I want to be emperor

The Great Chu Empire acquired a large number of colonies in the Americas through Portugal and Spain in the European trade freedom plan, and then established three new governorships in the Americas.

To develop these three new governorships requires a large population. For this reason, in the summer and April of the 38th year of Chengshun, after a series of discussions in the early stage, the Great Chu Empire officially issued the "America Development Plan".

The plan is centered on early immigration, and has formulated a series of support policies around immigration, such as increasing the amount of support subsidies for official immigrants, allowing official immigrants to immigrate to the Americas completely free of charge, and the direction of official immigration is mainly There are not many people, and the Central American and South American regions with worse natural conditions, namely the West American Governor's Jurisdiction and the South American Governor's Jurisdiction.

The East American governorate, that is, the area east of the Mississippi River in central North America, is not included in the scope of government-run immigration support.

The main reason is that the natural conditions of the East American governor’s jurisdiction are better, and the attraction to immigrants is greater. In the previous 37 years, Chengshun used various channels to cross the inland area from the west coast of North America to the central region of North America. More than 20 people immigrated at their own expense, and this place itself has become a new hot spot for imperial immigrants.

Considering that there are a large number of self-funded immigrants going to the central and eastern regions of North America, and the official immigration funds are limited, it is natural not to spend too much money in this area, but to focus more on immigration Smaller Central and South American regions.

This series of official immigration support policies is very strong, free of boat tickets, temporary simple houses will be provided free of charge upon arrival at immigrant settlements, and interest-free loans will be provided so that new immigrants can purchase agricultural tools, grain seeds and Food rations for the coming year.

The repayment of these interest-free loan portions is also out of cash, and can be offset by the crops that will be cultivated in the next few years.

Considering that the land acquired by new immigrants for free in the past, they will receive a tax-free period ranging from three to five years and a half-tax period in the subsequent years. In fact, it is no different from paying agricultural tax.

The imperial government turned the agricultural tax into a loan repayment only through a nominal change.

The reason for doing this, rather than purely free government-run immigration, is mainly because the immigration fee is still relatively high. Even if steam ships have appeared now, the transportation cost of large-tonnage steam transoceanic ships has been greatly reduced compared with the pure sailing era, but Not cheap either.

At the same time, immigrant rations, agricultural tools, and grain seeds all need money.

If the number of immigrants is only tens of thousands or even 10, it is enough for the empire to bite the bullet and allocate tens of millions. However, the number of overseas immigrants in the empire is very large. Millions immigrated overseas.

If the immigration costs are all borne by the imperial finance, then the imperial finance, which has a big family and a big business, cannot afford it either.

Therefore, part of the funds for these government-run immigration is financial subsidies from Jinling, part of the immigration subsidies provided by the government of the destination of the immigrants, and part of the immigration needs to be borne by the immigrants themselves.

Of course, this is only general. If the conditions are so bad that even ordinary government-run immigrants are unwilling to go, and the empire needs to maintain a certain population in these places, then the whole process will be provided free of charge, but these are special cases. , the scale is also small, and it cannot be regarded as a general view.

Therefore, the official immigration conditions of the Great Chu Empire are actually not as good as it was more than ten years ago. When the Great Chu Empire engaged in official immigration more than ten years ago, it was free of charge... Of course, there were not many official immigrants in a year at that time. Immigration is it.

Official immigration, this policy has a certain military strategic effect for the Great Chu Empire, and these policies are often only implemented in strategic areas that really need immigration. As for immigration in most other places, they rely on self-funded immigration Mainly.

American immigrants are no exception... However, for self-funded immigrants, the empire has also provided a lot of support policies.

In the American Development Plan, targeted low-interest American immigration loan policies are provided for self-funded immigrants immigrating to the Americas. Immigrants can apply for immigration loans from the Finance Bank, with very low interest... This is naturally not because the Finance Bank is a good person and does not want interest. , In fact, this part of the interest expenditure is borne by the central government.

In addition to the immigrant loan interest subsidies directly provided by Jinling, in fact, there are government financial subsidies for overseas immigration target areas.

Each region will provide a series of immigration subsidies or other preferential policies according to its own conditions.

For example, the most basic free distribution of land, three years of agricultural tax exemption, and two and a half years of agricultural tax concessions for a total of five years. This policy is basically implemented in all overseas territories, but there are differences in details.

In addition, low-interest loans are provided to provide the immigrants with the development of farmland in the early stage to maintain their survival. These loans generally use land as collateral.

