On August 5, 1651, as has been done in the past two years, the "Nanti-Yuan-001" and three other same-type ships docked on time at the wooden dock on the banks of the Maolin River, ready to start unloading. ← In the Pacific Ocean not far from them, two 400-ton guard gunboats - affiliated to the Third Fleet - were boredly floating on the unwavering sea, waiting for the four fishing boats (also also used as transport ships) to return to the Port of Araucan after unloading the cargo.

On the way back to Port Araucan - to be precise, in the waters near Chiloe Island - these ships will also catch fish. The resources of horse mackerels in this area are still very rich. Large groups of migrating horse mackerels gather here, giving the Nantik Company's fishing fleet a very good opportunity. They stuffed the captured sea fish into the refrigerator room equipped with an ether freezer to be preserved for a long time, which actually greatly enhanced the fishing boat's stay at sea and reduced the cost of fishing in disguise.

As for these caught fish (mainly horse mackerel), some were transported back to the port of Araucan for sale, and some were returned to Chile after processing. Just as the Dutch sold herring caught to the British offshore of the UK, the East Coast people also sold a large number of horse mackerels to the Chilean and even Peru markets. While making enough profits, it also caused the already small fishing industry in the Peruvian Governor's area, which was "blessed" to restrict Peru's fishing industry by the Spanish King, to a catastrophe.

Of course, since Peru has industries that have been "deathed" by foreign commodities, such as textile industry, fishing industry, iron smelting industry, there are naturally industries that have flourished, such as grain planting industry, tobacco planting industry, sugar production industry, logging industry, winemaking industry, etc. Especially tobacco planting industry and sugar production industry. Whether it is tobacco planting or sugar cane planting, they are undoubtedly extremely consuming land power. This puts forward extremely high requirements for high-quality fertilizers. In this case, the East Coast bean cake, which has been widely praised in Brazilian plantations, has become a material vigorously imported by Peruvian planters.

According to incomplete statistics, in more than ten months since the bean cakes were vigorously exported to Peru, due to the limited production capacity and the huge demand in Brazil and North American markets (Virginia and Florida), the price of East Coast bean cakes exported through Luoqia Port has soared by 40% compared to the initial stage, which has caused a domestic oil-pressing and cake-making joint ventures to laugh. Stimulated by this huge market demand, the soybean planting area in major agricultural areas in China has surged, and the grain planting area has dropped sharply (because the profit is too thin), and the sales volume of new oil presses and supporting steam engines has also attracted explosive growth. The entire industry has shown a booming and prosperous trend, and has almost become one of the few industries in the East Coast that are still prosperous.

The advantageous commodities on the East Coast such as high-quality agricultural tools, fertilizers and even good varieties cultivated (which will degenerate into ordinary seeds after several generations) are sold to the Peru Governor's Governor's District at extremely high profits. While attacking the other party's manual industry, they also enable the other party to produce more and cheaper basic agricultural products. These agricultural products are of great significance to reducing domestic inflation in the East Coast and liberating more labor (these precious labor resources can be transferred to the infrastructure industry).

Since the export bargaining power of Peru’s agricultural products is always in the hands of the Nantie Company, and the fire is fueled by a group of comprador merchants who have been "corrupted by money". The pricing power of the entire Peru Governor's district of Peru is basically not in his own hands, and the characteristics of colonization are very obvious. Any change in prices in the international market (in fact, the East Coast market and the export market derived from it) may be a nightmare for these planters and even self-cultivated farmers.

In order to overcome difficulties, they often have to strive to produce more commodities, but this often causes them greater disasters - the greedy compradors and the ruthless Nantie Company will take the opportunity to lower the purchase price and exploit their labor and sweat crystallization. The result is that the more commodities they produce, the poorer they are, the more they have to produce more commodities. This has formed a vicious cycle, and finally it is difficult to extricate themselves, fall into the debt trap, and is controlled by the compradors who have mastered their destiny.

The reasons for this consequence are many, but the most important thing is the frequent activity of the East Coast Navy ships in the Caribbean Sea. These ships that carry out privateing activities throughout the day have greatly hit French capital, British capital, Dutch capital and even Italian capital, which have competed with East Coast Capital, which has greatly reduced the purchase of Peruvian agricultural products by merchants in these countries. In addition, East Coast people also used various means, which were nothing more than coordinating interests and dividing them, thus consolidating their dominant position in the Peruvian market and becoming increasingly obvious in order to gain excess profits.

