Australia is a strange place, obviously rich in various resources.
But there is a fatal problem here, which is the lack of water. Therefore, although the area is vast, there are actually not many people living here.
Some people have estimated that the amount of rainfall in Australia can only feed 100 million people.
This place is not suitable for intensive farming either.
Farms and pastures can be built in some places with suitable conditions.
Therefore, it is more appropriate to leave this place to those chaebols to run it. Ordinary immigrants do not have that much money to make early investments.
Lu Shun was the first manager of West Pacific Company to set foot here.
Now that the Australian branch has been established, he has officially become the talker here. He has also risen from a middle-level manager to the top of the company.
And he also learned that West Pacific Company has a total of twelve major shareholders.
One of the major shareholders is surprisingly the president’s second wife, Yang Ximei.
These twelve major shareholders include the Yangzhou Li family, the Sun family, the Suzhou Gao family, and the Zhuji Qian family.
The Lu family ranks in the middle and last position among the twelve families.
Only then did Lu Shun know why the West Pacific Company was so terrifying and could actually mobilize the help of the army.
And it can have tens of thousands of armed personnel.
Not many people in China know how big Australia’s big island is.
Lu Shun also explored it himself and realized what kind of island this place was. It was simply a new continent.
This is the New World. When you come here for the first time, you will find that it is like another world.
The appearances of the animals here are all unique, like a forgotten land.
Lu Shun has come into contact with the indigenous people here, and it is no exaggeration to say that those indigenous people are still in a state of drinking blood.
The weapons they used were still ground from stone.
After Su Ting led his troops south, Lu Shun was bored.
Bored, while he was mining gold, he commanded his men and the indigenous people who submitted to him to conquer the surrounding indigenous tribes.
However, the number of natives in his hands has not increased much. On the one hand, the land here is really vast and sparsely populated. Sometimes, he can walk hundreds of kilometers without encountering a single person.
On the other hand, although the natives are backward, they are very stubborn.
For those natives who took up arms, Lu Shun did not mind raising the butcher's knife.
The biggest problem is that there are too few people.
Those tribes that originally followed Lu Shun had learned how to herd and plant crops.
They also know how to dress.
"Boss Lu, I've been looking for you for a long time, and you turned out to be here." At this time, a Chinese man wearing a linen short coat came over. It was Du Zhengwen, Lu Shun's think tank.
"Lao Du, what's wrong? Didn't you go hunting with Li Ting and the others?" Lu Shun asked.
Life in the newly opened land is boring, and most people here are miners.
Apart from gold mining and land reclamation, there is almost no spare time life.
They, the management, usually go out hunting at most, which not only adds some fun to life, but also adds some meat dishes to the workers' meals, which can be regarded as saving costs for the company.
Lu Shun usually goes hunting, but today he is not in the mood.
Because Su Ting went to fight in the south and did not take him with him, this made him feel a little depressed.
I don't even feel like hunting anymore.
"Boss, what do you think this is?" Du Zhengwen spread his hands.
This is a reddish brown stone.
"Is this iron ore? Where does it come from?" Lu Shun asked.
"This was discovered by the expedition team I sent to the west. There are many open-pit iron mines like this in our west. But most of them are in the relatively arid Gobi Desert."
"And coal was discovered there."
This news immediately made Lu Shun excited.
"This is good news. We must report it to the headquarters as soon as possible and ask them to send a professional prospecting team."
"Boss, I think we need to let the expedition continue to explore westward. The cost of transporting those iron ore and coal mines to us will be too high. I think it would be good if there was a place to build a port in the west, preferably close to the mines.
At that time, we can develop the mine near the port first."
"You are right, we need to consider the transportation issue. If this project is completed, it will be much better than the gold mine project. The steel consumed every year in the entire Greater China Circle is a bottomless pit. If we can build it here
Once a coal-iron complex is formed, the company will have a stable income."
Du Zhengwen's news finally caused a little ripple in Lu Shun's life.
