Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1495 Central Valley ([-])

"How many Araucans are there in the Central Valley?" Mao Desheng, president of the Southern Railway Company, standing on the top attic of the San Marcos Cathedral, the tallest building in the newly established Liucheng Port, asked softly: "The people in the south There are only a few people left in the old land of the Araucanian Kingdom, and there are only a few thousand who died. However, the Central Valley is a bit different. The climate here is very mild and humid, which is different from the southern part, which can become a place of bitter cold. The number of Laukan people should be very large."

Standing beside him is Liu Jianguo, a rising political star on the east coast and the newly promoted Commissioner of the Regional Administration of Southern Chile.This young second-generation official who has climbed up step by step from deputy township head, township head, deputy county head, D county head, and deputy commissioner, has been favored by many people from the very beginning and worked hard to train him. His official career has also gone very steadily. It can be described as one step at a time.Judging from the current situation, if he does not commit any serious crimes in the future, Liu Jianguo still has a great chance to aspire to the seat of the Executive Committee, just like Ma Wenqiang, Chen Ke, Bai Yutang and others who have jumped out at the moment. It is the "one of my own people" who is rooted in Zhengmiaohong.

Needless to say, the system of selecting cadres of the East Coast people is extremely good in this era.It ensures that every cadre starts from the lowest level, and has a good understanding of the people's conditions at the bottom level from the very beginning, and generally speaking, the first leadership positions of these people are in newly opened villages and towns in pioneering areas, which is also very important. Greatly exercised their ability—whether it is leadership, overall planning, planning or hard-working ability—so that they will not be neglected due to lack of experience in climbing higher positions in the future, and they will not be dismissed by subordinates because of lack of practical ability. cheat.

Compared with Europe at the same time, officials are basically of noble origin, or they are stewards of nobles, relatives of bishops, etc., because they monopolize knowledge and their status is irreplaceable, and they also have a certain amount of force and lineage theory as their backing , so ruling is very easy.Moreover, they basically don't need their professional knowledge. Many noble children were awarded high officials and generous salaries at the age of seventeen or eighteen, which made a group of bureaucrats on the east bank who barely climbed up after their beards turn gray say "good luck", But there is no way, the system is different.

During his many years as a local official in the Southern Cone region, Liu Jianguo has accumulated a wealth of experience and is quite familiar with local affairs.In particular, the two counties of Fenggu Island (Guanhai and Qinghe counties) that he successively managed, as well as the handling of whale fishing, processing, sales and salmon farming in Qingfu County, can be said to have been established only a few years ago. The best candidate for the head of the Southern Chile Regional Administration.Not to mention, because of his special background (he was an official of the South Railway, and his father was the second president of the South Railway), he has a close relationship with the South Railway Company, which manages most of the affairs on the Pacific coast. If Liu Jianguo wasn't here to sit, who could sit still?

By the way, the above has just made a new division of the jurisdiction of the Southern Chile Regional Administration. In addition to the existing three counties of Qingfeng, Guanhai, and Qinghe, this area will be taken from the Spaniards this time. The land south of the No River will also be incorporated into Southern Chile.Calculated in this way, the future Southern Chile Regional Administration should be able to govern seven or eight counties. The economy is mainly based on grain, fruit and vegetable planting, fishing, whaling, logging, and sulfur mining. The conditions are quite good. Compared with the northern mainland Those established areas are not much worse.I believe that as long as Liu Jianguo and Liu manage this area of ​​Chile well, he will be able to take this as a step forward in the future and become one of the top nine people in the power pyramid of the East China Republic.

"I don't know how many there are, because the Spaniards here are not very powerful, and they have not explored the inland areas enough. We can't find much valuable things from the files they left behind. We can only rely on our own experience. Estimate." Liu Jianguo considered his sentence, and then slowly replied: "Our officials told me that after comprehensive analysis of various sources, it is speculated that there are still [-] to [-] Aarau living in the entire area south of the Bueno River. But he also stated that this data is difficult to be more accurate, because the Araucan people are nomadic farming, fishing and hunting peoples, the scope of activities is not fixed, and there is no clear concept of territory, so they often It is difficult for you to make an accurate statistics on them as they pass by on both sides of the strait."

