To be honest, in today's East Coast Republic of China, the sales of woolen wool are really getting better and better.

In the early years, because of the need for exports and the lack of high incomes of the people, most of the people of the East Coast wore cotton cloth for their daily life, supplemented by other kinds of cloth in smaller quantities. This continued for many years, culminating in the gradual flourishing of the cotton textile industry on the East Coast: in that era when cotton cloth was selling everywhere, even the non-national laborers who sold their labor everywhere wore cotton clothes, or at least cotton and linen blends, which showed the prosperity of cotton cloth on the East Coast.

However, with the gradual deepening of the development of Patgenia, the number of sheep has increased year by year, and the wool textile industry has slowly begun to develop. From private weavers and small workshops to state-funded factories, the woolen manufacturing industry has sprung up in several port cities of Patgenia, and has quickly become one of the important pillar industries in the region, receiving care and support from many aspects.

There is no doubt that the price of woolen is far more than that of cotton, and the price difference can even be several times as much, which is actually not very close to the people. However, the East Coast is the source of raw materials and the textile technology is also strong, so the cost of producing woolen wool will naturally be much lower than that of Europe. In addition, with the development of the national economy, people's income has also risen, and the price of some expensive woolen wool in the past is not so unattainable now. Woolen wool has gradually become another new favorite of the people on the east coast, especially those small officers who went out to fight and made a fortune, businessmen with a decent small business and engineers with a good income, all began to choose to buy woolen wool to make clothes to wear, in order to show the difference of their identity.

And these so-called "rich petty bourgeoisie" pursuit of woolen wool has naturally slowly spread to a large number of middle classes, which in turn has also affected their consumption concepts. In the eyes of these people, the "forced style" of the woolen wool with good texture and high price is obviously much higher than that of cheap cotton cloth, which is more suitable for their identity. You must know that with their various incomes of nearly 100 yuan a year, it is naturally not a problem to make a few woolen clothes, and this is not a curtain or tablecloth, so it doesn't take too much material.

On the East Coast, as long as the middle class also begins to consume a large number of goods, then it will definitely achieve rapid development on the East Coast. No, seeing the hot sales of woolen products on the east coast and some overseas colonies, a lot of capital quickly poured into Patagonia, buying wool everywhere, setting up textile enterprises, and producing all kinds of woolen wool, and the whole industry was thriving, and it was a great development.

It's 1684 this year, but the woolen industry is still booming, and there is no sign of recession. Because of this, the two regional administrations in the Patagoniatai region, while stabilizing the existing pastoral areas and sheep flocks, are looking for new pastures, intending to continue to expand the size of the sheep flock. In their eyes, sheep is profit, not to mention wool with rising prices, even sheepskin, goat's milk, and mutton can be sold for money, especially the latter, if the largest source of beef on the east coast is the Pampa plain, then the main source of mutton is obviously the Patagonian plateau.

Some departments of the central government have also taken note of the situation. Prompted by a variety of factors, they "empathetically" increased the number of immigrants to Patagonia, from 6,000 to 9,000 per year, and added a lot of financial subsidies in the name of project investment to promote the development of the wool textile industry as much as possible.

Of course, they have the confidence to do so. Because in the latest national census estimate in the middle of this year, the total population of the East Coast Republic of China has reached a record high of 5.639 million. Among them, the total number of second- and third-generation nationals born on the East Coast has exceeded 3.17 million, accounting for the majority of the country's population. The number of Ming people from Far Eastern China (a small number of Shandan, Mongols, Koreans, or Japanese are also included in this category) also exceeds 1.7 million, accounting for one-third of the population; The total number of white nationals is about 13.5% of the population, mainly from non-national laborers, female slaves procured over the years, and exiled Ottoman soldiers, officials, and their families.

In addition to this, there are still 260,000 non-national workers, of which the number is undoubtedly the largest among whites, followed by blacks, then Indians, and the rest of the race is too small to be mentioned. These non-national laborers have now become an important part of the East Coast economy, which cannot be separated and cannot be shaken off, and although the East Coast citizens hate them, they also have to adapt to their existence and endure their differences in religious beliefs, living habits, cultural diets, etc. Most people do not agree that people with dark skin have the right to naturalization, because the descendants of the few blacks who have previously obtained East Coast citizenship are still black, and the effect of mixed race is not visible at all, so that everyone is concerned.

