Wild North America 1846

Through the Gulf of Mexico Railway, the industrial products of the Tang Kingdom can be easily reached from coastal ports to important cities in the southern United States. The transportation is convenient, convenient and very efficient.

The key is that it is irreplaceable.

The silver and brass produced in the Tang Kingdom were imported in large quantities by the northern and southern states of the United States, and were used to make copper and silver coins that were in great circulation. They were also one of the important minerals exported to Europe.

Therefore, at this stage, Richard does not need to consider the trade restrictions of the southern United States. What attracts his attention is the summit of large estate owners that will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana in April.

Due to inconsistent interests, the American Federation was actually split into North and South, which also had different policies towards the Tang Kingdom.

The north is wary, with alienation and hostility as the mainstream. The south is characterized by cold politics and hot economics, with frequent trade exchanges with each other. However, the senior officials of the southern states are quite wary of the Tang Kingdom, and their opinions are quite different.

The Yankees do not have a fuel-efficient lamp. This is the original birthplace of white supremacy. Conservative, xenophobic, closed, and self-contained small circles are the distinctive characteristics of the Yankees.

Richard wanted to provoke the conflict between the north and the south to break out in advance. While supporting the independence of the south, he could unite the power of the south to fight the north decisively. Then the Tang Kingdom would be in the most advantageous strategic position.

It is now more than three years before the outbreak of the Civil War in history. The American South took substantial secession moves at the end of 1860, which eventually led to the outbreak of the Civil War.

It is undoubtedly difficult to detonate this in advance.

If President James Buchanan is allowed to join forces and take the lead in provoking a war against the Tang Kingdom, it will undoubtedly be the worst outcome.

In the end, it is very likely that the southern United States will also be involved in the war, and all the strength of the United States Federation will be gathered into the war between the two countries. The Tang Kingdom will bear the greatest pressure.

This is undoubtedly the result that President James Buchanan wants to see most. Through the hands of the Tang Kingdom, the separatist power and war potential of the Southerners can be weakened in disguise, which will help suppress domestic dissent and attack and weaken the southern large estate owners.

, liberating the 4 million black slave labor force and realizing the great development of American industry and the true unification of the country.

After asking about some information, Richard instructed the Special Operations Division to step up infiltration of high-level officials in the southern United States, try to have a certain say, and prepare for the next move, and then waved him away.

Return to the Imperial Study Room

Richard summoned Liu Xianjun, the head of the royal secretariat, and ordered him to contact the famous southern social activist Jefferson Davis through secret channels, revealing the kingdom's willingness to support southern independence and preparing to provide a batch of substantive help.

After finishing these things, Richard stopped and carefully considered whether there were any mistakes or omissions in these actions.

Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States of America in history. His ability and influence in social activities are unquestionable in the South. What is missing now?

What is lacking is abundant funds, materials and clear political support. Now that Richard has made up for all these, he believes that it will be enough to promote the rapid expansion of Jefferson Davis's political ambitions and encourage the senior officials of southern states and white large plantation owners to embark on the path of independent establishment of the country.

Point of no return.

Richard has a clear deadline for providing political and military support to the South of the United States, which is before September this year.

As a result, the pressure was entirely on the Southerners.

As a master at manipulating people's hearts, Richard understood the Southerners' conflicted mood at this time very well, and gave him targeted medicine without fear of their disobedience.

At this stage

The separatism in the southern United States urgently needs substantive support from the outside world, whether it comes from the British or the Tang Dynasty, which is extremely precious.

in the middle

The southern secessionist forces led by Jefferson Davis were clearly aware of this;

The enemy of my enemy is my ally.

If we can get substantial support from the Tang Kingdom and even conclude an alliance, then the establishment of an independent country in the south will no longer be a slogan, but will have a great possibility of success.

The temptation was unparalleled. Southern white slave owners had had enough of northern liberals stealing their property, enough of the endless battles in Congress and Kansas, and enough of the Yankees' hypocrisy.

The promise of the Tang Kingdom was a reassurance, enough to prompt them to make a decision.

This is a clear plan. The Southerners are very aware of the wishful thinking of the Tang Kingdom, but so what?

In their view

The common interests against the enemy will make the future alliance more stable. The South can realize its dream of independent nation building and not suffer any loss in the exchange of interests. These are enough.

Paradise Island

After more than two years of comprehensive development, Paradise Island has now shown a different prosperous situation. The two cities headed by Donggang and Xinxi'an are booming, and a series of small and medium-sized towns have been established in the surrounding areas.

