Wild North America 1846

Chapter 134 Setting Up a New Town

Before the relevant currency system is determined, Datang Kingdom has ordered steam minting equipment and ink printing machines from the United Kingdom, and hired relevant British technicians to guide them, and they are expected to arrive one after another before the end of the year.

At that time, it will be a good time for the official issuance of the new currency "Yuan" of the Tang Kingdom.

Currency issuance involves a lot of meticulous preparation work. After the new currency is issued, there is still a period of coexistence between the new currency and the stock currency. It can only be replaced step by step. Get the job done.

The third thing is education, which is also a job that Li Cha attaches great importance to.

He understands better than everyone in this era that talents represent the future of the kingdom, represent the hope of the kingdom, and are also the new driving force for the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty to move towards a powerful empire.

The development path that Li Cha has chosen now is hard to turn back. In this way, he has a lot of responsibilities invisibly, shouldering the ardent hopes of hundreds of thousands of Chinese, and must not give up halfway.

His character is a serious person, if he doesn't do it, he must do his best.

According to Li Cha's immigration requirements;
Today, more than 8000 boys and girls aged 9 to 12 have arrived in North America. Most of them are refugee children. Two pieces of cake or a few catties of millet are exchanged for one child, and they have traveled thousands of miles to come here.

Considering the endurance of children, 9 years old is already the lowest line. Younger children cannot withstand the harsh environment of ocean voyages in today's world, and the premature death rate is too high.

These children are now placed in the Moon Valley in the Grape Valley. The new schools here are all under unified military management. They will teach the children to learn knowledge, learn Chinese, history, geography, mathematics, physics and chemistry. Take English, French, German and Spanish as electives.

All the expenses of these children's study and life are borne by the royal family.

from second grade
The children will arrange a half-day military or labor class every day. In the labor class, they may go to the orchard to pick grapes, or help in the fields, or learn to sew plush toys, and do some work within their ability.

The new school was named Royal School of Mercy, which in Moon Valley would be Royal School of Mercy Moon Valley, and in Los Angeles Royal School of Mercy No. [-] Los Angeles, or Royal No. [-] Mercy School of Los Angeles.

Li Cha squeezed out special funds from the limited funds to establish benevolence schools in various places. The reason why the royal family was crowned with the name is firstly to show that it attaches great importance to it, secondly to deter Xiaoxiao, and thirdly to make the royal family famous and establish a benevolent and caring school. golden body.

His current bad name is enough, but it is the Yankees who are getting more and more black. Education is an indispensable and important channel to show a benevolent image of loving the people in the country.

Education should start from childhood!You can't go wrong.

The fourth thing is the administrative division.

Today, the administrative division of the Tang Kingdom is quite chaotic, it is only generally divided into the California region, the New Mexico region, and the Oregon region.

Today, the total area of ​​the Tang Kingdom has reached 301 million square kilometers, that is, the original 231 million square kilometers plus the Oregon region of 70 square kilometers.

This territory does not include the three northern states claimed by the Datang Kingdom to the United States, including Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, a total of 90 square kilometers of northern land.

Denver, in particular, is currently occupied by the Tang Kingdom, but the territorial sovereignty belongs to the United States. There is no objection to this point, and it has been recognized by all countries in the world.

It was part of the Louisiana region purchased by the United States from France in 1803. Before an international treaty was reached to cede the territory, it could not be included in the territory of the Tang Kingdom for the time being.

The total area of ​​the Louisiana area is 244 million square kilometers. The United States bought it for 1500 million U.S. dollars at the beginning, and the price per acre was less than three cents.

The Datang Kingdom has a total territory of 301 million square kilometers, and it is only roughly divided into three regions, which is really nonsense.

Li Cha didn't want to waste his brains too much, and planned to directly apply the administrative divisions of the future of the United States, divide the entire country into more than 10 provinces, and then clarify the administrative system.

This matter is not in a hurry. The population of Datang Kingdom now exceeds 41, and it is expected to exceed 50 (including 3.2 to 3.5 newborns) by the end of the year. The overall population is small, so we can consider it slowly .

However, the establishment of some specific cities and towns is imminent, and a royal decree will be promulgated in the near future to carry it out.

For example, the current situation of Grape Valley, with a total population of 2.7, will exceed 3 in two months. It is no longer suitable to continue to use the previous village-level administrative system.

In particular, Sidaoling Village, where the industry is relatively concentrated, has a total population of more than 4 people, and the demand for labor force from various factories is still very large, which means that it will usher in an outbreak period of residents.

Therefore, from Daoling Village to Wudaoling Village, they will be unified into towns.

After crossing Wudaoling Village, the geographical environment in the depths of Grape Valley suddenly becomes clear, forming several large valleys and plains, which are also one of the important areas for recent industrial and agricultural development.

The Grape Valley is about 130 kilometers long, and the largest valley basin is Sunshine Valley not far from Wudaoling Village, covering an area of ​​about 5 square kilometers.

