The heads of all walks of life at the construction site in Tianshu Town finished their routine morning meeting, and then dispersed in a hurry, and each returned to his post to start a busy day's work.

Wu Xuewen stood in front of the large planning blueprint and stared for a long time, as if the beautiful scenery of Tianshu Town in the planning blueprint was slowly spreading out on the wasteland......

This is a shipping, commercial and industrial town with a population of 100,000 planned within three years, integrating a variety of urban functions, and is the leading town in the development of the entire Qingshui River Basin, with a long-term planning target of 300,000 people.

The central street of Tianshu Town is up to 60 meters wide, separated by a green belt in the center, and the left and right traffic zones are implemented to drive on the right, and the two sides of the road are planned to be business districts, administrative districts, education, medical and cultural districts, and will be equipped with complete public facilities such as schools, hospitals and libraries to form a complete urban ecology.

From this point alone, it can be seen that Wu Xuewen has great expectations for the future of Tianshu Town, which is a plan modeled after the Central Avenue of Red River Valley City, which is even wider than the main street of Songjiang Town, which is definitely a big deal.

Of course, there are still only a few gray lines.

As the saying goes, what a man wears is a bird, and the Earl has said many times in meetings; How big the dream is, how broad the future is, you can't even think about what else can you achieve?

This sentence has always deeply inspired Wu Xuewen, who dreams of building Tianshu Town into Shangri-La's largest economic and shipping town, and even rivals the important location of Songjiang Town and Beilun Town.

Compared with the two towns of Moresby and Jayapura on Shangri-La Island, Tianshu Town has a unique natural advantage, that is, the deep hinterland is extremely broad, linked by the developed main stream and tributaries of the Qingshui River, the early development of the hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land is not the limit, and Qixing Town is not the limit, and there are conditions to build more towns.

Due to the limitation of natural river channels, continuing to sail upstream from Tianshu Town, the main stream of the Qingshui River, which is about 400 kilometers long, can only pass ships of less than 3,000 tons, and continue to go further upstream for 700 kilometers of rivers, which can only pass ships of less than 600 tons.

Tianshu Town is located in the lower reaches of the Qingshui River, the water surface of the nearby river bay is wide, the channel is deep, the water depth of the main channel is generally up to 12 meters, it can pass 100,000 tons of cargo ships, and it is about 44 kilometers away from the mouth of the Coral Sea.

Bulk goods produced in the towns in the deep hinterland of the Qingshui River basin are unloaded at the port after arriving in Tianshu Town, and then loaded onto 10,000-ton ocean-going freighters from here to sail overseas, and vice versa.

This determines the irreplaceable advantageous position of Tianshu Town, which can develop characteristic industries such as port river-sea combined transport, warehousing, logistics, ship repair, etc., and develop into a business and trade center and shipping center in the Qingshui River Basin.

On this basis, we will further develop characteristic agricultural processing, such as tobacco processing plants, sugar processing plants, large-scale food processing plants, oil processing factories and natural rubber products processing plants, so as to become the economic leader that drives the development of the entire Qingshui River Basin.

When it comes to potential, Tianshu Town has far more potential than other towns, and the key lies in its unique geographical advantages, which are completely irreplaceable.

Wu Xuewen's eyes were withdrawn from the blueprint and looked at the large construction site under construction, where wooden houses were rising along the central streets, thousands of laborers were working hard, and the diesel engines of the tractor fleet roared and roared, plowing large tracts of fertile land.

Far away, a new round of burning began, and the fiery red flames rose to envelop large areas of dense bushes and forests, and the thick smoke from the burning billowed up into the sky, blending with the dark clouds in the sky, making the sky even darker.

Looking at the dark clouds rolling in the sky, there will definitely be heavy rain today.

Burn the land before the rainstorm comes, and let the rainwater mix with the thick ashes of plants and trees into black muddy water, which penetrates deeply into the soil, and the rich nutrients can enhance the fertility of the soil.

At the same time, burning can destroy all the rhizomes of weeds and bushes, which is the first step of reclamation, after the land has been deeply turned and exposed to the sun, the reorganized field can be sown with rice seedlings, waiting for the moment of harvest.

The climate of the Qingshui River Basin is between 15 degrees and 25 degrees throughout the year, which is suitable for planting two crops of rice, one season of beans, and also suitable for planting tobacco, cocoa and other agricultural species.

Wu Xuewen calculated;

When the first migrants arrived, they organized a large-scale reclamation and sowed the seeds of the fields as soon as possible, so that the first rice crops could be harvested in three months.

With food, there is no need to panic, and there is no need to transfer it from other places, and it has entered the track of benign development step by step.

With the increasing number of immigrants and the more and more wasteland reclaimed, the next step can be to consider the establishment of related food and agricultural and sideline products processing plants, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, daily necessities and commercial trade, to further enrich the lives of immigrants and the supply of agricultural and sideline products, so as to further promote the prosperity of the market.

Therefore, resettlement is the top priority, and reclamation of wasteland is the top priority at present.

