While the situation in China is tense and the war is about to start, the people of the East Coast still adhere to the usual rhythm and carry out the immigrant transportation work that will arrive in two months in a row. In the eyes of officials in the Far East, it is better to complete the task of immigration transportation than to complete the trade, war, diplomacy and other activities. All of them must serve this purpose. This principle will probably not be possible in the short term.

It is worth mentioning that after so many years of transportation, the last batch of immigrants in Huai'an Prefecture, who lived in Dabo County for logging, fishing of sea vegetables, processing of seafood, tanning, grazing and grain planting, except for a few older or weaker people who are indeed not suitable for ocean sailing (requiring certificates from the local government), most of the others will bid farewell to places where they have lived for many years and board the ship and start a strange and dangerous journey.

In addition to these people, there are also a large number of gangsters and ordinary immigrants in the Ningbo Prefecture and Haizhu Island Commercial Station (most often come from Guangzhou Prefecture or Huizhou Prefecture. In the past two years, Li Chengdong and Zheng Chenggong fought endlessly, and a large number of war refugees have also produced a large number of war refugees) waiting to set off to the east coast. The above is the entire immigrant population this year, which is about 70,000 people, and can be transported away in one go. The six immigrant transport ships promised by the local government have been in place, and the other six have been built and are on the way to the Far East. I believe that after the twelve new ships are put into use (each section can be divided into four), the annual capacity will soar by about 10,000 people in a short period of time, and should last for two to three years. Two or three years later, with the concentrated life expectancy of a batch of immigrant transport ships, the ability of immigrant transport will slowly return to its usual level.

Due to the SD drought and locust plague, the emergencies of SD have accumulated a large number of victims in two or three years, and the total number is currently as high as 340,000. At that time, in order to feed these victims, the local executive committee ordered the colonies of Australia, Tahiti, Rabaul and other places to raise a batch of food within the scope of their ability and transport it to Ningbo and SD for food. In exchange, the executive committee acquiesced in the document that the above three places can "appropriately" intercept a group of victims on the basis of the previous period to support local construction and economic development.

Therefore, it can be said that the SD drought is actually a rare opportunity for the above three places. After all, there is no such good opportunity to intercept immigrants in normal times. Intercept immigrants seem to have always been patents from New China and South Africa. Except for a small number of immigrants who have been stranded due to physical reasons, Rabaul basically doesn’t think of anyone (Australia may even be blood drawn from Chile). Because Tahiti is not on the route through which the immigrants pass, except for natives in the Pacific islands and local exiled prisoners, there is no replenishment of foreign populations, and it is even more miserable.

For example, the Australian colonies have received about six or seven thousand more people in the past two years, which makes the Australian Development Team captain Wang Yan so happy that he can't stop. He seems to be able to finally get rid of the predicament that there are more kangaroos in the nearby areas than people. These more than 6,000 people were partially dispersed into the two counties of Jinshan and Gushan to enrich the local population. Some of them were together with some young people from the two counties (of course, local exiles are indispensable), and were assigned to the area of ​​XN Bay in the later generations, and several new settlements were set up here, namely Jingchenggang near XN City in the later generations, Sydney Township near Parramatta City, Qingchi Township near Richmond City, and Dongguang Township near Camden City.

The establishment of these four settlements has basically enclosed a plain along the XN Bay coast in the future. It can be said that the essence is in hand. In the future, it will basically be the basic foundation of a county. Of course, the establishment of these four settlements must be submitted to the Executive Committee and the General Administration of Development for approval. However, Wang Yan believes that the problem is not a big deal, and it is just a form of it. It is a pity that Australia has developed undyingly for so many years. How many blood draws in the Chile area have caused

Not to mention the problem of insufficient manpower, the problem of its closed economy and poor trade has restricted its development for many years? In other words, after the trade with the Dutch East India Company gradually began in recent years, the original situation of stagnation was gradually broken by selling wheat, wine, cheese, ham, etc. that meet the Dutch tastes, as well as a small number of handmade products used during religious festivals, and the economy has a lingering atmosphere.

