Chapter 13 Construction Projects
After nearly 600 years of disintegration, the Greater German region finally became a modern state, which was a major historical event in the history of Europe and shaped the general trend of the world for more than 100 years.
Today, the international situation is that there are many powerful European powers, and the four major powers on the land, Russia, France, Germany, and Austria-Hungary are the mainstay, each entrenched on one side.
Supplemented by Italy, the Ottomans, Spain, the Netherlands and other second-class powers, the competition with each other was very fierce, and large-scale wars continued.
The world is so unpeaceful because the British Empire, the world hegemon hanging alone, is a complete-stirring stick, and behind every war there is its terrifying shadow.
Europe is too far away, and Li Fushou does not feel these disturbances at all, he is now a citizen of the British Empire's overseas Australian self-control, and he is also a citizen of the Manchu Dynasty, a native of China.
You can fully enjoy the trade convenience of the colonial system of the British Commonwealth, so as to develop your own power and sit back and watch the ebb and flow of the world.
After inspecting the circle
Li Fushou returned to the manor with emotion, the family foundation of the Red River Valley Ranch is too thick, and three exclamation points are not enough.
Seeing the situation, he excitedly turned around the room twice, and shouted repeatedly: It's worth it, it's worth it, it's a lot of money.
More than two dozen large barns were filled with grain, and there were mountains of wool and countless cow and sheep skins, all of which were left unattended.
Owen, a loser, probably never cared about this.
A large number of crops rot in the ground because no one harvests them, so they can only wait until spring to crush them and turn them deep into the ground to use them as fertilizer.
With so much grain storage, it means that Fulinmen Restaurant will not need to buy rice and noodles for a long time in the future, and the supply of meat will also be guaranteed.
Oh... By the way, there is no need to buy coal anymore.
The Red River Valley Ranch itself has an excellent open-pit coal mine, and the coal used in the restaurant is only sprinkled with water, although it is just planed.
The Red River Valley Ranch itself can solve the large amount of materials needed for the construction project, and there are all kinds of grain, meat, vegetables and fruits.
There is no shortage of main building materials such as earth and stone, wood, etc., and animal power such as cattle and horses is also very abundant, so all you need to buy is cement and building steel, and the overall cost is not high.
Based on the first batch of 600 labourers, the wages of one shilling per month plus food and lodging were £50 per month.
This small amount of money can be earned back by selling three naturalization certificates.
Now Li Fushou is not short of money, and used a £15,000 loan from Standard Chartered Bank to buy the Red Harmony Valley Ranch, and the remaining £22,000 was paid in cash.
Little did anyone know that he still had nearly £30,000 in cash, a staggering sum in his time, all stored in the heavy safe of the ranch.
There is no need for publicity and encouragement, the Chinese are enthusiastic about the naturalization certificate, and they want to borrow money to buy a copy by all means, as long as they can stay in Australia for development, are they afraid that they will not have the opportunity to make money?
Everyone understands this truth, and the Chinese workers who have already applied for the employment certificate are hot-eyed, and the news spreads among the Chinese community in the entire Australian continent.
A large number of wealthy Chinese from as far away as Sydney and Canberra are flocking to Brisbane, which has become a hot spot on the Australian continent, with endless temptations and attractions.
The deal between Li Fushou and Mr. Wexford involved more and more big people, and everyone forgot about the British Empire in the face of interests, and even the meanest white supremacists did not dare to act rashly at this time.
Blocking people's money is like killing parents, standing on the opposite side of everyone, and dying quietly is the best destination.
Since December, 3,011 certificates of naturalization have been completed so far.
Such a big matter, because everyone in the chain of interests helped cover it up, and it didn't break out, which shows that the entire state government and even the city of Brisbane are all mired in corruption and completely ineffective.
For this alone, Li Fushou earned 58,000 pounds, and in addition to buying the estate, he also paid a lot of cement and construction steel funds, and customized three 3,500-ton cargo ships in North America, spending a lot of pounds.
Even with such a spendthrift, nearly 30,000 pounds of cash was still precipitated in the safe, which was really more profitable than grabbing money.
Every month, the Fu Lin Men Hotel also brings in a stable income of thousands of pounds, so much money, he doesn't know how to spend it.
It is only natural to carry out large-scale civil construction and turn huge amounts of money into tangible foundations.
If you add the second batch of 600 laborers, the number of employees under Li Fushou will reach 1,760, of which 1,200 construction workers are excluded, and there are as many as 560.
Except for more than 30 white cowboys and a dozen professionals like Feuerbach Kant, the rest were all Chinese.
Belch...... Black slaves were not counted, they were the private property of the ranchers.
Li Fushou thus built up an armed team of up to 200 people, all of whom had obtained naturalization certificates, so he owed him a large sum of money, and the naturalization certificates were locked in the safe of the ranch until the debts were paid.
