Chapter 398: Development

In the eastern part of the Taihua Mountains, at an altitude of 550 meters above sea level, Chang'an New Town blows from the side of the Taihua Mountains, bringing a comfortable coolness to the citizens in the middle of summer.

At the beginning of January 1889, from Zhenju and Linju in the northernmost part of the empire, to Gyeonggi Province and Chang'an in the central part of the empire, and Anju in the southernmost part of the empire, no matter whether the local climate environment was hot or cold, the approach of the annual traditional Spring Festival made the people from all over the country truly experience the atmosphere of joy and happiness.

Spring Festival couplets and peach charms have changed year after year, and in a long and casual time, many Chinese immigrants have been living in South America for more than ten years, and their spouses, children and acquaintances are all born and acquainted here.

Every Han New Year, the family sits together, calculating the income of the past year, and in the wife's careful advice and the child's innocent and carefree laughter, the men may chew a trace of nostalgia from the wife's Nanjing official dialect with a local accent.

More than 70% of the local people come from Guangzhou, southern Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and Cantonese, Hokkien dialect, and Nanjing official dialect with a southern accent are the three most frequently used local languages in daily life.

The pronunciation of Nanjing Mandarin is close to that of Northern Mandarin, and its spread also covers the Jianghuai and Liangjiang regions, and was once used as an official language in the Ming Dynasty.

The determination of the local official language indicates the further deepening of the reform in the field of culture.

In February 1881, according to the instructions of Li Mingyuan and the central government, the Ministry of Education convened nearly 1,000 well-known local cultural scholars to begin special research and tackling key problems in the fields of simplification of Chinese characters and Chinese pinyin remarks.

In late March 1887, after six years of four large-scale deletions and corrections, the Han standard simplified Chinese characters and Hanyu Pinyin were officially released, so that Nanjing Mandarin became the lingua franca of government officials, teachers, students, military and other functional groups.

The Taihua Gate on the north side of Chang'an New Town, which has a very different natural climate from the Central Plains, cannot offset the inheritance and expectations of the people for traditional festivals.

Inside and outside the tall and wide city gates, people of all ages dressed in various clothes with festive smiles on their faces crowded around Chang'an City, the political center of the empire.

The majestic and magnificent city walls, the wide and flat cement, the gravel official roads, the bustling and lively streets, and the scenes of any corner of Chang'an City all convey the vitality and hope of this new country.

The construction of the Chang'an Imperial Palace and the new city was completed around 1888, and on June 21, 1888, after the completion of the first phase of the construction of the capital, the built-up area of Chang'an reached 180 square kilometers. In the middle of the following month, the Chang'an municipal government announced that it would relax the city's population restriction decree, raising the maximum number of permanent residents in the city to 600,000, in order to more than double the size of the built-up area.

As soon as the decree was announced, it caused a huge repercussion in the local area, and the first to take action were the merchants and ordinary people in Gyeonggi Province, who relied on the advantage of being close to Chang'an New Town, and were the first to start, either to take out the urgent needs that had been prepared for many years, or to temporarily borrow money from relatives and friends, but to try any way they could think of, and the purpose of this was not to buy a house in the capital, and then become the people of the capital in the eyes of the people in other parts of the country.

Running a house in Chang Settlement and becoming a common man at the feet of the Son of Heaven has a great attraction to the Chinese people in any era.

With good expectations for the capital, groups of people and businessmen spent a lot of savings and rushed to the direction of the capital, but like the good expectations, if you want to become a permanent resident of the capital, you can do it not just with money.

Continuing the provisions at the beginning of the relocation of the capital, those who have made great contributions to the country can get a house with an area of about 1,000 square meters for free in the capital, and at the same time, they will also get the opportunity to own up to three houses in the capital, and for ordinary people and businessmen, military families, high-tech industry workers, and students of colleges and universities will be given priority to become residents of the capital. It is also possible to obtain financial deductions of various amounts, and then get a small and medium-sized house provided by the state.

After arranging the above two types of people, ordinary people and businessmen who have no criminal records and clean family backgrounds will be allowed to enter the capital, and then according to the principle of one house per household, they will buy independent houses ranging from 120 square meters to 500 square meters at the market value.

With the aura of the country's political center, coupled with the mild climate and environment of the four seasons, in less than half a year, the population of Chang'an New City increased from 420,000 to 600,000, the number of people reached the upper limit set by the government, and the people who achieved their wishes were full of joy to buy New Year's goods, ready to spend the first festive Spring Festival with their families in the capital, while those who did not get to live in the capital could only bring their belongings and return disappointed.

The scene of the people competing to enter the Chang'an New City is the influence of the special environment, and it is also a general epitome of the rapid industrialization of the Han Kingdom in South America.

In Yangzhou Xing'an County (Pasu Fondu), the local coal reserves are abundant (Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina are the few coal reserves in southern South America, with about 35 billion tons of coal reserves, accounting for about 90% of Brazil's proven coal reserves). It can be mined for more than 500 years, and the data comes from the national investment network, although the coal resources in South America are relatively small compared to the northern hemisphere. But not for nothing, only the proven coal reserves of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina are enough to carry out the industrial revolution in the country, and the proportion of anthracite in the total reserves is low, and the proportion of sub-bituminous coal is high, and some anthracite needs to be imported. )

and iron ore resources,

Located here, Hanguo Iron and Steel United Group refines hundreds of tons of metal ore every day into steel raw materials urgently needed for the development of local industries.

The three cities, which are located in different regions and have established different development paths based on their fundamental local advantages, have gradually developed into the political, economic and industrial centers of the territory.

Like Chang'an New Town, the economic and industrial center effect of Songjiang and Xing'an counties also attracted a large number of people to move to the local area, and by the beginning of 1889, the number of people in the two places reached 200,000 respectively.

As one of the three major prefecture-level administrative regions directly under the central government, Songjiang's rapid population growth is in line with the expectations of the local government, but Xing'an County, as an industrial city, has rapidly gathered the population, which has made the local county built-up area continue to expand, and the overall built-up area has reached 70 square kilometers, which has exceeded the scale of many city-level cities as the state capital, and therefore, the central government decided to upgrade Xing'an County to Xing'an City in 1890 after listening to the advice of the Yangzhou (Rio Grande do Sul) state government, and its administration was set at the sub-state level. Half a level higher than the average state capital city.

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