The ultimate goal of the Da Chu Empire is to bring all these places under actual control, but it must avoid integrating too many indigenous people.
You must know that there are a lot of indigenous people on the island of Java. Even if there are no statistical data, it is estimated that there are millions or even tens of millions of people.
No one in the Chu Empire would be willing to integrate millions or even tens of millions of Javanese natives who don't look very good.
Just like the unwillingness to integrate with the Fuso people...
When there are too many natives in a place, the Chu Empire is not willing to play the trick of annexation and fusion...
Instead, they will change their gameplay, just like what the Empire did with Fuso.
This set of tactics is a series of measures taken by the senior leaders of the Chu Empire to target most of the areas that need to be annexed. The effect is similar to the eastward movement of the United States.
However, the specific means and measures are more complex and more efficient, and a large amount of economic value will continue to be plundered in the process.
Java Island must be completely taken over and annexed, but it is not the direct annexation as it is now.
The current military operation on Java Island is just the beginning... The 14th Division swept eastward forcefully, defeated the resistance of the local indigenous people, and forced the local indigenous people to sign a harsh unequal treaty.
The treaty was similar to the treaty signed between the empire and Fuso. The main clause was to cede multiple coastal ports and many islands. At the same time, it ceded part of the territory in the western part of Java Island, which greatly expanded the area of the Banten Province directly under the jurisdiction of the Chu Empire, spanning It covers an area of about 250 kilometers long in the west of Java Island.
According to this treaty, the Matalan Sultanate only retained the territory in the central and eastern areas of Java Island, and ceded all other islands to the Chu Empire.
Including some other islands with no owners or only weak indigenous people, the Chu Empire has actually completely controlled and brought the islands around Java Island under its control.
Including Bali, Timor and many other messy Lesser Sunda Islands in eastern Java.
In addition to territorial changes, there are many other provisions such as compensation, military rights of passage throughout the territory, garrison rights in some areas, financial and military supervision rights, comprehensive liberalization of the market, etc.
The Da Chu Empire had always been very harsh on the terms of these defeated puppet states.
After the "Treaty of Chumapada" was finalized, it also announced the large-scale influx of people from the Chu Empire into Java Island and the beginning of continued expansion on Java Island.
As for the Matalan Kingdom, there was huge internal dissatisfaction after the senior officials signed such an extremely harsh treaty with the Chu Empire.
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Especially the astronomical war reparations, which ultimately have to be borne by the people in their country, especially the middle and lower classes.
At the same time, the comprehensive liberalization of the market and monopoly trade means that they have completely lost their trade autonomy. A large number of cheap Chu Empire products will flood into the market of the Matalan Kingdom like sea water, which will in turn cause countless local craftsmen and even big businessmen to their bankruptcy.
Not to mention seafaring foreign trade. Like the Fuso people, they are not even allowed to own sampans and cannot go out to sea to trade on their own.
These terms were borne by the local indigenous people, which aroused fierce resistance.
The local people continued to rebel, and this small-scale rebellion became more and more intense. Now there are thousands of rebels in many places.
The current Madalan Sultanate is still in the mood to confront the Chu Empire. It sacrificed its knees early and then turned around to fight various rebels in their country.
During the encirclement and suppression, they discovered that the Da Chu Empire was behind these rebels... because the weapons used by these rebels were basically all export weapons of the Da Chu Empire, from cold weapons to matchlock guns and even There are artillery.
When they cautiously approached the Great Chu Empire to inquire about the situation, the officials from the Domain Affairs Department in Bada City rolled their eyes at them: Why, do you still have any objections to me selling some weapons?
Besides, you can also buy all kinds of weapons from us, from cannons to spears and knives. We have all kinds of weapons and equipment. As long as you give us the money, we will sell them!
It is worth mentioning that there are frequent wars in Fuso now. Various daimyo have grudges and grievances. They fight every day. From time to time, daimyo join forces to fight against the Tokugawa Shogunate!
The weapons sales of the Dachu Empire in the Fuso region are increasing year by year, and the arms exports to the Fuso region have replaced various other goods and become the largest bulk of goods exported by the Dachu Empire to Fuso.
Very profitable!
This is not just the case here in Fusang and Matalan. In fact, Nanyang is now full of fireworks and wars are happening everywhere...
A rebellion broke out within the Kingdom of Aceh and has been fighting for several years. The rebels within them have also united with many small indigenous states in central Sumatra, so that the Kingdom of Aceh has been fighting for several years but has not been able to bring down the rebels. To be annihilated.
The Kingdom of Siam went to war with the Kingdom of Burma again, and by the way, it also brought its little brother, the Kingdom of Cambodia, with it. The war between Siam and Burma has lasted for hundreds of years. Before the Chu Empire reached the Nanyang Peninsula, they themselves They were already beaten to death, and now they are just continuing to fight.
