Liberalizing the free entry of Chinese immigrants into South and North American countries was a new policy of the Tang Empire government after entering the 80s of the 19th century, and it seems that the implementation effect is quite good.

Most of the voluntary immigrants to other countries are businessmen, plantation owners or adventurers, and in the favorable environment of the American Unified Market, Chinese immigrants who are good at doing business bravely go out to find new development opportunities.

The success of many Chinese immigrants abroad has inspired more compatriots to go out through the publicity of the newspapers.

Chinese businessmen have developed smoothly in many South and North American countries, and have achieved significant influence in both business and political circles. This helped to expand the Chinese cultural circle and also helped the rich products of the Tang Empire to enter the local market.

After the population of the Tang Empire reached 100 million, Emperor Richard and the imperial government were thinking about such a question;

How can we make Chinese Americans more deeply involved in the political and economic life of the Americas?

How can Chinese become the lingua franca of the Americas?

How to let the countries of the Americas have a deeper understanding and love of Chinese culture, accept the influence of oriental culture, and integrate into the oriental cultural circle?

The millions of Chinese laborers imported into the Brazilian Empire pointed out a correct path for the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Empire; That is the import of Chinese immigrants.

Due to the extreme shortage of labor, the Brazilian Empire imported a large number of black slaves, and was also the last slave state bastion in South America.

All this changed after the Second South American War.

After the war in 1868, the Brazilian Empire pledged to renounce slavery, and according to an intergovernmental agreement, the Tang Empire was to import millions of Chinese laborers into the Brazilian Empire over the next ten years.

The cost of immigration is borne by the Brazilian Empire, which is committed to giving equal treatment to Chinese immigrants for equal work and equal pay, and to effectively protect the property and personal safety of immigrants in marriage, employment, property purchase and justice.

Judging by the results of subsequent practice, the Imperial Government of Brazil kept its promises. In the past 10 years, as many as 1.31 million Chinese laborers have been imported, which has greatly alleviated the labor gap of the Brazilian Empire and is an important guarantee for the rapid recovery of its agricultural economy.

After the expiration of the agreement in 1878, the two countries renewed a long-term agreement on the importation of Chinese labor, which continued to provide immigrants to the Brazilian Empire at a rate of about 12~130,000 people per year.

This long-term agreement has fed more than 20 ocean-going shipping companies in the Tang Empire, found a new way out for a large number of refugees suffering from hunger and cold in China, and solved the acute employment contradictions in the Brazilian Empire, which can be described as the best of all three.

Today

The Chinese population of the Brazilian Empire has reached more than 4.77 million (note, most of the Chinese have started families and had children in the local area), accounting for more than one-third and a half of the population.

As the so-called; Intentionally planting trees does not live, and unintentionally planting willows and willows into rows.

It is precisely because of the success story of Brazil that the Tang Empire has implemented a policy of comprehensively liberalizing population mobility, intending to achieve social and demographic changes in the social and demographic structures of American countries through tens of hundreds of years of efforts.

It is not expected to occupy the position of the largest ethnic group in all countries of the Americas, at least it is also the main ethnic group, and has important influence in the political, economic and military fields that cannot be ignored.

In fact, Paraguay and Uruguay have been fully Chinese-American, no different from the overseas provinces of the empire, even the textbooks used in the Chinese language schools are the same, and there are many graduates from the Taoyuan School of Administration in the middle and high levels of the government.

The trend towards ethnic Chinese in Brazil and Argentina is also evident, although the population is still smaller than that of whites. But it can't stand the traditional concept of Chinese people practicing polygamy and advocating more children and more blessings, and they can have more children than white families!

in the countries of North America

The Republic of Florida, the Republic of Mississippi, the Kingdom of Kentucky, the Kingdom of Oklahoma, and several northern states of the United States have become the largest ethnic group in the local society.

It is expected that by the end of this century or the first decade of the next century, these countries will become dominated by ethnic Chinese, which is the power of the Tang Empire's liberalized immigration policy.

In some countries with fewer Chinese immigrants, such as the Carolina Republic, Canada, the south-central states of the United States, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, the proportion of the Chinese population is about 5%~15%.

Chile, Venezuela, and Bolivia have a small proportion of the population, and the Chinese population is about 5%~7%, which is the smallest in the whole South America.

Peru was the first country to sell guano and is also a wealthy country in South America, with a large number of immigrants coming to the country to do business and start plantations, with about 9.2% of the population of Chinese descent, which is basically the same as Canada.

The Carolina Republic had a large number of Chinese immigrants in the middle of the 19th century, and after the Second North American War, that is, in 1862, due to the severe shortage of male population after the war, a large number of Chinese immigrants entered the region.

