Wild North America 1846

Just as the whole of South America was in an uproar because of the Tang Empire's intervention in the war, the imperial capital of the Tang Empire, Chang'an Palace, was holding a grand reception to celebrate the empire's purchase of Ezodi Island at a price of 2200 million Tang Yuan.

Ezoji Island is the largest island in the Fuso Islands except Honshu Island, with a total area of ​​83424 square kilometers, slightly smaller than Ireland, and the 21st largest island in the world.

Looking at Honshu Island from the south with the Tsugaru Strait, and looking at the Sakhalin Island from the Soya Strait to the north, Sapporo is the administrative center and largest town of Ezo, in addition to Hakodate and Nemuro, two important towns.

This price is indeed much higher than buying Alaska more than ten years ago.

However, it should be noted that Alaska is located in the high-latitude Arctic Circle as a whole, and it is not suitable for human habitation at all.

The Tang Empire has been in the hands for so many years, and the population that finally settled in Alaska is only 6320, and they are all located in the south near the coast.

Alaska is covered by ice and snow all year round, and the cost of colonization is high. It is an area subsidized by the imperial government all the year round. Local residents have to keep cats in their houses for most of the year, and no crops can grow.

The only way for the local residents to make a living is to go fishing in the short 3-4 months of summer and store enough food for a year. Necessities such as rice, flour, oil and seasonings need to be imported from the mainland.

Ezodi Island is different. It is located at 45 degrees north latitude. It is at the same latitude as Changchun, Shenyang, and Urumqi in the mainland of China. Due to historical reasons, it has not been well developed. It is a good place to beat roe deer and scoop fish.

After colonization and reclamation, it is enough for a million people to live and work in peace and contentment.

If it weren't for the fact that the Tokugawa shogunate in power in the Fusang Kingdom was in an increasingly difficult situation during the civil war and faced with the crisis of wars everywhere, they would never let go of selling the huge Ezoji Island.

For the Fusang people who have always been stingy, this is really heart-wrenching!

After obtaining Ezodi Island, Emperor Richard personally renamed it "Beihai Province", which will be included in the empire's territory as one of the overseas provinces of the Tang Empire.

From the perspective of macro strategy

As a result, the Tang Empire could extend its territory from Alaska in North America across the Bering Strait to East Asia. It lived next to Fusang, which was more conducive to strengthening its penetration into the country and participating in the international power competition in East Asia.

For a world power like the Tang Empire
Having a foothold in East Asia will provide a fulcrum to leverage the situation in the entire region, which is of extraordinary significance.

Besides
Beihai Province, as the transfer station of the North Pacific Golden Route, can perfectly connect the two important logistics transfer bases of Midway Island and Hawaii Island. It is of great strategic significance to improve the base layout on the North Pacific Golden Route.

As a North American immigrant country, the Tang Empire has long-term and stable import of Chinese immigrants from mainland China is a basic national policy. This policy has been adhered to for more than 20 years and will not change in the next 100 years or even longer.

With the current vast territory and livable environment of the Tang Empire, even the entire population of the Qing Dynasty can be moved here, and development is not a problem.

Over the years
With the end of the North American War and the end of the turmoil in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the international and domestic situations have changed. The average annual number of imported immigrants dropped from more than 160 million in the peak period to 1866 million in 111.3, a drop of nearly 5%.

Leaving aside the mind-set of people after the war in the Qing Dynasty, there are several factors in the Tang Empire, which also significantly affected the import of immigrant population.

The first one is that the North American War has ended, and the empire officially canceled a staggering number of new barracks in the mainland, and turned them into charity schools, and the scale was also greatly reduced.

This move alone reduces immigration by 28 to 32 young adults each year.

The second is that the empire has raised the immigration threshold. It is much more difficult for mainland refugees without culture and skills to obtain a boat ticket to North America. This is an important factor for the decrease in the number of Chinese immigrants.

Third, out of consideration for the balance of the male-female population ratio, the relevant departments of the empire introduced a policy to encourage young women aged 3 to 12 to immigrate, which led to a rapid increase in the proportion of female immigrants and greatly eased the contradiction between male and female population.

In the Tang Empire

Many successful Chinese immigrants want to marry a Chinese wife as the main wife, to continue the proud Chinese family blood, and this has led to the rise of the mail-order bride industry, which is a new interesting change in the immigration wave.

In the past 1866, the immigrant population imported by the Tang Empire was less than 10 per month. On the traditional North Pacific Golden Route, the average monthly immigration was 3.5 to 3.8 people, and its status has been replaced by the Central Golden Route.

On the golden route in the central Pacific via Paradise Island, the average monthly number of immigrants exceeds 5, reaching between 5.6 and 5.8, and their destinations are more diversified.

