Wild North America 1846

Chapter 442: Top Ten Cities in 1865

Since the discovery of gold mines in Australia, many Chinese have nicknamed Chang'an City "San Francisco". The previous name "San Francisco" has been forgotten by most people.

After 18 years of rapid development, this imperial capital has become the largest urban agglomeration in the North American continent, including more than 10 surrounding satellite towns, Fangcaodi, Sunshine City, Sandaoling Town, Sidaoling Town, Moon Town, and Shanghe

Bay City, Lower River Bay City, Oak Bay Town, etc., with a total population of 2.2871 million, ranking as the largest city in the empire and the second largest metropolis in the world, second only to London.

these past few years

The new era of transportation facilities represented by trams and cars has become the main public transportation in large and medium-sized cities in the Tang Empire, replacing backward public carriages and private carriages, and has developed extremely rapidly.

For the sake of urban management and sanitation, dozens of large and medium-sized cities in the empire have successively issued local regulations restricting the entry of horse-drawn carriages, ox-drawn carts, mule carts, donkey carts and other animal-drawn vehicles into the city, in order to prevent large livestock such as cattle, horses, and mules from defecating in the open.

The entire city is stinking, seriously affecting the cleanliness and hygiene of the living environment.

Animal-drawn vehicles can only transport goods to the outskirts of the city, and then transferred to trams, cars, or human-powered carts. Especially in metropolitan areas with a population of up to one million, such as Chang'an, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Mexico City, the number of animal-drawn vehicles entering and leaving the city every day

Huge, smelly feces and urine are everywhere, seriously affecting the urban environment.

After careful planning, the above-mentioned series of large and medium-sized cities have formed two transportation systems, trams for passenger transportation and freight transportation, becoming the main force for urban travel and cargo circulation and transportation, while cars, human-powered tricycles and human-powered trolleys are supplementary.

This has allowed the city to get rid of the messy and smelly environment and present a beautiful, clean and prosperous city in the new era, which has been widely praised by the public.

Among the major cities in the Tang Empire, the most eye-catching scenery is the automobile. The automobile has been developed in the Tang Empire for more than 10 years. Ordinary urban people are no stranger to it, and their acceptance is also increasing.

The Tang Empire now has 17 automobile manufacturers, and automobiles have also developed from the original sedan to two series of sedans and freight trucks, especially the 1.2-ton American truck produced by the American Automobile Factory, and the one-tonne truck produced by the Continental Automobile Factory.

Continental brand cars have the largest number and are widely seen in the streets and alleys of the city.

As the birthplace and birthplace of automobiles, the Tang Empire also had the largest number of automobiles among all countries in the world. The total number of automobiles of various types has reached 17,600. Automobiles are increasingly popular among the public and show a momentum of vigorous development.

China accounts for 89.72% of the world’s car ownership.

The other two cities with similar characteristics are Detroit and Kansas City. These three cities are where veterans gather and own major properties in the city.

Ranked 11th; Donggang, with a population of 728,600.

Ranked seventh; New Xi'an City, with a population of 506,900.

The ranking of the top ten cities in the Tang Empire has undergone tremendous changes over the years.

According to statistics at the end of 1864, the top ten cities in the Tang Kingdom were;

Ranked first; Chang'an City (San Francisco), population 2.2871 million

Ranked second; Los Angeles, population 1.695 million.

From the changes in the ranking of the top ten cities in the Tang Empire, we can see that earth-shaking changes have taken place in the past six years, reflecting the characteristics of the empire's territorial expansion. The layout of large cities with a population of one million has become more balanced and reasonable, and the rise of emerging cities has

The momentum is very strong.

Since the horses in aristocratic carriages generally wear velvet riding clothes, the long hanging down covers the pockets and does not affect the view.

Ranking fifth; Salem City, population 583,500.

Ranked fourth; Mexico City, with a population of 1.1773 million.

The social structure of this important industrial city in the Great Lakes region has undergone subversive changes. More than 90% of the residents are Chinese and less than 10% are white residents. Most of the white residents are from servants who survived the bloody war, and a small number of British and German immigrants

, the local social security is excellent, and the crime rate is as low as the bottom of the top ten major cities.

As an important core city in the Great Lakes region of central North America, Chicago has regained its former splendor as a metropolis with a population of one million after four years of postwar recovery and development, and is even better than that.

As the imperial capital Chang'an continued to expand in size, urban streets inevitably experienced severe congestion. Trams, cars, tricycles, trolleys and horse-drawn carriages crowded the wide streets, becoming a major headache for city managers.

As can be seen from the list, Chang'an, the imperial capital ranked first, and Los Angeles, the second-ranked metropolis, still occupy the top two places. They are also the only two international metropolises that impose restrictions on the immigration of Chinese immigrants.

Laborers with higher literacy skills, retired soldiers and Chinese immigrants studying for business and education have settled there. Illiterate immigrants who cannot read a single Chinese character have difficulty in obtaining urban household registration.

Since the city of Chicago does not restrict immigrants, has a developed industrial economy and has many employment opportunities, many large and medium-sized shipbuilding companies and large-scale steel complexes have been established in the lakeside area, and it has become an out-and-out heavy industry center.

Although large and medium-sized cities strictly prohibit carriages from entering the city, they do allow noble carriages, but they need to pay a high "city toll" and require the horse to be equipped with a bag under its buttocks to collect the horse's excrement.

