The southwest wind whistled, and the earth was white. The snowfield was quiet, and even the shadow of an animal could not be seen. It seemed that in the coldest month of the year, both humans and animals had lost interest in activities in the wild, and instead hid in their respective houses or caves, endured through the cold winter.

As local indigenous peoples, the number of Ona, Lady Alakaru and Yagan people has dropped to a sad level over the years. They either went out to make a living, intermarried with the East Coast people, and eventually disappeared from ethnic integration, or joined the army to go out to fight, and eventually died on foreign lands. The remaining small part, in the decades when the population of the East Coast has grown rapidly, has only slowly increased to a scale of 20,000 people, which can be said to be a very failure.

But these people are often the most stubborn - or the most persistent - they stubbornly guard their traditions and dignity, and live their lives on the icy and snowy island of Tierra del Fuego. They live almost all over the island, with amazing patience and traditional culture passed down by memory, and their lives are hard but happy.

However, the impact of a modern lifestyle is inevitable for anyone to avoid. Even though the tribe is already very closed and rejects modernization, under the influence of decades of subtle influence, they are still inevitably "degenerate". There are many modern daily necessities in the tribe, and the tribe's already very irregular language has also been impacted by external factors, mixed with many Chinese words, which makes the tribe elders worried.

Of course, they are actually lucky. Compared with the close relatives of the Teverches and the Arakans of Nanchi, at least some of them stick to their own culture. Although this culture is no longer pure. However, those nations that have been attacked by the East Coast government, naturalized or even moved overseas have not even been retained. In the future, they will wear East Coast costumes, speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, and traditional culture will not exist, and no one will care about their history - the story of the defeated is difficult to write.

At the beginning of this year, a total of thirty ashes were sent back from Europe. These were the natives of Tierra Tierra who participated in the army's war. They were tall and generally glorious grenadiers in the army. They were arrogant and arrogant, but they were often the targets of the enemy's priority strike, so the casualty rate was very high.

After the ashes were returned, they were buried on the spot in the cemetery of their hometown. The tribal elder was also invited to attend the funeral. People still remember that an elderly gray-haired elder looked at the ashes of the young men, sighed sadly, and said, "There are too many heroes..."

There is no doubt that for these elders who adhere to traditional culture, any of the halos of heroes is abominable: the two so-called meritorious deeds, the glory compiled from bank checks, and the value promoted by local governments, each of them makes the elders feel disgusted and panic. They can foresee that perhaps after their death, the tribe will completely disintegrate, and that their group of people who adhere to traditional culture will only become one of the strange stories in newspapers and magazines in the future: "On a certain day of a certain month and a certain day, the death of the last Ona person marks the complete disappearance of this nation in the long river of history..."

But this is the historical process, it is not transferred by anyone's will, it is cold and cruel!

Compared with the indigenous people on Tierra Tierra, the larger number of East Coast people on the island actually have their own troubles. Their troubles are that they are in a forgotten position, and the economic and social development is on the verge of stagnation. Well, this may be a bit exaggerated, but it is really slow. The people's income level is not high, and the construction of spiritual civilization is even more messy. In short, it looks like a typical marginal backward area.

To be fair, the southern part of Nancone and Tierra Tierra had been prosperous for a long time in history. It was when the trade between the two oceans of the South Cone was prevalent. Tierra Tierra Tierra and the two oceans of the two oceans of the South Cone were under the jurisdiction of the Nancone Railway Company. Every month, there were countless goods passing through the two oceans of the Magellan Strait and Cape Horn, and funds were flowing everywhere. At that time, the Nancone Railway Company was also quite generous and invested in the construction of a large number of infrastructure, including the national highway system, port terminals, etc. The Nancone Railway Company also created a large number of jobs, such as logging farms, coal mines, farms, hospitals, cultural companies, wineries, oil presses, seafood processing centers, etc., which brought a lot of work income to the local people and greatly promoted the development of the local economy.

