At a time when the world is in turmoil, the Tang Kingdom seems to be calm in the eyes of the storm, and while unswervingly promoting the national policy dominated by Chinese immigrants, it strives to develop industry, agriculture and animal husbandry, and revitalize the kingdom's economy, and has achieved dazzling brilliant results.

Statistics from January ~ October 1855

In 10 months, a total of 1,076,355 Chinese immigrants entered the Tang Kingdom through the North Pacific Golden Immigration Route and the Central and South American Immigration Routes, with an average monthly immigration number of more than 100,000, reaching a new historical high.

Based on the historical record of breaking through the 10 million population mark at the end of May, coupled with the high growth of the new population of the Tang Kingdom, it is a sure thing that the total population of the country will exceed 11 million by the end of the year.

According to statistics;

The GDP in 1~10 months reached 937 million yuan, and the annual GDP exceeded the 1 billion mark, and there is no suspense.

In the world, the economy with a total economic volume of 1 billion can already rank ninth in the world, slightly inferior to Britain, Russia, France, Qing, Prussia, Austria-Hungary, Meimeijian, the Ottoman Empire, slightly ahead of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (including the Dutch East Indies), among the world's top ten economies.

In these countries

The Tang Kingdom has the smallest population, but it is second only to Britain and France in the process of industrialization in full swing, slightly ahead of the United States and Prussia, and is among the most advanced in the world.

It also has unique resource advantages, especially the petrochemical industry, which occupies 88.7% of the world market, and has the world's largest output of the Shocito silver mine and the Morenso copper mine, which provides a solid economic foundation for the industrialization development of the Tang Kingdom.

The world's largest American River mining company, with the rights and interests of many gold mines in American River and Melbourne, Australia, has a stable annual output of up to 2.7 million to 3.2 million ounces of gold, of which Australia's gold production has accounted for more than 6% of the share, and is a world-renowned old mining company.

Under the guidance of the policy of the Tang Kingdom government, the newly born canned food industry has sprung up all over the provinces of the kingdom, creating a canned food industry chain with more than 40 food processing factories and a complete variety of beef, mutton and poultry meat, seafood, melons and fruits, which are exported to Europe and are warmly welcomed.

In particular, the British Royal Navy fleet simply loved it, and listed it as the first priority of the Royal Navy's food supply, and canned goods of various flavors were purchased and hoarded frantically.

This move

It caused the French Navy, the Prussian Navy, the Sardinian Navy, Spain, the Netherlands, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and other navies to compete with each other.

This is because the canned food of the Tang Kingdom is divided into one pound, two pounds, 5 pounds, 20 pounds and 50 pounds of tin cans, which can meet the needs of individual families or small gatherings, as well as the needs of the ship's canteen.

Canned food not only has a wide variety, but also has a variety of renovations, and a variety of ways to eat it are simply unheard of, and are deeply loved by European customers.

For example, canned beef has canned spiced brisket, canned stewed beef, canned curry beef, canned braised beef, canned plum beef, canned chickpea beef, canned corned beef, etc., with rich flavors and many varieties, giving full play to the profound heritage of Chinese cuisine and creating a rich range of products to choose from.

In addition to canned beef, canned mutton and canned pork, a wide variety of canned chicken, canned soybeans, canned chickpeas, canned luncheon meat, various stewed fish, grilled fish, fried fish, canned spiced fish, canned jellyfish, canned fruits and vegetables, and a variety of new products emerge one after another.

Just ask, who can not love?

As soon as the European market was first tested, it received an unexpectedly enthusiastic response, and the ships transporting canned products were snatched up as soon as they arrived at the terminal, and many popular canned products even sold at high prices, several times the selling price.

On the streets of London, there are even convenient restaurants that specialize in canned food, which are popular for their speed and good taste.

All these restaurants need to do is open the canning box, heat it on the stove, and pour it on a plate for a hot meal, then serve it with freshly baked bread and a beer.

As a matter of fact

This is a new type of convenient restaurant that was originally changed from the bakery in disguise, and the business was very hot after its launch, and it became a social news widely disseminated for a while, pushing the reputation of Tang Guo canned food to a new level.

It is precisely because of the sudden explosion of the canned food industry that there is a shortage of manpower in ranch farms and newly established livestock slaughterhouses and canned food processing factories in various parts of the Tang Kingdom, and the demand for labor is very urgent.

