After seeing off the guests, Li Fushou returned to his spacious dome study and began to process official documents. The documents from Australia arrived via a express cruise ship, and the long-dead news came.

In an emergency, a telegram was sent through the telegram bureau.

Fortunately, during the four months since leaving the Red River Valley, the Red River Valley has been operating in an orderly manner according to the established procedures and no major changes have occurred.

The only thing that Li Fushou did not expect was the surge in free immigration, which was a sequelae of his trip to Shanghai and Gusu Prefecture. The demonstration effect of showing off his wealth was too great. Every freighter to Australia was full of immigrants.

United Shipping made a lot of money in the 19th century. In addition to the profits of transporting goods, each voyage can carry at least 400 Chinese people who go to Australia to make gold. This is the net income of 4,000 pounds.

The freighters were equipped with simple wooden houses, and even the side of the ship was lined up, corridors, cargo holds, rear decks and even aisles were filled, and even such conditions were still in short supply.

After the Taishan Express Freighter returned to Australia, it became a fast freighter dedicated to transporting passengers. It can carry more than 2,300 immigrants in one way, which is equivalent to the profit of a long voyage to Europe.

In just the past three months, as many as 46,000 free immigrants to Australia, and the Li family alone exceeded 2,000.

The same profitable is Huitong Bank, which issued loans, can lend nearly 2 million pounds with the Huitong bank notes issued by Bailang, creating huge demand while also promoting the full development of various industries in the Red River Valley.

This item alone can bring hundreds of thousands of pounds of income based on an annual interest rate of 10%.

While the population is growing rapidly, the consequences have also emerged.

The long-term shortage of Red River Valley ranch has been greatly alleviated, and dozens of pioneer groups have been organized to develop agriculture and animal husbandry in the newly expanded territory. Along the southeast coast of Australia, the pioneer groups have spread like pearl chains and gathered in towns.

The sheep that had grown to a scale of tens of millions, and the herd of tens of thousands of cattle were broken up by the pioneer group, driving them all the way south, west, and north, and establishing settlements in a planned manner.

even so

The influx of people in a short period of time also seemed too much. The gold mines in the Palmer River Basin were overcrowded, and many people were unable to find jobs at the port terminal. In Australia, where population is scarce, there was a problem of difficulty in finding employment.

Li Fushou looked through the information and found that there were more than 200,000 Chinese in the Red River Valley, and most of them poured into Australia within this year, which made him feel headache and happy.

In this era, population is everything.

In a foreign country in Australia, if Chinese people don’t need to mobilize, they will naturally gather together to keep warm, and their cohesion will be unprecedentedly high.

The Red River Valley has the "Xinghua Association" militia organization and the Hongmen gang organization. This time, we will also establish a party organization participating in politics and policy-making. The primary goal is to firmly control the Queensland parliamentary seats and executive power, open a hole in the Australian mainland, and let the torrent vent until it spreads throughout the continent.

Li Fushou won respect with his luxurious banquets and generous writing in the British upper class, successfully integrated into the London upper class, and found a strong protective umbrella.

To put it bluntly, as long as you do not rebel publicly, with the noble title and the network of relationships organized by London, the noble Earl of Queensland can do whatever you want in Australia.

After returning to Australia

Li Fushou will show his strength and kick all the hinderers away, confirming the reputation of the Earl of Queensland.

Is the Earl of Queensland just a title?

Wrong, outrageously, European aristocratic feudals often use territories and jurisdictions as well as other associations as aristocratic titles, which almost has formed a consensus.

Even though these guys who were kicked away accused the Earl of Queensland of Queensland of all their hands, doing whatever they wanted, occupying a large number of ranches and gold mines, and suspected of serious smuggling of immigrants as the source of labor in their factory, exploiting and abusing Chinese workers, and excluding white people...

Even if the lawsuit is fought to Tangning Street, no one will question it because it is a provocation to the high status of the entire aristocratic group.

Is there any problem with the Duke of Lancaster in control of Nancaster?

Is there any problem with the Earl of Leeds controlling the city of Leeds?

Is there any problem with the Earl of Queensland controlling Queensland?

The thunder strike from the power level at the top of the pyramid will instantly wipe out these doubts and everyone is silent.

Don't forget

Behind the nobles involved in the exploitation, there is also a Duke of Victor who covers the sky and the sun. The interests of both sides are closely linked, and behind the Duke is Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

What is the British creed? There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests.

What is Li Fushou's upper-class social network woven like a hard-working little spider?

The purpose is to suppress these faint calls from remote dominions, kill one to warn a hundred, and thus establish the absolute authority of the Earl of Queensland.

What is the purpose of making friends with Viscount Edward Nelson?

It was because he was attracted by his deep connections and the huge influence in the Royal Navy, and eliminated the biggest hidden dangers in the Red River Valley...the South Pacific Task Force.

According to the latest news;

Several major officers, the current third-class battleship "Old Woman", including the captain, were investigated by the Military Law Department for misconduct in Sydney Harbor, which damaged the reputation of the Royal Navy. They were punished in a variety of ways, leaving obvious stains on their resumes.

