Just when the whole of South America was in an uproar because of the Tang Empire's intervention in the war, the Chang'an court, the imperial capital of the Tang Empire, was holding a grand reception to celebrate the empire's purchase of Ezo Island at a price of 22 million Tang yuan.

Ezo Jiji Island is the largest island in the Fuso archipelago except for Honshu Island, with a total area of square kilometers, slightly smaller than the island of Ireland, and is the 21st largest island in the world.

Bounded by the Tsugaru Strait to the south and Sakhalin Island to the north, Sapporo is the administrative center and largest town of Ezo, as well as two important towns, Hakodate and Nemuro.

This price is indeed much higher than buying Alaska more than ten years ago.

However, it should be noted that Alaska as a whole is located in the Arctic Circle at high latitudes, and it is not suitable for human habitation at all.

After so many years of being in the hands of the Tang Empire, the population that eventually settled in Alaska was only 6,320, and all of them were located in the southern coastal area.

Alaska is covered in snow and ice all year round, the cost of colonization is high, and it is a perennial subsidized area by the imperial government, and the local residents have to keep cats in their houses for most of the year, and no crops can grow.

The only way for local residents to make a living is to go out to sea to fish in just 3~4 months in summer, store enough food for a year, and daily necessities such as rice, flour, oil and spices need to be imported from the mainland.

Ezo Island is different, it is located at 45 degrees north latitude, and Changchun, Shenyang, Urumqi in the mainland of China are at the same latitude, due to historical reasons have not been well developed, is a good place to beat roe deer scoop fish.

The colonization and reclamation are enough to provide a million people to live and work in peace and contentment.

If it weren't for the fact that the Tokugawa shogunate, which was in power in Fuso Province, was in an increasingly difficult situation during the civil war and was facing the danger of being on fire everywhere, it would not be willing to let go of its mouth and sell the huge Ezo Jijiji.

This is really painful for the Fusang people who have always been stingy!

After obtaining Ezo Island, Emperor Richard personally renamed it "Beihai Province", which will be included in the imperial map as one of the overseas provinces of the Tang Empire in the future.

From a macro strategic point of view

As a result, the Tang Empire could extend its territory from Alaska in North America across the Bering Strait to East Asia, living next to Fusang, which was more conducive to strengthening its penetration into the country and participating in the international power competition in East Asia.

For such a world power as the Tang Empire

Having a foothold in East Asia is a fulcrum that leverages the situation in the entire region, which is of extraordinary significance.

Besides

As a transit point for the North Pacific Golden Migration Route, Beihai Province can be extremely well connected to Midway Island and Hawaii Island, two important logistics transit bases, and it is of great strategic significance to improve the base layout on the North Pacific Golden Route.

As a North American immigration country, the long-term and stable import of Chinese immigrants from the Shenzhou mainland is the basic national policy, and this policy has been adhered to for more than 20 years, and will not change in the next 100 years or even longer.

With the vast territory and livable environment of the Tang Empire today, even if the entire population of the Qing Dynasty is moved over, development is not a problem.

For several years

With the end of the North American War and the Taiping Rebellion, the situation at home and abroad changed, and the average number of imported immigrants fell from more than 1.6 million at the peak to 1.113 million in 1866, a drop of nearly 5%.

Not to mention the determination of people after the war of the Qing Dynasty, there are several factors in the Tang Empire, which also significantly affected the import of the immigrant population.

First, the North American War has ended, and the Empire has officially eliminated a staggering number of continental boot camps and converted them into charity schools, which have also been greatly reduced in size.

This move alone has reduced the number of young and middle-aged immigrants by 280,000 to 320,000 each year.

Second, the empire has raised the threshold for immigration, and it is much more difficult for mainland refugees with no culture and skills to get a ticket to North America, which is an important factor in the decline in the number of Chinese immigrants.

Third, out of the consideration of the balance of the male and female population, the relevant departments of the empire issued a policy to encourage young women aged 12~22 to immigrate, which led to a rapid increase in the proportion of female immigrants and greatly alleviated the contradiction between male and female populations.

In the Tang Empire

Many successful Chinese immigrants want to marry a Chinese wife as a family and continue the proud Chinese family bloodline, which in turn leads to the rise of the mail-order bride industry, which is a new and interesting change in the wave of immigration.

In the past 1866, the Tang Empire imported less than 100,000 immigrants per month, and on the traditional North Pacific golden route, the average monthly immigration was 35,000~38,000, and its status has been replaced by the central golden route.

On the golden route in the middle of the Pacific Ocean through Paradise Island, the average monthly migration exceeds 50,000, reaching between 56,000~58,000, and the destination is more diversified.

It is estimated that in the three years from 1866 to 1868, half of the Chinese immigrants on the golden route in the central Pacific will end up in Central America such as Central Plains Province, Costa Rica and Panama, and the neighboring Strait Province and Zhennan Province will also benefit, setting off a great upsurge in the development of Central America.