Granting land for free and providing low-interest or even interest-free immigration loans are the two most effective immigration subsidy policies adopted by the Great Chu Empire in the past ten years.

It’s just that these policies can only be said to be average. If you want to attract more immigrants to settle down, you often need overseas territories to provide more attractive conditions, such as sending money when you come...

Many years ago, the southern African region, that is, the Maputo government under the jurisdiction of the African governor, did this to attract domestic people... No matter how you came here, as long as you settle in Maputo government, you can get free land farming.

And after a year, he didn't run away, and the land was cultivated and developed. Apart from anything else, a certain amount of cash rewards were directly distributed... What matters is a rich and powerful person.

There is no way, Maputo Prefecture is sitting on the world's largest gold mine, even though most of the gold mine profits and taxes are turned over to Jinling, but the local fiscal revenue left by Maputo Prefecture is still very huge In numbers, it is much richer than the South African government in the south.

Relying on strong local finances, Maputo Prefecture has developed very well, and its population is increasing, so that the current African governors have moved the governor's residence to Maputo Prefecture.

Previously, the governor of Africa was stationed in Mogadishu in Somalia...but that place is still somewhat limited, and has little control over southern and central Africa, so I want to move south later...I once considered South Africa, which has a more important strategic position , but in the end I chose Maputo House with more money...

There is no way, money is so important these days... Your Excellency Governor must have money if he wants to do anything.

And the Maputo Mansion relied on gold to buy and buy all the way, not only buying immigrants, but also buying the governor... The development of this place is very similar to that of Jinshan City back then.

In the beginning, Jinshan Prefecture in North America was actually just a small port for trade with Spain... Later, it was discovered that after gold mines were discovered in the inland area of ​​Jinshan City, this small coastal port city quickly became a city in a few years. The largest city in North America, and then the governor of North America also took advantage of the trend to move the station here.

Today's Maputo Prefecture is also copying the development path of Jinshan City... Relying on gold to quickly gather a large number of people, and in overseas territories, having enough immigrant population means everything!
With a population, more arable land can be developed and cultivated, and it can become an agricultural center. With a population, there can be consumption, as well as handicrafts and some basic industries. In this way, it can become an industrial and commercial center, and then it will naturally become a governor's resident, and then Become a political center... At the same time, in order to protect the large number of local immigrants and agricultural industry and commerce, the military will inevitably increase the number of troops stationed there, thus becoming a military center.

Therefore, in the development of the overseas directly-administered territories of the Great Chu Empire, the population is the first.

Of course, this population is limited to the Chu people themselves...not including those messy aborigines...because this is an overseas directly-administered territory, not a colony.

The ruling mode of the Great Chu Empire in the two different overseas territories is different. There are no restrictions on the overseas direct-administered territories, which are basically treated as local. The starting point of the war is to fight for more living space for the people of the empire... To put it bluntly, overseas territories are used to relieve the pressure on the population of the empire, especially for those bottom-level population who have had a hard time living in the country, and give them a guaranteed escape route (immigration), so that they will not be able to survive in the country and complain to the sky. resentfully want to rebel...

That's why the overseas territory model of overseas territories directly under the Central Government appears.

The traditional colonies are easy to understand. They mainly focus on economic plunder. Although they will also set up government offices, the government will generally not forcibly carry out any aboriginal purges, and even the aboriginal slaves are not allowed to stay... Instead, they will use these aborigines The population carries out production, and then the economic crops and mineral products produced are transported back to the country.

And many overseas plantation manors in the Great Chu Empire are basically in these traditional colonies.

Among them, the African region and the Indian region are the most important, but there is no such thing as the American region... because the Great Chu Empire has always managed the American region as an overseas territory directly under its jurisdiction.

The American region is one of the large-scale solutions used by the Great Chu Empire to relieve population pressure... Other solutions include Nanyang and Australia.

In addition, there are potential solutions, Eastern Europe, India, Africa, and even Europe... But judging from the current social development status and population growth rate of the empire, some of the subsequent potential solutions may not be used.

The education level of the people in the empire has improved, and their lives have improved, and they will not be limited to the lowest instinct of "reproduction" in creatures, but are more inclined to the realization of self-worth.

And now the younger generation in the Great Chu Empire, especially Chengshun who was born in the 20s and grew up after the advent of the high-pressure steam engine, the empire has developed rapidly in all aspects, and the younger generation who have received inclusive education are no longer as full as their parents. Married early at a few years old, and gave birth to children... Although they will continue to marry and have children, the age of marriage has begun to be steadily postponed, and the number of children born has also decreased significantly.