This boom in the canning industry has even affected Paradise Island, a tropical island with natural conditions that are ideal for the development of the fruit industry, which is processed into canned food and sold in Europe.

Many Chinese with a keen sense of smell sold their assets and went to Paradise Island to start a business, buying a large amount of land to build fruit plantations and canning melon and fruit processing factories in an attempt to get a piece of the pie in this wave of industrial boom.

In light of this

At the royal meeting of the Cabinet at this regular audience, King Richard personally made the decision;

The preparations for the Central Pacific Migration Route have been completed, and a new Central Pacific Migration Route has been officially opened, mainly at Mawei in Fuzhou Province, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Jiangmen, Foshan and other ports in Guangdong Province, and finally arrived in Panama through the paradise island of New Xi'an and Donggang.

On this route

Strict examination of shipping company qualifications, the five largest shipping companies in the Tang Kingdom took the lead in obtaining shipping qualifications, and put into operation 17 migrant transport ships with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons and more than 60 cargo ships on this route in advance to carry out transpacific customer transportation business.

This is an extremely important decision, which means that the Tang Kingdom will have two transpacific migration routes in the future, which will have a strong role in promoting the economic development of the two overseas provinces of Paradise Island and Panama.

The official opening of this Central Pacific migration route will surely boost the rapid economic development of the Tang Kingdom.

Say a thousand, say ten thousand.

The level of scientific and technological development in today's world is still low, a large number of low-level repetitive labor needs to be completed manually, and industrial development is inseparable from abundant labor, which is an unavoidable reality.

The age structure of the Tang Kingdom is generally younger, with young and middle-aged laborers accounting for more than 7 percent of the total population, and the actual labor force is similar to the difference between the population of the northern United States, which is 1.5 times more populous, which is the biggest advantage.

Even so, cotton plantations and farms and pastures in the south and north, plus processing plants, often require millions of workers and are in great demand.

From cattle and sheep grazing, slaughtering and segmentation, nitrate leather, processing into canned food, transportation, warehousing, factory construction, cotton planting, picking, processing textiles, agricultural product production, cleaning, processing almost every process requires a large amount of labor, there are workers there is output, there is output value.

A large canned food processing factory has one or two thousand workers at every turn, and in the provinces of the Tang Kingdom, new factories are rising every day, devoting themselves to this new and promising industry.

At this time, the important decision to open up the Central Pacific migration route was the right choice made by King Richard in consideration of the progress of the construction of the transit port on Paradise Island and the ability to carry migrants.

In order to adapt to the hot weather and long voyages of the Central Pacific migration route, the migrant ships and freighters put into operation on the route are generally optimized design, the middle and bottom warehouses are mainly used to carry goods, and the front part of the freighter is designed and built with a special crew cabin, and the ship has a round porthole on the side of the ship, which has a basic ventilation and ventilation living function.

The entire Central Pacific route passes through the relay of two transit ports on Paradise Island, and is divided into several voyages with a maximum duration of no more than two weeks, that is, the voyage from the East Port to Panama.

With clean drinking water and bean sprouts, salted fish and a small amount of canned food (only self-paid passengers, the sick can be supplied), at least the migrants no longer have to eat spoiled and rotten food, black bread and rice infested with maggots, and accidental deaths from severe diarrhoea, vomiting and dehydration have been greatly reduced.

Due to the supply of goods at the transit port, most of the passengers of the migrant ship mainly ate on rice and flour and vegetables, supplemented by a small amount of pickled vegetables, salted fish and salted meat, while canned food was a luxury, which was only enjoyed by paying passengers and a small number of sick people.

Large migrant ships with a displacement of about 5,000 tons can carry about 1,800~2,200 immigrants at a time according to regulations, and can provide relatively spacious activity space, and can often go to the deck to breathe and blow fresh sea breeze.

Such conditions are 100 times stronger than in the era of sails.

There are policies above, and there are countermeasures below.

As a matter of fact

If a large migrant ship with a displacement of about 5,000 tons is loaded as much as possible, it can transport up to 3,500 to 3,800 people in a short distance, considering that the coastal provinces of Shenzhou are only 1300~1600 kilometers away from New Xi'an, a paradise island, it only takes 4~5 days to arrive.

