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Chapter 278 Beihai Province: Development and Shepherds

Beihai Province, Ice City-——

【Sapporo, Hokkaido】

The cold from Siberia traveled across the ocean. From Sakhalin Island, I was afraid of heading to Beihai Island. The island was covered with snow. Although it was already March, there was still no trace of it completely melting.

Only traces of spring can be seen in the snow water flowing out of the snow.

Fortunately, places like this are mainly concentrated in mountainous areas where wild beasts roam. Most areas, especially the most important Ice City Plain, are covered by a patch of green grass with cows raised on it. In nearby towns, there are several A food enterprise mainly engaged in dairy product processing.

From an economic point of view, it can be regarded as the local pillar industry, and it is the largest local industry besides the coal industry.

The cheese, milk powder, milk, and toffee produced here are mostly sold to markets in Japan and North Korea, providing local employment for tens of thousands of people.

We must know that the entire Beihai Province, according to statistics from the Beihai Civil Affairs Department, estimated that as of the end of February of the 13th year of Longwu, there were less than 80,000 people in total. The employment of 10,000 people was already considered a pillar among the pillars.

It was also because of this situation that Governor Hao, who took office at the beginning of this year, set three strategic guidelines.

The top priority among them is immigration, or rather, how to intercept immigrants efficiently from the hands of the Immigration Department. By relying on the opportunity to dock, he really found the opportunity. By relying on gas jams everywhere, he managed to get a population of 30,000. , you must know that in the past, the entire Beihai only had a population of tens of thousands. Proportionally, more than one-third of the population was new arrivals, which had an unprecedented impact on the local people.

In other words, for the local Ainu people, their living space has been severely challenged after the arrival of a large number of immigrants. It is also because of this situation that the governor's Yamen recently carried out a "good thing" to civilize the barbarians.

After all, in the words of Mr. Hao;

"For the Ainuyi people, we taught them arts and science, and moved them to the plains to allocate land for farming. Aren't we practicing the teachings of the saints? As for the cruelty and looting slandered by others, they are all false. Only the intention of teaching is true. of!!"

And in the midst of the civilization, the number of Ainu people is decreasing day by day. The reasons given are also very simple, "intermarriage" and "voluntary integration", so that later generations will find it strange when they read this history book. Are there no other words like "probably", "possibly", and "edification"? ?

Apart from population, the second step of development is actually: "Wealth!!"

A hero without wealth becomes short of breath, but a bear with wealth becomes a hero.

It is also because of this that Beihai places the highest priority on making a fortune. Most of the coal mines originally authorized to mining companies were taken back "kindly", except for some that could not be "touched".

After taking it back, a local Beihai Mining Company was established locally. The company owns more than half of the local coal mines and other resources. In order to facilitate integration, it also added other locally owned minerals such as copper mines and sulfur. Once in, in some people’s words:

"A government office is like a businessman, and a businessman is like a thief!!"

Of course, these are the one-sided words of some people whose interests have been harmed, and most of them still welcome them. For example, the Zhou Juren who fled from Jinling, China, to Beihai, liked Governor Hao's methods very much, and called him "a brave man." "There is a plan" and "a good minister of the country".

Good ministers and bad ministers don't know, but according to private reports, the relationship between the two is relatively good, so some people speculate that this is just flattery among friends.

In addition to economy and population, the last one actually has a lot to do with economy, and that is the market! !

Because the local population in Beihai is small and the products are mainly mineral-produced cow and sheep dairy products, the locals simply cannot consume so many things.

Therefore, developing the external market has become an inevitable choice, even more so than immigration. After all, we are now an industrial society. When people are recruited, it is like dividing the land for grazing. If you do this, believe it or not, you will buy local products in a few years. Ferry ticket, "Kairun!!".

If you want to keep people, you have to let them have a "running head" in their lives. What is running head? In fact, to put it harshly, it means surviving! !

In other words, "survive" with dignity.

