Li Fushou looked at the scenery outside the window leisurely, after the third sheep shearing season, the financial embarrassment will be greatly alleviated, and he will be able to provide stronger financial support for the war in Borneo and fight a large-scale battle.

Accumulation, expansion, accumulation, expansion......

With the accumulation of huge wealth, the expansion of territory, and the growth of power, Li Fushou's ambitions are getting bigger and bigger, and he is no longer satisfied with the current pattern restrictions.

People change, and so does he.

When he first set foot in Australia in 1876, he just wanted to be a happy rich man, enjoy life, and build a big business empire.

But wealth soon attracted a large group of greedy white pretenders, like vultures hovering over Africa, who would give Li Fushou a hard blow at any time, which made him extremely insecure.

At the beginning, Hongmen Club was developed to unite the strength of the Chinese ethnic community to protect themselves, maintain personal and property safety, and on this basis, help more Chinese immigrants to resist unfair systems and discrimination, and pursue fair and just social treatment.

The so-called attainment is to help the world, and it is true.

It's been a long way

The spiral of wealth and his own strength has risen alternately, propelling Li Fushou to this day involuntarily, that is, there are deliberate arrangements, and there are also environmental and social forced factors, and the two have interacted and evolved to this day.

Now he has deliberately downplayed the color of the "Hongmen" gang and paid more attention to the "Zhi Gong Dang," a political party representing the interests of a wide range of immigrants.

Li Fushou's development strategy has been very clear, that is, accumulation, expansion, accumulation, and expansion......

As for how far he can go, he himself does not have a clear end goal.

It can only be said that the Dutch are unlucky to be targeted, and the focus of attention for the next two decades will be on the East Indies, and it is impossible to say for sure what will happen in the future.

Pinching his fingers, Li Fushou is 23 years old this year, and he will only be 43 years old in 20 years, so he has enough time and energy to strategize.

The sharp rebound in wool prices this year is mainly due to the abandonment of the two-year policy of suppressing wool prices, and the return of wool values to normal levels.

The Red River Valley ranch has benefited a lot, which is also a gluttonous feast for southern ranchers, almost all the losses in the previous two years have been earned, and the value of the ranch that has been losing money has soared, and it is more emboldened to compete with Queensland.

The benefits of this are calculated, and I am afraid that there will be more disadvantages than benefits.

The reason why Li Fushou gave up the "wool purchase price suppression policy" that he had always adhered to was one of the economic factors, and the other was that the policy could not achieve the original effect.

New South Wales and Victoria are mainly areas of British immigrants, with a hundred years of colonial history, and are the most developed areas in Australia, and they are also the hardest hit areas of discrimination against Chinese immigrants.

To be precise, conservative white ranchers in Southern states do not discriminate against Chinese immigrants alone, but against all immigrants, including Scots and Citigroup cowboys.

Even bankrupt white ranchers in the Southern states are unlikely to sell their ranches to immigrants, preferring to sell them for as little money as they can, and they are so stubborn and stubborn to the end.

It has become a disease and must be cured!

If Li Fushou could have adhered to the policy of suppressing wool purchases for more than ten years, these die-hard southern ranchers might have succumbed, but when he thought of the huge profits lost, as the world's largest rancher, Li Fushou was distressed.

With tens of millions of sheep and hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, the difference between positive and negative is too great.

Since the price of wool has been liberalized, Li Fushou simply let go of his hands and feet to enter the wool deep processing industry, and the trump card in his hand is a blockbuster gift to Queen Victoria's 50th anniversary on the throne, which is enough to shock the British Isles.

In contrast, in today's environment of the British Empire's promotion of global free trade, it is not difficult for the Earl of Queensland to intervene in the wool deep processing industry.

Taking advantage of this shareholder wind, Australian wool deep-processing products have landed in the European market, including the British Isles, and the result is twice the result with half the effort.

The so-called profit maximization is nothing like this.

Li Fushou repeatedly weighed this major event for a long time, and arranged for the representative in Europe to inspect the current level and employment situation of the wool deep processing industry in European countries in detail, conduct in-depth research on the market space and profit margin, and finally made up his mind to give it a go.

This contains millions of pounds of lucrative income, and Li Fushou can't help but be unmoved.

The money spent on the big gifts that was sent out soon flowed back in a steady stream.

From the perspective of the wool deep processing products market, the market competitiveness of high-quality wool products produced in Australia is unparalleled in the world, not only in Europe, but also in North America.

Many people don't understand the situation and think that Citigroup's agriculture and animal husbandry are the world's top, and Citigroup's cowboy has become a symbol of this country, deeply imprinted in people's hearts.

Isn't the wool products produced by such an agricultural and animal husbandry power and an industrial power fragrant?

Not really

Citigroup's animal husbandry industry is strong in raising beef cattle, and the cattle industry occupies more than 60% of Citigroup's animal husbandry share, and the beef cattle production accounts for about 20% of the world's production, followed by the pig industry, which accounts for about 10% of the world's output, and the poultry breeding industry is extremely developed and has a wide variety of breeding.

