Zhu Fugui was very satisfied with the topography of this gravel land.

The plot is level, the water is abundant, and the nearest mine is only five kilometers away.

Of course, it was close to the mines, but far from the white settlements.

At present, there are only sporadic white settlements in the entire Seattle area, and the residents basically come for gold panning and choose to settle down on farms.

This is mainly Lincoln's ghost.

In an effort to gain the support of the middle power (especially whites) in the war with the plantation owners of the South, he enacted the so-called Homestead Act last year.

The decree states:

Beginning on January 1, 1863, any U.S. citizen who had attained the age of 21 years, or who was a naturalized alien applying for U.S. citizenship, received a share of up to 160 acres of Western State land for the purpose of living and farming, free of charge or by paying a registration fee of $10. After five years of cultivation, or six months of residence on the homestead within five years and paying a fee of $1.25 per acre, the land received belongs to him.

Giving Indian land to white voters was a completely generous approach.

As soon as this decree was promulgated, countless western cowboys became farmers with rifles in one hand and a large fence in the other.

On the other hand, countless Indian villages were turned into ruins and ghost towns.

Fortunately, the Seattle area where Zhu Fugui is located is the northwesternmost corner of the United States, and although the transportation is developed, the location is remote.

The future location of downtown Seattle is now just a small town.

According to the plan, the North Taiping Railway, the Great Northern Railway, and the Pacific Railway will all pass through there.

The U.S. imperialists of this era are very much like a certain country in East Asia in later generations, and the title of infrastructure madness is well deserved.

And the amazing coincidence is that these two infrastructure countries are actually forged by the same people.

These railways, which are still on paper, will become tangible at a breakneck pace in the years to come.

This is the opportunity for Zhu Fugui's rise, and we must seize it.

Of course, another reason why Zhu Fugui insisted on building a factory was that he needed a reliable warehouse.

Items procured from the twenty-first century need to be properly disguised.

"Wait a minute, everybody!"

Zhu Fugui jumped off the horse, pretended to touch the grass, and took out a note.

The note is prepared early in the system space.

But in Yin Susu's eyes, it was as if Zhu Fugui had found it in the grass.

After reading the note, Zhu Fugui immediately carefully put it away closely.

Then no one was allowed to follow and ran alone to the back of the hill.

Yin Susu and the others were baffled by Zhu Fugui, but Qi Wenchang reacted first.

He asked, "Gonggong Li, but long live the code of the brocade guard?" ”

Qi Wenchang knew that Zhu Fugui had a mysterious power in his hand that could not see the head and the end.

They are all governed by loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of the Jinyi Guard on the other side of the ocean, and the ninety-six people of Dingyuan Gongxing.

Compared to them, his own Beizhen Fusi is too immature.

Old Eunuch Li touched his smooth chin and said mysteriously: "Long live the Lord and the first emperor Bumou grass gray snake line, walking thousands of miles, how can we speculate?" Qi Zhen soothed the envoy, you trespassed. ”

Qi Wenchang was startled, and a cold sweat suddenly came down.

Indeed, he had committed a big taboo just now.

How can the hidden power in the hands of the Long Live Lord be inquired about by himself?

They are open guns, they are hidden arrows, and the two must not have any intersection.

You have to keep your identity in mind at all times!

Just when Qi Wenchang was secretly reflecting, Zhu Fugui came back on a mountain bike.

Old Eunuch Li squinted his eyes, thinking that the turtle next to him must not know the goods, so he explained: "This is called a bicycle, I ...... in Shanghai."

"Well, bicycles are foreigners' things, and you can save effort when riding."

Qi Wenchang nodded, "Back then, there were foreign brothers, ahh ”

"Oh, Lord Qi is really fashionable!"

Old Eunuch Li said a newly learned word, which can be regarded as hiding his embarrassment.

What he saw and heard in the Shanghai Concession was really not as good as others.

It's a shame that our family is not Liu Jin and Wei Jinzhong, otherwise you kid wouldn't know how to die!

Li Chunfa couldn't help but think in his heart.

……

Although Zhu Fugui's bicycle is different from the style of the bicycle on the Dongwang Mansion, it is not surprising.

They were surprised, where did the Lord get the foreign objects?

Old Eunuch Li and Qi Wenchang didn't dare to ask, but Yin Susu didn't have this concern, she stepped forward to look at the bicycle curiously, wanting to study how it ran like a horse.

Zhu Fugui handed over the bicycle to Yin Susu and said with a smile: "I saw that the village was poor before, so I asked Xing Aiqing's riders to take the silver in the inner money and buy some things. ”

Inside!

Although Qi Wenchang tried hard not to think about it, his ears still keenly caught this word.

Yes, as the saying goes, the emperor is not a hungry soldier.

If the Lord didn't take it out with real money, how could he afford to raise such an elite secret agent?

And Long Live Lord now sympathizes with everyone's poverty and buys things!

For a while, Qi Wenchang inevitably compared Zhu Fugui with Hong Xiuquan, and was even more glad that he had met the master.

"Ouch!"

At this moment, Qi Wenchang saw that the always heroic and sassy mother tripped her feet in the wheel of the car and fell to the ground.

His Majesty, on the other hand, leaned back with laughter.

Immediately afterwards, he was beaten with a pink fist.

Qi Wenchang hurriedly turned around and wiped the cold sweat with his sleeve.

Don't look at indecent things, don't listen to indecent people!

Hey, sure enough, I still have a long way to go before I become a qualified pro-army of the Son of Heaven like the Marquis of Dingyuan!

……

Zhu Fugui said that the thing he bought for the village was naturally not this bicycle.

It's just for transportation.

Zhu Fugui also bought a second-hand motorcycle, and he plans to take it out when he has the opportunity.

Learning from the actor in the Taiwanese film, riding a motorcycle for a ride on Yin Susu, he must be able to earn back the face that he will not lose on horseback.

Zhu Fugui bought 300 catties of flour, 300 catties of rice, two large barrels of cooking oil, and a large roll of cloth for the village.

The things were placed behind the hillside, and Qi Wenchang and Yin Susu's horses could just be used to transport the goods.

Just such a small thing has to be tossed so much, so it is imperative to build a large warehouse.

In the future, with a warehouse, Zhu Fugui can operate calmly.

These grain cloths are just a small test.

It is the turn of spring and summer, when the previous year's grain stocks are running out, but the new crops are not yet ripe.

The so-called green and yellow is at this time.

Under such circumstances, there were thirty or forty more men in the prime of life in the tribe.

At this time, due to the lack of non-staple food supplements, it can be said that everyone is a rice bucket.

The food pressure on the whole village is not insignificant.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui purchased some materials from the system and prepared to reward them as a reward for his schoolwork.

In 2023, rice, flour and oilcloth are very cheap, and Zhu Fugui didn't choose any high-quality products and other product numbers, just ordinary goods.

Together, it cost more than a thousand dollars.

As a man with a huge sum of more than 200,000 yuan and no need to buy a house to pay off the mortgage, more than 1,000 yuan is really sprinkled with water!

On the contrary, it was the civilization value, and some of it was used, which made Zhu Fugui very distressed.

Zhu Fugui felt that although the grain in later generations was quite cheap, as the population increased in the future, it was better for him to achieve food self-sufficiency.

Civilization is worth these things, and it should be spent in more meaningful places.

For example, buying weapon blueprints and the like, that's where you should spend a lot of money.