Wild North America 1846

Chapter 242 Officially Opens the Central Pacific Immigration Route
When the world is in chaos, the Tang Kingdom seems to be the calm in the eye of the storm. While unswervingly promoting the national policy dominated by Chinese immigrants, it strives to develop industry, agriculture and animal husbandry, and revitalize the kingdom's economy, and has made remarkable achievements. Bright brilliant achievement.

Statistics from January to October 1855

In 10 months, a total of 107.6355 Chinese immigrants entered the Datang Kingdom through the North Pacific Golden Immigration Route and the Central and South American Immigration Route, and the average monthly number of immigrants exceeded 10, reaching a new historical high.

Based on the historical record of breaking the 5 million population mark at the end of May, coupled with the high growth of the newborn population in the Tang Dynasty, it is certain that the total population of the country will exceed 1100 million by the end of the year.

According to the statistics;
The gross national product from January to October reached 1 million yuan, and the annual gross national product exceeded the 10 billion mark. There is no longer any suspense.

In the world, economies with a total economic volume of 10 billion can already be ranked ninth in the world, slightly inferior to Britain, Russia, France, Qing, Prussia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Meijian, and the Ottoman Empire, and slightly ahead of the The Kingdom of the Netherlands (including the Netherlands East Indies) ranks among the top ten economies in the world.

in these countries
The Datang Kingdom has the smallest population, but its efforts to promote industrialization are second only to Britain and France, slightly ahead of the United States and Prussia, and are in the advanced ranks of the world.

It also has unique resource advantages, especially the petrochemical industry, which accounts for 88.7% of the world market, and has the world's largest output of the Saucito silver mine and the Morenso copper mine, providing a solid economic foundation for the industrialization of the Tang Kingdom .

The world's largest American River Mining Company owns the rights and interests of many gold mines in American River and Melbourne, Australia, and has a stable output of 270 million to 320 million ounces of gold each year, of which Australia's gold production has accounted for more than 6%. established mining company.

Under the guidance of the government policy of the Tang Kingdom, the newly-born canned food industry has sprung up all over the provinces of the Kingdom, creating a company with more than 40 food processing factories and a complete range of beef, mutton, poultry, seafood, melons and fruits. The canned food industry chain is warmly welcomed when exported to Europe.

In particular, the British Royal Navy Fleet couldn't put it down, and listed it as the first priority of the Royal Navy's food supply. Canned food of various flavors was purchased and hoarded wildly.

this move
It caused the French Navy, Prussian Navy, Sardinian Navy, Spanish, Dutch, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire and other navies to follow suit.

This is because the cans of Datang Kingdom are divided into one pound, two pounds, five pounds, 5 pounds and 20 pounds of tin cans, which can meet the needs of individual families or small-scale gatherings, and can also meet the needs of the ship's canteen.

Canned food not only has many varieties, but also has refurbished patterns, and various eating methods are almost unheard of, and are deeply loved by European customers.

For example, canned beef includes canned five-spice sirloin, canned beef stew, canned curry beef, canned braised beef, canned beef with pickled vegetables, canned beef with chickpeas, canned corned beef, etc., with rich tastes and many varieties, giving full play to the richness of Chinese cuisine. The foundation has created a wealth of products to choose from.

In addition to canned beef, canned mutton and canned pork, a wide variety of canned chicken, canned soybeans, canned chickpeas, canned luncheon meat, all kinds of stewed fish, grilled fish, fried fish, canned spiced fish, and pickled jellyfish Canned, all kinds of canned fruits and canned vegetables, all kinds of new products emerge in endlessly.

Just ask, who can not love?

The first time I tried the European market, I got an unexpected enthusiastic response. The freighter transporting canned products was sold out as soon as it arrived at the pier. Many popular canned products were even sold at high prices, several times the selling price. .

On the streets of London, there are even convenient restaurants selling canned food, which are popular for their fast speed and good taste.

These restaurants only need to open the cans, heat them on the stove, pour them on the plate, and it will be a hot food, and then paired with fresh bread just baked, and a glass of beer, it will be a good meal.

Actually

This is a new type of convenient restaurant extended from the original bakery in a disguised form. After the launch, the business was very hot, and it became widely spread in the social news for a while, pushing the reputation of Tangguo Canned Food to a new level.

Because of the sudden explosion of the canned food industry, the ranch farms and newly established slaughterhouses and canned food processing factories all over the Datang Kingdom have experienced a shortage of manpower, and the demand for labor is very urgent.

