As a large number of Chu troops entered Poland, the nobles within the local resistance army were greatly shocked. Some wanted to keep a low profile and even dispersed to remote areas to hide in order to hide their strength and plan for the future.
Of course, some people clamored to fight to the death with the Chu army and drive away the invaders like the Chu people.
And these people who are clamoring for desperate resistance either have family members who died in the hands of the Chu army, or their interests have been greatly damaged. They are all people who have a life-and-death feud with the Chu army. They want to use the front equipment they recently obtained. The rifled rifle taught the Chu people a profound lesson.
Even if the Chu people cannot be driven away in the end, the Chu people must know that these local nobles are not just chickens and ducks to be slaughtered, and they are also capable of resisting.
However, not everyone is a staunch rebel. After seeing the Chu people dispatching an army of more than 10,000 people to kill them, some people were frightened and wanted to withdraw from the rebel army and cut themselves off from the rebel army in order to survive. Save.
What's more, some people are already thinking about how to contact the Chu people and sell other rebels to the Chu people in exchange for preferential treatment. In addition to saving their lives, it is best to take this opportunity to contact the Chu people. The superiors worked for the Chu people and obtained a lot of benefits.
Not all the nobles, businessmen and other local powerful people in these places in Europe suffered a loss in profits after the arrival of the Chu people. There were even some noble businessmen who gained great benefits due to the arrival of the Chu people. benefit.
In particular, some local dignitaries and businessmen who became agents of the Chu people benefited greatly from the opportunity to work for the Chu people.
This kind of benefit is not limited to economic benefits, but also political and even actual territorial gains.
One very important point is that although the Chu people came to Europe and launched large-scale military invasions and comprehensive opening up, the Chu people generally did not interfere too much in the many chaotic kingdoms and internal conflicts among the nobles in the area. .
For the Chu people, as long as the interests of the Chu people are protected, it doesn't matter who is in power in the local economic colony, who has a larger territory, or who has a smaller territory.
During the forty-two years of Chengshun, there were several small-scale wars in Central Europe. The participating parties were several states in Germany, fighting each other to death, and even one of the states was destroyed and its territory was destroyed. Several other states were divided up, but as for the Chu people, the special envoys stationed in the Chu State only repeatedly emphasized the interests of the Chu State to the warring countries, including the opening of industry, the safety of the Chu people, the security of commercial interests, etc., but there was no Interfering too much in the wars and even the victory or defeat between countries.
On the other hand, the Chu people's arms dealers were very active, selling various weapons and equipment to the participating countries, and successively sold hundreds of thousands of flintlock muskets, hundreds of smoothbore field cannons, and many other miscellaneous military supplies.
After the war, the victorious and defeated countries all owed a huge debt to the Chu people...
This attitude of the Chu people also gave a very clear political signal to European countries, that is, as long as it does not infringe on the interests of the Chu people, the Chu people will not make too big a deal on various local conflicts. put one's oar in.
Of course, the Chu people would not interfere in a proper war, but the Chu people would not allow any big country to emerge in Europe.
The former great powers in Europe, such as France and the United Kingdom, have all split. The Kingdom of Sweden has also split into two countries, and Poland and Lithuania have also become two countries, one in the south and one in the north.
Even Spain, under the instigation of the Chu people, the northeastern part of Spain and other regions also became independent. Later, part of the Italian peninsula under the control of the Spanish also became independent. The Kingdom of Spain, which used to be a huge Habsburg dynasty, has become independent. Split into three pieces.
The Chu people would not allow any big country to appear in Europe.
But if it is just a war or a small-scale merger between small European countries, as long as it does not affect the overall situation, the people of Chu will generally not care.
I even feel that there are too many small states in Europe, especially in Germany. Some European governor officials advocate promoting certain annexations in this region, and finally forming three or five relatively large-scale medium-sized states. .
This also makes it easier for the Chu people to carry out economic colonization in the local area. Otherwise, if they want to engage in any treaty negotiations, they have to negotiate with a lot of lords such as town mayors and county magistrates one by one, which is very troublesome.
It also avoids ongoing local unrest.
Economic colonies mainly focus on plundering economic interests. If local wars continue, agricultural production, mining, etc. will be greatly affected, and the consumer market will also decline. How can the people of Chu make money in this way? .
