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If Li Mu is not mistaken, the Bahamas should have gained independent status after the fifties of the twentieth century, the specific year is not clear, and perhaps he has never paid attention to it, but it doesn't matter, as far as the current situation of the Bahamas is, Li Mu is confident that he will change the future of the Bahamas. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Population is the most important factor, after entering the 20 th century, the "referendum" will become the main way to determine the form of the state, as long as it is guaranteed that the number of Chinese people is greater than the number of other races, then it can ensure that the interests of the Chinese will not be harmed, if people of other races are dissatisfied with the decision of the Chinese, then they can choose to leave the Bahamas, Li Mu will never object.
Ah, in the fifties of the twentieth century, it is really a bit far away from now, and it remains to be said whether Li Mu can survive until then.
Li Bora is worthy of being the Li family, and as soon as Li Mu finished speaking, Li Bora understood what Li Mu meant.
"No problem, I will make sure to gradually increase the number of Chinese people, control the proportion of Chinese population with other races - the only problem, we don't have so many Chinese to fill those islands, especially women, now nine out of ten Chinese in Cuba are men, we need some women, so that we can really put down roots in the Bahamas." Libora thought a little far, looking at Libora's meaning, he didn't want to find a white woman to live.
"I'm trying to figure out a way to solve this problem, but it's a bit difficult to solve it, take your time, I'll find some people to come and improve it in the near future, but don't fantasize about getting enough women, maybe it won't be possible in ten years." Li Mu is indeed working hard, but the gap is too big, and Li Mu can only do his best.
The Rim-Corbyn Ocean Shipping Company began to open a route between the Qing Empire and San Francisco in May this year, and Li Mu's prediction was correct, it was very difficult to find women in the Qing Empire who were willing to go to sea to earn a living, so in the first two months, there was little progress in the work.
But there has never been a lack of something called "traitor" in China, and Cole, the head of the Qing Empire sent by Li Mu, did not take much effort to find a suitable partner in the Qing Empire, and from July, the immigration work was finally on the right track, and in July and August, more than 1,000 Chinese women entered the United States through San Francisco each month, and then took the train to Springfield, becoming the first Chinese female workers in Springfield.
Li Mu opened a garment factory and a textile factory in Springfield, and these women were the first workers in the factory.
Compared with the more than 30,000 male Chinese workers in Springfield, 2,000 is just a drop in the bucket, but it at least gives hope to the men who thought they will die alone, and effectively calms the Chinese people's commotion.
Compared with Springfield, the Chinese in Cuba also need to be appeased, so Li Mu is ready to send the next batch of Chinese women to Cuba, although this will not completely solve the problem, but as long as there is hope, there is hope, and the saddest thing is that there is no hope.
Now that the Panama Canal has not yet started, it is a bit more troublesome to send people from the Qing Empire to Cuba, first docking in San Francisco, then taking a train to Florida, and then taking a boat from Florida to reach Cuba.
But it's worth the toss, at least those women don't have to stay in the Qing Empire and wait for death.
Since April this year, a severe drought has broken out in the northern part of the Qing Empire, and at least nearly a million people have been starved of food, and in some areas there has even been an extreme situation of changing children and eating them.
In a year of great disasters, women are always the first to suffer, and the Chinese have a tradition of preference for sons, so the market is full of traffickers selling women or girls, some of them are trafficked, and some of them take the initiative to sell themselves, wanting to exchange some food for their families, so that their families can survive the famine.
For the victims of the Qing Empire, this famine brought them a heavy disaster, but for Springfield, which was in dire need of population replenishment, this famine came at the right time.
Cole seized the opportunity to buy a large number of women and girls from the market at prices ranging from one tael to five taels of silver, all in cash, without delaying or owing, and this act was actually rewarded by the Governor's Office, which is really ironic.
In less than a month, Cole purchased more than 10,000 women and girls, and because of the limited transportation capacity, Cole even had to set up two migrant transit stations in Shandong and Zhejiang to recuperate the victims before sending them to San Francisco.
After Li Mu learned of this situation, he urgently ordered ten passenger ships from San Francisco to supplement the Rim Corbyn Ocean Shipping Company, and these passenger ships will not be gradually delivered until next year, so the problem of imbalance in population ratio will not be effectively improved in a short period of time.
