When autumn arrives, it is spring in the southern hemisphere, the grass grows and warblers fly on the islands of Australia and New Zealand, and the people and workers who have immigrated from the mainland are busy sowing seeds.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the state-owned capital consortium immigrated nearly 100,000 people from the mainland to Australia, one-third of whom were employees of state-owned enterprises, and the rest were ordinary people.

In the southeast coastal area of Australia, you can see the scene of land reclamation everywhere.

Patches of wheat fields in the spring, have grown young seedlings, this is the winter wheat sown in late autumn last year, the cold of the Australian winter is not harsh, just suitable for the growth of these winter wheat, as soon as the spring begins to grow vigorously.

In the cotton field, cotton seedlings were planted.

It's another year of hope, and people are busy. There is too much land and too few people. Everyone has something to do, but every immigrant is motivated because the pay is good.

The state-owned capital consortium in Australia has a high degree of monopoly on resources. The land, mines, and forests here are all state-owned property.

What employees of state-owned enterprises who come here have to do is to develop resources. The working day was set at 10 hours, with one day off per week, but more people chose to continue working.

A good life is created by labor, and it only depends on whether you can defend the fruits of your labor. The employees of state-owned enterprises who immigrate here are basically free of food and clothing.

Do things with peace of mind every day, do your duty well, and your salary for a month is basically six or seven silver dollars, and at the same time, every place grows vegetables, raises poultry and livestock, because resources are relatively abundant. There are fewer people. The food is very abundant.

Those ordinary people who are not employees of state-owned enterprises. Most of them came to work, not their whole families. These workers also have a lot to do in Australia, and the state-owned capital consortium continues to engage in development here, opening up wasteland, building roads, building ports, houses, etc., and at the same time, logging, quarrying, firing bricks, porcelain, etc.

Workers in Australia basically do not have to worry about finding things to do, only unfinished work, and the wages are relatively high, earning seven or eight yuan a month. The income of hard-working workers is higher than that of employees of state-owned enterprises, but there are some benefits for employees of state-owned enterprises.

The production corps that came here were responsible for opening up the land, and the task of opening up the land for the two production corps was set at 2 million mu.

These conscripts will serve for four years, and after the four-year service period, as long as there are no serious disciplinary problems, they can enter the state-owned enterprises to work. The main recruitment targets for employees of state-owned enterprises are also veterans from these new troops.

The veterans of the new army have developed sufficient discipline in the army, and at the same time have a certain culture, and it is relatively easy to manage after entering the state-owned enterprises.

If you want to leave the army and go home, find another way out on your own. A portion of the reclaimed land will be allocated to them as a shareholder in the agricultural company.

These conscripts served the imperial court for four years and worked as free labor for four years. The imperial court naturally did not treat them badly, and the things allocated to them were not much less than the surplus accumulated by those workers for four years, mainly because these conscripts did not have to spend much money in the army, and they were militarized and more efficient.

Next year, five production corps will be transferred to Australia to continue to develop Australia's agricultural resources. And there will be 1 construction corps coming to Australia to build Australia's infrastructure.

And immigration and recruitment will continue.

On the island of New Zealand, not far from Australia, which is now 'Taoyuan Island', the seventh year of the Apocalypse was a year full of bloody violence.

20,000 Marines landed on the North and South Islands in July of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and immediately launched a continuous sweep and arrest of the Maori people on the islands.

When Zhu Youzhen, the king of Taoyuan Kingdom, arrived on the north island of Taoyuan Island in August, the Maori people on the island had already been swept away and hidden.

The military strength of the two sides is not a level at all, although these Maori are more savage and fierce, but they have been crushed by the productivity of the Ming Dynasty, in the face of these Ming marines armed with firearms, there is no way to compete, can only be defeated again and again, and finally realized the truth that these outsiders are invincible, and began to hide everywhere on the island.

Within a few months, the Marines captured nearly 160,000 Maori, who were domesticated in concentration camps and then taken into contract.

The pastures on the island were also encircled by the state-owned capital consortium, and Zhu Youzhen only received 500,000 mu of grassland, and all the other pastures became the assets of the state-owned capital consortium.

The minerals and forests on the island have also become the property of the state-owned capital consortium, which has basically occupied all the resources on Taoyuan Island.

Zhu Youzhen, the king, also got a certain amount of assets on Taoyuan Island, but in comparison, it is a drop in the bucket, but the geographical location is better.

The administration of Taoyuan Island is also built by officials sent by the imperial court, and the system is basically copied from the new political system.

As for the first batch of loans of 5 million yuan, it is naturally used to build infrastructure. It's just that these assets are owned by the Ming state-owned capital consortium, but Taoyuan Country spends a lot of money to build infrastructure, what the hell is this?

Of course, these state-owned enterprises pay taxes normally in Taoyuan country, and the tax will not be less than a penny, and at the same time, Taoyuan country also has customs, but the customs tax rate is relatively low.

Zhu Youzhen found that he, the king, actually didn't have to do anything, of course, he had to find something to do if he had nothing to do, and soon Zhu Youzhen began to meddle in the judiciary, personally became a judge, and sentenced several trivial lawsuits.

But it's still boring! There were not too many judicial cases on Taoyuan Island, so Zhu Youzhen went to supervise the construction of the palace and organized the people to graze in their own pastures.

As a country of brothers, the development of Taoyuan Country is still taken care of. In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, a steady stream of ships came to Taoyuan Island, bringing boatloads of cattle, sheep and immigrants.

Over the course of the year, more than 30,000 people have emigrated.

With the addition of the Maori who have become contract workers, the labour force is also relatively abundant.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, more than 200 2,000-ton merchant ships were launched, and more than 800 1,000-ton merchant ships were manufactured.

The shipbuilding industry has become one of the most prosperous industries at this time, shipbuilders have become a very sought-after profession, the wage level is rising, a little technical shipbuilders, the monthly salary will not be less than ten silver dollars, and the shipbuilders who master the key technology have risen to four or five hundred yuan per month.

An era of great exploration has come, and the ocean-going trade fleet organized by the Ming Dynasty also arrived in Myanmar and India in June of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and successfully traded with Myanmar and India, and the merchant fleet of the Ming Dynasty was still relatively popular, and then this fleet went around the east coast of Africa, and after some trade with the Africans along the coast, it returned to India and Burma, and traded the goods prepared by the Indians and Burmese again, and then returned to Malacca.

After a circle of trade, the profit of the entire fleet reached more than 10 million yuan. (To be continued.) )