Turning his gaze back to the country of the Tang Republic, when General Liu Fangwu was opening up territory for the Tang Dynasty, Bai Nan was super satisfied to switch roles between a core-level official and an invincible father. www.biquge.info There are very few places where he actually needs to do things, after all, there are two women in the family, and after having a baby, Xu Xin obviously ranks the importance of the baby in front of Bai Nan, and Meola, who is nominally helping in the Bai family, also seems to be very fond of children, and often discusses the parenting scriptures with Xu Xin, who is obviously a competitor, but puts Bai Nan aside.

Bai Nan is also quite helpless about this situation, but it is not unacceptable, when women are immersed in their own world, he often finds something to do, such as work or something.

By the way, the name of Bai Nan's daughter is called Bai Xin, a simple name, which is homophonic with Xin, symbolizing a new world and new hope.

In 1777, the traversers had been living in this land for three years, and sometimes they looked at a city that had begun to flourish, and it seemed that their memories of the past were blurred, as if they had been born and raised here and grew old.

Since Hu Fakui took control of West Borneo last year and formally established the overseas territory of Tang Borneo, there have been Chinese in West Borneo who have been sent to the Tang Dynasty by Hu Fakui semi-forced, and the reason why they are said to be semi-forced is because everyone received an immigration subsidy of 30 silver dollars, as well as the title deed of 10 acres of land, plus a "migration package" of various clothes and living sundries.

I have to say that the Tang Republic is, after all, a country established by later generations, and no one can match the degree of humanity in this era, and there is nothing to say about the economic mind. When new immigrants arrive in Jiazhou, they will inevitably lack all sorts of things. From bedding to cutlery. From clothes, pants, shoes and socks to small things like combs, toothbrushes, nail clippers, etc. For the convenience of newcomers. The Immigration Bureau of the Datang Civil Affairs Bureau specially used the budget to purchase a large number of similar materials from various domestic production enterprises and packed them into a huge package, that is, the immigration bags that the migrants received when they boarded the ship. On the one hand, this greatly facilitated the lives of immigrants, and on the other hand, it also brought huge purchases, which drove the production and profitability of domestic enterprises. Due to the large amount of financial revenue of the Datang government, the annual budget is in the process of being prepared. There will be big spending measures.

This is the problem of differences in economic concepts, many European countries will think that holding gold and silver in their hands is wealth, but the economic officials and bigwigs of the Tang Dynasty know that money can only generate value when it is spent. Datang's economy is also constantly expanding in the process of procurement, production, profits and taxes, reinvestment and reproduction. As a direct result, the living standards of the Tang people are steadily improving, various infrastructure facilities are constantly emerging, and social development has made remarkable progress, while the money in the Tang treasury is rising and turning.

The troika that pulls the gross national product is something that every Tang official, and even an educated Tang person in general, is familiar with: consumption, investment, and trade. Needless to say, trade is a testament to it. The Tang Dynasty maintained a huge trade surplus in trade with the Manchus and New Spain. And it has increased year by year, and has obtained amazing wealth. In terms of consumption, although the Chinese tradition of thrift and thrift somewhat curbs personal consumption, the consumption concept of most modern people is still very modern, and their consumption is quickly seen by the Republic of China, the Ming Dynasty and new immigrants, and it is not so ugly to be imitated. What's more, there are major units, state-owned enterprises and some private enterprises, which make a large number of purchases, or use them for their own use, or distribute them to employees as benefits, which should not be underestimated.

In terms of investment, the Datang State Council is even more impressive, to put it simply, the large-scale project construction carried out in Datang in one year can be compared to the amount of work carried out in some European countries in a century. This is definitely not a joke, although Datang has a small population, but the level of engineering planning and even mechanized application, manpower mobilization, etc., Datang Republic has completely defeated its competitors of the same era, so it is not difficult to imagine that this situation has happened.

Taking the large-scale engineering construction projects approved by the Tang State Council in the fiscal year of 1777-1778 as an example, the "construction of coastal railway lines", "the construction of three major ports", "the Jiazhou water diversion project", "the devil valley hydropower station" and "the construction of three hundred primary and secondary schools" are more eye-catching.

It is hard to imagine that with the current population of Datang, it is capable of maintaining five large-scale construction projects of this scale at the same time. Among them, the construction of the three major ports refers to the development of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, San Francisco and Vancouver. Of the three ports, with the exception of the Port of Vancouver, which has only one simple terminal, the Port of Long Beach and the Port of San Francisco actually have a considerable foundation and are now expanding the terminal to have more throughput. On the one hand, increasing the number of berths is more important than enhancing freight capacity, such as setting up more loading and unloading machinery, building more warehouses, etc.

