Chapter 143: The Happy Moment of Immigration
Just when Zhou Changlin let out a happy aunt smile, the farmers around him who chose to take out loans to buy land with him were all happy.
However, most of the immigrants were sold to the ship alone, so one person did not dare to buy so much land, and most of them bought less than ten acres of land.
Everyone was looking at the crops in their land and giggling.
After all, even if you add in the immigration fees that the immigration company needs to charge, plus the loan to buy farmland, it seems that it is a little out of problem now.
After all, as long as you're not a lazy person, three years is enough time for you to pay off all your debts.
The only thing that makes people feel inconvenient is that they live in the former workers' dormitory of the farm.
In addition, we do not allow people to build houses on their own fields.
All housing had to be planned in a unified way, in the form of a village, to ensure the safety of the Chinese in Brazil.
In fact, it doesn't matter if you can live together, but you may have to walk a distance when you go to work in the field, which is not too convenient.
Of course, this is insignificant compared to safety.
When the news reached the ears of the immigrants who were still hesitant to take out a loan to buy land, and the immigrants who were going to work in the factories as workers.
Everyone fell into madness, everyone's land plot is engraved in the genes, and the enthusiasm for taking out loans to buy land for a while exploded at this moment, including the people who were rescued by Fang Lang from Brazil.
Fang Lang did not stop this, after all, the factory here has not yet been established.
When there are opportunities for work in the cities, it is natural that there will be farmers who will leave their land and move from the countryside to the cities.
Fang Lang simply divided these people into eight small villages and settled them on the land of the original Yakubu family.
The fields are full of crops, so there is no need to plant, so I organized everyone to build a house together.
The land for the house, like the money to build the house, continues to be loaned to the immigration company.
Now everyone is no longer worried about taking out a loan from an immigration company, after all, everyone knows that they can pay it back.
Of course, there are also many people who are reluctant to continue to borrow from immigration companies, and want to live in a dormitory on a farm first, and then buy a homestead and build a house after earning money.
This is the traditional concept of most people, and it is understandable that they want to have money to spend again.
All the immigrants and rescued laborers are less than 5,000, and there are 87,000 mu of 5,800 hectares of land, and even if the per capita cultivated land area is 10 mu, there is still a large amount of land that no one has purchased.
Compared with the per capita cultivated land area of three acres when the country was founded, ten acres per capita is indeed a lot, but compared with the current per capita cultivated land area in Brazil, it is also a normal level.
Of course, the agricultural development area arranged by Fang Lang for his compatriots is mainly concentrated in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil. The land in the south is flatter and the arable land resources are more abundant.
In the state of Rio Grande Norte, where Natal is located, only Natal is still a bit flat, with an average altitude of only three meters, and it will become a plateau and mountains less than 50 kilometers to the west.
There is little room for agricultural development, and of course the highlands and mountains are also the main cotton and corn producing areas in the state. However, Fang Lang's land grabbing is also a good place first!
Even if the south had snatched up the "savanna" in the central and western regions, which accounted for 21 percent of Brazil's land area, such a large territory had not yet been occupied, and he would not have developed a large number of agriculture in the northeast, where agriculture is underdeveloped.
The reason why these immigrants were resettled in Natal was also to increase the proportion of Chinese in Natal, which was mainly a military base in Fanglang.
In addition, emphasis will be placed on the development of labor-intensive industries in Natal to accommodate the families of officers and men of the First Fleet.
It was not enough to give allowances to the soldiers, and at that time, the families of the soldiers would all work in Fang Lang's factory, and they would also receive Fang Lang's salary.
Then Fang Lang's First Fleet will completely become Fang Lang's private army, a warlord who is not a warlord.
A week of time
Lang is arranging and familiarizing himself with the work of the First Fleet, after all, there are more new recruits, and Fang Lang also needs to be familiar with everyone.
A lot has happened during the week, the construction of the bank has officially begun, and the staff of the bank have been in place during the construction of the bank, and they have started to rent an office building in Natal.
All of the immigration, land and housing loan operations of the Migration Company were transferred to the newly established Brazilian Development Bank.
At the same time, the construction of Natal's first textile factory, sugar factory, and tannery began, and Fang Lang also announced to all the officers and men of the First Fleet that the families of the officers and men of the First Fleet would have priority access to work in the factory.
The construction of the factory requires a lot of labor, which creates a large number of jobs for the residents of Natal, which makes the residents of Natal very happy.
With the arrival of the First Fleet, the officers and men are now in the high-income group, and the residents of the neighborhood have begun to do business near the barracks.
For the safety of the barracks, Fang Lang communicated with Mayor Mr. Dursley, and prepared to build the first dedicated commercial street in Natal.
