Wild North America 1846

Entering the 12th year after the founding of the People's Republic of China

The urban development level of the Tang Kingdom has reached the world's top level, with the rise of two metropolises with a population of one million, Chang'an (Chang'an) and Los Angeles. At the end of June 1856, the country's population reached 14.8692 million (note; this statistics does not include Costa Rica)

, showing a trend of rapid growth.

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New York is still the most populous metropolis. Its population has rapidly expanded from 1.31 million at the end of June 1856 to 1.8762 million at the end of June 1858. It is a rapid growth rate and continues to rank first.

Different from the rapid development of New York, Chang'an (San Francisco) developed more steadily step by step. The population increased from 1.2395 million at the end of June 1856 to 1.5737 million at the end of June 1858, breaking through the 1.5 million population.

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Chang'an's urban scale expansion has opened up a big gap with New York, and this is also the original intention of the royal government to vigorously promote a new round of development. The foundation is solid enough and has a considerable realistic foundation.

The degree of industrialization in the United States is only 38.6%, while the Tang Kingdom has reached 67%. The industrial scale is larger and the level of economic development is higher. Chang'an brings together the country's political, economic and educational resources, and has a stable and reliable source of Chinese immigrants. There is no reason to think so.

Lost to New York.

Statistics at the end of June 1858 show;

The top ten cities in the Tang Kingdom are:

Ranked No. 1; Chang'an City (San Francisco).

Ranked second; Los Angeles City

Ranked third; Seattle

Ranked fourth; Taoyuan City

Ranked No. 5; Salem City

Ranked sixth; Portland

Ranked seventh; New Xi'an City

No. 8; Gallup City

Ranked ninth; Donggang City

Ranked tenth; Jinling City

Compared with the statistics from two years ago, the rankings of the top six cities remain unchanged. Five of these six large cities are coastal cities, highlighting the strong development of coastal cities.

Changes occurred in the seventh city in the ranking. New Xi'an City, to which Paradise Island belongs, broke into the seventh place, pushing Gallup, a traditional mineral resource city, into the eighth place. Donggang City also squeezed into the ninth place, performing very well.

Excellent.

As the old saying goes: The one who is near the water and the tower first gets the moon.

Benefiting from being the closest city to mainland China, the growth rate of the number of Chinese immigrants pouring into New Xi'an ranks first among all cities in the country. Many people in the southern coastal areas of the mainland who cannot survive have very low requirements and just hope to have a piece of their own.

Farmland and live a peaceful and happy life.

If you immigrate to Paradise Island, you can get 10 acres (note: 60 acres in the metric system) of land, which is an irresistible temptation for Chinese immigrants.

In addition, there is only a two-year bonded labor contract, and it takes 5 days and 5 nights to take an immigration ship from the southeastern coastal port to New Xi'an, so people who signed up are very enthusiastic.

Basically, seven or eight out of 10 people choose to immigrate to New Xi'an.

Immigration officials even have to rudely close the application channel for immigrants to New Xi'an, and divert the excess immigrants to Donggang, Panama, Costa Rica and other places in North America to properly divert the flow of immigrants.

This shows how popular immigrants are to New Xi'an.

Donggang City has also benefited from the favorable factors of being close to the city. The number of immigrants has grown rapidly, and its ranking has suddenly risen two places, making it the ninth largest city in the Kingdom.

Among the top ten cities in the Kingdom, Chang'an is the capital of the Kingdom, ranking first with a population of 1.5737 million. It is the political, economic, military and educational center of the Kingdom, the seat of the royal palace and the Royal Government, the best resources and the headquarters of large enterprises.

Most of the cities are located here, and the city's scale has expanded rapidly, firmly occupying the top spot.

Los Angeles, ranked second, ranks among the cities with a population of one million. Its population increased from 925,500 at the end of June 1856 to 1,229,300 at the end of June 1858. The total population increased by more than 30%, and its development was quite rapid.

This is due to the fact that Los Angeles is an important economic center in the country, a core city for shipping and rail transportation, and it is home to the kingdom's four major oil giants who are making money every day. Most of the oil fields they develop are scattered in the towns surrounding Los Angeles.

People in Los Angeles are rich, and wealth is a common impression among Chinese people. This is something that other cities cannot catch up with.

Los Angeles Mayor John Kehuai once said proudly: "There is no way, there are so many oil fields that cannot be moved, oil company shareholders eat meat, and workers can just drink soup to keep their bellies round. This is not our fault in Los Angeles."

