Chapter 897: The Child of Destiny is in place
Just when Europe was in chaos and China was like weeds, another fleet of North American immigrants approached the docks in Tokyo.
Yes, the immigrants who came here from the mainland first came to Tokyo or Hanjin, and gathered in the first and second cities of Han North America, which were directly under the jurisdiction of Nanjing, and then the kings here represented the officials and discussed the 'division of pork'.
King Cai took more people in the last batch of immigrants, so this batch will have to be less; King Deng took less of the last batch of immigrants, so this batch will have to be more. So much for!
Although it may seem like an unnecessary procedure to transport immigrants directly to the kings' domains, it has done a good job of preserving Tokyo and Hanjin, the core of Han North America, and the authority of the imperial court, and the possible disputes between the kings.
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"Boom, boom, boom......!"
"Crackling, crackling......"
"Knock knock, knock knock, knock knock......"
A gun salute rang out.
When the first transport ship loaded with hundreds of migrants slowly docked on the edge of the dock, the firecrackers and gongs and drums that had been prepared for a long time rang out. Dragons and lion dancers also began to perform, and several big red banners with the words 'Welcome, Welcome, Warm Welcome' were hung early.
The current scale of the Port of Tokyo is definitely not smaller than that of the Port of Tianjin, which already has a natural and excellent deep-water harbor, and it would be a terrible thing if it was built only for fishing boats to enter and exit.
Of course, the scale of the Tokyo terminal can reach the scale of the port of Tianjin, which is also due to the continuous construction of the local area over the years. Some time ago, two new cement trestle bridges were built far into the sea for large ships to dock. Just like now, a galleon with five or six hundred people can be directly approached to the edge of the trestle, instead of relying on a small boat to transport it.
As the gangplank was erected, a group of migrants carrying burdens and boxes made of rattan and bamboo strips swayed off the boat under the guidance of the crew, and for the first time in their lives, they set foot on the land thousands of miles away from their hometown.
Facing the long and narrow bridge that went deep into the sea, their faces were mostly dazed and a little cautious—although they had been making sea ships for a while before, but to pass through the long trestle bridge, of course, these land people would have a little fear.
Of course, at this point, the crew had already instructed the immigrants on board before the fleet arrived in Tokyo.
Immigrants who move to North America not only have a period of 'intensive study' before they get on the ship. When they arrived on the ship, the crew would organize them to study, mainly to comfort them, and then to introduce some North American laws and various kinds of impermissibles. Initial ideological education for them can also be said to be patriotic indoctrination or brainwashing.
For example, no matter how far away you are at the ends of the earth, you are always of Chinese Miao descent and the emperor's people.
Of course, in addition, they will continue to introduce them to the geography, climate, and products of North America, as well as some small knowledge of living here, so that they can adapt quickly.
The most talked about is how warm and pleasant the local climate is, with abundant rainfall, and how similar it is to the mainland. In addition to being on the lookout for tsunamis, but that's only for coastal dwellers. And if it is assigned to the territory of King Deng and King Xue, this needs to worry about the tornado every year.
There are not many tornadoes in China, but there are many in North America, where thunderstorms are common in the summer. Tornadoes are often accompanied by thunderstorms.
Although the impact of such natural disasters is small, it is extremely destructive. As for how to withstand tornadoes, it seems that the cellar is a good choice, in addition to the variety of trees in front of the house and behind the house.
In the Americas, it is not uncommon to see tornadoes, where large trees are broken or uprooted, but they are not far away. So, this tree probably has a certain role in blocking the wind. Last year, a large tree in front of the Mississippi expedition team on the north of the expedition team was uprooted by a tornado with a diameter of more than 1 meter thick and more than 10 meters high, and two other large trees nearby were also broken. It can be seen that planting more trees in front of and behind the house can also resist tornadoes.
North America is not a paradise either, and you don't have to worry about eating and drinking when you get here. If you want to live a good life, you need to work hard.
But looking out over the land from the side of the ship, the settlers saw the inland areas of the patches of farmland and forests, as pure green as emeralds, which was refreshing to look at.
Such a flat land, a land that can grow such a lush jungle, is of course too good to be a good land. And the common people of China, as long as they have a piece of land in their hands, they are not afraid of anything.
It's just that they can't leave the dock at the moment - Lord Luo, the leader of the fleet, still has to give a lecture.
Lord Luo is Luo Fangbai. At this time and space, it is impossible for Luo Fangbai to set up his own Lanfang company in Borneo, he served Chen Han early when the Fu Han army went south to Liangguang, and first served in the Jiaying official mansion, although the rank is not high, but the family is already different.
