Wild North America 1846

The inspection tour of Zhongzhou Kingdom (formerly Ecuador) and Fuyuan Kingdom (formerly ceded by Peru) lasted 8 days, one day longer than originally planned, and the situation seen was mixed.

The Chinese population of Zhongzhou Kingdom is 96.7%, with a total population of 65.2.The Chinese population of the Fuyuan Kingdom is 73.5%, with a total population of 78.9. They are all vassal states with a small population.

The level of economic development here is far inferior to that of Colombia. It is still dominated by agriculture and plantation economy. The urban construction is not satisfactory, and it is inevitable that some people feel cramped in a small country with few people.

Most of the industrial products of these two vassal states are imported from the empire or Colombia. The limited industries are only lumber mills, rice mills, flour mills and a few mines, and their strength is much weaker.

After inspecting the area, Emperor Li Cha rewarded the two small vassal states with a thermal power plant, all of which are located in their royal capitals, with an investment of about 45 Tang yuan for each power plant.

Unlike the three large dam projects in Colombia, the thermal power plant rewarded by Emperor Richard, the final property rights belong to the vassal family, which can be regarded as a subsidy.

A thermal power plant will earn tens of thousands of Tang Yuan every year, which is enough to maintain the decent royal lives of the Zhongzhou Kingdom and the Fuyuan Kingdom.

These two vassal states have small populations, few factories, and naturally low tax revenue. In addition to administrative expenses, the local kingdom government can get very little from the royal family.

These vassal kings who were entrusted with feudal lords were equivalent to going out to live independently, and the Royal Household Office no longer had to bear the annual regular money and four-season festival support, all had to be relied on by themselves.

Fortunately, these two feudal states have local troops stationed there, and they usually help maintain local law and order, which saves a lot of police expenses, and the financial expenditure can barely balance.

Even though he is the supreme emperor of the empire, the emperor Li Cha can't make the same bowl of water between the princes born to the princes and the princes born to the concubine, so he can only subsidize the expenses a little.

After finishing his inspection tour of the three countries in South America, Emperor Richard led the royal fleet to the Kingdom of Cuba on October 10, where he was warmly welcomed by hundreds of thousands of local people at the pier in Havana.

The Kingdom of Cuba was enfeoffed to the eighth prince, Tang Li Zhun. He is the second son of the late Concubine Zheng (Zheng Xiuniang). His elder brother is the second prince, His Highness Tang Li Geng.

Loves the house and loves Wu, Emperor Li Cha is grateful for the company of Zheng Huangfei for more than [-] years, and treats the second prince and eighth prince with great affection. One of the vassal kingdoms is sealed in Oklahoma, North America, and the other is sealed in Cuba.

To know

The four princes entrusted in North America are all His Majesty's special favorites. The four vassal states are all relative kingdoms. They are the eldest prince, the second prince, the fourth prince and the eleventh prince.

The fourth prince, His Royal Highness Tang-Li Dian, Duke of Alaska, has a honest and stable personality. He was the first to go to the small Amami Kingdom to become a feudal vassal, and he has been cultivating the local area for more than ten years.

When the Tang Empire expanded again, in order to make up for the regret of the original fiefdom, Emperor Richard deliberately took out Massachusetts, the eastern coastal state of North America, and awarded it to His Royal Highness Tang-Li Dian as the feudal fiefdom of his vassal king to honor his Promote the achievements of imperial rule and enlightenment.

The Tang-Li Dian royal lineage owns the Amami Kingdom and the Massachusetts Kingdom, which is unique among the princes.

It can be said that the emperor's grace is mighty, and the holy family is generous.

Prince Pingxi, the most talented prince in the royal family, and His Royal Highness Tang-Li Xin, the eleventh son of the emperor, were conferred the title of King of Ohio, occupying an industrial state with a long history and a high degree of development in eastern North America. His Majesty the Emperor's compensation for his inability to inherit the imperial lineage.

In the perception of the imperial family and the courtiers, the closer the enfeoffed vassal state is to the mainland of the empire, the more favored it is by His Majesty the Emperor, and the greater its influence and right to speak, and vice versa.

Kingdom of Cuba
Havana

It is located on the banks of the Almendares River in Havana Bay in the northwest of Cuba, guarding the gateway from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, and has an important strategic position.

Havana was the largest port in the Americas during the Spanish colonial period. It has a long history. The old city has countless Spanish-style buildings and dozens of Catholic churches. It is a city with strong Spanish architectural features.

Wandering in it, it really makes people mistakenly think that they are in a famous city on the Mediterranean coast, leaving a deep imprint of the Spanish colonists.

After Tang-Li Zhun, the eighth son of the emperor, took over, he directly turned the former Cuban governor's mansion into a royal palace, and moved in after a little tidying up. He was considered the most convenient and concise one among the vassal states.

It is true that there are many palaces in Havana, and there are many noble manors and castles. There is a lot of room for selection, and there is no need to build new palaces.

Havana is known as the "Pearl of the Caribbean", with the coconut wind swaying, the blue sea and silver beach, the beautiful and romantic Caribbean scenery is too beautiful.

Emperor Richard plans to stay in Cuba for half a month, and go deep into the following provinces and cities (note; referring to the provinces and cities belonging to the Kingdom of Cuba) to learn more about it, instead of just skimming over it.

The population of the Kingdom of Cuba reached more than 20 million at the beginning of the 247th century. It has recovered to a great extent after the war. The vast majority of the new population are Chinese immigrants, accounting for more than 6% of the total population.

