"Facts have proved that people do not have the nature to live in the extreme north, nor do they have the enthusiasm to work in the harsh heat of the tropical areas. Compared with the Pampa Plain I traveled before, the climate in the western part of New China Island is much more harsh. On the Pampa Plain, which is full of grass, wild flowers, and cattle, the sky is shining with rays of rays, the fields are extremely fertile, and buckwheat flowers are covered with the earth. Among the green grasslands, the ripe wheat is golden, and the terrain extends upwards smoothly, like a calm wave.

The waves of the ocean. In such an environment, people's hearts are filled with joy from the beginning. But what do we see in the western part of New China Island? Long-term sunlight shines every day, dry and hot air, and wonderful red soil! Especially in Mianhe County, there are a large number of peaks and valleys. The peaks seem to be composed of a large amount of water flow, steep, water-stained inclined surfaces and piles of stones scattered by water, which are extremely ugly..."

Sitting under a tall and straight baobab tree, Sun Wuben was looking through his interview records while still wiping his sweat. Now, it is said that it is still at the end of the dry season (cool season), which is so annoying. If you wait for another two or three months and enter the rainy season (hot season), what kind of experience will it be? Sun Wuben thinks that he should get the interview done as soon as possible and try to return to the local area by taking an immigration boat between the rainy season.

As the editor-in-chief of "Prince Truth" and the highest leader of the largest newspaper in the East Coast, Sun Wuben could not have been squatting in the office of Dongfang County for the rest of his life to do news. In fact, in order to set an example for his employees and to motivate them to compete more fiercely with the "Businessman" newspaper, Sun Wuben decided to make a big news himself, that is, the "First Founders Land in the Forty-Year Achievement Exhibition", and his first stop was Xinhua Island, the largest overseas colony of the East Coast Republic of China.

In Xinhuaxia Island, Sun Wuben and his group of subordinates interviewed Xinhua County's wood processing and shipbuilding industry, rubber planting base, interviewed Tacheng County's coal industry base, coffee and sisal plantation, and interviewed the famous Beidao sugar factory and the nearby sugarcane and herb plantation. In the end, he went to the Daqing Basin to the west, focusing on interviewing the cotton planting base here, that is, the vast cotton plantation on both sides of the Mian River, which is actually in the Xinlai River area further north. In recent years, large new cotton plantations have been opened. However, due to the disadvantages of transportation, the scale is not as large as here, so Sun Wuben did not plan to go there and was planning to return to China directly after the interview in Mianhe County.

In fact, when it comes to the traffic conditions on the Xinlai River, the west coast of Xinhuaxia Island, except for some good ports at the northwest end (in fact, only Lobster Port and Ningguo Port), most of the coastlines are either silted and difficult to travel (a lot of soil is washed away from land), or there are dense reefs, and there are a few good ports that are difficult to take? After searching for it, it was just the Tulair Port that was chosen by the Dutch and was the outlet of the commercial station, which was the Mianhe Port in the hands of the East Coast people.

Mianhe Port is located near the entrance of Mianhe River. The port is open. Although it is not a place where strong winds and waves are frequented, it is definitely not a place where strong winds and waves will often visit. It can basically be regarded as a good anchorage for ships. In addition, there are no coral reefs that are common in other places under the near-shore area (this is very common in most places on the West Coast, which seriously limits the water depth), and ships with a draft of about five meters are in and out (in fact, the current draft of cargo ships on the east coast is generally only 2.5-3.5 meters). Therefore, Mianhe Port has become the main export port for cotton, leather, agricultural products on the west coast (mostly dry farming agriculture, watermelon, sesame seeds, peanuts, etc.) and livestock exports.

The main export port not only means that materials from Mianhe County are in and out of here, but also the goods from settlements such as Xinlai Township, Xindeng Township, Manza Township (located near the town of Manza in later generations), Xinxing Township (located near the town of Ankazu Abu in later generations), Laiqu Township (located near the town of Beluruha in later generations), Zhima Township (located near the town of Antani Mieva in later generations), Tuofeng Township (located near the town of Angeliluruaka in later generations) and other settlements also enter and exit from here. This is the only place where large ships can be used for navigation, and its advantages are quite obvious.

