In fact, Cai Zhenguo is right, the local economic development on the east coast is not bad, and there are indeed many opportunities. Goshkin, for example, which runs the construction industry, recently contracted a big deal: the construction of a large-scale water and drainage facility between the port of Nancun and Buenos Aires.

There is no doubt that this is a lucrative business. Water and sewerage facilities, the amount of work is not large, but the government is willing to spend money, the speed of borrowing is also fast, and the financial pressure of builders is not large, so it has always been the fat meat that many companies compete for. The Goshkin construction company competed for business in the water supply reservoir and part of the water supply pipes in the water supply and drainage facility, while the two state-owned construction companies shared other projects.

The reservoir and water supply facilities of the port of Nancun also include some villages and towns on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, which are even inhabited by many Spaniards. The fact that the Spaniards went straight to the door to dig a trench and bury the pipes without asking them if they wanted to, did make the Spaniards angry, but on the whole they were helpless. The Spaniards living in the Pampa Plains have long been accustomed to the oppression of the East Coast people, either overtly or covertly, as the old saying goes, if you want to live a good life, you have to be patient and choose to forgive the East Coast people.

Because of the ups and downs of relations between East and Russia, the number of workers at the Goshkin construction company has been declining every year over the years, and now it has dropped to less than 1,500, and there are even many Russians of Eastern origin who have become naturalized but still choose to serve in the company. This somewhat intriguing fact fully shows that the number of Russians emigrating to the East Bank has been decreasing, and even if the Goshkin father and son have tried their best to do so, they can only slow down the process, and cannot reverse it.

As a result, Goshkin and others are now trying to figure out how to get into the labor force of other nationalities and even races. However, given the prevailing climate on the East Coast, they simply cannot use those blacks, because it has always been a trend to send out the remaining black non-national laborers, and they are powerless to fight against them. The use of Indians is not very safe, because they may be transferred to the border areas of southern Africa by order of the government one day, and the Indians who are allowed to stay in South America are so rare that they have to make a contribution.

In this way, Goshkin could only learn from the pain and invested heavily in the purchase of a large amount of steam engineering equipment to make up for the dilemma of declining construction capacity after the number of workers decreased. And in order to solve the problem of capital (steam equipment was expensive), Goshkin, in addition to a loan from the United Industrial Credit Bank, introduced a new shareholder to the company, namely his Russian fellow Oleg from the Naryshkin family.

This wonder boy invested fifteen thousand rubles in the Goshkin Construction Company, and I don't know where he got the money, because now there are only two small merchant ships belonging to his Goshkin (old ships bought at auction) that are running the route from Russia to the East Coast, and he did not help the Naryshkin family to transfer their property from Russia. Thinking about it, it can only be attributed to the fact that the old Naryshkin deposited a sum of money in the branch of the North-Western Reclamation Bank in Arkhangelsk, and then Oleg withdrew the money in a different place on the eastern bank.

But in any case, the young man, who was said to have become addicted to the railway, sent him real money, and gave him the money to buy a series of engineering equipment from several machine shops, including steam rollers, steam plows, steam pickaxes, steam pumps, steam hammers, etc. Otherwise, with the current scale of his Goshkin company, I am afraid that he can only win some marginal businesses, instead of such a large share in front of him. You know, Mendes (one of the three major labor brokers) that used to be the same name as them has become less competitive and slowly declining because of the depletion of Irish non-national workers. Now, the once-famous construction company has officially announced its dissolution, and its boss Mendez has switched to investing in upstream cement and lime production after liquidating and paying off all creditors' debts, which shows the fierce competition in this industry.

It is worth mentioning that another company, Batino, is still thriving and has surpassed Goshkin Construction Company to become the number one private company in the construction industry on the East Coast. The reason for this is that the company's labor sources are mainly in the southern part of Italy, mainly in Naples and Sicily, which is densely populated and it is quite easy to recruit workers. In addition, it is the territory of the Kingdom of Spain, and the influence of the people on the east coast is not small, as in Russia, they have to carry their tails between them, so it is very easy to recruit workers, which makes it not surprising that the Batino company has always maintained a relatively large group of workers, and the business is booming day by day. At present, the company focuses on the construction of railways and highways, with stable profits and a good reputation in the industry.

