On September 30, 1658, after dealing with the issue of grain distribution in six townships including Banqiao Township, Chen Ke sent two entourages back to the headquarters of the Capital Company, and then took the remaining entourages and a group of new officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, escorted dozens of policemen, and went straight to Houying Township along the forest clearings.∮,

On October 5, everyone arrived at Houying Township, which currently has only one wooden outpost without any danger. After receiving some water supply from the defenders on the spot, everyone went west again and turned north again. After walking along the Santa Maria River-Ibikui River system, and after more than ten days of stride, they arrived at the banks of the Uruguay River.

After arriving here, everyone was really tired and hungry, but there was no way. In the end, the destination was not yet reached, so everyone took a small boat to cross the Wujiang River and went straight to a simple pier on the other side. This was a town formed by spontaneous gathering of people from the east bank. It was called Xiaolou Township (near the town of later Yapeyou). It was named after a striking three-story wooden building in the center of the town. There were about six or seven hundred people in the town, mostly second-generation residents in China. They planted rice and wheat on a dry land near the river, and lived a very comfortable life. The Spanish pretended not to know their existence, but the Indians knew their existence but had no choice but to sit down and watch them take root step by step.

"This western passage is indeed a convenient path to the Hejian area, but it is rarely developed and the road is difficult." When everyone found a Datongpu hotel, sat on the dry straw, and was eating roasted whole sheep in Daqu, the river, Chen Ke couldn't help but sigh. To be honest, he now regrets taking on the task given by the above. After all, whether it is the ministry or the company (the National Grain Reserve is a deputy ministerial-level state-owned enterprise under the Ministry of Agriculture). There are many people who can do this task. Why bother to come to this muddy water?

However, since things have come to this point, it is useless to regret it any more. Next, I will seriously investigate the grain production conditions on the northern highlands with the people from the Ministry of Agriculture. I will try to do things beautifully, and it will be a qualification in the future. You must know that Ma Wenqiang is only one year older than him. He is now the deputy county magistrate of Hai'an County, and has been actually presided over the development of several new settlements. There is a possibility of further development in a few years. Look at himself, he was just promoted to the position of a small section chief of the National Grain Reserve Depot of the Ministry of Agriculture as a deputy section-level researcher of the Ministry of Agriculture last year as a deputy section-level researcher of the Ministry of Agriculture. This career was indeed suppressed by Ma Wenqiang. When he thinks about it, Chen Ke felt unhappy.

"The only suitable method is to build a railway or canal from the Jiaohe area to the west, but this kind of traffic artery designed to communicate with the Hejian area is probably not easy to obtain and approve the project?" Someone said with his tongue. "This railway spans more than 300 kilometers, has a complex terrain and is uninhabited along the way. In the eyes of the Executive Committee, it is probably the last construction ranking..."

"The way out of the Hejian area is still in the Wujiang River and the Parana River. There is no other way." The famous elderly police officer pulled a leg of lamb and said while gnawing: "The five counties in the lower reaches of the Wujiang River and the two counties along the La Plata River are the main economic and trade contacts in the Hejian area. The others are too far away and too unrealistic! No one has mentioned the matter of the Western Pass before, but they have all been rejected. The reason for the right and wrong projects is already very evident."

Everyone sighed when they heard this, and they felt that the western passage was to be completely opened. It is estimated that several counties in the Jiaohe area would have to develop with more than 50,000 people, and industry and agriculture were about to improve. At that time, the national population should have been more than one million. Therefore, the railways, canals and other aspects of the western passage are indeed not what everyone should consider now.

After a group of dozens of people rested in Xiaolou Township for two days, on October 20, they boarded a small inland steamer that had been waiting for this for many days and headed to Liushuwan Township (located south of Asala City, on the west bank of the Wujiang River, with a material transfer terminal) less than 200 kilometers upstream. It is indeed much more convenient to take a boat to Shuo River than to walk on two legs. The 200-kilometer voyage is arrived in two days. Now, with a whistle in the port, Liushuwan Port has arrived.

After getting ashore from Liushuwan, a corps fortress stationed here carefully checked Chen Ke and others' letters of introduction and official letters, and did not say nonsense. She directly took everyone to the fields outside the town to read. Chen Ke was surprised by the enthusiasm of the cadres here, but had to ride horses with local cadres to the outskirts with their hungry stomachs.

