The warm spring breeze gently blows through the already spectacular fruit groves on both sides of the Ta River (formerly the Taquali River, which flows into Meilin Lake, not the North Duck Lake area, and there are many rivers with the same names in South America), Xu Wenxuan, who had just come out of the private carriage, sniffed the fresh air and was slightly intoxicated.

Surrounded by a large area of gentle grassland, after a winter of accumulation, after the arrival of spring, the grass shoots burst out of the ground to transform the flat ground into a dazzling green carpet. And in such a beautiful - maybe a little monotonous? In the scenery, there are occasionally some red brick houses hidden in the green grass and red flowers, a few horses in front of the house are leisurely munching on the weeds, a few children with dirty faces are chasing a flock of ducks "walking" on the riverbank, and smoke is slowly curling from a chimney on the brick roof.

"What a tranquil rural beauty...... Xu Wenxuan muttered softly, and then carefully examined the ground under his feet. It can be seen that these lands are uncultivated virgin land, not very fertile, but not bad. At least, in the past few years, it was quite suitable for growing alfalfa and soybeans, which was enough to support a certain scale of cattle farming.

Yes, Xu Wenxuan is here today for a field trip. A while ago, the Executive Committee planned a new settlement here, called "Fort de Ta", which means settlement on the banks of the River Ta, and the specific address was in the later Plácido, Uruguay. In the vicinity of the small village of Roses, agriculture and animal husbandry are the main industries. This settlement is further north with the "Fort Funkoku" (later Rio Blanco. Named after the first batch of immigrants from Fengguo Town, Jinan Prefecture), it is a settlement quota that the Yihe area has won with great difficulty from above.

You must know that the Executive Committee is now vigorously developing the two major river basins of the Wujiang River and the Yakuyi River. It is extremely difficult for other places to strive for the construction of new settlements, and it often takes a long time to approve one or two, which is completely different from the Wujiang River and Beiyahu Lake, which are the focus of the Executive Committee's policies. This is the case of the two settlements of Tahebao and Fengguobao, and the Yihe area has been fighting for this for a long time, and only today it obtained the permission of the Executive Committee to start site surveying and planning in these two places.

Of the two settlements, Fort Fengguo is still largely deserted: on low-lying and damp river beaches. The people of the East Coast only planted a huge flagpole, and then only two or three hundred pioneers lived in shacks made of reeds. There is no comparison with the spacious and bright brick houses of other settlements. In fact, it's not just here, but also the nearby Xinmin Fort, which has been established for a long time, and about two-thirds of the residents still live in wooden huts or grass huts, which is very desolate. The reason for this. For no other reason, the main reason is the lack of suitable means of transportation to transport large quantities of construction materials over. The construction materials brought in by the occasional horse-drawn wagon were also prioritized for the repair of various infrastructures, and as for the houses, unless the East Coast Construction Company invested in the construction of brick and tile kilns in the local area, it would be necessary to wait slowly.

The situation at Tahe Fort was slightly better than that of Fengguo Fort, and at least a few brick houses were built here to serve as warehouses and construction headquarters for the General Bureau of National Exploitation, which organized the pioneering. As far as Xu Wenxuan can see, there are also several grapevines planted in the courtyard in front of these brick houses. Outside the courtyard fence there are vegetable shelves made of reed stalks - but it is still early spring at the end of September, and the rapeseed has not yet been planted, if it is not until summer and autumn. When cowpeas and loofahs crawl all over the shelves, and lentils cover the top of the wall, the cosy scenery will surely make every tired traveler never move again.

"There seems to be a lot of fertile soil in the country, if you can clean it up carefully, don't dare to say anything else, plant alfalfa and soybeans for a few years. It must be fertile. Xu Wenxuan bent down and grabbed a handful of dirt and put it in his hand to look at it carefully. Then he sighed and said: "If the Ming Dynasty also had this uninhabited virgin land back then, why would the situation be so erosive?" Alas, don't talk about it, it's all the same......"

Xu Zhongwen, the eldest son who came out with Xu Wenxuan, glanced at his father with a little doubt, but began to think about other things in his heart. Xu Zhongwen, who inherited the appearance of his French mother, is quite handsome, and now he has entered the family business Xu Kee Oil Mill to start an internship, and this time he followed his father to visit the vicinity of Tahe Fort is one of the contents of the internship.

In the planning of the Executive Committee, Tahebao and Fengguobao will be dominated by animal husbandry in the future, or at least in the first few years, and the pioneers will rely on these two settlements, and then plant alfalfa and graze cattle and horses nearby. The father and son of the Xu family were well-informed, so they rushed to this place as soon as possible to conduct a field trip. The family business they run does not have much room for improvement in the traditional oil extraction industry, and there are more and more people in this industry, and the profits are getting thinner and thinner, so Xu Wenxuan, who actually presides over the direction of the enterprise, is driven by a sense of crisis, and intends to start diversifying and entering the dairy industry to expand the living space of the enterprise.