Steel plants and cement plants are established here, as well as coal mines and iron mines, forming a large-scale emerging market town with a total population of more than 1.1 people, making it the most populous town in Grape Valley.

After comprehensive consideration

Considering that the population of this area has exceeded [-], Richard decided to upgrade it to Sunshine City as one of the cities directly under the California Province.

Going deeper, there are two smaller valley basins, one is the Moon Valley, with an area of ​​about 110 square kilometers, and the other is the Calabash Valley, which is composed of a series of small plains, with a total area of ​​about 70 square kilometers.

Moon Valley is now an important vegetable and fruit planting area. The surrounding towns and cities that produce poultry, eggs and milk already have more than 170 Chinese plantations. The business in the valley is developing rapidly, and the total resident population has reached more than 6300 people.

After comprehensive consideration

Li Cha decided to upgrade it to Moon City, focusing on the development of vegetables, dried fruits, fruit and poultry eggs and dairy farming and processing, supplemented by the development of the textile industry, the future can be expected.

As for the population gathering places in the Calabash Valley, most of them are engaged in animal husbandry and agriculture, with a total population of just over 2000, which temporarily does not meet the standard for establishing a city, so it is designated as Calabash Town.

Similar situations are found in Upper River Bay Village and Lower River Bay Village by the American River. With the rise of the gold rush, more and more gold prospectors flooded into the American River, and now there are more than 1.3 people.

Shanghewan Village and Xiahewan Village then prospered, a large number of buildings rose from the ground, the size of the town expanded like a balloon, and business flourished, becoming the place where those gold diggers dreamed of living and dying.

After comprehensive consideration

Shanghewan City and Xiahewan City will be set up. These two cities have a strong European architectural style, blending British, French and German architecture. They are more like two European towns with unique characteristics.

Shanghewan City and Xiahewan City are also the cities with the highest proportion of white people in the entire Datang Kingdom. The proportion of white people is basically between 35% and 40%. Therefore, the exotic atmosphere is particularly strong.

What needs to be specially explained is that in the household registration of the Tang Kingdom, everything is based on the ethnicity of the head of the household, which will create the illusion that the proportion of Chinese is particularly high.

For example, if a Chinese cavalry officer family is headed by this Chinese cavalry officer, the whole family will be registered as Chinese regardless of the number of members, which is a typical Chinese family.

This Chinese officer has two white wives, four Indian maids or concubines, and three newborn children. There are ten people in the family, so there are ten Chinese.

Neither whites nor Indian convicts have the right to register for household registration. In the future, they will either follow their masters, or toil to death, or be able to receive the king's pardon before they can qualify as free citizens.

Therefore, the proportion of Chinese in Denver is as high as 82%, which is the reason.

There is no law prohibiting human trafficking in the Tang Kingdom, but there is an unspoken rule that must be followed.

That is, no matter whether you buy or sell whites, Indians or blacks, you must never buy or sell Chinese. Otherwise, once you are found out, it will be a felony, and you will have to pay a huge fine of tens of thousands of dollars if you start off with ransacking your home and losing your property.

In severe cases, the sentence will be demoted to convicts of hard labor. Even if the Chinese violate this unspoken rule, they will be punished severely.

The fifth thing is to imitate the establishment of a parliamentary system in the United Kingdom. The relevant British administrative experts have already put forward their opinions, but Richard put it in the list of postponed matters, and will not consider it for the next two years.

When the country was founded, Richard chose the feudal royal system instead of the democratic state system.

One is to consider integrating with the system of feudal kingdoms everywhere in the world today, and the Chinese people are more accepting, and they don't want to take too big a step.

Secondly, Li Cha has a familiarity with the bugs of the past and present, which method is more conducive to the development of the country, such as the palm of his hand, he does not want to let the democratic system get involved, and the dictatorship of the monarchy is more conducive to the development of the Tang Kingdom.

Thirdly, there is also a little selfishness, which is not enough for outsiders.

Therefore, the democratic parliamentary system and electoral system of constitutional monarchy should not be implemented in a hurry for the time being, and we will wait until the kingdom is stable.

After approving many documents, I looked at the clock, and it was already past eleven o'clock at night.

Li Cha stood up, stretched his waist, shook his head vigorously, and there was a crisp "cracking" sound between his bones.

His current body is young and full of vigor, and a little hard work of staying up all night is nothing to worry about, but it is so late before he knows it, and Li Cha can't help but a wry smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

There are too many things piled up on the desk, which can never be finished.

Li Cha strode out of the study room, Liu Wu and other officers who were waiting on the sofa immediately stood up and gave a military salute.
"Thank you, go down."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Li Cha passed by them, walked to the outside room, several pretty maids immediately stepped forward, helped His Majesty the king change and take a shower, and then sent him to the bedroom.

There had already been two sleeping maids sleeping under the brocade quilt with flushed faces, dressed like little white sheep, helping His Majesty warm the quilt.

The life of a feudal dictatorship really needs to be criticized.

(End of this chapter)