By this time, Port Hedland in the Pilbara had grown from a small town of gold prospectors to the largest city in Western Australia.

Vale's recruitment plan is a trick behind it, reporting to the Australian government that they are recruiting workers who develop iron ore mines, build railways and build ports, but in reality, these workers are being transported to the Pilbara with their families. The magistrate of Pilbara, who was bribed with a silver bullet by Lin Youde's agent, Lin Guokai, turned a blind eye to these situations: Anyway, women and children should be reported as female and child laborers.

Large numbers of imported workers developed the ethnic talent of the Chinese to take root wherever they went, and while the construction of Vale's planned main urban area was in full swing, the immigrants' own small industries were also taking root around Hedland.

It's been less than a year, and most of the land around Port Hedland that can be farmed has been turned into farmland. The white people who had colonised Australia for a long time did not seem to have any intention of developing plantations on a large scale in Western Australia. Lin Youde didn't think about it, because the topography and climate of this place don't seem to be suitable for growing rice and vegetables.

Therefore, Vale's agricultural development company invested in several cattle farms and carried out experiments with "cage fish farming" according to Lin Youde's instructions, hoping to solve the problem of feeding a large number of immigrants. As for reclamation, Lin Youde just asked Lin Guokai to provide support to Chinese people who are determined to farm in Western Australia, including seeds and farm tools.

Unexpectedly, the racial talent of the oldest farming people in the world was so terrifying that they actually grew upland rice and vegetables around. What is even more frightening is that the main force of reclamation is not young and middle-aged men, these men all work in the construction sites and mines of Vale, and the surrounding farms are all women and old people who have immigrated with young and middle-aged men.

Seeing this, Lin Guokai immediately decided to adjust the direction of agricultural development, began to plan the irrigation system, and prepared to develop planting around Port Hedland, which echoed animal husbandry.

In addition, the cage fish farming in Port Hedland is also in full swing, at first Lin Guokai just organized fishermen to try to make a "fish row" according to Lin Youde's description, they also did not have the concept of fish fry, that is, the fish caught with eggs were first put on the shore in the seawater pool to raise, and after the small fish were released, they were transferred to the cages floating in the sea.

The whole process was horribly primitive, many of the females died before they could spawn, and a batch of surviving small fish died during the transportation, and they were thrown into the cage without being classified, just thrown in.

But it didn't take long for the fishermen in charge of this to discover that they could catch not too small fish in the cages, and this method actually worked, so a larger "experiment" began.

Lin Guokai also invited 800 serious ichthologists and naturalists from the United States to study the cultivation of fish fry. Nearly a year later, the number of floating cages in the bay near Hedland has increased to more than a hundred, and fish production has soared.

In line with agricultural development, the Port of Hedland's infrastructure is in full swing, with cargo throughput more than tripled in half a year, and a nearby fishing dock for distant-water fishing and whaling vessels has been built. Factories have also been set up for the initial processing of iron ore, where iron ore transported by ship from the mine is processed in the first steps before being loaded on ships for shipment to Ming and other countries.

At the same time, a large mechanical repair shop has been completed to repair most of the mechanical devices, from automobiles to boilers for ships, in order to provide repair services for the various spreads of iron ore transported, and a large shipyard is under construction.

Also in full swing is the construction of a railway to the mine, as well as a huge depot and unloading platform. Especially for the unloading platform, Lin Youde directly signed an order requiring the platform to be at least two kilometers long, and no one understood what the purpose of this was. Of course, except for Lin Youde, who is a traverser, no one would have thought that one day in the future, human beings will make super-heavy trains with a cargo capacity of more than 20,000 tons.

In addition to the railway port, one of the world's largest airports is also under construction.

The large-scale construction of Port Hedland also provides a lot of business opportunities for other businesses. For example, Vale had no way to produce its own rails, so it had to order from other companies, so a large number of orders were supplied to the companies of the Ming Empire.

The Japanese also wanted to get a piece of the pie and help Vale produce railroad tracks, locomotives, and so on, but they were all refused.

In addition to the big factories, railways, and ports, Vale also built other infrastructure in Hedland, as Lin Youde directed: hospitals, schools, public entertainment venues, and so on.

In his opinion, the company should only do things that can be profitable, and the construction of hospitals and schools is a charitable act, and it is good to do it occasionally, and it should not be put into the company's financial plan at all.

