Chapter 210: The Beginning of Colonialism
With the establishment of Luzon Province, the Great China and North Korea completely embarked on the road of overseas expansion, although this road is full of blood, and can even be said to be plundering and immoral behavior, but Xiao Tianjian knows that this is an inevitable path for China to continue to stand proudly on top of the world in the future, and in any era, expansion means slaughter and plunder, the essence of war is actually to obtain greater benefits, the winner is the king, the loser is the villain, only the winner can write history!
If China misses this era, it will miss this opportunity forever, and it will only be able to become a great power in Asia, but it will not be able to become one of the world's great powers in the future.
After several elaborations, the cabinet and the military understood what colonialism was, although this was in conflict with what Chinese Confucianism had learned, but there was no doubt that this kind of colonialism could bring huge wealth and benefits to China, and no one could deny this.
Due to Xiao Tianjian's subtlety, now these ministers and military generals have gradually accepted Xiao Tianjian's ideas, and their eyes have begun to become more long-term, so they all agree with Xiao Tianjian's plan for the future colonial road.
In addition, taking the road of colonization has a great advantage for the Great China and North Korea, that is, through colonial immigration, the Great China and the North Korea can also completely solve the problem of domestic land contradictions, and the policy of restricting land annexation that the Great China and North Korea are now implementing in China is actually not a very good policy, but in the short term it can alleviate the domestic class contradictions, but in the long run, it is not conducive to the development of social wealth.
Therefore, there must be a new way to solve this contradiction, which may not have been easy to find on the main road alone, but now when the Great and Chinese Dynasties decide to take the road of colonialism, this contradiction can be resolved by seizing the colonies and acquiring new land.
Aren't many landlords and wealthy people fond of hoarding land? Don't like to engage in any industry? In the past, Dazhong and North Korea restricted their land annexation, so that the money in their hands had no way out, but for the land of the colony, it was another story.
As long as they have money, then the Great China and North Korea can sell them the land in the colonies, and there is no limit to the area of land they can buy, so that the rich people can be guided to expand in the colonies first, and the Chinese businessmen who were close to the overseas before were far from satisfying the control of the colonies by the Great China and North Korea, and now by allowing the domestic landlords and the wealthy class to purchase land in the overseas colonies, they can accelerate the domestic and overseas migration.
This can satisfy the desire of these landlord classes for land, and can also greatly strengthen the Chinese's control over overseas colonies, of course, during the period will definitely be opposed by the local natives, but this is nothing, as long as the Great China and North Korea maintain a certain amount of force in the local area to protect the interests of immigrants, then there is no fear of the local aborigines making any trouble.
Even after a few hundred years, there may be an independence movement in the colonies, but even so, after a large number of Chinese immigrants, these colonies will not be able to completely sever ties with China, which has been proven by later generations of Western powers, especially the Commonwealth countries, to ensure Britain's interests in the world.
Therefore, with such a lesson from the past of the old time and space, Xiao Tianjian naturally will not miss this great opportunity.
Therefore, after the Dazhong army took control of Luzon, the colonial plan of the Dazhong Dynasty began to be secretly formulated, and at the same time, the imperial court publicized in China through the China Monthly Newspaper how fertile the land of Luzon was, as if it was full of gold, and there, there would be no restrictions on the amount of land purchased by landlords, and the wealthy class in the country would be encouraged to buy land there for reclamation.
Although the Chinese have a deep love for the land, although many people learned of such news, but did not take immediate action, although many landlords felt that this was an opportunity, but because of the homeland, they did not dare to easily run so far to buy land for a while.
However, there were also some far-sighted landlords, especially those in Fujian and Guangdong, who were more open-minded because of their long-term exposure to maritime trade, and these people immediately realized the huge benefits involved, so some people immediately went to the government and signed up to go to Luzon to buy land.
Even some wealthy people did not dare to take risks easily and went to Luzon in person, but they also sent family members to Luzon in advance to inquire about the situation, ready to buy land at any time.
The new governor of Luzon naturally wanted to quickly open up the situation, and came up with a set of preferential policies to sell Luzon's land, and even agreed to sell Luzon's land in installments.
As the mouthpiece of the imperial court, the Zhonghua Monthly Newspaper also publicized it at length, and even Xiao Tianjian directly ordered the Haimao Group to allocate several large sea vessels in Guangzhou and Quanzhou to be used as passenger ships, opened a regular passenger route to Manila, and even waived the shipping fare to Luzon immigrants, and provided good catering service on the way, so as to attract more Chinese to invest in Luzon to purchase and reclaim land.
