The road construction activities of the Tang Iron Company in the Spanish colonies were basically not controlled by the Spaniards. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The Spaniards themselves had little control over the mountainous region, and there were not even any decent colonies, and the railroad was not discovered by Spanish missionaries until the end of the year when it was built in Tucson. The missionaries did not seem to be aware of the invasion of Spain's sacred territory, but were joyfully preparing to convert the road builders to God. However, not to mention their language barrier, they tried repeatedly, but they were rejected by Tang Tie's employees, and in the end they really hated their interference, and the militia who protected the road set off their guns, which scared away this group of priests who did not know the height of the sky.

The Tang Dynasty also established a small transit hub in Phoenix, in Arizona, which was actually a semi-permanent colony that provided services to the road builders ahead, and the Spaniards knew nothing about it.

The construction of the Pacific Railway is very difficult, although the situation is better than the construction of the other two Pacific Railways in history, Datang has a better engineering team and construction machinery, but the area through which the railway passes is also rugged, requiring a lot of blasting and excavation, and the lack of water in Arizona and New Mexico is also an extremely serious challenge for road construction workers.

However, the Chinese are indeed one of the hardest working people in the world, and although the construction is difficult, many people can still endure it. The work was exhausting, but all the workers worked at regular intervals, with plenty of food and rest, and they were given regular holidays to take the train back to the relay towns to rest. Tang Tie Company also paid special attention to maintaining the morale of the road construction team. There are middle-level cadres in the company who are specifically responsible for the state of mind of the workers. At the regular life meeting, he led the workers to sing production war songs. Emphasizing the country's demand for this railway, Balabala's. Of course, the most practical thing is that if the project is completed ahead of schedule, calculated according to the number of days in advance, calculated according to the section and the work of the construction team, groups and individuals who have made outstanding contributions can divide the fields in Pengzhou. This is undoubtedly a fatal attraction for road construction workers, who are mostly farmers.

This Pacific Railway was the most important project in the first five-year plan of Datang 1780-1785. Excluding the Luoying Railway, which has been opened to traffic before, the length of the newly built railway is about 2,600 kilometers. The Datang State Council hopes that within five years, the railway can be officially opened to traffic, and when the railway is officially put into operation, Datang will be able to continuously transfer materials from the core west coast to the three southeastern states and develop the three southeastern states.

Before that, the focus of immigrants from Qing will be concentrated in the three states on the west coast, Jiazhou will accept half of the new immigrants, and Gangzhou and British Columbia will each account for half of the new immigrants. Fang Xiaohua, Minister of Civil Affairs, pointed out in the five-year plan that Datang has a capacity dedicated to immigration. Approximately 600,000 tons, after appropriate modifications. Ships specializing in immigration can travel back and forth between the two ends of the ocean in a month, Vancouver via the Great Circle route through the Bering Sea, the shortest route to Tanggu Special Economic Zone, and the longest route from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, but on average can make a round trip in about a month. Of course, in the process of loading and unloading goods and immigration, a high level of organizational skills is required.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs uses the standard of carrying one migrant per five tonnage, and in the most optimistic scenario, it can bring back about 120,000 immigrants from the Qing country in a month. This is naturally unrealistic, first of all, the recruitment operation of the Immigration Bureau in Qingguo also takes time and various preparations, and there will definitely be various losses of time. Therefore, the adjustment value given by the Ministry of Civil Affairs is 70,000 to 90,000 per month. After all, considering that Datang has already driven a wave of immigrants in Guangdong, and the Sichuan and Chu officials, who are more cooperative with Datang's actions, are also coordinating the transfer of a large number of displaced people to Shanghai and send them to Datang itself.

After Bai Nan saw the report of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he couldn't help but be amazed, how bold and prolific people are, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs is really not afraid that he will be exhausted to death by these immigrants. Anyone who knows how to do the math can calculate that the average monthly immigration import volume of 70,000 to 90,000 people is about one million people when converted into adults, so five years is 5 million people. On the one hand, Bai Nan believes that the immigration situation in the Qing Dynasty is still difficult to judge, although it is true that a large number of immigrants can be seen in the early stage, but when the outflow of immigrants reaches a certain value, the growth will definitely become limited, and even there will be a sharp contraction.

"February was a good month, with as many as 60,000 new arrivals in total, and this is just the beginning, and that number will continue to rise as businesses become more skilled and immigrants increase. However, the pressure on our homeland is also very great, in order to ensure that these new immigrants can get basic food, clothing, shelter and transportation, several construction companies have reached in, taken a lot of labor as construction workers, and began to build new towns on a large scale. President Zhao Daling said to Bai Nan with a smile.

