Wild North America 1846

Early July 1864

After successfully completing his visit to the Kingdom of Italy, Emperor Richard of the Tang Dynasty successfully returned to North America, accompanied by the escort formation of the armored cruisers "Storm" and "Shanbreeze", and also visited the United States of America.

After a long journey, it was already early October when we returned to Chang'an, the imperial capital.

The government delegation sent by Argentina had just arrived in Chang'an and officially started the border demarcation negotiations between the Tang Empire and Argentina. Due to the large gap between the two sides' negotiating positions, nothing could be achieved for a while.

Because neither side can produce paper evidence to prove its territorial claims, Argentina, which entered earlier, has not established a provincial-level administrative system in the disputed areas. Most of them refer to these areas as "such-and-such area". There are a small number of these areas.

Thousands of people, as many as 10,000 to 20,000 people, do not meet the minimum requirements for establishing a provincial administrative system (note, the reason why the province of Cordoba is described above is mainly to clarify the location of the region).

learn from mistakes.

In the area north of Cordoba, Argentina has indeed established a provincial administrative governance system with clear boundaries. This is also the bottom line of the Argentine government in the negotiations. It hopes that the armed militia of the Tang Empire will not continue to invade the area northward.

As for the occupied areas, the Argentine government knew that the Tang Empire would not give in and would not be able to take them back. However, because the federal provinces strongly opposed the position of losing power and humiliating the country and losing territory, they did not relent for a while.

Internationally

Similar border demarcation negotiations can take as little as one or two years, as long as 30 to 50 years or even longer. There is no definite number.

Emperor Richard did not care about this matter. During the more than four months before and after his visit to Europe, the Ming Dynasty palace accumulated a large number of important government affairs, which needed to be reviewed and processed one by one. It was too busy to be distracted.

To be honest, Richard, the young and powerful founding emperor, had an unstable temperament and could not stay in Chang'an for long. He would go around for a few months every year to inspect and relax.

Therefore, the Imperial Household Office built or purchased a large number of palaces and royal estates in various provinces of the empire and overseas for the use of His Majesty the Emperor.

On December 13, 1864, Paraguay officially declared war on Brazil, thus kicking off the South American War. Paraguay planned to send troops to the Mato Grosso region to carry out a direct military attack on Brazil.

Because Argentina refused to allow Paraguayan troops to pass through Argentine territory to assist Uruguay, Paraguay declared war on Argentina on March 18, 1865 and sent troops to the Corrientes Province of Argentina. The Uruguayan Red Party government therefore officially declared war on Paraguay.

As a result, a one-on-three war pattern between Paraguay, a small military power in South America, was fully formed. Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay united to deal with Paraguay's war challenge.

Late March 1865

In the palace of Chang'an

The Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Duke Ryu Hyun-gun, is reporting on the overall economic performance of the national economy in 1864. The situation is quite gratifying.

throughout 1864

Based on the rapid development of the previous year, the economic scale of the Datang Empire continued to grow steadily by 7.7%. The total economic volume increased from 2.377 billion Tang Yuan in 1863 to 2.5576 billion Tang Yuan in 1864, achieving good and rapid development.

same period

The annual economic statistics of the United Kingdom have also been released. In 1864, the total economic volume increased by 3.4%, from 945 million pounds in the previous year, equivalent to 4.726 billion Tang yuan, to 996.7 million pounds in 1864, equivalent to 4.8835 billion Tang yuan. As the world's factory, it is far away

Ahead of other countries in the world, firmly ranked first in the world.

The economic development of the Tang Empire achieved two major achievements in 1864. First, the economic aggregate exceeded 50% of the British total for the first time, taking a gratifying step towards catching up with the world's economic hegemon.

Second, since 1860, the economic growth rate has exceeded 7.5% for the fourth consecutive year, achieving stable and rapid development of the overall economy at a relatively high level, and the momentum of catching up is extremely strong.

And in the new year

The government will continue to maintain this good momentum. Under the current stable peace environment in North America, in-depth industrialization development and large amounts of war compensation principal and interest income from both the North and the South of the United States are two fuel-fueling rockets that support the continued rapid development of the empire's economy.

With an abundant fiscal budget in hand, the government has launched railways and highways, port reservoirs, long-distance telegraph networks, urban tram construction and a series of infrastructure construction nationwide, which has effectively promoted the overall economic development.

Thanks to one of the results of His Majesty the Emperor's visit to Europe, the agricultural markets of several important European countries have been opened. The Tang Empire's high-quality and low-price agricultural products can be exported to the United Kingdom, Prussia and the countries of the South German Confederation, Italy and France in large quantities.

