Entering the 12th year after the founding of the People's Republic of China

The urban development level of the Tang Kingdom has reached the world's first-class, with the rise of Chang'an (Chang'an) and Los Angeles, two metropolises with a population of one million, and at the end of June 1856, the country's population reached 14,869,200 (note; this statistic does not include Costa Rica), showing a trend of rapid growth.

throughout North America

New York is still the most populous metropolis, and its population has swelled rapidly from 1,310,000 at the end of June 1856 to 1,876,200 at the end of June 1858.

Different from the rapid development of New York, the development of Chang'an (San Francisco) has been more stable step by step, and the population size has increased from 1,239,500 at the end of June 1856 to 1,573,700 at the end of June 1858, breaking through the 1.5 million population mark.

But it should also be seen

The expansion of Chang'an's urban scale has opened a big gap with New York, and this is also the original intention of the royal government to vigorously promote a new round of development, and the foundation is solid enough to have a considerable practical foundation.

The degree of industrialization in the United States is only 38.6%, and the Tang Kingdom has reached 67%, with a larger industrial scale and a higher level of economic development.

Statistics at the end of June 1858 show;

The top ten cities in the Tang Kingdom are:

ranked first; Chang'an City (San Francisco).

ranked second; Los angeles

ranked third; Seattle

ranked fourth; Taoyuan City

ranked fifth; City of Salem

ranked sixth; Portland

Ranked seventh; New Xi'an City

Ranked eighth; City of Gallup

Ranked ninth; Donggang City

Ranked 10th; Jinling City

Compared to the statistics of two years ago, the ranking of the top six cities remains unchanged, and five of the six major cities are coastal cities, highlighting the strong development of coastal cities.

The change came in the seventh ranking city, with the city of New Xi'an, to which Paradise Island belongs, breaking into the seventh place, squeezing the traditional mineral resource city of Gallup to the eighth place, and Donggang City also squeezing into the ninth place, performing very well.

As the old saying goes; The building near the water is the first to get the month.

Benefiting from being the closest city to the mainland of China, the number of Chinese immigrants in New Xi'an has increased proportionally, ranking first among all cities in the country.

If you immigrate to Paradise Island, you will get 10 acres (Note; metric 60 acres) of land, which has an unstoppable allure for Chinese immigrants.

In addition, with only a two-year contract for employment, it takes 5 days and 5 nights to arrive in New Xi'an by migrant ship from the southeast coastal port, so the number of applicants is very enthusiastic.

Basically, seven or eight out of 10 people chose to immigrate to New Xi'an.

Immigration officials even have to rudely close the application channel for immigrants to New Xi'an, and introduce excess immigrants into Donggang and North America, Panama, Costa Rica and other places, and appropriately divert them.

This shows how popular immigration to New Xi'an is.

The city of Donggang has also benefited from its proximity, with a rapidly growing immigrant population and rising two places in the ranking, making it one of the ninth largest cities in the Kingdom.

Among the top ten cities in the kingdom, Chang'an is the capital of the kingdom, with a population of 1,573,700, it is the political, economic, military and educational center of the kingdom, the seat of the royal palace and the government of the kingdom, the best resources and the headquarters of large enterprises are located here, the city has expanded rapidly, firmly occupying the first place.

Los Angeles, which ranked second, was among the metropolises with a population of one million, and its population increased from 925,500 at the end of June 1856 to 1,229,300 at the end of June 1858.

This stems from the fact that Los Angeles is a national economic powerhouse, a core city for maritime and rail transportation, and has four major oil giants in the kingdom that are making money every day, and most of their oil fields are scattered in the towns around Los Angeles.

It is the general impression of Chinese people that Los Angeles people are rich and wealthy, which other cities can't catch up.

Los Angeles Mayor Shawn once said proudly; "There's no way, so many oil fields can't be moved, the shareholders of oil companies eat meat, and the workers can drink soup to support their bellies, and it's not our fault in Los Angeles?"

Seattle, the capital of the Northern Province, in third place, also performed well with a population that grew from 582,200 at the end of June 1856 to 732,800.

