Chapter 291: Post-War Development II
On the South American continent, in the middle of the plain of La Plata, the city of Córdoba, named by the Spaniards, ushered in a name full of oriental culture "Chang'an".
Chang'an, the ancient name of Xi'an, is the first capital city called "Beijing" in history, and the first city in the true sense of the word. King Wen of Zhou set the capital here, built Fengjing, and then built Hojing after King Wu ascended the throne, collectively called Fenghao, Xi'an abbreviated as "Ho" (hào) is derived from this. Han Gaozu five years (202 years ago) placed Chang'an County, on the south bank of the Wei River, the north side of Afang Palace, Qin Xingle Palace on the basis of the construction of Changle Palace, Gaozu seven years (200 years ago) to build Weiyang Palace, in the same year the national capital moved here from Liyang, because it is located in Chang'an Township, so it is called Chang'an City, take the meaning of "long peace and stability".
Changan
The ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, the capital with the most dynasties, the longest and most influential capital in Chinese history, an ancient name that has disappeared in Chinese history for more than a thousand years, has reappeared on the South American continent in a new way.
The built-up area of Chang'an City is planned to cover an area of 800 square kilometers, and in addition to the original 200 square kilometers of the old city of Córdoba, the Han government will also build a new urban area of 600 square kilometers around the old city.
A built-up area of 800 square kilometers is not uncommon in China in the 21st century, and almost all of the first-tier cities such as Yanjing, Shanghai, Pengcheng and Yangcheng have a built-up area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, of which Yanjing and Shanghai have a built-up area of nearly 1,500 square kilometers and a population of more than 20 million. At the same time, London, England, had a built-up area of more than 1,600 square kilometers, but its population was only one-third of that of Shanghai and Yanjing.
Excessive expansion of urban area, tilting resources, talents, and policies to large cities, and supporting several megacities at the cost of weakening the economic development of surrounding small and medium-sized cities, ultimately leads to an imbalance in the discovery between regions and cities, and students or residents in economically backward areas are inherently at a disadvantage when faced with competition from large cities of the same class.
Megacities with a population of more than 4 million will also have negative effects such as environmental protection, inequality, and intensified internal friction in the process of concentrating talents to develop the economy, and these impacts will have an increasingly serious lagging effect on the economy in the later development of the country. In first-tier cities such as Huaiyang, the built-up area shall not exceed 1,000 square kilometers, and the administrative area shall not exceed 5,000 square kilometers, (except for the capital Chang'an, where the administrative area is 8,000 square kilometers.) ),
In second-tier cities such as Xinjing (Porto Alegre), Wuzhong, Xing'an (Santa Fe), and Yanling (La Plata), the built-up area shall not exceed 500 square kilometers, and the administrative area shall not exceed 2,000 square kilometers, while the built-up area of ordinary cities below the second tier shall generally be less than 200 square kilometers, and most of the administrative areas shall be about 1,000 square kilometers.
After swallowing Argentina and Uruguay in World War I, Han has become a major country in terms of area after Brazil.
The occupation of a country, the first thing is to annex and digest the territory of other countries, and the Chinese in the native areas of the Han State are busy migrating to the newly expanded land to survive, and with the exponential expansion of the land area, the administrative planning of the five provinces and one capital can no longer meet the development needs of the Han State. Therefore, the re-demarcation of administrative regions at all levels has become a major matter at hand.
Prefecture, province, capital, government, city, county, town, village, from mid-July to early September, Han government officials discussed for two months and came up with the final result.
Prefecture, province, capital and government are first-level administrative regions, and the state of Córdoba, where the capital of the Han Kingdom is located, is divided into Gyeonggi Province and is under the jurisdiction of the central government. )
The central government directly appoints the chief executive, and the administrative level is equivalent to that of the prefecture-level chief official, and the three prefectures temporarily established are Songjiang (Buenos Aires), Huaiyang (Rosario), and Xinjing.
Chang'an, as the new capital, has the same level as the first-level administrative officer.
Cities and counties are administrative divisions of the same level, and the main difference between the two is that the city is generally more economically developed, the urban population is larger than that of the county seat, and in terms of administrative level, the chief official at the city level is half a level higher than the chief official at the county level.
The two-level administrative structure of towns and villages is divided according to the number of people in the jurisdiction, and if the population is less than 1,000 people, the administrative division is determined to be a village, and if the population is more than 1,000 people and less than 100,000, it is designated as a town.
