Wild North America 1846

in a few days

The imperial train stopped at Chang'an East Railway Station in the imperial capital, and the returning emperor received a grand welcome from the Chang'an subjects. Hundreds of thousands of Chang'an citizens flocked to the streets, lined the streets with gongs and drums to welcome the emperor back to the western capital.

Only those who have lost know how to cherish it. The original "Emperor Capital Chang'an" has now become the "Western Capital Chang'an". It is pure nonsense to say that the citizens of Chang'an do not have a strong sense of loss.

This time, the spontaneous and grand welcome of the people was simply enthusiastic.

This caught the Imperial Police Headquarters and the Royal Guards by surprise, and they had to urgently dispatch tens of thousands of additional military and police officers to maintain order to prevent the situation from getting out of control.

Fortunately, everything went well. Under the heavy guard of the military and police, hundreds of black royal convoys with royal badges hanging on passed through the streets full of welcoming crowds, and returned to Daming Palace amidst earth-shattering cheers.

As Christmas approaches, the festive atmosphere in the imperial capital Chang'an is not strong.

The Chinese who account for more than [-]% of the city's population are not used to celebrating foreign festivals. In people's traditional conception, the winter solstice of the lunar calendar is an important festival after more than ten days, followed by stove sacrifices and New Year's Eve.

What kind of "Christmas" is only celebrated by ghost families.

Not long after Emperor Li Cha returned to Daming Palace, he received the good news from the Ministry of Commerce;
Dozens of British market traders on the Chicago Agricultural Futures Exchange have successively bought large amounts of agricultural products for delivery in February and March of the next year, with a total amount of 2 million yuan.

The range of agricultural products includes tens of thousands of tons of refined flour, tens of thousands of tons of soybean meal, tens of thousands of tons of frozen meat, oil, various types of fish, braised meat and canned fruits, thousands of tons of dairy products, sugar, coffee Cocoa, etc., the amount is amazing.

Enough to supply more than 40 troops and use it for more than half a year.

Moreover, the British waved banknotes and bought large quantities of leather equipment for soldiers, such as cowhide belts, cowhide armed belts, cowhide magazine bags, cowhide boots, and cowhide holsters.

There are also tens of thousands of plastic raincoats, tens of thousands of tents, various plastic utensils and an astonishing amount of guns and ammunition. The orders are worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of Tang Yuan.

Only a highly industrialized country like the Tang Empire with strong production capacity can meet the urgent and massive material needs of the British.

that's not counting
The British military placed an order worth more than 5000 million Tang Yuan to the Royal Coast Pharmaceutical Company, ordering a large number of "Sterilization King", a new type of drug, to treat British wounded soldiers in the South African War.

The so-called "King of Sterilization" is sulfonamide, but Royal Coast Pharmaceuticals gave it an easy-to-understand name.

The price of this new type of drug is very expensive, almost 4.5 times the price of gold of equal weight. The price of a box is only 22 Tang yuan, which is equivalent to 4 pounds and 5 shillings, and can be used for almost a week.

After several years of large-scale commercial application and outstanding performance in the East Indies War, a large number of wounded were treated and the mortality rate of wounded soldiers was reduced by 9%, which made the word-of-mouth of "King of Antibacterial" ferment rapidly.

This "King of Sterilization", which came out in a flash, has a wide range of uses, and now it has become a very sought-after life-saving medicine in the world.It has also become a must-have drug for nobles and wealthy families in various European countries, and has also entered the large-scale procurement lists of European military forces.

Another blockbuster product of Royal Coast Pharmaceuticals, the secret Jinchuang medicine, also won a large order from the British military worth millions of Tang Yuan.

This is a kind of Chinese patent medicine. It is a wound healing medicine refined by modern technology, which can greatly promote the healing of wounds. It has comprehensive effects of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. It is the best-selling medicine of Royal Coast Pharmaceuticals.

Sitting on these two leading products, Royal Coast Pharmaceuticals, which was established only a few years ago, has rapidly grown into a world-class large company. This is also a large pharmaceutical company absolutely controlled by the Royal.

The establishment of the Royal Coast Pharmaceutical Company is another successor left by Emperor Richard.It aims to preserve a golden mountain for the inheritance of the royal family and future participation in world competitions.

The company's address is still top-secret. It is hidden in the heavily guarded Sacred Emperor Valley. The family members of the loyal guarding officers and soldiers participate in the drug production, and the secrecy is extremely high.

Production and sales are two completely separate systems. The purpose is to maintain the long-term high value of drugs. The production costs are so low that they can be ignored, and almost all of them are profits.