In the early years, Luo Fangbai's family was poor, working hard with his tongue, and living hard. However, after joining the Han Army, he made a fortune in just three or two months and gained momentum. In addition to his own service in the prefect's yamen, his two younger brothers, Luo Kuibai and Luo Taibai, one set up an oil mill, and Jiaying's oil tea is very famous; The other started a restaurant business that made money faster. In a short period of time, the Luo family's family life has been turned upside down.
And he was not satisfied, he signed up to go south, and completed a major transformation from a middle- and lower-level public servant to a seven-rank official in West Borneo, and when Li Kun was martyred, he was already from the fifth grade.
Li Kun suffered, and Luo Fangbai was the envoy of the Chinese delegation that negotiated with the Indonesian monkeys at that time. Relying on this good fate, Luo Fangbai was transferred back to Guangdong from West Borneo, and his rank was not lowered but promoted, and he entered the Zhengwupin, entered the threshold of middle-level officials, and then transferred to the immigration bureau.
Today's official position is the deputy director of the immigration bureau from Sanpin.
After all the immigrants in the fleet had disembarked, under the instructions of the personnel on the shore, the five thousand immigrants barely stood in a chaotic phalanx in the open space of the wharf, Luo Fangbai couldn't wait to climb the podium that had been prepared, holding a copper trumpet, and began the propaganda that he had already prepared:
"If you are all destitute in the whole country, you will be happy and happy in the coming days when you ascend this fertile land."
"However, you are waiting for the day of good health, and you must not forget, you can have today, all the saints have mercy, and all the kindness of the court......"
"Although you are thousands of miles away from home, you are also my Chinese child, a descendant of the Han family and ......."
This is the old tradition of the immigration office, and it is also the tradition of immigrants, and the first thing to do when they come to a new place is to listen to the lecture of the team leader. To show their sincerity and loyalty.
Although Luo Fangbai, including every immigration bureau official, knows in their hearts that the one in Nanmingzhou is okay, at present, in North America, they are now grateful to Emperor Lao Tzu again, and when thirty or fifty years pass, when it comes to the next generation, their allegiance is not to His Majesty the Emperor who is thousands of miles away, but to these vassal kings who are now harmonious in front of them.
In his opinion, the move of immigration, of course, can quickly increase the strength of the Han region in the Americas in the short term, and increase the strength and prestige of Chen Han as a whole, but it is difficult to say whether the overseas vassal states will still be willing to submit to Nanjing at that time - although Luo Fangbai has 10,000 confidence in Nanjing, and now Nanjing has an absolute advantage in force and can easily crush these vassal states, but what about thirty or fifty years later?
Even if the empire is still in the world of Wia, it is unstoppable. But if you really send troops to deal with these vassal states, it is not just a matter of being able to defeat them, but a matter of the calculation being broken and the loss of people.
In Luo Fangbai, who has not yet become the number one leader of the ministry and bureau, although he is also a big member, he is one level behind, and he doesn't know Chen Han's overall plan for overseas feudalism, and he only thinks that the six feudal states are all.
Also because of his inner considerations and worries, Luo Fangbai is the standard 'Eastern Han Dynasty must faction'.
'Eastern Han Dynasty', Tokyo, Hanjin.
Luo Fangbai believes that if Nanjing wants to maintain great influence in the Americas, thousands of miles away, it must maintain control of the two big cities of Tokyo and Hanjin, and maintain the 'vitality' of the two fertile lands.
As long as Nanjing can finish its work and follow the 'Eastern Han Dynasty', the situation in the Americas will not be able to get rid of the shackles.
The land between Tokyo and Hanjin is much larger than the fiefdom of a feudal king, and this is the territory of two feudal kings, and if it is well managed, it will be able to suppress the situation in the Americas by relying on these two cities.
It's just that Luo Fangbai is neither able nor qualified to stop Nanjing's continuous blood transfusion to the Americas, he can only feel that the emperor is interesting enough to his little brother. In the future, everyone can establish a country overseas, call themselves lonely, and lay a foundation of hundreds of years of bloodline.
Therefore, every time Luo Fangbai accompanied the team, he had to give a long-term speech that touched the world at the first time when the immigrants landed.
You must know that before this, this kind of speech has slowly become a formality. And Luo Fangbai has rejuvenated this thing that is about to have no sense of existence.
Although he made many people in the Americas secretly unhappy in their hearts, Luo Fangbai said that it was a 'big climate', and no matter how unhappy he was, he couldn't leak out the slightest, and even applauded on the side.
These refugees had been uprooted because of poverty and hardship, and they had a good life in the Americas. So where this heart is going, it is obvious. Luo Fangbai's empty words here ask them to remain loyal to Nanjing, which is a completely thankless move.
