Wild North America 1846

Chapter 657 The Lost of Panama
The provinces in Central America include Costa Rica, Central Plains, Panama, Zhennan and Fuyuan. After more than 20 to 377 years of development, the total population of the region has reached [-] million, and it is still growing at a higher rate every year. speed growth.

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The province with the longest development history, the most mature and the largest population is Panama. The province has two major cities, Panama and Colon, and 31 towns, with a total population of more than 131 million.

Only the largest city, Panama, had a population of more than 71 at the end of the period, ranking among the first-tier large cities in the empire.

The news of the official opening of the Nicaragua Canal is tantamount to a dose of strong medicine for the economic development of Central Plains Province, especially Huwan City has thus entered the fast lane of rapid development.

In just over 10 years.It has rapidly developed from a remote small city to a medium-sized city with a population of more than 30, and its future development prospects are bright because of its important geographical advantages.

But for the province of Panama, it was a complete disaster.

The official opening of the Nicaragua Canal caused the status of Panama's land transshipment port to plummet. Hundreds of thousands of trading firms, transportation companies, warehousing companies, and shops that depended on rail transshipment for their livelihood closed down. A large number of urban residents lost their livelihood jobs.

Now in Panama City and Cologne City, there is an upsurge of moving to Lake Bay City. Many powerful foreign trade firms have restarted their stoves in Lake Bay City, and more businesses are following, attracting many local residents to go out. move.

The materials piled up in the original transfer terminal disappeared, and a large number of warehouses were empty. The mules and horses and transport vehicles that used to be prosperous in the past are now empty, even worse than during the economic crisis.

The convenience of water and land transport is far behind that of canal navigation. Ships from the east and west coasts of North America can pass through the Nicaragua Canal and travel between ports smoothly, saving time, effort and cost.

If a Panamanian freighter with a load of 3 tons passes through Panama's water and land transport, more than [-] fully loaded trains need to be issued, and it takes at least one week from loading and unloading to transportation.

Today, two loading and unloading processes are saved through the Nicaragua Canal, and the short-distance railway transportation process is saved. Los Angeles on the west coast can go directly to the east coast and even major ports in Europe.

The international conference center planned by the imperial government for Panama, an alternative economy for trade and tourism cities, cannot make up for the short-term loss of the hot business of the pillar waterway intermodal transport, and depression can be seen everywhere in Panama and Cologne.

The imperial government has thought of many ways, but these two cities, whose main industry is land transshipment, are still declining at a speed visible to the naked eye.

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Emperor Richard did the same. After all, the impact of the Nicaragua Canal was too great. This is a world-class water conservancy project that can change the geostrategic situation. Panama was hit by a disaster.

after the opening of the canal
Taking advantage of the spare time before the Panama Summit, Emperor Richard toured the provinces of Central America with great interest, went to many towns and villages, and investigated the local economic development in depth.

Overall, quite satisfactory.

The natural conditions in Central America are quite superior. Although it is close to the equator, it has a typical oceanic island climate, with abundant sunshine and rain, cool and pleasant climate, and unique conditions for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.

In particular, the rice that is rich in Central America is as famous as the rice in Oregon in the north. It is the two famous high-quality rice producing areas in the empire, and the output and quality are both excellent.

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The vigorously developed natural rubber forests have entered the rubber tapping period in pieces, which has brought local planters a stable income all year round, and is one of the characteristic products of the region.

The third item is the sucrose industry. During the Cuban Civil War, sucrose exports were greatly reduced. Central American sucrose replaced Cuba’s export share and grew rapidly, becoming a representative economic crop.

Overall
The level of economic development in various regions of Central America is slightly lower than that of the central part of the empire, the northern and western developed regions, mainly due to the lower level of industrial development and insufficient industrialization.

The local industries are mainly sugar factories, rubber factories, rice factories, oil mills, flour mills, food processing factories, cement factories, brick kilns and quarries, etc., mainly in food processing and building materials industries.

This is also due to the long-term policy of "strong stems and weak branches" implemented by the empire, and it is not a mistake.

The scope of the empire's mainland has always been in North America, which is where the strong body of the empire lies. Industrial development is blooming everywhere in the north, central and west, and continues to advance in depth.

A series of universities, research institutes, steel and chemical companies were successively established in the major cities of the empire, forming the largest and most complete industrial system in the world today, forming the powerful body of the Tang Empire.

Regions such as Central America, South America, and overseas provinces have been ignored intentionally or unintentionally in the wave of industrial development.

It can only be said that this is caused by the development policy, rather than the government's mistakes.

(End of this chapter)