Brother Yutou has quietly made a lot of money over the years, and he has invested all of his money in the restaurant business, ready to throw off his arms and do a big job.

The restaurant is a three-up-and-three-down shop, the stone house is tall and bright, it looks quite magnificent, the annual rent is 240 pounds, the tables, chairs and benches inside, everything is all done, and the people of the hometown arrived in the Red River Valley and immediately chose an auspicious day to open.

This place was originally a good market, but after it opened, it was really prosperous, especially the two little girls sitting in the account room, which simply made the matchmaker step through the threshold.

For several years

With the development of the city, all walks of life have prospered, and commercial banks and warehouses need a large number of men, so there are many merchants recruiting workers at the entrance of the immigration counseling camp, and the big red plaque reads;

High salary, all-inclusive food and housing, repayment of immigration loans after signing an employment contract for more than five years, saving you high annual interest, and helping to apply for naturalization at the end of the period and other favorable conditions to attract outstanding talents.

Ordinary laborers are not uncommon, and craftsmen with a skill are the most popular.

Whether it's a lacquerer, a blacksmith, a carpenter, a clay cutter or a singer, this eclectic immigrant city needs it.

In particular, those who can write and draw are particularly popular, so every year the school graduates trained by the "Eagle Plan" are the most sought-after, and the graduation season is the lively time for businesses to recruit together, and they have offered favorable conditions to grab people.

Today

The huge inertia generated by the rapid social and economic development can create hundreds of thousands of jobs every year, which are widely distributed in light industry, commerce and trade, port transportation, catering services, cultural and entertainment operas, urban public facilities and residential buildings.

This booming economy, in turn, has made the pie bigger, raising incomes and living standards while absorbing more immigrants into employment.

Today, Queensland's most promising industry is the education and healthcare industry, where the first babies are born to school age, and the medical industry has sprung up from various private kindergartens to primary schools.

The booming media companies have brought about the demand for the bridal industry, which is a powerful driving force for the toffee, winemaking, garment and catering industries, and the social demand is captured by keen businessmen, gradually improving the development shortcomings of the city.

The Red River Valley is a burgeoning metropolis of immigrants with a growing variety of industries, and you can find almost everything you want here.

Antiques, calligraphy and paintings, poems and songs, wood carvings and brick carvings, jade ceramics, silk and satin, spices from the East Indies, Swiss clocks, French canes and wine, British cotton cloth, American kerosene and various industrial manufactured goods, almost everything.

The opening of the Red River Valley and Brisbane double-track railway has further strengthened the connection between the two central star cities, and has become a strong twin engine for Queensland's economic development.

Now Queensland has launched the Northern Development Plan, and people who want to own a ranch, whether white or Chinese, can apply for a Huitong Golden Ticket loan after buying a ranch, which can be used to buy sheep and build a house and sheepfold, and eventually repay it with wool.

After the southern development plan entered the climax, the Red River Valley has made every effort to promote the implementation of the northern development plan, hoping to form a situation where both wings fly together, which is not only conducive to expanding the influence of Chinese immigrants in the whole of Queensland, but also hopes to become a new economic growth point.

Chinese people have always had a deep affection for the land, and once the Northern Pioneer Incentive Program was launched, it immediately aroused great enthusiasm among the people, and many people gathered.

The minimum private ranch in the Northern Development Plan is 2,000 acres, which is a very high threshold and cannot be considered without thousands of pounds in assets.

Because it is a freehold property, it costs at least £1,000 to buy 2,000 acres of pasture land, which has turned more than 90 per cent of ordinary people away.

In order to carry out the northern development plan, the state legislature allocated special funds, and the Lord Earl of Queensland also generously sponsored part of the money to renovate the northern road, the wide carriage road was tamped and compacted, and paved with thick cinders, on which the mule and horse carts ran fast and steady.

On the road from Brisbane to the north, you can often see Australia's unique four-wheeled mule and horse tarpaulin carts, all the way to the north in an endless stream of migration, this kind of cart is generally pulled by two strong mules and horses, the carriage is wide and long, suitable for long-distance migration and grazing.