Lin Guokai explained this like this: "I also think it's strange, but the instructions given by my boss must be meaningful, and we can't see through it because we are too different from him." ”

Although the Americans disagree with this, they cannot refute it: after Lin Youde predicted the iron ore mines of the Pilbara, such statements have long been widely circulated in Australia, and no one has the confidence to refute them.

The Australian government is not unaware of taking back Vale's exclusive prospecting and mining rights, but Vale now has thousands of "police" in Hedland alone, several armed expeditions roaming the mountains of Western Australia, and pickets supposedly to deal with workers' disturbances. In addition, in order to "fight piracy", Lin Youde also bought a light cruiser from the Dutch, which was about to be decommissioned, as well as a series of cruising gunboats.

Originally, Australia also planned to hug the thigh of the British mother and let the Asian fleet come to put pressure on Vale. But not long after the victory of the Yingzhou people on Jeju Island, I don't know if Lu Dao was going all out to deal with the Yingzhou people, or Lin Youde stuffed money into the British mother, anyway, the British suddenly said, we are not interested in this matter, you can do it yourself.

What can the Australians do, they are two heavy cruisers, and at this time they are lying in the harbor unable to move because of the lack of funds of the navy, and if it is not for Lin Youde to give them money, they may have to transfer one to the reserve.

As for the Army, Western Australia is a big wasteland, and the number of white immigrants combined may not be as good as the rapidly expanding Port Hedland.

After that, the Australian government thought about it, anyway, Vale has been very active in paying taxes, and it didn't say that it wanted to be independent or anything, and the officials sent by the Australian government to the local area were also well entertained - so look at it, just forget it. And then it's really about it.

In this way, the Port of Hedland has developed steadily and steadily.

Until the Japanese annihilated the Ming fleet in the waters off Jeju Island.

Lin Youde's vigorous action to open schools and build hospitals has caused many young intellectuals to come to Western Australia from Chinese mainland, and many of these people have the same ideals as the students studying in Germany, wanting to save the weakened motherland and reverse the fate of the motherland.

In addition, the Yingzhou War of Independence, just like the First Sino-Japanese War in the previous time and space, ignited the patriotism of ordinary people.

The combination of these two elements directly led to the outbreak of patriotic demonstrations in Hedland, like the major cities in China, and the masses demanded that Vale organize an anti-Japanese salvation army and return to China to resist the Japanese invasion.

This matter can make Lin Guokai embarrassed, he was also one of the young people who went abroad to find a way to save the country, and of course he wanted to immediately pull the team back to defend his family and the country. But the task given to him by Lin Youde was to pass through Australia, and after the first battle of Dessau, after walking in front of the Ghost Gate, Lin Guokai was no longer the same as the patriotic young man who was purely enthusiastic back then. Serving as Vale's president has broadened his horizons a lot, and he knows that simply sending a team back to China will have a limited effect no matter how many battles he wins.

But at this time, it is emotionally unreasonable not to send a team out.

Tangled, Lin Guokai asked Potsdam for instructions and threw the problem to Lin Youde.

In just half a day, Lin Youde's reply came.

"It is possible to organize the National Salvation Army to return to China to participate in the war, but the military expenses cannot go through Vale's account, and all military expenses are donated by me in my own name. Vale must stay out of the way. SEELE's characterization of the war between the Ming Empire and Yingzhou is a war between two backward countries, so everything under SEELE's name will remain neutral in this matter, but it has no right to prevent individuals from participating in the war because of national feelings.

"In addition, please convey the following instructions to Huang Xun in China: The Chinese branch of NERV should immediately abandon its activities in the name of NERV and change its name to the People's Anti-Japanese Front, and they can only receive funds and weapons provided by me in my personal name. If NERV is to be fully involved in this war with its own technology and manpower, it is necessary to transform the war into an advanced war that represents the forces of human progress and the forces of conservatism, and into a war of pan-humanism and conservatism. ”

After reading Lin Youde's telegram, Lin Guokai was relieved and laughed loudly three times.

At this time his American deputy came over, pointed to the telegram and said: "Can I read it?" ”

"Look, look, you're a colonel in NERV, you can watch it."

The American picked up the telegram and read it quickly, then shook his head: "This time I understand, this is to show the world that NERV is an organization that is not affected by nations and states, and does not intervene in disputes between nations and states." However, it is clear that we in Vale never employ Japanese. ”

"That's because we don't recognize that there is a Japanese race in this world." Lin Guokai shrugged his shoulders, "We have always welcomed the people of Yingzhou, and there is a god next to our boss who is from Yingzhou." ”

The American pursed his lips and smiled: "Chinese-style quibble, but I like it." ”