It is estimated that in the three years from 1866 to 1868, half of the Chinese immigrants on the golden route in the central Pacific Ocean were destined for Central American regions such as Central Plains, Costa Rica, and Panama. The neighboring Straits Province and Zhennan Province will also benefit. , setting off a boom in the development of Central America.

This is what His Majesty the Emperor promised, aiming to use Chinese immigrants to fill the urgently needed population in Central America and restore its economic vitality, which reflects the policy tendency of the government to "vacate the cage and change the bird".

Central America has an ancient development history of thousands of years, a mild climate, rich resources, a good farming foundation and a reasonable distribution of cities and towns. The only thing that is lacking is the population.

As long as there are enough Chinese immigrants, the revitalization of the area will be just around the corner, and the cost of development and colonization will be relatively low.

This is what the imperial government puts more emphasis on.

Among the remaining immigrant population, due to the need for further colonization and development, Paradise Island intercepts an average of 6000 to [-] people per month to supplement the labor gap.

The colonial development of the Andean Governor's Mansion in South America requires a lot of human resources. On average, more than 12 Chinese immigrants are allocated every month, which is between 13 and [-] a year. This is the result of the policy bias of the imperial government.

After so many diversions, the number of immigrants whose final destination is the mainland of the empire is only between 1.3 and 1.5 per month, which is about [-] to [-] a year.

In addition to the immigrants from the North Pacific Golden Route, the average number of Chinese immigrants entering the mainland of the empire is about 60 per year, and the number has been greatly reduced.

But this did not affect the rapid growth of the empire's population, because today's Datang Empire is based on the expansion of the population, and newborns have become the main force of population growth, especially in recent years.

The economic prosperity and territorial expansion of the Tang Empire brought about a rise in national self-confidence and a great increase in the cohesion of the empire, which triggered a series of virtuous circles.

While enjoying the dividends of economic growth and living and working in peace and contentment, the subjects of the empire have a stronger willingness to spread branches and leaves for the family, which leads to an obvious step-wise increase in the number of newborns every year.

In 1861, after the end of the American War, only 187.6 million newborn children were born.

By 1862, the number of newborn children reached 211.5 million, further increased to 1863 million in 235.79, 1864 million in 271.2, 1865 million in 293.11, and 1866 million in 305.67. The growth momentum is very gratifying.

In just six years, the growth rate of the newborn population reached 6%, becoming the main driving force of the empire's population growth.

According to statistics at the end of 1864, the total population of the Tang Empire was 4372 million. Two years later, the total population reached 1866 million at the end of 5241, showing a trend of rapid growth.

The Empire officially called it "the first wave of baby boomers after the North American War".

Among them, more than 70 officers and soldiers of Chinese descent entered North America through the channel of recruits from the mainland.

Many people also saved a sum of money during the war, or made a small fortune through plundering, and naturally, they spread branches and leaves for their families, and took root in North America to live a happy life as a small farmer.

More than 120 million young and strong retired officers and soldiers returned to their hometowns. This group became a strong driving force for the growth of the newborn population. In the five years after the war, this social group alone added more than 5 million newborns to the Datang Empire. The per capita contribution is 200 newborns.

This reflects from one aspect that the lives of retired officers and soldiers are generally more comfortable and happy, or they do not have so much leisure time and financial ability to have children.

The palace feast is located by the beautiful Taiye Pool.

From here, you can see the towering Wanshou (note, the homonym for "beast") mountain, and the faint roar of lions, tigers and beasts, mixed with the melodious sound of the piano, echoed by the Taiye pool, bringing people a wonderful feeling.

Today is the day when three blessings come to the door, His Majesty the Emperor was overjoyed and held a palace feast, rewarding civil and military officials and ministers.

The first joy is naturally that the empire has added Beihai Province, which belongs to the territory directly under the royal family, and its status is equal to that of Texas, Paradise, and Alaska. It is called the "four provinces directly under the royal family".

The establishment of provincial-level administrative agencies in the directly subordinate areas of the royal family is to facilitate the unified management of the empire, so as not to be separated from the imperial administrative system and cause confusion in cognition and management.

The second joy is the victory report of the Battle of Binonite Valley sent by the Andean Governor's Palace.

But among the many important ministers of the empire, they didn't pay much attention to it.

The empire has gone through countless victories in wars, and won the rookie Argentina. Is there anything else worth writing about?

Small meaning, sprinkle water!

The third joy is that the royal family has added a baby again. The concubine Bai Zhener who was accepted two years ago gave birth to twins, and they are all pink, tender and chubby boys.

If the twins grow up smoothly, they will be included in the ranking of princes after the age of three. They should be the No. 20 seventh prince and the No. 20 eighth prince, and they will have a place in the imperial ancestral temple.

His Majesty the Emperor loves her very much, and with a big wave of his hand Jin Baizhen'er became Concubine Shu, he naturally honored and favored this delicate and tender concubine.

These three joys are coming to the door, and they deserve to be celebrated.