Section 615 The Great Wave of Immigration
The officials of the Qing government had quite the mature experience and ability to recruit displaced people to settle down in the wasteland, and they also obtained the cooperation of the railway company to transfer the records of the enthronement of the victims of the disaster to them, so that they could easily resettle each household according to the list. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
As a result, within a year, two million people were resettled in Liaoning, two million in Jilin, and one million in Heilongjiang.
After receiving a year's grain and seeds, these victims drove the Qing government to collect cattle from Mongolia to reclaim more than 20 million mu of farmland in a year on the fertile black soil.
A year later, the disaster area will even be able to develop on its own.
In addition to the transfer of disaster victims to the reservation in the northeast, Daming even organized the immigration of one million people overseas, but the pressure of overseas immigration is very great, and the most difficult place is North America, whether it is the United States or the white people in Canada, there is a strong racism, and it is impossible for the local government to accept the large-scale transfer of population to these areas.
In fact, the actions of the Ming Dynasty they have been seriously warned many times, the Canadian government announced that the poll tax of 500 Canadian dollars will be levied on each Chinese immigrant, under the protest of the Ming government, the Canadian federation that has been established for a few years has abandoned this discriminatory poll tax, but the Ming government has also made a commitment not to carry out large-scale immigration, and the number of immigrants will be controlled at 10,000 per year, which is already the limit.
The most important thing is that the California government is different from the Canadian government, Canada is the territory of the Queen of England, the Ming Dynasty can't afford to provoke the United Kingdom, the United States can afford to provoke it for the time being, and the U.S. federal government is not so supportive of California's requirements.
In the end, 10,000 households immigrated to California, and with the normal immigration of Daming, the total reached 30,000.
The least exclusive, or rather indifferent to the question of immigration, is actually the South American countries, which are themselves established to drive out the colonizers, and in the state of a large number of black, mestizo and widespread Indian villages in the country, so that they have strong nationalist sentiments, which seems too strong.
And the management of these governments, to be honest, is not even as good as the Qing government in any other way except in modern concepts, and the people who control the government are slave owners and warlords, who only care about personal interests, and as for the state, they do not have much sense of identity.
Historically, the Japanese were the first to establish colonies in North America, and even in Mexico, where the concept of the country and nationality is relatively strong, the Mexican government allowed the Japanese government to buy land, recruit Japanese immigrants, and establish Japanese communities, obviously as a country established from the colonies, these people have a completely different view of foreign colonial actions to attract population, and the Chinese who have panicked about almost becoming colonies in later generations are completely different from the Chinese who panicked about the history of China's possible colonization, and are more panicked than reality. And these countries have experienced colonization and are less worried, just as many people in Hong Kong are not ashamed of being ruled by the British.
Therefore, as early as ten years ago, the Daming Labor Export Company from Mexico to Brazil successfully purchased large tracts of wasteland for reclamation, and has developed a considerable Chinese community, with a migrant population of more than 300,000 people, based on this, this time it directly absorbed 600,000 immigrants from the north, tripling the population.
However, because these colonies were distributed in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela, and the British, French, and Dutch colonies of Guyana, they were not very conspicuous, and Peru, which had the largest number of immigrants, only imported 100,000 people, and Paraguay, which had the least, sent only a few thousand immigrants.
In addition, more than 300,000 people, mainly sent to the Anglo-Dutch colonies of the Nanyang area, signed many trade agreements with the British, and allowed some British companies to buy land in the Ming Dynasty to open up tea plantations, the Ming Dynasty also obtained the corresponding permission to purchase land in some British colonies for reclamation, Australia, Canada and South Africa, these white areas are currently unable to penetrate on a large scale, but the British in the Nanyang area still allow the Chinese to enter.
It was here that the labor company opened up a vast area of rice fields, and the scale of more than 100,000 people was already more than 100,000, and it was not a big problem to settle 300,000 people in the northern Chinese community with one million people.
It is conceivable that there will always be obstacles to immigration to independent countries and colonies of the great powers in the Americas, but in areas under one's control, there is no problem at all.
Daming himself solved more overseas immigration.
With the secret support of Zhu Jinglun and without going through the Ming government, the Pan Shicheng family has quietly opened up quite a lot of strongholds on various islands in the Pacific Ocean over the years, setting up warehouses where there are people, and slowly finding out the local situation in the way of doing business with the locals.
