Wild North America 1846

Chapter 223 Immigration Tide

1854 is coming to an end, and 1855 will soon be ushered in. In the new year, whether in North America or Europe, East Asia, and South Asia, wars are the main theme. This is a year of world turmoil.

The Expeditionary Force sent by the Kingdom of Tang to Europe totaled 4 people in 2.45 divisions. The main force was mainly refugees from the Jiaodong Peninsula, supplemented by some experienced non-commissioned officers and officers.

In the Weihaiwei Concession in the United Kingdom, the Datang Kingdom now has 17 refugee relief sites, attracting a large number of fleeing Chinese to arrive here, forming a super large refugee area with a radius of more than ten square kilometers, gathering hundreds of thousands of Chinese refugees.

After cargo ships from the Datang Kingdom arrived in Weihaiwei, they frequently unloaded thousands of tons of grain and other supplies. These grains became life-saving food for disaster victims and were also the main varieties traded by the local government and grain merchants.

Ordinary refugees can receive a bowl of porridge every day at the porridge point to hang their lives. These grains are mixed with finely crushed wheat husks and dust and small stones. It is difficult for ordinary people to swallow. Only refugees who are willing to drink for survival.

The reason for doing this is firstly to save food, and secondly to eliminate those who are cheap and let more refugees live.

in a refugee camp

A special person is responsible for the selection and registration, and selects healthy refugees between the ages of 10 and 25. For example, those who volunteer to emigrate to the Datang Kingdom, who have no disease, no frostbite, articulate speech, and no limb damage, have a high probability of passing the selection.

Boys and girls aged 10 to 14 will enter a charity school funded by the royal family after immigrating to North America.

Those with poor grades will enter various factories and enterprises at the age of 16 and repay part of the immigration funds through hard work (depending on the number of years of training, generally within the range of 110 to 150 yuan).

Young men and women over the age of 15 can choose fixed-point preferential immigration loans. The direction of future immigration is the central and eastern provinces of the Tang Kingdom, as well as Midway Island and Pearl Island in the Pacific Ocean, that is, overseas provinces such as Hawaii, Panama or Alaska.

Fixed-point preferential immigration loans are generally three years, and those who do not choose are generally five years. They need to pass work during the repayment period and repay the ferry tickets and other corresponding expenses for transoceanic immigrants month by month, ranging from about 5 to 180 yuan per person (purpose Different places have different expenses).

There is only one Weihaiwei port

The trans-Pacific immigration liner can basically reach 33 to 36 per month, with immigration ships departing every day, transporting 2.3 to 2.5 immigrants, with a peak of 27749 per month, and an annual immigration scale of 30.

In addition to Longkou Port, Yantai Port, Shanghai Port, Mawei Port, Zhangzhou Port and Foshan Port, the number of Chinese immigrants arriving in the North American continent through the trans-Pacific northern immigration route has exceeded one million each year, about 110 million.

The immigrants who boarded the boat at the southern port also went north, transited through the Weihaiwei port to Midway Island, arrived in Hawaii at the next stop, and finally landed in Los Angeles, North America.

The immigrant ships added fresh fruits and vegetables, water and food along the way, forming a complete immigration route. After solving the problem of food supply and improving the harsh environment, the death rate of immigrants in 1854 dropped to 0.74%.

That is
During the long voyage, the number of immigrants who died due to various reasons was between 8300 and 8700 each year. This low death rate can be said to be a miracle in the history of immigration in the world.

the reason for this

It is the Datang Kingdom that has immigration officers at each port. The immigration officers are responsible for examining the physical conditions of the immigrants on board, the arrangement of accommodation for the immigrants, food supplies, and compliance with various regulations. They have the power of veto with one vote.

For example, if food maggots, mildew and deterioration, crew members abuse and violate immigrants, cabins are filthy, the environment is bad, immigrants are infected with epidemics or are weak, etc., the immigration officer has the right to stop the transoceanic transport liner at any time and order rectification. and suspend sailings, impose high fines on transoceanic transportation companies, order the arrest of corresponding responsible persons and impose severe penalties.

to be honest

Port immigration officers are the final decision-makers, and the assessment indicators they bear are the death rate. Those who can reduce the death rate of immigrants are good officials, otherwise they are incompetent.

It is precisely because of the effective control measures that, on the trans-North Pacific golden route, all shipping companies have tried their best to improve the transportation conditions, formulate health standards and food supply standards for immigrants, and greatly improve the environment of the immigration ships, which will cause headaches The mortality rate was reduced to an acceptable level.

