Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1507 Terrace (Eighteen)

Yang Mingyang, who asked for someone from Guo Handong.This old man, who also serves as the regional commissioner of southern and northern Patagonia, just finished taking care of the affairs there a while ago, and then took the time to visit Hai*an, Xuanwu, and Daliang in the north.

Sitting in the south—more precisely, Huangyang County—for many years, Yang Mingyang has also made some contributions. The most important thing is that he has established a complete set of wool textile industry chain in Huangyang County, from washing and combing to spinning. Yarn, weaving, the entire process Huangyang County has all.In recent years, the wool textile products produced in this county have completely occupied the domestic market relying on its relatively cheap cost and policy support, and then began to export a large amount to South Africa and Chile, earning a lot of profits.

It can be said that without the "economic miracle" slowly created by this woolen textile company named United Textile Mill over the years, the Southern Cone region would have been even more desolate and backward, and it would have been even more impossible to win the annual [-]% from the Executive Committee. The [-] population is distributed (although it only accounts for one-tenth).Otherwise, do you think that these thousands of people will be left for you based on the virtues of the chief officials in Hejian, Yazihu, Hue, and Beining?It's been fucked up, even though most of these people immigrated from the Pacific route.

The workers in the wool textile industry in Huangyang County were mainly bankrupt textile handicraft workers recruited from Italy. It was a bitter experience when they came here. Even the money spent on marrying a Malay wife from Xinhua Island was still paid by the local government. They made advances to help, but now ten years have passed, and the living conditions of these people are completely different from those at the beginning.In fact, you only need to look at the commodities on the market in Huangyanggang, a relatively remote, cold, and dry city. Expensive Virginia shredded tobacco, extra-grade Bay Island refined brown sugar, top-grade seal fur clothing, imported beaver fur hats, whale oil candles, All kinds of cheap spices, imported alcohol and other so-called luxury goods can be seen everywhere, which shows the strong consumption power of the local people.Therefore, it is not unreasonable for the people of Huangyang County to thank Commissioner Yang Mingyang, Commissioner Yang. He has indeed served as an official and benefited one party, nothing to say!

Of course, Huangyang County is not the only place to thank Yang Mingyang. In HA County, although the executive deputy commissioner Cai Huaze has always been in charge of the work, the local people are also quite fond of the second ceramic factory project that Commissioner Yang single-handedly promoted. for thumbs up.This medium-sized ceramics manufacturer uses high-quality kaolin from Baitao Township (Patagonia is very rich in kaolin resources) as raw material. The quality of the porcelain produced this year is getting better and better. Export to Europe in small batches—although the price cannot be sold at the sky-high price of Ming Dynasty porcelain, and can only compete with local European porcelain produced in Germany at a low price, the profit is also quite high.

In addition, the Second Ceramics Factory not only makes money from porcelain, but actually produces quite good sales of stoneware for industrial, civilian, and military use because of its huge consumption.For example, pots, jars, water tanks, rough pottery pipes, etc. used for food are widely used and the sales volume is very large. This can be seen from the year-on-year decline in the market share of direct competitors Yancheng No. [-] Ceramics Factory and Dongfang County HN Glass Factory. Come out, how well the Second Ceramics Factory has done all these years!

In addition to ceramics and woolen textiles, Cai Huaze, the deputy commissioner of Northern Patagonia, also recruited a group of marine industry workers from the local Luocha County and Qing*dao County with Yang Mingyang's consent. The method recruited many handicraft craftsmen from France in the Old World, and then established two rough-scale marine industry bases in HA County and Xingn County.Since then, ships that come to Patagonia for fishing, whaling, and hunting sea animals can purchase items such as canvas, cables, boards, skins, water pumps, water pipes, ballast stones, and candles in the above two places and Yancheng County. , casks, anchor chains, masts and other sea necessities.

