Hearing that so many people were going to come to North America to pioneer and cultivate, Li Yongji smiled: "It's still very good, there are so many people who want to come to North America, and I didn't expect that our ocean transportation capacity is also quite good, and we can transport so many people at one time."

If we can continue to maintain this level of immigration flow, I am afraid that in less than a year, we will be able to exceed the 3 million mark in California. ”

"If you read the text, you will know that things are not as smooth as you think." Soho shook his head, "In fact, we don't have that many ships that can cross the Pacific Ocean, and it would be nice to have a hundred, most of the ships are converted from some fishing boats, and they don't have the ability to sail in the ocean at all." ”

As soon as he heard this, Li Yongji immediately understood: "You mean to say that many ships that do not have the ability to sail long distances also have to go to the Pacific Ocean because they are profitable?" ”

"Yes." Soho nodded, "Actually, even the number of three hundred boats can be counted, and the real number will definitely exceed this number, and once it is released, there will definitely be a lot of problems." Moreover, even if these people were able to reach the ports of Hollywood and San Francisco safely, the sudden influx of people would create new problems. In short, due to our ability to transport to the sea and the capacity of California to accommodate foreign populations, the Prime Minister wants us to suspend our reclamation loan business. ”

"Stop the reclamation loan business? Why? Li Yongji frowned, "The reclamation loan is for the poor to serve, and if this business is stopped, not many poor people will be able to come." ”

"That's right." Soho said, "But the Prime Minister said it well, not to mention how much financial pressure the low-interest reclamation loan has brought to the bank, just the loan itself, there are too many loopholes to exploit, and the people who can really get this loan may not be the poor."

And. Even if the poor can get a loan and come across the ocean, few of them are willing to farm for five years and then continue to farm as farmers.

In fact, according to Lord Shen's explanation, just because the immigration policy we gave was so good, a large number of consortia had begun to recruit poor people in the country, and signed agreements before they left, asking those people to automatically transfer the land to those who supported them after they got the land.

Other words. Most of the poor do not want to farm for a long time, they want to make quick money, that is, use the planned land in hand to sell it to earn an intermediate fee, and in the end, a large amount of land is still concentrated in the hands of a small number of rich people.

In addition, our land tax is charged on a pro-rata basis based on the land harvest, rather than a fixed tax, so that it goes. Many people who have hoarded land will not rush to open up their land, but will leave the land barren in the hope that the land will be sold after the price of the land rises.

In short, the Prime Minister thinks. Your land policy and immigration policy are not suitable for the Chinese people, and if you forcibly promote it, it will definitely be bad, so I ask you to suspend the reclamation loan business; Other than that. The scale of land allocated free of charge is not as much as 500 acres, which will make the Chinese people crazy, and 100 acres is very good. This is enough to attract immigrants; Of course, the registration fee must also be raised, at least 30 Chinese dollars, otherwise, things will really get out of control. ”

"Does it really have to be like this?" Li Yongji frowned, "But if we all put an end to it, our immigration speed will be affected." ”

"We can take our time." "Actually, even if we're not so eager for quick success, we still far surpass the United States in terms of population base and transportation capacity." Coupled with the fact that we already legally own the territory of western North America, as long as we follow the rules, a single qiē will not be a problem.

On the contrary, if we are in a hurry to achieve quick success, there will be too many problems, and if they erupt together, these internal problems will be even more serious than external problems in the future. ”

Hearing Soho say this, Li Yongji shook his head and sighed secretly in his heart.

From these contents, it can be seen that the Chinese's pursuit of wealth is also quite huge, and the Chinese do not seem to be so reluctant to leave their homeland to expand overseas, at least it seems to be much stronger than the Americans of this period.

Think about it, when Lincoln formulated the "Homestead Law", it was only 10 US dollars to obtain 160 acres in the west for free, equivalent to 971 acres, nearly 1,000 acres of land, but this is the case, from the date of the promulgation of the Homestead Law in 1862 to 1900, for nearly 40 consecutive years, it only benefited 600,000 families, and no more than 5 million people were counted at full capacity, and this kind of immigration was not strong.

But now look at China, the immigration conditions are obviously not as good as the "Homestead Law" of the United States, in less than a month, the number of applicants exceeded one million, and the follow-up application for immigration is still strengthening, and even many people do not hesitate to smuggle in.

What does this mean? It shows that the Chinese are not afraid of taking risks, nor are they afraid of leaving their homeland, the key is whether they can give them a chance, whether they can give them a chance to obtain wealth and land!

As long as the state gives those Chinese a chance, then whether rich or poor, they will rush over, use a strong population base and fanatical pursuit of wealth, devour a piece of land they can occupy, and quickly become the masters of this batch of land.