But the departure of Nan Railway Company ended all this, and Tierra Tierra Tierra and its railway affiliates were handed over to the country as a whole. The focus of the country's development was no longer here, and no one took out a large sum of money to invest in local construction, and various facilities began to age slowly. After deciding to build railways in the Far East, Nan Railway Company began to sell its industries to raise money in large quantities. The local state-owned capital was taken over, but more were merchants from the north. These merchants usually lived in big cities such as Dongfang County, Qingdao County, and Ping'an County. It was rare to come to Nanshi for a trip, and the profits obtained by the enterprises were basically taken away. Therefore, there was no continuous large inflow of funds in the vast areas, including Tierra Tierra Tierra, and the entire financial situation deteriorated sharply.

We just need to go to Ningnan, Shanhou and other counties to see it. A large number of local buildings are shrouded in a layer of nostalgic rust. It seems that a good era full of engineering and infrastructure booms have gone away. Residents miss the wonderful time they were swept away. Some older people tell people about the gratifying situation of their youth over and over again, which triggered young people to curse businessmen from the north and curse them as vampires, regardless of the livelihoods of local people.

The government survived this overwhelming daily scolding because the central government subsidies, they began to issue cheap charcoal to city residents with tickets to facilitate warmth in the cold winter, which restored a little reputation for them. However, other words from the government still made local residents complain, such as calling on people to change their minds and focus on the development of the fishing industry, seafood processing industry and tourism industry. Especially the tourism industry, they negotiated with the state-owned Oriental Hotel Group and received their promise to double their investment on the existing basis, building more resort manors, nursing homes and ordinary hotels to deepen the development of the local tourism industry.

But the local people did not buy it. They ignored the reality that the local decent companies were only left with Heijindao Coal Mine and Xueshan Beer, and still fantasized about returning to the good times of the past, relying on the large amount of wood, coal, leather, seafood, alcohol and other goods produced to earn income, rather than relying on the damn tourism industry that served people. But they did not realize it—or realized it—but were unwilling to admit—beech wood suffered a huge loss because of the competition between cheap goods in Peru and New Spain; coal was also facing a damn visit.

The fierce competition in Montenegro coal mines has weak sales growth; leather is still sloppy, but with the influx of North American and Chilean goods, it has been hit hard. I won’t talk about seafood, and with the transfer of company registration places, they can’t get any benefits at all. Besides, this is not their advantageous industry; Snow Mountain Beer is currently barely supporting it, because some old leaders of the army like to drink this wine, which has led a large group of people below to drink this, but their business philosophy is relatively backward, so it is still difficult to say what will happen in the future.

In short, in Tierra Tierra and the southern part of the Southern Cone, local industries are basically in a state of continuous decline with the departure of the Southern Railway Company. Funds continue to flow out and talents seek out higher branches. If the geographical location is not critical and the throat of communication between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the decline here may be faster.

Resuming the previous industrial prosperity is just a delusion after all!

Someone once wrote a short article in a magazine describing his energy to travel to Tierra del Fuego. At that time, he was in a tavern and found that every afternoon there were many older men sitting on the bar, their legs were spread wide, their knees were pressed against the counter, and they held a glass of beer tightly in their hands, as if it was a handle. If he let go, it would fall to the ground immediately. The eyes of those people were very wet because of alcohol, and they were a little confused. The skin around them was blown into rough pale white by the fiercest wind and snow, just like the social and economic development status of Tierra del Fuego, which made people sigh.

The future of the border areas like Tierra Tierra, after all, depends on two factors. One is to find your own position, that is, what industry do you want to develop in the future? You must make good use of your comparative advantages! If you want to develop the tourism industry, develop well. The mountains and rivers are beautiful and the geographical location is critical. In summer, it can still attract many wealthy people from the north to come to travel. Especially when large steamships are gradually becoming popular, the frequency of coastal liners has increased greatly, and the cost of travel has been greatly reduced. There are still many people willing to travel to Tierra Tierra. After all, there are land and oceans at the southernmost end of the planet.

If you want to develop high-end leather manufacturing, then the chaotic sea animal skin trading market should really be rectified. Some black sheep inside greatly destroyed the reputation of this originally very professional and high-end market, causing many merchants to expel. Fortunately, it is still time to first regulate the market order and crack down on the black sheep, and then scientifically develop the sea animal hunting and breeding industry, introduce advanced technology, and launch a brand new leather tanning and processing production line. Only in this way can you win your own cake, or even the largest one, in the fierce market competition!

The development of marginal areas is not easy. If you have some natural talents, it’s better to cherish them!
Chapter completed!