End of March

The bad news came that Duke He Fang, the long-suffering Marshal of the Imperial Royal Navy, died of illness at the age of 74.

When Emperor Li Fushou heard the bad news, he couldn't help but feel sad in his eyes, and ordered him to return to the palace immediately, and the next day he led a group of ministers to the Marshal He Fang's Mansion to pay respects.

After returning to the palace, Li Fushou was still in a state of flux.

It has been 41 years since the Brisbane docks arrived, and looking back on the past, many of the founding fathers who accompanied him all the way to the hard work have been separated from each other, and most of them are dying.

The country is picturesque, and a generation of new people replaces the old.

Li Fushou came to the window, overlooking the towering urban buildings of the endless Red River Valley metropolis, which stretched to the end of the sky, and the city was bustling and vibrant.

With a population of more than 7.2 million, the world's largest metropolis has built a cobweb-like underground railway facility, with Metro Lines 8, 9 and 10 under construction, which will form the fourth subway loop in the Red River Valley, as well as extensions to the south and west.

After completion, the entire Red River Valley metropolis will have 434 kilometers of subway lines, capable of carrying 6.5 million daily trips, becoming the main artery supporting the transportation demand of the entire metropolis.

The viaduct on the ground spans the north and south, and after the completion of the first ring road and the north-south viaduct, the second ring viaduct is being built, and these advanced transportation facilities make the Red River Valley present the grandeur of a modern metropolis.

Every time I saw this, Li Fushou's heart throbbed, and a lot of pride was born.

The empire's economy has been developing steadily and vigorously, and at the moment when the population has historically exceeded the 100 million mark, the national economy and urban construction have reached a new level.

The most striking sign of this is that compared to 1910, the city has made great strides in six years, and the number of metropolises with a population of more than one million has increased from seven to 13 by the end of 1916.

Six years ago, cities with a population of one million were ranked as follows (1910 statistical caliber);

The Red River Valley is the number one with a population of 5.5 million.

Songjiang, the second largest city, has a population of 1.86 million.

Brisbane is the third largest city, with a population of 1.47 million.

Beilun, the fourth-ranked city, has a population of 1,389,700.

Qingdao, the fifth-ranked city, has a population of 1,192,100.

The sixth-ranked city, Sanmarinda, has a population of 1.118 million.

Seoul, the seventh-ranked city, has a population of 1.034 million.

Six years have passed, and the number of cities with a population of one million has increased from 7 to 13, which reflects the further acceleration of the process of industrial modernization of the empire, the large-scale cities, and the obvious effect of centralization.

Take stock;

The Red River Valley is still the world's largest metropolis, with a population of more than 5.5 million to 7.21 million, growing into a world-class political, financial, economic and trade, science, technology and education metropolis, and an unparalleled dazzling pearl in the southern hemisphere.

Songjiang City, which ranks second, has a population of 2,775,400 people growing rapidly from 1.86 million, and the city is becoming more and more huge.

With the help of the historic opportunity of the world war, Songjiang City has developed rapidly, with a complete range of industries, high technical level and strong production capacity, and has formed a heavy industry urban agglomeration with Songjiang City as the core, ranking first in the world in terms of technical level and production capacity, far exceeding the Great Lakes region of the United States.

In particular, the fields of automobiles, metallurgy, large-scale complete sets of equipment, electronic appliances, mechanical machine tools, etc., have world-class advanced production capacity, and a large number of world-class large enterprises have emerged, becoming the backbone of the empire's industry.

There was a change in the third position, with Beilun overtaking Brisbane in third place with a population of 2.366 million.

As the leading city of the "Beilun-Sydney" economic circle, Beilun has performed extremely dazzling in the face of the historic opportunity of the world war, and its shipbuilding heavy industry, steel smelting, wool textiles, and weapons and equipment manufacturing industries have made great progress.

After the completion of the Sydney Bay Bridge, the two cities are closely linked, promoting each other and relying on each other, resulting in 1+1 & gt; The benign interaction of the two has made the "Beilun-Sydney Economic Circle" grow into the second industrial growth engine of the empire, providing a steady stream of strong impetus for economic development.

The fourth place in the ranking also changed, and Qingdao grew rapidly from 1,192,100 to 2,077,000, sitting on the throne of the fourth largest city in the empire.

Qingdao is also contaminated with the light of industrial development, and its production of crawler agricultural machinery, semi-track military vehicles, power machinery, coal, phosphate ore and food antiseptic additives and other industries are ranked first in the world, giving full play to the advantages of resources.

The coal output in Qingdao alone is as high as 146 million tons, accounting for more than 40% of the empire's coal output, and the salt chemical industry developed by relying on phosphate mines occupies more than 9% of the market share in the field of food trade preservatives and nutritional additives in the world.

As a traditional big city in the empire, Brisbane was squeezed from the original third place to the fifth place in the new statistics in 16 years, which is very frustrating.

Its population has grown from 1.47 million to 1.892 million, not far from the 2 million mark.

Brisbane is the largest trading port and world-class shipping city in the empire, as well as the cultural, educational, medical and scientific research center of northern Australia, famous for its beautiful environment and the Gold Coast.

