Emperor Richard of the Tang Dynasty continued his inspection itinerary, from Chicago to Detroit, in mid-November, the northern provinces have been inspected, and have arrived in Houston, the largest city in Texas.

Houston in November 1863 was just a small town with a population of 82,000 and a purely agrarian economic structure.

However, due to the importance of Houston's geographical location, it is an important export port and railway artery transportation hub for the southern provinces facing Europe, and it is more prosperous than the average agricultural city.

Within the Confederate States of America (South), there are actually large rural villages dotted with towns and villages and suburban estates, where there is hardly any trace of industrialization. Cities in the South are generally smaller, with few cities with a total population of more than 100,000.

The same is true of Texas, which has not changed significantly in the months since the Tang Empire took over.

There are also many people in the empire who think that the imperial family spent a huge price of 268 million to buy a piece of Texas in the prairie, which is really not worth it, and was cheated by the southerners.

Many people even compare Alaska, which was originally worth 5.6 million, and Alaska, which has a total area of 1.71 million square kilometers, is much cheaper than Texas, which is 694,000 square kilometers.

People are the same, they don't like to use their brains, and they are talking about many people in society, and it is easy to be led astray by people with intentions.

Alaska is almost nothing but a large place, and it is located in the high cold and perennial snow, which is not suitable for human habitation at all.

The Tang Empire has been in the region for more than 10 years, and the immigrant population has so far exceeded 17,000, and there are few other industries other than herding hardy moose and hunting salmon and salmon.

Texas is different, it is located in the warm and sunny south, the terrain is flat and the arable land is suitable for planting, cotton, grapes, wheat, corn, soybeans and other crops, rich in oil minerals, and it is located in the south of North America, which is very convenient to cross the Atlantic to Europe.

This state alone can support the needs of hundreds of millions of people to live and reproduce, and its staggering value is not comparable to that of Alaska.

Texas is also the first region in the North American continent to discover oil and gas resources, from the first oil well development has been more than 20 years, but the oil industry has not developed, mainly due to the Tang Empire's advanced petroleum refining capacity suppression, the unit cost is too high.

The world's leading petroleum refining technology is the unique skill of the Tang Empire, and each petroleum refinery is under extremely high-intensity safety alert conditions, and the workers are all Chinese, especially the first generation of Chinese workers who do not speak English.

Moreover, in the petroleum refinery, front-line workers only master their own process operations, and cannot peep into the production process of other processes, and implement strict partition processes to prevent technology leakage.

Refinery workers also have a special dormitory area for high-standard workers, which is also known as a petroleum refining town, which is rich in materials and basically does not need to leave the town to solve life problems.

Under various strict confidentiality measures, the petroleum refining technology of the Tang Empire has not been leaked, and has always maintained the world's leading level.

Nowadays, in the southern coastal area of Texas, which is directly under the royal family, towering derricks have been erected, and oil companies with royal backgrounds, including Royal Texaco Petroleum Company, Royal Chevron Petroleum Company, Royal Chang'an Petroleum Company and other multinational large enterprises, have landed on the beach in Texas, ready to vigorously explore Texas oil resources.

The world is bustling, all for profit.

These international oil giants value Texas' oil resources, mainly from the perspective of interests, so they make prudent decisions.

The Tang Empire's bulk petrochemical exports based on kerosene, diesel and lubricants accounted for almost one-third of the total exports, of which three-quarters were exported to European countries, and the total trade volume in 1863 reached 420 million Tang Yuan, equivalent to 84 million pounds.

Since petrochemical products are exclusively sold by the Tang Empire, accounting for almost more than 93% of the world market, they have maintained high prices and profits, and the profit margin can reach 45%.

The imperial government and the royal family have created huge amounts of taxes and operating dividends, and it is also the basic industry of the Tang Empire that has become the richest royal family in the world.

The impression of the royal families of the Tang Empire on the royal family of the Tang Empire is ancient, noble, domineering and rich, and it is false to say that they are not envious, and those poor European royal families such as Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Greece, Hesse, Bavaria, Bulgaria, etc., are all small stars in their eyes when they see the prince of the Tang Empire.

No way, it's too rich.

Today, the Tang Empire's oil extraction and refining industry is mainly concentrated in the province of California, and its oil exports need to be transported by special tank trains, from the west coast of North America through more than 4,700 kilometers to the Gulf Coast, and then loaded from the port of Medellín to Europe.

After the North American War

California's petroleum refining exports can be loaded from the ports of Houston or New Orleans and sailed to Europe, and the distance for rail transportation has been reduced to between 2,800 and 3,250 kilometers, which is still quite long.

As a bulk export material, petroleum refining products are often measured in millions of barrels, and every time it is transferred up and down for loading and unloading, it is a huge cost, and the transportation cost is higher than the refining cost of petroleum products, and this will inevitably encroach on a considerable part of the profits.

