In addition to these empire's top 10 cities, there are also some important cities that have performed remarkably, such as Donggang, which ranks eleventh, with a population of 728,600, is a shining pearl in the eastern part of Paradise Island and the premier large city in the Western Pacific.

At this stage

Melbourne, where the Australian gold rush is in full swing, is only a city with a population of less than 400,000 immigrants, and it is also the largest city in Australia, in which Chinese gold diggers and large gold mining companies play a strong role, accounting for more than one-third of the entire Melbourne population.

In particular, the world's largest gold mining company, the Royal American River Mining Company, owns the shares of the Tang Empire, the British royal family and many upper-class nobles in London, and has an extremely complex and solid background.

Because of the early time in Australia and the large investment, the Royal American River Mining Company occupies a large area of land that may have gold resources, owns nearly 1/4 of the rights and interests of the rich gold resources in Melbourne, and has 17 large and small gold mines, mining more than 380~4.1 million ounces of gold every year, making a lot of money.

This is still a number announced on the surface, and I don't know how many are hidden secretly?

Jealousy drives people insane, and it is true that many white gold mine owners with bulging pockets are deeply dissatisfied with this, and have gone so far as to make naked anti-Chinese proposals, and even to abuse and expel Chinese gold miners in their own gold mines.

The Chinese community also fought back very harshly, and these white people were either shot to death by rioters, or warned by the Australian Governor's Office to obediently shut their mouths or restrain their behavior.

Even during the prime ministership of Lord Henry John Temple, a standard white supremacist, these white gold mine owners in Australia kept writing to London, arguing that Chinese capital had greatly harmed Australia's interests, especially the American River Gold Mining Company and the Chinese gold miners who had swarmed over half of the rights and interests of Melbourne's goldfields, and London did not take any major measures.

This is tantamount to stealing money from his own pocket, which has always been an arrogant white British gold mine owner, and it will never be tolerated.

Unfortunately, they were disappointed, and London's compromise stemmed from the balance of power.

In today's vast Australia, Chinese gold diggers are not only from the Shenzhou mainland, but also from the Chinese residents of Paradise Island and the Chinese adventurers of the Tang Empire, many of whom have military experience.

In the face of injustice, these tough Chinese chose to take up arms to defend their rights, and the white guards who fought with other gold mining companies repeatedly gained the upper hand in the streets of Melbourne.

On one side are veteran adventurers who have been trained in war for a long time, and on the other side are the loose and ruthless white armed militia, so the fighting strength of the two sides is not on the same level at all.

The British Western Pacific Detachment stationed in Sydney often came into contact with the warships of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire patrolling the western Pacific routes, and they knew each other very well.

Especially after the North American War

In the internal evaluation of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, the evaluation of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire is only inferior to that of the Royal Navy of France, and it is basically on the same level as the Navy of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Such an assessment is indeed demeaning, but never expect the Anglo-Saxons to treat the aliens fairly, it will never be.

Being able to get a relatively fair evaluation is already a good treatment, and the only flaw of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire is that it is too small in scale and does not have global maritime dominance.

Although the Tang Empire is a white country by default, what about religion, culture, historical inheritance, and the blood flowing in the bones, these can never be changed, right?

Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, that's still an alien race.

In particular, the Tang Empire pursued the principle of religious freedom, which caused dissatisfaction among several European Protestant countries led by the British, Gu Gru-Saxon, and also became the biggest gap between the Tang Empire and European countries.

How can freedom of religion be exercised?

This is the most unacceptable place for European countries, the history of the development of Western countries is the history of the spread of religion, not to mention the 11 crusades since the Middle Ages, that is too long.

Since the beginning of the Age of Discovery, the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the English, the French, the Prussians, and even the Italians and other Europeans have all devoted themselves to spreading Christianity, including the Russians.

Whether it is Protestantism, Catholicism or Orthodox Christianity, at least one must be believed, how can religious freedom be practiced?

This

It is also the place where the Holy See is deeply dissatisfied with the Tang Empire, the emperor is crowned without declaring his belief in God, and does not invite the cardinal archbishop to hold a holy coronation, do you want to do it?

It is indeed difficult to bridge the huge gap between the East and the West, but in the eyes of the British in reality, there is only interest.