Viscount Edward Nelson only expressed his concern, and the Royal Navy Fleet responded quickly and beat some naval officers of the subordinate South Pacific Task Force, demonstrating their huge influence.

Perhaps Viscount Edward Nelson could only obediently surrender under the pomegranate skirt of Lord Emilia Blunt, looking like a fool.

But there is no top mathematician in this world who is a fool, and the British royal family will not award high honors such as the Guardian Order to a fool, and the fool will not have great influence in the aristocratic house.

It can only be said that it originates from the tradition of the Nelson family. The passionate love makes people blind, especially the sneaky and inappropriate love that makes people crazy.

How can one know the wonderful things if one is not a person in this way?

During a chat

Viscount Edward Nelson said in a faint tone that these naval officers may be transferred from the combat ship and sent to the training base to train those naval rookies, and there is no hope of making a comeback in this life.

One thing defeats another thing, this is the power of the Nelson family, and it is worthy of Li Fushou and Hills' efforts to make friends, and weave the interests of both sides together to form an alliance.

Why do you have to go through war if you can solve things with money?

Doesn’t war cost money? Can’t people die? Will they not lose? What are the consequences if they lose?

Among the abcd options in front of Li Fushou, armed struggle is the last and most unavoidable choice, and it is not easy to do it.

A ray of early summer sun shines in along the glazed windows, forming mottled spots of light in the spacious and quiet study, casting a layer of mysterious light on this luxurious study.

Li Fushou sat behind the wide French gold-patterned palace desk, with slender fingers hitting thick documents, thinking about the next development direction of the Red River Valley.

The most urgent task is to solve the large number of employed people. Before the problem of agricultural machinery is solved, resettlement of population through agriculture is a low-level and inefficient way, and only some can be appropriately increased.

There are three main ways;

First, vigorously expand the herds, with the huge scale of the Red River Valley pasture today, the herds can increase by 2 to 3 times, provide more wool and beef and mutton, and further expand production scale.

Honghe Wool Spinning Factory 2 and Factory 3 are preparing for this, and it is expected to solve the employment problems of at least 12,000 female workers and 2,000 male workers.

In addition to the 6,000 people required by Honghe Wool Spinning Factory No. 1, this item alone can solve the employment problem of 20,000 immigrants.

The resulting social needs, including clothing, food, clothing, travel, entertainment, having children, etc., can create employment for at least 15,000 people in society and enter a healthy development track.

Second, develop heavy industry.

The plan includes the second phase of the Hongshan Iron and Steel Plant, which is currently in full swing. By the beginning of next year, a steel production capacity of 200,000 tons will be formed and 1,600 jobs will be directly provided.

This will drive the production of coal mines, iron ore and downstream steel products, and can create more than 1,200 job opportunities again.

In addition, Hongshan Shipyard is expanding its production of four 10,000-ton ocean freighters, and the fleet of United Shipping Company has increased rapidly in the 19th century, and the entire heavy industry and collateral effects can create 10,000 jobs again.

Third, investing huge amounts of money to build a coastal railway, from Brisbane to Sydney, will create at least 16,000 jobs, driving the Red River Valley's economy and strength to rise rapidly and radiate to more far-reaching areas.

This is a truly strategic move. Only when Li Fushou truly controls the situation in Queensland and uses his influence to promote the passage of relevant railway construction bills in South Wales, this coastal railway can be truly implemented.

But before that

It does not prevent Li Fushou from taking the lead in arranging engineering and technical personnel to investigate the railway construction location, routes and villages along the way, and make complete plans and construction preparations.

This includes the steel plant reserved a large amount of rail production capacity and built coastal roads in the same direction, which can be used for engineering vehicles or for long-distance carriages.

Store a large amount of wood and prepare supplies including tents and daily necessities. With just one order, you can put them into the railway construction.

The towns built along the railway line will unfold like pearl chains. They will play a strong supporting role in the construction of the railway. After the railway is built, they will provide a large amount of supply of goods and customers, which in turn will promote regional economic growth.

The planning and preparation work are being carried out in an orderly manner, but Li Fushou is always feeling unhappy when he is in command in London.

Even though he saw some errors and omissions in policy implementation, it was not so important that he issued orders directly through trans-aircraft telegrams, and the way of delivering documents through cruise ships was too slow and inefficient, which made him miss the three pillars of his studies in Europe even more.

Some good policies are often out of order in implementation. It is not because the host is ill-behaved, but because of the limitations of his ability, he cannot be forced.

If two watchdogs stay at home, can you still expect them to straighten out all the work of education, economic development, resettlement of population, maintain order, and coordinate production. Do you do a beautiful job?

It is obviously impossible. The watchdog can only be optimistic about the home. No matter how many it is, it will be difficult for others to force others.

It is impossible to expect Rome to be built in one day, nor can it expect a gold digger to quickly grow into a commander in just a few years. It is obviously unrealistic.
Chapter completed!