Chapter 973: The Tributary System
The raging fire burned on the sea like a blooming flower of fire.
On the harbor, Liu Chen and the soldiers witnessed the sinking of all three warships and a stone fell to the ground in their hearts, and after this war, they completely annihilated the British soldiers on the island and successfully controlled Malacca.
In the future, any ship passing through Malacca would have to be approved by the Great Chongqing State.
After cheering for a while, Liu Chen left some soldiers to garrison the fort, and the others returned to Xinjiapo City, at this time Yue Yun had already controlled the whole city, the British flag fell from the Governor's Palace, and the dragon flag of the Great Yu Kingdom rose to the top of the flagpole and fluttered in the wind.
"General, the British soldiers have been wiped out!" In front of Yue Yun, Liu Chen gave a military salute.
"Good!" Yue Yun returned the military salute and continued; "Immediately send someone to report the results of this trip to the Holy Lord, and wait for the Holy Lord's order."
"Yes, General." Liu Chen replied that on the same day, a warship set off from Xinjiapo Port to Dengzhou.
On December 20, the battleship arrived in Dengzhou, and the battle reports of the Battle of Bohol and the Battle of Xinjiapo reached Xiao Ming.
"Your Majesty, congratulations, in this way, the territory of the Great Chongqing Kingdom will expand again."
Qian Dafu smiled, at this time, the master and servant were sketching around the map of Nanyang, Xiao Ming was holding the battle report in his hand, and Qian Dafu was responsible for unfolding the map.
"It's not that simple, and now we control only the Spanish Crown City and the New Capo City in Bohol, and it is unknown whether the natives of these two places will agree with our occupation."
Xiao Ming squinted his eyes and outlined the location of the Spanish Intranet City and Xinjiapo, unlike the contemporary historical process, the maps in some technological crystals can only be used as a reference, and the specific location of these cities still needs to be explored and determined. ”
"Indigenous?" Qian Dafu rarely showed a look of disdain, and now the strength of the Great Chongqing State makes everyone very confident, "Your Majesty, these natives are not opponents of the British and Spaniards, how can they be our opponents?" ”
"The truth is this, but both the Spaniards and the English have made agreements with these natives, and now that we have driven them out, it is natural that we will sign a new agreement with them, and after a hundred years of rule, these native dynasties have gradually accepted the Spaniards and the British, and I am afraid that they will be angry because of this, and war with them will be inevitable." Xiao Ming said slowly.
In contemporary colonial history, people tend to ignore these native countries in the South Seas, and only focus on which colonists occupied that colony.
But in fact, these dynasties of the South Seas were crucial to the colonies, as most of the colony's output was provided by these indigenous dynasties.
According to the demographics of some data in the science and technology spar, the current population of the Nanyang Dynasty is a very objective number.
For example, in the mid-to-late eighteenth century, the population of the Philippines was about 3 million, the population of Indonesia was about 8 million, the population of Malaysia was about 350,000, and the population of Myanmar was about 5 million.
Thailand, that is, Siam at this time, had a population of three million.
The total population of the French-occupied Indochina was about 10 million, of which 7 million were in Annam alone.
It is precisely because of this data that Xiao Ming cannot ignore these indigenous countries, after all, the colonizers only played the role of the suzerainty of these countries during their rule, and did not adopt a policy of slaughter against them.
But in spite of this, he was not afraid of these natives, and if necessary, he could only defeat them once, like the Spaniards and the British, after all, in this day and age power is the truth.
Qian Dafu came back to his senses, and he said; "What the emperor said is that the old slave is confused, in fact, our Dayu country was once the suzerainty of these Nanyang countries, and every year during the Chinese New Year, they will always send people to send all kinds of treasures in exchange for their protection, and now the hateful Europeans have taken away our suzerainty status and forcibly played the suzerainty of these countries."
"Well, that's it, it looks like you're still making some progress." Xiao Ming laughed, "Actually, what I am fighting for now is the status of this suzerain, restoring the tributary system of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and driving the Europeans out of the back garden of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, they have Africa, South America, and North America, and it is a dream to want to intervene in Asia." ”
Qian Dafu looked like he was the same enemy, "The whole world is about to be occupied by them, it's really greedy, this time it's really happy." ”
Xiao Ming had long been accustomed to Qian Dafu's flattery, he smiled, and then wrote a number on Xinjiapo, which is the current population of Xinjiapo, 20,000 people.
Xiao Ming was not surprised by this number, before the arrival of the British, Xinjiapo was just a barren land, and now this number is quite a lot.
And according to the data provided by Yue Yun, there are still 3,000 of them who are of Chinese descent, and after the occupation of Xinjiapo, the local Chinese welcomed the marines and took the initiative to act as the guides of the marines, and at the same time cooperated with the marines to take over the British property in Xinjiapo.
Xiao Ming naturally welcomed this situation, the standard for distinguishing people in this era is skin color, and the Chinese cannot escape the blood engraved in their bones by the Great Yu Kingdom, and it is better to use these Chinese to assist them in managing Xinjiapo than to use the local natives.
In addition to reporting the situation of Xinjiapo in the battle report, Yue Yun was also asking for the next order.
After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Ming personally wrote an edict to Yue Yun.
For him, there is no plan to continue westward expansion for the time being, and the Strait of Malacca has been cut off, and the French Indochina, part of the British-occupied Indonesia, and Australia will all be in his pocket.
Moreover, for the current Great Yu State, it will only take a while to digest these places and establish his suzerainty system and establish trade exchanges.
It took two or three hundred years for the Western powers to run these places, and it was impossible for him to become a big fat man in one bite.
As for the British, Spanish or French, after the naval battle he believed that the three nations would realize the difficulties they were facing and would not fight him to the end.
After all, it would be a disaster to challenge an industrial country in such a distant colony.
This is a good thing for the country, but it is also a hidden danger, because the country can use the resources and markets on these lands to accelerate the industrial revolution.
The danger is that such a humiliating failure will further spur Europe to devote more energy to scientific and technological research and weapons manufacturing.
Xiao Ming believes that they will not be willing to fail, and when they find an opportunity in secret, they will definitely come back again.
Thinking of this, he quickly completed the writing of the edict and sent someone back, in order to completely control Malacca, he will station 10,000 troops in Xinjiapo all the year round, and at the same time make this place the outer naval port of the Great Chongqing State, leaving 30 warships to protect the waterway and patrol in the South China Sea.