The Guarani certainly did not respond.

After learning that Ping'an Coal Mine had taken thunderous measures, the local people who were shocked by the four bodies swaying in the wind on the gallows were so scared that they were no longer looking. Some guys who had committed many things to themselves packed up overnight, crossed the Geral Mountains northward, and entered the Parana area to take refuge. The remaining Guarani people became much more honest. Not only were many of the stolen tools returned, but even a section of the track that was once demolished was quietly restored that night.

In the following days, the coal mine did not continue to expand the situation, and Baishui planned to stop when the situation was good. Since the Guarani people were honest, there was no need to hold on to them anymore. It seemed that some consensus and balance had been reached between the two sides.

When Xu Wenxuan was preparing to return to Ping'an Fort the next day on a coal-pulling transport ship, the nearby Guarani even brought more than a dozen children of appropriate age, preparing to let them go back to Ping'an Fort with Xu Wenxuan to study.

"It is really a pity for the natives to fear power but not be virtuous." Standing on the dock, Xu Wenxuan sighed. Then he boarded an inland transport ship full of fine coal. This was the first ship of coal transported from Ping'an Coal Mine in a few days.

After the coal mine was resolved, Xu Wenxuan hurried back to Ping'an Fort. Now everything in Ping'an Fort is complicated. It is the time when he is making contributions and performing. How can he not rush back? More than a dozen Guarani children were sent to Ping'an Fort Complete Primary School by him, and then he plunged into the construction site of Ping'an New City.

The construction of the city wall and factory buildings cannot be completed in a short while, and it is still under intense construction. Correspondingly, the 20 textile machines that Ping An Machine Weaving Factory had installed in place a while ago have been almost debugged. A group of workers seconded from the Machine Textile Factory of the East Coast Company began trial production and took time to start training new workers.

The cotton gin, spinning machine and cloth loom are not complicated. A worker who has never been in contact can basically master all the operating points by studying for a few days. The rest is proficiency. The workers of the former Dongban Company Machinery Textile Factory were also very careful in teaching. Some of the tips they summarized in their work related to product quality, output and equipment maintenance were also broken one by one and told them carefully to the new workers so that they can avoid detours in production and get into the role as soon as possible. Regarding their generous and unconcealed behavior, the General Administration of Textile Industry has not failed to express that every worker who came to teach experience received a cash reward of five yuan.

At the end of October, just as the trial production of Ping'an Machine Weaving Factory ended, the first batch of 1,000 pieces of cotton cloth was accepted and qualified. After the new batch of 20 machines began to be installed and debugged, the second batch of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty also arrived in Ping'anbao after many ways. For these new immigrants who were "sweet and expensive", from the Executive Committee, the Government Council, from Ping'anbao, Zhenhaibao, and the Textile Industry Bureau, all made reasonable and sufficient arrangements as possible.

It’s not possible to serve this group of 900 new immigrants, and the 900 new immigrants spent more than 300,000 yuan in the Ministry of Finance! Of this, 170,000 yuan was spent by the Ministry of Finance, and another 150,000 yuan was borrowed by the East Coast Company to the Ministry of Finance. In this way, the Ministry of Finance was heavily in debt and now it has a huge debt of up to 350,000 yuan. Fortunately, this debt does not have to be paid, otherwise the Ministry of Finance might be like the UK when Queen Victoria first came to power, and the annual fiscal revenue was only enough to pay the interest to their Dutch creditors (the British debt cannot be paid back by normal means, but they later paid it off in an abnormal way. Yes, it is to rob the Spaniards, embarrassment!).

After paying the Portuguese a huge amount of money to the immigration, the Ministry of Finance still had more than 20,000 yuan left in the warehouse, and the Finance Department of the East Coast Company still had more than 60,000 yuan left. That is, the funds at hand of the Travelers were already so low that it was only more than 80,000 yuan, and it was almost impossible to turn over. When the Executive Committee and the State Council learned about this situation, a group of people looked at each other and felt very stressed. As the main product for exporting foreign exchange earnings next year, cotton cloth seemed to have to open up the French market, otherwise, everyone would be waiting for bankruptcy.

Speaking of the immigrants in front of us, we have to say that the "good partner" of the East Coast Republic of China - Liu Xiang, the leader of Liu Da, who traversed South Guangdong. With the contribution of "immigrating" by hundreds of people last year, Liu Xiang got a lot of muskets and cannons from the Portuguese, and this year's life has been much better. He took some advantage in several small-scale battles with Zheng Zhilong, which made him very enthusiastic about "immigrating to the South China Sea for Franchise people".

