Wild North America 1846

Nov. 1868, 3

The Fusang Civil War ended with 11 shogunate troops victoriously marching to Kyoto. Tens of thousands of defeated shogunate troops lay dead on the streets. The river was stained red with blood, and there were countless corpses floating up and down.

The flamboyant shogunate soldiers walked through the streets in groups with a samurai sword in one hand and the severed heads of the rebels in the other.And those Kyoto townspeople could only hide in the wooden house and cry in a low voice, not daring to make a loud noise.

After this campaign
Fusang Island's support for the reformist forces suffered an unprecedented blow. The shogunate counterattacked and calculated frantically. Come out, beheaded directly on the street for public display.

some of

There are more than 7.1 new soldiers in the shogunate. Due to strict military discipline, most of the new soldiers did not participate in this brutal killing feast. Instead, they followed orders to silently patrol and perform duties, or watched the atrocities of the "[-] bannermen" with a cold eye.

The main ones raging wildly in Kyoto were the old shogunate army. They included more than 4500 people from Banner, and more than 16300 royal family members, a total of more than 20800 people, plus their accompanying ministers, known as "Thirty Thousand People from Banner".

more than ten days in a row
Kyoto and surrounding towns were immersed in a thick atmosphere of bloody massacres. The madness of the Fusang warriors made the instructors of the Tang Empire unable to stand it any longer.

After the great victory in Kyoto, all the old bureaucrats of the Tokugawa shogunate also began to become arrogant, and some villains became rampant when they succeeded.

Ignore some correct opinions of the instructors, and indulge in the paranoid pleasure of violent venting.

If so, bye bye!

Beihai Province

"Clap clap clap..."

After a burst of gunshots sounded like popping beans, the resisting native warriors were knocked to the ground.Soldiers like wolves and tigers rushed into the last village of the indigenous Azo people, drove out the Azo natives hiding in the village, and burned down the thatched huts.

The raging flames shot up into the sky, and from time to time, Ezo natives in twos and threes would rush out of their hiding places, roaring loudly and waving their swords to kill them, and then they were shot down by the searching soldier team with their guns, turning into corpses scattered all over the place .

After this catastrophe, this indigenous village of three to 400 people will cease to exist.

Surrounded by soldiers with swords and guns, the bodies of the killed aborigines were thrown into the burning fire by the captured aboriginal men in the village, and finally burned to ashes together.

After the Tang Empire acquired Beihai Province, it immediately began to clean up the northern island of Fusang.

In accordance with the consistent policy on the treatment of indigenous peoples
After the 10,000+ Ezo natives in Beihai Province were cleared up, all the men were incorporated into the hard labor camps, and began to repair roads, docks, farmland water conservancy facilities and land reclamation in a planned way under the guidance, in preparation for the large-scale arrival of Chinese immigrants.

As the entire Beihai Province is located on the coast of East Asia, only more than 1000 kilometers away from the mainland by sea, immigrants from the Jiaodong Peninsula and the coast of East China can easily arrive, so the immigration work is carried out very smoothly.

After the pier in Sapporo was officially put into use, an immigration liner would arrive every two or three days, with between 2.2 and 2.5 Chinese immigrants arriving every month, including a large number of street children.

The empire has successively opened 13 large-scale charity shelter schools in Beihai Province. Each school has a scale of more than [-] people. It implements an integrated model of accommodation and teaching, separate schools for boys and girls, and all of them are managed militarily.

from now on

The immigration agencies of the Tang Empire in Shenzhou will gradually cancel the establishment of charity schools. The displaced children will be sent to Beihai Province for intensive education. The school uniforms will be uniformed. The three-year literacy education will be implemented, and they will instill loyalty to the royal family and the Tang Empire. Loyalty concept.

All the charitable education funds will be paid by the Royal Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the future, more Tzu Chi schools will be opened depending on the situation, mainly for children and children displaced by the famine in mainland China, providing these children with an opportunity to learn and change their lives .

It has been less than a year since Beihai Province entered the empire's territory, and its industry has undergone tremendous changes.

The major shipping companies that operate the North Pacific Golden Route are the first group of businessmen to sense business opportunities. They have invested huge sums of money to build terminals in excellent ports in Hokkaido, such as Hakodate Port, Otaru Port, Kushiro Port, Tomakomai Port, etc. etc., and purchased nearby land to build large-scale transit warehouses, opened ship repair yards and shipyards, hoping to turn the port of Beihai Province into a base camp facing the mainland of China.

After all, this is the territory of the empire in the Western Pacific region, the closest to the Eurasian continent, and it is very worthy of long-term investment.

In line with the investment boom of shipping companies, the Beihai Provincial Government has also launched two railway trunk line construction plans. An east-west railway trunk line runs through the entire island, extending from Sapporo and Otaru in the west of the island to Nemuro in the east of the island. This railway is called "rooted railway".

