On November 15, 1689, after a long journey, the convoy where Li Zheng and others were finally arrived at Zhongxing Township (near General Acha Town in later generations), where Li Zheng and his family of four settled. Zhongxing Township was obviously not the end of their convoy. In fact, there were about 300 people who wanted to continue moving forward and head to Yongchun Township (near Bernasconi Town in later generations). There was a military outpost and a newly established township. At this time, Jin Dalai, deputy department-level inspector of the Ministry of Agriculture, was conducting an inspection here.

The Knight Lukaszweig from the Principal of Courland was also inspected here with him. This man was a close assistant to Governor Wagner, a former judge in Port Jacob, the capital of the New Courland colony. He is currently a business specialist, and is responsible for purchasing various commodities from the East Coast.

The Knight Zweig received a certain degree of education since childhood (even though his father's financial situation was already very unhappy at that time), was able to skillfully use German and Latvian, and once joined the Kurlan Gong** team to serve in the capital Mitao. After being dispatched to New Kurlan, he was appointed as a judge of the Jacob Port Court by Governor Wagner because of his repeated contributions in the fight against the Congolese, and since then he has entered the middle ranks.

After working as a judge for several years, he was soon praised for helping Governor Wagner handle some secret matters and was fully responsible for purchasing goods from the East Coast Republic. He was one of the two business specialists in Jacob Port. The business specialist does not have to go out to sea with a ship every time. He can sit in the office of Jacob Port to handle affairs. At most, he can go to the dock warehouse regularly to check the accounts and see if the accounts are correct. It is very easy. At the same time, there is a lot of extra money to make, which is relaxed and pleasant.

However, as a new official, Zweig decided to go out to the sea with the ship to get familiar with the process. At the same time, he also looked at the East Coast Republic of China, which he longed for and admired. He has been learning Chinese with an official who had studied on the East Coast for a long time. He can do whatever he wants to talk, so writing must not be possible, but this is not a big problem.

Governor Wagner went to the East Coast at the beginning of the year and bought a large amount of equipment back. He was also forced to invest quite a lot of money on the Salt Bus Railway of the East Coast people. Governor Wagner told Zweig with a wry smile that it is impossible for the Salt Bus Railway to be distributed in the short term. This money is basically equivalent to lending it to the East Coast people for free, and I don’t know when it will be taken back. Regarding this matter, he will explain it to the local side, and I hope the Grand Duke can understand it.

The ship led by the Zweig Knights only set off in July and took more than a month to arrive at Jiaohe Port, a major town on the north side of the east coast, and then headed south along the coast to the prairie and the Yazi Lake basin on the east coast. Due to the monsoon and ocean currents, they went to the road for about a month before finally reaching Qingdao Port, the trade metropolis, and sold all the goods on the total of four ships: mainly standard-sized wooden boards, ship masts, tobacco leaves, cane sugar, tropical dried fruits, herbs, furs and Congolese black slaves.

These commodities are in high demand in the East Coast Republic, some of which can be produced by themselves, while others are not. However, in order to support the related industries of New Courland, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will force the import of a batch of commodities every year, which makes the Courlanders very grateful. The same treatment is also the Free State Kingdom located in the Caribbean Sea. This black-dominated country exports oak, cotton, dried fruit and fur to the East Coast, and imports various industrial products. The annual trade volume is large. To put it bluntly, it is economic support so that they can gain a stronger foothold in the Mo River (Mississippi River) basin.

In fact, are there no substitutes for things like oak in the East Coast? How is that possible! Brazil has a lot of forest resources, so what can I do? Unfortunately, there are restrictions on policies, and it is only this to increase influence through the economy.

In fact, Zweig actually loaded two ships of standard plates and masts to the east coast. Some of them were delivered to the Zhenhai Shipyard at Zhenhai Port, and some were delivered to the Dayuhe Naval Shipyard at Dongfang Port. The remaining ship of timber was transported to the Yancheng Port Wharf at the request of the people on the east coast and handed over to the local officials of the General Administration of Development of the State.

These woods are all for building houses on the Pampa Plain. "Pampa" means "forestless plain" in the language of the indigenous people. It can be seen that the forest resources on this plain have been scarce to a certain extent, which has caused considerable trouble to people's production and life. Taking the early East Coast prairie as an example, there were not many trees there, and people did not have enough firewood to cook, and industrial production lacked fuel, so they had to cut down forests from the Yazi Lake basin to rescue emergency.

The situation facing the Pampa Plain is actually the same now. Especially in Yancheng County, there is a shortage of wood and can only be imported from home and abroad. This time, Yancheng County and the General Administration of Development of the State jointly cooperated with the State Development Bureau to launch a large-scale colonial development activity in the dry Pampa area, and purchased a lot of wood from outside, including standard-sized wooden boards from Free State and New Kurland to build houses and supplement the shortcomings of building materials such as bricks and stones.

