Just when the four feudal districts of the Far East sent two warships to Timor Island, a fast liaison ship also departed from the port of Jiaozhou in Shandong Province, and quickly arrived at the port of Jinshan, the capital of Australia, and handed over a confidential document signed by Liao Degong, the nominal supreme military governor of the four feudal domains in the Far East, to Peng Yuanzhi, director of the management committee.

It is worth mentioning that the original Australian Pioneer Team has been abolished and replaced by the Australian Management Committee, and the first director is Peng Yuanzhi, Commissioner of the Zelu District Administration of the New China Pioneer Team. This guy has been tepid in politics for many years, and it is not bad to say that it is bad, and it is not good to say that it is good, so after failing to compete for the position of captain of the New China Pioneer Team, he made a decisive move, mobilized all the family's connections and political resources, and jumped to Australia to serve as the supreme governor here.

You must know that this is also an independent colony, and its top governor is a high-ranking official, and the level is no worse than the chief officials of major colonies such as New China and Denglai, which is used to solve the problem of rank and enter the high-level of the central government.

After coming here, Peng Yuanzhi didn't plan to be a foolish official, in fact, he was quite concerned about the development of Australia, and used many means to promote the prosperity of this desolate island.

Prior to Peng's arrival, Australia's development in the last two decades had been lackluster, mostly concentrated in the southeast, southwest and southern coastal areas. There are not many settlements set up, including Xinxing Township (located near the later Ballarat Town), Shengjun Township (near the later Korak Town), Madian Township (near the Hamilton Town), Nanshi Township (near the later Portland Town), Xidaying Township (near the later Castelton Town), East Tazi Township (near the later Walleger Town), Wende Township (near the later Stralargen Town), Shibahu Township (near the later Foster Town), Xiahu Township (near the later Sayre Town) and Dongwang Township (near the later Bynesdale Town), a total of 10 settlements, currently have a total population of about 18,000 people, mainly wheat cultivation and animal husbandry, in addition to supplying local consumption, most of the grain is sold to passing migrant boats for profit, is a standard migrant economy.

Of course, the migrant economy has always been the main driver of Australia's economic growth, and it has been so for decades, and it has never changed. More than 80,000 people in the three counties of Western Australia and Eastern Australia have been diligently cultivating land suitable for agricultural cultivation for many years, producing a large amount of wheat, fruits, vegetables, and a large number of cheap beef and mutton, providing sufficient and cheap food for tens of thousands of immigrants and sailors who pass by every year.

The only industrial facilities in Australia are probably shipbuilding, flour grinding, wool textiles, leather processing and meat products.

In terms of commercial trade, Australia has also been tepid for many years. Because of the embarrassing geographical location, Australia is not in any busy commercial routes, external goods can not come in (or even if they come in, because there are few ships), their own goods can not go out (also because of the small number of ships, of course, there are also their own products in small quantities, single structure), so the import and export trade is not very active, and the commercial side is almost all dependent on the East Coast of its own passing ships to maintain, and the trade volume in this area accounts for at least about ninety percent of Australia's total trade.

Therefore, it is not without reason that many people in China say that Australia is a transit point for immigrants. This desolate island is a post station that has been carefully designed by the mainland on the east coast, and the output is also designed in strict accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Immigration, and the atmosphere of the planned economy is very strong. Therefore, the upper and lower limits of the living standards of the local people are predictable, that is, if you work very hard, the standard of living will not be much higher than others, and when you are more lacking in the spirit of struggle, your life will not be much worse than others.

Therefore, the accumulation over a long period of time has caused a fatal problem in Australia, that is, the lack of attractiveness. In layman's terms, it means that local talents are reluctant to come to Australia where birds don't (in fact, they are not even very happy to go to richer places like Ningbo and New China, and they have to be hired with high salaries), and those who have some ideas in Australia are trying to leave and go to other overseas colonies with more opportunities or even the East Coast mainland. For example, Giovanni, a well-known Hispanic engineer in Western Australia (whose parents attended an underground lecture and was exiled together), has been hired by the Blackwater Pioneer Team for a lot of money, and he and several apprentices will specialize in maintaining and repairing large steam units in the local area in the future, and also participate in the construction of some simple, rudimentary steam engines.

