Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 151 Immigration Wave

  Three months later

  Red Fort, Lingxiao Pavilion

  43, 367 people, 1721 people.

  These two sets of numbers are printed in the eyes of Li Fushou. They are not just numbers, but every living immigrant. After coming to Australia, he needs to live, work, develop and find an opportunity to realize his dream.

  43,367 people are the number of free immigrants from the mainland in November. Due to another large-scale drought in Henan, Shandong and Anhui, even after repeated screening, the number of immigrants in the past few months has increased sharply and reached a new height.

Those who can obtain immigration loans from Huitong Bank are all young and strong men and women. They really can't live in their hometowns. The legendary Australia is a land of gold and silver, which makes many people categorically borrow large immigration loans and come here. Seek a ray of life on a distant land.

  According to the immigration loan policy of Huitong Bank;

  As long as they are strong and have no disability, and are under 25 years of age with their ears and eyesight, men who pass the preliminary examination can get 15 pounds, and women can get 12 pounds immigration loan to travel to distant Australia.

The immigrants who have signed the loan agreement cannot get cash before they arrive in Australia. Among them, £10 is paid to the 19th Century United Shipping Company for immigration expenses, and £1 is used to arrive in Australia to replace the cost of clothing and shoes. The remaining money is used To purchase daily necessities and agricultural tools, as well as necessary living expenses.

  The Huitong Bank issued to the immigrants is the Huitong gold ticket, which is worth the same as the British pound. It also has small notes of shillings and pennies, which are completely common in the Red River Valley area.

  If you leave the Red River Valley area without authorization, you will be responsible for all consequences.

  With the rapid increase in the number of people eager for immigration loans, the standard has been raised again and again. Now the age standard has been reduced to below 21 years old. Males must lift a 120-jin stone lock with both hands. Females look beautiful and have no tooth decay.

  Even so, the number of qualified people is still innumerable. In November 1880 alone, 43,367 people came to remote Australia through immigration loan support and started a new life here.

Most of this part is agricultural population. After coming to Australia, most of them are arranged to enter the farms of the Red River Valley. A small number of skilled carpenters, bricklayers, painters, etc. are arranged to enter construction enterprises and participate in the increasingly prosperous towns. Coming under construction.

  Due to the booming economy of the Red River Valley, thousands of private enterprises have emerged, engaged in daily necessities, food processing and production, and service industries, helping to digest a large number of employed people.

  According to Huitong Bank’s policy; the immigration loan is for three years with an annual interest of 10%.

  The principal and interest must be repaid before the Australian citizenship application can be filed and the corresponding supporting loan can be obtained.

  Now with the expansion of the population base, the cost of Australian citizenship has dropped to 21 pounds, the Queensland official and the Red River Valley are divided into half.

  However, due to the expansion of the population base, the income has not decreased but increased. The annual income of the Red River Valley alone can reach millions of pounds.

  This huge amount of funds is in turn used to support the "Young Eagle Project" being implemented in the mainland. The plan originally funded 49 to 14 teenagers each year and is expected to cost about 600,000 pounds a year.

  Of this, 400,000 pounds is an immigration fee, which is used for ferry tickets from the mainland to Australia to avoid conflicts with the interests of the 19th Century United Shipping Company, after all, the company has many white shareholders.

The remaining funds are used to maintain the life education of 40,000 young people, food, clothing, housing, and transportation, including hiring instructors to teach children horseback riding and archery, teaching music history, reading and reading, three sets of clothing per person per year, bed covers, and kitchen staff, etc. And other expenses.

  Due to changes in the situation, the mainland has been experiencing continuous disaster years, small disasters every year, and major disasters three to five or nine, and there is almost no time to stop.

  The number of stray orphans adopted by Guangjitang under the charge of Zhu Wei soon exceeded 100,000. The original plan must be adjusted to reduce expenditure.

  For this, Zhu Wei proposed a new plan, which was quickly approved by Li Fushou and implemented it.

   More than 30 Guangji halls from all over the country established juvenile schools on the spot, hired scholars to read and write, dispatched instructors for military management, and unified arrangements for board and lodging.

  Every month, there are freighters from Australia that deliver cloth, rice, noodles, grains, oil, and meat to maintain the daily operation of the juvenile school.

  This way

Even if the number of juvenile schools in the mainland quickly doubled to nearly 200,000 people, according to the low consumption level of the Manchu and Qing Dynasty, the children will spend no more than 23,500 pounds per month while eating well. Great savings.

  Guangjitang’s subordinates set up a special ship transportation company, and ordered three 3,600-ton passenger ships at Hongshan Shipyard, which can transport up to 2,800 teenagers to Australia each time.

  In addition to paying for the necessary expenses such as coal and crew, the cost of 10 pounds per person for the Falcon’s plan was reduced to 3.75 pounds, which is almost a little more than one-third of the original cost.

  1721 people, that is the number of teenagers who arrived in Australia in November.