The farming attributes of Chinese immigrants are unquestionable, and it can be said that the hard-working farmers in the world can take root and sprout in any barren land, let alone this fertile land.

in accordance with immigration policy;

Men who immigrate to Shangri-La Island can get 2 acres of land (about 13 acres) for free, and women can get 1 acre of land for free, and these wastelands must be cultivated by themselves, and 30% of the land income is taxed, and the immigration department allocates homesteads free of charge for the establishment of villages and towns.

The required building funds and production tools can be loaned, and the preferential interest rate of 6% can be enjoyed, and the maximum amount applied for is not more than 15 pounds per person.

Those who have sufficient financial resources can buy more land, there is no upper limit, and they also pay 30% of the tax according to the land income, and the immigrants must spare 21 days of free labor every year for the centralized arrangement of farmland water conservancy and rural road construction, which is the obligation of every immigrant and must be implemented.

If this period is exceeded, the monetary subsidy will be converted.

This kind of immigration policy is very attractive, the key is that the free distribution of land is enough to make all mainland immigrants rush to it, as for the other clauses are completely ignored, compared to the mainland areas where there are many taxes and miscellaneous taxes, it is simply too happy, right?

The peasants of this era are both simple and ignorant, working in the fields like animals all the year round and still have no food, gnawing tree bark and eating wild vegetables when there is no food in the spring famine, helping the old and the young to go out to beg, and those who die on the way abound, what hardship has not been suffered?

When you come to Australia (publicity), you can have the land of your dreams, and this is enough.

Wu Xuewen could not imagine what dazzling sparks would be sparked by the combination of the almost endless labor resources from the Far East and the vast unexplored primeval jungles of the South Pacific.

The Earl almost unreservedly adopted two important suggestions of Wu Xuewen, which formed the core content of Shangri-La Island's immigration policy;

First, land will be allocated free of charge, Huitong Bank will be allowed to lend money to migrants to help them build village homes, purchase necessary production and daily necessities such as cattle, farm tools, seeds, etc., and have the ability to produce and live independently, and allow agricultural and animal husbandry products to offset loans.

Second, it allows workers to repay loans for three years free of charge for Shangri-La (immigration loans), which can be extended to a maximum of seven years, during which they are given good living conditions and small monetary remuneration.

After the expiration of the period, they can run their own farms, apply for jobs, workers and fishermen, and buy real estate, and they can choose by themselves.

Shangri-La Island's immigration policy has been slightly revised on this basis, adding a tax burden ratio of 370%, and in addition, it has inherited the core essence of Wu Xuewen's policy, which makes him feel great respect.

The so-called soldier dies for his confidant, and Wu Xuewen is now with this deep gratitude, and he has devoted himself to the fiery construction without hesitation.

Along both sides of the central street, the large-scale construction of two-storey stilted buildings basically entered the later stage of construction, these houses in addition to the town office, police office, tax office, postal office, telegraph office, bank, hospital and other institutions, mainly used for commercial purposes, teahouse wine shop, rice shop grain and oil store, Qin Lou Chu Pavilion and so on.

This is the original commercial street of Tianshu Town, with 36 two-story commercial buildings on each side of the street, with a total length of less than 700 meters, and the central road is smooth and wide.

Wu Xuewen led his men along the street and walked forward, and soon came to a wooden building under construction, this stilted wooden building was built to the second floor, more than a dozen workers were busy, the sound of clanging knives and axes was endless, and all kinds of wood piles were everywhere at the door.

When the workers at the door saw the arrival of the chief manager and his entourage, they stopped their work and bowed.

Wu Xuewen waved his hand and said; "No need to be polite, you keep working, I'll just take a look."

At this time

A rather sturdy middle-aged man walked out of the wooden house and saw Wu Xuewen bowing his hand; "The small one is Zhou Dachuan, the carpentry squad leader who is in charge of the construction of this house, and greets the chief manager."

"Okay, then you can take a look with me."

"The little ones obey, the adults should pay attention to the broken wood under their feet, beware of the iron nails piercing their feet, please go this way."

"yes, okay."

Wu Xuewen was as good as a stream, cautiously stepped into the gap into the wooden building, and then stood still and looked around.

There are more than a dozen main columns of this wooden building, all of which are thick wooden squares more than 7 meters long, with a yellowish and charred surface, which are tightly connected with the equally thick wooden ring beams to form a solid wooden frame, and then lay thick planks to gradually take shape.

The room on the first floor divided by wooden planks has been built, Wu Xuewen looked around, and pounded the wall board hard, the thick wall board made a dull sound, and it didn't move at all.

He nodded in satisfaction and continued to walk forward, asking as he went;

"Squad Leader Zhou, when will this wooden building be completed?"

"The small one doesn't dare to be called an adult, this wooden building has entered the end, and the railings and compartments on the second floor are being built, and after it is done, it will be completed again with tung oil, and it will be completed in about two days, leaving four or five workers here to finish it, and we will move to the new construction site."

"Well, are there any difficulties?"

"Returning to my lord, the difficulty is nothing, that is, the construction period is too rushed, this work is done roughly, the floor planing is uneven and smooth, the seams can not be done tightly, and the railings and window sills are also fast, and there is no time to carve carefully."

"Well, this can only be improved later."

To say that the construction period is too tight, the initiator is the general manager Wu Xuewen, and then the pressure is pressed down one level at a time, which has caused the situation of desperately rushing to meet the construction deadline.