Chapter 92: The Great Immigration (Part 2)
The Chinese-American Republic, the capital city of Manchester (Manhattan Island, New York)
Next to the Capitol Square, on the roof terrace of a four-story building, Wang Qiu held a pair of miniature telescopes and looked down at the crowded square. At this time, the customs officers of the Chinese American Republic had already set up tents here, preparing to review the new immigrants in order to arrange their next allocation - except for a few skilled craftsmen, they would usually be assigned to cultivate wasteland. And the hundreds of Ming Dynasty refugees who arrived here through the [Random Gate] had worried and nervous expressions on their faces, waiting for selection ahead, just like goods on an assembly line.
According to the temporary regulations issued by the Chinese League, these new immigrants will be forced to sign ten-year labor contracts after arriving in America, Africa, Vladivostok and other places. During this period, they must obey all dispatches and assignments from the local government and are not allowed to act without authorization. This is used to offset the government's cost of arranging their immigration and settlement. If someone refuses to obey the distribution, he will be thrown into prison. Although this approach is suspected of using slave labor, for the hungry refugees in the Ming Dynasty who are struggling on the verge of death, this is indeed the beginning of a better new life.
——In the fertile land of America, they will get everything they have longed for for generations: fields, pastures, livestock, houses...even women!
"...Congress has passed a resolution to imitate Lincoln's "Homestead Act" and allocate one hundred to one hundred and fifty acres of land to each new immigrant in the undeveloped areas of the interior. At the same time, in the form of interest-free loans, The state will provide them with farm tools, cattle, and rations for the early stages of reclamation—as long as they can If they pay off their debts within a few years, or rely on military service to obtain preferential treatment for military dependents, the allocated land will belong to them forever. At the same time, within five years of opening up wasteland, new immigrants will be exempted from all agricultural taxes and poll taxes, no matter what. Everything must be done to let them take root.”
The supreme leader of the Chinese-American Republic, Premier Qi Jianjun (the Chinese-American political system is similar to modern India, and the president is just the highest-level mascot) was wearing a neat white shirt and a crisp tuxedo suit. He introduced Wang Qiu with a smile on his face, "... …Of course, this is a policy in inland and remote areas with inconvenient transportation. It is mainly to occupy territory and prevent it from being taken away by European colonists in advance. In the relatively developed eastern coastal states, we prefer to allow immigrants to enter large state-run cities. Farm as an Agricultural Worker – Today The Thirty Years War in Europe has been a life-and-death struggle, and food prices are skyrocketing. The food we export to Europe every year is in short supply, and we urgently need to invest more labor to increase crop production. Naturally, there is no land to allocate to these agricultural workers. There are still benefits such as house allocation, and they are given free of charge! In addition, through the Jewish Chamber of Commerce, we have purchased a large number of white female slaves from Cairo, Crimea and Basra, and are preparing to ration good-performing immigrants as wives..."< br>
"...It sounds very good, but if you do this, the cost will be quite high! Can your government's finances afford it?"
Wang Qiu nodded slightly and asked with a frown, "...it's best not to expect more subsidies from the central government. Zhongnanhai is not a charity..."
"...Don't worry, now we can get so many immigrants from Shandong without spending money, and we don't have to go through the exploitation of those black-hearted Portuguese traffickers. The money saved here alone is enough to smooth out the resettlement costs of the new immigrants. ”
Prime Minister Qi Jianjun smiled and said - In the past ten years or so, the governments of the Chinese American Republic and the East Coast Republic in remote America had to pay an average of three to four hundred taels of silver to obtain a Ming Dynasty immigrant through the channels of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in Macau, and every year Usually only one or two thousand people can be imported.
What's worse is that there are often a lot of Japanese and Vietnamese mixed in, but the East Coast Republic and the Chinese American Republic have no choice but to accept it with pinched noses - no matter what, they are still yellow people, at least they are better than those introduced in large numbers. The arrival of white European immigrants or black slaves was even more reassuring.
But even so, the Chinese American Republic has always been troubled by the lack of its own population, especially the low core population ratio. The thousands of miles of fertile wilderness from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes are still mostly barbaric. The proportion of European white immigrants in the Chinese-American Republic has also increased over time. Even if it has absorbed several large Indian tribes from the early days of the founding of the country and granted citizenship to these indigenous people, it is still difficult to maintain the absolute advantage of the yellow race. …While the people in Dengzhou Town looked at the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Central Plains pouring into their territory every day and worried that they would be overwhelmed, the people in the Huamei Republic, who were responsible for receiving and resettling these refugees, were happy and worried. Not enough people came.
"...a group of people are sent every week, and each batch of immigrants is about two thousand... Gee, this number seems to be a little less!"
