Chapter 92: The Great Migration (II)

The American Republic, the capital of Manchester City (Manhattan Island, New York)

Next to the Capitol Square, on the roof terrace of a four-story building, Wang Qiu holds a pair of miniature binoculars and overlooks the crowded square. By this time, customs officers in the American Republic had set up tents here, preparing to vet the newcomers for their next assignment - except for a few skilled craftsmen, who were usually sent to the land. Hundreds of Ming Dynasty refugees who arrived here were full of worries and nervous expressions, waiting for the selection ahead, just like goods on an assembly line.

According to the temporary regulations issued by the Chinese League, after arriving in the Americas, Africa, Vladivostok and other places, these new immigrants will be forced to sign a ten-year labor contract, during which they must obey the dispatch and distribution of the local government of the crosser, and must not act without authorization, so as to compensate for the cost of the government to arrange for them to settle down. If someone refuses to obey the assignment, they are thrown into prison - a practice that may be suspected of using slave labor, but it is indeed the beginning of a beautiful new life for the starving refugees who are struggling on the death line in the Ming Dynasty.

-- In the rich land of the Americas, they will have what they have longed for generations: fields, pastures, livestock, houses...... Even women!

“…… Congress has passed a resolution to allocate between 100 and 150 acres of land to each newcomer in the undeveloped areas of the interior, modelled on Lincoln's Homestead Act, and to provide them with farm implements, ploughing cattle, and rations in the form of interest-free loans, which will be theirs forever, as long as they can pay off their debts within a certain number of years, or if they rely on military service to obtain preferential treatment for military dependents. At the same time, within five years of land reclamation, new immigrants will be exempted from the agricultural tax and poll tax, and they will not hesitate to let them take root. ”

The supreme leader of the Huamei Republic, Premier Qi Jianjun (the Huamei political system is similar to modern India, and the president is only the mascot of the superlative), wearing a neat white shirt and a crisp tuxedo suit, introduced Wang Qiu with a smile on his face, "...... Of course, this was a policy in the inland and remote areas where transportation was inaccessible, mainly to occupy the territory and prevent it from being snatched away by the European colonizers in advance. In the more developed eastern coastal states, we prefer to let immigrants work as agricultural workers on large state-run farms -- now that the Thirty Years' War in Europe has been fought to the death, food prices are skyrocketing, and we export more food to Europe every year in short supply, and we urgently need to invest more labor to increase crop yields. For these agricultural workers, there is naturally no land to distribute. But there are still benefits such as sharing a house, and it is a free gift! In addition, through the Jewish Chamber of Commerce, we bought large quantities of Caucasian slave girls from Cairo, Crimea and Basra, ready to be rationed as wives of good immigrants......"

“…… Sounds like a good idea, but if you do, it's probably going to be expensive. Can your government afford it? ”

Wang Qiu nodded slightly, frowning and asking, "...... It's better not to expect more subsidies from the central government, Zhongnanhai is not a Kaishantang ......"

“…… Don't worry, now we don't have to spend money to get so many immigrants from Shandong, and we don't have to go through the exploitation of those Portuguese traffickers, and the money saved here alone is enough to wipe out the resettlement costs of the new immigrants. ”

Premier Qi Jianjun said with a smile - In the past ten years, the governments of the Chinese and Eastern Republics in the Americas had to pay an average of three or four hundred taels of silver to obtain a Ming Dynasty immigrant through the channel of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in Macao, and they could usually only import up to one or two thousand people a year.

To make matters worse, there were often a lot of Japanese and Vietnamese in the mix, but the East Coast and the American Republic had to pinch their noses and take it - in any case, they were still yellow, at least more reassuring than the mass introduction of white European immigrants or black slaves.

But even so, the Chinese American Republic has always been plagued by the problem of its own population, especially the low proportion of the core population, and the thousands of miles of fertile land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes are still mostly wild. The proportion of white European immigrants in the Chinese American Republic has also increased over time, and even if several large Indian tribes have been absorbed since the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China and these indigenous people are granted citizenship, it is still difficult to maintain the absolute superiority of the yellow race...... When the whole town of Dengzhou looked at the hundreds of displaced people from the Central Plains who poured into its jurisdiction every day, and worried that they would be overwhelmed, the people of the Huamei Republic, which was responsible for receiving and resettling these displaced people, were overjoyed, but they were worried that the population from the Central Plains was not enough.

