Putting down the documents in his hand, Li Fushou's heart was full of emotions, and he left the office and climbed to the top of Lingxiao Pavilion.

From here, you can see the majestic city of the Red River Valley, where the city's rows of buildings stretch far into the skyline, showing the majestic form of a world-class bustling metropolis.

He looked at all this greedily, and his heart was full of pride and wordless emotion.

As big as your heart is, so big your dreams are!

This prosperous city that Li Fushou has devoted great efforts to rise from scratch on the banks of the Brisbane River, recording the great achievements along the way, will be remembered by history, and become a beautiful scenery at the end of the 19th century.

Millions of people of all ethnicities live in this metropolis, and while it is true that there are many shortcomings, it cannot be overshadowed by its brilliance.

According to aggregate population statistics;

Nearly 4.9 million Chinese immigrants live in dozens of new towns in the entire Earldom of Queensland (about 228,000 square kilometres, excluding Brisbane), and the population agglomeration effect is very obvious. The region has developed industry, agriculture and animal husbandry, trade, culture, education and medical care with a high level of development, and a high general income of residents, making it a local essence area.

The total population of Queensland is 5.86 million, of which 69.4% is urban, 27.7% is agricultural and herdsman, and 2.9% is engaged in fishing.

With the rapid development of the industrial economy, agriculture and animal husbandry are in the ascendant, and the per capita income level of the whole Queensland has grown rapidly.

In 1885, Queensland's per capita annual income was £11, £3 and 6pence, an increase of 96.3 per cent compared to 1876, almost doubled.

Looking back on the course of the past 10 years, it is embarrassing.

In 1876, the average income of 6 pounds was the average of ordinary white people, and the young and strong Chinese workers could only get half or even less, about 2~3 pounds.

In 1876, Queensland adopted a discriminatory and repressive policy against Chinese immigrants, restricting entry, naturalization, business and real estate, restricting intermarriage with white women, paying much more taxes than ordinary white people, often having to endure rude exploitation and robbery, and often dying in gold fields or in the wilderness.

It was Li Fushou who broke all this, and he worked hard to win a voice for the Chinese, overturning the restrictions imposed on Chinese immigrants, allowing naturalized Chinese to receive the same treatment as white people, vigorously promoting equal pay for equal work, and opposing discrimination......

10 years later, in 1885

Chinese immigrants have become the mainstream ethnic group in Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, mastering the state government and parliament, becoming a major force for social progress and economic development, playing an irreplaceable and important role, and also growing into the richest state.

The average annual income of Chinese workers has increased by 4 to 5 times, and while they have received equal pay for equal work, their social and political status has been greatly improved, and they have become the masters of Queensland society.

Queensland accounts for three-quarters of Australia's population and has a per capita annual income of £11 3 shillings and 6 pence, surpassing Victoria, the richest state, to rank first.

Victoria has an annual per capita income of £9, £17 and 5 pence per capita, ranking second.

New South Wales has a per capita annual income of £7 and 9 shillings, ranking third.

South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, with a per capita annual income of more than £6, ranked fourth, fifth and sixth respectively.

Outside of Australia

Shangri-La, Borneo, Sulawesi and Somalia, which are ruled as earldoms, have a much lower per capita annual income than in mainland Australia.

Among them

On the contrary, the per capita annual income of the Somali colonies was higher, mainly because the town of Xi'an (excluding the indigenous black tribes in the area) developed rapidly through smuggling and port transit trade, and the per capita annual income reached the level of 4 pounds, 17 shillings and 11 pence, which is a relatively wealthy area.

At the end of 1885, the town of Xi'an counted 79,200 people, and Mogadishu 05,600 people.

In the vast area of Somalia with a total area of 660,000 square kilometers (including Jibuti), the import of Chinese immigrants is more than 80,000 so far, and the progress seems to be relatively slow.

First, because the region is so far away, it is expensive to organize migrants to cross the Indian Ocean to reach the Gulf of Aden. Second, the Red Fort has invested less resources and has not given high priority to development. The third reason is that due to the limitations of the times, there are no conditions for direct migration to Africa from the mainland, and there is a need for transition.

It is worth mentioning the population of black indigenous tribes, when Lei Xiaopeng led the African expeditionary task force to the Somali region, it was roughly estimated that there were nearly 300,000 black nomadic tribesmen, and after two years of disasters, it plummeted to less than 200,000.

This is because the local indigenous black tribes, lured by the high salaries in Xi'an Town, resorted to brutal methods to attack nearby tribes and arrest black slave laborers, which caused great panic in the neighboring Jibuti area, and small and medium-sized black tribes fled the area one after another.

