Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 291 Southbound Train (5)

  Li Fushou looked at the scenery outside the window at ease. After the third shearing season, the financial distress will be greatly eased, and he is able to provide stronger financial support for the war in Borneo and fight a large-scale battle.

  Accumulate, expand, accumulate again, expand again...

  With the accumulation of huge wealth, the expansion of the territory, and the growth of power, Li Fushou’s ambitions are also growing, and he is no longer satisfied with the current structural constraints.

  People can change, and he does the same.

  When he first set foot in Australia in 1876, he just wanted to be a happy rich man, enjoy life, and build a big business empire.

  But wealth soon attracted a large group of greedy white pretenders, like vultures hovering over Africa, who would give Li Fushou a cruel look at any time, which made him extremely insecure.

  At the beginning, the Hongmen Club was developed to unite the strength of the Chinese ethnic group to protect themselves, maintain personal and property safety, and on this basis help more Chinese immigrants resist unfair systems and discrimination, and pursue fair and just social treatment.

  The so-called “da” means to benefit the world, and it is true.

  Come this way

  Wealth and his own strength have spirally increased alternately, which has pushed Li Fushou to this day involuntarily. There are deliberate arrangements and environmental and social forces. The interaction between the two has evolved to this day.

  Now he deliberately downplays the color of the "Hongmen" gang, and instead pays more attention to the "Zhi Gong Party", a political party that represents the interests of a wide range of immigrants. This is an inevitable choice for the development of strength to a certain extent.

  Li Fushou’s development strategy has been very clear, that is to accumulate, expand, accumulate again, expand again...

  As for where he can go, he himself has no clear goal.

  It can only be said that the Dutch are unlucky enough to be targeted. In the next two decades, the focus will be on the East Indies, and it will be impossible to say in the future.

  Finally, Li Fushou is 23 years old this year, and 20 years later, he will only be 43 years old. He has enough time and energy to plan tactics.

  The main factor for the violent rebound of wool prices this year is the abandonment of the policy of suppressing wool prices for two consecutive years and the return of wool values ​​to normal levels.

  Red River Valley Ranch has benefited a lot. This is also a gluttonous feast for the southern ranchers. It almost earned back all the losses of the previous two years. The value of the previous consecutive losses has soared, and it is more confident to challenge Queensland.

  The benefits and losses are calculated, I am afraid there will be more harm than good.

  The reason why Li Fushou gave up the policy of suppressing the purchase price of wool, which he has always insisted on, is one of the economic factors, and the other is that the policy cannot achieve the original effect.

  New South Wales and Victoria are dominated by the descendants of British immigrants. They have hundreds of years of colonial history and are the most developed areas in Australia. They are also the hardest hit areas for discrimination against Chinese immigrants.

  To be precise, the conservative white ranchers in southern states not only discriminate against Chinese immigrants, but also against all immigrants, including Scots and Citi Cowboys.

  Even bankrupt white ranchers in the southern state cannot sell their ranches to immigrants. They would rather not sell them for any amount of money. They are so stubborn to the end.

   has become a kind of disease, it can be cured!

  If Li Fushou can persist in the policy of suppressing wool purchases for more than ten years, these diehard southern ranchers may succumb, but when he thinks of the huge loss of profits, as the world’s largest rancher, Li Fushou feels distressed.

   owns tens of millions of sheep and loses hundreds of thousands of pounds every year. The difference between positive and negative is too big.

  Since the price of wool has been released, Li Fushou simply let go of his hands and feet to enter the wool deep processing industry. His trump card is a blockbuster gift for the 50th anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne. This gift is enough to shock the British Isles.

  In contrast, in the current environment where the British Empire advocates global free trade, it is not difficult for the Earl of Queensland to intervene in the wool deep processing industry.

  Through this shareholder enthusiasm, Australian wool deep-processing products have landed on the European markets including the British Isles, with twice the result with half the effort.

  The so-called profit maximization is nothing like this.

  This important event Li Fushou repeatedly measured for a long time, and arranged representatives in Europe to thoroughly inspect the current level and employment situation of the wool deep processing industry in European countries, in-depth research on the market space and profit margins, and finally determined to give it a go.

  There is a huge income of millions of pounds in this, and Li Fushou could not help being unmoved.

  The money spent on the big gifts sent out will soon flow back continuously.

  From the perspective of the wool deep-processing product market, the market competitiveness of high-quality wool products produced in Australia is unmatched in the world. It not only has a broad demand market in Europe, but also has a broad market in North America.

  Many people don’t understand the situation and think that Citigroup’s agriculture and animal husbandry is the world’s top, and Citigroup’s cowboy has become a symbol of this country, deeply imprinted in people’s hearts.

  In such a powerful country in agriculture and animal husbandry as well as in industry, don’t the wool products produced by itself taste good?

actually not

Citigroup’s livestock industry is strong in raising beef cattle. Cattle industry accounts for more than 60% of Citi’s livestock industry. Beef cattle production accounts for about 20% of the world’s total. The pig industry is followed by almost 10% of the world’s production. The poultry breeding industry is extremely developed, with a wide variety of breeding species.

