The unhistorical changes that occurred in Prussia and Tsarist Russia served as a reminder to Dong Shuheng.
Will the original American Civil War also start early?
Dong Shuheng naturally knows the power of the butterfly effect.
However, this was the first time that Dong Shuheng realized that he had to face the butterfly effect.
There are many things that can no longer be inferred based on my vague memories.
It's more about judging based on the actual situation. Fortunately, the Renaissance Army has basically laid out its own intelligence network.
"Yuxiang, convene the cabinet to hold an immigration meeting. Let the people from the Immigration Bureau report the immigration situation at the meeting." Dong Shuheng said to Wei Yuxiang after reading the report from Europe.
Dong Shuheng is actually most concerned about matters in America now, and the key to matters in America is immigration.
To occupy the terra nullius west of the Andes in North America requires the migration of a large number of people.
Dong Shuheng knew very well that when the British learned that the Renaissance Army was going to occupy there, they would definitely let the people in their Canadian territory infiltrate westward.
If you don't want to fight the British now, it's best to establish a stronghold as soon as possible, capture the edges of the territory, and determine the dividing line between the two sides.
This requires a large number of immigrants. Dong Shuheng believes that a population of at least 500,000 people can establish an immigration settlement belt in the north-south direction of central Canada.
And over in South America, there has been no news about Dong Shutong for a long time. What on earth is the eldest brother doing?
There has been no news from the Nanyang Navy for a while. Judging by the time now, the Navy should have crossed the ocean and reached America.
Soon people from the Immigration Bureau arrived. Then everyone from the cabinet also arrived.
"President, are you back?" Zeng Xianfeng said.
It is said that Dong Shuheng has been absent from work frequently recently. He has made several trips to Luanzhou alone during this period.
As the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Zeng Xianfeng didn't even know where Dong Shuheng was, which made him feel a little uneasy.
Dong Shuheng is now the pinnacle of the Fuxing Army, and there is no one person who can bring the Fuxing Army together.
In fact, Dong Shuheng is both a key factor and an unstable factor.
It's just that Dong Shuheng himself didn't realize this.
"Old Zeng, I'm sorry for making you suffer." Dong Shuheng said embarrassedly.
With Prime Minister Zeng Xianfeng at his rear, Dong Shuheng felt much more relaxed. At least he didn't have to worry about domestic affairs when he was running around.
After Dong Shuheng gradually delegated his power, he now feels much freer. He no longer needs to be buried in old papers and can free up a lot of time to do the things he wants to do.
For example, let's develop the technology tree of the Renaissance Army. Xu Shou returned to China by ship just a few days ago.
As soon as he came back, he went to the Electric Power Laboratory. Although he was away for a long time, this laboratory was built by him, and many of the experimental facilities in it were bought by Xu Shou from Europe.
So after coming back, Xu Shou didn't want to stop for a moment. He plunged into the laboratory.
Dong Shuheng often goes there to hang out when he has nothing to do recently.
The two of them didn't know what they were going to do.
No one knows about the laboratory. It's just that a new Fuxing Electric Power Company was recently established in Xinjing City. Telephone poles began to be erected on the roads in the city.
A track is being laid between the new city and the old city of Beijing.
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"President, I have almost served the Renaissance Army for three years. Let's make it clear. If I work for another two years, I will definitely retire, otherwise my life span will be lost." Although Zeng Xianfeng said it.
Casual. But Dong Shuheng can understand the meaning of his words.
Zeng Xianfeng is setting the stage for his successful retirement.
Zeng Xianfeng joined the Renaissance Army when he was in Gaoyou. He was good at handling government affairs, careful and cautious in his work, and he was an honest and selfless official.
It can be said that Zeng Xianfeng is not only a government chief, but also a benchmark among government officials.
He himself came from a poor background, otherwise he would not have become someone else's guest by being a great leader.
Now Zeng Xianfeng is equivalent to being a highly respected minister. From the bottom of his heart, he is very satisfied.
The children in the family also have good prospects.
Dong Shuheng didn't know why he proposed the idea of retiring at this time.
Could it be that Lao Zeng realized something?
Dong Shuheng hasn't noticed anything wrong with the Renaissance Army recently.
"Old Zeng, you haven't reached retirement age yet! If you retire early, your pension will be halved." Dong Shuheng joked.
Zeng Xianfeng smiled and shook his head and walked straight to the conference room.
"President, gentlemen, I will not repeat the report on the immigration situation last year here. I will mainly talk about the immigration situation in the first quarter and some new situations that have just been discovered."
"In the first quarter, due to weather reasons, immigration to the Far East and Yuehu areas has not yet started. But today there are already a lot of immigrants who have signed up to go outside the customs and to the Far East. I don't think we need to make any more arrangements. This year, there will be two
There are already enough people moving there," said Zhao Yang, director of the Immigration Bureau.
