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"Everyone listened, there are Ming Dynasty immigrants coming from the west! The superior asked me to notify you to prepare for the welcome within two hours, and there must be no mistakes." Outside the village wall of Xinbao's mixed civil and wooden structure, several former Eight Banner soldiers wearing large cotton jackets on the east coast were receiving the orders and assignments from an East Coast patrolman wearing a black police uniform in the bitter west wind.

After the patrolman issued the order, he confirmed that the settlers from Newcastle had already understood what they were going to do, so he did not stop any more. After turning his horse's head, he headed west along the Xingnan Highway. Although the cold wind was biting and snowflakes were flying outside, and although the former Eight Banners settlers from Newcastle tried their best to keep the messenger for a rest, he had to rush back and report his orders and did not dare to stay here. The East Coast country was established for only 20 years, with strict laws and regulations and strict orders, and few people dared to violate various regulations.

"Unexpectedly, the Nikans in the Ming Dynasty are shaking now. I thought I would kill a few of them back then, but now...oh, it's better not to say it!" A settler from the Han military flag heard that he was busy with these Ming immigrants, and his resentment was uncontrollable. In fact, it was no wonder that the weather was so cold now that they had to work on the railway construction site. They were as tired as dogs every day. Before they could take a breath, the superior sent a "black skin" (patrol police, military police, police officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and had a very black uniform) to send orders to them, boiling water and cooking for those Ming people who were like two-legged sheep in their eyes, and feeding Matthews. They also had to even out some quilts that they were not enough to give them. Every time they thought of this, they made the former Qing army prisoners feel sad - this was too frustrating!

"Why are you complaining at this time..." A flag-dragon who was born in the white flag glanced at the Han army flag soldier and said disdainfully: "If you are brave enough to kill the black skin and take the horse, then you can still look at me with admiration. Like now, you only dare to hide behind and complain, what kind of hero is it? Get out of here? Get out of here. The boss just approved five acres of land for me and lent me money. I will work with our Great East Coast in the future. You Nikan has also got the land, but you are still full of complaints. You really don't know what to do. Get out of here!"

The Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners around him knew more or less Chinese, and most of them burst into laughter when they heard this. In addition, the settlers who were captured from the green camp also despised the Han flag soldiers who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong, so they had no intention of helping at the moment, which made the Han flag soldier who was born in Shi Tingzhu's confidant blush with shame.

"Okay, don't stick here, go to work fucking!" An official from Niu Lue was really unable to listen in the end. He began to assign tasks to everyone, so that they could not fight in the end: "The cow with a broken leg in the cow pen is carried out to me. Xingnan Port has been approved and can be killed! Don't hide the radish, cabbage, onions, potatoes and other things in the vegetable cellar, take it out and stew a large pot of meat. Take out some of the new seafood, well, unpack a bucket of cod and a bucket of calamari. In addition, some sorghum rice are brought up to cook, which is almost enough! Grandma, dip these Ni... The Ming people are all out, let's have a tooth sacrifice."

After assigning each person's tasks, the official brought seven or eight fully armed entourages, kicked a group of Crandy squatting on the side of the road in a daze, and then escorted them to the construction site. Now it's still one or two hours before dark, so I can't be idle. It's better to hurry up and do some work. After all, the construction schedule is tight, and no one can bear the consequences of not being able to complete it on time. Don't believe it? The Nantie Company's well-equipped and guardian team soldiers will let you understand this.

The group led seventy or eighty dejected Crandy workers to walk west slowly. On their left is Xingnan Highway, and on the right is the Nancone Two-Yangtze Railway, which is under construction. At present, a long distance of tracks have been laid. Standing on the Gobi Desert, there is almost no end to see.

Although it was approaching evening - it was rainy and snowy today and it was dark earlier - the Xingnan Highway on the left was still relatively busy, with cargo carts of varying loads passing by them from time to time. Of course, they couldn't see the situation on the highway clearly, because in order to prevent accidents from entering and leaving people and animals, there were large wooden fences of varying heights on both sides of the Xingnan Highway, leaving only gaps in specific places. However, they have lived here for more than a year, and they can hear what vehicles were walking on the road. Moreover, except for a few immigrant buses, most of them were freight carts, and those who were pulled from east to west were also goods of cars. This also illustrates the importance of this transportation road connecting the two oceans from one side, and also illustrates the importance of the Nanci Railway and its future profit prospects.

