Houston's port is lagging behind, but the downtown area is much better.

There are large rows of high-rise buildings painted with white paint.

Occasionally, there were one or two factories, and unclothed black hired laborers obediently entered the factories under the leather whip of the white overseers.

Probably a remote countryside, there is a risk of being attacked by wild beasts, stowaways, and werewolves, so anyone with a little capital desperately wants to move to the city.

The paupers and free blacks, who preferred to work as workers and be oppressed by the factory owners rather than go to the countryside to farm, also provided the factory owners with a large amount of cheap labor.

However, due to the scarcity of raw materials, Houston's industry is still in the form of small workshops, scattered in the city, rather than agglomeration into industrial areas.

Zhang Huaisheng, who heard the news, secretly thought that most of the machines brought from Hamburg were used in light industrial production.

It has the characteristics of low difficulty in operation, and most of the products produced are daily necessities, which is suitable for small factories in Houston, and must be able to sell at a good price.

When we arrived in the city center, the situation did not improve, but rather bloody and brutal.

On the street tree, the corpse of a black man hangs with a sign that reads, "I shouldn't have run away from my master."

Heavily armed state militia walked the streets, full of poor ghosts in ragged clothes, and from time to time drunken white men could be seen punching and kicking unpleasant black people.

The state militia turned a blind eye to this, but there were also white shopkeepers who rushed out of the house with a curse, yelling, "Bastard, you are damaging my property!" ”

The so-called abolition of slavery is, after all, nothing more than a nominal.

Ms. O'Connell frowned, "It's worse than I thought it would be. ”

Zhang Huaisheng also felt a little uncomfortable watching this scene.

"Actually, it's normal, the United States has been engaged in genocide since the thirteen colonies before independence, and when Washington wore boots made of Indian scalps and shouted Long live freedom, the tone of this ugly country was set."

"Don't forget, the backbone of America is the Anglo-Saxon people you are familiar with."

Ms. O'Connell let out a long sigh, "Yes, it is precisely because the power of the Anglo-Saxons is so large in the United States that we chose to go to Texas. ”

Inside the USCIS office, smoke fills the background, and the striking white star tricolor and the American Stars and Stripes flag are visible.

The man smoking a low-quality cigarette was crossed, leaning on the backrest, reading a magazine with a cover of a thinly dressed blonde.

When he heard someone coming, he said without raising his head: "Who, what's the matter?" ”

"Applying for immigration documents?"

He couldn't help but laugh and sat up straight, as if to see who the hell was so unavoidable to immigrate to Texas?

"The god of steam, if you come back next month, the Immigration Department will be merged into the Audit Office, and I haven't had a guest for two months."

"Hmm-Irish, and there is a yellow man who doesn't know whether it's Donghua or Fusang, no wonder."

Although Donghua is not as weak as it was in history, and even wears the tiger skin of a great power, the Italians are finally serious European powers, right? Isn't the Yankees just the same kind of discrimination?

Isn't Fuso, the victor in the Russo-Japanese War, still looked down upon by white Europeans and Americans?

"It's okay to get an immigration permit, but according to the rules, immigrants from any country can only account for 2 percent of the number of people already living in the United States this year."

Zhang Huaisheng frowned slightly.

Both the Irish and the East Chinese were the backbone of immigration to the United States.

The Irish were oppressed by the British because they were at home, and the East Chinese were too large for a farming country.

The rich have no land, and the poor have no place to stand.

In addition, the United States is sparsely populated, and many places need a lot of cheap labor, so there are many East Chinese and Irish people who move to the United States every year.

He did not correct the notion that the Irish were not the same thing as the Gaeles, and in fact, even the Gaelic themselves regarded the Irish as one and the same.

The staff of the Immigration Department looked Zhang Huaisheng's clothes up and down, and when he saw that he seemed to be good, he smiled and said:

"But unfortunately, I don't have this year's immigration data at all. So, sir, and ma'am, for a dollar, you're going to immigrate to the beautiful state of Texas. ”

Zhang Huaisheng silently calculated in his heart that the exchange rate between the pound and the dollar at this time was about 1 to 4, and since the two countries were on the gold standard, the fluctuation should not be large.

Zhang Huaisheng coughed lightly: "Sorry sir, we don't just handle the documents of the two of us, in fact, there are far more people we have to handle the documents than you think." ”

"How many people are there?"

"About fifty."

The staff of the immigration department changed slightly, but instead of being solemn, he said with a somewhat suppressed excitement: "That's not good, too many people will cause me a lot of trouble." ”

As he spoke, he stretched out two fingers and rubbed them gently: "You have to add money, at least one dollar per person!" ”

"It's too expensive!"

Zhang Huaisheng stretched out a finger and cut it in half: "Half a pound at most." ”

The staff of the immigration department did not get angry, but smiled: "Deal." ”

Actually, he had a fart risk.

Except for those smugglers from Mexico, there are no serious immigrants in the whole of Houston, and it is a surprise that they can earn such a fortune.

...

After completing the immigration documents.

It took them a whole afternoon to sell machinery, buy fresh water, food, building materials, and other trivial matters.

There was no trouble during this period, and nearly thirty sailors, each with a revolver, were guaranteed not to even let out a fart even if the Ku Klux Klan saw it.

In the evening, the Hanseatic and his crew chartered a hotel in Houston and ordered three full tables of dishes.

Although the Hanseatic procured a lot of supplies, and the variety was quite rich, everyone ate a lot of fresh ingredients on land.

This is true even for the nuns who are mostly in the "famine" sequence.

Early the next morning, the Hanseatic set sail again, heading south along the coastline.

The closer you get to the Mexican border, the more desolate and chaotic it becomes, and the more suitable it is for the Illager to take root.

From the white supremacy of the United States, it can be seen that Britain still has a huge influence in this country, and although the border areas are dangerous, they are safe.

Mexico was also once the little overlord of Central America, but sadly, it was too far from heaven and too close to America.

First, it was ceded off by the United States, and then it fell into the quagmire of civil war, and it was unable to extricate itself for a long time.

If it weren't for the fact that Mexico's situation was countless times worse than that of Texas, how could there be so many smugglers trying to smuggle into Texas, which is still very dangerous at this time.

The Hanseatic eventually anchored at Mansfield.

There is only a simple dock that allows distant-water fishing vessels like the Hanseatic to moor.

The group spent £100 on the town council and demarcated a large tract of fertile land, a hundred acres, on the town council's map.

Don't think it's cheap.

That's it, it's a premium sale.

After all, it's far from the city, and if you encounter wild beasts, werewolf settlements, gun-wielding stowaways, or even hordes of Ku Klux Klan, you can only resist on your own.

It is simply impossible to count on the patrol.

In the Bailiwick of Mansfield, there are countless abandoned farmlands, and buying an acre of land for a pound is not a bargain at all.

In fact, if you have a gun, as long as you can pay your taxes on time and go directly to those wastelands and set up a large area of land to build a farm, no one will say anything.

The rest of the time.

The congregation began a great infrastructure movement, in which both men and women devoted themselves to the construction of their own homes.

A large area of land was enclosed with a wooden fence, and then dwellings, lookouts, and watchtowers with gun emplacements were built just to buy artillery.

It was built entirely using this as an armed stronghold.