  They are all 16-year-old teenagers who have studied in Guangjitang Junior School for about two years. Those who have passed the assessment and have excellent results are given the opportunity to come to Australia.

  These teenagers will continue to study in the high school of Red River Valley University Affiliated High School for two years. Those with outstanding grades have the opportunity to enter Red River Valley University or the University of Sydney.

over time

  The number of young people who meet the immigration standards in the Young Eagle Plan will increase rapidly. Guangjitang has its own steamship transportation company, and the savings in this area can be a lot of money.

  This can be seen

  Zhu Wei is indeed a talent. The scale of the Young Eagle Project has increased by 5 times compared to the original estimate. It can still use much less than the original plan to bring hope to more teenagers. This is especially satisfactory to Li Fushou.

  Li Fushou invests more than 370,000 pounds in the education of Red River Valley every year. This money also comes from naturalization income. Education has a huge effect, improving the overall quality of immigrants and providing a large number of qualified workers for industrial and mining enterprises.

  Sitting at the desk, the breeze came slowly.

  Li Fushou picked up a thick stack of military newspapers, which are reports and progress of various troops from central and northern Queensland. Good news is spreading, which is gratifying.

  Three months

  Hundreds of large and small battles took place in north-central Queensland. More than 3,700 horse bandits and criminals who committed crimes were wiped out, and nearly 8,000 people were sentenced to hard labor. The "clean-up operation" achieved a complete victory and wiped out the dregs of society.

  Is there any accidental catch or injury? Is there excessive enforcement? Is it one-sided?

  The benevolent see benevolent, and the wise see wisdom.

  It is undeniable that the overall environment in Queensland has improved greatly. Horse bandits have almost disappeared. The shooting incidents that happened frequently in the tavern are never seen again.

  Even if they drink too much, the cowboys can forcefully restrain their impulse, because the revolver holster inserted on the waist is empty and has been handed over to the bar waiter for safekeeping before drinking.

   is the most fragrant mouth, and I dare not fight.

Several white state legislators in the central and northern parts of the Central and Northern Territory have great opinions on this. They criticized Red River Valley’s practices through various channels and public newspapers, believing that the rude and barbaric practices of the Queensland Lords are against humanity, fairness and justice, and are against white cowboys. And the ravages of ranchers.

  This discordant voice quickly disappeared, because these white state legislators were found guilty of corruption, bribery, bullying, and even direct and indirect involvement in murder and robbery and other serious crimes, and were severely punished by the law.

  To tell the truth, whoever has no blood and crimes in the hands of the white people who have developed in this era?

  The bottom of the **** itself is not clean, how can it stand the inspection?

  Queensland State Assembly, with an attitude of no toleration of crimes, quickly passed the dismissal of these several state councillors suspected of serious criminal charges, and transferred it to the State Independent Attorney’s Office for prosecution.

  In a short time

  These high-class people in Queensland’s upper-class society have become imprisoned. The key is that you don’t make mistakes. According to the strict laws of the British Empire, waiting for the fate of these state legislators is to hang on the gallows.

  There is one official, headed by Governor Frank, who crawled out of this big dyeing vat in Queensland, really, none of them got out of the silt without being infected.

  On the mainland of the British Empire

   Stealing 9 pounds of cotton yarn worth 5 shillings will be sentenced to 14 years of exile. This shows that the criminal law is harsh and not tolerant.

  The officials of the Queensland Self-Government Office, including the lowest-level RCMP, are punished according to this standard, and all of them will be put on the gallows.

  Therefore, when the Queensland State Assembly quickly expelled the qualifications of these state members and transferred them to the independent prosecutors, the whole state of Queensland was silent.

   Then came a voice of praise for the Speaker of the Queensland Earl of Queensland, a tide of flattery, turning a blind eye to the current immigration frenzy, and then began to vigorously advocate Queensland's thriving economic situation.

  In such a good atmosphere

  There are more than a dozen cities and towns in the central and northern regions, and Chinese immigrants come every month, ranging from more than a thousand to hundreds of people, rapidly changing the local population structure.

The vast majority of the population in Queensland is in the twin cities of Brisbane and the Red River Valley, and the Pearl Chain towns in the south are developing rapidly, especially Songjiang Town and Beilun Town, which have rapidly risen to become the driving force for the development of the entire southern town. center.

  The population of Songjiang Town further exceeded 75,000. With the completion of the fourth wool spinning mill, it recruited 5,500 female workers and 720 male workers at one time, quickly becoming Songjiang Town’s leading large-scale enterprise.

  Australia General Machinery Company's production base in Songjiang Town also produced its first tractor at the end of November, becoming a leading heavy industry company in the region, holding a large order, and developing momentum is very beautiful.

After a year of large-scale construction of the Songjiang Reservoir, one-third of the dam has been poured, reaching an elevation of 42 meters, which is not far from the design elevation of the dam. It is expected that after another year and a half of construction, the dam The main body can be poured and enter the installation and construction stage of the hydropower turbine plant.

  (End of this chapter)