The planned route of this highway is very long and is similar to the route built by the British in Patagonia in history.

According to Europeans' evaluation, Argentina in history existed as a "informal vassal" of the British Empire at least before 1914. The elected government of this country was controlled by British capitalists and supplied meat, leather, wool and grain to Britain, and was a major market for the export of coal, industrial goods and capital in Britain. It is not surprising that infrastructure is controlled by British capital.

Strictly speaking, there are two special wool transport lines built by the British. One starts from Neuquen, which is Dingnan County on the east coast, and goes east to Blanca Port, which is now Yancheng Port on the east coast. In addition to transporting wool, leather, meat and livestock, this line also transports fruit, grain and oil, which is a relatively busy route.

Another one, the starting point is San Carlos de Bariloche (i.e. Shuofang County). The railway winds all the way to the northeast, then turns north in the coastal area of ​​the Bay of San Mathias, crossing the two counties of Xuanwu and Daliang in the current control area of ​​the east coast (which were also two important wheat-producing areas in later generations). Finally, the line to Yancheng Port has a branch line near the source, starting from today's Jincheng County, and intersects with the railway trunk line in Shuofang County, mainly transporting grain, leather and wool.

According to the research of the East Coast people, these two routes are basically relatively reliable. The British who chose the site must have done a lot of work. Taking into account the economy, population, and property factors in Patagonia, they finally planned these two railway lines with a total length of about 2,000 kilometers. Now the East Coast people do not intend to make much changes to this.

But that being said, with the manpower, material resources, financial resources, wool products consumption situation in the international market and the population and economic situation of the Patagonia platform, it is impossible to start two railways at the same time. Even if they start construction, they cannot agree to the construction of one, because the extension line of the northern railway that is being planned in China is the key investment target. After all, that railway will cross the largest coal mine on the entire east coast (even in later generations, it is a large coal mine with a reserve of more than 20 billion tons, but unfortunately it is mostly inferior coal), and its value is much larger than a special wool transportation line.

It is precisely because of this consideration that the Executive Committee has never agreed to the plan to report in Patagonia, even though it is under the background of crazy infrastructure. However, the veteran cadre Yang Mingyang went to the Executive Committee and went to the State Railway Administration to make trouble. After all, it still had some effect. Some of the people above had received his favors back then and had to give him some face. Therefore, in the end, he finally won the construction of the railway's pre-project "Dingyan Highway".

The so-called Dingyan Highway is actually a third-class national highway (because the Patagonia area has less precipitation and ordinary fine sandy roads are enough to cope with), and the construction cost will not be too high. There are no very expensive forest land, swamps, rivers blocking, and mountain ranges, and the only thing that requires some energy is probably a few gullies and a large number of pebbles on the ground that need to be cleaned, but the cost will never be very high.

The main body of the road construction comes from three parts, a total of about 5,000 people, of which 2,000 are newly arrived non-national labor workers, one thousand are black labor workers under the Ministry of Transport, one thousand are captured by the Tverche and Araucan people provided by local Patagonia, and the rest are from the famous Battino Construction Company, whose members are basically from Italy.

To be honest, the scale of the project team is very large. The daily consumption of food and drink is not small, not to mention the consumption of other materials such as labor tools. In short, the cost per kilometer is definitely not enough. If it is built, it will probably cost 300,000 to 400,000 yuan. It can be seen that the infrastructure is indeed a giant beast to swallow gold. No wonder the old continental countries, except for the French Kingdom, were making drastic roads, other countries would rather stitch and repair than launch a major project. They really have no money.

However, don't joke about the old mainland countries. Although the East Coast government borrowed a lot of money and used the gold reserves of the treasury and issued some commercial papers, it was too many projects on hand and was unable to start many projects at the same time. Therefore, they also asked to complete the salt farm for the Dingyan Highway to five years, so the financial pressure would be much smaller. Of course, they didn't say anything, perhaps because of the anger of the old cadres. Officials of the Ministry of Transport also said that once the government's financial situation improves, they will give priority to increasing investment in Dingyan Highway, which will fool this matter a little.

Today is September 4, 1675, and the first batch of 500 Polish-African workers have been in their seats for several days. They arrived at the dock of Dingnan Town on a 72-ton inland steamer. Then they dug some land nests outside the city and set up a batch of reed sheds as temporary camps. An infantry company from the 12th Mixed Battalion of the Army was stationed next door. They pulled up barbed wire and built tents, and monitored the Poles from both distance and near, but they didn't care too much, and they didn't seem to be worried that these Poles would take the opportunity to escape.

The reason for this is actually related to the special geographical environment of the Patagonia platform. To be more straightforward, that is, where do you go to eat when you go! The wilderness is full of sand, shrubs, and gravels, and you can't even find some berries to fill your stomach. Occasionally, there are some animals, but what can you do without tools? To put it bluntly, it's good that you don't get preyed by those lions, and you can basically not survive, so the supervisors and army officers and soldiers who guarded them are not worried that they can escape when the food is supplied regularly every day.

However, it is not ruled out that some people run away with their brains. Then the militiamen with excellent riding skills in Dingnan County will have a place to use their skills. They can bring their lassoes, find traces of these people on the grassland, and then catch them all back like cows. This doesn't seem to be very difficult.

Of course, when the East Coast people provide reasonable treatment, each person has a daily salary of five cents, sufficient bread or bread, and cheap corned beef from the northern grasslands, these Poles generally do not have much desire to escape. You should know that building roads is a hard job, but isn’t it hard to plant rye for the nobles in Poland? The seed harvest of Polish rye is only one to four, and it can be exported in large quantities to the Union Province, England and France. The degree to which ordinary tenant farmers are being squeezed can be imagined! Therefore, is it really difficult to accept to run to the east coast of the New World to build roads? Unless you were originally not a low-class citizen in Poland, but a noble, merchant or religious person who did not do production, that’s another matter.