In the industrial age, the economy became a measure of all this, or the consumption of industrial products.

According to the latest statistics of the Han Kingdom, the consumption levels in the Han mainland are Hanzhou and Youzhou, followed by places like Jiuyuan and Monan, followed by Mobei, Anxi and other places, and the three Oregon provinces have the highest Second-rate.

As for Beihai, there is no list. The explanation given is that there are too few and there is no way to count them.

Even Lanfang is at least ten times or even fifteen times that of Beihai.

Faced with such a cruel reality, the only local solution is to develop a completely export-oriented economy.

Export a large amount of dairy products, leather products, meat products, and minerals in exchange for external cloth, rice, light industry, heavy industry, and even tropical fruits and spices.

To import so many goods to meet internal needs, it is natural to "earn foreign exchange." How to earn foreign exchange has naturally become a local problem. Although local products are sold under the Han brand in markets such as Japan and North Korea, and their sales are not bad, as the population increases in the future, naturally, the required The resources and economy will be greater.

Therefore, there is only one road in front of Beihai at present, "development"! !

The development of Beihai officially started in the 13th year of Longwu.
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The sky is vast and the fields are vast, and cattle and sheep appear on the wind-swept meadows.

"Woo--"

The young man waved his long whip to "drive" the cattle that were still grazing. According to the rules of the grassland, a piece of grassland cannot be eaten continuously. They must be allowed to slow down and grow.

It is also under the constraints of this "custom" that the animal husbandry industry in the entire Beihai began to enter a period of rapid growth this year.

Local pastoral officials even specially imported breeding cattle and sheep from abroad, transported them back to Beihai, opened up official pastures, and launched a "hot" breeding campaign.

Of course, because it has only been carried out for less than half a year, even if the cattle and sheep have strong reproductive capabilities, they have not even produced the first batch yet.

The cattle and sheep herded by local herders are still Merino sheep, Dutch dairy cows, or French beef cattle.

As for the local cattle and sheep, sorry, they haven’t been born yet! !

The cowherd boy is riding on a Mobei horse and wearing a cowhide hat. Although his face is immature, his skills are extremely skillful and even give people a "sophisticated" feeling.

But when he saw the young man waving his long whip and the herd of cattle running south, the young man on horseback ignored him and waved his whip again, driving the team of No. 150 short-horned beef cattle away. On the long slope to the west, the reason for this is because if we go there again, we will go to another place. In order not to cause "disputes", we can only be more careful when driving cattle and looking after them. After all, people on the grassland are impatient. , every family holds a hunting rifle to "protect against bears." If something goes wrong, the protection against bears can turn into protection against humans in an instant.

After the cows settled down, the young man dismounted, stretched out his hand to rub his sore buttocks, and finally found a slope where he could see the cows and sat down. As usual, he took out his mouth organ and started "playing the piano to the cows." life.

"Uh-huh---"

It was like "Uh-huh", but it had a melody, and with the help of the mouth organ, it spread throughout the hillside, but those bulls couldn't understand it, and even "flicked" their tails in annoyance to vent their inner discomfort.

Of course, the boy didn't know this, so he continued to play the music, which was almost "out of tune".

Finally, it ended with a relatively low tone.

And at this time, there was a "stomp" sound from the hilltop opposite, which seemed to be the sound of horse hooves, no, it was the sound of horse hooves.

When the sound of horse hooves got closer and closer, I saw a big maroon horse carrying a girl about fourteen or fifteen years old and wearing a yellow shirt. It rushed in front of the young man at an extremely fast speed and almost broke away. of cattle.

Seeing the girl, the boy's face showed joy. Just as he was about to say hello, he heard the girl shout:

"Brother Bing, your father went hunting in the mountains and hasn't come back yet. The village chief is leading the whole village to search the mountains. Go back quickly."

Hearing these words, the young man named Bingzi or Jiang Bing was so frightened that he immediately dismounted his horse, "stumbling" to the girl's horse, and asked nervously: "When did it happen??"