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Seattle, ranked third, is the capital of the Northern Province. Its population increased from 582,200 at the end of June 1856 to 732,800, performing equally well.

Seattle is the second landing point after Los Angeles on the North Pacific immigration route. The city has developed agriculture, animal husbandry, marine fishing and shipbuilding industries. It also has rich forest resources and exports large amounts of timber to the south. It is an important economic center in the north.

The proposed Northern Railway starts from Seattle, goes all the way west through Yakima, and reaches Spokane at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. The railway project will then go over more than 130 kilometers of mountains, using 23 tunnels and 119 bridges.

Joining the major transportation arteries, we headed west to Helena, the capital of Montana Province.

The Northern Railway is divided into two parts in Helena, and one continues to the northeast for more than 170 kilometers to Great Falls.

The other line extends southeastward and reaches Peel City, the capital of South Dakota, after more than 1,370 kilometers.

The "Northern Railway" plan is a key project of the Tang Dynasty's large-scale construction since 1859. It is a northern railway trunk line from west to east and one of the three major trunk railways in the Tang Dynasty.

The other two are the "Nevada Railway" which has just been completed and the "Western Railway" which starts from Los Angeles and goes west to Rio Rancho.

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All preliminary engineering survey plans for the "Northern Railway" have been completed. The Chinese engineers and 33,000 native Indian slave laborers who participated in the construction of the Nevada Railway are gradually moving to new construction sites and continuing to start a new round of construction boom.

In the construction plan of the Ministry of Transport, the "Southern Railway" is comparable to the "Northern Railway". This is also a railway trunk line running from west to east. It is being constructed in full swing as a war-ready railway.

This railway line starts from the city of Chihuahua in the south and ends in Houston, Texas. It is the main railway line connecting the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty and the southern United States.

The Northern Army of the United States is using all its strength to attack Kansas City, and is fighting a bloody battle with the Southern Army. If Kansas City falls, the Southern Railway will be a life-saving straw, shouldering the important task of transporting a large amount of supplies to the Southern United States, and supporting them to continue the fight.

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The population of Taoyuan City, ranked fourth, has grown from 565,900 at the end of June 1856 to 671,000 today, which is a relatively small increase in population.

Taoyuan City is the only inland city among the top six cities of the Tang Kingdom. Needless to say, its role is that it is a major industrial, military and educational center on the Colorado Plateau.

due to geographical factors

Taoyuan City is located at the crossroads of the Tang Kingdom from west to east and from south to north. It is not only a defensive outpost against American aggression, but also a vital waistline of the kingdom. Whether it can move flexibly depends on it, and its strategic significance is self-evident.

Salem, the fifth-ranked city, and Portland, the sixth-ranked city, are twin cities of industrial development. The populations of both cities have exceeded 550,000. Salem’s urban population is 583,500, and Portland’s urban population

It is 550,700, which is not much different.

The Tang Kingdom will focus on developing the steel industry in the next step. Most of the new factories are located in these two cities. In addition to the business card of steel, it is also an agricultural machinery manufacturing industry center and a northern shipbuilding center. The fertilizer industry that will be vigorously developed in the future is also

Located here, it is an out-and-out coastal heavy industrial zone with huge potential for future development.

Portland is the capital of Oregon Province. It is rich in coal and iron resources. Well, it is of high quality and has convenient transportation. It is a perfect place for developing heavy industry. Other cities can't help it even if they are greedy.

The only thing that bothers Portland is that its urban population and economic aggregate have always been tightly suppressed by Salem, which is not far away. Even the city size is one place behind, ranking 6th.

This simply makes Portland so depressed that it vomits blood. Therefore, in the new round of great development, Portland is full of energy. It must strive to land more big projects, introduce more immigrants, develop more urban construction, and strive to surpass them in one fell swoop.

Damn Salem City, become the well-deserved boss of Oregon Province, let's take a good breath.

Portland's calculation is indeed good, but Salem is not given in vain, and it makes sense to win over the provincial capital city.

The city of Salem is built on the Pacific coast and has world-class superior port conditions. Saltpeter ore shipped from Chile is directly unloaded at the port terminal and can be directly entered into the factory through the warehouse railway.

Iron ore and high-quality coal extracted from mines near Oregon can be easily transported by sea to the steel plants built on the seaside, saving a lot of transportation costs.

Sea-going ships with extremely deep drafts cannot enter the inland river and must be transferred through the dock before finally reaching the inland city of Portland.

