Wild North America 1846

Chang'an (San Francisco)

November 6

A young monarch like Richard will not stay in the palace for a long time. He is inherently restless, and he insists on being a superhuman force. He has extremely effective mysterious premonitions and can seek good fortune and avoid misfortune. Therefore, he often travels around the country to inspect, and has encountered many people one after another.

More than a dozen assassinations.

No, I had just returned from a tour of the Northern Province, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah by train, and then I moved into the Bay Palace.

This trip went generally smoothly, except that when I inspected Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah Province, I was assassinated by a lone wolf on the street.

Unfortunately, as soon as the assassin took out his revolver, he was hit like a hornet's nest by a dense rain of bullets.

Later found out

The lone wolf is Sis Dun, the "Sunflower Killer" who is accustomed to using pepper bottle revolvers. He is the best bounty hunter in the West. He has been famous for more than 10 years, but he did not expect to end up bleeding on the streets.

The famous "Sunflower Killer" Sis Deng can be said to be one of the best gunslingers in the world today. He can draw his gun as fast as lightning and his bullets are perfect.

If you hide in a dark place and launch an attack, it would be difficult for ordinary people to hide and assassinate you in the street.

It's a pity that these weird tricks were not enough in front of Richard. It was like a candlelight in the dark night that had already locked onto the target and was beaten like a sieve by the palace guards.

This account will undoubtedly be recorded on the Americans.

several years have passed

The President of the United States is a solid soldier. President Taylor has long been a thing of the past. Now there is Democratic President Franklin Pierce, a new paper framer.

But no matter which U.S. president comes to power, the Tang Kingdom will always be its biggest external enemy and strategic competitor. Due to sharp conflicts of interest on a series of major issues, the diplomatic and economic and trade relations between the two sides have always been bumpy.

The top task of "Assassinating the Devil Charlie" has been passed down from generation to generation.

overseas palace

The Bay Palace is located on the towering northern platform of the San Francisco Bay, not far from the proposed Golden Gate Bridge. It has unparalleled views overlooking the entire bay. Not far from the Palace is the heavily guarded Fort Coast Fortress.

It's November, and Chang'an is getting colder and colder after winter begins.

Especially the Bay Palace, which is located high on the coast, is even more chilly at night, with the sea breeze blowing and the temperature actually feeling much colder than a few degrees above zero.

The queen and her concubines did not live here. The princes and princesses of the Tang Dynasty royal family were young and could not bear the sea breeze and strong cold. They often came to live between June and September every year when the weather was hot.

Last time I was on vacation for fun.

This bit of coldness was just a small case of the breeze blowing on Richard's face for the super strong physique.

Accompanying King Richard are three Mexican beauties. A few years have passed, and these three beautiful Mexican girls have completely transformed and become stunners with bulging front and back.

night falls

On the top of the towering cliff, Richard stood there in thin clothes like a tall and tall pine. Beside him, six huge bald eagles lined up like loyal guards. They looked around and stood tall.

Steady and steady.

These adult sea eagles are so huge that they can reach Richard's chest when they stand. They run two steps forward and glide from the cliff to fly, with a wingspan of up to three meters.

Feeling the strong sea breeze blowing, Richard looked at the bay with deep eyes.

In the far distance of the bay, there is a faint light in the sky, extending overwhelmingly to the end of the field of vision.

That is today's Chang'an City (San Francisco). With the repeated expansion of the city's scale, there are many high-rise buildings, and the original new municipal scale has expanded more than 20 times like a fission. It has become different from the surrounding Fangcaodi and Grape Valley.

, Rose Manor are connected together to form a magnificent new city.

As of the end of October 1854;

The population of Chang'an City has exceeded 933,100, and it is only one step away from reaching the goal of a city with a population of one million.

Of course

This statistics includes the population of a series of affiliated towns in Grape Valley such as Sunshine City, Moon Town, Fangcao Town, and Daoling Town to Wudaoling Town, but does not include the population of Shanghewan City and Xiahewan City.

According to the planning proposal proposed by the parliament, Chang'an City will undergo urban restructuring due to the rapid expansion of the city's scale and the corresponding urban construction and management problems.

That is to say, "urbanization"

The new town zoning was changed to "New City District" and "Sanfan District". Longshou was originally changed to "Longshou Original District", Fangcao Town was changed to "Fangcao District", and there were a total of 5 towns from Daoling to Wudaoling Town.

, was changed to "Wudaoling District", Yangguang City was changed to "Sunshine District", Moon Town and the surrounding small towns were changed to "Moon District", in addition there were "Nanwan District" and "Beiwan District", a total of 9

A city district, "Beiwan District" is where the Bay Palace is located.

