By the end of June 1856

In the first half of the year, the GDP of the Tang Kingdom reached 527.3 million Tang Yuan, about 91.2% of the total economic output of the northern United States, further approaching the gap between the economic aggregates of the two sides.

This statistic does not include the total economic aggregate of the American South.

From the point of view of the total population

By the end of June, the total population of the Tang Kingdom reached 11,123,300, with an average monthly migration of 9~100,000 people on the Pacific North Golden Route, 1.7~22,000 on the Central Pacific Route, and 5,500~6,000 people on the South and Central America routes.

The northern part of the United States continues to be the main inflow area of European immigrants, showing a typical trend of high population growth.

By the end of June, the population of the northern United States had reached 15.51 million, and the scale of industrial production had further expanded, showing a vigorous momentum of initial industrialization.

The Kansas Civil War did not affect the economic growth momentum of the northern United States, and it was a typical local war.

With the end of the Crimean War in Europe, the demand for a large number of war materials from Europe plummeted, which had a certain impact on the industrial and agricultural economy of the Tang Kingdom.

At the right time

The main construction of the Daming Palace has been completed and delivered, and now only part of the West Palace and the harem are left, which are still in full swing, and the construction personnel have been reduced from 42,300 people in the heyday to about 14,000 people at present.

Most of the main materials, which cost a lot of money, have been completed, but now more are the amount of elaborate work, mostly done by skilled craftsmen, and the demand for hard labor is greatly reduced.

The Imperial Household Affairs Office was able to free up its hands to allocate funds for the planned strategic reserves, officially launching a large-scale storage operation, providing a great buffer space for a considerable number of enterprises in the kingdom to switch from wartime to peacetime.

During the year

The Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to allocate 4.5 million yuan for the collection and storage, and the orders are concentrated on individual weapons and equipment, belts and saddles, tents and blankets, standard military uniforms, bedding, kettles, shovels, artillery shells and bullets, about 150 field guns of various calibers produced by the Colt Arms Company, 10 6,000-ton steam iron transport ships, and other grain, wheat and soybeans.

From the next fiscal year

The Royal Household Affairs Office will allocate no less than 11 million yuan every year for large-scale collection and storage, and the Royal Government will also allocate special funds to concentrate more on grain and oil reserves, taking into account both military and civilian use.

By the end of June 1856

The development statistics of the cities of the Tang Kingdom have been released one after another, and the ranking of the top ten cities in the Kingdom has become clearer, reflecting the overall trend of the economic development of the Tang Kingdom.

The largest city of the Tang Kingdom is Chang'an (San Francisco), which is the political, cultural, military and economic center of the kingdom, with the Daming Palace on the Dragon Head Plain as the core, and the royal government, military leadership institutions, religious beliefs, higher education, culture and large corporate headquarters are gathered here, forming an increasingly prosperous development trend.

The population of Chang'an (San Francisco) increased from 1,022,100 at the end of 1854 to 1,239,500 at the end of June 1856, an increase of 217,400 in a year and a half.

The education system is dominated by a series of institutions of higher learning such as the University of California, Chang'an Jiangwutang, the Canadian Institute of Technology, the Kingdom Medical University, and the Kingdom Teachers College, bringing together experts and professors from all over the world, and the education has reached the first-class level in Europe, giving birth to many major inventions to promote economic development.

In particular, it is known for its innovative achievements such as complete sets of petrochemical equipment, small diesel engines and marine steam power, Harvey bulletproof armor steel, food and canning processing equipment, etc.

Chang'an City is also the only large city with a population of one million in the Tang Kingdom, gathering many large enterprises and bank headquarters, and the scale of the city has been repeatedly expanded, like a large construction site everywhere, developing with each passing day.

Los Angeles, the second largest city in the Tang Kingdom, had a total population of 734,000 at the end of 1854 to 925,500 at the end of June 1856, which was not far from the goal of a large city with a population of one million.

Los Angeles is the terminus of the golden shipping route in the northern Pacific Ocean, and thanks to the concentration of millions of Chinese immigrants every year, Los Angeles has always been one of the fastest growing cities in the coastal city, second only to Chang'an.

Today, the four major companies of the Tang Kingdom's economic industry, Texaco Petroleum Company, Chevron Petroleum Company, Royal Radiant Petroleum Company and California Oil Company, are all headquartered in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles's ocean shipping and transit transportation industry is very developed, with more than 20 ocean shipping companies and hundreds of warehouses of all sizes, and the trade of goods shipped to Europe through Los Angeles every year accounts for more than 8 percent of the kingdom's trade.

In addition, education in Los Angeles is also quite developed, with the Los Angeles Institute of Technology, the Los Angeles National Academy of Letters, the Los Angeles Naval Academy, and the Royal Military Academy under construction, all of which are top universities.

The third largest city in the Tang Kingdom is Seattle, which has benefited from the strong demand of the Crimean War and ranks first among coastal cities.

