Wild North America 1846

The Americans were jealous as they watched the Texaco Oil Company collect large sums of money. They tried to inquire through various channels about the possibility of purchasing new petroleum refining equipment, but they were all rejected without mercy.

They don't know that the Chang'an Petroleum Equipment Company is also a company that the royal family holds shares on behalf of various companies and is actually fully controlled by the royal family. The related petroleum refining equipment will not be considered for export within 10 years.

After 10 years

The oil companies that sprung up in the Tang Kingdom should have reached a new level in their refining capabilities and have stronger market dominance capabilities.

By then, it will be inevitable to appropriately liberalize competition.

Flowers in a greenhouse can never grow up. Only by undergoing the baptism of the market can a world-class oil company with truly market competitiveness emerge.

As for now, Americans are dreaming!

These few years

The relationship between the Tang Kingdom and the U.S. federal government has always been bumpy and bumpy, and has never entered the track of normalization. The trade between the two parties often has to pass through the south, which puts the southern state in a unique position in the bilateral trade between the United States and Tang Dynasty.

The southern states of the United States have been at odds with the northern states for a long time. In the same country, industrial products from Europe and the Tang Dynasty can enter the southern states unimpeded and become mainstream products in the market.

However, products from northern states in the United States are unable to enter, and even if they do, there are many obstacles. It is common for geese to pluck their feathers, and all kinds of weird taxes can make people collapse.

That's not surprising

The northern states of the United States have always held high the banner of human rights and advocated the abolition of slavery. Many northern white civil rights activists secretly established the so-called "Freedom Passage", which was a secret channel to help southern slaves escape to the north.

no doubt

Southern white slave owners regarded black slaves as their own wealth, and black slaves were the main labor force on cotton plantations. Each one was worth hundreds or thousands of dollars, and strong male black slaves were even worth thousands of dollars.

The loss of one or two black slaves is enough to make white slave owners feel distressed for a long time. Some southern plantations, with the help of northern white people, ran away a dozen or even dozens of black slaves at once. How could those white slave owners not be furious?

, so angry that you vomit blood?

In their eyes, the Yankees were outright stealing.

If things continue like this, it will be strange that the relationship between the South and the North will be good.

After losing foreign aggression like the Tang Kingdom, the United States has now formed distinct opposing camps in the south and north. The two sides have deep grievances and irreconcilable fundamental contradictions. Resentment and dissatisfaction continue to ferment.

Even if the Tang Kingdom had smooth trade channels with the southern states of the United States, it would be impossible to sell important new petroleum refining equipment. Wouldn't that be equivalent to abandoning martial arts and cultivating a strong opponent for itself?

You should never do such stupid things.

The so-called liberalization of competition appropriately refers to the appropriate sale of one-generation backward refining equipment to British-owned oil companies when they cannot withstand the pressure. Other countries, including France, Prussia and the United States, are not under consideration.

Among the five golden flowers of the Tang Kingdom in the economic field, in addition to the dazzling Texaco Oil Company, the American River Gold Rush Company still plays a mainstay role.

In 1851, the American River Basin produced a total of 3.8774 million ounces of gold, with a total output value of 77.58 million Tang Yuan.

The American River Gold Mining Company, with its advanced gold mining tank equipment and superior geographical location, enjoys a 2/3 share and makes a lot of money.

But it should be seen

After six years of large-scale and intensive development, especially the intensification of the gold rush in the past two years, the gold resources of the American River are in a state of depletion. This year's gold output has not increased much compared to the previous year, and the income of ordinary gold prospectors has declined.

More than half, getting rich overnight has become a dream.

The dream of getting rich was shattered, which prompted a large number of gold diggers to return to society and engage in various industries, commerce, or agriculture and animal husbandry within their capabilities. The gold rush craze gradually cooled down.

However, a new gold mine was discovered in the remote Melbourne area of ​​Australia in the vast Pacific Ocean.

The American River Gold Mining Company acted quickly and landed in Melbourne in mid-1851, waving banknotes to acquire large tracts of land in areas rich in gold reserves for in-depth development.

Melbourne, Australia, is also a new profit growth point for the American River Gold Mining Company.

As a world-class mining company, the shareholders of the American River Gold Mining Company have complex origins. Not only do they have royal family and aristocratic shareholders from the Tang Dynasty, but they are also very influential in the upper class society of the British Isles and have many top aristocratic shareholders.

Therefore, the American River Gold Co., Ltd.'s large-scale gold mining operation in Melbourne was given the green light from all aspects, and it soon became one of the local giants.

General Heavy Industry Holdings Co., Ltd. (which controls steel plants, iron ore and coal mines, shipyards and other heavy industry enterprises) has benefited from the industrial policy of the Tang Dynasty and has developed rapidly in the past two years. The number of steel plants it controls has increased from 5 to 17.

The amount of iron produced reached 370,000 tons.

Compared with the UK, which ranks first in the world, this output is only about 15% of the UK's current output. However, it should be noted that the UK's pig iron output was as high as 4.7 million tons more than ten years ago.

