Chapter 2481

As a senior technician in the group of time travellers, Yu Feng is naturally qualified to use the large database of Fort Victory to query various secret information, including various mineral deposit information. He is also one of the few regarding mineral deposit information in the Sumatra Island area.

As one of the insiders, he believed that although the information provided by Tian Yeyou to the Xingdao Colonial Zone was not false, it had a certain misleading effect, causing Roger and Tan Juren to make wrong judgments about the prospects of local industrial development.

Yu Feng obviously has a more comprehensive understanding of the industrial system than Tian Yeyou. In addition, he is also engaged in shipping and has a good understanding of the transportation costs of bulk materials such as coal and iron. Naturally, he clearly understands how to build a complete industrial system in this area.

How difficult will it be.

Therefore, in his reply to the Xingdao Colonial Zone, Yu Feng clearly pointed out, "The development of your region should be based on environmental conditions, focusing on mineral development and petrochemical industry, and do not pursue large-scale and complete. If you are specialized and precise, in the future,

The future is promising.”

Of course, Yu Feng was very happy to satisfy the Sing Tao Colonial District's request for engines, generators and other equipment. Since Sing Tao provided a series of exclusive benefits to Yu's Shipping Company, it was natural to reciprocate the favor.

matter.

Considering that the local area already has preliminary oil production capacity, fuel supply is not a problem. Whether it is an engine or a generator, the cost of use will be very low for Xingdao. However, for Xingdao, which has no industrial foundation, there is actually no

Due to the demand for large amounts of electricity, the scope of application is still relatively limited at this stage.

But in any case, the development of the Dumai Oilfield Project has opened a new window for the Star Island Colony District, allowing this border area that has not received enough attention for many years to finally get a good sustainable development project. Star Island Colony

The development progress of the area is much slower than that of other overseas colonial areas, but the emergence of the Dumai Oilfield project can solve the most difficult financial problem in the development process for Xingdao. In the future, Roger and Tan Juren will no longer have to tie their hands and can gradually put many projects on hold.

Years of planning were launched one by one.

There are a large number of undeveloped areas in the South China Sea and the Java Sea. However, in the past, the Star Island Colony was limited by funds and manpower and could not operate large-scale development projects. Now that it has finally been possible to invite the great god Tian Yeyou to stay here, there will be more in the future.

Other mineral projects will enter the development stage, and the funding problems that have plagued Xingdao for many years are finally expected to be completely resolved.

Roger was finally able to dig out the "Star Island Garrison Plan" he wrote a few years ago and began to implement it one by one.

Most of the current garrison size of other overseas colonial areas at the same level as Star Island is division-level. Similar to the northern theater, which is a frontline area with frequent wars, there will also be cavalry battalions, artillery battalions, and amphibious battalions in addition to the regular establishment.

Independent establishments such as engineer battalions and reconnaissance battalions have considerable strength.

Looking at Xingdao, although Roger established a garrison organization such as the South China Sea Independent Battalion very early and upgraded it to the South China Sea Independent Battalion after the Battle of Manila during the Western Expedition in 1637, after that, due to the lack of funds and personnel,

Restricted by other objective factors, the growth rate of the garrison size has slowed down. So far, it still remains at the regiment level with less than 3,000 troops, far behind other colonial areas at the same level.

As for those advanced but expensive new weapons and equipment, due to limited financial resources, the Star Island Garrison cannot implement large-scale deployment and can only symbolically arm one or two companies. As for the naval fleet, due to the military expenses involved in building new warships

The number was even larger, and Roger could only insist on using the warships built in the early years. While wealthy places like Zhoushan Colonial Area were already building and equipping steam ironclads on their own, the naval fleet of Xingdao Colonial Area still had a considerable number of warships.

The boat is an old model built in the 1930s.

The commissioning of the Dumai Oilfield project allowed Roger to see the possibility of overtaking in the military field. As long as it can get technical support from China, Xingdao's navy has every chance to use internal combustion engines as the weapon in the next round of warship updates.

A new type of warship with a power propulsion device. It is foreseeable that the ease of use and speed provided by this new power system will exceed that of existing warships, and the cost of use in the Star Island Colony will also be much lower than that of coal.

Fuel for steam battleships - after all, before this, the coal used in the Star Island area had to be transported long distances by sea, and its cost was probably the highest among all overseas colonial areas.

For Civil Affairs Chief Tan Juren, the first goal he has to achieve is very simple, which is to use the development opportunities brought by the Dumai Oilfield project to introduce more immigrants to the Singdao Colonial Area. Only the population base

Only by going up there will Xingdao have enough labor force to realize other plans, including of course Roger's military expansion plan.

Before that, due to its location on the border, Xingdao became one of the main places of exile for serious criminals and prisoners of war. There were several hard labor camps in Xingdao alone, and thousands of prisoners were detained all year round. Although these

Prisoners are cheap labor that can be used at will, but because these prisoners often have extremely low personal cultural foundation, the tasks they can perform can only be the simplest manual labor, and the value they can produce is actually extremely limited.

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Such a special environment also makes it difficult for people in Haihan to have the will to immigrate to the Star Island Colonial Area, even though the conditions officially provided by Star Island for immigrants are not inferior to those in other colonial areas, even in terms of land quotas and tax collection.

Even with better preferential conditions, it is still difficult to attract immigrants to settle in Xingdao.

Today, the proportion of Han Chinese among the permanent population of Sing Tao is also the lowest among all overseas colonial areas, less than half. Even among the local troops, a considerable proportion of soldiers are Malays from Southeast Asia.

Thais, Indians, and blacks from East Africa and the Middle East provided by slave traders can be called a multinational force. Even Roger himself often joked that his troops were a motley army.

However, after the petrochemical project is built in Xingdao, the economic situation will inevitably be greatly improved. The local government will also have more funds to improve the local material living standards and improve the construction of health, culture, education, entertainment and other supporting facilities.

High income and a good living environment can be used as conditions to attract Han immigrants.

When the population base reaches a certain scale, the Sing Tao Colonial Zone can slowly wash away the public image of "a place of exile for criminals" and replace it with the image of an emerging industrial zone and a regional trade hub, thereby returning the area under its control to Haihan Overseas.

The development of the colonial area is on the right track.
Chapter completed!