Wild North America 1846

"Although I disdain the blatant self-interest theory of the Anglo-Saxons, it is really a dog's face to turn over and over again. If the goal is not achieved, simply tear off the face and grab it with your hands, regardless of the appearance, and don't care about it at all. It is in line with the Eastern doctrine of the mean." Emperor Li Cha shook his head in distaste, but then he looked serious, and said;
"It is undeniable that this set of profit-oriented jungle laws is quite practical, and it is also the basis for the brilliant success of the British Empire in the past 200 years, and it must not be completely denied.

Take its essence and discard its dross for my own use. This should be the way to seek the country with maturity.

Recently, the Royal Secretariat edited a book "Modern Diplomacy of the Kingdom of Great Britain", which lists in detail the hot events in Europe and the world over the past few hundred years, and interprets London's diplomatic wisdom in many ways. All cabinet ministers need to study it carefully is.

I believe that in this world, no one can succeed casually, and the long-term prosperity of England must have its inherent logic and reason for success. "

Emperor Li Cha waved his hand, and his royal secretary brought out a stack of newly printed books, which exuded a strong fragrance of literary charm, and handed them to the ministers who came with the prime minister.

Looking at the title of the book printed on the title page, it is "Great Britain's Modern Diplomacy", a line of calligraphy is strong and powerful, and it really feels powerful through the back of the paper.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your guidance. I will study it carefully when I go back, and I dare not be negligent." Prime Minister Dong Jie led the crowd to thank him.

After establishing the government's stance on the Spanish throne and European policy, Prime Minister Dong Jie had clear guidelines, and suddenly felt that the pressure on his shoulders was much less, and his expression on some international affairs reported later was much more relaxed.

This includes the Fusang Kingdom asking the Tang Empire to intervene in the mediation of the civil war, and the guano mine disputes between the South American country Chile and Peru and Bolivia.

Chen Enguan, the head of the Lanfang National Congress, proposed to the eldest son Chen Deshao to marry the four royal princesses. His purpose was to use the deterrence of the Tang Empire to stop the colonists of the Dutch East India Governor's Mansion from coveting Lanfang Kingdom.

There is also the matter of Ryukyu Crown Prince Shang Jian’s proposal to marry the five royal princesses, and the Kingdom of Prussia and several great nobles of the German states also have the intention of marrying. Relevant matters need to be approved by the queen, and the marriage with the royal families of various countries must be properly arranged.

Emperor Li Cha did not comment on these trivial matters, and the imperial government mainly dealt with them.

Matters related to the marriage of various royal families are decided by the head of the inner palace, Empress Lin. The main thing is to arrange the marriage of several princesses of the right age, which is the queen's job.

The emperor discussed foreign affairs for a while, and Prime Minister Dong Jie led all the ministers to resign.

As the third prime minister since the founding of the Tang Empire, Prime Minister Earl Dong Jie took over a thriving and prosperous empire.

The government has abundant financial funds and strong military strength, and the future development is bright.

In particular, the abundant financial funds of the empire have almost solved more than [-]% of the problems of the new cabinet.

as of late 1869
The Tang Empire has maintained a stable growth rate of more than 16% per year for more than 7 years. In 1869, the economy grew at a high rate of 8.72%. The development momentum was continuous, and there was no sign of economic decline.

compared with

The British Empire, which ranks first in the world, had an economic growth rate of 1869% in 1.21. The dividends of the first industrial revolution represented by the steam engine have been wiped out, the overall economic growth is weak, and the field of technological innovation is lacklustre. into a low-level stagnation.

Looking back
In 1863, the total national economy of the United Kingdom reached 9.45 million pounds, equivalent to 47.26 billion Tang yuan. As the world's factory, it was far ahead of other countries in the world.

6 years have passed
After accounting in 1869, the total national economy of the United Kingdom was 11.38 billion pounds, equivalent to 56.9 billion Tang yuan. The growth of the total economic scale showed a trend of slowing down obviously.

The Tang Empire's rapid economic development continued for many years, and after the North American War, it reached a new level, with a total economy of more than 20 billion Tang Yuan.

By the end of 1863, the total national economy had reached 23.77 billion Tang Yuan, which was close to half that of the United Kingdom. At that time, the population of the empire had reached 4061 million, which had exceeded the total population of the United Kingdom.