This boom in the canning industry has even affected Paradise Island. As a tropical island, the natural conditions here are very suitable for the development of the fruit industry. After being processed into canned food, it is sold well in Europe.

Many Chinese with a keen sense of smell sold their assets, went to Paradise Island to start a business, bought a large amount of land to establish a fruit plantation park, and established a canned melon and fruit processing factory, trying to get a share of this wave of industrial boom.

In view of this
At the imperial meeting where the cabinet routinely met, King Richard personally made the decision;

The preparatory work for the Central Pacific immigration route has been completed, and the new Central Pacific immigration route is officially opened, mainly in Mawei, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Jiangmen, Foshan and other ports in Fuzhou Province, transiting through Paradise Island Xin’an and Donggang, and finally arriving Panama's Central Pacific immigration route goes into operation.

on this route
Strictly examine the qualifications of shipping companies. The five largest shipping companies in Datang Kingdom were the first to obtain shipping qualifications. 5 immigration transport ships with a displacement of more than 5000 tons and more than 17 freighters were put into operation on this route to carry out trans-Pacific customer transport business.

This is an extremely important decision, which means that Datang Kingdom will have two trans-Pacific immigration routes in the future, which will strongly promote the economic development of the two overseas provinces of Paradise Island and Panama.

The official opening of this central Pacific immigration route will definitely boost the rapid economic development of the Tang Kingdom.

Say one thousand, say ten thousand.

The level of scientific and technological development in the world today is still low, and a large amount of low-level repetitive labor needs to be done manually. It is an unavoidable reality that industrial development is inseparable from abundant labor.

The age structure of the Tang Kingdom is generally relatively young, with young and middle-aged labor force accounting for more than 7% of the total population. The actual labor force is almost the same as that of the northern United States, which has a population 1.5 times larger. This is the biggest advantage.

Even so, cotton plantations and farms and ranches in the South and North, plus mills, requiring labor in the millions, were in great demand.

From cattle and sheep grazing, slaughtering and segmentation, tanning leather, processing into canned food, transportation, warehousing, factory construction, cotton field planting, picking, textile processing, agricultural product production, cleaning, and processing, almost every process requires a lot of labor. There are workers Where there is output, there is output value.

A large canned food processing factory employs one or two thousand workers at every turn, and in the provinces of the Tang Kingdom, new factories are popping up every day to devote themselves to this emerging and promising industry.

The important decision to open the Central Pacific immigration route at this time is the correct choice made by King Richard considering the progress of the construction of the Paradise Island transit port and the ability to carry immigrants in transit.

In order to adapt to the hot weather and long voyage of the Central Pacific immigration route, the immigration ships and freighters put into operation on this route are generally optimized. The middle and bottom warehouses are mainly used to carry cargo. There are round portholes, which have basic ventilation and living functions.

The entire central Pacific route passes through the relay of the two transit ports of Paradise Island, and is divided into several voyages of no more than two weeks, which is the voyage from Donggang to Panama.

With the strong protection of transit ports and canned food, the conditions for transoceanic immigrants are now much stronger than in the early years. With clean drinking water, bean sprouts, salted fish and a small amount of canned food (only self-paid passengers and patients can supply), At the very least, immigrants no longer need to eat those spoiled and rotten foods, black bread and japonica rice covered with maggots, and accidental deaths caused by severe diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration are greatly reduced.

Since the transit port can provide supplies, most of the passengers on the immigration ship mainly eat rice, noodles and vegetables, supplemented by a small amount of pickled vegetables, salted fish and bacon, and canned food is a luxury, only paying passengers and a small number of patients can enjoy it .

A large immigration ship with a displacement of about 5000 tons can carry about 1800 to 2200 immigrants at a time according to regulations, and can provide a relatively spacious space for activities. You can often go to the deck to breathe and enjoy fresh sea breeze.

Such conditions are 100 times stronger than in the age of sails.

There are policies and measures to counter.

Actually

排水量5000吨左右的大型移民船尽量装载的话，短途能够运输高达3500人至3800人，考虑到神州沿海各省距离天堂岛的新西安只有1300～1600公里不等，只需要4~5天的行程便可抵达。

Therefore, large shipping companies often carry more immigrants in Shenzhou. When they enter the new Xi'an Port and Donggang for transit, they unload part of the immigrants to offset the expenses, such as entry fee, voyage visa fee, coal fuel fee, material supply fee, etc., for the local The plantation owner supplements the labor force and earns some extra money.