Seattle is the second landing point on the North Pacific migration route after Los Angeles, the city has developed agriculture and animal husbandry, marine fishing and shipbuilding industries, and has rich forest resources, and a large export of timber to the south, making it an economic powerhouse in the north.

The proposed Northern Railroad would start in Seattle and travel west through Yakima to Spokane, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, and then over more than 130 kilometers of mountains, with 23 tunnels and 119 bridges to connect the main arteries to Helena, the capital of Montana.

The Northern Railway is split in two at Helena, one continuing northeast for more than 170 kilometers to Great Falls.

The other stretches southeast and travels about 1,370 kilometers to Peel City, the capital of South Dakota.

The "Northern Railway" plan is a key project in the construction of the Tang Kingdom since 1859, and it is a northern railway trunk line from west to east, which is one of the three major trunk railways of the Tang Kingdom.

The other two are the Nevada Railroad, which has just been completed, and the Western Railroad, which starts in Los Angeles and goes west to Rio Rancho.

Now

The preliminary engineering survey plan of the "Northern Railway" has been completed, and the Chinese engineers and 33,000 Native American prisoners who participated in the construction of the Nevada Railway are moving to new construction sites one after another, and continue to start a new round of construction boom.

In the construction plan of the Ministry of Communications, the "Southern Railway" is comparable to the "Northern Railway", which is also a railway trunk line running from west to east, and is under construction as a war-ready railway.

This railway line starts from Chihuahua City in the south and ends in Houston, Texas, and is the main railway line connecting the Tang Kingdom and the southern United States.

The U.S. Northern Army is attacking Kansas City with all its might, and the Southern Army is fighting bloodied, and if Kansas City falls, then the Southern Railroad will be a lifesaver, shouldering the heavy responsibility of sending a large amount of supplies to the South of the United States, and supporting them to continue fighting.

The population of Taoyuan City, which ranked fourth, has grown from 565,900 at the end of June 1856 to 671,000 today, which is relatively small in population growth.

Taoyuan City is the only inland city among the top six cities of the Tang Kingdom, and its role is needless to say, it is a complete industrial and military and educational center on the Colorado Plateau.

Due to geographical factors

Taoyuan City is located at the crossroads of the Tang Kingdom from west to east and from south to north, which is not only a defensive outpost to resist American aggression, but also a vital waist and eye of the kingdom.

Salem, the fifth-ranked city, and Portland, the sixth-ranked city, are the twin cities of industrial development, with both cities having a population of more than 550,000, Selm with an urban population of 583,500 and Portland with an urban population of 550,700.

The next step of the Tang Kingdom is to concentrate on the development of the steel industry, most of the new factories are located in these two cities, in addition to the business card of steel, here is also the center of agricultural machinery manufacturing industry, the northern shipbuilding center, the future to vigorously develop the fertilizer industry is also located here, is an out-and-out coastal heavy industry zone, the future development potential is huge.

Portland, the capital of Oregon, is rich in coal and iron, well, high-quality, easy to transport, and a blessed place for heavy industry, which other cities can't even covet.

The only thing that haunts Portland is its urban population and economic aggregate, which has always been crushed by Salem, which is not far away, and even the size of the city is one place behind, ranking sixth.

This simply made Portland depressed and vomiting blood, so in the new round of big development, Portland is full of energy, to fight for more big projects, to introduce more immigrant population, to develop more urban construction, and strive to surpass the damn Salem City in one fell swoop, become the well-deserved boss of Oregon Province, and take a good breath.

Portland's calculations are indeed good, but Salem is not given for nothing, and it makes sense to be able to win against the provincial capital.

Built on the Pacific coast, Salem has world-class port conditions, with nitrate ore shipped from Chile being unloaded directly at the port terminal and directly accessible to the plant via the warehouse rail.

Iron ore and high-quality coal mined from mines near Oregon can be easily transported by sea to the steel mills built on the seashore, and transportation costs are greatly reduced.

Vessels with very deep drafts could not enter the river and had to be transshipped through the docks to reach the inland city of Portland.

In comparison, from the point of view of the convenience of transportation, of course, Senham is far ahead.

