Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2212 Marginalized Zone ([-])

On June 1693, 6, Jiaohe Port was ushering in the best season of the year.

In this world, the weather is not very hot, and the air humidity is not so scary.Even on the relatively low-altitude coastline, the temperature is not too high because of the sea breeze, which is very suitable for people to carry out various activities.

Another cargo ship returned today from across the Atlantic.This merchant ship belonging to the South Sea Shipping Company brought back a large amount of sorghum, salted fish, wine, dried fruits and other entrepot trade commodities from South Africa, especially when they stopped at the Freeport Cape Town, they bought many special products from the Far East and India , After returning to the mainland, there will undoubtedly be great benefits. This is nothing more than a happy atmosphere from top to bottom on the ship-even though the South African Transportation Company is a state-owned enterprise, most of the profits belong to the company, but the whole ship Everyone can get a considerable commission, which is actually quite a lot.

But this kind of good life is getting less and less every day.It is said that after switching to an all-steam-powered ship, the management will become stricter. Not only will the crew's commission be carefully calculated (usually this means a reduction), but the amount of cargo carried on board will also be strictly limited.Especially the latter, it just killed everyone!Don't you just try to get rich when you go out sailing with your head up these days?Among the various ways to make a fortune, the crew carry their own goods to other ports for sale, which is actually an important part of the crew's income.If it is strictly managed, the income of the crew will be greatly affected, and it is no wonder that there are so many opposition voices.

However, as ships become bigger and bigger and all-steam-powered ships become more mature, the safety of ocean-going ships has greatly increased.Under such circumstances, the minds of many people who were originally unwilling to work on ocean-going vessels because of safety issues became active. They began to be interested in the high salaries of seafarers. The base of reserve seafarers is slowly expanding. Bargaining power will undoubtedly be weakened a lot.Only in such a case, the shipping company will vigorously rectify the order on board and regulate the various behaviors of the crew, such as the cargo carried by the crew cannot exceed the specified box size, etc., in order to increase the revenue and profit of the shipping company.

As the first stop of the African continent entering the east coast in the age of sail, Jiaohe Port has always been a very important port.Ships from South Africa, New China, Angola, New Courland and other places, after crossing the Atlantic Ocean, if they do not want to stop at the Brazilian port, they will only enter Jiaohe Port to berth.

Of course, there are not many ships calling at the ports of Portuguese Brazil.The population here is small - "people" only refer to whites who believe in Catholicism, and other Indians and people of mixed race are obviously not counted - the consumption power is low, and everyone may be interested in purchasing some tropical products here when returning to the voyage, but people from the African continent It is difficult, generally speaking, they will stop at Jiaohe Port.In the northeast gateway of the East Coast Republic, there are advanced port facilities, a complete commercial logistics system, excellent maintenance services, and sufficient supplies of materials. Most importantly, there are enough people here, and the consumption power is also very strong. How to choose is clear at a glance.

Jiaohe Port has now opened regular flights to the African continent.The flight departed from Jiaohe Port, headed north to San Salvador, the capital of Portuguese Brazil, and then headed eastward, crossing the entire Atlantic Ocean, and then stopped at Jakob Port, the capital of New Courland.Here, the ship will stay for about five days (if no major repairs are required), for everyone to rest and buy goods.After five days, the ship will set sail again, head south to Luanda, the capital of Portuguese Angola, and stay here for three days.After three days, the ship will not continue to visit any port on the African continent, but will cross the Atlantic again and return directly to Jiaohe Port.

It can be seen that this is a flight connecting Jiaohe Port with Portuguese Brazil, New Courland and Angola. It basically transports both passengers and cargo, with more goods than passengers.The economic value is acceptable, because the weapons and ammunition, daily necessities, hardware appliances, mechanical equipment, etc. produced on the east coast are all urgently needed in San Salvador, Jacob, and Luanda, and the sales are very good.In addition, the above-mentioned three places—especially the two ports in Africa—are also exporting commodities including valuable timber, herbs, tobacco, sea goods and other tropical specialties due to the tilting policy on the east coast, so when the ships return It will not run empty trips, and the utilization rate is still quite high.

In principle, this flight is once every three months, which is designed after accurate calculation of the flow of people and goods between the two places.At the beginning, the flight was scheduled to be once a month, but it turned out that there were not so many people on it. After all, there are still many sailing ships across the Atlantic Ocean, and they are also vying for business.Therefore, after consultation with the Jiaohe District Administrative Office and the South China Sea Transportation Company, they allocated two 1000-ton all-steam-powered ships to run the African route once a month.Of course, it is not two boats running together, but one boat running, and one boat running a short distance between Jiaohe and Hue.Sometimes the two ships will also perform some military missions and transport some supplies to the mid-river area of ​​South Africa, but basically it will not affect the operation of scheduled flights.

