The sewage pipes in Qingdao Town are composed of half-height cement pipes, which shows that it is positioned as a second-class city, slightly inferior to first-class cities such as Qinglong City, Zhuque City, Songjiang Town, and Beilun Town, but it is one level higher than other southern towns.

Old Mike once served as the mayor of Pine Town, and he knew through the sewer pipe that such a city positioning was the same as Pine Town, Gusu Fill, and Wisconsin Town, which belonged to the priority goal of construction.

In the vast area of more than 2,300 kilometers north of Brisbane, there are only two towns, Qingdao Town and Cairns.

Without this certainty, there are 23 towns in the south and 12 towns in the north, so many targets to choose to settle in, including super metropolises like the Red River Valley and Brisbane to choose from, and it is impossible for Old Mac to pour all his family property into Qingdao Town to develop, isn't that the wrong medicine?

Now there are rumors among the people;

Twenty-three towns in the south, twelve towns in the north plus the Red River Valley, just implying the number of 36 Tiangang, this is the fixed number of the Earl's son of destiny, which is a certain number of great fortune and longevity, and it is actually a fixed number between heaven and earth.

Old Mike didn't know what Taoism was about 36 days, he once bluntly asked the earl, Li Fushou replied with a smile; ", it's just far-fetched, it's a coincidence!"

Come to think of it, yes

When the coastal railway was first built to reach Songshu Town, it passed through more than a dozen towns along the way, and later repaired to Beilun Town after some efforts, which reached 23 towns, plus exactly 24 towns in the Red River Valley.

If it were not for Sydney's obstruction, there would have been more than 30 cities and towns through the southern extension of the coastal railway, and if it had been repaired to more than 60 towns in Melbourne, the explanation of the number of 36 days would naturally be untenable.

In the north, it is pure coincidence

Originally, there were five towns in the north of Queensland, including Darwin and Keynes, which were more than 300 kilometers away from each other, and the farthest was five or six hundred kilometers.

It's rare to get in touch all year round, and each of them develops in isolation, and the colonial development of the past hundred years is only such a small scale.

For the long-term planning of the railway line, it is only natural that seven new towns should be built in the northern environment to promote the development of Queensland's north flank and cultivate a large number of ranchers who support the lords.

If all these northern towns are developed and the demand for people and logistics increases greatly, it will be possible to implement the northern extension of the coastal railway connecting the 12 northern cities and towns, at least it will not be too ruthless.

This is a long line railway with a distance of more than 2,400 kilometers, although it does not need to cross the mountainous area, the scale of investment is still amazing, at least in a short period of 5~8 years, there is no possibility of realization, and it can only be used as a long-term plan to stay on the blueprint.

Even if it is completed, if the northern region of Queensland does not have a population of more than 4 million, it is foreseeable that it will not be profitable for 10~20 years.

Therefore, if there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, the ancients are honest.

Old Mike's eyes are vicious, and after recognizing the direction of the earl's development, he dared to go bankrupt, and Jiang is still old and spicy.

One day after Lao Mike and the other six ranchers arrived in Qingdao Town, they went to the town office to go through the boundary survey procedures with the ranch construction permit issued by the Queensland Autonomous Office, the tax receipt bills, and the ranch location map, and paid the boundary survey fees ranging from 10 to 10 pounds.

Naturally, the larger the ranch, the more fees you pay.

These 6 ranchers are all big customers, and it is also the first time that Qingdao Town's subordinates have broken through the 20 ranch mark, according to the information held by the town office, the total number of ranches belonging to Qingdao Town has been 71 so far, and it is still rising.

Now the northern expansion program is gaining momentum, attracting a large number of wealthy people with idle funds.

It included some high-ranking military and administrative leaders in the Red River Valley, Hongmen bigwigs, the core layer including the "Hongmen Five Tiger Generals, Nine Wolves, and Thirteen Taibao", a group of subordinates who first followed Li Fushou, and some quick-witted businessmen, white ranchers, and gold diggers.

A pioneering boom like Qingdao Town exists to varying degrees in the 12 towns in the north.

The most popular location is Cairns, as well as Yangzhou Town, which is close to Brisbane, Huai'an, Xuzhou, Linyi Town, and of course, Qingdao Town, which is a short distance to the north.

Take the town of Qingdao as an example;

The 71 ranches that have been issued must be substantially built within 18 months, employ no less than 3 people, raise no less than 1,500 sheep, and pay an annual tax of no less than £30.

Pastures that do not meet the requirements will be banned, and permits that have not been built will be invalidated, which is a measure to prevent the rich from enclosing land and not developing it, and it has proved to be very effective.

With a minimum animal husbandry tax of £30, the 71 ranches will bring no less than £2,130 in tax revenue to Qingdao Town, a figure that is based on the number of herds, and will only be higher than low.

Moreover, these large and small ranches will bring continuous income to Qingdao Town, whether it is building houses, buying daily necessities, consuming entertainment, shearing sheep or selling meat products.

At the level of a normal animal husbandry town, after the establishment of a wool purchasing station, it is followed by a series of small enterprises such as slaughterhouses, meat sorting and processing plants, fur tanning factories, etc., which process livestock products on site.

