The huge orders brought by the UK further boosted the production of Datang's internal industry. The Tang Dynasty www.biquge.info is now in a state of full production, and the statistics of the State Council have found that the domestic demand for industrial products at this time is even greater than during the war. Nearly 100,000 or more than 100,000 immigrants come to the West Coast every month, and their resettlement is a huge problem. This has also given birth to the boom of Datang's domestic building materials industry, with a large amount of cement and steel bars being transported to the construction site, and brick kilns are constantly expanding.

Fortunately, the funds in the hands of the Datang government are extremely sufficient, and they can be quickly converted into investments. In addition, the new immigrants brought with them a large new labor force, and although most of them had limited education and could not do any difficult work, they were still capable of simple and repetitive tasks. A considerable number of people became miners in the industrial and mining industries, as well as a large number of construction workers, all of whom had just arrived in Datang on the front foot, and began to build houses for the later immigrants under the command of the engineers. Some machine shops can't ramp up their workforce as quickly as construction and mining companies, and they often need to train their employees for months or even years to become qualified workers. Their workforce growth, and the expansion of the industry as a whole, is a trickle-down.

Cities have popped up in Jiazhou, Gangzhou and British Columbia, and it's often surprising that a month ago it was deserted, and a month later a town with thousands of inhabitants has emerged.

When the factory's labor force is guaranteed, the output of the product also increases significantly. Meeting domestic demand is one aspect, but due to the relatively large volume, it still needs to rely on the international market to digest. Obviously, the British purchase this time is to send pillows for sleepiness. And it's not just the UK, either. Many European countries are now recognising the significant advantages that new technologies bring. From Spain to Italy, people have approached Datang's industrial and commercial offices in France, hoping to purchase Datang's machines. There were even some people who brought their problems there and asked if the Tang people had solved them and whether they could buy a solution.

Including what is more efficient loom, more efficient ore grinder, and even a flush toilet.

Colonization is quite an expensive affair. Unlike other countries, Datang pays for immigrants and provides jobs and housing for immigrants. It is very different from the kind of immigrants in Europe who borrowed money to colonize the sea because they couldn't get along, or were persecuted to the sea because of religious conflicts. However, it is precisely because of Datang's immigration model that Datang can complete the 100-year immigration scale of other European countries within a few years. At the same time, they have systematically settled immigrants in the economic chain, which has further strengthened the national economy.

The colonization of the Tang Dynasty was not only concentrated in the three states on the west coast of North America, and there was really too much land at this time that people coveted. The three overseas consulates of Southeast Asia were a place to go, and the Tang Dynasty was at the end of 1780. New colonies were finally opened in the southern hemisphere.

A ship of more than 5,000 tons, slowly approaching land. This is the northwest of the Australian continent, and the other plane is called Darwin Harbor, and the Tang people call this place Dawen, which is also a clever naming method.

There were more than 400 migrants on the ship, which was not a large number, and since they were heading to a completely deserted colony, they carried a large amount of supplies on board to meet the needs of the migrants. More than 100 of the immigrants were adult men, and the leader was a veteran of the Tang Dynasty army named Chang Dongrun. He was a group of immigrants who came to Datang with Zhou Junbao, and later joined the army, and after the expiration of his service, he stopped serving and was discharged from the army and demobilized.

More than a dozen men in this group of immigrants are in the same situation as Chang Dongrun, all of whom are retired soldiers who want to get a new life. They were also an important force used by the Tang Dynasty to organize the new colonies. Veterans are disciplined, obey the commands of their superiors, and are more militarily capable of confronting threats from the outside.

The settlers on the colonial ships also possessed weapons that were used to hunt and deal with the local natives. According to the usual colonization methods of the Tang Dynasty, in the colony of a new colonial area, militias will be organized, and veterans like Chang Dongrun will train adult men to use weapons and arrange some fortifications around the colony that are easy to defend.

Among this group of immigrants, there are relatively few singles, and most of them are families. Even veterans such as Chang Dongrun brought their daughters-in-law, and their daughter-in-law was basically just found. Most of these immigrants came from Sichuan and Chu refugees, and Chang Dongrun found a handsome woman among the single women waiting for immigrants, and at first glance she was ****** able to give birth. Her wife also brought her father and two younger brothers, and now she has become Chang Dongrun's family. Chang Dongrun's father died early, his mother also passed away the year before last, and there is an eldest brother and younger brother in the family. His eldest brother also joined the Tang Army not long ago because of his relationship, and his younger brother has been smart and clever since he was a child, and after being brought to Jiazhou by Chang Dongrun, he went to school. Chang Dongrun's biggest expectation for his younger brother is to be able to be admitted to university after graduating from middle school, and in the Tang Republic, college students are talents who want to be robbed by major enterprises, and they are regarded as the most educated intellectuals. The Chinese tradition of valuing knowledge made Chang Dongrun hope that his family could also become a scholar.

