The sun never sets in America

Chapter 132 Gold Rush and Administration

Tongshan City...

It can be said that it is the worst, smallest, and youngest city in Han Dynasty.

The entire city was established in less than two months, and the construction of the city was only carried out for less than a month.

The entire city looks like a simple market. Only the four-story high-rise building made of cement can make the entire Tongshan City look more civilized.

And this building is actually the municipal government building of Tongshan City.

And the funniest thing is that this building also serves as the police station, taxation and other functions. It can be said that all the public functions you can think of in a city are put together...

And all this is because Tongshan City is too small, so small that it is unacceptable. The registered population of the entire city is 5000 people... but the number of people actually living in the city is only 2000 at most. Some towns in California are not as good as each other. They can hardly be called cities, but should be called a large village.

And the funniest thing is that even these 5000 people are gold diggers who came from all over the country of Han in more than a month.

Since Yan Jun announced last month that he would open part of the gold mine in Tongshan City, it caused a sensation throughout Han Dynasty, even in Mexico and even the United States.

After all, humans are not naturally resistant to gold. It can even be said that the memory of gold is engraved in human genes.

This is why even 100 years later, gold is still the precious metal with the largest reserves in all countries. In times of war, gold is the guarantee of wealth.

And those original banknotes will all be reduced to nothing.

In fact, throughout human society, humans are very interested in all shiny things. From brightly colored gems to diamonds that are actually worthless, we can see humans' preference for these flashy ores.

If gold and silver still have important scientific research value, then other gemstones simply satisfy human beings' inner desire for wealth.

Humans say that dragons like treasures and shiny things, but isn’t that true for humans...

Humans are actually another form of dragon.

The gold mining order issued by Yan Jun actually stepped on the node of human nature, which was able to quickly bring more than 5000 people to this desolate land.

Although these populations are not comparable to those of California's big cities, everyone knows that this is just the beginning.

In fact, news came from California that at least 3000 of the [-] immigrants who arrived this month chose to leave the land allocated by the government and go to the desolate southern Arizona in addition to Yunzhong City, where Copper Mountain City is located. .

In order for these people to arrive smoothly, Yan Jun also used his connections to prepare tickets for these immigrants. They will take the Xijing Railway, which is still under construction, to a place close to Arizona, and then take a carriage and take the national highway to Tongshan City. .

You must know that these tickets were bought by Tongshan City for those immigrants, not counting transfers, food and accommodation along the way.

These are very difficult for any local government to pass. After all, they have quotas for allocating immigrants every year. Why use the hard-earned taxes to subsidize those immigrants.

But Tongshan City is different from many places in Han Dynasty, because this place is basically a city sitting in a mine.

People always say that California is a mine country, and the reason given is because there are a lot of gold mines there.

From this perspective, it is true.

But this is not the case in Tongshan City. The huge amount of copper mines, and even the attached silver mines and gold mines, brought a natural foundation to the birth of this city.

It is precisely because of this that Yan Jun once said this at the World Government Conference:
"Xijing City is the capital, Jinshan City has a lot of manufacturing and export trade, Beimen City has cotton and textiles... Even the Baja California Peninsula has agriculture and planting industries."

"What we have, we have nothing. We only have mines. Minerals are the economic foundation of Tongshan City in the next few decades or even longer. They are also the cornerstone for us to develop any industry and attract people."

"We should not just mine, we must turn our minerals into manufacturing and industrial products. After all, the mines can be mined, but human wisdom cannot!!"

"But before that, we must learn to mine, and the most important thing in mining is people. Many people criticize me, saying that I betrayed the interests of Tongshan City to those greedy gold diggers."

"But you have to know that although these people took away the gold mines, they also prospered our city... Even if they only spend one-third of the gold they obtained for consumption in Tongshan City, this is very important to Tongshan City. The economy and industry will be greatly boosted.”

"In short, population, everything requires population. Without population, even if we have the largest gold mine in the world, we will not be able to dig out or replace what we want."

Yan Jun’s speech at the Tongshan Municipal Government Work Conference earlier this month.

Thanks to his experience in governing Xijing, the largest city in Han Dynasty, Yan Jun knew very well that for the development of a city or even a country, in addition to resources, it needed population.

Without enough population, nothing can be accomplished.

To put it bluntly, even if you are farming, you still need people, not to mention the extremely hard work of mining.

Physical work like mining requires young people, and young people are the mainstay in any country.

Production depends on them, and even war depends on them! !

