Chapter 328 Food and Finance

As the core part of the population policy, the unique oriental marriage system of the Tang Kingdom is the greatest guarantee for high population growth, and it is also a very attractive place for naturalized whites.

It is true that the system of wives and concubines is unfriendly and unequal to women.

However, this is a common situation in today's European and American society, women have no right to vote, no right to inheritance, no right to employment, no right to education, have never been valued, and are only regarded as vassals of the family and the property of their husbands, how can there be any equality?

Even as a king, Richard could not challenge the entire social tradition on his own, and if he wanted to realize the rise of the Chinese nation in North America, he had to make trade-offs in order to win the full support and followers of more people.

In March, spring blossoms bloom and everything recovers.

Li Chajing was very thoughtful, so he dressed up in disguise, and only took Viscount Dong Jie and Lieutenant General Li Wu to quietly go out from the side gate of Daming Palace to start a private visit to the micro-service.

The three of them got into an ordinary carriage without any insignia, which was not large, but was pulled by two handsome horses, and the rubber wheels of the carriage were extraordinarily thick, indicating that the load was not light.

This is actually a specially made carriage with bulletproof steel plates, which is ordinary on the outside, but there is something on the inside.

The carriage runs on the wide Danfengmen Street, the buildings on both sides of the street are mainly 4~5 floors, there are Chinese cornices and arches, there are also European-style Roman colonnades, almost all kinds of architectural features are there, just like the Museum of International Architecture.

This reflects the inclusiveness of Chang'an, an international metropolis, with tall trees lush and low shrubs blooming in the 4.5-meter-wide green area in the center of Danfengmen Street.

There is a pocket behind the buttocks of the horses, which is to prevent the horses from defecating in the open and polluting the street environment.

The aristocratic carriage was covered with brocade coats embroidered with family crests, and by the way, the dung pockets were also hidden inside, which looked like a sense of unconsciousness and tallness.

Sitting in the stable carriage, Richard stilted Erlang's legs, holding a glass of French champagne in his hand and tasting it leisurely, his expression was extremely relaxed and comfortable, and he chatted with Viscount Dong Jie beside him.

"Your Majesty, after more than a week of repairs, the vanguard of the Colorado Corps has taken the train to the north, and the follow-up rest troops will arrive in the north within half a month according to the train transportation plan."

"Oh...... Very good. ”

"Your Majesty, Bismarck, the ambassador of the Kingdom of Prussia, strongly requested to go to the front to study, to observe the military operations of our Kingdom at close range, and brought with him a dozen personnel from the Prussian Embassy. It's the Prussian who claims to be your loyal follower, a guy who behaves recklessly. ”

"Oh...... What do you think of this person? ”

Wei Chen felt that although this person acted a little recklessly, he had to say that he was very scheming, very thoughtful, and very actionable, and ordinary envoys stationed abroad could not make such an outrageous request. It can be seen that this person is dissatisfied with the status quo and secretly ambitious. ”

"I do see that something is wrong, try to arrange it for him, Bismarck should be a restless master."

"Wechen obeys the holy order."

Richard did not respond after casually commanding, but looked outside the carriage, which had already turned Danfengmen Street into Chaoyangmen Street, the street was as prosperous as ever, with many shops along the street and a constant flow of people.

In the Tang Kingdom, Chinese immigrants must cut off long braids for naturalization, which is an important measure to remove the poison left by the Manchurians.

The pedestrians on the street are in high spirits, walking with their heads held high, revealing a high spirit from the inside out, which is the biggest change for the Chinese.

With the successive victories of the kingdom's expansion, the subjects of the Celestial Empire had a sense of superiority, and they naturally treated the Mexicans and Indians with a contemptive attitude, as well as some white people from small European countries.

Only the European powers of Britain, France, and Austria can be treated fairly, and the further rise of kingdom status and national self-confidence has brought about the impact of pervasiveness.

There is no black slave to be seen on the streets of the Tang Kingdom, and blacks are not allowed to enter the country, both men and women are prohibited, which is also a place where many white racists feel extremely comfortable.

The Tang Kingdom is generally considered to be a white country in the European and American worlds due to its open-door policy and a large number of intermarriages with whites, otherwise, how can the Tang Kingdom repeatedly defeat the United States of America?

And the defeat of Russia in the Crimea, is this something that a non-white country can do?

Richard has always been indifferent to this paranoid brain supplement in the European and American world, and it is not a little bit to say that the Europeans from the big up lack of understanding of Eastern culture.

Even senior Oriental scholars in Europe and the United States generally believe that the Eastern Dynasty is a unified empire that has lasted for thousands of years, and as for the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, the Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestors are simply not clear.

I am even more confused about the entry of the Manchus in modern times, anyway, it seems that they are all Orientals, and they can't be wrong.

This kind of academic view is still the same even after more than 100 years, and it is difficult for scholars who are not interested in oriental history to make such a thing as the change of dynasties in the Qing Dynasty, and there is a popular saying;

During the period when the ancient Roman Empire dominated the world, the only hegemon in the world that could compete was China.

