Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 885 Entrepreneurship and Development ([-])

The warm spring breeze gently blows over the Taquari River (the original Taquari River, which flows into Meilin Lake, not the Taquari River in the North Duck Lake area, and there are many rivers with the same name in South America). Xu Wenxuan, who got off the private carriage, sniffed the fresh air lightly, feeling slightly intoxicated.

Surrounded by a large piece of gentle grassland, after a winter of gaining momentum, after the arrival of spring, green grass sprouts broke through the ground one after another and turned the flat ground into a dazzling green carpet.And in such a beautiful area—maybe a little monotonous? ——In the scenery, occasionally there are some red brick houses hidden among the green grass and red flowers. In front of the houses, a few horses are leisurely chewing and eating wild grass, and a few children with dirty faces are chasing a group of Ducks "walking" by the river bank, a chimney on the roof of a brick house is slowly emitting smoke from the chimney.

"It's such a peaceful and peaceful countryside scene..." Xu Wenxuan murmured softly, and then carefully inspected the land under his feet.It can be seen that these lands are uncultivated virgin land, not very fertile, but not bad.At least, it was quite suitable for growing alfalfa and soybeans in the past few years, enough to support a certain scale of cattle breeding.

Yes, Xu Wenxuan came here today for a field trip.A while ago, the executive committee planned a new settlement here, named "Tahebao", which means a settlement on the banks of the Tahe River. The specific address is near the small village of Placido Rosas, Uruguay. Mainly.Together with the "Fengguobao" further north (later Palma Village on the bank of the Parabo River, named after the first batch of immigrants came from Fengguo Town, Jinan Prefecture), this settlement is regarded as a good place for the Yihe and Nanyazihu ​​areas. It is easy to win the settlement places.

You know, the executive committee is now vigorously developing the two major river basins of the Wujiang River and the Yakui River. It is extremely difficult for other places to strive for the construction of new settlements. It often takes a long time to approve one or two. The Wujiang River and Beiyazi Lake, where social policy priorities are tilted, are completely different.This is the case for the two settlements of Tahebao and Fengguobao. The Yihe and Nanyazihu ​​areas have fought for this for a long time. Only today did they obtain the permission of the executive committee to start site survey and planning in these two places.

Among these two settlements, Fengguobao is still basically deserted: on the low-lying and humid river beach, the people on the east bank only planted a huge flagpole, and then only two or three hundred pioneers lived in the village made of reeds. It is incomparable with the spacious and bright brick houses in other settlements.In fact, not only here, but also the nearby Xinminbao, which has been established for a long time. At present, about two-thirds of the residents still live in wooden houses or thatched sheds, which is very desolate.There is no other reason for this, the main reason is the lack of suitable means of transportation to transport a large amount of building materials.Occasionally, some of the construction materials that were squeezed out by the horse-drawn carriage capacity were also given priority to repair various infrastructures. As for the houses, unless the East Coast Construction Company invests in the local construction of brick and tile kilns, wait slowly.

The situation in Tahebao is slightly better than Fengguobao. At least a few brick and tile houses have been built here to serve as the warehouse and construction headquarters of the National Development Bureau that organizes the pioneering.As far as Xu Wenxuan saw, there were still a few grape vines planted in the yards in front of these brick houses, and some vegetable shelves made of reed poles were set up beside the walls outside the yards—but it was still the end of September in early spring, and rapeseeds It hasn't been planted yet, but if cowpeas and loofahs are covered with shelves and lentils are covered with the top of the wall in summer and autumn, the peaceful beauty will surely make every tired traveler unable to move anymore.

"There seems to be a lot of fertile soil in the middle school. If you can clean it up carefully, I dare not say anything else. If you plant alfalfa and soybeans and raise them for a few years, the land must be extremely fertile." Xu Wenxuan bent down and grabbed a handful. He put the soil in his hand and looked at it carefully, and then sighed and said: "If Daming had this uninhabited virgin land back then, how could the situation be so rotten? Sigh, let's not talk about it, it's all over..."

The eldest son Xu Zhongwen, who came out with Xu Wenxuan, looked at his father suspiciously, but began to think about other things in his mind.Xu Zhongwen, who inherited the appearance of his French mother, is quite handsome. Now he has entered the family business Xuji Oil Extraction Factory to start an internship. This time he followed his father to visit the vicinity of Tahebao as part of the internship.

In the plan of the executive committee, the future of Tahebao and Fengguobao—or at least in the past few years—would be dominated by animal husbandry, and the pioneers would rely on these two settlements, and Alfalfa is planted nearby, and cattle and horses are grazed.The Xu family father and son were well-informed, so they rushed to this place immediately to conduct a field trip.The family business they run does not have much room for improvement in the traditional oil extraction industry. There are more and more people engaged in this industry, and the profits are getting thinner. Therefore, Xu Wenxuan, who actually presides over the direction of the company, Driven by the sense of crisis, he plans to start diversified development and enter the dairy industry to expand the living space of the enterprise.