At this time, the two of them had reached a hillside, and Lu Shun climbed onto a dark brown boulder.
This is a place with an excellent view, and you can just see the creek where miners are panning for gold in the distance.
Under the afterglow of the setting sun, workers at the mine were packing up their tools and preparing to end the day's work.
A small town has been built in the valley not far from the gold mine, with rows of cabins neatly arranged, which are workers' dormitories.
Under the huge wooden shed, a group of women were cooking, and the workers ate together.
Most of these women were shipped from Annan, which was the goods purchased by West Pacific Company from Annan after the previous war.
These Annan women are very hardworking.
But after all, there are tens of thousands of miners here. Apart from these cooking women, indigenous women, and the white women that Lu Shun captured in the small town of Wendola last time, there are almost no other women.
Lu Shun had to have these women placed alone.
Prevent unnecessary attrition.
After all, there are more monks and less meat. Rather than letting them fight for it, it would be better for everyone to have nothing to eat.
Even so, Lu Shun still found that almost all of these women were pregnant. When they were about to give birth, who would do the work?
This kind of thing is really hard to guard against. These miners were probably thinking about how to get into the wooden houses where the women lived while they were working.
Lu Shun specially asked someone to investigate, and found a tunnel near the wooden house where the women lived.
Of course, it could also be that the security personnel were watching over themselves. After all, security personnel are also men.
"Text, you can write a report for me later and ask the headquarters to transfer some more female workers. You see, those women who cook are already pregnant."
"Haha, boss, you are treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. The children born by these women are not a waste of the company's food."
"I'll look it up and ask those women to find out who made her pregnant. Whoever did it will use his salary to support that woman and child," Du Zhengwen said.
"There is also a problem with your method. Some women don't know whose children they are. How can they find them?"
"Boss, you don't understand this. A woman may be fucked by many men, but she will choose a more reliable one. At least she won't wrongly accuse the man who fucked her. That's enough.
"
"Also, if we want to develop here in the future, there must be a population. It is impossible for companies to do everything."
"Lao Du, you are thinking long-term. I think when we have more people, you can be an administrator." Lu Shun joked.
"Executive officer, I will hold your lap, Boss Lu, for the rest of my life." Du Zhengwen smiled. He is the most educated among the dandy boys, but he is still a dandy boy. How many pounds does he have?
Don’t you know how many taels it is?
"Don't be self-effacing. In recent times, I think you have done quite well. After all, there are tens of thousands of people here. Next, we will try to open up more farmland. When there are more people in the future, we will have to produce our own food.
"Lu Shun said.
"It's easy to say, farming is much easier than mining. I will assign those with poor gold mining performance to the planting group, but I have to lower their salary a little."
"I guess I'll have to find a way to recruit some people from China later," Lu Shun said.
"That won't be easy, unless the company is willing to give up the land. But what do we need so many farmers here? The company needs workers." Du Zhengwen said doubtfully.
"Lao Du, no one can do this. No matter how many workers we recruit, we won't be able to retain them. Look at these miners, how long can they stay without women? What's the point of just paying them wages? Waiting for them
After making money, don’t you want to go back?”
"The company cannot control everything. People have feelings. We have to give everyone an environment to live normally. And we are not turning this place into a factory. There are so many Chinese people building a country now. We are now a country.
Companies, why can’t we build a country here in the future?”
Du Zhengwen looked at Lu Shun, was this still the generous and generous playboy?
He saw deep ambition in Lu Shun's eyes.
"Boss, when the time comes you will be the president and all the brothers will assist you." Du Zhengwen joked.
"Lao Du, even if a country is formed, it is the company that has the final say, but shareholders will not take care of specific matters themselves. Someone has to take care of things." Lu Shun was not joking with Du Zhengwen.
He had already vaguely guessed Dong Shuheng's plan.
He knew that President Dong Shuheng was the major shareholder of this company.
So he wanted to give it a try. If his approach won the approval of major shareholders, he might really become the manager of this new country in the future.
