Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2137 Development Wave ([-])

Yu Xingguo hastily came to Xincao Port, worrying about the heavy family business.

He is over 50 years old this year, and he is no longer young. He is already the leader of a big family, shouldering the hopes and livelihoods of many people.When he was a little younger, he often sailed and even led his own fleet across the Pacific Ocean. He visited the Turtle Islands, Tahiti, Rabaul, Australia, Ningbo and Denglai in the Far East. The experience is still quite rich, enough to sit around the fire with the grandchildren in old age and tell with reminiscence the stormy waters he has experienced.

The Yu family has always had good relations with the Xu family and the Mo family, and more precisely, it has a close relationship with the Southern Railway Department, a branch of the army.The Yu family currently has two main companies. One is a trading company that operates French businesses, mainly using the influence of his mother's family in Bordeaux, France; The business is not bad, but in recent years, they have been unlucky and sank three ships in a row, causing heavy losses.

But even so, the strength of his shipping company should not be underestimated.After swallowing the shipping business spun off from Sun Chunyang South Cargo Store a few years ago, the shipping company already has 11 ships of various sizes, with a total transport tonnage of more than 4000 tons. It is already a top ten shipping company on the east coast.You know, even the messenger liner company, which is known as the number one private shipping company, now only has 6000 ships with a gross tonnage of a little over [-], and some of them are passenger and cargo ships that specialize in offshore operations. Yu's shipping company for ocean transportation is not the same.

The main business of the Yu family's current ocean transportation contract is to transport goods from the east coast to Bordeaux, France. This is their own business. Although it also settles with that trading company, it is actually a relationship between the left hand and the right hand.Compared with this part of the business, the transportation volume of the Southern Railway Company contracted by Yujia Shipping Industry is much larger, mainly railway equipment, rails, trains and other materials that cannot be produced in the Far East.Sometimes they will also help the South Railway subsidiary and the Denglei local government to transport some locally eliminated equipment, such as second-hand steam engines, second-hand machine tools, second-hand agricultural equipment, second-hand measuring tools and so on.Then on the return journey, I used the relationship of the Southern Railway Company to get some high-grade furs unique to the northern hemisphere, Korean medicinal materials, Japanese copper nuggets and other commodities to return to the mainland, and sometimes I would bring some immigrants. Provided there are no accidents.

Like most shipping companies, Yujia has now begun to enter the inland waterway shipping industry with a high profile.Especially in the case of the sinking of three ships in recent years, Yu Xingguo deeply felt the great uncertainty of ocean voyages. For safety reasons, he planned to follow the opinions of his brothers and sisters and shift part of his energy to inland waterway shipping. superior.This area is undoubtedly an industry with great potential in the future. The importance of the three major rivers, the La Plata River, the Paraná River, and the Wujiang River, can be mentioned even by street vendors, let alone people like Xingguo. Big business man.

Yu Xingguo came to Xincao Port today, in fact, like the representatives of other shipping companies who have been here, to negotiate conditions with the local government, talk about the right to use the wharf in the future, how to maintain the ships, and so on.Oh, by the way, Xincao Port is located in San Nicolas Port near Rosario in later generations. Like Xinbian Port in the southeast, it is a deserted place.People from the east bank chose this place and planned to immigrate [-] households here in advance to start agriculture.However, considering that most of this wave of immigrants were born on the east coast, no one has any idea how the agriculture here can develop.Don't get it to the end, you still have to cover the bottom line with State Farm, that would be ridiculous!

After Yu Xingguo came to Xincao Port, he couldn't find the person in charge here, and there was chaos everywhere.Immigrants squatted on the grass by the river bank, set up tents, dried clothes, baked food, and waited boredly for the arrival of work.Yu Xingguo walked in this desolate river bank grassland, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and recorded the terrain, soil and water flow conditions of each place.When he encountered a place of particular interest, he specially asked a few of his followers to hire a group of idlers, and followed them to the river surface to measure the water depth and investigate the geological conditions at the bottom of the river.

Three dredgers of the "Qingtang Army" series are already dredging the river.From time to time, a barge full of silt was towed away by a small steamer and transported to a crude temporary wooden pier for unloading.The silt is rich in organic matter, which is a rare fertilizer in agricultural development. Yu Xingguo estimated that it will be a little bit closer to the inside. Some land should have been reclaimed, but I don't know what it is planted.

"The place is a good place, and it will not be difficult at all to live with more than 10 people in the future." Yu Xingguo took out a pipe and shredded tobacco from the pocket of his woolen coat, and said to himself: "Hey, the little Xincao County can There are 10 people, so how many people should live in Shanghai County, which is the central city of the region? 30? 50? This really tests people's imagination."

Now even businessmen like Yu Xingguo know that the Pampa Plain—at least its eastern half—has and will only have one central city, which is Buenos Aires in Spain now, and the east coast in the future. of Shanghai County.And in its surroundings, whether it is Nancun Port, Rosario, Santa Fe on the Pampa Plain, or other cities in the Paraná River Basin (including some counties in the inter-river area), they will all be part of this large city. The inland hinterland provides supporting services for it.

According to the plan of the State Development Administration, Shanghai County will be a large city in the future, with a population of more than 30 residents. The main employment fields include locomotive manufacturing, shipbuilding, equipment manufacturing, and metal processing for deep processing and assembly. Although the tertiary industry also occupies a certain proportion, the overall employment is still far behind the secondary industry.

