Wild North America 1846

Chapter 328 Food and Finance

As the core part of the population policy, the unique oriental marriage system of the Tang Kingdom is the biggest guarantee for high population growth, and it is also an extremely attractive place for naturalized whites.

It is true that the concubine system is indeed unfriendly and unequal to women.

But this is a common situation in today's European and American societies. Women have no voting rights, no inheritance rights, no employment rights, no right to education, and have always been ignored. They are only regarded as vassals of the family and the property of the husband. Word?

Even though Li Cha is a king, he cannot challenge the entire social tradition by himself. If he wants to realize the rise of the Chinese nation in North America, he has to make a choice in order to win the full support and followers of more people.

In March, spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and everything is revived.

Li Cha was very anxious, so he dressed up in disguise, and with only Viscount Dong Jie and Lieutenant General Li Wu, he slipped out from the side door of Daming Palace quietly, and started a private visit in disguise.

The three of them boarded an ordinary carriage without any badge. The carriage was not big, but it was pulled by two handsome horses. The rubber wheels of the carriage were extraordinarily thick, showing that the load was not light.

This is actually a specially-made carriage equipped with bulletproof steel plates. The appearance is ordinary, but there is a universe inside.

The carriage is driving on the large Danfengmen Street. The buildings on both sides of the street are mostly 4-5 floors, with Chinese cornices and bucket arches, and European-style Roman colonnades. There are almost all kinds of architectural features. Architecture Museum.

And this just reflects the inclusiveness of Chang'an, an international metropolis. In the green planting area with a width of 4.5 meters in the center of Danfengmen Street, tall trees are lush and lush, while low bushes are full of flowers, which are extremely delicate and beautiful.

There is a pocket behind the buttocks of the driving horses that come and go, which is to prevent the horses from defecating indiscriminately and polluting the street environment.

The noble carriage is covered with a brocade horse jacket embroidered with the family crest, and the dung bag is also hidden inside by the way, which seems to have a sense of tallness and elegance.

Sitting in the stable carriage, Li Cha crossed his legs and tasted leisurely with a glass of French champagne in his hand.

"Your Majesty, after more than a week of repairs, the leading troops of the Colorado Corps have already taken the train to the north. The follow-up rest troops will arrive in the north within half a month according to the train transportation plan."

"Oh...very good."

"Your Majesty, Bismarck, the ambassador of the Kingdom of Prussia, strongly requested to go to the front to study and observe our kingdom's military operations at close range. He also brought a dozen personnel from the Prussian embassy with him. It is the Prussian who claimed to be your loyal follower, a Reckless guy."

"Oh... what do you think of this man?"

"I feel that although this person acted a little recklessly, he has to be said to be very scheming, thoughtful, and very capable of action. Generally, envoys stationed abroad cannot make such extraordinary demands. It can be seen that this person is dissatisfied with the status quo , secretly ambitious."

"I do see some problems, try to arrange for him, Bismarck should be a restless master."

"My humble minister would like to obey the holy order."

Li Cha did not respond to his casual orders, but cast his gaze outside the carriage. The carriage had already turned around Danfengmen Street and entered Chaoyangmen Street. The street was bustling as always, with many shops along the street and constant flow of people.

In the Tang Dynasty, all Chinese immigrants had to cut off their long braids for naturalization. This is an important measure to remove the legacy of the Manchus. As for whether to wear long hair or short hair, it is voluntary and there is no regulation.

Pedestrians on the street are full of spirits, walking with their heads held high, revealing a high spirit from inside to outside. This is the biggest change for the Chinese.

Along with the successive victories in the expansion of the kingdom, the superiority of the subjects of the heavenly kingdom arose spontaneously, and they naturally looked down on the Mexicans and Indians, as did some whites from small European countries.

Only European powers such as Britain, France, Prussia, and Austria can be treated fairly. The further increase in the status of the kingdom and national self-confidence has brought influence everywhere.

No black slaves can be seen on the streets of the Tang Kingdom, and blacks are not allowed to enter the country, regardless of gender. This is also a place where many white racists feel extremely comfortable.

Due to its open policy and a large number of intermarriages with whites, the Datang Kingdom is generally regarded as a white country in the European and American world. Otherwise, how can it be explained that the Datang Kingdom has repeatedly defeated the United States of America?

Also defeated Russia in Crimea, is this something that non-white countries can do?

Li Cha has always been indifferent to this kind of paranoid brain supplement in the European and American world. If it is said that the Europeans from the University lack understanding of oriental culture, it is not the slightest bit.

Even senior oriental scholars in European and American countries generally believe that the Eastern Dynasty is a unified empire that lasted for thousands of years. As for the Qin Emperor, Han Dynasty and Wu Dynasty, Tang Zong and Song Zu couldn't figure it out at all.

I am even more confused about the entry of the Manchus in modern times. Anyway, it seems that they are all Orientals, and they can't be wrong.

This kind of academic point of view is still the same even after more than 100 years. It is difficult for scholars who are not intensively studying Eastern history to figure out such things as the replacement of the Qing Dynasty. There is a popular saying;

When the ancient Roman Empire dominated the world, the only hegemon in the world that could contend was China.

