Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1877 The Americas of the East Coasters ([-])

126 America of the East Coasters ([-])

After Tian Xing had a farewell meal with his friends in Xinjing Port, he took an Air Canada merchant ship and returned to Mobile Port.

This port city, which was barren many years ago, has developed quite well now.Just as the two cities of Xingnan and Araucan embody the style of the Southern Railway, the Port of Mobile also has a strong Air Canada color.The city is full of sailors, merchants, and adventurers. They are active in the docklands and commercial areas, either waiting for employment from their masters, or waiting for the arrival of business, or planning to gather enough people to explore inland (if found Gold and silver mines were developed), which brought vitality to the city, but of course there were many troubles.

Of course, we cannot ignore the equally large number of skilled workers, military personnel and management personnel in the city.They are basically employees of Air Canada, responsible for repairing ships, managing cities and villages, and also shouldering the heavy responsibility of defending cities.They generally live in administrative areas, industrial areas, and military areas—just like playing a game, Ding Yiyu, the first president of Air Canada, divided the city into many single-functional areas—not as good as those in the dock area and commercial area So overhanging, high-profile, but an integral part of the city.

Tian Xing's ship pulled a ship of oak planks from Free State, which had been dried in the shade for many years, and drove directly into the ship repair yard in the industrial area.Next, the ship needed to be unloaded and overhauled, while Tian Xing and his extremely entourage took a carriage to the city to handle some formalities.

Shipyard Isolation is a small sugar refining plant owned by Air Canada.The rough sugar transported from the outside world was refined and reprocessed here, and then either sold to the nearby British and Western colonies, sold to dealers, or shipped back to the country for sale.

It is worth mentioning that jaggery is basically produced and refined in plantations on the outskirts of Mobile Port.These plantations are now all affiliated to Air Canada, using blacks as the main labor force, and the output is not large or small. For Air Canada, it is also an attempt outside of the main business (import and export trade), and it is also not without small financially. repair.

However, for now, Air Canada has no urgent plans to expand the plantation. This is actually due to various considerations.One is that it may lead to conflicts with nearby Indian tribes. The Indians on the North American continent are different from those in South America. They are brave and good at fighting, and they would rather bend than bend. A large number of slaves, outsourcing, they have some policy obstacles, can only be carried out on a small scale, and it is easy to get accidents from the South African Black Eight Banners entrusted for transportation. Dare to be contaminated with the fishy smell of this body.

Therefore, considering various factors, the expansion of their self-operated plantations was relatively slow. In the end, they still purchased a large amount of sucrose from Cuba and other places, and then shipped it to the Port of Mobile for refining.To put it bluntly, it is to take advantage of a strong commercial position and advanced technology to purchase raw materials from other people's homes, process them and then export them to other places.

Next door to the sugar refinery is a wood processing plant.Similar to a sugar refinery, it not only processes imported wood, but also dries and cuts wood from logging camps outside the city for city construction and ship repair.In recent years, the size of the logging camps has shrunk. The main reason is that there is a shortage of labor force, and it is impossible to operate so many logging camps at the same time, so we can only close a few appropriately.

Tian Xing travels back and forth between Xinjing and Mobile all the year round, so he is well aware of this situation.Unlike Ding Yiyu, the president of Air Canada, who is old-fashioned and conservative, Tian Xing doesn't mind buying slaves to run plantations, logging camps, or even brick kilns. The Government Council has applied for a license to purchase black slaves - in today's East Coast Republic, large-scale procurement of white slaves does not require a license, but blacks do, and has been criticized by Meng Hu and others - even if a letter of guarantee is written to ensure that only in Mo Port Biel uses it to support the industry inside and outside the city. This will be the foundation of the company in the future, and it will bring a steady stream of profits.

It's a pity that Ding Yiyu, the president of Air Canada, is a very conservative person. He just wants to live in peace until he retires, and he doesn't want to waste his favor to apply for some shit license before he steps down.You know, although he is the president, he doesn't own any shares in the company. On the contrary, Tian Xing's wife is a moderate shareholder of Air Canada, so how could he be expected to help others out of the fire.

