Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2523 Population Hunger and Thirst

Indeed, there are many competitors!

You Yao Tong said that India needs to open up the situation and urgently needs a large population, so don’t we need it in other places?My Malayan Management Committee now sits on two big islands—well, just the two ports of Brunei and Timor—the surrounding environment is complex, there are many natives, and they are not very friendly. We urgently need help from our "hometown" Notify us to support, otherwise it will not be easy to open the situation.

I have been in the Rabaul Management Committee for so many years, and my grandma doesn't love my uncle or my uncle.If it is not on the key route from the mainland to China, I am afraid that I will not be able to catch a hair, right?Now there are only a few people, a few cities, the development is difficult, and there is also an urgent need for population.

And my big Australian management committee!Well, the surrounding situation is not too complicated, but it really hurts, it hurts to be lonely!Earlier, the immigration route still went to Australia, which was a large-scale immigration route led by the government, with tens of thousands of people at a time, and Australia could intercept some people under the pretext of poor health or unsuitability for sailing.But now the gang of grandsons from the immigration department have re-planned the route, and all of them are going to the Indian Ocean. Are we still messing around?Occasionally, some private private transport fleets pass by, and there are too few people. Even if you reach out, you can't get any oil or water. It is gradually becoming marginalized. Isn't it desolate?So, don't come here to compete with me for popularity, I'm annoying!

I won’t mention other management committee jurisdictions that also need population, such as Tahiti, Manmeng, and Heishui.In a word, there are too many monks and too few food. Everyone realizes that the population is the foundation of all wealth. Without a population, everything is difficult. Therefore, they can’t see the behavior of the Diu Management Committee breaking the rules, and they are secretly working hard to prevent their "conspiracy" from succeeding.

The one who danced the most was Stanley, who had just acted as the director of the Tahiti Management Committee.After being a veteran, this gentleman has served in the Ministry of Agriculture, the New China Pioneering Team and other places, and his political achievements are not bad.This time, Yu Yin of the Meng family won the post of director of the Rabaul Management Committee, and stepped into the ranks of ministerial cadres in a veritable name.

But it is worth mentioning that, according to the newly revised regulations on the titles of officials in overseas colonies, the director of the Rabaul Management Committee is at the deputy ministerial level, and there are four management committees in Tahiti, Malaya, Djibouti, and Diu. Committee, New China, Australia, Lianwu, Ningshao, Denglai, Heishui, and Manchuria are high-ranking officials.The division is based on the area, population, economy and strategic position of the local area. Each item has a score. If the score is not enough, it can only be downgraded.

Therefore, Stanley is actually an official at the deputy ministerial level.But don't underestimate this kind of cadre, how many people are crying and shouting and still can't get this position.Although Rabaul is far away, poor, and the environment is very harsh, but as a major official in a place, how much of the harsh environment can he be exposed to?What's more, in this place, he has the power of life and death, and he is the one and only emperor of the land. This official should not be too cool, let alone enrich his resume and lay a solid foundation for the future.

Stanley also has the ambition to make a career.Otherwise, he wouldn't compete with Yao Tong from the Diu Management Committee.After all, those Shandong military households are the best candidates for immigration in everyone's opinion.Disciplined, organized, and capable of combat, aren't they much better than peasants who don't know a single word?Overseas colonies don't need honest and obedient citizens, they need you to have a little "adventurous spirit", a little autonomy, and preferably a little fighting power.After all, this is to be a colonist, not to play.

Stanley is now focusing on building his capital, Motu City.The city runs off the south coast of New Guinea and is the second largest city in the Rabaul Administrative Council.Sounds awesome, doesn't it?Hehe, in fact, the management committee has a vast area and a huge sea area, but in fact there are only three cities, and one of them is newly built.

The largest city is Rabaul County, which was operated earlier. The county has more than [-] people, including people from the East Coast, Melanesians and mixed descendants of both sides. The economy is not bad, and there are some small-scale It is an agricultural product processing factory, rich in rice, taro, banana, pineapple, coconut, sago, tuna and other commodities. The main source of income is government financial subsidies and supply and maintenance costs for ships.

The second largest city is Motu Port, a city bought from the indigenous Motu people for 1000 yuan, and is now the capital of the Rabaul Management Committee.The city was very poor at the beginning, had nothing, and the environment was very bad, so it could not attract people to come and settle.Later, the management committee learned from the pain and made great efforts to build schools (Motu Complete Primary School), hospitals (Motu Memorial Hospital), and Motu Port in Motu Port. At the same time, they built a large number of beautiful apartments and villas for sale at low prices. People of a certain age, this makes the local economy gradually active.

