335 Pampa (Twenty-five)

The sky is blue and the air is fresh. Near Yanchenggang Railway Station, a couple with big bags of luggage had just arrived.

Both of them looked very young, about in their early twenties, with two children following behind them. The children stared at the bustling train station with big black eyes. There were pastries, candy, performing handhelds, and even not far from them, a bearded hunter was pointing at the smelly cat in the cage and winking at them, making the two children who looked only three or four years old could not stop.

Stinky cats, ferrets, and grass foxes are several common animals in the Pampa area. People often catch them and sell them in towns. Stinky cats are the most precious of all kinds of small animals. Because they are not only cute in appearance, but also extremely precious in fur, so they are captured by many people and can be seen on the market.

However, their curiosity lasted only a few minutes, and then their mother called back. Each of them held a sweet cake and ate it in big mouthfuls. The main cost of sweet cakes is flour, milk and honey. To be honest, they are very cheap in Pampa. This is an important wheat-producing area, with flour very cheap and pastoral areas. The number of cattle is unreasonable, and the milk is as if it is not expensive. What about honey? It is also very cheap, because it is also the main honey producing area of ​​the East Coast!

After years of development, the beekeeping industry in the Pampa Plain has become spectacular now. After exporting these honeys through the two ports of Yancheng and Nancun, it is sold to the entire East Coast prairie, which has defeated the original beekeeping industry in the local area. At the same time, it also keeps the honey from the New China to the local area, which is so cowy.

The main reason why the beekeeping industry in the Pampa Plain is that the honey-source plants on the grassland are too abundant. Let’s talk about it, the big thistle from Spain is now spread throughout La Plata, providing a massive source of honey for sealing. The main reason why the beekeeping industry in the Pampa Plain is prosperous - the cost of beekeeping here is too low!

From here, we can see how suitable the Pampa Plain is for human life. There are not many days below zero in winter, and there are few days when it snows. In some years, it is not even at all. In summer, it looks like it is only 30 degrees at all, not hot at all, and it can even be said to be cool, especially on windy days.

The plain is vast, and the soil is particularly fertile due to the nutrients brought by volcanic ash. The crop yield is very high. Therefore, it quickly became the main production area for wheat, corn, soybeans, sorghum and other crops on the east coast. The food price is very cheap here. In addition, the blessing of the Spanish people, tens of millions of bisons - in fact, people on the east coast have not yet figured out how many bisons there are in the southern cone and La Plata. Maybe they can never figure it out. They can only estimate that they are 10 to 30 million - and also provide people with inexhaustible sources of meat and milk, which is like a legendary god-given place.

So, you can understand now that the East Coast government is so persistent in annexing these lands, it is really shameful that it will continue to be covered in dust in the hands of the Spanish! The people in the country also need better land to cultivate! As of August 1689, the total population of the East Coast Republic of China was estimated to have reached a scale of 7.173 million (not included in various non-nationals such as blacks, whites, Indians, etc.), of which the number of people born in the local area has accumulated to more than 4.4 million, accounting for 61.4% of the total population.

It can be seen that locally born people are increasingly becoming the backbone of the East Coast country. Considering that most adults are born 18-20 years ago, there are about 100,000 people every year. Such a large number of people do provide relatively sufficient labor for the development of idle land, although a large number of immigrants still need to supplement it.

The Pampa Plain and the Tuanjie River Basin are the most attractive areas for immigration in the East Coast control area today. Whether it is a locally born young man or a new citizen from the old continent, they are very fond of these two places. Compared with these two places, the attractiveness of Chaco, Hejian and other areas of the Brazilian Plateau is much worse, and they can only rely on government guidance and arrangements.

The family that appears near Yancheng Railway Station is from the Yazi Lake Basin. Neither young couple can inherit their family property in their hometown, and they do not have the good luck to grab the commons allocated in their hometown (there are not many). It is not a long-term solution to do odd jobs in some small workshops. Therefore, after all, they both bid farewell to their hometown and signed up to open up the land in the Pampa Plain, intending to start over there and create their own world.

They left the boat at Nancun Port, the northern end of the Yanbu Railway. However, because there were too many immigrants gathering there, they took the train south to Yancheng County under the coordination of the cadres sent by the Niulanshan Regional Administration, and asked them to report to the designated location, and then headed to the Pampa Plain west of Yancheng to reclaim the land.

Yes, that's right, after years of preparation, the East Coast people, who were originally limited to the coastal areas, could no longer bear the loneliness and began to march to more inland areas. To the west of Yancheng County is the area called "dry Pampa" on the map drawn by the East Coast people. It is named after the dry climate, which is different from the "wet Pampa" area with more precipitation.

