The whistle of the steamboat resounded across the river, and the busy traffic made the Huangpu River more and more congested. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Compared to many years ago, the prosperity of Shanghai Port is simply unbelievable. The city, which had only been under construction since 1780, became the largest city in the Far East in just eight years.

Time flies, and even Bai Nan, who came here with his wife and daughter, still feels the magical power of the Tang people when he looks at the city again. Today, the city, which was originally a few villages, has a population of one million and is the largest trading port in the Far East. Here to undertake a variety of commodities from the Tang Dynasty, the arrival of Tang goods in Hong Kong through distributors around the country in the Qing Dynasty. The Tang people opened a large number of factories here, and there was also a group of working class here in the real sense, and the developed industry and commerce made many outsiders come to Shanghai in search of opportunities. The financial industry here is developed, and a number of Datang commercial banks have set up outlets here, not only Tang enterprises and private individuals deposit and borrow here, but even many Qing merchants also enjoy such convenience.

Baoshan Port in Wusongkou is not only a commercial port in Shanghai, but also a military port.

Forty-two-year-old Bai Nan is wearing a navy white uniform today, and he is quite handsome. There were already slight wrinkles on his face, and some traces of age were clearly visible, but these seemed to have given him a deeper accumulation, making him look more flavorful. The so-called handsome old guy is basically described as a person like him.

During his eight years in Shanghai, Bai Nan only returned to Los Angeles three times in the middle, and of course, the local changes were also huge, which made Bai Nan feel that he was beginning to become unfamiliar with Jiazhou and other places. Fortunately, he also has sources of information such as newspapers. I am also familiar with the situation in China.

From 1781, when Bainan planned to lay out Southeast Asia, to the present day in 1788. Datang has undergone many changes. These changes are undoubtedly positive. In 1784, after years of construction, the South Pacific Railway was finally completed and opened to traffic. Since then, the east and west coasts of North America have been thoroughly communicated, and the development of the three southeastern states has begun, and a large number of immigrants have poured into Pengzhou, Florida and other places. As of January 1, 1788, the census conducted by the Tang Dynasty showed that the total population of Jiazhou, Gangzhou, British Columbia, Luanzhou, Yuanzhou, Pengzhou, Florida and Yuzhou on the North American continent had reached 10.12 million.

Even many of the people who built the country single-handedly felt incredible when they saw this number, when the 130,000 people started from scratch in California, they couldn't imagine more than ten years later. They have built a country with a population of more than 10 million. The largest proportion of these people are immigrants who have migrated from the Qing State in recent years, and due to the indirect control of the Qing State and the smooth immigration work, the Tang Dynasty was able to bring about a million new immigrants from the Qing State every year. The intensity of this migration has declined and fluctuated somewhat since 1779, but the general trend is relatively stable. On the one hand, the infiltration of the Tang Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty has created the impression that many Qing people are full of gold in the Tang Dynasty, and they will not starve after they go, and they have fields and houses. Therefore, even after the millions of displaced people in the Sichuan-Chu region were basically evacuated by the Tang people in 1783, there were still quite a few people from all over the country who embarked on the journey with their families.

After all, the Tang Dynasty has set up immigration offices in almost any state capital in the Qing Dynasty, and the local government of the Qing State is also very enthusiastic, because the gradual resettlement of displaced people has become one of the achievements of the local government. Moreover, both the imperial court and the government of the Tang Dynasty China Special Administrative Region have funds, and if they do their errands well, they can get more money. This is convenient for people who wish to emigrate. All they need to do is register their names, and someone will pay them a settling-in allowance and tell them when they will come to pick them up. This is completely different from the fact that immigrants from European countries pay for the fare and various expenses themselves. Although Datang has also borne a considerable burden of expenditure, the larger population has provided more benefits to Datang's development.

In the coastal provinces of the Qing Dynasty, the willingness to emigrate was relatively high, and in the south, such as Fujian and Guangdong, there were even whole village migrants, and even half of the county was empty. This also attracted the attention of the Qing government, and in some areas where the outflow of population was severe, the Qing court had to relocate people from the interior to fill the area. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and other provinces have also had a large number of people moving out, and the areas where the population pressure has already appeared have a relatively strong desire to immigrate. In addition, due to the rampant commodity economy of the Tang Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty, a large number of small farmers went bankrupt, and after they went bankrupt, the immigration officials of the Tang Dynasty immediately negotiated with ****, saying that your home is gone, and the land is gone, so it can't go on, so it's better to go to North America with me, where there is land and land to start again. This part of the bankrupt peasants did not have much to do, and they also put their fingerprints on the immigration contracts.

On the one hand, the influx of Datang commercial goods forcibly suppressed the grain prices in various parts of the Qing Dynasty, causing peasants' incomes to be difficult, and at the same time, textile handicraftsmen in the south of the Yangtze River were even more difficult to compete with the cheap and naïve textiles from Datang, and they also went bankrupt one after another. Originally, in any historical period, such people had the potential danger of rising up, but most people would not fight with their lives if they could have a bite to eat and a way to live, so when they learned that the immigrants had something to eat, they also pushed the boat away. As a result, the degree of stability within the Qing state has actually increased.

There was a drought in the northwest and there was a famine. As a result, the imperial court purchased a large amount of grain from the Tang people at a low price, and strictly supervised and helped the local people, and an uprising that might have broken out was eliminated invisibly.

Originally, under the agrarian feudal civilization, special attention was paid to the loss of population, and the emperor had always allowed farmers to move at will, fearing that the loss of population would weaken the national strength. But Jiaqing, the monarch, after being corrected by the Tang people, is not the same as other monarchs. His energy seems to be more focused on scheming, and one of Jiaqing's big hobbies is to rectify corrupt officials in the DPRK and China, so in the past few years, the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has continued to expand, and it has been on par with the limelight of Jinyiwei back then. However, Jiaqing is not worried, because with the new policy of Jiaqing, the administrative structure of the imperial court and local government has been optimized, and a lot of money has finally been spent where it should be spent. Moreover, the expansion of commercial taxes and so on has made Jiaqing not pay much attention to talent. The economic situation of the imperial court is basically good, and even Jiaqing has experienced the taste of not knowing how to spend money. Jiaqing has no love for things like building gardens, let alone giving money to officials, and he has no interest in investing in industry, and in the end most of the funds are thrown by him on army construction. (To be continued.) )