I want to be emperor

Chapter 810 North America Eastward Expansion Plan
Following the various official newspapers under the Chaobao Department of the Great Chu Empire, news of the discovery of super gold mines in Africa and South Africa has been reported one after another.

It has caused quite a stir in the country, especially those groups who originally planned to immigrate, and also listed South Africa as their candidate for immigration.

And some impatient people even bought the boat tickets to South Africa immediately.

Public reports have greatly stimulated the number of immigrants, and even more stimulated the number of immigrants to Africa.

In the past, although the number of immigrants was very large, they basically chose to go to Southeast Asia or North America, not to mention Africa, and even India did not have many people.

At present, the preferred destination for immigrants from the Great Chu Empire is the North American region, which is geographically and climatically similar to the mainland of the empire, especially the southern region, which has a milder climate and is more suitable for planting, mainly concentrated in the Jinshan Prefecture area.

The tendency of imperial immigrants to North America is far greater than that of Southeast Asia, which is closer to the mainland.

The Great Chu Empire organized immigrants in the Nanyang region for more than [-] years, but now the combined number of immigrants in various regions of Nanyang is no more than that in North America.

The main immigration areas of the Great Chu Empire in the Nanyang region, such as the Luzon Islands, the Malacca Peninsula, Java Island, and the western part of Sumatra Island, all have almost the same characteristics, that is, they all belong to the tropical rainforest climate. ...the average annual temperature can reach the mid-twenties.

For example, the annual average temperature of Luzon Island can reach 27 degrees... This Luzon Island is actually relatively north in a large area of ​​Southeast Asia.

And places such as Java Island further south are hotter!
This large area, except for a few special places, such as the largest military base and commercial port of the Great Chu Empire in the Nanyang region, and also the governor of Malacca Province in Singapore, this place is better because the climate is relatively special, with an average annual temperature of about 23 four degrees.

However, in most other places in Nanyang, the temperature is in the high [-]s or even above [-] degrees all year round, and the rainfall is very large, and the sunshine is quite sufficient!
This climate finally combined to form a tropical rainforest climate with high temperature, humidity, and rain... Well, people in this climate are basically like going to a sauna. If you don't do it, you will sweat profusely after staying for a long time.

This tropical rainforest climate area has also led to the proliferation of local mosquitoes and poisonous snakes, and the probability of people getting sick is relatively high.

Then the Chu people also discovered that in these broken places, there are a lot of typhoons and storms, and the typhoons experienced are all large-scale, and super-large-scale typhoons hit the coastal areas every now and then.

The frequent torrential rains have also led to the seemingly fertile land in the area, but in fact, if there is a lack of sufficient water conservancy facilities, it will be difficult to carry out large-scale agricultural planting.

For example, the Vietnam region had already been directly annexed by the Great Chu Empire. At the beginning, Luo Zhixue's monarchs and ministers still felt that they occupied a good place, after all, they only looked at it from the map.

There are a lot of coastal plains in these places, and there are also a lot of riverside plains... After occupying these places and starting to immigrate to these places on a large scale, I realized that this ghost place is really difficult to deal with.

Especially the Red River Delta in Thang Long area, this ghost place is the same as the Mekong River Delta in the south, Nima does not say that it is flooded every year, but that it floods every time it rains...

The officials of the imperial water conservancy department came here to investigate, and their faces were all black... The flood situation in this ghost place is much more serious than the Huaihe River Basin in the empire's mainland in the early years.

If we really want to manage it well, we need to spend a lot of money.

But there is no way, no matter how difficult it is, it must be done, after all, this place already belongs to the mainland province of the empire, and the people living in these places are also the citizens of the empire.

When these places were first annexed, there were not many natives there. Today, most of the local population is actually immigrants from the imperial organization. These immigrants have intermarried with a small number of local natives.

The so-called Annan people have already disappeared in the context of history.

In order to ensure the stable life of the people of the empire, the empire has invested a lot of money in water conservancy construction in the Annan area in the past ten years, which has made the Red River Delta area and the Mekong River Delta area further south a grain-producing area.

Cold knowledge, in ancient and modern Vietnam, although they have a lot of coastal plains, there are still a few in the Haikou Plain, and the climate is also rainy, which seems to be very suitable for large-scale food cultivation.

But in fact, Vietnam has always been an extremely food-deficient area before modern times.

why?
Because of the torrential rain at both ends of the three days, the river swelled without moving, and then diverted to cause floods...

This has also led to a lot of seemingly waste areas along the river plains, but in fact they are not good grain-producing areas!
It was not until modern times that science and technology developed, and various water conservancy facilities began to be built on a large scale locally, which increased the grain production in Vietnam.

On the contrary, in Siam further south, their agricultural conditions are better, not only enough for themselves but also for export.

Very early on, the Great Chu Empire imported a large amount of local grain from Siam.

On the whole, although the Nanyang region is closer to the mainland, it is limited by the unfavorable local climate conditions, so many immigrants from the empire do not like to go to these places.

