The construction of Huangyang Port has been going on for four years.

In four years, the area surrounded by shrubs, river valleys and terraces did not change much in the natural landform, but the coastal city on the banks of the Yellow Sheep River (Santa Cruz River) has undergone earth-shaking changes. This change not only refers to the water-saving agriculture that has been developed in the local years, nor to those fruit forests that look "stunted", nor to the vegetable garden industry developed around the houses of the suburban residents. This so-called change refers more to the economic, social and population changes. In short, the rapidly developing wool textile industry has caused a large amount of capital and population to flow into the emerging city of Huangyang Port, a large amount of exports of wool textiles, frozen meat, leather, animal fat, and seafood, which has made the local economy more active and ultimately affected all aspects of everyone's life.

"In four years, the population of Huangyang Port has more than tripled, and now it has reached nearly 5,000 people, which is half of the county's population." On February 25, 1660, the weather in Patagonia always turned colder than in the north. Former Army officer and North Patagonia Regional Commissioner Yang Mingyang sighed in a locally produced wool coat.

Next to him was Liu Ang, the president of Nantec Corporation. He was invited by Yang Mingyang to go to Huangyang Port to discuss the wool trade, and take a vacation and hunt. You should know that the banks of the Santa Cruz River have always been a hunting holy place. Whether it is the huge Andean vultures, the herds of deer, ostrich, or the priceless foxes and cougars, they are the best targets of the rich generation on the east coast who are "fed and full".

The holiday is coming to an end. Yang Mingyang and Liu Ang, two officials from the army system, strolled by the Yellow Sheep River with their entourage. At this time, a large water-saving agricultural area has been opened on the riverside. Although the precipitation in this area is sparse and the weather is relatively cold, it is still okay to plant rye, oats, barley, potatoes, corn and other crops, which has added some gaps in local grains (although most of them still need to be imported from the local area).

Just like the water-saving agriculture in the Orange River Basin in South Africa, the Yellow Sheep River also adopts drip irrigation. However, the difference from South Africa is that the terrain on both sides of the Yellow Sheep River is relatively high, which leads to a very embarrassing state, that is, the water in the Yellow Sheep River is extremely abundant, but it cannot be used properly, because a considerable part of its river bank is high cliffs, which makes it very inconvenient to use the river water. Therefore, people on the east bank can only choose some low-level river banks, and then use the latest 7.5-horsepower steam pump specially designed for agriculture to pump the river water up and drip irrigate it on the farmland through the pipeline. So you will see that the river bank seems to be boundless gravel beaches, occasionally dotted with some green farmland, which makes people pleasing to the eye.

It is worth mentioning that this new 7.5 horsepower steam pump produced by Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory uses a vertical fire tube boiler. The advantages are heat transfer, fire production and SAFE, which are suitable for intermittent work and continuous work. Moreover, there are only three parts of the steam unit, and handling is not too difficult and very convenient to apply. It has been promoted to various industries - not only agriculture, but also construction industry is gradually being applied.

"In the past, all the wool in places including Huangyang Port and Baima Port (established in early 1658, with more than 1,000 residents, located in the later San Julian Port) were exported to the local area. This was a considerable loss for our people and even the regional administration." Yang Mingyang said with a red face: "But after the workshops were established, the wool profit rights in Patagonia will no longer spill overflow, and a large amount of profits remain in Patagonia, which is very important for improving our urban infrastructure and improving people's living standards."

Yang Mingyang's words are not bragging. In fact, United Textile Factory recruited a large number of Italian textile workers (in order to attract such skilled workers, those Tuscany and Venetians in the Old World who could not speak Chinese were granted nationality, provided that you have good skills and rich experience enough) and introduced many latest textile machines, wool textiles began to be produced in large quantities. These wool wool products with good quality are quite marketable in Patagonia and the affiliated areas of the Southern Railway, and they occupied these colder temperatures at the beginning.