Mao Desheng nodded when he heard the words, and after taking a deep puff of a cigarette, the army boss who had served in the Far East for many years stared into the distance and said: "The people of Araucan must be relocated. This is a national policy and a red line. There is no bargaining at all." This time, in fact, we have an opportunity to solve the problem, that is, Wang Yan, the captain of the Australian Pioneering Team, asked him to allocate more manpower to develop the local economy. It seems that in order to strengthen persuasion, he both Pointing out that in the past many years in our Southern Cone region, a large number of local Australians have been transported to settle in southern Chile through the South Pacific immigration route. He called this behavior "blood-sucking" and believed that it greatly inhibited the development of the Australian pioneering team. Therefore, seeing that our Southern Cone region is developing well, we hope that we can 'return' some of the population back, so that they can slowly recover there."

"This matter can actually be resolved together with the Araucans." Mao Desheng blew out a smoke ring and said, "Since it is not suitable for the Araucans to stay with us, why not just pack them up and send them away? They went to Australia to open up wasteland. We don’t want any money from Australia, and even give everyone some farm tools, seeds, clothes and some daily necessities, so that they can live less sadly after they arrive in Australia, a place where birds don’t shit. It’s like this Solve it, basically it can be done with the utmost benevolence, Xiao Liu, what do you think? Is it reliable to solve this matter like this?"

It is said that although the Regional Administration of Southern Chile has just been transferred to the government establishment this year, due to the complicated relationship between the Southern Railway Company, the Government Council, and the Executive Committee, at least for the current stage, the Southern Cone and the Oceanic Railway and the southeast Pacific coast The settled villages and towns in the area basically have to accept the dual leadership of the Government Administration Council and the Southern Railway Company, which is why Mao Desheng asked Liu Jianguo just now, because Mao, the president of the Southern Railway Company, is also Liu Jianguo's direct superior.

"It's hard to say." Liu Jianguo frowned, thinking and said: "The Araucans are a little different. They love freedom by nature and are fierce and difficult to control. The Spaniards once arrested them to work in silver mines, but they resisted fiercely and broke out between the two sides. The battles and fights that have lasted to this day. In fact, we already knew this when we were at odds with the Kingdom of Spain in the early years. At that time, our ships also funded the weapons of the Araucan resistance forces near Fenggu Island. Old Vicente’s guerrillas It was also at that time that they emerged. To be honest, such aborigines are not easier to deal with than the Welches, even though we have a large number of Araucans to help speak out (mostly from the original Kingdom of Araucania), but It’s hard to say how effective it will be, I’m not very optimistic anyway.”

Liu Jianguo just mentioned that some Araucan aborigines who defected to the East Coast people were actually officials of the original Araucanian Kingdom.After this native country supported by the people on the east coast (in order to block the Spaniards at the time), it was forcibly merged into the China East Coast Republic under the leadership of the Southern Railway Company, and some of its people (about 3 to [-] people) were relocated. When they arrived in Patagonia, some were sent to South Africa, and some were scattered into the local counties. Very few people were sent to settle in Xinhua Island and other places, which can be said to be the most preferential treatment. Aboriginal race.

These Araucanian cadres who are now working for the interests of the east bank are part of the remnants of the Araucanian Kingdom who stayed on the east bank.In the future, if they come forward to contact and communicate with the Araucans living in the area south of the Bueno River (now renamed Lishui River), it should have quite good results, at least better than the "aggression" on the east bank. "It's much better to come forward in person."

Of course, don't expect too much from this.If the barbarians of Araucan could be persuaded with just one mouth, they would not have been fighting against the Spaniards for so many years. After all, these people are people who yearn for freedom and are unrestrained. The riots and escapes were the masterpieces of these Araucans.Therefore, Liu Jianguo reckoned that at the end of the day, there would probably be a fight, otherwise these Araucan people would probably not surrender or give up their land.

