Chapter 20: South China

Li Song: "I think there is anything else we didn't expect?" ”

An Yu: "Do you want to say that Lao Mei and Lao Ying have already discovered what we are doing?" ”

"At present, the alliance on the big brother's side has dissolved, but the Colombian region, which is now renamed Grenada, now includes the Panama region, and France, Spain, and the United States want to dominate the construction and operation of the canal in Panama."

Li Song understands the situation and used to be engaged in foreign trade work:

"The Spaniards have already paved the stone road on the site of the Panama Canal exploration route, but the French Grand French Panama Canal Operating Company began to build the canal era, after 1883, and it seems that because of infectious diseases, it stopped after 1889, although the longest is only 84 kilometers, but it also took 7 or 8 years to build!"

"The construction of the Grand Canal requires a huge amount of building materials, and we should increase investment in the construction of building materials factories."

However, the situation in Panama is still chaotic, with Western gold prospectors and adventurers, landless farmers and bankrupt small craftsmen, and pirates in the Caribbean.

The issue of security is very important, so the security of the Panama region needs to be strengthened.

Li Song: "I also want to talk about Meng Xiaohui's situation, assuming they travel to a few years before 1876, maybe they will come back in a few months, what are we lacking now?" Female compatriots, of course, military forces are also insufficient. ”

An Yu: "I can take precautions, I can immediately vacate 5,000 containers and divide them into two dormitories, which can accommodate 80,000 people, I should be able to cope with it, but I hope Meng Xiaohui will surprise me!" ”

On October 28, 1876, the number of Chinese in Luzon had reached 2.8 million, and the Luzon Chinese Special Administrative Region had been established.

In the past two years, the vanguard army of the Tang Society and the Spanish colonial army have fought many times, and the Chinese army has been disciplined and brave, and has continued to grow and develop in the war, controlling most of Luzon, covering an area of more than 100,000 square kilometers, and there has been peace for the time being.

South China Special Administrative Region of Luzon

Governor: Liu Yongfu

Chief of Civil Affairs: Lee Hon Wing

Minister of Military Security: Wang Yong

Immigration Division: Chen Mengling

Ministry of Science and Technology Industry: Rong Hong, Meng Xiaohui

Ordnance Transport Department: Wang Xiaofeng

Propaganda Office: Chen Wenting

National defense forces: 80,000 field troops + 150,000 militia

Site: 120,000 square kilometers

Population: 2.8 million Chinese, 1.2 million Nanyang people, a total of 4 million, because of your fertile land, three crops a year, Chinese in charge, security.

Except for the low tax, military industry, banks, and mines led by the government, most of the other banks carried out the joint-stock system, and sold a large number of new technology and new products from Hyundai, attracting a large number of Chinese from Malaya, Singapore, and Java to return.

At present, Nanhua has controlled 60% of the cigar industry, using modern knowledge to increase the variety of flavors, and many cigar lovers know that for a time in our Chinese cigars were called Luzon smoke. Luzon here actually refers to the country of Luzon, which is on the island of Luzon in the present-day Philippines. It is mentioned in the "Zhangjun Chronicles" that there are Luzon and Sulu countries in the East, and Siam and Champa countries in the West. In the sixteenth century, the Spanish invaded Luzon, and in 1543, the Spanish explorer Villalobos changed the original title of Luzon to the Philippine Islands in order to please Philip II, the prince at that time, but we still called the Philippines Luzon for a long time after China, and the main island of the Philippines is Luzon, and the title Luzon was called the Republic of China.

Cigars have been an integral part of Luzon for centuries. Tobacco was first cultivated in Luzon in 1592, when the Spanish galleon San Clemente transported 50 kilograms of fine Cuban cigar seeds, which were distributed to Spanish missionaries for planting, thus sowing the seeds of the Luzon cigar industry. They found that Luzon's climate was very similar to that of the Cuban province of Pinar del Río, which was very suitable for the cultivation of cigar tobacco, and within a few years, tobacco became an export product of Luzon.

After the professional combination, the income of Nanhua cigarettes reached 50 million, and the government's finances were more balanced. South China doesn't have time to engage in large-scale industry, well, this is the fastest way to get money.