However, with so many settlements and so many commodities, the majority of export share is still cotton, which is called "white gold". Sun Wuben had a very thorough understanding of this point before coming, that is, New China Island has now become the main source of cotton in the East Coast Republic of China. Its output and cost advantages have become more and more obvious in recent years, which has caused the profits of some local cotton planting and producing areas to decline seriously and gradually become unprofitable. I believe that if the General Administration of Textile Industry had not taken into account the fact that the source of raw materials cannot be too single and increased the purchase price of local cotton farmers, New China Cotton would have long defeated its competition, which is definitely not an exaggeration.

Nowadays, the ones that can compete with New China Cotton are undoubtedly the cheaper cotton in Brazil, Peru and the Caribbean (including New Spain). Those white plantations are even more terrible to squeeze slaves, so the cost is even much lower than New China Island. In addition, the advantage of distance is that I believe that if it were not for the protection of import tariffs, the cotton in New China Island might not have been able to compete with them. Of course, the Executive Committee is not a fool. Maintaining the diversification of cotton sources has always been the perfect state they are striving to pursue.

"Editor-in-chief, it's almost time to go." A young reporter took some water from the trunk of the baobab tree, then handed it to Sun Wuben as if he was pleased and said.

"Well, then let's go." Sun Wuben closed the notes, took the kettle and drank it hard, then turned back to a donkey, and called the team to continue moving forward.

Not far behind them, a large group of black labor workers were urging the scorching sun above their heads, and used all their strength to level the roadbed. It was the roadbed of the Daqing Railway, which had been built intermittently for many years. After experiencing all kinds of discomforts and delays, the current mileage of the Daqing Railway is quite considerable. Although Sun Wuben did not get the latest data, he estimated that at least 60% of the traffic has made such rapid progress mainly because of the great development of the Daqing Basin cotton planting industry, dry farming and animal husbandry, which has created a great demand for transportation.

On the other hand, the Xinhuaxia Railway Company (hereinafter referred to as "Xinhua Railway Company"), which is responsible for the construction of the entire Xinhuaxia Island Railway, has also made breakthrough progress in financing, which is the most direct reason for the sudden acceleration of the construction progress of the Daqing Railway. According to Sun Wuben, the Xinhuaxia Development Team, the State Administration of Railways, the Nan Railway Company, and China Railway Company several years ago, and the equity structure was readjusted. In addition, it also absorbed some idle social capital, greatly enhanced its financial strength, and has since embarked on the fast lane of development.

Sun Wuben met Ma Xiaoling, general manager of Xindeng Township in Xindeng Township, and was very impressed by this ambitious woman. This second-generation second-generation (his father Ma Wanpeng is one of the nine executive committee members of the Executive Committee) has a strong background, agile thinking, and an aggressive style between conversation, which often makes others unable to get out of the market. Moreover, perhaps because of being a woman, she has a strong personality and is more decisive than ordinary men. She often checks the work of its engineering teams and sections of roads, and repeatedly puts forward higher requirements for the accuracy of railway construction, which makes people feel at a loss.

Now, after the construction of the Daqing Railway was on track and slowly seeing the hope of the full line, Ma Xiaoling ran to Xinhua Port five times, trying her best to persuade Huang Yi, the captain of the pioneer team, to inject capital into the Xin Railway Company for a second time, and completed the survey and construction of the Tadong Railway (the starting point of the railway is Lake Alautra and the end point is Tacheng Port. Lake Alautra is the most famous place of rice, wood and aquatic products in later Madagascar). However, the investment in the Xin Railway Company involves the change of equity ratio, which is not new.

