Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2482 Leisurely away from war ([-])

On June 1703, 6, in Bailing Township (located near the later city of Cruz del Ech) north of the Mingjing District of Luoyang Prefecture, the capital of the east coast, the delegation of the East Coast Salt Industry Association had just returned from the salt marsh area.

The salt marsh area is divided into two parts, the Great Salt Lake in the south and the Qingyan Lake in the north.Both are large in area, surpassing China's Qinghai Lake even in the dry season, and can even double in size after the infusion of mountain meltwater in summer, making them veritable great lakes.

Although they are both saltwater lakes, the Great Salt Lake and Qingyan Lake are still not as attractive to the people of Luoyang as Daming Lake.After all, it is a real lake, with vast water surface, misty waves, and deep enough water for boating, unlike the former two where many places are shallow water swamps.But they also have their own advantages, that is, the scenery is beautiful, and some tidal flats and shallow water areas are as beautiful as the mirror of the sky, which makes people fascinated.

The above is for ordinary tourists.For industrial investors, they prefer the Great Salt Lake and Qingyan Lake. First, because Daming Lake is planned as an environmental protection area, it has become a summer resort for the middle class in the capital. Second, because the resources (salt) here are more abundant , easier to mine, easier to use (pollution).

The East Coast Salt Industry Association, as a domestic industry association for edible salt, industrial salt, salt chemical industry and related enterprises, is naturally very concerned about this huge salt marsh area - it is very large, much larger than the salt marsh area in Yancheng County, which they currently focus on. Most of them - therefore, with the opening of the Luoming Highway and the steady construction of the Luoming Railway, it seems that we can come here to step a little bit, providing a new foundation for the continuous development and growth of the industry.

So here they come.They set up an office in Bailing Township and hired hundreds of people to serve the several expedition teams they sent.The results of the investigation are very gratifying. The resources of all kinds of salt here are very rich, and the reserves for thousands of years are amazing, which is an unimaginable huge wealth.After running to the Mingjing District to transmit the news to Yancheng Port through cable telegrams, the state-owned East Shore Salt Industry Company, as the chairman of the Salt Industry Association, immediately made a decision to set up enterprises in the Great Salt Lake and Qingyan Lake areas, and vigorously develop the salt chemical industry.

It should be known that with the economic development of the East Coast, the demand for salt chemical related products is also increasing, such as bleaching of paper and cloth, bleaching and sterilization of drinking water, soda ash, caustic soda and hydrochloric acid of important chemical intermediates, in addition There are also some chemicals with small demand. In short, the total market is still very large, and it is also one of the main forces of overseas exports.Therefore, you can now understand why the East Coast Salt Industry Company, the chairman of the Salt Industry Association, and the state-owned Chlor-Alkali Chemical Factory and the Northern Chemical Factory, which are important members of the Salt Industry Association, have sent people here one after another.

There are many settlements near the Great Salt Lake and Qingyan Lake, all of which were newly established in the past two years. La Township), Anfu Township (located near the later city of De Anfunes), Yongchang Township (located near the later Lucio Mansilla Township), Fanglan Township (located in the later San Francisco del Cha Near the small town of Nial), Leluo Township (located near the later town of Ojo de Agua), Gaoqiao Township (located near the later town of Atamikis), Silverstone Township (located in the later town of Los Strares Nearby), Xianshui Township (located near the later Recreo City), a total of ten towns, have resettled less than 5 people, living on agriculture and animal husbandry, and have basically stabilized.

These ten settlements, according to the plan of the State Development Bureau, will be under the jurisdiction of the districts and counties under Luoyang Prefecture in the future, so they have received a lot of material and financial support, and the population is also very sufficient. The initial development speed is very fast, which is indeed not ordinary. The new settlements in the interior of the country are comparable-the people of the capital, even if they are in the remote counties and rural areas below, are also the people of the capital, aren't they?

These [-] residents are all agricultural population, mainly laying foundations.If the local salt chemical industry rises in the future, it will inevitably attract a large number of workers. If nothing else happens, the population of these ten settlements will experience explosive growth, and the local tax revenue will also increase.

According to gossip, Shendu District and Mingjing District are currently competing for the jurisdiction of several towns near the two major salt marshes, and want to include them in their own area.Mingjing District said it was close to him and it was convenient to govern. Shendu District said that your location is wrong. These are industrial towns and they should be under their control.However, the reality may disappoint them, because the higher authorities have already decided that two new counties will be established in these places, which will be on the same level as Mingjing District and Shendu District, and will be directly under the jurisdiction of Luoyang Prefecture.

The reason for Luoyang Prefecture is that it may take a long time for these ten towns to develop. The Gain-Luoming Highway has only been completed, and even if the Luoming Railway is speeding up, it will still take several years to see the opening to traffic. dawn.In this way, it would be better to set up two new counties and let them manage themselves, which may develop much faster than trusteeship.