In Citi, there are many states with more than 500,000 beef cattle on ranches. In addition to Texas, which ranks first, there are also Nebraska, Kansas, California, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Ai Owa, South Dakota, Wisconsin and other Midwestern states have unparalleled breeding scales in the world.

Only the sheep farming industry is very inconspicuous in the United States, accounting for less than 1% of the animal husbandry industry, and the number is only a few hundred thousand, and most of them are scattered farming by farmers, and there are few small-scale pastures with more than a thousand sheep. Why is this?

Because sheep have a bad habit of gnawing grass, they will pull the grass out of the roots and eat it instead of just eating the young grass leaves like beef cattle. This will cause large areas of grassland degradation and even desertification. Mongolian grassland desertification is the best example of.

  The natural conditions in most parts of the United States are not suitable for raising sheep, and the damage to the grassland is too great.

  So the United States not only imports a large number of combed tops and carded tops from Australia, but also imports a large amount of frozen lamb to meet the rising domestic market demand, which is one of the high-quality markets in the future.

  In addition to meeting the needs of the Far East, North America is also one of the main markets for the Songjiang wool deep-processing base built at the beginning. The European market needs to be developed step by step, adopting the strategy of boiling frogs in warm water and slowly squeezing in.

  There are three world-class fine pastures suitable for the development of Merino sheep, Australia, Argentina and New Zealand. The disadvantage of the latter two is that the range of pastures is small. The total population of New Zealand has not exceeded 20,000, and the scale of breeding is far from comparable to the former.

  In the world wool industry

  Australia is the leader of the industry, and Red River Valley Ranch is the leader of Australia, affecting the world's wool price level.

  After entering 1882, with the rapid increase in the purchase price of Australian wool, the price of wool series products rose and the price rose.

  Buy the rise instead of the fall. This not only did not cause consumption shrinkage, but greatly promoted the consumption of wool products. Red River Valley has already considered large-scale expansion of herd to obtain more profits.

  The three major factors limiting wool production are the carrying capacity of natural conditions in the grazing area, labor and capital.

  Thanks to the abundant resources and immigrant population, Red River Valley Ranch has almost no bottlenecks in these three aspects.

The entire Red River Valley pasture is divided into 23 large pastoral areas. Basically every southern agricultural and pastoral town is a large pastoral area, with independent wool purchasing stations, slaughterhouses, meat processing plants and other ancillary facilities, as well as telegraph bureaus and RCMP The police station, Fulinmen department store, bars, restaurants, grain and oil shops, bank stations, post offices and other necessary service facilities constitute the complete ecology of a small agricultural and animal husbandry town.

Each pastoral area has large-scale flocks ranging from more than 1 million to more than 2 million. The subordinates of pastoral areas have different numbers of grazing teams. The grazing teams manage 30,000 to 50,000 sheep. Way to graze the flock.

  Red River Valley Ranch adopts natural grazing and mechanized planting of emperor bamboo grass and sweet elephant grass, which are favored by flocks, to improve the carrying capacity of flocks in natural pastures.

  After years of exploration

  Red River Valley Pasture has developed scientific breeding and grazing experience. Large-scale mechanized pasture planting operations have been carried out in each pastoral area. The combination with natural grazing has greatly enhanced the herd carrying capacity per unit area of ​​pastoral land.

Mechanized planting of forage grass is mainly tractor, and a large area of ​​land is reclaimed along the grazing route of the pastoral area, and the forage grass is evenly scattered into the fertile soil. It will not take long for a large area of ​​lush royal bamboo grass, sweet elephant grass... …

These pasture fields do not require post-maintenance. The rooted soil quickly thrives under the right rain and climate. The pasture roots are deeply rooted in the depths and there are many branches. Especially the sweet elephant grass can grow to a height of more than one person. , Like a lush pasture forest.

  These pastures do not need to be harvested, just drive the flock in when grazing. It is an excellent way of fattening and fattening, saving trouble and effort.

Cowboys herding sheep rely more on the vigorous Scottish Shepherd. As long as you send a loud whistle or use a horse whip, the intelligent Scottish Shepherd will rush out and take the large herd of Merino sheep from the pasture field. Drive out and go to the next nomadic spot.

  This cycle goes back and forth. The grazing team drives the sheep to nomadize along a fixed route. After a large circle, it takes about 2 to 3 months. When they return to the small animal husbandry town, it will be the shearing season.

The cowboys can relax in the bar in the town, or find a hibiscus girl to fool around. After a period of rest in the town and shearing the wool, the cowboys drive the flock again, and the next time they come back is another two to three months. Later……

  All of this has formed a fixed pattern, which saves time and labor, and costs less and has higher benefits.

  Australia has very good climate conditions. It stays between 10 and 25 degrees all year round. In a few mountainous areas, it will drop below zero in winter, and there will be heavy snowfalls all over the mountains.

  It snows only in the mountains of the Great Dividing Range. The pastoral areas of the coastal hills and plains do not snow. The four seasons are warm like spring and the rainfall is abundant. It is suitable for grass growth throughout the year.

  Compared with the Mongolian grasslands where white disasters often break out, this is simply a place of choice. The natural conditions for agriculture and animal husbandry are unique and unparalleled, and it is worthy of the name of the world-class excellent pasture.

  (End of this chapter)