"Why are there suddenly more immigrants heading north today? Has your Immigration Bureau issued any new policies?" Dong Shuheng asked.
Nowadays, the issuance of many government decrees is decided by the cabinet itself and does not require Dong Shuheng's consent, so he asked such a question.
"President, it's like this. It's too cold in the north in the winter and many departments are at a standstill. At that time, the farm will give many workers a long annual leave."
"Is it related to this long holiday?"
"Exactly, many immigrants from the south choose to return home to visit relatives. As you know, the living conditions on the farms are always better than their original homes. Especially immigrants from Shandong, Hebei, and Henan. Most of them brought a lot of things back home. Naturally.
Talk about some of the benefits of working on a farm.”
"This helped us mobilize a lot of people at once. Moreover, the structure of the people who signed up to immigrate this time is very good. There are both men and women, and they are basically young people who have just reached marriage age."
"Old Zhao, do you have any inspiration?" Dong Shuheng said with a smile.
"Yes, President, we think this method of using the old to lead the new is very good. The effect is much better than our government's unilateral propaganda." Zhao Yang said.
In Laizhou Prefecture, Shandong Province, Liu Shuanzhu's mother was wiping away tears because the eldest daughter of her family was about to go to Heilong Province in the north.
"Oh, Shuanzhu's mother, stop crying. Shuanzhu is there to take care of Daya. What are you afraid of? Daya has enjoyed happiness in the past." Shuanzhu's father advised from the side.
Shuan Zhu went back to the farm after the Spring Festival. But this time he returned to the village and was really prosperous.
It also makes the villagers in the village envious. Although the current tax revenue of the Renaissance Army is much less than before.
People no longer have to do corvee work for free like before. So everyone's life has improved to some extent.
However, Shandong is a place with less land and more people. The men in Shandong are very hard-working, but the land they can rely on to make a living is not enough for them.
Last year, the Yellow River changed its course, and Laizhou was also affected. The harvest was not very good.
Now everyone has seen that Liu Shuanzhu, who has also immigrated, is doing so well outside. He has worked hard outside and not only has a stable job, but also a daughter-in-law. This did not cost the Liu family a penny.
Many people gathered around Liu Shuanzhu to inquire about how to immigrate. Because Liu Shuanzhu worked in Heilong Province, everyone was thinking about going to Hailong Province.
Common people generally don't have one son in their family, so everyone tries to imitate the Shuanzhu family and send one or two out.
Suddenly there were dozens of young people in the village who wanted to apply to immigrate. When the county immigration officials found out, the Coke broke, which saved them a lot of mobilization efforts.
And there are many such situations in other villages. Things like this spread quickly between villages, and word of mouth spreads, forming a wave of immigration.
"Liu Laogen, this is the immigration subsidy for your eldest daughter, please keep it." An immigration official handed a stack of silver dollars to Liu Shuanzhu's father in front of the village chief.
According to the policy, female immigrants of appropriate age will receive subsidies if they settle in the local area. Just like Liu Shuanzhu's daughter-in-law.
Because ordinary people are not willing to let their daughters immigrate, it is still possible for their daughters to stay in the local area and get married, and get the bride price.
Therefore, the government provided subsidies to these female immigrants of appropriate age, and the amount was equivalent to the local bride price.
Under such circumstances, everyone is willing to immigrate their daughters.
"Liu Laogen, please do the inventory and take your fingerprints after confirmation. As the village chief, you are a witness and you also need to sign and stamp." The immigration official said.
Because money is involved, the procedures are rather cumbersome. Not only do the parties need to sign, but they also need to have literate witnesses. In this village, only the village chief is literate.
"Well, that's right, fifteen Chinese yuan." Liu Laogen counted it several times carefully. Da Ya's mother stopped crying now and concentrated on watching her husband count the money. Her eyes were full of dissatisfaction with her husband.
trust.
"Da Ya, when you get to the north, you go to find your elder brother. You will listen to your elder brother on everything. When it comes to your husband's family, my mother has asked your sister-in-law to help you. If you don't understand anything about the woman's family, I will ask you.
Sister-in-law." Da Ya's mother went to give her daughter some instructions.
It's already April, and now they, the immigrants, can set off just in time to catch up with the spring plowing in Heilong Province.
Zhao Yang believes that in the future, it would be better for those immigration destinations to give employees an annual leave every year so that they can go home to visit relatives, and it is best to issue a bonus in advance before the holiday.
The Chinese people are very particular about returning to their hometowns in fine clothes. We need to let these workers return home in dignity, so that more and more young people will want to go out in the future.
In this case, the original local living space can be expanded.
