Wild North America 1846

Chapter 440 Standby and move

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“The second hot spot in Central America is Cuba and Puerto Rico under the rule of Spanish colonists. Due to the colonists’ excessive extortion and excessive taxes, the Cuban people are living in dire straits.

Since last year, more than a dozen riots, large and small, have broken out in various places, and were then brutally suppressed by the Spanish governor in Cuba who mobilized heavy troops, which led to an even stronger resistance among the people..."

All the ministers in the court were more or less aware of the situations introduced by Count Juan Carlos, and most of them were not surprised by them.

Most of the empire's territory originated from the former Spanish colonies. Although it was not directly taken from the Spanish colonists, it had a deep understanding of the Spanish colonists' style and strong governance methods.

Compared with the old colonial countries such as Britain and France, Spain's way of ruling the colonies is particularly rough and brutal. It just takes advantage and squeezes without building. When it resists, it implements brutal suppression and massacres. It treats the local white people (note, refers to Spanish mixed-race descendants).

No mercy either.

The Spanish white people never regarded the local white people as their compatriots, but regarded them as an inferior race. During the suppression, they massacred villages and towns and committed numerous misdeeds, which further aroused the resistance of the local people.

Cuba and Puerto Rico are both producing areas rich in cane sugar. There are many local cane sugar plantations with a long history of planting, high yield and good quality. Together with Hawaii, they are world-famous cane sugar producing areas. Together, the three places account for the largest share of the world's cane sugar production.

Nearly half the share.

Originating from Europeans and Americans' love for sweets, sugar export is a pillar industry of the region's economy, bringing large profits to Spanish colonists every year.

After the rise of empire in North America

Chinese businessmen have achieved a high status in America and Europe. Many Chinese businessmen who once worked in Cuba returned to Cuba to open sugar plantations, run shipping companies and docks. They used their convenient relationships in the Tang Empire to intervene in the sugar trade and share the profits.

With a piece of the pie, business is booming.

Fortunately, the Caribbean voyage from Cuba to Panama is not long and can be reached in two or three days. The trafficked white women did not even have to eat, thus avoiding unnecessary deaths in harsh conditions.

This was a brilliant achievement in governing the country without the support of the system. It made Richard feel a special sense of accomplishment and he was often very proud of it.

Below the pagoda is the "Pudu Zen Temple", and not far away there is the "Xuantian Taoist Temple", both of which are royal temples and Taoist temples.

Among the local people, the social strata, mainly small and medium-sized landowners and sugar plantation owners, as well as the more prestigious native white people in cities and villages, secretly and secretly formed various underground organizations to resist the Spanish. Violent tax resistance and attacks on small groups frequently occurred.

Vicious events in the Spanish army.

What makes Richard particularly proud is that

These beautiful girls in palace dresses are all new ladies who have entered the palace. In order to keep the blood of the palace pure, they are all from Chinese official families, 12 in total, as a necessary measure to supplement the harem.

Due to the tyrannical rule of the Spanish colonists and the resumption of the ancient business of human trafficking, the population of Cuba has been smaller than in its original history, from more than 1.5 million to about 1.37 million today.

Many concubines are keen on eating fast, chanting Buddha's name, and focusing on self-cultivation, but they cannot bear His Majesty's tossing.

Everything in the Tang Empire is now on the right track. It is in a golden period of peace and development. The empire's population growth has quietly changed from immigrants to mainly new children in society, realizing a change dominated by endogenous growth.

The largest island in Taiye Lake is called Pudu Island, with an area of ​​about 1.3 square kilometers and a peak of 177 meters. Among the lush mountains and forests, there is a nine-story exquisite pagoda about 49 meters high, which is called "Nine Turns of Pudu".

pagoda".

Based on his long experience in high positions, he formulated a series of cultural propaganda results that promoted loyalty to the emperor, patriotism, national self-reliance, self-reliance, and self-confidence. He formulated a ritual system that was in line with the characteristics of the times and advocated the "Celestial Kingdom" to place the subjects of the empire at a high level.

Civilized highland, overlooking the surrounding Guilao Yi tribe.

Above the main hall

Regarding the two hot-spot issues in Central America reported by Juan Carlos, the Secretary of the Colonial Department, after a discussion, the ministers reached a unified opinion of "maintaining continuous attention and not arbitrarily interfering", and received the approval of His Majesty the Emperor.

have to say

Neither the native white Cubans nor the Spaniards are rivals of Chinese businessmen in terms of business acumen.