Lord Hinkel, the British Royal Admiralty Secretary, once said publicly; "The Royal Navy of the British Empire would not send a fleet 20,000 nautical miles away to stand up for some gold mine owner who cares about human life, which is foolish. If they were to be judged by a fair law, they should all be hanged. ”

When questioned by some dissenting members of the London Commons, they refuted it with the example of the first Opium War in 1840, showing the importance of safeguarding the interests of British merchants.

This is how Lord Hinkel responded; "Britain had long coveted the opening of the Manchu domestic market, with a population of 40,000, and the opium dealers were just providing a pretext for going to war. Now you tell me; What does Australia have to keep the Royal Navy on an expedition at great expense? ”

This powerful argument left the highest-jumping members of the British House of Commons speechless, and it also became the highlight of Lord Henkel's political career.

Of course, it cannot be denied that the vested interests in London applaud, pull back, and fish in troubled waters are also important aspects of influencing the decision-making of the London government.

Unlike the Chinese gold diggers who were excluded in the original historical period, the current era is backed by the strong strength of the Tang Empire, and in the wild land of Australia, Chinese gold diggers can enjoy the same treatment as white British, and even higher than white gold diggers from France, Germany, the United States and Italy.

On the one hand, this is because the Tang Empire is one of the undoubted powerhouses in the Pacific, and the strength of the Royal Navy in the region is comparable to that of the British Empire's Third Sail Battlefleet in India, and its strength is respected.

On the other hand, the Tang Empire opened consulates abroad in Melbourne, opening the door to naturalization certification for Chinese gold diggers, and as long as they pay a certification fee, they can obtain the official status of overseas citizens of the Tang Empire.

With the household registration certificate issued by the consulate abroad, these overseas citizens can easily travel between them and other countries in the Americas, and their legitimate rights and interests are endorsed by the strength of the Tang Empire, and no one dares to defy them.

As for Sydney, it is just a port city with a population of more than 100,000 in southeastern Australia, mainly producing wool, and has not yet developed.

Different from these two cities in Australia, Donggang City, located at the eastern end of Angel Island, consciously integrated into the world trade routes, in addition to grain and canned tropical fruits, it also developed coffee, cocoa, cane sugar, natural rubber and other characteristic plantations, forming a certain industrial scale.

With its special products, Donggang City has tasted the sweetness of international trade and has become more energetic.

Don't say anything else

The cities in Australia are huge markets, and the geography here is not suitable for growing coffee, cocoa, cane sugar, natural rubber and other subtropical specialty agricultural products, nor is it suitable for the growth of tropical fruits. However, there is a strong demand for the above products, which is equivalent to a large market at the doorstep, and the profits are quite high.

Finding the right direction of development, Donggang City's trade with Australia is in full swing, and they allow Australian customers to pay with wool, beef cattle and gold sand, and it is a huge profit to process it a little after getting it back.

The flexible development strategy of the Donggang people has enabled the development of a large-scale wool spinning industry in Donggang City, and the wool imported from Australia has been processed into carded wool tops and combed wool tops, and the value of re-exports to the empire has increased several times.

Speaking of the city of Eastport, let's talk about the twelfth industrial city of Detroit, the twelfth largest industrial city in the empire, with a population of 703,000 at the end of 1864, which is far more than before the North American war, and revitalizes this industrial city on the shores of Lake Michigan.

On the other side of Detroit, there is Ontario, the most densely populated province in British Canada, and 87% of the population of British Canada is gathered within the 60th parallel of the northern shore of the entire Great Lake.

Thanks to the fruitful diplomatic results of His Majesty's visit to England, Detroit benefited most from British Canada's bilateral trade.

Gin, tequila, thornless fish, tropical fruits, beans and meats, kerosene, diesel and agricultural machinery, locally produced steel products, chemical products, etc., are among the most sought-after products in the Canadian market.

As a trading port city, Detroit is a real beneficiary.

Detroit's strength does not stop there, in the process of rapid urban rejuvenation, Detroit undertook the dividends of shipbuilding and automobile industry transfer production, and all major automobile factories exported to Europe have set up production plants in Detroit, because it is the most convenient port city for the empire to export to Europe, and has an excellent industrial development base.

