With a crisp whistle, the "Sprint Champion" immigration ship docked at the pier of Gushan Port. Some shackled Australian aboriginal slave laborers unloaded bags of goods onto the trestle with the help of steam booms, although the special ship for immigrants could not theoretically be used to carry cargo, but due to the particularity of this type of ship (the center of gravity is slightly higher), for the sake of navigation safety, this kind of ship generally has a lot of ballast at the bottom of the cabin, some of which are coal-burned, while some are cargo.

One of the major items in the cabin this time was a large amount of sisal produced from the major plantations of New Huaxia Island. These sisal have been processed locally to make sisal fibers. These sisal fibers will be processed in Gushan Port for a second time to make ropes, fishing nets, and other products that require high fiber strength. A small portion of these handmade items are kept for personal use, but most of them will be sold to the port of Blackwater, where they can be used for shipbuilding and fishing.

"Sure enough, no new exiles have arrived." Standing on the balcony looking at the busy dock in the distance, he said slowly with a cup of tea, and after he finished speaking, he turned to a white-faced middle-aged man standing on the side and smiled: "Little Xuanzi, the tea you brew is getting more and more flavorful." When I was in Hengwangfu before, why didn't anyone find out about your specialty? ”

"A bunch of mediocre villains in Hengwangfu, how can they compare with your godfather?" The middle-aged man named Xiao Xuanzi said flatteringly. This gentleman was a eunuch who escaped from King Heng's mansion at the beginning, and he had a lot of shit luck while waiting for the ship in Australia, because he was favored by the place because of his masterful tea-making skills, and stayed in his mansion as a servant. I don't know if the eunuch has the talent bonus of serving people or what, this eunuch quickly won the favor of the place. In addition, people are smart and know how to advance and retreat. He can also read and write. He also has strong management ability, and soon soared, and was directly appointed by the security department as the supervisor of Gushan Port. Later, he even recognized Anju as a godfather, which was simply hot and unstoppable.

"Hey, hey." Listening to the undisguised sycophants of this godson, who was older than himself, An Ji smiled noncommittally and said: "This is really a place where birds don't, the soil fertility is not good, and there are no minerals such as coal and iron. With the exception of one quarry, there are hardly any resources worth mentioning. Farming is widespread all year round, and there are not many fishery resources in the open sea, so I am really poor. Until now, I am still eating financial food, and all kinds of materials needed for construction are completely funded by the central government, and this life is really not easy. It's all broken like this, and there are not many people coming over, no one, how can it develop, isn't it getting poorer and poorer! ”

"Godfather. If there is no one, let's keep some of them for ourselves. The prisoners sent by the imperial court were all rebellious, and a few days ago, some people clamored to gather and say what kind of church they wanted to build. The child had a few leaders arrested, and only then did they disperse. Xiao Xuanzi said suspiciously, "There are also those Indian savages, who are also unruly and impatient with heavy work, and they are not as good as those Australian natives." By the way, those lustful prisoners of war were not worried, stealing chickens and dogs, fighting and brawling all day long, and I hanged a few of them to make a fuss, so I stopped it. This gang of cows...... Cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, there really can't be more, and they can't be controlled more. ”

"Hmm." An nodded and was somewhat silent. Half a day later, he suddenly spoke again and said, "Little Xuanzi, how many people can be left this year?" This year, the Government Council demanded that Australia increase the grain sowing area by 30,000 mu, expand the brick and tile wheel kiln, and build two fort groups, lighthouses and new trestle bridges by the bay. Especially the No. 2 battery, you can't be sloppy, you also know the current situation, the battery must be built first, which requires a lot of manpower and materials. It's easy to say that the materials are really insufficient. ”

It is said that only seven or eight gun positions have been built at the headland at the mouth of Gushan Bay, which is only a few hundred meters apart, and it is difficult to defend if an enemy attacks. Not to mention that no one has discovered here, just half a year ago, a Dutch expedition ship discovered this secret port hidden in the bay while exploring the southern coastline of Australia. They also clearly saw the flag of the Republic of China on the east coast of China raised high in the city, but unfortunately there was not a single east coast ship in the bay at that time, and the Dutch expedition ship could not be left behind, so it hurriedly sailed out of the bay.

After learning the news, Anju was extremely depressed, although the East Coast people in these two ports on the south coast of Australia would be discovered by others sooner or later, but it was only three years after it was established and it was found by the Dutch, which was too unlucky.

