Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1745 Big Inspection ([-])

After the meeting, Qi Wangping, who was still concerned about the situation in North America, specifically stayed with Liang Qiangdong and asked about the situation there. After all, the reports he can see on weekdays may not be close to the real ones, and they may be from the people below. What do you want them to see, so ask Liang Qiangdong to find out for himself, which can also provide more reference for future policy formulation.

He is already over seventy years old this year, and some other members of the Central Committee are not much better. They are all in their seventies and eighties, and it will only take a year or two to retire.Qi, who is still deeply impressed by the rise of a certain superpower in North America in later generations, intends to finally influence the strategy of the East Coast Republic towards North America before completely retreating, so that it will not grow into a country that can threaten the East Coast. power.

In fact, over the years, the National Intelligence Agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other agencies have also issued some reports on the North American continent. The Caribbean Shipping Company, a semi-official concern company, has even more, and has issued various reports on the North American continent. .In these reports, the more consistent opinion is that the core of the North American continent is the Mississippi River (that is, the Mo River and the Jehol River called by the Free State). Whenever we make a fuss about this river, it will definitely affect the North American continent. It will have a huge impact in the future. It can be said that this river is seven inches from the essence of North America, and it will die if you hit it.

Qi Wangping also agrees with this.According to his thinking, in the future, the coast of the Mississippi River must not be in the hands of one country, but must be called an international river, so as to block the foundation of the development of these countries.Think about it, if such a super river with both shipping and irrigation functions (many tributaries, vast basin area, and huge radiation range), if the upstream and downstream are controlled by different countries, in the future, whether it is building dams or ship locks , dredging, or doing something else, it must be a bunch of nonsense, and it will often end up in the end, which will eventually affect the huge role that this river should have.

And what if the control is in the hands of a country?Then everything will be much more convenient!First of all, ships can flow unimpededly from far inland to the sea, no one will charge all kinds of messy fees, and there is no need to go through various complicated and complicated procedures, let alone because of conflicts between downstream countries and their own countries. It will make the shipping artificially closed, which will be much more convenient in short.In addition, in fact, rivers like the Mississippi River that are not deep enough and have a slow flow rate need to be dredged and dredged all year round. Some places also need to invest in reconstruction to facilitate navigation. However, such things often require overall planning of the entire river basin. Governance, if the entire river is in the hands of one country, there is no problem, but if it is controlled by different countries, there should not be too many things that cause the project to fail due to endless trivial matters.

Just look at the Paraná River, which was shared by Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay in later generations. A good big river cannot be coordinated and managed so that it cannot exert its full effectiveness. In many cases, even the most basic flood control and flood discharge are done. No, he was also drunk.The same is true of the Uruguay River, the border river between Uruguay and Argentina. It is unbelievable that the two sides of such a golden waterway are not the densest agricultural and industrial areas in the two countries. I believe that if the Uruguay River is not the border river, the development will be better than this time and space. .

Some people may say that the North American continent has a lot of land far away from the Mississippi River, but in fact that is not important anymore.The midwestern region of the United States in later generations is known for its drought and water shortage. Even if such a place is completely ruled by a big country, what can it do?Can it pose any threat to the East Coast?That is impossible!The essence of North America is actually still on the east coast and the Caribbean coast, and other places are not a concern.

"What is the current situation of the Free State Kingdom? Have they passed down to the second generation? Do the locals have a sense of identity with the country? Is the country cohesive? What is the combat effectiveness of the army? What about private production? Xiaoliang, I don't want to hear It’s just an official statement, I’ve read too many of those things, and there’s a pile of these things in the file cabinet, I want to hear your opinion now, from your personal point of view.” Qi Wangping ordered the secretary to serve each of them a glass Coffee, asked in a gentle tone.

"How should I put it, if you want to say that there is no cohesion in the country of the Free State, it is impossible, but it is unrealistic to say how high the cohesion is. After all, the population of this country is complicated. There are Xhosa blacks, some There are Khoisan red people, Swahili people, and of course a small number of Malays, Ming people, and Indians. I don’t think the Xhosa blacks account for more than half of them.” Liang Qiangdong organized the language a little Then he said: "Chairman Qi, you may also know that my brother Liang Zan served as the envoy of Fengtian Jiedu and the commander of the Mabu Army in the Free State. There are many people from the Swahili coast under his rule. These people are basically engaged in low-level labor. Rice, oak felling, and fishing make a living. They are dull by nature and have no language. It is very troublesome to govern and often conflicts with the Xhosa. I think it will take several generations for them to really integrate, or else It’s no use. Of course, the church is also helping with integration and assimilation. My third brother Liang Gang is now the state affairs of the Free State Kingdom. Slowly dissolve the barriers between various ethnic groups and even races, and make them successfully integrate. Of course, this work seems a bit difficult at present, but I believe that if it is done in the long run, it will definitely have an effect. !"

Qi Wangping nodded slightly when he heard the words, and he didn't know whether he recognized Liang Qiangdong's words or just said that he knew, and then he encouraged Liang Qiangdong: "You three brothers from the old Liang family are really amazing, one of them has become a member of the Free State. Jiedu envoy, general, one is the national teacher, and you, it is exaggerated to say that you are the big housekeeper and big shopkeeper of the Free State, but the business has been doing a lot these years, right? Your father-in-law has said it several times in front of me Well, yes, yes, better than those fools in Texas."

"Hey, it's all thanks to the country's blessing, and it's just relying on Air Canada's banner to pretend to be a tiger." Liang Qiangdong was a little humble, but he didn't continue to answer Qi Wangping's words.