However, no matter what they really thought in their hearts, they still listened to Luo Fangbai's teachings with a 'serious study' attitude on the surface. After that, there was the management official here in Tokyo, this man spoke cleanly, and after taking the copper horn, he didn't say a word of nonsense, so he yelled ten words:
"Disband, arrange in line, eat!"
This sentence immediately lifted the sluggish spirits of the immigrants. Similar to the strategy of dealing with prisoners of war, the immigrants were disciplined, grouped into groups, and used food as a temptation and a sense of oppression, so that it was easier for the Tokyo administrators to put things in order. They divided the immigrants into family units, a group of 10 households, and a team of 100 households, and one team would form the prototype of an administrative village in the future.
Whoever lined up first could eat first, and the immigrants quickly formed a relatively neat line, and took out the lunch box they had brought with them, which was the lunch box they used on the ship, a wooden box, a pair of chopsticks and a spoon, and a bowl made of coconut shells—and these people had already developed the habit of queuing for meals before and after boarding.
Under the deterrence of food, these people learn the rules, always quickly.
The first meal the immigrants ate on the island was fish porridge, a porridge made of white rice, red beans, wheat kernels, and corn kernels, mixed with some dried fish and shrimp skin for seasoning. The number is limited, and one person only gets a big spoonful - not because the Tokyo government is stingy and does not give them enough food, but because these people are likely to be unaccustomed to the soil and water when they first arrive, and it is easy to have diarrhea if they eat too much, and it will be very troublesome to have dysentery in dense crowds.
However, the children can get an extra hard-boiled egg.
Looking at the groups of men, women, and children squatting on the ground, snoring and gulping porridge, the faces of a group of feudal officials were full of smiles—a few thousand people here could form ten administrative villages, or lay the foundation for twenty or thirty new villages. According to the land allocated to each household, it will not be long before tens of thousands of acres of fertile land can be added to the books. They never lacked fertile ground here, but there was no one to tending to it.
The land is vast and sparsely populated, and the Americas are truly vast and sparsely populated.
No matter which vassal country it is, that large area of flat and fertile land is simply a godsend.
The Spaniards did not dare to cross the border by land, and they still had an excuse to prevaricate at sea, and they could not push it off on land.
That bandit is at least you Spaniards, right? It's your people, why don't you care?
Still?
Dare to say that it doesn't matter. The Wehrmacht will dare to 'manage' for them.
At a time when Europe is in turmoil, many things in China are going on in an orderly manner.
Whether it is domestic economic activities, political and livelihood projects, or foreign immigration work, all of them are running at a high speed. China is like a train that has been embedded in the tracks, moving in a straight direction, towards the ultimate goal.
But at this time in Europe, in the midst of shouting and killing, the royalists in Toulon finally chose to betray the country in order to protect their own interests and prevent the revolutionary army from entering Toulon. The fortress of Toulon and the French Mediterranean fleet, with more than 30 ships, were handed over to the British and Spaniards, so that the British and Spanish armies easily captured Toulon without firing a single shot.
The port of Toulon is not big, but it is important. It is located in the south of France, on the Mediterranean coast, and is an important port in the south of France and is a good naval base. It was a remarkable place for both France and the European powers. After the British and Spaniards set foot in the port, the troops of Naples, Piedmont and Gibraltar also set foot in the port.
At the same time, the arrogance in the south of France was very loud, and the rebellion that attempted to overthrow the Jacobin revolutionary regime soon reached its climax.
This incident caused a strong reaction in Paris. So, a certain son of destiny, who was forced to leave his hometown, came here by marriage and came to Toulon.
From the beginning of last year to now, the period of more than a year has been an extraordinary one for Napoleon.
Although the young Napoleon already had relatively mature political views, he also mastered a considerable wealth of military knowledge and accumulated a certain amount of combat experience. However, before participating in the Battle of Toulon, he did not really get the opportunity to display his talents. Although he was listed in the regular artillery unit of the French Revolutionary Army, he had been taking leave to leave his hometown of Corsica to lead a national guard battalion, wanting to do a grand career for the independence and freedom of his hometown.
However, the revolution is not so easy. Corsica is also a place where various forces compete with each other for right and wrong, and the struggle between the various forces is fierce. Napoleon hoped to take advantage of the opportunity to push for Corsica's independence, but was strongly opposed by another Anglophile. Due to political differences and the defeat of the military campaign, he was unable to settle down on the island of Corsica and was forced to leave his homeland with his family and flee with his mother and brother to Kharve, where he hid in a friend's house.
On June 13, 1794, Napoleon set foot on the coast of Provence and arrived in Toulon. It was an important turning point in his life.
Chen Ming didn't know that the child of destiny he had always expected to see was really in place now.