"Come on, try this lobster, it's very good." In a villa with a very beautiful appearance in Xinhua Port City, the captain of the island's development team and the security commander Shao Yaoguang were recommending a dish to his second brother.

Lobsters grow offshore from New China Island and are very large in size. Because immigrants on the east coast and residents of the Eight Banners of the local islands do not like to eat them (they prefer inland fish such as tilapia). Lobsters in the nearshore grow almost freely without any natural enemies, so they are very large in size.

Crabs have similar experiences. Because New Huaxia Island has many rivers and rapid water flow, it carries a lot of nutrients, so many fishing grounds are formed around the islands. Although the single one may not be as good as those of the large fishing grounds in the east coast and the black water in the Far East, it is better because of its large number, and the total annual catch is not a small number.

Therefore, the supply of seafood in New China Island is still very sufficient, including lobsters, meat crabs (the first two are mainly eaten by middle and upper-class people on the east coast), grouper and shrimp, followed by tuna, eels, flounder and sharks. In addition to meeting their own needs, they are also exported to Yicheng area in large quantities, which competes fiercely with seafood in Hezhong area.

Today, the dishes that Shao Yaoguang entertained his younger brother are traditional Chinese dishes, lobster, shrimp, steamed grouper, grilled halibut, braised crocodile and hump beef. Especially the last one, it has almost become one of the island's signature dishes. Now Shao Shuguang has a serving in front of him: a dish of stewed with the stems and leaves of a certain local plant, with some spices, and the taste is very good. He even made a canned version under the strong suggestion of the Navy to serve military supplies.

"It seems that my brother is having a very comfortable life here." Shao Shuguang put down the glass containing the South African Xianghe wine. As a result, the servant brought the processed lobsters and said with a smile: "This house is quite cool. It seems that it has worked hard on the design. The dishes are even more abundant and have a unique flavor. I am in Ningbo, but I can't eat this kind of food. It's good, good."

This villa was bought by Shao Yaoguang from Huang Yi, the captain of the New China Development Team. He then spent a lot of money to renovate it, pumping out the groundwater with several medium-sized water pumps, passing through the heat exchange system set up inside the room, and then flowing out to a reservoir for drinking water and irrigation water for people and animals inside and outside the villa. This system, called "soil air conditioning", has been popular in New China Island for some years, but because of its complex design and considerable cost, only rich people can afford it.

Shao Yaoguang is undoubtedly a rich man! Therefore, he spent money to design such a system, not as cool as the ether refrigeration device on a refrigerated boat, but as long as the temperature difference from the groundwater, and this cooling performance requirement is undoubtedly achieved, which is enough!

From this we can also see that after so many years of development of the East Coast Republic, dignitaries and nobles also put forward higher requirements for the quality of life. This local air conditioner is just an example, and there are many other things. In short, if compared with decades ago, it is simply unimaginable. After all, people have the urge to pursue a better life.

"If you like it, eat more." Shao Yaoguang said with a smile: "But brother, I have also heard that you live in Ningbo, and you often have dozens of followers. At that time, I was still a commissioner of the administrative office in Baoding area. The news spread widely, which was really scary. It was not me, I said to you, second brother, you are now working in the local area - well, either a state-owned department store or a general manager of the Nanhai Group - there is no better than overseas colonies, and people are staring at every move, so you should be more restrained. There are too many chefs, musicians, painters, guards, etc. You have to send all the money after returning to China. Just leave a few people, so as not to point fingers at our Shao family."

Speaking of which, as an old family in the East Coast political arena, Shaw Brothers is indeed at the forefront of the storm, especially after the death of the former Central Executive Committee member Shao Shude, now it is relying on Shao Yaoguang to support the political arena alone. Compared with other families, it seems a bit weak. Today, the Shaw Brothers family has more resources transferred to the business world, such as the famous Taiwan Bank, Shao Yaoguang, Shao Shuguang, and Shao Zhengguang (who is engaged in painting and music work in local areas, and also invests in some art and antiques) and the three brothers have held nearly 20% of their shares. At the moment when Taiwan Bank is getting better and better, the appreciation of this asset is getting bigger and bigger, which makes many people jealous. Therefore, Shao Yaoguang asked his second brother to be low-key and not to overstimulate people from other families and add resistance to his career.