Yes, the Chinese are a typical farming people, and the fanatical pursuit of land is penetrated into the bones, or do not give them the opportunity to occupy the land, once they are given the opportunity, others can no longer take it away.

In contrast, Americans may be more adventurous, but they are less fanatical about the pursuit of land, and they love gold more than land.

That is to say, in the past, the Chinese were not indifferent to the foreign land, but because they closed off the country, their eyes were closed and they could not see the wonderful world outside. In addition, China in the past had no ability to colonize foreign countries at all, so they could only continue to cultivate one acre and three points of land in their own homes, until conflicts broke out because of the large number of people and the lack of land, and then used riots to push the old forces and reshuffle the cards.

In other words, the reason why China has experienced so many dynastic changes in its history is, from the root cause, that it is still a land trouble.

You must know that in feudal society, land is the largest resource, but the total amount of land is certain, but the population is constantly growing, which will form a contradiction of more land and less land for one person.

Historically. Once a new dynasty is established in China and enters a period of peace, the population will increase rapidly, and once the population grows to the point that the original land can no longer bear it, all contradictions will erupt with it, which will lead to turmoil and rebellion.

Therefore, the fundamental purpose of the rebellion was to reduce the number of people, and if the rebellion was successful, a new dynasty would be established, and the land would be redistributed. If the rebellion is not successful, the population will be greatly reduced, and the pressure of more people and less land will be relieved.

Before the productive forces are further developed into the industrial society, this cycle of competition between man and land will continue to circulate, which is why there are so many changes of dynasty in Chinese history.

Maybe we have to say that if there is not enough land, we can expand outward and go outside to grab land, so that we can change this strange circle from the source?

That's right. But the problem is that under the conditions of the productive forces of feudal society, the Chinese grabbed almost all the land suitable for cultivation at that time, and did not grab it. Most of them are not able to be cultivated, or the results of cultivation are not good. Of course, the impact of capacity is also quite a strong factor.

The land of East Asia is different from Europe, which has a Mediterranean Sea. It could be easily transported, but the Chinese mainland could only rely on land and rivers, and this transportation capacity severely restricted the expansion of the Great Unification Dynasty.

Other words. In the final analysis, it is the combination of the environment and the level of productivity that created the territory of ancient China, and if China is still the same as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it will not necessarily close itself to the rest of the country, and its development may not be worse than that of Europe.

But there is no way, who made the assimilation ability of the Han nation too strong, as long as it was the ethnic group that was on their side, almost all of them were assimilated, and then it was the concept of great unification that arose because of assimilation, which eventually formed a huge central dynasty and finally determined the basic map of China.

In such a continental empire, centralized rule has become inevitable, and once centralized rule is to be carried out, it must be based on stability, and conservatism and self-containment are inevitable.

In other words, the Chinese are not weak in their bones, they are not eager for foreign land, they are completely unattractive to the surrounding land, and the central dynasty deliberately suppressed the people.

But now it is different, although Li Yongji's Chinese empire was established for a short time and was imperfect in many aspects, because of this, it stimulated the people's desire for land.

You must know that China has just experienced a strict turmoil, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, both of which greatly shook the original ruling foundation, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Yongji almost completely overthrew the original set of ruling ideas and forcibly poured out the new national ideas.

At the same time, after the establishment of the empire, the pace of conquest has hardly stopped, both internally and externally, and almost every conquest has brought a lot of benefits.

For example, in China, after the establishment of the Chinese Empire, a large number of Manchu nobles and those princes in the Taiping army distributed the land occupied by the Han compatriots free of charge, and mainly took care of the poor, which minimized the contradictions such as more people and less land and the differentiation between the rich and the poor.

Coupled with the huge investment in industrial development and infrastructure construction, the empire has generated a large number of job opportunities, attracted a large number of idle manpower, and let the common people really feel that life is rushing, and the eastern coastal areas can basically solve the problem of food and clothing, so they are more and more supportive of the new empire.

During this period, the imperial army was not idle, fighting everywhere in the north and south, and good news came one after another.

Advanced weapons, strict training, good logistics, and a clear promotion system have enabled the Wehrmacht to greatly surpass the local rebels' combat effectiveness, and each counterinsurgency can achieve the greatest results at the lowest cost.

Whether it is to suppress the Hui riots in the south or the great Hui riots in the northwest, the Wehrmacht has fought quite well, and after defeating these riotous mobs, the follow-up treatment can also be quickly followed, such as the land of the mob, which is distributed to the Han immigrants who dare to come over without compensation.