6 years have passed
Datang Empire is running faster and faster on the track of catching up, and the industrial field represented by technological innovation and emerging electrical and chemical industries has achieved fruitful results.

Continuous introduction of medium and large generators, medium-sized high-horsepower diesel tractors, diesel trucks, new gasoline engines, and endless chemical fiber and plastic products have enriched the product line of the chemical industry and driven the national economy to catch up quickly on the high-speed track.

In 1869, the total national economy of the Tang Empire was calculated to reach 43.244 billion Tang Yuan, which was about 76% of the size of the British economy. It took only 3 years for the ratio of the economic scale of the two countries to go from half to 4/6.

In this age without inflation, the achievement of this great achievement is real enough to make all the subjects of the whole country feel sincerely happy.

According to the optimistic speculation of public opinion in private newspapers;
If the empire can continue to maintain its current rapid growth trend, it has not been hit by war or other major economic recession.

Eight years at the latest. If optimistic, it will surpass the overall economic size of the British Empire in 8 to 6 years, and thus ascend to the throne of the world's largest economic aggregate.

And this historical milestone and glorious achievement will not only inject a shot in the arm for all the subjects of the Tang Empire, it is worthy of the whole country's joy and encouragement, and imagine a better future.

While seeing the results, we should also see the gap.

The population of the Datang Empire reached 1869 million at the end of 6577. At the same time, the population of the British Isles was 4572 million. The population of the Datang Empire was 2000 million more than that of the latter. The total economic volume was only 76% of the latter, and the per capita level was only It is more than half of the UK.

This is because Britain, which has entered the era of industrialized economy, has maintained a high level of urbanization. It reached a high level of 19% in the early 54th century. In 1870, the urbanization rate reached 76.6%, which is among the highest in the world. , second only to the United States of America.

There are unique reasons for the particularly high urbanization rate in the United States of America. After the North American War, the United States of America lost large tracts of agricultural land in 10 states, including the Central Plains, Monterey and Tijuana, and retained the eastern region with a long history of development. Coastal states, including coastal cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Portland.

While losing food autonomy, this has greatly increased the urbanization rate of the United States of America, which is as high as 83.2, unmatched in the world.

The urbanization ratio of the Tang Empire has risen and fallen sharply in the continuous expansion. Today's urbanization ratio is only 55.2%, slightly exceeding the level of Britain in the early 19th century.

In the foreseeable decades to come, it will be difficult to reach the current level of urbanization in the UK.

This is because the Tang Empire has a vast territory, with millions of private farms, pastures and plantations. After the South American Andean Governor's Mansion was merged into the empire's territory, it highlighted the economic components of the empire with equal emphasis on industry and agriculture.

As the world's largest exporter of grain and agricultural and animal husbandry products, nearly half of the population of the Tang Empire, totaling more than 3200 million, is engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry and fishery production. This is an important part of the empire's economy and the basis for long-term stable development based on world powers. .

Fundamentally
The distribution of industrial and agricultural economies in the Tang Empire is relatively balanced, especially the mechanization of agricultural and animal husbandry production continues. Every year, more than 8 agricultural machinery and 1.6 trucks are put into agricultural and animal husbandry production, which greatly improves agricultural and animal husbandry production. Efficiency is very worthy of recognition.

The imperial government promotes the enthusiasm of private farmers, ranchers and planters to purchase agricultural machinery through the preferential subsidy policy for agricultural machinery, so that ordinary farmers can enjoy the convenience and efficiency brought by mechanical production, and enhance the strength of the agricultural machinery industry. A coup that kills one bird.

The government, private farmers and ranchers, and agricultural machinery manufacturers all benefit, which is self-evident for the benefits of economic development.

Today's world
The Datang Empire has become the country with the most extensive use of agricultural machinery, and the cumulative number of registered agricultural machinery has reached 42.

These agricultural machinery consume a large amount of diesel and gasoline that were previously considered useless, which greatly promotes the production efficiency of agriculture and animal husbandry, strengthens the strength of agricultural machinery manufacturers, and saves a lot of labor costs for farmers and ranchers.

