Wild North America 1846

The year 1854 is coming to an end, and 1855 will soon be ushered in. In the new year, war is the main theme, whether in North America, Europe, East Asia, or South Asia. This is a year of turmoil in the world.

The expeditionary force sent by the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty to Europe totaled 4 divisions with 24,500 troops. The main force was composed of refugees from the Jiaodong Peninsula, supplemented by some experienced non-commissioned officers and officers.

In the British Weihaiwei Concession, the Tang Kingdom now has 17 refugee relief points, attracting a large number of fleeing Chinese to arrive here, forming a large refugee area with an area of ​​more than ten square kilometers and gathering hundreds of thousands of Chinese refugees.

After cargo ships from the Tang Dynasty arrived at Weihaiwei, they frequently unloaded thousands of tons of grain and other supplies. These grains became life-saving grains for disaster relief and were also the main varieties traded by local officials and grain merchants.

Ordinary refugees can survive by receiving a bowl of porridge every day at the soup kitchen. The food swept from the bilge is mixed with finely broken wheat husks and dust and pebbles, which is difficult for ordinary people to swallow. Only refugees who want to survive are willing to drink it.

The reason for doing this is, firstly, to save food, and secondly, to eliminate those who are making small gains and allow more refugees to survive.

in a refugee camp

There are specialized people responsible for selecting and registering refugees who are in good health between the ages of 10 and 25. Anyone who volunteers to immigrate to the Tang Kingdom, has no disease, no chilblains, clear speech, and no injuries to his limbs, has a high probability of passing the selection.

Young men and women aged 10 to 14 years old will enter charity schools funded by the royal family after immigrating to North America. After studying, the fittest will survive, and the outstanding ones will continue their studies.

Those with poor academic performance can enter various factories and enterprises when they are 16 years old or older, and repay part of the immigration funds through hard work (depending on the training years, it is usually in the range of 110 yuan to 150 yuan).

Young men and women over the age of 15 can choose targeted preferential immigration loans. The future direction of immigration will be the central and eastern provinces of the Tang Kingdom, as well as the Midway Islands and Pearl Islands in the Pacific Ocean, that is, overseas provinces such as Hawaii, Panama or Alaska.

The fixed-point preferential immigration loan usually lasts three years, and those who do not choose usually five years. You need to work during the repayment period and repay the cross-ocean immigration ticket and other corresponding expenses monthly, which ranges from about 180 to 230 yuan per person (purpose

Different places have different expenses).

There is only one Weihaiwei port

The trans-Pacific immigration liner can basically reach 33 to 36 flights per month. Immigration ships depart every day, transporting immigrants ranging from 23,000 to 25,000 people. At the peak, 27,749 people were transported per month, and the annual immigration scale reached 300,000.

Including Longkou Port, Yantai Port, Shanghai Port, Mawei Port, Zhangzhou Port and Foshan Port, the number of Chinese immigrants arriving in North America through the Trans-Pacific Northern Immigration Route every year has exceeded one million, about 1.1 million.

Immigrants who boarded the ship at the southern port also headed north, transiting through Weihaiwei Port and heading to Midway Island. The next stop was Hawaii, and finally they landed in Los Angeles, North America.

The immigration ships replenished fresh fruits, vegetables, water and food along the way, forming a complete immigration route. After solving the problem of food supply and improving the harsh environment, the immigrant mortality rate in 1854 had dropped to 0.74%.

That is to say

During the long voyage, the number of immigrants who died due to various reasons every year was approximately 8,300 to 8,700. This low mortality rate can be said to be a miracle in the history of world immigration.

The reason for this

It was the Tang Kingdom that set up immigration officers at each port. Immigration officers were responsible for reviewing the physical condition of the immigrants who boarded the ship, the cabin configuration of the immigration ship, food supplies and compliance with various regulations. They had one-vote veto power.

For example, if the food is found to be infested with maggots, mold and spoilage, the crew abuses and violates immigrants, the passenger cabin is filthy, the environment is bad, immigrants are infected with infectious diseases or are physically weak, etc., the immigration officer has the right to stop the transoceanic transport liner at any time and order rectification.

and suspended sailings, imposed heavy fines on transoceanic shipping companies, and ordered the arrest of those responsible and severe penalties.

to be honest

Port immigration officers are the final decision-makers, and the assessment indicator they bear is the mortality rate. Those who can reduce the immigration mortality rate are good officials, and vice versa are incompetent.

It is precisely because of effective restrictive measures that all shipping companies on the golden trans-North Pacific route have tried their best to improve transportation conditions and formulate health standards and food supply standards for immigrants. This has greatly improved the environment on immigrant ships and will cause headaches.