In order to ensure the safety of Han immigrants, Han immigrants will also be allowed to keep firearms and weapons, and basic militarized training will be carried out for immigrants, which is essentially a kind of military camp in another sense.

Interestingly, although the military expenditure of many national defense forces is high, only half of it is paid by the central government and the other half by the local self-government, which increases the financial pressure on the self-government and lightens the burden on the central government.

As a result, the areas under the control of the central government became richer and richer, and the areas ruled by the autonomous government were also developing, but the gap between them and the eastern central territories was getting wider and wider, thus creating a strong contrast, so that all the new domestic contradictions arising from the rapid economic development were transferred to the past, and the consequences and bad reputation were borne by the warlords of the autonomous provinces.

As a result, the flow of people within the country has become more intense. People in the central and western autonomous regions began to yearn for the prosperity of the east and moved their families to the east, but when they did come to the east, they found that it was not what they imagined, at least in the short term, they could not enjoy the same treatment as the aborigines of the east region.

Those who emigrated from the Midwest were not very interested in being construction workers or anything, they were more eager to own their own land, and at this time, the Empire's expansion and reclamation incentive programs gave them an opportunity.

Primary options. Of course, I chose the country, but there is too little land that can be allocated in the country, so there are only a few choices, either to go to the northeast to open up wasteland, or to go to the northwest or southwest to reclaim.

There is no danger in going to the northeast, but the environment is harsh and you need to start from scratch, which is not a good place, as for the west and southwest. Most of the land was snatched from the Hui people through the Guò counterinsurgency war, and it was not a good place to face harassment from the Hui people if they went.

Relatively speaking, it is good to go to Japan or Korea to farm. But the amount of land that can be given in those places is very small, and the danger is not low.

In the end, the Americas became the best choice.

Although the Americas are further away, the climate there is said to be good. The most important thing is that he can give 500 acres of land free of charge, and he will be his own after five years of cultivation. The land tax is also the lowest of all reclamation areas.

As for security, all those who have been to Hollywood and come back say that the Americas are completely the world of the Chinese, where all people of all races, whether white or native, have to look at the faces of the Chinese.

In other words, the Chinese are the masters in the Americas, and foreigners have to live by relying on the Chinese, and their status is completely different from that of other places.

Moreover, the fertile land, warm climate, and gold in the Americas are a land that you can only hope for, and you can make a fortune if you go there.

In short, under the powerful propaganda offensive of the imperial government, these Chinese began to set their preferred targets in North America, for the free 500 acres of land, and the low-interest reclamation loans, which were only available to the Americas, and there were no reclamation loans elsewhere.

Moreover, the land in the Americas cannot be bought and sold for the time being, unlike the Northeast, Japan and North Korea, where land can be bought with money, so for most poor people, you don't need to spend too much money, and even the bank gives you money to help you, as long as you arrive, you can get 500 acres of permanent land and become a big landlord, which is a great thing like a dream.

Under the propaganda of this favorable policy, as long as the Chinese who know the news, they cannot resist this temptation at all, and they desperately want to go to the Americas, and can rely on a Chinese identity to receive a new land that will be inherited for a lifetime.

A large proportion of those who are willing to immigrate to the Americas are young people, many of whom are the children of farmers who have heard the news, and they have come to explore a path and look for an opportunity.

Thinking of this, Li Yongji shook his head at Soho: "I don't think there is a need to stop the reclamation loan, not only can it not be stopped, but the scale must be expanded." Anyway, it's just a voucher, and then you spend it here, and you can get a return from the land in the end, and there is no mess in the middle.

As for the danger, hehe, there is no need to worry about this, you can increase the inventory of the port area and the number of patrols of patrol boats, and at the same time increase the fine of smuggling ships, there is no need to beat them to death with a stick, and reduce the number of ports going to sea to curb it. Even if there is an act of smuggling because of this, as long as you can't find it, just turn a blind eye. ”

"But if you do this, it is likely to cause a safety incident." Soho said, "Many ships do not have the ability to sail far, and they barely sail long, and they carry so many people, in case of an accident, it is not one or two people who die." ”

"There's no way around it." Li Yongji smiled faintly, "Since those people have chosen to smuggle instead of waiting, they will have to bear the consequences of this choice, and besides, didn't I say that we should increase the intensity of investigation and punishment, if this can't be contained, it means that the danger of navigation is nothing, on the contrary, in this way, maybe it can also stimulate the development of private shipping."

Well, speaking of which, it is true that a bill can be introduced to allow private fund-raising for shipbuilding, to encourage private shipbuilding.

All in all, what we need most now is to increase immigration, to fill the land we occupy with Chinese, to completely stabilize the land as quickly as possible, and as for the rest, it is a small problem. (To be continued......)