In the vast and magnificent valley, the dry season of the Connecticut River has just passed. The river surface is mixed with several floes floating from the upper reaches of the north, and snow-white waves roll south. A group of steamboats are dragging out a long queue at a speed of about 8 knots and heading northward along the curved river channel.

The Connecticut River in later generations was renamed "Fuhe" a few years ago, and it is the eastern and western boundary between Songzhou and Haizhou. The valley plain located in the lower reaches of the Connecticut River is the most fertile treasure land among the mountains. After several years of development, Haizhou, Governor Guan Ruzhong turned his attention here again, intending to establish a new agricultural colonization town on the east bank of the lower Connecticut River Valley Plain. The address of the new town was selected, which is East Hartford, the capital of Connecticut, which was later.

However, there are naturally more than one person who cares about the good place. After the initial completion of the "Jiangkou Town" next to the Moheke Valley more than 20 kilometers northwest of Porter, Songzhou Governor Tang Ke also turned his attention to the blessed land downstream of the Connecticut River. Even the location was the same as Guan Ruzhong's chosen, and the location was on the opposite bank of Guan Ruzhong's river.

The blessing of the omnipresent Indian trade vendors in this country, as early as 1625, fur merchants in Manchester City established non-permanent Indian trading posts here. Connecticuts, Mohicans, Nagans, and Wampanoags were the main Indian tribes in this area and were also a more capable vassal under the long-term goodwill policy of China.

Under the guidance of not using force easily, it was not easy to obtain the land of this fertile valley plain from the Indians. The bargaining lasted for almost two years. After two years of the most terrifying famine and the severe cold of winter, "speak well" and generous assistance, the local Indian tribe finally chose to make concessions, and the land in the valley plain was peacefully handed over to the hands of China and the United States.

The fleet that is now sailing on the river surface is the two development teams that go north together. Such a "collision" inland river development has made the leaders of both fleets work hard and want to be the first to step onto the river bank of their destination.

"Try harder. Gentlemen, increase the speed, we must be the first to arrive than those Silver Valley bastards!"

On an inland steamer, Danielson, who was transferred from the director of Qingcheng Civil Affairs to the future mayor of Xinzhen, shouted loudly.

I heard that the people who came to the Fuhe Valley to explore this time in Songzhou were officials transferred from Yingu Town. As Guan Ruzhong's old subordinate, Danielson, the earliest European local officials who came out of Xidian Town naturally regarded Yingu Town, which was once the opposite side of Xidian Town, as their biggest competitor.

What’s interesting is that in the future, the two small towns in the Fuhe Valley are neighbors, but the “Western Point Party” has arrived on the east bank of the river this time. The “Silver Valley Party” is on the west bank of the river. The two even made a bet: whoever arrives first will be the name of “Fuhe Town”.

"Hurry up, hurry up! That country bumpkin from West Point Town won't want to be the first place this time!" On another ship, Officer Hager, who was once the Sheriff of Silver Valley Town, roared with saliva, while also reminding a middle-aged Chinese man not far away, "Dear Mr. Xu, do you have no sense of crisis now?"

Compared with the European sheriff's anxious expression, the Chinese man with a little short beard just sat reservedly. He didn't care about this little game of competing with each other.

This Chinese official named Xu was the former director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Yingu Town. In 1622, the first group of Ming refugees who immigrated to North America were once an ordinary carpenter in the furniture company of Yingu Town. Because of his literacy and gentle personality, he served as the civil affairs work of Yingu Town in 1626 and gradually became the most capable assistant of the mayor of the town mayor Sun Hongyi. This time he was appointed as the mayor of the new "Fuhe Town" by Songzhou Governor Tang Ke. He took a fancy to Xu Wen's easy-going and meticulous character. In order to support the local development of Songzhou, the first batch of main forces in the colonial team were recruited by the relocated people of Yingu Town.