As the Northwest Reclamation Bank's physical loans - generally in the form of cattle and sheep - become increasingly powerful, the herdsmen on the east coast spread faster and faster on the grasslands, the number of sheep began to increase in geometric proportions, and the wool production naturally increased day by day. The only thing that can restrict them now is probably the lack of manpower. After all, shearing wool requires enough manpower.

The increase in wool production brought about the booming development of wool washing factories and textile mills. Even after seeing that the United Textile mill in Huangyang Port has made good profits, small-scale wool washing workshops and textile workshops have also appeared in Baima Port and Ximendu area. The economic boom of the wool textile industry swept across Patagonia.

"Although the local environment is also suitable for grazing, it is mostly used to raise cattle and horses, which complements you." Liu Ang exclaimed after hearing this, "After all, no one is willing to use the best land for inefficient grazing, and even if grazing, they should raise cattle and horses with higher economic value. Who can raise sheep?"

In fact, there is another fact in Liu Ang's words that did not clearly state, that is, with the tough policies implemented by Yang Mingyang and Cai Huaze for many years, the living environment of the indigenous people in Patagonia has greatly deteriorated and the population has also decreased greatly. This undoubtedly makes the sphere of influence of the East Coast people become larger and larger, and correspondingly, the range of the ranch is also getting larger and larger.

You just need to look at the map and you will understand that Patagonia's area is four times that of the East Coast prairie that is suitable for grazing (of course it is more suitable for farming). Not to mention that the East Coast prairie is now the most important area in the country. Towns, arable land, factories, railways, highways, reservoirs, forests, etc. It is impossible to use it to grazle sheep on a large scale (even if there is a little ranch, it is used to raise cattle and horses). Therefore, it is not surprising that Patagonia's wool industry defeated the local area and seized most of the raw material market share. In fact, most of the wool production in Argentina in later generations also originated from the Patagonia region. They even built a large number of railway lines in Patagonia to transport wool resources scattered on the vast platform to connect each other, which shows that.

The sheep are huge, and the amount of "by-products" such as meat and dairy products inevitably increases. In Huangyang Port, a coastal port with relatively good conditions, a refrigerated ship from the South China Sea Transportation Company comes to transport frozen mutton almost every month. Although the benefits are not as large as wool, they are not without any small compensation. Especially recently, the Army has purchased a considerable amount of frozen mutton, which seems to be reserved for large-scale military operations. After all, mutton in Patagonia is cheap.

Huangyang County - a newly established county in January 1660, is also the 41st county-level administrative unit in the country. It has four settlements: Huangyang Town, Baima Township, Ximendu Township, and Shuanghui Township (the intersection of Huangyang River and Chilia River, hence the name), with a population of about 9,000 - so, Hai'an County in the north is similar. The only difference there is probably that many towns are located in the valley oasis area, with sufficient light (less clouds, very long daytime), whether it is planting or orchard industry.

The development is good, not to mention that the ceramics from the Second Porcelain Factory were produced. However, there are also many settlements in the county under Cai Huaze that are located in the terraced pastoral areas. Although the number of sheep populations is not large due to the inadequate loans of the Northwest Reclamation Bank, it cannot be considered small. Therefore, under the instruction of Yang Mingyang, Cai Huaze vigorously attracted investment in the local area (this guy even lets his family go barefoot and opens a factory in person) to develop the wool textile industry to obtain profits and develop the local area.

Liu Ang came to Huangyang Port this time to meet Yang Mingyang, a commissioner of the Northern Patagonia Regional Administration. One of the purposes is to discuss the trade issue. The jurisdiction of the Nantiet Railway also has a certain amount of wool and roma wool resources, which has not been used well in recent years. Liu Ang planned to discuss with Yang Mingyang to establish a joint venture with Xingnan Port. Then, relying on the channels and relations of the joint textile factory, he found a way to attract some workers from Italy, and at the same time he also selected from the Qing and Ming immigration.