In stark contrast is France, a traditional European agricultural country. In 1870, there were no more than 1 agricultural machinery in the country, and mules, horses and oxen were still the main farming method since the Middle Ages. The efficiency of agricultural production can be imagined.

In the field of promotion and application of agricultural machinery, the Datang Empire is far ahead.

In fact

Agricultural machinery is not widely used among private farmers and ranchers in the Tang Empire, and there is still a huge space to be developed, which itself is a huge market.

End of 1869
The Datang Empire owned more than 137 million large and small farms, pastures and plantations. Considering that some royal farms and large aristocratic farms generally use agricultural machinery, the number of agricultural machinery kept by a single farm or pasture is quite high. There are hundreds of farms.

There are a total of 42 agricultural machinery, and the penetration rate is less than 1/10. That is to say, there are still more than 9% of the small and medium-scale farms in the empire. The pastures and plantations do not use agricultural machinery, and still rely mainly on animal power, using cattle and horses to plow the fields .

What a huge market this is!

If it is developed, it will be enough to cultivate 7 to 10 world-class agricultural machinery giants, and it will be easy to double the total output of various grain and oil products in the empire.

But this has to be done slowly, not in a hurry.

Relying on the huge market of the empire, the development of the agricultural machinery industry is in the future of all countries in the world, and major agricultural machinery manufacturers continue to launch high-horsepower agricultural machinery products.

For example, the popular tractors have developed from walking tractors to 4-wheel tractors, from 8 horsepower and 12 horsepower diesel engines to 28 horsepower and 45 horsepower medium-sized diesel engines, and are developing heavy-duty tractors with more powerful horsepower to meet large and medium-sized farms. urgent need for farming.

Market demand drives the development of agricultural machinery, forming a virtuous circle.

Heavy industrial cities such as Chicago, Detroit, and Salem benefited from the rapid development of agricultural machinery and freight vehicles, and various supporting factories sprung up, which greatly drove the industrial economy to take off.

For example, the demand for agricultural machinery and freight car rubber tires, rubber strips and rubber mats and other products have triggered an upsurge in the development of rubber plantations in tropical Central America and paradise islands near the equator, and have become a new investment hotspot for many private planters. .

It takes 8 to 9 years for a natural rubber tree to grow from a seedling to tap rubber, and a mature natural rubber forest will bring a steady stream of stable income to the plantation owner, which is the role of the industry.

Fortunately, the Tang Empire has a vast territory, from the frigid to the temperate zone to the tropical zone near the equator, as long as the agricultural and animal husbandry products can be named, there are always suitable places to grow them.

Natural rubber, sucrose, spices, temperate and tropical fruits, dried fruits, grape tea, coffee and tobacco, as well as bulk grain and oil products are all available, demonstrating the demeanor of a large agricultural country with every detail.

In 1869, the total steel output of the Tang Empire surpassed Britain for the first time, ranking first in the world, which released a strong signal of industrial development.

In 1869, the combined output of crude steel and pig iron in the UK was 554 million tons, and the combined output of crude steel and pig iron in the Tang Empire reached 650 million tons, firmly ranking first in the world.

The vigorous development of the shipbuilding industry, railway, infrastructure construction and agricultural machinery industry are the four favorable factors that lead the steel production of Datang Empire to become the world's largest.

Capitalists are always willing to invest in profitable businesses, and the Datang Empire is no exception.

In 1870 and the next three years, more than a dozen iron and steel enterprises in the empire have plans to increase investment and expand production, and steel production will increase significantly.It will soon break through the ceiling of an annual output of [-] million tons of steel, reaching a height that no country in the world has ever reached.

Judging from the four favorable factors driving demand
The shipbuilding industry is a key industry for the Datang Empire to develop its foreign economy, and it is in the boom period of shipbuilding in the ascendant.It will be continuously consolidated and strengthened along with the status of the largest grain exporter of the Tang Empire and the continuous food crisis in Europe.

It is an indisputable fact that the Tang Empire, as one of the most extensive countries in the world, will continue to promote railway construction and urban infrastructure in the next few decades.

The continuous prosperity and development of the agricultural machinery industry and the machinery industry are expected to enter the international market, especially Europe, with an invincible attitude after deeply exploring the domestic market.

