Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2086 Pampa (25)

335 Pampa (25)

The sky is blue and the air is fresh.Near the Yancheng Port Railway Station, a couple with large and small luggage just arrived.

Both husband and wife looked very young, probably in their early 20s, with two children behind them.The child stared at the bustling train station curiously with his big black eyes.There are cake makers, candy sellers, and performers. Not far from them, there is a bearded hunter who is pointing at the stinky cat in the cage and winking at them. The two children, who seemed to be only three or four years old, couldn't stop.

Stinky cats, little ermines, and grass foxes are common animals in the Pampa area, and they are often captured and sold in towns.The stinky cat is the most precious of all kinds of small animals, because it is not only cute in appearance, but its fur is extremely precious, so many people catch it, and it can often be seen in the market.

However, their curiosity only lasted for a few minutes, and then they were called back by their mother, and each of them held a sweet cake in their hands, and ate it with big mouthfuls.The main costs of sweet cakes are flour, milk and honey, which are, to be honest, pretty cheap in the pampa.This is an important wheat-producing area, and the price of flour is very cheap. At the same time, it is a pastoral area. The number of cattle is ridiculously large, and milk is almost free.And what about honey?It is also very cheap, because this is also the main producing area of ​​honey on the east coast!

Beekeeping in the Pampa, after years of development, is now spectacular.After the honey was exported through the two ports of Yancheng and Nancun, it was sold to the entire east coast prairie, smashing the original beekeeping industry in the local area, and also shutting out the honey exported by New China to the local area.

The main reason why the beekeeping industry in the Pampa Plain is so developed is probably because the nectar plants on the grassland are too rich.Among other things, the big thistle from Spain has now spread all over La Plata, providing a massive source of honey for the seal, and it is the main reason why the beekeeping industry in the Pampa plains can flourish—here Beekeeping, the cost is too low!

From here, we can see how suitable the Pampa Plain is for human life.There are not many days below zero in winter, and the number of snowy days is also very small. In some years, it does not even fall at all. In summer, the sky is only 30 degrees. It is not hot at all, and it can even be said to be cool, especially on windy days. .

The plain has a vast area, and the soil is particularly fertile due to the nutrients brought by the volcanic ash. The grain yield is very high. Therefore, it quickly became the main production area for wheat, corn, soybeans, sorghum and other crops on the east coast. The food price here is very cheap.In addition, thanks to the Spaniards, there are tens of millions of bison—in fact, the people on the east coast have not yet figured out how many bison there are in the Southern Cone and La Plata. Maybe they will never be clear, and they can only estimate There are 1000 million to 3000 million people—it also provides people with an inexhaustible source of meat and milk, which is like a legendary heaven-sent place.

So, you can now understand why the East Coast government is so persistent in wanting to annex these lands. It really can't see it continuing to be dusty in the hands of the Spaniards!The people in the country also need better land to cultivate!As of August 1689, the total population of the East Coast Republic of China was estimated to have reached 8 million people (blacks, whites, Indians and other non-nationals were not included), among which the number of native-born population had accumulated To more than 717.3 million, accounting for 440% of the total population.

It can be seen that native-born people are increasingly becoming the backbone of the country on the East Coast.Considering that most of the adults this year were born 18-20 years ago, there are probably more than [-] people every year.Such a large number of people does provide a relatively sufficient labor force for the development of idle land, although a large number of immigrants are still needed to supplement it.

The Pampa Plain and the Tuanjie River Basin are the most attractive areas for immigrants in the control area on the east bank.Whether it is a native-born lad or a new national from the Old World, both places are very fond of these two places.Compared with these two places, the attractiveness of Chaco, Hejian and other areas of the Brazilian plateau is much lower, and they can only rely on the guidance and arrangements of the government.

The family that now appears near the Yancheng Railway Station came from the Yazihu ​​Basin.Neither the young couple can inherit the family property in their hometown, nor are they lucky enough to grab the public land allocated in their hometown (the amount is not much), and it is not a long-term solution to do odd jobs in some small workshops, so the total , they both bid farewell to their hometown and signed up to open up wasteland in the Pampa Plain, planning to start over there and create their own world.

They disembarked from the ship at Nancun Port, the northern end of the Yanbu Railway.However, because there were too many immigrants gathered there, under the coordination of the cadres sent by the Niulanshan District Administrative Office, they took the train south to Yancheng County, asked them to report to the designated place, and then headed to the Pampa Plain west of Yancheng. Land reclamation.

Yes, that's right, after years of preparation, the people on the east coast who were originally confined to the coastal areas could no longer bear the loneliness, and began to plan to march further inland.To the west of Yancheng County is the area called "Dry Pampa" on the map drawn by Dong'an people. It is named for its drier climate, which is different from the "Wet Pampa" area with more precipitation.