During the period when the Byzantine Empire was fighting for world hegemony, the only hegemon in the world that could contend was China.

When the Persian Empire dominated the world, the only hegemon in the world that could contend was China.

When the Ottoman Empire dominated the world, the only hegemon in the world that could contend was China.

There is another one behind;
When the United States dominated the world, the only hegemon in the world that could contend was the recovering China.

Look, in the context and cognition of Europeans and Americans, this China is a China that has been united for thousands of years. Even if China has entered a new era and has undergone earth-shaking changes, it is often ignored.

The carriage is walking in the bustling streets and alleys, and the streets are clean and tidy. There are public toilets every few hundred meters. The manure in the public toilets is the best farm manure. Every morning and evening, manure trucks come spontaneously. clean up.

For this, the municipal government must demarcate the area, and it is not allowed to cross the boundary to dig out the excrement, otherwise it will cause conflicts and fights. Does it sound incredible?
it's not surprising

In the 19s, increasing food production was a major problem that plagued all countries. Isn't it shameful that the British went to the site of the Waterloo battlefield to dig up those bones?

It is because bone meal is the best source of phosphate fertilizer, which is indeed helpful to agricultural harvests, so Europeans dig up ancient battlefields and even abandoned cemeteries everywhere to obtain bone meal raw materials.

The first plant of Coastal Fertilizer Company, which Datang Kingdom put into operation in Salem, has produced a steady stream of potash fertilizer products.However, due to limited production, it can only be supplied to the royal family and major noble farms first, and social promotion can only be ranked behind.

As for export, don’t even think about it. At least within 7 to 10 years, Datang Kingdom’s potash fertilizer industry will not develop to a certain level and meet its own needs, so it will never consider exporting.

In this year's spring plowing
Potassium fertilizer has been used on a large scale. It seems that the seedlings are growing vigorously. Compared with the seedlings in the field, the growth and size are much stronger. It turns out that a bumper harvest is something to look forward to.

After more than half a year of production, the Salem Fertilizer Plant has solved many mass production process and equipment problems. The output has been increased step by step, the production process has become more mature, and it has basically the ability to expand production in large quantities.

In view of this
Coastal Fertilizer Company's second fertilizer plant is already under construction and will be located in the Los Angeles area in the south.In the future, Taoyuan City, Peel City, Chihuahua, Jinling and other important agricultural and animal husbandry cities will have plans to comprehensively strengthen the kingdom's agricultural and animal husbandry production capacity.

In terms of potash resources, the Kingdom is organizing research on the technology of extracting potash from salt mines, which was first developed in Germany, mainly to optimize the refining steps of brine, develop large-scale production processes, and further reduce costs.

This technology of extracting potash in salt mines is mainly extracted from salt brine. At present, it faces disadvantages such as cumbersome production process, low extraction efficiency, and high cost, so it does not have the value of large-scale promotion for the time being.

If you want to say whether there are salt mines in the Tang Kingdom, it is really underestimating people.

The rich resources of the Tang Kingdom almost made Britain and France and other powerful countries look at it with red eyes. Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah Province, is located next to a huge salt lake. This is the second largest salt lake in the world after the Dead Sea, with a salt content as high as 25%. .

It is located on the edge of the Nevada desert, with large white salt crystal particles that can't be seen at a glance, and natural rock salt is everywhere, and the reserves are so huge that it is unimaginable.

45 kilometers southwest of Salt Lake is the world's largest open-pit copper deposit discovered so far. Unfortunately, due to limited manpower, material resources and market demand, such a large treasure house of resources has not been developed for the time being.

The Sierra Nevada Mountains in Utah alone are rich in resources such as copper, lead, iron, coal, diamonds, etc., which are large enough to be mined for thousands of years. Are these resources rich?
In 1847, Salt Lake City was founded by a group of Mormon believers led by Brigham Young. Since then, the church’s head office has been located in Salt Lake City, and more than half of the local Chinese are members of the church.

Therefore, as long as the technical problems of chemically synthesizing methine are solved and it has the value of large-scale promotion, raw materials are not a problem at all.

The silver and copper exports of the Datang Kingdom are the largest in the world today. Gold is rarely sold externally because it is stored by major banks and used to expand currency issuance and support domestic economic development.

As of the first quarter of 1860;

The Royal Red Oak Bank of the Datang Kingdom alone has a gold reserve of 342 tons, second only to the Royal Bank of Scotland of the British Empire, ranking second in the world.

Today, the Royal Red Oak Bank is still buying and storing gold steadily at a rate of 30-35 tons per year, and the same is true of the other seven joint note-issuing banks of the Tang Kingdom, commonly known as the "Eight King Kongs".

The eight King Kongs are Royal Red Oak Bank, Bank of America, Royal Changan Bank, Bank of Los Angeles, Bank of Communications, National Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, North American Colonial Bank, and Royal West Coast Bank. bank.

These eight banks have the most gold reserves of 342 tons, and the least Royal West Coast Bank also reserves 51 tons of gold. The total gold reserves are quite astonishing, which effectively guarantees the strong currency value of the Tang Yuan and maintains the stable development of the financial order of the Tang Kingdom. .

(End of this chapter)