In June 1856, Seattle surpassed Taoyuan City, the third largest city in the Tang Kingdom, with a total population of 582,200 people, mainly in the marine fishing, timber, canned food processing industries and shipbuilding industries.

And so it goes

The first three cities of the Tang Kingdom are all located in the coastal area, one north (Seattle), one middle (Chang'an), and one south (Los Angeles), showing a good situation of three arrows at the same time.

This further reflects that the economic center of the Tang Kingdom is biased towards the coastal area, and the convergence of people, logistics and resources, coupled with the blessing of trade routes, has led to the rapid development of large coastal cities, forming a siphon effect on surrounding cities.

Take Seattle, for example

The city has seized the huge dividends of the development of the canned food industry and the shipbuilding industry, and has risen to the top of the country in terms of its total exports of seafood and various meats and canned beans.

In particular, canned chickpeas and spiced soybeans with low price and great demand account for more than 72% of the country's canned food exports, and canned seafood accounts for more than 80%, forming more than a dozen advantageous famous brands.

As the capital of the Northern Province, Seattle is a well-known animal husbandry province in the country with a vast inland area suitable for the development of animal husbandry, rich forest and pasture resources, 380,000 beef cattle and 2.16 million sheep.

Vancouver and Portland, the capital of Oregon, have been left behind as Seattle's rapid growth has squeezed out surrounding cities, and their economies and population growth have lagged far behind.

The fourth largest city in the kingdom was Taoyuan City, whose population grew from 453,100 at the end of 1854 to 565,900 at the end of June 1856, ranking fourth in the country with a gap of more than 17,000 people.

As once the largest city in the country, Taoyuan City was gradually forgotten in the past 7 years of the US-Tang War, and then surpassed by one coastal city after another, which seemed extremely lonely.

This large northern city on the Colorado Plateau was at the forefront of the fight against American aggression at the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Kingdom. It has spent a lot of money to establish a well-developed industrial system, steelmaking, cement, food processing, weapons manufacturing and handicraft workshops, and its strength is second to none in the northern region.

Taoyuan School of Administration is the top institution in the Tang Kingdom to train qualified civil servants, and the outstanding students who graduate from here are all over the provinces and cities of the Tang Kingdom, becoming an important force supporting the grassroots administrative system of the Kingdom.

As is customary

His Majesty the King visits the Colorado Plateau every year, and every year he spends less than a month at the Jinghu Palace in Taoyuan City, which is the pride of the people of Taoyuan City.

The fifth largest city in the Tang Kingdom was Salem, whose population jumped from 273,200 at the end of 1854 to 418,000 at the end of June 1856, ranking fifth.

Salem is a typical industrial city, relying on abundant coal and iron resources to develop the pillar steel industry, ocean-going shipbuilding and machinery industry, the famous small diesel engine and marine steam engine are produced here.

There are more than 130 heavy industry enterprises in the city, and the chimneys spew black smoke all day long, which is a sign of strong industrialization in today's era, and no one mentions any environmental pollution problems.

Salem is only more than 100 kilometers away from Portland, the capital of Oregon Province in the north, and with its resource advantages, its development momentum has surpassed the capital city and proudly ranked as the fifth largest city in the kingdom.

The rapid development of the canned food industry in the Tang Kingdom, if it were not for the high-quality thin iron sheets produced in the Salem area, it would not have been possible to develop to the current scale, forming a huge industrial chain that tens of thousands of people rely on, and the kingdom's unique export products.

Unlike the small and medium-sized shipyards in the Seattle area, several large shipyards along the coast of Salem, specializing in the production of large ocean-going passenger and cargo ships, are the shipbuilding powerhouses in the north of the kingdom, accounting for about half of the country's ship production capacity, and the strength can be seen in the single-handedly fighting dozens of shipyards in Chang'an and Los Angeles.

Back to the roots

It is the high-quality steel produced in the Salem area, which provides the best resources for the shipbuilding industry in the region, coupled with the Kingdom's second-to-none machining capacity, marine steam engine and marine boiler production capacity, and complete supporting capacity, its shipbuilding development potential is far from being tapped.

From the ranking of the five major cities of the Tang Kingdom, it can be seen that under the balance of market forces, the national economic center of gravity and urban development center of gravity is biased towards the coastal areas, which is inseparable from the unique geographical advantages of the coastal areas.

The Tang Kingdom's powerful ocean transportation capacity, combined with the geographical advantages of the coastal areas, has formed this one-sided development advantage.

This kind of advantage, the inland areas can't catch up.

For the same production of canned meat, the transportation cost in coastal areas is extremely obvious compared with inland areas.

In the face of increasingly fierce competition at home, it is no surprise that the coastal region has taken the lead in economic development, and has taken the biggest slice of the pie.

The only thing that can change this disadvantage is the Gulf of Mexico Railway, which is of great significance in providing a convenient access to the sea for the economic development of the southern provinces.

The Gulf Railroad, which had only opened in early 1856, had not been able to catch up with the surge of European demand spurred by the Crimean War, which was deeply regretted by the 12 northern and southern provinces.

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