In medium-sized cities (about 10 people), such as Santa Fe, Rosario, etc., jobs will be mainly distributed in the metallurgical industry, chemical industry, and textile industry.Small cities (about 5 people), such as Xinbian and Xincao, have food processing and metallurgy as their leading industries.As for the advantageous industries of small towns, they are mainly building materials, food processing and luxury goods processing.The distribution of each industry in various cities is also different. In terms of the overall distribution of occupations, the degree of specialization in large cities is relatively high, occupying the high end of the industrial chain.

To put it bluntly, only Shanghai County is a "big and comprehensive" city with all kinds of development, and its industries are mainly the most specialized rear-end assembly and processing procedures. Other small and medium-sized cities and towns will be in the country. Towns with different industrial structures and functions are formed under the leadership of the city.This is actually very necessary. After all, each city has different resource endowments and factor structures. Properly guiding them to form cities with different styles with their own comparative advantages and surrounding a large city together avoids vicious competition. At the same time, the production efficiency has also been improved. In the end, all cities have been developed, and everyone is happy.

This kind of urban cluster experiment, the development of Dong'an Prairie over the past few decades has actually set an example for everyone.In this large plain area with an area of ​​17 square kilometers, three types of specialized cities have formed.

The first is the industrial city headed by Tieling County.There is coal, iron ore, and gold there. With its own endowment and the country's investment for many years, it has formed an obvious coal and iron industry cluster. Among them, Tieling County's own population is close to [-], accounting for about half of the coal and iron employment on the east coast. one third.Its leading enterprise, Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium, made its fortune relying on coal and iron, and then further developed metallurgy and machine manufacturing. It is the heart of this heavy industry town cluster.

In short, an industrial city develops a leading industry through its own resource endowment, and forms a cluster of related industries with the help of the extension of the industrial chain, such as the Western Forging Factory, the Tinplate Factory, the First Heavy Boiler Factory, and so on.The advantage of this kind of agglomeration is that it can reduce the development cost through economies of scope and overcome the disadvantages of high cost of a single industry.

Similar to it is the industrial city of Ping'an County, which, like Tieling County, has formed two industrial series: coal mining-coking-making-iron-making-steel-making-metal processing-machine manufacturing and coal mining-coking-coal chemistry.

In the future, Shanghai County will basically follow this path.Although there are neither coal mines nor iron mines here, the huge Pampa Plain also needs this heavy industry base, and Shanghai can only be counted.Undoubtedly, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will invest huge sums of money here from the very beginning to build it into a coal-steel joint industrial cluster integrating coking, ironmaking, steelmaking, casting, and machine repair. Input is dominant.

Moreover, in the future, it may go further. In the possible second industrial revolution, we will further develop other industries, optimize our own industrial structure, and use the related industries in the surrounding planned small and medium-sized cities to gradually form pharmaceuticals, rubber, and coatings. , Resins, insecticides, spices, dyes and other emerging industries, of course, this first requires a breakthrough in the chemical industry, and the surrounding small and medium-sized cities should work hard for this.

Xincao Port, where Yu Xingguo came today, will have a chemical project in the future. Simply put, it is to use the coal transported from the south to develop coal chemical related industries. This undoubtedly means a large amount of transportation, and the business will naturally not few.Xinbian Port not far downstream is mainly engaged in agricultural products-related industries, but there is also a project for the large-scale preparation of various chemicals using Djibouti potassium salt as raw material; there will be a rubber project in Port Rosario, and there may be Some machining industries; Santa Fe has a textile industry, producing large quantities of spindles and cloth.

Various commodities such as chemicals, rubber, and mechanical parts produced in these small cities need to be shipped to Shanghai County, and then finally assembled and processed into medicines, tires, horse-drawn carriages, bicycles, machinery and equipment, explosives, high-end foods, and famous brands. Fashion, etc., and then distributed everywhere.

Yu Xingguo has already leased long-term terminals and warehouses in Shanghai Port and Nancun Port (in the future, Nancun Port may be merged into Shanghai County). If it is won and the warehouse is built, then the future inland waterway transportation business will basically be guaranteed.

By the way, in the future, Shanghai County will still be the second type of professional division of labor city, that is, a transportation-oriented city formed based on location differences.There is already a Yanbu railway here, and there will be a railway to Cordoba in the future. In the distant future, it is not ruled out that there will be a railway to Dingnan County, an inland oil producing area.All of the above are land transportation, and the waterway transportation in Shanghai County is actually quite developed. The river and sea transportation meet here, and the throughput of the terminal will be astonishingly high.

Therefore, the Ministry of Communications and the General Administration of Railways also intend to set up large-scale shipbuilding and railway locomotive manufacturing industries here. At present, the relocation of related companies has even begun, and the modern special shipyard can't wait.These industries are similar to the previous ones. Parts are manufactured in the surrounding small and medium-sized cities, and then transported to Shanghai using the developed railway or river transport system for assembly and then sold to end users.The transportation business here, needless to say, is also incredible.

From these plans, it can be seen that in the future, the golden water system of the Parana River-La Plata River will surely become a major transport road, and the inland water transport business based on the local economy on the east bank will also develop geometrically.Any shipping person may be ruthlessly eliminated by the market if he does not make preparations in advance.

So we have seen that Yu Xingguo, a veteran shipping entrepreneur, first went to Nancun and Shanghai, and then to Xinbian and Xincao. Build your own transportation network as soon as possible to lay a solid foundation for future business growth.

(End of this chapter)