The connection between the Jiaohe area and Portuguese Brazil and the other side of Africa is basically their main economic activity.No way, their location is a bit embarrassing, too far away from the core area of ​​the east coast.In the case of the very general economy of the part of East Brazil, they have no choice but to develop externally through entrepot trade and obtain a large amount of funds for the development of the region.This is the helplessness of marginalized areas and the biggest difficulty in their development.

It is not that the Jiaohe area has not thought about other ways of development, and expanding to inland areas is one of them.For this reason, they also specially spent a large amount of money to organize militias and mercenaries such as the Zhongguo Army and the Baoguo Army to wipe out the aborigines in the inland areas, and then set up a number of settlements, which are: Liuchen Township near the town, Luchen Township near the later town of Rio du Prado, Pizhan Township near the later town of Batinga, Hongyan near the later town of Crisolita Ruoqiang Township near the small town of Teofilu Otoni in later generations, Jianlong Township near the small town of Carlos Sagas in later generations, Wushi Township near the small town of New Horizonte in later generations, Kuqa Township near the governor city of Varadaris in the later generations, Dagan Township near the consultant city of Pena in the later generations, Ashu Township near the small city of Ipatinga in the later generations, Futu Township near the city of Manuasu in the later generations, Located in Gole Township near the small town of Munis Frari in the later generations, there are a total of twelve settlements, and more than [-] immigrants have been resettled and operated in the past.

2 people is really not a small number for a remote Jiaohe area.Considering that the center of population distribution is now in Pampa, in the new land of La Plata, then 2 people are almost the sum of the new immigrants who have been allocated to the Jiaohe area for several years.Therefore, such a sum of money is indeed magnificent, but the effect does not look very good.

The twelve newly-established settlements are currently mainly based on agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishing, and are entangled with the Indians in the forests in the inland areas, making life very difficult.The Jiaohe District Administrative Office even has to provide large financial subsidies every year in order to sustain the existence and small development of these settlements.In other words, these twelve new settlements have almost become a heavy burden on the four counties and nineteen townships (towns) in the whole region, causing their own development process to be seriously slowed down. It seems that the gain outweighs the gain.

The previous commissioner of the regional administrative office who made the decision to develop the inland area patted his ass and returned to the central ministry, but the hole left behind has to be filled by the new leadership team.They have no good solution, they can only continue to subsidize it, hoping that it will be self-sufficient as soon as possible, while trying to find other development directions.And strengthening trade ties with Portuguese Brazil and the African region across the sea seems to be the general direction they have set for now.

This seems to work fine.Now that all-steam-powered ships have begun to appear more and more, crossing the Atlantic Ocean is no longer a game for the brave, and the improvement of transportation efficiency goes without saying.In this way, greater sparks of trade should erupt between the two continents whose sense of space has been brought closer. As an early pioneer in this direction, it seems logical that the Jiaohe region will get one of the biggest cakes.

But things in the world are never that simple!Courland and Portugal are limited by their own population and economic scale, so they are destined to be unable to make much noise in places such as New Courland and Angola.Especially the Principality of Courland, with only a few hundred thousand people in the whole country, even if they immigrated desperately, the population and economy of the colonial towns in New Courland could not achieve huge development in a short period of time.What is even more worrying is that the situation in Central and Eastern Europe is peaceful now, and the people don't say they can live and work in peace and contentment, but at least they won't be unable to live. Therefore, people's tendency to immigrate has greatly weakened. This is very bad news for the Principality of Courland .

Therefore, after considering all these factors, it seems that the Jiaohe region must have a little patience, that is, wait for the other party to develop, if it wants to eat a big bite of this big trade cake.Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to grab too many benefits.You can tell from the fact that the steamships across the Atlantic Ocean run once every three months. When it will be changed to once a month or even shorter, this is a sign of the complete maturity of this trade route.

It is not that the leading group in the Jiaohe area is unaware of this.But they really have no choice. The expenses in the inland areas are too high, forcing them to turn their attention overseas.If the African continent can't do it, then engage in the Caribbean!Anyway, our Jiaohe port is also the closest local port to the Caribbean Sea. After all steam-powered ships become more and more popular, the route will be greatly shortened and become more advantageous.

For the development of the fringe areas, we can only continue to dig and find a way, otherwise I am afraid that it will slowly sink like the more remote place in the Southern Cone of Fuego!

When this chapter was published, the national football team fell behind!Iran's defense is so good, Ronaldo can't even get in, let's watch a few!sleep!

(End of this chapter)