It's just that due to shrinking demand, production has been declining, and it is now only half of what it was at its peak.

In the Datang Kingdom, driven by strong domestic demand, the steel industry was in a stage of rapid development. The two major industries of shipbuilding and railways basically absorbed 80% of the steel production capacity.

The remaining 20% ​​is used for urban bridges and housing construction. The demand in this area is growing rapidly and the supply gap is huge.

For this reason, the Tang Kingdom had to import hundreds of thousands of tons of steel from Britain to make up for the lack of production capacity.

Considering the current situation of the world's steel industry with outdated equipment, poor smelting capacity, and low output, the University of California Steel Research Laboratory, funded by General Heavy Industries Holdings, brings together experts and scholars in the steel industry from all over the world to develop advanced steel smelting equipment.

, to improve production efficiency and output as soon as possible.

At present, the new production process has passed technical demonstration and is in the drawing design and engineering research stages of new steel smelting technology equipment.

In a few months, we will soon enter the production stage of new steel smelting equipment.

By then, the production efficiency and output of steel plants using new steel smelting equipment will be greatly improved.

Different from the revolutionary subversive design of petroleum refining equipment, the new steel smelting equipment directly adopts the expansion method, that is, there is more molten steel in the furnace, it becomes larger, and the output will naturally increase.

In addition, the use of heavy oil and diesel fuel to support combustion and forced air blowing can greatly improve the steelmaking efficiency of the steelmaking furnace, shorten the smelting time of a single furnace of molten steel, and thereby increase output.

This kind of process improvement is only suitable for resource-rich countries like the Tang Dynasty, which has a large amount of excess heavy oil and diesel, and other countries cannot learn from it.

The great development of the Grape Valley Light Industry Company (which controls textile, clothing, food, wine and other light industry enterprises) originated from the signing of the "Mexican Treaty" in August 1851, and the reclamation of large tracts of land suitable for growing cotton in Chihuahua and New Mexico provinces.

A stable and huge-yield cotton production base has been formed, which has driven the rapid development of the domestic textile and clothing industries.

The rise of a large number of cotton plantations in Chihuahua and New Mexico provinces also brought a large number of poor Mexicans to work in the cotton plantations. The current total number is as high as 170,000.

As cotton plantations mushroomed, the demand for Mexican labor would also grow rapidly.

Compared with the labor market of 4 million black slaves in the southern United States, the cotton plantations of the Tang Kingdom are now in the ascendant, and there is still broad room for development in the future.

But you have to do it slowly. You won’t become fat after one bite.

As of the end of 1851

After the total population of the Tang Kingdom exceeded the 3 million mark in February, Chinese immigrants increased by 70,000 to 80,000 per month, and with the addition of 27,000 to 29,000 new births per month, the total population once again exceeded 4 million by the end of the year.

off, setting a new high in history.

throughout North America

The Tang Kingdom therefore surpassed Mexico and became the second most populous country in North America after the United States.

The social prosperity brought about by rapid economic development has changed in all aspects of society. The urban area has grown rapidly, and various beautiful buildings have risen from the ground. The harvest of agriculture and animal husbandry has brought abundant urban supplies and promoted commercial prosperity.

Within the vast territory of the Tang Kingdom, the business talents of the Chinese people were fully utilized. Those with money started shipping companies and got involved in heavy industries such as steel plants and shipyards.

There are also some businessmen who have devoted themselves to cement factories, brick kilns, wineries, textile factories, quarries, lumber factories, food factories and other fields. They have found their own position in the social division of labor and are developing in full swing.

Those Chinese immigrants who had just arrived in North America and did not have much money with them simply took up the role of peddlers and traveled around the streets to accumulate original capital.

Watching other people live a prosperous life, get rich, marry wives, take concubines, and buy houses, this further inspired the great enthusiasm of later Chinese immigrants to start their own businesses.

In ordinary Chinese families

Having an Indian woman or maid is a basic requirement, but a slightly better option is a Mexican maid, who is a good hand whether it is giving birth to children or helping with work.

Most middle-class Chinese families have one or several white concubines, several Mexican maids, at least a single-family villa or their own property or shop, and a stable source of income.

More than 80% of these middle-class Chinese families are retired military officers and soldiers, becoming the middle class that became rich first.

If you have the conditions, you can order a Chinese bride. After arriving in North America, 99% of these Chinese brides will become the matron of the family, and the host will feel proud when he takes her out to entertain guests.

After all, ghosts are ghosts. Not only do they have a language barrier, but their living customs are also very different. After all, it is better for Chinese people to have a wife, and naturally it doesn't matter to a concubine.

After His Majesty the King married a lady from a well-known family from mainland China as his queen and concubine, the craze for marrying mainland brides was first initiated by the aristocracy, and then quickly spread to the wealthy and middle classes of society, giving rise to ten

Several powerful multinational media companies, this is a story for another day.