Such behavior will inevitably greatly divide the marine industry market share of local Luocha and Qingdao, and cause strong dissatisfaction from the local government.But so what? According to Yang and Cai, since more than [-]% of the fishery output on the east coast comes from the offshore Patagonia, it would be a good idea to transfer the above-mentioned related industries there to facilitate the fishermen's supply. What's the problem?Fishing (including whaling and sea animal hunting) is now the most profitable industry on the east coast. With such a big market, which local government would turn a blind eye to it?The two counties of Rocha and Qing*dao suffer because they are a little farther away from Patagonia, and there are not many fishery resources in the Rio de la Plata and the coastal waters of Brazil, so they have developed related industries in the southern cone. After the industry, their downfall is imminent.If they want to reverse this trend, they probably have to go to the east coast fishing boats that are also increasing in size and operating in the coastal waters of South Africa and the Namib coast—such as the famous Integrity Fishing Company, Ximen Fishing Company, etc. ——Think of a way to attract them to the mainland to repair and maintain ships and supply various supplies, otherwise, life in the future may be very difficult.

"Like the Patagonia of the later generations, in the hands of the Argentines, it has no other role except to provide wool, frozen meat, fruit and oil, and its proportion in the national economy is extremely low. These wastes, even their own country The fishery resources in the offshore are all caught by foreigners, which is simply unimaginable.” Standing near the mouth of the Ludang River, Yang Mingyang looked at the vast Patagonian plateau, but his thoughts had already drifted away: “But in our East China In the coastal republic, no one dares to underestimate the proportion of Patagonia's economy. The output value of the fishery alone is several million yuan a year, not to mention the wool textile industry, fruit planting industry, ceramics industry and some mutton. If it is exported, the annual tax is not counted. The profits handed over to the government by several major state-owned enterprises are more than 100 million yuan, which accounts for a very large proportion of the country's total fiscal revenue. It can be said that today's executive committee If you only consider it from an economic point of view, you can lose Hejian, South Africa, and Brazil, but you can’t let go of Patagonia, because this vast Taiwan region is simply a huge cash cow, which is continuously providing for China East. It provides nutrients for the construction and development of the Republic of China."

"With such an important position, who would dare to say that our Patagonian platform is a barren land?" Yang Mingyang lighted his pipe with some satisfaction, and looked vigorously at the coast of Xuanwu County, which was also becoming a large construction site. Several very important engineering projects are going on at the same time.

The first project is the dredging operation currently underway near the mouth of the Ludang River.It turned out that at the mouth of the Ludang River, the only navigable river in Northern Patagonia, there is another cross-blocking spit looming.This sand spit is formed by the combined action of sediment carried by rivers entering the sea and sea tides. On weekdays, during the daytime, the sea tide is low. The existence of this sand spit seriously affects the navigation of large ships into Xuanwu Port and Daliang Port.Only when the sea water rises at night, can the large ship carefully enter the Ludang River under the command of an experienced captain or pilot, and then go all the way up to the above two inland ports to deliver a large amount of materials needed for construction to the wharf superior.

Because of this, now that the Northern Patagonia Regional Administration has a little more money, it has embarked on a large-scale estuary dredging operation, vowing to dig up this sandy spit to clear enough water depth for large ships to travel.In fact, this work has been carried out intermittently before. Several "Qingtang Army" series dredgers affiliated to the Ministry of Construction often come to the Ludang River Estuary to carry out dredging work.It's just that as the development work went deeper into the upper reaches, these dredgers were transferred to the upper reaches. Obviously, the dredging of the river there was more urgent.

This time, through Yang Mingyang's efforts, members of the executive committee took into account the actual difficulties in the Ludang River area, so they specially used the "Qinghe Army" series of dredgers (larger than the original "Qingtang Army" series) newly developed and built by Hyundai Special Shipyard. No. [-], and the hull is more stable, suitable for offshore operations where there is not much wind and waves) All five ships were transferred to work together with ten "Qingtang Army" series, intending to completely clear this sand spit—not twice a year Two years, not five years, in short, it must be removed, so that the mouth of the Ludang River will become a thoroughfare on the water.

The second big project is naturally land leveling and reclamation work.In fact, we can see from the maps of later generations that the two sides of the lower reaches of the Ludang River are not like the slopes and hills in the middle and upper reaches because they are close to the ocean. The ground is also dominated by brown soil suitable for planting, and there is no typical Taiwan area. The gravel landform, so from here to the north to Yancheng County, has been a very important wheat and soybean planting area in Argentina in later generations, supplying a considerable part of the country's grain consumption.