Brisbane is undoubtedly a natural disadvantage in competition with the Empire's industrial cities, but it is a charming metropolis with picturesque landscapes that attract high-end talent.

In sixth place is Borneo's brightest city, Samarinda, with a population that has grown rapidly from 1.118 million to 1.736 million, which is very likely to overtake Brisbane.

Sammarinda and its surrounding Balikpapan region is the empire's famous chemical city, relying on the advantages of the oil field, the annual oil production here has increased from 140 million barrels in 10 years to 230 million barrels, and is the world's largest petrochemical plant area.

The gasoline, diesel, kerosene, lubricating oil, polyester, plastic, chemical fiber and other chemical products produced here sell well at home and abroad, and are the most sought-after military materials in the world.

In particular, the plastic gas masks produced here were first on the list of military supplies, and millions of Allied troops were eagerly awaiting, which was the only life-saving weapon against German gas warfare.

Ranking 7th is the city of Seoul, an important town in Mozambique, whose total population has grown from 1.034 million to 1.677 million, is the largest city in Africa, and is most famous for its light industry based on cotton textiles, and has developed light and heavy industries based on daily chemical products, food deep processing, dried fruits, shipping and shipbuilding, and is an important base for the empire's exports of grain and light industrial products to Europe.

This emerging star city in Africa has already overshadowed Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa, Egypt and Morocco in North Africa, and has become the top metropolis in Africa.

Complemented by another million-inhabited city, Qiqu City, it has become a shining twin city in Mozambique.

After 6 years, the million-population metropolis in the early stage of the empire can be clearly seen;

The scale of major cities has expanded to varying degrees, especially the rapid growth momentum of industrial cities, the three industrial cities of Songjiang, Beilun and Qingdao have crossed the 2 million population mark successively, becoming a new pole in the empire's million-population metropolitan agglomeration.

In the ranking of Imperial Cities

The metropolis of the Red River Valley ranks first in the world with a huge population of 7.2 million, and it is also a maverick level among the empire's million-population metropolises, ranking among the top ranks, and no one can match it.

With a population of more than 2 million, Songjiang, Beilun and Qingdao are among the world's top 10 cities, ranking seventh, ninth and tenth, respectively.

According to statistics at the end of 16 years;

The top 10 cities in the world are the Red River Valley, which ranks first, with a population of 7.2 million. London has a population of 7.11 million in second place. New York is ranked third, with a total population of 6.92 million. Berlin is ranked fourth, with a population of 3.72 million.

Chicago is ranked fifth, with a population of 3.07 million. Tokyo is ranked sixth, with a population of 2.873 million. Songjiang, ranked seventh, has a population of 2,775,400, and Paris, ranked eighth, has a population of 2,525,000. Beilun, ranked ninth, has a population of 2.366 million. Qingdao, ranked tenth, has a population of 2.077 million.

Other world-famous cities such as Philadelphia, Osaka, Vienna, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Istanbul, and St. Petersburg are all outside the top 10 cities in the world.

Among the world's top ten cities, the Ocean Empire ranks fourth, reflecting the economic strength of the prosperous and developed city of the world's largest economy, with a high degree of industrialization, a high urbanization rate, and a world-class industrial strength.

Other world-famous cities such as Philadelphia, Osaka, Vienna, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Istanbul, and St. Petersburg are all outside the top 10 cities in the world.

In addition to the traditional seven cities with a population of one million, there are also some new faces in the ranking of cities ranked 8th to 20th, and it can be clearly seen that a large number of new industrial cities have grown rapidly and become a beautiful landscape.

In eighth place is Qiqu City, whose urban population has nearly doubled from 868,000 to 1.632 million, making it the fastest growing city among all large cities with a population of one million and the highest growth rate.

Qiqu City has extremely rich high-quality coal, iron, aluminum, copper, zinc and other mineral resources, has the advantage of convenient shipping, and has the unique advantage of developing heavy industry.

Taking advantage of the thirst for industrial materials in the world war, Qiqu City's industrial economy has taken five major steps in 6 years, and its annual steel output has broken through the 2 million tons, 3 million tons, 5 million tons, 8 million tons and 10 million tons mark from 1.7 million tons, becoming the third heavy industry base in the empire that can reach an annual output of more than 10 million tons of steel.

The explosive industrial development of Qiqu City is inseparable from the investment of imperial capital spillover, and with the injection of large sums of capital, a series of export-oriented industries based in southern Africa have been established, mainly for exports to Europe.

Over the years

It is also the sixth year of Mozambique's great economic development, with millions of hectares of fertile land newly cultivated every year, and the output of grain, cotton and oil crops increasing substantially every year.

Seoul City and Qiqu City are the shining twin cities of Mozambique, leading the industrial dragon of the overall economic development of the entire region, one is good at light industry and the other is good at heavy industry.

Ranked ninth is Gusu City, which is the deputy head of the Songjiang City Circle, and the city's population has soared from 773,000 to 1.42 million, ranking second only to Qiqu City in terms of population growth rate, and it is also an emerging industrial city.

Gusu City has created a jaw-dropping miracle, its city ranking from 13th 6 years ago, almost a step a year to 9th, proudly ranked among the top ten cities, leaving Melbourne, Sydney, Tianshu, Humen behind these cities, showing strong development potential.

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