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Datang had already established its own communication system in Europe, and in fact, under the condition that Datang provided technology and demanded high returns, Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and other countries had already set up telegraph offices in their own countries, and telegraph bureaus had even become the most popular way of communication in France. Of course, the government also knew the advantages of the cable telegraph, so Britain and France, both of which were vigorously developing their own telegraph industry. As for the telephone, except for the fact that there is a telephone line in Datang that receives thousands of kilometers away from the long distance, the telephone networks established in Britain, the United States, France and other countries are all local in nature.

The Tang people's own information transmission preferred to use radio, which was also a technology that was not provided to the Europeans, because its military value was greater than that of the cable telegraph, so it has always been in the hands of the Tang people.

After learning of the Treaty of Amsterdam, although the British were dissatisfied with the Tang people's interference, the British themselves understood that it would be very difficult to seize the Dutch colony of the East Indies with British strength and then run it. The British did have their idea set their sights on the Dutch East Indies, but more for plunder.

Britain is unlikely to complete the conquest of the Dutch East Indies in the short term, and Britain's current steam ironclad warships are mainly concentrated in the British Isles and the Atlantic, and no ships are sent to the Indian Ocean. The occupation of Ceylon was the main contribution of the British East India Company, and if it attacked Sumatra, Java and other places, it would be somewhat unsuccessful.

Britain is also very reluctant to have any conflict with Datang now, and they can only pinch their noses and admit it after Datang cuts off their beards. There were even some captains who were afraid that if the captains of the fleet in front could not learn about the situation as soon as possible and attacked those areas, it would be tantamount to giving the Tang the truth. For a time, even the British were eager to build the telegraph office to British India. The British also understood that the acceleration of information transmission was itself an increase in the control of the colonies by the suzerain.

More than half a month later, Datang officials and Dutch officials arrived in various colonies of the Dutch East Indies on Datang's speedboats, along with a number of ships of the Datang Navy. Despite the reluctance of the local Dutch, under the guns of the Tang people and orders from the country, the colonies such as Batavia were transferred to the Tang people. Until the arrival of the Tang administration, they were still temporarily governors of the colony. During this period, there were also a large number of Dutch officials who looted fiercely, and the Tang people naturally warned about this, and used force to intimidate, which achieved a certain effect.

You must know that there are a large number of Chinese in Batavia, and in 1740 the Dutch even carried out massacres and robberies of the Chinese, which is the horrific Red Creek Massacre. The representative of the Tang Navy to Batavia even directly proposed that if there was an encroachment on the Chinese in the process of power transfer, then the Tang army would exterminate the Dutch in Batavia, and not a single Dutch would live.

Even more than a month later, when the Tang government officials arrived, they forced the Dutch colonial authorities to erect a monument to the Red Creek massacre in the area, condemning the atrocities and demanding that the Dutch officials apologize. At first, the Dutch officials disagreed, but the landing Tang Marines made them change their minds, bowing and bowing, kneeling and kneeling, regardless of whether they were sincere or false.

The culprits of the year are basically dead, and the Tang people have no ability to directly punish them. It is possible to punish the present Dutch, but it is not possible to take over the entire East Indies colony from the Dutch as smoothly as it does now. The Tang Dynasty used the least amount of strength and adopted the means of overwhelming force to completely drive the Netherlands out of the Sunda Islands. It can be said that Datang used extortion to obtain the greatest benefits.

Of course, they can use the use of troops to seize it, or leave no benefits to the Dutch, but there are too many things to deal with, and the Tang Dynasty is still using troops in Burma, which makes too much trouble for itself, and sooner or later there will still be problems. Even Comrade Bai Nan, a warmonger, supported the use of ingenuity rather than mere brute force to solve problems.

Today, in the entire Far East, only two European powers, Portugal and Spain, remain. Portugal also leased Macau, but it belongs to the attitude of being a man with his tail between his legs, and the other is East Timor, and Datang does not look down on it very much, and he may find a reason to occupy it from the beginning. Spain occupies Luzon and the Visayas, and the Tang Dynasty's attitude towards the Far East is consistent and direct, that is, except for its own dominance, no other colonial powers outside the territory are allowed to exist.

Datang has a general account for Spain, not only here in the Philippines, but even in North America, Datang also has a great interest in Arizona and Louisiana. The construction of a South Pacific Railroad was a rehearsal for the seizure of North American lands from Spain. In the right time, the Tang Dynasty will show its fangs to Spain and seize everything in their hands.

