Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 326 Economic Circle

After the expedition fleet set off, the mainland is still continuing its pace in an orderly manner.

After the ban on European immigrants was opened in mid-1641, a large number of European immigrants came from Bordeaux, Florence, and Riga (established in early 41 with the assistance of the Hanseatic League). In late November, 11 French immigrants (including 12 children) landed in Oriental Port; in early December, 1 Italians arrived in the southern Port of Rocha in several batches; in early January, 5000 A Livonian disembarked in town harbour.The arrival of a total of more than 6000 European immigrants has greatly changed the domestic population. If we count the two batches of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty who will arrive in the New China region, as well as the natural increase in the domestic population over the years and the cross-border The number of smuggled people, the population of China East Coast Republic is expected to reach a historic [-] people next month.

The population has suddenly increased by more than 30%, which is a huge challenge for the East Coast Republic of China, which has only been established for a few years.First of all, the number of cadres to manage these new populations is seriously insufficient. This is a very serious matter. The Dayuhe Youth Cadre Training School has only graduated dozens of administrative cadres every year these years. Manage these new arrivals.In the end, we had no choice but to transfer veteran cadres from the core ruling areas such as Dongfang County and Pingan County to take up positions in the areas where these new immigrants were placed, and leave those core ruling areas that have been ruled for many years and have a good order to the gang of freshly graduated youths. Let's practice.Despite this, with the strict organizational structure of the industrialized society on the east coast, there is still a large gap in the number of cadres. Later, a considerable number of army veterans and non-commissioned officers can only be discharged, and then let them take up posts in the local area, which barely survived the situation. .

After this incident, the executive committee deeply realized that training cadres is more important than climbing the technology tree, and it must be taken as a major issue.However, it will be a few years before the policy is changed, and it will be a few years before the results are achieved. Right now, a large number of veterans and military officers can only be transferred to become local officials. The impact and side effects of this are really hard to tell for a while.However, this time it is also a special case that so many people came in at once. The executive committee is also afraid that a war with the Netherlands will suddenly break out. At that time, the immigration channel will almost be cut off. Take a while to digest and digest.

According to the executive committee's plan, these newly arrived immigrants will all be dismantled and resettled in 5 townships across the country (excluding overseas regions, where two new townships are planned).The principle of resettlement is to mix the old and the new, that is, to bring the old with the new with the old residents who have a high degree of identification with the East Coast Republic of China, so that they can adapt to the East Coast, an industrialized society that is completely different from the area they used to live in as soon as possible.At present, among the more than 3 residents in the country, there are only more than [-] "true east coast people" who can speak and speak Chinese proficiently, can write hundreds of commonly used Chinese characters, and actively safeguard national interests.It will take a considerable amount of time to assimilate a population almost as large as theirs with more than [-] people.

Of course, favorable living conditions, good adult education, and constant war victories can all speed up this process, which requires the government's overall planning and a package of arrangements.After all, with so many people rushing in at once, the original resources—such as adult night school education resources, food and consumer goods resources, land resources, housing resources, transportation resources, etc. will all become tense in a short period of time. .In this matter, how the government increases investment, actively coordinates, and reasonably manages the conflicts between new immigrants and old citizens is indeed a challenge for the East China Republic, which has a weak foundation and a short history of founding. No small challenge.

If we use a more vivid language to describe it, the East China Republic today is like a boa constrictor with a distended belly, and it needs time to digest the food it has swallowed in one gulp.Although we can feed the python some drugs to help digestion, in the final analysis it still takes a lot of time to digest the food and then convert it into its own strength.

Among the [-] Europeans, the [-] French were most valued or guarded by the people on the east coast.In view of the large number of French immigrant groups in the country, the crossover crowd and their small number of hard-core followers, as masters of national resources, have actually been reluctant to introduce a large number of French immigrants.The reason is that they are unwilling to let a certain ethnic group in the country become too powerful, which is not conducive to assimilation or their rule.After all, with such a large population base, if an ambitious person or something takes advantage of ethnic or religious conflicts to stir up social turmoil, then the business of the cross-border group may be in danger of collapse.Although the current situation of the country is booming, the standard of living of the people is relatively high, and everyone recognizes the rule of the time-travelers and their followers, the possibility of large-scale social unrest is not too great, but it can be taken care of.Fortunately, the current composition of the army, especially the army, is mainly composed of Livonians, Ming people, Cossacks, and Tartans. Otherwise, if even the army is filled with a large number of French people, then the fun will be great .

