Just when Fang Lang was happy to catch Colonel Valdo Granma's tail.

A migrant ship from its hometown of Shanghai docked in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul.

As the ships docked, the pier quickly became lively.

Fangyuan Group's immigration company now receives a group of immigrants from their hometown almost every two days.

Sometimes there are three or five ships in a fleet, sometimes there are only one or two.

The staff of the immigration company already has a very mature resettlement process.

Rio Grande do Sul alone has now received more than 20,000 immigrants from their hometowns, not counting the number of Natal, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

According to the statistics of Fangyuan Immigration Company, 30,000 laborers have been recruited from their hometowns to work in Brazil through Fangyuan Labor Company.

I took the initiative to apply to Fangyuan Immigration Company, and there are more than 8,000 immigrants who have immigrated to Brazil.

That is to say, from October 1945 to the end of April 1946 now, the Fangyuan group emigrated from their hometown in six months, and the population that has landed in Brazil has reached more than 38,000.

Some of these people are assigned to the construction sites of various factories nearby, and it is planned that after the construction of the factories is completed, they will enter the factories and become workers.

Of course, there are also some workers with mason skills who are directly assigned to construction companies and become professional construction workers.

Most of the laborers chose to remain farmers because they were farmers.

Most of these farmers were assigned to work on the farms purchased by the Fangyuan Group in Rio Grande do Sul.

Some of them also settled in Natal and took out their own land in the form of loans.

There are also some fisherman-born laborers who have been placed in the fishing company that Fang Lang has set up in a joint venture with Colonel Parisi, who has retired, to become fishery workers.

"Huh! Sir, you see, there are a lot of Chinese here! Many of the people in charge of registration on the dock are Chinese!

It seems that we Chinese have gained a foothold in this place!"

A young man in his twenties said to a middle-aged man in his thirties beside him.

"Didn't the people from the immigration company say that? This is all due to Mr. Fang.

In Brazil, Mr. Fang is the backer of all our Chinese."

The middle-aged man looked at the scene in front of him and was obviously relieved.

It seems that this labor company is really not a lie, and it did not sell everyone as piglets.

I also asked about everyone's occupation and what they are good at, and we respected the opinions of the workers to arrange their work.

This put his heart at ease, which he had been carrying.

There are more than 30 people in their line, and although they look no different from ordinary people, if you look closely, you will find that the eyes of these people are obviously different from ordinary people.

In particular, the middle-aged man led by him has particularly sharp eyes.

It can be seen at a glance from these Chinese in charge of registration that many of them should be people who have just immigrated for a short time.

Because everyone's demeanor and spirit are still a little different from those Chinese who originally lived in Brazil.

This group of people is not a group of laborers who were recommended by Hongmen or government officials, but immigrants who applied on their own initiative through immigration companies.

So, they queue up on the dock and don't have to queue with the laborers.

Instead, there is a dedicated channel for direct registration of immigrants.

There are two immigration bureau staff in the channel, with the cooperation of two local Chinese Brazilians, who are responsible for handling immigration procedures for Chinese who take the initiative to apply for immigration.

Because Brazil has always been a vast and sparsely populated country, the demand for immigrants in Brazil is very large.

There are also not many restrictions on immigration.

During this period, Rio Grande do Sul was originally a remote part of Brazil, the southernmost state of Brazil, bordering Uruguay.

It is also one of the three states in Brazil south of the Tropic of Capricorn, and as the home of Brazilian barbecue, the agriculture and animal husbandry here is very developed.

In later generations, it was the main agricultural and pastoral region of Brazil, producing about half of the country's soybeans, wheat and corn, rice for a quarter, wine for three-quarters, the number of cattle and sheep heads in the state, and the vast majority of Brazilian wool exports were produced here.

The reason why Fang Lang gave priority to immigrants here was because of the excellent climatic and geographical conditions here.

It is one of the lowest regions in Brazil outside of the Amazon rainforest, and the subtropical climate allows immigrants from their homeland to adapt quickly.

The reason why the staff of the immigration bureau can come to the dock to work on site is also because Fang Lang wants the immigrants from his hometown to quickly gain a foothold in Rio Grande do Sul.

Large investments have been made here, such as the fertilizer and pesticide plant of the Nice company, the pharmaceutical plant of the Fangyuan Group, the Aston Martin automobile factory, and so on.

Fang Lang plans to build Conrad Chuze's computer research institute and future university here.

At the same time, the director of the immigration bureau in the state is the younger brother of Fang Lang's old superior, Colonel Parisi, plus Fang Lang's status in the Brazilian army, Fangyuan Group has influence in Brazil.

The government of Rio Grande do Sul could not welcome these immigrants if they wanted to.

The immigration procedures were handled very quickly, under the guidance of the staff, everyone provided the immigration documents issued by the immigration company when they boarded the ship, did a good job of information registration, and after being arranged to take a photo, they were told that they could go to the immigration company to consult and select a suitable resettlement site.