Just like Yan Jun's plan to rely on the mineral resources of Tongshan City to develop the processing industry, even if it is just rough processing, it will require enough industrial workers.

Where do industrial workers come from? They come from the population. To be more precise, they come from a sufficient population.

Human society is a society of division of labor and cooperation. Some people farm, some work, some fish, and some manage. In the end, everyone exchanges with each other and gets everything they need.

The same is true for the economy. From the perspective of Han's economic map, California is undoubtedly the best.

It has the largest population, the best industry, and even the largest agriculture.

Even California alone can drive the development of the entire Han Dynasty.

But California only guaranteed the lower limit of Han's development, not the upper limit.

As Liu Peng said: "We are lucky to have California, but it is also our shackles. At every cabinet meeting, the plans proposed by officials from various ministries are almost always centered on how to develop California..."

"In the eyes of these people, Han is California, California is Han, and there are no other regions at all."

"California accounts for half of the population of Han, but it is only half, not all. If Gu abandons the remaining half of the people and chooses to take care of this half, can Han still be called Han? Can Gu Wang, the King of Han, still be called Han? Does it count?" Liu Peng reprimanded those cabinet officials who only focused on California at a cabinet meeting.

After this meeting, the Han cabinet quickly changed many policies and allocated some of the funds and policies originally intended for California to other regions, including Arizona.

At the same time, the establishment of provinces instead of regions was placed at the top of the reform of the Han administrative system.

The provincial system was first born out of the county system in the Qin and Han dynasties. Finally, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, changes were finally made that would affect later generations for hundreds of years...

The current administrative divisions of Han State are actually very simple. According to the original regional administrative planning, even in places like Arizona and Nevada, most of the rights are in the hands of the local mayors.

In essence, the administrative divisions of the Han Dynasty were nothing more than a group of municipal-level units that looked huge on the map and were developing independently.

Except for California, the core area of ​​the Han Dynasty, other places are basically doing their own thing. To this day, the so-called construction of railways in many areas is still just words. They say that they will issue railway bonds and build local railways like the Xijing Railway. of railway.

From a geographical point of view, it is entirely possible to complete the construction of railways in two regions, such as Sonora and Sinaloa, which are close to Mexico, and can obtain extremely high financial support.Because these two areas are actually the tentacles of the Han Dynasty inserted into the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Once the railway is built in these two areas, from an economic point of view, the local economy will soon be in line with the Mexican economy. China Unicom.

Mexico's huge domestic market, as well as the wealth accumulated over hundreds of years, as well as local minerals and commodities, will be continuously transported back to China along this railway, especially the most prosperous and nearest area, California. .

Couldn’t the higher-ups of Han State see such benefits? ?

Of course they can see it, especially the local governments in Sonora and Sinaloa.

However, it is precisely because of unclear administrative planning, unclear property rights of this railway, and unclear distribution of benefits that this promising road that may become the second railway of Han State has been stranded... I have to say, it is really a joke.

This also prompted the central government of Han Dynasty to be enthusiastic about re-dividing regional administrative agencies.

The plan to establish a province has been discussed by the cabinet many times, and we are just waiting for the final decision! !

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Nobuga, an Indian town located southwest of Tongshan City.

The history of this town is actually not very long, probably less than a year. It was a town established by the Han army during the Han-Mexican War to coordinate local supplies during the war with the Mexicans.

At first, most of the residents here were the Han garrison. After the war, the garrison left, and it became the home of the local Indian tribes.

For these Indians who have never seen a city, Nobugo, a town named after their tribe, is already the most prosperous place in the world in their eyes.

It was not until the arrival of Yan Jun two months ago, and the construction of Tongshan City in the past month or so, that their understanding of the city and civilization was gradually broken.

It turns out that there are such good places in this world.

For the local Indians, everything they had about civilization and life was completely shattered after the establishment of Tongshan City (even if it was just a rough start).

Those outsiders brought food, delicacies they had never eaten (Chinese food), and drinks they had never drunk (tea and coffee, and the rising milk tea).

"Even those gorgeous clothes. Those clothes are smoother than animal skins and have no hair. I really don't know how these Chinese made them. Maybe they are really the descendants of gods!!"

This is what an Indian tribe chief said after seeing those Han gold diggers and the city of Xijing.

The so-called gods are actually what are preached in the Origin of America.

That is to say, the Chinese, and even the Indians, are descendants of the Eastern gods, and the Indians and Chinese are brothers and sisters who have been separated for thousands of years.

Objectively speaking, the Origin of the Americas that Liu Peng asked those historical inventors to write is no less important than the birth of Darwin's theory of evolution in this era.