Immigrant camps have been set up at each port. The Chinese refugees who have been confirmed to immigrate in the camps can get two meals a day. One meal is thin in the morning and one meal is dry in the afternoon. There are also a few vegetables and meat. Immigrants take care of their bodies.

Generally speaking

Depending on the physical condition of each person, the time spent in the immigration camp ranges from one week to one month. Young men and women over the age of 16 stay for a shorter period of time, and they can board the immigration ship after they recover.

Boys and girls aged 9, 10 to 13 mostly have relatively large physical deficits. They are not only ragged but also skinny, so after a uniform change of clothes, it takes a long time to recuperate their bodies before they can board the special children's immigration boat.

The condition of the children's immigration ship is generally good, and the ship is equipped with doctors and instructors of men and women. They will accompany and care for these children during the long journey, and take them to the deck to exercise, teach singing and activities every day. , from morning to night, pray three times a day to thank the Tang royal family for their benevolent rescue.

Among the children's immigration ships, the standard of material supply is also the highest. Each child can get an apple or radish every day, and a daily ration of half a pound of vegetables. In the ports of Midway Island and Hawaii, they can get priority vegetables and food supplies. Can get a small piece of salted fish.

The Tang Dynasty Royal Family Charity Education Fund rewards students who excel in their studies. Outstanding students who can enter high school will be exempted from repaying immigrant loans, which is equivalent to a generous gift of 150 to 180 yuan.

Those who excel in their studies will also receive bursaries and other generous rewards, including but not limited to participating in various activities organized by the Junior Military Academy, summer camps and the Royal Charity Fund, which greatly broadens their horizons and cultivates their abilities, which is an important part of their personal resume.

This part of the expenditure is the largest expenditure of the royal family's charitable education fund. It is fully allocated from the royal family's income every year, and the amount is as high as one million yuan per year.

Take 1854 as an example;
The total number of teenagers (including men and women aged 9 to 13) who immigrated to North America throughout the year amounted to 13.72. After entering the literacy class and literacy, less than 7% of them were able to enter the senior high school. In 1854, it was 4778. (The student base was small in the early years), and these outstanding students can be exempted from repaying the immigrant loan responsibility and enter the high school to receive key training.

And the vast majority of teenagers without learning talent will enter social engineering enterprises, bank chambers of commerce or the army after reaching the age of 15, and become self-reliant laborers.

After obtaining a fixed income, you will need to repay the bank immigration loan year by year, generally ranging from 3 to 5 years, and early repayment is allowed.

The outstanding students who enter the high school continue to be trained for three years, and the best are selected. About 700 to [-] of them can enter the university for further study, and the rest can enter the lecture hall for further study or enterprises according to their personal wishes, and gradually cultivate them to become social elites.

Today, this whole set of training procedures for Chinese immigrants has formed certain rules.

As for those adult Chinese immigrants, they can obtain resident registration after landing in North America. Those who should settle in the central and eastern provinces will settle in the central and eastern provinces. Those who are willing to stay in the western provinces will stay in the western provinces. A big woman who is married to a Ming media cannot run away.

The Tang Kingdom is a North American immigrant country dominated by Chinese. Ghosts call it "Tang people". After a large number of Tang immigrants poured in, the whole society showed extremely strong Chinese characteristics.

Various clan associations and associations have sprung up like bamboo shoots after rain, such as Chaoshan Association, Zhangzhou Association, Jiaodong Association, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Association, Li Clan Association, Wu Clan Association, Guangdong and Guangxi Zheng Clan Association, etc. , simply too numerous to count.

The temples and Taoist temples donated by the royal family and the people are scattered all over the place. There are village temples in the villages, Taoist temples in the towns, and family temples and ancestral halls that the Chinese clans are keen to build. They bloom almost everywhere.

In the strong Chinese social atmosphere, those early Chinese immigrants with bulging pockets had land, shops and manors, and they had to consider the righteousness of family inheritance, so marrying a Chinese wife as the main house became a social priority. hard core needs.

Everyone has seen that the throne of His Majesty the King and Queen has been vacant for many years. Didn't they marry a famous lady from Huaxia Shenzhou to inherit the rule?

This is the name of justice!

The Chinese in this era have a strong plot of the heaven and the country, and they all sneer at the surrounding barbarian countries. Foreigners call them ghosts, and Western women call them hags, all of which imply strong contempt.

