At this stage of the project, Cao Limei no longer needed too much labor, and Chengdong began to consider sending some employees to Zixia Island - where he had his railway dream.

In fact, until the first half of the following year, the construction of the regional railway continued, and just three months after the construction of the regional railway, the brother car of the Tengyun, the Yufeng, left the factory and put into operation.

Since then, the Dawning Machine Factory has built a total of six of these models at a rate of one every six months, which was later officially named the "Australian Type I" steam locomotive – and it was not until a few years later that the "Australian Type III" steam locomotive, modeled after the Old World "American Type III" steam locomotive, was successfully built and the water tank light steam locomotive gradually faded from history.

Of course, that's another story.

After that, Chengdong's "Ocean United Railway" was formally established with the approval of the council, and he soon obtained a special grant for the construction of the railway in the east of the island, and the eastern development plan that they had been dreaming about for a long time finally began.

In addition, overseas railway construction also began, and a few months later, the construction of the Zixia Island Railway and the Oecussi Copper Mine Railway began, and from then on, Chengdong's "Oceania United Railway Co., Ltd." appeared on the stage of new world history.

While the feeder railway was in full swing, the Nicole had already made two trips back and forth, bringing more than 400 families of naturalized village laborers to Mornington Island, all of whom were selected young men and women, who were very effective construction forces.

At the same time, the Red Mansion did not forget the Han Chinese tenants in Sulu, and during this period, thousands of men and women came to Mornington Island and joined the various construction projects on the island.

It was only at this time that the traversers in the Red Mansion finally had a feeling that the labor tension had been eased.

At the same time, there has been an increase in the number of orphans from Macau, Zixia Island and Sinan, especially in Sinan, where in addition to the orphans adopted by the church system in Dili City, there are hundreds of indigenous children who have been "adopted" by the Loka tribe outside Sian Ann - well, in fact, the "way of adoption of these children is suspicious, but there is no doubt that they are all orphans."

Up to now, the source of students from the two schools has been completely "internationalized" - if you walk on the playgrounds of these two schools, you can find that the students here are really "diverse", from the skin color, white, yellow, red and black, and the eye and hair color is also "colorful".

Among these students, there are actually less than two-thirds of pure Han Chinese, in addition to a small number of Han Chinese mixed with other races, the remaining about half are Heiwa and Nanyang indigenous children, and the rest are even more diverse - there are Persians from the Persepolis plateau, Baloch from the lower coast of the Indus River, and Bengali coastal peoples from the Ganges Valley, in addition, there are Saudi Arabians, Jews from the Middle East, Europeans from Bohemia in the Balkans, etc. There are also a handful of children from Western and Southern Europe who are known at first glance, and you can even hear slang from all over the world on the playground, and the only thing these children have in common is wearing uniform uniforms.

Of course, the children's main daily communication language is Chinese, the kind of Mandarin with the characteristics of a time-traveler, mixed with a thick accent of various local dialects.

Most of these children are brought in by human traffickers, although adoption by the Catholic Church system is also an important channel.

In addition to the recent Changfeng operation, which has acquired a large number of underage orphans, Macau's four major Chinese businessmen and the Xue Laixiang brothers have also trafficked many children from the mainland.

Obviously, foreign children are mainly obtained from the human trafficker Lefiq, especially from India and the Arabian Peninsula, where there are many Lefik trading posts.

Because these children were not in the prime of labor in the local area, and the source channels were not "regular", they were sold relatively cheaply in the local slave market, and Lefik, who had a certain strength, was happy to take over the children and send them to Sin'an.

Because the children are bought at an adult's price in Sin'anseong, the children are cheap and easy to control for Lefik, and as long as you pay attention to your health during transportation, these children can be sold at a good price in Sin'anseong.

Recently, Lefik's population business has gradually attracted the attention of his peers, according to Xiao Pingguo's news, in addition to his old friend Lefik, several family traffickers have emerged to Xin'an City, and they even took the initiative to contact Xin'an Governor's Mansion about related business matters - such as prices, taxes, delivery procedures and standards, etc.

It's just that these traffickers are cautious, and at the beginning, the scale of the business was very small, and it was a tentative business, but after a few temptations, it seems that the traffickers are planning to expand the scale of their business.

Xiao Pingguo, of course, they will not let go of these businesses that can expand the source of population, Sun Lao and Lao Wang also had contact with these traffickers during their time on Timor Island, Sun Lao told these traffickers that the Australian Federation pays attention to human rights, although the Federation allows the existence of human trafficked people, but you can't abuse these trafficked people, because we don't treat these trafficked people as slaves - they and they are "trade laborers".

Sun Lao has also been emphasizing to traffickers the precautions about the "trade" of minors, such as no castration, such as men and women are treated equally, etc., and there are some seemingly special regulations: for example, traffickers are required to ensure the health of the "goods", which is easy to understand, and only with a good body can they work well, but Sun Lao even put forward a more bizarre regulation - this is for children, Australians should refer to the weight index when determining the purchase price of children, and the correction coefficient of its unit price is quite large- This means that if you starve your child on the road, the Australians will make you suffer financially.

Sun Lao also warned the traffickers that for minors, once they are bought by us, they are citizens of the Australian Commonwealth and enjoy all the personal rights of citizens of the Australian Federation, so you should be kind to these children, and do not beat and abuse them, otherwise, you can imagine a scene: in a few years, when your sea ship docks at the dock in Xin'an City, when the Australian customs officer comes on board to inspect your ship, or when you pay your ship tax at the dock, or when you meet an inspected naval vessel at sea- You are suddenly told that the captain who led the team was once the child you trafficked, and that he is now a grown up, and if you have abused him or her back then, think about the consequences for yourself......

Although these traffickers did not fully understand everything Sun Lao said, they still knew the meaning behind it, especially when they visited the naturalization camp and the naturalization village, and like Lefik back then, the guilt of their human trafficker business - if there was still a silver lining of conscience - was much lessened.

As a result, the traffickers quickly adopted Sin'an as a high-quality destination for trafficking, where Australians not only bought all the slaves very happily and generously, but also reached further agreements with these traffickers separately - for the people you trafficked, the only concern of Australians is their physical health, and they are more willing to take in or buy teenagers under the age of 16, regardless of race, color, gender, and at the same price as adults, if they meet a literate person, the purchase price may be higher......