Wild North America 1846

Chapter 443 City Ranking Competition Intense

Compared with the prosperous development of the Great Lakes industrial area headed by Chicago-Detroit in the north, the light industry and food processing industry centered in Mexico City have formed in the south, and the tequila and rum produced locally are very famous.

After the Empire won the North American War and opened up the export channel to Europe via the Great Lakes and ports on the east coast of North America, the status of Panama's transshipment trade center in Central America was significantly reduced.

post american war

The North American Unified Market Treaty was signed, and the United States of America (North) and the Confederate States of America (South) successively launched cross-border railway transportation business. The entire North American railway network is connected into one piece without hindrance, which greatly facilitates the transportation of goods and personnel.

Immigrants from Europe to the Tang Empire no longer need to transit through Panama, and can easily reach the provinces of the empire by railway train.

When the Tang Empire went to Europe to study or do business, it no longer needed to travel thousands of miles south to Panama, Central America, but directly arrived at the east coast port of North America by rail, saving time and effort, and saving a lot of money.

The re-export of goods and people passing through here to Europe has dropped by as much as [-]%, which has had a great impact on the development of Panama City.

At its peak in 1859, Panama City had a population of 63.4 people, more than half of whom were engaged in entrepot trade. There were more than [-] large and small trading firms, which fell into a wave of large-scale closures in the following years.

to early 1865
There are only more than 200 trading firms still in operation in Panama City, most of which have port warehouses and are capable of operating waterway and rail combined transportation, so they can survive the brutal business competition.

The "Nervada Railway" across the Rocky Mountains in the Tang Empire has now become a part of the East-West Continental Bridge running through North America. The western starting point of the railway originates from Chang'an, enters the Rocky Mountains in the mountains through Salt Lake City, and extends eastward to Taoyuan City, Fenghuang City and other important cities in central China.

The railway network of the Tang Empire is seamlessly connected with the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, forming the most developed, densest and most prosperous railway transportation network in the world today, bringing endless wealth.

Today, only kerosene and sucrose are the only bulk transshipments left in Panama City. Most of the kerosene is transshipped to countries along the Caribbean Sea, and sucrose from Hawaii is still transshipped to Europe through the port of Panama.

After the North American Economic Integration Agreement was signed, it contributed to the thorough penetration of the North American railway transportation channel.

Among other things, Seattle has been preparing for the construction of the Northern Institute of Technology, the Northern School of Administration, and the Royal Naval Academy in Seattle. Only the Royal Naval Academy in Seattle has been approved and has officially started enrolling students in 1864.

In addition to direct trains, freight trains traveling from south to north need to be reorganized here, and the new urban area outside the Taoyuan Valley has flourished.The influx of capital frenziedly led to the rise of high-rise buildings, and land prices soared more than 10 times as if they were rolling.

Then it continues eastward all the way to Kansas City, and continues eastward to Louisville, Indiana, the border of the empire, from where it is connected to the extensive rail network of the United States of America.

Numerous industrial products, agricultural products and specialty products are transported by rail to all parts of North America and even Europe. The railway station 16 kilometers away from Taoyuan Valley has developed into the largest train marshalling yard in the empire, with 26 railway tracks.

To the east, you can reach New York, Philadelphia and Washington, to the northeast, you can reach Cleveland, the capital of Ohio, to the southeast, you can reach Richmond, the capital of the Confederate States of America, the southern Atlantic port city of Charleston, and south to Miami.

After talking about Taoyuan City, which ranks sixth in the empire, look back at Seattle, which is a little lonely. Its population has increased from 1858 at the end of June 6 to 73.98 at the end of 1864, ranking it as the fifth largest city in the empire.

Among the industrial economic components of Taoyuan City, steel, cement, building materials, wine making and food processing industries occupy a dominant position.

However, as Chicago and Mexico City, which were included in the empire's territory, regained their former glory, the attention of the upper echelons of the government was inevitably attracted, leaving less and less attention to Seattle, and fewer and fewer resources were allocated.

Compared with the No.1858 city ranking in 4, Taoyuan City fell two places in 1865, ranking sixth, being squeezed behind by Chicago and Mexico City, the former million-dollar metropolises, but this did not detract from Taoyuan City at all. of dazzling light.

Relying on local high-quality limestone and clay resources, the number of cement and building materials enterprises in Taoyuan City has grown to hundreds, forming more than a dozen well-known famous cement brands. Complete pottery and porcelain industry.

Its population has soared from 1858 in 67.1 to 1864 in 107.22, surpassing the step of a metropolis with a population of one million, and it continues to show prosperity and rapid growth.

