Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 683 Bian Chunsong's Plan

A total of 37 people from Bian’s local relatives, 29 males, and 8 young women over 14 years old, mostly stayed in the ranch to help. The shop only used 7 clever men with hands and eyes. Take care of the store's business.

Immigrants like them came to Australia under the assurance of Lieutenant School Bian Chunsong. They are not restricted by the number of immigrants and age restrictions. The upper age limit can be relaxed to 45 years old, and the lower age limit can be relaxed to 8 years old. The reason for doing this The regulations are mainly due to the fact that they are too young to travel across the ocean, unable to withstand the harsh environment of the stormy waves and the seasickness reaction, and it is easy to die halfway.

This type of immigrants is called family immigrants. Because they have relatives as insurance here, they migrate to Australia purposefully, and most of them have job opportunities. Therefore, it is easier to obtain bank preferential immigration loans to pay for ferry tickets and resettlement costs. .

Before the loan is paid off, this part of the immigrants cannot obtain the citizenship of Ocean Kingdom, cannot obtain the corresponding study, home ownership, business convenience, and cannot move freely to other places. The identity certificate that can be obtained is a blank copy, which records their origin. , Name, age, characteristics, expertise, current residence, insured person and other information, commonly known as "white skin".

After all the loans are paid off, you only need to pay a fee to apply for naturalization. Generally speaking, as long as there is no criminal record and good conduct during working in Australia, the Chinese can easily pass the naturalization review and become one of the citizens of Ocean Kingdom. A dark green certificate with a photo, commonly known as "Black Bener", and its scientific name is Passport.

With "Black Bener", you can enjoy all the conveniences and property protection of the Ocean Kingdom for citizens, you can freely go to any place by boat and car, you can buy property, do business and buy ranch, run shop business, go to school, and even go to Foreign business and investment will be protected by the diaspora of Ocean Kingdom.

However, it is necessary to pay taxes in accordance with the law. For example, if the annual income exceeds 50 silver, personal income tax must be paid. This standard is equivalent to 2 pounds 10 shillings. Basically, the citizens of the Ocean Kingdom who normally work in labor and farming can meet this standard. , Which means that everyone needs to pay taxes.

  Procurement of property requires payment of property tax, and operation of shops requires payment of commercial tax. Only legal tax payment can enjoy citizenship rights. This is the difference between the Ocean Kingdom and the original Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The hired workers at Xingxinghu Ranch under the name of Lieutenant Colonel Bian Chunsong have an average annual salary of about 5 pounds. They don’t need money for food and drink on the ranch. They make two clothes each year. The hired workers from their hometown earn about 10% more than the local hires, and they are more popular with the ranch owners. With the trust of him, he can often serve as the captain of some farming and animal husbandry teams, so there is an extra wage bonus.

More than 6000 acres of grain and 4000 acres of soybeans were planted on the land reclaimed by Xinxing Lake Ranch. For this purpose, a flour mill and an oil press were established separately, which not only helped Xingxing Lake Ranch to process grains, but also helped the surrounding pastures to process grains, and collect a certain amount from them. The cost of maintaining the operation of the workshop.

  The power of the noodle mill and the oil press comes from the river in the pasture. The machine is driven by the establishment of a huge waterwheel. Because of the seasonal river, it can produce more than 7 months a year.

  After three years of operation, Xingxinghu Ranch has been on the right track.

  Take a break in the shop. After lunch, the shopkeeper Bian Shouli has prepared a carriage, and there is a clever shop assistant Bian San'er waiting in the car.

  Bian Chunsong took a brief look at the account book and explained some relevant precautions, then boarded the carriage for long-distance passenger transportation, and took Bian San'er to the direction of Xingxinghu Ranch.

  The wind is sunny and sunny on the road, and spring is full.

  After leaving the metropolis of Melbourne, there are gentle undulating green hills in front of you, unknown wild flowers blooming by the clear stream, and a gravel road extending straight forward.

  On both sides of the road, you can often see large herds of sheep, herding sheepdogs, Chinese cowboys riding horses, scattered manor buildings, everything is so quiet and beautiful, leisurely and contented.

Not long after the three-year military control ended, the public security situation in New South Wales and Victoria was very good. The new Chinese immigrants did not have a barbaric horse bandit culture. After coming to this fertile land, they liked it and took root and worked hard since then. .

  There is a sad story behind every immigrant. If it is not for the fact that the hometown can't live, and there is no worry about food and clothing, who would want to travel across the ocean to find a way to survive?

   Therefore, Chinese immigrants cherish today's happy life and become the most important force in the stability of society in Southern States.

