Another small and small offshore sailboat rushed into the harbor. The Spanish officials on the dock got up several times, then sat down again, watching the ship descending sails and mooring down anchors.

The ship is a relatively simple offshore sailing ship. If someone is familiar with the inside story of the East Coast shipbuilding industry, he must know that this small cargo ship with only a hundred tons should be the "New Star 2" type designed and manufactured by a private Nova Shipyard. It is very cheap and has a rough workmanship. It is very suitable for people with insufficient funds to buy it for offshore or inland transportation.

After the ship was anchored, a large group of men, either unkempt or ragged, were soon placed on the pier. They were wearing slightly worn jeans, carrying a torn sackcloth bag, and even many people came empty-handed to look at the city with a gaze of hope.

This is Mar del Plata, one of the colonies of the Kingdom of Spain in the Pampa region. At first, there were only more than 200 immigrants from the peninsula and Italy. After years of miserable operations, it only barely increased to more than 500 in 1666, which sounds like a very common colonial town. However, after a "bison fever" emerged in the East Coast two years ago, the population of Mar del Plata began to increase rapidly, from more than 500 to more than 3,000, which was a surge several times.

There is no doubt that the majority of the increased population was not the Spanish, nor were the subjects of other territories under King Carlos, but illegal immigrants from the "northern neighbour" of the East Coast Republic of China. These people were either carrying bags of luggage or simply employed by others. Like a surging wave, they washed away the thin embankment of the town of Mar del Plata, rushed in, and then settled here in a grand manner, opened shops and built workshops, and did not regard themselves as outsiders, which completely stunned the local Spanish colonists.

Strictly speaking, the East Coast people came to Mar del Plata earlier than Niuzhuang and had a conflict with the Spanish colonial government earlier. However, just as Constantine De Owando met at Niuzhuang Port, he also visited Mar del Plata several times and tried to "persuade" the local East Coast people to leave, but it was useless. Even the last time, he brought a total of 100 fully armed cavalry to "persuade", which scared the illegal immigrants of the East Coast to panic. However, after all, the Spanish, who did not dare to touch the hard-working Spanish, immediately became paper tigers after being seen through by the immigrants. In addition, these illegal immigrants themselves were lawless and unruly people. After a while, the Spanish unilaterally expelled these people, and finally they could only turn to the East Coast government to recall these people, but how could this be possible?

So you can see that on the east coast of Mar del Plata today, it is called "Silver Harbor", which means silver beaches, the number of illegal immigrants on the east coast of the east coast is increasing day by day, far exceeding the number of local Spanish colonists, accounting for the majority of the population. Moreover, they have successively built a large number of new buildings next to the original Spanish town, spontaneously forming a new colonial town, which makes Spain do nothing.

The Spaniards have struggled. At the beginning of last year, they moved more than 500 French-speaking local residents from the South Netherlands where the war had just subsided, and settled here, which meant to avoid making it the basis of French rule, to compete with the population advantage of immigrants on the East Coast. However, when the Spaniards had worked hard to get 500 people, more than 1,000 people came from local counties in the first six months of this year. While increasing the population of Mar del Plata or Silver Harbor by more than 3,000, the so-called immigration competition that the Spaniards wishfully launched became a complete joke to compete for immigration. Can you compete for the East Coast that is close to you?

Later, the Spaniards became numb and accepted their fate, especially when their General Ovando was no longer in charge, what would you do if you let them do it? Of course, they could only be seen. So, now Mar del Plata has such a strange situation, that is, the Spaniards live with the East Coast people, but they are clearly distinguished. The Spaniards live their own lives, and the East Coast people do their own business, and the two sides do not interfere with each other.

Of course, it is not correct to say that there is no interference at all, because in order to appease the sentiment of the Spanish colonial government, with the acquiescence of the General Administration of Development of the East Coast, the local East Coast people normally pay various taxes to the Spanish government, including the church's tithes. However, compared with the scale and profit of the bison business, this tax burden is still acceptable.

With the arrival of the port of Mar del Plata, the number of people on the east coast of the city has exceeded 2,300, mainly engaged in the bison industry, including hunting, trafficking, slaughtering, pickling, buckets, leather, hostels and other small businesses. The local Spanish also started to engage in bison hunting, but because the buyers were basically East Coast merchants and they were not very competitive, they have basically turned to agricultural production and provided local East Coast immigrants with wheat, fruits, vegetables, wine, cheese, oil and other foods, which made them earn some money, so that the relationship between the two major ethnic groups would not be too bad.

Accompanied by his son and several entourages, Mr. Zhu Heng and Zhu carefully got off the boat and looked around. The city is a typical Spanish style. The most magnificent buildings in the city are always churches, followed by stone official residences and warehouses, and the rest are mostly private houses. Compared with the areas where the Spanish live, the urban area of ​​the East Coast is more chaotic, and the houses are mostly thatched huts, which looks bad. However, considering who immigrated, it can be understood. They are all speculators and miserable haha, normal.

Zhu Heng, who is mainly engaged in building materials business, came here for his old business, that is, to open a stone yard, but the scale will not be too large. He just came to the Pampa area first to occupy a position and make a good foundation for future layout. At least for now, Mr. Zhu's industrial management focus is still on the local east coast grassland. He opened a stone yard in Yichang County to produce a large amount of ordinary bluestone and marble, and the products are almost in short supply. Especially in the middle and upper reaches of the Wujiang River, many new settlements were established, namely Jiqiu Township, located near the town of Itapiranga in later generations, and Zhuanyu Township, near the small town of West San Miguel in later generations.