Of course, that was all before Stanley took office.When Shi took office, the city already had more than 4500 people (almost all from the east coast), and there were several agricultural product deep-processing enterprises in the city, but the business was not very prosperous.Then he went to the plantations outside the city to have a look, and found that the business conditions were not very satisfactory. The output of coffee, coconut, sugar cane, banana, taro, rice and other main products was average.The reason is that there are still fewer people!

At the beginning, the people from the east bank had many serious conflicts with the natives in the area of ​​Motu Port, and the killings were a bit too heavy. The number of natives was small, and most of them fled after being beaten and frightened.Later, the management committee also sent troops to arrest them, but they had few soldiers, money, and boats, and the aborigines ran far away, so they could not catch a few people. The labor force in the plantation was very scarce, which was really troublesome.

Stanley carefully studied various materials and found that the road of economic development by exploiting the Motu people might not work.Therefore, he decided to introduce people from the Far Eastern vassals and grant them free land. It is true that the entire New Guinea island has very few plains and is severely cut by rivers, but the cultivated land is like that. Yes - let them focus on planting food and economic crops, and let them take root first.

No one, everything is empty!Motu County has spent so much money on infrastructure, isn't it just to build a good nest to attract the golden phoenix?The city's population must exceed [-], which is the goal Stanley set for himself.

The third largest city under the Rabaul Management Committee is called Xiye Port, a name that is too scumbag.West Coconut Port is located near the capital of Bougainville Island (the island was called Simi Island and Coconut Island on the map of the people on the east coast, and is now officially named West Coconut Island...) because it is rich in Simi and Coconut Island. Named after the coconut.At first, it was only a place where people from the east coast collected sago and coconuts. Later, some fishermen also came here to take shelter from the wind and sell some seafood by the way, and a market gradually developed.

The bazaar also attracted some Melanesians to trade.They brought sago, coconuts, leather, feathers, game (this...) to exchange cloth, metal utensils, matches, mirrors and other commodities in the hands of merchants on the east bank, and some even built straw huts nearby. After leaving, he worked as a coolie for the people on the east coast to make a living.

After Stanley took office, he learned that the local resident population had exceeded [-], so he set up Xiye County here with a stroke of the pen, which suddenly made this slightly deserted small port within the jurisdiction of the Rabaul Management Committee. third city.

The reason for this somewhat radical move is actually a deep-seated reason, that is, in the south of Xiyue Island, an investigation team from the local Ministry of Geology discovered a large open-pit copper deposit.After research, the grade of these coppers is not low, at least better than those mines under the name of Hanyang Mining Company in the north, which is extremely valuable for mining.

Therefore, Stanley felt that this could be regarded as an economic growth point for the Rabaul Management Committee area.For things like copper, the price has been going up for many years, and the market demand is very strong. As long as there are stable manpower to mine it, it is basically a business that can make money without losing money.Xiye Island has a large ore deposit, is easy to mine, is close to the sea, and has low transportation costs. It is simply a gift from the gods to the people of Rabaul.

But then again, you need someone!No one who will mine for you?Who will refine it for you?Who will transport it for you?You don't even have people who provide food and daily necessities to the mining area.So are you still messing around?

Therefore, here lies the deadlock, and this is why Stanley danced the most joyously and scolded the most ruthlessly among a kind of feudal official.Yao Tong, you stinky and shameless person, who is not satisfied with the treasure house of India's population, and actually robbed us of Rabaul, who is suffering, is it plausible?The combined population of the three counties under our jurisdiction is no more than 2 (the slaves on the plantations are not human...), and there are not as many people as there are in Diu, so you have the nerve to fight with us?It's shameless!

Yao Tong was speechless at Stanley's accusation.He has reasons, and others have reasons too. He can be shameless, but others seem to be even more shameless, so this matter is a bit difficult to handle.Of the 20 Indians in Goa, almost half of them ran away and died. The remaining tens of thousands of Portuguese and Indo-Portuguese also suffered a lot of losses a while ago.The results of it?It's not easy to find out. There are quite a few people staring at the tens of thousands of military children, all of them are like hungry wolves.

Now it seems that this can only be strived for, and it can no longer be regarded as the only hope.If it really doesn't work, he can only learn from Wang Dazhuang of the New China Pioneering Team and send people to the Far East to recruit immigrants with his own money.In principle, the immigration department will not ask for such people they get by themselves, and they will all be managed and resettled by the localities themselves. After all, they are paid by themselves.

Thinking of this, Yao Tong thought of Man Xiaofeng who had just arrived in Diu Port a while ago.This person has some inextricable connections with Wang Dazhuang, and he is a farmer in the Far East with a mission.The Diu Management Committee must also establish such an organization as soon as possible, otherwise it will not be able to solve the "hunger and thirst" of the population.

(End of this chapter)