, Switzerland, Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and other markets, which has greatly alleviated the pressure on agricultural harvests and brought tangible benefits to farmers and ranchers.

Along with the export of agricultural products, the related food processing industry, oil pressing industry, flour industry and cake processing and production industry continue to flourish, which also drives the prosperity of the ocean transportation industry. The orders for new steam freighters from major shipyards are flying in like a flake, which also promotes

development of the steel and shipbuilding industries.

With the Port of New York as the main trading port for exports to Europe, a number of key ocean-going enterprises such as the Atlantic Shipping Company of the Tang Empire, Seven Seas Shipping, Schindler Shipping, American-European Shipping, Tang Shipping, and American Shipping have increased their investment.

Custom-built orders for cargo ships and immigrant ships are prepared to take an additional share of the Atlantic golden route.

Today's Atlantic shipping is dominated by the competition between Britain and Tang Dynasty. Britain's strength lies in immigration cruises, while the Tang Empire's strength lies in ocean cargo transportation and liners, especially the modern fleet composed of steamships. Its competitive advantages in all aspects are far stronger than those of Britain.

The sailing cargo fleet already accounts for more than half of the Atlantic cargo.

The remaining part is divided among the shipping companies of European countries such as Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, showing a dominant pattern in which the strong outweigh the strong.

By the end of 1864 statistics;

The total tonnage of the Tang Empire's steam cargo fleet distributed in all major oceans of the world has surpassed the United Kingdom, which has long been ranked first in the world, and thus ascended to the throne of the world's freight and passenger transportation hegemon.

Because in addition to the Atlantic golden route, the Tang Empire also exclusively operated two golden routes in the northern and central Pacific, transporting millions of Chinese immigrants to North America every year, and transporting tens of millions of tons of goods to East and Southeast Asia, Indochina and the East Asia.

In the Indian Islands regional market, regular routes reach as far as India.

The Tang Empire also occupied a dominant position in coastal shipping in the Americas. Hundreds of offshore freighters were active on the routes from North America to Central and South America. Most of these offshore freighters had a displacement of less than 5,000 tons, with 2,000 to 3,000 tons as the main force.

, transporting the industrial products and agricultural products of the Tang Empire to nearby markets in South America.

After 18 years of development

With the help of the scientific and technological achievements of the Steam Industrial Revolution, where steam freighters gradually dominated the oceans, the Tang Empire suddenly developed into a world shipping power. Compared with the conservative British and French, Chinese businessmen were full of innovative spirit and adventurous spirit in their business philosophy.

spirit and achieved fruitful results.

And among them

Strong Chinese-owned banks and insurance companies provided strong support with funds and loans during the golden age of the rapid development of the shipping industry in the Tang Empire, shared the risks of ocean transportation, and effectively guaranteed the vigorous development of the ocean shipping industry.

Early 1865

In order to reduce armaments, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty reduced the 100,000 standing royal guards by 40%, retaining only 60,000 troops. The excess will be used for one and a half years to retire the soldiers who have expired, and the recruitment of new soldiers has been suspended.

measures to solve it.

The 220,000 troops stationed in the United States of America (North) have also been reduced by 40%, leaving no more than 146,000 troops.

Many retired soldiers stationed in the United States returned to the empire with their white girlfriends, and some retired soldiers were resettled in New York, Philadelphia and other places. The Datang Empire owned a large number of enterprises, minerals and urban property rights in the above-mentioned North American cities, and could solve the problem of tens of thousands of retired soldiers.

The work arrangement of soldiers ensures that they have a stable source of income.

The world's largest Appalachian Consolidated Coal Holding Company alone has solved the employment problem of up to 17,200 retired soldiers. The imperial royal family holds more than 40% of the shares in the coalfield, making it the largest single shareholder and de facto

Controlling shareholder.

Throughout 1864, thanks to the continuous replenishment of European labor, the coal output of the Appalachian United Coal Holdings reached 87 million tons, an increase of 93.76% compared to 1862. This was a great success for the Royal Household Office.

Came amazing profits.

Dividends alone reached a huge amount of 22.17 million Tang Yuan in 1864. After repaying the huge bank principal and interest for the original purchase of coalfield shares, a considerable amount of income could be obtained.

This became one of the two chickens that could lay golden eggs in the Imperial Household Office of the Tang Empire.

Another chicken that lays golden eggs is the oil field in Texas directly under the royal family. After more than two years of development, it has produced a steady stream of crude oil. After being refined by the local refinery in Dallas (note; Royal Holdings), it will

A steady stream of refined oil products is transported to the European market to meet the strong demand in this market.

