Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 136 Wool Consumer Market

As Li Fushou traveled all over Europe, Gu Liuyan saw more of the magical inventions of Western technology, a never-ending machine like an old scalper, a self-lighting lamp that can be turned on at any time, and a German that can speak through a wire from a long distance away. Lufeng, there are huge warships...

  All this subverted Gu Liuyan's 16-year life experience and greatly broadened his horizons. Just because he didn't understand, he deeply admired Li Fushou, who is proficient in Western thaumaturgy, and believed that his husband was a strange man who was versed in Western thaumaturgy.

A fragrant wind rushed into his arms, Li Fushou was holding the celadon soup pot from the official kiln in both hands, watching Gu Liuyan try his best to get into his arms from the side, arching and arching like a small insect, couldn't help but pet. He smiled and kissed her white forehead gently.

   "Yan'er, don't you feel bored to stay in the Red Fort?"

"You big master always go out for inspections, and you don't want to take them with you. They can only stay at home in a daze!" Gu Liuyan found a comfortable position in his arms and lay on Li Fushou's chest beautifully. The octopus hugged him tightly, smelling the strong masculine breath almost intoxicated.

  "Hehehe...I specially selected two thoroughbred horses with meek personality for you. You can ride them out to relax if you have nothing to do. The wild flowers outside are very beautiful, and the vast wilderness can be free to gallop..."

   "No...I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to guard the master in the house."

  See you in my pity!

  Gu Liuyan followed Li Fushou almost half of the world last year, and the pommel horse bumps along the way, seeming to be endless on the journey, reading the colors of the world.

  For the young lady who is raised in a deep boudoir, it is enough to have such an experience once in a lifetime. It is really enough.

   "Uh...well, I will try my best to spend as much time with you as possible." Li Fushou suddenly became dumb.

   "No, I want you to spend more time with me, it has nothing to do with other people." Gu Liuyan twisted into Li Fushou's arms like a twist.

  Li Fushou? ? ?

  More than this year

Xiao Nizi's body developed like a sprout, **** and waist, white as jade, and she got into her arms with a charming girly fragrance, twisting like a snake, causing Li Fushou to be a little uncontrollable, and the flames in her heart burned. Dry mouth.

  Gu Liuyan felt the danger, her body became stiff, her black hair was buried in Li Fushou's arms, and she started laughing, a blush stained her crystal earlobes.

  16-year-old girl with cardamom like a flower, waiting to be tasted.

  The fire in Li Fushou's heart was already burning. He lowered his head and whispered in Gu Liuyan's ear, only to hear Gu Liuyan's usual response, and his voice trembled with panic.

  Early spring in February, the willow tree sprouts

  The wind blowing across the fields blew across the fields with the breath of spring, dyed green vegetation to bring vitality, bloomed flowers, and made the fields colorful.

  This day

  Red candles flickered in the Red Fort, and the curtains were deep. Li Fushou galloped on the happy field, deeply intoxicated.

  The plan has not changed quickly, so it is!

  When a spark ignites a dry haystack, the raging fire can no longer be extinguished.

As the Queensland Lord Earl of Queensland with thousands of Chinese hopes and the leader of the Red River Valley, Li Fushou’s sons are no longer his personal problem. Xin Changjun, Pan Shoudao, Wu Mozhou, Fatty Chun and other bigwigs have expressed more than once, explicitly or implicitly. pass.

   Surprisingly, Conrad Adenauer, Wagner, Schwartz Kopf, Koch and Fritz and other German officers also had the same attitude.

  Considering, it suddenly became clear that the German Empire under the feudal lord system also paid attention to the inheritance of the nobility.

  The spring breeze was once, and it did not come early three days.

  The vigorous infrastructure projects in the Red River Valley did not stop. With the cement plant being put into production on time, the coastal railway quickly entered a stage of rapid development, the main body of the reinforced cement concrete of the bridge and culvert subgrade was poured, and the endless steel dragon quickly extended forward.

  End of March 1880

  The coastal railway was officially completed to Southern Pine Town, which is no longer the southernmost area of ​​Red River Valley Ranch. With hundreds of white ranchers bankrupted and exited, Red River Valley Ranch floods spread to the suburbs of Sydney.

  The specific location is the Kangsby Plateau on the north shore.

The North Shore has now become a new construction hotspot. Tens of thousands of strong Chinese labors have invested in it. A well-planned and beautiful new town is emerging. Railway terminal buildings, huge warehouse areas and Beilun Seaport have been put into construction one after another, which is full of vitality. Vigorous development scene.

  The coastal railway is advancing rapidly, but the Twin Cities railway is slow as a tortoise.

  The Twin Cities Railway, which connects the Red River Valley City and Brisbane, is progressing slowly due to the need to cross the Red Mountain Range, build two controlled tunnels and seven dedicated railway bridges between the two mountains.

  Two controlled tunnels are 1,807 feet long and the other 3100 feet long. They need to be excavated in the hard basalt mountain range. Even with the explosive assistance project, it will take three years to complete. This is not anxious.

  On the slowest day, the tunnel only went through 0.6 feet.

  As of the end of March 1880

  Immigration from the northern continent continued unabated. The population of the Red River Valley surged to more than 360,000, quickly surpassing Sydney and approaching Melbourne, Australia’s largest city. The market is prosperous and provides a steady stream of commercial tax and income tax revenue.

