Chapter 222 Such a Land, Such an Era (First Update, Please Subscribe)
threaten!
Without the threat of force, would the Peruvians so readily agree to protect the legal rights and interests of Chinese workers?
Would they so readily abolish the contract that was equivalent to selling their bodies for Chinese workers?
The answer is of course no.
The laws of nations are not as important as a few warships. This is a very simple truth.
“68,000 Chinese workers!”
Holding the telegram in his hand, Zhu Xianhai said quite proudly.
"If all these Chinese workers were to arrive in Nanhua, our population would exceed 350,000."
"350,000! My lord, 90% of these 350,000 people are young and strong!"
Fang Zhanbo smiled.
"Even if Argentina has a population of 1.5 million, the number of young and middle-aged people is about the same. In this case, our Nanhua can be considered to be thriving! The number of newborns this year is expected to exceed 80,000. Unfortunately, there are too few young women. If there were enough women, the number of newborns would at least double."
Fang Zhanbo, who is in charge of the "New Home Plan", is naturally well aware of the number of newborns in Nanhua. After all, marriage and childbirth are prerequisites for immigrants to be assigned a new home. However, there are less than 100,000 women in Nanhua, which means that more than 100,000 people will not be able to find a wife.
"This is not a problem. It will be solved in a few years."
Zhu Xianhai smiled. Now the little Lopez has begun to challenge the two major countries of Argentina and Brazil alone. It is still unknown how far his suicidal journey will go, but what is certain is that the "Little Napoleon of South America" with a strong self-esteem will definitely lead the Paraguayan people... well, mainly men, to a dead end.
By the time the war is over, Paraguay will be a country with more women than men. By then, women will no longer be a problem, because there are 100,000 women there!
But, more than 200,000 women are not enough!
Standing in front of the map, Zhu Xianhai pointed at the map and said.
"By the end of the year, the railway will be almost open to traffic. By then, our immigrant ships will switch to the Pacific route. It is estimated that the immigration rate will increase by about double. In the next few years, our population will experience explosive growth!"
Next year, as the number of new steam immigration ships exceeds 50 and the Pacific route is shortened by nearly half, the pace of immigration will be greatly accelerated, even surpassing that of the United States.
"Now, our business in Shanghai has always regarded attracting immigrants as one of the most important tasks. There are at least 30 to 40 million young and middle-aged people in China who have no land or property and are trapped in poor villages. They are eager to survive. As long as our recruitment team goes to the inland and prints some pamphlets, describing the attractive prospects of immigration to South China, they will take the initiative to go to the port and board the immigration ship, and the immigration tide will..."
After a pause, Zhu Xianhai said.
"The immigration wave has only just begun. For now, the most important thing is the ship! As long as we have the ship, we can continuously transport people from the Pacific Ocean to South China. With enough immigrants, this land will soon undergo earth-shaking changes."
It is not just Nanhua that has been changed, but even the Pacific Ocean - in the Pacific Ocean, Nanhua's merchant ships have opened up a number of trading stations, which will be the foundation of Nanhua's expansion in the Pacific Ocean. Last year, Zhu Xianhai even followed the example of the United States and promulgated a similar "Guano Island Law" - under this article, if an American citizen finds guano on any unaffiliated and uninhabited island, the island "may be deemed to be appending to the United States under the presidential ruling."
As for Nanhua, it was just a subsidiary of the company. But the result was the same as the Guano Island Act in the United States, where any speculative adventurer could "wander freely in the Pacific or other oceans and incorporate islands into the company", and the company only needed to pay the cost of acquiring the guano island.
Guano is the "cheapest, most powerful, long-lasting and easily transportable fertilizer" of the era. It will promote agricultural development in South China and increase crop yields. Of course, more importantly, South China will gain a batch of islands, just like the United States, where speculators rushed to claim ownership after the passage of the Guano Island Act. This is another wave of land rush, this time in the Pacific and the Caribbean. The first islands joined the United States in 1857. By 1863, the US government had annexed 59 small islands. Historically, the United States has occupied a total of 94 guano islands in the Pacific, and after the value of guano has been exhausted, the important value of the Pacific deployment strategy will follow.
Now, the outbreak of the Civil War has made American speculators pause, but South China has begun to take the same steps. The guano on the Guano Island may not be important, but through small islands, a huge ocean empire can be formed in the Pacific Ocean.
"Such an era! Such a land! If we cannot open up a place for survival for our Chinese people in this era, we will be sorry for this era!"
While sighing, another sentence popped up in Zhu Xianhai's mind -
"The Pacific will be ours, and the Atlantic will be ours, too!"
Maybe, not now, but in the future, it will definitely belong to Nanhua.
Looking at his lord standing in front of a large map with his back to him, Fang Zhanbo's expression became solemn.
yes!
If we fail to conquer this land, we will be letting down the times!
From the grassland with nothing to the city that is changing with each passing day, it only took four years to build everything. If there were a few more years, perhaps, the lord's dream would come true!
When there are millions of Chinese immigrants living on this land, who dares to say that this is not the promised land for the Chinese?
Maybe by then, my lord can ascend the throne and become emperor!
Fang Zhanbo was full of anticipation for that day. A loyal minister! He would definitely be a high-ranking official in the new dynasty, and he might even become a noble prince who would live and die with the country.
Thinking of this, he became more motivated.
Zhu Xianhai had no idea what Fang Zhanbo was thinking. He stared at the map and looked at the vast ocean. Although his inner ambition was growing, he knew very well in his heart that he must have enough strength to realize this ambition.
For example, the strength at sea!
To put it bluntly, the reason why the Peruvians surrendered this time was because of force. Without the two ironclad ships and the threat of force, how could they surrender and agree to release all the Chinese workers who were willing to leave?
"In the final analysis, this world is still ruled by strength! Nanhua's strength is still too weak!"
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(End of this chapter)
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