Wild North America 1846

Whether in Europe or in North America, they always regard Paradise Province and Australia as the end of the whole world, a distant place that ordinary people cannot reach.

However, Paradise Island is the second largest island in the world. The main island covers an area of ​​78.6 square kilometers. With the addition of thousands of subsidiary islands around it, the total area is about 87 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the size of eight Jiangsu provinces.

There are high mountains and big rivers, and it is almost a small tropical continent. Together with the surrounding Australia, Kalimantan, Luzon Islands and Java Islands, it constitutes a relatively close economic circle in the Southwest Pacific.

People living here are happy and stable and don't feel like they are at the end of the world.

Paradise Province, located in the center of the islands, has developed itself into a province with a large population, agriculture, shipping and mineral resources, and has thus established close commercial ties with Eurasia and North America.

It is precisely because of such a solid foundation that two million-population metropolises, one east and one west, were born in Paradise Province, growing into a well-deserved regional center.

Be it Sydney or Batavia, even the fast-growing Manila can't block the dazzling light of New Xi'an.

April 11

The Tang Emperor Li Cha led the royal fleet to the new Xi'an, and was once again warmly welcomed by a population of millions. The scene was super grand.

In the central square of New Xi'an, Emperor Richard delivered an exciting speech to millions of people, defining New Xi'an as "a bright pearl in the Southwest Pacific Ocean", "a regional central metropolis", and "a stable fulcrum of the Tang Empire in the Western Pacific region" ""An outstanding city created by thousands of Chinese immigrants".

The speech of His Majesty the Emperor was simultaneously broadcast to all streets in the whole city through 1077 loudspeakers in real time through the radio station, which attracted the cheers of the new Xi'an citizens, wave after wave.

New Xi'an is a city full of ancient charm of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Its architectural planning was painstakingly created by former Prime Minister Earl Dong Jie, presenting a chessboard pattern of Chang'an, the imperial capital thousands of years ago.

The carved beams and painted buildings along the main street, with cornices and arches, against the backdrop of tropical tall coconut trees, have a strong tropical charm.

The main street is wide and straight, with complete drainage culvert facilities, and dozens of lush and green street parks are distributed among it, making it a beautiful garden metropolis.

It is precisely because of the good foundation laid by the former prime minister, Earl Dong Jie, that generations of rulers have worked together to make the entire Paradise Province better and better.

Emperor Li Cha inspected many cities and towns in the province in detail, went deep into the fields and citizens' families, and was quite satisfied with what he saw and experienced with his own eyes.

"From now on, officials from various places in the East Indies will give priority to the promotion and appointment of outstanding officials from the Paradise Province, including the Three Kingdoms of the Luzon Islands. It is necessary to promote the good management experience and the good atmosphere of clean and honest administration here." Emperor Richard looked solemn. He ordered the people around him.

"I would like to obey His Majesty's imperial edict." Liu Daqing, Minister of Colonial Affairs who accompanied him on the visit, replied respectfully.

During this tour of the Western Pacific region, Deputy Prime Minister Yao Guangyi did not follow his counterparts. Instead, he went to Panama to host the US-Alliance Summit, which is an important diplomatic arrangement for the empire this year.

The Western Pacific region has been connected by the unobstructed transoceanic cable telegraph of the Datang Empire. Yujia travels can easily receive the latest news from all over the world, and remotely control the local political situation in North America thousands of miles away.

Among the trans-Pacific cable telegraph lines, the cables sunk in the sea are not long, and only the 3100-kilometer submarine cable from Alaska to North Sea Province is the longest.

Two wired telegraph submarine cables were separated from Beihai Province, and one landed in Weihai more than 270 kilometers westward, and was connected to the coastal telegraph line of mainland China.

One line goes south through the Fuso Islands to the Amami Kingdom, continues south to the Ryukyu Kingdom, and connects to Shanghai City in the west from here.

The mainland telegraph line goes south to Hong Kong, divides from Hong Kong into three parts, lays all the way to Haiphong, Vietnam, and then goes south to the French Saigon Governor-General's Palace, and becomes the starting point of the southeast peninsula telegraph network.

The second road runs eastwards to the Luzon Islands, from here it runs northwards to Paradise Province, across the Channel to Australia.

The third road goes southeast through British Malaya, Lanfang, West Kalimantan and other places, and finally arrives in Batavia, Java Island.

As a result, the western Pacific layout that forms the world's cable telegraph network is the most advanced, fastest and most convenient way to transmit messages in the world today.

Send a telegram and your relatives around the world can receive it.

The vast territory and large population of the Tang Empire, coupled with the strong foundation of the world's largest economic power, gave birth to three large multinational telegraph companies ranked among the top in the world, and hundreds of small and medium-sized local telegraph and telecommunications companies.

The Western Pacific Telegraph Network is part of the Global Cable Telegraph Network established by Chinese capital, and has capital participation from Britain, France and other countries.

A few years ago

The anti-foreigner movement launched by the land of China, especially in the north, was very violent. Wires were pulled everywhere, railways were destroyed, churches were burned, and the long-distance telegraph lines were paralyzed for a long time, which even affected the colonial war launched by the empire against the Eastern Pacific region.