The mortality rate is reduced to an acceptable level.

Immigration camps have been set up at each port. Chinese refugees who have been identified as immigrants can receive two meals a day in the camps, one thin meal in the morning, one dry meal in the afternoon, and a small amount of vegetables and meat.

Immigrants take care of their bodies.

Generally speaking

Depending on each person's physical condition, the length of stay in the immigration camp ranges from one week to one month. Young men and women over 16 years old will stay in the immigration camp for a shorter time. They can board the immigration ship after their health recovers.

Most of the boys and girls aged 9, 10 to 13 years old are in poor health. They are not only ragged but also skinny. Therefore, after uniformly changing clothes, it takes a long time to recuperate before they can board a special child immigration ship.

The conditions on the children's immigration ships are generally good, and the ships are equipped with doctors and male and female instructors. They will accompany and care for these children during the long journey. They will take them to the deck regularly every day to exercise, teach singing, and teach activities.

, pray three times a day from morning to night to express gratitude to the Tang Dynasty royal family for their benevolent rescue.

In the child immigration ship, the standard of physical supply is also the highest. Each child can get an apple or a radish every day, and a daily ration of half a pound of vegetables. They can get priority vegetables and food supplies at Midway Port and Hawaii Port, and sometimes they also receive food during meals.

You can get a small piece of salted fish.

The Royal Charity Education Fund of the Tang Dynasty provides generous rewards to children with outstanding academic performance. Outstanding students who can advance to high school are exempted from the obligation to repay immigration loans, which is equivalent to a generous gift of 150 to 180 yuan.

Those who excel in their studies will also receive bursaries and other generous rewards, including but not limited to participation in various activities organized by the Junior Military Academy, summer camps and the Royal Charity Foundation. This greatly broadens their horizons and cultivates their abilities, which is a highlight in their personal resume.

This part of the expenditure is the bulk of the royal family's charitable education fund expenditure. It is fully allocated from the royal family's income every year, and the amount reaches an average of one million yuan per year.

Take 1854 as an example;

The total number of teenagers (including boys and girls aged 9 to 13) who immigrated to North America throughout the year reached 137,200. After entering literacy classes to eliminate illiteracy, less than 7% of them were able to advance to high school after three years of junior school study. In 1854, there were 4,778 people.

(The student base was small in the early years), these outstanding students can be exempted from the responsibility of repaying immigration loans and enter the high school to receive key training.

The vast majority of teenagers who have no academic talent will enter social engineering companies, banks, chambers of commerce, or the army after reaching the age of 15, and become self-reliant workers.

After obtaining a fixed income, you will need to repay the bank immigration loan year by year, usually ranging from 3 to 5 years, and early repayment is allowed.

Outstanding students who advance to high school continue to undergo three years of training, and the best are selected. About six to seven hundred of them can enter universities for further study. The rest can enter martial arts halls or enterprises according to their personal aspirations, and gradually become social elites.

Today, this entire set of training procedures for Chinese immigrants has formed certain rules.

As for those adult Chinese immigrants, they can obtain household registration after landing in North America. Those who should settle in the central and eastern provinces will settle in the central and eastern provinces. Those who are willing to stay in the western provinces can stay in the western provinces. Those who are mail-order brides can marry into other families.

A big woman who is being married by a public matchmaker cannot run away.

The Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty was a country of North American immigrants dominated by Chinese people. The ghosts called it "Tang people". After the influx of a large number of immigrants from the Tang Dynasty, the entire society showed extremely strong Chinese characteristics.

Various clan associations and societies have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, such as Chaoshan Clan Association, Zhangzhou Clan Association, Jiaodong Clan Association, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Clan Association, Li Clan Association, Wu Clan Association, Zheng Clan Association of Guangdong and Guangxi, etc.

, simply too numerous to count.

Temples and Taoist temples donated by the royal family and the public are scattered all over the country. There are village temples in villages, Taoist temples in towns, and family temples and ancestral halls that Chinese clans are keen to build. They bloom almost everywhere.

In the strong Chinese social atmosphere, those early Chinese immigrants with bulging pockets, who owned land, shops and estates, had to consider the righteousness of family inheritance, so marrying a Chinese wife became a social requirement.

Hardcore needs.

Everyone has seen that the throne of His Majesty the King and Queen has been vacant for many years. Why not marry a lady from a famous family in China to inherit the throne?

This is the title of righteousness!

In this era, the Chinese people had a strong desire to go to heaven, and they all looked down upon the surrounding barbarian countries. Foreigners called them ghosts, and Western women called them hags, which all contained a strong sense of contempt.

