When Earl Carlton and the others rested for a few days in Banjul Port, they continued to go further inland along the Gambia River, and built the first building on the new territory assigned to them by the Tang Dynasty about fifty kilometers away from Banjul Port. When an immigrant village.

Time has also entered the thirty-eighth year of Xuanping.

Although it is another new year, it is still very calm for the Tang Dynasty.

The only thing worth mentioning is that from last winter to the current spring, some areas in the north have experienced severe drought, and the Ministry of Agriculture has made a pessimistic estimate of the grain output in several northern provinces.

If the drought is allowed to continue, it will lead to widespread failures, affecting at least 10 million people.

If a drought of this scale was placed in a traditional feudal dynasty, it would be a big problem, and starvation would certainly be lost.

But for the Tang Dynasty, although this matter is serious, it is not as serious as that.

The drought warning here has just been issued. Jinling is instructing the local yamen affected by the drought to do the relevant work, dig wells, and guide the people to plant crops that are not so sensitive to rainfall and drought-resistant, such as Say corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts, etc.

On the other hand, even if it is only at the beginning of the year, the expected grain failure is expected to occur in the second half of the year, but the Son of Heaven has already personally ordered the Datang Grain Corporation to prepare grain reserves in advance, and then cooperate with the government for disaster relief.

The Datang Grain Corporation, which received the order, began to search for grain reserves nationwide and even globally, and even transported it to several disaster-stricken provinces in the north in advance.

At the same time, there are also a large number of ships bound for the grain-producing areas in the overseas regions of Datang, such as the Southeast Asia, India, South Africa, and the Americas, ready to transport a large amount of local grain back to the mainland.

Despite this, high shipping costs will result in very high prices for food costs.

However, this kind of thing cannot be calculated with money, even if it is calculated with money, it is not a big problem.

If you die, the cost will only increase by several million Tang Yuan. You don’t even need the Son of Heaven to come forward. The cabinet will solve it by yourself.

That is to say, even if the crop failure caused by the drought has not yet appeared, the Datang Empire is already ready.

The Grain Corporation is even more rhetoric!

Even without affecting the food supply in other areas, the food reserves prepared by their company for the disaster-stricken areas are enough for tens of millions of people in the disaster-stricken areas to eat for three years!

The rhetoric released by the Grain Corporation is that it is built on the convenient railway and shipping transportation systems in the country, and it is built on the construction of water conservancy facilities across the country. The grain production capacity in most regions can be guaranteed, and it is also established on hundreds of ships. Ocean, on the grain fleet that scavenges grain from all over the world.

In the last ten days of January alone, more than 20 bulk cargo ships of more than 2,000 tons left the mainland for the Americas. What are they going to do? Naturally, they are transporting grain!

And this is just a small part of it!

However, unilateral preparation for disaster relief is definitely not the style of the Son of Heaven, nor the style of the Tang Empire.

At the Imperial Cabinet meeting during the Lantern Festival, Chen Lifu once again called out the slogan of building a grain-producing region in Nanyang, claiming to accelerate the development of grains in the Nanyang region, especially the Nanyang Peninsula.

Since the Tang Empire and the Nanyang countries reached relevant agreements, the 12 Nanyang countries have been relocating to Africa one after another, but this relocation will only take several years.

Before their complete relocation was completed, the scale of the Datang Empire's immigration in the Nanyang region was relatively small. In the past few years, nearly 500,000 people had immigrated to the Nanyang Peninsula.

And most of them are concentrated in the northern Annan area and the Malacca state area.

Other places, such as Siam, Burma, southern Annam and the hinterland of the peninsula, have not yet begun to emigrate.

This time, Chen Lifu has written a book, and it is recommended to start the Nanyang Great Migration in advance!

Taking advantage of the widespread drought in several northern provinces, which is doomed to widespread failure of food harvests, people in the disaster-stricken areas were directly organized to migrate to various parts of the Southeast Asia on a large scale.

For this, Li Xuan also gave his approval.

Sooner or later, the Nanyang region will have to emigrate on a large scale. The high-level officials of the empire have long determined the plan to immigrate to Nanyang, and they will officially start the plan after waiting for the 12 Nanyang countries to get out.

But now, Li Xuan feels that this plan is too slow. It will take several years for all the 12 Nanyang countries to get out, and then immigration will take many years. It is estimated that the ten million immigration plan will not be completed within ten years.

Li Xuan is unwilling to wait any longer. He just made a decree to start immigration in the Nanyang Peninsula in advance. Of course, considering that there are a large number of indigenous people in most parts of the Nanyang Peninsula, the scale should be controlled and the selection of regions should be more cautious. .

In addition to the Nanyang Peninsula, Li Xuan also asked the Immigration and Reclamation Division to speed up and increase immigration to the Nanyang Islands. In recent years, the immigration to the Nanyang Islands has been too slow.

At present, in the Southeast Asian region, the peninsula is not to be mentioned, and there is only one state of Malacca.

The Nanyang Islands area has been operated by Datang for many years, and there are already many localized areas, but the total number of immigrants is still not many.

According to the statistics of the Immigration and Reclamation Department, after so many years of immigration development, there are two provinces and two states in the Nanyang Islands, namely Luzon Province, Banten Province, Australia, and Malacca State (Malacca State includes part of the Southeast Asian Peninsula).

Now there are more than 4.5 million people in total.

And this number is even lower than that of North America. According to the same statistics from the Immigration and Reclamation Department, North America now has a population of 4.6 million.

By the 38th year of Xuanping, the population of the Americas of the Empire had officially surpassed the population of the Nanyang Islands.

And what is even more terrifying is that these millions of people in North America have been newly added in recent years, not accumulated over decades.

So last year, in the thirty-seven years of Xuanping, more than 1.2 million new immigrants from the Empire arrived in North America to start their new lives in just one year.

And this number is not expected to decrease this year, that is, the thirty-eighth year of Xuanping, and it will even increase further.

As a comparison, the Nanyang Islands region has only accepted more than 200,000 immigrants in the 37 years of Xuanping~lightnovelpub.net~ This year, it is not surprising that this number is almost the same.

As for the immigrants from other places, there were even fewer immigrants. In the thirty-seven years of Xuanping, India, including the island of Ceylon, received a total of 80,000 immigrants.

The colonies of West Asia and the east coast of Africa, as well as the island of Madagascar (excluding South Africa), received only a mere 20,000 immigrants.

On the other hand, the situation in South Africa is better, receiving about 50,000 immigrants.

In Europe, including Ceuta, there were even fewer immigrants. In the thirty-seven years of Xuanping, only about 10,000 immigrants chose Datang to become naturalized in various European colonies.

In the Americas, however, there were 1.2 million people last year!

It can be seen that the Datang people have a soft spot for immigrating to the Americas.

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