Seeing that this group of new immigrants from the Ming Dynasty were successively arranged by relevant departments, divided into long teams, and escorted by army soldiers to various villages or mining sites, Qi Jianjun smacked his lips with some dissatisfaction, "... I can add some more points." The number of immigrants given to us? Anyway, there should be more refugees in the Central Plains. Very! Not only do we have plenty of land here, but food is not a problem either. As long as we stop exporting grain to Europe and use the improved seeds of modern time and space and the synthetic ammonia fertilizers that have recently been produced, the Chinese American Republic will not be able to feed another million people this year. No pressure..."
"...This is already the limit! You are not the only place that needs people! And the military pressure on your side is minimal."
Wang Qiu scratched his hair and sighed, "...the East Bank Republic is surrounded by the spheres of influence of Portugal and Spain. It has already fought two tragic wars with the Spanish, and various small conflicts and proxy wars have continued throughout the day. It has never stopped. The Far East Company in Vladivostok is planning to launch a full-scale attack on Liaodong to remove Huang Taiji's lair. For this reason, it is also necessary. A large amount of labor and recruits. The Lingao Group in Hainan Island also has large areas of wasteland waiting to be developed, as well as steel mills and textile factories that require tens of thousands of workers. The combined current populations of South Africa and Madagascar are less than 3,000. But they are already facing challenges from the Dutch and British on that land, as well as resistance from the local Africans...
Finally, the alliance capital city in Perth, Australia has not yet been completed, and there are no plans to introduce too many indigenous immigrants from this time and space for the time being. But after the new city is completed, thousands of laborers will also be needed to develop the wild Australian continent.
In order to recruit labor for so many places at the same time, the Dengzhou Army on the battlefield in Shandong has completely stopped military operations. From the army to the civil affairs department, they have focused their work on sheltering and training refugees. Right now, in the entire Central Plains, there are indeed Tens of millions of farmers are slowly starving to death or fighting each other, but there may not be even one in a hundred who can survive all the difficulties and obstacles along the way and make it to Dengzhou alive..."
Having said this, looking down at the Shandong immigrants who were walking in groups on the street and looking around curiously, Wang Qiu couldn't help but feel a little sad - when they were in the Central Plains, their lives were as lowly as pigs and dogs. The Ming court and the gentry landlords all I wish they would starve to death soon; but in the time traveler In the established overseas countries, they are "precious goods" worth three to four hundred taels of silver each, which is more than a hundred times the price of the population of the Central Plains... According to the arrangements of the Chinese American Republic, they will soon enter various farms, factories and mines, Contribute to the vigorous development of this "Chosen Country". Or join the border garrison, compete with the Iroquois and French colonists in the north for the fertile soil around the Great Lakes, and expand the space of Chinese civilization...
——For the Chinese American Republic, the East Coast Republic, and even the entire Chinese League, as long as they have a population, they have everything.
Hey, it is in line with the old saying: there is no garbage in this world, only misplaced resources. These people were stranded in China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when famines were frequent during the Little Ice Age. They could only starve and freeze to death miserably, or kill each other pointlessly. But if they are organized and immigrated to undeveloped America, they can open up the wilderness, create civilization, recreate China overseas, and compose a legendary epic that conquers the world!
At present, the various traveler forces under the Chinese League are generally developing rapidly, and there is an urgent need for population everywhere. But China’s tradition is that “it’s hard to leave one’s homeland.” Unless they are really desperate, few people are usually willing to move to other places. Fortunately, China is now in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty when the people are in dire straits. The successive natural disasters and the corrupt and incompetent Ming Dynasty have created millions of refugees in the empire. When a person breaks through the barrier in his heart, After truly becoming a refugee, one usually only looks forward to a safe place to settle down, and no longer minds being far away from his homeland.
"...By the way, are the grains allocated to Shandong ready? The only thing missing is your share of aid supplies that haven't been given yet." Wang Qiu suddenly remembered something, turned around and asked Prime Minister Qi Jianjun, "... The chief manager of Liu Min in Dengzhou Town complains all day long and is worried about not having enough food.”
——After a large number of [Free Doors] that can connect the world in real time, instead of having to ask Doraemon for an excuse every time to transport cross-dimensional materials, instead, the various member countries of the Chinese Alliance can communicate with each other. It is easier to allocate supplies... Therefore, most of the food, clothing, tents and other materials needed to recruit refugees in Dengzhou Town are collected from North and South America, Vladivostok, Hainan Island and Taiwan.