A certificate of naturalization costs £40, and what Li Fushou actually paid was only £21 and 3pence, and the rest was his profit.
The gunmen didn't know this, they tried their best to scrape together a lot of money, and the insufficient part could only borrow from Li Fushou, and since then they have been burdened with heavy debts and interest.
These measures ensured that the 200 gunmen followed Li Fushou all the way to the black, and could be pulled out at any time to fight with others, which was where he dared to act boldly.
As a matter of fact
Li Fushou won the fierce loyalty of 200 gunmen without spending any money, this is the power of money, like a cage that locks up the gunmen.
Everyone is prosperous, and everyone is lost.
No one knows why Li Fushou mobilized the people to build dams and spend huge sums of money to build large hydroelectric power stations.
No one dares to doubt that all this is the private property of the rancher, and he can squander it as he pleases.
Li Fushou doesn't need to explain, he will naturally understand when the time comes.
Since last year
France, the United Kingdom, and the United States have successively built a series of thermal power plants for lighting and other power generation facilities, which have greatly promoted social progress and urban construction, and set off a wave of power plant construction in various economic powers.
The craze hasn't yet reached remote Australia, but it's not far off.
Thermal power generation equipment is mature, compared with hydroelectric power, but the driving force is changed from a coal-fired boiler to a hydraulic lever, and there is no technical difficulty.
The hydraulic lever can use ship-grade transmission shafting, which only needs to be customized in the shipyard, and the United States, Britain, France and Germany and other powerful countries have this high-strength steel shafting technology, which is easy to implement.
After the hydroelectric power station is built, a transmission line of more than 30 kilometers into Brisbane can support the lighting of the entire city and establish its own power company.
As the first person to eat crabs, the profit is naturally undoubted.
There is no shortage of vision for the reborn, and when they have money in their hands that they can squander, the combination of the two will gradually become extremely terrifying, and they will be at the forefront of the tide everywhere.
With abundant electricity, steel mills, shipyards, milk powder factories, woolen mills, printing and dyeing factories, food processing factories, and canning factories can all be established to further process the primary resources of the pasture and sell them overseas after increasing the added value.
After the production capacity was greatly increased, the whole Queensland homemade collar from Australia would become a primary raw material supplier for the pastures of the Red River Valley, and was forced to be crushed by the mills.
You can be arrogant and show off the superiority of the white man, provided that you have to bear the cost of a lot of agricultural products rotting in the ground, you have a lot of good quality land, but you can't expand production, you can't convert it into monetary gain, you can only be a farmer who has no worries about food and clothing, and you have to think twice about buying expensive Parisian dresses for women and children.
Otherwise, it is necessary to bow its arrogant head, soften its position, and beg to become a stable supplier of raw materials to Red River Valley Ranch, and accept the harsh pricing and exploitation of Red River Valley Ranch.
The reality is so harsh, controlling industrial production and transoceanic trade, the Red River Valley ranches have choked the economy and decided the jobs of tens of millions of people.
This will greatly expand Li Fushou's voice, and his influence will be extended from the Chinese community to white ranchers, who have a pivotal position in every aspect of society.
In Li Fushou's heart:
This is a five-year plan, and the Red River Valley Ranch will be built as the core base of the whole plan because of its excellent iron ore and coal resources, as well as convenient river transportation conditions.
The Red River Valley Reservoir Power Station is a key first step, and the starting point of the entire development plan, all planning will be carried out on the basis of the power station infrastructure.
This is related to Li Fushou's far-reaching plan, and it is the basic project of the entire broad blueprint, and its importance cannot be overemphasized.
Those who do not seek eternity are not enough to seek a moment.
Li Fushou has been thinking a lot these days, fate is composed of choices made at one intersection after another, as if there is an incredible magic to push people forward.
When he first got off the ship, no matter how optimistic Li Fushou was, he never imagined that he would be able to create such a grand situation in a short period of time, which was really beyond expectations.
After opening the Fu Lin Mun Hotel, he came up with the idea of a steel lunch box, which made the restaurant an instant and became one of the leaders in the Chinese restaurant industry in Chinatown.
The real turning point came at Standard Chartered Bank, where he met Kestner Manager and learned that he could buy a Red River Valley ranch, which can be said to be the real starting point for changing Li Fu's life's fortunes.
Suffering from lack of funds, he was forced to participate in the Chinese naturalization certificate transaction to earn the much-needed funds, which was the beginning of another leap.
Since then, Li Fushou's career has taken off in the air, and it has been out of control, and finally created a good situation today, which is magnificent and exciting.
Looking back on the past, there is something called ambition that is slowly sprouting and growing, and while subtly changing Li Fushou's personality, it will also change more things.
A butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon jungle formed a hurricane in the central Pacific Ocean a month later, affecting the climate across North America.