Just recently, a large-scale cattle infectious disease occurred in Meilin County, which had a large-scale dairy industry, which severely damaged the thriving dairy industry in Meilin Town and Qiuyi Township of the county. Not only milk, cheese, milk powder and other dairy products A large number of them were unsalable, and even the cows began to die one after another, and the farmers who raised the cows suffered heavy losses.In order to cope with this situation, with the approval of the Yihe District Administrative Office, the Meilin County Government drove the dairy cows in the county that had not been affected by the infectious disease to Tahebao and Fengguobao to avoid the bad luck of being infected by the disease.

After seeing the tragedy of the dairy industry in Meilin County, which was ravaged by infectious diseases, the Xu family and his son immediately realized that this was an excellent entry point. Dairy processing plants must be able to have a good prospect of returns.Regarding this point, Xu Wenxuan knew it well. He always believed that even if there was no outbreak of infectious disease in Meilin County this time, investing in the dairy industry would definitely be promising.Because of years of unremitting publicity and agitation by the government of the East Coast Republic, ordinary people are now more and more accepting of dairy products, and their consumption is also increasing. There is a huge market and considerable profits , totally worth the investment.

Xu Wenxuan's idea was recognized by many investors behind the scenes, and they even gave some very good suggestions, that is, to focus on the development of cheese, butter (these two can be exported), various types of milk powder (whole milk powder, skim milk powder, etc.) Milk powder, etc.), and at the same time, you can also purchase process authorization from the Academy of Natural Sciences for the production of lactose, casein, condensed milk, malted milk, etc., but the specific production depends on their own judgment and choice, and the machine must also be designed and customized by itself. It sounds like the risk is not small.

Xu Wenxuan himself obeyed the advice of his boss behind the scenes, but he felt that if he wanted to join the dairy industry, it would be better to be more stable in the early stage, that is, to invest first in the cheese and butter industry with relatively mature technology and technology, and through innovative technology As well as industrialized machine production, it should be able to achieve a much lower cost than foreigners, and it has a great advantage in competition.

People on the east coast still have some cheese-making technology in their hands, thanks to the rapid development of bacteriology.Since the Dutch mirror-making technicians recruited heavily by the Henan Glass Factory in the capital have polished lenses with extremely high magnifications, the people on the east bank have started to develop rapidly in optical instruments. They have tried all kinds of weird designs. Many microscopic instruments have been produced, and many mysteries of bacteria have been discovered during long-term observation.

For example, they (referring to a very small number of researchers, of course) now know the principle of milk starter, and also know the bacteriological principle of things like cheese changing color and milk turning sour, and they know more about controlling milk temperature and bacterial reproduction Therefore, through uninterrupted experiments, they have come up with many cheese-making techniques one after another.

These processes are all based on scientific theories. They inhibit the growth of another type of bacteria through the reproduction of one type of bacteria, and control the number of bacteria in raw materials such as milk and starter by strictly controlling temperature changes, which is better than that of Europeans. The traditional production process of erroneous and extremely low efficiency has been greatly advanced, the taste and quality have been unified, and the pass rate has been greatly improved, all of which make large-scale industrialized low-cost production possible.

The industrialized production of cheese is not a big problem. The same is true for milk powder, and it is even simpler. The Academy of Natural Sciences has a complete set of production technology, and has already achieved success in a small experimental line.The process is simple enough to put it bluntly, that is, add soda ash to fresh milk, and then put it in a large steam tank to dry, and finally a flat solid will form at the bottom of the tank.At this time, add sucrose in proportion, take it out, put it between rollers, press it into dry strips, and grind it into powder after drying. This is the finished product.

To be honest, these two products actually have a huge market both at home and abroad, and the profit prospects are quite good.As long as they are willing to invest heavily in R&D and production, they will definitely be able to defeat those folk housewives who mainly make handmade products in a short period of time, because their cost advantage is too great.

The only thing to worry about now is that the invention patents and production process patents of these products are all in the hands of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and it is bound to cost a lot of money to buy licenses from them, which is a headache for everyone.After all, in the newly established East Coast Republic, businessmen like Xu Wenxuan dare not publicize the things of the Institute of Natural Sciences—and they are indeed blind to the production process.

"After I went back, I visited the researchers of the Academy of Sciences, hoping to spend less money to buy the patent. If I can't buy out the exclusive patent, I will have to obtain a production authorization at the end." Xu Wenxuan looked at the green grass in the distance firmly, The brain has already started to work: "Of course, the most ideal situation is that the Academy of Natural Sciences invests in technology patents. This will not only save a lot of money, but also build a big backer, and the prospects are great!"

(End of this chapter)