Wild North America 1846

The form of the Crimean War not only deeply attracted the attention of European public opinion, but also deeply attracted the attention of high-level officials in European countries. The scale and intensity of this most tragic war far exceeded the defeat of the French Emperor at the beginning of this century.

Napoleon's 7th Anti-French Alliance Battle of Waterloo.

By the end of March 1855

The coalition forces lost more than 350,000 troops, and the Tsarist Russian army lost more than 470,000 troops. Both sides suffered extremely heavy casualties.

After the Russian army lost the crucial Battle of Sevastopol, most of its Army Group South's nearly 180,000 troops were lost, either due to battle damage or being captured.

Only a handful of Russian troops broke through the heavy siege and fled to Kiev, where they began to build a new line of defense with the back of the Russian troops who had retreated in the Battle of the Danube.

The interior of Tsarist Russia was extremely long. After emergency mobilization in Ukraine and Belarus, more than 200,000 serf soldiers were temporarily assembled.

They lacked weapons and ammunition, lacked clothing, lacked food supplies, lacked training, and almost everything that could be used in war. Many of them could only hold rakes and wooden sticks, or even a spear.

even so

The coalition forces also had to stop their continuous offensive. This was because there were no decent roads in Tsarist Russia, and when the spring came and the flowers bloomed, the ice and snow melted, and the originally sloppy roads turned into muddy ponds.

As long as a carriage carrying supplies dares to enter this kind of road, there is a high probability that the carriage and supplies will get stuck and cannot be pushed out.

Such transportation conditions made the Allied Forces Command look like Muggles.

Is it possible that in order to fight a war, we have to build roads for Russia?

It happened that the troops were already tired from the continuous fighting, so the coalition forces began a large-scale rest and recuperation, which lasted for 2 to 3 months.

When the war situation in Europe was somewhat calm, foreign diplomats in Vienna began secret emergency consultations and conducted see-saw negotiations on harsh armistice conditions.

April 6th

Cargo ships and immigration ships that successively departed from various ports along the coast of the Tang Kingdom gathered at the port of Panama and formed a large steam transport fleet of 18 ships, entering the depths of the Pacific Ocean and heading towards Paradise Island (New Guinea).

Driving away in a mighty manner.

This fleet is responsible for the important task of colonizing Paradise Island and will build two port towns, Donggang and Xinxi'an, at the same time, so two supplies are prepared.

Four 6,350-ton coal ships, two 3,500-ton oil tankers, six 3,770-ton immigration ships, and six large steam freighters carrying various materials, including complete sets of cement plant equipment, brick kiln equipment, sawmill equipment, and a

Fourteen thousand barrels of cement, 3,600 tons of various steel materials, more than a thousand barrels of kerosene, an astonishing number of tents, condiments, canned food and grain, more than 2,000 cattle, more than 5,000 sheep and tens of thousands of chickens, ducks and poultry, various

A variety of production tools, including 100 sets of the latest 12-horsepower walking tractors.

The diesel-powered walking tractor is the latest product developed by the Power Laboratory of the University of California. This small diesel-powered machine has groundbreaking revolutionary significance and has been widely welcomed since its introduction, especially in farming operations.

The working efficiency of a 12-horsepower walking tractor is equivalent to that of 3 horse-drawn plows and 5 ox-drawn plows. The key is that this kind of machinery does not get tired, does not require eating grass, drinking water, and does not require rest. It can work day and night.

Work.

The 12-horsepower walking tractor has only two wheels and no gears. When it is started, it runs at about the same speed as a person walking. It can plow the field by attaching an iron plow, rake the field by attaching an iron rake, and rake the field by attaching a furrow.

The machine can create ridges and furrows, almost completing the most difficult part of field work.

The price of the walking tractor head plus three farm tools is only 328 yuan. Nowadays, the farms and manors in the Tang Dynasty are crazy about it. Even if the price is increased to more than 400 yuan, you can't get it, and you have to ask someone to find it.

Only through connections can you get the note.

As long as you have this tool for farming, it's no big deal to open up wasteland for farming.

In addition to those stubborn tree roots that need to be removed by hand, general bush roots, gravel and other debris are all plowed out during plowing, and then can be easily cleared out by fine iron rake during plowing.

, saving a lot of labor.

The world's leading walking tractor is now produced by Chang'an Heavy Machinery Factory, a machinery factory owned by General Heavy Industry Holdings. It has world-class mechanical production capabilities. Many production equipment and machine tools are self-developed, just for the sake of large-scale production.

Large-scale industrialized mass production of "Chang'an" brand walking tractors.

Being able to squeeze out 100 walking tractors from the extremely tight production capacity for the Paradise Island reclamation movement shows the importance the Royal Government attaches to this large-scale colonization movement and spares no effort in supporting it from all aspects.

In this large fleet of mixed passenger and cargo ships, there are six 3,770-ton immigration ships, carrying engineers, designers, construction workers from all over the country, enthusiastic students, and fresh graduates from Taoyuan Administration College.

The total number of trainee civil servants and some retired soldiers is as high as 4,229.

