March 2, 1868

The Fuso Civil War ended with the victory of 110,000 shogunate troops in Kyoto, and tens of thousands of defeated shogunate troops were strewn through the streets, the river was stained red with blood, and countless corpses were floating and sunk.

The swaggering shogunate marched through the streets with a katana in one hand and the severed head of the rebel in the other. And those Kyoto townspeople could only hide in their wooden houses and cry quietly, not daring to make a loud noise.

After this battle

The pro-reformist forces on Fuso Island suffered an unprecedented blow, and the shogunate army counterattacked in a frenzied manner, constantly storming the homes of some residents of Kyoto, dragging out some merchants, professors, students, townspeople who believed in foreign religions, or those suspected of supporting the rebels, and beheaded them directly in the streets.

Among them

There were more than 71,000 members of the shogunate's new army, and due to strict military discipline, most of the new soldiers did not participate in this brutal killing feast, but followed the orders to patrol silently, or coldly watched the atrocities of the "30,000 people in the flag".

It was mainly the old shogunate army that was raging wildly in Kyoto, including more than 4,500 people from the flag book and more than 16,300 people from the imperial family, totaling more than 20,800 people, plus their courtiers, known as the "30,000 people of the flag book".

For more than ten days

Kyoto and the surrounding towns were immersed in a thick atmosphere of bloody massacre, and the madness of the Fuso samurai made the instructor corps of the Tang Empire unbearable, so they simply returned to Beihai Province by boat to see it out of sight.

After the victory in Kyoto, the old bureaucrats of the Tokugawa shogunate also began to become arrogant, and some villains became rampant when they got to the end.

Ignoring some of the correct opinions of the instructor corps, he indulged in the paranoid pleasure of violent venting.

In that case, then bye-bye!

Butterworth Province

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

A dense burst of bean-like gunfire rang out, and the rebellious native warriors were knocked to the ground. Wolf-like soldiers rushed into the last of the indigenous Ezo villages, drove them out of the village, and set fire to the thatched huts.

The flames burst into the sky, and from time to time a group of Ezo natives would rush out of their hiding place, roaring loudly and brandishing their swords, and then they were shot over by the searching soldiers, turning them into corpses strewn everywhere.

This indigenous village of three to four hundred people will cease to exist after this catastrophe.

Surrounded by soldiers' knives and guns, the bodies of the slain Aboriginal men were thrown into the blazing fire by the captured Aboriginal men in the village, and eventually burned to ashes.

After the Tang Empire acquired Beihai Province, it immediately began to clean up the northern island of Fuso.

In accordance with the consistent policy towards indigenous peoples

After the more than 100,000 Ezo aborigines in Beihai Province were cleared, all the men were transferred to the forced labor camps, and began to repair roads, wharves, farmland and water conservancy facilities and open up wasteland in a planned manner under the guidance of Chinese immigrants in preparation for the large-scale arrival of Chinese immigrants.

Because the entire Beihai Province is located on the coast of East Asia, it is only more than 1,000 kilometers away from the mainland by sea, and the migrants from the Jiaodong Peninsula and the east coast of China can easily arrive, so the resettlement work is very smooth.

After the pier in Sapporo was officially put into operation, a ship of migrant liners arrived every two or three days, bringing in between 22,000 and 25,000 Chinese immigrants each month, including a large number of street children.

The empire successively opened 13 large-scale charity schools in Beihai Province, each with a scale of more than 10,000 people, implementing an integrated model of accommodation and teaching, with male and female branch schools, and all militarized management.

From now on

The Tang Empire's immigration agencies in Shenzhou will successively cancel the establishment of charity schools, and the displaced children will be sent to Beihai Province for centralized education, unified school uniforms, three-year literacy education, and inculcate loyalty to the royal family and the Tang Empire.

All charitable education funds will be paid by the Royal Home Office, and more Tzu Chi schools will be opened in the future, mainly for children displaced by the famine in mainland China, so as to provide them with an opportunity to learn and change their lives.

Less than a year after Beihai Province entered the empire, the industry has undergone tremendous changes.

The major steamship companies operating the golden shipping routes in the North Pacific are the first businessmen to smell the business opportunities, and they have spent huge sums of money to build wharves in the excellent ports of Hokkai Province, such as Hakodate Port, Otaru Port, Kushiro Port, Tomakomai Port, etc., and purchased nearby land to build large transit warehouses, open ship repair yards and shipyards, hoping to build the port of Hokkai Province into a base camp facing the mainland of China.

After all, this is the territory of the empire located in the western Pacific region, closest to Eurasia, and it is well worth the long-term investment.

In response to the boom in investment from shipping companies, the Hokkai provincial government has also launched two plans to build two main railway lines, one running east-west through the entire island, from Sapporo in the western part of the island and Otaru to Nemuro in the east of the island.