Because, Natal's gang was eradicated by Fang Lang, which led to the forced closure of J Courtyard, which was open and secret, and the girls could only go to the street to solicit customers and become rogue warblers.
The appearance of these wandering warblers also gave Fang Lang a lot of headaches, and the industry of unknown J female attributes in Brazil is neither completely legal nor completely illegal.
For the sake of the soldiers' health, Fang Lang had to order the city government to centralize the management of all the wandering warblers, issue licenses and regular physical examinations, and distribute family planning supplies free of charge.
Maybe it's because this is where the U.S. military used to be stationed, and after the news spread that the city government issued licenses to Liuying, a large number of girls jumped out of nowhere to register.
The number of people who registered in a week was actually thousands, which scared Fang Lang a lot, don't wait for it to become an uncivilized city, and stop again and again.
In the end, the number of registered people still reached 1,500, and there was no way that so many people needed to make a living from it, so Fang Lang could only let the city government plan a bar entertainment street.
In order to prevent illegal incidents, this street has become a key area for the police.
After finally dealing with the affairs of the First Fleet, Fang Lang finally took his own special plane and flew to Rio de Janeiro with a guard platoon of soldiers.
Greeted at the airport were Colonel Titch and Major Blackwell from the Rio de Janeiro Naval Base.
After meeting each other, Fang Lang was taken to the naval base in Rio de Janeiro.
"Hey! Fang, why did you have time to leave your First Fleet and come to Rio to visit us?"
"You haven't seen you for so long, don't you welcome me?"
The relationship between Fang Lang and the two is now very good, so the communication is also easy and casual.
Colonel Tiqi saw Fang Lang's expression of coming to visit you, and directly pierced:
"Didn't you kid come to see us on business? Cut!"
"Haha..... You're all so busy, so of course I'm here to visit you between work!"
Fang Lang won't be embarrassed at all because of this little thing!
"What is the main reason for you to come here this time! Is it convenient to talk about it?"
Blackwell couldn't help but ask.
"It's not a big deal, it's just to meet General Leta from the General Logistics Department about the equipment of the army to build tank divisions."
Hearing Fang Lang say such a major thing in such a relaxed tone, Tiqi said again and again:
"Look at Fang, this casual tone, that's the first tank division in Brazil, and it's not a big deal for you kid?"
Fang Lang glanced at Colonel Tiqi strangely and said:
"Huh! Brother Tichy, do you know this?"
"What's so strange about this, now the army is arguing about who should be the first to be reorganized into a tank division. It's no secret."
Colonel Tich looked right.
Fang Lang glanced at Blackwell again, who was also obviously aware and said:
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Brothers! In the future, don't forget to inform my brother about this kind of information! Although the brother's station is far away, the brother's heart is very close! I also want to know something about the army!"
Fang Lang didn't know this news very late, because it had been a week ago that General Leta of the Logistics Department asked him to find a supplier to quote.
However, apart from getting the news from General Leta, Fang Lang hadn't heard about it from any other source.
Obviously, his promotion was too fast, he lacked experience at the grassroots level of the army, and he did not have the corresponding connections, and his current station was also the heart of the country.
Indeed, there is a lot of information that he can't get into, and it seems that he will have to arrange someone to collect this information in the future, otherwise he will miss out on good business.
When the two heard Fang Lang's words, Blackwell said strangely:
"Don't you know? That's not right! I don't know what you're doing here? No, it's the Army's business! What a fuss are you coming over to join in!
No, you're going to see General Leta. What the hell are you doing here?"
Hearing Blackwell's soliloquy to himself, Colonel Titch reacted as well.
"That's right! What are you doing here for this! No, what he just said was for the equipment. It's not like you're the kid who has a way to get the equipment!"
Military equipment in Brazil is generally requested by the Ministry of Defense or the military, and then procured by the General Logistics Department.
At present, because there are no military factories in Brazil, there is no equipment department, and it cannot manufacture and produce by itself.
Obviously, the military generals will not be responsible for the procurement of equipment, and everyone would not have thought that Fang Lang would have a way to get arms, so they did not think of this.
"Hehe....... It's a little bit of a relationship! Why, does Brother Tiggie also want to buy two warships for fun?"
Fang Lang smiled.
"You're so powerful! My warships are all old World War I antiques, and of course I want them! But that's not something I can decide!"
Colonel Titch shook his head with a wry smile.
Fang Lang is also very aware of the current situation of the Brazilian Navy, but this is not something he can change.
But this did not prevent him from leaking some news to Colonel Titch, and if Colonel Titch could convince the Admiralty to change the warship, wouldn't that be business?
"If you really change, you can go and grind the Admiralty! Let me tell you so! I can now get you an active warship of the US military through this route, but it is second-hand.
Destroyers, submarines, cruisers can be had."