In the east, a fish-belly white was revealed, and a quiet and peaceful day in the eastern Brazilian highlands began again.

Fangshan Township is a young township, which has only been established for about a year, with a population of less than 2,000 people, and its economy is mainly agricultural. However, such a young township is now receiving more and more attention from the superiors, for no other reason, after the continuous gold exploration reports came back, the executive committee of the public attaches great importance to this, and instructs the government council to formulate a plan for the revitalization and development of the gold mining area, and carry out the general development of this wild area.

To this end, the population south of Zhuoshui (Grande River) has been greatly enriched, and the State Development Administration has also allocated a considerable part of funds and in-kind to support the economic construction here, in order to build the counties on the south bank of Zhuoshui into an industrial and agricultural base, and support the future development of the gold mining area.

There are currently five counties south of Zhuoshui, of which Changcen, Changli, and Zhuolu counties have been established for some years, and the population is quite large, mostly around 20,000. Zhending, Lingshou two counties were established relatively late, so far only a year, the population is still less than 10,000, there is still great room for improvement - Zhending County under the jurisdiction of Zhending Town, Jiumen Township, Shiyi Township, Guquan Township four townships, is the 148th county in the country, Lingshou County under the jurisdiction of Lingshou Township, Lunu Township, Feilei Township, Xiyang Township, Shoudong Township (located in the later Itaruba Town) five townships, is the 149th county-level administrative unit in the country.

These five counties have all had great luck this time, and many immigrants have been added to the inland one after another year. Even the Ministry of Immigration has received instructions to increase the total population of the five counties by 50% in the next three years, including a certain proportion of handicraftsmen, and for this reason it has not hesitated to cut off many of the immigrants who originally belonged to the Pampa region.

The Ministry of Communications also well comprehended the spirit of the superiors, gritted its teeth and invested a lot of money and manpower, dredged waterways and built roads in the Zhuoshui area, and even planned to build a bridge in the north and south of Zhuoshui, which is connected to Fangshan Township at one end, which is an important relay point to the gold mining area, and Jiumen Township in Zhending County at the other end, which is the distribution center of living materials and labor tools, which is very important.

In this era, the mining industry has always been a labor- and capital-intensive industry. At this time, there were no various construction machinery and no efficient transportation system, so it was destined to require a large number of labor to engage in this work, even the East Coast Republic of China, which had the highest degree of industrialization. In order to provide a large number of workers in the mining area with a series of commodities, from drinking water, medicines, daily necessities to labor tools, it is necessary to set up one or more logistics supply bases in the adjacent areas. Today, the five counties on the south bank of Zhuoshui are responsible for such a function, and the government has increased its productivity level through targeted investment, so that it can produce a large number of agricultural products and some handicraft products, and solve the problem of excessive cost of purchasing these materials from afar.

All kinds of industrial products or agricultural products produced in the five counties on the south bank of Zhuoshui are generally transported to the boundary of Fangshan Township in the north through ferry boats (the bridge is still being demonstrated), or sold directly to local shops, or sold to some hawkers who dare to go deep into the mining area.

It is worth mentioning that in Fangshan Township, a wild place where birds don't poop, state-run department stores and Sun Chunyang South Stores have also set up branches to sell all kinds of goods from hardware tools to daily necessities. It can be seen that these two large commercial enterprises are unanimously optimistic about the future of the Tuanjie River Basin, believing that gold will greatly improve the local conditions, and the future will inevitably usher in an opportunity for great development, so they take advantage of the low price and cheap time to lay out in advance.

The East Coast Gold Company has also set up a branch here, covering a very wide area and a large number of personnel, basically all of whom are business backbones drawn from the Tieling Gold Mine in the south, mainly engaged in smelting, testing, melting and casting. Dongjin Company has really invested in this large mining area of the Tuanjie River and its tributaries, and the building under construction by the branch is very magnificent, expensive, and has all kinds of equipment inside, all of which are new machines ordered from domestic enterprises.

In the northern mining areas, they also set up a total of eight offices, each occupying a deposit, engaged in the work of collecting gold and ore. The workers were mostly captured Indians, bought blacks, and some Russian prisoners of war sent in the last year (1688), and the work was very heavy, and some often fled. To this end, each of these offices has a security section, each of which has dozens of heavily armed security guards, as well as a large number of bred wolfdogs, hunting dogs, etc., to ensure that the gold mines are produced on time, in an orderly manner, safely, and in sufficient quantities.

Xiao Guang has been living in the compound of Dongjin Company for the past few days. His expedition team has basically completed the previous task, and now there is no work, and it is waiting for the next order of the Ministry of Geology. With nothing to do, Xiao Guang decided to go out for a walk, go around the Fangshan Township Government, and eat something good.

Yesterday it rained heavily and the road surface was a little wet. Fortunately, the road is paved with cinders and has little impact. However, there are also occasional rut marks on the surface after the heavy carriage has driven away, which is full of stagnant water, and a swarm of mosquitoes are flying on it, looking a little uncomfortable.

There are a lot of pedestrians on the road, some people are wearing shirts and carrying briefcases, and they look like they are eating official meals. There are people in denim clothes or thick linen clothes, these are workers engaged in manual labor, and there are quite a few privately invested building material workshops nearby, and there are also some convoys with a large number of such people. In addition, there are many people in traditional costumes, who appear to be more idle, either businessmen, business owners, or people engaged in private financial services.