This is not a matter of wealth distribution or any other contradiction, that is to say, it is not a matter of being unable to have children or support... It is a common phenomenon that people begin to pay more attention to self-worth after the popularization of education.

In the original time and space, many countries in Europe and the United States are basically like this after industrialization...

Even Paris has become a black Paris...why?Because the local whites don’t like having babies anymore, capital will find ways to continue to introduce African populations in order to obtain more cheap labor...

In modern Europe and the United States, there are many strange policies, such as martyrization, racial discrimination being elevated to political correctness, and so on. In fact, the reason is very simple: capitalists need more immigrants to act as cheap labor...

After all, in a modern society where slavery cannot be practiced, only immigrants can be practiced.

In order for the immigrants to come and work with peace of mind, a large-scale social cognition guidance, commonly known as brainwashing, was carried out, and then a group of fools believed and immersed in it.

Which group of idiots speaks for equality to foreign groups who seize jobs, social welfare resources, grab women, and even want to marry your daughter...

Then the French Republic became the Black Republic of Francestan... Napoleon must have burst into tears when he came back to life... Is this still the France that I have been fighting for all my life?

Maybe 100 or 200 years later, a similar situation may appear in the Great Chu Empire.

But who knows what the future holds!

At least for now, the empire does not have these problems. Although the population growth rate has declined, it has actually remained relatively high, but it is not as crazy as before...

In the early days of unification and in the ten years, the people of the empire were really crazy about having babies... so much so that the empire maintained a super high population growth rate even with limited medical conditions and a high mortality rate.

But now, with better medical conditions and a lower mortality rate, the population growth rate has actually decreased, because people have begun to pay more attention to the embodiment of self-worth.

But even so, it also led to a direct change in the empire's foreign expansion policy.

Living space is no longer the only overseas expansion goal, and economic factors have also become one of the overseas expansion goals.

Of course, it is no longer the only factor in the overseas expansion of living space, but it is still one of the two major factors in the overseas expansion of the empire.

Therefore, in many overseas regions, the Great Chu Empire is still firmly implementing the strategy of living space, of which America is the most core part.

There are not many messy troubles in the American region, and the area is vast and rich in products. It is one of the ideal living homes for the people of Chu in the future.

Therefore, the high-level leaders of the Great Chu Empire have adopted a firm living space strategy for the Americas. It was in the past, it is now, and it will be in the future!
Therefore, in the Chu State-controlled area in the Americas, like the Nanyang area, there are basically no indigenous people left, and they are all Chu people.

Under such circumstances, if you want to develop, you can only rely on immigrants from your own country.

This is the main reason why the Americas are so keen to attract immigrants.

On the other hand, in India and Africa, although the governors of Africa and India are also keen on immigration, they are only limited to a few specific areas, such as Maputo, a gold producing area, South Africa, Mogadishu, and Ceylon Island. As for other places, the support is much smaller.

After the American Development Plan was officially announced, a new wave of people immigrating to the Americas was sparked... Especially the major official newspapers boasted how rich the Americas are every day... Before the governor of East America went to America to take office, he specially left a A group of officials set up a propaganda office!Don't do anything else, just go around the officials of the Chaobao Division every day, so that many of the Chaobao Division's departments will continue to publish various flattering articles about Dongmei Province.

In these touting articles, Dongmei Province has become a paradise on earth...the cultivated land is more fertile than the black land in Northeast China, and there is no end in sight, and as long as you immigrate there, you can easily obtain hundreds or even thousands of acres land.

It is also said that the traffic is better than there, there are a large number of gentle and navigable rivers, and the American East-West Railway, all kinds of food or other economic crops produced, livestock can be easily transported to the port, and sold at a good price...

As long as you immigrate, you will have food and clothing for one year, a well-off life for three years, and a rich man for ten years... After that, you will be admired by everyone, a gentleman with thousands of acres or more of land, and a private manor!

Anyway, it's a desperate bragging... According to the officials sent by the East American governor's office to stay in the domestic office, it is: as long as you deceive people... No, attracting people is a victory, and it doesn't matter what the truth is .

After all, you can’t say that there are still many aborigines in North America who attract scalpers and attack Chu’s immigrant settlements twice in three days, aren’t they…

Not to mention that the immigrants from Chu State who had just arrived in unfamiliar areas to open up immigrant settlements had to carry guns and undergo military training.

Although there is a lot of land...but it is all barren mountains and wild forests, you have to open up wasteland by yourself...

