As the first generation of colonists, Zhao Qishan and others had a strong desire to develop and had good action. They gradually formed a solid local force in the development of Qingdao Town. This situation is common in various towns in the south and north.

This part of the emerging wealthy class that benefited from the Earl's policy, including private ranchers, corporate investors and industrial and commercial owners, also firmly supported the Earl's hard-core crops, which played an important role in stabilizing the entire social structure. It is also the first-time richer group that the Chinese immigrant group talks about, and has played a good demonstration and leading role.

The heavy rain fell intermittently for three days, and the river overflowed and the river flowed, and ponds of all sizes could be seen everywhere around Qingdao Town.

When the clouds stop and the rain closes, the sun will shine.

The grass that is fully moistened by the rain grows vigorously, and the fields are filled with small white, pink and yellow flowers. The air still contains heavy water vapor, and the clear sky is painted with a colorful rainbow bridge.

In Qingdao towns, in Burns, in Darwin, in northern Queensland, a new wave of development is continuing...

Shangri-La Island

Qingshui River Basin

A riverboat broke through the calm water and drove forward. The general manager Wu Xuewen walked out of the cabin. He was wearing a light-breasted coat, round sunglasses on his nose, and leisurely with a palm fan in his hand. The cool wind on the river made people feel relaxed.

Look around

The lush green plants and forests along the river are continuous, and the shadows of tall trees are reflected in the water, scattered by the waves raised by the ship.

The Qingshui River Basin has a radius of more than 300,000 square kilometers. It is a typical tropical and marine climate. For most of the year, the temperature is around 20 degrees to 30 degrees. There is no distinction between the four seasons of the year, only the difference between the dry season and the rainy season.

The annual temperature difference between Shangri-La Island is very small. For example, in the southwest, Longmen Town, has a relatively low temperature due to its higher altitude, with an average temperature of 21.5℃ in February and an average temperature of 18.8℃ in July, and an annual difference of less than 3℃.

The temperature decreases with the increase of altitude. For example, Port Moresby, with an average altitude of 30 meters, has an average temperature of 28.4℃ in January, an average temperature of 25.4℃ in August, and an average annual temperature of 27.1℃.

High-altitude areas are much cooler. In areas with an average altitude of 2,000 meters, for example, the Koi Mining Area has an average temperature of below 20℃ for eight months throughout the year. In mountainous areas with an altitude of 4,000 meters, the average temperature is below 0℃ for several months each year. At 4,400 meters, it is the snow line, which is in the range of snow-capped mountains with snow-capped mountains all year round.

Ten inland river ships sailed on the main channel of Qingshui River, often alarming large areas of birds in the surrounding forests "hula" and flew into the sky, chirping and hustling.

The propeller stirs the calmness of the river, and from time to time you can see fat big fish jumping out of the water and splashing large splashes of crystal water.

Wu Xuewen looked at the fleet of transporting personnel and supplies, and a sense of construction ambition suddenly arose in his heart.

The construction plan for the Qingshui River Basin is taking shape step by step in its own hands. After two and a half years of construction, Tianshu City has a population of 133,000, making it the second largest city in Shangri-La Region after its capital Moresby, with full development momentum.

After success, it received great attention from the Count and focused on funds and manpower. The second step of construction plan was launched 4 months ahead of schedule, and the development plan was further accelerated.

Since the second half of last year, the construction of the three towns of Tianxuan, Tianji and Tianquan has started one after another. Now eight months have passed, the three new towns have begun to take shape and have begun to accept a large number of immigrant population expansion.

The population of Shangri-La area continues to grow rapidly, from 381,000 in June last year to 529,000. The main growth driver comes from the development of Qixing Town and Longmen Town in the Qingshui River Basin, which is expected to exceed the 530,000 population mark by the end of April.

Among them, Qixing Town Development is the main force in digesting immigration and colonization, with more than 10,000 people per month.

More than 10,000 immigrants were scattered in Tianshu City, Tianxuan Town, Tianji Town and Tianquan Town, which means that 4 to 5 administrative villages are added to each place, which is easy to deal with.

Establishing settlements, burning wasteland and reclamation, building roads and bridges, building irrigation and water diversion facilities, and building village and community houses. A series of actions have formed standard processes. Grassroots administrative personnel who graduated from Chiying School have grown up rapidly in actual work and have become the main grassroots force to support the expansion of the scale of colonization in a step-by-step manner.

This time, the fleet led by Wu Xuewen will go to the upper reaches of Tianquan Town, establish a new Yuheng Town at the river bank of the Qingshui River and tributaries, which is about 80 kilometers away, and measure the specific locations of Kaiyang Town and Yaoguang Town to lay a solid foundation for next year's construction plan.

The average displacement of inland ships in the fleet is about 500 to 800 tons, with a total of 11 ships, carrying a large number of immigrants and construction workers, as well as tractors and other construction materials. As the first troops to build Yuheng Town, they took the lead in stepping on this deserted river beach.

The colleague also has a grassroots administrative staff of 81 people, all of whom are young people from the Chicken Eagle School, some of whom are old birds who have worked for several years, and some are new people, working according to the principle of using the old to lead the new.

Now the breeding work in Shangri-La has formed a fixed process, and the training of grassroots personnel who play an important role in it is continuing. There is a special breeding school in Tianshu City, where newcomers can only get on their jobs after a year of comprehensive training.

Tuolian School recruits more than 400 people every year, all of which are outstanding students who graduated from Chiying School. They will conduct further education here, from ideas to tropical disease prevention and control prevention and service prevention, from management studies to publicity and encouragement, from colonization work processes to colonial policies, all of them must be strengthened.