It's all of this that makes the city of Detroit thriving today.

But when it comes to the empire's fastest-growing cities, whether it's Chicago, Detroit, or Gallup, no one compares to Houston in the Crown Territory of Texas, a city that has risen like a monkey along with the petrochemical industry.

As mentioned above, the royal family of the Tang Empire bought Texas with a huge amount of money, and this largest provincial-level administrative region in North America has since been owned by the royal family of the Tang Empire and has become one of the exclusive territories.

Originating from the abundant oil resources discovered in the 40s of the 19th century, Texas is a land of hope, but it is not human.

In the hands of the Americans, Texas' rich oil resources were completely unexploited because of the high cost of backward oil refining methods and the ability to compete with the Tang Empire's oil oligarchs with advanced refining technology.

In the market competition, it has been reduced to an inconspicuous small role.

In August 1863, before the Confederate States of America signed the treaty on the transfer of Texas, the seven major oil giants of the empire set off to Texas to seize the opportunity, thus setting off a frenzy of oil capital and inflating coastal cities like Houston like balloons.

At the beginning of the takeover

Houston is just a southern coastal city with a population of less than 100,000, and in less than two years, more than 600,000 Chinese immigrants have poured into the city and surrounding towns, and the number of residents in Houston alone has skyrocketed to 346,000.

Several large petrochemical and smelting enterprises have sprung up from the ground, countless oil sucking kowtow machines are all over the city and countryside, and the crazy influx of oil capital with bulging pockets has brought vitality to this land, and high-rise buildings have risen from the ground, surging with a hot wave of development.

Houston, a small city more than 30 miles away from the empire, has increased its urban residents by more than 120,000 per year with a rapid development posture like a monkey, and a larger number of floating people are participating in the battle for oil development.

Such a huge number almost shocked the attention of the major cities of the empire.

In absolute terms of average annual population growth alone, Houston has left most of the top 10 cities in the empire and is among the top three cities in the empire, even more than Los Angeles in terms of annual population growth, which is simply incredible.

The Texas oil development boom involved almost all of the empire's oil companies.

Major ocean-going shipping companies have come one after another, and have spent huge sums of money to build wharves and warehouses, followed by transportation and various service enterprises, as well as steel and cement production enterprises, and even restaurants, teahouses, brothels and other tertiary industries, which have jointly created a hot wave of construction in the coastal area of Texas.

They are competing for the most lucrative market for petrochemicals in Europe.

Compared with the mature development of Los Angeles, Texas has convenient export conditions to Europe, from Houston to ship kerosene, diesel, lubricating oil, gasoline, heavy oil and various petrochemical products to Europe, only more than ten days of voyage can directly reach the ports of European countries, greatly saving transportation and transit costs, which even accounts for more than half of the total sales price of the product.

With such a large profit margin, how can it not make people crazy?

Think about it

As long as the overall selling price of these petrochemical products is reduced by two percent, the total sales volume of the European market will increase by more than two percent, and it may be three into four percent or even more, covering a wider range of consumer groups and making more profits.

Chinese businessmen have the world's most outstanding business talent, and there is no reason why others can figure out the truth themselves.

In order to maintain customers and maintain their market share in the transatlantic trade route, those large ocean shipping companies have also come to Houston to invest, forming a strong linkage effect.

This also made Gu Zhongkai, deputy director of the Royal House of the Interior, who presided over the development of Texas, said proudly; "History is unstoppable, and the rapid rise of the City of Houston is a microcosm of the development of Texas. I am convinced that in less than five years, Houston will quickly become one of the top ten cities in the empire......"

Not to mention, Houston really has such a huge potential for development.

If you talk about the hottest city in the empire today, eight out of ten people will talk about Houston, a once-unknown place, which is absolutely hot.

The newspapers and public opinion in the society have reported on the development boom of Texas one after another, which has invisibly played a role in fueling the flames and intensified the development of Texas.

According to statistics;

In the two years of 1863~1864, there were a total of 2.446 million Chinese immigrants from the mainland, of which about 30% poured into all parts of Texas.

When it comes to heat, no one can compare to the royal exclusive Texas area.

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