Some weavers, together as workers in newly established joint venture factories, used the resources of the Southern Railway affiliated area (also known as Southern Patagonia) to develop the wool textile industry nearby to make profits. Recently, Xingnan Port began to build urban horse-drawn rail cars like a local big city. At the same time, Xingnan Street Vehicle Company was officially established, which cost a lot of money. The wool textile industry looks quite promising (especially when entering the foreign market in the future), and it will make up for the huge infrastructure construction.

Although Yang Mingyang was a little unhappy about Nantie Company's wool textile industry, after all, this means competition. But considering that they could not stop them at all, it would be better to agree to Nantie Company's request and make a joint venture with them. This would be more or less beneficial, so that even a single big boy would not be able to lose. You should know that Nantie Company's monthly capital flow may be higher than the total annual fiscal revenue of the entire Northern Patagonia region (including some material subsidies issued by the local government). If they want to do something seriously, there is no reason not to fail, at most a few years later. The current situation is that their main energy is to build and maintain railways, lucrative re-export trade, and expand territory in Chile, and they have no intention of doing anything else. Therefore, this requires Yang Mingyang's assistance. Otherwise, wouldn't they develop this promising industry by themselves?

After thinking through this section, Yang Mingyang stopped being pretentious and agreed to Liu Ang’s request with ease. Both sides were happy. The following are the details of the cooperation discussions between the two members of the country. For this, Yang Mingyang could only go south and northern Patagonia "to the same lineage". The joint venture between the two parties left a large amount of profit in Patagonia, which was always overflowing than the wool profit rights. Just like Argentina in later generations, Patagonia’s wool was transported to Buenos Aires for processing and production, and the vast Taiwan area became a pure raw material export site.

Perhaps the only win-win cooperation between the Southern Railway Affiliated Area and the Northern Patagonia region is probably the only one that is not very popular with the local Dayuhe Machine Textile Factory. This company, originally owned by the East Coast Company, has a large proportion of wool textiles in its products after many capital increase and share expansion, and the proportion of wool textiles in its products is extremely high. Moreover, its raw materials are mostly from the East Coast Prairie, Hejian area and the intensive animal husbandry in the Hejian area and the Yazi Lake basin. The sources are scattered and the costs are high, so it cannot be compared with the Patagonia region. Therefore, this company is very dissatisfied with the integration of wool resources on the Patagonia platform. Although it also holds 20% of the shares in the United Textile Factory, it does have a lot of concerns about such companies that have shaken their roots.

But they don’t have any good solutions now. They either improve their management and technology level and reduce production costs, or simply move the factory to Hai'an Port or Huangyang Port, and there is no other way. Because former army horse manure such as Cai Huaze, Yang Mingyang and even Liu Ang in the Patagonia Taiwan area are all fucking unreasonable bastards. These people are clearly going to engage in wool and wool spinning trusts. What can you do? Is it possible to sue them? It’s impossible!

Liu Ang did not stay in Huangyang Port for too long. Early in the morning on February 28, he took a passenger and cargo ship from the Atlantic liner company to Xingnan Port. The duplex project of the Nanci Railway (including the first-line branch line) was entering a critical moment. He was worried if he didn't go to self-study and check it.

On the day Liu Ang and others left, several purchasing managers of the Army Department also took a boat to Huangyang Port. They transferred money through Northwest Reclamation Bank and bought 50 tons of frozen mutton and more pickled smooth fish in one go, calamari (there are fishing ships in Huangyang Port, but the scale is small), and it seems that they are going to make a big fuss. Moreover, these Army Department personnel also secretly revealed that the staff who came to the six counties of Patagonia to recruit cavalry have also been on the road and are conservative.

It is estimated that these staff members will recruit 1,000-1,500 militias with excellent riding skills in the entire Taiwan area (including Tierra Tierra ). These people will join the local cavalry battalion (550 cavalry) to participate in a "large-scale military operation" scheduled for the second half of the year. As for what military operation it is, the purchasing managers of the Army Department did not make it clear. Although they had some speculations in their minds and some rumors in the Army Department, who dared to pronounce it? Do you want to die? It really seems that military law is a decoration!
Chapter completed!