The range of Dry Pampa is not small, roughly including the southern tip of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina (that is, Yancheng County and its surrounding areas), most of La Pampa Province and the southern part of San Luis Province, with a total area of ​​about 12.8 It looks like a square kilometer.The landform is mainly composed of shrubs and dry grasslands. Some areas are relatively humid due to the water source, and the landforms are different. The aquatic plants are relatively abundant, but they do not account for the mainstream.

However, such an environment does not mean that agricultural production activities cannot be carried out.In fact, in later generations of Argentina, this area has always been an important dryland agricultural production area. Large areas of wheat are planted in Yancheng Port (Blanca Port) and nearby areas. This port is also famous as a wheat export port.In this time and space in the 17th century, the people on the east bank developed this dry farming area earlier. In the early days, they mainly exploited salt resources. Later, the planting of wheat, corn, sorghum, peanuts, sesame and other crops sprang up.And the scope of planting is also expanding day by day, which has long exceeded the scope of the ridiculous "land of one shot" when the agreement was signed with Spain, and has extended far outward.

This time, the people above moved to continue to buy the remaining Pampa Plain from Spain, so the desire to continue westward expansion was about to move, and could no longer be suppressed.The Yancheng county government saw it, and immediately sent people to the State Development Bureau and the Immigration Department to carry out activities, and finally obtained the promise of the powerful people, allowing them to operate westward and establish a separate reclamation area.

Please don't think this promise is worthless.You must know that the National Development and Development Administration asked Yancheng County to take the lead in establishing a separate reclamation area, which actually means that a regional establishment will be established here in the future. It's a great thing, so whatever you say, you have to get it done.Therefore, you can see that when there were too many immigrants flocking to Nancun Port, they did not hesitate to use their connections to get a lot of wagons, and pulled some of them to the south, promising subsidies, loans, and security, and then successfully organized Several batches of "Western Expedition Teams" were launched and began to advance towards the vast dry Pampa area to the west to carry out pioneering operations.

It's not that no one has questioned them. In fact, officials in the nearby Patagonia region are very dissatisfied.They originally thought that they could get some people to enrich the population of the counties, and then have more sufficient labor force to start to speed up the construction of the special railway for wool transportation.But who would have imagined that the people who were originally fancy were cut off first by Yancheng County, a powerful and economically strong county, so that their thoughts were in vain, and how could they not be annoyed?

Therefore, they united some people in the business community and began to put pressure on the higher authorities to give priority to them.Their reasons are sufficient: the wool transportation railway is a national key project in the next 10-20 years. Yanbu Railway Unicom.Such a traffic artery, in addition to undertaking the important task of transporting supplies to the people in Taiwan, is also the most important thing to transport the abundant sheepskin, mutton and wool (especially the latter), and then send them to various places in the coastal areas. It is processed as raw materials in wool textile enterprises to produce massive woolen fabrics.

The two major state-owned textile factories in the East Coast, Dayuhe Textile Factory and Pingan Textile Factory, as well as a bunch of local state-owned textile enterprises and private textile enterprises that developed later, spoke out together, constantly advocating the importance of the special line for wool transportation and supporting these two The construction of railways is considered to be able to exert huge economic benefits.Starting from this logic, the country must provide enough immigrants to the Patagonia region, and at the same time send more construction personnel and invest more funds to speed up the construction of the railway.It's not like now, when the matter of land purchase has not even been written off, people are hurriedly sent to cross the border to reclaim wasteland.

Naturally, the opinions of the business community cannot be ignored, but Yancheng County Sulai is a large county directly under the central government, and the relationship between the upper echelons is unusual. This dispute between the two parties is destined to be fruitless.The final solution of the Government Affairs Council is probably to continue to start the westward colonization plan, and at the same time send some people to the Patagonia region to appease the local mood, and at the same time catch up with the progress of the wool transportation special railway.These two national key projects have indeed been delayed. The American Railway Company has responded to this several times, and it is time to pay attention to it.

Ten o'clock in the morning.The family, who rested near the train station for a while, started to walk to the temporary concentration camp next to the county government with the help of several guides and dozens of other people, carrying their luggage. go.It used to be a training place for the Marine Battalion, and it had a complete set of houses, and it was temporarily borrowed by the Yancheng County Government as a temporary distribution center for immigrants, but it was fully utilized.

There are as many as 800 people gathered in the camp, most of them are young people, and most of them are single, there are very few people like their family.But it’s nothing, since we’re going west all the way, the itinerary and route are basically fixed, and there are supply points on the road, so basically nothing will go wrong.After arriving in the field, there are militiamen responsible for security, so it is not a big problem to bring children.Now it is enough to rest at ease, tomorrow morning the county government will send a convoy to pick them up on the road, and start a new life from then on—a life away from home, relatives, and a life that is very different from the past.

I had dinner with a client last night, and I have to go to the company to work overtime tomorrow to prepare materials for a project next week. It is really miserable.Our country has few resources per capita and fierce competition. If we own a large area of ​​land like the east coast and benefit the whole world, it will be cool, and we probably don’t have to work overtime.Alas, not much to say, go to sleep, and write out a chapter in a hurry, everyone will just read it.

(End of this chapter)