They are more inclined to go to North America, or simply go to India... Since the Great Chu Empire expelled the European colonists from the Indian continent, it has taken over almost all the coastal colonial areas left by the Europeans, and at the same time, they have taken over from the local indigenous people. Obtained a large area in his hands, and eventually established multiple territories under the direct jurisdiction of the Indian region.

Many of these directly governed territories have good climate and agricultural conditions, so many immigrants from the country will also go there.

However, they are basically concentrated in Ceylon Island, southern India, and eastern regions, and there are relatively few other places.

There are even fewer regions in West Asia and North Africa. These places do not even have a territory directly under their jurisdiction for the time being.

Today, the Great Chu Empire has established a territory directly under the Maputo Prefecture in southern Africa, and there is a lot of gold and good agricultural conditions in the area, which immediately attracted a large number of immigrants to go there.

In the two months at the end of Chengshun's 32nd year, more than 2 immigrants took boats to Maputo, Africa, either at their own expense or as official immigrants.

They will become the first large-scale immigrants of the Great Chu Empire in South Africa, and even in the entire African region.

In contrast, the Cape Town region of South Africa, which is also a territory directly under the Central Government, has only accepted more than 5000 immigrants in the past year!

In fact, the local agricultural conditions in South Africa are even better.

This shows that gold is attractive to people.

Just like when people were attracted by the gold in Jinshan Province, and a population of 10,000+ flooded in just a few years, Maputo Province is now experiencing the same situation.

In a short period of time, more than [-] immigrants may even go to the local area, trying to get rich overnight by finding gold.

But in fact, the possibility of an overnight explosion by ordinary gold rush is very slim...

Because the current super gold mine in Maputo Prefecture, that is, the Tshwane Gold Mine has been nationalized, the African Governor’s Office and the local African Taxation Office decided to auction the mining rights of the Tshwane Gold Mine.

In the end, the mining rights were obtained by the Western Armed Trading Company with an absolute price advantage.

In the next 20 years, the Western Armed Trading Company will be fully responsible for the mining affairs of the gold mine, and will pay a fixed amount of fees to the government every year. The gold mined every year will need to pay high gold mining taxes. A share of the profits must be distributed to the Maputo government.

Most of the gold mined from this super gold mine in the future will be returned to the national treasury in the form of mining rights fees, gold mining taxes, and profit distribution.

In fact, the remaining part seems to belong to the Western Armed Trading Company...but in fact, the Western Armed Trading Company is also a wholly-owned government-run enterprise.

To put it bluntly, most of the mined gold and profits will belong to the government.

It has nothing to do with private capital, let alone those gold diggers.

However, those gold diggers can actually search for gold in other places. According to the preliminary survey report, the local gold mine in Tshwane is not only a local super gold mine, but an entire gold mine belt.

In order to develop local gold, the local government will successively conduct successive auctions of local areas where gold mines may exist.

In this way, many domestic mining companies, especially those that are engaged in overseas mineral development, also ran over to develop.

Even gold diggers can actually buy survey and mining rights in a small number of places, and then conduct gold panning...

If it’s really not possible, if you go to the barren mountains and forests to pan for gold, no one can care about you.

Generally speaking, there are very few gold diggers who get rich overnight, but it's not impossible... It's just that most people go there only to be disappointed, or they work hard to find gold, and in the end they don't save much money, and the real profits are all lost. Such enterprises and businessmen have made money.

And these have little impact on the imperial officials. Anyway, what the top leaders of the Great Chu Empire need is more gold reserves to support the country's gold standard currency.

At the same time, control more gold-producing areas to prevent those natives from digging out a large amount of gold with a shovel, and then use the gold to buy a large amount of industrial products from the empire.

This is also the reason why the Great Chu Empire adopted the indirect gold standard... To a certain extent, the currency system of the gold standard is controlled, and it is used by the natives, who hold a lot of gold to purchase the industrial products of the Great Chu Empire.

After all, in the strict sense of the Great Chu Empire, the demand for the natives is not gold, but various industrial raw materials, agricultural products... Gold cannot be eaten or drunk, it is just a transaction equivalent.

As far as the Great Chu Empire is concerned, those indigenous countries should stop mining gold mines, just grow food, cotton, dig industrial minerals, etc., and then export industrial raw materials and agricultural products to Chu State, and Chu State will give them to Chu State. It is a pile of Chu Yuan banknotes under the indirect gold standard, and then the indigenous people take these papers to the Great Chu Empire to purchase industrial products.

Thus forming an economic cycle!
If the natives dig gold directly, and then use the gold to purchase the industrial products of the Great Chu Empire... Wouldn't the Great Chu Empire suffer a lot?
Therefore, if the Great Chu Empire wants to adopt the gold standard, and wants to maintain the reputation under the gold standard system for a long time, and not let the natives take advantage, it is very important to control the main gold producing areas around the world.

In fact, this is indeed the case at present. The Great Chu Empire controls a large number of gold-producing areas, and uses modern industrial surveys to mine gold.

At present, more than 200 tons of gold are produced every year, while other indigenous countries, all of them add up to only a few tons a year.

The gold output of the Great Chu Empire in the past 30 years has surpassed the total amount of gold mined by humans in the past thousands of years. This is a terrifying figure.

