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Fung Shipping Company invested heavily in building the 30,000-ton Nova, a giant ship, which amazed many people.
Because the construction of the New Star also means the surging development of the ocean passenger transport market. If it were not for the surging development of the ocean passenger transport market, Feng Shipping Company would not have gone to great lengths to build such a 30,000-ton giant ship.
Similarly, even if you do not count the Nova, there are still many 10,000-ton passenger ships of major shipping companies.
Since Pacific Lines built and operated the new Pacific series of 10,000-ton luxury liner, many other shipping companies have quickly followed suit.
Not to mention the Yangtze River Shipping Company, the two giants Feng Shipping Company have already followed up, and even other large shipping companies have followed up in time.
So far, basically the top ten shipping companies in the passenger transport market have already owned 10,000-ton passenger ships. There are more than 18 10,000-ton passenger ships in operation, and there are at least 20 or 30 1,000-ton passenger ships.
The above passenger ship is under construction.
This is true for passenger ships of 10,000 tons, but there are even more ocean liners of several thousand tons.
It can also be seen from the rapid increase in ocean liners that the number of people with the need for ocean travel is increasing rapidly every year.
And in the early years, it was just immigration, and most of the passengers traveling on the ocean were immigration ships. But now, although ordinary, low-fare immigration ships are still the mainstay, there are also many luxury ocean liners that focus on the mid-to-high-end market.
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It can also be seen from these that Datang's global strategy has achieved considerable results.
According to the report of the Immigration and Reclamation Department, in the thirty-seventh year of Xuanping alone, as many as 1.8 million people were officially organized by the Immigration and Reclamation Department to immigrate to overseas territories (including some partially localized overseas territories).
This does not include the people who travel to major overseas territories or overseas mainland on their own.
In fact, a considerable number of people are unwilling to sign up for officially organized immigration, but will go to major overseas territories or the mainland on their own.
This is because the empire’s immigration policy is very relaxed. As long as you are willing to open up wasteland and cultivate land in overseas territories, no matter how you come, you can receive land for free and receive partial subsidies. This has nothing to do with officially organized immigration.
the difference.
The only difference is that for officially organized immigrants, in some areas, you do not need to pay the boat ticket and can go directly to the immigration boat of the Immigration and Reclamation Division. In some areas, part of the boat ticket can be reimbursed.
But in the early stage, you have to go to the areas designated by the Immigration and Reclamation Department for reclamation.
For example, if you go to the Americas, even if you are an official immigrant, you will have to pay about half of the boat ticket. Later, you will have to follow the official arrangements to settle somewhere in the Americas.
But if you immigrate on your own, as long as it is a territory under the control of the empire, you can go wherever you like. If you want to go to the Americas, go to the east coast if you want to go. If you want to go to the west coast, go to the west coast. The Gulf of Mexico in the south, the northeast.
You can go anywhere you want, including the Great Lakes region, etc., and except for a very few places, you can get free land locally in most areas.
Under such circumstances, many people would rather bite the bullet and buy ferry tickets to immigrate on their own.
And it doesn't matter even if you have no money. The Royal Bank of the Tang Empire, the Immigration and Reclamation Department, and major shipping companies have always provided ship ticket loan services for new immigrants.
In the 37th year of Xuanping's reign, the number of self-immigrated immigrants reached almost 300,000.
So the total number of official immigrants and voluntary immigrants totaled 2.1 million.
These people are scattered to various overseas territories and overseas territories around the world, and many of them go to nearby Southeast Asian islands, such as the two major islands of Luzon and Banten, which are already very mature.
There is also Australia, which has been a popular immigration destination in recent years. The natural environment in southeastern Australia is quite good, and immigrants have been going there for a long time. In recent years, the Nanyang Labor Service Company has also made moves in the nearby New Zealand Islands, making great efforts.
At a heavy cost of nearly 10,000 Nanyang Labor Service Company labor teams, many cannibals on the island were finally eliminated.
As a result, New Zealand Island has also become an alternative point for immigrants from the Tang Dynasty.
Except Nanyang and Australia.
There are also many immigrants who choose to go to the Island of Ceylon, because the Island of Ceylon has now completed localization, and all policies are the same as those of the mainland, so it is also welcomed by immigrants.
As for the several overseas territories of the Tang Empire on the Indian peninsula such as Gohe State, Bomu State, and Goa State in the north, the number of immigrants they attracted was not too large. The above three states were very large, but their population
But it's not too much.
This is mainly because many people know that the empire has no plans to localize itself on the Indian continent in the short term.
There is no way, there are tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people, and the difficulty of localization is too high. Otherwise, the empire would not have established a large number of colonies and supported puppet kingdoms on the Indian Peninsula.
It is also a place with a large indigenous population, but new immigrants prefer to go to South Africa.
Although there are many indigenous people in Africa, with the discovery of gold mines in South Africa, the empire has partially localized South Africa and even built railways.
At the same time, the empire also cooperated with the Spanish, Portuguese and even the English, allowing people from the above-mentioned countries to go to Africa to recruit free labor by waiving part of the freight.
It is said that in order to improve the military disadvantage on the European battlefield, the Spanish are already planning to introduce indigenous people from various places to form an indigenous army to fight against the Tatars.
Not to mention whether the Spanish idea will succeed, but it is a fact that the number of indigenous people in Africa, especially South Africa, is declining sharply.
At the same time, the arms dealers of the Tang Dynasty have always been restless, and naturally they would not turn a blind eye to a country as big as Africa. In the past ten years, a large number of cold weapons and matchlock guns have been imported into various African tribes.
For a time, the wars between African tribes and kingdoms became more cruel than ever.
Because these indigenous armies have stronger firepower and higher killing efficiency.
At the same time, several countries that migrated from Southeast Asia to Africa also landed in Africa one after another. The Annan and Northern Dynasties were the first Southeast Asian countries to land in Africa.
Their first group of more than 10,000 people took the Tang Dynasty's immigration ship and finally arrived in Africa after a long journey. When they landed on African land, those Annan officials looked at the fertile land and vast wilderness and shed tears.
Tears of excitement.
Such fertile land will belong to the Annan people from now on!
However, it is still not easy to survive here. At least, these Annan people must first wipe out the local indigenous tribes.
This is why the first batch of Annamites who landed in Africa were all members of the army!
Not only the Annan and Northern Dynasties, but also several other countries that migrated from Southeast Asia, including Siam and Myanmar, their first batch of landing personnel were all troops.
These troops will occupy local landing strongholds and then cultivate the land to produce food.
When these Southeast Asian countries also join Africa, the African Affairs Office is very optimistic that in the next ten years, the localization work in southern Africa will make great progress!