The faint laughter of the girls could be heard in my ears, accompanied by a hint of the melodious aftertaste of the guqin, which was really quite pleasant.

The price of dark-skinned girls is much higher. Since the Tang Empire strictly prohibited the import of black people, if found, they would be fined tens of thousands of yuan and may even be sentenced to jail or hard labor. The local Chinese also generally discriminated against black girls.

Thinking it is unclean and too dirty.

These hotspot areas in Central America will naturally be ripe for success in a few years or ten years, and they will be within reach!

After the court meeting in the morning, Emperor Richard drove back to the palace. The ministers also made their preparations and returned to their respective headquarters.

It is tentatively planned that the draft will be held every five years, with 12 talented girls each time.

Spain has a long history of human trafficking. The source of most of the black slaves in the southern United States and Brazil is the infamous "triangular trade", which is one of the few business success stories that Spaniards talk about.

In recent years, the main focus has been on digesting the rich results of the North American War.

Inside the palace

The urban industrialization index of the Tang Empire fluctuated with the previous large-scale territorial expansions. The highest point exceeded 70%, the lowest point dropped to 58.5% (after the North American War), and then showed a slowly rising trend again.

In just a dozen years, Chinese businessmen accounted for 1/3 of Cuba's sugar trade. They operated plantations, opened sugar mills, and set up trading companies and shipping companies, basically forming a closed-loop industry from production to sales.

chain.

The natural growth rate of the population reached 6.7%, which is a very high number. This is mainly due to the return of a large number of retired soldiers, coupled with the social stability in the golden development period, the people's generally strong desire to have children, and the number of new children born throughout the year.

Reaching 2.1105 million people.

Therefore, the price of Indian and Central American girls is generally low, ranging from tens of yuan to more than a hundred yuan, and most of them are bought back by local people to work as servants or maids.

Coupled with the average annual Chinese immigrants of more than 1.1 million and the number of white immigrants of more than 100,000, the annual population growth once again exceeded the 3 million mark.

General Capello, the Spanish governor, once said proudly: "Here, we often package our troubles to our neighbors and get good rewards. In exchange for kerosene, cloth and silver coins, I call it the "small triangle trade" ", it turns out we did a great job."

Many of the big fish in the lake are more than one meter long. They are so fat that they obviously have plenty of food. Dozens or hundreds of them gather together to grab food, causing the water to splash. It looks really spectacular.

By the end of 1864, the total population of the Tang Empire reached 43.72 million, and eight metropolises with populations exceeding one million had emerged, including Chang'an, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Taoyuan, Mexico City, Salem, and New Xi'an. Steam industrialization had further developed. Electrical industrialization has also taken the lead in the world, and urban concentration has increased significantly.

The Spanish colonists did not dare to make irresponsible remarks to the Chinese businessmen and imposed apportionment. In turn, they picked up the weak and strengthened the enslavement and control of the local people in Cuba. The local people were burdened with heavy taxes and had no political rights and resisted in their hearts. The anger is getting higher and higher...

Compared with the urbanization level six years ago in 1858, it retreated from 67% in 1858 to 64.33%. However, the expansion of the Tang Empire's territory included Mexico, the Aztec Republic, and the vast land of the seven provinces of the Central Plains of North America. Jump to a new level out of thin air.

In order to make extra money, many Spanish colonial troops even fabricated crimes to suppress the local people in order to plunder and traffic people in order to obtain huge profits.

Not far from Jiuzhuan Pudu Pagoda, there is an exquisite palace hidden among strange rocks and green trees. It is built near the water. Under the winding corridor is the deep water surface. From time to time, you can see big fish swimming leisurely in it, which is a unique pleasure.

Cuba has therefore become one of the key areas of concern for the Imperial Foreign Affairs and Colonies Department. During the North American War, the armored cruiser "Tornado" and "Bad Wind" once led a fleet to visit Havana, the capital of Cuba, and showed off their muscles nakedly. This made Cuba The Governor's Palace calmed down a bit.

Because tomorrow is a statutory holiday, the Holy Master moved to Pudu Island in the Taiye Pool. The scenery here is beautiful and the scenery is breathtaking.

One after another, sailing cargo ships of two to three hundred tons left from various ports in Cuba, often filled with hundreds of young white native women, packed like sardine cans.

The cold weather had already subsided at the end of March, and the temperature at noon rose to 17 or 18 degrees Celsius. Richard was wearing a loose robe, his hair was simply tied into a bun, fixed with a hosta, and he was sitting on the large imperial couch refreshingly reading a book. .