After hearing this, Shao Shuguang sighed lightly and nodded in agreement. The most important task of the Shaw family now is to protect Shao Yaoguang, who serves as the captain of the New China Development Team, and do everything possible to push him to the throne of the Executive Committee in the future. He is not young now. If he is in his early fifties, he will not have the chance to enter the cabinet. This is undoubtedly bad news for the Shaw family and they cannot accept it no matter what. There is no family in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, and there are no families that lack political protection, and can develop steadily and continue to make progress. Of course, the East Coast is not possible!

"Talk about the development of New China Island. This is your future advancement level. How is it now?" Shao Shuguang drank a glass of wine and changed the topic.

"It's okay." Shao Yaoguang said: "It's just that there are some abnormalities. The advantages of agriculture are becoming more and more prominent. Other aspects cannot be developed at all. In the future, this too single industrial structure may exist for a long time. Of course, this may be exactly what local political and business people unanimously hope."

In fact, to put it forward, under the local requirements, New Huaxia Island will run wildly on the road to tropical economic crop plantations, focusing on the development of crops such as sugar, coffee, cocoa, pepper, etc. that are sold in the international market, as well as sisal, cotton, rubber and other crops that are very needed in domestic industrial and agricultural production. If it is overwhelmed, there will be some coal, iron and gold mining, logging, fishing, and the cultivation of medical crops such as jinchona trees and horse vines. In short, it will look like an economy with agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery as the main components. It relies entirely on imports from the local area in industrial and daily necessities, becoming an important part of the colonial economic system of the Great East Coast.

Based on this consideration, for decades, all the captains of the New China Development Team have taken the development of the above industries as their mission. Therefore, the production of tropical products such as cotton, cane sugar, coffee, cocoa, sisal, tobacco, peanuts, herbs, pepper, rubber, oil palm, coconut, etc., are increasing day by day, and the scale of labor hired is increasing, providing huge profits for a large number of local distributors on the island and the east coast. At the same time, the industrial development of this large island is extremely slow, because countless funds have flowed to plantations, and very few are invested in the industrial field, and because of the cost.

Due to technical factors, these very little industrial capital has developed relatively difficult. At present, except for the timber, shipbuilding, mining and construction industries, the development is not ideal. Almost everything depends on imports and is exploited by local industrial products. Otherwise, you think that when Xinhuaxia Island thought that the registration locations of companies that distribute the island's products were local, so that profits and taxes were intercepted in the local area and became dissatisfied, why would the local area make a quick concession? It’s not that others have the means to counter you! The scissor gap in industrial exploitation agriculture has always been very useful.

"Now there are more and more Italians. Genoa Asia-African companies, Delta companies and Marco Polo companies started by the new Venetians have been stimulating the profits to occupy wasteland on the island for development, and have built one after another of cash crop plantings. Especially the new Marco Polo company, due to its local political transactions, has given the company great convenience. Not only has the Venetian Circulation Bank and the Leato Plaza Bank (the East Coast Company reopened after reopening after 20% of its shares) opened branches to Xinhua Port to provide financial services, but also produced more than ten 650-ton flute-shaped transport ships for them at preferential prices. After such a giant crocodile poured in, the tropical planting industry in Xinhua will surely be the key to the new Huaxia. It will be more prosperous. But seriously, I don’t have data from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and I don’t know what impact the island’s output will have on the world market now. But in terms of the Mediterranean market we can enter, the prices of pepper, sugar, coffee and other commodities have indeed fallen a lot, and it also squeezed out a lot of "Caribbean goods" of the Dutch, British and French people. Although they have a great advantage in transportation costs." Shao Yaoguang continued to introduce: "Of course, in order to obtain more land, we are also continuing to fight against the natives. However, it is not a one-time battle to destroy the country, but a frog-boiled blood on them bit by bit, focusing on the shores of the Liusha Lake and the southeast mountainous areas. There is no big problem and the progress is also very fast."