Another north-south main railway, which runs from Hakodate in the south, runs north along the coastline and continues north at the intersection of Sapporo and the "Roots Railway" before ending in Wakkanai, the northernmost part of the island. ”

The two main railway lines are 1,240 kilometers long, and they are planned to be completed in five years because they need to cross many mountains, mainly local hard labor and Fuso laborers, supplemented by a small number of Chinese migrant workers.

Sixty percent of the entire province is mountainous, three percent is undulating hilly areas, and only one percent is the coastal plain area, which is also the agricultural area with the longest development history.

In less than a year

North Butterworth province already has a population of nearly 230,000 (Note; Some coastal towns also flourished, and many Chinese immigrants gradually moved inland to open up wasteland, which inevitably led to fierce conflicts with the local Ezo natives.

The Tang Empire's approach was simple;

Indigenous people with different languages, religions, cultures and customs have all adopted a policy of severe repression, and there is no process of persuasion and education, and they are directly suppressed by force.

The end of the military operation means that the clean-up work has come to an end.

In the new year

Cargo ships loaded with machinery and equipment will call at the port of Hokkaido Province, where various food processing plants, canneries, shipyards and coal mines will be built, and the world-class Hokkaido fishing grounds will be used to develop the marine fishing industry and seafood processing industry, and the unified large-scale farm will be established, which will truly develop into a bridgehead for the empire to enter the East Asian region.

With more than half of the coal reserves in the entire Fuso Islands, Beihai Province has the ability to supply coal fuel, seafood and other daily supplies to ships sailing across the ocean, and has the superior conditions for building a logistics center base.

The high latitude, cold winters and cool summers, combined with abundant sunshine, make for a promising development of local agriculture.

Just like the Great Northern Wilderness at the same latitude, the grain produced is of quite high quality, with few pests and diseases, and the yield is also satisfactory.

Based on such geographical characteristics

Beihai Province discourages private ownership of land, and mainly relies on large and medium-sized farms established by royal capital, aristocratic capital and social capital, while Chinese immigrants exist in the form of farm laborers, so that land use is more efficient and the income of Chinese immigrants is more stable.

Immediately following the entry of the steamship company into the North Sea Province were the three major telegraph operators and a number of financial institutions in the empire, and how could the North Sea Province, as an important node area of the trans-Pacific submarine telegraph cable, not have the existence of the three major telegraph operators?

The establishment of regional headquarters in Sapporo, the largest city in Hokkai, is another consideration.

Due to the continuous family ties between the Tang Empire and the Shenzhou Mainland, transoceanic exchange has always been a high-profit business pursued by the major banks of the empire, and it is also the core business of fierce competition.

According to statistics;

In 1867 alone, there were 412,700 transactions of cross-ocean exchange from the provinces of the Tang Empire to the mainland of China, and the total amount of money reached 53.3 million Tang Yuan.

According to the ratio of 20% of the pumping in the coastal areas and 30% or even 3% or even 3% of the water pumped in the inland provinces, this is a huge income with an annual profit of more than 10 million Tang Yuan.

And because of that

The banking institutions in the coastal provinces became a source of turmoil, and there were many cases of banks being looted during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they eventually came to an end.

Now that Shenzhou society has gradually returned to stability, these foreign banking institutions have become the fat sheep targeted by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, if it were not for the strength of the Tang Empire, I am afraid it would have been torn to pieces long ago.

Therefore, the deposit of foreign banks should not be too much, and they should be sent back to the local headquarters on a regular basis.

Today, Hokkai Province offers a new choice for financial institutions, and the choice of Sapporo as the regional headquarters is very safe and convenient, which naturally attracts financial institutions to settle in.

Judging from the current good development prospects of Beihai Province, in a few years, this northern island will soon develop under the condition of the influx of domestic capital.

The geographical location around the province of Butterworth is important due to a series of archipelagos, including the four northern islands.

Hokkai Province is separated from Honshu Island by the Tsugaru Strait, to the north by the Soya Strait from Tsarist Sakhalin, and to the east by the Kuril Islands. It is bordered by the Sea of Japan to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the southeast, and the Sea of Okhotsk to the northeast.

The port of Vladivostok, which was occupied by Tsarist Russia, was geographically largely surrounded by Hokkaido.

Its two straits eastward into the Pacific Ocean, one being the Soya Strait and the other being the Tsugaru Strait, were all under the control of the Tang Empire.

If Tsarist Russia's fleet wanted to enter the Pacific Ocean, it was basically impossible without the permission of the Tang Empire, unless it sneaked over under the cover of night.

Because of the important geographical location of Beihai Province, it has become an important base of the Royal Navy in the western Pacific, and a steam ironclad detachment is stationed all year round to prevent the eyes of Tsarist Russia from prying eyes to the south.