Dong Shuheng opened the secret letter and read it carefully.
This is a very long report. Liu Mingyuan did not go to California, but he has been responsible for contacting there.
In the past, supplies from China were sent to California through his hands. This was not easy to do.
Ordinary supplies are okay, but some advanced equipment for the army can only be obtained through Dong Shuheng's special approval.
Because of the independent government system, the Chinese regime in California is no longer a subordinate of the Renaissance Army.
It is Dong's private property operated in the name of the company.
This is in line with Lao Liu's long-held wish.
From the beginning, Liu Mingyuan tried his best to persuade Dong Shuheng to proclaim himself emperor.
In his view, not proclaiming himself emperor would bring endless troubles to the Dong family. It was fine now, but big troubles might happen in the future.
If one day, Dong Shuheng's prestige decreases, then there may really be someone who is willing to usurp power.
No matter who is in power, out of fear of Dong Shuheng, they will try their best to suppress Dong Shuheng.
Liu Mingyuan was actually right. Politics is so dark, and people cannot stand speculation.
Now Dong Shuheng has taken California back for his own business. At least he has left himself a way out.
In addition, Donghua is now in South Amelia. Old Liu feels that the two Dong brothers, one in the south and one in the north, echo each other, which is very safe.
So when running the business in California, Lao Liu worked extremely hard.
Just like moving things from a landlord's house, trying desperately to drag some good things to your own home.
Just look at this report to find out.
In the first half of the year alone, 300,000 people immigrated to California as a whole, far higher than other regions.
The ones Lao Liu picked were all young and strong. Who in the immigration bureau would dare not to give him respect as an old man?
It's not enough to be young and strong alone, you also need to be matched with men and women.
Nowadays, young women among immigrants are more valuable than young men.
This is going to give the girl real money.
Nowadays, among the people, a bride price is required when marrying a girl.
You want to immigrate to someone else's daughter. It's easy to handle. Give them the expected gift money.
Then, your daughter will belong to your immigration office.
Although this does not respect women's rights, the entire society is like this. At least these girls can enjoy the most basic rights under the arrangements of the government.
Naturally, the Immigration Bureau does not have that much money.
So there was a situation where women of working age were required to immigrate, so they had to pay a settling-in fee to the Immigration Bureau first, and the Immigration Bureau would give it to the girl's family.
After arriving at the destination, the money still has to be paid by the singles at the destination.
If you want to marry a wife, no problem. The factories and farms at your destination have all paid out buyout fees.
If you want to marry someone, you have to pay the buyout fee.
Nowadays, all single men who immigrate know that they need to save a wife's capital for themselves, otherwise they will not even be able to marry a wife in the end.
Behind this report is the current total number of Chinese in California.
According to the California government's census, the total population of the entire western region under California's jurisdiction is 3.25 million.
Among them, the number of Chinese is 2.7 million. Among these 2.7 million, 1.2 million are young men, and the others are women and infants. There are almost no elderly people.
In addition, there are 120,000 white Americans and 230,000 white Mexicans here. There are also nearly 200,000 Yintian people.
The statistics here are all the population under the jurisdiction of the California government.
There are also some Yindian people living in remote areas that have not been included in the statistics.
The historical American West had a smaller population than it does today.
If the Renaissance Army hadn't invested so many resources in the past two years, the western region would not have developed so fast.
Today's San Francisco is like a replica of the original Dafeng City.
Liu Mingyuan almost copied all the government-run enterprises of the Fuxing Army from the past.
Equipment and other things are easy to deal with, and you can go to Europe to buy them at worst.
The most important thing is technical talents, and Liu Mingyuan also uses everyone's admiration for Dong Shuheng to play the emotional card.
Using Dong's retainers and a series of benefits as bait, a group of technical talents in various fields were poached from the country.
Fortunately, Lao Liu knew how to restrain himself, otherwise the cabinet ministries would sue Dong Shuheng.
Here in San Francisco, food, textiles, metal smelting, and military industry almost have a complete industrial system.