Now with Texas, it's different, in this oil-rich land, the Royal Oil Giant can build refineries and oil fields on site, refine them locally and ship them directly to Europe, saving up to more than £24 million a year in transportation costs, and the cost savings are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

That's all it takes.

From the point of view of the demand for petrochemical products

Due to the relatively rich and developed economy in Europe, the demand for petrochemical products is high in sesame flowers, with a sharp rise of 25%~30% every year to meet the needs of economic and social life, therefore, the future export market for petrochemical products is extremely broad.

This will bring an opportunity for Texas to grow rapidly, and a large number of Chinese Americans are rapidly pouring into the region, and the future prosperity is completely predictable.

The Texas oil fields will serve as the main exporters of petrochemical products to Europe, which can greatly reduce costs and increase the profit margin of capitalists, and benefit the imperial family, from the government to oil developers and producers.

The California oil field will focus on opening up the market in Central and South America, and export petroleum products to Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia.

So

The two major oil-producing areas each face the two major international markets, and the division of labor is more reasonable, and the profit margin is naturally higher.

Texas is good because it can be salty and sweet, which is not only suitable for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry industry based on cotton, cattle and sheep, but also suitable for the development of dried fruits, grapes, pears, apples, tobacco, tea and other characteristic planting industries, as well as the development of shipbuilding steel industry and petroleum refining industry, which can really be described as a treasure land.

Although the climate in the region is relatively hot, the sun is abundant, with an average annual precipitation of 666 mm, which is about the same as the rainfall level in northern Jiangsu.

However, there is no shortage of large rivers with abundant water, and there are quite abundant water resources, such as the Grande, Bekes, and Reid rivers with a basin area of thousands of kilometers, and there is an abundance of water for both agricultural irrigation and urban use.

Over here

Emperor Richard rode his horse from Houston to Dallas, the second-largest town in line, to inspect the petroleum refining industry under construction. Originally an agricultural town with a population of only 53,000 people, it is known for its vast cotton fields and large livestock market.

Today, the empire's top seven oil giants have settled here, all kinds of large reinforced concrete buildings are rising from the ground, and this once peaceful small town is being stirred up by the frenzied influx of oil capital, and transformed into a noisy construction site.

The surrounding area of Dallas is rich in oil reserves, and this is the focus of the major oil majors, and many myths of local white farmers getting rich overnight are common, and oil companies with big pockets are waving money to buy large tracts of land.

In the territory of Texas, a royal territory, buying land does not mean that the resources under the land also belong to you, you need a building permit to build a house, a mining license is required for mining, and you have to pay a large mineral resource tax based on the area and production of the mine.

Besides

From the extraction to the sale of petroleum minerals to petroleum refining enterprises, there is also an income tax, which is generally charged according to the total transaction value, and the tax rate is 38%.

As a monopoly profiteering industry, the petrochemical industry has always had a high tax rate, and the other two industries with higher tax rates are the tobacco industry and the wine industry, which are also the main development directions of Texas in the future.

Due to geology and strong sunshine, Texas produces particularly sweet fruits and fruits of particularly good quality, which creates a very good basis for the winemaking industry and the sorghum and wheat winemaking industries, and is also one of the suitable ways to solve the large amount of surplus agricultural products.

As a direct domain of the royal family, these taxes must all belong to the royal household office and belong to the normal income of the royal family's territory.

In addition, some municipal and business taxes can be used for the construction of royal domains, such as municipal administration, bridges, roads and urban construction, etc., for the payment of the salaries of municipal officials, the construction of railways, reservoirs and other basic facilities.

As the development boom in Texas continues, it won't take a few years for the Imperial Royalty to recoup their investment in the area and enjoy a long-term and stable income return.

When the imperial family took over the area, the interests of local white manor owners and ranchers were protected, and the land was actually developed and used as the standard, and imperial land ownership certificates were issued.

For example, if the owner of a white cotton plantation owns 350 hectares of land, but only 60 hectares are actually used, then the actual issuance of 60 hectares of land ownership certificate is the actual issuance.

For example, if a white rancher owns 5,000 hectares of land but only has 1,100 head of cattle, he can issue a 1,100-hectare land ownership certificate based on the base of one cow per hectare.

Those barren and unused lands will be recovered unconditionally.

Due to the brutal North American war for six consecutive years, Texas also lost a large number of young and able-bodied people, and some local whites were attracted by the preferential measures of the Confederate government and moved their families to Virginia and other areas.

At the beginning of 1863, the state's population was only 337,500, of which more than two-thirds were women and children, and less than 100,000 were white men.

This also makes many single Chinese men who arrived early in the morning very sought-after, happily calling this place "men's paradise", where there are women, estates and large land assets.