Anyway, when they finally arrive at the port of Panama, the migrant boat will be strictly inspected, and heavy fines will be imposed on the overloaded part. This is done to ensure the living environment of immigrants transported across the ocean and reduce the death rate.

Therefore, the overcrowded immigrants will be unloaded in Donggang, which brings sufficient immigrant population to New Xi'an and Donggang.

At the end of the imperial meeting, the prime minister, Earl Gu Yan, and a group of cabinet staff dispersed one after another.

Only Earl Dai Changfu, Chief of the Army Staff, and Earl Pan Hengchen, Chief of the Navy Staff stayed, and they stared at each other for a long time without speaking.

"Mr. Dai, if you have something important to tell His Majesty, please feel free to do so. It's fine for me to wait for a while." Earl Pan Hengchen couldn't help but speak first.

Compared with the power of the land and sea armies, the army is still the boss, there is no doubt about this.

However, the navy of the Tang Kingdom is also developing rapidly. Since the entry of six steam iron-clad frigates, the navy has been able to carry out patrols in the middle and offshore waters to protect the kingdom's maritime rights and interests.

in the Pacific
The Navy of the Kingdom of Tang sent a fleet of two iron-clad steam frigates, two immigrant ships and three cargo ships, carrying 1300 marines, and participated in the British fleet’s attack on Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Landing campaign.

Although the battle was not smooth, more than 1300 marines lost more than [-]% and had to retreat when the coalition forces suffered heavy casualties.

But it is undeniable that this is the first appearance of the Tang Dynasty Navy in the Gulf War, and the British Royal Navy has a high evaluation of it, calling it; "a dedicated and reliable regional navy. "

To put it bluntly, the evaluation of the Royal Navy is the evaluation of the world authority, and no country has the right to refute this.

Earl Dai Changfu looked at Earl Pan Hengchen with an unkind expression, and said with a soft snort, "In this case, I will go ahead. But I want to remind Mr. Pan that the Kingdom Expeditionary Force has made outstanding achievements in Europe, and His Majesty has high hopes for it." In the future, the strategic structure of North America will still be Tang and the United States contending for hegemony, and our Army will shoulder the heavy responsibility. The Ministry of the Navy should have a clear understanding of this, and it is appropriate to obey the overall situation."

"Hehe... The development of the Ministry of the Navy does not need to bother Dai Dai. Now that the sage is in power, the general situation of the world is in the hands of His Majesty. Who is advancing and who is retreating, how can mediocre people like you and me be able to judge it?" Where?" Earl Pan Hengchen bluntly blocked the other party's words.

These words were hidden, but Earl Dai Changfu couldn't refute them, so he could only snort angrily.

The battle between the army and the sea has already begun to emerge, and the strife is just a matter of who eats more of the big cake of the military budget, and who eats less?
The Navy has developed rapidly in recent years. With the entry into service of six steam iron-clad frigates, the size of the Marine Corps has reached about 6, making it a very threatening combat force.

The scale is small and powerful, what it lacks is rich sailing experience and combat experience.

As an emerging sea force, the Tang Dynasty Navy's ability to absorb military expenses is comparable. The cost of a steam iron-clad frigate is more than 8.6 yuan, which is almost equivalent to the expenditure of half an infantry division. In addition, the training and maintenance costs are expensive. It did have a certain impact on the development of the army.

For any country, developing a navy is an expensive military project, and even a weaker country cannot afford it.

It's no wonder that Earl Dai Changfu couldn't get used to the navy's nose or eyes.

at this moment
Liu Xianjun, head of the Royal Secretariat, came out of the inner court, his eyes rested on the two military leaders, and he said with a smile in the corner of his eyes; "Your Majesty summoned, which one will go first?"

"Chairman Dai, please go first, and it doesn't matter if I wait a little longer." Earl Pan Hengchen, who is relatively junior, replied with a very sensible salute and a smile.

"Then... Mr. Dai invites you." Liu Xianjun then made a courteous gesture.

Earl Dai Changfu just didn't like the people of the Admiralty from the bottom of his heart, but he naturally had a different attitude towards His Majesty's close ministers. He smiled modestly and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Gongbao, please."

After finishing speaking, the two of them walked side by side, talking and laughing softly, quite politely, and they were superficial.

(End of this chapter)