Of course, these things, Li Mu doesn't need to give Li Bola their explanation, it may be better to keep the surprise, Li Mu will gradually fill the population of Cuba, but will not engage in arranged marriages, if you want to gain the favor of women, you still need to work hard, if you can't support the wall, then even if one day the number of women exceeds that of men, you can't get a wife.
Although Li Bora didn't know Li Mu's plan, he obviously had the same idea as Li Mu: "Ten years is ten years, whether it is the appetite of these people, only the bravest warriors, the hardest farmers, and the hardest working workers are qualified to marry wives, and those who are lazy and lazy, let them marry those black women-"
In fact, not all Chinese are singles, compared to Cubans, Chinese are still quite favored by Cuban women, Chinese are more honest, few Chinese are alcoholics, and even fewer wives are beaten, and Chinese have always worked hard, and their savings are much better than most Cubans, so there are still Chinese who have started a family here, and their spouses not only include Cuban indigenous residents and mixed race, but even pure whites.
This is still very gratifying to Li Mu, at least at present, there are no Chinese married to blacks, think about the Chinese women who marry black foreigners in the 21st century, Li Mu is enough, probably they think that they can't see what the other party looks like when the lights are turned off anyway, so it's convenient.
Seeing off Li Bora and Bai Qi, Li Mu went to find Green Giles overnight.
When he was in Havana, Abel revealed to Li Mu that Washington's next target was Hawaii, and Li Mu wanted to confirm the authenticity of this news so that it would be convenient for Li Mu to operate.
Greene Giles served as deputy director of the Office of the Presidential Palace and was a confidant of Ulysses Grant, and from Green, Li Mu believes that more information will be obtained.
"Hawaii? I'm sorry Ream, I don't know, you know, I've been at Guantanamo all this time, and I know as much about this as you do, maybe not as much as you. "Greene Giles is also not very aware of what is going on in Washington, and he does not know much about it.
"So what were your plans when you were deputy director of the Office of the Presidential Palace? You always know this part, right? Li Mu did not give up and continued to get to the bottom of it.
"Of course, but I'm not sure you want to know that part?" Green Giles blinked his eyes, presumably assessing the risk of leaking the news to Li Mu.
"Damn, I want to know it all, I don't want to crash headlong into it, yesterday Bernap sent me a telegram asking me to pay attention to the war going on with the Indians, it looks like I want to get the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment into the war, I have to know who to listen to." Li Mu was also worried, there were too many things to do, and none of them seemed to be very important.
While George Dewey was leading the soldiers of the United States of Cuba to slaughter all sides, Hillman suffered a defeat in Montana, and the Indians were already at the point of life and death.
This is also the objective reason why George Dewey was promoted to major general, and now there is a strong call within the United States for George Dewey to replace Sherman, and George Dewey's only demand is to mobilize the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment to participate in the battle, otherwise George Dewey will not be sure to defeat the Indians.
If you know a little more about the Indians, you will know that there is a bad debt between the European colonists and the Indians.
It has always been advertised that the Americans and the British slaughtered the Indians, in fact, if you look at the materials of that period, you will find that the Indians are not good at stubble, and they are just as ferocious and brutal in the face of European colonizers.
The Americans scalped the Indians, right?
The Indians also stripped the Americans, and many Indian tribes decided the credit based on the number of enemy scalps.
The Americans are gradually encroaching on the territory of the Indians, right?
The Indians also attacked the settlements set up by the colonists, and the methods were similar to those of the devils, robbing, burning, and killing.
Many sources claim that there were almost 80 million Indians at that time, and the most outrageous even 100 million people, but in fact it is far from that much, the number of Indians is about 1 million to 4 million, if the Indians really have 100 million people, then they only need to scrape together 1% of the army, they can drive the European colonists into the sea.
In fact, the Indians' combat effectiveness is not weak, they are all soldiers, but because the tribes are scattered and fighting separately, they will be broken by the Americans.
Now the situation is different, the living space of the Indians has been squeezed into a small area such as Montana, the population density of the Indians is much larger, in order to ensure survival, the Indians have to form the Indian Union, the result is that Sherman suffered at the front.
George Dewey's request for the transfer of the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment had already been communicated with Li Mu, who believed that this would promote the integration of Chinese into American society, so Li Mu did not stop it, but was a little happy to see it happen.
If this battle is won, it will be very helpful for the social status of the Chinese people.