Oleg Nareshkin walked through the empty fields and came to a small factory. The wilderness outside the factory had just been plowed and wintering wheat had been planted. Next to the farmland, several large barns were built, which stored a large amount of freshly harvested grain, usually corn and soybeans, and a small amount of economic crops.

Nareshkin found that these farmlands were very roughly managed, with many weeds in the fields, and sometimes you could even see some saplings lodging there, just like a forest just cleared and then planted some crops randomly to get rid of farming. Such farmlands will naturally not have much yield. If you make a living by this, life will probably be very difficult.

Fortunately, the people who operate these lands do not make a living. In fact, these farmlands belong to the factory in front of Nareshkin, a local state-owned enterprise called Hexi Chemical Factory. The company's flagship product is tannin, which is quite in short supply in the market and is not low in the price.

The Hexi Chemical Factory mainly extracts tannin from the xylem, bark, branches and leaves of the red axe trees that can be seen everywhere on the Chako Plain. Therefore, a large number of trees need to be cut down in advance and then processed and extracted. The Hexi Chemical Factory is now located in a forest. They obtained the permission of the Ministry of Agriculture and used a lot of manpower and mechanical equipment to cut down trees on a large scale here.

To this end, the Hexi Chemical Factory also opened a wood processing workshop, which specializes in processing various wood. Ordinary trees are processed into boards for sale to meet the needs of the local market. The red-broken axe tree cannot be handled like this. They used woodworking machine tools to process the red-broken axe tree log into shavings, and then sent to the chemical production workshop to extract tannins, which are very promising products. Considering the popularity of the leather market today - not only leather jackets, leather boots, leather bags, luggage, but also a large amount of leather is needed in industry - as the key cost of leather tanning, the price has always remained high, and it is indeed a commodity that can bring great profits. No wonder Hexi County and Hexi region are trying to vigorously develop this industry.

However, this industry also has a huge disadvantage, that is, the cut down axe trees are difficult to recover through natural methods. The red axe tree is a unique tree species that grows slowly, is hard in wood and is not perishable. Once it is cut down, other rapidly growing trees will quickly seize their living space, resulting in the number of such trees becoming smaller and smaller.

Chako's red axe tree has the highest tannic acid content among the known axe trees. Of course, people on the east coast cannot sit idly by and watch this precious resource decrease day by day. Therefore, they severely cracked down on the act of stealing axe trees without obtaining a logging license from the Ministry of Agriculture. Then they divided the forest into various areas as a whole, and stipulated that after the resources of the axe tree in which area were consumed, the logging enterprises would replant a certain number of them. Considering factors such as the tree growth environment, the replanted axe trees should not be defeated by other tree species.

Of course, policies are one thing, and implementation is another. In fact, on the vast Chako Plain, there are many abandoned logging farms and tannin extraction factories. These are small-scale workshop-style enterprises. They secretly carry food and equipment to the rarely visited forests, and while logging, they extract tannin. After the nearby broken axe tree resources are exhausted or they simply feel unsafe, they quickly transfer to another place to resume their old business. Now, the cycle is going on, and the damage to forest resources is very great.

The state-owned Hexi Chemical Factory is much more standardized than them. Whenever they go to a place, they will send personnel to count forest trees and roughly trees in a certain range nearby, and then formulate a scientific logging plan. Part of the land that is harvested is cleaned up and converted into a farm to produce grain and cash crops, and some are replanted as planned to achieve sustainable development.

Therefore, even if tannin is the main commodity, Hexi Chemical Factory also provides wheat, corn, soybean and other agricultural products, standard boards and furniture of different specifications, and even they provide charcoal fuel, which is speechless.

There are undoubtedly many people in the Hexi Chemical Factory for such a big stall. In addition to arresting many Quechua Indians for various reasons, they also recruited many non-national labor workers who were first immigrants. About half of these people were seasonal workers, that is, they came to work during the slack farming period, and the other half were workers attracted by their wages. They did not buy land in the countryside, but only retained five acres of land that were given to their families and gave them to their families to farm. They ran to the Hexi Chemical Factory to work.

Oleg Nareshkin came to Hexi Chemical Factory today and was invited by Hexi County Magistrate Wang Dazhuang to see if he could find a way to recruit a group of Russian non-national labor workers. After all, Nareshkin's father is now the Prime Minister of the Russian Empire and has great power. Peter lives in the military camp and trains sergeants day and night. The daily affairs of the government are handled by Old Nareshkin and several other important officials. As long as he is willing to help, it will be no problem to get some people over. But Oleg was keenly aware of the political risks implicit in this matter, so he had already rejected it in his heart. However, he was not good at offending officials of noble origins like Wang Dazhuang on the surface, so he agreed to come and take a look and go through the motions.