By the way, without the intervention of external forces, the colonial expansion behavior of the East Coast people on Xinhuaxia Island was really pleasant. On the shore of Liusha Lake, the East Coast people had established some fixed villages and towns and vigorously carried out rice cultivation to supplement the food shortage of the island. The situation here is now relatively stable. The New China Infantry Battalion made the Melina extremely frightened in the battle here and dare not peek. Therefore, the farms and villages were quickly opened up, and the railway was also under slow construction, and everything was developing in a positive direction.

In the southeast direction of the island, the East Coast people have eliminated the original two major forces, namely the Antefaji people and the Bala people, and have completely controlled the southeast mountainous areas and most of the Mahafari Plateau. Now only some natives who are disobedient in discipline are still carrying out their final resistance, but it is only a matter of time before they are completely wiped out by the East Coast people.

At the end of last year (1685), the New China Development Team established several settlements in this direction at once, namely: Yangzhou Township, near the town of Andrukka in later generations, Xiangle Township near the town of Ampanich in later generations, Zhenning Township near the town of Beluha in later generations, Heshui Township (formerly French colony) near the town of Ambuwenbe in later generations, and Lepan Township near the town of Bekitru in later generations, a total of five newly built settlements, relocated more than 6,000 settlers, basically distributed in areas with water, in order to develop agricultural and animal husbandry production as soon as possible. In fact, in terms of developing tropical plantation economy, it is not cost-effective to establish such towns that rely solely on agriculture and animal husbandry, but the occupied land must be consolidated. In addition, some leaders' preference for expanding territory, these five settlements were established.

Compared with these five settlements in the arid areas in the south, people on the east coast are in the northwest of the island. The conditions of several settlements established in Anbanga County, Madagascar are much better. They are located in Lunan Township near the town of Antunibe in later generations, Lidong Township near the town of Anchuxixi in later generations, Danchi Township near the town of Bearanana in later generations, and Xiangwu Township near the town of Mandia in later generations, not only have sufficient precipitation, but also fertilizers that can be cultivated. The Wo Plain also has a lot more, and its only disadvantage is that it is too damp and heat and too many diseases. However, when the Marco Polo company started by the Venetians entered the development, these wastelands were naturally conquered by the colonists on the overpopulated Italian Peninsula. The people of the East Coast only need to sit and enjoy the fruits. They are only provided with some medicines, food or rain cloth, mosquito nets, axes and saws and other necessities to subsidize them so that they do not feel too afraid of difficulties.

In this way, Genoa Asia-African Company, Delta Company, and Marco Polo Company (representing the three forces led by Genoa, Tuscany and Venice respectively) contracted many wastelands in the four counties of Xinhua, Lidong (not yet established), Ningguo and Qingtian (just established at the end of last year). The two sides divided their own scope and occupied a large area of ​​wasteland to slowly develop, build plantations, and then make profits.

This model is a win-win model for both the East Coast people and the Italians. The East Coast people can provide them with a safe situation that cannot be obtained in the Caribbean Sea - this is very important. In the fiercely competitive Caribbean Sea, many islands often change hands, and investment safety cannot be fully guaranteed - and even provide a large number of cheap tools, medicines and daily necessities. They only need to send labor from overpopulated Italy to open up land. The East Coast people are also very generous in the profits obtained by tropical cash crops. In addition to requiring them to transport them to designated refineries and processing plants for processing (processing fees), they basically only charge reasonable taxes, leaving a lot of profits to these Italian consortiums. The cooperation between the two sides is still very pleasant.
Chapter completed!