At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, Liu Xiang secretly bypassed the east coast of Taiwan twice, avoiding the Wentai area that was guarded by last year's looting, and directly attacked Wusong, Nantongzhou and other places, plundering people and countless property, which was shocked by the distance. Of course, he was not always so reckless in his work. He also secretly sent his confidants and some business informants to recruit refugees in the name of land reclamation in Nanzhili and some Shandong areas, which made him fool many people for a while.

When Liu Xiang was in action, the Portuguese could not hold back under the temptation of gold coins. While secretly went to Japan to recruit immigrants, they funded several Japanese pirates and landed on Jeju Island, North Korea. The Koreans had been in peace for a long time and were completely unprepared. These bitter Japanese pirates even defeated several Korean troops on Jeju Island and captured many prisoners to exchange for money for the Portuguese.

After a few moves, by the end of the spring, the three Portuguese immigrant ships had already obtained nearly 1,500 voluntary or involuntary "immigrants". Of course, after a cruel and long ocean voyage, only 900 people were able to reach the East Coast region alive, with a mortality rate of 40%. Among these 900 people, the Ming Dynasty immigrants accounted for the majority, about 750, and there were about 100 North Korean refugees and 50 Japanese immigrants from Kyushu Island. Their arrival also led to the total population of the East Coast Republic of China for the first time, reaching a historical high of 10,759.

A considerable number of these Ming Dynasty immigrants were weavers from Wusong. These people were intercepted by Tao Chenxi, director of the General Administration of Textile Industry, and then directly pulled to Ping'anbao New City. While learning Mandarin and familiar with the new life, they began to learn to use hydro-looms to spin and weave cloth under the guidance of old employees. They are weavers themselves, and they have certain work experience. They will naturally achieve twice the result with half the effort when they learn. This made Tao Chenxi very happy and said that he did not buy the wrong person.

As the work of Ping An Machine Weaving Factory was progressing in an orderly and steadily manner, another ambitious plan in contrast - Ping An Iron and Steel Plant began infrastructure construction on the north bank of Ping An River, a lush forest edge on the east bank of the Yakui River. Hundreds of recruited Guarani people and more than 300 new immigrants sweated heavily here and began their first step as steel plant workers - building iron ore freight terminals, factory buildings, iron-making blast furnaces and steel-making blast furnaces.

At the same time, more than 300 new immigrants were transported to Ping'an Coal Mine Area by ship, where they will build a honeycomb coal factory and a building materials factory (a wheel kiln, a cement kiln, and a lime kiln). The remaining few immigrants were arranged to Zhenhai Castle. Most of them were shipbuilders with shipbuilding experience and were directly assigned to Zhenhai Shipyard. Although they usually built some Chinese hard sailboats with outdated performance, their foundation was still there, and they could still be useful after studying at Zhenhai Shipyard for a period of time.

Of course, steel plants, shipyards and other things are for future considerations, but the top priority in the entire East Coast Republic of China is the commissioning and production progress of Ping'an Machine Weaving Factory. Under extremely heavy financial pressure, the Executive Committee, the Government, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Trade, and the Ministry of Finance sent people to inspect and inquire every few days, which made Ping'an Fort Qian Hao, the head of Ping'an Fort, and Tao Chenxi, the director of the General Administration of Textile Industry who has moved his office to Ping'an Fort New Town, both of them were as big as a fight.

To be honest, the two of them have really made the best efforts for the official start of Ping An Machine Weaving Factory. Whether it is factory construction, worker recruitment and training, or equipment transportation and installation, they have provided the best conditions to ensure that the production progress of the Machine Weaving Factory is not delayed.

The first batch of 1,000 pieces of cotton fabrics produced by 20 machines have been sold to the La Plata area, and the customer responded well. There is no significant difference in quality with the previous cotton fabrics. At present, this part of the employees are in place and the equipment is running normally. The bushes of cotton fabrics are produced and sent to the warehouse for storage, preparing sufficient supply for the market in Gascone, France next year. The second batch of 20 machines has been installed and commissioned within the past few days. New workers are trial production while internship, striving to get started to the best condition as soon as possible and produce qualified products.

According to the plan of the General Administration of Textile Industry, the third batch and the fourth batch of 40 machines will arrive in November and be installed and debugged, and the last batch of machines will be installed and debugged by mid-December at the latest. To this end, the craftsmen from the Dayuhe Arsenal Comprehensive Workshop in Dongfang Port began a 24-hour round of rotation, working overtime to produce textile machine parts, and then packed and transported to Ping'an Fort and then assembled into finished machines.
Chapter completed!