Large ships anchored into Luofu Port, one of the best deep-water ports in the Western Hemisphere, is an important node in Datang's planning in the eastern United States. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The number of immigrants in Datang alone exceeded the local immigrants from England and became the main immigrant population in the local area.

Compared to the blessed New York, Norfolk seems to be a little worse. However, the Tang people did not see it that way, and regarded Louvre (Norfolk) as a world-class city of the future. Analogous to Norfolk, in fact, it can be found that there are still many similarities between this place and the Yangtze River Delta in China. All of them lack rich mineral resources, but they all have good river transportation and sea transport conditions. Norfolk is inferior to Shanghai because it does not have a huge economic hinterland like Shanghai. Shanghai's economic hinterland is the thousand-year-old Jiangnan River, which is economically and culturally developed, while Norfolk is a city of immigrants, and until the beginning of the 21st century, the population was just over 1 million.

However, in the hands of Datang, Norfolk still has a lot to do.

The flat and fertile state of East Virginia is a good place to develop agriculture, and there is no need for intensive farming like in China, and under the limited population, large farms and large mechanized agriculture can be used, which can also bring a large amount of agricultural output. Grain can be grown here, soybeans can be grown, and cotton is the most advantageous cash crop. Virginia has always been an important cotton-producing region in the eastern United States, and the cotton produced was mainly exported to Datang and the United Kingdom. Now Datang hopes to develop local industries and can move a number of textile enterprises to East Virginia.

Compared with Datang's steel, machinery, shipbuilding, aviation, military and other obvious advantageous industries, the textile industry seems to be not so eye-catching, but in fact, Datang's textile industry is very competitive, not only to meet the local market, but also a large number of exports. With the economic development of Datang itself and the increase of population, the demand for the textile industry will only continue to grow, and the category and quality of demand will also rise, so the Datang textile industry is constantly expanding and developing. Considering the problem of market docking, the textile industry in East Virginia can face the European market and compete with the textiles of European companies.

In addition to the textile industry, other light industries are also the focus of the development of the East Virginia Industrial Area. When Datang planned its industrial location, it set up three major industrial zones on the East Coast, with New York and New Jersey Industrial Zones dominated by heavy industry, East Virginia dominated by light industry, and Gulf of Mexico Industrial Zone dominated by petrochemicals.

East Virginia relies on light industry for development, as well as the advantage of local agricultural capacity. Unlike Shanghai's economic hinterland, where much of the arable land is prioritized to meet the food needs of the huge Chinese population, large tracts of arable land in Eastern Virginia can be used more to grow a variety of crops.

Grain production can then be processed into flour and wine, and Datang's grain and wine are now also important trade goods exported to Europe. Peanuts, soybeans and other crops can be used to build an oil industry. After the deep processing of various crops, the fine packaging is branded, and it has become a variety of snacks and non-staple foods in Datang supermarket. After tobacco processing, it is the cigarette industry.

In addition to light industry, where crops are used as raw materials, the production of small commodities is also a large part of light industry. Datang's economic department plans to establish a series of enterprises in the industrial zone to produce a variety of products including bicycles, watches, home appliances, sports and sports tools, and daily necessities.

The main constraints on the development of the East Virginia Industrial Belt are not geographic location, capital location, and transportation location, but labor location. The original population of Eastern Virginia was more than a million black slaves, which was naturally an important source of labor. However, Datang's ambitious industrial belt development plan requires millions of laborers. Datang has begun selling large agricultural machinery to planters in Eastern Virginia and other southern autonomous states in the eastern United States. Plantation owners knew that tractors and harvesters were less labor-intensive and more efficient than slaves. After the black slaves were liberated, they could engage in some industrial production, and these black slaves were likely to be the last source of blacks on the North American continent, and it was impossible for the Tang Dynasty to immigrate blacks from Africa. And Datang even planned that after these black slaves were trained in North America, they would be tempted to send them to Datang's overseas consulate in South Africa to assist in local industrialization.

In order to address the labor shortage, Datang shifted the focus of North American immigration from the western and central regions to the eastern region. Datang mobilized capacity and coordinated supplies to ensure that it could deliver one million people each year to the New Jersey Industrial Belt and the East Virginia Industrial Belt. That is to say, Datang has a huge shipping capacity and is able to do all this at any cost. Even on another dimension, transporting two million people a year to 10,000 kilometres away is a major challenge, a task that is impossible for most countries. All this can only be achieved if the central government is strong, the people are highly obedient, the capital is sufficient, and the national strength is strong.

Sometimes, even people like President Bai Nan, who have seen the great power of industry and the times in later generations, are amazed by Datang's achievements. The Chinese of this era exploded with amazing power after integrating into the Tang style. The excellent qualities of the Chinese nation are also unmistakable, they are hard-working, hardworking and intelligent. Many people travel from the port with their families to the New World. In the process, they began to learn the written word and other basics, did some skills training in the New World, and then entered the factory to become industrial workers. It is the thousands of such immigrants that have allowed Datang to complete a miraculous rise and dominate the world in just a few decades.

At this time, Datang was more comfortable with the use of immigrants, most of the old immigrants had more labor skills and could lead the new immigrants to production, and some industries on the West Coast could supplement some new immigrants to continue production after sending these high-skilled old immigrants. The way the old brings the new is more mature and reliable.

In addition to New Jersey and Eastern Virginia, the Great Lakes Industrial Belt will gradually begin to be built, and Datang will be able to integrate Ontario with Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and other places to build a larger industrial belt. However, compared with the coastal industrial belt, the development of the Great Lakes industrial belt is relatively slow, and after the coastal advantage is established, it is easier to radiate to the Great Lakes region.

It is estimated that in only five years, the eastern part of the United States will glow with a completely different prosperity under the construction of Datang. The Chinese will easily occupy the majority of society, and the proportion of European immigrants will only become smaller and smaller over time. (To be continued.) )