The scope of dry Pampa is not small, roughly including the southern end of Buenos Aires, Argentina in later generations (i.e. Yancheng County and its surrounding areas), most of La Pampa Province and the southern part of St. Louis Province, with a total area of ​​about 128,000 square kilometers. The landform is mainly shrub and steppe. Some areas are relatively humid due to the water source, and the landforms are different. The water plants are relatively abundant, but they do not occupy the mainstream.

However, such an environment does not mean that agricultural production activities cannot be carried out. In fact, in later Argentina, this place has always been an important dry farming agricultural area. Large areas of wheat are planted in Yancheng Port (Port Blanca) and nearby areas, and this port is also famous for its wheat export port. In this time and space of the 17th century, people in the East Coast developed this dry farming agricultural area early, mainly for salt mining resources. Later, the planting of crops such as wheat, corn, sorghum, peanuts, and sesame emerged. The planting scope has also expanded day by day, and has long exceeded the ridiculous "one-shot place" when signing an agreement with Spain, and extended far outward.

This time, the people above were moved to continue to buy the remaining Pampa Plain from Spain, so they were ready to expand westward and could no longer suppress it. Seeing this, the Yancheng County Government immediately sent people to the General Administration of Development and the Immigration Department to engage in activities, and finally obtained the promise of the real power figures, allowing them to operate westward with them as the core and establish a separate reclaiming area.

Please don’t think that this promise is worthless. You should know that the State Administration of Development asked Yancheng County to take the lead in establishing a separate reclamation area. This actually means that a regional organization will be established here in the future. The current minds in Yancheng County can upgrade to the ground. This is a great thing for them, so everything must be done. Therefore, you have seen that when there were too many immigrants to Nancun Port, they did not hesitate to get a lot of car swims based on their connections, and pulled some of them to the south, promising subsidies, loans, and security. Then they successfully organized several "Western Expedition Teams" and began to advance towards the vast dry Pampa area on the west to carry out pioneering operations.

It is not that no one questioned them. In fact, the officials in the Patagonia region, which is close to them, were very dissatisfied. They originally thought that they could get some people to enrich the population of each county, and then had a more sufficient labor force to speed up the construction of the wool transport dedicated railway. But who would have thought that the people they were originally interested in were intercepted by Yancheng County, a strong and economically strong county, which made their thoughts go blank, and how can they not be annoyed?

Therefore, they joined forces with some people in the business community and began to put pressure on the relevant departments at the higher level to give priority to taking care of them. Their reasons for flight are sufficient: the wool transport railway is a national key project in the next 10-20 years. The two railway trunk lines start from the eastern foot of the Andes, and then cross the entire Patagonian platform, intersect at Yancheng Port, and connect with the Yanbu Railway. Such a major transportation artery, in addition to the heavy responsibility of transporting materials to the people of Taiwan, is the most important thing to transport the rich sheepskin, mutton and wool (especially the latter) here, and then send them to various wool textile enterprises of all sizes in the coastal areas as raw materials for processing to produce massive wool velvet.

The two major state-owned textile mills in the East Coast, Dayuhe Textile Factory, Ping An Weaving Factory, and a bunch of local state-owned textile enterprises that developed later, and private textile enterprises spoke together, constantly advocating the importance of wool transportation lines, supporting the construction of these two railways, believing that they can exert huge economic benefits. From this logic, the country must equip Patagonia with sufficient immigration, and at the same time send more construction personnel to invest more funds to speed up the construction of the railway. Instead of like now, the land purchase matters are not even apart, and they are putting the cart before the horse is turned on.

The opinions of the business community cannot be ignored, but Yancheng County Sulai is a large county directly under the central government. The relationship between the upper class is unusual, and the dispute between the two sides is destined to have no result. The final treatment of the Government Council is probably to continue to launch the westward colonial plan, and also send some population to the Patagonia Taiwan area to calm the local emotions, and at the same time, it is also a little rushing to the progress of the wool transport dedicated railway. These two national key projects have indeed been delayed. The American Railway Company has responded several times to this, so it is time to pay attention to it.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the family, who had been resting near the train station for a while, carried large and small bags of luggage. With the help of several guides, they began to walk to the temporary concentration camp next to the county government with dozens of other people. It turned out that it was the training ground for the Marine Battle Camp, with complete houses. It was temporarily borrowed by the Yancheng County Government as a temporary distribution center for immigration, and it was used for the full amount.
Chapter completed!