As the director of the Imperial American Office, Chen Guangqing naturally knew the situation in the Americas very well.
The Americas region is the largest overseas territory of the Tang Empire, and is divided into two regions: North America and South America. There are Spanish and Portuguese colonies in between, as well as a large number of local indigenous tribes, kingdoms, etc.
area.
This situation is quite complex to begin with.
At the same time, the Tang Empire's emphasis on the development of the Americas also led to a sharp increase in the number of immigrants in the Americas. At least 1.5 million immigrants go to the Americas every year, and these immigrants are all officially organized immigrants. If you count the private
If there are spontaneous immigrants, the number will be even greater.
More than ten years ago, the number of immigrants from the Empire in the Americas was only a few hundred thousand. Let alone more than ten years ago, even five years ago, the number of immigrants from the Empire in the Americas was only over one million.
That's all.
However, with the number of immigrants increasing year by year, more than one million people are now pouring into the Americas every year. This has led to a sharp increase in the population of the American empire. It is estimated that the total population of the Americas will exceed 100 million in less than three years.
Numbers in the tens of millions.
This is a population of tens of millions. Many native provinces of the empire do not have such a large population.
For example, Guangdong, an economically important city, has a population of only six to seven million at most.
Jiangnan Road is the most densely populated and developed provincial road in the empire, but it only has a population of over 10 million.
But now, the population of the Americas is about to reach tens of millions!
The huge population, huge area, and new immigrant areas mean that the situation in the Americas will be more complicated than in other overseas territories.
Therefore, various issues in the Americas are not only affected by other institutions of the empire, such as the cabinet, which strictly pays attention to the localization of the Americas, but even Hantong attaches great importance to the work in the Americas.
It's just that even if the investment in work has been increased, the Americas are too big, which still makes Chen Guangqing, the director of the Americas Division, feel unsustainable.
There are actually quite a few Hantong officials under him. There are more than 500 semi-open Hantong employees. To be honest, he doesn't know how many secret employees there are, because many of Hantong's secret employees are
Indirect employees are developed from formal Hantong officials or employees. No one knows how many subordinates they have except themselves.
But even so, Chen Guangqing found it difficult to control the situation.
Tang belongs to America, it’s really big!
You have to know that the current American region of the Tang Dynasty includes North America and South America, both of which are under the jurisdiction of the American Affairs Office.
The yamen is based in Xinnangang, and its supervisory level is the second rank. It is the same as the local provincial governor and Taoist rank. They are all real high-ranking officials in the empire.
Under the American Affairs Office, there are seven continents in North America, Lapu State in South America and the Principality of Chile.
The jurisdictional scope and even the names of the subordinate states have undergone many changes in the past decade or so.
So far, the North American region under the American Affairs Office includes Xinjinshan State, Northern State, Central State, Nanhe State, Sanhezhou, Xinnanzhou and Wuhu State.
The New Gold Mountain State is the central and southern region of the western coast of North America, extending to the New Gold Mountain Peninsula (Baja Peninsula) in the south, bordering the Mexican region controlled by Spain, and extending to the later North Bend in the north. At the same time, it extends inland to the east.
Arrives in later Denver, Texas area.
The above-mentioned large area falls under the jurisdiction of Xinjinshan Prefecture.
The Northern State refers to the northern part of the western coast of North America and parts of the inland area. It borders the south and also includes many areas further north, covering most of the western coast of Canada and even Alaska. In theory, all
It falls under the jurisdiction of the northern state.
The central state is a large area in the inland central region.
As for Sanhezhou, it is bounded by Xinjin Mountain to the west, Central China to the north, Mexico to the south, and Nanhe State to the east. Generally speaking, it is the large area of later Texas and Orleans.
Nanhe Prefecture is the area east of Sanhezhou, mostly facing the sea. It is Sanhezhou to the west, Central Prefecture to the northwest, Wuhu Prefecture to the north, and Xinnanzhou to the northeast. It also includes a number of coastal islands, which is generally known as Miami in later generations.
Peninsula, Atlanta, Columbia and many other areas.
New Nanzhou, which is the essence of North America belonging to the Tang Dynasty, has brought together at least 40% of the new immigrants from the empire, including most of the Atlantic coast. To use another geographical term of parallel time and space, it is probably from the south
The Columbia region all the way north to Boston, from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the edge of the Great Lakes in the west, belongs to the New Southland.
In the case of the Five Lakes State, it surrounds the Great Lakes area and also includes the area north of the Boston area, mainly the St. Lawrence River Basin. In the central area, it also includes a large area of territory.
In fact, according to the current survey results of Datang people, the current Wuhu Prefecture is actually the most worthy area for industrial development, because this area has dense and large amounts of various minerals, and has convenient water transportation.
It also has vast developable farmland.
In short, it requires resources, water transportation and water transportation, and a large amount of arable land to feed a large population.
The seven states in North America constituted the North America region to which the Tang Dynasty belonged. In terms of area, it actually far exceeded the United States in later generations, because the North America controlled by the Tang Dynasty even included a large part of Mexico in later generations.
, the entire America and Canada (although most of the northern part is a barbaric area, and the Tang Dynasty people have visited it, but this does not prevent the Tang Dynasty people from including the entire Canadian area into their territory).
In South America, the governance of the American Affairs Office is much simpler. There was only one Lapu state in South America before, and now there is also the Principality of Chile.
Lapp State, this geographical term was only officially determined last year and originated from the Lapp River.
The name of the Lapu River is transliterated from the Portuguese name la plata-rio paraná, the second largest river in South America. The Tang government directly intercepted the first two syllables and called it the Lapu River.
And named after the Lapu River, the entire southeastern region of South America is called Lapu State.
The Tang Dynasty's immigration and development of South America was carried out along the Lapu River. It is currently limited to the lower reaches of the Lapu River and the coastal areas near the Atlantic Ocean. The actual area controlled is only more than 100,000 square kilometers.
, the population that immigrated in the past is currently over 200,000.