Therefore, it is necessary for these European economic colonies to maintain appropriate stability.
This is completely different from the colonial policies promoted by the Chu people in India, Nanyang, Fusang and other places.
In the past, the Chu people were always making trouble and provoking wars everywhere, especially in Fusang... Chengshun entered a period of great melee more than ten years ago, and the fighting has not ended yet...
Frequent and all-out wars have greatly damaged local agricultural production, leading to annual famine and a significant reduction in population.
Later, the Chu people recruited local servant armies and young men to go to Africa and other places to open plantations.
Then the Chu people began to carry out organized migration to the Fusang Islands many years ago, constantly compressing the living space of the local indigenous people.
Today, the local indigenous population on the Fuso Islands is estimated to be only a few hundred thousand.
For this reason, the senior leaders of the Dachu Empire are already preparing for the final treatment of the Fuso Islands area.
It is planned to arrange the remaining Fuso people to plantations in Africa or India, and from now on the Fuso Islands will be used as the homeland for immigration and rule.
The entire operation was similar to the Nanyang strategy of the year. The Chu people at that time also moved some of the indigenous people to India while promoting immigration, and finally realized the comprehensive localization of the Nanyang region.
The Chu people can be very proud to say that in the entire Nanyang region, except for some extremely complex islands in Oceania where there are still some savages, there are no so-called indigenous people in other places, and the entire population is exclusively Chu people.
It's just that after such a set of localization in Nanyang was carried out back then, it was not possible to gain much benefit in these places. The terrain and climate were not good, and the immigrants from Chu State did not like to go there...
Up to now, the total number of Chu people in the entire Nanyang Peninsula and various island areas is only 10 to 20 million, and they are basically concentrated in the relatively mature areas of northern Vietnam, Bangkok, the eastern part of the Malay Peninsula, Lu Song Manila and a few other places.
In most places in Southeast Asia, except for some people in coastal towns, there are actually not many people in other places... many of them still maintain the environment of primitive jungles.
When it comes to overseas immigration, the current Chu people prefer to go to North America, followed by South America, Australia, and then overseas territories such as southern India and South Africa.
As for the attraction of immigrants in various parts of Nanyang, it is no different from most parts of Africa... People from Chu country don't like to go there.
It is not as attractive as Central Asia. Although there are not many Chu people in Central Asia who are willing to migrate there, there are still some. In recent years, the Lianghe Province area has a population of more than two million. These The population has basically migrated over the past decade or so, and is mainly concentrated in the industrial base of Turcheng and the surrounding farming areas with relatively good conditions.
There are too many places in the Dachu Empire, and there are many good places. Immigrants have a lot of choices, and naturally few people are willing to go to some not-so-good places.
And is Fuso a good place?
This is not a problem. There are many earthquakes in that place, frequent volcanic activities, little cultivated land, and good mineral resources... Most of the immigrants in the early years went to do business. Later, some people came to some small coastal plains in the area. immigrants in the area.
But even if there are no arable land resources and there is a lack of mineral resources, it is close to the mainland. You only need to cross the Tsushima Strait to reach the Fuso area from the Korean Peninsula in the mainland.
At the same time, the climate is relatively normal, belonging to the temperate maritime monsoon climate. Most places have four distinct seasons. Except for places such as Ezo Island, which is extremely cold, most places are suitable for human survival.
Unlike Southeast Asia, many places in Africa are tropical jungles. In summer, there are either typhoons or heavy rains. Mosquitoes are everywhere and there are many infectious diseases...
Generally speaking, except for the lack of cultivated land and natural resources on the Fuso Islands, other places are pretty good. The climate is similar to that of many places on the mainland.
Chinese people still have a relatively high level of recognition of the climate in this place.
The previous immigration scale was small, mainly because the Chu Empire did not have a directly administered territory in Fusang, but only a few military bases and ordinary colonies.
Under such circumstances, the Chu people would naturally not go to Fusang in large numbers to settle down.
But now, the top officials of the empire have the intention to solve the problem of Fuso Islands, and eventually turn this archipelago area into a directly administered territory with provincial jurisdiction, which is the same as the previous regions in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Siberia, and North America.
Of course, although the empire's top officials have already thought of doing this, it will take some time for the final implementation.
