ps: This chapter is a transitional chapter, mainly to clarify the future development ideas. In addition, I will go to Anhui for a business trip after ten o'clock in the morning, so it is hard to say how long it takes to go on a business trip. This week I will try to maintain two updates a day. The engineering, writing techniques, writing styles, character portrayals, etc. I learned may not be as satisfactory as possible. I will try to write the story as exciting as possible, and I hope everyone can support it.

Blanco returned to Rio de Janeiro with half of the supplies, namely 10 cannons, 150 convex guns and 150 sabers. Of course, the two ships of coal he brought and a ship of Brazilian specialties he brought were also sold at a good price. After deducting the payment, he earned more than 3,600 yuan. The remaining half of the goods will be delivered next month, and the 50 sets of three-year-old full-body armor will be officially delivered next month. The two sides agreed that by the end of 1633, two immigration ships coming from the East would arrive by the port.

The agreement is not mandatory, but the Time Travelers are not worried that the Portuguese will cheat. Because they are currently at a disadvantage on the battlefield, and the war will last for several years.

In the evening, Gaomo reported the situation to other members of the Executive Committee. The war, which lasted for many years, did not end initially until 1637. The Dutch won the victory, completely controlled the northeastern region of Brazil, and further expanded its power to the Maranion River Basin.

The blood transfusion of the Time Traveler now should partially alleviate the dilemma faced by the Portuguese in Brazil in history. However, this also implies certain risks. After all, selling weapons to the Portuguese will definitely not make the Dutch West India Company happy. How will the Dutch West India Company react? Time Traveler must be fully prepared.

As of today, the total population under the jurisdiction of the Travelers has reached 4,895, and the grain reserves have also set a new record. More than 3,500 tons of potatoes, 20 tons of fish products and 45 tons of soybeans have almost burst the warehouse, which is food that everyone can eat for more than a year.

In addition to food, the situation in the Animal Husbandry Bureau is also very gratifying. The number of horses has grown to nearly 250, of which more than 80 Andalusian horses and Lucitano horses are available as war horses. The number of cattle herds has exceeded 200, including half of beef cattle and half of dairy cows. In addition, there are more than 100 pigs in stock and more than 400 sheep. As for chickens, ducks, geese, etc., there are more, and a small number of them have been distributed to farmers for breeding.

It can be said that after two years of hard work, the material foundation of traveling through many people has been greatly improved.

In addition to agricultural products, the development situation of industry and commerce is also very gratifying. The monthly output of steel plants has stabilized between 30 tons and 35 tons, and the increase in steel production has released the production capacity of multiple military products.

The Dayuhe Arsenal Casting Artillery Workshop, which has greatly improved its production capacity, is currently the largest steel workshop. A while ago, they worked overtime to replace the shore defense guns of the port fortress, and even cast two 32-pound long-barrel cannon heavy artillery. After these two heavy artillery were installed on the port fortress, they showed super power during the test fire. For this reason, Navy Commissioner Wang Qinian asked the Executive Committee to award a special bonus to the cannon workshop.

After adding some hydraulic equipment in the protective gear and cold weapons manufacturing workshop, with a stable supply of 7.5 tons of steel per month, the monthly output of the three-year full-body armor has stabilized at more than 200 sets; the monthly output of the three-year command knife is 2,000.

The firearm manufacturing workshop currently has five hydraulic boring machines, with more than 70 craftsmen and apprentices of all sizes. The 32-B type (there is one more pot lid design than Type A, which can offset the interference of rainy weather to a certain extent) can produce 150 flintlock rifles per month. In recent months, 50 flintlock rifles and 32-B type B flintlock rifles have been produced. At present, the firearm manufacturing workshop is still studying imitation of cavalry flintlock pistols, and results should be produced in a while.

In addition, there are some tools, agricultural tools and small knives produced by the comprehensive workshop. The comprehensive workshop has a small number of people, only some blacksmiths were collected, and they use semi-hand and semi-mechanical production methods. The efficiency is not very high, but there is no big problem with supplying and living use.

Most of these industrial products are used for export. In addition to the suspension of exports in the past two months for the replacement of the artillery factory, the remaining workshops are fully produced. In particular, the three-year full-body armor and three-year sabers are mostly sold to Russia, Poland, Sweden, Denmark and other regions; agricultural tools, tools and other commodities produced by the comprehensive workshop have also begun to be sold in Brazil and La Plata, which suffers from the monopoly of trade in the suzerain countries. This can be seen from the increasingly prosperous smuggling trade.