If the Huaxia Development Team can make the decision, it must obtain the approval of the relevant departments at the higher level. Furthermore, the construction of the Daqing Railway has already caused the New Huaxia Development Team to bear huge debts (a 1 million yuan of ten-year bond was issued in the West Lake bond trading market, with the New Huaxia Island tariffs as collateral). No one can stand it when they come to another Tadong Railway in a short time. Therefore, Huang Yi simply rejected Ma Xiaoling's bewitching, asking him not to eat what is in the bowl and look at what is in the pot, and to do the Daqing Railway first.

The workers who built the Daqing Railway basically "take local materials", that is, they use the looted natives of the island as road construction workers to bear heavy labor and reduce the huge expenses for building railways. Of course, with the intensification of activities of people on the East African coast of the East Africa, black people from the Swasili coast have been introduced to New Huaxia Island for many years, and have been widely present in a series of occasions such as plantations, logging farms, farms, and construction teams, which have played a huge role in the construction of New Huaxia Island.

For example, at this time, there were a large number of black workers on the construction site of the Daqing Railway that Sun Wuben and others saw, and the longest one had been working for three years (it was also considered a big fortune, but he could live for three years...). However, since Huang Yi, the captain of the New China Development Team, was different from the previous Ma Wanpeng, and he did not like black people very much, the growth momentum of the number of black people on the island has declined in recent years. A large number of black people who had been in service were shipped to North America and handed over to the Kingdom of Freedom to replenish their strength so as to better produce and fight the enemy.

As for how to make up for the huge manpower gap on the island after the growth momentum of black people slowed down, Huang Yi, after thinking about it, had to continue to hunt down the indigenous people. To be more precise, the time to destroy the Monaber Kingdom is ripe! This indigenous kingdom, which was remote in the jungle of the northern part, had fought against the forest nations and the Bezimisalaka people for many years. The national strength is now much worse than before. It is time to take it all in one fell swoop. This is not difficult, because the state of the Sakarava Kingdom before it was split, and it was impossible to resist earthquakes with the people of the East Coast, let alone the small Boyra Kingdom, which was already weak? It is reported that Mao Jun, Tang Moyu and other army officers who had been training in the Yicheng area before were already waiting for the ships to come. The war against the Monaber Kingdom and other loose tribes in the north was about to break out.

On November 1, 1670, Sun Wuben and others traveled south and took several days to finally arrive at the north bank of the Mian River. In these days, they were really guilty. The sky, which had always been cloudless, suddenly dark clouds gathered in the sky, and clouds were flying in the air, one layer thicker than another. Lightning shot down all the flowers on the short grass. Thunder rumbling, storm, and raindrops as big as soybeans hit people, so that they could not even see the house dozens of meters away clearly, which seemed to indicate that the rainy season was coming.

Even from the eyes of Sun Wuben, who thinks he is more capable of enduring hardships, the storm in the western part of New China Island is very annoying. Because when they were blocked by the heavy rain on the road, after half an hour, the sky became clear again. When they set off again, the rainstorm came again. In the day, the clothes on their bodies were soaked in the rain three times, and then dried by the scorching sun three times. There was no one else, so they could only curse a few words about the ghost climate in this ghost place.

When they arrived in Mianhe Town, this port city with a population of more than 10,000 was carrying out intense material transportation. A large number of hump cattle and goats were driven from the north by herdsmen, and then uniformly arranged by the army purchasing manager to ship, intending to transport them to the Ningguo Port area in the north for slaughter and pickle as military supplies.

In addition, many of the Eight Banners, which live nearby islands, were also urgently mobilized. Each household had to draw a child out and go to the north to fight to death for the master on the east coast. Sun Wuben saw that the lives of the Eight Banners of these islands were undoubtedly extremely poor. A family of seven living on the bank of Mian River was only divided into a small barren piece of land. Two of the adult laborers could not avoid the children's hunger even if they were busy day and night. Sometimes they had to starve for two consecutive days without food. The lack of land output and the heavy taxes were the main reasons. Therefore, launching a foreign war is really a good thing for them, because if it goes well, they can subsidize their families by plundering spoils, which is also the reason why they can maintain high morale on the battlefield, and it is not all for their families!
Chapter completed!