The child's shrill cry sounded outside. Several men who were dealing with the fishing catch at the shack turned their heads and looked, laughed loudly and turned their heads, and continued to work hard.

It is now the autumn of Tierra del Fuego, and the climate has not turned cold yet. Everyone must take advantage of this time to save more food. When the first snow falls in winter, they will pack up their luggage, move into the logging huts in the mountains, and start working for the logging farms specialized in the Nantie Company to earn some cash income; while some people will choose to go to the beach to hunt some seals, sea otters and other animals to obtain high-quality fur and grease. Of course, they are all licensed hunters issued by the Nantie Company, and the number of seals hunted is strictly limited. In addition, the high taxes, their income is just a line higher than logging.

The child who was ridiculed by everyone was fighting with a huge male goose. The goose stretched its neck and unyieldingly used its mouth to squeeze the child's crotch under the pants - well, little. The child fought with the male goose for a while, and finally gave up, and then ran away with Xiao Luohuang.

This is Beech Fort, the first stronghold on Tierra Tierra, and it is currently the only stronghold. After the local people came here to support a group of newly arrived immigrants at the beginning of the year, the population of this settlement has quickly risen to about 500 people, which is the largest population density on Tierra Tierra.

On this cold island, for those who settle here, there are only two seasons: summer and winter. In summer, they try their best to store food—mainly fish, shrimp, llama meat and a small amount of planted potatoes. In winter, they go to nearby forest farms to log or hunt seals to earn some cash income for themselves. They use it to buy some daily necessities.

More than 200 new residents this year were all from the Amur River Basin in the Old Continent. Most of them were Daurs, and a small number were Oroqen and Buryats. They lived in high-latitude areas for generations and had long adapted to the living environment of cold areas. Therefore, moving these people to the Southern Patagonia region to open up the territory is undoubtedly a very correct measure.

In addition to these new guests from the Amur River, on the south bank of Xingnan River, separated by a strait, more than 300 special guests were carrying iron picks and digging something on the land full of gravel. They were all released from prison after working for several years in the Heishui Coal Mine. They were captured by the Qing Dynasty and were taken to Southern Patagonia by immigrant ships on the east coast, and returned to their terrified subordinates of Mo Dashun to make a living.

The years of coal mine career has trained their good obedience and discipline. In addition, they have some military skills, are not afraid of indigenous attacks, and can adapt to the cold climate, so the local people took them over and used them as labor force to develop cold areas, which is now useful. These former Qing prisoners lived in the small village of Guelèke on the Argentina railway line in the later generations, and are now called Zixintun - meaning reform and reform.

Residents from Xintun usually level the foundations of roads, and at the same time they have to open up fertile fields on the fertile land along the river bank. That's not all. According to the regulations of the Nanteng Company, each of them has to undertake the task of postman twice - it is a kind of corvee service. The starting and ending point of mail delivery is from Xintun to Araukan Free City. Once it is light mail, often letters, work reports or design drawings, etc.; the other is heavy mail, usually ore samples, soil samples, animal and plant specimens, etc.

Fortunately, the Nantie Company did not "do bad things". While taking on so many heavy work, they also enjoyed a little benefit, that is, the Nantie Company allocated ten acres of farmland each person along the river bank, and also brought them a group of Italian women to help them get married and start a business. This made these former Eight Banners' children extinguish their intention of running away and stayed in the village to work. In fact, they could not escape, so did they escape to the desert grassland to eat sand? They were not that stupid!

After the Executive Committee packaged the wood and fishery resources of South Patagonia into the Nantec Corporation, Mo Ming became very interested in developing the place because it seemed to be the place where the benefits could be seen the fastest. For example, on the coast near Beech Castle, although the westerly winds roared all year round, the seafood is indeed extremely abundant, which can be seen from the huge number of Magellan penguins crowded by the sea all day long - they are the best proof of the abundant fishery products.

In addition to the Magellan penguins, there are also a large number of aquatic animals near Tierra Tierra, which are not afraid of humans, such as seals and sea otters. These animals are a treasure house for mobile for the Nantitanium Company, which can provide both high-quality fur and high-quality oil, and finally their meat can be eaten.

