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Chapter 1221 Six Continents

With the support of various immortal cultivation technologies, it finally took Dahan 25 years to complete the China-Western Railway from Chang'an in the east to Luxembourg in the west. This was just a main line, with branch lines gradually beginning to expand in Europe and Asia. spread across the continent.

With the expansion of the railway line, batches of newly born Han immigrants took the passenger trains for free, taking with them the silver coins they had sold out of their ancestral property, and began to travel to the legendary new world where gold was everywhere.

Unlike on Earth, where the colonists first arrived in the colonies and then built railway transportation after a period of development, the Han Dynasty did the opposite. They laid the railways first, and then used the railways to transport immigrants in batches.

Although the latter will be very painful in railway construction, it will consume a lot of resources and require the strong pressure of the state's will to complete. It may lead to a civil uprising at any time and the entire government's rule will come to an end. It was completely different from the former. Driven by economic interests, the private sector spontaneously began to raise funds, hire manpower, and build railways without requiring much effort from the government.

But there are many benefits, that is, the speed of colonial development will be greatly increased. A colony that originally took hundreds of years to develop can become a prosperous colony in just a dozen years with the help of the railway. town.

Not to mention that the Han Dynasty already possessed Xianke technology at this time, and its infrastructure capabilities in some aspects were no less than those in the early 20th century. A city similar to Chang'an could be built in only three years.

What really troubles Dahan's development is actually human problems.

After all, no matter how advanced Xianke's technology is, without a population, it will always be in vain.

As we all know, the Chinese people are probably the most settled people in the world. Unless life reaches the point where life and death are unbearable, they must live in the land of their ancestors no matter what.

After the railway was built, the imperial court had already begun to recruit immigrants. However, the effect was not very good. There were only tens of thousands of immigrants every year. The imperial court did not take it seriously at that time. After all, the grasslands and the Middle East were not very good at that time. A place to resettle the common people.

But when the railways in Central Europe, which has huge resources, were successfully built, and a large number of copper mines, silver mines, and even gold mines were discovered through Xian Shu's investigation, but still unable to recruit immigrants, the court became a little worried. .

Population is one aspect. It is really fatal that there is so much wealth that no one exploits. However, if immigration is not forced, it is very easy to cause chaos in the world. Fortunately, Liu Ying had been in power for 20 years. The effect of long-term encouragement of childbearing and promotion of obstetric technology was gradually revealed, and the population of Han Dynasty began to increase at an incredible speed.

When Liu Ying ascended the throne, there were probably less than 2 million people in the world. By this time, the total population of the world was approaching 000 million, of which 8000 million were children under the age of 6000. What a huge Terrifying numbers!

All of these people have to open their mouths to eat. If Liu Ying hadn't offered sacrifices and prayed to heaven and earth every year, the Han Dynasty would have had 20 years of good weather. I'm afraid these extra people would have become refugees and then started to rebel.

Under normal circumstances, in order to accommodate this new population, the imperial court must have tried its best to encourage the common people to reclaim wasteland, and at the same time restrain local heroes from annexing land, etc., so as to maximize the support capacity of every inch of land in China. This would be enough to support a population of up to 15 million people. But when she couldn't find immigrants willing to take the initiative to explore Europe, Liu Ying naturally changed her policy unceremoniously. In the 190th year after opening the store, after the Kiev Station was built and opened to traffic, more than million square kilometers of continuous After the discovery of a super large plain and all the land was fertile black soil.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty announced an unprecedented policy, that is, all the land currently in the Jiuzhou region of China, except for the land that has title deeds and is privately owned, the rest will be dedicated to the great God without the permission of the God. , no one is allowed to carry out any development on these lands, otherwise they will be severely punished by the government.

The lightest one started with the whole family being exiled for 3 miles.

In this way, the Han court directly restricted the possibility of the huge new population to settle more people by reclaiming land near their hometowns. So what should these landless people do?

Doesn’t this force people to starve to death?

So the kind-hearted court announced the second policy, which was to encourage couples to settle in the new world named Xitianlu. In the process, the court would provide train tickets, a year's rations, a cement-cast house, and the Royal Farm Machinery Company. Three years of free mechanical assistance, a five-year tax holiday on new land, and more.

Well, according to the names given by Liu Ying personally, the five new worlds newly discovered in the world are named European Continent, American Continent, Fei Continent, Australian Continent, and Frozen Continent.

Lu means new land. As for why we don’t use state. That's naturally because the state is too small.

After all, the Han Dynasty implemented a system of prefectures and counties. States were lower-level administrative units of the Han Dynasty. The area of ​​Xitian Continent alone exceeded the area of ​​the entire Han Dynasty. If you named Xitian Continent according to states, wouldn’t the governor of this state be larger than the entire Han Dynasty? The land under the jurisdiction of the majestic Emperor of the Han Dynasty is even larger!
Therefore, the Han Dynasty created a new administrative unit, the land, and divided the world into six continents. The land where China is located is the Tianlu, which is the continent that merges all of Europe and Asia. It is also the largest continent on the entire earth. .

Liu Ying wrote in the edict that the entire Tianlu area is the activity area of ​​all Chinese ancestors recorded in Chinese history books. It has been the land of China since ancient times, so it is called Tianlu.

Tianlu is the center of the entire world. The other five continents surround Tianlu and there are no people living on it. This proves that China is the only chosen people and the only master of the entire world!

The remaining European continent is actually North America, the American continent is South America, the African continent is Africa, the Australian continent is Australia, and the frozen continent is Antarctica.

Some readers may be curious, why did Liu Ying merge Europe and Asia into one state and abruptly turn seven continents into six?
The reason is very simple, because Liu Ying is not a time traveler, nor is he a native of the earth. Liu Xu has not introduced the seven continents in the novel, so Liu Ying has no inherent impression of the seven continents at all.

Liu Ying and Zhang Liang just flew around in the air to determine the basic continental distribution of the entire world. Asia and Europe are connected together, so naturally they are treated as one entire continent!
And this is also very consistent with the setting of the Celestial Kingdom. The continent where China is located must be the core of the world, the largest continent!
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