But if you really think about it, the Dutch discovered that the port of Gushan was both accidental and inevitable in a sense. Because the Dutch have long suspected that the East Coasters have been bypassing the Strait of Malacca through the southern route into the eastern waters of Daming, and Captain Tasman has also bypassed the Strait of Tasmania more than a year ago and successfully discovered the east coast of Australia. In such a situation of frequent exploration of the southern and eastern coastlines of Australia, the discovery of Gushan Port and Jinshan Port is actually a matter of time.

And now that Gushan Harbor has been discovered, no matter what the Dutch will think and do, the East Coast people must first establish their own protection system. Now the city wall of Gushan Port has only been repaired for two or three hundred meters, the No. 1 battery has only seven or eight gun emplacements, and the No. 2 battery has just finished leveling the land, and the formal construction has not even had time to begin. This may have been nothing in the past, but now that everything has been exposed to the Dutch, the security department felt that it was necessary to start immediately starting to improve the construction of the fort, increasing the number of coastal defense heavy guns to 16-20 guns, so as to initially have a certain ability to block the headland.

"If you go back to Godfather, if it is according to the previous standards, I am afraid that only six or seven hundred people will be left this year." Xiao Xuanzi replied cautiously, "Godfather, do you want to detain more people?" ”

"Buckle! Deduct five hundred more for me - no, eight hundred down! An Zhi drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, and then said in an aggravated tone fiercely: "Eight hundred more people are deducted!" Try to be a strong man! Don't be afraid of the imbalance of the population, didn't the special immigration ship that came last time just send this year's quota of 500 Greek female slaves, I am in charge, don't give it to Jinshan Port, all stay here in Gushan Port. In addition, find out how many people are nearing the end of their sentences, and if they are pardoned within two years, they will be granted the status of freemen. If you perform well on weekdays, you can choose the best militia training to prepare for emergencies. Well, some technical talents with special abilities are also among the pardons, and now talents are precious. What was it called last time - yes, I think the Spanish kid named Giovanni is very good, and at the age of sixteen or seventeen, he repaired the long-damaged hydraulic machine, which is much better than many of our indiscriminate technicians here. I remember that he was sentenced to six years in prison for participating in underground lectures, and now that his sentence is definitely not finished, he is given two choices: either join Taoism and become a freeman immediately, or he will go to the quarry to fend for himself, I think he will make the right choice. Others are doing the same, and they should be able to add some accounts. Of course, you must also grasp the degree of this, and there can be no tolerance for those diehards, and we must not allow ill-intentioned people to sneak into our ranks. ”

"Godfather, don't worry. Little Xuanzi, I have some points in my heart about these prisoners, which are the honest people who have gone astray, and which people are the stubborn people who are treacherous and evil, I remember it all in my heart. As soon as Xiao Xuanzi heard that his godfather had entrusted him with such an important task, his pockmarked face, which was a little pitted because of smallpox, immediately turned red with excitement. This feeling of killing someone else is so refreshing, and he has always enjoyed this intoxicating feeling.

While the two of them were talking on the balcony, the unloading work had already been completed on the dock in the distance. In addition to the small amount of cargo carried by the "Sprint Champion" class emigrant ship, there was also a flute transport ship, which was loaded with a lot of machine parts and lubricants that were urgently needed in the Far East, as well as more than a dozen Lusitano horses and five or six goats that had been brought at great expense from the Ottoman Empire.

Australia's climate is still very suitable for animal husbandry, so the Ministry of Agriculture has set up a military horse farm in Gushan Port and Jinshan Port respectively, which are dedicated to breeding horses from the mainland and the Ottoman Empire, such as Andalusian horses, Lusitano horses and Turkmen horses. In the past few years, the total number of military horses in the two military horse farms has reached 150 or 60, which has initially reached a certain scale, and the population is still steadily expanding.

In addition to military horses, Australia is also very suitable for raising sheep. In the past two years, China has sent a lot of sheep and goats here, and the number is about hundreds. This time, the Ottoman Empire spent a lot of money and entrusted countless human connections - only the people on the east coast of this earth can get this precious goat through official channels at this time - brought in 20 Angora goats, these precious goats were divided into three, one in the mainland, one in South Africa, and one in Australia, and they were raised separately to expand the population.

In this way, the Australian region was assigned to six, and Anju pondered letting Xiao Xuanzi lead people to find a good place to graze nearby. If the environment is really unsuitable, then send it to Jinshan Port, and find a mountainous area over there to raise, which should be able to reproduce. The wool produced by this goat is a high-grade textile raw material, which is not missed for the East Coast, which can greatly stabilize the high-end textile market and enrich the product variety.

Animal husbandry and textile processing are the only ways that Anju can think of to develop the Australian economy. The road is blue, the bleak management, Australia's start-up development is not easy! (To be continued......)