After the eight robbers broke into Peiping, no one dared to touch the wires and railways today, and the transoceanic long-distance telegrams were also unimpeded, which is always embarrassing.

Emperor Li Cha knew that he could not affect the overall situation of China and its future direction, so he wisely stopped this thought and now concentrates on the development of the Great Tang Empire.

The economic development of Paradise Province is good, and the social security is particularly stable. This is something that Emperor Li Cha greatly admires, and he even favors the shrewd and capable senior official Hu Yongtang.

Hu Yongtang is an outstanding official who was born in the common people. He graduated from Taoyuan School of Administration and has extremely rich experience in colonial work. He has worked in Beihai Province, the Central American Department of the Colonial Department, and Texas Province. He is known for his decisive and capable actions. The performance evaluations over the years are all excellent.

Therefore, he was exceptionally promoted to be the new mayor of Xi'an in Paradise Province, a high-ranking official, until he was elected as a high-ranking official, and has worked in Paradise Province for more than 11 years during the second term of the high-ranking official. He is a popular and clean official.

This is a talent discovered by Emperor Li Cha during his trip, and he is ready to go back and transfer him to the ICAC, just like the former Prime Minister Dong Jie once did, to use it as a sharp knife to rectify the imperial officialdom.

The anti-corruption and clean government campaign will come every ten years, which has become a common practice.

During the past year, when he inspected so many places in the north and south, the province that satisfied Emperor Li Cha the most was Paradise Province. The society developed stably, the order was good, and the government was clean and clear from top to bottom. It has already embarked on the fast track of stable development.

There are also bright spots in economic construction. In addition to large-scale production of rice, coffee, cocoa, tea, and cane sugar, there are also growing demand for natural rubber, various tropical fruit trees, spice plantations, and ocean fishing. Not bad performance.

Paradise Island is rich in mineral resources and has world-class copper and iron mines. The copper smelters and steel plants developed from this have become the backbone of the province's heavy industry.

In the era of the great development of long-distance wired telegraphy, the demand for the same resources in the world market has grown rapidly, coupled with the strong demand of the Boer War in South Africa, the price of copper powder has always been high.

Based on the abundant local copper resources, Paradise Province has built several arms factories locally, imported a large amount of saltpeter from Peru, and specialized in the production of various matching bullets and shells, which are known for their high quality and low price.

Army powers such as Germany, France and Russia have placed large orders, and the British Army frequently places orders of millions of pounds.

Arms ships loaded with cargo from Xin'an traveled to Europe and South Africa through the Strait of Malacca, becoming one of the key products exported by the province.

Canned tinplate oranges, canned pineapples, canned pineapples, canned lychees, etc. exported by Paradise Province are sold well in the South Asian and European markets and are iconic products in the region.

In the banquets of European countries, canned tropical fruits are indispensable, so that Europeans can taste the sweet fruits of the tropical regions, which is a real enjoyment.

throughout Asia

Only Paradise Province has the ability to produce thousands of tons of canned fruit. The ultra-thin tinplate produced by the local steel factory, hundreds of large-scale canning factories, preservative factories and a developed shipbuilding industry have jointly created a The rise of the canned fruit industry.

This is a manifestation of industrial strength. Other agrochemical factories can't even produce matches, let alone mass-produce cans.

After staying in Xin'an for 11 days, the royal fleet set sail again and arrived at Samarinda, the capital of East Kalimantan Province, after two and a half days at sea.

Kalimantan is the third largest island in the world, and its northern part is composed of Lanfang, British Malaya and Brunei Sultanate, occupying one-fifth of the island's area.

The remaining four-fifths of the area are now included in the territory directly under the Datang Empire. This is also the territory that the imperial government and the royal family had designated before launching the colonial expansion war.

The islands of Sumatra and Java belonged to the empire, while Kalimantan and Sulawesi were included in the scope of the royal territory.

The military expenses for launching the colonial war were shared in proportion, and the infrastructure construction was responsible for each. Sumatra Island and Java Island were allocated funds by the government, and Kalimantan Island was allocated funds for construction by the Royal Office of the Interior. The two sides have a clear relationship.

Today's Kalimantan Island Ring Road has been completed, but Samarinda is still a large construction site, and the wharf expansion project is in progress.

According to the standards of a medium-sized city in the empire, the city has built complete sewer facilities, the main roads have been paved with asphalt, and many buildings are under construction.

Compared with the high-rise buildings in Xi'an and Donggang, the urban environment is clean and beautiful.Sanma Mingda is very messy, and the city is small and stingy.

It was originally a small city with more than 13 people. Except for the more than 460-meter-long stone road from the city center to the church, the rest are dirt roads.

Today's garrison and the new influx of Chinese immigrants are close to 30 people, and the city has expanded greatly, almost three times its original size.

Under the escort of bayonets and leather whips, a large number of indigenous convicts are constructing urban buildings and bridges under the scorching sun, as well as the wharf and farmland water conservancy facilities, a busy scene.

There are large tents and shabby shacks on the edge of the city, and because of the limited sanitary conditions, they emit a bad smell.

Seeing Emperor Li Cha frowning in this situation, his expression became ugly. (end of this chapter)