"A mediocre person, a person who sits on a vegetarian diet, what a mistake!" Although he had just had a drink with Ding Yiyu in Xinjinggang, Tian Xing still had a big opinion on this old man, thinking that a mediocre person like him would take over Air Canada. The president of the company for so many years has greatly damaged the company's development, as can be seen from the stock prices of Southern Railway and Air Canada publicly traded on the Qingdao financial market-of course, both of them are dead now, and the stock prices of the Bank of Taiwan Ranked first, no one can hold a candle to it.

The carriage quickly drove into the compound of Air Canada, and Tian Xing led four entourages to the finance department. The company's finance minister had been waiting for a long time.

Tian Xing's trip is mainly to settle with Air Canada and clarify accounts.As the largest colonial enterprise in the region, Air Canada also occupies a considerable position in the diplomatic activities of the East Coast Republic of China. At least the loans from the East Coast to the Free State are often implemented through Air Canada. ; The arms and military assets exported from the East Coast to the Free State are often directly allocated to Air Canada, which is allocated from the nearest inventory.Therefore, there are indeed too many accounts to be dealt with between Lieutenant Colonel Tian Xing and Air Canada, which is expected to take a few days to a week.

Of course, it was impossible for Tian Xing to spend a week in the finance department with the people of Air Canada, so he quickly finished explaining the matter with his entourage, and then took the carriage for the second time and returned to the business district again.In this district, he has an office, in which there are two people who are responsible for collecting news and delivering intelligence, and sometimes representing Tian to negotiate with Air Canada.

He finally stayed in this office for a day and dealt with many important matters that had been backlogged for a long time.One of the most valuable things is that officials from the Spanish colony of Florida next door came recently and asked the people on the east coast to help support some weapons and daily necessities. It is said that the relationship between them and the British is not very good. There have been several incidents recently. A skirmish, and even a few ships that were supposed to arrive long ago were missed.This may only explain the shamelessness and despicability of the British, who dispatched pirate ships to intercept and kill Spanish ships.

Tian Xing skillfully signed his name on the lower corner of the document.After thinking about it for a while, he added a sentence like a joke: "The relevant personnel will handle it specially, and try to negotiate the possibility of selling the Florida colony with the Spaniards when the situation is critical or difficult."

After processing these documents, Tian Xing has completed all the work.I saw him walking around the office carefully several times, looking at every corner carefully.Then he walked to the desk, sorted out all kinds of documents one by one, and carefully put them back in the filing cabinet behind him.

After staring blankly in front of the file cabinet for a long time, Tian Xingcai sighed lightly, stepped out of the office directly, and without looking back, went directly to the dock area in a carriage.The "Ludang River", a new generation of local steam-powered ship, has been anchored here for a month, and will leave for the capital's Dongfang Port in a few days.Tian Xing has already negotiated with them and asked for the positions of five people, and then he will take this ship back to China.

And when it comes to the development of all-steam-powered ships on the east coast, it is really "bloody and tearful".The fate of the three ships "Dayuhe", "Tahiti" and "Tierra del Fuego" that came out in the early days can be described as miserable. They either sank into the sea, or returned to the shipyard for dismantling and overhaul, and were never seen again. been out.

After these three ships, research into all-steam-powered vessels in the East Coast shipbuilding community fell into a period of constant stagnation.During this period of time, due to lack of funds, the state-run Modern Special Shipyard once discontinued this project and used resources for other purposes, because it is said that both the navy and several large shipping companies are interested in this large-scale ocean-going global ship. Steam-powered ships thank you for your kindness.They don't trust this kind of ships without backup power (ie sail power), and they only need hybrid power, which makes the modern special shipyard and Tieling Boiler Factory, which provides the supporting power propulsion system, fall into a dilemma, and finally leads to the project Dismounted, research and development came to a standstill.

