Daming 1805

Chapter 142 Going to Yinzhou for a Breakthrough

Western Cape Huangzhuang, the residence of the British delegation.

British Prime Minister William Pitt is furiously writing.

"...Your Majesty, the peace talks have now been confirmed, but the United Kingdom is still facing a great crisis.

"I am talking about these conditions, although I am helpless, but I am no longer qualified to continue to serve as prime minister.

"The domestic investors must be furious now, and they need a outlet for their emotions now.

"So, please Your Majesty, after the benefit distribution meeting in Mozhou, dismiss me directly.

"At the same time, please, Your Majesty, please do not raise taxes in the United States, definitely not.

"The situation in the United States is on the verge of collapse, and the tax increase will be the last straw that breaks the camel's back, and it will be a new war.

"The United Kingdom cannot afford a new war.

"Please appoint James Monroe, who is born in the United States, as Prime Minister and improve the status of the American region.

"Only in this way can the United Kingdom be prevented from immediately falling into the quagmire of war again.

"On this basis, I offer you my most solemn and serious last political proposal.

"Please merge the United Kingdom with the United States to form the United Empire of Great Britain and the United States, and Your Majesty will ascend the throne as Emperor himself.

"That's the only future for the United Kingdom that I can see that isn't the worst."

Pete wrote here, was silent for a while, added some details, and then handed it over to the Prince of Wales sitting opposite:
"Your Highness, please persuade Your Majesty not to raise taxes in the United States, otherwise... I can't see the future..."

The Prince of Wales watched what Pete wrote the whole time, and heard Pete explain the reasoning behind it. At this time, he said very seriously:
"Prime Minister Pete, you really 'give your all' for the United Kingdom, do you really have to be removed from office?"

Pete nodded seriously and said:

"Yes, there must be someone in charge of this peace talk, and that person can only be me.

"A few months ago, people from Daming deliberately took pictures of me, and Prince Dashi deliberately chatted with me, but I didn't notice anything at the time.

"But after reading the newspapers brought back from London, I was completely sure that Daming was 'boosting' me.

"You may be able to understand everything when you are at the peace talks, but His Majesty cannot see it.

"Your Majesty can only see the carefully prepared articles arranged by Daming, portraying me as someone like Cromwell and Qin Hui.

"If there is no accident, His Majesty may have decided to dismiss me in his heart.

"It's just that the order was not given because the negotiations were not fully concluded.

"If we and you persuade His Majesty from this angle, His Majesty may have a rebellious mentality.

"That's why I have to be removed from office, just to ask His Majesty to accept my suggestion."

The Prince of Wales opened his mouth:
"Prime Minister Pete, after I succeed to the throne, I will re-appoint you as Prime Minister.

"Even if the father doesn't accept your suggestion, I will do what you said when the time comes.

"Merge Great Britain and America to form a new United Empire!"

Pete nodded slightly, then shook his head again and said:
"No, His Majesty must be asked to do it as soon as possible, otherwise he may not be able to persist in the future. His Highness must go to persuade His Majesty."

The Prince of Wales froze for a few seconds, then nodded solemnly again:
"I...I understand."

The Prince of Wales and Peter encouraged each other a few words, and then under the guidance of Peter, he wrote his own telegram to his father George III.

At the same time, Zhu Jingyuan was also in his room, sitting at his desk writing and drawing.

Plan for the future, list things that need attention, things that need to be done as soon as possible, and new orders for various aspects.

After the end of the World War, the most urgent thing is to suppress the rebellion or bandits in Nanyinzhou.

For those members of the separatist forces, Zhu Jingyuan can give them a chance to be Daming's dogs.

In some designated areas of Nanyinzhou, a small vassal state at the earl level was established.

Otherwise, it's time to release the Yin people's homecoming group that has been preparing for half a year.

Let the Yin people take the weapons and supplies from Ming Dynasty, and use Ming tactics to deal with the Taixi bandits.

At the same time, the entire Ming Dynasty will enter a state of great construction and great development.

Regarding the direction of these constructions, Zhu Jingyuan should guide the direction and restrict the rules in advance to avoid major problems.

The imperial court, the Huangzhuang, and the imperial consortium should become the core of development and construction, and play a guiding and promoting role.

Many real large-scale projects can only and must be done by them.

For example, building a large railway across Beiyinzhou, connecting the east coast and west coast of Beiyinzhou, connecting the Great Lakes and the Yazhou area (Seattle and Vancouver).

The eastern part of the United States in history is not the territory of Ming Dynasty now, so the first East-West Railway should not be copied from the Pacific Railway that was historically located in the central part of the United States.

Instead, it should be located near the border between the United States and Canada, which is near the route of the Great Northern Railway.

At the same time, in the middle of this railway, a north-south longitudinal railway extending south to the Gulf of Mexico will be added.

In the Northern Yinzhou territory of the Ming Dynasty, a T-shaped main railway line was formed.

The specific line requires engineering personnel to go to the site for investigation and confirmation.

