Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 49 The barrel of the gun is the foundation of foothold (first update, please recommend, please collect)
What is the first thing to build a city?
As a coastal port city, the wharf must be the first to be built. In fact, it is also a trestle. The so-called trestle is to use wooden piles to pierce from the beach to the deep water area, and then put wooden beams and boards on it for ships. The berthing pier is finished.

Of course, this is just a simple dock, and the real dock is certainly not so simple.

But right now, in Nanhua, having such a wharf is enough to meet the needs of cargo loading and unloading.

With a wharf and a wooden pulley crane, the rest is easy to handle. All the carriages, sawmills, and even steam engines have been moved from the ship.

It's easy to do things with a lot of people, but it only took half a month, and a town by the Qingshui River in Nanhua Bay has begun to take shape.Although these wooden huts seem simple, and ten people squeeze into a room, what do people who have just been freed want?

The problem of living is easy to solve. Although there are not many big trees on the mountain, there are more than enough to build houses, but Nanhua's economy is absolutely impossible to rely on real estate.To build a city and open a port in such a place with nothing, the most important thing is to reclaim the wasteland.

The Chinese laborers are definitely experts in this matter. Although they were a little unfamiliar with European-style heavy wheels and horse plowing at the beginning, they simply got used to it, and soon they reclaimed thousands of acres of land on both sides of the Qingshui River.

"Master, look, this land is very, very rich..."

Grabbing a handful of soil turned up by the plowshare, Li Changchuan sighed.

"This kind of soil can be squeezed to produce oil. If you put it in your hometown in Hubei, let alone the common people, even the landlords and rich people can beat their heads when they encounter this kind of land. But here, it is so barren. It's such a pity."

"Don't talk about it, Brother Changchuan, even when we were in the mine, the land there was also fertile, but it's not just used to grow forests..."

Listening to them talking about these abandoned lands, Mr. Zhu smiled.

"There is nothing much in this place, but there is a lot of land. Don't worry, from this place thousands of miles east, there are such lands everywhere. They are all black lands that can squeeze oil out of a handful and germinate with chopsticks. !"

Pampas Great Plains, this is one of the four largest black lands in the world!
In terms of natural conditions, the natural conditions here are even far better than those of the Northeast Plain and the Ukrainian Great Plain, which is comparable to the Mississippi River Plain in North America. The conditions are even better. There is neither snowstorm, extreme cold in winter, nor hurricane in summer. This place is definitely a rare blessed land on earth.

But will this piece of blessed land belong to him?

Facing this fertile land, Zhu Xianhai couldn't help being a little puzzled.

Whether it is the Mapuche living here or the Argentines, will they tolerate the emergence of a third party?
However, it doesn't matter.

Looking at the valley surrounding Nanhua Bay, Zhu Xianhai showed a satisfied smile.

This valley is thirty to forty kilometers wide from east to west, and more than twenty kilometers wide from north to south. The valley seems to be surrounded by mountains, but in fact it is just rolling hills. It is more like a rolling grassland than a mountain. , woodland, and there are many rivers around the bay, ensuring that the water source here is not a problem.

Sufficient land and water, plus the surrounding terrain.This is definitely the best choice for "obscene development".

Moreover, this is a bay with its own estuary. If a factory is built here, transportation will not be a problem.

More importantly, although this place is sufficiently hidden, it is actually not too far away from human civilization.

For example, the distance from Viedma is only [-] kilometers.

This distance is not far, not close, just right.You can buy some horses from there to plow the fields. Of course, this distance will also dispel the prying eyes of outsiders.

"Wretched development" takes time.

As long as there is enough time, when the Argentines realize their existence, perhaps they are ready.

Of course, the premise is that you are really well prepared!
what to prepare?
"One two one..."

In the distance, two armed guards were conducting military training following Brian's command.Although Brian was Elizabeth's driver, he had served in the army before coming to Argentina from his hometown in Europe, and even participated in the Crimean War. Although he was a sergeant, basic training was absolutely fine.Of course, Zhu Xianhai will also take time to personally train them and explain some simple tactics to them. This is to determine the status of "teacher and apprentice". In traditional Chinese culture, the status of "teacher" is second only to "father" Yes, such an opportunity, can you not seize it?

Almost on the day of "Landing Day", Zhu Xianhai drew 200 Chinese laborers to form a convoy and equipped them with weapons—both Henry rifles and Enfield P1853 rifles.

However, this is only the first step.

While the guards were training, all the Chinese laborers also needed to be trained. According to Zhu Xianhai's plan, all the Chinese laborers had to undergo military training for one hour every other day, and there was one training day every week, and they trained all day.

This will definitely affect land reclamation and urban construction.

But Zhu Xianhai didn't think it was a big deal at all, and even felt that his background was too weak.

The first batch of training guards consisted of only [-] people, and these [-] people seemed to be a lot. On the side of Viedma, there were only [-] or [-] soldiers and horses mobilized by the second lieutenant Philip.

But the problem is that there are hundreds of thousands of Mapuche people living on the Pampas Plain and Patagonia Plateau. I gave it to Lianwo.

Of course, if there are a few Maxims, no matter how many Mapuche people there are, they are just crumbs. After scanning back and forth, it is estimated that almost all of them will be cleaned up.

But the problem is, Zhu Xianhai didn't.

Even the weapons are pitifully few.

In addition to the weapons he bought from Buenos Aires at the beginning, that is, more than a hundred long and short guns were seized at the mine. The short guns were of different models. There are dozens of Enfield P1853 rifles.

The equipment guards must be enough, but he has more than [-] Chinese laborers!
This is his real team.With this team, he can really gain a foothold on this prairie.

So many simulations in the past made him fully realize that in such a dangerous living environment in this world, force is the capital of self-protection.

Before that, he had money, but no one.That kind of result is just a fat sheep in the eyes of those dignitaries.

But now with this weapon in hand, everything is quite different.Even if someone wants to eat this fat sheep, he must weigh his own teeth first.

However, there are some things that cannot be rushed, so let’s take it step by step!
It's hard to start everything!
It's like there aren't even enough weapons right now.

Staring at the guards training in the queue, Zhu Xianhai frowned. Right now there is a more important thing - how to make money!
Right now, everything in Nanhua is burning money!
Construction requires money, and raising troops requires money.There are places to spend money everywhere, even if there is gold robbed from the gold mine, it will be burnt out one day!

Money... You must make money first!

Fortunately, we have already prepared!

(End of this chapter)