Proof of

The colonization talent training system in Shangri-La Region has been initially completed, not only providing sufficient grassroots talent support for the colonization and development of the Qingshui River Basin, but also continuously transported to Borneo and northern Queensland. Even the expeditionary contingents to Africa brought 25 graduates, with praise from the crowd.

This made Wu Xuewen feel very pleased. As a senior executive in Queensland, he knew that the next direction of colonial development for Lord Earl was mainly in Africa in recent years.

Therefore, the enrollment work of Tianshu City Tuoqi School will be further expanded this year, mainly facing high school graduates and outstanding veterans. It has expanded from more than 400 people to more than 800 students a year. It has set up and refined multiple majors and added many courses, such as world geography, world history and economics. The academic system has also changed from one year to two years, and the name has been changed to Tianshu City Development Planning College, which has removed the sensitive word "tuoqi".

With the growth of faculty and the refinement of curriculum, the "Development Planning College" will be transformed into a three-year liberal arts university in the future, becoming the first higher college in Tianshu City, providing Queensland with a steady stream of mid- and low-end administrative talents.

After a simple lunch on the boat, the marching fleet arrived at an open river, where the Qingshui River meets nearby tributaries, forming a wide water surface similar to a lake.

Yuheng Town will be built on the hilly heights of this river beach, which can avoid the influence of floods. It is about 8 to 9 kilometers away from the riverside pier. Looking at the end of the view on the boat, there is a large black plot of land that is the selected town site.

There are traces left by large-scale burning of wasteland. After the rain, countless tender buds emerged from the black land after the burning of wasteland, indicating that this is a fertile land.

The average annual rainfall in Yuheng Town is around 2,600 to 3,000, with sufficient sunshine and abundant rainfall, slightly higher than the level in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It is very suitable for the development of rice, rubber and sugar planting. It is an important large rubber and sugar production area in the plan. It is planned to develop super-large rubber plantations here to meet the tire rubber needs of agricultural tractors and bicycles, and export them overseas.

The fleet docked on the side of a simple wooden trest bridge in the river bay, where cables were left to moor. It is not the rainy season now, and the inland river water flows calmly. Two inland river ships were moored side by side, forming a long-distance fleet of hundreds of meters.

Compared with sea ships, inland ships have lower freeboards and simple structures, so they do not need to resist strong winds and waves in the ocean, so they are also cheaper.

The main cost is steel and labor. The 6mm marine thin plate produced by Hongshan Iron and Steel Plant is about 4 pounds and 2 shillings per ton. The market price fluctuates slightly, and the market is between more than ten pennies.

To build a 500-ton inland ship, steel plates are used between about 220 tons and 280 tons (some upper-layer cabin buildings use wooden to reduce costs), plus manual and main-powered diesel engines, propellers, rudders, etc., the construction cost is about 2,300 pounds, and the sales price is no more than 3,000 pounds.

Calculate with this

The price of a 120-ton small inland ship is about 480 pounds, and 200 tons is about 1,000 pounds (all of which are made of wooden ceilings to reduce costs), and is suitable for large-scale promotion and application.

For example, there are already 6 inland shipyards in Shu City, and several shipyards are queuing up to apply. These shipyards specialize in building ships for inland shipping, from a capacity of 120 tons to 1,500 tons. This is also the main force in transportation in the Qingshui River Basin in the future. It is suitable for private purchases due to its high quality and low price.

Shangri-La Bank has launched a credit business for private ship purchases, with an annual interest rate of 12%, the loan amount does not exceed 50% of the amount of the ship purchase, and it is necessary to pay 3% of the ship purchase payment as insurance, which is also quite ruthless.

Because the insurance is calculated based on 3% of the total purchase price. To purchase a 200-ton inland cargo steel ship worth 920 pounds, the insurance amount needs to be paid 27 pounds and 12 shillings. This money is paid every year during the loan repayment period, and the loan interest is paid at the same time.

Even so, it cannot stop people from having their own property.

If you don’t have enough money, friends, or share shares or lend them everywhere, you have to collect enough money. In just a few months, Tianshu City has developed more than 100 inland ships, showing strong growth potential.

This time, a large amount of manpower and materials were transported to Yuheng Town, which was to hire local ships in Tianshu Town to transport them. The smallest one had 300 tons, and the largest one had 850 tons. The largest one had a cost of 850 tons of steel ship. It can be seen that the people are still very rich.

Logically speaking, this money can build two 500-ton inland river ships. Wouldn't these two ships beautify?

In fact, the account is not calculated like this. To drive a large 850-ton ship, two 3.5-liter high-horsepower diesel engines, two-axle, two-scull, two-rudder, and two-rudder. Since the ship is large, it also needs to be equipped with separate anchor chain compartments, small-horsepower diesel anchor chain machines, etc. All the configurations are of course not cheap.

Such a ship is suitable for a family of 4 or 5 people, while two ships need to hire personnel. If there are troublesome problems such as short cargo, it is possible that you will lose more than you will earn.

This is by no means an unnecessarily worrying. For hundreds of years, the shortage of goods has been an unavoidable disease that cannot be cured for a long time.

Think about it

Ship transports for days and nights, and the goods are completely in the hands of the ship owners, especially bulk grain, sugar and tobacco leaves. It is impossible for the cargo owner to arrange for people to escort every ship. At that time, hehe...

The cargo owner also has precautions. The quantity must be accepted when entering the warehouse. Of course, the goods are missing must be compensated according to the price. If the goods are not much, the goods will be deducted directly from the transportation fee. If the goods are not much, the compensation will be reversed.

So, it is true that I can only make more money by building two 500 tons steel ships, but not a big ship with an 850 tons.
Chapter completed!