Ranked sixth; Taoyuan City, with a population of 1.0722 million.

In view of the phenomenon of urban congestion, in major and medium-sized cities in the Tang Empire, the principle of driving on the right was strictly implemented, vehicles and pedestrians were diverted as much as possible, and traffic police and patrol police were deployed to divert traffic as much as possible.

Ordinary gangs and gangsters have almost no place in this city where ruthless characters are everywhere.

Through the Toronto Canal, Chicago can easily export ships, cars and heavy equipment, import high-quality coal and iron ore, and become a bridgehead for European material exports. This saves nearly 8,800 kilometers compared to transshipping through Panama, which is a huge savings.

Bulk cargo freight and transshipment charges.

It is precisely because of these unique advantages that cities along the south coast of the Great Lakes such as Chicago and Detroit have developed rapidly and are more prosperous than before the North American War. The traces of the war have long since been covered up.

Ranking fourth; Taoyuan City, with a population of 671,000.

In just January to March, six well-known large-scale shipbuilding companies settled in the Chicago-Milwaukee area, prompting more than 30 small and medium-sized shipyards to settle in. Several automobile factories are also investigating, which further enhances the status of the region's heavy industry center.

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even so

There is no way to prevent the rapid expansion of Chang'an City based on a high population base. It is home to more than half of the nobility and a large number of wealthy people in the Tang Dynasty. It is also the commercial center and cultural and educational center of the entire empire. It has the headquarters of large companies and many high-paid people.

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The increasingly prosperous economic development has made Chang'an, the imperial capital, even more popular. High-rise buildings are springing up like bamboo shoots after a rain. There are ships in the port, and there are many factory chimneys on the outskirts of the city. There are prosperity scenes everywhere.

Ranking third; Seattle, with a population of 739,800.

In Chicago, the third largest city in the Empire with a population of one million, retired officers and soldiers account for more than 30%, making it the city with the highest proportion of retired officers and soldiers. There are numerous veteran clubs of various divisions located throughout the city, with local names and surnames.

The big shots can be said to be ruthless characters.

Ranked 12th; Detroit, population 703,000.

Ranked ninth; Portland, population 875,400

Ranked tenth; Gallup, population 765,100.

As an industrial town and commercial and trade center on the Five Great Lakes, Chicago holds up half of the northern economic territory of the empire. Together with surrounding cities such as Detroit, Davenport, Milwaukee, Kane County, Des Moines, and Omaha, it forms a second-largest city in the world.

The empire's second largest industrial center in the Chang'an-Los Angeles industrial economic zone has become an important driving force for the empire's industrial economic development.

Ranked seventh; Xin Xi'an, with a population of 1.0369 million.

Walking in the streets and alleys, you can inadvertently find a veterans club of a certain division or regiment. The people who look at the door are retired soldiers who have made great achievements and have at least a few lives on their hands. These places are not suitable for the mixed-society little Karami.

, it is completely a forbidden area.

Ranked ninth; Donggang City, with a population of 413,300.

Ranking tenth; Jinling City, with a population of 386,200.

This has also resulted in the population growth rate of the two top cities mentioned above being slightly lower than that of other cities. However, due to the accumulation of a large amount of capital and industrial and commercial resources, the economic development momentum has been advancing rapidly and is not inferior in the slightest.

in New Year

The agreement between the Tang Empire and the United Kingdom on the passage of the Toronto Canal was implemented, which reignited the economic development of the region.

Ranked sixth; Portland, population 550,700.

According to statistics at the end of June 1858, the top ten cities in the Tang Empire were;

Ranked first; Chang'an City (San Francisco), population 1.5737 million

Ranking second; Los Angeles, with a population of 1.2293 million.

In addition to taking various measures, Chang'an City has begun to restrict the establishment of some heavily polluting industrial enterprises, restrict immigration, strengthen urban planning, build some 8 to 10-story high-rise buildings along both sides of the city streets, and restrict low-density manors and single-family buildings.

Villa construction.

According to the statistics of 1858 and the statistics of the end of 1864;

Ranking third; Chicago, population 1.3021 million.

Ranked eighth; Salem, with a population of 1,004,800.

Ranked fifth; Seattle, population 1,113,500.

Ranked eighth; Gallup, population 454,800.

Mexico City, ranked fourth in the empire, was the core of the economic territory of the southern provinces. After being included in the territory of the Tang Empire, this ancient city with a long history has regained its vitality. The immigration of a large number of Chinese immigrants has increased the total population of Mexico City.

The volume once again exceeded one million, becoming a dazzling star in the southern city.

Because Mexico City is located in the center of the southern province where cotton is widely grown, the city mainly develops the cotton textile industry and garment processing. It has 13 large and medium-sized textile factories and thousands of textile workshops, as well as countless large and small Small clothing factory.

Mexico City is also a large city with a population of one million people with the highest proportion of interracial people. Native whites and Mexican Indians account for 42.6% of the total city population, Chinese Americans account for 56.3%, and other populations account for 2.1%.

Compared with other southern provinces, the Chinese population accounts for more than 80% of the population. The high proportion of foreign ethnic groups in Mexico City is due to historical reasons.

Under the guidance of the imperial preferential policies, native whites and Indians in the city were also the most enthusiastic about intermarrying with Chinese families. In 1864 alone, 11,300 interracial couples were registered in Mexico City, showing a significant trend of intermarriage. .

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