The expansion policy adopted by the Dachu Empire in the Fusang area was mainly to obtain land, and the reason for obtaining the purpose was not how good the place was, but simply how to allow others to snore next to the bed.
The entire East Asia region is the empire's homeland, and it is impossible to leave a single Fuso Islands alone, even if the Fuso Islands area has actually become an economic colony of the Da Chu Empire many years ago.
But it still makes people uncomfortable to look at...
In order to be more pleasing to the eye, and to avoid all kinds of messy colonial problems on the Fuso Islands in tens or even hundreds of years, the senior officials of the Chu State planned to move all the existing Fuso people to India, Africa, Europe and other regions, once and for all. The archipelago is freed up... As for how many people are willing to immigrate there, it is arbitrary.
It doesn’t matter even if there aren’t many people.
Anyway, the area where the Chu people belong is quite large, but there are many sparsely populated islands. Even the huge Australia only has a few hundred thousand people these days, and New Zealand next to Australia now has only a few tens of thousands. Where are the people.
So it doesn’t matter if there are too many people or too few people. What’s important is to look pleasing to the eye on the map and avoid potential trouble later.
Compared with the localization measures of the Great Chu Empire on the Fuso Islands, the Chu people in Europe pursued another approach, which was pure economic colonization.
There is basically no desire for territory, and there are not even colonies under large-scale direct rule. The main focus is the economic colonial model. The colonies, or overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction of the People's Government, are coastal ports and river estuaries. They are mainly used for garrison and business personnel. Residence is mainly for economic plunder, and immigration is still relatively small.
Of course, some Chu people will go directly to Europe to engage in immigration, plantation, business, etc., but these are private behaviors and not officially promoted policies.
Under such circumstances, the Chu Empire's colonial rule over Europe was generally relatively mild. The local indigenous dignitaries also had a certain degree of autonomy, and could even develop armies to attack neighboring countries and seize territory.
Of course, the premise is that you have a good relationship with the Chu people and gain certain support from the Chu people, at least no objection...
Naturally, there are nobles in the Polish region who rose to power by relying on the Chu people. Now a few nobles in the resistance army want to sell these resistance troops to the Chu people, and then rely on this to build relationships with the Chu people. If you get the upper hand, you might be able to take the opportunity to annex some territory and eventually become a little king.
The resistance forces in Poland were in chaos internally, so naturally they could not really resist the Chu people's military attack.
After the Chu army entered Poland with more than 10,000 troops, with the cooperation of more than 2,000 Indian servants stationed in the area and familiar with the situation, as well as thousands of servants under many local Polish nobles, they quickly attacked multiple local resistance armies. The entrenched areas were encircled and suppressed.
Naturally, this kind of encirclement and suppression process can't be said to be peaceful... The people of Chu State will not encircle and suppress various resistance forces like the modern countries of later generations who play security wars. They are worried about this and that, sometimes they are worried about public opinion, and sometimes they are worried about other big countries intervening. .
These days, when the Chu people are trying to suppress the rebels, they kill them quickly... without any scruples.
After killing several nobles connected with the rebels along the way, they finally captured thousands of local rebels in a remote place.
A burst of gunfire roared down, killing all the rebels, and finally found an arsenal in this valley.
When I entered this arsenal, I saw that there were not only two small industrial high-pressure steam engines, but also a dozen precision processing machinery and equipment. There were also several steel-making equipment next to it, ready to build a small blast furnace for steel-making. Woolen cloth.
This is completely a small comprehensive arsenal that can directly make steel and then process it to make rifled guns.
The most important thing is that they also found more than twenty Chu people nearby... After questioning, they found that several of them had worked in domestic arsenals before. No wonder they were able to build front-loading rifled rifles with very good performance.
This made the faces of a group of Chu army generals present look dark!
This is not only smuggling prohibited equipment, but also organizing senior technicians to come over and make steel and guns for these indigenous people.
This matter must be investigated to the end, and the people involved must be given an unforgettable lesson!
Soon, these equipment and the Chu State's technical personnel were taken away, and then some factories and other buildings were directly destroyed and burned. As for the rebels, except for the leaders, who were taken away for detailed examination, other ordinary personnel and rebels The army was handed over to the servants of the local nobles.
