Wild North America 1846

As of the end of June 1856

The GDP of the Tang Kingdom in the first half of the year reached 527.3 million Tang Yuan, which was approximately 91.2% of the total economic output of the northern United States, further closing the gap between the economic aggregates of the two sides.

This statistic does not include the economic aggregate of the southern United States.

From the perspective of total population

As of the end of June, the total population of the Tang Kingdom reached 11.1233 million, with an average monthly immigration of 90,000 to 100,000 people on the Pacific Northern Golden Route, an average of 17,000 to 22,000 immigrants on the Central Pacific Route, and an average of 5,500 to 5,500 immigrants on the South and Central American routes.

With 6,000 people, this route is the only immigration route showing a downward trend.

The northern United States continues to be the main inflow area of ​​European immigrants, showing a typical high population growth trend.

By the end of June, the population of the northern United States reached 15.51 million, and the scale of industrial production has further expanded, showing a vigorous development momentum of initial industrialization.

The Kansas Civil War did not affect the economic growth momentum of the northern United States and was a typical local war.

With the end of the Crimean War in Europe, the demand for a large amount of war materials from Europe plummeted, which had a certain impact on the industrial and agricultural economy of the Tang Kingdom. The strong growth driven by the hot wartime demand came to an end, and the development curve trended

slow.

Just at this time

The main construction of the Daming Palace has been completed and delivered one after another. Now only parts of the West Palace and Harem are still under intensive construction. The number of construction workers has dropped from 42,300 in its heyday to about 14,000 currently.

Most of the expensive main body materials have been completed, and now more of the work is meticulously crafted, mostly completed by skilled craftsmen, and the need for labor has been greatly reduced.

The Royal Household Office was able to free up its hands to allocate funds for the planned strategic reserve and officially launched a large-scale purchase and reserve operation, which provided a huge buffer space for a considerable number of enterprises in the kingdom to transition from wartime to peacetime.

During the year

The Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to allocate 4.5 million yuan for procurement and storage. The orders are focused on individual weapons and equipment, belts and saddles, tent blankets, standard military uniforms, bedding, kettles and shovels, artillery shells, and field artillery of various calibers produced by the Colt Arms Company.

150 ships, ten 6,000-ton steam iron transport ships and other various grains, wheat, soybeans and other reserves.

Starting from next year

The Royal Household Office will allocate no less than 11 million yuan each year for large-scale collection and storage. The Royal Government will also allocate special funds to focus more on grain and oil reserves, taking into account both military and civilian uses.

As of the end of June 1856

The development statistics of various cities in the Datang Kingdom have been released one after another, and the ranking of the top ten cities in the Kingdom has become clearer, reflecting the overall trend of economic development in the Datang Kingdom.

The largest city in the Tang Kingdom is Chang'an (San Francisco), which is the political, cultural, military and economic center of the kingdom. With the Daming Palace on Longshou Plain as the core, the royal government, military leadership institutions, religious beliefs, higher education,

Culture and large corporate headquarters are gathered here, forming an increasingly prosperous development trend.

The population of Chang'an (San Francisco) increased from 1,022,100 at the end of 1854 to 1,239,500 at the end of June 1856, an increase of 217,400 in one and a half years. The development momentum was gratifying and showed a trend of rapid progress.

The education system, which is dominated by a series of higher education institutions such as the University of California, Chang'an Martial Arts Hall, California Institute of Technology, Kingdom Medical University, and Kingdom Normal College, has brought together experts and professors from all over the world, and its education has reached the first-class level in Europe.

, gave birth to many major inventions that promoted economic development.

It is especially famous for its innovative achievements such as complete sets of petrochemical equipment, small diesel engines and marine steam power, Harvey bulletproof armor steel, and food and can processing equipment.

Chang'an City was also the only large city with a population of one million in the Tang Dynasty. It was home to many large companies and bank headquarters. The city's scale continued to expand, just like a large construction site with construction everywhere, and its development was changing with each passing day.

Los Angeles was the second largest city in the Tang Kingdom. Its total population increased from 734,000 at the end of 1854 to 925,500 at the end of June 1856. It was not far away from the goal of becoming a city with a population of one million.

Los Angeles is the terminus of the golden route in the northern Pacific. Thanks to the millions of Chinese immigrants who gather here every year, the development speed of Los Angeles has always been among the highest among coastal cities, second only to Chang'an.

Today, the four major companies, Texaco Oil Company, Chevron Oil Company, Royal Glory Oil Company and California Oil Company, which are the pillars of the economy and industry of the Tang Kingdom, are all headquartered in Los Angeles.

The ocean shipping and transit transportation industry in Los Angeles is very developed, with more than 20 ocean shipping companies, large and small, and hundreds of warehouses. The cargo trade shipped to Europe through Los Angeles every year accounts for more than 80% of the kingdom's trade.

In addition, education in Los Angeles is also quite developed. The Los Angeles Institute of Technology, the Los Angeles Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Los Angeles Naval Academy, and the Royal Military Academy under construction are all top universities.

The third largest city in the Tang Kingdom was Seattle. This city benefited from the strong demand of the Crimean War, and its development momentum ranked first among coastal cities.