According to the predetermined plan;

After arriving at the destination of Donggang, the team took a short rest and then split into two. The other team continued sailing westward after replenishing some fresh water, and continued sailing for more than 2,870 kilometers before arriving at the town of Xin Xi'an.

The entire Paradise Island (New Guinea Island) is shaped like a long pancake and is about 2,400 kilometers long from east to west. The widest part of the island is about 650 kilometers long from north to south.

Donggang and Xinxi'an are located at the top of the island in the east and west respectively. The sailing distance between the two places is about 2870 kilometers. Although it is said to be an island, its geographical size is actually no less than that of a continent.

The Australian mainland is located directly south of Paradise Island. Between the two, it looks like a fat man wearing a hat on the map.

The Australian mainland is a fat man with a round face and a big face, while Paradise Island (New Guinea) is a fat man with a flat hat on his head.

On board the immigration ship "Moganshan"

The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Baron Dongjie, stood at the railing of the third deck, watching the long fleet of ships that lined up in a long snake formation and braved thick black smoke to move forward, cutting through the waves and plowing their way through the blue sea.

White track.

At this moment, letting the cool sea breeze of the central Pacific blow on his face, Dong Jie's heart was still surging, and the blood all over his body was rushing upwards.

This is called a real big deal, a real big undertaking!

Dong Jie is a middle-aged man of low stature, with a double-ranked Jinshi background and a native of northern Zhejiang. His wife, Dong Lin, is the cousin of Queen Lin Zhener, so he can be regarded as a Han bureaucrat in Lin Zexu's lineage.

Mr. Lin's death from illness made him a rootless figure in the court disputes. In addition, the Taiping Rebellion swept across half of the southeast, leaving China in a state of chaos.

He was a very ambitious middle-aged official who didn't want to waste his life like this, so he decided to cross the ocean and come to the legendary Tang Kingdom, which was full of opportunities and flowing with milk and honey, to seek development.

these years

The reputation of the Tang Kingdom was growing day by day, and there were many young and middle-aged officials, businessmen, children of scholarly families, Buddhists, Taoists, and even Liyuan families who came to North America one after another.

When Dong Jie first arrived, he took the invitation to see Her Royal Highness the Queen, and soon got the opportunity to take up a post in Chihuahua City.

At that time

His Majesty the King had just conquered Chihuahua Province with his army. Dong Jie was one of the first batch of administrators to arrive with the reinforcements and was appointed as the new mayor to preside over the local restoration and reconstruction work in Chihuahua City.

After that, the organization organized the sale of urban houses and shops to Chinese immigrants, and sold the surrounding properties and estates left behind by the Mexican upper class after they fled, and was able to gather a large amount of funds for subsequent road development and promotion of cotton plantation land sales, forming a benign

Cycle, step by step to develop the cotton planting base in Chihuahua City and revitalize the local economy.

As a local official who once served as a seventh-level magistrate in China, Dong Jie wisely retained some of the best manors, fields, shops and urban houses, allocated some to the royal family for use as palaces and government agencies, and some to the military for use

Part of the property rights of military garrisons and officers' residences are left in the hands of the city council, which can generate long-term rental income and make up for the shortfall in municipal construction.

Because of his outstanding performance, Dong Jie was able to serve as a senior official in Chihuahua two years later. He jointly proposed the "Preferential Loan Plan for Targeted Immigration" with the central and northern provinces, the "Land Grant Act of the Eastern and Southern Provinces" and "Relying on the Advantages of Cotton Resources to Develop Cotton

Textile Industry" and many other proposals to develop the regional economy, and they have been put into practice.

This contributed to the rapid economic development of Chihuahua Province and became the leading province in economic development of the eight southern provinces, thus attracting the attention of His Majesty the King and becoming the newly established colonial minister.

In the Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty, as long as you had the ability, made dazzling achievements, and happened to have some family connections that could be used, it would be easy to achieve great success.

In the northern and southern provinces where economic development is relatively backward, there are still many capable and thoughtful old officials like Dong Jie, many of whom have experience as officials, but not many can stand out.

Previous experience can indeed be a bonus, but in an emerging industrial country like the Tang Kingdom, some old concepts and cognitions may have restricted the development of these people. They always want to find connections everywhere to hug others, recognize kinship, and invest in others.

The route was obviously completely wrong.

Dong Jie finally understood;

It is better to make bright achievements in a down-to-earth manner than to talk about making headlines. How many immigrants were resettled in one year? How many acres of cotton fields were added? How much cotton production was increased compared with the previous year, and how much tax revenue was paid? How many times did the industrial output value increase?

Showing your results is more convincing than anyone else.

This is also the real reason why, as Secretary of the Colonial Department, he personally took charge of the reclamation of Paradise Island.

Watching the magnificent fleet heading west, Dong Jie felt so proud that he had the urge to sing loudly.

He can clearly realize that he is leading a group of people to create history. His Majesty the King has repeatedly emphasized that Chinese immigration is the cornerstone of the founding of the Tang Dynasty. The top goal of all government work must be paid great attention to truly implement immigration-related matters.

All problems at work.

The development of Paradise Island is an important node in opening up the golden route in the central Pacific. Building it well is a strategic issue related to the immigration work of the Tang Kingdom to a higher level, and it is worthy of full investment.