Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2480 Leisurely Away from War ([-])

"There are few people who love this land more than me." On May 1703, 5, on the outskirts of Dingnan Town, Wei Jianzhang, who was already grizzled, led the guests to his farmhouse slowly.

There are not many farmhouses where he lives, about seven or eight houses, except for a guard, a servant, and a cook (all paid by the relevant government units), there is no one else.His old wife died of illness five years ago, and his sons and daughters all work in Luoyang, the new capital, and are not here.

But Wei Jianzhang does not feel lonely.He has been an intelligence officer all his life, and he is very busy. Naturally, it is impossible to stay at home to rest after retirement.In fact, this farmhouse is just a place for him to cultivate his temperament after rest. He still lives in his supermarket for most of the year and runs their business with his two nephews.

The Wei family has been on the east coast for so many years, and they have had mixed reputations, and even the family business has been affected to a certain extent.At present, most of the descendants of the Wei family work in government departments and receive dividends from the fund. Although they are not super rich, they are far more than most people.But Wei Jianzhang was unconvinced. He had already given the fund, asset management company, and trust investment company under his name to his eldest son, and he started a new business with [-] yuan in cash. supermarket.

Because he spent half his life working hard in Nanzhuo Terrace, Wei Jianzhang chose to start his career in Dingnan County in Nanzhuo, a very beautiful and prosperous oasis city.In the early years, the fruit planting industry in the Hecheng Oasis made its fortune. Because of the long sunshine time, large temperature difference between day and night, and excellent soil quality, the fruit industry in the Hecheng Oasis in the southern cone has developed rapidly. The fruit planting industry in the Yazihu ​​Basin will start earlier. It has been defeated and has occupied one-third of the national market.

Later, with the increase of the local population, the utilization of resources in arid and semi-arid areas became more in-depth.Because the local environment is very suitable for raising sheep, even more suitable than the Pampa Plain in the north, so the sheep breeding industry has begun to grow explosively.Dingnan County, as a regional center with large fruit and grain production (meaning that it can support a large population), has naturally become a distribution center for mutton, sheepskin, dairy products, and wool.Especially the last kind of commercial wool, with the rapid development of the wool textile industry, its demand and value are also rising.The purchasing managers of the large and small wool spinning mills operating in the coastal ports of the Southern Cone Terrace ask with red eyes every day where there is wool, which injects new vitality into the economy of the inland hinterland.

In the past ten years, with the discovery of some non-ferrous metal minerals and oil, Dingnan County's economy has ushered in a new upsurge.The large amount of government funds injected into the city brought about the improvement of urban construction and traffic conditions, and the construction of a large number of scientific research institutions and vocational schools brought a humanistic atmosphere to this oasis city, coupled with the increase in jobs brought by related supporting industries. The development of the city has finally entered the fast lane.As of the beginning of 1703, the population of Dingnan County (one town and nine townships) had exceeded 13, and it was a well-known big city on the east coast of the country, not to mention the South Cone Terrace, where many people seem to be indifferent.Therefore, it is completely understandable that Wei Jianzhang opened his supermarket in Dingnan County.The city has a large enough population, and its people are rich enough to spend, which is of great benefit to his business.

Wei Jianzhang's supermarket is called "Metropolis Supermarket", a very awesome name.The address is located ten kilometers east of Dingnan County, on the north bank of the Ludang River, covering a very large area.The environment is also very beautiful, surrounded by woods or orchards, and there are a small number of flower gardens run by farmers.

Next to the supermarket is the light rail operated by Dingnan County Streetcar Company (to Suixi Township, an important fruit processing town), and the passenger terminal of the state-owned inland water transport company.Needless to say the roads, here are the first-class national roads invested and constructed by the above to connect Dingnan, Luyang, Yancheng, Jincheng and other places.

Of course we can't forget the railway.The wool transportation line traverses the entire Dingnan County, linking it with Yancheng Port on the east coast.And this railway that flows wealth brings huge passenger flow and cargo flow every year, which is the most important reason for the economic development and wealth accumulation of counties such as Dingnan.And this railway, a small station between Suixi and Dingnan, is not too far from the Metropolitan Supermarket.