For the world history community, the relationship between Chinese and Indians is a great research topic.

But because of the preconceptions of the Han Dynasty, in this era without genetic testing, the so-called culture, the so-called homology of China and India, as long as the Han Dynasty insists on it for 50 years, then in a few decades, the entire America will not question this history …

Because those who question it have been beaten as heretics.

Heretics, on the other hand, tend to be eliminated! !
Wang Damao Tavern, a country tavern that looks very ordinary.

In any town in California, this tavern would be the most inconspicuous, with a wooden house, the cheapest tiles, and a sign made of canvas.

No matter how you look at it, it feels like a country canteen.

But this is a tavern that no one would visit anywhere in California, but it has become the most popular place in the small towns of Nob.

Not only the local Indians like it here, but also the gold diggers who came all the way here.

Because this is the only place they can find within dozens of miles to drink and have fun.

For the local Indians, this is also where they see the honey spring on earth.

In fact, Indians also have wine, but the simple local brewing process is really incomparable with this tavern that sells Han wine.

As Wang Damao, the owner of this tavern, said, theirs is the best tavern here.

(Wang Damao’s family, aren’t they the best??)
This pub is crowded with people from morning to night, especially at night.

Because those gold diggers are back.

"A bottle of Fortress Township wine." In the tavern, Guo Jiawen, who had just walked in, shouted to the waiter inside, "Two more meatloaf..." Guo Jiawen then shouted again, and then found an empty seat to sit down. .

"Sir, your meat pie..." The waiter placed two large beef patties (made from American bison) from the tray in front of Guo Jiawen. "Your wine..." The waiter finally placed A bottle of wine with a painting of a Han country countryside and a golden fortress logo was placed in front of Guo Jiawen.

"Have you heard? Tongshan City said they are going to build a road here..." At the table next to them, several gold diggers were drinking with wine glasses. While drinking, they were talking about recent events. They were immediately attracted by the news. Still chewing on the meat pie, Guo Jiawen paid attention.

"Building roads, we only have so few people here, who will do it, ghosts?" The bearded gold digger opposite heard that the road was going to be built, and said with some disdain, "I think in the end, the tax for road construction will still have to be paid. Add it to us guys, damn, I knew from the beginning that these bastards from the Tongshan Yamen were not trustworthy and talked about building a prosperous Tongshan together. Isn’t this just us men paying to give those lords prosperity... Okay Let them ask for credit from above!!" The bearded gold digger became very angry when he mentioned this.

In his opinion, these people in Tongshan City are simply using them as soybean grinders.

When you are short of money, just touch some gold diggers like them. Do you really treat them as piggy banks, take them as you want, use them as you want? ?

"Who says it's not the case? Some time ago, we talked about building a track carriage to haul ore, and the haul was copper ore... Those companies that opened copper mines made a lot of money, but in the end, we have to dig for gold to build the track. Come on, what the hell are you talking about!!" The thin gold digger is also dissatisfied with the current tax system in Tongshan City.

Basically, they are using these gold diggers as sheep shears.

After finally digging up some gold, I just gave it to these grandsons. In the end, I still didn't get a good reputation. They dug up local gold at every turn, so they should pay.

"Let me see... this is probably done by that bastard surnamed Man. Ever since this guy took charge of city construction, we haven't had a good day..." The bearded gold digger mentioned Yan Jun's secretary Man Futing. Full of fire.

Since Man Futing was assigned to the construction work of Tongshan City by Yan Jun, he has been ignited with great fighting spirit and has been working on construction all day long.

Objectively speaking, Tongshan City was able to develop a city of thousands of people in a short period of time without any foundation, and it is still expanding. Manfuting is indispensable.

Without his construction, Tongshan City would not even look like what it is now. It would probably still be a village! !
But construction requires money. Where does the money come from? Part of it comes from taxes paid by local mining companies. But after all, the mining time is too short, and unlike gold mines, copper mines must be processed before they can be realized, which increases the problem. investment and return on capital.

But gold mines are different. When you dig them out, you get money, which is wealth recognized around the world and a universal currency.

And now, in addition to the large gold mines that have been taken over by the Ministry of Mines, what else can contain more gold than the small gold mines dug by these gold prospectors.

Because of this, the main targets of Manfuting's tax collection are these gold diggers who come all the way to dig for gold.

Through the taxes they pay and their consumption, the entire Tongshan City and even the surrounding areas are developed.

This was planned by Man Futing and Yan Jun from the beginning.

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(End of this chapter)