Datang's calculations for Spain are far more than that.

Far away in Peru in South America, at this time, an uprising of local Indians against the oppressive rule of the Spanish colonizers was in full swing. The leader of the revolt was Tupac Amaru II, whose original name was Condolkanqui, who came from a family of chiefs and studied at the Jesuit school of the Spaniards as a young man. However, this did not convince him of the Spaniards and God. After his succession as chief, he devoted himself to helping the poor Indians and seeking to ease their burdens within his authority. This led the Spanish colonists to think that he was rebellious.

When Carlos III carried out the political reforms in Spain, he expected Spain to carry out reforms in the colonies to improve the living and treatment of the Indians, but in essence, the exploitation and oppression of the Indians by the Spanish became more serious. He came to Lima to ask the colonial authorities for his compatriots, and at the same time hoped that the authorities would recognize him as a descendant of the Inca royal family, which of course would not be allowed.

So after returning to his hometown, he officially adopted the name of the last Inca king, Tupac Amaru, and called himself Tupac Amaru II. When the American Revolution broke out, it inspired Tupac Amaru, who turned to violence after another failed plea.

At the end of 1780, Tupac Amaru II captured the Spanish colonial official Arriaga, executed him, and issued the Emancipation Edict, announcing the emancipation of black slaves at the lowest levels of colonial society. He also cried out "It's time, overcome differences, and unite like brothers," he called on Indians, blacks, mestizos, and native whites to unite and fight side by side to eliminate the "Spaniards," and with the slogan "Down with the bad government," the uprising soon grew to 60,000.

In a short period of time, the rebels controlled 24 of Peru's 50 provinces, numbering 90,000. During the campaign, Amaru II angrily attacked the feudal hacienda system, revealing that the lords of the manoras "forced their slaves to work from 2 a.m. until the evening when the moon was full, with only two riels a day, and on Sundays", and announced that "a new system of land distribution will be introduced, and the peasants will be given enough land to earn a living". He also announced the abolition of the "Mida" system of forced labor and the use of child labor in textile workshops, the abolition of the poll tax and all exorbitant taxes, and determined to liberate Peru from colonial **** and thus establish a united and equal country of Indians. In order to strengthen his leadership over the uprising, Amaru II established a five-member cabinet, appointed judges and provincial governors, introduced a new tax system, and began to perform the functions of a government agency.

Alarmed by the Tupac Amaru uprising, the Spanish colonial authorities quickly mobilized large armies to launch an offensive against the rebels from Lima and Buenos Aires, and offered a high reward for the head of Amaru II.

At the end of December 1780, Amaru II led an army of 60,000 rebels to besiege the ancient city of Cusco, the former capital of the Incas. Taking advantage of the contradictions between the Indian tribes, the colonial authorities incited some local Indian chiefs to lead their men to cooperate with the city's defense forces to fight against the rebels, but due to the change of circumstances, Amaru II decided to abandon the plan to storm the city, and on January 10, 1781, he took advantage of the darkness of the night to withdraw the siege and implement a strategic shift to the south. Spanish Peruvian Inspector General José? Antonio? Morality? Marshal Arecher and Marshal Vallie learned of this and immediately commanded 1. The 50,000-strong colonial army pursued them in five directions.

On March 21, Amaru II led an army of more than 10,000 rebels to set up an ambush in a narrow valley through which the colonial army must pass, preparing to gather and annihilate this enemy. Due to the traitor's informant, this ambush failed, and the colonial army not only escaped the fate of being surrounded and annihilated, but also figured out the main force of the rebel army. Subsequently, in the battle of Chekakupe on 6 April, the rebels were defeated by a strong enemy. Amaru II was forced to break through and then move south, and by this time he had very few troops at his disposal.

In another face, Amaru II was again betrayed by traitors and captured by the colonial authorities, and when the Spaniards interrogated him who were the conspirators of this uprising, he replied categorically: "The only conspirators are you and me, you are because you oppress the people, and I am because I want to liberate the people from this ****." "The enraged colonists decided to execute Amaru II as soon as possible.

On May 18, 1781, Amaru II was escorted to the central square of Cusco, where his body was dismembered. At the time of the uprising, thousands of Indians knelt in the streets to pay tribute to the leader and express their admiration and mourning for the hero, despite the repression of the colonial army.

At this time, there was an inflection point in history. Guo Xin, a soldier of the Tang Dynasty who had helped lead the American Revolution many years ago, came to Peru quietly.