After inspecting the Songjiang base of the General Machinery Company, early the next morning, Li Fushou participated in the "Songjiang Area Comprehensive Construction and Development Conference" held in the large conference room of the Songjiang base.

The meeting lasted for two days, and the head of Songjiang Town spoke freely.

Songjiang Town is located in the lower reaches of the Great Dividing Range Mountains, and the land here is very fertile due to flooding and forest swamp siltation over thousands of years, especially on the shores of Taihu Lake and the vast swampy area, which is very conducive to the development of rice cultivation.

The Red River Valley is a typical tropical humid climate, with an average annual precipitation of 1000~1300 mm, which is suitable for growing rice in a broad sense.

However, in terms of soil, precipitation, geographical location and climatic conditions, the Songjiang area is the most suitable for growing rice, and through the proper construction of water conservancy projects, the mountain floods are confined to a fixed river channel and do not overflow, coupled with the Songjiang Reservoir storage and storage, it is undoubtedly a land of fish and rice.

Now with the Songjiang Reservoir, the torrent can become docile, and with the regulation of the Taihu Lake and the Huangpu River, it has the basic conditions for the land of fish and rice.

After the construction of water conservancy facilities to drain the stagnant water in the swampy areas, and after the large swampy areas have dried up and settled, the nutrient-rich humus is the best rice field.

The proposal for the construction of water conservancy projects was approved at the development meeting, mainly to build dozens of kilometers of embankments, diversion canals, bridges, drainage and irrigation stations and culverts, forming large tracts of fertile land, and the investment in this area will reach tens of thousands of pounds.

After it was built

Songjiang Town Agricultural Reclamation will add 800,000 mu of paddy fields, which can plant two crops per year, solve the main livelihood problems of 5~60,000 agricultural population, and further expand the population base of Songjiang Town.

In the early experimental fields, the average yield of rice per mu reached the level of 150~180 kg, which was already very high in the era when no chemical fertilizer was used, which is enough to show that the land in Songjiang Town is fertile.

From raw land to cooked land, rice yield will gradually increase, and the yield per mu of more than 200 kg is promising in the future, which means that the annual output of double cropping rice can reach about 300,000 tons, which can solve the demand for high-quality rice of 250~3 million people.

After all, the Chinese in the southern region prefer to eat rice, and this hard demand cannot be ignored.

As the number of immigrants increases, the demand for rice will increase in the future, and the nearby town of Gusu can also be developed into a rice breeding base by canals, which is included in the long-term plan.

There is a popular argument that Australian land is barren and unsuitable for rice cultivation and agriculture, which is a pure fallacy and not worth refuting.

Australia is a whole continent in the South Pacific region, with a complex geographical and climatic composition, and its northern York Peninsula is a typical tropical rainforest climate, with annual rainfall of up to 4500 mm, which is the most rainy region.

The west of the Great Dividing Range in the southeast of Australia, from the south of the York Peninsula to the north of Melbourne as long as 3,300 kilometers of coastal areas, is a typical subtropical monsoon humid climate, with an average rainfall of 900~1200 mm, this rainfall level is slightly higher than that of Jiangsu, generally higher than the annual rainfall of 750 mm in northern Jiangsu, and the annual rainfall in southern Jiangsu is the same.

With such favorable climate and geographical conditions, rice, wheat, and soybeans are widely cultivated.

It's just that Australia has a small population, the geographical conditions are too superior, and people are a little lazy, and they are not willing to farm, not that they can't plant.

How comfortable it is to graze, and the day of driving the cattle and sheep to play easily is over, and when the time comes, just shear the sheep.

As a world-class excellent pasture, Australia is grazing with fertile soil of arable land, and the sheep cannot eat the abundant pasture, and the conditions are countless times stronger than Texas in the United States.

Look around the world

Only Argentina and New Zealand can match them, and they are also world-class ranches, although the range of pastures in these two countries is a little smaller and cannot be compared to Australia.

From the point of view of climatic conditions

Brisbane and Red River Valley cities located on the Sunshine Coast have the best climatic conditions, with most temperatures around 10~20 degrees and no more than 25 degrees throughout the year.

Compare it to

Sydney and Brisbane in the south are colder, and the southernmost region has a modern maritime climate, in addition to the humid Mediterranean climate of South Australia, the subtropical savannah climate, the tropical desert climate of Western Australia, etc., the climate conditions are rich and diverse, and the rainfall is also different.

At the Songjiang Town Development Conference

The proposal of 800,000 acres of farmland water conservancy facilities was passed, and the audience burst into warm applause.

The second major topic of the meeting was the development of Beishan iron ore, which is located in the mountains north of the Songjiang Reservoir, about 40 kilometers away from Songjiang Town, where high-grade magnetite has been discovered and the preliminary exploration reserves have exceeded 100 million tons.

Australia is indeed a country sitting on mines, and its coal and iron resources are outrageously abundant.

The Songjiang base of Hongshan Iron and Steel Plant is also based on the resources of Beishan Iron Mine, which is located on the edge of Taihu Lake

So

Iron ore mined from Beishan can be transported to the north shore of Taihu Lake by more than 40 kilometers of dedicated railway, and after smelting at the Songjiang base, it can be transported from Taihu Lake into the Huangpu River, and directly into the sea along this waterway to trade ports around the world.

This is a very reasonable industrial layout, Beishan iron ore relying on convenient transportation conditions, whether it is the export of iron ore or the production of steel, can be directly through the railway and water transport to the international market.

Most of the world-class iron and steel enterprises in later generations have convenient transportation conditions near the sea or near the big rivers, which greatly reduces the transportation cost of bulk commodities and is more competitive in the market.