Bai Qiwen is now the governor of California, but he is a governor who usually lives and drinks.
He spent most of every day accompanying his group of white mistresses to stage palace fights.
His main role is to show his face occasionally.
For example, when the Oregon region was brought into California, it was Bai Qiwen who came forward to negotiate with local white forces.
And California's expansion into the central region.
Anyway, except for California, no region in the western United States is an official federal state.
In other words, the state of California can move its own boundary markers based on its own capabilities. There is no need to report to the federal government.
In the annual report for the first half of the year, another shipyard was added in California. It did not specify whether it was for military or civilian use.
However, the report mentioned that the shipyard transferred 15 engineers and 130 technical workers from Gaoyou Shipyard and Lushun Shipyard.
Dong Shuheng understood that this shipyard could build almost all types of warships currently used by the Renaissance Army.
In addition, California also built an artillery factory in Los Angeles in the first half of the year.
This factory is a factory jointly established by Huaike Group and Changjiang Security. It can be regarded as an investment promotion project in California.
Previously, Dong Shuheng did not put the best equipment in the United States.
After all, the Yankees don't have a complete industrial system.
Dong Shuheng was worried that after those things showed up, they would be imitated soon.
But now he is changing his strategy.
There are now less than three million people in the United States, which is still far behind the 30 million people in the East.
In terms of gross product, the eastern part of the United States ranks fourth after the Great Empire, France and China.
California is even more different from others.
The ensuing chaos between the North and South of the United States will be California's only chance to gain a foothold in Northern Amelia.
So Dong Shuheng decided to use these two years to develop the California region.
It should have at least a population of more than five million and a complete agricultural and industrial system.
"Order the Fuso Protectorate to recruit 50,000 workers from various vassal states to go to California..." Dong Shuheng temporarily put down the report, picked up a pen and paper and began to write an order.
The Chinese population in California has reached a certain base.
Therefore, some Fusang people, Korean people, and even Annan and Siamese people can now be deployed to supplement the problem of insufficient labor force at the bottom.
After these people passed away, they would not have as good a land allocation policy as the Chinese.
After all, California cannot be all landowners, and there must be a certain population engaged in low-level labor.
The retainer system that Dong Shuheng established in California is a hierarchical aristocratic system.
That is to say, the elites gather around themselves to form the top of the pyramid.
The layer below is composed of a large number of Han immigrants, mainly Han farmers and factory workers. As soon as they arrive in California, they can be assigned jobs or land. This part can be regarded as the middle class.
Finally, this pyramid still lacks a lowest foundation.
In addition to the Chinese who were squeezed out in social competition, this foundation consisted of people who migrated in large numbers from vassal countries.
For example, some of the people who migrated from Fuso can be enriched into Yangtze Security as a servant army, and some can be placed in California to engage in low-level service industries.
Those Dong family retainers at the top occupy most of the means of production. Do these people need domestic servants?
Dong Shuheng could not bear to let the Han people, who were now rich and valuable in North America, go to work as slaves for others.
Silla maids and Fuso servants are also good options.
Yangtze Security had previously recruited 5,000 servants in Fuso to California.
Now these people have arrived in the Kansas area.
They were all put on the front line of the conflict by Wall. To put it bluntly, these people were cannon fodder.
From this report, Dong Shuheng learned about the civil war in Kansas.
After a counterattack provoked by Yangtze Security in the first half, the war reignited again.
After a winter of silence, the entire battlefield was too quiet.
This is naturally not in California's interests.
If the North and the South reconcile, the federal government may shift its attention to the West.
The American Federation is not a fool either.
So many Chinese have poured into California and the expansion of California territory in the past two years. They are actually aware of it.
After all, there are many white people living here. The federal government even stationed a small number of troops in California.
After spring, in accordance with Dong Shuheng's instructions, Hua Er commanded the Yangtze River Security Army to conduct a roundabout operation.
They learned through intelligence agents that the liberals had a material transfer center behind the lines in Kansas.
