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This demographic problem is really a headache. Now Spain has a population of more than 7 million, up to 8 million. Even if 10 per cent of immigrants pass, the total number of immigrants in the New World will be at most 80 to 1 million.

So how many people are needed to guarantee basic control and initial development of the Americas?

At the level of the Seven Years' War, Britain had 300,000 immigrants in its thirteen colonies in North America, which ensured Britain's victory in North America. And the French scattered in Canada and the Mississippi River valley with only 20,000 people (an astonishing "achievement") have failed the French.

According to this template, Ferdinand would have to immigrate at least 900,000 people to the United States and Canada to ensure control and development of North America - if 20,000 people were to immigrate like the French, the Central Great Plains of North America would not want to carry out agricultural production, and the westward expansion would have to wash and sleep.

Immigrants to Latin America cannot be pulled down, after all, that is Spain's original backyard, and in modern times, Latin America has money very quickly, and it cannot be thrown to others, so there will be at least 300,000 immigrants to Mexico and Central America, at least 100,000 people in the West Indies, at least 300,000 people in Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana, at least 300,000 people in Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, and at least 300,000 people in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. In total, at least 1 million people will migrate in Latin America.

If we take into account the future colonial expansion into the Asia-Pacific region, the migration to Australia and New Zealand (calculated at 100,000 people each), the migration to the Nusa Tenggara Islands, the Maluku Islands, the Philippine Islands, Taiwan, and Calcutta (Ferdinand's stronghold in India) (calculated according to 10,000 people each), a total of at least 250,000 immigrants, adding up to at least 2.15 million immigrants, Spain itself could not have done this! After all, in the 16th century, the mainland was the base camp, and the industrial revolution had to be carried out in the territory of Banya!

Immigrants from other regions will definitely have to be brought in.

Ferdinand first gritted his teeth and worked hard, striving to immigrate millions of people to the Americas in Spain!

As for the rest of the country, be careful, even the 300,000 people who got there by the British were all sorts of messes, in addition to the native non-mainstream (landless peasants, Puritans, criminals), but also Germans, Irish, Dutch, and even French (...... So there was no psychological burden when the rebellion occurred, and it was not nothing, so hundreds of thousands of royalists voted with their feet and ran to Canada after the independence of the United States.

First of all, Italians, can go. Ferdinand was the king of Sicily, and after the annexation of Naples, he was the king of the two Sicilies, and Spain's governance in Naples (at least in the early days) was not bad, plus the Italians were not very tough, so they could go.

Also, the Flemish, uh, this ...... If Ferdinand can get Flanders, he will definitely have to deal with the Flemish people, since he is also his own national, and he implements enlightened rule (mainly refers to not indiscriminate taxation), then the Flemish people are not a flood beast, after all, the Flemish economy is developed, there are many craftsmen, and the navigation technology is very developed, which is definitely a big help to the operation of North America. After all, no matter what the original history is, if the people under your rule can't be trusted, what else can you toss? Except, of course, for the Catalans, who dared to rebel and suppressed them with iron blood.

However, care must be taken not to allow the Calvinists to invade the northern regions. Ferdinand had a countermeasure to this.

Moreover, Flanders are not only the Netherlands, but also the Flemish and Walloons in Belgium, as well as the Germans in Luxembourg and Franche-Comté, these people are still relatively honest, and the Belgian population can be safely introduced. The Germans are even better! Ferdinand also considered whether it would be possible to recruit immigrants from other German regions besides Flanders. With the war raging in Germany, there will always be those who want to discover wonderful new worlds.

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Who else? The French, pass it directly. It is impossible to let the opponent's people emigrate over, uh...... Perhaps the Huguenots will be able to ...... in the future Right? Anyway, it's always not very reassuring.

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There are also areas that are not under Spanish rule, such as Ireland and Eastern Europe. Although there is basically no political connection, it can also be considered.

The serfs of Ireland, Ferdinand liked this, the Irish serfs were still more reliable (right?). Emigrants.

If it is determined that Henry VIII will be beaten in the future, then it is possible to apply for the dominion of Ireland from the Pope - yes, in theory the dominion of Ireland belongs to the Pope, and the people there are theoretically (though never in practice) also papal subjects.

After Henry VIII passed the Act of Supremacy to separate the Church of England from Catholicism, the Pope took back the right to rule Ireland, and then the English Parliament passed a bill to establish the "Kingdom of Ireland" to clarify the legitimate rule of the British crown over Ireland.

And then there are Russians, Ukrainians, Cossacks, and maybe some Poles from Eastern Europe...... Russian serfs also belong to the more honest category.

What? You say Portuguese? Well, let's talk about it when Portugal is merged. It seems that if you can communicate with Morocco and beat the Portuguese, anyway, the Portuguese land war is like that, especially there is an indomitable attachment to Morocco, and if you are defeated repeatedly, you have to go deep into Morocco, regardless of whether the king dies or not, it is inevitable that they will eventually plant a big heel in Morocco......

In addition, in addition to European immigrants, local resources also need to be developed! It doesn't matter if it's natural resources or human resources. It is true that in the Americas, it is impossible to stop killing 20 or 30 million Indians. However, after this and at the same time, there can still be cooperation and common prosperity, and there is an official saying that the massacre is wrong, but the people are not wrong, the times are progressing, and friends can still do it......

Spain is a paradoxical amalgamation of racial attitudes, on the one hand, Spain's contempt for Latin American native-born whites and mestizos, which was an important incentive for the independence movement in Spanish America. On the other hand, despite the Holocaust, Spain itself had a Madonna mentality towards the natives (at least in the early days), and the 1541 Decree for the Protection of the Indigenous Peoples of the Colonies sparked a rebellion by the colonists in the western part of South America (which also foreshadowed the difficulty of enforcing the law).

It seems to be the case that the early kindness of the Spaniards was motivated not so much by compassion and empathy as fellow human beings, but by a pious (at least superficial) faith and a belief in the spread of Catholicism, out of prestige and face, and in the hope that the natives would provide labor and even be accepted into the kingdom. But in the first century, this ideal was difficult to achieve, so what happened in reality was the Holocaust.

Moreover, this benevolence of the Spaniards is high - Our Lady of the White Left usually does not marry blacks and pacifists. Of course, even the true Madonna (Praise) does not usually marry those people......

In the later period, then, the Indians did provide labor, which is an important reason why there were fewer European settlers in Latin America than in North America, where the indigenous population provided a large part of the labor. There are native-born whites and even mixed-race people.

But at this time, the native Spaniards, on the one hand, have become accustomed to slaughter and interests, and on the other hand, it has been said that their benevolence is from above and pointing fingers at the homeland, not to lower their status and mingle with you, and to want equality, economic equality, political equality, equality of management rights, no way!

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