"I also think it's useless to just talk about it, and you have to see the truth. The Araucan people are unruly. Residents of colonial towns such as Liucheng Port on the map of the coast), Osorno and other colonial towns have repeatedly clashed with the Araucans, which directly proves this fact. Now the area south of the Lishui River is owned by our country (although it is leased ...), we can't guarantee our face is big enough to allow those ignorant and barbaric Araucans to live in peace with us, let alone coveting the fertile land under their feet. Irreconcilable contradictions, there is no room for peaceful coexistence." Mao Desheng finally turned around, sat behind a table in the house, and while playing with a priest's religious ornaments, he said: "But this is not urgent, Our current expansion idea is still to expand along the existing colonial towns of the Spaniards. In addition, we will set up some new settlements by ourselves, trying to connect them into pieces and separate the natives, and then slowly clean them up. . Slowly develop, slowly capture the natives, slowly exile the Araucan barbarians to the Australian region, go at your own pace, don’t worry.”

"Okay, let's not talk about this." After talking about the indigenous issues in the central and southern regions of Chile, Mao Desheng took out another cigarette from his pocket and said while lighting it: "Xiao Liu, the land south of the Lishui River is fertile. , is a good agricultural area, and has a good harbor, rich fishery resources, and it is also a whaling resort, so you have to manage it well and don't let people gossip. In addition, this time, our government has negotiated to obtain the Lishui River. After the large and fertile land in the South—thanks to the great wisdom and courage of Special Envoy Li Qing—the company intends to relocate part of its industries to Liucheng Port. After all, you know about the port of Araucan, and natural conditions do not count. It’s great, it’s not suitable for gathering too many industries. In the past, there was no way, but now that there is Chile’s Central Valley south of the Lishui River, some institutions can also be relocated.”

Regarding the relocation of some industries by the Southern Railway Company, Liu Jianguo actually knew about it a long time ago.Even to a certain extent, he is still one of the participants. Without him, he wants to get enterprises such as the timber processing plant, the Southern Iron Flour Mill, the Pacific Shipyard, the Southern Railway Building Materials Branch, the Southern Railway Fishery Branch, etc. In the southern Chile region, it is nothing more than to promote the development of the local economy.What's more, Liu Jianguo also plans to introduce institutions such as the Southern Railway Medical Research Institute (including the Southern Railway Sanatorium), the Southern Railway Women's and Children's Hospital, and the "South Railway Weekly" to his own territory in the southern Chilean region, making the southern Chilean region more prosperous. comprehensive.He believes that if the upper management of the Southern Railway Company does not object, quite a few of these enterprises and institutions can be pulled over by him one by one. The Cone area is much better, who would be so stupid not to come here?

"The preliminary opinion of the board of directors of the company is to move the Pacific Shipyard to Liucheng Port first, and then there will only be a limited-scale ship repair shop in the Araucan Port. Nantie Fishery Branch and Nantie Timber Processing Plant will also be And migrated here, they all settled in Liucheng Port, where the conditions are the most suitable." Mao Desheng looked into Liu Jianguo's eyes and said with a smile: "You have picked up a big bargain, so many enterprises and personnel, the promotion of the regional economy It's quite obvious. Oh, yes, I heard that the Third Fleet of the Navy also intends to move their home port. They want to move their home port from the freezing port of Araucan to the port of Liucheng in order to better control the southeast Pacific This sea area is rich in resources. Although the size of the fleet is the most inconspicuous among the three major fleets, it is still a fleet after all. And the Ministry of the Navy will definitely allocate corresponding relocation funds to help the Third Fleet move. Therefore, you can hitch a ride in the construction of Liucheng Port again. The Spaniards laid the foundation for you, and the Southern Railway and the Ministry of the Navy will invest in follow-up construction funds for you. Tsk tsk, Xiao Liu, you are very lucky and have saved a lot of money. This Liucheng Port will undoubtedly become the capital of Southern Chile and the leading bustling city."

"However, Southern Chile really needs such a leading city to drive the development of other places." Mao Desheng added at the end.

(End of this chapter)