The gold producing area of ​​Maputo Prefecture in South Africa is an important part of the empire's maintenance of the gold standard system, and there must be no mistakes.

That's why the Great Chu Empire directly promoted immigration and gold development in South Africa from the central level.

And this situation is even more so after 33 years in Chengshun. Many government-run mining companies of the Great Chu Empire have successively announced to invest in the gold industry in Maputo Prefecture.

The Guangdong-Guangdong Mining Company acted the fastest. Their surveyors arrived in Maputo first, and it didn’t take long for them to draw their own preliminary survey conclusions. Then they bid heavily for the gold survey and mining rights of a large area of ​​land from the local government.

Just three months later, their first gold mine was established.

Immediately afterwards, more gold mines were discovered one after another. In less than a year, more than 20 gold mines of different sizes were discovered in Tshwanene.

Large quantities of machinery used in gold mining began to flow along the river, and the land poured into it.

In order to solve the transportation problem and the difficulties in material transportation caused by the influx of a large number of people, the Maputo government has also formally applied for the construction of a local railway to connect Maputo and Tshwane.

This matter has caused controversy within a certain range among the high-level empire. After all, at present, the Great Chu Empire has not yet built a precedent for overseas railways.

In the past ten years, the railway construction of the Great Chu Empire has always been concentrated in the local area. Although the results have been very good, tens of thousands of kilometers of railways have been built successively, but the funds and personnel are still relatively tight.

Therefore, I have not been able to take into account the development of railways in overseas regions before. At most, there are mining areas, port railways and other non-public railways developed by enterprises in overseas regions.

But in the end, this matter was directly finalized by Luo Zhixue. If the overseas territories directly under the Central Government have this demand, and if the railway is expected to be able to repay the cost or even make a profit, then the railway can be properly built.

After all, the railway can speed up local development, allow the empire to better control the local area, and strengthen its ability to control surrounding areas.

As for the funding issue, just continue to issue railway construction bonds... Anyway, the Great Chu Empire Railway Corporation has already owed a huge amount of railway construction debts, and it is not short of tens of millions of Chu Yuan debts.

Even if the railway is built overseas, the cost is actually lower. Although the rails and everything have to be transported from the mainland, the infrastructure cost can be greatly reduced!
To build a railway in the mainland, the workers who build the railway are all citizens of the country, not to mention the guarantee of the minimum wage, and they also need to pay attention to various safety productions. Responsible officials lose their official hats.

But in overseas territories, there is no such problem.

Because in overseas territories, you can't let people from your own country who immigrated all the way to build railways... Whether it's because of cost considerations or political risk considerations, you can't do it.

Therefore, the large-scale infrastructure construction in overseas regions has always used a variety of low-cost indigenous labor.

Whether it is using military prisoners of war, free indigenous labor from a labor service company, or simply hiring ordinary indigenous labor, the cost is very low.

In fact, a considerable part of the railway cost these years is infrastructure costs. After saving this part, it is found that building railways overseas is cheaper than building railways locally.

Taking various factors into consideration, Luo Zhixue personally issued an order to approve the construction plan of the Maputo Railway, and at the same time approved the American Jinshan Railway, which he had applied for many times before.

Even Luo Zhixue personally gave instructions that the railway construction on the American side can be bold and speed up according to the situation!

Build the railway from Jinshanfu all the way to the east... to the east coast of North America.

It's not that there are few rivers on the west coast of America, it is difficult for immigrants to rely on the rivers to go deep into the interior of North America, let alone go to the east coast of America!

Then we'll build a railway there!
Ships and trains were originally the vanguards of the Great Chu Empire's external expansion and competition for more living space for the Chinese nation.

Leaving aside the steamship, the railway itself has its own strategic railway. The Great Chu Empire has built all the way to Central Asia before. It is precisely because of the Northwest Railway-Central Asian Railway, the main railway artery, that the Great Chu Empire really controls it. The huge Central Asia, and a large number of immigrants towards these places.

Now, the Great Chu Empire is going to do it again in North America!
Build a strategic railway that runs through the east and west coasts of North America, so as to take down the entire North America.

The specific method is also very simple: the army takes the lead and carries out large-scale armed expulsion of the aborigines to completely guarantee the safety along the proposed railway.

At the same time, the railway company organized the construction of railways in the rear, and the railways could also provide sufficient logistical supplies for the troops advancing eastward.

After the railway was built, the government organized a large number of immigrants to go there, and opened up immigrant settlements along the railway and along the river, and took practical and comprehensive control of the surrounding areas.

Fighting wars, building roads, and emigrating at the same time, this is the North American strategy set by the high-level empire.

In response to this North American construction and development strategy, the high-level empire finally finalized the plan of the entire plan, which is called: North America Eastward Plan!
Luo Zhixue personally chose the name to pay tribute to the notorious westward movement in the eyes of outsiders, but in the eyes of Americans, it is incomparably great!
Why a tribute?

Because the North America Eastward Plan will definitely be great in the eyes of Chu people!
(End of this chapter)