But they soon couldn't laugh because the empire did not allow black slaves to exist, so many white-run cotton plantations closed down because there was not enough cheap labor.

These white families had no choice but to sell black slaves, sell their land and estates, and move their families to towns and cities for a large sum of money.

By the end of 1863, there were fewer than 2,000 black slaves left in Texas, and they had to leave the country as soon as possible for the rest of the year.

Otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of the transitional period;

As we enter the new year, black slaves found anywhere in Texas will be thrown into hard labor camps without a penny of compensation.

Today, the Confederate States of America (South) is the place with the largest number of black slaves on the entire North American continent, with a total of nearly 3 million, more than a million fewer than before the North American War.

After the victory in the North American War in 1861

In the Confederate States of America (South), a wave of anti-social legislation was launched, most notably the Negro Code, which was first promulgated in Mississippi, followed by the Southern states, and finally passed into law in the Legislature of the Confederate States of America.

The Negro Code is the general term for the various statutes enacted by the Southern states to continue the enslavement of Negroes. First published in 1866 by the state of Mississippi, the main contents are:

stripping blacks of their political rights and banning black gatherings; Negroes have no right to occupy land and must work under conditions prescribed by the plantation owner; prohibiting intermarriage between blacks and whites; Black people who commit rioting, fighting, making seditious remarks, and making insulting gestures are fined or imprisoned; The arrest of "vagrant" blacks, etc., was a legislative trend to re-imprison black slaves.

At the urging of the Southerners, the United States of America (North) passed an Act of Parliament overturning the Emancipation Proclamation issued by former President James Buchanan, abolishing its legal status.

During the war, free blacks in the north were arrested by soldiers of the Tang Empire and forcibly escorted to the south, which led to a sharp decrease in the number of free blacks in the United States of America, with a total of less than 460,000.

In the current situation where Chinese American capitalists invade and control the economic lifeline of the United States of America, blacks, who have been treated unfairly, are in an even more difficult situation, and it is almost impossible to find work in the enterprises of Chinese American factory owners.

Chinese factory owners would rather pay more to hire whites than see black workers in their factories an eyesore.

In the North, there were often cases of black people starving to death.

The largest black employer was the Appalachian Coalfield, and in the world's largest coalfield, black hired workers did the dirtiest and most tiring work, earning only a barely subsistence income, and living a miserable life.

On the contrary, in the south, the black slaves on the white cotton plantations lived a relatively stable life, and through hard work to create wealth, the white society in the south quickly healed the wounds of the war and returned to the familiar way of life of the past.

After more than two years of recuperation, the Confederate States of America (South) has erased most of the traces left by the war, and Richmond's newly completed white Roman palace-style Jefferson Davis Presidential Memorial, the Presidential Library, the tall Independence Heroes Monument, and the red limestone presidential palace under construction will be named the "Red Fort" and will be one of the landmarks of the Confederate States of America in the future.

The first founding president, Jefferson Davis, has retired, and Robert Lee, the former commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army, who made outstanding contributions in the North American War, is a landslide in his election as a second president, and will lead the people of the South to live happily as slave owners.

Emperor Richard of the Tang Dynasty didn't want to interfere with other people's inherent lifestyles, anyway, if the southern Yankees liked it, it would be good if North America was divided, and the more the north and the south of the United States hated it, the better, and he was optimistic about it.

An unprecedentedly bloody and brutal North American war left a deep estrangement and hatred between the South and the North of the United States, and this alienation did not fade over time, but deepened in the biased propaganda of both sides.

You don't see it

In the original history, even after 150 years of being in the same prosperous and powerful country, the hatred between the South and the North of the United States despising and belittling each other has not diminished.

You don't see it

Virginia, the main force in the Civil War, has become a relatively backward state in the United States in later generations, and the capital Richmond is not even ranked in the top 30 cities, you must know that it is the most fertile and most developed area on the East Coast!

If you want a railway, you want a port, and the vast and rich plain is endless, very close to the east coast, but why can't it be developed?

Houston and Dallas are rich in oil resources and the Texas region has always been extremely independent, and the irrepressible rapid development cannot be suppressed.

If Richmond's natural conditions are not good, what about New Orleans, the largest port in the South?

As the second largest port city in the United States after New York, New Orleans, the capital of San Louisiana, can't even rank among the top 20 cities in the United States, so why can't it develop?

It's very interesting to think about it, in today's history, Richard hopes that the contradictions between the north and the south of the United States will continue to be profoundly maintained, which is very conducive to the Tang Empire.

As a close ally of the Confederate States of America (South), the creditor and de facto master of the United States of America (North), the Chinese of the Tang Empire have a high social status in the above two countries, and have a close relationship with the local white society.

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