By the end of 1856

The total population of the island reached 1.0885 million, with 1.173 million acres of cultivated land (note; 1 acre = 6 acres), 89,000 acres of orchards, 24,600 acres of rubber forests, and 6,200 acres of spice plantations. It has built an agricultural production-oriented agricultural complex.

main economic structure.

The island's industry is mainly food processing, with dozens of rice mills, flour mills, oil pressing plants, canning processing plants (mainly canned fruits), as well as a large number of salting workshops, pickling salted fish, and salting.

Meat, salted chicken, salted duck, pickled mustard, etc. are mainly supplied to immigrant ships and island residents passing through the port for supplies.

After experiencing an initial stage of rapid development, Paradise Island has now entered a relatively stable period of consolidation amid reduced financial support from the Kingdom.

New Xi'an City

The bustling urban buildings reveal the unique charm of Ming and Qing architecture everywhere, with green tiles and white walls, numerous pavilions, and cornices and brackets, just like the Suzhou City in the Pacific Ocean, showing the unique charm of Chinese culture.

The only difference is the urban roads. The wide roads are paved with asphalt pavement. The central divider is lined with lush trees and flowers, which looks neat and beautiful.

When carriages and people move on the road, they keep to the right. Patrol policemen in teams of two wander on the streets to maintain traffic order, supervise the cleanliness of the streets, and investigate violations of laws and disciplines, open defecation, spitting, and almost everything on the streets.

All should be taken care of.

On one side of the municipal square in the center of the prosperous city, there is a three-story classical city council building. On the other side of the square is the city hall, which is a four-story Chinese pavilion and cornice-style building with a simple and elegant shape.

Today's Paradise Island belongs to the exclusive territory of the Tang royal family. It does not have an independent province. Urban construction and immigration loans are paid for or guaranteed by the Royal Household Office and are not allocated through the royal budget.

Correspondingly, the Paradise Island dock, city and developed farmland are all royal property, except for personal purchases, which is a huge wealth.

In the large conference room on the second floor of the city hall, a heavyweight meeting that will affect the development of Paradise Island in the following decades is being held. More than a hundred officials from Xinxi'an and Donggang City are attending the meeting, all of whom are concentrating on learning and understanding.

Peak spirit.

The person speaking at the meeting was Deputy Minister of Colonial Affairs Lesotho Carlos. He is a very talented man of action from the Carlos family. He can speak fluent Chinese and is the cousin of Foreign Minister Juan Carlos.

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Sitting at the head of the conference table is the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Baron Dongjie. He is much darker and thinner than he was more than two years ago, but he is also more energetic and has sharp eyesight.

On the rostrum, next to Baron Dong Jie were the mayors, speaker, deputy mayors and other big shots from Xinxi'an and Donggang. They were all leading figures in the development and construction of Paradise Island.

Picking up the cup and taking a sip of water, Lesotho-Carlos continued;

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as we all know

Thanks to His Majesty's mercy, most of the Chinese who were able to immigrate to Paradise Island had nothing. They were guaranteed by the Kingdom's Ministry of Internal Affairs and bank loans were advanced to pay for their ship tickets, food and clothing, as well as all the expenses incurred by the immigrants after their arrival.

Accordingly, the Chinese who immigrated to Paradise Island signed a two-year bonded labor contract, during which they were only provided with room and board to repay the advance immigration expenses.

Now two years have passed

Through their hard work, the first immigrants built a beautiful city, docks with access to all corners of the country, and vast fertile fields and pastures, establishing the great situation of Paradise Island today, and also obtained the coveted resident ID card.

Now, it's time to fulfill our promise.

Every Chinese immigrant who obtains a resident ID card will receive more than ten acres of land for free. Many people have performed well in the past two years and can receive 15 acres or more of land.

According to the statistics;

In the next four months, 377,800 immigrants will receive their resident identity cards and be allocated land with legal property rights for farming. This will be an exciting moment.

In order to resettle these immigrants, the Paradise Island Construction Command will successively build a series of new immigrant cities near the major cities of New Xi'an and Donggang.

Now that convenient roads have been built, a new round of land reclamation and construction boom is about to begin, which heralds the beginning of a new round of great development in Paradise Island.

We would like to express warm congratulations to these Chinese immigrants who have obtained their own land. The Royal Government will introduce supporting measures to support the immigrants in reclaiming their own wasteland.

Royal Red Oak Bank has launched a "Special Preferential Loan to Support Immigration" specifically for immigrants, providing each immigrant with a basic support loan of 120 yuan without mortgage, and the loan can be up to 200 yuan.