It is worth mentioning that the current salt chemical industry on the east bank is already very dependent on electricity, especially the workshop for electrolyzing brine, which must require a very stable power supply.In order to ensure the operation of the production workshop of the chlor-alkali chemical plant at Yancheng Port, a new small coal-fired power plant was jointly built with Dong'an Power Company to solve the problem of power supply.In order to launch these projects in the salt marshes in the future, a stable power supply is also required, so the entry of the East Coast Power Company has become necessary.

In fact, the company's top executives visited a few months ago to inspect the location of the future power plant and have a preliminary plan.After years of development, TEPCO has, to be honest, accumulated some strength. Not only its cables, motors, arc lamps, small power generation equipment and power meters are selling well, but it has also recently undertaken many upgrading projects for telegraph offices ( Powered by power plants instead of batteries), the oil and water are rich enough to inject a shot in the arm for their next development.

Therefore, Ma Xiaopeng, the boss of the company, is ambitious and intends to further expand the business across the country, introduce electricity as a new energy source to as many industries as possible, and increase the company's turnover.To this end, his first step was to expand the scale of the first plant (production of various types of power generation equipment) and the second plant (production of cables) of the East Coast Electric Power Company located in Xingnan Port, Southern Cone Region.Especially the second factory, because the price of copper obtained by the East Coast Republic has been decreasing year by year and the quantity has been increasing year by year. The cost bottleneck that restricted the development of the electric power industry in the past has been loosened, and large-scale and cheap (compared to before) production of cables has become possible. , which is bound to inject new impetus into the development of the electric power industry.

At this time, we have to mention the diversification of copper sources in the East Coast Republic.First of all, it is domestically produced. Wolong Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. mines many metals including copper, lead, zinc, tin, manganese, tungsten, and chromium in many places in the country. Although the mines are not large mines, they are piecemeal Crushed together, the output is also very impressive, enough to solve a considerable part of the supply.

Secondly, the copper ingots and sheets brought back to the east coast by the Bank of Taiwan and its agents at all levels.Because of the lack of copper in mainland China, there are relatively few people from this area. Although it is said that the people on the east bank cooperated in the Heshun country to explore the copper resources in Jiangxi and have the willingness to mine, but after all, there has been no substantial progress. Therefore, they are purchased from China every year. There is very little copper, so it can only be said that it is better than nothing.Therefore, at present, Japanese copper is still the largest source of the east coast copper market, and the annual purchase amount is very huge, and the price is low, which has made a huge contribution to the industrial development of the east coast.

In addition, copper from the Philippine Islands has grown rapidly in these years, showing huge potential.The main export port of Philippine copper is Hanyang Port, which is controlled by Li Yuanyin, a warlord in Guangdong.Hanyang Mining Company, which is controlled by the Bank of Taiwan, has a prosperous local business. Currently, it is mining seven mining sites at the same time, with annual sales of more than 40 yuan in legal currency. amazing.Moreover, according to insider information, Hanyang Mining Company has recently discovered some new pits and has started to mine them.They are very confident that in the next five years, the company's sales will reach the million mark, and they will become another cash cow under the Bank of Taiwan.

The rapid development of the mining industry has also given birth to the economic prosperity of Hanyang City.So far, the total population of this colonial city has exceeded 5 (excluding the natives), compared to only a few thousand people a few years ago. This change can be described as amazing.Seeing that the economic situation in the colony was so gratifying, Li Yuanyin immediately got excited. He signed a series of loan agreements with the Bank of Taiwan and the Agricultural Bank of the East Coast, purchased a large amount of supplies and food, hired many ships, and immigrated to Mindanao.

At present, Li Yuanyin has opened up the island opposite Hanyang Port (the later Samal Island) as Guozhong County, and relies on part of the originally developed land to grow food, log and process, and do some offshore fishing to make a living. The life of the immigrants is reversed. Also very solid.Moreover, Guozhong County is so close to Hanyang County (Hanyang Port and its surrounding area for dozens of miles), so there will naturally be considerable capital inflows, which in turn promotes the development of the local economy.

In addition, under the persuasion of the Bank of Taiwan and Hanyang Mining Company, Li Yuanyin sent a force to the place where Davao City was located. After easily defeating the local natives, they established Baozhong County there. And officially immigrated to reclamation.The reason for this is that the prospecting team of the Hanyang Mining Company discovered copper mines in the local area and believed that it was worth mining, so armed colonization began, as simple as that.

It can be expected that in the next ten years, Hanyang Mining Company will probably grow into a formidable world-class copper mining player, making outstanding contributions to the development of the power industry of the Republic of China on the East Coast.In this process, Li Yuanyin's family can naturally get a lot of benefits.

That's what East Coasters are like, hello me hello everyone, win-win - well, a lot of times people think "win-win" means East Coasters win twice, but this time it's definitely not!

(End of this chapter)