This example shows that in the face of career and prospects, in the face of high wages, even the cold island of Sakhalin is more attractive than Australia. Aspiring people would rather live their life values locally than spend all day in Australia doing nothing and rusting all over.

In addition to the Far Eastern immigrants who are stranded due to illness or severe seasickness (there are many people who run away in the later stage, after all, people go to higher places), the most important is the local exiles. The exiles can be divided into two categories, one is the prisoners and their families, this part of the people is smaller, and the competition is more fierce, Australia has no advantage; The second is the exiled Indians, mainly the Klandians from the Pampa Plain, the Quechua and Guarani from the Transoxian, the Guarani from Eastern Brazil, and the Tupi Indians.

But these Indians, in fact, also need competition to get them. Unfortunately, Australia still does not have much advantage in this regard, and has been relying on the government to divide people for the purpose of balancing the mind, but not too much. Moreover, after these Indians left South America, the mortality rate was too high due to various factors, even in Australia, which is actually the main reason for Australia's low population.

What's more, later, because the grand strategy of controlling southern Africa became clearer and clearer, the mainland began to gradually adjust its strategy, reducing the quota for exile of Indians elsewhere (even the Blackwater area had exiled Indians back then, which was also crazy), and the vast majority of Native Americans were exiled to Africa, and together with those Malays, they were distributed on the northern edge of the control area on the east coast of southern Africa, becoming the vanguard of blocking the southward and northward expansion of blacks.

In such a situation, Australia's population replenishment can almost only rely on Far Eastern immigrants stranded in Western Australia and Eastern Australia for various reasons. In the case of the continuous decline in the number of local immigrants for many years, the inventory of interceptions in various places has been strengthened, and Australia has no drama.

The sparse population (and it is still slowly flowing out), the withering economy and the dullness of social life make Australia rain almost the same as a countryside, and it is no wonder that some local people jokingly call this an "Australian village", which is really not very good. And this is actually the actual situation that Director Peng Yuanzhi Peng faced after taking office, if he doesn't want to just mess around like this, then he had better start to solve the problems here.

In fact, Peng Yuanzhi still has some ambitions to solve the problem, which seems to be the luck of the Australian people. As soon as he took office, he brought a financial subsidy of 100,000 yuan (half in cash and half in materials) from local activities, and announced the establishment of Madian County (under the jurisdiction of Madian Township, Xinxing Township, Shengjun Township, Nanshi Township and Xidaying Township) and Wende County (under the jurisdiction of Wende Township, Dongtazi Township, Shibahu Township, Xiahu Township and Dongwang Township), and regularized these ten settlements that had been established for some years, making the official counties of the whole of Australia reach five.

Of course, Peng did not focus on the development of the East Australia region. Although the agricultural conditions here are okay (but not great) and the population is larger, as an important node for migrant transportation, the WA region cannot be neglected. Therefore, in the two years after he took office, he opened up ten new settlements in Western Australia in one go, namely: Gaopeng Township (located near the later Perth City), Shitang Township (located near the later Rockingham Town), Guanzhuang Township (located near the later Mandura Town), Wuzhangwan Township (near the later Banbury Town), Eucalyptus Township (near the later Yarna Town), East Guoyuan Township (near the later Keli Town), Caoduogou Township (near the later Daisper Town), Reed River Township (near the later Margaret River Town), Black Grass River Township (near the later Augusta Town) and Camel Bay Township (near the later Yanchep Town).

