"The most romantic thing I can think of is to build a great city of our own on such a deserted Gobi Desert; extend the railway representing the most advanced technology of our country to the Pacific coast, so that my will on the east coast can extend to the distance, and that the Executive Committee can be able to Viagra..." Captain Ventura stuffed the Southern Railway Weekly in his hand into the drawer, then tidied up his clothes, walked out of the captain's room, and jumped down the pedal to Xingnan Port Pier. ￡∝

There are not many people on the dock, they are sparse. It seems that the farmers who usually do odd jobs here (acting as dock laborers) are busy going home, which makes the unloading efficiency at the dock suddenly worse. In fact, it is almost the same. Today is November 15, 1650, and the southern Patagonia region ushered in the most important day of the year: spring sowing, which undoubtedly caused a large number of migrant workers to return to the countryside, and the dock was immediately empty.

Let me say more here. Now there are more than 6,700 settled residents in Xingnan Port, most of whom are farmers, scattered in more than a dozen newly built villages on both sides of the Xingnan River. With the continuous construction of the flooding reservoir, more and more improved land has been improved on both sides of the river, and the arable land area has even exceeded 60,000 mu. Two-thirds of them have been set to plant deep-root crops such as sorghum and corn at the work conference at the beginning of this year. Among them, sorghum, which is cold-resistant, barren-resistant, and has a pretty good yield, is the main sowing variety.

With the sound of a "woosh", the small steam tugboat that was dragging Captain Ventura's "Sequoia" (formerly Danish merchant ship "Green Oak" was photographed by Captain Ventura for 4,900 yuan) had untied the cables. After charging a little tug fee, it turned around and left the dock berth. It was towed by the steam tugboat into the port. This service is only available in the east coast. Of course, this is the only one in the world. This service that greatly reduces the difficulty of sailing in port is still very popular with all captains, especially those large fly-scissor cargo ships that specialize in New China routes, and the flute-type transport ships of the South China Sea Transportation Company. It is very troublesome to enter and exit the port when the wind direction and ocean current are unfavorable. Now, with a small steam tugboat, it is very convenient, and the charges are also very cheap, which makes everyone very satisfied.

After the steam tug left, two small ships came over. They were a steam water supply ship and a disinfection ship. In addition to carrying a large amount of fresh water, there were also some vegetables and fresh meat for sale. This service was also very considerate for ships who were eager to return and were unwilling to stay in the port. As for the disinfection ship, because the new "Sequoia" was filled with various cargo, they needed to undergo a simple disinfection procedure before entering the port to prevent bacteria from being brought into Xingnan Port, which would cause the spread of the disease.

It can be said that at this time, Xingnan Port was the most advanced in the East Coast Republic of China in terms of hardware and software management, and many technologies were even pioneered. However, some other ports in China were temporarily unable to carry out large-scale modernization due to early construction or lack of funds. Therefore, Xingnan Port was destined to be the only one in the country - or even the world - for many years.

Captain Ventura came to Xingnan Port for the first time. Since resigning from the Inland Transportation Company as captain of the "Israemon-007" small steamer, Captain Ventura quickly joined the South Atlantic Line Company, which was jointly invested by several merchants, the Ministry of Transport, the South Railway Company and the East Coast Company, and was specifically responsible for the passenger and cargo transportation of fixed routes between the East Port - Yancheng Port - Xingnan Port: a ship was shipped on the 1st and 15th of each month, and Captain Ventura departed from Dongfang Port on the 1st of this month.

"94.19 tons of wheat, 40.62 tons of soybeans, 27.1 tons of corn, 9.9 tons of peanuts; 13,800 briquettes, 0.8 tons of coke, 41,000 red bricks, 0.19 tons of paint dye, 20 tons of steel bars; 1.9 tons of salt, 18.8 tons of bean cake, 0.67 tons of soybean oil, 18.2 tons of dried fish, 39 tons of refined flour; 152 pieces of furniture, 0.17 tons of wax and candles, 0.47 tons of paper, 0.6000 pieces of textiles of various types..." Xi Vio (Silvio), who once worked at Luoqia Customs and has joined the Southern Railway Company, is carefully checking the number of cargo carried by the ship. His assistant was behind him using an abacus to quickly calculate the entry tariffs required for Captain Ventura's ship.