Then build canals and locks connecting the Honey River, the Great Lakes, and the St. Lawrence River to form a waterway transportation network within the mainland.

Then explore the geological environment of the Panama area and prepare for the construction of the Panama Canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Daming Ocean, which may be directly called the Yinzhou Canal in the future.

The location can refer to the historical Panama Canal, but the way of construction does not necessarily refer to it.

When the Americans built the Panama Canal, they adopted the plan with the shortest construction time and the lowest cost, not the one with the best effect.

The details will have to be discussed in detail after the acceptance of the Panama area is completed, the bandits are suppressed, and the detailed exploration results come out.

At the same time, the expansion of the West Sea Canal requires ships capable of navigating [-] tons, and the capital ships of the Ming Dynasty must sail directly to the Daqin Sea.

Then there should be the development plan of Yinzhou Great Plains.

It is now a paradise for Yinzhou bison, and Zhu Jingyuan is not going to exterminate these creatures.

Zhu Jingyuan is not planning to develop the entire Great Plains either.

The Yinzhou Great Plain in the broad sense of later generations includes millions of square kilometers on both sides of the Mi River.

But the Great Plains in the narrow sense are actually the plateaus and higher plains at the eastern foot of the Rocky Mountains.

Including Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, West Texas in the United States.

The terrain of this area is relatively high, with an altitude of at least 350 meters, more than 100 meters higher than North China, and the west is directly a plateau.

The local annual precipitation is relatively small, between [-] and [-] millimeters.

It was originally a semi-arid and semi-humid "high grass grassland", similar to the best grassland in eastern Inner Mongolia where the grass grows and can drown cattle and sheep.

Most of the land here is fertile black soil. Americans like to pump groundwater to grow wheat in this kind of place, and it turned out to be a bit desertified later.

Zhu Jingyuan is not going to touch these grasslands, and plans to let them continue to be the home of bison and reserve farmland in the next 100 years.

Let the people of Daming first go north along the west bank of the Mi River, and open up wasteland and farm in humid areas with an annual precipitation of about [-] millimeters.

These development areas can just be separated from the British and French colonial areas on the other side of the river, forming a de facto boundary for settlement and occupation.

The final focus is the development of the tropical rainforest in Nanyinzhou...

After thinking for a few seconds, Zhu Jingyuan changed the rainforest development to management.

The Nanyinzhou rainforest, also known as the Amazon rainforest, does not play as important a role in the earth's biosphere as many marketing accounts make it out to be.

What produces 20% of the world's oxygen content, just calculate the efficiency of photosynthesis and the oxygen content of the earth to know that it is impossible.

Most of the earth's oxygen was formed in the early days, and the ecology of most modern regions is self-balancing.

The ecology of the entire rainforest itself is also balanced. The oxygen produced by the plants is basically gone after the animals in the rainforest have finished breathing.

But the rainforest remains the largest biobank on Earth.

More importantly, it has a huge impact on the local climate of Nanyinzhou.

And Nanyinzhou is the private land of the Ming royal family, as well as the final retreat, it is best not to destroy it.

At the same time, tropical rainforests are actually "green deserts", and the nutrients of the entire system are stored in the bodies of plants.

Yajiang's unparalleled runoff has taken away the only nutrients left in the soil, making the land under the rainforest very barren.

It is basically impossible to restore the rainforest after it is cut down, and it is not cost-effective to grow food. It is far better to farm on the black soil of the North and South Yinzhou Great Plains.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan finally requested that the rainforest in Nanyinzhou be listed as royal property, and no one should be allowed to develop and cut down it by himself.

These ideas are still only general directions and ideas.

The specific details of related projects will have to wait until the development node arrives, and Zhu Jingyuan will directly participate in the discussion again.

In the morning of the next day, Suzhou Prefecture, Fuguo County and Wu County, Official Yaxing Plaza.

These days, fewer and fewer workers are looking for work, but more and more employers, shopkeepers, and managers are recruiting.

This afternoon, the officials of the dental office came out again and posted a special large-format announcement on the most prominent place on the notice board.

Several managers who were drinking tea and wandering around subconsciously exclaimed when they saw the piece of paper:
"That's a rhubarb post, Huangzhuang wants to recruit people!"

"How many years have passed, and Huangzhuang is going to recruit people again!"

"Didn't you read the newspapers for the past two days? It must be that the Yinzhou Great Plain is going to open up wasteland!"

"It's hard to recruit workers these days, and Huangzhuang is still robbing people and letting people live..."

"Pretentious, if you really can't survive, you still come to recruit workers?"

"You must be able to live, the question is how to live."

Whether it's the workers who are picking jobs, or the managers and owners who are wandering around, they can't help but move forward now.

They looked at the details of Huangzhuang's recruitment, and soon began to discuss in disorder.

"Oh... What do you mean by this sentence, 'The fertile fields are like the Central Plains, and the wind and rain are as smooth as the south of the Yangtze River'?"

"Turn our Jiangnan into the Great Plains of the Central Plains? Is there such a place in the world?"

