Wild North America 1846

Chicago

Two years after the end of the North American War, this most important metropolis on the Great Lakes has returned to its former prosperity and bustle. Most of the people who come and go in the city are Chinese residents, and the demographic structure has quietly changed.

According to the statistics

As of June 1863, the registered population of Chicago was as high as 6. If the floating population is included, the total population of the metropolis exceeds one million.

Among them, Chinese residents account for 93.2%, and about half of them are retired soldiers. This is also one of the cities with the largest number of retired officers and soldiers from the Northern Legion and Colorado Corps. The other is Detroit, the capital of Michigan.

In the surrounding villages and towns, the proportion of retired soldiers who have become small and medium-sized farmers and ranchers in comfort is even higher, almost accounting for more than 8%.

In the Tang Empire, besides obtaining land through military meritorious service land, you can also buy it with money, but what you buy with money belongs to the "ten taxes and three" civilian land, not a Chinese businessman who is really powerful and has an unresolved complex about land. , Rarely invest in large farms.

At the end of September, it is the harvest season when the grass grows and the birds fly. It has been more than a week since Emperor Richard and his party arrived in Chicago for inspection. quite satisfied.

Generally speaking

Retired soldiers own at least 100 mu of land, and veterans who have made meritorious service even have 200 or even 300 mu of land. On the fertile black soil in central North America, the annual grain output is quite considerable.

Nowadays, the price of grain purchased by big grain merchants is also good, many of which are exported to the United States of America or the South, and some of the grain is processed into food or drinks, such as pastries, biscuits, local snacks and other foods, and the sales are quite good.

And many retired officers and soldiers who own fixed properties in the city, after retiring, they either enter the port authority, or enter the police station, or enter the railway bureau or telegraph company, or enter other public departments of the government to receive a stable salary. It can be stable at the middle class level, rich and stable.

This keeps the loyalty and praise of the retired officers and soldiers to the empire at the highest level, forming the most stable class ruling the Great Plains in central North America, with generally better social security and economic order.

"Chen Aiqing, Zheng Aiqing, judging from the inspections these days, the quality of the army's decommissioning and reintroduction work is directly related to the aspirations of the people. As the most staunch supporters of the empire, retired soldiers have shed blood for the empire's expansion. , was injured, and deserves a more favorable arrangement." Li Cha said with deep emotion.

Admiral Chen Chuan and Director Zheng Yuan, who accompanied the inspection, solemnly expressed their understanding, and Qiqi clasped their hands and replied; "My minister has been taught."

Li Cha nodded and continued; "Now there is a public opinion among the people, which means that the Tang Empire inherits the essence of Chinese culture and should inherit the concept of being a teacher of benevolence and righteousness. Dissatisfaction with policy. Be wary of such strange rhetoric."

Speaking of here
Li Cha looked up at the group of attendants, saw Major General Hu Baili, the chief of the special operations department standing behind him, and beckoned him to come forward.

Major General Hu Baili was wearing casual clothes, and when he saw this, he immediately squeezed to the front, saluted respectfully, and waited for orders.

"You have to systematically sort out the strange arguments that appear in domestic public opinion. Most of them are sour scholars and rotten literature and politics, trying to impose some corrupt and stinking Confucian concepts on the people. They always stand on the side of morality. The commanding heights are self-proclaimed, and the intentions are extremely sinister, subtly affecting the reputation of the kingdom government." Speaking of this, Li Cha gave a heavy snort, and ordered;
"This kind of sour Confucian literati tried to tie the hands and feet of the empire with Confucianism and Taoism, incited dissatisfaction among the people, and secretly accused the expansion of the empire of being cold-blooded and cruel, disregarding human life, and not a benevolent king.

For this kind of literati, the Special Operations Department should cooperate with the Ministry of the Interior to carry out dragnet investigations, especially when it comes to academic institutions such as newspapers and colleges and universities. Those professors and literati who indoctrinate students with rubbish must be checked several times.

When the time is right, they will all be captured together and punished for conspiracy to incite the empire's rebellion, and they will be killed without mercy!

These sour stinky literati hide among the masses, and they regard themselves as the mouthpieces of the people everywhere. Their poisonous tongue and disorderly government are extremely harmful, and they must be dealt with thunderously.

The public opinion circles of the empire should mainly promote the positive image of bloody colonization and dedication to the country, and be highly vigilant against those sour Confucian scholars hidden in the crowd. What they convey to the society is dissatisfaction and dark side, which must be eradicated. "

Speaking of here
Li Cha paused, glanced coldly at the crowd, and finally asked, "I've made up my mind, do you understand?"

"My minister understands that it must be dealt with with a thunderous blow and eradicated with a sharp hand." Major General Hu Baili's answer revealed a strong murderous intent.

"Well, the house needs to be cleaned frequently." After Li Cha said this, he continued to walk forward with his hands behind his back.

Admiral Chen Chuan behind him has already set off a turbulent heart at this moment, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back. He realized that the empire will promote a cultural purge from top to bottom. I don't know how many people will die?

The harm of Confucianism has been obvious in the Tang Empire. In the relaxed social environment for many years, those self-righteous Confucian literati have jumped out and criticized the imperial policy.

For example, the "Bombarding of Tokyo Incident", "Yokosuka Incident" and "Taiping Army Rebellion" that occurred in Dongying Island were greatly dissatisfied by the sour Confucian scholars who regarded themselves as benevolent, righteous and moral.