Dezhou Petroleum has become another chicken that lays golden eggs for the Imperial Household Office. It only earns from this amount in a year (note: it includes refinery profit dividends, export profits, mineral resource taxes, land transfer fees, etc. collected in Texas).

, which was as high as nearly 40 million in the Tang and Yuan Dynasties.

Because they are very good at management, the royal family of the Tang Dynasty has firmly secured the throne of the richest royal family in the world, and is simply rich as a country. In many fields such as shipping, steel, electric power, machinery, mining and crude oil, finance and urban real estate in the empire and overseas areas,

It has an important influence that cannot be ignored.

even so

Richard still led a series of policies to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, including reducing the size of the Royal Guards, promoting a professional manager salary system in the Royal Household Office, judging success or failure based on operating performance, and using operating performance as an important criterion for evaluating managers' professional abilities.

Promote the implementation of the "survival of the fittest" system, introduce a full competition mechanism, and break the dreams of some aristocratic children holding onto golden rice bowls.

Every year, outstanding fresh blood is selected from universities and colleges for infusion. The annual assessment does not look at background but only business performance. The outstanding ones will be reused, and those who fail the evaluation will be demoted. Those who fail the evaluation again in the second year will simply pack up and get out.

After these two years of piloting, this full competition system of "survival of the fittest" will be extended to all enterprises controlled by the Royal Household Office. Senior, middle-level and grass-roots employees will be assessed by category on a regular basis, and the best and the worst will be punished.

The royal family's large amount of surplus funds has three destinations. The first is to enter the imperial royal family fund, which is used to purchase high-quality properties in Europe, the United States and overseas, and to accumulate royal heritage.

For example, a large-scale investment such as buying half of the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin is a successful investment case.

For example, the company has been purchasing European, American and Oriental antiques, calligraphy and paintings, treasure collections, and precious palace utensils and cultural relics of great collection significance for a long time. As the collection of the royal museum, it has gradually enriched the categories.

The imperial royal family has established large-scale museums belonging to the royal family in more than 10 cities. Princes and princesses serve as honorary curators of the museums, and can receive a generous salary from them every year for daily needs.

The second is to establish a strategic reserve system directly under the royal family. The scope of its collection and storage extends from strategic materials and weapons and equipment to gold, silver, copper, lead and major grain storage areas, as a supplement to the government's strategic reserve system.

The third one is the charity field. The immigrants imported from the land of China by the Datang Empire gradually transferred to teenagers and children. They were mainly used to accommodate displaced young men, women and children. After systematic study in schools established in the coastal provinces of China, they were transported to North America by ship.

Mainland, providing high-quality knowledge-based talents for the economic construction of the empire.

Development to date

The Tang Empire already had a considerable population size. Due to the in-depth advancement of industrialization, the demand for ordinary illiterate labor was greatly reduced, while the demand for knowledge-based talents was particularly strong.

In response to this change, the Imperial Colonial Ministry significantly reduced the immigration financial support for ordinary Chinese refugees, and increased funding for charitable educational schools, benevolence schools and other institutions in coastal cities on the mainland, mainly to accommodate and educate young people.

Many poor families who cannot afford food at home are willing to send their children to charity schools and benevolent schools to receive education. Not only do they have free food and clothing, but they may also immigrate to North America to live a good life in the future.

Everyone can calculate this account. If the children become prosperous in North America, can they still ignore the family?

The Tang Empire was famous for its wealth, and now independent immigration has become a major trend. China's small and medium-sized landowners and urban officials are very keen to send their children to North America or even immigrate with their whole families to escape the continuous war and heavy exorbitant taxes and seek a better future.

A better life in the future.

In 1864 alone, the number of independent immigrants reached more than 270,000, accounting for almost 1/4 of the total number of immigrants.

In 1864, the immigrant population dropped from the high of 1.5 to 1.6 million in previous years to 1.1 million. This was due to both the reduction of preferential policies and the gradual stabilization of the domestic situation.

After more than ten years of war between the Taiping Army and the rebellion of the Northwest Nian Army, almost half of the provinces in China were ravaged by war. By the end of 1864, it finally calmed down. Only a few remnants of the Taiping Army were still on the move, being surrounded and chased by the Qing army.

It seems that we won't be able to survive for a few more days, and the domestic situation is gradually improving.

No matter how you say it, it is still the common people who suffer in the war. If there is hope for a peaceful life, as long as life can be lived, most common people will not choose to cross the ocean to start a new life in North America.

It’s a shame to leave one’s hometown!