The reservoir excavated by the Goshkin company is almost complete. Due to the existence of a large number of construction machinery, and his workers are also hard-working, the construction node was completed a week ahead of schedule. Then they did not rest, but continued to help some engineers from Patagonia install the latest "Southern Giant-3" pump. The pumps are large in size, consume a lot of steel, and use a three-rise steam unit that can lift nearly 5,000 litres of water per minute from the reservoir and transport it into the culvert.

As if to build a centennial plan for Buenos Aires, the East Coast government invested about 300,000 yuan in the construction here, and the huge "Southern Giant-3" steam pump alone bought eight units in one go, specifically pumping water next to the reservoir, which can be regarded as a huge amount of money.

The pumped water enters a water plant under construction, the Nancun Water Plant, through a culvert. Compared with the local water plant, the water plant is considered to be the second generation. In addition to the original filtration measures, procedures such as softening and disinfection of water bodies have been added to ensure that the quality of the water that finally enters the water pipeline is not problematic, especially when the water supply plants in some old areas of the country have been repeatedly exposed to water pollution and cause epidemics.

Because of geographical reasons, there are actually a lot of impurities in the water on the Pampa Plain, that is, the so-called hardness is too high. In order to solve this problem, Nancun Water Plant creatively introduced the measure of adding lime to the water body to minimize the impurities in it and soften the water body. After the lime is added, the water is disinfected with calcium hypochlorite before it is delivered to the end user. Calcium hypochlorite is provided by the North Chemical Group, which has stabilized the production of various chlorine products, and now the output of bleaching powder, bleach liquid and other products is increasing, and it has begun to supply major textile mills (for cloth bleaching), paper mills (or for bleaching) and water mills, and it is quite profitable.

Who would have thought that the production line developed to solve the waste in chemical production has now formed such a huge industry. Not only is there a big market for bleaching powder and bleach, but even another derived product, potassium chlorate, has been used to develop a very dense thing.

Well, let's get down to business. The Goshkin Construction Company today received an inspection by a higher department at the construction site of the port of Nancun. After carefully inspecting the construction progress, the officials of the Nancun Water Plant of Party A were relatively satisfied, but in the end, they still found Goshkin, who was working here, and said that although the extensive use of construction machinery was admirable, it was better for Goshkin to be able to recruit more laborers. I heard that the situation in Ukraine is now tense and all parties are on the verge of breaking out, and Goshkin may wish to order two new ships and then go to the Black Sea to find opportunities to buy slaves, which should be a very good opportunity.

The representative of the Nancun Water Plant reminded that with the gradual development of the Pampa Plain, there are too many opportunities here. If the Goshkin Construction Company is lucky, it is not impossible to take it a step further and make its strength on the same scale as those large state-owned construction enterprises.

Goshkin was a little hesitant about this. Of course, he knew that such a move might provoke the wrath of the Tsar, who would cut off the last chance of returning to Russia. You know, he was born there, he lived there, and it is impossible to say that he did not have a trace of affection, so even though he has become a naturalized East Coast, he still wants to return to Russia one last time in the future to walk, see, and breathe the air of his homeland. But if he dares to buy Russian peasants or prisoners of war in the Black Sea area, this matter will be a big deal, and he will most likely be regarded as a thorn in the side of Russia, and he will not be able to go back at all.

But Goshkin is a human spirit, he didn't let his hesitation last too long, and then he patted his chest very happily and said that he would seize this opportunity. The prisoners of war were all forcibly conscripted by the Tsar, the most despicable people, and it was their luck to get them to the east coast by themselves.

The representative of the Nancun Water Plant, who had been entrusted by the people, was very satisfied with this, and finally he privately told Goshkin the news that several new labor brokers had recently registered enterprises with the industrial and commercial department, and all but one of them was registered by the French Huguenots, the rest were established by the Ming or East Coasters, and the most famous one was the family of the founder of Sun Chunyang's South Store.

This company was registered in Qingdao County, with a registered capital of 20,000 yuan, and was specifically responsible for recruiting people to work on the east coast in Ningshao, Denglai, and even the Qing-controlled areas in the Far East. They tempted the local people with high salaries, land distribution and other conditions, and then blew the east coast into the sky, and sent one by one Orientals to the ship back to the east coast through various means, and each one of them could apply for subsidies from the immigration department, and the profit margin was still quite large.

There is no doubt that these newly established labor brokerage companies have gone one step further and have begun to immigrate directly as hired laborers, which is a milestone event than the original immigration of relatives mainly by relatives (i.e., the Ming people who settled on the East Coast immigrated to their relatives from their hometowns).