The speech said: "The empire should rule the world with benevolence and virtue, and not to be violent, so that all directions can come to worship, and the four barbarians are obedient. The use of excessive force is not the way of a holy king."

He Zhishan, a professor of Chinese studies at the Los Angeles Institute of Technology, wrote an article in a newspaper following the words of Wang Yucheng, the right pick-up of the Song Dynasty, and the Zhishiguan Wang Yucheng: "You don't have to use the heroic commander lightly, go deep into the enemy's territory, exhaust the power of the common people, and serve the false name of history. Take history as a mirror; Rein in the precipice, don't make the same mistake again and again."

These remarks caused great repercussions in society, and many literati deeply influenced by Confucian culture expressed their agreement.

And this kind of ideological confusion undoubtedly greatly hindered the empire's unanimous colonization policy, caused huge internal disputes, and thus messed up its own position first.

how to say something;

After eating for three days, you don't even know your last name?
The Tang Empire was too generous to the Chinese. Now some Chinese in the society began to sympathize with whites and Mexicans. They were full of sympathy for the Japanese, Indians or East Indians who were at the bottom of society. There was also the policy of the empire that strictly prohibited blacks. This often makes some discordant remarks.

All of these are full of food.

In daily government affairs, His Majesty the Emperor is good at listening to advice, but it doesn't mean he is good at speaking.

After all, he was the founding emperor who single-handedly conquered the great country, and all the ministers brought him up with one hand. His Majesty's prestige in the empire has already become a myth, and no one dared to question the formal decisions he made, let alone persuade them.

At this moment

His Majesty the Emperor is leading a group of people to inspect Chicago's No. 11 Iron and Steel Plant. This is a large steel complex with an annual output of 25 tons of steel and [-] tons of iron. Its production process has been optimized and its efficiency is much higher than that of the early steel plants.

Pointing and pointing along the way, Li Cha suggested that the steel plant use a large-scale steel crane driven by an electric motor to lift heavy objects and steel products. The plant personnel immediately recorded it and prepared to start researching related technologies later.

sometimes

There are no insurmountable difficulties in technology, but problems that can be imagined or unexpected.

If steel cranes are widely used, the production efficiency of Chicago's No. [-] Steel Plant will be greatly improved, at least much stronger than manpower or animal power.

looked around

When he was about to return to the conference room of the steel factory, Li Cha suddenly asked something; "Zheng Aiqing, is there any latest news about the negotiations between the Empire and London on the Falklands?"

"Your Majesty Qizuo, as far as I know, not yet." Director Zheng Yuan replied immediately after being slightly taken aback.

"Let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs push it again, and at the same time let the expeditionary force send a company to station on the island, and at the same time open the restrictions on immigration to the Falkland Islands, um... the policy... is equivalent to developing South America."

"My minister complies with the order and will handle it immediately after returning."

"Yeah." Li Cha just thought of this temporarily, asked, nodded, and continued walking with his hands behind his back.

For this matter, Director Zheng Yuan knew the whole story, and also knew that it was not easy to deal with.

In the year when the Argentine Confederation was established, the United States sent troops to the Falkland Islands to compete for fishing rights around the Falkland Islands, and the Argentine forces were expelled from the Falkland Islands.

After the United States withdrew its troops, the British, who valued the geographical location of the Falklands, sent troops to the islands in 1832. In 1840, the British officially established the Falklands as a colony.

Up to now, it has been more than 20 years.

Argentina strongly protested against this, believing that the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands passed by Spain to itself was the only legal claim. However, Argentina was weak and did not dare to confront Britain head-on.

After the Great Tang Empire went southward to colonize, the Malvinas Islands, which are more than 600 kilometers away from the South American continent, became a problem that the empire had to face up to, so it initiated a serious negotiation with London.

The problem is that the current Prime Minister Henry John Temple of the London cabinet and His Majesty the Emperor have always been at odds with each other. The relationship between Ying and Tang has become very tense. Although joint military operations have been taken in the Fusang Islands, it does not mean that the relationship has warmed up.

Most immediately manifested in issues of representation in the British Canadian colonies (mainly British Columbia and the Yukon Territory), issues of toll rates for the Toronto Canal, debt service and financial recovery programs for the United States of America, and international negotiations on the Appalachian coalfields (Ultimately owned by the Tang Empire, but Britain was quite dissatisfied with this), the colonization of South America, the Paraguay issue, the Cuban issue, the Apennine Peninsula issue and the issue with Russia did not reach an agreement on many aspects, and the filth frequently occurred, and the relationship between the two countries has also been going downhill. Gotta bump.

The three princes of the empire studied in Europe, and none of them was from the British Empire. This was tantamount to a slap in the face of Prime Minister Temple, showing the differences between the two countries, attracting France, Germany, Austria, The cynicism from Italy and other countries.

When it comes to the issue of the Malvinas Islands, it is reasonable that the London gentlemen who have always been slow in administrative efficiency have not responded much.

If there is no urging, there will be no positive response in 10 or 20 years or even longer.

Li Cha also simply sent troops to the island, immigrated directly, and then flooded the Falkland Islands with the tide of Chinese people to create a fait accompli, forcing the British to withdraw their troops.

It's okay not to withdraw troops, so let's live together!