After talking about this matter, Zhao Yang continued to introduce the immigration situation in the south: "The annual immigration plan for the three new provinces of Indochina (referring to Nanjang, Lancang, Mekong, and Phnom Penh in the Chenla area) has been
Seventy percent done.”
"There are many people in Guangxi, Guizhou, Guangdong, Fujian, and Yunnan in the south who have a strong desire to immigrate."
"This may be related to the local tradition of sailing to Southeast Asia."
"In addition, a new immigration destination has been temporarily added this year - Luzon. We are prepared to fill these immigration loopholes in the form of job recruitment."
"The report given to us by Luzon states that a large number of teachers and doctors will be recruited. We are planning to settle these people directly as immigrants, but the mobilization work is more troublesome," said Zhao Yang, director of the Immigration Bureau.
"If mobilization is difficult, then add conditions to them, improve their treatment, and increase the amount of land allocated. There will always be people who are interested," Dong Shuheng said.
"Yes, President, in addition, the newly established state-owned farms and mines in Luzon also need a large number of workers. These people will also immigrate there by settling nearby." Zhao Yang continued.
"In that case, how many immigrants can Luzon immigrate to this year?" Dong Shuheng asked.
"If you include their family members, the number should reach more than 200,000."
"Well, by the way, Lao Zeng, what was the population last year that we counted before?" Dong Shuheng interjected and asked.
"Oh, the census we did at the end of last year showed that there are currently 413 million births in the territories directly under the Central Government. The number of births that year was 15 million," Zeng Xianfeng said.
"There should be a large increase in the number of newborns this year. Because now everyone's life is stable and people's food and clothing can basically be guaranteed. Everyone's desire to have children will definitely increase." Dong Shuheng said.
"Everyone, have you noticed that our continuous immigration has not reduced the local population. On the contrary, due to immigration policies, the population has increased."
"Yes, President, is there some secret to this?" someone asked.
No one has studied demography at this time. Maybe Dong Shuheng can know a little bit about it.
"There is indeed a way to do this. People's desire to have children is actually affected by many factors. Not only is the family's food source sufficient, but also the future of the child."
"According to the current immigration policy, in the future, if these children do not do well in China, they can get a piece of land overseas for free to start a family and start a business. Do you think you will want to have more children? The more children you have, the more money you will make!" Dong Shu said
.
"It can still be like this." Everyone was speechless.
"So, just wait and see. As long as our immigration policy remains unchanged, there will definitely be a surge in babies this year. The Ministry of Health will do a good job in statistics on newborns. Then we will compare the numbers.
alright."
"President, if this is the case, should we increase the number of midwives and pediatricians in various places?" When the Ministry of Health was mentioned, Minister Li Kezhen immediately stood up and said.
"Well, yes, we didn't think about that before. Now we can only make up for it." Dong Shuheng said.
"Another emergency solution is for the Ministry of Health to ask hospitals in various places to organize a surprise training for local mothers, so that experienced women can pass on their experiences to others, and also have medical staff impart scientific knowledge on delivery.
"Po Wen also has good and bad qualities, good and bad." However, Dong Shuheng thought of a way first.
Nowadays, most women give birth at home. Some families will take care of the mother-in-law, and some people simply give birth on their own, with the help of the women at home.
However, the neonatal mortality rate is very high, and the maternal mortality rate remains high.
The method of surprise training of stable women that Dong Shuheng mentioned was similar to the training of barefoot doctors by the local health center of the Fuxing Army.
"The president's idea is really good. I'm really ashamed. We should have thought of such a thing first." Li Kezhen said with some shame.
"I can't blame you. We didn't think about it before. If we do these things, it can only be regarded as better than nothing." Dong Shuheng said helplessly.
The current maternal and child health care conditions are very backward, and the infant mortality rate is very high.
The only good thing is that women in this era are willing to have children, and they believe that having children is what they should do.
"Director Li, the immigration to the new territory of North America has been prioritized recently. This is due to some strategic considerations." Dong Shuheng explained.
European immigration to North America has a history of hundreds of years.
If the Renaissance Army wants to catch up now, it can only increase the speed of immigration.
The Renaissance Army has its own advantages, which is China's huge population base. Another point is the Renaissance Army's ability to mobilize among the people.
Beginning in the third year of Xianfeng, the Renaissance Army immigrated to North America 20,000 people in the first year, 100,000 in the second year, and 200,000 in the third year.
Now in its fourth year, the Chinese in California have taken over the magpie's nest and controlled two important California cities, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Including the existing Chinese workers there, the number of local Chinese is close to 500,000.
At this time, the white population in San Francisco was less than 30,000, and the white population in California was less than 100,000.
The vast landmass of North America was too large for today's white North Americans.