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In the middle of a wide valley, the Connecticut River has just passed its dry season, and the river is mixed with some ice floes from the upper reaches of the north, and the snow-white waves roll south. A convoy of steamboats was pulling out of a long queue at a speed of about 8 knots, heading north along the curvy course of the river.

The Connecticut River, which was renamed "Fu River" a few years ago, is the east-west dividing line between Songzhou and Haizhou. The valley plain, located in the lower reaches of the Connecticut River, is the most fertile treasure of this mountainous region. After several years of development, Governor Guan Ruzhong set his sights on the area, intending to establish a new agricultural colonization town on the east bank of the Lower Connecticut Valley Plain. The address of the new town was chosen, which was East Hartford, the capital of Connecticut.

However, there is naturally more than one person who is concerned about the good place, after the initial completion of the "Jiangkou Town" more than 20 kilometers northwest of Porter City and close to the Mohoek River Valley, the governor of Song Prefecture, Tang Ke, also turned his attention to the blessed land of the lower reaches of the Connecticut River, and even the location was the same as Guan Ruzhong's selection, and the location was on the other side of the Guan Ruzhong River.

Thanks to the country's ubiquitous Indian traders, as early as 1625, fur traders from Manchu established a non-permanent Indian trading post here. The Connecticut, Mohicans, Nanagers, and Wampanoags were the main Indian tribes in the area, and they were also the more effective vassals under the long-term Sino-American policy of goodwill.

Under the guiding principle of not lightly using force, it was not easy to acquire the land of this fertile valley plain from the Indians, and the bargaining lasted with difficulty for almost two years. After two years of the most terrible famine and bitter winter cold, the local Indian tribes finally gave in, and the land along the valley plains was peacefully handed over to the United States.

The fleet that is now sailing on the river is the northward movement of these two pioneering teams. Such a "crash" of inland river development. The leaders of the two fleets were full of energy, and they both wanted to be the first to set foot on the riverbank of their destination.

"Hurry up, gentlemen, speed up, we must be the first to arrive before those Silvervalley bastards!"

On an inland steamboat, Danielson, who had been transferred from the director of the Qingcheng Civil Affairs Bureau to the future mayor of Xinzhen, shouted loudly.

I heard that the person who came to Songzhou to open up in the Fuhe Valley this time was an official transferred from Yingu Town. As Guan Ruzhong's old subordinate, Danielson, the first group of European-American local officials to come out of West Point, naturally regarded Silver Valley Town, which was once on the other side of West Point, as his biggest competitor.

It's fun. In the future, the two small towns in the Fuhe Valley will be neighbors again, but this time the "West Point Party" will go to the east bank of the river, and the "Silver Valley Party" will be on the west bank of the river. The two even made a bet: whoever arrives first will be named "Fuhe Town".

"Hurry up. Hurry up! That hillbilly from West Point doesn't want to be the first this time! On the other boat, the bearded Officer Hagrid, who had been the sheriff of Yingu Town, was spitting and roaring, while reminding a middle-aged Chinese man not far away, "Dear Mr. Xu, don't you have a sense of crisis now?" ”

Compared with the anxious red expression of the European sheriff, the Chinese man with a little short beard just sat reservedly. I don't care about this kind of little game of competing with each other.

This official surnamed Xu is the former director of the civil affairs bureau of Yingu Town, the first batch of Ming refugees who immigrated to North America in 1622, and was once an ordinary carpenter in the furniture company of Yingu Town. Because of literacy. And the character is gentle and humble, in 1626 he served as the civil affairs of Yinggu Town, and gradually became the most effective assistant to the mayor of the town, Sun Hongyi, this time by the governor of Songzhou Tang Ke appointed as the new mayor of "Fuhe Town". took a fancy to Xu Wen's easy-going and meticulous characteristics. In order to support the local development of Songzhou, the first batch of main forces in the colonization team were all recruited immigrants from Yingu Town.