The girl replied directly without thinking;

"Just a dozen minutes ago, the village chief led people up the mountain."

"Go quickly, if anything happens -"

At this point, the girl did not dare to say any more.

Jiang Bing shouted "Look at the cow", then quickly turned over and "mounted", waved his riding whip, and saw the black horse under his crotch "neighing" and then shot out quickly.

Looking at Jiang Bing walking away, the girl's eyes were filled with worry. Finally, she picked up the long whip left by "him" and drove the cattle, preparing to drive back for a while.

And Jiang Bing, who whipped and rode a fast horse, galloped for several miles to the nearby Niujiao Mountain. (Named because of the local bison that degraded into the mountains and forests)

When he came to the foot of the mountain, he saw a group of guarded horses. Jiang Bing handed the horses over to the other party. After asking a few questions at the end, he only got useful but worrying information such as "go up the mountain" and "bear".

Finally, he took the double-barreled shotgun borrowed from the other party and went up the mountain. What does it feel like when the snow on the mountain has not completely melted? As Jiang Bing, who has just climbed up the mountain, has the best say.

Stepping on the ground of creaking snow leaves, you are surrounded by a bare coniferous forest and scattered pine nut trees. When you pass by, you can hear the sound of "rubbing" in the tree hole. It should probably be inside. It's a squirrel or a bird.

And while walking through the entire forest, I could still smell the smell of blood, which should be the "atrocity" done by some wild beast just now.

"Zhizhi", stepping on a field of dead leaves covered with white snow, he finally heard human voices. Jiang Bing pricked up his ears and could still hear the sounds of "over there" and "over here".

Just when he was about to join the large army, there was a sudden sense of crisis behind him. According to his "education" from his hunter father, there was almost a beast like a bear behind him.

At this time, turning back and not looking back were constantly changing in Jiang Bing's mind. In the end, courage overcame cowardice. He held a double-barreled shotgun and turned around with a "fierce" movement. As soon as he turned around, the muzzle of the gun was pointed behind him. .

Just as I turned around, I saw a huge gray-brown figure, a brown bear unique to the North Sea and the top predator in the local food chain.

"Gulu", he swallowed back and forth several times, and Jiang Bing held a shotgun and faced off against the cunning brown bear for a long time.

The reason why he didn't dare to shoot was not only because he was afraid of not being able to shoot accurately, but also because the brown bear was too big. Once he couldn't kill it and let it charge up, Jiang Bing, who had no time to reload, was sure that he would. Die horribly and he would make a "nice" looking dinner.

"呲呲..."

The brown bear rubbed the ground several times with its claws, and looked at the upright animal opposite with its yellow eyes. In the end, it was frightened by the "gene" inherited from its ancestors. It always felt that it would be dangerous if it didn't leave. Finally, it slowly left the area. forest.

"Snapped……"

When Jiang Bing waited until the brown bear was completely gone, he suddenly fell to the ground and sat on the snow. His whole body seemed to have undergone strenuous exercise and he was breathing heavily.

When those people arrived, they saw Jiang Bing, who looked panicked and couldn't speak for a long time. He didn't say a word until he took a drink of water.

And the first thing Jiang Bing said was:

"so big!!"

Finally, his father was found in a muddy field after the snow melted. The man was already unconscious at the time. Fortunately, there was a lot of mud and wild trees there, and few wild animals were willing to come, so Jiang's father finally picked it up. A life.

At the last time I asked, I found out that it was to collect ginseng. After winter, the ginseng seems to have a vitality that comes from winter and spring, giving people a feeling of a dead tree blooming into spring.

Since that day, Jiang's father rarely went to the mountain, and even funded the construction of a Niutoushan temple as a token of gratitude for surviving.

The simple villagers believe that everything is blessed by God, but for Jiang Bing, who has experienced a confrontation with a giant bear, this is the biggest constraint on him.

Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore and told his father that he wanted to go to a big city instead of herding cattle all his life.

