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There are indeed many immigrants in the sub-district of Nantik Railway, so that the Nantik Railway Company has begun to rack its brains to arrange new settlements for them. As for where these new settlements are, due to geographical environment, the potential along the Nantik Railway seems to be relatively limited and there is no longer too much immigration. Then, we can only think of it from other places. The breakthrough selected by Nantik Railway Company is Chile, or rather, it should be Chiloe Island in southern Chile.

As early as mid-1651, an expedition team organized by Wang Dali, Xu Gang and others had already conducted a relatively rough travel and adventure on the island - at that time, the island had established an east coast settlement such as Guanhai Harbour, and a place that was barely considered a settlement, such as Mishan Logging Farm.

In the two years after that, the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Geology and Minerals and Nantec Corporation organized many people to explore the island of Chiloe. Then, combined with some information obtained by the Araucan people, they had a rough impression of the island. From then on, the Nantec Corporation became more and more interested in the island of Chiloe. As the South Pacific route became more and more mature, the number of immigrants accepted by Nantec Corporation also required them to quickly expand new livable places to the outside world to accommodate these Ming immigrants from afar as much as possible.

According to incomplete statistics, by the end of September 1653, the population under the Nan Railway Company had reached an astonishing 570,000 people, which was the limit that the company could manage or accommodate for only five years. After that, the Nan Railway Company had to discuss with the local government for the first time and transfer some manpower back to the local government. The local government naturally accepted this with pleasure. Of course, they did not take the population for nothing, but also returned a considerable amount of food, agricultural tools, construction machinery and eliminated early paddle wheel steamers in the form of government subsidies to support the Nan Railway Company to continue to enclose and colonize in the South Patagonia region.

By the way, although Nanzhi Railway Company is expected to still suffer losses this year (a record six consecutive losses), the sales of its 40% shares sold publicly in Qingdao financial market are still being steadily promoted. It is reported that 279% of the shares have been sold, and the funds collected have been used for the construction of Nanzhi's affiliated areas. After the entire line of the Nanzhi Railway is completed, the sales situation is expected to reach a new level, and the remaining ten percent of the shares are likely to be sold out in a short period of time.

The large amount of funds naturally allowed the construction of the Nan Railway Company to be steadily implemented. For example, Xingnan Port and Araucan Port, two modern ports with a planned investment of more than 3 million yuan, can be confirmed that it will no longer take ten years to complete the construction. The abundant manpower greatly reduced labor costs. In addition, some terminals that have been commercially operated, the continued construction of these two terminals is no longer a big burden for the Nan Railway Company, allowing the company to devote more energy to the construction of the Nangui Two-Yangtze Railway.

"The Liangyang Railway is probably not completed this year." Liu Jianguo from the Technical Department of Nan Railway Company, wearing a high-end leather jacket, said to a young officer beside him while walking. When he approached the dock, he met Yu Xingguo. After a greeting, he ran to the immigration quarantine camp beside the dock with Xu Xiangdong: "President Mo may be transferred back to the local area to serve as the Minister of the Army at the beginning of next year. Everyone originally wanted to use the opening of the South Railway as a parting gift to the president, but now it seems that they can't do it. The Nanci Railway will not be fully completed until at least April and May next year, which is a pity."

"President Mo left does not mean he will leave us Nantik. No one can ignore our great foundation here. The president went to the Central Committee to serve, and it only has benefits and no harm to our Nantik. Besides, isn't the next president your father? He has such a good relationship with Mo Dashui, and his thinking is consistent. Isn't he afraid of being frightened!" Xu Xiangdong said carelessly, and then he just changed his tone and said in a slightly joking tone: "But this matter is indeed good or bad for you. Your father became the president of Nantik. You have to get out of the engineering department in shame in order to avoid suspicion. Haha, go to your Guanhai Harbour to be a savage. I heard that many people who pioneered there had their feet rotten. Your father was really cruel to you."

Speaking of which, the fact that Mo Ming, President of the Southern Railway, went to the Army Department to serve as the Minister is almost certain. Because of the special nature of the Army Department and the closedness of the circle, there are only a few candidates for ministers. If Mo Ming wants to be a minister, probably no one can compete. The only uncertain thing now is whether President Mo can defeat the naval faction. He has become the Chief of Staff of the National Armed Forces (commonly known as the "Chief of the General Staff of the Military Department" and is one of the nine members of the Executive Committee).