However, the scale of this kind of trade is destined to have an upper limit, and for such a large Australian colony, it is also destined to be unable to rely on the pillar. If the Australian colonies want to develop, in addition to actively developing trade with the Far East San Francisco, Ming and Qing Dynasties, RB and North Korea (in fact, this is also difficult, because Australia really has nothing to sell to them. On the contrary, there are a lot of goods that need to be imported, which is helpless), the most important thing is to expand its own population and output, and then work with Rabaul, Tahiti and other places to play the Ocean Economic Zone that has been planned long ago. In this South Pacific Economic Zone, it is obvious that Australia is the leader and will dominate, but the premise is to quickly increase the population. Otherwise, when your population is even smaller than Tahiti, why do you occupy the dominance of the Ocean Economic Zone? Isn’t it funny?

Therefore, the establishment of Jingcheng County this time - in Wang Yan's mind, the third county under the jurisdiction of the Australian Development Team has been established. Although it has not yet been approved by the Executive Committee, its population and economy are also quite in decline - it is really extremely critical for the 40,000 to 50,000 people in Australia and an important step in future development.

"Unfortunately, the only grain in the warehouse was also taken to the SD by the return immigration transport ship to rescue him. Now he wants to develop Jingcheng County, his mother's food is quite insufficient, and he is really cheating people." On the dock of Jingcheng Port, the captain of the Australian Development Team Wang Yan looked at the pioneers living in shacks and tents, and began to complain: "It's fine to give food. We are here to carry on our style and tighten our belts. But if we ask Ningbo, we also refuse to let the right one. We always say that as long as the ship goes to the Malugu Islands to get food, we don't have enough transportation capacity to come to Australia. It's really nonsense! Liao Xiaoyao, Liang Xiangjian, and Jiang Zhiqing are all gangs of mixed balls!"

His chief officer unscrupulously cursed a group of big men who were shaking their feet on the ground, which made the lower-level officials who came to inspect him very embarrassed. They could only divert their attention by looking at the "scenery" around them.

It was early September 1667, and it was late winter in the southern hemisphere, and the weather was still relatively cold. Jingchenggang is not so much a port city, but rather a collection of dirty and messy camps and docks. This camp consists of thatched shacks and tents. The shacks live in intercepted immigrants, and the tents are recruited from Jinshan and Gushan counties to young pioneers, as well as military and political officials and their families.

The camp is built among rocks and weeds, and it looks quite difficult to clean up the surrounding environment in the future. Moreover, the smell here is also very "touching". The human and animal manure transported from Jinshan County is piled up next to it. These things are so precious and important that local officials are considering whether to send fully armed militias to serve day and night - of course, the above is a joke. In this deserted place (what? Are there natives? Are you sure these pioneers treat them as humans rather than wild animals?), no one will steal the treasures of these East Coast people.

There is a reason why these manures are treasure lumps. As early as when the East Coast colonized the vicinity of Jinshan Bay, they had discovered that the local soil fertility was so poor that it was almost impossible to grow. Perhaps it was related to the fact that the Australian continent was too old. The nutrients in the soil were washed away and therefore were particularly barren. If there was no fertilizer in this land, it would be very scary to grow grain, and even fruits and vegetables could not grow, which was a very deceptive thing. The early East Coast people had already suffered a lot of such losses. When they developed the relatively rich river valley (it also needed to dig silt from the bottom of the river to fertilize the fields, otherwise they would not grow much grain) and marched into a wider field, many of the opened farms, orchards, and vegetable gardens had to be abandoned in the end because the yield was really low.

"How is the land here?" After complaining, perhaps the anger had been vented, or the stench in the wind was really frightening, so Wang Yan did not continue. Instead, surrounded by his followers, he went down to a river bank, grabbed a handful of fine soil and asked. He knew that there was a large amount of similar barren land in southeastern Australia. If fertilizer was not applied, there was no yield at all. Sometimes the seed harvest ratio was even less than 1:2, which was scary, because it was hard to imagine that there was such barren land in the world, and it was large and boundless. It was no wonder that the words "barrenness", "disappointment", "hunger", and "sad harvest" were all over the record of the British colonizing Australia at the end of the 18th century.