Relying on the Songjiang base of Hongshan Iron and Steel Plant, it can also develop a series of special steel manufacturing plants, steel ropes, steel mesh, steel pipes, steel pipe valves and other series of steel products and shipbuilding plants.

Nowadays, close to the north shore of Taihu Lake, there are more than a dozen private shipyards of all sizes, providing the market with small and medium-sized fishing vessels, from 200 tons to 3,000 tons of various types of offshore transport vessels, small and medium-sized passenger ferries, dredging ships, engineering ships, shallow horizontal bottom ships and so on.

On the desk of the Songjiang Township Office, there are many more shipyard applications awaiting approval, all of which are looking for business opportunities from the booming maritime transport industry, which Queensland has a strong advocate for in terms of offshore and distant-water fishing.

Maritime connections between Australian cities are the main way, especially during the four annual shearing seasons, when large quantities of wool from southern states such as northern Queensland, Melbourne and Sydney reach the mills by water, which is almost 100% dependent on offshore shipping.

As a result, there is a huge demand.

Coupled with the flow of people and trade needs in various cities in Australia, there is a huge demand for various types of small and medium-sized cargo ships and passenger ships, up to hundreds of them every year, which are the market for small and medium-sized shipyards.

With the rise of the transportation and fishing industry, Australia's related industries have also developed, and a series of manufacturers of anchor chains, cables, canvas, tarpaulins, fishing nets, steel cables and even alloy propellers have developed to provide the market with the products it needs.

There are many Zhi Gong Party bigwigs participating in the shares, many of them have traveled to Europe and the United States, have broad horizons and knowledge, and only know that there is absolutely nothing wrong with following the earl.

These people hold shares in large enterprises and have high salaries, and there is no shortage of money in their pockets, and many people buy land and buy shops, and learn from the earl to set up industries, and make a lot of money.

For example, the copper pipe factory, connector factory, rubber pipe fitting factory, etc., which are supporting the Songjiang base of the General Machinery Factory, have the shadow of these Red River Valley bigwigs behind them, and they all make a lot of money.

The topic returns to Beishan Iron Mine, 40 kilometers of special railway line is under construction, related mining equipment is in place, miners will also be placed through formal recruitment channels, there will be no less than 2,000 miners at this stage, this is another large-scale miner town.

Li Fushou said at the meeting that key support policies will be adopted for Beishan Iron Mine, and funds and policies will be tilted to help enterprises reach production as soon as possible.

In addition, the first bridge across the Huangpu River is also on the agenda, changing the situation that has always relied on ferries, which is of great significance to communicate the flow of people and logistics on both sides of the Huangpu River.

meeting

The proposal for the development of education put forward by relevant personnel, especially the construction of an engineering professional college, and the construction of a comprehensive education system from primary school to middle school, which has aroused Li Fushou's great attention, the bill instructed the secretariat to continue to follow up, widely solicit opinions from enterprises, and conduct rigorous and serious argumentation.

Today's development of Songjiang Town is somewhat deformed, with industry and agriculture in full bloom, and education and medical care and other cultural and health care are relatively backward.

In particular, there is a clear fault line in the education industry, and this problem exists not only in Songjiang Town, but also in other emerging towns.

Previously, in order to cope with the increasing number of "Eagle Project" students from the mainland, all towns and villages were ordered to establish corresponding middle schools.

Red River Valley has allocated special funds for this purpose, and from the University of the Valley, the University of Brisbane to send outstanding graduates to teach in various schools, has built 27 middle schools, these middle schools are the same as the middle schools in Qinglong City, only the high school has no junior high school, and the unified two-year school system.

This has formed a strange phenomenon, every town has a middle school but no primary school, let alone a kindergarten, and there is no such thing as a kindergarten in this era.

In fact, Li Fushou can't be blamed for this, because the age group from 5 to 15 years old is almost blank, and there are too few school-age children.

When Li Fushou first set foot on the land of Australia in 1876, Chinese immigrants were basically unable to obtain local household registration certificates, not only had to endure the exploitation and discrimination policies of white people, but also could not obtain legal qualifications to marry, and were not allowed to enter churches, let alone have children.

This kind of bad government originated in Citigroup and was copied by Australia.

It was not until tens of thousands of native-born Caucasian women were introduced from the Central American concentration camps on a large scale and the immigration policy was started from the mainland that there would be babies with Chinese blood in this beautiful and fertile land, and it would take only 6 years to complete the battle.

The first children have just turned 5 years old, while the boys and girls who have migrated from the mainland are at least 16 years old, creating an 11-year education gap that will take time to make up for the trauma.

The literacy and literacy classes that had been held in the early years gradually faded after the Eagle Project students went out into society in large numbers, and Red River Valley no longer allocated funds for them.

The educational results of such literacy classes and literacy classes are very limited, and adults are forced to study because of their livelihoods, or they are unable to sit down at all.

Nowadays, the scale of immigration is getting larger and larger, and it is obviously unrealistic to continue to rely on the Earl to independently support the literacy education of millions of immigrants.

The reason why Li Fushou vigorously organized literacy classes and literacy classes at the beginning was that Li Fushou's starting points and ideas were good, but he took it for granted, and it proved that it did not work, but it caused a lot of complaints.

This money can be used to increase the investment in the "Young Eagle Project" and cultivate a group of enthusiastic young people with loyal beliefs, which is also a significant change in immigration policy.

Nowadays, it seems that adolescents are still highly malleable, and sex education through repeated indoctrination is very effective, and it is a basic strategy that must be adhered to in the long run, which has formed a consensus in the Red River Valley.

In the future, whether it is 20 years or 30 years or even longer, we must persistently adhere to it.