It has taken three years and spent millions of dollars to directly open up reclamation sites in suitable places where no one is many, and after spending millions of dollars, the Pan family still has no income from the reclamation land in the Pacific Ocean, but has successively established several reclamation areas on the islands of New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Caroline Islands, the Polynesian Islands, and the Samoa Islands, and quietly immigrated 100,000 peasants, mainly developing rice fields.
As for the other Fiji Islands and some islands in the South Pacific, because they have been controlled by Britain or British colonies, only warehouses have been built on them, and common sense has opened up commercial interests.
It is worth mentioning that on the Hawaiian Islands, reclamation areas were also obtained, and large tracts of land were purchased for the cultivation and processing of sugar cane, which was protected by the trade agreement between the Ming Dynasty and the Hawaiian Kingdom.
As for the colonization of Hawaii, it is not currently in the plan because the country is currently under the protection of the United States, and in 1873, the US government announced that no country would be allowed to annex Hawaii, mainly as a defense against Japan. And the United States has already leased a port in Hawaii, taking a step forward to penetrate its tentacles here.
What Da Ming wanted was just to emigrate, and this time he immigrated 50,000 people here, which was an unexpected success.
More immigrants were sent to the reclamation area developed by the Pan family through their own ships, and based on the strongholds established before, 300,000 northern families with a population of nearly 800,000 were frantically immigrated.
This scale of immigration and colonization is not something that the Pan family can afford, and under the promotion of Zhu Jinglun, the Wu Chongyao family joined in and shared half of the capital investment.
These two families, in Taiwan's reclamation, have obtained rich returns, Taiwan's mountains can open up high-quality tea plantations, the wood in the mountains and forests, mineral deposits are their monopoly, do not need to develop their own, only need to recruit businessmen to rent out, is free rental income.
This income is negotiated and can only be used for overseas colonization.
However, the immigration of hundreds of thousands of people attracted the attention of the local powers, mainly the British Empire, which held the best land in the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand.
But the British Empire has not yet made a voice through diplomatic channels, obviously they are only concerned at present, without affecting their own interests, they do not intend to interfere, they are all land on the earth, and they are not their home, but if the Ming dares to establish a stronghold in Australia, I believe that the British Empire will definitely come and say.
And the German ships also appeared in the vicinity many times, and the two countries were said to have even confronted each other, according to the intelligence of the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Germans had ambitions for this land, and the British were very wary of Germany, and even preferred to acquiesce to the Chinese to colonize here rather than see a strong German infiltrate here.
It can be said that the Pan family and the Wu family are now developing here in a muffled voice, and there is a glimmer of opportunity in the cracks, and I don't know how long this opportunity can last.
The reason why he chose to keep a low profile was only because he did not intend to attract the attention of the great powers and let them join the ranks of the partition, and the British obviously did not attach much importance to it, so it was necessary to speed up the reclamation before the other powers extended their tentacles here.
The cost of reclamation is very high, and in order to join forces with nearly a million people to immigrate over and bear the cost of their reclamation, the two families have already borne a huge cost of 10 million taels. Colonization is really not something that individuals can afford.
But Zhu Jinglun also asked them to continue to work hard to establish more new bases next year, with a focus on the island of New Guinea, which, after several years of mastery, is like land, with mountains and rivers on it, and the complex terrain means that there is land reclamation.
The island is still in a power vacuum in the eastern region, where the Dutch have established strongholds, and later the western half became Indonesia's territory, Papua Province, which, according to Indonesian propaganda materials, can be cultivated nearly 200 million mu. Papua has only half an island, and if this data is accurate, the arable land area of the entire island may be 400 million mu.
Therefore, Zhu Jinglun asked the two families that next year's reclamation should not be limited to the northeast of the island, but should establish strongholds in the ideal areas around the island.
The government does not intend to step in until the great powers begin to compete, so it may take a long time for the two giants to develop in the name of a private company.
Zhu Jinglun personally can give support, just lend them a sum of money, Zhu Jinglun still has 50 million taels of deposits in the Bank of Guangzhou, which has been only used to support the credit of the Bank of Guangzhou, and now that the state has suspended the payment of silver, this silver can also be taken out.
As for whether the two families can pay off the money, there is no need to worry at all, even if they fail in their operation, as long as the land is reclaimed, the government will give it whatever it costs if the government wants to take over this place in the future.