The 10 settlements mentioned above were established in succession over the past two years, and are now under the administration of Gushan County in Western Australia, and it is obvious that the economy is dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry. For at this point of the population, there is little surplus to do other work than farming, unless the people of the East Coast reduce their impulse to open up the land, and forcibly liberate a part of the population from the land and devote it to other industries, but this is obviously unlikely.

However, things changed when the fast contact ship arrived in Australia. After learning about the conflict between the Dutch East India Company and the four feudatories of the Far East, as well as a series of recent events on Timor Island, Peng Yuanzhi, director of the management committee, immediately asked the secretary to bring a detailed map of the Western Australia region and charts of the current and wind direction of the near sea.

On the map, a number of settlements have been drawn along the southern half of the coastline of Western Australia, which means that there are already people on the east coast who have reclaimed the land here, and it is no longer barren. It is believed that if we give a few years to develop and then try our best to relocate some people here, the local agriculture and animal husbandry basic economy can still develop. As for the charts, it's even simpler, with a straight arrow running north along the coast of Western Australia (the Western Australian Cold) and disappearing into the warm waters near the equator.

Navigators knew that it was easy to follow this warm current north to get very close to the East Indies. The next part of the voyage, because it is close to the equatorial region, there is almost no wind, and the ocean currents are more complicated, and it takes an experienced driver to accurately find the ocean current and weak winds (the equatorial windless zone does not mean that there is really no wind, and the area covered by the windless zone will also move north and south with the season), and finally arrive in the waters of the East Indies. But in any case, it was indeed a shortcut to the East Indies, especially for the ships on the east coast with steam propulsion systems, which could easily go to that area, but the Dutch had watched more closely before, and protested repeatedly, and the people on the east coast had no business to do, so they did not try.

But now the situation is different after all! The Dutch East India Company's reckless provocation of the trade war angered the Far Eastern feudatories, who decided to move south to the island of Timor and turn it into a base that threatened the core interests of the Dutch East India Company. In order to successfully build the base on Timor Island, the four feudatories in the Far East need a certain degree of cooperation from the Australian side, including both military and economic aspects.

On the military side, they asked Australia to provide food, gunpowder and other military supplies, and if necessary, prepare a certain number of army men, and when the materials and personnel of the four Far Eastern feudatories could not reach the island of Timor in time, they would go north to provide support, so as to prevent the Portuguese on the island from being easily defeated by the Dutch and losing this valuable base.

On the economic side, Australia (mainly in Western Australia) is required to strengthen economic ties with the island of Timor and send ships to trade with it on a regular basis, rather than having no one and no one as before. In other words, Western Australia, which is dominated by Gushan County, can import a lot of tropical products from Timor Island, and at the same time export local products to them (although they don't know what Western Australia has to export).

Peng Yuanzhi pondered and thought that this might also be an opportunity for Western Australia. Although Timor Island is small and its economy is not large, it may not be of much help to WA in terms of trade, but what if the future is different? What if the Dutch East India Company was forced to promise that all of the East Indies could trade with Western Australia? This may sound a bit fantastical, but no one can say what will happen in the future, and Peng Yuanzhi feels that he can give it a go.

Therefore, he intends to coordinate the whole of Australia, tilt the limited funds and manpower to the Western Australian region, and import a batch of machinery and equipment from the Blackwater Pioneer Team - this should not be difficult, and it will be very cheap, who told you to ask me now - to develop simple industries in the Western Australian region to increase the export variety of some products. For example, the abundant local cattle and sheep are a resource, which can make canned food, briefcases, ammunition bags, military uniforms and other goods, plus the production of some hardware nearby, there should still be a certain market, after all, these things are too far to be transported from Heishui and other places, and the cost is too high.

It can also be seen from here that the East Coast Republic of China, which owned the colonies of the Far Eastern Domain, Rabaul, and Australia, had formed a chain against the Dutch East India Company. It's okay to have nothing to do on weekdays, but in the event of a conflict, the Dutch will learn a great lesson. They may not have been able to realize this deeply before, so they acted a little arrogantly, but this time they should be clearer, right?