Chapter 355 is here to help you solve the problem!

Western Australia, Port of Perth.

Jerminka is a crane. This is a new type of crane, which is dozens of times more efficient than the previous manpower lever truck. It is said to be produced by a factory in the Far East.

Far East!

After Jemika carefully lifted the last box of goods to the deck, he immediately locked the arm, looked at the same crane next to him, and looked at the young man with black hair and black eyes in the sedan chair, but he was wearing the same overalls as him. He didn't know what it was like.

His ancestors were criminals exiled here. Of course, 99 percent of British descendants living in Australia are descendants of criminals. Only in recent years have other countries immigrated here. They have brought wealth and technology, making the barren Western Australia much more prosperous.

However, this is Western Australia full of deserts and primitive jungles, not the bustling Victoria and New South Wales in the east. It can't even compare with South Australia, and probably only the same barren north can match here.

Ten years ago, the population of Western Australia, which occupied almost one-third of Australia, was only 100,000, less than a fraction of the eastern population, but now it is here.

Jerminka looked at his partner who was making a crane, and looked at his serious and quantitative movements, and his thoughts suddenly floated to six years ago.

Six years ago, an American company called Thomas Mining suddenly came to Western Australia, encircled a large area of land and began prospecting. I don't know what method they used. In just a few months, they found several large veins in a row, and also found a large oil field, and also found a gold that has been identified as empty. In the lower layer of the mine, a large vein said to contain hundreds of thousands of tons of gold was found!

I don't know if there are hundreds of thousands of tons of gold. In fact, no one knows at all, because the security is very strict, but what he cares about is not the gold mines, but the Chinese workers who continue to arrive as these mines are discovered.

In the eyes of Europe, Chinese workers are slaves as cheap as African slaves, but because Chinese workers are far more diligent than those in Africa, countries like to use them. Even the United States, which has the Chinese Exclusion Act, shouts that the Chinese are dirty pigs while building railways and other jobs that require a lot of intensive labor. However, they continue to use Chinese workers. I heard from those sailors that they have set up a special company to import Chinese workers from the Far East.

However, in the past two years, for some reason, a large number of Chinese workers began to leave the United States collectively, resulting in a shortage of domestic railway workers in the United States, and they had to start using black people. And I heard from the French captain last time that the United States had prepared to develop Alaska for a job for a long time, and because they could not find enough Chinese workers, the slaves If you don't adapt to the climate there, you have to use it yourself.

With the discovery of several major mines, Thomas Mining, as expected, brought the first batch of Chinese employees. With the footsteps of Thomas Mining, it was followed by Western Australia Mining Company, Spanish Nanyang Trading Company, Edson Agricultural Company, Forestry Company and other enterprises, which seemed to be Western Australia overnight. It has become a piece of Woyuan full of gold.

Countless plantations, mines and forestry factories have begun to be established, and 100,000 Western Australian residents can no longer meet these large enterprises, so they have turned their sights to the Far East, which is said to have a population of more than 400 million and is also very cheap.

At that time, there were ships transporting Chinese to the port almost every day, 10,000, 50,000, 100,000. Until now, it is said that more than 200,000 employees and their families have lived in Western Australia, and the total Chinese population is about 500,000.

Jerminka, like all residents of Western Australia, didn't like them at first. The Chinese with braids always gave them a strange feeling. He was worried that closure, depravity and opium would spread in Western Australia with the arrival of the Chinese.

But soon, Jaminka and everyone found that they seemed to be wrong, because as time went by, these Chinese began to organize spontaneously, and suddenly there were many more highly educated young people who could speak English fluently. These young people began to build schools and teach those Chinese labor languages. , teaching skills. Finally, under their influence, almost all Chinese cut their braids and had energetic short hair. Many of them can now speak a few simple words of English and communicate with the surrounding Western Australian residents. In the past two years, they have established free public Chinese schools, banks, hospitals, post offices, etc. A series of service agencies are not only free for Chinese, but also open to local Western Australians. Of course, there are more restaurants full of attractive flavors.

