With the improvement of the Liaodong railway line, the company's logistics capacity is bound to be smoother in the future. In the next few years, the company will also build more than a dozen modern ports in the Indochina Peninsula, the islands of the South China Sea and the coastal areas of India, and use the company's huge shipping capacity to continuously transport materials from various regions of the Far East to Liaodong.

Among them, the Golden Horn Port of Vladivostok has a closure period of several months every year due to the freezing in winter, which means that Yingkou Port and the Port Arthur under construction will undertake greater material throughput tasks in the future.

At present, the busiest ports of the Far Eastern Group are constantly expanding. Every day, a large number of foreign workers get up early and work late on the construction site. Due to the lack of power machinery, most of the work is done by human and animal power.

Not only that, but because of the lack of sufficient vehicles and power machinery, the loading and unloading and transshipment of materials are mostly completed by primitive manual and animal power, which not only wastes a large number of human resources, but also has a very low labor force.

Of course, this is also a problem that exists in all departments of the Far Eastern Company. Although the company has a large number of cheap foreign workers, the amount of food consumed by these foreign workers every year is a huge astronomical amount.

With such a large number of foreign workers, Far East could have played a bigger role. However, due to the extremely low productivity, the production efficiency has always been low, and the work can only be carried out through primitive human and animal power, which greatly hinders the development needs of the Far Eastern Company.

It is precisely because of this that after the various vehicles and power machinery developed by the Vladivostok Power Research Institute and the Vladivostok Automobile Factory passed the acceptance, all departments of the Far Eastern Company cheered, and all the internal employees could be said to be ecstatic, and even the whole country celebrated and rejoiced.

Everyone comes from the modern society where the productive forces are extremely developed, and when they first came to this era, because of the vehicles and machinery brought from the modern society. The development of the company in all aspects is relatively smooth.

However, with the continuous development of the company, the territory is getting bigger and bigger, and the population is increasing, and the number of vehicles and machinery brought by the company from the modern society is somewhat insufficient.

Shenyang and Vladivostok are the two regions with the most modern vehicles and machinery, but they are faced with enterprise factories, mines and forestry farms, railways and highways, and infrastructure construction sites. The limited number of modern vehicles and machinery is stretched to the limit.

Moreover, these vehicles and machinery and equipment have also been overloaded for more than ten years, and although the usual maintenance work is very meticulous, they still seem to be in worrying condition. At present, nearly one-third of the company's modern vehicles and machinery and equipment have been scrapped and sealed, or the parts have been dismantled to ensure the normal operation of other vehicles and equipment.

The production efficiency of various departments of the Far Eastern Company has also begun to be greatly reduced, and they have changed to primitive human and animal power. The only place where you can still find some hints of modern society. Probably only Vladivostok remains.

The vast territory controlled by the Far Eastern Company, as far as India and the South Seas from Liaodong, as well as the most inconvenient Hetao region and the northern steppe, were almost indistinguishable from this era, except for some small steam equipment.

The main mode of logistics and transportation relies on horses and carriages, and all kinds of work are undertaken by primitive human and animal power. Such a huge change has made all the internal employees of the company have a feeling that they can't do it.

Huge infrastructure projects in various regions. It can only be done by relying on a large number of foreign laborers, carts, and horses. Countless foreign workers work on the construction site for more than ten hours a day, even if they work hard day and night. But in the eyes of the employees in the Far East, the progress of the project is still as slow as a snail's crawl.

Although the vehicles and machinery currently developed by the company are driven by large, bulky, and low-productivity steam power, it is always more efficient than carrying a horse.

If power machinery is massively popularized in the Far East. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will benefit the most. This is also a top priority for the company, and agricultural products must be put first at all times.

There is food in your hand and you don't panic, in the next few years, with the continuous continuation of the drought in Chongzhen. The company still has to carry out large-scale reception of displaced people in various parts of Daming. Now that the territory is so big, there is still a shortage of people.

The Far East wanted to take all the displaced people of the Ming Dynasty, but it was obviously unrealistic. In fact, the biggest constraint is still food, and the three million new displaced people every year are basically a red line, and no matter how much the Far East can't afford to feed them.

In the future, when the Far East enters the Central Plains, the grain pressure of the Far East Company will be even greater. Tens of millions of mouths are needed, and how much food is needed to fill their stomachs.

Don't think that the Far East company is omnipotent in everything, in the face of such a huge population at once, the area north of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty is vast and densely populated, and if you want to raise the level of agricultural productivity in various places to the level of all parts of the Far East, you will not have a few years of hard work, it is simply impossible to achieve.

You must know that it took the Far Eastern Company a full ten years to lay a solid foundation, and then used the Chongzhen drought to settle the Ming Dynasty to receive millions of displaced people, and the Far Eastern Company used up almost all its resources.

The reason why the company's agriculture and forestry department formulated the plan for the development of large farms and large pastoral areas is actually to prepare for the future ownership of Daming. Therefore, agricultural work will remain the lifeblood of the Far East Company for many years to come, and all work must make way for grain and other agricultural products.

In addition to grain and other agricultural products, there is no shortage of other materials in the Far East, but if you want to put the materials in various places into operation, you need to improve the smooth logistics system. With the current level of logistics in the Far East, although it can meet the current needs, it is also very tight.

At present, all kinds of materials need to be transported from various control areas in the Far East to Liaodong and other places. This is constantly testing the logistics system of the Far East. Among them, there are various problems in shipping capacity, port throughput capacity, railway and road transportation capacity, secondary transshipment capacity of materials, and storage capacity of materials.

It is mainly reflected in low productivity and low labor efficiency. Therefore, after the company popularized power machinery, in addition to giving priority to meeting the company's agricultural sector. This is followed by the development of the Far East's logistics capabilities, the large-scale construction of railways, ports and maritime facilities, followed by the continuous improvement of roads, waterways and storage systems. Only by establishing a well-developed logistics capacity can the materials in the Far East be able to operate quickly and effectively.

(To be continued.) )