It is precisely because of the strong royal background that the imperial dignitaries and overseas countries have no chance to get involved.Even if the British want to get it, they have to obediently spend money to buy it.

The huge British order worth 1 million pounds only amounted to more than 000 million boxes of "Sterilization King", and the number of wounded people who could be treated was between 200 and 20.

With the treatment course of each box of Sterilization King for one week, the wounded who have suffered gunshot wounds generally need to use 5 to 6 boxes, and those seriously injured with severed limbs and limbs will double the dosage and the treatment time will be longer.

If you want to recover completely, it is not uncommon to use twenty or thirty boxes throughout the treatment period.

Today, the British army in South Africa has more than 17000 wounded, and the first batch of 40 boxes of medicines that will arrive in early January next year will soon be distributed.

Even if many British officers were not injured, they would use their authority to keep some of them by their side.

Whether it is for personal use or as a favor, it is better than real money, and many British people can't buy it if they want to.

Cold and typhoid, pneumonia, cough, bruises and other diseases can all be used. The potential market is too huge, and there is also a huge demand in the society of the Tang Empire.

Due to the shortage of supply, there have been frequent price increases and panic buying at home and abroad, and the value has doubled by three or four times or more. For a while, "Luoyang paper is expensive".

This tight supply situation will continue for several years until the production capacity is gradually expanded.

With the "King of Sterilization" products, Royal Coast Pharmaceuticals can make huge profits worth hundreds of millions of Tang Yuan every year.

This huge profit is partly fed back to the imperial government through taxation, and partly given back to the poor at the bottom of society through the medical assistance projects of the Royal Charity Hospital and Royal Renji Hospital.

The above-mentioned parts add up to about [-]% of the total profit.

The remaining [-]% ​​is used for the construction of new royal colonies, such as Kalimantan island ring road, wharf port, new town construction, burning wasteland and colonizing and other projects.

The scope of funding and appropriation includes the vassal states in Central and South America, the mainland and the Western Pacific vassal states, etc., and increase efforts to support local colonial rule and construction.

The remaining 5% of the profits are deposited in the big banks controlled by the royal family, mainly in the form of gold reserves, which are used for royal strategic reserve funds or to pay for foreign expansion and colonial wars.

15 years later
The principal and interest of this fund will accumulate and roll to a scale of more than one billion. With the rapid expansion of the production scale of Sterilization King and the popularization of the market, it may be 15 billion or 20 billion or more. Strong cards.

Such a huge amount of funds is enough to calmly deal with world-class wars, enough to deal with the impact of world-class economic crisis, and strongly stimulate domestic demand.

This seems to be the balance stone of national security, and it is also the foundation of a real great country.

Among the world-renowned consortia of eight major banks in the Tang Empire, there are Royal Red Oak Bank, Bank of America, Royal Changan Bank, Bank of Los Angeles, Bank of Communications, National Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, North American Colony Bank and Royal West Coast Bank, of which 5 are owned by Royal Holdings , the other three royals hold a large number of shares.

The five major consortiums of Royal Holdings are Royal Red Oak Bank ranked first, Bank of America ranked second, Royal Changan Bank ranked fourth, North American Colony Bank ranked seventh and Royal West Coast ranked eighth Banks account for about 68.2% of the eight largest banking consortiums.

Only Royal Red Oak Bank, which ranks first, reserves as much as 766 tons of gold. The profit dividends of royal holding companies represented by Royal Coast Pharmaceuticals are continuously injected into major banks every year and deposited through the purchase of gold.

More gold reserves can issue more banknotes, provide urgently needed currency circulation in the national economy, and increase money supply while earning interest income.

Currency is the lubricant of the economy. While injecting vitality into the world's largest economy, the Datang Empire, it can also maintain and increase its value, achieving a stable growth rate of 4% to 5% per year.

Among the eight major banking consortiums in the empire, the royal family alone controls more than 2740 tons of gold reserves, including all gold reserves held by the imperial government, which will double. This does not include the hundreds of tons of gold jewelry consumed by the people every year. .

The Tang Empire is the second largest gold-producing country in the world today, and it is also the world's largest gold importer. Today, it imports more than 170 tons of gold from countries such as Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium every year.

The British Empire, which owns South Africa, Australia, and India, is the world's largest gold producer. Only the Witwatersrand Gold Mine, the world's largest gold mine discovered in South Africa in 1884, accounts for [-]% of the world's total gold reserves.

The annual output of gold is as high as 340 tons, accounting for about 28% of the world's gold production. It is a huge wealth that makes everyone's ears red.

For the Boers in the Transvaal Republic, this was a disaster.