This is what His Majesty the Emperor Chrysostom promised, aiming to fill the much-needed population of Central America with Chinese immigrants and rejuvenate its economy, reflecting the government's policy tendency to "free cages for birds".

Central America has a history of thousands of years, a mild climate, abundant resources, a good agricultural foundation and a reasonable distribution of towns, but what is lacking is population.

As long as there are enough Chinese immigrants, the area can be revitalized in the near future, and the cost of development and colonization is low.

This is what the Imperial Government attaches more importance to.

Among the remaining immigrants, Paradise Island has an average of 5 to 6,000 people per month to supplement the labor gap due to the need for further colonization and development.

The colonial development of the Andean Viceroyalty in South America requires a lot of human resources, and the average monthly distribution of more than 10,000 Chinese immigrants is between 12~130,000 a year, which is the result of the imperial government's policy tilt.

The final destination is the number of immigrants in the empire itself, and the average monthly is only between 13,000 ~ 15,000, which is the scale of 167,000 a year.

Combined with the migration of the North Pacific Golden Route, the average number of Chinese immigrants entering the empire mainland is about 600,000 per year, which is a huge decrease.

However, this has not affected the rapid growth of the population of the empire, because the current Tang Empire is based on the expansion of population size, and newborns have become the main driving force of population growth, especially in recent years.

The economic prosperity of the Tang Empire and the expansion of its territory brought about a high level of national self-confidence and a great increase in the cohesion of the empire, which triggered a series of virtuous circles.

While the subjects of the empire enjoyed the dividends of economic growth and lived and worked in peace and contentment, they were more willing to branch out for their families, which led to a significant step-by-step increase in the number of new births every year.

In 1861, after the end of the North American War, only 1,876,000 new children were born.

By 1862, the number of new children had reached 2,115,000, and in 1863 it had increased to 2,357,900, in 1864 it had reached 2,712,000, in 1865 it had reached 2,931,100, and in 1866 it had reached 3,056,700.

In just six years, the number of new births increased by 68.3%, which became the main driving force of population growth in the empire.

At the end of 1864, the total population of the Tang Empire was 43.72 million, and two years later, the total population at the end of 1866 had reached 52.41 million, showing a momentum of rapid growth.

Officially, the empire called it "the first post-war baby boom in North America," which was fueled by the disarmament of more than 1.2 million soldiers after the war.

Among them, more than 700,000 officers and men of Chinese descent entered North America through the channel of mainland recruits alone, and after they were disarmed and returned to the fields, they were properly resettled, and they were assigned their own meritorious fields and even village houses.

Many people also saved a fortune during the war, or made a fortune by looting, and naturally followed by the family branching out and taking root in North America to live a happy life as a small farmer.

More than 1.2 million young and vigorous retired officers and soldiers returned to their hometowns, and this group became a strong driving force for the growth of the newborn population, and in the five years after the war, this social group alone added more than 2 million newborns to the Tang Empire, contributing 1.69 newborns per capita.

This reflects from one side that the lives of retired officers and men are generally relatively comfortable and happy, or they do not have so much spare time and financial ability to have children.

The palace feast is located by the beautiful Taiye Pool.

From here, you can see the towering Wanshou (note, homonym "beast" word) mountain, faintly hear the roar of lions, tigers and beasts, mixed with the melodious sound of the piano echoing by the pond in the night, bringing people a wonderful feeling.

Today is the time of the three joys, His Majesty the Emperor is overjoyed and sets up a palace feast to reward the civil and military officials.

The first joy is naturally the addition of the North Sea Province to the Empire, which belongs to the direct crown and is equivalent to the provinces of Texas, Paradise, and Alaska, and is known as the "Four Great Provinces directly under the Crown".

The establishment of the provincial administrative organs of the royal territories was to facilitate the unified management of the empire, so as not to wander outside the imperial administrative system and cause confusion in cognition and management.

The second was the victory of the battle of the Binonite valley from the Andean Viceroyalty, which was the beginning of the Empire's intervention in the Paraguayan War, and it is certainly worth celebrating.

But among the many important ministers of the empire, this is not very important.

The empire has experienced countless victories in wars and won the rookie of Argentina, is there anything worth writing about?

It's a little meaning, sprinkle water!

The third joy is that the royal family added Ding again, and the concubine Bai Zhen'er gave birth to twins two years ago, and they are both pink and chubby men.

If this pair of twins grows up smoothly, they will be included in the ranking of princes after the age of three, and they should be the twenty-seventh prince and the twenty-eighth prince, and enjoy a place in the royal temple.

His Majesty the Emperor loves it very much, and with a wave of his hand, he makes Bai Zhen'er a concubine, and he naturally favors this delicate and tender concubine.

These three joys are coming, and they deserve to be celebrated.