Zweig's timber was actually sold at a good price in Yancheng Port, but he failed to leave in time. Instead, he was half-forced by the East Coast officials to Yongchun Township to discuss the feasibility of investing here. To be honest, Zweig's Knight had a headache about this. He had not considered being beaten by the East Coast people before coming. In fact, Governor Wagner had already purchased some Yanbu Railway stocks and bonds when he was there at the beginning of the year. Logically speaking, it was considered to have paid the money, so why were he held back again? It was a bit too much for the East Coast people to do this, although they had no way to refuse.

Jin Dalai, an official from the East Coast Ministry of Agriculture, "suggested" the Kurlans to invest in farms. Inspector Jin believes that Yongchun Township and other places will be on important transportation lines in the future, with great potential for land appreciation and great investment value. In other words, these places are currently in value depressions. If one takes the lead, one can make a fortune in the future. Jin Dalai even introduced the classic case of Russian investor Olegnareshkin, pointing out that the Salt-Brail Railway stock held by Nareshkin has risen a lot, and the wasteland bought back that year has also increased a lot. Nareshkin Building has become one of the landmark buildings in Nancun Port. This series of investments by the Nareshkin family really made a lot of money, which is extremely enviable.

Jindalai believes that it is time for the second Nareshkin miracle to appear. Although the East Coast government is currently working hard to build a special wool transport line railway (the progress has basically stagnated after the Great Northern Railway entered Jinglong County), the newly planned Yanke Railway (Yancheng Cordoba) has been put on the agenda. Once the plan is improved in the future and submitted by the State Railway Administration to the Government Council, the railway may enter a substantial construction stage. When it really comes to that time, it is probably too late to think about investing along the line. Therefore, when the plan is still circulating within the government and the official project is not yet signed (the possibility of being rejected is also very small), you might as well take a try and see how your life is.

Knight Zweig actually understood this. From the many news he had, he analyzed that the possibility of the railway construction was quite large, and even if it was rejected for a while, it would continue to be launched in the future, because he had already vaguely heard from different channels that people on the East Coast were not very satisfied with the current capital Dongfang County, and believed that it did not meet the needs of the country in the future, and the carrying capacity was quite limited (or else a large number of financial departments would not be moved to Qingdao County in the south). It was almost inevitable to move the capital in the future.

Now it seems that the capital they have decided should be in Cordoba, which is connected to Chile in the west, Chaco in the north, and Pampa in the south. Its geographical location is quite good. It is located in the heart of the city and the capital should not be run away. The value of a railway connecting the capital with the southern port and across the country's most important area (Pampa Plain) is naturally self-evident. Zweig actually thinks that Jindalai and others are inviting him to invest in agriculture along the railway was actually good, because it is indeed profitable. He can even take the opportunity to buy some wasteland, build some logistics and warehousing facilities, and collect money when the railway is built in the future. However, this requires precise railway route information, which cannot be handled now.

Under the pressure of the East Coast people, the Knight Zweig could not withstand the pressure and finally nodded and agreed to invest in some farms, but the scale would not be too large, because the Principality of Kurland only had more than 300,000 people, and there was not enough manpower to develop overseas. At present, a New Kurland colony had exhausted them and had to try their best to recruit people in Livornia, Poland and other places. Now, investing in farms on the Pampa Plain, where the East Coast people are still in decline, is indeed a bit difficult. If you have to die, you can only make a few hundred people feel at the same time. As for buying land and investing in railways, this is not very urgent for the time being, so you can find a way slowly.

In addition, Zweig actually asked Jindalai to respond to relevant departments at the East Coast. Recently, South Africa has significantly reduced the export of grain, cured meat, seafood and alcohol to New Courland, causing the prices of food in the markets such as Jacob Port, seriously affecting the normal economic order. Therefore, he asked the East Coast government to re-examine its policies, increase grain exports to New Courland, and stabilize local food prices.

He believes that New Kurland is an important helper for the East Coast Republic to control Southwest Africa, and the economic complementarity between the two countries is also very strong. Therefore, the East Coast government should take care of their interests at critical moments and stabilize their firm allies.

Jindalai was a little stunned when he heard this news. In fact, he didn't know what was going on. Why did South Africa reduce its food exports to New Courland. He felt that he had to go back and check the information. After all, he hadn't paid attention to South Africa's food production for a long time. Maybe the local area was affected by bad weather? Maybe it was because of the need for war or large-scale construction? Or were there two factors, which led to a decrease in food exports?

Jindalai was not very sure about this, he needed more detailed information to understand all this. But based on his past experience, this matter is not simple. Something must have happened in South Africa. Did he discover a super-large gold mining area or coal storage belt? Jindalai guessed.
Chapter completed!