This could not help but arouse the resentment of the local white plantation owners, and also attracted the suppression of the colonists in the Cuban Governor's Palace, forming a series of sharp contradictions with opposing interests.

Of course

Today's Cuba is like a powder keg, ready to explode at a moment's notice.

Annual Statistics 1864;

The other is to deepen the industrialization process, popularize mechanized operations in agriculture and animal husbandry, greatly improve the production efficiency of farms and pastures, and benefit all people.

Even if they do exist, they are very few, and they usually work illegally in remote plantations in various places. Once caught, the Chinese plantation owners may be fined, bankrupt, or even imprisoned.

In the prosperous population market in Panama Province, young female populations from Cuba, Colombia and war-torn Central America are the main sources of goods on the market.

Most of His Majesty's early empresses, concubines and concubines were nearly 40 years old. Their youthfulness and beauty would no longer be the same after giving birth to children, and there would be considerable risks in giving birth at an older age.

Today's Datang Empire is not only a powerful industrialized country, but also a powerful agricultural and animal husbandry producer. The advanced sowing methods represented by diesel agricultural machinery, coupled with the blessing of the world's advanced fertilizer industry, have greatly improved It increased the agricultural and animal husbandry output of the Tang Empire and became one of the major exporters of agricultural products.

Therefore, in the past few years, His Majesty the Emperor often summoned the beautiful white concubines from the Baixiang Hall in the West Palace, which often made the Queen feel uneasy. After thinking about it, she proposed the idea of ​​"recruiting beautiful concubines on a regular basis", and then there were 12 thousand concubines. A beautiful Chinese girl selected from thousands enters the palace.

It has been implemented in practice and the effect is very significant.

By the end of 1864, the urbanization index reached 64.33%, basically the same level as France, but the scale, depth and breadth of industrialization were superior.

Generally speaking

The whiter the skin, the higher the price, and the younger and more beautiful the price, the higher the price. A beautiful white girl aged 15 to 18 years old, healthy and without disabilities, can often be sold for 600 or even thousands of Tang Yuan.

Not far away, there were more schools of fish swimming over, and the water was densely covered with fish heads. A rough count suggested that there were no less than a few thousand fish.

A group of beautiful girls in palace dresses threw fish food on the Qiqu Bridge and watched the large group of brightly colored koi carps competing for food. They shouted excitedly, adding a happy atmosphere to this beautiful scene.

Since the age structure of the social population is relatively young, with an average age of 31.2 years and a social mortality rate of 0.93%, the natural social growth rate is 5.77%, and the annual net population growth reaches approximately 1.75 million people.

The innocent people left were the young men who were sold into the sugar plantations of Chinese businessmen. The young women were sold further afield, shipped by ship to Panama Province, where they could be sold at a good price.

Because there is a steady stream of mainland Chinese immigrants, in Panama, Costa Rica, Zhennan Province and the southern provinces of Strait Province, the importation of male population is strictly prohibited, so they are basically invisible in the population market.

Relying on the high-pressure and authoritarian feudal rule and the immigrant society dominated by Chinese, the Tang Empire has always maintained internal unity and stability. While the empire expanded its territory outwards, it never held back.

On the one hand, it actively colonized the Great Plains of Central America, and on the other hand, it strengthened the empire's infrastructure of railways, highways, ports, docks, urban construction, etc., and used government investment to effectively stimulate economic development.

Naturally, there will also be some side effects, that is, some fanatical "Chinese Supremacy" nationalists discriminate against all foreign races, including whites, Mexicans, Spanish and Central American countries, not to mention black people at the bottom.

An ordinary-looking one can be sold for three to five hundred Tangyuan.

The Spanish army in the Governor's Palace responded with cruel retaliation, clearing out the entire village's population indiscriminately, and directly executing anyone who had any suspicion. The method was extremely bloody.

Among this group, retired military personnel in particular have the most serious tendencies. They have formed a very serious "Heavenly Kingdom" complex in their minds. They regard foreign races as inferior races, and their contempt cannot be concealed.

In the Imperial Legion, except for a few British and German officers, they were treated relatively fairly. Even French officers were inevitably excluded. General Mike Rabiot, deputy chief of staff of the Army, could not change this.

Speaking honestly

Richard really didn't expect that national self-confidence could reach such a high level. This trend of discrimination has even spread to the political and economic fields, which is undoubtedly very inappropriate for the development of the country.

Next, the government has to introduce the "Equal Rights Act" to regulate the equal rights of all ethnic groups from a legal perspective. Of course, this does not include black people.

(End of chapter)