Xiao Guang soon turned to the big square in front of the township government, which is also the most lively place in Fangshan Township. Houses with a mixed brick and wood structure are located on both sides of the road, with flags or wooden signs hanging at the doors, and most of them are various shops, among which restaurants and restaurants are the most common. These stores have set up shop here to cater mainly to people returning from the northern Tuanjie River goldfields. These people are either employees of the East Coast Gold Company, or they are people who secretly go to the gold mining with dreams of making a fortune, and in short, they are very rich and have a good business.

I have to mention it here. Because of the large number of gold deposits in the Tuanjie River Basin, although the East Coast Gold Company has a monopoly on a considerable part of the high-grade and high-quality gold mines, there are still countless small and micro gold mines in the rest of the vast area. These gold mines, which are basically being secretly mined at present, are far less profitable than those of the big mines dominated by the East Coast Gold Company, but they are also quite good.

In addition, from time to time, there will be news of some small gold mines that have never been discovered. These small deposits are often not high in reserves and poor in fineness, but they are already a great wealth for a group of poor people who are bitter. They smelted the mined ore roughly, which they then sold to the offices of the East Coast Gold Company in exchange for money. They lack professional skills, and they lack funds, so they can only do this. Although the bulk of the profits may be taken by Dongjin Company, what can be done? People are directly under the State Administration of Precious Metals enterprises, there are funds, technology, talents, and a good armed force, is it interesting to say goodbye to others?

Of course, the largest private gold miners are actually those who use fine baskets to pan for gold sand on the riverbed of the main stream and tributaries of the Tuanjie River. In fact, these people worked very hard, under the scorching sun and mosquitoes, soaked in water all day long, and their eyes were dazzled, just to find the flickering gold grains in the mud and sand at the bottom of the river.

Some of the gold sand found by the gold prospectors was taken away by them, either for daily consumption or as a souvenir – the small golden beans found at the bottom of the river could even be used as hard currency in the mining areas or in the Fangshan Township area, and the Italian prostitutes who followed them were happy to accept this payment method – but most of it was sold to the East Coast Gold Company in exchange for the funds they could continue to hold on to the area.

Xiao Guang quickly turned into a restaurant. This restaurant is quite a small area, with a full twenty tables of eight immortals in it, and the business is also very prosperous. He looked at it roughly, and it was mostly some ragged but bright-eyed gold diggers, who were gathered in twos and threes, and did not know what they were talking about. In the corner of the hall, two women are holding a lute, babbling and singing, apparently invited by the store, and the wages are settled on a daily basis.

"Invite the performers to cheer you up, and you have to see it in the big cities of the South. Fangshan Township, a bird place, can actually afford it, it's really speechless. What a fucking evil place! After asking the shopkeeper to go to the back kitchen to paste a chicken called Huaji, Xiao Guang sat on a chair, opened a bottle of Madeira dessert wine that he had brought with him, and poured himself a drink.

Opposite him were two grim-looking policemen. They glanced at Xiao Guang casually, then lowered their heads to eat again, and they could see that they were full of worries. Xiao Guang understands them very well, the Tuanjie River Basin is not only a gold rush mecca, the starting point of many people's dreams of getting rich, but also the end of many people's lives. In this remote and savage place, robbery and murder are all too common, and the corpses that can be seen floating down the main road of the Unity River almost every day, not to mention the large number of dead bodies that have sunk to the bottom of the river and do not see the light of day, add endless annoyance to the police stationed here.

The two policemen sitting in front of Xiao Guang are from the Fangshan Township Police Station (this is a large office with more than 50 armed policemen), and they have been under a lot of pressure recently because of the endless murder cases. Among them, there were even two Jiangyang thieves who killed people in Fangshan Township, snatched a small bag of golden beans, and disappeared. The police station had no choice but to send capable personnel to search around, hoping to make some gains, but the situation does not seem to be very optimistic at present.

Xiao Guang didn't have much interest in these things, and he wasn't very worried. As a well-informed person, he already knew that the Joint Staff Headquarters would dispatch a mixed battalion of troops to Fangshan Township in the first half of this year, and at the same time, it would also mobilize the militia of the security regiment in the five counties on the south bank of Zhuoshui to take turns to defend the Tuanjie River valley and rectify the chaotic local public order situation.

In addition, the east bank side even informed the Portuguese downstream, telling them to close the lower reaches of the Tuanjie River, set up checkpoints, and strictly check suspicious elements, so as not to let those lawless bastards escape. Under such a heavy blow, Xiao Guang believes that the local situation will improve significantly, and the country will obviously not let this golden place continue to be chaotic. You know, the State Administration of Precious Metals is staring at the gold in this area!

Now the country's military expenditure is very huge, and various constructions are coming one after another, and the gold reserves in the treasury have never been much, and they can be maintained at four or five tons at present, which is far from enough to complete the currency reform, so the gold in the Tuanjie River Basin is very important to the country, and they hope that after stable production, they will contribute more than three tons of gold per year in the early stage, and the output will increase year by year after maturity, and how much will be produced. It just so happens that new breakthroughs have been made in domestic papermaking and printing technology, and the anti-counterfeiting technology of bills has also made great progress, so the conditions for issuing treasury gold exchange coupons are basically ripe, and you can try it.

Against such a backdrop, how can the state allow you to continue to be in chaos? Impossible! Expanding and strengthening the various industries in the gold mining area and increasing gold production will always be the most important thing for the above.

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