Just as Zhou Changlin was smiling happily, the farmers around him who chose to take out loans to buy land with him were all delighted.
However, most immigrants were sold onto the ship alone, so one person did not dare to purchase so much land. Most of them purchased less than ten acres of land.
Everyone was looking at the crops in their own land and laughing.
After all, even if you add in the immigration fees charged by the immigration company and the loan for purchasing farmland, it now seems like a piece of cake.
After all, as long as you are not a lazy person, three years should be enough for you to pay off all your debts.
The only thing that makes people feel a little inconvenient is that the place they live in is still the workers' dormitory of the original farm.
Moreover, people are not allowed to build houses on their own fields.
All houses must be planned in a unified manner and exist in the form of villages, which is said to be to ensure the safety of Chinese people in Brazil.
In fact, it doesn’t matter if we can live together, but we may have to walk some distance to work in the fields, which is not very convenient.
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Of course, this pales in comparison to safety.
When this news reached the ears of immigrants who were still hesitating whether to take out loans to buy land, and immigrants who were originally preparing to work in factories.
Everyone went crazy. Everyone's obsession with land was ingrained in their genes. The enthusiasm for taking out loans to buy land broke out at this moment, and even the people rescued from Brazil by Fang Lang joined in.
Fang Lang did not stop this. After all, the factory here had not been built yet.
When job opportunities appear in the city, farmers will naturally give up their land and move from the countryside to the city.
Fang Lang simply divided these people into eight small villages and settled them on the land that originally belonged to Yakub's family.
The fields were full of crops and there was no need to plant them, so we organized everyone to build houses together.
The land for the house and the money for building the house continued to be loaned from the immigration company.
Now people no longer worry about taking out loans from immigration companies, after all, everyone knows that they can afford to pay it back.
Of course, there are also many people who are unwilling to continue to borrow money from immigration companies. They want to live in the farm dormitory first, and then buy a homestead and build a house after they earn money.
This is the traditional concept of most people. It is understandable that people want to spend money when they have it.
All the immigrants and the rescued laborers were less than 5,000 people. 5,800 hectares of land was 87,000 mu. Even if it was calculated based on an average of 10 mu of arable land per person, there was still a lot of land that no one had bought.
Compared with the three acres of arable land per capita in my hometown when the country was founded, ten acres per capita is indeed a lot, but compared with the current per capita arable land area in Brazil, it is also at a normal level.
Of course, the agricultural development area that Fang Lang arranged for his compatriots is mainly concentrated in Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil. The land in the south is flatter and the arable land resources are more abundant.
In the state of Rio Grande do Norte where Natal is located, only Natal has some flat land, with an average altitude of only three meters. Less than 50 kilometers to the west, it becomes plateaus and mountains.
There is not enough space for agricultural development. Of course, the plateau and mountains are also the main cotton and corn producing areas in the state. However, Fang Lang wants to grab a good place first!
Even if the south is robbed, there is still the "savannah" in the central and western regions, which accounts for 21% of Brazil's land area. With such a large territory yet to be occupied, he will not develop agriculture on a large scale in the agriculturally underdeveloped northeastern region first.
The reason for settling these immigrants in Natal was to increase the proportion of Chinese population in Natal. Natal was mainly Fang Lang’s military base.
In addition, the focus will be on developing labor-intensive industries in Natal to accommodate the families of officers and soldiers of the First Fleet.
It is not enough to just pay allowances to the soldiers. By then, the soldiers' families will all work in Fang Lang's factory and also receive salaries from Fang Lang.
Then Fang Lang’s First Fleet will completely become Fang Lang’s private army, and he will become a warlord who is not a warlord.
Fang Lang spent a week arranging and familiarizing himself with the work of the First Fleet. After all, there were many new members joining the team, and Fang Lang needed to get to know everyone better.
A lot of things happened during this week. The construction of the bank has officially started. During the construction period, the bank’s staff have also been in place and started working in an office building rented in Natal.
All immigration, land and housing loan business of the immigration company was transferred to the newly established Brazilian Development Bank.
At the same time, construction also began on Natal’s first textile factory, sugar factory and tannery. Fang Lang also announced to all officers and soldiers of the First Fleet that the families of officers and soldiers of the First Fleet would have priority opportunities to work in the factories.
Building a factory requires a large amount of labor, which creates a large number of jobs for the residents of Natal, which makes the residents of Natal very happy.
With the entire First Fleet moving in, the officers and soldiers are now high-income earners, and nearby residents have also started doing business near the military camp.
For the safety of the military camp, Fang Lang communicated with Mayor Dursley and planned to build the first dedicated commercial street in Natal.
