(Chapter 427 is released, friends who care can go and take a look, during the Spring Festival, because there are many personal affairs, the update is not normal, I apologize again, I will resume two shifts a day from tomorrow, and I will break out at the right time, thank you!) ）

"The second hot spot in Central America is Cuba and Puerto Rico under the rule of the Spanish colonizers, and the Cuban people are living in dire straits due to the excesses of the colonizers and the excessive taxation of the Cuban people.

Since last year, more than a dozen riots, large and small, have erupted in various places, which have been brutally suppressed by the Spanish governor in Cuba with heavy troops, which has led to an even stronger revolt among the people......"

The courtiers more or less knew about the situation introduced by Count Juan Carlos, and most of them were not surprised.

Most of the empire's origins were in the former Spanish colonies, and although they were not directly seized from the Spanish colonists, they did have a deep understanding of the Spanish colonists' style and hard-line rule.

Compared with the old colonial countries such as Britain and France, Spain ruled the colonies particularly brutally and ruthlessly, blindly demanding and oppressing without building, and carried out brutal suppression and massacres when resisted, and was not soft on the local native whites (note, referring to the Spanish mixed descent).

The white Spaniards never regarded the local native whites as their own compatriots, but regarded them as an inferior race, and during the suppression, they slaughtered villages and towns, which aroused the resistance of the local people.

Cuba and Puerto Rico are both rich in sugar production areas, with a long history of sugar plantations, high yields, and good quality, and are world-famous sugar producing regions along with Hawaii, which together account for nearly half of the world's sugar production.

Stemming from the European and American love of sweets, sugar exports were the backbone of the region's economy, bringing a lot of profits to the Spanish colonists every year.

After the rise of empires in North America

Chinese businessmen have achieved a high status in the Americas and Europe, and many Chinese businessmen who had worked in Cuba have returned to Cuba to set up sugar plantations, operate shipping companies and docks, and intervene in the sugar trade with their convenient connections in the Tang Empire.

I have to say

Neither the Cuban native-born whites nor the Spaniards were no match for the Chinese businessmen in terms of business intelligence.

In just over a decade, Chinese businessmen have accounted for one-third of Cuba's sugar trade, operating plantations, setting up sugar factories, trading companies and shipping companies, basically forming a closed-loop industrial chain from production to sales.

This could not help but arouse the jealousy of the local white plantation owners, and also attracted the suppression of the colonists of the Cuban Governor's Palace, forming a series of sharp contradictions with opposing interests.

During the North American War, the ironclad cruisers "Tornado" and "Vicious Wind" led a fleet to visit the Cuban capital Havana, showing their muscles nakedly, which made the Cuban Governor's Office stop somewhat.

The Spanish colonizers did not dare to make irresponsible remarks about the Chinese businessmen and imposed apportionments, and in turn, the persimmons picked up the soft pinch, and strengthened the enslavement and control of the Cuban locals, who were burdened with heavy taxes and had no political rights, and the anger of rebellion in their hearts became more and more intense......

Today's Cuba is like a powder keg, which explodes at the slightest moment.

In the local people, small and medium-sized landlords and sugar plantation owners, as well as the more prestigious native-born whites in the cities and villages, secretly and privately joined forces to establish various underground organizations against the Spaniards, and there were frequent vicious incidents of violent tax resistance and attacks on small groups of Spanish troops.

The Spanish army in the Doge's Palace responded with a brutal retaliation, indiscriminately emptying the entire population of the village, and executing anyone suspected of it, which was extremely bloody.

Innocent people remained, young men sold into the sugar plantations of Chinese traders. The young women were sold further afield, and the whole ship was delivered to the province of Panama, where it could be sold for a good price.

Due to the tyrannical rule of the Spanish colonizers and the revival of the ancient practice of human trafficking, the population of Cuba is smaller than it was in the past, from more than 1.5 million to about 1.37 million today.

In order to make extra money, many Spanish colonial troops even fabricated charges to suppress the local people, just to kidnap and sell people, in order to make huge profits.

Two or three hundred tons of sail cargo ships departed from ports across Cuba, often crammed with hundreds of young native-born white women, crowded like canned sardines.

Fortunately, the Caribbean voyage from Cuba to Panama was not long, and it could be reached in two or three days, and the trafficked white women did not even have food to eat, avoiding a needless death in harsh conditions.

