The empire's North American fiefdom, Atlantic City.

Pei Guangping has been serving as the governor of North America for half a year. Although there is no doubt that he has obtained this position more by family influence and blood, Pei Guangping still has the ability. During his tenure as the head of Xinshang, he established a peaceful relationship with the surrounding Indian tribes and won considerable benefits for the people of the fiefdom. Therefore, his position was not much locally opposed.

At this time, Pei Guangping was sitting in the restaurant of the Governor's Mansion. Unlike the Chinese banquets in the past, today it adopts a Western-style separate meal system. Next to Pei Guangping, there were seven or eight merchants, all of whom were foreigners, and the main dish at the banquet was a local specialty - North American lobster.

In later generations, this was called Boston lobster. In Europe in the early 18th century, it was not a high-end thing. But the guests who came did not complain. They praised the taste of the lobster and hoped to get closer to the Chinese governor.

These guests are from Britain and France, which is rare in North America. Because the North American fiefdom was originally a colony of France and Britain, after the empire obtained local rule, it has been committed to suppressing the descendants of these European colonists. Therefore, for a long time, British and French merchants were not allowed to approach North America. However, as the population of the fiefdom increased, they had their own interests, and the number of immigrants in the empire had exceeded that of the descendants of European colonists, so the policies have been somewhat loose in recent years.

The reason why British and French merchants were very respectful to Pei Guangping was naturally for the sake of interests. These merchants did not come from British and French mainland, but from British and French colonies overseas, mainly in West Africa and the Caribbean.

After Pei Guangping was promoted to Governor, he made local economic development the top priority for the first time. His views on local economic development were quite unique. He believed that the biggest driving force for the economic development of North American fiefdoms was not trade with the empire, but trade with Europe. Now the most active economy in Europe is Britain and France. Pei Guangping firmly believed that as long as North American fiefdoms became a stop in triangular trade, they would definitely be able to develop.

As the governor of the fiefdom, his policy program was handed over to the top leaders of the empire through the Ministry of Overseas Affairs. After a period of tug-of-war and discussion, Pei Guangping obtained the authority to be tried. Unlike what Pei Guangping thought, the person who supported him was the emperor. King Yu played more an opposition role and added a shackle to his local governance, that is, no matter how the North American fiefdom develops, the population growth of European ethnic groups in North American fiefdoms shall not exceed the past, and the scope of activities cannot be expanded.

In fact, in North America, the biggest demand for the outside world is actually labor. In this world, the cheapest labor is black slaves, but the empire abolition of slaves, and the economic activities of North American fiefs that really require black slaves have not been fully developed, because the main economic active areas of North American fiefs are in temperate zones, while slave plantations should be in the subtropical zones.

North America needs foreign industrial products, and it also has considerable advantages.

The strongest fiefdom in North America is the food-related industries. The food processing industry developed based on marine fishing, animal husbandry and planting industries, exporting various industrially produced products, especially various canned and pickled products. These products have a very broad market in Europe and colonies.

The industrial revolutions in Britain and France are rumbling. The industrial revolution will inevitably bring about urbanization, and food is a necessity for urban residents.

When Li Junwei was conquering America and leading a fleet to North America across the ocean, he was accompanied by an executive of the British East India Company at that time. At that time, Li Junwei told the knowledge he got from his father. He thought that the national dish in Britain was fish and chips, but it puzzled the British friend.

Because most British people had never eaten this kind of thing at that time, cod was not a special thing in the UK, and only people in coastal areas could eat it. After the development of the empire forty-five years, although fish and chips were still not called British national cuisine, it was already very common in the UK.

The reason is simple. What is needed for the popularization of fish and chips is industrialization and overseas colonization. Only the industrial revolution can bring railways to Britain and transport cod to various parts of the UK inland. The situation with Ireland can be stable, so that cheap potatoes can be used to make fries. To colonies in the tropical region, large-scale oil palm planting can bring cheap oil to fish and chips.

Because the fishing and animal husbandry in North America's fiefs were well developed, they could provide cheap meat, which was very important for landless farmers in Europe who entered the city to work, and also for black slaves who engaged in heavy physical labor in the colonies.

The European industrial revolution could bring mechanical parts and canned packaging to the food industry in North American fiefdoms. The British and French colonies could bring cheap raw materials to North American fiefdoms.

The European businessmen attending the banquet were all powerful businessmen, and they were backed by plantations, companies and other organizations. Two of them were timber merchants smiling because they had just signed a business with Pei Guangping in the morning.

The North American fiefdom was about to build a railway from Atlantic City to Xinshanghai, and the two merchants signed an order to provide sleepers.

The rise of railways was of great significance to colonial development. In the early days of colonization, colonists liked the tropics because they could produce tropical crops there, but they also hated the tropics, especially in tropical rainforest areas, because logging was tiring.

But the emergence of railways has made logging a very profitable transaction.

"Governor General, thank you for your hospitality. When you were in Xinhua, we were friends. Today you were so enthusiastic about us, I think there must be other arrangements." After the banquet, everyone else left, but the French merchant did not leave. He followed Pei Guangping back to the office and asked on his own initiative.

Pei Guangping nodded: "I don't say secret words. I have something to ask for, so I am here to entertain everyone. I heard that Britain and France have made very good progress in the colonization of Africa. This can be seen from your cooperation with the fief."

This is the case. After the Spanish throne inheritance war, Britain and France kept causing trouble for the empire in diplomatic fields and invested their main resources into colonization. Although colonization in North Africa did not make much progress due to the imperial initiative, colonization on the west coast of Africa opened up.