Even the Chung Hwa Bank has taken advantage of the situation to set up a branch in Manila to provide low-interest loans to immigrants to buy local land or set up factories.
Then Xiao Tianjian ordered Luzon Province to open new schools in the local area, promote Chinese, and force the children of local black-skinned monkeys to enroll in school and receive Chinese education, to put it bluntly, it is cultural aggression, and in the long run, one day it will be completely Sinicized.
After a series of measures, more and more Chinese began to go to Luzon Province by boat, although the development of Luzon Province will be a long process, but this start is still quite good, the tenacity of the Chinese, as long as they get there, will take root, in a few decades, Luzon Province will truly become a province of China, completely integrated into the system of Greater China.
In addition, Xiao Tianjian also thought of a way, that is, the garrison generals in Luzon Province, during their service, can also take their families to Luzon for resettlement, the official gives them land, and provides them with houses for them to settle in the local area, and after their service expires, everyone will directly grant them a large amount of land in the local area as their pension, these garrisons will become the backbone of the immigrants in the future, and at the same time, they can also become local armed forces to protect their own villages and towns.
While Luzon Province was in full swing to promote land development and resettlement, the navies of the Great and Chinese Koreas did not stop their pace, and their eyes soon set their eyes on Malacca.
During the Ming Dynasty, the Sultan of Malacca had accepted the edict of the Ming Dynasty as early as the Yongli Dynasty, forming a vassal relationship with the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, the Sultan also personally led the personnel to Beijing to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and when Zheng He went to the West, he also set up a base in the city of Malacca as a supply base for the fleet, but in 1511, the Portuguese invaded Malacca and occupied Malacca by force.
The king of Malacca also asked the Ming for help, but the Ming Dynasty ignored it at that time, resulting in Malacca being occupied by the Portuguese.
Just a few years ago, in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the Dutch defeated the Portuguese, captured Malacca, and made it a Dutch colony, echoing Batavia, the headquarters of the Dutch in Asia.
However, the Dutch did not attach great importance to this place, nor did they intend to develop it into a commercial port, but only as a stronghold for them to control the Strait of Malacca.
However, Xiao Tianjian knows the importance of the Strait of Malacca for the Chinese in the future, and almost half of China's maritime shipping ships will pass through the Strait of Malacca, which is like the throat of the Chinese, as long as the slightest wind and grass is moved, it is equivalent to stucking the neck of the Chinese.
In this regard, the navy has also had an intuitive and clear understanding of the importance of this place in the past few years, including the maritime trade group, and they also believe that this place is very important to the Great China and North Korea, and it is very necessary to control it in the hands of the Great China and North Korea, otherwise, the merchant ships of the Great China and North Korea will go to the Indian Ocean and Africa and even to Europe in the future, they will have to pass through here.
Therefore, if China, China and North Korea want to go to the world in the future, then the Strait of Malacca must be taken down.
Therefore, in the eighth year of the Tianyuan Dynasty, just after the Battle of Manila ended, the navy of China and North Korea immediately began to formulate a new battle plan for the next attack on Malacca.
However, it is not very easy for the Great China and North Korea to occupy Malacca, and even if the fleet departs from Guangzhou, the distance to Malacca is more than 7,000 miles, and with the current speed of sailing ships, it will take more than a month to sail at the earliest.
In addition, the area around Malacca belongs to the sphere of influence of the Dutch, whose headquarters in Asia is located in Batavia, not far from Malacca, and their strength is relatively strong, at least much stronger than their original strength in Taiwan.
The most important thing is that this expedition will definitely carry a considerable number of land division troops for landing operations, and if it sails directly to Malacca, then the sailors and land divisions on the ship will not be able to rest and adapt at all, and they will immediately be engaged in battle, while the Dutch will wait for work and counterattack on the spot, which is very unfavorable for the army of Dazhong.
Therefore, after joint consultation and deliberation between the Navy Department and the Maritime Trade Group, it was unanimously agreed that if they wanted to successfully obtain Malacca, before the war between China and North Korea, they must first obtain several footholds along the way to serve as transit bases and supply points for the fleet.
In addition, in the vicinity of Malacca, it is necessary to find a foothold for the fleet of large and medium-sized armies to rest and replenish, and then it can go straight to Malacca, seize the city of Malacca, and control the Strait of Malacca.
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