After the "urbanization" restructuring, the geographical divisions of each urban area are clearly defined, and the corresponding district government agencies, district police stations, district taxation bureaus, district courts and corresponding institutions are all in place, which is more conducive to the future development of Chang'an City, a super metropolis.

The three population concentrated areas of "New City District", "San Francisco District" and "Sunshine District" all have urban residents of more than 250,000, which is the smallest population. However, the total population of "Longshouyuan District" where top dignitaries gather is only just over 20,000.

The difference between each interval is more than 12 times.

After being divided into districts, it will be conducive to the healthy and rapid development of each urban area, to rational construction, and to the balanced development of resource allocation and urban construction.

Richard retracted his gaze and stretched out his hand to caress the bald eagle beside him. The bald eagle responded with its head gently, enjoying the favor of its master.

Looking into the bay

Under the bright moonlight, the waves sparkled, the sound of the tide could be heard faintly, and the cargo ships and sailboats anchored in the bay showed huge shadows, dotted sporadically in the fjord.

Taking a closer look, there are more than 200 ships.

With the development of maritime trade and trans-Pacific northern immigration routes, the Tang Kingdom has emerged as a maritime power on the east coast of the Pacific. Its naval power and ocean-going merchant fleet have a considerable tonnage, and it even takes over the trade and transportation of Central and South American countries.

Task.

From the Port of Vancouver, the Port of Seattle, the Port of Portland, the Port of San Francisco, the Port of Los Angeles, south to the Port of Panama in Central America, and then continue to extend south to Tierra del Fuego on the other side of the Strait of Magellan at the southernmost tip of South America, and even around the Tierra del Fuego.

The island arrived at the Port of Buenos Aires. With the unique port conditions and coastline, Ocean Kingdom's transportation fleet has operated a transportation route around the east coast of the Pacific, transporting various agricultural and sideline products and industrial products in huge quantities every year.

The ocean shipping industry also became an emerging industry in the Tang Kingdom, and strong demand supported the rapid development of the shipbuilding and steel industries.

Unlike the old European maritime powers, the Tang Kingdom's ocean shipping industry was based on the emerging steel ship manufacturing industry, developed particularly rapidly, and in some aspects has reached the world's leading level.

mid 19th century

The development of steel ships has passed its budding stage and entered the period of vigorous growth. As the British 10,000-ton freighter "Great Eastern" embarked on the construction of the slipway, the Datang Kingdom's 10,000-ton freighter "Kunlun Mountain" also cut

After getting the first iron plate, we entered the dock construction stage.

Driven by the demand for trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic ocean transportation, the Tang Kingdom's freighter fleet, which is dominated by ships of 3,000 tons to 5,000 tons, has a trend of increasing the displacement of cargo ships.

Different from the common broadside paddle wheels and retained sail designs of large iron freighters in Europe, the Tang Kingdom developed independent characteristics in ship construction.

The ocean-going cargo ships and cruise ships of the Tang Dynasty generally canceled sails and side paddle wheels, and only used propeller-only power design, which greatly reduced the construction process and tediousness, improved work efficiency, and provided excellent use results.

In addition to using thermal coal, the ocean-going cargo ships of the Tang Dynasty were also widely equipped with heavy oil tanks. When necessary, heavy oil was input to support combustion to enhance the ship's power.

Based on the British horizontal steam engine, Datang Kingdom Heavy Marine Power Machinery Company has successfully developed and launched a series of improved steam engines through many years of close cooperation with the University of California Marine Power Laboratory. The size of the steam boiler and steam engine has been greatly reduced, and the power has been increased by 60

%, coal burning is reduced by 31%, and it can withstand the super steam pressure when burning heavy oil. Once launched, it has been widely welcomed.

on the basis of

Among the research projects of the Ship Power Laboratory of the University of California, funded heavily by the royal family, there are also key scientific research projects such as new triple expansion steam engines and vertical steam engines. It brings together the world's outstanding mechanical power experts and other experts to strive to achieve new breakthroughs in the field of ship power.

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In this field, the technological level of the Tang Kingdom is already comparable to the world's top causes and effects.

This is because the steam revolution started not long ago. When the Tang Kingdom was established, it attached great importance to the development of this field and introduced a large number of internationally advanced equipment and processes at the time. The starting point was relatively high.

The second is to recruit talents with generous remuneration. Now everyone in the European scientific and technological circles knows that the most generous rewards can be obtained in the universities and top research institutes of the Tang Kingdom.

An experienced research-oriented professor of physics, chemistry or mechanics can receive a monthly salary of 250 to 300 yuan, and also has a considerable research subsidy. He can be equipped with two Indian maids and a single-family villa, and enjoy a luxurious life.

This income level is 10 times that of ordinary people.