"It's all about contributing to the country. There is no distinction between them. The future new mayor of Chinese descent shook his head implicitly. Then his eyes turned to the lush river valleys and mountains on both sides, revealing an intoxicated look, "The mountains and rivers are magnificent, the land is fertile, it is really a rich place!" ”

"But if we let them take the lead again, the people of Silver Valley will be very disappointed." The bearded sheriff worriedly looked at the competitor from Qingcheng who was already much ahead, and couldn't help but clench his fists, "I think we should go all out!" ”

Looking at the serious faces of the colleagues who came to pioneer together, the man surnamed Xu Mingwen finally smiled.

Two hours later, at noon, both fleets arrived at their destination almost simultaneously. More than 80 kilometers from the mouth of the Connecticut River, the valley is a cheerful stretch of the river, separated by mountains on the east and west banks, and in the middle is an endless valley plain and dense forest.

Due to the topography of the coast, the migrant development fleet from Qingcheng City did not find a suitable landing site for a while, and because there was already a small Indian trading post on the west bank, the former Sheriff Haigh of Silver Valley finally exerted his might this time.

Hagrid relied on his good water, and before the boat could get close to the shore, he jumped into the water, then swam to the west bank, and couldn't wait to cut off a small branch on the shore and hold up a pair of national flags.

"Haha, 'Fuhe Town' is ours! Hillbillies at West Point! The bearded sheriff laughed, waving the flagpole in his hand arrogantly, his face full of pride.

However, a few hours later, Sheriff Hagrid, who was planning to expand the Embarcadero and settle the community, received the "bad news": the new mayor Xu Wen and the pesky Danielson reached a compromise, and the two teams shared the victory. The west bank belongs to Songzhou, which is still called Fuhe Town, while the east bank belongs to Haizhou, which is named Dongfu Town.

The lively landings continued into the evening of the same day, when the two local government teams came together for a joint meeting at the Indian trading post in the West Bank. Different from the arrogant and competitive attitudes of the people below, the minds of the two new mayors are much more cautious.

Therefore, in order to build the new town as much as possible, Xu Wen and Danielson plan to integrate the resources of Yingu Town and Qingcheng City, which are supported by their respective "counterparts" in the future, in order to achieve optimal efficiency.

A pioneering team of hundreds of people carried out large-scale construction on both sides of the Fu River. The local Indians, who had long been trading with Chinese merchants, also rushed to help, paying only a small amount of merchandise and food, and the Connecticutians, Nagansai or Wampanoags of the interior were happy to do so.

The Connecticut River's inland waterways are wide and deep inland, and the waterways south of the town of Ford River are large enough to provide thousand-ton merchant ships for navigation, and the transportation is very convenient, which is one of the country's ambitions to rely on waterways to colonize the interior of North America.

In order to ensure the safety of local settler development, the army's second cavalry company will settle here and use the Connecticut River for transportation. The state's control power should be truly penetrated into the interior of the country, and the control and use of the Indian vassal tribes in the territory of Haizhou should be strengthened.

From this day on, the towns that originally belonged to the jurisdiction of two different state governments were habitually merged and called "Shuangfu Town".

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Fuhe Town, Songzhou, on the west bank of the Fuhe River, is under the guidance of Sun Hongyi, the country's No. 1 "expert on economic development". The early development will be dominated by agricultural planting. The valley plain where Fuhe Town is located has a pleasant climate, the terrain is flatter than the east bank, the surrounding forests are luxuriant, the land is fertile, and the agricultural land that can be used in the future is at least 50,000 acres.

Xu Wen intends to continue to follow the economic development idea of Sun Hongyi, the mayor of Yingu Town, and in addition to the basic vegetable and fruit cultivation industry and the medicinal herb cultivation inherited from the advantages of Yingu Town, a large-scale planting and processing industry of flax will be carried out here.