In the time and space of people on the east coast, because these lands are relatively dry and hard compared to the grasslands and duck lakes on the east coast, they are very suitable for relatively heavy steam or animal-powered agricultural machinery to work, such as the 7.5-horsepower steam drum machine that is being tested on the east coast. , large steam plows, seed drills, etc.These cumbersome machines are not easy to damage the cultivated land when driving or moving on relatively dry and hard land, so they are very suitable for use on this land - do you see the medium and large agricultural machinery such as steam harvesters, steam seeders, steam tractors, etc. , and only succeeded in some arid agricultural areas in the central part, and basically failed in other places. The main reason is that steam machinery is too heavy and easy to damage the farmland, so it was quickly replaced by the light internal combustion engine. replaced.

The area around the Ludang River is vast and sparsely populated. To develop agriculture, large and extensive farms are undoubtedly the most suitable.Therefore, under the sole leadership of Cai Huaze, deputy commissioner of the Northern Patagonia region, the regional administrative office, Xuanwu County, and Daliang County acted together, especially in relatively affluent areas such as the prairie on the east coast of the north and the Yazihu ​​River Basin. It has attracted some investors who are interested in running large farms to come to inspect and invest, and the rent is very low. You can choose a 30-year or 50-year lease contract. Anyway, in the foreseeable future, these lands will not be It will be filled by the population. At worst, it will wait until 50 years to decide whether to renew the lease depending on the situation.

Of course, in addition to these large private farms, many state-owned farms have also been opened up, mainly wheat and soybeans.As for the sales market, it is naturally impossible to be in Patagonia. There is no way to eat such a huge amount of grain here, and it will eventually be sold to the mainland—especially the places in Hue and Jiaohe that are dominated by plantations and logging. —If it’s really not possible, you can go to the New Courland market to compete fiercely with the grain from South Africa.And I believe that after being well developed, these farms can also bring a lot of income to the local residents. There should always be a long-term bull market for things like food in the fast-growing East Coast Republic.

In addition to the above two major projects, there are also some small and fragmented projects nearby, such as urban construction, road construction, the construction of coastal defense forts and so on.Undoubtedly, all of the above projects require a large amount of labor, but what the Patagonia region lacks is enough labor.Therefore, after much deliberation, Yang Mingyang and Cai Huaze could only focus on the Indians, and it happened that in the second half of last year, Captain Guo Handong led more than 2000 people in the valley where the two rivers confluence with abundant water and grass (meaning the Indians' The density is relatively high) launched a large-scale attack in the area around Dingnan Town, destroyed more than a dozen large and small Indian tribes, and captured a large number of people while killing and injuring a large number of enemies—these special Isn't the Welche savage a ready-made labor force?Although they may be rebellious, they may be weak, they may be impatient, but there is no other choice, just them!Therefore, this is the order that Captain Guo Handong received when he led his people back from the Amber Lake area in the south.Everything is for the construction of the Taiwan region!

Yang Mingyang stayed in Xuanwu County and Daliang County for about a week. During this period, he asked the chief officials of the two counties many times about local construction. Then, surrounded by his entourage, he went further upstream to Luyang Island and other places. and go.And not long after he left, a large ship belonging to the Messenger Liner Company was also loaded with 1668 pieces of cowhide and a large amount of corned beef. It slowly left the Ludang River Estuary at night when the sea was high tide, and then sailed all the way north. Finally, on January 1, 30, he arrived at Zhenhai Port, which is located at the mouth of Duck Lake.

On the side of Zhenhai Port, the cargo on board was unloaded one by one, and then changed into a small boat, along the calm and calm waterway of Duck Lake, further northward to Ping'an Port, an important industrial town in the north.Here, the cowhide will be bought by some workshop owners. They are all supporting the large state-owned enterprise of the Northern Armory Factory. The workshop owner of things.As for the cured meat, it will be further loaded onto the train, and then go all the way along the northern railway to reach the final destination Dingjun Town.

(End of this chapter)