The budget and appropriations of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Empire are limited, and now the focus is on Chicago in the north and Mexico City in the south, and big cities such as Taoyuan in the middle are also taken into account. Naturally, there are fewer educational resources that can be left for Seattle.

There are also a small number of radical Chinese businessmen who went to Cuba to invest in sugar plantations, backed by the powerful Tang Empire, at least in the entire American region, no one dared to bully Chinese businessmen.

In the category of food industry, especially the canned food industry in this region has formed a considerable scale. Various flavors of canned food are sold well in North America and Europe. There are also Taoyuan cheese, gin and Colorado brand malt beer, all of which are well-known products in North America.

The decline of Panama City in the south led to the rise of Taoyuan, a large city in central North America. As a railway hub city in the central part of the Tang Empire, Taoyuan City ushered in an opportunity for rapid rise after the North American War.

And all this

This is also a large central city with a relatively comprehensive range of industries and a profound development background. It is also a railway transportation hub in the central part of the empire, playing an important role in connecting the north, the south, and the east.

The population size difference from the fourth-ranked Mexico City is only 6.35, and the population gap from the sixth-ranked Taoyuan City is only 4.13. If you relax a bit, it will be surpassed. This is the headache that the Northern Provincial Government has to face.

It stands to reason that this development speed is not slow.

The other two institutions of higher learning have been under review and approval, and it is nowhere in sight when they will be approved.

Each has its own emphasis, greater potential, and promising prospects for future development.

In recent years, it has been squeezed out of the top four cities by Chicago and Mexico. As an important city in the north of the Pacific coast, Seattle has strong enemies in front of it and pursuers behind it, and it is under tremendous pressure for development.

Salem, a northern heavy industrial city strongly supported by the empire, has rapidly developed its chemical, steel and shipbuilding industries, and has replaced Seattle as the center of the northern shipbuilding industry. After becoming a city with a population of one million, its dazzling light even overshadowed Seattle. This is not good news.

But compared with other cities in the more aggressive Empire, Seattle's bright spots are much less.

Seattle is the capital of the Northern Province and the northernmost metropolis with a population of one million in the northernmost part of the Tang Empire. To the north is the Vancouver area.

The addition of Chicago, the third largest city, and Mexico City, the fourth largest city, made the distribution of the Tang Empire's economic territory more balanced, no longer focusing on the first-tier cities of Chang'an, Los Angeles, Salem, Portland, and Seattle on the west coast of North America. It presents a pattern of uniform distribution of coastal metropolises in the south, north, central and west coast.

Thanks to one of the destination ports of the trans-Pacific northern golden route, Seattle has been developing smoothly in the early stage, and once ranked among the top three major cities in the empire. That was the most dazzling moment.

As the largest industrial city in the north that used to rank third in the empire, Seattle has had its glory days but also its desolation. It was once known as the center of the shipbuilding industry in the north and the center of marine fishing and fishery. It is also a large province of animal husbandry in the north.

With the rapid decline of the port trade, the population of Panama City has rarely declined. Some Chinese businessmen who earned their first pot of gold in the entrepot trade took their families to Costa Rica Province, Channel Province or Zhennan Province to buy manor land. Lived a relatively stable life of a manor owner.

The biggest beneficiary group is the first group of local retired veterans. After the original meritorious land was converted into commercial land, they received generous compensation of tens of thousands of Tang Yuan or even more according to the market value, and then purchased a large number of building property rights. The happy life of the charterer.

In the new round of construction boom in the cities of the empire, Taoyuan's pillar steel building materials and cement industries are booming, creating a huge demand for labor and becoming a powerful booster for the expansion of the city.

Taoyuan City, the sixth largest city in the empire, is located on the Colorado Plateau and is the core hub city connecting the north and south of the important metropolis Chicago with a population of one million and Mexico City.

By the beginning of 1865, the population of Panama City had dropped to 54.9, a loss of close to [-] urban population, making it the only city in the entire empire with a population decline.

This was simply unimaginable before.

Salem Mayor Tang Qiyong once said triumphantly in a provincial economic meeting; "Salem's goal is not to replace Seattle as the largest metropolis in the north, but to challenge Mexico City's status and replace it as the empire's No. Four big cities."

It is not arrogant for him to say this. Salem ranks as the eighth largest city in the empire, and its population is only 17.3 people away from Mexico City, the fourth largest city in the empire. It is not an unreachable goal.

If we maintain the current high-growth industrial economic development trend, we can indeed surpass the previous big brothers and achieve a gorgeous surpass.

From the fourth to the eighth largest cities in the empire with a population of one million, there is not much difference between them. Now the competition is becoming fiercer, and everyone is holding back their energy to catch up with the former, forming a strong competitive atmosphere.

(End of this chapter)