Today, the soldiers and civilians in Dengzhou are eating North American corn and salted fish, wearing South American cotton, lighting Antarctic blubber candles, holding sickles forged from Australian iron ore, leading African cattle to plow the fields, and sowing seeds from The seeds of the 21st century (modern world) and the 22nd century (Doraemon world)... Its mash-up style is really full of world empire style, which makes people speechless.
"...the first batch of 1,500 tons of corn has been prepared and can now be transported to the battleship over there through the [Random Gate]."
Prime Minister Qi Jianjun pointed to the square below and replied casually - after the transportation of this batch of immigrants hoarded on Liugong Island, the [Random Door] in the Capitol was dismantled and is now being escorted by a heavily armed army. , transported to the national grain depot in Manchester, "...In addition, there are fifty tons of corned beef, one hundred and twenty tons of salted fish and two hundred tons of wheat... In short, there is absolutely no need to worry about starvation over there in Shandong.
In fact, if General Chen from Shandong is willing to agree, we can set aside land in Virginia or Massachusetts at any time and allow them to relocate all the five or six million people in Dengzhou Town, allowing General Chen to continue to serve here. The governor, well, he can also serve as the vice president..."
"...Haha, I'm afraid this suggestion lacks feasibility. Neither Chen Xin nor Huang Shi will be willing to give up the Tunbao system in Shandong Peninsula."
Wang Qiu shook his head, "...instead of trying to take advantage of one's own people, it is better to find ways to open up sources - Huangshi is currently planning a mainland strategy to establish more refugee shelters in the north of the Ming Dynasty, so that the refugees can be greatly accelerated. The scale and speed of collection. If your country can provide more swords, gunpowder and cannons to the East Asian theater, or simply send troops to assist, you will definitely get rich rewards in the future..."
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In general, the current Global Chinese Travelers Alliance is a militaristic regime with a strong fascist atmosphere. Each of the participating countries has absorbed the advantages of traditional fascist countries to varying degrees, such as a social atmosphere that advocates force, a high proportion of state-owned economy, and strong cohesion obtained through repeated brainwashing. However, they do not have the disadvantages of traditional fascist countries. For example, the lack of local resources and the cult of leader personality, etc. - During World War II, Germany, Italy and Japan all had huge and sharp social conflicts in their domestic societies because their territories were too small and their resources were insufficient. In order to divert disasters from abroad and divert social crises, they Only then will we embark on the path of external expansion. And this is often one of the Achilles heel of fascist countries.
However, the situation of the East Coast, Huamei, Hainan Island, Australia and Vladivostok Far East Company is completely different, and can even be said to be very strange - they own large tracts of land to be developed (even the Hainan Island that the Lingao Group ruled from the Ming Dynasty) is completely different. , in fact, it is also a vast land and sparsely populated), and the per capita resources are frighteningly high, comparable to modern Russia. There are no serious social conflicts in the country, and the main threat is foreign enemies. The fascist armies of Germany, Italy and Japan were seizing land everywhere. In serious cases, they also wanted to cleanse the indigenous peoples, carry out the three-guang policy and genocide. At present, the Chinese League's primary war goal is to gain population, snatching, capturing, and buying people from the Ming Dynasty and other places... but they have little interest in the land of the Central Plains.
——In a series of indicators that measure comprehensive national strength such as science and technology, politics, military, resources, land, industry and agriculture, and are fully dominant on the earth in this time and space, the only problem that seriously hinders the Chinese Traveler Alliance's great cause of conquering the world is currently , leaving only insufficient population.
It is obvious that any territory cannot maintain consolidated rule if it does not have enough population to enrich it. And if any dominant nation cannot maintain its population advantage within its territory, its rule will not be stable. This is why the Chinese American Republic and the East Coast Republic would rather endure the ruthless slaughter of Portuguese traffickers than start from Macau. Imported for the sake of Ming Dynasty immigrants.
For the same reason, they did not hesitate to launch wars at this time to import more labor force into the vast and desolate America.
"...Actually, if you agree to set up the decontamination camp in America and directly send the refugees here. Instead of insisting that new immigrants complete decontamination and quarantine in Shandong before allowing them to enter, I want to transport the population The speed should be even faster..."
Wang Qiu lowered his head and thought for a moment, and suddenly made a rational suggestion to Prime Minister Qi Jianjun, "...the East Coast Republic of South America did this, omitting the Liugong Island purification camp. So, last time we did it in one breath Five thousand people were transported to South America..." Unexpectedly, Qi Jianjun He shook his head repeatedly, "...No! Absolutely not! The purification process must not be relaxed! Once the unquarantined refugees from the Ming Dynasty enter in large numbers, the whites and Chinese here may be able to handle it, but the Indians and indigenous people will definitely be A great plague is about to break out..."