As the saying goes, what is good at the top will be effective at the bottom.

Having a Chinese wife is generally regarded as a sign of a successful career, and the pure family blood is something to be proud of and boast about.

As a result, the transoceanic immigration business of mail-order brides has become more and more prosperous, and many media intermediary companies have emerged, mainly introducing transpacific marriages, and the business has become more and more prosperous.

For example, a retired soldier from Zhangzhou has food, a house, and fields in his family, and the woman has married several children, but if he wants to inherit the family business, he must have the wife of the Chinese principal.

In that case, they will be regarded as a successful career person, and they will not be pointed at the back when they go out.

For this reason, I would rather throw a lot of money.

Mail-order brides are expensive. For example, the innocent family from Zhangzhou is healthy and good-looking, plus the bride price and various expenses, plus the boat ticket, the mail-order bride can easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

If the desired mail-order bride is more demanding, and comes from a small and medium-sized landlord or a scholarly, well-educated woman, then it is not surprising that the cost will be doubled, usually two to three thousand yuan.

If the desired mail-order bride comes from a rich family, not only is the condition good, but also has a dowry maid, then it is normal to spend tens of thousands.

Different from the immigration boats that the refugees took, these self-financed immigrants all took transoceanic cruise ships with better conditions, and the tickets were expensive. A first-class ticket was 1600 yuan, and it was impossible to grab it.

The cruise ship does not have the smelly large warehouses of cargo ships. The lowest class 4th class can accommodate 24 people, and everyone has a bed. Although it is narrow and difficult to turn around, such a ticket starts at 220 yuan.

The third class is usually 8~10 people, and the ticket starts at 400.

Mail-order brides must at least fly in third class, and several female relatives live in one cabin instead of mixing men and women in fourth class. What is that?

In order to participate in the Crimean War in Europe, the Datang Kingdom mainly came from immigrants.

In the immigration camps at various ports, immigrants who are willing to join the army can be placed under the age of 38 as adult men, with a strong physique, good obedience, and no limb disabilities or diseases.

This gives refugees over the age of 25 a rare opportunity to immigrate, and refugees who volunteer to join the army can be exempted from paying immigration fees and repaying immigrant loan obligations, and all expenses are paid by the military.

Besides
Immigrants who volunteered to join the army were gathered together and could enjoy three meals a day. They began strict military training from the moment they entered the immigrant camp.

With such favorable conditions, many young male immigrants are rushing to sign up first. Isn't it just a war, and now that the war is spreading across most of China, death in battle is no longer a terrible thing.

Bo Yibo, maybe he can stand out?

In the immigrant camps in Shenzhou, there are many retired soldiers serving as immigration officers and staff appointed by the government. Many legends about the early immigrants of the Tang Kingdom who made their way to the top were vividly told in the immigrant camps, which aroused the dreams of many people.

Those high-ranking military nobles, like themselves seven or eight years ago, were just members of the refugee camp.

Others can do it, why can't I do it myself?
The power of role models is infinite. It is precisely because of the encouragement of the early immigrants that the number of people who signed up to join the army is extremely large. The number of statistics at various ports has exceeded 4.5. This is still under extreme restrictions.

After the British learned of this situation, they immediately contacted the Datang Kingdom and decided to send 4 divisions in the Datang Kingdom, with a total of 2.4 people. Training and command are continuously sent to the front lines in Europe.

To this end, the British paid three payments totaling 270 million pounds (equivalent to 1350 million yuan) and booked 3 mercenaries in advance.

The insufficient part of the cost will be allocated by the British colonial department, and all the supply of weapons, equipment and materials will be borne by the British side.

The only requirement is that this army must be sent to the European battlefield as soon as possible, and the deadline is before April 1855, 4.

this means
Before April 1855, 4, the allied troops on the front line in Crimea will receive no less than 1 reinforcements, and this is only the Datang Kingdom.

The British also transferred troops from India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Australia, and Canada one after another, preparing to fight to the death with the old men of Tsarist Russia on the Crimea Peninsula. In any case, they would not allow the Tsarist Russian forces to break through the Black Sea and the Balkan Peninsula, which would affect the whole of Europe. balance of power.

From this point, it can be seen how persistent the British are in maintaining their status as the arbitrators of the European continent and at any cost. This is related to the core of British foreign policy, no matter how expensive it is.

(End of this chapter)