Another north-south main line railway, starting from Hakodate at the southern end, going north along the coastline all the way, continuing north after crossing the "rooted railway" in Sapporo, and ending at Wakkanai, the northernmost tip of the island, so it is called "Hanzhi Railway" railway."

The total length of these two railway lines is 1240 kilometers. Due to the need to cross many mountains, the two railways are planned to be completed in 5 years. They are mainly local convicts and Fusang laborers, supplemented by a small number of Chinese immigrant workers.

[-]% of Beihai Province is mountainous, [-]% is rolling hills, and only [-]% is coastal plains. It is also the farming area with the longest history of development.

less than a year

Beihai Province already has a population of nearly 23 (note; not including the Azo natives), and some coastal towns have also prospered accordingly. Many Chinese immigrants gradually entered the inland land reclamation, and inevitably there will be fierce conflicts with the local Ezo aborigines.

The handling method of the Tang Empire is very simple;
Aboriginal people with different languages, religions, cultures and customs are strictly suppressed. There is no process of persuasion and education, and they are directly suppressed by force.

The end of the military operation means that the suppression work has come to an end.

in New Year
Freighters filled with machinery and equipment will successively call at the port of Beihai Province. Various food processing factories, canning factories, shipyards and coal mines will be built here, and the world-class Hokkaido fishing grounds will be used to develop marine fishing and aquatic product processing industries. Large-scale farms have truly developed this place into a bridgehead for the empire to enter East Asia.

The coal reserves of Beihai Province account for more than half of the entire Fusang Islands. It is capable of supplying coal fuel for transoceanic ships, seafood and other living supplies, and has excellent conditions for building a logistics center base.

The latitude here is higher, the climate is cold in winter, and the summer is cool and pleasant. Coupled with the favorable conditions of sufficient sunshine, local agriculture has great prospects for development.

Just like the Great Northern Wilderness at the same latitude, the quality of the grain produced is quite high, with few pests and diseases, and the yield is satisfactory.

Based on such geographical features

Beihai Province does not encourage private ownership of land, but mainly large and medium-sized farms established by royal capital, aristocratic capital and social capital, and Chinese immigrants exist in the form of farm labor, so that land use is more efficient and the income of Chinese immigrants is also higher. relatively stable.

Following the steamship company's entry into Beihai Province were the three major telegraph operators of the empire and a group of financial institutions. Beihai Province, as an important node area for trans-Pacific submarine telegraph cables, how could it be possible that there were no three major telegraph operators?
It is another consideration for a group of banks to settle in Sapporo, the largest city in Beihai Province, and establish their regional headquarters here.

Due to the continuous family relationship between the Tang Empire and the mainland of China, transoceanic exchange has always been a high-profit business pursued by the major banks of the empire, and it is also the core business of fierce competition.

According to the statistics;
In 1867 alone, there were 41.27 transoceanic remittances from the provinces of the Tang Empire to the mainland of China, with a total amount of 5330 million Tang Yuan.

According to the ratio of 3% for coastal areas and 5% or even [-]% for inland provinces, this is a huge income with an annual profit of more than [-] million Tang yuan. Which bank is not jealous?

Also because of this
The banking institutions in the coastal provinces have become the favorites in the turbulent situation. During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, there were many disasters in which the banks were looted, and finally nothing happened.

Now that the Chinese society is gradually restoring stability, these foreign banking institutions have become fat sheep targeted by corrupt officials. If it weren't for the strong strength of the Tang Empire, they might have been torn to pieces long ago.

Therefore, the deposits of foreign banks should not be too large, and should be sent back to the local headquarters on a regular basis.

Today's Beihai Province provides a new choice for many financial institutions. Choosing Sapporo as the regional headquarters is very good in terms of security and convenience, which naturally attracts financial institutions to settle in.

Judging from the current good development prospects of Beihai Province, within a few years, with the influx of domestic capital, this northern island will develop quickly.

Around Beihai Province, there are a series of archipelagos including the four northern islands, and its geographical location is very important.

Beihai Province and Honshu Island are separated by the Tsugaru Strait, the Soya Strait faces the Tsarist Sakhalin Island in the north, and the Kuril Islands lie in the east.It faces the Sea of ​​Japan to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the southeast, and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk to the northeast.

The Vladivostok port occupied by Tsarist Russia is basically surrounded by Hokkaido geographically.

Its two strait passages to the east into the Pacific Ocean, one is the Soya Strait and the other is the Tsugaru Strait, both of which are under the control of the Tang Empire.

If the Tsarist Russian fleet wants to enter the Pacific Ocean, it is basically impossible without the permission of the Tang Empire, unless it sneaks there under the cover of night.

Because of the important geographical location of Beihai Province, it has become an important base of the Royal Navy in the Western Pacific. A steam armored squadron is stationed all year round to prevent Tsarist Russia from prying eyes to the south.