729 Development and expansion
To be honest, I have been living in the Kalapag Islands recently and they are very satisfied with the environment here.
Some team members are even asking about the immigration conditions in the Ithaca area, if appropriate, they also want to immigrate here after the city is built and enjoy the slow-paced life here.
Although it is easier to make money in China, the pressure is too great and the pace is too fast.
Many people become ill in their thirties when they are overworked and even if they make money, they don’t have the chance to spend it. It’s better to enjoy life leisurely here!
Many people in Daliang's team were thinking about this, while Chen Yonglu and Xiao Feng were looking at the map and pondering their development plans.
"The first thing we need to do is island breeding. Recently, I have recruited a lot of people and surveyed all the islands. Many islands have very good environments, with dense vegetation on them, and there is a lot of feed for cattle and sheep. The animal husbandry expert I have found has roughly calculated it. For some small islands, it is not a problem to raise 300 cattle and 200 sheep. For larger islands, it is no problem to raise tens of thousands of heads..."
In recent times, they have not only been concerned about the future development of Plum Blossom Island, but most importantly, island breeding.
Although they have already planned to invest here, they cannot just invest money in it. The most important thing is to form an industrial chain first, turn it up first, and be able to generate blood independently.
This will reduce the financial pressure of later investment and form a virtuous cycle.
After discussing with Chen Yonglu, Xiao Feng and Chen felt that the easiest way to make money at present is island breeding.
Because the natural environment here is really superior, some wastelands are simply reclaimed on those deserted islands, which are very good pastures, and raising cattle and sheep is no problem at all.
Although some islands do not have fresh water, there is abundant rainfall in this place and rain will occur every now and then. As long as a few reservoirs are dug out on those islands, the draft problem can be solved.
There is no need to send too many people on the island, including a few cowboys and a few sheepdogs. Find more people to take turns to the island to watch the cattle and sheep, so as to prevent cattle and sheep from getting sick or getting injured.
So this work was first launched, and it was not confirmed in Ithaca area. When the advertisement for recruiting workers in their ranch was released, more than 3,000 cowboys were quickly gathered.
At present, Chen Yonglu has organized these people to land on the island to carry out work.
Although the environment on those islands is very good, some basic work needs to be done, such as leveling the land, filling the gullies, digging reservoirs, and building cowshed shelters to shelter from the wind and rain.
In addition, some vine plants on the island that are not suitable for cattle and sheep should also be eradicated. After all, some plants are not suitable for cattle and sheep feed.
Some plants will be poisoned by eating cattle and sheep, so these plants must be eradicated, and by the way, they will be eradicated by the way, the poisonous snakes and other poisons on the island.
These poisons can be said to be the only natural enemies on those islands that threaten the lives of cattle and sheep.
Therefore, before the cattle and sheep are in place, these poisons must be eliminated.
So recently, the Kalapag Islands have been very lively.
Every day, barges from Ithaca area transported ships of construction machinery, large bulldozers and excavators were sent to those deserted islands one after another.
The cowboys and construction workers also came to Plum Blossom Island and then took turns to work on the deserted island.
According to Chen Yonglu's prediction, it will take more than three or five months to complete the land of these islands, including the reservoirs, and the cattle sheds that cows and sheep live in.
Xiao Feng could understand that this is already a very efficient working speed in South America, and this is still done by these Chinese people, if it is the local natives.
Haha, they can definitely work for you for more than a hundred small desert islands for three to five years.
At the same time, they have a lot to do, such as increasing the construction of electricity facilities on islands and urging electricity to all islands.
Island power supply has always been the most serious problem that plagues island development. At present, the most funny power supply model in the world is naturally the construction of thermal power plants.
But building a thermal power plant in the Kalapag Islands requires too much investment. All raw materials need to be transported from the mainland, and fuel must be purchased and the environment polluted, which is not a good deal.
Finally, Chen Yonglu and Xiao Feng, together with Daliang and others discussed, decided to use wind power plus photovoltaic models to solve the problem of island power supply.
This sea area is already full of wind, and many hills on deserted islands also have the conditions to build photovoltaic power stations, which can effectively solve the problem of power shortage here.
Besides, there is not a large population here, and it is enough to generate electricity by relying on these renewable energy sources.
After having this idea, Xiao Feng directly asked Daliang and others to order a large number of photovoltaic power plants and wind power equipment from China.
In recent years, many domestic photovoltaic companies are hungry. When there were state support subsidies a few years ago, they could still live a gangster.