At the same time, the Kingdom of Burma was still at war with the Arakan Dynasty of Upper Burma... Well, in fact, they had been at war before. The Kingdom of Burma was one on two, and it was very fierce.
Similarly, the Arakan Dynasty was also fighting on two fronts. They were also fighting the Bay of Bengal region of the Mughal Empire!
The entire Indochina Peninsula and even the Nanyang Islands are in chaos...
The above-mentioned countries are all relatively large and influential in the local area. In fact, there are a large number of small states, and even some indigenous tribes that have not even established a country are fighting every day.
Behind these wars, there are basically the shadows of the weapons merchants of the Da Chu Empire.
For example, the Da Chu Empire Hirado Arms Trading Company specializes in the arms trade in the Fuso Islands. The company's salesmen travel around the Fuso Islands to promote various export weapons and ammunition.
Almost all the daimyo on the Fuso Islands are customers of their company... so it often happens that both armies use the same weapons. What's even more embarrassing is that sometimes the Hirado Arms Trading Company arranges door-to-door transportation services.
Half of the weapons and equipment of the same ship will be given to the belligerent A first, and then half will be delivered to the opposite belligerent B...
It sounds funny, but this is reality!
There are many arms companies similar to the Hirado Arms Trading Company. All defense enterprises in the Dachu Empire are wholly owned by official capital. In order to avoid the reduction of profits in overseas arms trade due to vicious competition, more importantly, the arms trade often There are important political considerations involved.
Therefore, the Dachu Empire adopted a monopoly system for arms exports.
All weapons manufacturers do not have their own export channels, and the only ones that have export rights are various government-run arms trading companies.
These arms trading companies are authorized to specialize in arms exports to a certain region.
For example, Hirado Arms Trading Company specializes in arms business on the Fuso Islands.
Nanyang Arms Trading Company specializes in arms business in the Kingdom of Aceh, Myanmar, Siam, Arakan, Cambodia and other regions.
Banten Arms Trading Company has a monopoly on the arms business in Java, Borneo and other regions.
Luzon Arms Trading Company specializes in arms business in the Luzon Islands.
In India, West Asia, North Africa and other regions including Bangladesh, the arms export business is exclusively handled by the Western Trading Company.
The arms export business in the Americas is exclusively handled by the Oriental Trading Company.
In addition, in Central Asia, the empire also exports weapons to several countries. This part of the business is carried out by the Western Region Arms Trading Company.
These arms trading companies or armed trading companies represent the official will of the Da Chu Empire.
The weapons exports of the Dachu Empire were not only to make money, but also to cooperate with the empire's overseas expansion strategy.
The weapons exports of the Da Chu Empire have always been accompanied by a large number of political conditions and have never been purely arms exports.
But even so, the Da Chu Empire's arms exports have been rising year after year, surpassing many commodities and becoming the bulk export commodity second only to cotton cloth.
Even silk and porcelain, the traditional advantageous export commodities, are now far inferior.
This is the charm of technology, and it is a direct reflection of the empire's national power.
Being able to get an indigenous country to buy your silk and porcelain in large quantities is nothing, but being able to get an indigenous country to buy your weapons in large quantities is a manifestation of strength.
The large-scale export of weapons by the Dachu Empire also allowed the domestic defense industry to develop quite well, and it was able to use the profits brought by weapons exports to reduce the cost of self-use weapons and equipment, which ultimately reduced the cost of the military's procurement of weapons.
Nowadays, the imperial military purchases a standard flash cap fired musket, and the price is about fifteen Chu Yuan. This is the price of the latest flash cap fired musket. However, the matchlock guns exported by the Da Chu Empire are in some areas. The selling price can also reach about ten Chu Yuan.
This price is actually very expensive. You must know that when the Chu Empire equipped its own matchlock guns, the price of the matchlock guns was only about three or four Chu Yuan...
Twenty years later, the production cost of matchlocks is actually very low in the Chu Empire. The production cost of matchlocks for export will not exceed one Chu Yuan...
However, the price of arms exports is not directly related to cost, but depends on the relationship between supply and demand.
Most of the arms export markets of the Dachu Empire are monopoly export markets, and the Dachu Empire adopts a single arms trading company to specialize, avoiding internal friction. Therefore, the selling price of ordnance in a region does not depend on its own. Cost, but the other party’s ability to pay and whether the demand is urgent.
The higher the ability to pay and the more urgent the demand, the higher the price of the ordnance exported by the Chu Empire will be.
