Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1961 Linkage in Australia

And just when the Four Factions of the Far East sent two warships to Timor Island, a fast liaison ship also set off from Jiaozhou Port in Shandong Province, using both aircraft and sails, and quickly arrived at Jinshan Port, the capital of Australia. The confidential document signed by Liao Degong, the top military officer of the Communist Party of China, was handed over to Peng Yuanzhi, director of the management committee.

It is worth mentioning that the original Australian Pioneering Team has been revoked and replaced by the Australian Management Committee. The first director is Peng Yuanzhi, Commissioner of the Zelu District Administrative Office under the jurisdiction of the New China Pioneering Team.This fellow has been lukewarm in the political arena for many years. It is not bad if it is bad, and it is not very good if it is good. Therefore, after failing to compete for the position of captain of the New China Pioneering Team, he made a decisive gamble and mobilized All of the family's connections and political resources have been transferred to Australia to serve as the highest official here.

You know, this is also an independent colony, and its top officials are also high-ranking officials, and their rank is no worse than that of the main colonies such as New China and Denglai. It is used to solve the level problem and enter the central high-level. , so Peng Yuanzhi worked hard to get here.

And after coming here, Peng Yuanzhi didn't intend to just be an official who was fooling around. In fact, he was quite concerned about the development of Australia and used many means to promote the prosperity of this desolate island.

Before Peng Yuanzhi came here, the development of the Australian region in the past 20 years can be described as lacklustre, mostly concentrated in the southeast, southwest and southern coastal areas.There are not many settlements established, including Xinxing Township (located near the later town of Ballarat), Shengjun Township (located near the later town of Colac), Madian Township (located near the small town of Hamilton), Nanshi Township (located near the later town of Portland), Xidaying Township (located near the later town of Casterton), Dongtazi Township (located near the later town of Warrager), Wende Township (located near the later town of Tra near the small town of Largen), Shibahu Township (near the later town of Foster), Xiahu Township (near the later town of Sale) and Dongwang Township (near the later town of Bairnsdale) , a total of ten settlements, with a total population of about [-] at present, are mainly engaged in wheat planting and animal husbandry. In addition to supplying local consumption, most of the food is sold to passing immigrant ships for profit. standard immigrant economy.

Of course, the immigration economy has always been the most important driving force for Australia's economic growth. It has been so for decades and has never changed.More than 8 people in the three counties of Western Australia and Eastern Australia have been diligently cultivating wasteland in places suitable for agricultural planting for many years, producing a large amount of wheat, fruits, vegetables, and a large amount of cheap beef and mutton. Tens of thousands of immigrants and sailors have provided sufficient and cheap food, which is a great contribution.

The only industrial facilities in Australia are probably shipbuilding, flour milling, wool textiles, leather processing and meat pickling. It is very poor. The horsepower of all industrial steam engines is only a few hundred horses. The appearance shows the weakness of the foundation.

In terms of commercial trade, Australia has also been tepid for many years.Because of the embarrassing geographical location, Australia is not in any of the busy commercial routes, and external goods cannot come in (or even if they come in, because there are few ships), and their own goods cannot go out (also because There are few ships, of course, due to the small number of products and a single structure), so the import and export trade is not very active, and the business is almost entirely maintained by passing ships from the east coast. About [-]% of the total.

Therefore, it is not without reason that many people in China say that Australia is an immigration transit point.This desolate big island is a post station carefully designed by the local people on the east coast, and the output is also designed in strict accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Immigration, with a strong atmosphere of planned economy.Therefore, the upper and lower limits of the living standards of the local people are predictable, that is, if you work very hard, your living standards will not be much higher than others, and when you lack the spirit of struggle, your life will not be much worse than others A lot, anyway, it’s an immigrant economy, so there are fewer opportunities, isn’t it?