Therefore, large shipping companies often carry more migrants in Shenzhou, and when they enter the new Xi'an Port and Donggang for transit, they unload some of the migrants to offset the costs, such as port entry fees, voyage visa fees, coal fuel costs, material supply fees, etc., to supplement the labor force of local plantation owners and make extra money.

In any case, when they finally arrive at the Panamanian port area, the migrant ships will be strictly inspected, and the overloaded part will be subject to large fines, in order to protect the living environment of the migrants transported across the ocean and reduce the mortality rate.

Therefore, the overloaded migrants will be unloaded in Donggang, which has brought sufficient migrant population to New Xi'an and Donggang.

At the end of the imperial meeting, the Prime Minister, Earl Gu Yan, and a number of cabinet staff dispersed one after another.

Only Earl Dai Changfu, chief of staff of the army, and Count Pan Hengchen, chief of staff of the navy, stayed, and the two stared at each other and did not speak for a long time.

"Mr. Dai, if you have something important to start Your Majesty, please take care of yourself, it doesn't hurt to wait for a while." Count Pan Hengchen couldn't help but open his mouth first.

Compared with the power of the army and navy, the army is still the boss, which is beyond doubt.

However, the navy of the Tang Kingdom has also developed rapidly, and since the six steam ironclad frigates entered service, the navy has been able to carry out mid-coastal patrols to safeguard the kingdom's maritime rights and interests.

in the Pacific region

The navy of the Tang Kingdom sent a fleet of two ironclad steam frigates, two migrant ships and three cargo ships, carrying 1,300 marines, to participate in the landing campaign of the British fleet to attack Petropaplovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Although the battle did not go well, more than 1,300 Marines lost more than half of their lives and had to retreat despite heavy casualties among the coalition forces.

But it is undeniable that this is the first appearance of the navy of the Tang Kingdom in the Gulf War, and the British Royal Navy has a high evaluation of it, calling it; "A dedicated and trustworthy regional navy."

To put it mildly, the evaluation of the British Royal Navy is the evaluation of the world's authority, and no country has the right to refute this.

Earl Dai Changfu looked at Count Pan Hengchen with an unkind face, and said with a light snort; "In this case, the old man will take the first step. However, I would like to remind General Pan that the Kingdom Expeditionary Force has made outstanding achievements in the establishment of Europe, and His Majesty has great hopes for this, and the strategic pattern of North America in the future will still be Tang and the United States competing for hegemony, and our army will shoulder the heavy responsibility. The Admiralty should have a clear understanding of this and subordinate itself to the overall situation. ”

"Huh...... Now that the Holy Monarch is in the court, the general trend of the world is in the hands of His Majesty. Count Pan Hengchen unceremoniously blocked back the other party's words.

These words were hidden in the needle, but Count Dai Changfu could not refute them, and he could only snort angrily.

The dispute between the army and the navy has already shown signs of fighting, and the contention is nothing more than a big cake of the military budget, who will eat a little more, and who will eat a little less?

The navy has developed rapidly in recent years, and with the entry into service of six steam ironclad frigates, the size of the Marine Corps has also reached about 4,500 people, which is a rather threatening combat force.

Small and lean, what is lacking is a wealth of seafaring and combat experience.

As an emerging maritime power, the ability of the navy of the Tang Kingdom to eat military expenses is not far behind, and the cost of a steam ironclad frigate is more than 86,000 yuan, which is almost equivalent to the expenditure of half an infantry division, plus the high cost of training and maintenance, which has indeed had a certain impact on the development of the army.

For any country, the development of a navy is an expensive military plan, and even a weaker country cannot afford it.

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It's no wonder that Count Dai Changfu can't get used to the fact that the navy's nose is not a nose or an eye.

At this time

Liu Xianjun, the head of the royal secretariat, walked out of the inner court, his eyes stayed on the two military elders, and he said with a smile in the corner of his eyes; "Your Majesty summons, which one will go first?"

"Please Dai Zongza first, it doesn't hurt for Weichen to wait." Earl Pan Hengchen had a relatively young experience, so he replied with a smile with a very wise salute.

"That'...... Mr. Dai, please. Yoo Hyun-jun then made a polite gesture.

Earl Dai Changfu just didn't like the personnel of the Admiralty in his heart, but he was naturally different from His Majesty's close ministers, and he smiled humbly; "There's Lord Lao Gongbao, please."

After speaking, the two walked in side by side, talking and laughing softly quite politely, and the surface work was very good.

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