Wild North America 1846

Chapter 589 Construction
Massawa is a port hub city composed of the main urban area in the hinterland and the wharf area along the Red Sea. It was designed and built according to the standards of the third-tier cities of the Tang Empire. In addition to the complete drainage and dredging facilities, the width of the main street and the green belt are set. Certain construction standards.

According to the short-term plan for the next 6-10 years, the city can carry a population of 20-30, and the mid-to-long-term plan will not exceed 50. It is a colonial city that mainly focuses on transoceanic transportation, fishery, agriculture and animal husbandry, and the appropriate development of light industry. .

There are more than a dozen rivers in the surrounding areas of Massawa, which are suitable for the development of farming and melon and fruit planting. The inland plateau area is suitable for the development of animal husbandry, and the planning and development path is very clear.

The development of the Eritrean colonial area is one of the key projects of the Colonial Department of the Tang Empire in recent years. It is inevitable that the South American Andean Governor's Mansion, East Asian Beihai Province, Paradise Province and other overseas colonial areas will be diverted. Some manpower and material resources will also be diverted .

After stepping out of the tent and standing on the leveled land with a radius of nearly 8 square kilometers, Colonel Liu Daqing looked around in a happy mood.

In his view, this is a field full of vitality and hope.

cool climate
Everywhere you look is busy working. The Chinese work in groups of three or four. When they are tired, they stop to smoke a cigarette and drink saliva. They sit on the pile of wood and chat, imagining the bright future of life.

The Imperial Expeditionary Force robbed many Arab women in the surrounding areas of Sanaa City, Yemen. Except for the officers and soldiers of the Expeditionary Force, there were many remaining women.In the future, it will be distributed to Chinese immigrants in the form of rewards, which can be regarded as offsetting part of labor remuneration.

Therefore, these Chinese immigrants are highly motivated to work, because the selection of outstanding ones can select women first, and the selection of labor models can also select two more women.

From now on, whether it’s a farm at home or a plantation, how can there be no women in working and having children, doing housework, and feeding cattle and sheep?

Now the wasteland reclamation team is setting fire to mountains, building roads and erecting bridges. After their early land reclamation work is completed, the next step is to distribute women, fields, and farm tools to Chinese immigrants. Form farming teams to reclaim wasteland.

In the initial stage of land reclamation

It is necessary to work collectively to repair bridges and pave roads, build villages, build irrigation canals, etc., intensively use tractors, cattle, mules and horses and other machinery and large animals to level the land, and build houses and corrals with villages as units of mutual assistance.

After 2 to 3 years, the village is basically formed, and the agricultural team will naturally be transformed into a village, and the fields divided by each family will be transformed into private farms or plantations, and agricultural equipment, large livestock, and tractors will be sold to individuals at a discount.

Then according to government regulations, [-]% of the agricultural tax is paid every year.

In the early days of pioneering, Chinese immigrants mainly exchanged labor for remuneration, which may be Arab women rationed at a discounted price by the colonial government, or agricultural equipment, cattle, mules, chickens, ducks, livestock, or black slaves. Material coupons, such as masonry, wood, cement and other materials.

These are all surplus materials from the construction of towns and wharves, and they can distribute whatever is available, and there is basically no room for selection.

The Colonial Department considered comprehensively before setting sail on the mainland of the empire, and brought rice mills, flour mills, oil mills, cement plants, food processing plants, thermal power plants, brick kilns, firewood kilns, small textile factories, weaving factories, etc. Machinery and equipment such as cloth factories can quickly establish a relatively complete light industry system.

Even if there is any difference, the corresponding equipment can be easily purchased from Europe.

With a relatively complete supply of materials, Massawa will develop rapidly and become a dazzling pearl on the shore of the Red Sea.

Dozens of people work in a team of prisoners from the hard labor camp. Each of them has a thin steel chain around their necks and a number on the steel plate.From the first day of entering the hard labor camp, there was only a number but no name, until he died of exhaustion.

Prisoners in the hard labor camp were mainly engaged in difficult tasks such as digging trenches, digging tree roots, building roads, digging mountains and quarrying stones, and building docks. They will also be the main force in building railways in the future.

current stage
The number of Arab convicts is not large, and they will be transported from Yemen and Egypt one after another in the future. Together with the black slaves eliminated locally, they can basically meet the labor required for the colonial construction of Massawa and Cloud City.

Colonel Liu Daqing looked at the group of cavalry who had just returned and escorted hundreds of black slaves to arrive. Both men and women were mainly young and strong, and he couldn't help nodding in satisfaction.

The imperial expedition was costly, and most of the officers and soldiers of the 3rd and 4th Divisions of the Royal Navy would stay in the colony. After retiring, they would be given fields and rewards, and they would bring their families to reproduce here for generations.

According to different meritorious deeds, officers and soldiers enjoy different "ten taxes and one meritorious field" treatment.