The horse-drawn carriage drove all the way. Along the way, you can often see Chinese cowboys in twos and threes. They sit leisurely on the horse, with bullet belts and revolvers around their waists. They are basically members of various Chinese militia groups and will take the initiative to question strangers who pass by. White people, check relevant documents.

  As for the Chinese, there is no need for inspection.

  Because there are only two sources of Chinese residents in today's southern states.

  One kind is relative immigrants.

  One is the "Black Bener" immigrants who have been audited for their innocence and have no criminal record. These people not only go to the southern state to run ranch and develop business, but also to find better development opportunities and come to the Chinese in the southern state.

It has been more than three years since the end of the Civil War. After years of severe crackdowns, the bandits still hiding in the Great Divide Mountains are almost extinct. Small and medium ranches all over New South Wales and Victoria are filled with Chinese immigrants. .

  Even if sporadic white bandits escape from the mountain, they will never escape the roundup involving the whole people.

On a gravel road of more than 40 kilometers, the carriage ran for nearly 6 hours. The carriage driver took a break twice to feed the horses with water and feed them with black beans and eggs. It can be seen that the owner of the carriage extremely cherishes horsepower and is unwilling to let the horses run in a hurry. Finish dozens of kilometers of road.

  If it is overused in this way, the horse will be useless in less than half a year.

  A carriage is worth 100 gold (50 pounds), and two strong and excellent horses are worth more than 300 gold (150 pounds). As a coachman who has been running long-distance passenger transport for many years, it is natural to know which one is lighter and heavier.

  As soon as the carriage entered the boundary of Xinghu Lake Ranch, more than a dozen knights came along. They were cowboys grazing nearby. They cheered loudly after seeing the master Bian Chunsong returning, and surrounded the carriage all the way back.

  Two of the healthy horses have already taken the lead to notify the mistress in the castle. Now Mrs. He Pannan is not here, but the old lady and two Mrs. Ru are in the castle, and they need to be notified in advance.

  The carriage was driving in the Xingxinghu Ranch. The road stretched along the clear stream. Not far away, you could see large tracts of golden wheat fields, and the golden ears swayed heavily in the wind. This is another harvest season.

  The cultivated crops are irrigated with water from nearby streams, and several large windmills have been built along the river, which can lead stream water into canals and irrigate large tracts of fertile fields.

  Several tractors are parked beside the farmland. These are the main force in reclaiming farmland. Among them, there are two crawler tractors that are used for mechanized leveling of the land, plowing and trenching, and efficient leverage.

  Xingxing Lake Ranch is one of the first farms to use agricultural machinery. It only used more than 80 people to cultivate tens of thousands of acres of land. The efficiency is more than 10 times that of manual farming, and the benefits are also very obvious.

The water depth of the river at the entrance of Xingxing Lake Ranch is more than two meters. During the annual wet season, cargo ships of no more than 150 tons can be sailed. A large number of agricultural products can be shipped at the ranch dock and then transferred to the port of Melbourne, which greatly saves transportation. cost.

   Therefore, Bian Chunsong is most fortunate that there is such a river in the ranch, which makes water transportation and processing of primary agricultural products possible, and has a brighter development prospect than other surrounding ranch.

  In the castle

The old lady Affin has brought a bunch of family members and servants to greet her. She hasn't seen her for a few years. Now Affin Affin is obviously fatter, her face is much white and ruddy, and she looks like a rich old lady. Revealing the graceful fan.

  Lieutenant Colonel Bian Chunsong stopped the carriage from a distance, got off the carriage and greeted it with a quick walk, and knelt down on one knee to greet the old lady.

  The family enjoyed themselves and returned to the castle together after a short greeting.

Nowadays, a long wooden house has been built along the lake on the periphery of the castle. There are more than 30 rooms on the left and the right. In addition to the dormitory for the farm workers and the kitchen, the others are used as tool houses, stables, and warehouses. , The use of forage room also adapts to the ever-expanding scale of the pasture.

Xingxing Lake Ranch is different from other pure pastures. It has reclaimed tens of thousands of acres (1700 acres) of land using agricultural machinery, built a large number of farmland ditches, and built windmills, waterwheels, flour mills and oil mills. There are a lot of manpower. In addition to the Bian family, there are more than 140 employees, plus his own family and servants, and the total number is more than 200.

  Bian Chunsong has invested thousands of pounds in this, but the benefits are also considerable.

The Xingxing Lake Ranch covers an area of ​​28.4 square kilometers and about 7,700 acres (46,000 ares). Today, the cultivated land accounts for about two-ninths of the pasture land, but the income accounts for 75% of the pasture. This shows that the pasture produces flour and large amounts of land. Soybean oil is profitable, far more than wool.