These merchants from the British and French colonies had higher demands for cheap food in North American fiefs year by year, and the goods they provided were more than year by year. This morning, they signed a contract to provide 150,000 sleepers, and the two merchants did not even blink, and obviously had considerable power in the colony.

Chirac and Pei Guangping are familiar with each other. They have a good personal relationship. Chirac is a pure businessman, cruel and greedy for money, and does everything for money. This is also the reason why Pei Guangping is willing to use him.

Chirac has a lot of relationship with the North American fiefdom. He now has French nationality, but he was actually born in New France, which was the original French North American colony. When he was a teenager, this land belonged to the empire. At that time, Chirac worked as a child laborer at the dock and followed the fleet to the Caribbean Sea, and never came back. More than ten years have passed, and he has grown into a famous big businessman in Haiti.

"No, no, no, you should tell me the truth." Chirac said with a smile, he was very proficient in Chinese.

Pei Guangping handed Chirac a cigarette and asked, "Do you lack people?"

Chirac frowned: "Of course there is a shortage of people."

"Who is missing?" Pei Guangping continued to ask.

Chirac said: "Everyone is short of, slaves, civilians, professionals, non-professionals, those who are engaged in manual services, men, women and children, as long as they use their labor ability, the colonies are short of. And we do not refuse, this is completely different from what you rule."

"So, you lack some French-speaking people, even if they are no longer considered French," said Pei Guangping.

Chirac's eyes lit up: "You are talking about French descendants of the Osawa region, right? You are willing to sell them to us!"

The so-called Great Lakes region is the Great Lakes region, and its north shore was a French colony back then. France colonized North America quite early, but the results were not significant at all. In the hundreds of years of colonial history, France found a profitable deal in North America, but it had two enemies, Indians and British.

Due to France's various restrictions on immigration, France only had 50,000 people in North America for hundreds of years. After the empire mastered these areas, it implemented strict religious restrictions and trade bans, suppressed all the resistance of French descendants, and supported the Indians to regain their own land. Therefore, more than ten years have passed, and the population of French descendants in North America's fiefdoms has not increased, but has decreased a lot. According to rough statistics from the Governor's Office, the population may be less than 40,000.

"It's not OK to buy and sell people. I mean, I can authorize you to enter there and hire them. Take them away and go to the colony to serve you." Pei Guangping said.

Chirac asked: "Where are the British in the South?"

The so-called British in the south are British in Virginia. The center of the empire's fiefdom in North America revolves around the two cities of Atlantic City and Xinshang. Originally, local British descendants either left or went south. Now, the descendants of the Ansai people mainly gathered in Virginia and lived under the supervision of the fiefdom in North America.

"Same." Pei Guangping said directly.

"Can I go to the South to hire?" Chirac asked.

"Of course, but you are French." Pei Guangping reminded.

Chirac smiled: "In the colony, a white-skinned woman is very precious, even a British man will not dislike French men."

"Whatever you do." Pei Guangping didn't care about this. The reason he did this was because of orders from the local area. He knew that the more economic restrictions were relaxed in North American fiefdoms, the deeper the involvement between local European descendants and empire immigrants.

Although the empire has been strictly regulated against European immigration, economic exchanges between the two sides are still inevitable, and so is communication. It is undeniable that after the empire actually controls North America, local residents, whether European descendants or Indians, have increased their lifespans and infant mortality rates have also declined, which is reflected in the increase in population.

Shen Jing could relax trade restrictions on North American fiefdoms, but required that the population of local European descendants not grow, so Pei Guangping could only take this bad approach.

Chirac said: "Please authorize us to work with local newspapers so that we can do better."

"I can cooperate with you, not only that," said Pei Guangping.

If the local European descendants want to leave, there must be someone outside and someone else push them. If the European descendants believe that the local security situation and living conditions are declining sharply, but there is a more relaxed and wealthy life overseas, then they will naturally be willing to leave.

The two were about to discuss some details, Pei Guangping's secretary knocked on the office door and said, "Governor General, your friend is here to run away."

"Oh, the horse is here, it's great. Since he returned to his hometown, I have only met him at the dock once." Pei Guangping and the horse were brothers. They were both men and women who had been praying to the emperor for many years. The horse went to the Empire to participate in the National Games, thanks to Pei Guangping's support.

The secretary glanced at Chirac and said, "I also heard that the galloping horse was not alone this time. He brought more than 30 people, many of which were children, including boys and girls."

Pei Guangping nodded, but he just knew what the purpose of running horses was. But last time he welcomed the horses back at the dock, he found that his once enthusiastic, cheerful and lively brother had experienced a journey to the East, and had become much more mature and steady. There was a fire in his eyes. It was to do things and prove his flames.

Pei Guangping said to Chirac: "I have a friend and I want to see you immediately. Regarding the specific matters of our cooperation, I will discuss it tomorrow. When you return to your residence, you will know for me what are your requirements for those who attended the banquet today? Can you form a common wish and talk with me? Do you understand?"

Chirac nodded. He always knew that the Governor was a practical man, and he had made a lot of money this time, so he didn't care about Pei Guangping's rudeness. And Chirac knew very well that although Pei Guangping had always been quite polite to him, he never really treated him as a friend.

When Chirac walked out, he met the galloping horse coming in. The galloping horse deliberately avoided him and walked straight in. Pei Guangping made tea for him and handed him a cigarette. Unexpectedly, the galloping horse pushed both of them away and said, "I haven't eaten yet."

"But I've had a meal."

"Even if there is leftover rice, get some for me, and I will put my hungry chest on my back." said the galloping horse.
Chapter completed!