In order to replenish troops in the future, young and middle-aged Chinese men will also be recruited from Paradise Island, the mainland or the Indochina Peninsula to join the army and sent to Eritrea for intensive military training. After passing the training, they will serve in Suez City, Egypt, Sanaa, Yemen, and various towns belonging to the colonial area of ​​Eritrea.

After the service period expires, these Chinese soldiers will also stay in the local area to start a family, or become a government employee or policeman in a town, or apply for a job in a factory, a trading firm or a branch of a multinational bank, or go to the countryside to become a A small and medium-sized farmer.

Only a very small number of senior officers of the 3rd and 4th Divisions of the Royal Navy will be able to return to the homeland. Even the 4 armored cruisers participating in this expedition will be transformed and become part of the newly formed Red Sea Fleet.

Just like what His Majesty said; the Chinese are seeds that are blown by the wind, they will take root wherever they fall, and grow vigorously...

In the initial stage of reclaiming the colonial area of ​​Eritrea, the imperial colonial policy will be relatively loose, allowing some private farms and plantations to keep a small number of black slave labor to meet labor needs.

but in the long run
The empire will definitely tighten the relevant policies step by step. In the mature stage of the development of the Eritrean colonial area, the borders will be sealed off and a strict ban on the entry of black people will be implemented, so as to develop this piece of African land into a paradise overseas for the empire.

In the planned tent area, some Arab women in robes can often be seen busy. They are all Yemeni women assigned to expeditionary force officers and government officials. Their ages range from 15 to 21 years old. Slender figure.

These Arab women are responsible for cooking meals, washing clothes, and doing some logistical work within their capabilities, and also stimulate those Chinese immigrants in foreign lands to work more enthusiastically.

Colonel Liu Daqing led more than 10 military officers to inspect the tent area all the way. Along the central street in the city, the foundations of dozens of houses have been repaired. Chinese carpenters are building houses. Basically, there are more than a dozen craftsmen on a house work.

The sewer ditches on the commercial street have already been built, and they are compacted with loess pads, followed by a layer of fine stones and stone powder, and finally level stones.

The green belt is separated by masonry in the middle of the road, and everything is built according to the standard of the third-tier city in the empire. Street trees are also transplanted along the road to bring shade to the residents in hot weather.

"Sir, I heard that the 4th Royal Marine Division fought very well in the city of Suez. After defeating the enemy, they bloodbathed the city. The harvest was quite a lot!" The officer who was with Colonel Liu Daqing said with a smile.

Colonel Liu Daqing nodded, and continued to speak; "Those stupid Egyptians will not be able to recognize the situation unless they come up with some means of thunderbolt. Your Highness's move of "knocking the mountain to shake the tiger" is skillful and can save a lot of energy."

"The humble official agrees, but the British... I'm afraid they don't want us to occupy Suez City?"

"That's for sure, but the problem is that the Datang Empire is the second largest shareholder of the Suez Canal Company and has the right to defend its legal rights of passage. It also has the right to station troops in the canal area. In the event of a complete military victory, the British's opposition is also invalid."

"This time the imperial expedition fought two beautiful battles, which is enough for these indigenous chiefs in the Middle East to have a good memory."

"It's easy to fight down, but it's much more difficult to really take root and develop. I hope that the soldiers of the empire will not be afraid of hardships and dangers, take root in the colonial area, build the colonial area, and develop it into a reliable logistics base for long-term garrison! "

"Sir, I think this place is much better than the remote mountains in Yemen. Not to mention the cool and pleasant climate, the plateau in the hinterland is also more extensive and fertile. It is indeed a good place."

"That's right. In the future, this place will become one of my Tang's overseas colonial provinces. At the very least, it must be self-sufficient in food. It will develop into an important replenishment and transshipment port on the Eurasian route, and exert an important influence in the Near East and Central and North Africa."

"The only shortcoming is that it is too far away, and it is inconvenient to immigrate!"

"This is indeed a big problem. Only a large [-]-ton immigrant ship is suitable for such a long-distance route. It can transport five or six thousand immigrants at a time, and it is expensive!" Colonel Liu Daqing also nodded deeply.

The [-]-ton large immigration ship is the main force of trans-Pacific immigration in recent years. It travels more smoothly on the ocean, has longer self-sustainability, can create a relatively better accommodation environment for immigrants, and the value of a ticket is much higher.

Without imperial colonial subsidies, mainland Chinese immigrants could hardly afford ferry tickets.

The only possible way is that the immigrants are responsible for part of the problem, mainly through borrowing.

Part of the imperial government's subsidies is mainly solved by reducing or exempting the shipping company's tax and related expenses to reduce the trouble of high ticket prices.

As part of the colonial charity fund subsidy, the imperial government has established a subsidy fund policy to encourage colonization. In the initial stage of developing the Eritrean colonial area, it should be given priority support.

Once the Chinese immigrants arrived in the colonial area, the rest was easy.

Regardless of whether it is labor debt repayment or loan management, under the policy of encouraging development, the debt can always be paid off quickly and the company will develop in a rolling manner.

The industrious and simple nature of the Chinese nation is simply the best colonial team.

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