It just so happened that a large-scale cattle infectious disease occurred in Meilin County, which was originally a large-scale dairy industry, which caused the originally booming dairy industry in Meilin Town and Chuyi Township in the county to suffer a heavy blow, not only a large number of dairy products such as milk, cheese, and milk powder were unsalable, but even cattle began to die one after another, and farmers who raised dairy cows suffered heavy losses. In order to cope with this situation, with the approval of the Yihe District Administrative Office, the Meilin County Government drove the cows in the county that had not yet been affected by the epidemic to the area of Tahebao and Fengguobao to avoid the doom of being infected by the disease.

After seeing the tragic situation of the dairy industry in Meilin County, which has been ravaged by infectious diseases, the Xu family and his son immediately realized that this was an excellent entry point, that is, if they responded to the government's call to invest in pastures and dairy processing plants in Tahebao and other places, they would definitely have a good return prospect. Xu Wenxuan has a good idea of this, and he has always believed that even if there is no infectious disease storm in Meilin County, there must be a lot to be done in investing in the dairy industry. Thanks to years of unremitting propaganda and agitation by the government of the Eastern Republic of China, the common people are now more and more accepting of dairy products and consuming more and more dairy products, which has a huge market and considerable profits, and it is well worth investing in it.

Xu Wenxuan's idea has been recognized by many investors behind the scenes, and they even gave some very good suggestions, that is, focusing on the development of cheese, butter (these two can be exported), various types of milk powder (whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder, etc.), and at the same time, you can also buy process authorization for the production of lactose, casein, condensed milk, malt milk essence and other processes from the Academy of Natural Sciences, but the specific production depends on their own judgment and choice, and the machine must also be designed and customized by themselves, which sounds like a big risk.

Xu Wenxuan himself is naturally obedient to the advice of his behind-the-scenes boss, but he thinks that if he devotes himself to the dairy industry, it is better to be stable in the early stage, that is, to invest in the cheese and butter industries that are already relatively mature in technology and technology, and to innovate the technology and industrialize the production of machinery, which should be able to achieve a much lower cost than foreigners, and have a great advantage in competition.

There are still some cheese-making techniques in the hands of the people of the East Coast, thanks to the rapid development of bacteriology. Since the Dutch opticular technicians recruited by the Henan Glass Factory in the capital have polished the lenses with extremely high magnification, the development of optical instruments on the east coast has begun to make rapid progress, they have tried all kinds of strange designs, made a lot of microscopic instruments, and discovered many mysteries of bacteria in long-term observation.

For example, they (referring to a very small number of researchers, of course) now know the principles of milk starter cultures, and also know the bacteriological principles of things such as cheese discoloration and milk sourness, and at the same time know the connection between controlling the temperature of milk and the reproduction of bacteria, so they have developed many processes for making cheese through continuous experiments.

These processes are based on scientific theories, they inhibit the growth of another bacteria through the reproduction of one type of bacteria, and strictly control the temperature change to control the number of bacteria in raw materials such as milk and starter culture, which is much more advanced than the traditional production process of Europeans with very low efficiency, the taste and quality have been unified, and the pass rate has been greatly improved, which has made the low-cost production of large-scale industrialization possible.

The industrial production of cottage cheese is not very problematic, and the same is true for milk powder, and it is even simpler, and the Institute of Natural Sciences has a complete set of production processes, and it has been successful in the small real production line. To put it bluntly, this process is very simple, that is, soda ash is added to fresh milk, and then it is dried in a large steam tank, and finally a surface solid is formed at the bottom of the tank. At this time, add sucrose in proportion, take it out, put it between the rollers and press it into dry strips, and then dry and grind it into powder, which is the finished product.

To be honest, these two products now have a large market at home and abroad, and the profit prospects are quite good. As long as they are willing to invest heavily in R&D and production, they will definitely be able to beat those folk housewives who mainly make handmade zuò in a short period of time, because their cost advantage is too great.

Nowadays, the only thing to worry about may be that the invention patents and production process patents of these products are in the hands of the Natural Science Research Institute, and it will cost a lot of money to buy licenses from them, which is a headache for everyone. After all, in the newly established East Coast Republic, businessmen like Xu Wenxuan did not dare to openly copy the things of the Academy of Natural Sciences - and they were indeed blind to the production process.

"When I got back, I visited researchers at the Academy of Sciences, hoping to buy patents for less money. If you can't buy out the exclusive patent, you must also obtain a production license at the very least. Xu Wen looked at the green grass in the distance, and his brain had already begun to work: "Of course, the most ideal situation is that the Institute of Natural Sciences will invest in technology patents, which will not only save a lot of money, but also take a big backer, and the prospects are wonderful!" (To be continued)