The flax farming industry is an integrated agricultural economic project. Flaxseed fiber is the oldest plant textile fiber raw material in human history, and flaxseed oil is also a very high-quality edible oil, with a high oil yield and a wide range of industrial uses. The slag cake after oil extraction is an excellent raw material for fertilizer production and livestock feed. Which of the pigs, cattle and sheep that grew up eating this special feed in later generations is not full of brains? Therefore, flax cultivation is basically the industry with the highest contribution value to the comprehensive development of domestic industry and agriculture in addition to animal husbandry. Moreover, at a time when the expansion of industrial scale has reached a bottleneck, the appropriate expansion of agricultural characteristic industries is also a good way to increase the employment of immigrants.

There was a shortage of domestic labor in previous years. The limited scale of agriculture is also focused on increasing grain production, and the domestic natural vegetable oil industry has not become the focus of development. Vegetable oils have always relied on domestic trading companies to import large quantities from Europe.

But now it is different, the domestic population has increased significantly, and the demand for textile raw materials, edible oils and industrial natural oilseeds is also rising year by year. Whale oil is too precious, the core industrial projects are basically exhausted, and the "extravagant" imported vegetable oil such as European olive oil and West African coconut oil is not cost-effective after all, and the coconut plantations in the overseas territory of Butterfly Island in the Caribbean are just starting, and the domestic production of coconut oil can only be ignored at present.

The import supply of natural vegetable oil is becoming increasingly tight, and the cost of related industries remains high, and the localization of the natural vegetable oil industry is under great pressure. Earlier, China's U.S. Department of Agriculture was also said to have tried to promote rapeflower and canola oil in Asia, and had tried it in Jerseytown. However, the seaside climate there does not lead to the growth of rape flowers, and the northern city of Porter is even worse because of the lower climate.

In the end, flax, a high-latitude climate adaptable textile fiber and oil comprehensive crop, was first eaten by Sun Hongyi, the mayor of Yingu Town. Last year's small-area trial planting results were good, but unfortunately due to the geographical environment around Yingu Town, large-scale planting could not be carried out.

The lower Connecticut valley plains have a very suitable inland climate for flax growth, and corn and flax can be planted in seasonal stubble, resulting in high land utilization. Moreover, the large-scale cultivation of flax and corn is a good source of nectar flower seeds, and at the same time, the development of beekeeping, but also to obtain important auxiliary materials for domestic food processing and pharmaceutical and chemical industry: honey and beeswax. Once this kind of agricultural and sideline products become large-scale, it will definitely create a lot of economic benefits for both sides of the Fuhe River in the future.

Xu Wen of Fuhe Town is considered to be a bamboo in his chest, and Danielson, who is the leader of Dongfu Town, naturally also shows the demeanor and ambition of "famous teachers produce high apprentices". In addition to the traditional livestock breeding and animal husbandry industry, Haizhou Governor Guan Ruzhong has long reached an agreement with Yang Wenwen's Art of Living Group to establish the largest sheep and alpaca breeding farm in Haizhou on the east bank of the Fuhe River and establish the Haizhou Wool Textile Industry Center.

If combined with the flax cultivation industry in Fuhe Town on the west bank, the "Land of Double Blessings" can really be regarded as the first textile industry center in China and the United States in the future. As a result, the entire middle and lower reaches of the Fu River will be developed.

In addition, on the east bank of this fertile Fuhe River Valley, there is also a "big killer" discovered by An Shaoqing, the Minister of Land and Resources: chalcocite is one of the rare metal minerals in Connecticut in history, and there is a mine with no low reserves in the nearby valley mountain. If it is not intended to destroy the environment by smelting copper on site, transporting the ore to other industrial towns by water is also a major economic highlight for Dongfu Town.

At a time when the domestic economy was struggling due to the problem of maritime transport capacity, the establishment of Fuhe Town and Dongfu Town brought a rare good atmosphere to the development of the country in 1629, after all, the inland river transportation near the sea had not been greatly affected. Judging from the current situation, the basic layout of the state in Songzhou and Haizhou has been completed for the most part.