As the saying goes, if something is good above, it will be effective below.

Having a Chinese-American first wife is generally regarded as a sign of career success. The family bloodline is pure and pure, which is something to be proud of and boast about.

As a result, the transoceanic immigration business of mail-order brides has become more and more prosperous. Many media intermediary companies have appeared, mainly introducing trans-Pacific marriages, and the business has become increasingly prosperous.

For example, a retired soldier from Zhangzhou has a family with food, a house, and fields. The woman has married several children and has a lot of children. However, if he wants to inherit the family business, he must have a Chinese wife.

In that case, a person who is successful in his career will not be judged by others when he goes out.

For this reason, I would rather spend a lot of money.

Mail-order brides are worth a lot of money. For example, a mail-order bride from a small and innocent family in Zhangzhou, with good health and good looks, plus betrothal gifts and various expenses, plus ship tickets, a mail-order bride can easily cost hundreds or even thousands of yuan.

If the mail-order bride you are looking for has higher requirements, comes from a small or medium-sized landowner or a scholarly family, and is a well-educated woman, then it is not surprising that the cost will double, which can easily range from two to three thousand yuan.

If the mail-order bride you are looking for comes from a wealthy family, not only has good conditions, but also has a maid to marry you, then it is normal to spend tens of thousands.

Different from the immigration ships that refugees take, these self-financed immigrants all take transoceanic cruises with better conditions. The tickets are very valuable. A first-class ticket is 1,600 yuan, which is hard to get.

The cruise ship does not have the unpleasant smell of cargo ships. The lowest class 4th class cabin can accommodate 24 people, and everyone has a bed. Although it is narrow and difficult to turn around, a ticket like this starts at 220 yuan.

Third-class cabins usually accommodate 8 to 10 people, and tickets start at 400.

Mail-order brides must at least travel in third class, with several female dependents living in one cabin, instead of mixing men and women in fourth class. What does that mean?

In order to participate in the Crimean War in Europe, the Tang Kingdom's military strength mainly came from immigrants.

In each port immigration camp, immigrants who are willing to join the army can be adult men under 38 years old, strong in physique, good obedience, and free of limb defects and diseases.

This gives refugees over the age of 25 a rare opportunity to immigrate, and refugees who voluntarily join the military can be exempted from paying immigration fees and being exempted from the responsibility to repay immigration loans, and all costs are paid by the military.

besides

Immigrants who volunteer to join the army are gathered together and can enjoy three meals a day. They begin rigorous military training from the moment they enter the immigration camp. They can see some meat and fish every day and have a full stomach.

With such favorable conditions, many young male immigrants rushed to sign up. It was just for fighting. Now that the war has spread across most of China, dying in battle is no longer a terrible thing.

Maybe you can get ahead by playing a good game?

In the immigration camps in China, there are many retired soldiers serving as immigration officers and staff appointed by the government. Many legends about the success of early immigrants from the Tang Kingdom came to life in the immigration camps, inspiring the dreams of many people.

Those high-ranking military nobles were just like me seven or eight years ago, just members of the refugee camp.

If others can do it, why can’t I do it myself?

The power of role models is infinite. It was precisely because of the encouragement of early immigrants that a large number of people signed up to join the army. Statistics at various ports have exceeded 45,000 people. This is despite extreme restrictions.

After the British learned of this situation, they immediately contacted the Tang Kingdom and decided to send 4 divisions with a total of 24,000 troops. The rest were all funded by the British to form mercenaries and entrusted the officers of the Tang Kingdom.

Training and command are continuously sent to the European front lines.

To this end, the British paid three payments totaling 2.7 million pounds (equivalent to 13.5 million yuan) and booked an army of 30,000 mercenaries in advance.

The insufficient part of the cost will be allocated from special funds by the British Colonial Department, and all weapons, equipment and material supplies will be borne by the British side.

The only requirement is that this army must be dispatched to the European battlefield as soon as possible, and the deadline is before April 1, 1855.

this means

Before April 1, 1855, the coalition forces on the Crimean front will receive reinforcements of no less than 55,000 troops, and this is just the Tang Kingdom.

The British also successively mobilized troops from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Australia, and Canada, preparing to fight to the death with Tsarist Russia in the Crimean Peninsula. In any case, Tsarist Russia would not be allowed to break through the Black Sea and the Balkan Peninsula, thus affecting the entire Europe.

balance of power.

From this point, we can see how persistent the British are in maintaining their status as the arbiter of the European continent and at no cost. This is related to the core of British foreign policy, no matter how high the cost.