"I heard people say that Xintianfu is like this. Otherwise, why is it called Xintianfu? It is the reserved place of our Ming imperial family."

"Thirty percent of Huangzhuang's bonus goes to His Majesty, thirty percent is used for operation and construction, and four percent is given to all managers and employees. This is too generous..."

"This is the profit sharing standard of Xintianfu before. In the past few years, other vassal states have struggled to stand on their own, but Xintianfu is as immovable as a mountain, and concentrates on expanding its territory."

"I want to take my family and my family with me, and the workers in the factory have to run away again. The owner doesn't know what to worry about..."

"It's useless to worry, you still have to pay more. If you don't pay more, you won't be able to recruit people."

"It seems that the minimum labor remuneration of the imperial court is still set low."

"I've made up my mind, I can't linger on, I'm going to Yinzhou!"

If Zhu Jingyuan read this announcement, he would definitely send people to go back and change it.

Because many descriptions copied the situation in the South Yinzhou Plain.

There is a big difference between the Great Plains of Northern Yinzhou and Southern Yinzhou. The central part of it is not blocked by mountains at all.

"North-south transparent", "floor-to-ceiling windows", "no glass".

The cold current of the Arctic can go all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, and the warm current of the Gulf of Mexico can also go all the way to northern Canada.

It’s okay when the weather is stable. Summer is not as hot as in East Asia, and winter is not as cold. If you are lucky, it may not freeze.

But once the airflow becomes violent, it will often cause jaw-dropping meteorological changes.

For example, in just 10 minutes, the temperature suddenly rises by [-] degrees, or suddenly drops by [-] degrees in a few minutes.

A drop of [-] degrees in one day is not a special exception. If you wore short sleeves yesterday, you may wear a down jacket today, and it may suddenly snow in May and June.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, Montana once dropped from seven degrees to minus 24 degrees in 49 hours, with a daily temperature difference of 56 degrees.

Before the industrial age, this kind of cold wave could directly destroy a civilization, and all food and livestock would freeze to death.

Therefore, the aborigines of Yinzhou mainly lived behind the mountains on the east and west sides, and the Great Plains were basically no-man's land.

Immigrants from Ming Dynasty will be frightened by this weather soon after they go to Beiyinzhou.

At the same time, another group was gathering to eat, drink and chat above the restaurant next to the dental shop.

Most of them are well-dressed and well-built. Most of them are over 40 years old, and there are even a few old people with white beard and hair.

They are the relatively powerful "employees" in Suzhou.

After the Renwu Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty became strict with officials, completely prohibiting the behavior of rich folks from "buying official status".

The bureaucratic appellation "outsider" has gradually been eliminated.

The wealthiest people in the folk have also changed from landlords with a large amount of land to "owners" with a large amount of factory equity.

Therefore, "Dongjia" gradually replaced "Yuanwai" and became the synonym for rich folks.

They also like to call each other Li Dongjia and Wang Dongjia, just like later generations like to call Li Dong and Wang Dong.

These big bosses don't go down to read the notices by themselves, and have family members to help them run errands to copy them.

But this group of people is also concerned about the recent important movements of the court and the market, so they meet every now and then at the restaurant next to Yaxing.

Eating and drinking is not a serious matter, the key is to exchange their own news and observe the wind direction of the tooth shop nearby.

Not long after, several servants trotted upstairs, handed in the copied notice, and reported the situation in the square at the same time.

After listening, some of the bosses fell into deep thought, some smiled, and soon started discussing.

"The good time has come, I'm old, but you have to catch it."

"I drew it on the domain map. Now the entire Yinzhou is basically owned by our Ming Dynasty. The development investment of the imperial court will last at least 20 years."

"The natural forests on both sides of the Yajiang River in Nanyinzhou are larger than the entire Central Plains and Jiangnan combined. I don't think it will be cut down in 100 years."

"Since Huangzhuang has already started, we have to follow up quickly. I am going to open a farm tool factory and a machinery factory in Beiyinzhou."

"Our family will continue to build ships. Our Ming Dynasty will always need ships, and we need more and more ships."

"Have you found out that the Honey River, the Five Great Lakes, and the Luns River in Beiyinzhou only need a few not-so-large canal projects to pass through."

"Yes, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, plus Yinzhou and around the Great Lakes, a large amount of land can be connected by water."

"So inland ships have great potential?"

"Everyone reminded me, I will start the production line when I go back..."

"Has anyone considered building a Yinzhou Canal in Panama?"

"There must be, and there are many, but it must be the property of Huangzhuang. We folks can't get involved, and we don't have the ability..."

"We just need to think about the impact the canal will have on our own industry."

"And it's hard to recruit workers now."

"Simple, either pay more money to the workers so that the small factory can't keep up, or simply buy the small factory of the same trade.

"Let those small factories disappear, and we'll have workers."

"Don't be reluctant to spend money. The next few years or even ten years will be a good time to make money lying down."

"Now I can't bear to part with three melons and two dates. In the future, you will regret it for half your life."

"Yes, if it's not at this time, when will it be!"

(End of this chapter)