In comparison, from the perspective of transportation convenience, Senam is far superior.

You must know that these iron ore and coals often weigh 100,000 tons, and if they are connected over a short distance of more than 100 kilometers, the additional loading and unloading fees will be a huge amount.

As long as your head doesn't get dizzy, you'll know what to choose.

The same is true for the shipbuilding industry. If you only build some small and medium-sized ships with hundreds of tons or thousands of tons, that's it. But if you want to build large sea passenger and cargo ships with tens of thousands of tons, they are too large to pass through bridges on inland rivers. In any case,

To be built in a seaside shipyard.

Therefore, the battle between the industrial twin cities of Salem and Portland will continue for a long time. Looking at it rationally, Portland will be lucky if the gap is not widened even further.

Large steel companies and chemical companies are both labor-intensive. Once put into operation, they will create a large number of jobs. They will also strongly promote the development of urban services and commerce, creating tens of thousands of additional job opportunities.

from this angle

It is very difficult for Portland to realize its ambitions, and it may be suppressed by Senem for a long time in the future.

Not only will it not achieve transcendence, it will actually widen the distance between the two cities.

Needless to say, Xinxi'an City, which ranks seventh, and Donggang City, which ranks ninth, are both immigrant cities that mainly focus on agriculture and planting. They have large populations but weak economic strength.

This is also the result of the differentiated strategy of the kingdom's development. In the development blueprint laid out by Richard himself, no matter which overseas province or royal exclusive territory it is, it will not focus on developing industry, but will only meet its own needs for processing agricultural and sideline products.

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All industrial development is basically concentrated in the mainland of the Tang Dynasty. This is the strategy of "Strengthening the Trunks and Weak Branches". The priority is to strengthen the strength of the Tang Kingdom. All development plans must revolve around the "Strong Trunks and Weak Branches" strategy.

, anything that does not comply will be cut off.

The exclusive territory of the royal family and the overseas provinces are too far away. If we really want to develop to be richer and more powerful than the mainland, centrifugal force will be the inevitable result, and this cannot be transferred by any one person's will.

some time in the future

If the Tang Kingdom successfully brought Mexico into its possession, it would also not develop the industry in the region and would still be dominated by the agriculture and animal husbandry economy. Mexico would always be a marginalized and backward region.

As a result, wealthy areas will have a strong attraction.

Among the top 10 large cities, Gallup City is unique. Its total urban population is 454,800, ranking eighth in the country. It is a large city developed entirely by resources.

It depends on the mountains to feed the mountains, and it depends on the water to feed the water. This is the city of Gallup.

Gallup is a large oasis located east of the Grand Canyon and west of Rio Nancho Fortress. It is located on the banks of the Holy Emperor River. The surrounding mountains contain world-class resources.

The Morenci copper mine, the largest in the world today, is located about 77 kilometers southwest of Gallup Town. It produces up to 32,000 tons of high-quality copper, more than 410 tons of silver and more than 3.7 tons of gold every year.

Chicken with golden eggs.

The area is extremely rich in resources and has huge reserves of coal, zinc, aluminum and lead minerals, making it a treasure trove of resources.

The newly discovered high-purity natural potassium deposit is also located in this area, and its purity can reach 80%. With a little refining, extremely pure "pearl ash" can be obtained, which is a key raw material for the production of potassium fertilizer.

How rare are high-purity natural potassium deposits?

Let’s put it this way, more than 150 years later, the natural potassium deposit in the Gallup area is still the highest purity potassium deposit in the world. However, this kind of natural potassium deposit is very rare in the world, and its geographical survival conditions are extremely harsh.

Generally speaking

Industrial potassium is mostly extracted from potassium salts in salt lakes. Germany mines brine through salt wells and then uses a series of processes to refine potassium alkali. The cost is quite high.

The UK extracts potassium alkali from plant ash, which requires burning a lot of wood. In addition to burning forests during land reclamation, potash is easily obtained. If the forest is burned simply to obtain alkali, the cost will be too high.

American axes have basically chopped down the forests of the central Great Plains, and potash has not been made cheap enough to be freely applied to the land as fertilizer.

Cutting down forests to grow food sounds very weird.

It is precisely because of its unparalleled resource advantages that Gallup grew into the eighth largest city in the Tang Kingdom, the city with the most mines, and the city that accepted the most convicts in the country.

If these convicts were included in the urban population, Gallup would rank them fifth in the country. Of course, this is just a joke and there is absolutely no possibility of it being realized.