This transit center is two hundred kilometers northeast of Kansas City.
This position should have been very safe. The Confederate Army had never penetrated here before.
After the beginning of spring, both sides became careless due to the truce in winter.
Wall dispatched a commando force of 5,000 people, including 2,000 Yangtze River security regular troops and 3,000 servant troops.
The commando circled south of Kansas City.
In order to prevent the news from leaking out, this commando team implemented the "three lights" policy along the way.
The Fuso servants carried out this order very well. The immigrants in the central region lived in scattered places.
You should have seen this scene from many movies and TV dramas.
The land here is vast, and everyone is occupying a piece of land that is most suitable for farming for development.
They usually build their houses in the center of their land.
So along the way, Wall sent Fuso warriors to clear the way in front. They were divided into teams of fifty people, and each team was equipped with ten riders. This ensured that no white people could reveal their whereabouts.
For more than 200 kilometers, the Yangtze River Security team members completed the march in two and a half days.
Then they raided this northern liberal material transfer base.
They burned 5,000 tons of grain collected from northern states during the winter, two or three sets of military uniforms, and a large arsenal of the other party.
Although this raid came after the winter, it did not affect the other party's winter.
However, the opponent's originally planned spring offensive was ruined.
According to normal circumstances, as long as the Southern Army launches an attack, the liberals will inevitably fight back.
Wall took advantage of this rule and organized all the main forces of Yangtze River Security to launch a beautiful ambush.
In this ambush, more than 5,000 enemies were wiped out.
This is already considered the biggest victory since the war began.
As the deputy commander of the Confederate Army, the second-in-command Wall received unanimous praise from the leaders of various forces in the South.
It also allowed them to see the dawn of the end of the Kansas War.
As a result, the Southern Army mobilized 50,000 troops to launch a large-scale attack on Kansas City in early summer, which was the beginning of June in the Chinese calendar.
In this siege, Yangtze Security deployed nearly 20,000 people. All the servant troops of more than 5,000 people were pulled up.
The Southern Army even used the new breech-loading guns it purchased this time.
Their artillery preparations were well done.
As soon as the battle began, artillery from both sides began an endless exchange of fire.
The report stated that the number of artillery used by both sides reached more than 500.
This number amazed Dong Shuheng.
The industrial strength of the United States is definitely not something that can be trumped up.
The shells severely damaged Kansas City's fortifications.
The cost of this achievement was the loss of more than half of the Confederate artillery.
In the subsequent charge, Yangtze Security sent Fuso servant troops.
The white southerners sent Texas cavalry.
After these two armies, the Southern Army fought their way into the city, and the two sides started street fighting in the city.
The battle was very tragic.
The liberal army was already at a disadvantage due to previous attacks by Yangtze Security.
So in the end the liberal troops were outnumbered, and the remaining troops retreated north to Des Moines.
The entire Kansas area fell into the hands of the slaveholders.
This war was not long. It only lasted half a month from the siege to the fall of Kansas City.
But the fighting was very cruel, especially the hand-to-hand fighting inside the city.
In the end, more than 2,000 corpses were removed from the city.
Moreover, after the city was defeated, the Texas mercenaries and Fuso warriors who were the main force in the siege immediately looted the city.
This is also the result of the connivance of the upper echelons of the coalition. The residents here are basically liberal-minded.
The slaveholding faction naturally wanted to suppress them.
The Fuso warriors went even further. They not only robbed property, but even killed the white men and took away their wives.
Wall has already set rules for those servants, and all the things captured on the battlefield are at their disposal.
These people can also settle in California. So many of them have begun to accumulate wealth for themselves.
After the war, the slaveholding faction immediately established a new state government in Kansas and applied to the federal government to join as a slave state.
President Buchanan has been in dispute and has not accepted this application for the time being in order not to intensify the conflict between the North and the South.
But Buchanan was on the side of the slaveholders.
In the past two years, he has secretly transported a lot of supplies to various slave states in the South.
After all, the South is the stronghold of their Democratic Party.
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