"The Basal Plateau (named as the Miciones Plateau, named after it is covered with a large amount of basalt) is covered with a layer of basalt produced by large-scale volcanic activities. The exposure of this basalt causes the riverbed to twist and turns, forming waterfalls, such as the Iguazu Falls upstream and the Daxing Falls downstream. In these places, hard rocks are often found exposed to the surface in isolation. For this landform, because the soil is mostly weathered basalt, it is not as good as ours.

"The hairless Corps Fort cadres talked freely, which made everyone think that he was an expert in the Ministry of Geology (in fact, he studied geology courses). He only heard him say: "The land under our feet is a wavy plain formed by the erosion of the ground by the rivers and their tributaries. Well, it is on the same basis as the Parana River and Wujiang River, and extends all the way to the Aguape River in the Coriantes Plain to the south. The locals call it the Apostoles Plain, and of course we call it the Xinji Plain."

"The feet are cold on the plateau, but we are generally warmer." The young scholar-soldier jumped off the horse skillfully and pointed to the endless soybean fields in front of him, saying: "There is no obvious dry season here. The precipitation is generally around 1,300 mm a year. The frost period is very short, the sunshine intensity is very high. The average temperature in the coldest July is rarely below 15 degrees (meaning that the minimum temperature in winter is basically above zero degrees). Only in years when cold air in Antarctica suddenly erupts (the probability is very small), the lowest temperature is only

It may drop to zero, but there are no other specialties in winter. In short, this is a land that is very suitable for agricultural planting, especially suitable for planting crops such as rice. Well, if you really want to compare it, it is somewhat similar to the climate in the southern part of the Ming Dynasty, but there are also subtle differences. Our theory here is temperate, but because of it, it is in the transition zone from the subtropical to the temperate zone, it is relatively warm and lacks some characteristics of temperate winter. But because of this, we have unique agricultural conditions here."

With the continuous introduction of the academic soldiers, everyone who inspected the school nodded frequently, thinking that the conditions here were indeed good. Especially after they focused on the hydrological conditions of several nearby rivers and read the meteorological data recorded for more than a year and agricultural data, they had higher confidence in this wave-shaped plain, because the conditions here were indeed quite good, and now there may be only one last question left.

"If we migrate a large number of citizens to come here to settle down and build water conservancy facilities, logging yards, docks, roads, and grain storage warehouses, are there any risks? I mean political and military risks, nothing else." After the introduction was over, Chen Ke suddenly asked.

The academic soldier cadre was stunned when he heard this, and then said happily: "The superior decided to increase investment in this place? That's a great thing! When Chief Chen talked about political and military risks, does it mean natives or Spanish?"

"Everything is it." Chen Ke said, "Besides, most of the natives here are under the jurisdiction of the Spanish. There are dioceses everywhere, and there are many missionaries. If we wantonly embezzle the land of the parish, aren't the Spanish in a hurry?"

"Urgent? What's the use of urgent? If you have the ability, come and do it!" said the school soldier cadre with a little disdain, "I heard from some classmates that the English also wanted to embezzle the Spanish missionary areas in North America. Is the Spanish able to stop them? No! The same is true here. The officials may not know that the Spaniards had withdrawn the only Mestiso regiment in the Hejian area a few days ago, because there was a Crandi riot in the core area where they ruled. The new judge of the Prosecutorial Court of Buenos Aires also wanted to consolidate Putrajaya's defense power,

Therefore, the outer territory of Hejian was naturally abandoned in fact. Oh, by the way, after the Mestiso regiment withdrew, the nearby Spanish people became so honest. The Spanish officials who had come to stop us from crossing the border disappeared, just like they had never been here before, haha, it was so satisfying! I said, you guys, just take this opportunity to transport large amounts of immigrants here first, and take over the land to form a faita accompli. Anyway, the local land is there and it can't be escaped. It's not too late to develop it in the future. I'll swallow the Hejian land first."

"I'll talk about this later. The central government will consider this issue." Chen Ke and others smiled at each other when they heard this, but as he said just now, the central government is indeed considering this issue. The industrial and agricultural potential in the Hejian area is extremely powerful and convenient for transportation. It is indeed possible to organize a large number of immigrants to cross the river and settle land while the Spaniards are weak and have no time to take care of. Anyway, it is not a name for investment and development now. If all the officials in the La Plata colony are well managed, the Spanish will probably turn a blind eye and pretend that they have not seen it. What a big deal!

Once the cross-border settlement has become a fact and people on the east coast cannot drive them away, considering the bad international situation and poor financial situation of the Kingdom of Spain, the two sides can sit down and discuss the ownership of the Hejian area. Isn’t it money? What can be solved with money? (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!