Because the gangs in Natal were eradicated by Fang Lang, all the brothels, both open and covert, were forced to close, and the girls could only go out on the streets to solicit customers and become prostitutes.
The appearance of these prostitutes also gave Fang Lang a headache. In Brazil, the business of prostitutes with unclear attributes was neither completely legal nor completely illegal.
Considering the soldiers' health, Fang Lang had to order the city government to centrally manage all prostitutes, issue licenses, conduct regular physical examinations, and distribute family planning supplies for free.
Perhaps because this was the former base of the US military, after the news that the city government was issuing licenses to prostitutes spread, a large number of girls came out from nowhere to register.
Thousands of people registered in just one week, which scared Fang Lang. He was afraid that the city would become uncivilized, so he kept calling for a halt.
In the end, the number of registered people still reached 1,500. There was no way to make a living with so many people, so Fang Lang could only ask the city government to plan out a bar and entertainment street.
In order to prevent illegal incidents from happening, this street has become a key police station area.
After finally dealing with the affairs of the First Fleet, Fang Lang finally boarded his own private plane and flew to Rio de Janeiro with a platoon of soldiers from the guard platoon.
Greeting them at the airport were Colonel Teach and Major Blackwell from the Rio de Janeiro Naval Base.
After a round of greetings, Fang Lang was taken to the naval base in Rio de Janeiro.
"Hey! Fang, how come you had time to leave your First Fleet and come to Rio to visit us!"
"I haven't seen you all for so long, don't you welcome me?"
Fang Lang now has a very good relationship with the two of them, so communication is easy and casual.
Colonel Teach saw Fang Lang's expression as if he had come all the way to visit you, and he directly pointed it out:
"You guys have some business to come and see us? Tsk!"
"Haha... Everyone is so busy, so of course I came to visit you during my break from work!"
Fang Lang wouldn't feel embarrassed about such a small matter!
"What is the main reason you came here this time? Can you tell me?"
Blackwell couldn't help but ask.
"It's nothing serious. I just came to meet General Leta of the General Logistics Department to discuss the equipment issues for the Army to establish a tank division."
When Tiqi heard Fang Lang talking about such an important matter in such a relaxed tone, he was shocked:
"Look at Fang, you're being so casual. That's Brazil's first tank division, but it seems like no big deal to you?"
Fang Lang looked at Colonel Teach strangely and said:
"Hey! Brother Tiqi, do you know about this?"
"What's so strange about this? The army is now arguing over who should be the first to be converted into a tank division. This is no secret."
Colonel Teach looked matter-of-fact.
Fang Lang glanced at Blackwell again, who also looked aware of the situation, and said:
"My two brothers! In the future, don't forget to inform me about this kind of information! Although my station is far away, my heart is very close to yours! I also want to know about the important things of the army!"
Fang Lang actually learned the news not too late, because General Leta from the Logistics Department asked him to look for suppliers for quotations a week ago.
However, apart from receiving the news from General Leta, Fang Lang had not heard of this news from any other channels.
Apparently, he was promoted too quickly. He lacked experience at the grassroots level in the military and did not have the corresponding connections. Moreover, his current station was in the heart of the country.
Indeed, there is a lot of information that he cannot obtain. It seems that he needs to arrange people to collect information in this area in the future, otherwise he will miss out on good business.
When the two heard Fang Lang's words, Blackwell said curiously:
"Don't you know? No! You don't know why you come here? No, this is the Army's business! Why are you, a Marine, coming here to join in the fun?
That's not right, you want to see General Leta. What are you doing here?"
Hearing Blackwell's mumbling, Colonel Teach also reacted.
"Right! Why did you come here for this? No, he just said it was for equipment. Could it be that you have a way to get the equipment?"
Brazil's military equipment is generally requested by the Ministry of National Defense or the military, and then purchased by the General Logistics Department.
Currently, Brazil has no military factories and therefore no equipment department, and cannot manufacture and produce its own equipment.
Obviously, the procurement of equipment would not be the responsibility of military generals, and no one would have thought that Fang Lang would have a way to get arms, so no one thought about this aspect.
"Hehe...it's a little related! Why, brother Teach, do you also want to purchase two warships for fun?"
Fang Lang smiled and said.
"You are really powerful! My warships are all old antiques from World War I. Of course I want them! But this is not something I can decide!"
Colonel Teach smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Fang Lang is also very clear about the current situation of the Brazilian Navy, but this is not something he can change.
But this did not prevent him from leaking some information to Colonel Teach. If Colonel Teach could convince the Admiralty to replace the warships, wouldn't that be business?
"If you really want to change, you can go to the Navy Department! Let me tell you this! I can get you an active warship of the US military through this channel, but it's second-hand.
We can have destroyers, submarines, and cruisers."
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