As a big businessman who has been active in the Caribbean Sea all year round, Liang Qiangdong certainly knows about a group of pirates on the east coast headed by Su Mo.This group of second generations who were born with a golden spoon in their mouths, instead of being rich domestically, have to pursue excitement and go to the Caribbean Sea to be pirates and plunder merchant ships from other countries.That’s not to mention, since the famous pirate island Tortuga Island was taken over by the East Coast and Spain, the pirates on the island were scattered all over the place, and some of them were attracted by them, and now they are in Sioux City Gathered in Hong Kong (that is, near Texas City in later generations), they roared out to sea from time to time, focusing on attacking the merchant ships of the Kingdom of Spain and the Dutch West India Company. Now they have gradually gained some fame, and even spread to the east coast. look sideways.

Liang Qiangdong vaguely heard that after making the scene so big, the pirate group of Su Mo and others has now been slowly infiltrated by the people from the State Intelligence Bureau, and they seem to know about this, and the people from the State Intelligence Bureau Maintaining all the delicate and tacit connections, it began to become a sharp knife in the hands of the General Administration, and gradually served the interests of the East Bank.

Liang Qiangdong suspected that Su Mo and others were involved in the latest famous sea robbery incident.That time, the Dutch West India Company lost three merchant ships at a time, which can be described as extremely tragic. This can be seen from the price changes of various commodities in the Xinjing Port market, which has become an important channel for pirates to sell stolen goods.

However, Liang Qiangdong is a serious businessman, and the pirates like Su Mo are not in the same boat, and they are not interested in actively contacting them, so they can't provide more information about this group of pirates and the pirate city they created. Fortunately, Qi Wangping didn't start the topic - of course, from what he said just now, it can be seen that at least our Chairman Qi doesn't take too seriously the actions of these second-generation ancestors, thinking that they are "nonsense". Although these people are currently under the influence of the National Intelligence Agency, they still can't understand it after all.Perhaps, only when they create a huge foundation in Texas in the future, the country will treat them seriously.

Qi Wangping then asked about the social livelihood of the free state and the combat effectiveness of the army, and Liang Qiangdong replied truthfully.He believes that many of the main forces of the Free State have served in the Far East (of course, they have been less in recent years), and they have also fought in South Africa. After arriving in the Mississippi River area, they have fought every day. The army is far from corrupt. , the combat effectiveness is maintained fairly well, which can be seen from the fact that there have been no pirates or other white colonists trying to occupy their cities for many years.

As for the local social and people's livelihood issues, Liang Qiangdong can only admit that he is not very optimistic, but also emphasizes that it is much better than previous years.Moreover, he even predicts that after the peace with the Indians is generally achieved, the country may enter a period of rapid development in the next five to ten years. He suggested that Air Canada should increase the number of people there during this period. In order to better support this wave of economic development, I believe the local nobles will be happy to see this.

Qi Wangping was also noncommittal about this, because this matter is more complicated and needs to coordinate the interests of many parties. Even if he is the chairman of the executive committee, he cannot make any immediate decision.

Finally, Qi Wangping and Liang Qiangdong talked about the commercial station of the Caribbean Shipping Company at the mouth of the Mobile River.To be honest, Liang Qiangdong is not very clear about this business station. After all, he doesn’t go there very often, and the information he gets is just rumors from others. However, he can still give Qi Wangping some useful information, and corroborate it with the reports he usually sees.

"The commercial station at the mouth of the Mobile River is not so much a commercial place as it is a town. Really, I have heard many people mention that the headquarters of the Caribbean Shipping Company is here, and there are many soldiers in the garrison. There are also plantation supervisors, engineers and technicians, shipyard craftsmen and their families, which is almost the size of a city. And the plantation there is not small in scale, growing wheat, cotton, flax, tobacco, indigo and other economic crops , makes a lot of profits every year, and also exports leather, wood, herbs and other special products. It is really a prosperous port city. Although I have not been there, I have heard many people mention Mobile City in Xinjing Port There is a lot of agreement among the words, and it seems that it is no worse than the cities in the Spanish colony of Florida." Liang Qiangdong said again.

"The Port of Mobile is the territory directly under the Air Canada Company, and it plays a very important role. It not only curbs the westward expansion of the Spanish Florida colony, but also provides a place for our country's ships going to this sea area to maintain and repair ships. At the same time, it is the best wedge point for our country to directly intervene in the situation of the North American continent in the future. The functions are diverse. The government also subsidizes Air Canada with 8 yuan a year for this purpose, just to let them persevere and better Develop the surrounding areas.” Qi Wangping also commented on the role of the Mobile Commercial Station in a timely manner this time. Some industries are not always a bad thing.

After talking about the above, Qi Wangping saw that it was getting late, so he shook hands with Liang Qiangdong and ended the conversation.Next, he will take the train back to Dongfang County, the capital, to deal with the backlog of government affairs a little bit, and then continue north to Meilin County.Here, he will stop for a while, visit two large state-owned backbone enterprises, the local Southern Rolling Stock Factory (the manufacturer of the La Plata Star train) and the railway machinery processing factory, and listen to the management of these two factories. Work report to see what new plans they have for the next step.

After finishing the trip in Meilin County, his special car will go west along the railway line, and then enter the counties under the jurisdiction of the former Northwest Reclamation Bureau. ore, coal mine, manganese ore combined mining and smelting) and Daxing Port wharf, ship lock, flood control and conservancy facilities.

It can be seen that these counties and townships distributed along the Northwest Railway have many factories and mines, a very developed economy, and a relatively dense population. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are one of the most elite areas in the Eastern China Republic.Most of the country's gold, almost 100% manganese, ferromanganese steel, various mechanical parts, steel products, machine tools and other industrial products are produced here. It is one of the economic engines on the east coast. If you take a train tour, This is one of the areas that Chairman Qi Wangping and Chairman Qi must not miss.

(End of this chapter)