"This Xingnan official road seems to be getting more and more dilapidated. No wonder, less than a year after it was opened to traffic, there have been more and more carriages on this road. It's really weird. Are there so many goods to pull?" Walking on the road, the officials from Xinbao, who led the team thought: "A while ago, two high-ranking officials came to the west and asked us to repair some damage on the road. Alas, it seems that this matter cannot be delayed. If you blame it, we can't afford to be guilty. Forget it today, we will arrange for these savages to work overtime all night at night and fill in some obvious potholes on the nearby road. Seeing that the rain and snow are constantly rising in winter, the road is becoming more and more likely to be broken, so we have to hurry up."

In fact, the Nantec Corporation was somewhat inadequate in the initial preparation for the Xingnan Highway. Especially after reaching a smuggling trade agreement with Peru, they were still hesitant to upgrade this temporary sandy and soil highway to a high-grade highway, because once the Xingnan Highway, which is 300 kilometers long, it will require about 600,000 yuan in cash, and it will also occupy a lot of manpower and material resources. This undoubtedly caused huge losses for many years and was not well-off. Therefore, after a while, the matter was delayed.

But now, it is obvious that they can no longer drag it down. Because the complaints of the thirty or forty heavy carriages running on this highway every day have almost become noisy. The bad road conditions not only increase the failure rate of trucks, reduce the service life of vehicles (including pulling horses), but also cause a large amount of material losses. For example, many tiles, glassware, cans, wine (with high transportation losses on the sea with high winds and waves) are also amazing in the number of fragile products accumulated over several months.

. In addition, the expected Nanci Railway will probably have to wait for four or five years to officially open to traffic - if there is no additional investment (whether it is cash investment or material investment) - the senior management of Nanci Railway Company can no longer remain indifferent to the harsh road conditions of Xingnan Highway. Therefore, Mo Ming made the decision to squeeze out a part of the investment in Xingnan Port and Araukan Port, and then issue a batch of bonds in Qingdao Port to raise enough funds for this batch of road construction, and strive to completely upgrade the road to asphalt permanent highway within one year.

As for whether this high-grade highway that spends huge amounts of money is suspected of being wasted - after all, there is a road under construction next to it - Nan Railway Company believes that the problem is not big. Because after the construction of the Nanci Railway, it is conceivable that the trains passing through this railway will not basically stop in inland towns with sparse population and low resources, except for replenishing coal and water. This railway will basically be mainly freight transportation, supplemented by immigration transportation. The trains start from beginning to end, which basically does not matter with the stations along the way. However, the settlements along the way, from Xinbao, Sand Castle, and some settlements that the Nan Railway Company will develop along the railway in the future also need to communicate with the outside world. They also have the need to export their products to the outside world and then import goods from the outside world, and this naturally depends on the Xingnan Highway.

For example, farmers and herdsmen scattered in vast areas of the wild often need to concentrate their goods in a specific town for sale, and then local processing companies reprocess them, and finally contact the car to transport the final product to the port to organize exports. However, before that, many short-distance transportation had to be carried out by roads, so this high-level highway really couldn't save. Just look at the country, the first railway in China, the total length of the Luomei Line, is 180 kilometers, but there are hundreds of kilometers of county roads, township roads and even village-level dirt roads that are parallel or intersected with this railway. It is these different levels that actually act as a branch line of the railway, communicating with the vast rural areas, making the flow of materials and personnel more efficient and fast. After all, not every train will stop.

In addition, there is another very important reason, that is, even if the Nanci Railway is fully opened to traffic in a few years, it is only a single line. With the increasing frequency of trade with Peruvians, it is still a question whether the railway capacity can keep up at that time. Everyone knows how troublesome the transportation of a single-line railway is. Perhaps the Nanti Railway Company will want to re-line this key railway again - this is almost inevitable - and it obviously takes time. At this time, a Xingnan Highway with good road conditions can play a great role. In short, the money for building this road is really unsavory, not to mention that the roadbed was already leveled when the sand and soil road was originally built. If it was abandoned in the future, the previous investment of 300,000 yuan would be wasted, which is a pity.

On the evening of July 4, 1650, 174 Ming migrants from the Far East arrived safely from Xinbao, only two days away from their final destination Xingnan Port. (The novel "Traveling through 1630: The Rise of South America" ​​will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there is also a 100% lottery gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right to "Add Friends", search for the official account "dd" and follow, hurry up!) (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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