"Hey, isn't that the female leader Aoli?" Du Zhengwen said, pointing to a woman walking from a distance.
This woman is taller than the average native, has a strong body, a curvy front and back, but her mouth is a bit bigger, her nose is a bit wider, and her skin is a bit dark, otherwise she is a beauty.
However, Lu Shun relied on this woman to help him manage the natives. He was usually quite polite to this woman.
"Boss..." Oli, like Du Zhengwen and others, likes to call Lu Shun boss.
In fact, the native people are very smart and have learned a lot of spoken Chinese in just a few months.
You can even add gestures to express simple meanings in Chinese.
Ollie gestured for a long time, and it turned out that her men had discovered a new tribe and asked Lu Shun if he wanted to conquer that tribe.
Ollie has also been busy recently because most of the women in her tribe are pregnant.
Some of those miners are natives of Southeast Asia, and they still admire these Australian natives.
It only takes a few gifts to get into the tents of these indigenous women.
Ollie's tribe still respects women, and women do not have fixed husbands, so there is no burden at all to do such a thing.
They also hope that they can become pregnant, which can increase the population of the tribe.
Lu Shun didn't care about this, he needed male warriors from these tribes to join the expedition.
At present, he has sent an ignorant expedition team to explore the west and south.
As for the east, the Chinese have already completed their exploration along the coastline.
The most mysterious thing is the vast desert area in the west. It is almost deserted and no civilized people have ever set foot there.
Not even aboriginal people live there.
However, Lu Shun still sent people to explore. He hoped that he could understand the situation of the entire island.
Judging from the iron ore Du Zhengwen brought back this time, the seemingly desolate western part of the island may actually be the most valuable thing on the entire island.
If there really are iron ore and coal mines that can be mined open-pit, the steel produced here may be the cheapest in the world in the future.
It seems that I can prepare the layout earlier.
If a steel plant is really built by then, only one steel plant will be able to support a city.
Lu Shun's heart was finally brought back to the company's future development plan by a small piece of iron ore.
Several hundred kilometers away to his south, Su Ting and his men had already reached the small town of Burke, which was already the boundary of New South Wales.
Along the way, you can only encounter scattered small towns and surrounding farms.
Su Ting is very conservative, taking things one step at a time and only leaving after cleaning up an area.
The livestock in the pasture gave most of his men a means of transportation.
At this time they were stationed in a small town.
Although it is said to be a small town, there are actually only a few dozen households. There is a tavern and some small workshops that make and sell tools.
This small town doesn't even have a police station.
However, the people here are not easy to deal with. Su Ting lost more than a dozen people when he entered this town.
The residents of the town hid in their rooms and shot at the security team, and even the women took out their guns.
"Ah..." A woman's scream came from a room not far away.
Su Ting glared displeasedly while riding on the horse, and the adjutant on the side said with embarrassment: "Commander Su, don't worry, we are not a regular army. Let these people vent their anger, and we will not be ambiguous when we fight again."
Su Ting shook his head helplessly, yes, he is no longer in the military.
He still unconsciously thought that he was still a general leading troops.
When the president asked him to join the security corps, he was a little reluctant. Most of the generals who came out of the security corps did well.
He will also have a good political future in the military.
But in the end, I still failed to control myself and made mistakes that I shouldn't have made.
It’s good that the president can give himself such a way out.
Suddenly, a girl in a long skirt ran out of a wooden house, and several Fuso sergeants followed her.
This white girl is tall, has fair skin, and has three-dimensional facial features. Her pointed chin is very delicate.
Her long pale golden hair is spread over her shoulders.
The girl fled to the street in front of Su Ting, staggered and fell to the ground.
Immediately, two Fuso soldiers went up to hold the girl down and tried to drag her into the house.
He was still scratching the ground with both hands, as if he was still going to make a final struggle.
He kept shouting for help.
"Go and ask them to help send that girl to my room." Su Ting raised his riding crop and pointed at the girl and said to the adjutant.