This amount is used to purchase agricultural machinery, seeds, cattle, construction of houses, etc., with annual interest as low as 6.5% and a preferential repayment period of seven years.

Based on the principle of voluntariness, government departments will organize production groups that originally worked together to collectively open up wasteland, settle down collectively, and implement mutual assistance in production, building houses, farming, and public security to solve many difficulties in the early stages of pioneering and help immigrant households take root.

This is the focus of the recent work of the government and banks. Your Majesty's preferential policies to support immigrants must be implemented so that every Chinese immigrant can bathe in the glory of the royal family and enjoy your majesty's benevolence and the blessing of the kingdom.

While we are delighted to see these 377,800 new immigrants settling in and opening up wasteland, we must realize that immigration should be further promoted to make up for the huge labor gap.

We have millions of acres of royal land that need to be cultivated, and many factories and docks that need labor. It is urgent to further increase the introduction of new immigrants.

After calculation;

It needs to double from the current 14,000 to 15,500 people per month to no less than 30,000 people per month in order to maintain the current development enthusiasm.

Only with an increase of 30% to 40% on this basis can we set off a new round of development boom.

these two years

The development and construction of Paradise Island quickly entered a virtuous cycle. From 1855 to the end of 1857, it won five consecutive bumper grain harvests, expanded the planting area, enriched agricultural and animal husbandry products, and greatly enhanced the financial strength of Paradise Island.

to the second half of 1857

Paradise Island has achieved full financial self-sufficiency and a slight surplus, which is a good start.

Since the beginning of this year, the first quarter has continued to maintain a rapid development trend, with tax revenue increasing by 37.7% compared with the same period last year. This gives our government finances sufficient confidence to provide bank guarantees and further increase the introduction of new immigrants.

Looking to the future…”

The passionate speech of Deputy Colonial Secretary Lesotho Carlos was interrupted again and again by warm applause, and the atmosphere in the conference room was very high.

This series of figures is the result of the painstaking efforts of everyone here, confirming that the arduous process of pioneering the land along the way is not easy.

The group of Taoyuan Administration College graduates who first followed the colonial minister, Baron Dong Jie, to Paradise Island, after more than two years of grass-roots training, have rapidly grown into experienced grass-roots officials, and are no longer hectic young people.

They will now loudly rebuke those unruly immigrants, take decisive measures against some thorns, suppress and punish them at their fingertips, and will never be soft-hearted because of sympathy.

Faced with all kinds of pleas and trivial troubles, these young grassroots officials will deal with everything decisively, without any discretion, and will act completely according to the rules.

Each of these young officials has hundreds of immigrants and more than a dozen work teams under his command. If one is tolerant and the other is excusable, and the standards are tightened and loosened, then the matter will not be able to be solved, and it will not be settled well.

It is precisely because of these capable assistants that many outstanding talents are able to take charge of their own affairs, and the efficiency of pioneering is now greatly enhanced.

After several years of experience on Paradise Island, these grassroots officials with outstanding execution abilities were transferred back to the Kingdom and can play an important role in promoting local construction.

Now there are already signs. A group of more than 60 outstanding local grassroots officials have been transferred away by the Royal Government with a transfer order.

This made Baron Dong Jie feel so distressed that he directly sent a telegram to Count Gu Yan, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, expressing his serious dissatisfaction with the Kingdom's actions. Doing so would seriously affect the development process of Paradise Island.

Prime Minister Gu Yan, knowing that he was in the wrong, promised to arrange no less than 120 Taoyuan Administration College graduates to Paradise Island every year to further consolidate and strengthen the achievements of pioneering.

Baron Dong Jie understands in his heart that the Royal Government is focusing on strengthening the grassroots construction of Paradise Island?

This clearly uses Paradise Island as a training ground for grassroots officials. Through actual grassroots work, newcomers are trained to form a steady stream of talent echelons, which are then continuously replenished into the administrative agencies of the kingdom's provinces to further enhance administrative efficiency.

Who wouldn’t rush to get talents trained in a complex and difficult environment like Paradise Island?

Unfortunately, his arms could not twist his thighs, so Baron Dong Jie could only hide some of the outstanding talents he valued most, or transfer them to colonial areas, in order to cut off the upper hand.

This has also resulted in the Colonial Department being rich in talents and troops, and its scale has been continuously expanded. It is now almost at the forefront of all cabinet ministries, second only to the War Department.