These goods are undoubtedly transported to the Pacific Ocean through Xingnan Port, and are basically ordered by Peruvian merchants on the banks of the Maolin River. Now there are more and more Peruvian merchants opening merchant stations in that originally remote place, and the types of goods on the order list provided to the east coast are also increasing, and the number of goods has also begun to become extremely trivial. Every new commodity order means that a handicraft industry has died in the Spanish Peru Governor's Peruvian Governor's area, or that smuggling ships from Europe have sold less goods - of course this is not absolute, because the Peruvian market has never been saturated. Under the strong suppression of the peninsula people, this market has been full of hunger for various commodities, so that the number of smuggling ships has increased day by day, but it still cannot satisfy the appetite of this huge market.

In other words, today, when the East Coast-Peru smuggling trade has been booming for 16 months, the market is still in an unsaturated state. The goods transported by the Spanish Treasures fleet, goods transported by foreign smuggling ships through the Caribbean Sea, and goods transported by Manila's large sailing ships (mainly luxury goods, only once every two years, 1-2 ships of three to four hundred tons at a time, and the impact is negligible), cannot meet the appetite of this standard colonial market where almost everything needs to be imported.

What's more, pirates, now pretended to be the main warships of the East Coast Navy, are searching and attacking smuggling ships from France (and often inevitably affect merchant ships from other countries) and transporting them from the old continent to Peru. The number of goods in Mexico has increased by limited (and may even be on a downward trend). At this time, if the goods of the East Coast people are not easy to sell in Peru, it will be really a ghost!

After the sweaty customs officers calculated the required tariffs, Captain Ventura calmly paid the tax, and then received a stack of bills of lading. The goods on the bills of lading were scattered in various parts of the dock cargo yard. Captain Ventura had to go to each cargo yard with his crew to collect the cargo he needed, and then transported them to the side of the pier by a dock flat-panel track truck, and finally loaded them into the cabin one by one with a steam boom.

These goods are also diverse, including 18.1 tons of tropical dried fruits, 19.3 tons of sugar, 36.1 tons of wood, 20.6 tons of minerals, 25 tons of fertilizer (bird bowel), 56 tons of cotton, 18 tons of high-quality sulfur, 6,000 sheepskin, 8.3 tons of wool, 1,900 Chinese silk and satin, and fragmented gadgets such as Jinchona bark. All of them are local enterprises in the East Coast, and the goods ordered by merchants are of course from Peru.

After seeing the names of these goods, Captain Ventura was suddenly one by one: how many places do you have to go to to buy all these goods! Without any hesitation, he could only pull out his sailors from the pier and the houses of Italian prostitutes, and then drive them to run with him and go to various cargo yards to collect the goods together.

In fact, it is not really a surprise that Captain Ventura lamented so much. The freight yard in Xingnan Port is too large. I don’t know what the Nan Railway Company has done. Everything in Xingnan Port is built according to high standards, such as the ice embankment, which is more than 1,300 meters long, to prevent the shallow waters in the harbor from producing ice and flowing into the waterway and docks near the docks. Of course, in the future, the reclamation of these shallow water areas will make progress, and the coastline has been well laid out to reduce the flow of ice. Some of these ice embankments may be demolished.

For example, land reclamation - some areas in the harbor are affected by the silt and sand carried by the Xingnan River into the sea, and the silt water is shallow, and the direction of the channel is perpendicular to the direction of the strong winds in winter (not conducive to navigation). Therefore, the Nan Railway Company decided to reclaim these areas in turn to land, and at the same time increase the area of ​​the cargo yard. Moreover, after the area of ​​the dock freight yard is expanded, it will be more convenient for trains directly to the dock in the future, which will undoubtedly greatly increase the ability of the dock to import and export cargo.

Some places Captain Ventura is going to be the area formed by land reclamation, with a total area of ​​about 10,000 square meters. The sand and soil taken from the nearby Gobi Desert and then repeatedly compacted with a roller roller. The cargo yard road formed by land reclamation is in a concave shape, with a drainage ditch in the middle and a lid covered on it. The drainage ditch is for the dock drainage (sea water pours back into the Xingnan River in winter, which is very easy to cause chain disasters). At the same time, if a fire occurs on the cargo yard, it can quickly attract seawater to help extinguish the fire, which is very convenient - of course, the above design is unique in the ports of the East Coast Republic of China today, which shows its advancedness.

"I don't expect that the people of the Nantec Corporation are really willing to spend money. They built such a jaw-dropping magnificent port in a barren land like South Patagonia. He immediately compared other ports across the country." Captain Ventura said in an amazement, but his stomach was constantly complaining about the luxury and waste of Nantec Corporation - and reclaiming land? It would be a death if the cargo yard is smaller. I didn't see that more than half of the area was still empty, which made me run east and west. Not only was it so tired, but I even paid a lot of money for renting flatbed track cars. It was really unlucky!
Chapter completed!