Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1966 New Development and New Opportunities ([-])

In fact, what Cai Zhenguo said is correct. The local economy on the east coast is developing fairly well, and there are indeed many opportunities.Take the Goshkin Company, which operates in the construction industry, as an example. They have recently contracted a big business: the construction of large-scale water supply and drainage facilities between South Village Port and Buenos Aires.

There is no doubt that this is a lucrative business.Water and sewage facilities, although the project volume is not large or small, but the government is willing to spend money, the borrowing speed is also fast, and the pressure on the funds of the builders is not great, so it has always been the fat meat that many companies compete for.The Goshkin Construction Company competed for the business of the water supply reservoir and some of the water supply pipelines in the water supply and drainage facility. Correspondingly, the two state-owned construction companies shared other projects.

The Nancungang Reservoir and its water and sewage facilities actually include some villages and towns on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, and there are even many Spaniards living in these places.The people on the east coast went straight to the door to dig trenches and bury the pipes without asking if they were willing. This really made these Spaniards quite angry, but generally they were helpless.The Spaniards living in the Pampa plains have long been accustomed to overt or covert oppression of the people on the east coast. As the old saying goes, if you want to live a decent life, you have to be patient and choose to forgive the people on the east coast.

Due to the ups and downs of East-Russian relations, the number of workers in the Goshkin Construction Company has been decreasing every year over the years, and now it has dropped to less than 500. Many of them have even been naturalized but still choose to work in the company Russian East Coasters.This kind of uninspiring fact fully shows that the number of Russians immigrating to the east bank has been decreasing. Even if the Goshkins have tried their best and come up with various means, they can only delay This process cannot be reversed.

Therefore, Goshkin and others are now trying to find a way to work toward the labor force of other nationalities and even races.However, given the current domestic climate on the east coast, they simply cannot use those blacks, because sending the remaining black non-national laborers out is a long-standing trend, and they are powerless to fight against them.And it is not very safe to use Indians, because one day they are not allowed to be transferred to the southern African border area for reclamation by a government order. There are very few Indians who can be allowed to stay in South America, so they must be established No credit.

After doing this, Goshkin could only learn from the painful experience and invested huge sums of money in the purchase of a large amount of steam engineering equipment to make up for the decline in construction capacity faced by the reduction in the number of workers.In order to solve the financial problem (steam equipment is expensive), Goshkin not only borrowed from the United Industrial Credit Bank, but also introduced a new shareholder to the company, that is, his fellow Russian from the Naryshkin family. Oleg.

This magical boy invested [-] rubles in the Goshkin Construction Company, and he doesn't know where he got the money, because the ships currently running on the route from Russia to the east coast, except for the state-owned South Sea Transport Company on the east coast , there are only two small merchant ships belonging to him Goshkin (old ships bought at auction), and he did not help the Naryshkin family transfer property from Russia.After much deliberation, it can only be attributed to the fact that the old Naryshkin deposited a sum of money in the branch of the Northwest Reclamation Bank in Arkhangelsk, and then Oleg withdrew it in a different place on the east bank.

But no matter what, this young man who is said to be addicted to railways sent him real money, allowing him to buy from several machinery factories, including steam rollers, steam plows, steam picks, steam pumps, A series of engineering equipment including steam hammer.Otherwise, based on the current scale of his Goshkin company, I am afraid that he can only win some marginal businesses, instead of such a large share in front of him.You must know that Mendes Company (one of the three major labor brokers) that used to be as famous as them became less competitive and gradually declined because of the exhaustion of Irish non-national laborers.Now, this once famous construction company has officially announced its dissolution. After liquidating and repaying the debts of all creditors, its boss Mendez has switched to investing in upstream cement and lime production. This shows the fierce competition in this industry .

It is worth mentioning that another Batino company is still in business, and has surpassed Goshkin Construction Company, firmly sitting on the throne of No. 1 private enterprise in the East Coast construction industry.The reason is that the source of the company's laborers is mainly in southern Italy, mainly in Naples and Sicily, where the population is densely populated and it is quite easy to recruit workers.In addition, it is the territory of the Kingdom of Spain. People from the east coast have a lot of influence here, unlike in Russia where they have to behave with their tails between their legs. Therefore, it is very easy to recruit workers. This has allowed Batino Company to maintain a relatively large With the size of the labor force group, it is not surprising that the business is booming day by day.At present, the company focuses on the construction of railways and highways, with stable profits and a good reputation in the industry.