In Citigroup, there are many states with more than 500,000 beef cattle on their pastures, and in addition to Texas, which ranks first, there are also Midwestern states such as Nebraska, Kansas, California, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

Only the sheep industry is very inconspicuous in the United States, accounting for less than 1% of the animal husbandry industry, the number is only hundreds of thousands, and most of them are scattered farming by farmers, and there are few small pastures with more than 1,000 sheep.

Because the sheep have a bad habit of eating grass, they will pull out the grass and eat it instead of just eating the young leaves of the grass like beef cattle, which will cause the degradation and even desertification of large areas of grassland, and the desertification of the Mongolian steppe is the best example.

In most parts of the United States, the natural conditions are not suitable for sheep breeding, which is too harmful to the grassland.

Therefore, the United States not only imports a large number of combed woolen tops and carded woolen tops from Australia, but also imports a large number of frozen mutton to meet the rising domestic market demand, which is one of the high-quality markets in the future.

In addition to meeting the needs of the Far East, North America is also one of the main markets, and the European market needs to be developed step by step, adopting the strategy of boiling frogs in warm water to slowly squeeze in.

There are three world-class excellent pastures suitable for the development of Merino sheep, Australia, Argentina and New Zealand, the latter two have the disadvantage of small pastures, and the total population of New Zealand has not exceeded 20,000 people, and the scale of breeding is far from comparable to the former.

in the world wool industry

The cattle ears of the Australian practice community, and the cattle ears of the Red River Valley Ranch in Australia, affect the price level of wool in the whole world.

After entering 1882, with the rapid rise in the purchase price of Australian wool, the price of wool series products rose accordingly.

Instead of shrinking consumption, the Red River Valley has considered a massive expansion of its herd to make more profits.

The three major factors that limit wool production are the natural conditions of the grazing area, the carrying capacity of the natural conditions, labor and capital.

Thanks to abundant resources and immigrant populations, Red River Valley ranches have few bottlenecks in these three areas.

The whole Red River Valley pasture is divided into 23 pastoral areas, basically every southern agricultural and animal husbandry town is a large pastoral area, with independent wool purchasing stations, slaughterhouses, meat processing plants and other ancillary facilities, and has a telegraph office, the Royal Mounted Police Station, Fu Linmen Department Store, bars, restaurants, grain and oil shops, bank stations, post offices and other necessary telephone service facilities, constituting a complete ecology of a small town of agriculture and animal husbandry.

Each pastoral area has more than 1 million to more than 2 million sheep in size, and the pastoral area has a different number of grazing teams, and the herding team manages 3~50,000 sheep, and grazes sheep along a fixed route nomadic way.

The Red River Valley Ranch adopts natural grazing and mechanized planting of royal bamboo grass and sweet elephant grass, which are preferred by sheep, to improve the carrying capacity of natural pastures.

After years of exploration

The Red River Valley pasture has formed a scientific breeding and grazing experience, and a large-scale mechanized pasture planting action has been carried out in each pastoral area, which is combined with natural grazing, which has greatly enhanced the carrying capacity of the herd per unit area of pastoral land.

Mechanized planting of forage grass is mainly based on tractors, and a large area of land is reclaimed along the grazing route of the sheep in the pastoral area, and the pasture grass is evenly sprinkled into the fertile soil, and it will not take long to grow a large area of lush imperial bamboo grass, sweet elephant grass......

These pasture fields do not need to be maintained, and they thrive quickly in the soil under the right rain and climate, and the grass roots are deeply rooted in the depths and have many branches, especially the sweet elephant grass can grow to the height of many people, like a lush pasture forest.

These grasses do not need to be harvested, and when grazing, just drive the sheep into it, which is an excellent way to fatten and promote fat, saving trouble and effort.

Cowboys herd their sheep more on the sturdy Scottish Shepherd, who will run out with a loud whistle or a whip to drive the large herd of Merino sheep out of the pasture field and on their way to the next nomadic spot.

In this way, the grazing team drives the sheep along the fixed route for nomadic herding, and it takes about 2~3 months to return to the animal husbandry town.

The cowboys can relax in the town's bar, or fool around with a fuso and after a while in the town to shear their wool, the cowboys will drive the sheep again, and the next time they will come back will be two or three months later......

All this has formed a fixed model, saving time and labor, with low cost and high efficiency.

The climatic conditions in Australia are very good, keeping between 10~25 degrees all year round, and a few mountainous areas will drop below zero degrees in winter, and goose feather snow will fall all over the mountains.

Snow falls only in the mountainous areas of the Great Dividing Range, and in the pastoral areas of the coastal hilly plains, where the seasons are warm and spring-like, rainfall is abundant, and pastures are suitable for growth all year round.

Compared with the Mongolian steppe, which often breaks out of white plagues, this is simply the place of choice, and the natural conditions of agriculture and animal husbandry are unique, incomparable, and worthy of the name of world-class excellent pasture.