In short, no matter how good the conditions of the East American governorship are, it is actually impossible to become a paradise for immigrants, that is, the poor at the bottom... It is just a guaranteed escape route for the poor at the bottom of the empire, not the road to great wealth.

The newspaper said it sounded good, but it's not so easy to be a real landlord in America... The same laws are implemented in this overseas territory and the mainland.

This naturally includes laws related to agricultural tax... and the agricultural tax of the Great Chu Empire is a step-by-step progressive agricultural tax. If it exceeds a certain amount, you can pay nothing by just paying the agricultural tax.

But large-scale farms do exist, but they are generally government-run large farms or farms operated by private enterprises with special approval. These farms have certain characteristics in common, that is, they are located in remote areas with sparsely populated areas and are suitable for large-scale mechanized farming. area.

For example, there are many government-run farms in Northeast China, and some enterprises operate farms, and there are many in the Americas.

As for purely private large-scale farms, there is no one...

The official purpose of setting up these large farms is to develop remote and backward areas in the early stage and increase food supply, not to make some groups rich...

Therefore, in the Great Chu Empire, whether it is in the mainland or overseas directly-controlled territories, it is impossible to have any real big landlords.

But many people think that they can make a fortune and become a decent landlord if they go to America...then resolutely board the boat to America!

If nothing goes wrong, most of these people will become farmers in the Americas... As long as they are not killed by the local natives, there will be no problem with food and clothing, but it is also a luxury to want to be rich.

But a small number of those who are capable and lucky enough can still find opportunities to make a fortune in America.

Song Erniu is one of them... When everyone else was panning for gold, he bought the canvas overalls worn by miners, and then earned the first pot of gold and quickly became rich.

In the past two years, its clothing business has expanded rapidly, and it has even become one of the military uniform suppliers of the American garrison, becoming a veritable clothing giant in the Americas!
After Song Erniu rose to prominence in the Americas and quickly made a fortune and became a rich man, he also set off in the summer of Chengshun 38 to return to his hometown.

This trip is not only to save relatives and ancestors, but also to solve personal life-long affairs... Such a rich man doesn't even have a wife, let alone an heir, it's really outrageous!

If you want to find it in the Americas... To be honest, it is too difficult for Song Erniu!

Song Erniu is also a sudden rich man, and if he is not short of money, he is short of status, so he only wants to find a daughter from a decent family to marry, preferably a daughter of a century-old scholarly family, a traditional official family...

But although America has a large population, most of them are low-level people with no background, and there is no such thing as a scholarly family...

The family backgrounds of the local mid-level and senior officials serving in the Americas are quite good, but the current officials also look down on Song Erniu, who has no culture and no foundation to get rich.

Song Erniu felt that it wasn't that they disliked him for being uneducated and low-born, but that he didn't get rich enough...

If you don't have money, Song Erniu has accumulated a net worth of millions, even in Jinshan Mansion, he can be regarded as a rich man in the second echelon.

Let’s talk about being rich... Actually, it’s not too much, at least those century-old scholarly families and official families really don’t think much of your worth, let alone marry your prostitute daughter to you because of this...

After all, it is impossible for Song Erniu to give away his millions of assets as a gift...

There are two concepts between being worth 100 million yuan and spending 100 million yuan as a dowry to marry a wife!
Therefore, Song Erniu has no culture, let alone a family background, and it is impossible to give out money, and the official family will marry you only if they are stupid.

So in the past two years, Song Erniu actually wanted to find a suitable person to marry, but unfortunately he couldn't get what he wanted... After searching all the upper-class people in Jinshan Mansion and the surrounding areas, he couldn't find a suitable target!

Well, in other words, Song Erniu can look up to him, but others can't see him... Song Erniu who can like him can't look down on others.

As a result, Song Erniu's marriage was delayed, and later he asked someone to find him in the mainland...

This month, Song Erniu received a letter from his uncle in his hometown, saying that the Chen family in the county had a certain intention for marriage after hearing about his deeds in America!

The Chen family in the county... just hearing the name, Song Erniu bought a first-class boat ticket and returned home.

The Chen family is a century-old scholarly family in their hometown county. There were many candidates in the previous dynasty, and many people entered the court as officials during the Guo Dynasty.

In Song Erniu's memory, wherever the Chen family is in their hometown, that is the face of the upper class!
When he was young, he, Song Erniu, was a cowherd boy in the Chen family's farm outside the city!

A cowherd boy like himself has a chance to marry the eldest lady of the boss's family... Whenever he thinks of this, he can't wait to return to the native land immediately!