In Panama's thriving population market, young women from Cuba, Colombia and war-torn Central America are the main source of goods.

Generally speaking

The whiter the skin, the higher the price, the younger and more beautiful the price, a beautiful white girl who is 15~18 years old and young, healthy and without disabilities, can often be sold for 600 or even thousands of Tang yuan.

Those with average appearance can also be sold for three or five hundred Tang yuan.

The price of dark-skinned girls is much worse, because the Tang Empire strictly prohibits the import of blacks, once found, they will be fined tens of thousands of yuan, and may even be sentenced to prison and hard labor, and the local Chinese also generally discriminate against black girls, thinking that they are unclean and too dirty.

Therefore, the price of Indian and Central American girls is generally low, only a few tens of yuan to more than 100 yuan, and most of them are bought by the locals to work as servants or maids.

Because of the steady flow of Chinese immigrants from the mainland, the male population is strictly prohibited in the southern provinces of Panama, Costa Rica, Zhennan and Straits provinces, so the population market is basically invisible.

If there are, there are very few, and they are often illegal workers on remote plantations in various places, and once they are caught, the Chinese plantation owners may be punished for bankruptcy or even imprisoned.

General Capello, the Spanish governor-general, once said proudly; "Here, we tend to pack up our troubles and send them to our neighbors and get paid well for them. In exchange for kerosene, cloth and silver coins, which I call the "Little Triangle Trade", we proved to be doing a great job. ”

Spain has a long history of human trafficking, and much of the source of black slaves in the southern United States and Brazil is the infamous "triangular trade", which is one of the few examples of commercial success that Spaniards talk about.

Above the main hall

After discussing the two hot issues in Central America reported by Juan Carlos, the Minister of the Colonial Department, the ministers formed a unified opinion that "it is not advisable to meddle lightly", and obtained the approval of His Majesty the Emperor.

In recent years, it has been mainly based on digesting the rich fruits of the North American war.

On the one hand, it actively explored and colonized the Great Plains of Central America, and on the other hand, it strengthened the infrastructure of the empire's railways, highways, ports, docks, urban construction, etc., and used government investment to effectively promote economic development.

Another is to deepen the process of industrialization, popularize the mechanization of agriculture and animal husbandry, greatly improve the production efficiency of farms and pastures, and benefit all people.

These hot spots in Central America will naturally ripen in a few or 10 years, and they will be within reach!

At the end of the morning court meeting, Emperor Richard drove back to the palace, and the ministers of the various ministries also dispersed, and each returned to the headquarters without mentioning it.

Because tomorrow is the legal holiday, the holy driver moved to Pudu Island in the Taiye Pond, where the scenery is beautiful and the scenery is breathtaking.

The largest island in the Taiye Pond is called Pudu Island, with a radius of about 1.3 square kilometers and a peak of 177 meters, and a nine-storey exquisite pagoda with a total height of about 49 meters is built in the lush mountain forest, which is called the "Nine Turns Pudu Pagoda".

Below the pagoda is "Pudu Temple", and there is a "Xuantian Taoist Temple" not far away, all of which are royal temples and Taoist temples.

Not far from the Nine Turns Pudu Pagoda, a delicate palace hidden in the strange stone and green trees, built near the water, under the zigzag corridor is the deep water surface, from time to time you can see the big fish swimming leisurely in it, there is no fun.

A group of beautiful girls in court skirts, throwing fish food on the Qiqu Bridge, watching a large group of brightly colored koi fish grabbing food, shouted excitedly, and made this beautiful scene render a happy atmosphere.

Many of the big fish in the lake are more than a meter long, and the fat ones are obviously full of bait, and dozens or hundreds of them gather together to grab food and stir up the splash, which looks spectacular.

Not far away, there are more schools of fish swimming over, and the water surface is densely packed with fish heads, and a rough count of them is probably not less than thousands.

These beautiful girls in court skirts are all new show girls who have entered the palace, and for the purity of the palace's blood, they are all from Chinese official families, a total of 12 people, as a necessary measure to supplement the harem.

Tentatively, there will be a draft every 5 years, with 12 show girls each time.