There are another [-]% of Hispanic white descendants in the local area, which is one of the vassal states with a relatively high proportion of white people.

a few days later

Cava Igouan Region, Central part of the Kingdom of Cuba

In the endless tall sugarcane field, seven "Fengshou" brand sugarcane harvesters produced by Datang Empire are lined up, harvesting sugarcane on a large scale.

In the shade of the fields
Surrounded by his courtiers, Emperor Li Cha was watching the sugarcane harvesting operation, pointing and asking a few questions from time to time, with a serious expression on his face.

This Fengshou brand sugarcane harvester has a relatively simple function, that is, a rotary reamer is hung on the front end of the 4-wheel tractor, and the cut sugarcane falls to one side like a wave.

Next Step

It still needs manpower to peel off the sugarcane leaves, remove the heads and bundle them, and move them to the long bucket of the tractor that came later. This is the end of the job.

So in the sugar cane field, there are dozens of plantation workers wearing big straw hats and holding slender machetes in their hands. They are beating the leaves and decapitating the sugar cane, bundling it and throwing it in the field, waiting for the tractor to come. Move it up and carry it away.

Tractors send these newly harvested sugarcane directly to the sugar factory, where inspectors check the quality of the sugarcane and whether the leaves are completely removed from the head, which will affect the selling price.

After checking that there is no problem, the sugarcane will be weighed, and the plantation owner can get the settlement statement, and finally according to the settlement statement, the cost of selling sugarcane will be settled uniformly.

It's harvest time

Sugar mills all over Cuba are operating at full capacity, and the newly manufactured cane sugar will soon be shipped to the port, and traders will arrange to load it on a freighter and ship it to various ports in North America and even European countries for sale.

Cuba, Hawaii, Colombia and Luzon Islands, plus Paradise Province, are the five major sugar producing areas in the world, accounting for more than 5% of the world's sugar production, and have the pricing power of the sweet business.

The price of sucrose is formed by the Chicago Agricultural Futures Exchange, which is also the main part of the pricing mechanism of bulk agricultural products in the world today, including wheat, soybeans, rice, oats, sucrose, coffee, cocoa, natural rubber, spices, tobacco, cattle, sheep, livestock and poultry, Frozen meat, cowhide, wool and other categories cover almost everything.

Among these major agricultural products, the Datang Empire is the out-and-out major producer, firmly occupying the position of the world's largest agricultural power.

As a result, more than a dozen large multinational grain and oil trading companies and hundreds of medium-sized companies have been formed, and the annual transaction volume is astonishing.

The medium-sized sugarcane plantation in front of us is run by a retired army lieutenant named Tian Fuman, who is a typical Chinese plantation owner family.

Tian Fuman runs a sugarcane plantation with an area of ​​831 acres, covering more than [-] acres of land. It is a medium-scale plantation and is very representative in the local area.

He has a wife and three concubines, and has 27 children. The oldest child is 32 years old, and the youngest is only 4 years old.

Now it's the busy farming season, and relatives like son, daughter-in-law and son-in-law are all on the scene. The sugarcane harvesters and tractors are all machines purchased by the family, which can greatly save labor.

Their family planted 4500 mu of sugar cane, 270 mu of soybeans, 50 mu of rice, more than ten mu of vegetables, more than 130 mu of alfalfa, more than 70 cows, 22 fat pigs, hundreds of chickens and ducks, and two A dozen strong horses.

The alfalfa planted and soybean meal after oil extraction are the main feed for raising cattle, horses, pigs and poultry. Among them, the milk produced by more than a dozen cows and the eggs laid by chickens and ducks can ensure that the family has no shortage of meat, eggs and milk, and is completely self-sufficient. Self-sufficient.

Most of the local plantation owners and farmers are similar. They raise fat pigs to save meat for eating, and raise chickens, ducks and poultry to lay eggs. In addition to eating for themselves, they can also go to the town to exchange some money, but the amount varies.

Milk is also similar, in addition to being enjoyed by the family, it can be sold to the milk station in the town to earn some pocket money.

no doubt
The main income of Tian Fuman's family comes from the sale of sugarcane and soybean oil, and they need to use this income to buy chemical fertilizers, seedlings, agricultural machinery, diesel oil, and all necessities for life.

For example, cloth, kerosene for lighting, all kinds of novel pots and pans, mirrors, shotguns, saddles, bicycles, books, etc., the expenses of a family of dozens of people are not small.

When Emperor Li Cha asked kindly, the ruddy face of Tian Fuman, who was already in good shape, was full of happy smiles, and he thanked the royal family for his kindness, and his excited eyes sparkled with tears.

back in the day
He was just a deserter with little food and clothing. He was selected into the new barracks in Weihaiwei, and traveled across the ocean to North America alone. He participated in the Second North American War in 1860 and was an out-and-out veteran.

After retiring, he settled in Cuba. With his past achievements and a sum of money he saved, he founded this plantation belonging to the Tian family and developed it step by step.

Now the family gathering place is called Tianjia Village, and there are intermarriages with more than a dozen nearby villages. Those are some comrades-in-arms in the past, and most of them are people who know the basics.

After so many years, a deep-rooted local force has been formed. Tian Fuman himself is also a member of the Kawaigouan City Council.

He is very satisfied with such a life.

Therefore, I always teach my children and grandchildren over and over again in daily life to know how to be grateful, to be loyal to the Tang Empire, and to be always ready to fight for the empire.

The retired officers and soldiers who widely exist in the mainland of the empire and various vassal states are one of the beneficiary groups of foreign colonial expansion. Their political ideas are conservative and stubborn, and they are loyal supporters of the royal family of the Tang Empire.