Fortunately, the central government saw that going on like this was not an option, so it set aside the budget from scientific research funds a few years ago and invested it in the research and development of all-steam-powered ships, and finally built another verification ship "Ludang River" this year , and went all the way north from the dock of Hyundai Shipyard to the Port of Mobile under the control of Air Canada, basically without any major problems, it was relatively successful.

Next, the Government Affairs Council has promised that once the verification is successful and the required trouble-free time is reached, and the reliability is proven to be better, they will specifically ask the two state-owned enterprises, the South China Sea Transportation Company and the East African Transportation Company, to take the lead in purchasing six ships to set an example .It is very slow to rely on market spontaneity for this kind of thing. It may be more efficient to rely on administrative orders to promote it directly.

Compared with the ill-fated all-steam-powered ships, the iron-ribbed wood-hull ships that belonged to almost the same batch of projects also went through extremely hard times.Gain was on the east coast, and tall, straight, and solid giant trees were not difficult to obtain, and it could even be said to be relatively easy to obtain. Therefore, it was not like the old continent that lacked high-grade giant logs used as ship keels.In such a situation, how could iron-ribbed wood-hull boats become popular?To put it bluntly, forest resources are so abundant on the east coast, they don't have any motivation to research iron keels to replace giant wooden keels.I believe that if the central government hadn't insisted on asking the Ministry of Science and Technology to allocate funds to support the project team on Xuefeng Lake to continue research, this project team would have been disbanded long ago, instead of still persisting half-deadly like it is now, and even a verification ship pops up from time to time. ship for research.

On June 1683, 6, Lieutenant Colonel Tian Xing and four entourages quietly boarded the all-steam-powered ship "Ludanghe", and then went all the way south, south, and arrived at Zhenhai Port via Huaiyuan Island and Jiaohe.Here, the "Ludanghe" sailed into the dock of Hyundai Factory for maintenance, and by the way, various data of the voyage were also submitted.Tian Xing and others had anticipated this situation a long time ago, so they directly boarded a small steamer bound for the south at the wharf of Hekou Township, and finally arrived at the capital Dongfang Port in the late July 24th.

Returning to the old place after a long absence, Tian Xing is very interested in the increasingly prosperous Dongfang County. After all, he was born and went to school here, and did not leave until he was 30 or [-] to travel abroad.It's a pity that there are more and more calls to move the capital in China, and many people hope to move the capital to a city with unlimited development (Dongfang County cannot develop into a super-large city due to the restrictions on port and water resources), which makes Tian Xing I am a little bit displeased, and feel that the good memories of my early years may be destroyed by many people.

On July 7, Tian Xing rested at home for a whole day, and his wife also brought their children back from Qingdao Port for a reunion.The family went to a suburban nursing home to visit their father-in-law Putin who had just moved in due to illness. They talked all morning and returned to the city in the afternoon.

In the next few days, Tian Xing went to several departments, namely the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Trade, the Joint Staff Headquarters, the General Administration of National Intelligence, and the Gendarmerie Command. He made a simple report on the most taboo work in the past year, so that Let these departments be able to be targeted when formulating policies in the future.

The Gendarmerie Command was where he would be working for a long time to come.In this "place where his father-in-law fought for a long time", Lieutenant Colonel Tian Xing will start as a colonel and deputy commander, and will take over in the future. The succession may not be accurate, because after Tian Xing returns, Putin will definitely be transferred to other departments Go, or simply retire directly, Weng and son-in-law are both working in key departments, and they are both senior cadres. This is really too shocking, and it does not meet the employment standards.

Of course, it is not excluded that Tian Xing quits active service in the army and transfers to another well-connected intelligence agency, the Syphilis Patient Statistics and Investigation Bureau, which is also a good choice.And once he goes to work here, if there are no accidents, he will focus on preventing commercial espionage and industrial espionage. Now that the technology on the east coast is developing rapidly, I don’t know how many people are jealous of him in the old continent. Anti-spy work cannot be taken lightly. A cadre in the prime of life must be in charge, and Tian Xing is more suitable.

(End of this chapter)