Their fate is naturally not much better...
These local nobles in Central Europe are still in the medieval period in terms of culture and ideology. Naturally, we cannot expect them to have any civilized attitudes.
After taking away the equipment and the personnel involved, the Chu army, which had come all the way to suppress the unrest, naturally would not just leave so simply. Subsequently, a large-scale clearing operation was carried out in the local area, with more than 10,000 Indian servants pulling a net. The execution of the purge operation severely strangled the arrogance of the local resistance forces.
Most of the local nobles were discovered and exterminated. After this battle, the number of local nobles in Poland decreased by 70 to 80%... In the end, the European governors felt that this place was too chaotic, so they supported a few to defect to Chu early. In this counter-rebellion war, the nobles contributed the most, supporting them to become kings and creating several medium-sized kingdoms.
In this way, management in Poland will be much more convenient.
If anything happens in the future, directly contact these local kings and ask them to carry out internal suppression, so that the Chu army does not need to continue to worry.
A similar situation is also happening in Germany.
Feeling that there were many noble territories in these places, and each one was like an independent small kingdom, the people of Chu felt that it was too troublesome to manage.
Immediately, he supported several local nobles who had surrendered early, established several medium-sized kingdoms, and sponsored them with a batch of smoothbore guns, allowing them to swiftly kill all the lords who disobeyed the rule.
So that we can grow food and cotton for the Chu people as soon as possible...
According to the plan of the European governors, the entire European region, excluding the Ottomans, and various messy countries, small lords and the like in other regions must be integrated, and finally twenty or thirty medium-sized indigenous countries will be created.
By controlling these twenty or thirty medium-sized indigenous countries, the Chu Empire indirectly exercised economic colonial rule over the entire European continent.
The vassal staff of the Chu State were really tired of doing diplomatic work with a large number of small lords... Not only was it tiring, but the results were not very effective.
The European governors planned to integrate the economic colonial rule in Europe with the cooperation of the military.
But the Polish arsenal case is still not over yet. Through joint law enforcement investigations by multiple investigative agencies, many people involved were finally dug out, including several officers from the navy... because these equipments all passed through the navy. It was smuggled in secretly on a transport ship, and some naval officers turned a blind eye.
After seriously dealing with the personnel involved in the case, the European Governor, with the cooperation of the military, once again launched an investigation and crackdown on the export of banned equipment and technology in Europe.
This situation quickly spread to North Africa, West Asia and even India.
Finally, in this large-scale crackdown on prohibited equipment and technology smuggling, a large number of smuggled equipment was seized, and at least thousands of people involved were arrested... This is from the Chu State.
With so many Chu people involved in the case, it naturally attracted the attention of the empire's top brass.
After Jinling learned of the relevant situation, Luo Zhixue, the emperor of the empire, gave instructions after consideration: the import and export management of strategic materials and technology must be further strengthened.
At the same time, during the large-scale investigation this time, it emerged that many ordinary Chu businessmen were smuggling equipment to open various factories in the indigenous-controlled areas, in order to avoid similar situations in the future.
Luo Zhixue instructed that in each overseas region, suitable places can be appropriately selected for direct management, so as to facilitate industry and commerce to build factories overseas and sell goods nearby.
The reason why these businessmen went to the indigenous-controlled areas to open some ordinary factories was to make more profits. However, Chu people also have many restrictions on opening factories overseas. Not all overseas colonies can open factories. Not all factories can be opened.
Generally speaking, only certain types of factories are allowed to open in directly-administered territories, such as some ordinary textile and daily necessities factories.
High-paying technology companies are generally not allowed, and defense factories are even more out of the question.
If we want to better solve the problem of equipment and technology flowing into indigenous control areas, it is better to block it than to clear it.
This problem can be initially addressed by building more overseas crown territories closer to indigenous-controlled areas.
Don’t you want to open a factory overseas and then produce nearby to reduce costs and gain more profits?
Okay, the imperial official will directly acquire a piece of directly-administered territory in the coastal and river areas in the indigenous-controlled areas that are most suitable for setting up factories, and then you can set up factories here.
In the future, we can even consider allowing some ordinary colonies, that is, the Dachu Empire to send governors for administrative rule. However, during this period, the residents will still have a large number of indigenous administrative colonies, and factory licenses for some types of factories will also be opened.
