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Six days after Sun Bin arrived in Rio Grande do Sul, the first fleet carrying Cuban Chinese workers arrived at their destination.
The Chinese workers in Cuba arrived in Rio Grande do Sul and spent two days adjusting at the port. On the third day, the ships at the exchange port loaded the Chinese workers in batches and transported them to various places in the Principality of Rio Grande do Sul.
The first batch of Cuban Chinese workers mainly went to three places. The first was to go to Passo Fundo to participate in factory installation and construction. This part had the largest number of people, about 15,000 people.
Second: The destination is Joinvia. The construction of the naval base of the National Defense Force in the northern part of the principality will require about 4,000 Chinese labor.
Third: Scattered throughout Rio Grande do Sul to engage in agriculture and animal husbandry production.
When Brazil ruled the two southern states, it was limited by sparse population and weak infrastructure, which led to slow local development. After the Chinese occupied the area, roads, towns, agriculture, industry, etc. needed to be built from scratch.
Industry and agriculture are the two cornerstones to ensure the healthy development of the country. In terms of industry, Passo Fundu is a core industrial base under construction.
In terms of agriculture, the two southern states have a mild climate and abundant rainfall, making them ideal agricultural product production areas.
There are many areas suitable for agricultural development in the two southern states, but based on the current situation of the Chinese, it was finally decided to establish the first agricultural production area in Pelotas.
Pelotas is located at the south entrance of Lake Patos, on the left bank of the San Gonzalo Waterway in the Atlantic Ocean. It is 244 kilometers away from Porto Alegre in the northeast and 40 kilometers away from Rio Grande Port in the southeast. Land and sea transportation are convenient and smooth.
Pelotas has a mild and humid climate and flat and low terrain. The coastal areas are suitable for growing rice. The inland Campos grassland has developed animal husbandry and is suitable for the development of animal husbandry.
Coupled with the local seaside and excellent ports, the agricultural and animal husbandry products produced can be transported to other places in Rio Grande do Sul by sea, or exported to European countries.
There are towns left by the Brazilians in Pelotas. After the Chinese troops arrived here, some local white people fled to Uruguay for refuge, and some Indians and black slaves were put under centralized custody and returned to the Brazilians as part of the Brazilian peace talks.
After the implementation of several targeted policies, the population of Pelotas has been reduced by more than half. The formerly busy agricultural product port trade has been severely hit, and the number of ships passing through is less than one-third of the busy season.
Agricultural and animal husbandry trade is the main way for the two southern states to obtain overseas fiscal revenue.
The Chinese replaced the Brazilians as the masters of the two southern states. After investing most of their energy in the construction of industry and housing, they began to devote some of their energy to the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.
Pelotas is a major agricultural development area, and about 4,000 of the remaining 6,000 Cuban Chinese workers are assigned to Pelotas.
When the Brazilians ruled Pelotas, they implemented a free-range management method. Agricultural land was scattered in the hands of local white people and divided into small areas of land on which different crops were grown according to the owner's preferences.
Brazil is vast and sparsely populated. Even if large areas of land are used inefficiently, local white people who own vast land still have ample income.
The superior natural environment nourishes the fertile fields, and the lack of survival crisis lifestyle also leads to the lazy character of local residents.
Sitting on a treasure mountain, you don't have to worry about food and drink. After planting crops for a season, you don't need to hoe weeds or water them. When autumn comes, you can just sit back and wait for the harvest.
Argentina, Brazil, and Chile were known as the ABC of South America in later generations and were the three major powers in South America. However, except for Chile, which relied on mineral exports to barely enter the developed world, Brazil was lingering in the ranks of developing countries. Argentina's situation was even worse.
At the beginning of the 20th century, it was already one of the top developed countries in the world, with per capita income higher than that of the United States at the same time.
However, in the second half of the 20th century, Argentina's economic development stagnated and the country was in turmoil. In order to support the support of the grassroots civilians, the opposition parties threw the responsibility for the stagnation of economic development to the Argentine elite, gaining the approval of a large number of grassroots bastards, and then the opposition parties came to power.
When in power, the land wealth held by the elite class was nationalized and distributed equally to the common people at the bottom.
The land of the landlords and elites does not come out of thin air. Except for some people who obtained it through plunder and robbery, most people's land was obtained by their ancestors or themselves through hard work. The indiscriminate deprivation of their land has a bad impact and is a battle for the majority.
Blatant robbery of a few people.
Radical democratic revolutions are essentially similar to peasant uprisings in the feudal period.
The long-term stable environment has led to a sharp increase in population. During the development of society, wealth has accumulated in the hands of a few people. The conflicts caused by the differentiation of social wealth have accumulated to a certain extent and erupted. Uprisings have continued, wars have continued, and a large number of people have died due to wars, plagues, and hunger.