After Mo Ming left office, the successor of the president of the Nantec Corporation had also surfaced, that is, President Mo's close friend, Liu Ang, senior staff officer of the Army Department, and has been approved by the Army Department. This lord is also a backbone of the Tongmenghui, an association organization of the National Power, and can basically represent Mo Ming's will. Therefore, it can be confirmed that he would succeed the second president of the Nantec Corporation in early 1654 (according to the company's articles of association, the Nantec Corporation must be an active military officer designated by the Army Department). Nantec, a large Kangcaien enterprise, will enter the "Liu era" from then on.

Liu Ang, who was about to take office, didn't know what he thought, and actually sent his eldest son who had worked in the engineering department for several years to the extremely difficult island of Chiloe, saying that he was assisting new immigrants in carrying out the reclamation work. However, in the eyes of many people, going there was a complete suffering. Although it might be faster to get promoted, it was completely unnecessary for Liu Jianguo and the second-generation who were born with golden spoons in their hands.

"What's the use of saying this now?" Liu Jianguo was also a little depressed. He turned over and dismounted unhappily, and then walked towards the entrance of the camp with his mount. Today, a group of people will be received here, with a total of about 1,500 people, of which 1,000 were immigrants from Ming Dynasty, and half were immigrants from Livornia, and half were Ukrainian female slaves purchased from the local area. These people who have passed the 15-day quarantine period will be shipped to Guanhai Port and the Mishan logging farm area, and then launch a pioneering operation there.

Of course, in addition to them, there are dozens of scholar-soldiers from the Corps and Forts, as well as a total of 143 new generations of the East Coast (usually the second son or second daughter of the old people). The total of more than 1,600 people will be on the fully steam-powered ship where the Xingguo is located. Although the ship has a displacement of 1,300 tons, the distance from Araucan Port to Guanhai Port is not far away, and everyone will arrive in a few days.

Just after the two were talking for a while, three steam steamers originally parked in the corners in the dock also started the heater. The young intern sailors, wearing masks, shoveled the coal produced by the Black Mountain Coal Mine into the furnace with shovels, and soon heated the water in the boiler. These three ships were all early 72-ton paddle steamers (stern paddle wheels and waist paddle wheels are all eliminated by the local inland transport company. The steam engine models are not very uniform and complicated, so they have been eliminated by the Ministry of Transportation). After selling and half-sold to the Nan Railway Company, they used their waste heat here to act as transportation tasks for inland rivers or offshore.

After the "Turkey Island" was stuffed with more than 1,600 immigrants, there was basically no extra space to carry materials. Therefore, a small amount of the massive amount of materials needed in the early stage of the immigration were provided by Guanhai Port, and most of them were transported from the rear. At this time, these three old paddle steamers were responsible for this task. Their cabins would be loaded with building materials, food, weapons and ammunition, agricultural tools and other essential materials for pioneering. Three days later, several other small steamers would set sail from here, passing through the Qingfeng and Montessori ports in the middle, and then sending a batch of supplies to the local residents, then cross the sea to Guanhai Port and sending some livestock and seeds there so that the spring sowing can be smoothly carried out during the Chinese New Year.

Liu Jianguo's latest position is the acting township chief of Mishan Township - of course this is not a state position, but a Nanzhi Company - his main task is to combine the more than 600 new immigrants in front of him with the more than 1,000 immigrants (more than half of them were Polish lumberjacks) that had existed in the Mishan logging farm to form a solid colonial pioneer stronghold.

This is not an easy task. The harsh environment, sudden outbreaks of diseases and the possible Spaniards will cause great trouble for them to gain a foothold in the local area. Therefore, how to eliminate these interferences and take root in the local area will still test Liu Jianguo and the young scholars who helped him. If you do well, then everything will be fine. If you don't do well, then Liu Jianguo's future may be cast a shadow - even if his father is likely to be the president of Nantie in the future, he still has to consider the collective will and opinions of the bureaucratic class, and his care for his son is still quite limited, otherwise the work will not be carried out smoothly.

The concentrated work of immigration was progressing slowly. With the help of some police and militia transferred from Guanhai Harbour, they spent half a day gathering these people who were carrying their families and carrying packages (dry food, drinking water, clothing, etc. from the Southern Railway Company). After the call was finished, these people lined up again under the scolding of the police and militia, and slowly walked onto the deck of the "Turkey Island" from the dock.

Tierra Tierra has been maintained in Port Araucan for several days, and all preparations before departure were ready. At this time, the boiler had fired and water-eating vegetables had been purchased. We were about to set off. After sending these more than 1,600 immigrants to Guanhai Port, they will replenish a batch of fresh water and vegetables there, and then follow the Peruvian cold current to the Galapagos Islands to start the next cycle in the South Pacific. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!