Chapter 399

When the future plan of the Royal Benz Automobile Company was released, because it was very close to the content of the beautiful future imagination of the 20th century reported by newspapers of various countries, it quickly aroused the attention of many newspapers and the public.

When seeing that the Royal Benz Automobile Company plans to reduce the cost of cars to below 1,500 Bisaita within this year, control the selling price within 2,000 Bisaita, and reduce the cost of cars to below 1,200 Bisaita in the range of 1900 to 1905, and control the selling price of cars in the range of 1,500 Bisaita to 1,800 Bisaita, the public's beautiful imagination of the future of the 20th century reached the extreme.

According to the goal given by the Royal Benz Automobile Company, as long as it can be successfully realized before 1905, people can realize the beautiful vision of every household owning a car in the 20th century.

Except for those poor populations with too low income, or groups that have no demand for cars, the remaining majority of people can buy a car through their own efforts.

Since the dream of every household being able to own a car can be realized, will other dreams like traveling by airship, using wireless equipment for communication, etc., also be realized?

When all of Europe was indulging in beautiful fantasies about the new century, the Spanish government also held a meeting to discuss the development plan for the new century.

The 19th century was a century of huge turning points for Spain. In the first seventy years of this century, Spain was in endless weakness and decay, and at that time, many countries and media believed that Spain was not as good as before and was no longer one of the European great powers.

And in the last thirty years of the 19th century, with Gao Da being crowned as the King of Spain, all this had huge turning points and changes.

The current Spain is not only a proper top five great power in Europe but also a colonial empire ranking in the top three in the world.

Of course, saying it is the top three is actually for the sake of sounding good. Britain is the well-deserved world's number one colonial empire, and the richness of colonies like India, Canada, Australia, South Africa, etc., makes European great powers envious.

Besides these colonies, Britain also occupies a large number of archipelagos and islands, controlling many traffic arteries, such as the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Malacca, etc.

Below Britain, the second colonial empire is France.

Compared with history, the colonies of Spain at present are not much different from France.

However, because the population and economy of France's local area are more prosperous, it disguisedly strengthened the momentum of the French colonial empire.

Spain is the well-deserved world's third colonial empire, and its achievements in colonization far exceed other European great powers.

Even the powerful German Empire cannot be mentioned in the same breath as Spain in terms of colonization. The Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy naturally do not need to be said; the total scale of their colonies added together is not as large as the Morocco colony that Spain just occupied.

Among the many great powers in Europe, Russia is an alternative.

Other European great powers are expanding colonies overseas, while Russia has been expanding eastward and southward, constantly expanding its own local area.

This also led to Russia having almost no colonies, and its local area is larger than the sum of the entire Europe's area; in other words, it incorporated all colonies into its own local area.

Of course, Russia being able to occupy such a large area of land on its own also has reasons. Don't look at the peak territory of the Russian Empire reaching as high as 22 million square kilometers, which is more than twice the scope of the entire Europe.

But in reality, the true essence territory only has two parts, which are the Eastern European part and the Far East part of Russia.

The vast Siberian Plain in the middle is a cold zone; before the Trans-Siberian Railway was opened to traffic, it was sparsely populated, and Russia's control over this region was not high, and the order was quite chaotic.

The degree of control over territory is highly linked to the population. Don't look at Russia currently possessing the most population of any European country, but what corresponds to it is a land area as high as 22 million square kilometers.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if the current population doubles again, Russia cannot effectively control the existing land scale.

From this aspect, it can also be seen that Russia's appetite for land is too big; the existing Russian land is something the population cannot bear, and expanding outward again will only increase the contradictions within Russia.

The problems faced by Russia are problems that European countries will never face.

Because most European countries will not build colonies into local areas; after all, the distance between colonies and local areas is often as high as thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers.

Spain is the first country to propose building Morocco into a local area, which is still because it took advantage of Morocco and Spain's local area being separated by the sea.

It has been nearly 4 years since Spain annexed Morocco, and in the discussion of the cabinet meeting about the development plan for the new century, the issue of the localization progress of Morocco was also discussed.

Regarding the localization of Morocco's land, the most needed to be solved is the problem of the local population.

The previous South Morocco colony does not need to be said; under Spain's many years of operation, the vast majority of Moroccans have already been relocated, and the population occupying the majority is Europeans, among whom Spaniards are the most.

And in the remaining Morocco land, the number of Moroccans is still as high as nearly 4 million. In these 4 years of population relocation work, a total of nearly 1.5 million Moroccans have been transferred out, and the number of Moroccans relocated on average per year is close to 400,000.

This is still because the population relocation work in the first year spent most of the time on preparation and investigation, which lowered the average number of Moroccans relocated per year.

Although nearly 1.5 million people have been transferred out of the entire Morocco region, the population of the Morocco region has not had much change and still remains above the 500,000 level.

The main reason for this is Spain's efforts for immigration. In these 4 years, just the immigration from Spain's local area to the Morocco region has already reached nearly 1 million, and the average number of immigrants per year exceeds 250,000.

This is also the reason why Spain's population growth has slowed down in these 4 years; after all, Spain's local population growth rate cannot maintain a growth of several hundred thousand per year under the circumstances of 250,000 immigrants.

Besides immigrants from Spain's local area, Spain also attracted a large number of immigrants from Europe and even Nanmeizhou.

The number of immigrants in the European region also has nearly 300,000, among which immigrants from Russia and Italy are the most.

There is no way; compared with other European great powers, the farmers of Italy and Russia live the worst, so naturally, the number of immigrants is also the most.

Of course, the countries with a large loss of population are not just these two, including Britain is also constantly losing.

It is just that the region where Britain loses population is Ireland; the main reason is the exploitative rule of the English over the Irish aroused the dissatisfaction of the Irish, leading to a large loss of Irish people.

Compared with immigrants in the European region, immigrants in the Nanmeizhou region, after 4 years of piecing together, only attracted less than 200,000 immigrants.

This is on one hand because Spain's contact with Nanmeizhou only started in recent years, plus the fact that a part of Nanmeizhou people are still repulsive to Spain, which led to the problem of a small number of immigrants.

There is also the aspect that Nanmeizhou is too far from Morocco; even if the people of various Nanmeizhou countries want to immigrate, what they think of is immigrating to Spain's local area, not Morocco, which is separated from the local area by the Strait of Gibraltar.

Although Spain keeps saying that it wants to build Morocco into a new local area, such local construction work will definitely not be completed within a few years.

By the time Morocco becomes Spain's local area and enjoys local treatment, perhaps these immigrants who went to Morocco are already old.

Compared with immigrating to Morocco, directly immigrating to Spain's local area can enjoy various treatments; isn't this more attractive than immigrating to Morocco?

Thanks to these 1.5 million immigrants, not only did the population of the Morocco region remain at the 500,000 level, but it also effectively reduced the proportion of Moroccans in the local area.

According to the population statistics of the Morocco government for the entire Morocco region, among the population of over 500,000, the proportion of Moroccans is already less than 50%, but it is still the first largest ethnic group in the Morocco region.

The proportion of Spaniards and Spanish descendants has already approached 37%, and the entire Morocco region has about 1.85 million Spaniards and Spanish descendants.

Spaniards are easy to understand, and Spanish descendants generally refer to immigrants from Spain and Nanmeizhou and their descendants.