The land is reduced, land is redistributed, conflicts are alleviated, and some at the bottom in the war take power and become the new elite class, and then the cycle continues as usual.
The land in Rio Grande do Sul is not unlimited, and Li Mingyuan will not be so arrogant that he can conquer the entire South America with his more than 30,000 field troops. With the influx of Chinese immigrants, the total area of 403,000 square kilometers of land will not take more than a few decades.
It will become a densely populated area.
The population increases and the land decreases. The Chinese who were originally grateful to Li Mingyuan will turn into dissatisfaction, and new conflicts will quickly break out as they accumulate.
The environment changes the racial character of the population. People of Dutch descent developed heroic and fighting national characteristics in the South African plateau. When they immigrated to Portugal in South America, the Spaniards became lazy and romantic. The hard-working Chinese workers also became possible after adapting to decades of comfortable life.
Assimilated by the environment, therefore, blindly granting large amounts of land to Chinese workers for free would be extremely harmful, and would seriously reduce the combat effectiveness of the Chinese troops and even jeopardize Li Mingyuan's dominance.
The Chinese who came from the Peruvian expedition had experienced the test of war, and each of them had three hundred acres of land as a reward for their merit.
Unlike the Chinese soldiers who came by boat from Cuba, they had not made any contribution to the Principality of Rio Grande do Sul, and Li Mingyuan would not give them land for free.
The reason why the monarchy has existed for thousands of years, and even in the period when democracies and republics were common in later generations, there were still more than 20 monarchical countries is not unreasonable.
The monarch is nominally the master and symbol of the country. In order to maintain their rule, they need to maintain the stability of the country, ensure the balance of interests of all classes of people in the country, and establish a fair and just image of the monarch.
Li Mingyuan formulated a policy of allocating land according to merit. He cannot undermine his policy just because a large amount of land is deserted.
The first batch of Cuban Chinese workers and subsequent arrivals will not receive their land within one year. After one year, they will be awarded land ranging from 30 acres to 100 acres based on their military service and construction work.
of land area.
After the announcement of the policy against Chinese immigrants, neither the Chinese soldiers who had obtained land nor the newly arrived Chinese workers in Cuba had any objections. The retired soldiers were proud of being able to allocate a large amount of land, while the Chinese workers in Cuba were freed from the land of death and passed through the local government.
Soldiers and laborers can also obtain a large piece of land, which is also very satisfying.
Attracted by the land, the Chinese workers in Cuba were very enthusiastic about their work after two days of renovation. They all wanted to leave a good impression of hard work in the eyes of the Chinese soldiers who supervised them and obtain more land.
In the coastal area of Pelotas, more than 200 Chinese workers felled the surrounding trees under the guidance of five or six retired soldiers, and more than 100 people cleared the open space left after the trees were removed. Behind them, two Brazilians left behind
The building made of gravel and bricks was crowded with people. Outside the building, a batch of mechanical equipment was disassembled into parts and placed on the open space. There were more than thirty blond and blue-eyed foreigners discussing and talking around the mechanical equipment.
Pelotas is a production area for grain, cattle and sheep animals. The grain and beef and mutton produced need to be industrially processed before they can be shipped out of the port. Therefore, a flour mill and a meat processing plant equipment were shipped to Pelotas.
Two buildings left behind in Brazil have been requisitioned as industrial buildings and are being renovated to suit the installation of machinery and equipment.
Eric was one of the experts in charge of a thousand Prussian mechanics, and planning and building Pelotas was his main job.
"Sun, the Pelotas port is 500 meters long, with a water depth of 30 meters in the deepest area, and an average water depth of more than 10 meters. It can dock ocean-going ships with a draft of 5 meters. It is an excellent port."
Eric introduced the hydrological data of Pelotas Port to Sun Bin.
“We are one kilometer away from the port. The flour and meat products processed by flour mills and meat processing plants can be shipped directly through the port.
The open space to the left of the flour mill and meat processing plant can be planned as a large warehouse. The grain produced in the plains and the skins of farmed animals are stored centrally in the warehouse, and then sold to foreign merchant ships.
An animal trading area is set up on the right side of the factory area, where horses, cattle, sheep, wild deer and other animals are managed and traded in separate areas..."
The Kingdom of Prussia originated in the southern Baltic region. The Junker nobles, the big landowners, occupied the dominant position in the kingdom. The land in the southern Baltic Sea was fertile and the agricultural industry was developed, so the Prussians were no stranger to agricultural development.
"The prince has dispatched four thousand workers and one thousand retired soldiers to participate in the construction. If you have anything that needs to be dealt with, please tell me directly and I will arrange manpower to assist you in the work."
Leave professional matters to professionals. Eric is an expert brought back from Prussia. Sun Bin will meet his requirements.