Therefore, in Fusang, the puppet state under the control of the Chu Empire in various parts of Southeast Asia, the price of arms exports is often very high. It is normal for a matchlock gun to cost seven or eight Chu Yuan or even ten Chu Yuan. In some special circumstances, such as when the indigenous people are During the war, the price can often buy more than ten Chu Yuan.
This is true of the matchlock, but also of other weapons.
For example, artillery. In the Chu Empire, there are various types of artillery with reduced performance and specially designed for export. These things are more expensive.
A 115mm field gun, although its craftsmanship is worse and its effective range is only a few hundred meters, the export price often reaches several hundred Chu Yuan, or even thousands of Chu Yuan.
Moreover, the Dachu Empire never exported various grenades and only distributed solid artillery shells.
Grenades are a unique weapon of the Da Chu Empire, and they have always been strictly imported and exported. In fact, these indigenous people can also obtain a small amount of grenades currently used by the Da Chu Empire through some shady channels, but they basically cannot imitate them.
Because the grenades of the Dachu Empire were the product of industrial production, they could not be produced simply by manual imitation, especially the shells... Without sufficient industrial capacity, such thin shells could not be processed.
Just like the flintlock guns of the Da Chu Empire... Although the Da Chu Empire has never exported national flintlock guns, in so many years of foreign wars, some flintlock guns will be lost on the battlefield. More importantly, the empire has After large-scale foreign colonization, militias in the colonies were generally equipped with flintlock guns.
As a result, a large number of flintlock guns will be lost and eventually obtained by these indigenous returnees.
However, even if they obtained the flintlock guns from the Great Chu Empire, it would be difficult for these countries to imitate them.
Because the principle of the Dachu Empire's flintlock gun is very simple...the key to its technology lies in the bullet. If your smelting technology is not up to par, and you cannot make a bullet with sufficient strength, then it is impossible to imitate it. The flintlock gun of the Chu Empire.
At best, it's just a decent product, but the firing rate is definitely not up to par.
Among the performance indicators for measuring a flintlock gun, the most important one is the firing rate. Without a firing rate of more than 75%, a flintlock gun has basically no actual combat value.
If you want to engage in large-scale line tactics like the Chu Empire and completely eliminate spearmen, it is best to increase the firing rate of the flintlock to more than 80%.
If they fail to meet this standard, they can only be like contemporary European countries. They also have flintlock guns, and have gradually increased the proportion of equipment in the past few years, but they still dare not use them on a large scale, let alone completely eliminate them. Matchlocks and spearmen.
During this process, the Russians, Dutch, and Spaniards had actually obtained some thirteen-year-old flintlock guns from the Great Chu Empire through different channels and copied them... However, the copied flintlock guns were not... Because the materials of the guns are not up to standard, the firing rate is generally only over 60%, and the accuracy is also poor.
And the cost is also very high, almost four or five times the cost of a matchlock gun.
These have severely restricted the large-scale use of flintlock guns in contemporary European countries.
It is said that because Europe has set off a trend of equipping flintlock muskets, although their flintlock musket technology is still very poor, no matter how bad it is, it is still a flintlock musket, and their enemies also need flintlock muskets to fight against, such as the Ottoman Empire. and so on.
They were unable to produce flintlock muskets themselves. Although they imitated some early Spanish flintlock muskets, the technical level of such flintlock muskets was very poor.
At this time, merchants from the Da Chu Empire appeared. Well, they were actually Western Trading Company. After contacting the Ottoman Empire, they learned about the Ottoman Empire's demand for flintlock guns. In order to open up the Ottoman Empire's industrial market, they also wanted to open up the Ottoman Empire's industrial market. Leasing several ports in remote and barbaric places as ports from the Ottoman Empire.
After the domestic application was approved, a batch of flintlock rifles were exported to the Ottoman Empire. In order to meet the export standards, they also specially replaced the bullets in this batch of export rifles with shrunken versions of bullets specially customized for export. .
Its comprehensive all-weather firing rate is only about 70%. Well, this thing is actually the first type of flintlock gun equipped by the Chu Empire in its early years, which is the first batch of models of the 2-year-old flintlock gun. This thing Strictly speaking, it has been discontinued for twenty years and was not re-produced until export orders were received.
It's just that the production of this batch of export flintlock muskets is also very laborious for the arsenal... Because their processing level is so high, if you ask them to process such low-level flintlock muskets, the performance level in all aspects cannot exceed the standard. It's not easy... For this reason, they specially found a bunch of production equipment that was about to be scrapped and built a new production line, so that they could re-produce the early 2-year-old flintlock guns.
This early model of the two-year-old flintlock gun has an all-weather firing rate of 70%. Its firing rate is equivalent to that of a technically mature matchlock gun. It is for this reason that the Dachu Empire decided to change its equipment on a large scale that year. flintlock muskets, and formed line infantry.