The reservoir dug by the Goshkin company is almost complete.Due to the existence of a large number of construction machinery and the hard work of his workers, this construction node was completed a week ahead of schedule.Then they didn't rest, but continued to help some engineers from Patagonia install the latest "Southern Giant-3" pumps.This kind of pump is not small in size and consumes a huge amount of steel. It uses a three-expansion steam unit, which can extract nearly [-] liters of water from the reservoir every minute and transport it to the water delivery culvert, which is amazing.

And it seems to be building a century-old plan for Buenos Aires. The east coast government has invested about 30 yuan in construction here, and the huge "Southern Giant-3" steam pump is just one breath away It cost a lot of money to buy eight sets to pump water next to the reservoir.

The pumped water entered a waterworks under construction, the Nancun Waterworks, through the culvert.Compared with local water plants, this water plant is the second generation.In addition to the original filtering measures, procedures such as water softening and disinfection have been added to ensure that the quality of the water that finally enters the water pipeline is not problematic, especially in some old domestic water supply plants. In this case, this procedure is even more necessary.

Due to geographical reasons, there are actually a lot of impurities in the water on the Pampa Plain, that is, the so-called hardness is too high.In order to solve this problem, the Nancun Water Plant creatively introduced the measure of adding lime to the water body to minimize the impurities in it and soften the water body.After the lime is added, the water is disinfected with calcium hypochlorite before it is delivered to the end user.Calcium hypochlorite is provided by North Chemical Group. After the stable production of various chlorine products, the company now produces more and more products such as bleaching powder and bleaching solution. It has begun to supply major textile factories (for cloth bleaching), papermaking Plants (still used for bleaching) and water plants are very profitable.

Who would have thought that the production line developed to solve the waste in chemical production has now formed such a huge industry.Not only bleaching powder and bleaching liquid have a huge market, but another derived product, potassium chlorate, has been used to develop something with a very high density level.

Well, let's get down to business.Goshkin Construction Company ushered in the inspection of the superior department at the construction site of Nancun Port today.After careful inspection of the construction progress, the officials of Nancun Water Plant, Party A of the project, were quite satisfied, but in the end they found Goshkin, who was working here, and said that although it is admirable to use a large number of construction machinery, Goshkin's company is the best. It is still possible to recruit more laborers.I heard that the situation in Ukraine is tense now, and all parties are on the verge of breaking out. The Goshkin Company might as well order two more new ships, and then go to the Black Sea area to find opportunities to buy slaves. This should be a very good opportunity.

The representative of Nancun Water Plant finally reminded that with the gradual deepening of the development of the Pampa Plain, there are too many opportunities here.If the Goshkin Construction Company is lucky, it is not impossible to take this opportunity to go a step further and make its strength the same as those large state-owned construction companies.

Goshkin hesitated.Of course he knew that this move might incur the wrath of the Tsar, cutting off his last chance of returning to Russia.You know, he was born there and lived there. It is impossible to say that he does not have a trace of emotion. Therefore, even though he has been naturalized on the east coast, he still wants to return to Russia for the last time to visit Russia one day in the future. Breathe the air of your hometown.But if he dared to buy Russian farmers or prisoners of war in the Black Sea area, it would be a big deal, and he would most likely be regarded as a thorn in Russia's side, and he would never be able to go back.

But Goshkin is a genius after all, he didn't let his hesitation last for too long, and then he patted his chest and said that he would seize this opportunity well.The prisoners of war are all forced by the tsar, the most despicable people, and it is their luck to bring them to the east bank.

The entrusted representative of the Nancun Water Plant was very satisfied when he heard the news, and finally he told Goshkin in private that several new labor brokers had recently registered with the industrial and commercial department. Except for one registered by French Huguenots, the rest were established by Ming people or people from the East Coast, and the most famous one was run by the founder's family of Sun Chunyang Nanhuo Shop.

This company was registered in Qingdao County, with a registered capital of up to 2 yuan. It was responsible for recruiting migrant workers from Ningshao, Denglai, and even Qingguo-controlled areas in the Far East.They lure the locals with high salaries, land allocation and other conditions, and then make the east bank hype, and use various means to send orientals to the east bank one by one. Every time they arrive, they can apply for subsidies from the immigration department. The profit margin is quite small.

Undoubtedly, compared with the original mainly relative immigration (that is, the Ming people who settled on the east coast immigrated relatives from their hometown), these newly established labor brokerage companies have gone a step further and began to immigrate directly in the form of hired workers, and the number is even larger , It is also a milestone event.

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