"La Plata vo is a thousand miles long, and it will be operated as a core area in the future. What do you think about the industrial and urban development here? Let's start with the Santa Fe in front of you." On December 1, 1690, Gao Wengang, who had just ended a diplomatic negotiation in Buenos Aires and had been promoted to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, asked his secretary.

Gao Wengang has basically confirmed that he would be elected by-election at the plenary meeting of the Founding People's Parliament at the beginning of next year to replace the retired former member of the diplomatic and foreign trade Li Qing, who has since entered the ranks of the nine most powerful people in the country. Therefore, this will be the time when Gao Wengang is full of confidence, and is also full of motivation and fighting spirit. In the just-concluded discussion, he and the people from the military department were one blushing and the other were blushing, which made the representatives of Spain look like earth, and finally forced them to make concessions, expressing their acceptance of the suggestion that the East Coast people sell 55,000 tons of grain (of which 5,000 tons of potatoes and cassava are gifts), although this still needs to be final approval from the Madrid court before it can take effect.

After the negotiations ended, Gao Wengang did not rush back, but wandered around La Plata to see the charm of the godsend land that was about to be taken into account by the East Coast Republic. He first visited the two cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario, held talks with local East Coast merchants and expatriates, and then reached a state-owned inland river transport company to Santa Fe, a famous port city of Parana River.

"Minister, if I guess correctly, the Government Department should have reached a conclusion now, that is, Santa Fe will be positioned as a textile city, right?" After seeing Gao Wengang's affirmative gaze, the secretary relaxed and talked: "Because the special nature of the Chaco Plain, such as daily life, precipitation, temperature, etc. are very suitable for cotton growth, it is very profitable to focus on the development of cotton planting on this large plain, and it is also in line with economic laws. Santa Fe is the Paraguay River and Parana River.

The downstream port has a wide river and deep water, convenient transportation, and a port facility that the Spaniards have operated for many years. It is very suitable as a storage and processing base for cotton. Although the current cotton textile processing industry in our country is good in technical strength, it is relatively scattered and the industry in a single place is not large in scale, so it is urgently needed to integrate to reduce costs as soon as possible. In this regard, the wool textile industry in Nanci has set a very good example for us. Its scale advantage has greatly reduced production costs and greatly enhanced the competitiveness of commodities."

Although La Plata has not been officially taken, the East Coast people have made rough plans for the future of this land. The reason why Chakoping is ranked behind the Pampa Plain is that the government is unable to make large-scale investments in it in a short period of time, so it has come up with a way to use social capital to promote the development progress of this vast plain. If you want to make good use of social capital, you have to give them a profit model so that they will invest money. After all, businessmen are not government officials, and they have no obligation to spend money to contribute to the country. Every little investment is to achieve results, so you must let others confirm that they can make money.

Therefore, after some research, the officials of the State Council decided to circle large tracts of land on the Chaco Plain and rent them to private investors to grow cotton. The cotton they planted will be transported to the port along the river, and will be processed and produced by textile enterprises set up there. Therefore, in the future, many textile cities will be produced along the Paraguay River and the Parana River. The government currently prefers two cotton textile centers, Santa Fe and Resistensia, one south and one north. The former is the main and the latter is the auxiliary, and together drive the rise of a series of textile towns along the river.

The textile industry will not be outdated in any era! Although in the economic structure of the East Coast, the textile industry has been replaced by heavy industries such as metallurgy, chemical industry, equipment manufacturing, etc., if we only talk about a single commodity, textiles are still very interesting, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the first.

In the past, the cotton textile industry on the east coast imported a large amount of cotton from the Caribbean, North America, Brazil, New China, Peru and other places, and the industry was relatively scattered and the concentration was not high enough. There was never a textile city dominated by cotton textiles in China. Moreover, the domestic cotton planting industry was not very productive, the output was not very large, and the cost was higher than that of foreign cotton, so farmers were not very enthusiastic about planting.

After taking La Plata this time, the government decided to make good rectifications on the cotton textile industry. To this end, they have decided to establish a new textile department, which is responsible for the overall planning of the national textile industry, and guide all matters including cotton planting, spinning and fabric production and research and development, that is, guide this industry through the power of the country, optimize resource allocation, and improve overall competitive strength.