Bai Nan is no longer in the National Council, but he will not be long before he returns to East Asia to serve as his governor, Zhao Daling took advantage of the time he was not away to take him to inspect a lot of Tang society and industry, so that he can make more relevant decisions in his office.

Bai Nan also nodded with a smile: "It seems that the population of the greater Los Angeles area is heading for more than one million." ”

Zhao Daling said: "We are going to implement the satellite city plan, try to avoid concentrating in the urban area of Los Angeles, the previous industrial areas were divided in Long Beach, Kangton and other areas, and now we are also planning new residential areas." The new Greater Los Angeles area is no bigger than the Greater Los Angeles area in another dimension, and we have set up a total of 11 communities, enough to accommodate millions of urban residents, and the Los Angeles area will be the core essence of our Datang, the main urbanization area. ”

In fact, in the 21st century, the population of the greater Los Angeles area in the United States has approached 20 million, and now Datang's goal is only to establish the first metropolitan area with a population of one million. However, if Datang really wants to build a megacity with a population of tens of millions, then local urban resources will be in short supply, especially water resources, so Datang will have to urgently start some water diversion projects to transport water from the north and the Colorado River to Los Angeles. However, now relying on some relatively small rivers such as the Los Angeles River, the city's water supply is temporarily safe, and it is obvious that there is no need to rush into large-scale water conservancy projects, because there is no effect at all.

"The two cores of Jiazhou are Los Angeles and San Francisco, we first started heavy industry in Los Angeles, in fact, there is no way, but in fact, the development conditions of heavy industry in Los Angeles are far less than the fjord area of San Francisco, where the transportation is convenient, and there are coal and iron ore resources. Therefore, in the new five-year plan, heavy industry will be clustered in the San Francisco area, including Eagle Mountain Steel, Anhua Chemical, Datang Petroleum and other heavy industry enterprises, will move their headquarters to the San Francisco area. The Los Angeles area will serve as a gathering place for light industry, financial industry, and service industry. ”

Historically, Los Angeles was once a smog city in the sixties and seventies because of industrial pollution, and it took decades to control the blue sky and white clouds. Datang does not want to repeat the mistakes of the Yankees, and the terrain of Los Angeles itself is very prone to smog deposits, so it should not be heavily industrialized.

The local area will have the advantage of a population and labor, which is more suitable for some labor-intensive industries, and a large amount of cotton and linen is imported into Los Angeles by road, rail and sea, making it a natural center of the textile industry, producing large quantities of cotton, linen and ready-to-wear. There is also a world-renowned luxury leather goods processing in the local area, the production of various leather shoes, leather bags, are very competitive industries.

As the capital, there is also this cultural centripetal force. As the population increases, the cultural attributes of the place will obviously increase. More newspapers and magazines will be created here, and new radio and even television stations will appear in Los Angeles. The local publishing industry also has considerable potential to export cultural products to the whole country and even the world in the future. Xie Kun and other literary and artistic youths have already tried to make movies, and it is obvious that in time there will be a Tang version of Hollywood here.

In addition, all Datang Commercial Bank is headquartered in Los Angeles, they carry out a variety of deposit and loan business, providing financing services for many enterprises, although Datang does not plan to completely open the stock market for the time being, but in the future there will obviously be a large stock exchange, and become the financial center of Datang.

The above industries will not bring too much pollution to Los Angeles, and effectively use the local labor force and improve the urban level of Los Angeles, which is more in line with the positioning of the National Council for the capital. The San Francisco area, which is dominated by heavy industry, will become a center of steel, chemicals, petroleum and machinery. As for the Central Valley, it will become the most important agricultural area in Jiazhou. Large tracts of farmland have been reclaimed, now amounting to 10 million acres, and its grain output far exceeds local demand, which will be exported mainly to other colonies in the Americas and the Qing Dynasty in the future.

The other two West Coast states, Gangzhou and British Columbia, both have good conditions, and in the next five-year plan, both states will have a population of more than one million, and their economies will still be dominated by industry and supplemented by agriculture, expanding Datang's comprehensive national strength, and not bringing more products to Datang to the world.

Zhao Daling's words were full of confidence: "The future development of the three states on the west coast will determine the direction of our entire country, when the three states have a population of nearly six million and have strong industrial strength, we can only achieve the real dumping of Datang goods." (To be continued.) )