The most typical one is the Saint George Trading Company in Genoa, a veteran syndicate company that has been engaged in the import of American specialty products in the Port of Cadiz, Spain for more than 100 years. In the past one or two years, the reason for importing tobacco, sugar cane and cotton from Peru back to Europe for sale is that it is unprofitable, and the other is that they have found a better opportunity to make money. The East Coast people coordinated their interests with them and granted the agency rights of many high-quality East Coast goods to them. At the same time, they also opened the market to the Saint George Trading Company, where they can export high-quality cheese, ham, olive oil, butter, wine, dried fruit and other goods produced in Italy to the East Coast and its colonies. This is a market with a population of hundreds of thousands, and the proportion of consumer groups is extremely high.

Welcoming relatively friendly Genoa capital, focusing on cracking down on British capital and French capital that compete with the East Coast (which are both countries that are determined to develop their own industries), and maintaining limited cooperation with the vested interest Dutch capital. This is the overall development strategy formulated by the Executive Committee of the East Coast Republic for its own industrial capital. Today, when the French market is lost, we focus on developing the Peruvian market, expel the commercial tentacles of the British, French and Portuguese, and at the same time cultivate a group of compradors who are closely tied to the interests of the East Coast, and then indirectly control and influence producers and consumers in the Peru region through these commercial compradors. This is the key to maintaining the advantages of the East Coast in Peru for a long time and nourishing the East Coast itself by sucking Peru's blood.

In short, after two years of negotiations with the smuggling trade with the Nan Railway Company, which represents the industrial and commercial forces of the East Coast Republic, Peru's ending was basically destined - over time, this region with a large population and rich resources will further deepen its economic colonization characteristics. The East Coast is not the Spaniards who do not engage in production. They have a preliminary industrialized production system. Although due to the limitations of population, education, market and other factors, its industrialization level is not deep enough and the system is not complete, it is enough to destroy most of the manual industrial forces in the Peru Governor's District.

It can be said that if there is no external force violently breaking this process, then Peru's future will be worrying. In the long-term planning of the Executive Committee and the Nan Railway Company, a large number of cheap East Coast industrial products poured into Peru. When this process develops to a certain stage, the East Coast industrial and commercial capital (such as the Nan Railway Company) that has accumulated by sucking Peru's nutrition will also begin to invest surplus capital into the Peru region. In other words, at this stage, the East Coast commodities and capital will enter Peru at the same time, and then control Peru's market and economy - this is the so-called capital export stage of imperialist countries.

However, unlike the imperialist economic invasion that occurred in history, there were quite a large number of immigrants who entered the Peru market with the East Coast goods - most of them were Ming immigrants from the Far East. There are now many on the banks of the Maolin River, with a number of about seven or eight hundred people.

These immigrants are nominally employees of the Nantie Company - and in fact, they all signed a five-year labor employment contract with the Nantie Company, and at the same time they received a considerable amount of resettlement fees, and then took a boat to the Maolin River to land. According to the plan, these people will build commercial stations, warehouses, shops, and hotels on the land purchased by people on the east bank of the Maolin River, and provide services to the ships and personnel of the Nantie Company. In addition, the Nantie Company also found various excuses to migrate a considerable number of agricultural personnel here. They have now opened up some fertile farmland on the Maolin River, planted a large number of fruits and vegetables, and also raised many livestock and planted some fruit trees, and developed settled agriculture seriously.

As for whether the Spaniards were worried that there were too many people on the east coast here? This is actually not a problem at all, because it was originally a wilderness and there were not many settlers. After two east-west wars, the early colonists either died in the war or were killed by the rioters of Araucan, and there was no hair left. Now it has flourished due to smuggling trade, and the number of people has increased sharply. The consumption of daily necessities is not a small number. Therefore, agricultural workers are urgently needed to provide various vegetables, poultry, eggs, meat and other foods to the people in the city.

Therefore, the arrival of farmers on the East Coast actually fills the gap in this area, which has certain benefits for everyone. You see, these farmers are so hardworking, so productive, and provide a wide variety of products and affordable prices. Is there anything more satisfactory than this?
Chapter completed!