The tenth largest city in the Tang Empire was Gallup, with a population of 765,100 at the end of 1864, down two places from eighth in 1858.

But Gallup locals don't approve of it, so what's the reason for that?

Gallup is one of the most resource-rich mineral cities in the empire, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, talking about the city of Gallup.

Gallup Land is located in 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 in the reckless mountains.

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.

Over the years, Gallup has built the world's largest copper smelter enterprise, the Royal Mint, and a variety of gold, silver, and copper products processing enterprises all over the streets and alleys of the city.

In addition to the world's largest copper mine, the region is also rich in coal, zinc, aluminum, and lead ore reserves, which can be called a treasure trove of resources.

The large-scale natural potash deposit of high purity discovered seven years ago, also located in this area, can reach 80% purity, and a little refining can obtain 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.

Even 150 years later, there are no more than 10 fingers of natural potash deposits found in the world, and the reserves and scale are far less than those of Gallup potash, all of which add up to only a fraction of it.

Gallup is so arrogant and resource-rich, other cities really can't envy it.

Generally speaking

Most of the industrialized potassium was extracted from salt and potassium in salt lakes, and the Kingdom of Prussia mined salt brine through salt wells and then used a series of processes to refine potash alkali, which was quite costly.

The British tried to extract potash from plant ash, which required burning a lot of wood, except for the easy acquisition of burning trees during the clearing of wasteland, and the cost of burning forests simply to obtain methyl alkali would be too great.

Relying on the abundant natural potash deposits in the Gallup region, Royal Coast Fertiliser Holding was able to establish a series of industrial fertiliser plants, which contributed to the construction of the Empire's agriculture, developed advantageous agricultural and animal husbandry industries, and fed more people, as well as the ability to export agricultural products abroad on a large scale.

It's all there

Thanks to Gallup's abundant natural potash deposits, which of course are extremely polluting and labor-intensive, the city's mines are home to the Empire's largest number of forced laborers, numbering around 100,000.

In the early days of the empire's development, the indigenous Indian young and middle-aged laborers, after more than ten years of hard labor in the mines, were left with little left.

The subsequent expansion of the empire by white prisoners of war and Mexican rioters, especially the Aztec Republic rebellion and the Mexican civil war, provided a steady stream of hard labor prisoners in Gallup's mines, large and small, the true number of which has never been known to outsiders.

"Once you enter a hard labor camp, there is no turning back."

This is a common saying among Gallup locals about the mine labor camps, and many of them have witnessed the miserable life of the mine laborers, who spend their days doing the hardest and most tiring work under the supervision of the overseers.

Day after day, year after year, as long as you still have a breath, you have to get up and work, otherwise you won't even have anything to eat.

This also caused Gallup to become the most safe city in the empire, which was definitely closed at night, the roads were not left behind, and the perpetrators were all ignorant and bold immigrants from outside.

You can't survive in a good local community environment, and you will be caught within a few days of committing a crime, and then ...... Hey, hey, hey...... Thrown directly into a forced labor camp.

Fortunately, these Chinese hard laborers are much better treated in the mines, and basically they don't have to engage in the hardest and most tiring mining work on the front line, and they can give a bargaining chip, cook a meal, send a worker in the hard labor camp, or behave well as a squad leader, and work under the supervision of a leather whip and fox and fake tiger, and the food is slightly better than that of the lowest hard labor prisoners.

Every Wednesday and weekend, you can basically see the oil and water twice, almost pig offal, beef bones and sheep water or something fishy, many people outside dislike not to eat, but here it is regarded as a treasure.

Although the Chinese prisoners were treated better, they could only dream about leaving the camp.

The Tang Empire is a feudal dynasty with a relatively sound rule of law among the countries in the world, but there is also a deep discrimination against hard laborers, even if Chinese factories will not hire, banks will not lend, homeowners will not rent, wherever they go, they will be despised, and they may even be imprisoned by the police in a small black house at any time.

Because on their identity documents, there are bright red stamps of prisoners released from hard labor, and they are destined to not survive in society.

A very small number of released misdemeanor prisoners had to return to the mine labor camps to seek a meager income from food, clothing, and clothing after they were bruised and swollen in society.

In a mine drudgery camp

Some of the armed guards, bookkeepers, and logistics managers had similar experiences, and after returning to society and unable to survive, they had to return to the mine to spend the rest of their lives in silence.

"Once you enter a hard labor camp, there is no turning back." This is not false.