This is also in line with the continuous surge of Datang trade, although a large number of crossing ships have been berthed in the port of Long Beach, but it does not mean that the port of Long Beach has the ability to accept the operation of so many ships at the same time, and now due to the absorption of foreign crews and the training of domestic crews, more than 100 medium and large civil ships have begun to operate, and there is a natural need for bigger and better ports.

If the construction of the three major ports is still a bit foundational, then the construction of the coastal railway line is really starting from scratch. The southern section starts from Weihai County at the southern end of Jiazhou, passes north through Luodu, and then north into the Central Valley, connecting the southern city of Toyohara, passing through several important farm towns such as Farm Nakayu Harvey, passing west through the Coast Hill Valley to San Francisco, and connecting to the second largest farm in the Central Valley to the north, Shungeng Town (Sacramento), to the northernmost Chico Farm.

The northern leg starts in the Russian town of Eugene, heads north through the city of Rose Garden (Portland), and heads north through a relatively flat valley to the final point of Vancouver, passing Seattle, British Columbia.

In fact, in the original plan, the north and south sections of the coastal railway line are one, but due to the undulating mountains between Jiazhou and Ohio, the project is extremely difficult, to build this section, the investment may be much more than the sum of the north and south sections, and at this time Datang does not have much demand for this section of the railway, and the scale of the towns along the railway is still relatively small, basically a large farm with hundreds of people, so the middle line is suspended.

But even so, the amount of work required for the coast rail line is extraordinarily large. It has to be said that the reason why the construction of the coastal railway line started so early is due to the strong support of the Minister of Industry Liang Zhenhai, as well as the voice of the people from China Railway in the modern public. Datang also uses this railway as a new verification, because if it is really connected to the three southeastern states in the future, a railway line across the North American continent is indispensable.

The Jiazhou water diversion project is also not a small amount of plan, Jiazhou is actually a relatively scarce place, especially in the southern region, water sources are relatively scarce, this project plans to open up reservoirs and canals from the central valley river network with rich water resources, and transfer water sources to Los Angeles, the capital of relative water shortage; In addition, from the Colorado River, canals were opened into the Mexicali Valley, where the humus layer was thick, and large agricultural areas were established using river water for irrigation. On the other hand, it is precisely because of this canal that a green farmland has appeared between the two deserts, producing a large amount of agricultural products. The valley was divided between the United States and Mexico, but according to the border agreement between the Tang and the Spaniards, large tracts of fertile land in the lower Colorado River belonged to the Tang Republic.

Located on the edge of the Nevada Mountains east of Los Angeles, the Devil's Valley Hydropower Station is not too large in the world to have the largest installed capacity in the world, but if completed, it will be enough to meet the power needs of the Nanjia region, which lacks coal and has not yet achieved natural gas power generation. At this time, there are no complicated electrical appliances in the homes of ordinary residents, and low-power electrical appliances such as electric lights, radios, telephones, and fans are more common, but factories are large electricity consumers, but compared to the electricity consumption of ordinary cities in the 21st century, it is not worth mentioning.

The last project, the construction of 300 primary and secondary schools, as the name suggests, is to build 300 primary and secondary schools on the territory of Datang. Since the population structure of the Tang Dynasty is not even spindle-shaped, young and middle-aged people account for the absolute proportion of the population, and there are very few children and the elderly. However, with the surge in immigration, the baby boom can be expected, and the number of illiterate people is now huge, and many new immigrants have to receive literacy education, so the construction of primary and secondary schools is very important.

These five large-scale projects, known as the "Five Great Constructions", were all funded in 1777 and expected to be completed within a few years. With the ability to burn money for these five major constructions, coupled with the continuous devouring of funds by the two war plans of the Snake Plan and the Cuckoo Plan, Datang Finance suddenly felt that he was not so rich. Although the investment in the five major constructions is huge, the output brought by the future is also immeasurable, so the State Council will also start under pressure.

In order to complete the five major constructions, the new immigrants who arrive every month are basically pulled to various construction sites after simple training, and the conditions can be said to be relatively difficult. Fortunately, their salaries are not bad, and they all have stable holidays, and the Chinese are hard-working, so there are no mutinies or anything like that. In this way, these new immigrants quickly became the secondary sector population that the authorities wanted them to be. The construction of railways and water conservancy is not only a construction job, but also various basic industries such as iron and steel, metallurgy, and machinery require a lot of manpower, and many of the new immigrants have been assigned to it. They start from the most basic type of work, and many people are willing to do it because in the eyes of traditional Chinese people, this is also learning a craft.

A considerable number of Indians were also absorbed into the five major constructions, which accelerated the process of their naturalization. (To be continued.) )