“…… Every week, it is sent to a group of people, and each batch of immigrants is about 2,000...... Tsk, that number seems to be a little less! ”

Seeing that this group of new immigrants from the Ming Dynasty were successively arranged by the relevant departments, divided into several long lines, and escorted by army soldiers to various villages or mine construction sites, Qi Jianjun smacked his lips with some dissatisfaction, "...... Can we increase the number of immigrants allocated to us a little more? Anyway, there should be a lot of displaced people in the Central Plains! Not only do we have land here, but we also have no problem with food - as long as we stop exporting food to Europe, and then use the best seeds of modern time and space and the synthetic ammonia fertilizers that have recently been produced, the Republic of China will be able to feed another million people this year without any pressure......"

“…… This is already the limit! You're not the only one in need of population! And the military pressure on your side is minimal. ”

Wang Qiu scratched his hair and sighed, "...... The Eastern Coast Republic, surrounded by Portuguese and Spanish spheres of influence, has already fought two bitter wars with the Spaniards, and various skirmishes and proxy wars have not stopped for a day. The Far Eastern Company in Vladivostok was planning an all-out attack on Liaodong to eliminate the old nest of Huang Taiji, which would also require a large number of laborers and recruits. The Lingao Group on Hainan Island also has vast tracts of wasteland waiting to be developed, as well as steel mills and textile mills that require thousands of workers. South Africa and Madagascar, with populations of less than 3,000 combined, are already facing challenges from the Dutch and the British, as well as native African revolts......

Finally, the Confederate capital city in Perth, Australia, has not yet been built, and it is not planned to introduce too many indigenous immigrants from the local plane for the time being. But when the new city is completed, it will also need thousands of laborers to develop the wild Australian continent.

In order to recruit labor for so many places at the same time, the Dengzhou army on the battlefield in Shandong has completely stopped its military operations, and the military and civil affairs departments have focused their work on sheltering and training displaced people -- at present, there are indeed tens of millions of peasants in the entire Central Plains who are slowly starving to death or attacking each other, but those who can survive all kinds of hardships and dangers along the way and run to Dengzhou alive may not be one in a hundred......

Speaking of this, overlooking the Shandong immigrants who were walking in groups on the streets, while curiously looking left and right, Wang Qiu couldn't help but sigh a little - when they were in the Central Plains, their lives were as low as pigs and dogs, and the Ming court and the gentry and landlords were eager for them to starve to death; However, in the overseas countries established by the traversers, they were "valuables" worth three or four hundred taels of silver per person, as high as more than a hundred times the price of the population of the Central Plains...... According to the arrangement of the Chinese American Republic, they will soon enter various farms and factories to contribute to the vigorous development of this "chosen country". Or join the border garrison and compete with the Iroquois and French colonists in the north for the fertile land around the Great Lakes and expand the space of Chinese civilization......

-- For the Chinese American Republic and the East Coast Republic, and even for the entire Chinese League, as long as there is a population, it is equivalent to having a qiē.

Hey, that's what the old saying goes: there's no garbage in this world, only misplaced resources. These people were stranded in late Ming China, where famines were frequent during the Xiaoice period, and they could only starve to death or kill each other meaninglessly. But if they are organized to immigrate to the unexplored Americas, they can open up the wilderness, create civilization, recreate China overseas, and compose a legendary epic of conquering the world!

At present, the various traverser forces under the Huameng are generally developing rapidly, and there is an urgent need for population everywhere. But the Chinese tradition is that "it is difficult to leave the homeland", and if it is not really desperate, few people are usually willing to move elsewhere. Thanks to the turmoil of the late Ming Dynasty when the people were in dire straits, the natural disasters that spread year after year and the decay and incompetence of the Ming Dynasty had created millions of displaced people on the territory of the empire - when a person broke through the hurdle in his heart and truly became an outcast, he usually only hoped for a place to settle down, and would not mind leaving his homeland anymore.

“…… By the way, is the grain allocated to Shandong ready? I haven't given you that aid yet. Wang Qiu suddenly remembered something, turned to Premier Qi Jianjun and asked, "...... Liu Minyou, the chief manager of Dengzhou Town, complained all day long, worried that there was not enough food! ”

-- With a large number of [random doors] that can be connected to the world in real time, it is easier to transfer materials between the various member countries of the Chinese League, compared to asking Doraemon to borrow a pocket every time to transport materials...... Therefore, at present, the vast majority of the food, clothing, tents and other items needed to recruit displaced people in Dengzhou Town are collected from North and South America, Vladivostok, Hainan Island and Taiwan.