However, after the country has gradually reduced subsidies in recent years, these photovoltaic power generation companies have been revealed. In the past, they only spent on concept speculation and made quick money, but did not pay attention to investing in R&D, which led to their serious lack of technical capabilities.
At this time, the shortcomings are completely exposed. Once the state subsidies are gone, one of these photovoltaic companies will lose one by one, and none of them can make money at all.
After all, there is no core technology!
On the one hand, the photoelectric conversion rate is too low. On the other hand, the core control chip technology of photoelectric conversion is all in the hands of Japanese and German companies, so they cannot make money at all.
This time, Xiao Feng sent them through Daliang. It can be said that several domestic photovoltaic manufacturers have stolen the heads. Although they have to bear the freight and are responsible for installation and maintenance, they can still make some money. It is better to sit at home and stare at me!
Like them, there are also wind power companies!
They were overjoyed to receive the order from Tongguo. How could they say overseas orders be too much and face?
The most important thing is to make money! Most domestic wind power companies are half-dead, and they are about to starve to death.
Speaking of wind power, those who know it actually know that this is a clean energy that is more reliable than photovoltaics, and even much more reliable than photovoltaics.
For example, internationally, one-third of the power supply in California, the United States is solved by wind power, and more than half of Spain's power supply relies on wind power.
In Sweden, Denmark and Norway, the windmill power generation technology is even more impressive.
There are also many big windmills in the country, but why are wind power companies not easy to get along?
It’s really because there are too many thermal power plants in China!
What about the domestic economy now? Many thermal power plants cannot operate at full capacity. How dare you connect a large amount of wind power to the grid?
After all, thermoelectric enterprises support a whole industrial chain, from the research and development and manufacturing of thermoelectric equipment, to mining, selling coal, and transportation. There are tens of millions of people in this industrial chain.
As for wind power, if you set up a windmill, it is enough to have a few people to maintain it!
So in terms of economic benefits, windmill power generation is indeed a very clean and efficient energy source, but in terms of social benefits, it is not worthy of large-scale promotion, at least not worthy of large-scale promotion at present.
But this is not a problem in the Kalapag Islands. What we need here is cost-effective and environmentally friendly, so it is suitable for wind power generation and photovoltaic power generation to be used here.
Several domestic companies that received orders sent a pioneer team to conduct local inspections in less than three days.
These people were like chicken blood, and their chests were slamming. Within half a month, they would give them a plan to build all the power plants and substations within three months to completely solve the power supply problem in the region.
This is the speed of China!
Xiao Feng didn't think anything was wrong, but Chen Yonglu and the others were so excited that they burst into tears. If they were to find local companies in Tongguo, they could have three to five months of investigations alone.
Then we argue, and finally purchase, and it will take at least one year to start construction of the power station, and it will take three to five years to build Chengdu. By then, the daylily will be cold.
At the same time, Xiao Feng is also conducting a survey on the livestock industry in Tongguo!
In the past, Xiao Feng knew that the Copper Kingdom was one of the earliest beef importers approved by China. Originally, his Copper Kingdom was a major beef producer, but it was only after investigation that he found out.
It turns out that the most exported copper country to China is not beef, but pork and chicken.
The Copper Kingdom was not a major beef exporter, but it was precisely because it was the first country in South America to formally sign a free trade agreement with China and enjoyed zero tariffs on meat exports, so the Copper Kingdom has only started to breed beef cattle in recent years and exported to China.
But the scale of their exported beef is still incomparable to the scale of exported pork and chicken!
So far last year, the total price of meat exported to China by copper countries was about 500 million US dollars, but pork accounted for more than half, chicken accounted for about 200 million US dollars, and the remaining beef exported to China was only tens of millions of US dollars.
This was much beyond Xiao Feng’s expectations!
But now with him here, now, the Tongguo will have another company that exports a large amount of beef to China.
While inspecting the Tongguo breeding market, Xiao Feng also did another thing, which was to buy a large number of islands suitable for island breeding.
There are many such islands in the Copper Kingdom.
The Calapago Islands do not count, but there are countless islands offshore areas of the Copper Kingdom.
These islands are very close to the mainland of the Tong Kingdom, and there are no people living on the islands, and most of them are abandoned deserted islands.
Some giants like the Western Pacific Investment Group are willing to acquire these islands and engage in island breeding. Whether it is the Copper Government or the local government, they are welcomed with both hands and feet.
Chapter completed!