With an all-weather firing rate of 70%, this level has exceeded the level of flintlock guns in contemporary European countries.
The price of such a high-level flintlock gun is naturally very expensive, reaching twenty-five Chu Yuan each...
This price is astronomical for a flintlock gun... You must know that whether contemporary Europeans or the Ottoman Empire themselves make a light matchlock gun, it will only cost about three or four yuan, and some corners may be cut. It can be done in about two Chu Yuan.
Their self-made low-level flintlock guns are much more expensive, with the basic price doubled, about six to seven Chu Yuan.
And the two-year-old flintlock exported by the Great Chu Empire costs twenty-five Chu Yuan...
But... don't be dissatisfied with this, the Ottoman Empire, and even thank the Da Chu Empire for its generous support, and for this reason, it allowed the Da Chu Empire to establish leaseholds in parts of the West Asian Peninsula.
Because, except for the Great Chu Empire, no other country or force could provide them with such excellent flintlock guns.
Sometimes whether a weapon is expensive or not depends not on cost, but on demand and political environment.
As far as the current environment is concerned, the twenty-fifth Chu Yuan can buy a high-performance flintlock gun that can fight against or even surpass the flintlock guns of European countries. This is already very important for the Ottoman Empire. It’s rare.
It’s nothing to pay some price for.
Of course, the Ottoman Empire is not stupid. After purchasing the first batch of 20,000 two-year-old flintlock muskets, it began to conduct imitation research. Now it can barely produce some of its own flintlock muskets, but the performance is not up to standard and is far inferior to Directly imported 2-year-old Hou version flintlock gun.
Therefore, the two-year-old flintlocks imported from the Ottoman Empire are only equipped with their Janissaries, and some of their own rubbish-performing flintlocks are used to equip their ordinary infantry.
As for the real imitation of the two-year-old flintlock gun with an all-weather firing rate of 70%, the Ottoman Empire still has a long way to go.
Don't look at the increase in all-weather firing rate by just a few percentage points, but it is actually very difficult.
You can refer to the Great Chu Empire of the past. The two-year-old flintlock gun produced that year was actually extremely expensive... The cost was more than 20 Chu Yuan. Later, it took many years to reduce the cost... After reducing the cost, the all-weather gun was used It took them many years to increase the firing rate from 70% to about 75%.
It took more than ten years for the Da Chu Empire to produce the 2-year-old Type A-3 flintlock gun with an all-weather firing rate of 75% and a procurement cost reduced to about eight Chu Yuan.
From the 2-year-old Type A-3 model with an all-weather firing rate of 75% to the 13-year-old type flintlock gun with an all-weather firing rate of 80%, the Da Chu Empire paid a huge price for more than ten years. Technical research, high R&D and equipment improvement costs.
The Chu Empire itself had such a difficult time improving its all-weather firing rate by a few percentage points, let alone the Ottoman Empire, which didn't even have an industrial foundation. They probably wouldn't be able to achieve a firing rate of 8% in just a few decades. Ten flintlocks.
This is still talking about a flintlock gun. If it were replaced by a percussion gun recently equipped by the Chu Empire, it would be enough for a hundred years...
The Great Chu Empire is not equipped with many percussion guns, and it has not been leaked out. But even if it leaks out one day, those indigenous countries, including those in Europe, will probably be shocked after seeing the percussion guns of the Great Chu Empire. Got to be dumbfounded...
Because the key to firing the gun is not the gun itself, but the little copper flash cap.
The mercury fulminate here is an industrially synthesized compound... Without technical guidance, the indigenous people couldn't imitate it no matter how hard they tried.
Whether this flash cap percussion gun or a muzzle-loading musket is strictly speaking is still within the cognitive scope of the indigenous people.
If the natives were allowed to see the various rifled rifles being studied in the firearms research institute of the Dachu Empire, they would probably doubt their life!
There are many advanced research projects in the Firearms Research Institute of the Dachu Empire, including front-loading rifled guns and breech-loading rifled guns.
Not to mention that the natives found these things difficult to understand, even many people within the Da Chu Empire were surprised when they saw them.
Many of the weapons and equipment used by the Da Chu Empire for their own use could not be imitated by the indigenous people.
Not to mention personal use, even for many exported weapons and equipment, the indigenous people cannot imitate them, or they can imitate them, but the performance cannot meet the standards.
The performance is barely up to par, but the price is absolutely sky-high!
Because all the weapons and equipment exported by the Dachu Empire, regardless of their performance, are the products of typical large-scale industrial production, which is a completely different concept from manual workshop production.
Currently, there is only one industrial country in the world, the Chu Empire!