Gradually, Jeminka found that he admired these Chinese people, because they always took over the hardest work. They drilled into the mine and were busy wrapped in mud and gray carbon. They worked hard in the plantation on time every day, even if the outdoor temperature reached an unbearable To a certain extent, especially those logging and mining workers who work in the wild, they not only help the low-level indigenous people of Western Australia, but also often send food to those who live in remote areas.

Most importantly, after working hard every day, they will regularly receive education, read, and even run a newspaper.

Especially those young people who occupy the majority. After the most difficult two years of language barriers, many of them have taken technical and management positions, and managed mines and plantations with local Western Australians. With their efforts and hard work, many Western Australians have even forgotten them. People who came out of the land said to be full of opium in the Far East gave them a new name, New Chinese.

And the arrival of these new Chinese did not encroach on the job opportunities of Western Australians. Although some of them who took the lead in getting rich began to build buildings beside them and entered the life of Western Australians, they were still more busy in major factories and plantations. On the contrary, because of the arrival of these people, and With the capital investment of those large consortia, Western Australia has been full of vitality, especially in the largest Port of Perth. Every day, all kinds of materials are delivered from here, such as the large ocean-going cargo ship loaded with 5,000 tons of aluminum ingots in front of the crane in front of him.

These materials brought back a steady stream of money, which not only ensured the good life of the locals and new Chinese, but also began to invest in some infrastructure. Those chaebols seemed to have reached an agreement and began to build a railway with various mining areas and residential areas. A year ago, Orange Bow extended the railway to the port of Perth.

If the six Australian states calculate the mileage separately, the total mileage of Western Australia will successfully exceed the largest Queensland in just a few years. They have also built two large water conservancy power plants. In addition to providing power to factories, they also provide electricity to local residents for the first time. The wires involve every household.

And their builders are also the new Chinese.

But!

When everything has become wonderful, and Western Australia is becoming richer and richer and life is getting better and better, there has been a reading trend in Australia over the years. In the east, many people began to ask for reading and form the Australian Commonwealth. This hot wind finally spread here not long ago.

Jerminka, like everyone else, supports Australian reading. Although his ancestors were British, now he has his own life. He would rather choose a new country than be a third-class citizen of the UK.

Originally, all this went very well, but recently it has suddenly changed, because when the representatives from the rich areas in the east discussed the issue of reading after coming to Western Australia, they turned a blind eye to these New Chinese who had changed Western Australia and refused to give them the right to vote for self-government. According to several people who had just started a business from Queensland The guy who came back said that in Sydney, Melbourne and other cities, newspapers there are advocating the Chinese invading Australia every day, describing these Chinese as demons and robbers, and describing them as stinky mice that only know how to smoke opium and hide in the mine and dare not see the sun!

Jerminka doesn't understand politics. He doesn't know who the newspapers came from. Although he is from Western Australia, he is also a little dissatisfied with the defamation of these new partners around him. Maybe it is reasonable not to give them the right to vote, but why describe them like that?

A whistle interrupted Jemika's thoughts, and another large cargo ship flying the American flag entered the harbor. When it slowly leaned against the dock, the hull on the side of the dock suddenly cracked a door, and the temporary new trucks with goods came out of the cabin, gradually forming a long fleet. It soon disappeared outside the port area.

This is not the first time that Jemengka has seen a truck. In fact, this kind of boat that can open the side door has been coming here during this period, bringing a large number of trucks and cars. Jemengka himself bought one not long ago.

This kind of truck that can hold two tons of goods is very popular in Western Australia. It seems to be tailor-made for this wilderness. Many people like to buy one. With it, they no longer have to worry about the transportation problem after the expansion of the plantation. The huge oil field 500 kilometers northwest of Perth ensures that everyone will not There is no gas in the middle of the drive.

Western Australia is changing and developing rapidly, but some people seem to be unwilling to see all this. The clouds in the sky are gradually thickening. Jeminka knows that at this moment, Chinese representatives are negotiating with the Governor of Western Australia, but he does not have much hope for negotiations, because the Governor-General, who has been in office for nearly ten years, and his East Like their colleagues, they have never seen the new Chinese directly, and even recently prepared to legislate to restrain the actions of the new Chinese, but they were eventually stranded for various reasons.