His Majesty the Emperor's early empresses, concubines and side concubines were mostly nearly 40 years old, and their youth and beauty were absent after giving birth to children, and there was a lot of risk in giving birth when they were older.

Many concubines are keen to eat fasting and chant Buddha, focusing on self-cultivation, and they can't bear the toss of His Majesty.

Therefore, in the past few years, His Majesty the Emperor has often summoned those white concubines in the Baixiang Hall of the West Palace, which also makes the queen often feel uneasy.

Inside the Pavilion

At the end of March, the cold had already receded, and the temperature at noon rose to seventeen or eighteen degrees.

The faint laughter of the girls came to my ears, accompanied by a hint of melodious guqin aftertaste, which was really pleasant.

The Tang Empire is now on the right track, in a golden period of peaceful development, and the population growth of the empire has changed from immigrants to newborn children, realizing the change of endogenous growth.

Statistics of the year 1864;

The natural population growth rate reached 6.7 per cent, which is a fairly high figure, mainly due to the large number of retired military personnel returning to their hometowns, coupled with the fact that social stability is in a golden period of development, and the people's desire to have children is generally strong, with 2,110,500 new children born throughout the year.

Due to the relatively young age structure of the social population, with an average age of 31.2 years and a social mortality rate of 0.93%, the natural growth rate of the society is 5.77%, and the annual net population growth reaches about 1.75 million people.

Coupled with the average annual scale of more than 1.1 million Chinese immigrants and more than 100,000 white immigrants, the annual population growth once again exceeded the 3 million mark.

By the end of 1864, the total population of the Tang Empire reached 43.72 million, and eight metropolises with a population of more than one million had emerged, including Chang'an, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Taoyuan, Mexico City, Salem, and New Xi'an.

The urban industrialization index of the Tang Empire fluctuated with the large-scale territorial expansion, exceeding 70% at the highest point and dropping to 58.5% at the lowest time (after the North American War), and then showing a slow upward trend again.

By the end of 1864, the urbanization index had reached 64.33%, which was basically the same as that of France, but the scale and depth of industrialization were superior.

Today's Tang Empire is not only a powerful industrialized country, but also a powerful agricultural and animal husbandry producer, with the advanced sowing methods represented by diesel agricultural machinery, coupled with the world's advanced fertilizer industry blessing, greatly improving the agricultural and animal husbandry output of the Tang Empire, becoming one of the main agricultural exporters.

Compared with the level of urbanization in 1858 six years ago, it has regressed from 67% in 1858 to 64.33%, but the expansion of the territory of the Tang Empire has included Mexico, the Aztec Republic, and the seven provinces of the Great Plains in central North America, and its strength has jumped to a new level out of thin air.

What made Richard especially proud was that

With its high-pressure authoritarian feudal rule and a predominantly Chinese-based immigration society, the Tang Empire has always maintained internal unity and stability.

This is a brilliant achievement in governing the country without the blessing of the system, which makes Richard feel a special sense of accomplishment, and he is often complacent about it.

This is because he relied on the experience of holding a high position for a long time, formulated a series of cultural propaganda achievements that advocated loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, national self-improvement, self-reliance, and self-confidence, and formulated a ritual system that conformed to the characteristics of the times and advocated the "Heavenly Empire", so that the subjects of the empire lived on the highland of civilization and overlooked the surrounding ghosts and Laoyi.

In fact, it has been implemented, and the effect is very significant.

Of course

Naturally, there will be some side effects, and some fanatical "China supremacy" nationalists discriminate against all races, including whites, Mexicans, Spanish, and Central American countries, not to mention blacks at the bottom.

Among this group, especially retired soldiers, the tendency is the most serious, and they have formed a very serious "heavenly kingdom" complex in their minds, regarding foreign races as inferior nations, and it is difficult to hide their contempt.

In the Imperial Legion, except for a few British and German officers who were treated more fairly, even French officers were inevitably ostracized, and Admiral Mike Rabiot, the Army's deputy chief of staff, could not change this.

Speaking from the heart

Richard really did not expect that national self-confidence could be so high, and this trend of discrimination even spread to the political and economic fields, which is undoubtedly very inappropriate for the development of the country.

In the next step, the government had to introduce the Equal Rights of Citizens Act, which legally regulates the status of equal rights for all ethnic groups, and of course, this does not include blacks.

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