During the period when the Byzantine Empire was vying for world hegemony, the only hegemon in the world that could compete was China.

During the period when the Persian Empire dominated the world, the only hegemon in the world that could compete was China.

During the period when the Ottoman Empire dominated the world, the only hegemon in the world that could compete was China.

There's another one at the back;

When the United States dominated the world, the only hegemon in the world that could compete was the recovering China.

Look, in the context and cognition of Europeans and Americans, this China is a China that has been unified for thousands of years, and even if China has undergone earth-shaking changes in the new era, it will often be ignored.

Horse-drawn carriages walk in the bustling streets and alleys, and there is a public toilet every hundreds of meters, and the manure in the public toilet is the best farm fertilizer, and the manure truck spontaneously comes to clean it up every morning and evening.

On this point, the municipal side must demarcate the area, and you can't cross the border to dig out dung, otherwise it will cause contradictions and fights, doesn't it sound incredible?

This is not surprising

In the 60s of the 19th century, increasing grain production was a big problem that plagued all countries, and the British went to the site of the Waterloo battlefield to dig up the bones.

It is because bone meal is the best source of phosphate fertilizer and indeed contributes to the agricultural harvest, so Europeans go everywhere to dig ancient battlefields and even abandoned cemeteries to obtain bone meal raw materials.

The first plant of the Coastal Fertilizer Company, which was put into operation in Salem, has produced a steady stream of potash products. However, due to the limited production, it could only be supplied to the royal family and the major aristocratic farms, and social promotion could only be ranked behind.

As for exports, don't even think about it, at least in 7~10 years, the potash fertilizer industry in the Tang Kingdom has not developed to a certain height and meets its own needs, and it will never consider exporting.

In this year's spring ploughing

Potash fertilizer has been widely used, and it seems that the seedlings are thriving, compared to the seedlings in the field, the growth and size are much stronger, and the original harvest is something to be expected.

After more than half a year of production, the Salem fertilizer plant has solved many problems in mass production process and equipment, and the output has been increased step by step, the production process has become more and more mature, and it basically has the ability to expand production in large quantities.

In light of this

Coastal Fertilizer's second fertilizer plant is already under construction and will be located in the Los Angeles area in the south. In the future, important agricultural and animal husbandry cities such as Taoyuan City, Peel City, Chihuahua and Jinling have plans to comprehensively strengthen the Kingdom's agricultural and animal husbandry production capacity.

In terms of potash resources, the kingdom is organizing research on the technology of refining potash from salt mines pioneered by Germany, mainly to optimize the refining steps of salt brine, develop large-scale production processes, and further reduce costs.

This kind of salt mine refining potash technology, mainly from salt brine, is currently facing the shortcomings of cumbersome production process, low refining efficiency and high cost, and does not have large-scale promotion value for the time being.

If you want to say that there are no salt mines in the Tang Kingdom, it is really a small look.

The abundance of resources in the Tang Kingdom has almost made Britain and France and other powerful countries look red-eyed, and Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah Province, is located next to the huge salt lake, which is the second largest salt lake in the world after the Dead Sea, with a salt content of up to 25%.

Located on the edge of the Nevada Desert, it is full of white salt crystals and natural rock salt.

45 kilometers southwest of the salt lake, is the world's largest open-pit copper deposit discovered so far, but unfortunately limited by manpower, material resources and market demand, such a large resource treasure trove has not been developed for the time being.

The Sierra Nevada Mountains in Utah Province alone are rich in copper, lead, iron, coal, diamonds and other resources, which are large enough to be mined for thousands of years.

Salt Lake City was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young and a group of Mormon believers, and since then, the church's headquarters has been located in Salt Lake City, with more than half of the local Chinese people being members of the church.

Therefore, as long as the process problem of chemical synthesis of methyl alkali is solved and has the value of large-scale promotion, raw materials are not a problem at all.

The export of silver and copper from the Tang Kingdom is the first in the world today, and gold is rarely sold to the outside world due to the collection and storage of major banks to expand currency issuance and support domestic economic development.

by the first quarter of 1860;

The Royal Red Oak Bank alone has 342 tons of gold reserves in the Tang Kingdom, second only to the Royal Bank of Scotland of the British Empire.

Nowadays, the Royal Red Oak Bank is still steadily collecting and storing gold at a rate of 30~35 tons per year, and the same is true of the other seven joint note-issuing banks of the Tang Kingdom, commonly known as the "Eight King Kongs".

These eight King Kongs are the Royal Red Oak Bank, the Bank of America, the Royal Chang'an Bank, the Bank of Los Angeles, the Bank of Communications, the National Industrial and Commercial Bank, the North American Colonization Bank, and the Royal West Coast Bank, which are the backbone of the rise of the financial industry in the Tang Kingdom and the eight largest banks.

These eight banks have the largest gold reserves of 342 tons, and the lowest Royal West Coast Bank also reserves 51 tons of gold, and the total gold reserves are quite amazing, which effectively guarantees the strong currency value of the Tang Yuan and maintains the stable development of the financial order of the Tang Kingdom.

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