Guantanamo, but these French people have lived here for 30 years, and the land they have reclaimed is only about 2,000 acres, and there is a lot of vacant land left.
Well, the French do think so, and this is not to blame the French, because the French have not seen how the Chinese peasants cultivate the land, in fact, it will not be long before the French will find that their living space is limited to these two thousand acres of land, and the rest of the land will belong to the Chinese peasants.
"With regard to collective farms, there is an issue that must be taken seriously, and that is the imbalance in the gender ratio, which currently has more than 5,000 construction workers and farm workers in the town of Guantánamo, but there are almost no women, most of them were slaves before and did not have the opportunity to start a family, and now although they have the opportunity to become free people, they have no one to start a family and a business, and if this problem is not solved as soon as possible, then it may lead to serious social problems."
Nelson is now the mayor of Guantánamo, so his focus is not quite the same as Li's.
Regarding this problem, Li Mu really thought that Li Mu's solution was to immigrate from the Qing Empire, as long as a large number of Chinese women were imported from the Qing Empire, then the problem of gender imbalance could be alleviated.
The idea is good, but Li Mu ignores the timeliness, immigration is not a simple matter, large-scale immigration is even more protracted, even if Li Mu opens the joints of the United States Immigration Bureau, it is not easy to find enough suitable women in the Qing Empire, this is not easy, if you want to find 1,800 people, it is estimated that it will not take much effort, but Li Mu wants tens of thousands of people, which is a bit unrealistic.
In these years, going abroad to make a living is a very resistant thing, men going abroad can also be understood as selling labor, and women can only do some skin and meat business when they go abroad, so unless it is a last resort, Li Mu estimates that he can't find too many Qing Empire women who are willing to go abroad.
In this way, if you want to solve this problem, then the focus can only be on Cuba or other countries in South America, and the better point is that the Republic of Cuba has not abolished slavery now, so you can still buy female subordinates on the market, and compared to male subordinates, the price is much cheaper, so Li Mu bought more than 300 female subordinates through Ricardo during this time, which can finally slightly alleviate the urgency of the yin and yang imbalance.
As for the collective farm, this is the agricultural system implemented by Li Mu in Guantanamo, there is a lot of wasteland in Guantanamo, Nelson called on the Chinese to reclaim the wasteland, every two acres of wasteland, then there is an acre of their own, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the Chinese people, almost all the Chinese want to reclaim the wasteland, and no one wants to continue to work as construction workers.
It is hard for outsiders, especially the French at Guantanamo, to comprehend how fanatical the Chinese are for the land, and they have no oxen, no horses, and even no suitable tools, but with pickaxes and shovels in their hands, they can cultivate the land at a speed no less than using animal power, as if they were not tired at all.
In fact, it's not that you won't be tired, but when the hope in your heart suddenly bursts up, the exhaustion of the body will become insignificant, and having a piece of your own land is almost the ultimate dream of all Chinese, and now this dream finally has the possibility to come true.
"Tomorrow the land exchange will begin, when someone cultivates two acres of land, the status of a slave will automatically be converted into a free man, and then they can exchange one acre of land for a cow or a horse, or two acres of land for a female slave, it doesn't matter if you are tired or tired, you have to believe in their ability, as long as they see hope, it won't be long before we have a large number of collective farms in Guantanamo."
Li Mu has confidence, those who have constant production have perseverance, as long as there is hope, Li Mu believes that the Chinese will not lose to any race.
"Well, we have five hundred cows and a thousand horses now, and we hope these will be enough."
Nelson grimaced, his city of Guantanamo is now running a serious deficit, and it is not a good idea to continue.
It is not easy to buy cattle and horses in Cuba, Li Mu bought them from Miami, Florida, which is the closest U.S. territory to Guantanamo, and the cattle and horses purchased by Li Mu were loaded from Miami and only took two and a half days to reach Guantanamo Bay.
"It doesn't matter if it's not enough, in a few days I'll start sending people to Springfield, where a lot of workers are also needed, there is ten times more land near the Kuobin Reservoir than here, and the climate is more pleasant, the land is more fertile, and it's easier to find a wife, the reason why I didn't tell them before was because I was afraid that no one would leave them, and now it's no problem, we have to send at least three-fifths of the people here away, so that we can maintain the basic balance."
Li Mu released a big killer, and it was time to worry about the Kuobin Reservoir project.
Just last month, the construction of the Kuobin Reservoir project officially began, and the company employs more than 6,000 workers, but these people are far from enough for the project, and Henry estimates that at least 30,000 workers will be needed to keep up with the construction schedule.
It was impossible to find 30,000 workers in Springfield, where there were only 30,000.
As with all big projects, Chinese workers immediately became the most popular workers, and this time it was different from before, the previous boss paid a salary in dollars, and the amount given was still on the small side, Li Mu gave enough dollars, and he could choose to use the land to pay his salary, although the location was in the more remote states of Indiana and Illinois, but because the land area was large enough, it was still very tempting.
Li Mu overthrew Amis, and the most direct benefit was that all the lands in Indiana and Illinois that originally belonged to the Mobile Credit Company fell into Li Mu's name, and these lands were all along the railroad, and the transportation was very large, with a total area of millions of acres, even if it was more than enough to settle all the Chinese in the United States.
"Hearing that Mr.
Henry has been elected Deputy Mayor of Springfield," Nelson thought.
Springfield's parliamentary re-election has ended, and Henry has been elected to the Springfield City Council, as well as the Massachusetts State Council, and has been appointed Deputy Mayor of Springfield by the Springfield City Council.
Will was finally able to leave the damn deputy mayor's office, and now boarded a ship in New York Harbor and headed straight for Cuba, and still preferred a military career to politics, and being a cop was a bit unpleasant.
Coming to Cuba with Will is MIT Dean Rankel, stainless steel and chromium-molybdenum alloy steel are still in the verification stage, but the research on electric light bulbs has been basically successful, Franklin found suitable materials from Japan, and MIT has successfully lit ten light bulbs for 1200 hours in a row, which also means that the first phase of research has been basically completed, and from now on it will enter the harvest period.
The gains were indeed enormous, and Runkel became famous for inventing the light bulb, and he himself was elected to the Boston Council and was nominated for the president of the American Science and Technology Association; As in the past, the patent for the electric light bulb belonged to Li Mu, an invention more important than smokeless gunpowder, and if Li Mu wanted to sell it now, he could get at least tens of millions of dollars.
Tens of millions of dollars To be honest, Li Mu really didn't pay attention to it now
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