From here we can see that the location of Metropolitan Supermarket is absolutely perfect.Although it seems to be located in the fringe area of ​​urban and rural areas, the traffic conditions are actually quite convenient. There are many modes of transportation for people to choose from, and the cost of shopping there is actually not as high as imagined.Of course, this alone may not be enough to attract a large number of urban residents to come to shop, because they can purchase from shops or hawkers in the city, which is more convenient.Here is an additional point, because of the special geographical environment of the Southern Cone area, the overall land is sparsely populated, and people live in "points" instead of scattered in the countryside. Therefore, the total population near the supermarket in the metropolis is actually Limited, so is the overall consumption potential.

However, this supermarket is a little different, because it is a wholesale and retail supermarket, and it can even be said that wholesale is the mainstay and retail is supplemented.Sun Chunyang Nanhuo Store and state-owned department stores are mainly retail stores, because they are located in prime commercial locations. Metropolitan supermarkets have taken a different approach, taking the wholesale route, and are located in the suburbs close to the city, and the price is very cheap, which is very suitable for the industry. Dingnan County is home to workers, researchers, and business people.In fact, these people are usually busy at work, and they like to spend time purchasing all the goods they need for the next few months at one time to save costs.Not to mention those hawkers, they are the main consumer force of this supermarket, they buy in bulk here, and then sell to every corner of the county and even neighboring areas - according to the survey of the Metropolitan Supermarket, their current customers are not only from the local Outside the county, small traders and shopkeepers from the surrounding Luyang, Shuofang, Anshan, Guanglu and even Liangcheng counties in the north came to buy goods, and the business was very prosperous.

Liangcheng County was established at the end of last year (1702). It has jurisdiction over Liangcheng Township, Xiaxiang Township, Aishan Township and Wumei Township, with a total population of more than 1. It is the 211th county-level administrative unit in the country.Established almost at the same time, there are Fengshan County (212th County), Binhu County (213th County), Suixing County (214th County), Xidu County (215th County), Guangren County (216th County) County), Jinhui County (217th County), Xinjin County (218th County), Lingjin County (219th County).Nine counties were established in one go, and the momentum is relatively large. The State Development Bureau has released a satellite.

Among these newly established counties, Fengshan County is located in the dry Pampa area, and has jurisdiction over Fengshan Town, Changyuan Township, Jiahetan Township, and Wacun Township, with a population of 7000. inland rivers), and sheep farming.There is also some transit business, mainly to the Chilean side, but not on a large scale.

Xidu County has jurisdiction over Xidu Town, Zhuangwan Township, and Zhuanmiao Township, with a population of more than [-]. Guangren County has jurisdiction over Guangren Town, Dongyan Township, Niugang Township, and Shadun Township, with a total population of over [-]. Logging, planting, and inland river fishing are the main industries.These two counties were acquired by people from the east bank who crossed the border and entered the other side of the Bian River. Strictly speaking, there was a dispute with the Asunción Prosecutor’s Court District in Spain. the current scale.According to many people, large material storage warehouses are being built in these two counties, and roads and ports have also been improved. The purpose is self-evident.

Jinhui County, Xinjin County, and Lingjin County are all newly established counties located in the Tuanjie River Basin in the north.Among them, Jinhui County has jurisdiction over Jinhui Town, Lindong Township, Pingpu Township, Chungu Township and Fengzi Township, with a population of more than 2000; Xinjin County has jurisdiction over Xinjin Town, Yongjin Township, Fujin Township and Fushan Township. The population is less than [-]; Lingjin County has jurisdiction over Lingjin Township, Yongtuo Township, Luzhong Township, Ling'an Township, and Caoshan Township. The five townships have a combined population of about [-].

