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Agricultural production mainly relies on natural endowments and is closely related to physical geographical factors such as terrain, climate, water sources, soil and biology.

From a topographic perspective, there are two topographic factors that have the greatest impact on agriculture and animal husbandry, namely the Great Dividing Range in the east and the Great Artesian Basin in the central part.

The Great Dividing Range is located in the eastern part of the continent and is the most important mountain range here. It generally runs north-south and is basically parallel to the eastern coastline. It stretches for thousands of kilometers and is about two hundred kilometers wide. It is very large in scale.

Although the Great Dividing Range is a relatively ancient mountain range, the average altitude is still about 1,000 meters, and the highest peak is more than 2,000 meters above sea level.

The windward slope area on the east side of the Great Dividing Range has abundant rainfall and is suitable for planting.

Crops that require more water can be grown, but the leeward slope areas on the west side of the Great Dividing Range receive less rainfall, so only crops that require less water can be grown, such as wheat.

Generally speaking, the area on the west side of the Great Dividing Range has relatively little precipitation, and the surface natural zones are mainly grassland natural zones, which is suitable for the development of animal husbandry.

For example, the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia is a famous mixed agricultural distribution area in the world, mainly raising sheep and growing wheat.

The local atmospheric precipitation is difficult to meet the needs of agricultural production. Fortunately, it is located in the Great Artesian Basin.

The Great Artesian Basin is rich in groundwater, and the groundwater here is confined water.

After drilling through the rock formation, the underground pressurized water will rise to the surface and spurt out to form an artesian well, which can provide a source of production water.

While reclaiming land suitable for farming, King Ding and the others finally discovered that there were still human activities here.

The humans living here are all very primitive aborigines. They have very few clothes and their skin is not very dark.

When the Ming army first arrived, the natives held bows, arrows and stone spears in their hands and followed quietly from a distance to observe, without taking any action to harm the Ming army.

If they did not attack the Ming army, it would be impossible for the Ming army to bully them. There was no dispute between the Ming army and the indigenous people for the time being.

Later, they discovered that the Ming army had no ill intentions, and gradually began to no longer be afraid of the Ming army, and sometimes would come out to deliver some meat to the Ming army.

Upon seeing this, King Ding Zhu Cijiong would also ask the Ming army to send some steamed buns and rice to the natives, and sometimes give them a little wine.

The meat sent by the natives was basically the meat of big rats. At first, the Ming army did not dare to eat it, but later they found that it tasted pretty good and started hunting...

There is a language barrier between the two parties, so they communicate through gestures and movements.

In fact, it is not that the indigenous people did not attack the Ming army. If a few people landed, they would definitely be attacked by them.

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Mainly because the Ming army was too numerous, they did not dare to take action. After discovering that the Ming army had no ill intentions toward them, the natives began to accept strange guests from the east.

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Two months later, there were nearly 100,000 people living on this continent. They were not in one place, but divided into eight teams.

There were two thousand navy troops left behind on the battleships, and each team on the shore had more than ten thousand people, and six teams were responsible for farming and clearing up wasteland.

In about three months, more than 6,000 indigenous people were assimilated by the Ming Dynasty. They actually took the initiative to join the wasteland reclamation team, and they were very happy...

They are both colonial, but the Chinese people are different from Western bandits. Western bandits are here to plunder, but we are here to develop.

As long as the other party has good intentions, we will never bully others casually, even if we treat indigenous people.

No matter where, no matter who, if there is oppression, there must be resistance, just like Magellan, he was not dismembered by the natives in the end...

The two teams are responsible for finding resources, and once mineral deposits are discovered, they have to transport workers to build roads and mine.

Due to development needs, the most scarce thing in the Ming Dynasty was copper ore. The copper ore used now basically comes from Ceylon on the Luzon River.

The hard work paid off. The team responsible for surveying the mineral resources found copper mines, iron mines, coal mines, and silver mines in half a year!

Zhu Cijiong was overjoyed and hurried to the nearest iron mine. He found that the high slope was full of iron ore, and a lot of iron ore was exposed above the ground. There was no need to dig deep. King Ding's eyes were straight...

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, railways, ships, bridges, trains, bicycles, carriages, and firearms were being built...

Many projects and equipment require iron ore. Seeing so many iron ore reserves, King Ding knew that the Ming Dynasty would never be short of iron ore again...
Chapter completed!