The discovery of the Rand gold mine changed everything, and the Boers became rich quickly by relying on the huge output of the gold mine.

As the descendants of Dutch immigrants, they once again ignited their ambition to dominate from the Age of Discovery. They decided to crowd out the British and enjoy this astonishing wealth alone.

The Boers took the initiative to contact Germany and imported a large amount of military equipment from Germany. As a result, they went on the road of crazy death and never returned...

The majestic British Empire saw the little tricks of the Boers at a glance, so how could it suffer at the hands of these farmers?
The current Boer war in South Africa, which is intensifying, is a vivid portrayal of the strategic misjudgment of both sides, and soon everyone will be beaten into a dog's brain.

Let's fight, let's fight!

Whether it is a war in Africa, a war in Europe, or a war in other regions, as the most powerful industrialized country in the world, the Datang Empire can take a share.

Due to the obsessive love of Chinese people for gold, the scale of civilian and reserve gold imported by the Datang Empire has increased year by year.

At the end of this century, 6% to 7% of the huge orders placed by the British for the South African War will be paid in gold.

That is to say, in the first year of the new century and in the next two or three years, the amount of gold imported from South Africa will increase sharply, reaching as high as 1 to 190 tons per year.

According to the real price comparison between gold and the British pound, 100 million pounds is equivalent to 7.33 tons of gold, and 210 tons of gold is worth more than 3000 million pounds, which is equivalent to about 1.5 million Tang yuan.

The Tang Empire exported medicines, petrochemical products, infantry leather equipment, a large amount of weapons and ammunition, and food in exchange for British gold and pound sterling.

It is expected that in the next few years, the gold reserves of the Datang Empire will increase rapidly, which is in line with the status of the world's largest economic power.

Not only the United Kingdom, but at a time when the arms race between the two major military blocs in Europe is intensifying, gold from France, Germany, Obi and other countries is flowing into the Tang Empire through different channels.

Especially in Germany, the gold taken from the Boers was handed over to the Tang Empire before it was warmed up.

nothing else
The kerosene that can make the aristocratic manor shine like day all night, the lubricating oil and diesel oil known as "industrial blood", the "antibacterial king" that can save lives, and the cheap and high-quality petrochemical products, such as chemical fibers and plastics, all have to be obtained from the Tang Empire. import.

Europe does not have these precious resources at all. Even if Germany can achieve independent steel industry, coal and grain, it will have to spend precious foreign exchange or gold in exchange for these resources exported by the Datang Empire.

This is true of Germany, France, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Tsarist Russian Empire, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark.

Unless they want their palace to be as dark as a ghost land, and the factories are not working, and they will die if they break the skin or get a minor illness, they have to import these necessary supplies and medicines.

In the long term

The collection of wealth from all over the world to the Tang Empire is a long-term and stable trend that can hardly be changed.

Unless another oil field with huge reserves is discovered in other parts of the world and advanced refining technology is available, it will be difficult to change the status quo.

Among them, the most depressing is the Tsarist Empire.

The Tsarist Russian Empire owns the Tyumen oil field with the earliest mining history in the world, but the backward oil refining technology leads to extremely high costs, and the extracted and processed oil is not as cheap and good as imported ones.

It loses one barrel of production and has huge reserves of oil resources, but spends precious gold and foreign exchange to import millions of barrels of kerosene and lubricating oil every year.

With the indifferent bilateral relationship between the Tsarist Russian Empire and the Tang Empire, Russia could not even get a bank loan, and could only buy it in francs or gold, because the Tang Empire did not recognize rubles and did not need to buy any supplies from Tsarist Russia.

Some agricultural products from Tsarist Russia are available in the Tang Empire, and they are better, with more complete varieties and larger yields.

The Tang Empire also had things that Tsarist Russia did not have, such as cane sugar, spices, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, natural rubber, various meats and canned fruits, and their output ranked among the top in the world.

There are too many good things in the export list of Datang Empire, the variety is so rich that it makes people drool, and the production scale is huge.

As long as you have money, you can buy almost anything.

It's a pity that Tsarist Russia has almost nothing to offer in the agricultural field, let alone industrial products.

France provided a huge franc loan, and after more than 20 years of industrialization efforts, Tsarist Russia has only formed a preliminary industrial system in the surrounding areas of the Black Sea.

So far, its industrialization process has not even reached two Chengdus, and the main body is still a relatively backward agricultural economy. What kind of industrial products are exported to the Tang Empire?
In the trade with Russia, only gold and francs can be seen by the Tang Empire, and the rest are all on the sidelines.