Yu Xingguo hurried to Xincaogang and worried about the heavy family business.

He is in his fifties this year, no longer young, he is the leader of a big family, shouldering the hopes and livelihoods of many people. When he was a little younger, he often rode a boat, and even led his own fleet across the Pacific Ocean, to the Turtle Islands, Tahiti, Rabaul, Australia and Ningbo and Denlai in the Far East. His experience was quite rich, enough to sit around the stove with his grandchildren and children when he was old, telling the stormy waves he had experienced with his remembrance.

The Yu family has always had a good relationship with the Xu family and the Mo family. To be more precise, it is closely related to the Nanzhi Group, a branch of the army. The Yu family currently has two main companies, one of which is the trading company that runs French business, which mainly utilizes the influence of his mother's family in Bordeaux, France; the other is the shipping company, which mainly runs French routes and Denlei routes. The business is pretty good, but in recent years, it has been unlucky, and three ships have sunk in a row, causing heavy losses.

However, even so, the strength of his shipping company cannot be underestimated. After swallowing the shipping business that Sun Chunyang South Carolina Store was spun off a few years ago, the shipping company already owned 11 ships of all sizes, with a total transportation tonnage of more than 4,000 tons, and is already one of the top ten shipping companies on the east coast. You should know that even the messenger liner company, which is known as the number one private shipping company, now only has twenty ships with a total tonnage of more than 6,000 yuan. Some of them are passenger and cargo dual-purpose ships that specialize in offshore, which are different from the Yu Shipping Company, which is purely ocean-going transportation.

Yujia's main business is that the East Coast Transportation is transported to Bordeaux, France. This is its own business. Although it is settled with the trading company, it is actually a relationship between the left and right. Compared with this part of the business, the transportation volume of the Nan Railway Company contracted by Yujia Shipping Industry is much larger, mainly railway equipment, rails, trains and other materials that cannot be produced in the Far East. Sometimes they will also help the Nan Railway affiliated areas and local governments to transport some local eliminated equipment, such as second-hand steam engines, second-hand mobile beds, second-hand agricultural equipment, second-hand measurement tools, etc. When returning, they use the Nan Railway Company's relationship to make some high-end fur, North Korean medicinal materials, Japanese copper blocks and other commodities unique to the northern hemisphere, and sometimes they will bring some immigrants. In short, they will not go out for a short trip, and the profit margin is very good, provided that there is no accident.

Like most shipping companies, the Yu family has now begun to enter the inland shipping industry with high profile. Especially in the recent years, Yu Xingguo has deeply felt the huge uncertainty of ocean navigation. For safety reasons, he intends to follow the opinions of his brothers and sisters and transfer part of his energy to inland shipping. This area is undoubtedly an industry with great potential in the future. The importance of the three big rivers, La Plata River, Parana River and Wujiang River, can be said of even street vendors, let alone business tycoons like Yu Xingguo.

Today, Yu Xingguo came to Xincao Port. In fact, like the representatives of other shipping companies that have been here, it is just to negotiate conditions with the local government, discuss the use of the terminal in the future, how to maintain the ships, etc. Oh, by the way, Xincao Port is located in the Port of San Nicholas near Rosario in the later generations, and is a remote place like Xinbian Port in the southeast. People on the east coast selected this place and planned to immigrate 2,000 households in advance to build up agriculture. However, considering that most of the immigrants were born from the east coast, no one was sure of what the agriculture here could develop. Don’t end up, you still have to have a state-owned farm to protect the bottom, which would be funny!

After Yu Xingguo arrived at Xincao Port, he could not find the person in charge here, and there was chaos everywhere. The immigrants squatted on the grass on the river bank, setting up tents, drying clothes, grilling food, and waiting boredly for the arrival of work. Yu Xingguo was walking forward in this deserted river bank grass, one foot deep and one foot shallow, with a large number of terrain, soil and water flow in each place. When he encountered a place of special interest, he also asked several followers to hire a group of idle men, followed him to measure the water depth on the river surface, and investigate the geological conditions at the bottom of the river.

There are already three "Qingtang Army" series of dredgers on the river surface to silt. From time to time, barges filled with silt are towed away by small steamers and transported to a crude temporary wooden wharf to unload the goods. These silts are rich in organic matter and are rare fertilizers in agricultural development. Yu Xingguo estimated that this would be slightly behind some places inside, and some land should have been reclaimed, but I don't know what they were planted.

"The place is a good place. It will be no difficulty in living for more than 100,000 people in the future." Yu Xingguo took out a pipe and tobacco from his woolen coat pocket and said to himself: "Hehe, Cao County can have 100,000 people. So, as a regional central city, how many people should live in Shanghai County? 300,000 or 500,000? This really tests people's imagination."

Now even businessmen like Yu Xingguo know that at least the eastern half of the Pampa Plain has and only one central city, that is, the city of Buenos Aires in Spain now, and Shanghai County on the east coast of the future. In its surroundings, whether it is the Nancun Port, Rosario, Santa Fe on the Pampa Plain, or other Parana River Basin cities, they will be the inland hinterland of this large city and provide supporting services for it.

In the planning of the State Administration of Development, Shanghai County will be a large city in the future, with the number of residents likely to reach more than 300,000. The main employment areas are composed of deep processing and assembly locomotive manufacturing, shipbuilding, equipment manufacturing, and metal processing. Although the primary and tertiary industries also account for a certain proportion, the overall number of employment is still far inferior to the secondary industries.