After the completion of the new administrative plan, Argentina is divided into one capital, three prefectures, and 19 states, excluding the province of Misiones, which is occupied by Paraguay, namely:
Changan
Songjiang Mansion, Huaiyang Mansion, Xinjing Mansion
Songzhou (Province of Buenos Aires),
Jinju-Katamarca and Tucumán provinces,
Lin-Chaco and Formosa provinces,
Golden State-Chubut, Zezhou-Córdoba,
Yunzhou-Corrientes Province,
Weizhou-Entre Ríos Province,
Zhenzhou-Jujuy and Salta provinces,
Pingzhou-La Pampa, Qinzhou-La Rioja,
Gua-Mendoza Province, Huazhou-Neuquén Province,
Viciden-Rionegro, Illino-San Juan,
Chuzhou-St. Louis, Shouzhou-Santa Cruz,
Jiangzhou - Santa Fe Province
Gwangju – Santiago del Estero Province,
Anju – Tierra del Fuego.
Two southern Brazilian states: Yangzhou (Rio Grande do Sul)
Los Angeles (Santa Catarina)
One state of Uruguay: Wu State
A state in the south of Chile: Haizhou
In just 11 years, 23 states, one capital, and three prefectures, Li Mingyuan and 6 million South American Chinese have witnessed the historical development and growth of the Han Kingdom from scratch.
Cattle and sheep everywhere, the military is majestic, the people are self-reliant, and a small negligence in history has created the overseas rise of a big nation.
Walking on the great plain of La Plata, you can see industrious Chinese men leading a family to work in the fields and pastures, and the industrious characteristics of the 5,000-year-old farming people have made the Chinese accustomed to creating wealth with diligence and hard work, but the results of the heroic struggle of the South American Chinese, with sacrifice and blood, have become barbaric and banditry in the eyes of the West, especially the American society. In August 1879, The Wasp magazine published a cartoon that scandalized the Chinese, with the caption: "The ugly Mongols of this country, like monkeys, monopolized cigars and agricultural washing, and smiled cunningly and triumphantly at their embarrassed opponents, and who wanted to concentrate all the money and power of the Ministry of Commerce in his own hands."
In the face of a formidable enemy, they curry favor with their masters like vile monkeys, and in Latin America the cunning Mongols deceive the Peruvians, Brazilians, Argentines who sympathize with them, and they attack the Brazilians, Argentines with looted weapons, ammunition!
They are the most vile barbarians, who bring the flames of war and misfortune to Latin America, they are the demons of hell........."
In the second half of the nineteenth century, due to the needs of the economic development of the United States, a large number of Chinese laborers came to the United States on rudimentary merchant ships.
The desolate Midwest of the United States left behind the heavy footsteps of Chinese workers and a dead white skeleton, Chinese laborers relied on cheap labor to complete the construction of the Pacific Railroad connecting the east and west, but after the completion of the railroad and the exhaustion of the gold mines, many Chinese lost their jobs, in order to survive, they were willing to do any dirty work and tiring work that white people were unwilling to do with very low wages, and white Americans instead thought that the Chinese had robbed them of their jobs and called on the government to enact a Chinese exclusion bill.
The establishment of the Han State in South America, the commercial representatives sent by the Han State reached an agreement with the U.S. government, and with the supervision of the Han State, the living conditions of the Chinese workers were much better, but the outbreak of the Argentine War broke the political relationship between the Han State and the United States.
Anti-China riots broke out in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, three major Chinese workers' settlements, and more than 100 Chinese and Chinese workers were killed and injured by local white rioters.
The plight faced by the Chinese in the United States reached Li Mingyuan's ears through various channels, imagining the humiliation and torture encountered by Chinese workers in the United States.
Having experienced modern history education, Li Mingyuan understands that the current situation of Chinese people in the United States and even other overseas countries is only the beginning of the difficult life of overseas Chinese.
The Manchu Dynasty's repeated defeats in foreign wars and the deepening of European and American colonial rule on the mainland led to a rapid decline in Europe's positive image of Chinese fantasies before the Great Voyage, replaced by a negative image of ignorance, ugliness, and cowardice.
In 1877 the American writers Hart and Mark Brown. Twain's co-written play "Ah Sim" caters to the likes of the mainstream American masses, portraying the Chinese young Ah Shin as a jaundice patient's squinted eyes, "a stupid man with a big tongue", "a moral tumor", and "an unsolvable problem".
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the famous American writer Jack. In London, after covering the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, this typical "American Dream" writer also published an article "The Yellow Peril" in a San Francisco newspaper, and in 1908 and 1910 respectively, he wrote two so-called "Chinese Yankees" and "Unprecedented Invasion", as well as many other works on the theme of Chinese overseas immigration, such as "White and Yellow", "Huang Sipa", "Chen Chun", "Ah Jin's Tears" and many other works. In this series of elaborate "yellow legends", Jack. London does not hesitate to slander the Chinese as an "inferior nation" and a "yellow peril" that poses a threat to the white world of Europe and the United States, and "genocide" must be carried out in order for the world to achieve peace.
Speaking of Mark. Twain and Jack. In London, many middle school students know their names, and in middle school textbooks, two American writers are described as great writers who come from the lower classes and sympathize with the lower classes, but no one knows that the so-called low-class people they sympathize with do not include Chinese.