In the planning of the Ministry of Textiles, the Chaco Plain will mainly invest in cotton plantations in the future. The cotton produced will be sold to private textile enterprises or to state-owned textile factories. In short, try to digest it locally in a series of textile towns along the river, produce various types of cotton cloth, and then package and transport it to various places for sale. At this time, the advantages of a large river port such as Santa Fe were taken advantage of. Other river ports may be severely silted or have insufficient water depth, and in short, the conditions are not as good as Santa Fe. Therefore, La Plata's cotton textile industry center is located in Santa Fe, which should be more suitable.

Another shocking news is that Ping'an Weaving Factory, located in Ping'an County, a northern metropolis, may have to move its cotton textile business out, and its preferred destination is San Fei. This factory is a large textile enterprise on the east coast that is as famous as the Dayuhe Textile Factory, and is an important helper for Ping'an County to develop in the early stage. However, with the gradual development of the social economy, in order to adapt to the situation, the factory had moved its wool textile business to the Nanci area many years ago to make full use of the rich local wool resources. Now, it is said that the factory is also moving its cotton textile business to San Fei, which has caused great trouble to Ping'an County. After several attempts to retain it, it can only let it go.

Fortunately, there are giant enterprises like Ping'an Coal and Steel Consortium in their county, and the chemical industry has also developed with great success. It is the first brand in the East Coast, so it will not be as painful as Zhenhai County (modern special ship factories are relocated out of the country). The lost tax sources and jobs can be slowly found to be compensated in the future. In this way, Ping'an County will gradually fade away the elements of light industry and become a complete fourth type of city, namely mining and heavy industry cities.

In addition to the cotton textile industry, the future center of the wool textile industry will undoubtedly be Yancheng Port. Of course, the premise of all this is that the two wool transportation dedicated railways are completely completed and opened to traffic. According to the plan, the rich wool resources in the Nanci area will be enriched in Yancheng Port in the future, and correspondingly, production companies will naturally be concentrated here. This is not good news for coastal cities such as Hai'an, which already has a certain wool textile foundation, but the impact will not be too great. Capital will only put new factories in Yancheng Port and will not close old factories in these places. After all, they are also one of the raw materials and still have certain advantages.

"You are right, Xiao Wang. But I want to take a test now. It is easy to set up a city, but where does the population required for the city come from?" Gao Wengang walked by the dock in Port Santa Fe with his hands behind his back, surrounded by the guards.

"Minister, I think there are two major sources." Secretary Xiao Wang thought about it and replied with confidence: "According to the history of the Nancone Wool Textile Industry City, it is not difficult to find that net immigration is actually the main source of urban population growth. Taking Santa Fe as an example, there are only thousands of Spanish whites and mixed-race whites in the area. How can such a population base support the scale of the textile industry center? Therefore, immigration from other places has become inevitable! Some of the early immigrants in Santa Fe should be the Dayuhe Textile Factory, and the employees and their families who relocated from Ping An Weaving Factory, and the later sources are mainly from immigrants from rural areas in China."

"The recession of rural economy has plagued the vast majority of peasants for many years. Even though the country has thought of countless methods and introduced many policies, it is still useless. The root cause of this is actually that the per capita productivity in rural areas is too low, resulting in too high costs. To put it bluntly, it is not necessary for rural areas to have so many people! Look at those large state-owned and private farms and use a large number of agricultural machinery, the per capita productivity is not much higher than that of small farmers and small households. How can we compete like this? In my opinion, the current situation in rural areas

It is really impossible to maintain, and a thorough reform must be carried out!" Secretary Xiao Wang continued: "I think that through the establishment of emerging cities in the La Plata area, such as textile cities, manufacturing cities, administrative cities and even comprehensive cities, absorbing urban and rural populations in the old coastal areas in the eastern coastal areas, forcing the local rural mechanism to reform. The existing rural policies actually violate economic laws and the people are very resentful. It is time to carry out reforms. The establishment of the new La Plata city this time is a very good opportunity."

"Haha, Xiao Wang, your idea is very dangerous. When the army heard it, I'm afraid it would be a blow to the window glass of your house." Gao Wengang said with a smile after hearing this, but there was no accusation in his tone, which made Secretary Xiao Wang even more excited.
Chapter completed!