By 1886, the Chinese population in the region accounted for about 13.7% of the total population, the third largest ethnic group after whites and blacks, and was mainly engaged in commerce, trade, catering and transportation in the Carolina Republic, especially 80% of the country's foreign exports were controlled by Chinese.

Compared with other divided regions of the former Confederate States of America, the Carolina Republic has the lowest proportion of Chinese population, is politically close to the United Kingdom, and has close ties with France, and is a maverick in the "American Alliance".

The Carolina Republic, along with Canada, often questioned the Tang Empire's policy of a unified market in the Americas, and was an out-and-out spoiler, and was therefore suppressed by the Tang Empire on the North American continent.

Even so

The Carolina Republic did not dare to deliberately suppress and exclude ethnic groups of Chinese descent, nor did it dare to adopt high tariff measures on the dumped goods of the Tang Empire.

They were very cautious everywhere, because they were surrounded by the troops of the Tang Empire, and they were always staring at them with bad intentions.

If an excuse is found, a storm of blows will follow.

The top brass of the Carolina Republic also knew it in their hearts;

The Tang Empire has always acted hegemonically, and it is okay to go against the grain on some irrelevant issues. If you jump out and oppose important issues, sooner or later you will have to be cleaned up.

Therefore, on the issue of the establishment of the "Pan-Pacific Cooperation Organization", the Republic of Carolina obediently chose to cooperate, while Canada, which strongly opposes it, is still an observer state.

Entered February 1887

In 1886, the previous year of the Tang Empire, various national economic statistics were released one after another, of which the gross national product reached 14.36 billion Tang Yuan, which was about 1.41 times that of the British Empire itself.

However, the British statistics include 31 million square kilometers of colonies (note, at this time, the peak of 33 million British colonies has not yet been reached), with a total population of about 340 million, and the total economic output is still higher than that of the Tang Empire.

After 40 years of rapid economic development, the Tang Empire is the country leading the world's second wave of industrial revolution, and ranks among the world's leaders in the field of chemical industry and electrification, leaving European countries behind.

After 10 years of development, more than 120 automobile manufacturers have emerged, and the automotive products cover two categories of gasoline engines and diesel engines, and have developed many subdivisions such as cars, trucks, pickups, buses, etc.

By the end of 1886

The number of cars in the whole society of the Tang Empire reached 617,000, and driving cars became a new way of life, which began to enter middle-class families on a large scale and spread deeply.

The Tang Empire's car ownership accounts for 87% of the world's total, and if other North American countries are included, this proportion will reach 93.6%, ranking first in the world's automobile industry.

There are several factors that cannot be ignored why the automotive industry in North America is developing so smoothly.

First of all, the developed machinery industry level of the Tang Empire has ranked among the world's top ranks, and it is a leading existence in the field of production of serial diesel engines and gasoline engines.

Millions of farms and ranches in Datang have created a huge agricultural machinery market, and also created a developed agricultural machinery industry in the Datang Empire, and the development of the automobile industry has also benefited from this.

Second, the abundant resources in China are the basis for the in-depth popularization of the automobile industry.

The Tang Empire monopolized the world's petrochemical industry, and domestic gasoline, diesel, lubricating oil and heavy oil products were cheap and popular, and petroleum products could be easily bought in grocery stores in urban and rural areas.

Some large petrochemical companies have even built special car refueling stations in cities to provide very convenient services for car users. This new thing has been widely acclaimed, and it has also greatly promoted the entry of automobiles into thousands of households.

Comparatively

Europe is a traditional oil-poor region, all petrochemical products have to be imported from the Tang Empire, with tariffs and high profits, whether kerosene, gasoline, diesel or heavy oil prices have increased several times, and the cost of machinery is high.

This includes agricultural machinery and automobiles, but also shipping, power generation equipment and machine tools used by factories and enterprises, and the cost is much higher than that of the Tang Empire.

For example, natural rubber, which is widely used in automobiles, tires are indispensable.

The Tang Empire is the largest producer of natural rubber, accounting for 78% of the world's natural rubber market, and the price of domestic tires is much cheaper, while the export price has to at least double or quadruple.

The third factor, of course, is the market.

Since the founding of the Tang Empire, the peaceful development of the Tang Empire has not encountered war for more than 40 years, and now it has developed into a world-class industrial and agricultural economic power, cultivating a large number of middle classes.

In particular, the affluent urban class and the vast number of farmers and ranchers have a huge social demand for automobiles that can improve the quality of life and improve labor efficiency.

Fourth, the vast territory of the Tang Empire, the developed and perfect highway transportation system and modern urban transportation have provided fertile soil for the development of the automobile industry.

The combination of several factors has created the reputation of the Tang Empire as a "country on wheels", and it is also the place where the people are most proud.

(End of chapter)