Some of the black tribes fled westward across the borders of the Kingdom of Ethiopia into the highlands.

In this day and age

The indigenous kingdoms of Africa do not have a clear concept of borders, only roughly customary geographical divisions, and the border tribes of the Kingdom of Ethiopia would have been better off if they were willing to accept these fleeing black tribes, but if they were not, brutal tribal wars would inevitably break out.

Driven by great fear, some black tribes fled southwest into the Gobi region, an arid desert inland.

The inland areas are arid and barren, full of desert Gobi and barren mountains, and the climate and environment are extremely harsh.

Shangri-La and Borneo have similar resource conditions, similar climate, and the per capita annual income level is not much different, more than ninety percent of the population is agricultural, and the per capita annual income is about 2~3 pounds, which is the characteristic of the agricultural economy, even in the fertile South Pacific, the upper limit of per capita annual income is generally low, and it is very difficult to improve.

If you want to live a life without food and clothing, you can achieve it as long as you work hard.

If you want to get rich from farmland and plantations, only veterans who have received a lot of meritorious service can do it, but after all, it is a minority, and it is not universal.

Compared with Shangri-La, which is in full swing, the situation in Borneo is more complicated, with a small number of indigenous rebels still remaining, and development actions are relatively sluggish.

It is estimated

There are still 3~40,000 indigenous rebels in Borneo, most of whom are composed of local young men and women, scattered in the depths of the dense forest, but with the advancement of Chinese organized colonization villages, their activity space has been greatly compressed.

The indigenous rebels, who mostly use spears and knives and earthen bows and arrows, and a few who have old-fashioned earthen guns, are dwindling in the face of the encirclement and suppression of organized militias equipped with rifles in Chinese immigrant villages.

On the one hand, because there is no food and clothing in the tropical jungle, there is no clean and pollution-free water source, people are prone to diarrhea and infection after drinking, and mosquito bites lead to a variety of tropical diseases, and the living environment is worrying.

On the other hand, the Borneo military command issued a new order that all rebels in the jungle should be treated as war criminals, and the villagers who were reclaimed were allowed to dispose of them freely without reporting.

This regulation greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of Chinese immigrants, who took up arms and took the initiative to go into the mountains to encircle and suppress, and regardless of the killed and wounded, women captured alive could be brought home to give birth to babies, and men were reduced to serfs, which was allowed.

It won't be long before the rebels disappear silently into the tropical jungle......

In the occupied areas of East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan provinces of Borneo, the total number of Chinese immigrants in recent years has reached more than 789,000, mainly in agriculture.

The Red Fort is continuing to promote immigration to Borneo, and it is expected that it will exceed the one million immigration mark in 1886, and the number of immigrants will be about 108~1.15 million by the end of the year, depending on the local security situation and whether the reclamation work is smooth.

As long as the conditions are met, the day is not far off when the whole of Borneo is about to face a phase of explosive growth in the immigrant population.

About 80,000 women and children, young and old, have moved into the two indigenous reservations allowed in Borneo, and there are basically no young women among these populations, and the population size will fall sharply after the death of the older generation.

At Shangri-La, on the other hand, the situation is much simpler and clearer.

There is no contradiction between the indigenous population, and the development project of Qixing Town in the Qingshui River Basin is entering a climactic stage in full swing, with the ability to further expand the acceptance of Chinese immigrants and further promote the development work.

At the beginning of the year

The long-brewing "Jinshui River Development Plan" was officially launched, and the banner of "creating brilliance again" was played, and the commander-in-chief Nangong Yunfei personally took command and led tens of thousands of builders to enter the front line of development.

In 1885, there was a wave of Chinese immigrants

The Shangri-La area is a key immigration area, and the entire region, including Jayapura, Moresby, Longmen Town, Tianshu City and Qixing Town, immigrated 341,100 people throughout the year, about one-fifth of the immigrant population in 1885, and the population of the whole region exceeded 1 million, reaching 1,217,400.

With the gradual development of Shangri-La, it will have a stronger capacity to accept immigrants, and in 1886 it will further increase its immigration efforts to the region, aiming to reach 14 of the total number of immigrants.

Among the newly acquired territories, the Sulawesi Islands, as a trusteeship, lagged significantly behind other regions in terms of migration development, with 13,400 immigrants and a total population of 37,500 throughout the year.

Take stock of the development process of more than 10 years

Li Fushou was pleased to find that if the East Indies territory and Somalia were added, the people under his rule had unknowingly exceeded 8 million people (excluding the southern states), like a big force that could not be underestimated.

Except for Australia, other regions are agriculture-based economies, and the only strange thing is that Xi'an Town, located in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, is actually a new world with trade transit and smuggling as its main business.