After finishing speaking, he waited anxiously for his father to scold him for being "too ambitious".

Unexpectedly, Father Jiang just took a glass of local soju and drank a few glasses of it. At the end of the drink, he patted his shoulder and said solemnly:

"There are still five hundred in savings at home. You can take three hundred. I will save the rest for you to get a wife."

After saying that, he walked out with the "long whip". From then on, he picked up his old business in Mobei again. (It turned out to be immigrants from Mobei. Because the treatment in Beihai was better, they moved here again and distributed the land there to several other brothers)

Looking at the food and wine that had not yet been put away, Jiang Bing seemed to have grown up a lot.

A few days before leaving, he even tidied up his house. Finally, when he was about to take the intercity carriage to Bingcheng, he was waiting for the girl from last time, the girl named Huang Ling.

When parting, just say:

"Why will you come and when will I get married!!"

After embracing each other for a moment, Jiang Bing got on the carriage, leaving the girl in tears watching him leave.

Love in this era is always so simple, with no entanglements of love and hate, and no financial conflicts.

For Beihai Shepherd, love is love, there is nothing to be embarrassed about.

The giant bears here and the vast grasslands here do not allow them to lower their heads! !

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Jiang Bing, who was sitting on the sea-circuit railway, looked at the scene outside excitedly. As an "inland islander", he had never seen the sea, or in other words, such a sea. He had only seen it a few times when he immigrated.

The scene in front of me was like a scene in a novel.

The winding railway track runs around the island, surrounded by rolling waves and birds, as well as the green trees and huts on the island.

When the destination arrived, Jiang Bing was still immersed in the dream just now, as he recalled:

"That day was the happiest day before I married Huang Ling. I ate food I had never tasted before and played games I had never played before."

"For the first time, I learned that there is really no need to graze cattle in the city, or as they say, every ranch boy has a city in his heart, a metropolis that is far away but within easy reach!!"

And on that day, Haicheng City welcomed a new batch of immigrants. As fate would have it, when young people like Jiang Bing were unwilling to herd horses on horseback and yearned for the city, a group of tattered immigrants came from China. The rotten, sallow-looking victims were arranged into areas that had not yet been divided. They would start a new life there, and they would also pick up the "long whip" left behind by young people like Jiang Bing to carry out the great cause of grazing to the end. ! !

(Hokkaido port city Otaru)

In a cheese processing factory, Jiang Bing "got his wish" but did not "volunteer" to do a job he didn't like.

Many years later, Jiang Bing felt helpless when recalling that experience:

"A young man with no skills always has to make some sacrifices when he comes to a big city. Is it freedom or ideals? The answer is everything. After all, you have no choice!!"

In the governor's Yamen at this moment, Mr. Hao is thinking hard about how to develop.

"Everyone, it is impossible to support Beihai by just relying on grazing and producing food and leather, and the introduction of people is accelerating!!"

"We have to think of something. Sooner or later, we will run out of coal. By then, we will have to figure out how to feed everyone."

The lobby was filled with Mr. Hao's "helpless" voice.

Finally, an official named Ouyang took the initiative to suggest:

"Sir, since coal is not lasting, and cattle and sheep cannot satisfy the later immigrants, in my opinion, it is better to find another source of income."

Master Hao frowned when he heard this, and then asked: "How to open up??"

"In my opinion, although there are some wealthy people in Japan, Korea and China today, their living habits are mostly from the old era and do not conform to contemporary trends..."

"When I look at Japan and North Korea, they have a lot of respect for me as a man. It is better to develop cities, introduce local clothing, manufacturing companies, travel companies, and supplement them with gambling and sex, so..."

At this point, Mr. Ouyang stopped talking.

Mr. Hao's expression "changed" several times, which could be seen at a glance, and finally he said:

“How likely is this to happen??”

"More than 50%!!"

Finally, Master Hao "sighed" and finally said:

"For the country and the future of Beihai, let's do this!!"

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