Therefore, accumulating over a long period of time has caused a relatively fatal problem in Australia, that is, insufficient attractiveness.In layman’s terms, it’s that excellent local talents don’t want to come to Australia (in fact, they’re not even happy to go to relatively affluent places like Ningbo and New China, they have to be hired with high salaries). The locals in Australia have some ideas Some people try to leave, go to other overseas colonies and even the East Coast mainland where there are more opportunities.For example, Giovanni, a well-known Hispanic engineer in Western Australia (his parents attended an underground lecture meeting and were exiled together), has been hired by the Blackwater Pioneering Team with a lot of money. He and several apprentices will specialize in the future Maintain and repair large steam units locally, and also participate in the manufacture of some simple and rudimentary steam engines.

This example shows that even the cold Sakhalin Island is more attractive than Australia in terms of career, future and high wages.Ambitious people would rather practice their own life values ​​locally than spend the whole day idling in Australia, making their bodies rusty.

The most important addition to the population of the three counties in Australia over the years, apart from the Far East immigrants stranded due to illness or severe seasickness (this part also ran away a lot in the later period, after all, people go to high places), the most important thing is the local population. exile.The exiles can be divided into two categories, one is the prisoners and their family members, there are fewer people in this group, and the competition is fiercer, Australia has no advantage; The Kelandi people in the Pampa Plain, the Quechua and Guarani people from the inter-river region, the Guarani people from Eastern Brazil and the Tupi Indians.

But these Indians actually need competition to get them.Unfortunately, in this regard, Australia still does not have much advantage. It has always been able to rely on the government to divide people for the purpose of balancing considerations, but it is not too much.Moreover, after these Indians left South America, the death rate due to various factors was too high, even in Australia, and this is actually the main reason for Australia's underpopulation.

What's more, later on, because the grand strategy of controlling southern Africa became clearer, the mainland began to gradually adjust its strategy and reduce the quota of exiled Indians to other places (there were even Indians exiled from the Blackwater area back then. People are also crazy), and exiled the vast majority of Native Americans to Africa. Together with the Malays, they were distributed on the northern edge of the control area on the east coast of southern Africa, becoming the vanguard to prevent the expansion of blacks going south and north.

Under such circumstances, Australia's population can only be supplemented by Far East immigrants stranded in Western Australia and Eastern Australia for various reasons.When the number of native immigrants has been declining for many years, the investigation of the interception situation in various places has been strengthened, and Australia is even more out of action.

The sparse population (and it is still flowing out slowly), the economic depression and the dull social life make it almost like a country in Australia. It is no wonder that some local people jokingly call this "Australian Village", which is really not very good like.And this is actually the actual situation that Director Peng Yuanzhi is facing after taking office. If he doesn't want to just mess around like this, then he'd better start to solve the problems inside.

In fact, Peng Yuanzhi still has some ambitions to solve the problem, which seems to be the luck of the Australian people.When this gentleman first took office, he brought a financial subsidy of 10 yuan (half in cash and half in materials) from local activities, and announced the establishment of Madian County (under the jurisdiction of Madian Town, Xinxing Township, Shengjun Township, Nanshi Township and Xidaying Township), Wende County (under the jurisdiction of Wende Township, Dongtazi Township, Shibahu Township, Xiahu Township and Dongwang Township), these ten settlements that have been established for some years have been formalized, making the entire There are five official counties in Australia.

Of course, Peng did not concentrate on developing the Eastern Australia region.Although the agricultural conditions here are not bad (but not very good), and the population is larger, as an important node for immigration transportation, Western Australia cannot be neglected.Therefore, within two years after he took office, he opened up ten new settlements in Western Australia, namely: Gaopeng Township (located near the later city of Perth), Shitang Township (located in the later Luojin Humm town), Guanzhuang Township (located near the later town of Mandurah), Wuzhangwan Township (located near the later town of Banbury), Eucalyptus Township (located near the later town of Yarna), Dongguoyuan Township (located near the small town of Curley later), Caoduogou Township (located near the small town of Dasbo later), Weizihe Township (located near the small town of Margaret River later), Heicaohe Township (located near the small town of August Tower Township) and Camel Bay Township (near the Later Yanchep Township).