One of these four-wheeled tarpaulin mules and horses, with two strong horses or strong mules to pull them, would cost more than eighty pounds, and two spare horses for a long journey, and a full set of halter saddles, which would add up to hundreds of pounds.

For this money, you can buy a separate garden house in a small town, which is a Western-style house made of stone with a separate bathroom and a Romanesque colonnade.

Brisbane is about 1,700 kilometers away from the city of Cairns on the east coast of the York Peninsula in the north, and the city of Cairns is more than 800 kilometers north to reach the town of Cape York in the north.

Such a vast area is largely undeveloped, with a small town or two and a mine city scattered hundreds of kilometers apart, with most inhabitants between 100 and 10,000 people, and there are few towns with a population of tens of thousands, except for the city of Cairns.

on the road to the north

There are seven four-wheeled mules and tarpaulin carts marching together, and more than 10 cowboys wearing wide-brimmed cowboy hats and riding on tall quartes drive a large herd of cattle and sheep all the way north.

Among these cowboys, there was an old and strong cowboy with gray hair and weathered face full of fortitude, who galloped up to the hillside and observed the situation around him, like an old wolf.

This is Old Mack, the original white cowboy leader of the Owen estate, one of the first white cowboys to follow Li Fushou.

The six-family migration team was led by Mike Sr. and consisted of two white cowboys and four Chinese cowboy families.

In addition to the old Mikes, the Hudsons were once white cowboys at Irving Manor, and old Macks were old friends for many years.

In addition, there are old Mike's eldest son-in-law, Zhao Qishan's family, the youngest son-in-law's Mai Guangtian's family, as well as Ma Limin's family and Lu Qiang's family, all of whom have been friends for many years and are chasing their ranch dreams together.

They have been driving cattle and sheep all the way north for more than a month, more than 700 kilometers north from Brisbane, to a seaside town called Proserpine.

By the way, the town has now been renamed Qingdao Town.

"Zhao, Hudson, let's stop when we cross this little bridge, and don't go any further." Old Mike shouted.

In the distance, a few horses galloped in, and the first person was Zhao Qishan, the eldest son-in-law of Old Mike, a young man with a tall horse, whose face was tanned and shiny by the strong Australian sun.

"What's the matter, Daddy Mike, it's still early!" Zhao Qishan galloped to the front and reined in the horse, and asked with some doubts.

"The cattle and sheep have been walking for more than a month, I see that the fat loss is very powerful, can not continue to go, the water and grass here are abundant, and there are streams flowing down in the mountains, we are here for a period of time, and then go after the cattle and sheep are fat, anyway, the ranch can not run away after buying." Old Mac replied calmly.

"Alright then, let's drive the herd into the valley to the west, which is so close to the road that the grass is almost all gone."

"Okay, let's camp down a little earlier today, and everyone have a good rest."

"Knowing Daddy Mack, let's go about our work."

A few young riders shouted and drove the herds of cattle and sheep to the valley to the west, where the water and grass were more abundant, something that had been done for many years.

Hudson stayed where he was, waiting for the young man to go before speaking; "Old Mike, I have given up my position as Mayor of Pinewood, and I still feel sorry for you, what a good town it is! The population of the inhabitants is already more than 10,000 people, and after the newly established Guards Tiger Cavalry Division is stationed, there is hope that it will develop into a star town in the south in the future, although it is impossible to have Beilun Town and Songjiang Town as dazzling, and it is no problem to develop into a city with a population of tens of thousands in the future. ”

"Qingdao town is also good."

"Qingdao Town? I doubt that this newly established town has a thousand inhabitants, not even a railway, and I estimate that there will be no railway for at least 10 years, and it is completely a barren land. ”

"But there's the ranch of my dreams, the ranch I've dreamed of since I was a teenager, a ranch of my own."

"Ranch, that's what makes people excited."

Hudson looked at the gentle hills in the distance, and there was a look of fascination in his eyes, didn't he sell his luxury mansion and quit his public office to pursue such a dream?

New South Wales land in the Red River Valley or south to Beilun is owned by the Earl, and it is possible to sell tens or hundreds of acres of land to individuals to build mansions, but it is impossible to sell tens of thousands of acres to private ranches.