Today, the soldiers and civilians of Dengzhou are eating corn and salted fish from North America, wearing cotton cloth from South America, lighting blubber candles from Antarctica, holding sickles forged from Australian iron ore, leading African cattle to plough the fields, and sowing seeds from the 21st century (modern world) and 22nd century (Doraemon world...... Its mix-and-match style is really full of the style of world empires, which makes people feel deeply speechless.

“…… The first batch of fifteen hundred tons of corn has been prepared, and it can now be transported to the warships over there through the guò [free gate]. ”

Premier Qi Jianjun pointed to the square below and replied casually - after the batch of migrants hoarded on Liugong Island was delivered, the [random door] in the Parliament building was demolished, and now it is being transported to the national grain depot in Manchester City under the escort of a heavily armed army," ...... In addition, there were 50 tons of corned beef, 120 tons of salted fish and 200 tons of wheat...... In short, there is absolutely no need to worry about hunger in Shandong.

In fact, if that General Chen in Shandong agrees, we can carve out Virginia or Massachusetts at any time, and let them relocate the entire town of Dengzhou, with a population of 500,000 or 600,000, and ask General Chen to continue to serve as governor, well, vice president......

“…… I am afraid that this construction is not feasible, and neither Chen Xin nor Huangshi will be willing to abandon the tunpu system on the Shandong Peninsula. ”

Wang Qiu shook his head, "...... Rather than attacking one's own people in this way, it is better to try to open up the source - Huangshi is currently planning a mainland raid in order to establish more homeless shelters in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, which can greatly speed up the scale and speed of the collection of homeless people. If your country can provide more swords, gunpowder, and artillery to the East Asian theater, or simply send troops to help, it will surely be rewarded handsomely in the future......"

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In general, the current Global Chinese Travelers League is a militarist regime with a strong fascist atmosphere. Each member state has absorbed the advantages of traditional fascist countries in different ways, such as the social atmosphere that advocates force, the high proportion of state-owned economy, and the strong cohesion obtained by repeated brainwashing. However, it does not have the disadvantages of traditional fascist countries, such as the lack of local resources and the personality cult of leaders, etc. - during World War II, Germany, Italy, and Japan embarked on the road of foreign expansion because their own territory was too small and their resources were insufficient, and there were huge and acute social contradictions in their domestic communities. And this is often one of the dead ends of fascist countries.

However, the situation of the East Coast, Huamei, Hainan Island, Australia and Vladivostok Far East Company is completely different, and it can even be said to be very strange - they have large tracts of undeveloped land (even Hainan Island, which was seized from the Ming Dynasty by the Lingao clique, is in fact also vast and sparsely populated), and the number of resources per capita is even more frighteningly high, and it is a fight with modern Russia, and there are no social contradictions at home, and the main threat is foreign enemies. The fascist armies of Germany, Italy and Japan seized land everywhere, and they also purged the aborigines, engaged in the three-light policy and genocide. At present, the primary goal of the Chinese League is to obtain the population, to rob, arrest, and buy people from the Ming Dynasty and other places...... But he has little interest in the land of the Central Plains.

-- In the context of the overall superiority of the earth in this time and space, in a series of indicators that measure comprehensive national strength, such as science and technology, politics, military, resources, land, industry and agriculture, the only problem that seriously hinders the Chinese Travelers Alliance from conquering the world is the lack of population.

It is clear that no territory can sustain its rule without a sufficient population to fill it. And any dominant nation that does not maintain its demographic superiority in its territory will not be secure – which is why the Chinese American Republic and the Eastern Coast Republic had previously endured the brutality of Portuguese traffickers and imported Ming immigrants from Macao.

For the same reason, they did not hesitate to wage war to bring in more labor for the vast and inhospitable Americas.

“…… Actually, if you agree to set up the purification camp here in the Americas, you can send the displaced people directly to you. Instead of insisting that new immigrants be allowed to enter the country after they have completed the decontamination and quarantine in Shandong, I think the speed of population transportation should be a little faster......"

Wang Qiu lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly proposed a rationalization to Premier Qi Jianjun, "...... That's what the Republic of East Coast of South America did, eliminating the link of the Liugong Island purification camp, so last time we transported 5,000 people to South America in one go......"

Unexpectedly, Qi Jianjun shook his head again and again, "...... No way! Absolutely not! The purification link must not be relaxed! Once the Ming Dynasty refugees who have not been quarantined enter the country on a large scale, the whites and Chinese on our side may still be able to withstand it, and the indigenous Indians are only afraid that a great plague will break out......" R1148