  Further feedback on urban construction. The Victorian-style building of Huitong Bank Headquarters has risen up to ten floors on the Central Avenue of the city. There are also high-rise buildings such as the 19th Century United Shipping Company, Hongshan Enterprise Group Headquarters and Honghe Enterprise Group Headquarters, which are under construction.

  The influx of private capital from Australia and the United Kingdom has allowed the city’s skyline to continuously advance to the sky, spreading to the surrounding area, and already tightly wrapping Christtown in it.

  Qinglong City, Zhuque City took the lead to cross the threshold of a city with a population of 100,000. Under the favorable situation of both light and heavy industry production and sales, the catching-up momentum is also rapid.

Comparison

  The population of Baihu City has just touched the 50,000 mark, and the population of Xuanwu City is close to 20,000. It has been set aside by the brother towns, showing a situation of insufficient stamina.

We can’t blame Baihu City for not working hard, and we can’t blame the focus on defense. The urban area is located in a narrow mountainous area in northern Xuanwu City. Because of its congenital deficiency and no pillar industries, the development space of the city is narrow. Xuanwu City cannot compete with other towns economically. Comparable.

  The importance of Xuanwu City lies in the fact that one man should be the customs and the tenth man is not open. The military role is more important than the economic significance.

  Today's thriving northern city cannot conceal the light of two dazzling new star towns in the south, one is Songjiang Town, and the other is Beilun Town on the Kangsby Plateau on the north coast of Sydney.

  Songjiang Town, the most dazzling town rising in this hot land.

Due to the completion of the coastal railway, wool from Pine Town, Coventry Town, and Wisconsin Town is continuously transported by rail to Suzaku City, where it undergoes deep processing by the First Wool Spinning Mill and the Second Wool Spinning Mill, and is finally loaded on ships to sail overseas. , Earn back large sums of pounds and dollars.

  Australia's Red River Valley has become the largest wool exporter in the entire European and North American continent. Facing strong demand from Europe and North America, it is working hard to produce overtime.

  The entire European and North American woolen textile market is valued at more than 300 million pounds, and the Red River Valley family accounts for nearly 7% of it. With the advantages of low price and high quality, it quickly occupied more market share.

  In the face of strong competition from Australia, hundreds of wool exporters in the United States and Europe are losing ground and cannot compete with them in terms of cost.

  Some people doubt whether the international market will be so big?

  British as an example, Britain, which first entered the industrialized country at the end of the 19th century, generally had a high level of national happiness, and its income level was also among the highest in the world.

  Ordinary peasant families also have higher material needs. While enjoying porcelain, coffee, beer, and afternoon tea, they also have a strong realistic demand for exquisite tablecloths, curtains and woolen textiles.

In the cold autumn and winter seasons of the British Isles, light and warm pure wool clothing is regarded as an indispensable necessity. It is also a higher-priced luxury item. The population of the British Isles including Ireland, including Ireland, is calculated by the population of over 30 million. More than one piece of pure wool clothing per person.

There are dozens of hats, gloves, vests, coats, sweaters, uniforms or pure wool blankets, all of which are inseparable from a large amount of pure wool wool.

  Only this item, the total value of the stock exceeds 300 million pounds, and the annual demand is calculated at 10% to 15%, which is a demand market of no less than 40 million pounds per year, and it is still growing.

The cold Nordic Kingdoms of Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway, wealthy France, Germany, which has rapidly recovered after the Franco-Prussian War, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is full of nobles, and the Ottoman Empire, which loves wool tapestries, plus the rapid economic development The United States together constitute a huge market for pure wool demand.

  The United States is specifically mentioned here. In just over two years, steel production has soared by more than 10 times. Various industrial products and agricultural and animal husbandry products have grown rapidly, and the economy has shown a trend of rapid growth.

   Ordinary American workers in big cities earn nine cents an hour, calculated on the basis of 12 hours a day, working 6 days a week, a weekly salary of 5.5 US dollars, and a monthly salary of about 22 US dollars.

  This level is almost 4 pounds 5 shillings a month, which is a little more than double the current wage level in Australia, second only to countries such as Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and belongs to the higher-income industrial countries.

  A man works, can support his wife and two children, owns a house and his own pet collie, has the ability to eat bread and drink milk, and go to a bistro or coffee shop every other time.

  At first glance, it seems that the income of the British is higher than that of the British, because the annual income of the low-level housekeepers in the UK is 45 pounds, the male servants and tutors are 20-30 pounds, and the dishwashing women are only about 10 pounds.

  In fact, it can’t be compared like this

  In this world, men’s income is generally higher than that of women. American workers’ 12-hour fatigue is not comparable to that of servants.

  Many workers have a life expectancy of less than 40 years old. From another aspect, it shows that the overloaded labor in the factory has caused irreparable and huge damage to the body. This is using their lives to make money.

  The British aristocrats and high-paying government employees do the most relaxing and enjoyable things. The high-paying income they can get is beyond the reach of Americans. There is no such aristocratic group in the United States.

The average annual income of the hereditary nobles in the House of Lords in the UK is between 12,000 and 15,000 pounds. The lowest is from the baron’s average annual income of 4 to 5,000 pounds, the knight’s average annual income is 2,000 pounds, the gentleman’s average annual income is 1,200 pounds, and the income from thousands of pounds. Tens of thousands to hundreds of pounds of government employees and numerous colonial officials, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, form a huge high-consumption group.

  The United Kingdom is an old-brand developed country, while the United States with a huge population base is a new industrial power. The development background cannot be underestimated, and the huge market demand cannot be underestimated.

  (End of this chapter)