"I don't know yet, captain, but I don't think it should be too optimistic." An official in his forties said with a frown. His years of land reclamation experience in the Jinshan Bay area gave him an unknown premonition. He felt that Jingcheng Bay may not be much relatively fertile, and the land that can produce without fertilizer in the early stage is like most parts of southeastern Australia.

"But fortunately, there is a small river in front of you. No matter how rotten the land on the river bank, the silt at the bottom of the river is still nutritious." The official then added: "Look at the reeds, shrubs and wormwood here, they grow quite well, which means that the texture of the nearby soil is acceptable. Perhaps because the river water floods every year and then brings some nutrients to the river bank. For such land, if we plant barren-tolerant crops such as sorghum, we will still have some harvests, which is really important for the first year of land reclamation."

"Of course, if it doesn't work, we can still hunt or fish, but this harvest is not very stable and cannot be used as a main source, but only as a supplement." The reclamation official pointed to the wild ducks swimming freely on the river in the distance, and the kangaroos everywhere in the deep inland on the shore, and said: "But seriously, sir, I really don't want to eat the kangaroo meat that is difficult to swallow. Even if I eat roasted potatoes every day, I don't want to eat that kind of thing, even if it's still the same after treating it with a lot of salt and spices, it's really too unpalatable. It's better to send it all to SD this time, at least it's worth a considerable amount of food."

Wang Yan didn't say anything after hearing this. If the quality of the land on the river bank is acceptable, it would probably be very barren in places far away from the river bank. Some places there are not even very long grass and shrubs. It is not as rich as the water and grass on the river bank, which makes people feel disgusting when you see it.

There are many kinds of land there, including rough sand, very hard clay, and even many land covered with pebbles. No matter which of these three lands is a disaster for agricultural land reclamation. Generally speaking, transforming this type of land requires a lot of manpower and material resources. You first need to clean up the weeds and stones on the ground (this is incomparable to the La Plata Plain, where "from the Atlantic coast to the Andes, it is full of fertile volcanic ash soil, and you can't even see a stone." Make the soil very fine, then dig silt from the bottom of the river, transport manure from the pasture, and then mix and stir. After so many improvements, the soil has a little value for planting wheat and other grain crops, otherwise it is a waste of seeds and time.

In fact, to be honest, in the relatively rainy area in southeast Australia, the land quality is much worse than that of Zian Township, which is worse than that of the "retired veteran cadres" who live in seclusion and retirement. At least in that area with nearly a thousand people, the wheat yield in the trial planted in the first year is still quite considerable, and the seed harvest ratio reaches more than 1:4. It is expected that the yield will continue to increase in the second and third year. Compared with the hard-working Jingcheng and the Kingsoft area, it is really in the sky and the underground.

Moreover, perhaps it was the halo effect of the old cadres, and the local local threats were not even as good as here. According to the sailors who transported supplies in the past, the native tribes near Zian Township were also very unfriendly at the beginning. Qiang Quansheng was worried about how to prevent them. As a result, the local tribes suddenly became popular with smallpox, and then you know, the alarm was lifted all at once, which was also very strange.

"Work hard, Australia's conditions are just like this. Take your time, don't worry." Wang Yan patted the shoulders of the reclamation officials, not only to comfort others, but also to comfort himself: "I believe in one sentence, man will defeat nature! As long as we work hard, this large area of ​​land can be developed after all. If not a year or a decade or a hundred years, I don't believe that it will not be improved! Moreover, Chile has drawn blood from us a few years ago. Now I heard that those places have not developed too well under the management of the Southern Railway. I have written to the Southern Railway Company and the Executive Committee, asking them to feed back our Australian development team through the South Pacific route. Whether it is money, materials, technology, personnel, or other regions, they all agree. In principle, they agree. In other words, our good days are coming in the future, and everyone must have confidence!"
Chapter completed!