You know, these iron ore and coal often count 100,000 tons, more than 100 kilometers of short-distance connection, and an extra layer of loading and unloading fees is a huge amount.

As long as your head doesn't get dizzy, you know what to choose.

The same is true for the shipbuilding industry, if you only build some small and medium-sized ships of hundreds of tons or thousands of tons, but to build large maritime passenger and cargo ships of tens of thousands of tons, they are too large to pass through inland river bridges, and in any case they have to be built in seaside shipyards.

Therefore, the battle between Salem and Portland, the industrial twin cities, will continue for a long time, and if you look at it rationally, Portland will be lucky not to be pulled away from the bigger gap.

Large steel and chemical enterprises are labor-intensive, once put into production, the number of employed people is not a small number, and will strongly drive the development of urban services and commerce, creating tens of thousands of additional jobs.

From this point of view

Portland's ambitions are hard to come true, and Senham could be overwhelmed for a long time to come.

Not only will it not be able to transcend, but it will widen the distance between the two cities.

Needless to say, the seventh-ranked city of New Xi'an and the ninth-ranked Donggang City are both immigrant cities with large populations but weak economic strength.

This is also the result of the differentiated strategy of the kingdom's development, in the development blueprint laid out by Richard himself, no matter which overseas province or the exclusive land of the royal family, it will not focus on the development of industry, but only to meet its own agricultural and sideline products processing.

All industrial development is basically concentrated in the Tang Kingdom, which is the "strong and weak" strategy, all to strengthen the strength of the Tang Kingdom as the first priority, all development plans must revolve around the "strong and weak branches" strategy, and those that do not meet will be cut down.

The exclusive territory of the royal family and the overseas provinces are too far away, and if they really want to develop richer and more powerful than the native, then the centrifugal force is an inevitable result, which is not transferred by the will of any one person.

Some time in the future

If the Tang Kingdom successfully includes Mexico, it will also not develop the industry in the region, and it will still be dominated by the agricultural and animal husbandry economy, and Mexico will always be a marginal and backward region.

As a result, affluent areas will become a strong attraction.

Among the top 10 large cities, Gallup is the only one, with a total urban population of 454,800, ranking eighth in the country, and is a large city that has developed entirely on resources.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, it is about the city of Gallup.

Gallup is a large oasis east of the Grand Canyon and west of Rio Nancho Fortress, on the banks of the Holy Emperor River, surrounded by world-class resources.

Today, the world's largest Morunch copper mine, located about 77 kilometers southwest of the town of Gallup, produces up to 32,000 tons of high-quality copper, more than 410 tons of silver and more than 3.7 tons of gold every year.

The region is extremely rich in resources, and also has a huge amount of coal, zinc, aluminum, and lead ore reserves, which can be called a treasure trove of resources.

The newly discovered high-purity natural potash deposits, also located in the region, can reach 80% purity, and a little refining can produce extremely high purity "pearl ash", which is a key raw material for the production of potash fertilizer.

How rare are high-purity natural potash deposits?

Let's just say that more than 150 years later, the natural potash deposits in the Gallup region are still the purest potash deposits in the world today, and this natural potash deposit is very rare in the world, and its geographical survival conditions are extremely harsh.

Generally speaking

Most of the industrialized potassium is extracted from salt and potassium in salt lakes, and Germany extracts salt brine through salt wells and then uses a series of processes to refine potash alkali, which is quite costly.

In the United Kingdom, potash is extracted from plant ash, which requires burning a lot of wood, except for the easy acquisition of burning trees during land clearance, if the forest is burned simply to obtain methyl alkali, the cost is too great.

The Americans' axes basically cut down the forests of the Central Great Plains, and they didn't make potash cheap enough to be freely applied to the land and used as fertilizer.

Cutting down forests to grow food sounds particularly weird.

It is precisely because of the unparalleled resource advantages that Gallup has grown into the eighth largest city in the Tang Kingdom, the city with the most mines, and the city that accepts the most hard labor prisoners in the country.

If these prisoners were to be counted among the urban population, Gallup would be ranked fifth in the country, but of course, this is a joke and there is no possibility of achieving it.

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