When he came to the factory, it was dinner time after get off work. Here, he saw dozens of Russian-born non-nationals who became regular non-nationals. After they finished their own supper, they learned Chinese classes under the organization of a teacher-like person. The language standards for non-nationals who became regular are very low. Generally speaking, you only need to know daily Chinese dialogue to pass. But to be honest, this level of language attainment is not enough. In addition, many of these people are long-term workers from Hexi Chemical Factory, so it is very necessary to teach them a certain level of Chinese characters and read and write simply.

Oleg Nareshkin went to a small restaurant next to him for dinner, and was accompanied by a middle-level manager of a Russian factory. The Russian named Anton smiled bitterly at Nareshkin, saying that he was also very painful when he first learned "Khitan". He took a lot of effort to barely recognize hundreds of words and roughly know their meaning. Now he is also spending time studying by himself, hoping to further improve his Chinese level. After all, if you can't even read and write normal official documents and make bad words and sentences, it is difficult for you to have a high room for development. There is no doubt about this.

Oleg commented on their erotic learning, but he felt a little sad. It can be seen that these Russians who have become regular are trying to actively integrate into the new life on the East Coast, thinking that they and their family descendants have laid a solid foundation. As for Russia's past, they may have to be cut and slowly faded? In this matter, the famous Goshkin and his son have fully proved this to people.

However, Oleg came to Hexi today to discuss the East Bank dream with them. In fact, he was here to tactfully express how much population he could not get. Because Wang Dazhuang temporarily went to Luoyang Prefecture, the capital, for inspection and study, he could only point this out to the management of Hexi Chemical Factory.

Anton was not surprised at all. He smiled and poured a glass of wine for Nareshkin, and then said, "The Tsar is the monarch of all Ross, and now the chaotic era has ended. Sophia and his gangsters died and exiled, and the whole of Russia is now speaking in a voice. Mr. Nareshkin, you can no longer get a population from a well-defended border crossing, and no one can be allowed. The Tsar would not allow such a thing to happen."

"But the winery thing?" Oleg Nareshkin was a little uncertain.

"We can only recruit temporary workers during the slack season. This is the only way to do this. Anyway, our factory can't be run here for too long, and maybe it will be moved out in the second half of next year." Anton said.

Moving away? Oleg was puzzled at first, and then suddenly realized. Indeed, a company like Hexi Chemical Factory that pursues the red axe trees cannot stay in the place for too long, and it will last for three years. Within three years, it is enough to cut down trees within a certain range, and then it can be changed to another place to continue to "torm". No wonder their factories are made of logs, boards and branches. It turns out that they are ready to leave at any time. Hehe, mobile logging farms, mobile farms, mobile

I really don’t know how to evaluate the wood processing plants and mobile factories (there were a large number of mobile logging farms and wood processing plants that cut down red axe trees in the Chaco Plain in Argentina, which caused great damage to the environment). When will they be like this? Until all the broken axe trees are cut down here? Oleg is not sure, but he thinks this is not a long-term solution. The company is still small and can do this, but it won’t work if it is big. Let’s take a look at what people from the East Coast will do later.

"Can this factory make a profit? I mean the entire Hexi Chemical Factory." Oleg asked then.

"Profits are definitely profitable. The market value of tannins is very high, and the supply is in short supply, which is the biggest source of profit. In addition, grain, because of the large amount of use of the Quechua people, the cost is also very low, and it is very competitive in local and adjacent areas. The markets of wood, furniture, wineries, oil presses and other breweries that are about to be launched are also local. The loss should be impossible, but it is not very profitable. The main reason is that it can solve employment and provide taxes to the government, which is its greatest significance." Anton is worthy of being the management of Hexi Chemical Factory. He speaks well and speaks well. Every sentence is very meaningful, and it is almost always close to it.

"Where is the Red Broken Axe Tree? Can it be released for private operation?" Oleg Nareshkin asked suddenly without knowing what he thought of.

Anton looked at him after hearing this, and then said, "According to the report of the expedition team, the resources of the Red Broken Axe Tree are relatively abundant from Hexi County to the north. In Paraguay, the resources seem to be richer, and they do not have such an industry, so there is almost no competition. You just need to obtain a logging license from the Ministry of Agriculture and cut in the specified area. There is no such thing as limiting the entry of private capital in this industry. This is not a high-end industry, Mr. Nareshkin, you understand, but it requires people and a lot of labor."

"Yes, of course I understand." Oleg Nareshkin took a sip of wine and said, "I definitely can't enter the military industry, machinery manufacturing, railway and other industries. Then it is still possible to go to Hexi to develop a mobile enterprise similar to the plantation economy. Of course, this is just my immature idea. I almost forgot the real purpose of County Magistrate Wang coming to me here. Haha, yes, we lack people and no one, this is the most deadly! Any industry needs someone to operate. The Quechua people are so stupid that they can't do anything with some technical content. They can't be a worker or technician at all. Therefore, the idea is always just a concept, and it should be difficult to achieve. Forget it, Anton, I'd better manage my Nareshkin Building well and take care of the stocks and bonds at hand if I have time. This is what suits me, instead of running the company with painstaking efforts."
Chapter completed!