Excluding personnel expenses, ranch operating costs and taxes, Xingxinghu Ranch was able to earn more than £1980 in net profit in 1893, an increase of about 63% over the previous year, mainly due to the fact that the land went from raw land to mature land after two years of planting. , The output of agricultural products has greatly increased.

  If it is subdivided, the store in Warehouse Street earned nearly 1,000 pounds, the noodle mill earned more than 330 pounds, the oil press earned more than 270 pounds, and the wool earned more than 400 pounds.

With a large number of mature ewes entering the breeding period in the pasture flock, the size of the Merino flock will usher in a rapid growth stage. This year, it is estimated that another 500 acres (3,000 acres) of land will be reclaimed, all of which will be used to grow the best-selling market. Barley, by the end of the year, revenue will increase by 30 to 40%.

  The dazzling performance of Xinxinhu Ranch is three to four times that of other ranches of similar scale. It demonstrates that the huge benefits brought by agricultural machinery are far stronger than the grazing based on natural harvest.

  In the middle of the night, Wan Lai is completely silent.

  Only the dim lights in the castle can be seen far away. Bian Chunsong is standing in the study window and looking out, only to see the sparkling waves in Qingxin Lake, and the reflection of the bright moon in it is beautiful.

He deeply sniffed the scent of the pasture filled with the fragrance of earth and cow and sheep dung, and he felt extremely calm, and there was a peaceful and joyful moving and inexplicable breeding. This is his home, his castle, and the land where his family will survive and multiply in the future. .

As an active soldier with a higher education, Bian Chunsong is more mindful than others in running a ranch. He plans to open up a piece of land to grow grapes, and then establish a winemaking workshop to make delicious red wine from the grapes. This can bring Very high stable income.

  The pasture land along the river can still be reclaimed as farmland. The total area accounts for about half of the pasture, about 22,000 acres. The grain and oil products produced can be supplied to the surrounding cities and towns in addition to the Melbourne metropolis. The market is very broad.

  The local food and non-staple food supply in Australia can only meet a small part of the demand. Most of them need to be imported from the grain production base in Qixing City, Qingshui River, East Xiangzhou, and a small part is from Borneo. Therefore, local food production has a lot to do, and there is no need to worry about selling it.

  According to Bian Chunsong’s vision;

  The next step is to build a large-scale pig farm along the river, and a horse farm base for breeding Arabian thoroughbred horses. The high-quality fodder farms needed by these breeding industries have their own high-quality feed farms, and there is no need to buy them out.

Agricultural production leaves a lot of straw and soybean meal. After adding a little food additives, it can be processed into high-quality feed. For this reason, it is necessary to build a small feed processing plant. The products can be sold while meeting their own needs. It is a big deal to open another business in Melbourne. The feed shop, making money is very reliable.

  If all his ideas can be realized, fully tapping the potential of Xingxing Lake Ranch, it will not be a problem that the income in the next year exceeds 5,000 pounds, which is equivalent to 10,000 gold oceans or 100,000 silver oceans, and it is a stable income every year, which is very impressive.

  Bian Chunsong knows that Shu has a specialization.

  Whether it is planting fine varieties of grapes or setting up winemaking workshops, experienced French people should be hired. They have unique attainments in this area, which no one else can compare.

  If you want to raise fat pigs on a large scale, you should hire experienced people who have worked in royal farms, so you can avoid many detours.

As for breeding Arabian thoroughbred horses, it must be done by Arab talents. This kind of special talents can only be ordered from the big mercenary leaders in Somalia. Through the military channels, you can get twice the result with half the effort. After all, the face of the military is in Xi'an. Humen City is very useful. At the very least, the talents brought in are not parallel imports, and they have to be more or less true.

Many of his ideas can only be shelved now. After quickly arranging the matters of the Xingxing Lake Ranch, Bian Chunsong needs to return to Dahong No. 1 Division immediately for leave and accept a new mission...that is, as a member of the North Vietnam Military Observation Group, set off. Go to the Indochina Peninsula.

  It is estimated that the order from the General Staff Headquarters has now been issued. After returning to the division to report, I will take a cruise to the Guangzhou Prefecture in the near future, and then travel by land to the north and south into the Viet Nam region.

   "Master, it's late at night, will our sisters serve you to rest?"

   Two fiery and soft Dongs, one on the left and one on the right, came up with thoughtfulness. These are Lieutenant Colonel Bian Chunsong’s two beautiful white sisters, Hua concubines. They asked for a lot when they were young and thirsty.

  Bian Chunsong lightly patted the tender little hand that hugs his waist, and sighed and said; “Also, my lord has saved a lot these days. Simply feed your two little girls so that you won’t blame me for favoring each other.”

   "Master..."

   The young woman shook her body and shook her body, and her **** rolled over in an instant, thrilling...

  (End of this chapter)