Gaye Township, located near the town of Palmitus in later generations, Tuancheng Township, near the town of Pinyarkino in later generations, Langya Township, near the town of Chanzere in later generations, Chengyang Township, near the town of Elani in later generations, Daibei Township, near the town of Campsnovus in later generations, Pingyi Township, near the town of Campsnovus in later generations, Dongwu Township, near the town of Anita Garibaldi in later generations, and Longde Township, located near the town of Campsnova in later generations, a total of ten new towns were established, and business was very popular. Every day, ships docked on the dock, waving checks to buy large stones, showing the vigorous consumption capacity of the east coast.

Under such circumstances, it is naturally unlikely that Mr. Zhu Zhu will transfer his main energy to other places. In fact, he is also trying to recruit people to expand the production scale of the Yichang County stone farm. As for why he came to Mar del Plata this time, there is actually a reason: no other reason, it is mainly because he is attracted by the very rich limestone resources here and wants to use it to start a cement factory. The local limestone resources are basically encircled by the giant enterprise state-owned building materials company. Private enterprises like Mr. Zhu have no chance to get involved, so they can only find a way out.

The market for building materials such as cement is undoubtedly optimistic in the long run. After the local policies are gradually relaxed and private capital is gradually accumulating to a certain level, it is actually natural for people like Mr. Zhu to enter the cement industry. And when local limestone resources are monopolized in large quantities, if Zhu Heng wants to do something, he can only find a way out. For example, he came to the Pampa area in this way. Perhaps this is exactly one of the intentions of the officials of the Executive Committee.

In the inland hinterland of Mar del Plata, there is a mountain system called Tandillia. Because it is surrounded by livestock established by people on the east coast, it is called Niulan Mountain by immigrants on the east coast. This mountain system extends southeast from the central part of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and ends on the Atlantic coast near Mar del Plata. The axis is 335 kilometers long, with a maximum width of 60 kilometers and an area of ​​about 1.23 million square kilometers.

The rock mass that constitutes the Tandillian Mountains was formed in ancient times. Its Precambrian base is part of the ancient Brazilian plot, composed of crystalline schist, gneiss and granite. Paleozoic sedimentary rock system consisting of quartzite, dolomite, clay and limestone. Limestone is exposed in most parts of the mountain system, which can be used for cement plants to produce, so it has great economic value. Later Argentines mined in large quantities and used for many years until the domestic hole was opened. The market was occupied by foreign cement. Of course, the entire Niulan Mountains also produced a large amount of granite. Later Argentines also set up many quarries to mine and use it. However, as far as the surrounding area of ​​Mar del Plata is concerned, it was mainly quartzite. One of the important materials in the construction of this city in later generations was also quartzite, which can be said to be locally sourced.

What Zhu Heng is interested in now is naturally the quartzite around Mar del Plata. Of course, he will not invest huge investments, so he can only say that he is trying the waters. According to his plan, the East Coast people must have cross-border reclamation in the Pampa area more and more frequently, just like the Hejian area back then, so the demand for building materials will be quite large. After all, there is extremely lack of wood on this large plain, so mining quarries is profitable and worth investing.

After the stone yard has stable production of a large amount of quartzite and makes profits, Zhu Heng will gradually increase his investment here, and then further raise personnel and start to launch a cement kiln to trial the production of cement, an extremely important building material. After all, there is indeed a shortage of quarries, and the products still need to be diversified to be more stable.

Some people may ask, Mr. Zhu opened a quarry here, and he would set up cement kilns, lime kilns and other things in the future. Is there really business? Is the expansion of the East Coast people on the Pampa Plain really as fast as they were in the Hejian area a few years ago? Well, this question is really hard to answer, but Mr. Zhu learned from limited information channels that in the second half of the year, an immigrant ship with an official background will set up a landing site on the long coastline between Niuzhuang and Yinhai, namely Mar del Plata, and then hunt bison or terminate the grain. In short, it is necessary to live for a long time. Of course, this immigration ship is "spontaneously organized" on the surface without a trace of official background, which is a pure commercial act. But we can know from the fact that the person who led the team is a graduate of the Corps Fort, which is completely a trick to cover up. The East Coast people have played it many times.

Even, there are people in the country who are secretly recruiting people. Zhu Heng set up in the quarry in Yichang County, a while ago, two young second-generation citizens resigned, saying that they were going to the Pampa grassland to "try their luck", which shows that this is the case. According to Mr. Zhu's private understanding, there are about three immigration landing sites that have been designated, namely Junyi Port near the Rhiquit Town of Marchikita, later generations, Xincheng Port near the Miramar Town of later generations, and Donghun Township near the Entineldelr of later generations.

The Spaniards would never have expected that after crowding into Niuzhuang and Yinhai, the East Coast people were not satisfied and would actually flood into the Pampa area through such semi-official means. If this continues, it is probably because the Spanish exported live cattle, cowhide, tallow and other businesses to the East Coast are not going to be very involved, because the East Coast people alone have captured more bison than the Spanish cattle slaughtered every year. This is really sad.
Chapter completed!