In this way, businessmen can still open factories in these places and make money without having to go to all the trouble and risk being shot and ransacked to smuggle prohibited equipment and technology.
Imperial officials can also more easily restrict the export of prohibited equipment and technology.
After all, you can legally open a factory in the Chu State's direct-administered territory or administrative colony, which is close to or even in the hinterland of the indigenous-controlled area. There is no need to go to the indigenous-controlled area to open a factory.
Although there will still be some costs, such as taxes and differences in labor costs... But this difference is not enough for these businessmen to take risks and run the risk of being shot and confiscating their homes to open factories in indigenous-controlled areas.
Luo Zhixue's idea is good, but we still have to see how it will turn out.
Following Luo Zhixue's instructions, the senior officials of the Da Chu Empire quickly implemented relevant policies.
First of all, various territories are defined in more detail, and three categories are formulated: directly-administered territories, administrative territories, and dependent territories, and all territories are clearly divided. They are no longer just rough names as before. Instead, it became a clear administrative concept.
Directly-governed territories, that is, directly-governed territories that are directly managed by governors appointed by the empire. Whether they are local in the traditional sense or overseas directly-governed territories, they will have unified administrative governance structures at all levels of provinces, counties, towns and villages; at the same time, the most important thing is The people living in these places are all Chu people, and the indigenous people are not allowed to enter and live there.
Including the traditional eighteen provinces within the Guan Nei, the Nanyang Peninsula, the Nanyang Islands, Australia, various parts of Siberia, the Mesopotamia Province of Central Asia, North America, South America, southern India, southern Africa, and some small direct jurisdictions in India, West Asia, and Europe territory……
The second type is the administrative territory, which means the Chu Empire dispatched colonial governors to rule, set up different administrative agencies according to local conditions, and adopted different laws (such as laws specifically targeted at local indigenous people). The residents there are both Chu people and indigenous people, that is, in the ordinary sense. of colonies.
The third type is vassal territory, which are various vassal states and protectorates. Specifically defined, the local indigenous kings need to be canonized by the emperor of the Chu Empire, and must obey the arrangements and arrangements of the empire in military, political and economic terms. guide……
Fuso, India, and a large number of various indigenous countries in Europe are all vassal states of the Chu Empire. This kind of territory is said to be a vassal territory, but in fact it is a colony of the Chu Empire.
As for the vassal states that were only nominally surrendered in the traditional sense, but actually had nothing to do with it and could do their own thing, the Chu Empire never did this.
According to the above three major territories, currently in the world, in addition to the territories of a few countries, such as the Mughals and some other states in north-central India, Persia, Ottoman, Russia, Austria, etc., plus a large area of Africa that is still in a tribal state Inland areas and other places belong to the territory of the Chu Empire.
After the territory is clearly divided, various import and export arrangements will be made, and strategic materials and technology control will have a more complete basis.
According to the clear territorial divisions, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Import and Export Commission and other regulatory agencies have also successively issued relevant rules and regulations, and implemented a series of import and export regulations for different overseas territories, administrative territories, and national territories according to local conditions. , factory establishment, technology export license list.
Guide the Chu people and industrial and commercial people to conduct correct overseas investment behavior, so as to avoid being stupid like before and setting up factories in indigenous controlled areas, and then being arrested and sentenced.
At the same time, these overseas investment behaviors can better coordinate with the economic policies implemented by the Chu Empire in overseas colonial areas.
After all, many things require investment. For example, if you want to grow a large amount of grain in Europe and import it to the mainland... you can't really transport it all the way to the coastal port by horse-drawn carriage, because the transportation cost will be expensive.
The food with such sky-high transportation costs is not competitive when shipped to the country...or the people cannot afford it!
But if a railway is built in these dependent colonies, or some steam river ships are built for transportation, then the cost of food transportation will be much lower.
But according to the past, things like ships and trains could not be imported into these vassal territories... But now, for different types, different regions, and different situations of vassal territories, the empire officials are preparing to relax the export restrictions on some means of transportation to a certain extent. .
This will bring great changes to those colonies, and will bring more cheap agricultural products and industrial raw materials to the more than 600 million Chu people in the Chu Empire. The Chu people will live a better life!
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