The smuggling trade route is currently controlled by the Portuguese. The ships of these merchants from Lisbon or Sao Paulo are often loaded with huge amounts of coal, Brazilian mahogany, cotton, sugar, indigo, tobacco and other materials at the port of Tatan. After unloading coal and part of agricultural products, they will supplement a large number of tools, agricultural tools, knives, small hardware products, and even bricks, cement and other building materials, and then head to the secret trading port near the estuary of the La Plata River to trade with the Spaniards. On the return journey, they will be loaded with cowhide, tallow, cheese, cured meat, wool and even horses from the La Plata area to sell to the port of Tatan. After the goods are sold, they will be filled with special products that travel through the crowd and return to Brazil for sale.

The city of Buenos Aires and Asuncion in the La Plata region is so eager for all kinds of trade. Local white noble farmers and a large number of middle and low-level colonial officials also participated. Everyone enjoyed the interests of these originally belonged to the Spanish kings and the great noble merchants.

According to the estimated number of Portuguese ships by the Finance Committee Member Tang Yuan, the total monthly smuggling trade volume is no less than 50,000 yuan, of which the East Coast Company's monthly profit exceeded 3,000 yuan, making a significant contribution to the fiscal balance of the travelers. Not that no one has ever issued a risk warning, the Civil Affairs Committee Member Xiao Mingli once strongly opposed trade with Portuguese smuggling merchants, believing that this would attract the attention of the Spaniards. However, after seeing the East Coast Company's fiscal deficit of nearly 5,000 yuan per month, he couldn't speak.

Moreover, in the big picture, this matter also concerns the long-term development of time travelers. In the future, the population will increase and after the country is established, the country will have to work hard to develop industry. Referring to the development of Britain in history, after Britain achieved maritime hegemony in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, it accumulated huge wealth through navigation trade and colonization. These wealth objectively promoted the progress of British industrial technology and the strengthening of bourgeois strength. After the outbreak of the industrial revolution in the mid-18th century, advanced industrial production capacity and broad colonial markets combined to provide strong impetus for Britain's industrial development, and eventually pushed Britain to the throne of the empire of the sun never set.

For travelers, Britain in history was a ready-made teacher. Brazil and La Plata, which are close to them, are natural raw materials and dumping places for industrial products. They will become the first stepping stone for travelers' industrial development. At this time, the British economy was mainly dependent on wool export and re-export trade. Although industrial finished products were sold in large quantities to European countries and American colonies, most of them were still small-scale handicraft workshop-style enterprises.

If you want to develop the economy, want industrial competition, and want to compete with the old colonial powers, when it is not worth mentioning with others in terms of population, resources, wealth, etc., the only way out is industrialization. With the strong productivity of industrialization, it will squeeze out the other party, defeat the other party, and use it as its own raw material production place and industrial product dumping place.

The Executive Committee has a clear understanding of this aspect. Uruguay has a suitable climate and fertile land. Even if the time travelers spend more than 500,000 yuan in cash on hand, it is probably not a problem to have enough food and clothing in this large fertile land standing under their feet. But in the future, will you travel through time just to stay in a small Uruguay and live your life closed? Moreover, due to the fact that the time travelers in front of you are seriously lacking in science and engineering talents and knowledge, it may take decades to even live your own life. When they come to the door, they have an absolute advantage in quantity, and your technical advantages are limited, so you will not be able to deal with them.

The only way out is to take advantage of the fact that the industry is now first, make profits through various means, and then invest the profits in the research and development of industrial technology to form a virtuous cycle. At the same time, a large number of immigrants are required to ensure a certain population base. This is the only way that the Executive Committee thinks about at present, which can survive and inherit in this time and space without being assimilated.

Specifically, it is not difficult to choose which industry to develop first. Considering that there are several industrial talents among the travelers who have some understanding of the textile industry, and the climate and natural environment of Uruguay are very suitable for the development of animal husbandry, according to the theory of comparative advantages, the Executive Committee believes that the focus of the initial industrial development can be set as the wool textile industry, and may also take into account leather processing and manufacturing in the future.

The magical industry of the textile industry seems to have emerged from the industrial revolution. It was the invention of Jenny's textile machine that gave birth to the industrial revolution in the UK. Now Journey has chosen this industry as the beginning of its industrial development. Of course, the Metallurgical and Military Industry, which is one or two hundred years ahead of Europe in technology, must continue to invest and develop. After all, this industry is the guarantee of survival of Journey.

After clarifying the ideas, the following is to work hard towards the goal.
Chapter completed!