According to statistics in June 1856, Seattle surpassed Taoyuan City to become the third largest city in the Tang Kingdom. The total urban population reached 582,200, with marine fishing, lumber, canned food processing and shipbuilding industries as its main industries.

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In this way

The top three largest cities in the Tang Kingdom are all located in coastal areas, one in the north (Seattle), one in the middle (Chang'an), and one in the south (Los Angeles), showing a good situation of three arrows shooting at the same time.

This further reflects that the economic center of the Tang Kingdom was biased towards coastal areas, where the flow of people, logistics and resources, coupled with the blessing of trade routes, caused coastal cities to develop faster and faster, creating a siphon effect on surrounding cities.

Take Seattle as an example

The city has seized huge dividends from the development of the canned food industry and shipbuilding industry, and has taken advantage of the situation to rise. Its total export volume of seafood, various meats, and canned beans ranks first in the country.

In particular, canned chickpeas and spiced soybeans, which are low-priced and in great demand, account for more than 72% of the country's export volume of such cans, and canned seafood accounts for more than 80%, forming more than a dozen famous brands with advantages.

As the capital of the Northern Province, Seattle's vast inland area is suitable for the development of animal husbandry, with abundant forest and pasture resources. The number of beef cattle in stock reaches 380,000 and 2.16 million sheep. It is a well-known animal husbandry province in the country.

As Seattle's rapid development squeezed surrounding cities, the development of Vancouver and Portland, the capital of Oregon, was unsatisfactory. Their economic and population growth rates were far slower than Seattle's, and they were left behind.

The fourth largest city in the Kingdom is Taoyuan City, whose population increased from 453,100 at the end of 1854 to 565,900 at the end of June 1856, ranking fourth in the country with a gap of just over 17,000 people.

As the largest city in the country, Taoyuan City was gradually forgotten in the past seven years of the US-Tang Dynasty War, and then was surpassed by coastal cities one after another, looking extremely lonely.

This large northern city on the Colorado Plateau was a frontline in the fight against American aggression when the Tang Dynasty was first established. It spent a lot of money to establish a complete industrial system, including steelmaking, cement, food processing, weapons manufacturing and handicraft workshops.

, its strength is second to none in the northern region.

Taoyuan Administration College is the top institution in the Tang Kingdom for cultivating qualified civil servants. Excellent students who graduated from here are spread across all provinces and cities in the Datang Kingdom, becoming an important force supporting the kingdom's grassroots administrative system.

According to convention

His Majesty the King visits the Colorado Plateau every year and stays at the Jinghu Palace in Taoyuan City for at least a month every year. This is the pride of the people of Taoyuan City.

Salem was the fifth largest city in the Tang Kingdom. Its population jumped from 273,200 at the end of 1854 to 418,000 at the end of June 1856, ranking fifth.

Salem is a typical industrial city. Relying on its rich coal and iron resources, it has developed the pillar steel industry, ocean ship manufacturing and machinery industries. The famous small diesel engines and marine steam engines are produced here.

There are more than 130 various heavy industry companies in the city, and the chimneys spewing black smoke all day long are a sign of the strong industrialization of the current era. No one mentioned the issue of environmental pollution at all.

Salem is only more than 100 kilometers away from Portland, the capital of Oregon Province in the north. With its resource advantages, its development momentum has surpassed the capital city and proudly ranks among the fifth largest cities in the Kingdom.

The rapid development of the canning industry in the Tang Kingdom would not have reached its current scale without the high-quality thin iron sheets produced in the Salem area, forming a huge industrial chain relied on by hundreds of thousands of people and a unique export product of the kingdom.

Different from the small and medium-sized shipyards in the Seattle area, there are several large shipyards along the coast of Salem, specializing in the production of large-scale ocean passenger and cargo ships. They are the shipbuilding center in the north of the Kingdom. Their ship production capacity accounts for about half of the country's, and they can single-handedly compete with Chang'an and Los Angeles.

There are dozens of shipyards in the two places, and their strength is evident.

Back to the roots

It is high-quality steel produced in the Salem area, providing the best resources for the region's shipbuilding industry. Coupled with the kingdom's leading mechanical processing capabilities, ship steam engine and ship boiler production capabilities, and complete supporting capabilities, its shipbuilding industry has developed

The potential is still far from being tapped.

It can be seen from the ranking of the five major cities in the Tang Dynasty that under the balance of market forces, the national economic center and urban development center tended to be in coastal areas. This is inseparable from the unique geographical advantages of coastal areas.

The combination of the powerful ocean transportation capabilities of the Tang Kingdom, which was second to none, and the geographical advantages of the coastal areas formed this one-sided development advantage.

This kind of advantage cannot be matched by inland areas.

For the same production of canned meat, the cost advantage of transportation costs in coastal areas is extremely obvious compared to inland areas.

In the increasingly fierce local competition, it is not surprising that coastal areas take the lead in economic development and get the biggest slice of the pie.

The only thing that can change this disadvantage is the Gulf of Mexico Railway, which provides a convenient access to the sea for the economic development of the southern provinces, which is of great significance.

The Gulf of Mexico Railway had just opened to traffic in early 1856 and was unable to catch up with the rush of European demand driven by the Crimean War. This was something the 12 northern and southern provinces deeply regretted.