"Everyone is working for the country, so there is no distinction between them." The future Chinese New Town Mayor waved his head implicitly. Then his eyes turned to the lush valleys and ridges on both sides of the river. He showed an intoxicating look, "The mountains and rivers are magnificent, the land is rich and fertile, and it is really a fertile land!"

"But if we let them take the lead again, the people of Silver Valley Town will be disappointed." The bearded sheriff looked worriedly as the competitors from Qingcheng City were already ahead a lot, and couldn't help but clench their fists, "I think we should give our all!"

Looking at the serious look of his colleague who came to pioneer together, the man named Xu Mingwen finally smiled.

Two hours later, at noon, the two fleets arrived at their destination almost at the same time. More than 80 kilometers away from the mouth of the Connecticut River, the valley was suddenly cheerful in this section, with the mountains on both sides of the east and west, and in the middle were endless valley plains and dense forests.

Due to the terrain along the coast, the immigrant pioneer fleet from Qingcheng did not find a suitable landing point for a while. Because there was already a small Indian trading post on the west coast, the former Sheriff of Silver Valley Town finally showed his power this time.

Hagrid relied on his good water quality. Before the small boat that was transferred to the shore, he jumped out of the water first, then swam to the west coast, and couldn't wait to cut down a small branch on the shore and hold up a national flag.

"Haha, 'Fuhe Town' is ours! The country bumpkins in Xidian Town!" The bearded sheriff laughed, waved the flagpole in his hand wildly, with a proud look on his face.

However, a few hours later, Chief Haiger, who was planning to expand the inland river wharf and settled communities, received a "bad news": New Town Mayor Xu Wen reached a compromise with the annoying Danielson, and the two teams shared the victory. The place where the west bank belongs to Songzhou is still called Fuhe Town, while the town where the east bank belongs to Haizhou is named Dongfu Town.

The lively landing lasted until that night, when the two local government teams joined forces to hold a joint meeting at the Indian trading station on the West Bank. Unlike the arrogant competitive attitudes of the people below, the two new town mayors became much more careful.

The local governments of the two states have developed at the same time, and there is almost no penny from the state. They are all the local finances of the two states. Therefore, in order to build the new town as soon as possible, Xu Wen and Danielsen intend to integrate the resources of Yingu Town and Qingcheng City, which are "counter-to-partial support" in the future, in order to achieve optimal efficiency.

A group of hundreds of people launched large-scale construction on both sides of the Fu River. Local Indians who had traded with Chinese merchants for a long time also rushed to help, only paying a small amount of goods and food. These inland Connecticuts were happy to take the squat or the Wampanoag people.

The inland waterway of the Connecticut River is wide and deep inland. The waterway south of Fuhe Town is enough to provide thousands of tons of merchant ship navigation, and the transportation is very convenient. It is one of the ambitions of the country's inland colonization in North America based on waterways.

In order to ensure the safety of local immigrant development, the second cavalry company of the Army will settle here, use the Connecticut River transport to truly penetrate the country's control and enhance the control and utilization of the Indian vassal tribes within the Haizhou territory.

From this day on, towns that were originally under the jurisdiction of two different state governments were habitually merged and called "Shuangfu Town".

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Fuhe Town, Songzhou on the west bank of the Fuhe River, under the guidance of Sun Hongyi, the first "economic development expert" in China, will focus on agricultural planting in the early stage. The valley plain in which Fuhe Town is located is pleasant, the terrain is flatter than the east bank, surrounded by lush forests and fertile land, and the agricultural land can be utilized in the future will be at least 50,000 acres.

Xu Wen plans to continue to use the economic development idea of ​​Sun Hongyi, the mayor of Yingu Town, to take a detour. In addition to the basic fruits and vegetables and medicinal materials planting industry inherited from Yingu Town's advantages, a large-scale planting and processing industry of flax will also be launched here.