There are 55 small and medium-sized farms in the UK. After seeing the huge advantages of agricultural machinery in production, they will definitely become potential users of agricultural machinery products of Datang Empire.

Due to the rapid increase in population in Europe, the food crisis continues to intensify.

This is the historical background of the frequent wars among European countries in the second half of the 19th century and the continuous outflow of population to North America. The annual immigration population reached one million, and the highest year reached more than 160 million.

Europe, with its narrow land and large population, has a total population of 3.6 million. The continuous high population growth every year has brought a great burden. It is normal for a standard Prussian family to raise seven or eight children. It is the same in France and Italy. in this way.

In this era without chemical fertilizers, Europe's land output could hardly support such a huge population. Due to livelihood considerations, North America and South America, which have vast and fertile land, were the first choice for European immigrants.

The Tang Empire suffered from a serious surplus of agricultural products. The well-connected railways and the rapidly developing sea transportation capacity could reduce the transportation price of bulk agricultural products to a very low level.Grain from North America poured into the British market, Prussian and Italian markets, which greatly eased the urgent demand for grain in these countries.

From New York to Liverpool, England, the width of the Atlantic Ocean is only over 2870 kilometers. If calculated from Detroit in the Tang Empire, the distance by sea is only increased by more than 870 kilometers.

A large amount of cheap American grain flooded into the European market, and the shipping cost of a bushel of grain dropped from 1862 tang cents in 39 to 1869 tang cents in 26.The price of grain shipped to England was lower than that of grain produced in the UK itself.

This forced the prices of British agricultural products, especially grain prices, to fall sharply.

The price of a quart of wheat fell from 1861 shillings in 104 to 1869 shillings in 67, a drop of more than a third.

Most of the farmers in the UK have fallen into a loss situation, but the farmers in the Datang Empire still have a lot of profits to make.

One is the large land area, resulting in low unit cost of grain production.Second, the extensive use of agricultural machinery has greatly improved production efficiency.

All of this is a catastrophe for British farmers, and it is a dimensionality reduction blow.

at the same time
The beef, mutton and pork products produced by the Datang Empire in North America and the Andes Governor’s Mansion ranch were transported into the UK in large quantities by refrigerated ships, forcing the price of British livestock products to drop rapidly.

英国牛肉价格在1861-1869年间下跌了19％。由于外来农产品的竞争，1861-1869年间，英国农业损失达1.13亿英镑。大批中小农场破产，农场数从1861年的61.3万个减为1869年的55.3万个。

The area of ​​cultivated land in Britain decreased from 1861 million acres in 1840 to 1869 million acres in 1530. The sown area and the output of agricultural products went from bad to worse and continued to decrease.

It is an indisputable reality that Britain is now increasingly dependent on the agricultural products of the Datang Empire. The production capacity of its own agricultural products has plummeted, and the demand for imported agricultural products has continued to rise.

Sum

British farmers are now benefiting more as they farm more fields, because the British nobles and big landowners own a lot of land, but they don't cultivate it.

Instead, they mainly relied on renting land to obtain stable income, so as to maintain the superior living conditions of the nobles.

Most of the farms of British farmers are rented, the land rent is high, the price of agricultural products produced is high, and they lack market price competitiveness.

British farmers directly involved in agricultural production had no land, and a large amount of land was in the hands of British nobles and big landowners.However, they do not engage in production, relying on rental income from tenants, which has raised the cost of agricultural production out of thin air.

Faced with the menacing impact of massive grain and meat products from the Tang Empire, the British farmers obediently raised their hands and surrendered.

This situation is not only in the UK, but also in other European countries.

Originally, there was a big gap in meeting domestic food demand, but now the influx of cheap grains and meat from North America and South America has caused prices to fall, making it impossible to make money from farming, and Europeans are even less willing to farm.

The cultivated area is getting smaller and smaller, the output is getting lower and lower, and the import volume is increasing accordingly.

in the year 1869
The grains, grains and meat imported from the Tang Empire by the UK already accounted for more than one-third of domestic demand, and 1 small and medium-sized farms went bankrupt within a year.

The bankrupt farmers either packed up their parcels to go to the city to work, or packed up their parcels to immigrate to North America, and had no other way.