After the Southern Railway Company moved more than 200 Shandan people to Beech Castle, and issued licenses to some of the hunters who had hunted seals on Sakhalin Island (the seal resources in half of Sakhalin Island are extremely rich), leather tanning and lubricating oil refining became the most important side job for local residents - their main business was to build urban ports and log wood.

Due to the special climate here, wheat, rice and other grains cannot mature at all, the short-term grains that local residents can plant during spring sowing are only potatoes and sweet potatoes, and only barley, but the yield per mu is not low. It can be seen that the soil is rich in nutrients. However, the grass here is very plump and nutritious. If the forage grown here is used to raise livestock, they can quickly recover their lost weight after the long winter.

The residents' small amount of garden vegetables are still planted in sloppy and they grow neither good nor badly. However, due to the climate, the seeds of some vegetables may not mature, which requires them to order new seeds from the local northern botanical garden every year. However, since vegetables are mainly supplied to ships and have a high degree of commercialization, the profit during the period is still quite good.

It is obvious that the lives of the residents of Tierra Tierra are very busy, hard, and the harvest is very unstable. Once the fishing industry fails to harvest, although they can still survive the famine with potatoes or sweet potatoes, their quality of life has obviously declined. However, the creativity of the people is always unlimited. Shandan people who settled here from the Amur River Basin quickly targeted the huge number of wild llamas on the island. Based on their experience, these animals should migrate within a certain range in spring and summer, and at this time, it is a good opportunity to hunt them.

Llama meat is also an important food source for residents. Half of the captured in spring is eaten on site or sold to passing ships, while those captured in summer are pickled and wait for winter to be taken to the mountain logging farm for consumption by men. Leather can be tanned and sold to the local area to subsidize household use.

A few natives of Tierra Tierra, such as Ona, were impressed by the new Shandan people. Although the living environments of everyone are not very different, their life skills are too far apart, and they are simply not from the same world. Therefore, with the help of Taoist clergy on the East Coast, these rare natives quickly arrived from all directions and settled around Beech Castle. They were compiled by the Southern Railway Company and were officially included in the ruling order on the East Coast.

These natives are not useless, and they have also brought some good news to the new Shandan residents. For example, which beaches are thrown ashore by waves every year, which areas are rich in bird resources to hunt, and which areas are rich in precious foxes, etc. They also brought key llama domestication techniques, which gave the settlements more things to do for women and children in the east coast. The Shandan people also taught them unique reindeer feeding techniques. Currently, there are more than a dozen extremely precious reindeer and local dogs transported from the Far East in the Beech Castle - these are all good friends of Shandan people.

According to the current situation, reindeer and moose from the Far East (without the uninhabited island) are still relatively adaptable to the climate of Southern Patagonia. In addition, there is a lack of threat from large carnivores here, and lush vegetation and abundant food sources. I believe their population will expand soon. The same is true for the bisons transported from North America. At present, these bisons are stocked on a series of broken uninhabited islands west of Tierra Tierra. Staff from the East Coast Ministry of Agriculture will go to these islands to investigate once a year to see the living conditions of these animals. In the past two years, several North American bisons transported should still be alive. At least the staff traveled all over the island and did not see their bodies in the wild.

In addition to keeping reindeer, every winter when road traffic is cut off, they can take sleds to and from the mountain forest farms and settlements, and no longer have to stay in the mountains to log in the winter like now. The same is true for dogs. The Shandan people brought their own hounds and sled dogs from the Amur River and Sakhalin Island. In the plan of the Ministry of Agriculture of the East Coast, a livestock breeding station will be built here in the future to breed a new breed suitable for the Southern Patagonian climate, which will help the East Coast people develop the island.

According to the plan of the Nantec Corporation, under the condition of financial scarcity, they will invest 25,000 yuan in Beech Castle in three batches to build local material warehouses (storage muskets and ammunition, fishing nets, flour and other production and daily necessities), a small steam refinery (refining high-quality lubricating oil from seal fat), and a small leather goods processing factory. After these companies are running and profitable, Nantec Corporation will continue to invest additional investments, such as wood processing plants (including two workshops for wood drying and wood product processing), brick kiln factories, etc. At the same time, small textile enterprises may also be built (using wool and llama hair from the southern Patagonia region as raw materials). In short, they will do everything possible to develop local resources and supplement the Nantec Corporation's finances. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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