The flax planting industry is a comprehensive agricultural economic project. I won’t mention the longest raw material for plant textile fibers in human history. Flax seed oil is also a very high-quality edible oil with high oil yield and a wide range of industrial uses. The slag cake after oil pressing is a good raw material for fertilizer production and livestock feed. Which pig, cattle and sheep that grew up eating this special feed in later generations is not full of energy? Therefore, flax planting is basically the industry with the highest contribution to the comprehensive development of domestic industry and agriculture in addition to animal husbandry. Moreover, at a time when the expansion of industrial scale has fallen into a bottleneck, the appropriate expansion of agricultural characteristic industries is also a good way to increase immigration employment.

In the past few years, the domestic labor shortage. The limited agricultural scale has also been concentrated on increasing grain production. The domestic natural vegetable oil industry has never become the focus of development. Vegetable oil has always relied on domestic trading companies to import large quantities from Europe.

But now it is different. The domestic population has increased significantly, and the demand for textile raw materials, edible oils or industrial natural oils is also rising year by year. Whale oil is too expensive, so core industrial projects are basically exhausted. "Luxury" imported vegetable oils like European olive oil and West African coconut oil are not cost-effective. Coconut plantations overseas led by Caribbean Butterfly Island have just started, and the domestic output of coconut oil can only be ignored at present.

The import and supply of natural vegetable oils is becoming increasingly tight, resulting in high costs in related industries, and the pressure to localize the natural vegetable oil industry is very high. It is said that earlier, the US Department of Agriculture also tried to promote rapeseed and rapeseed oil in Asia, and tried it in Jersey Town. However, the seaside climate there caused the growth of rapeseed flowers to be unsatisfactory. The northern Port City has a lower climate temperature and worse planting effect.

In the end, flax, a textile fiber and oil-based comprehensive crop with high latitude climate adaptability, was first eaten by Sun Hongyi, the mayor of Yingu Town. The small-area trial last year resulted in good results, but unfortunately, due to the geographical environment restrictions around Yingu Town, large-scale planting cannot be carried out.

In the valley plains in the lower reaches of Connecticut, the inland climate is very suitable for flax growth. In addition, corn and flax can be planted in seasonal stubbornly, and the land utilization rate is very high. Moreover, large-scale flax and corn are also good nectar seeds. At the same time, the development of beekeeping industry can also obtain important auxiliary materials for domestic food processing and pharmaceutical chemical industry: honey and beeswax. Once such agricultural and sideline products have reached a scale, they will definitely create considerable economic benefits for the future banks of the Fu River.

Xu Wen of Fuhe Town is confident. Danielson, the leader of Dongfu Town, naturally also showed the style and ambition of "famous teachers produce great disciples". In addition to the traditional livestock breeding and animal husbandry industry, Haizhou Governor Guan Ruzhong had long reached an agreement with Yang Wenwen's Life Art Group. Dongban Fuhe will jointly establish the largest sheep and alpaca farm in Haizhou and establish the Haizhou Wool Industry Center.

If it is combined with the flax planting industry in Fuhe Town on the west bank, then the "double blessing place" can be regarded as the first important textile industry in the United States in the future. As a result, the entire middle and lower reaches of Fuhe River will be developed.

In addition, the east bank of this fertile Fu River Valley is also the "big killer" discovered by Minister of Land and Resources An Shaoqing: the chalcopy mine, one of the rare metal minerals in Connecticut that is worth boasting about, has a mineral site with a large reserve in the nearby valley mountainous areas. If you do not intend to smel locally to destroy the environment and transport the ore to other industrial towns by water, it is also a major economic highlight of Dongfu Town.

At a time when the domestic economy is in a state of turmoil due to maritime transport capacity issues, the establishment of Fuhe Town and Dongfu Town has brought a rare good atmosphere to the national development in 1629. After all, inland river transportation has not been greatly affected. Judging from the current situation, most of the country's basic layout in Songzhou and Haizhou has been completed. (To be continued...)
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