There are more than a dozen agents from the Statistical Investigation Bureau of Syphilis Patients staying with these guards, led by Wei Jianzhang, the son of Wei Boqiu, who has now been promoted to deputy director. Wei Jianzhang has worked in the Mei agency for many years and has now climbed to the high position of the head of the anti-espionage officer in the entire Patagonia region. It is quite glorious. Although it is still not as good as Major Tian Xingtian of the Gendarmerie Command, the emperor is now the Supreme Emperor of Free State. It is not comparable to those of them who have not even had a few more oil and water in the country.

Wei Jianzhang was basically unaware of his affairs, but he didn't notice it at all. He had been in Mei's office since he was an adult and did not have much business contact with his father. He was also very low-key on weekdays. After his biological mother passed away, he lived in seclusion and communicated very little with his younger brothers and sisters born in the Far East. However, this does not mean that this outstanding intelligence official knew nothing, but he had been cautiously away from these things. After all, he was mainly developing in China and lacked interest in going to Japan or some other places, so it would be better not to provoke these things that could easily cause trouble.

In addition, he is also quite dedicated in his work. In recent years, he has cracked several spy cases and recovered huge losses for the country. These real achievements not only allow him to climb to a high position, but also serve as his amulet, a talisman that guarantees that his father will not be caught in the vortex if he fails.

Wei Jianzhang is also very familiar with the current domestic economic situation on the East Coast and is not ignorant of some mixed personal connections. Therefore, he also knows the importance of the construction of Dingyan Highway. After the first batch of non-national labor workers arrived here, he personally led a professional team to Dingnan Town by boat from Hai'an County, and carefully identified the more than 500 labor workers. It was not to investigate any spies, but to prevent these people from joining together to cause some stupid things of escape or rebellion, which affected the construction progress of the highway.

"If this road can be built, the entire Patagonia economy will be revitalized, including fruits, grains, livestock, wool, leather, cheese, and animal fat. Of course, I am not talking about the Dingyan Highway, but the Dingyan Railway, one of the two legendary wool transportation lines." In the office of the Syphilis Patient Statistics and Investigation Bureau of Syphilis Patients in Dingnan Town, the Army Captain Pei Dade, who came to visit, was talking to Wei Jianzhang.

Although there are all kinds of bad rumors, he still respects Deputy Director Wei. The reason is that the difference in identities of the two is mainly the difference in their identities, which means the difference in the upper limit of their future. However, because the two people belong to different systems, and the development of his benefactor Guo Handong seems to be many times stronger than Wei, so there is no need to be too humble and have a normal relationship.

Wei Jianzhang took out a bottle of wine from the wine cabinet opposite his desk. After pouring a small glass for Pei Dade, he stuffed the cork into the mouth of the bottle and explained: "Because of the doctor's instructions, I'd better stay away from alcoholic beverages. This is a painful torture for me, but there is no way. I want to live longer."

After putting the wine bottle on the table, Wei Jianzhang handed a document to Pei Dade and said, "The names marked on the front page are all Polish laborers who were originally from nobles, merchants or clergy. These people's lives in Poland were not very bad. After being sold to us by the Tatars, their situation plummeted, so the gap in their hearts is very big. You can focus on observation in the future and take it decisively whenever there is something wrong. If something goes wrong, it will be troublesome if they make a big mess."

In fact, non-national labor workers who were born as prisoners of war (of course, most of them were not prisoners of war...) were not stable enough and were prone to escape and resist, and were far less than those of the three major labor brokers who volunteered to go out to sea to make a living. These were not secrets in the East Coast construction industry, and many construction team leaders knew about it. Unfortunately, these people were large and cheap, and could meet the huge labor gap. Therefore, the East Coast government could never give up the temptation of buying from the Crimean Tatars. The Poles, Ukrainians, Moldavians, and Transylvanians. They imported a large amount of money every year to enrich them in various mines, construction sites, forest farms, farms, brick kilns and other units in China.

These Poles who were sold in the Boturi War were basically from the Podoria region in the southeast, which was always a province with relatively developed agriculture. They were seized by the Mongols' Golden Horde when the Grand Duke of Lithuania expanded eastward. Later, they used this as a base to continue to grind the entire Ukraine to the eastward from the descendants of the Mongols. Therefore, in this province, there were many descendants of former Polish military aristocracy (of course, wealthy Cossack leaders who defected to the Poles were also indispensable). During this Boturi War, they were plundered by the Tatar cavalry that came and went like wind (When the Turks besieged some Polish fortresses, at least 30,000 of the 50,000 Tatar cavalry were robbed, and they were drunk...). Many nobles and merchants were broken and sent to the Haji Port Commercial Station for the East Coast to choose.

In addition, the Turks even converted some Catholic churches in Potory into mosques. They also did this in Ukraine, which aroused the Cossack rebellion in history. This time and space are no exception. A large number of clergy were sent to prison vans and shipped to Haji Port for sale. The methods were extremely brutal.

Although these people hated the Turks and Tatars, they had no good feelings for the East Coast people who bought them. They used to encourage ordinary tenants to escape with them, so Wei Jianzhang focused their names and asked Pei Dade, who was responsible for the safety of the entire road, to pay attention to it and not cause uncontrollable chaos.
Chapter completed!