In medium-sized cities, such as San Fe, Rosario, employment positions will be mainly distributed in the metallurgical industry, chemical industry, textile industry. Small cities, such as Xinbian, Xincao, etc., are dominated by food processing and metallurgy. As for the advantageous industries of small towns, they are mainly building materials, food processing and luxury goods processing. The distribution of each industry in various cities is also different. In terms of the overall distribution of occupations, the degree of specialization of large cities is relatively high, occupying the high end of the industrial chain.

To put it bluntly, only Shanghai County is a "big and complete" city that has developed in all types, and its industries are mainly the most professional later assembly and processing procedures. Other small and medium-sized cities and towns will form towns with different industrial structures and functions under the leadership of the country. This is actually very necessary. After all, each city has different resource endowments and factor structures. It is appropriately guided to form different style cities with comparative advantages, and jointly center on a large city. This not only avoids vicious competition, but also improves production efficiency. Finally, all cities have developed and everyone is happy.

Such urban cluster experiments have actually set an example for everyone in the development of the Dong'an Grassland over the past few decades. In this large plain area with an area of ​​170,000 square kilometers, three types of cities with professional division of labor have been roughly formed.

The first is an industrial city headed by Tieling County. There is coal, iron ore, and gold. With its own endowment and years of national investment, a very obvious coal-iron-iron industry cluster has been formed. Among them, Tieling County's own population has reached nearly 100,000, accounting for about one-third of the proportion of coal-iron employment on the east coast. Its leading enterprise Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium made a fortune by relying on coal-iron and iron, and then developed metallurgy and machine manufacturing industries in depth. It is the heart of this heavy industrial town cluster.

In short, industrial cities develop a leading industry through their own resource endowments, and use the extension of the industrial chain to form agglomeration of related industries, such as the Western Forging Factory, the tinplate Factory, the first heavy boiler factory, etc. The advantage of this agglomeration is that it can reduce development costs through a scope economy and overcome the disadvantage of excessive cost of a single industry.

Similarly, the industrial city Ping'an County is also an industrial city. Like Tieling County, two major industrial series have been formed: coal mining - coking - iron shaping - steel shaping - metal processing - machine manufacturing and coal mining - coking - coal chemistry.

In the future, Shanghai County will basically be the same. Although there are neither coal mines nor iron ore here, the huge Pampa Plain also needs this heavy industrial base, and it can only be Shanghai after counting. There is no doubt that the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will invest huge amounts of money here from the beginning to build it into a coal-steel joint industrial cluster integrating coking, iron crafting, steelmaking, casting and machine cultivation. The coal and iron required are mainly input from the outside.

Moreover, in the future, we may go further. In the second industrial revolution that may come, we will further develop other industries, optimize our own industrial structure, and use the related industries of small and medium-sized cities to gradually form emerging industries such as pharmaceuticals, rubber, coatings, resins, insect repellents, spices, dyes, etc. Of course, this first requires breakthroughs in the chemical industry, and a circle of small and medium-sized cities around it should work hard for this.

The Xincao Port that Yu Xingguo came to today will have chemical projects in the future. Simply put, it is to use coal transported from the south to develop coal-chemistry-related industries. This undoubtedly means a large amount of transportation, so there will naturally be no shortage of business. Xinbian Port not far downstream is mainly agricultural products-related industries, but there is also a project to prepare various chemicals on a large scale using Djibouti potassium salt as raw materials; Rosario Port will have a rubber project, and there may be some mechanical processing industries; Santa Fe has a textile industry, which produces a large number of spindles and cloth.

All kinds of chemicals, rubber, mechanical parts and other commodities produced in these small cities need to be shipped to Shanghai County, and then finally assembled and processed into drugs, tires, carriages, bicycles, machinery and equipment, explosives, high-end food, brand-name fashion, etc., and then distributed to various places.

Yu Xingguo has rented long-term docks and warehouses in Shanghai Port and Nancun Port respectively. What he needs now is to go to small and medium-sized towns upstream activities, copy the work in Shanghai, take down the docks and build the warehouses, and then the future inland transportation business will be basically guaranteed.

By the way, in the future, Shanghai County will be the second type of professional division of labor cities, that is, a transportation-type city formed based on location differences. There is already a Yanbu Railway here, and there will be a railway to Cordoba in the future. In the distant future, there will be railways to Dingnan County, an inland oil production area. The above are all land transportation, and the water transportation in Shanghai County will actually be quite developed. River transport and sea transport meet here, and the throughput of the terminal will definitely be astonishingly high.

Therefore, the Ministry of Transport and the State Administration of Railways also intend to set up large-scale ship manufacturing and railway locomotive manufacturing here. At present, the relocation of related companies has even begun, and modern special ship factories are even impatient. These industries are similar to those before. The parts are manufactured in surrounding small and medium-sized cities, and then transported to Shanghai by using developed railway or river transportation systems to complete the assembly and then sold to end users. The transportation business here is notorious without much comment.

From these plans, we can see that in the future, the golden water system of the Parana River-La Plata River will surely become a transportation road, and the inland transportation business based on the local economy of the east coast will also develop at a geometric level. If any shipping person does not start in advance and makes relevant preparations, he may be ruthlessly eliminated by the market.

So we saw that the veteran shipping entrepreneur Yu Xingguo first went to Nancun and Shanghai, then to Xinbian and Xincao. In the future, he would go to Rosario, Santa Fe and other places, inspect and negotiate everywhere, and strive to build his own transportation outlets as soon as possible to lay a solid foundation for future business growth.
Chapter completed!