When he first came to Datang, he was also illiterate, but now he can know two or three thousand words, which can be regarded as a cultural person. However, he knew that his culture was nothing, so he did not plan to continue to develop in the army, but wanted to start a family and live a safe and stable life. After the discharge report, the organization approached him and asked him if he was willing to take on the arduous task of opening up a colony on the Australian mainland, and Chang Dongrun agreed without thinking about it. The people in the army never think about the difficulties of the mission, as long as there is a mission, they will be on it. Even if Chang Dongrun has been discharged from the army and demobilized.

"Brother-in-law, I heard that there is gold in this land, can we all pan for gold? Brother-in-law Jiang Sanxi is still a teenager and is very lively.

Chang Dongrun said: "Where is it so easy to pan for gold, if there is some golden sand, it is good to say, if it is in the soil, it is not easy to mine." And gold can't be used as money, you can only spend money. If you want to exchange gold for money, you will have to take a percentage of the mining tax. However, if everyone doesn't farm and raise pigs, they all go to pan for gold, then what do we eat? ”

This is also a regulation set up by the Tang Dynasty in order to meet the needs of colonial development, and the gold mines in some places cannot be mined on a large scale with gold companies for the time being, while some immigrants are lucky enough to get some gold and naturally hope to cash it out. It's just that the Tang Dynasty has clear regulations, even if the Tang Yuan is the currency of the gold standard, the coinage is strictly controlled. So until gold was coined, it was still a commodity, not a currency. Gold can naturally be exchanged for Tang Yuan banknotes, but there is also a gold mining tax to be paid in the process. Of course, for immigrants, it is enough to be able to exchange money.

When the migrant boat arrived in Dawen, Chang Dongrun first led a group of militiamen to get off the boat to check the situation. It doesn't seem like there are any aborigines in this area by the sea. As a result, Chang Dongrun ordered the laborers to start building houses in the selected area. They brought with them a lot of building materials, in addition to wood, some cement and so on. After that, they also need to burn the masonry locally.

It is worth mentioning that the Tang government, which likes to be prepared for everything, officially published a series of books called "Colonial Guide" a few months ago. This all-encompassing book series is divided into four volumes, covering many aspects of how a group of immigrants established a colony in an unfamiliar environment.

From beginning to end, the book tells all the situations that immigrants may encounter. For example, how to choose a safe colony after landing. Including leeward, water sources, hiding from wild beasts, etc., are all explained. It also teaches immigrants how to distinguish between minerals and soils in an easy-to-understand way. Which soils can be used to burn building masonry, and which soils are fertile enough to grow crops. What kind of house should be built in different temperature zones and climates? In addition, how to communicate with the aborigines, how to identify the wild fruits that can be used, the herbs that may be used, the poisons that need to be avoided, how to deal with some basic injuries and illnesses, how to organize military operations in the end, and how to protect yourself if the colony is seized by external forces.

It can be said that this book reflects the extremely high level of wisdom and civilization of the Tang people. Once it was published, it became a must-have guide for any immigrant group. Even some traversers jokingly said that this book is qualified as a guide to crossing the other world. At the same time, because the book series involves a lot of knowledge and has a lot of popular science, it has also become a general reading material for many ordinary readers. Even Bai Nam joked that the book should be classified as a state secret and carefully protected.

Chang Dongrun led the immigrants to work in Dawen for nearly a month, and finally basically built a house that could accommodate hundreds of people. During this time, they also came into contact with the local indigenous people, although there was no conflict. The local climate is tropical, with plenty of heat, and crops can be grown all year round, so the settlers quickly planted a batch of crops.

Their warehouses are stocked with enough food to feed them for a year, and they are able to use the radio to call for help elsewhere in case of problems. Although life was difficult for the first generation of immigrants, they all looked forward to a bright future.

Not only in Darwin, in the northwest of the Australian continent, in 1780 a total of 5,000 immigrants were sent to Oceania, with the aim of preemptively claiming Oceania before the great powers. Sydney in mainland Australia, the north and south islands of New Zealand, and New Caledonia.

Due to the abundance of nickel ore in New Caledonia, the largest of the first colonies in Oceania is actually only 1. 80,000 square kilometers of islands. (To be continued.) )