Nowadays, the country implements high-handed rule and national chauvinism policies to forcibly assimilate foreign immigrants; at the same time, it also firmly holds some religious sticks in its hands, and severely cracks down on underground preaching associations and other religious institutions that are classified as "evil cult organizations" to ensure that Can use religion to better maintain the government's dominance.Over the past few years, there have been no less than ten Jesuit priests who have been arrested because of their believers' informants. They and the domestic fanatics who followed them were all taken to the mountains and executed secretly. The East Coast people's attack on such underground activists is Never soft-hearted.For this reason, the Office of Religious Affairs also set up a "Night Watchman" organization. The members of this organization include pirates, criminals, exiles, and rebellious priests. In short, they are all a group of scum. The underground "cult" of the country played a huge role.

In mid-January 1642, more than 1 French children were sent to study in Fort Bastion.At the same time, the remaining 700 adult French immigrants were dispersed and resettled in Dongfanggang, Luochagang, Henan Township, Ranch Township, Miannong Township, Zhenyuan Township, and Meilingang Township. The pepper noodles were sprinkled all at once, and each place was divided into more than 1000 people, which almost minimized the possibility of them living in clusters.

In addition to the capital and its surrounding areas, the key areas for population allocation this time are the agricultural areas of the Duck Lake Basin in the previous plan.To be more specific, there are three forts: West Lake Fort, Hekou Fort, and Xiangshan Fort. Among these three places, West Lake Fort, which is based on planting and timber harvesting and processing, is the most important.

As early as October 1640, with the arrival of 10 land reclamation residents (400 Ming people, 100 Charuya people, and 300 French people), the establishment of the Xihubao agricultural base was announced.After more than a year of hard work, the local residents, with the help of the construction team workers of the Third Bureau of Communications Construction, have reclaimed tens of thousands of acres of farmland and irrigation facilities sufficient to irrigate tens of thousands of acres of farmland.Although the land did not grow food on a large scale last year (only part of the potatoes were harvested) due to the missed farming season, the agricultural potential is huge.Therefore, after the arrival of the new batch of immigrants, the Government Affairs Council assigned 1000 Livonians and 1000 Italians each to this area with a stroke of a pen, and began to cultivate wasteland.Of course, it is impossible for so many people to crowd around West Lake Fort. About [-] of them were brought to the mouth of the Kama Kuang River about [-] kilometers northeast of West Lake Fort, and began to build a new settlement there—— Fengbao means a bumper harvest of grain.

After all the Ming people from the New China region come, the Government Council will relocate 4000 Ming people and hundreds of Guaraní people. In the end, the total population of West Lake Fort and Dafeng Fort is estimated to reach more than [-]. It has become another densely populated place in the country.These people will reclaim more than [-] mu of farmland in the two places, mainly to grow rice and corn, and at the same time raise some goats and beef cattle.It is conceivable that after the development of this agricultural base is completed, the China East Coast Republic will no longer have food shortages.On the contrary, they can also export a large amount of food abroad to make profits to feed back the industry.

Of the remaining 500 Livonians and 500 Italians, 500 were scattered and assigned to the Ping'an Coal Mine in Meihe Township, which was planning to expand production recently, just when a large number of people were needed; [-] people They were assigned to Ping'an Township and its nearby Jushu Township, where the wharf, factories and farmland needed a lot of manpower; in addition, the last [-] people were collectively dragged to Sanpaotai Township across the Xiangshanbao Sea.

Sanpaotai Township is located on a peninsula south of Zhenhai Port. In later generations, there was a bridge connected to Rio Grande. It was named Sanpaotai Township because the No. [-] coastal defense fort around Zhenhai Port was built here.These five hundred immigrants set up vineyards and planted grapes under the guidance of a small number of French immigrants.The new arrivals from South France brought advanced viticulture techniques that would be foolish not to take advantage of.In fact, not only Sanpaotai Township, but the nearby Xiangshanbao is also a good grape-growing area, and it has been put into practice, but the scale is not large enough.These residents will mainly grow grapes, graze goats at the same time, and grow some vegetables to supply the large-scale industrial workers and naval officers and soldiers in Zhenhai Port.

After the distribution of these new immigrants, we can clearly see that the country has gradually formed a heavy industry agglomeration belt with Ping'an Town as the core, a shipbuilding industry zone with Zhenhai Port as the core, and a capital commercial economic zone with Dongfang Port as the core. big economic circle.With the continuous investment of capital and population in the future, these three major economic circles will definitely drive the economic take-off of the entire East China Republic.

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