The above-mentioned ten settlements have been successively established in the past two years, and are currently managed by Gushan County in Western Australia. Economically, it is obvious that agriculture and animal husbandry are the mainstay.Because with this population, apart from farming, there is almost no surplus for other jobs, unless the people on the east coast reduce their urge to open up wasteland and forcibly liberate part of the population from the land and invest in other industries, but this is obviously Not too possible.

But things changed after the fast liaison ship arrived in Australia.After Peng Yuanzhi, the director of the management committee, learned of the conflict between the Dutch East India Company and the four feudal domains in the Far East, as well as a series of recent incidents on Timor Island, he immediately asked the secretary to bring a detailed map of Western Australia and the offshore currents, Wind chart.

On the map, many settlements have been drawn on the coastline of the southern half of Western Australia, which means that people from the east coast have already reclaimed wasteland here, and it is no longer a barren land.I believe that if we give it a few years to develop and try our best to relocate some people here, the basic economy of local agriculture and animal husbandry can still be developed.As for the sea chart, it is simpler and clearer. A straight arrow goes north along the coast of Western Australia (the cold current in Western Australia), extending and disappearing in the warm water area near the equator.

Navigators know that by going north along this warm current, you can easily reach places very close to the East Indies.For the next part of the voyage, because it is close to the equator area, there is almost no wind, and the ocean currents are more complicated. It requires an experienced driver to accurately locate the ocean currents and weak winds (the equatorial windless belt does not mean that there is really no wind, and the windless belt is shrouded The area also moves north and south with the seasons), eventually reaching the East Indies Sea.But in any case, this is indeed a shortcut to the East Indies, especially for ships on the east coast equipped with a steam propulsion system, there is no difficulty, they can easily go to that sea area It’s just that the Dutch took it very seriously in the past and protested repeatedly. In addition, the people from the east coast had no business to do when they went, so they never tried it.

But things are different now after all!The Dutch East India Company recklessly provoked a trade war, which angered the four feudal states in the Far East, making them decide to go south to Timor Island and build it into a base that threatened the core interests of the Dutch East India Company.For the successful completion of the base on Timor Island, the four Far East vassals need a certain degree of cooperation from Australia, which includes both military and economic aspects.

In terms of military affairs, they asked Australia to provide food, gunpowder and other military supplies, and prepare a certain number of army troops when necessary. When the materials and personnel of the four Far Eastern feudal clans could not reach Timor Island in time, they would provide support to the nearest north to prevent the island from being destroyed. The Portuguese were easily defeated by the Dutch, losing this valuable base.

As for the economy, it requires Australia (mainly Western Australia) to strengthen economic ties with Timor Island, and regularly send ships to trade with it, instead of having one or the other as before.In other words, Western Australia, which is dominated by Gushan County, can import a large number of tropical products from Timor Island, and at the same time export local specialties to them (although I have scratched my head and don’t know what Western Australia has to export).

After pondering over it, Peng Yuanzhi felt that this might also be an opportunity for Western Australia.Although Timor Island is small and its economy is not large, trade may not bring much help to Western Australia, but what if the future is different?What if the Dutch East India Company was forced to allow all of the East Indies to trade with Western Australia?This may sound like a fantasy, but no one can tell what will happen in the future, and Peng Yuanzhi thinks he can give it a go.

Therefore, he intends to carry out overall planning in the whole of Australia, and tilt limited funds and manpower to Western Australia, and import a batch of machinery and equipment from the Blackwater Pioneering Team-this should not be difficult, and it will be very cheap. Who told you now What can I ask of you——Develop simple industries in Western Australia to increase the export variety of some products.For example, the abundant local cattle and sheep are a kind of resource, which can be used to make canned food, briefcases, ammunition bags, military uniforms and other commodities, plus some hardware appliances produced nearby, there should still be some sales, after all, these things come from Heishui It is too far and too expensive to wait for it to be shipped.

It can also be seen from here that the East Coast Republic of China, which has the colonies of the Far East, Rabaul, and Australia, has formed a chain for the Dutch East India Company.It's okay to have nothing to do on weekdays. Once a conflict occurs, the Dutch will learn a lot.They may not have fully realized this before, so they acted a little arrogantly, but this time their heads should be clearer, right?

(End of this chapter)