The vast majority of those who were able to survive until hard labor were released were of Chinese descent, some had been officials, some had been soldiers, and some had even been knighted.

White war criminals or Mexican thugs were not so lucky, most of them had not even been tried, and naturally there was no sentence until they died.

Compared with the early fierce management methods in the mine, it is now much more humane, as long as you can basically eat well and work honestly, the excellent can occasionally see a little meat, and don't expect to eat well.

The Imperial Corrections Service has repeatedly issued letters to the mines, warning them that there is no possibility of a steady stream of slave laborers, and that some of them need to maintain the basic living conditions of slave laborers while some of them adopt mechanized mine operations.

They are all tortured to death, who will do the work?

If you recruit Chinese miners, won't you be paid?

How much does it cost?

The slave laborers in these large mines, deprived of their political rights, were not counted as the inhabitants of the empire, and did not even have precise statistics, and were dragged to the back of the mountains to be devoured by wild beasts.

If you count these forced laborers, Gallup also has a gorgeous population of more than one million, ranking among the million-dollar metropolises of the Empire.

There are also a large number of Mexican, Fuso and white prostitutes in the glittering city of Gallup, with a floating population of at least 100,000 people, plus some black Mexican laborers in some remote mines and plantations, roughly estimated to be in the tens of thousands, which is not counting the local population.

Because Mexican or Fuso black workers, male or female, could not obtain official imperial household certificates, they belonged to the lowest group of people who had been forgotten and oppressed by society, and no one cared whether they should be treated differently.

From Gallup, Las Vegas continues about 287 kilometers to the west, and from Las Vegas continues southwest to Los Angeles.

Therefore, Las Vegas strictly prohibits the entry of any Mexican black workers, and the identity of the inspection is particularly strict, and the imperial troops stationed there are like wolves and tigers, and they are not merciful at all.

As long as they find unidentified Mexicans or Fusos, they are directly imprisoned in a small black house, and after a certain number of them, they are pulled by train to Gallup and thrown into a forced labor camp, and from then on they live a miserable life with no future.

The central cities of Gallup and Rio South Bridge, the largest cities that can be reached by Mexican black workers and Fuso prostitutes, are impossible to continue north, west, and east, and the Taoyuan and Phoenix cities of the Colorado Plateau are more rigorously checked.

As an important military town of the empire and a central fortress, the cities and towns on the Colorado Plateau were basically dominated by Chinese Americans, with very few white residents, let alone Mexicans and Fusos.

Due to the great abundance of mineral resources, whether engaged in mineral mining, transportation or storage, the locals of Gallup have made a lot of money, and the degree of affluence far exceeds that of the people of other metropolises, which can be seen in the construction of cities.

The wide asphalt road, attracting the precious Shenghuang River water to water the lush street trees, the high-rise buildings on both sides of the street are lined up, there are British architectural styles, there are also French German architectural styles, exquisite and beautiful, and there are unique cornices structure buildings in China, each of which is the construction of the World Expo.

In particular, the wide streets near the Shenghuang River are a place where every inch of land is valuable, and St. Yellow River Street is also the most prosperous street in Gallup, where dozens of famous mining companies are headquartered.

Standing on the top of a luxury building overlooking the clear river flowing, it is an incomparable luxury enjoyment on the barren Gobi Desert, and it is also the standard for successful people.

Behind the dozens of famous mining companies in Gallup, there are more or less aristocratic capital figures or investments, and their heels are very strong. In particular, the Morench Mining Company and the Royal Coast Fertilizer Holding Company, which are controlled by the Royal Home Office, are the most powerful and are also major contributors to hard labor.

Especially the former

Its heavily armed mine guards have both infantry and cavalry, and maintain a scale of more than 3,600 people all year round, all expenses should be borne by the mines, and can be converted into a force to defend the city at any time if necessary.

If the guards of the local mines are concentrated and more than 20,000 local armed forces are gathered in minutes, it is also a scorpion in the major cities of the empire~ the only one.

All these factors have contributed to the arrogance of the local residents of Gallup, who is not a million-dollar metropolis, but has a vision that far exceeds that of a million-dollar metropolis.

Except for the imperial capital of Chang'an and Los Angeles, which is famous for its affluence, no other city is in sight, including Chicago and Mexico City, which have been restored to their former glory, and they are all scum in the eyes of Gallup locals, and they are not worth mentioning at all.

A world-class resource city, that's it!

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