In this era when there are no refrigerated trucks and refrigerated ships, it is most important to deal with a large amount of livestock meat and fur at the first time, otherwise, it will rot and rot due to long-distance transportation, resulting in great waste, which is also a common facility in agricultural and pastoral towns, and also provides a lot of employment opportunities.

There are also oil mills in areas where soybeans are widely grown, flour mills in areas where wheat is grown in large areas, canning factories, meat product factories, leather processing factories, non-staple food factories and so on in grazing concentration areas.

In particular, it is worth mentioning that soybean products are the second largest agricultural products in Australia after wheat, and originally there were only two uses of oil and soybean meal, oil is used for food, soybean meal is used to feed horses, or bran bran is added to feed pigs and cattle, and it is animal feed with very high nutritional value.

More than 20,000 acres of arable land are planted with soybeans in the Red River Valley Ranch, and the acreage is growing every year as demand expands.

Because of the influx of Chinese immigrants, soybeans are simply eaten and flowered.

Soybeans can be processed into tofu, soybean milk, bean curd and other soy products, and can also be made into fermented soy products, such as fermented soy bean curd, stinky tofu, bean paste, soy sauce, tempeh, natto, etc., as well as non-fermented soy products including water tofu, dried tofu (100 pages), bean sprouts, marinated soy products, fried soy products, smoked soy products, fried marinated soy products, frozen soy products, dried soybean products, puffed soy products, canned soybean stewed pork, canned soybean stewed beef, canned spiced soybeans, etc., are simply strange.

This not only enriches people's living needs and diversifies the variety of export products, but also provides a lot of jobs and a large number of loyal users among the white community.

It is not uncommon to see white women carrying a basket in the vegetable market and shouting in front of a soy product stall; "This, this, and this...... Give me a pound, I also want 5 pieces of dried tofu, a can of bean paste, oh...... By the way, another can of stinky tofu, my man loves to eat it, I love to eat it, and my baby son also loves to eat it. ”

Early the next morning

After completing the corresponding procedures, Lao Mike and his party of six ranchers drove the cattle and sheep, and followed several staff members of the town office to their ranch area to survey and erect monuments to complete the last step of their ranch dreams.

These 6-foot-tall stone boundary markers resemble stone pillars, except that they are flattened and used to etch the serial numbers and related information of the boundary survey pillars, and when you look closely, they are more like spanking boards in the yamen, and each ranch has eight of them for demarcation and confirmation.

It is a felony to move the boundary demarcation monument at will, which is a naked infringement of the property rights of others, and the relevant etching of the serial number information of the boundary demarcation monument is recorded in the town office, and submitted to the state self-government office for filing and archiving, and placed in the basement in good condition as the original property certificate.

Without a change in the ownership of the ranch, these property certificates may have been preserved for hundreds of years.

Therefore, everyone was beaming and difficult to hide along the way, and a huge sense of happiness filled their chests.

Li Siyuan, the mayor of the town who rode in front of him, was a young man who was only 23 years old, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and looking polite, he was a graduate of the National Administration Department of the Saint-Germain College in France, and one of the first members of the Young Stormtroopers to follow Li Fushou to Europe to circumnavigate.

He heard Susan, a young woman behind him, humming a ditty with a strong English style, looking back and smiling; "It's really good to sing, Mayor Mike, you are highly respected, I would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming state councilor election in August as a representative of the Qingdao Town State Councilor of the Zhi Gong Party, what do you think?"

"That's a great thing, of course I can't ask for it, but you'...... you, Mr. Mayor," Old Michael asked with a slight hesitation.

Li Siyuan knew that he was asking why he didn't run for state legislator on behalf of Qingdao Town?

As a young man aspiring to enter politics, the state legislator is a golden ladder.

As a newly developed population town, Qingdao Town has only one seat for the state councilor, which is given to Lao Mike, and Li Siyuan, the mayor of the town, naturally does not have it.

"Huh...... In fact, I will not be in Qingdao for more than two years, and I will soon be transferred to other positions, maybe the factory or maybe the headquarters of the Red River Valley, and I have to accumulate seniority through the rotation of various departments, so it is not suitable to occupy the precious seat of this state legislature. Li Siyuan explained with a smile.

"If that's the case, then I'm ashamed." Old Mike actually dropped a sentence of Chinese in a crepe, which is rare and appropriate.

The English people do not have a tradition of humility, they have a smell of arrogance in their bones, they are difficult to get close to and difficult to approach, they are always so high.

Li Siyuan glanced at him in surprise and couldn't help but smile again.

He is a high-level intellectual who has studied both China and the West, and can see deeper things between the bits and pieces of words, what does Old Mike's sentence mean?

Rolling around in the Chinese immigrant community all day long, the way he speaks and behaves has been profoundly affected, which is evident in Old Mike.

The two daughters are married to Chinese immigrants, and their way of speaking is biased towards the Chinese style, they like to eat stinky tofu, eat pig intestines, eat hot pot and other heavy things, and I heard that they are full of praise for sweet potato dry wine, and it is even more rare that it is smooth and natural to say, not deliberately, this old English guy is no longer cured.