And speaking of which, we have to mention the issue of religion. With the increasing number of Ottoman officials and soldiers in exile on the East Coast, coupled with some **** also coming to trade by boat, the East Coast finally reluctantly admitted that the **** religion was not a cult, but a legal religion recognized by the East Coast after pretending to be deaf and dumb for many years. However, compared with the Catholic Church, the **** religion received quite little preferential treatment, and they were only allowed to build "no more than two" mosques in the commercial city of Qingdao Port, and the cost needed to be raised by themselves, and the model also had strict requirements.

It can be said that the **** religion is monitored more closely on the east coast than even more than Protestantism and Catholicism. This kind of differential treatment has made many believers aggrieved: even the Catholic Church, which is extremely barbaric, conducts cruel religious trials on people at every turn, and sends people to be burned at the stake, can build so many churches, and there are so many registered clergy, but they are much more civilized than them, but the **** religion, which is more tolerant of infidels, is strictly guarded, how can this be convincing?

Some of the former Ottoman officials who had gone into exile on the East Coast regretted that the country did not regard the Ottoman Empire as an ally at all, nor did it give special treatment to its citizens, which was extremely frustrating. You must know that before they came, they were full of longing, and felt that East and Austria, which have maintained good relations with quasi-allies for decades, should be close strategic partners. But reality has taught them how to behave once, that is, speculation is unacceptable, and the country on the east coast seems to have a natural prejudice against ****, and it has been put into action. Even if they are pressured to admit that **** religion is a legitimate religion, they are always thinking about how to suppress it, which makes them devout believers feel extremely bad.

Many people even pessimistically think that in such an unfriendly social atmosphere on the East Coast, how long can their children and their families maintain their pure faith? No one can answer this question, but from the part of the people who were exiled to the East Coast before, there are quite a few who should have been converted to the new Taoism in the first generation, not to mention their children, and if they reach the third generation, most of them will convert to other religions, which is not alarmist at all.

Therefore, these people are now very worried, fearing that their sons will later convert to other religions, so that they will not meet "72 virgins" and "rivers of honey and milk" when they die, which is simply terrible.

But what can be done? As the saying goes, people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads. The legalization of the **** religion by the people of the East Coast is already a big progress, do you want to ask for more in a short period of time? How is this possible! Let's endure it first, hoping that the faith of myself and my family is pious and firm enough, and that I will not be corrupted by the extraordinary material life on the East Coast, so that my soul will fall without knowing it.

Well, let's ignore this for a moment and return to the population itself. From the population growth data, it can be seen that the vast majority of the annual population increase on the East Coast is no longer due to so-called immigrants, but to the population of the country itself. It is precisely because of this that the central government has been emboldened to equip several counties in the Patagoniadai region with a quota of 50% more migrant population than before, so that they can better stake their land and control more land and pastures in this vast area.

The local government of Patagonia was of course pleasantly surprised, and soon took advantage of this rare opportunity to begin a rapid expansion. Taking the southern Patagonia region as an example, after the establishment of Shuanghu County, the regional administration established several new settlements further south, namely: Funing Port near the later Puerto de Seado in Argentina, Wuding Township near the small town of Olivia in the later Calleta Olivia, Kaiguang Township near the later Perito Moreno Town, Rulang Township near the later Las Eras Town, Diaoyin Township near the later Greg Gaoguan Township, and Daye Township near the small village of Tres Serros in the later Tres Seros Township, a total of seven settlements.

These seven settlements, according to the plan, are divided into two counties in the future, and the population is not large at present, the largest one is only a thousand people, and the few are even only four or five hundred, which is very pitiful. Either way, the establishment of these seven settlements – which may have a future rivalry with the indigenous people who live there, but whose outcome is certain – undoubtedly marks the occupation of the last blank undeveloped land in Patagonia. From now on, the Patagonian plateau, which had never received a hint of attention in the Spanish era, will be bathed in the sunshine of civilization, and it is almost certain that the booming economy of the East Coast will bring new life to this seemingly barren land.

Once Patagonia has digested it (which may take some years), Chile west of the Andes will be more closely connected to the eastern coast. The majestic Andes Mountains are marked by numerous passes to connect the two places, and bilateral trade is expected to flourish, and while the winter and spring months may be halted by university closures, there is no doubt that this will strengthen the ties between Shanxi (west of the Andes) and Shandong, which will be important and essential for a future country that straddles two oceans.

The vast expanse of Patagonia, like the inter-river region surrounded by two rivers, began with cross-border reclamation, and now it has finally come to fruition and development, which is a great undertaking to be proud of. And after scavenging these two areas, what is the next goal of the East Coast people to cross the border to reclaim? In fact, the answer is very simple, and there have been signs of it, that is, the famous "Hunting Country".