When everyone walked out of the dock, they soon saw several buses parked on the side of the road outside the dock, with many signs along the way.

It may be that there is a concern that most people are illiterate, and there are also gramophone recorded guidelines, which are constantly playing.

This amazed everyone.

The group followed the signs and came to a vehicle marked for the immigration company.

It was a black guy driving the car, and everyone was worried that they wouldn't be able to communicate. As a result, this black guy directly opened his mouth in half-baked Chinese:

"Documents!"

Everyone understood what the other party meant, and handed over a certificate with a blue seal to the other party for inspection, which had just been handed to them by the immigration officer.

The middle-aged man at the head could see at a glance that this black guy must not be illiterate.

Because he only glanced at the blue seal, he pointed directly back and motioned for the other party to get into the car.

He understood that the seal of an immigrant and the seal of a laborer should not be of the same color.

Here I have to talk about why workers and immigrants are treated differently, this is not selling piglets.

It has already been made very clear that those who take the initiative to emigrate do so at their own expense, so their living conditions on the ship are better than those of laborers.

Ordinary workers need to work and live in Brazil for at least one year before they can apply for immigration on their own initiative.

After becoming an official immigrant, you can buy land, open shops, factories, etc., in the hands of the local government or others.

And self-funded immigrants, because they are all people with a certain economic foundation.

Therefore, you can buy land directly from the local government and individuals after obtaining immigration documents in Brazil.

This is different from the first batch of immigrants who landed in Natal and were able to buy farmland in Natal through loans.

After all, those lands were confiscated by Fang Lang from the Yakubu family, and it didn't cost much.

The land in Rio Grande do Sul requires the purchase of real money from Fangyuan Group, and the cost will definitely exceed that of Natal's land.

However, in the later stage, Fangyuan Group is also ready to let everyone own their own land in the form of loans.

In the early stage, the main purpose is to bring everyone together to learn the local language, adapt to the local environment, and unify everyone's thinking.

Therefore, new immigrants and laborers have to concentrate on studying for two hours every day after work

There are ideological education content in Portuguese, Chinese, and about the Fang family's selfless help to everyone.

At the same time, depending on the content of the work, vocational skills training will also be carried out.

Everyone understood that the black guy might only have a few simple Chinese words, and he lost interest in consulting.

Soon, the vehicle was full. The vehicle slowly left the dock and drove into the city.

The exotic scenery along the way dazzled everyone, some architectural styles are what everyone has seen in Shanghai, and some have not been seen before.

Just as everyone was pointing and talking all the way, the car drove into front of a four-story building after half an hour.

At a glance, everyone saw the big words Fangyuan Immigration Company on the door, obviously the destination had arrived.

After getting off the bus one by one, I walked into the immigration company building.

There were two Chinese women sitting at two desks on the left-hand side, and when they saw someone coming in, they greeted them directly:

"Is it a newcomer who has just arrived?

Please come to my side to register first.

We will provide you with five days of free room and board.

I hope that you can decide where you want to go in the future within five days.

If you have to stay here for more than five days, you will have to pay for your own room and board."

Without waiting for everyone to respond, they have already introduced the rules here.

Everyone glanced at each other, a few people stepped forward to register, and a few others were looking around.

The young man came to the middle-aged man again and said:

"Sir, I feel like a hotel."

The middle-aged man didn't speak, just nodded.

I saw that there was a double-open gate in the direction of the gate, and I looked around and found that no one was looking here, so I walked straight forward.

Pushing open this door, I found that behind it was a patio surrounded by houses, which was more than 30 meters long and wide, and the area was very large.

Looking left and right, I found that it was a whole with the four-story building of the immigration company, which was a zigzag building with many windows on each floor.

It looks like there should be more than a hundred rooms here.

There were some Chinese people sitting in twos and threes in the courtyard, everyone was chatting and laughing, and some people were still reading through a pamphlet in their hands.

Everyone didn't seem to be aware of his appearance, and they were still doing their own thing.

The movement of him pushing open the door was still a bit loud, but no one came to stop it, and no one even came to ask.

The middle-aged man saw that everyone didn't care about him, so he took the initiative to walk up, came to a middle-aged man who was reading a booklet and sat down and said:

"Where did this brother come from?"

When the man noticed that someone was coming, he had already raised his head and looked over, and after hearing the middle-aged man's words, he smiled and said:

"I'm from Baoding, and it's been the past two days since I got on the ship in Tianjin. What about you, brother?"

"I just arrived today, I'm from Shanghai, and I'm not familiar with the situation here.

So I want to learn from seniors like you.

What kind of charter is this?"

"Oh! My brother just came here today! No wonder that.

What seniors are not predecessors, I will come two days earlier than you.

As for the charter! Yikes! I'm also working on this!"

As he spoke, he held up the pamphlet in his hand.