He can't imagine that once the negotiations fail, these Chinese who have built Western Australia will not get their due political status, and will they really split?

The last truck came out of the cabin and drove slowly under the crane of Jemengka, but this usual truck did not attract his attention. He began to prepare to load and unload the next batch of goods. What ordinary people can do today is just hard. Work to earn money and try to make your life better.

In the truck, Shen Jun looked up at the tall crane, quickly withdrew his eyes from the cantilever, and turned to a polite man with glasses next to him.

"Mr. Ouyang Geng, how's it going?"

"It's still the same. The Governor of Western Australia is not willing to talk to us at all. He has started negotiations with the East, and if we can't get the right to vote, we can't stop Australia from merging!" Ouyang Geng shook his head with a wry smile and explained the recent situation to Shen Jun.

Ouyang Geng turned out to be the ambassador of the Qing Dynasty to the United States and one of the young children studying in the United States in those years. After Li Enfu and a large number of young children studying in the United States entered the Honolulu State Council, he was also invited and finally stayed under Li Mo's lobbying.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, Australia urgently needed a trustworthy person to manage, so Li Enfu recommended him. Finally, he entered Western Australia under the cover of Thomas Mining. After several years of hard work, he became a well-deserved Chinese leader here.

Nowadays, all the Chinese living in Western Australia know him, and also know that Lord Ouyang, who is polite, fluent in English and good at dealing with foreigners, helped them fight for a lot of benefits. Not long ago, he directly found the governor of Western Australia and forced him to give up the bill to discriminate against Chinese.

Ouyang Geng, who used to be mediocre in the United States, finally found his own position. Li Mo's trust and full appointment, as well as this land full of all kinds of resources, made him gradually find his ideals.

He has been staying in Western Australia over the years, giving him the opportunity to see what happened in the Far East from the perspective of overseas reading ability. He saw Xinhua grow little by little under the leadership of Li Mo, so he understood the difficulties more than anyone else. In addition, his special career in the United States made him empathize with the status of overseas Chinese like pigs and dogs. .

These years of experience have made him better understand what Xinhua means, so he never forgets to promote Xinhua in Western Australia, leading his men to go deep into mining areas, forest farms and plantations, and talking to every Chinese to understand their needs. At the same time, he did not forget to tell them what Xinhua is.

It is his efforts that have made these Chinese in Western Australia even agree with Xinhua more than many places in China, so many Xinhua laws and regulations have also begun to be quietly implemented in Chinese gathering areas.

Before he came to Western Australia, he had a conversation with Li Mo that only the two of them knew, so he was very clear about Li Mo's dream of this land, who is now the emperor of Xinhua. According to the final agreement between the two, even if Xinhua could not directly control here, at least he should establish a Hua here. People occupy a huge majority of the regime and accept the leadership of Xinhua as a protectorate.

But after coming here and seeing the rich resources here, he changed his mind. This land must not be lost from Xinhua, because it is too vast and too rich!

Even he didn't know it at all. Under the imperceptible of one victory after another, he has already become the most loyal great Xinhuaist around Li Mo.

However, at the moment when Xinhua's tentacles extend to Daxia and Borneo, which has half encircled Australia, Li Mo and his common dream have recently encountered the most severe challenges, because Australia is going to be autonomous, which will seriously threaten the inclusion of Western Australia and even the whole of Australia into the territory of Xinhua!

Ouyang Geng's explanation made Shen Jun understand why the old congress of Duan transferred the emergency from Eastern Siberia to here, and the general staff was even ready for military intervention!

"Mr. Ouyang Geng, don't worry." The helplessness and unwillingness in Ouyang Geng's words not only did not make Shen Jun feel tricky, but also aroused his ambition.

Australia has a population of no more than a million. If I don't turn it upside down, how can I be worthy of the trust of the emperor and Boss Duan, and how can I be worthy of his reputation as a black hand!

So the corners of his mouth immediately tilted, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and he said coldly, "We are here to help you solve the trouble!"

(to be continued)