The Southerners were hostile to the Northerners, so the only place where the dream of a private ranch could be realized was in the vast northern part of Queensland.

Come to think of it

Hudson was a little indignant, and he sold everything and even the company's shares, and only raised more than 2,600 pounds to buy a ranch with an area of more than 6,000 acres near the town of Qingdao, which is already relatively large.

But the old guy Mike bought a 25,000-acre ranch, and even his two sons-in-law bought 3 or 4,000 acres of pasture, which is a lot of land together, and it is only a dozen miles from the town of Qingdao, and the planned railroad will pass through it in the future.

Where did this old guy get so much money?

Could it be that when he was the mayor of the town...... Hudson was full of questions.

The 10 miles near the planned northern extension of the Coastal Railroad are all not for sale, and no development is allowed.

The location of Mack Ranch is very good, very close to the coastal town of Qingdao, which is also an excellent bay port, and will build a railway artery in the future, in addition to grazing cattle and sheep, you can also establish a vegetable production base, a dairy base, to provide fresh produce and milk for the townspeople.

This is a unique advantage that other ranches do not have, and he is really a lucky old fellow.

"Mike, do you think the price of wool will go up in the future?" Hudson asked.

"It's going to go up, there's no doubt about it."

"Why?"

"Because the Earl of Queensland is the largest rancher in the world, and he employs hundreds of thousands of cowboys to work for him in his ranch, it is impossible to lose money all the time, you see, our sheep should be sheared when they arrive in Qingdao Town, and the price will not be less than two pounds of wool per penny, and we have already earned this price, and of course Lord Earl will earn more." Old Mike was very confident.

Two pounds of wool a penny is a profit and loss point, and a well-run ranch can make a little profit, which is actually the result of deliberately keeping prices down, and the best level in history has ever reached the price of a penny pound of wool, which is very profitable.

A ranch employing forty or fifty cowboys could easily earn £2,000 a year and maintain a high standard of living, just like the Owen Ranch once did.

As a person close to the top of the Red River Valley, Old Mac knows many secrets that Hudson does not know, and it is a long-term strategy to suppress the price of wool in the south, as long as the southern states are completely unified, the price of wool will have a rocket-like rise, and it is not uncommon to double or triple it.

Many wealthy Chinese people have poured into the ranch industry, which is not the prophet of Chunjiang plumbing duck and planned in advance.

When the southern states were truly united, they realized that it was too late.

As for whether the Lord Earl of Queensland will unite the southern states?

Anyone who doesn't have a mental retardation can see that this is a general trend, and with the exception of the stubborn farmers in the south, the vast majority of Queenslands already agree with this view, including the white community.

For the average white person in Queensland, it doesn't matter who ends up dominating this continent, skin color doesn't matter, it's too far away from ordinary people, what matters is who can bring a better life to themselves?

The white Queensland community apparently chose Lord Earl Queensland, and the two newly formed cavalry divisions had a large number of white cowboy recruits willing to fight for the honorable Lord Earl of Queensland, which was the glory of the northerners.

The cowboys are going to use the guns in their hands to teach the Southerners a lesson and let them know who is the boss on this continent?

In the whole of Australia, no one can have such a lofty prestige as the Earl of Queensland, and millions of people should follow, no one can have his status and dignity, and no one can have the financial resources of a country like him.

And the Earl is young and attractive, which is a clear plus.

On the hillside

Hudson rode a few steps, came to Old Mike's side, and asked; "So you decided to give up everything to pursue your dreams, isn't there any other reason?"

"Hell, Hudson, what the hell do you want to know?"

"Brother Mike, I'm not surprised that you can get a piece of beautiful land with abundant water and grass, but where did you get so much money? Damn, this question has been bothering me for a long time, you must know that I used to be the head of the pastoral field, and I was paid no less than you did. ”

"Hey, hey......" Old Mike smiled slyly, didn't answer the question, and walked forward leisurely with his legs on the horse's belly.

This large-scale anti-corruption operation in the Red River Valley involved him, an old fellow, and in the end, it was the Earl of Queensland who put a horse on the face of his old brother for many years, can this kind of disgraceful thing be nonsense?