As a country with a high degree of industrialization, the salary level in the Tang Kingdom has been rising year by year. The monthly salary of the ordinary working class is between 23 yuan and 35 yuan. The higher the qualifications and the better the skills, the more salary they will get.

The monthly salary of experienced senior craftsmen in shipyards can often reach between 55 and 60 yuan, which is the highest level.

The income of employees on farms and plantations is low, with a monthly salary between 20 and 25 yuan, and rarely more than 25 yuan a month. This refers to Chinese and white workers with household registration.

In the countless cotton plantations in the eight provinces of Mexico newly acquired by the Southern Datang Kingdom, there are still hundreds of thousands of Mexican illegal workers, whose monthly salary is only 5 to 6 yuan, and many of them cannot even get paid.

Under oppression, they could only get some food to survive.

Due to various restrictions, it is basically impossible for these oppressed Mexican black workers to obtain household registration in the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, they are afraid of being caught by the fierce patrols and thrown into hard labor camps. They can only hide in the plantations and endure the Chinese or white cotton cultivation.

The owner's squeeze.

His treatment of blood and tears is no different than that of a slave.

Some journalists with a sense of justice once published the tragic experiences of exploitation and oppression of Mexican black workers in newspapers, calling for the attention and sympathy of the whole society, hoping to get the attention of government departments.

His Majesty the King has publicly stated: "Illegal oppression will never be allowed to exist. We hope that governors and municipal officials in various places will pay attention to it and investigate and deal with it to safeguard social justice."

The Royal Government also mobilized a large number of inspection teams to inspect the eight southern provinces to detect corresponding illegal and oppressive behaviors.

This incident went on for more than half a year. In the end, 11 officials and 166 plantation owners were investigated and punished, and thousands of Mexican illegal workers were rescued. The most serious thing was to lose their official position, and the plantation owners usually fined them.

The entire "Mexican illegal labor incident" was met with much fanfare but little rain, and ultimately came to nothing.

Compared with the nearly 550,000 Mexican illegal workers in the thousands of cotton plantations in eight southern provinces, the thousands of Mexican illegal workers rescued are just a drop in the bucket.

The board is raised high and lowered gently.

The final report of the Royal Government's investigation team is: "After investigation, the "Mexican illegal workers" discovered are a very small number of accidental incidents, which are neither common nor representative. What is more serious is the illegal border crossing incident. Due to the outbreak of the Mexican Civil War, lives have been devastated.

, the fields were barren, resulting in a large number of Mexican refugees crossing the border in search of a way out..."

Anyway, it was a cloud of mist that brought the focus of social attention to the Mexican Civil War that had just broken out. Those Chinese cotton plantation owners turned into extremely sympathetic patrons and responsible gentlemen.

The two newspapers and their employees who were the first to report on the illegal labor incident in Mexico were violently counterattacked by the cotton plantation owners. The newspapers closed down one after another. The Chinese reporters Liu Zhenhua and Hu Kan who were the first to report the incident were shot to death on the street.

The children were all implicated and hit, and the others also ended miserably.

Unlike a monarch who lives deep in the palace, Richard spends half of the year running around. Mere assassinations cannot scare him at all, and the real situation below cannot be hidden from him.

He knows the true situation of the so-called "Mexican illegal labor incident" better than anyone else.

But so what?

Think of this

A disdainful smile appeared on Richard's stern face. In North America, a vast land rich in resources, the truth is obvious!

The plate of total resources is placed here. If you take one more bite, I will take one less bite. If you take more, I will take less.

No matter whether they are Indians, Mexicans or white people who refuse to naturalize and integrate, they will not be welcomed by the Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty. They will all be suppressed and eliminated, and they will all be oppressed and treated unfairly.

This is a policy based on the founding principles of the Tang Dynasty and Richard's Chinese-dominated fundamentals. It is impossible to sit on his butt and instead help Mexican black workers or indigenous Indians.

Different ethnic groups, different languages, different skin colors, different religious beliefs, different social customs and even different eating habits, how can assimilation be possible?

Those who are not of my race must have different minds!

Richard's strategy was to divide and win over, focusing on win-over and affirmative action policies towards the powerful white ethnic groups, and tried his best to promote intermarriage and ethnic integration, so that they could be closely integrated with the interests of the Tang Dynasty and become part of his own people.

The policy of annihilation and enslavement was implemented against the indigenous Indian tribes, which caused the millions of indigenous Indians in the Tang Kingdom to shrink rapidly, and now they are less than 430,000.

According to reports from various mining hard labor camps, this number will quickly drop to less than 100,000 in less than ten years.

In 15 years, this number will be less than 30,000.

The policy towards Mexicans is a combination of oppression and slavery, with strict restrictions on naturalization. Those Mexican black workers have toiled all their lives and could not even hope to obtain a legal household registration in the Tang Kingdom.