There is not much to say about these three counties, just two words: gold.That's right, most of the areas within the three counties are undeveloped and wild areas. The reason why the counties can be established so quickly is thanks to the rich reserves of gold, emeralds, and diamonds.There is no way, Tianzun rewards food, which is destined to make everyone rich, so the population gathers rapidly (even without government mobilization...), and the local government is quickly established—of course it is still under military control—that is a very normal thing.

The really interesting ones are actually the 213th county, Binhu County, and the 214th County, Suixing County, because these two counties are not even on the east coast, but theoretically belong to the south-central Chile under the jurisdiction of General Santiago, the Viceroyalty of Peru in the Kingdom of Spain.To put it more bluntly, it is the area where people from the east bank crossed the border to reclaim and constantly erode, but now they have achieved positive results and have become glorious.

Binhu County has jurisdiction over Binhu Town (located in the later city of Villarrica), Four Townships of the Corps, Hongqi Township, the first half of Gou Township, the second half of Gou Township, Tuerling Township, Nanwan Township, Xiamahe Township, South Lu Township and Goubangzi Township (both former prisons for exiled prisoners were rebuilt, the same below), with a population of up to 6000 (including teachers and students of Bingtuanbao), the scale is huge, and the economy is dominated by agriculture, logging and mining (quarrying, Mining sulfur, seal dung and bird droppings) is not bad—don’t think that collecting dung doesn’t make money, and a country in later generations will include it in GDP, and the proportion is quite high.

Suixing County has jurisdiction over Suixing Town (located near the later Victoria Town), Songchang Township (located near the later Temuco City), Youli Township (located near the later Angol Township), Shuangtuo Township, and Clamtan Township , Changgang Township, Heling Township, and Haijia Township, a total of eight settlements, with a total of about 8000 people, economically there is no big difference from Binhu County.

It is worth mentioning that these two counties were originally inhabited by a large number of Spaniards, Mestizos and Indians.However, after the East Coast government faintly revealed its intention to take action against the Spaniards, the locals began to leave in large numbers.They left in a hurry, and all kinds of property (land, houses, forests, mines, etc.) were sold for nothing, which made the bottom-hunting businessmen and immigrants on the east coast earn a lot of money.

The Spaniards' flight was not so violent at first.But I don't know who spread the rumor that the people from the east coast have started in Europe, allied with Austria and the Netherlands, and have captured the Catalonia region, and their troops are pointing directly at Madrid.Rumors are powerful because they fit reality.The Spaniards in Chile have been frightened for a long time. They were so frightened by the rumors, and immediately started to pack up their things and dodge people, for fear that if the war spread here, they would not be able to leave even if they wanted to.The East Coast government should have been surprised by their inexplicable behavior at first, but then began to follow up silently. The banking system issued a large amount of long-term low-interest loans to help East Coast nationals or companies interested in buying Spanish properties. Get sufficient funds.

Now, the number of Spaniards in Villarrica, Temuco, and Concepcion has dropped sharply, and the number of Spaniards has decreased as they go south.After the Spaniards left, the people from the east bank quickly followed up and immediately took control of the local area, and grandly set up Binhu and Suixing counties, which in fact began to be managed as their own sites.In the future, it is not ruled out to continue going north, because the Spaniards have shown their bottom, showing how panicked and scared they are, so what is there to be polite?

Wei Jianzhang has received an invitation from the Regional Administration of Southern Chile—coincidentally, the current commissioner is one of his former students—to open the third branch of the Metropolitan Supermarket in Concepcion (the second one has already opened, located in Yancheng The outskirts of Hong Kong), Wei Jianzhang does not reject this, because he already knows that if he passes in the past, he can get a low-interest loan from the Southern Railway Bank, which is very useful for enterprises such as supermarkets that need a lot of funds. I don’t know how many people It's hard to ask for it.

Of course, the person who came to see Wei Jianzhang today was not someone from the Southern Chile Regional Administration. In fact, Wei's company is not qualified enough to make a senior official so eager.These people are actually Wei's former colleagues, that is, officials from the National Intelligence Agency, who came to talk to him about the North American Democratic Freedom Federation.

(End of this chapter)