Not to mention Fukangan's concern for the country, the 3rd Brigade of the Wuyi Army, which was carried by the transport ship of the Datang Navy, has arrived in Singapore, the overseas consulate of Datang Srivijaya after many days of sailing. ╡╡┞.〔《。 It has been many years since the Tang Dynasty started on the Malay Peninsula, and the Sultanate of Johor, which was originally on the peninsula, has been basically wiped out. Datang has always been relatively repulsive to the forces of the Green Religion, although there is no such policy and expression on the surface, but in Southeast Asia, Datang basically did not go through any notice and negotiation, nor appeased any local sultanate, and directly destroyed it.

At the same time, the Tang Dynasty also imposed restrictions on the existence of the Green Religion, such as blocking some domed temples and prohibiting religious activities in public (the same rule in the Tang Dynasty). This must have provoked a revolt from some locals, but the German mercenaries who acted as the sharp knives of the Tang Dynasty had no intention of being merciful, and killed a single person on the Malay Peninsula and the Sunda Islands. On the other hand, it was the Tang Dynasty overseas consular government that co-opted a group of more secular local forces, giving them certain economic and political powers, and even some local nobles directly threw away the little white hats on their heads, denied their religious identity, and at the same time, in order to seize the land and property of other green cultists, they rushed even further. ┝┝═┞?.。

In such an atmosphere where cooperation has fruits to eat, and confrontation is killing, the power of the Green Religion in Srivijaya Overseas Territory and other areas has plummeted, and the Tang people have also taken advantage of the contradictions between the locals and their own unparalleled force to gain a firm foothold in the local area. With the exception of Singapore, which was founded on a deserted island, some of the original cities on the Srivijaya Peninsula were also governed by the mayor of the Tang dynasty and local forces. The German Corps stationed there frightened the locals and did not dare to make a mistake.

As the capital of Sriwijayaya's overseas territory, Singapore is a very young city, along with Shanghai and Hong Kong in the Big 6. The Tang people occupied this place before the British and Dutch, and the energy invested was not as great as that of Shanghai, but due to its unique geographical location, it was still a good exhibition. Compared to Shanghai, which already has the appearance of the magic capital, Singapore is a little smaller, and after seven or eight years, it has become a trading hub connecting the two oceans, but that's about it.

The magic capital has a population of one million and a total annual trade volume of hundreds of millions of Tang dollars, while Singapore is more than a step behind. ╡{.。 It has become an important port for European trade to East Asia, but trade with the Tang Dynasty has begun to focus on transatlantic trade routes after 1784. This is because after the completion of the Datang North American Railway, a large number of goods can be transported directly by rail from the three states on the west coast of Datang to Ouliang City (New Orleans), the new capital of Pengzhou. The Tang Dynasty also formed merchant ships in the Atlantic, which could trade with Europe, and European merchants came to the Gulf Coast for shorter distances and lower costs. It is also by virtue of trade with Europe that the three southeastern states of Datang have developed very quickly in recent years. It is also related to the fact that Datang began to continuously import immigrants into the three southeastern states by rail.

Even though Europeans can more easily obtain Datang goods from the Atlantic route, some products from Asia still inevitably pass through the Malacca route, such as the bulk commodities that Europeans need, such as tea and silk. After the integration of these two commodities through the industrial alliance of the Tang Dynasty, they have been basically controlled by the Tang people, who took advantage of the weather as an excuse to raise prices and harvest a lot of money from Europeans.

In addition, European merchants are more and more accustomed to directly bringing some goods from Europe to sell in Singapore, and the place where the Tang people exist naturally has a commercial service industry, Singapore has a large number of trading companies, their main business is to undertake the goods sold by European merchants, and then take orders from European merchants, for them to go to China or other Tang overseas to purchase goods, and deliver them the next time European merchants arrive. Since Singapore has relatively complete financial and banking institutions, as well as credit guarantees, these businesses are relatively guaranteed. On the one hand, the East Asian market is basically controlled by Datang, and it is difficult to open up sales channels for some European goods, and European businessmen may face greater losses if they go further to China. Many of the business models of the Tang people have been stolen by Europeans, including the structure and operation methods of some companies of Datang, which has also become a driving force for the great development of Europe in recent years.

Datang's trading companies were well capitalized, able to lease or buy large merchant ships, and cheaper transportation costs, so the Europeans could hardly compete with them on the South China Sea route. Although some of the more powerful European colonial companies of the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company had ordered 5,000-ton cargo ships from Datang, the overall performance was certainly not comparable with Datang's own ships.

The fleet of the Datang Navy slowly sailed into the port of Singapore, and at this time there were many merchant ships moored in the port, most of which were Datang merchant ships, followed by Dutch merchant ships and British merchant ships, and the other few ships were from other countries. The Anglo-Dutch War could not be carried out after the Tang Dynasty intervened in the turmoil before, and the Dutch could be said to have been pitted by the Tang Dynasty and the British team, although the Tang Dynasty and the British did not have any substantive treaties, at most it was a tacit understanding.

However, a series of colonies, including Batavia and Makassar, had been occupied by the Tang people, and the Dutch garrison was forced to leave by the Tang army. Although the Dutch East India Company had lost all its colonies, it had relied on these terms to improve in recent years, and the price of its stock had risen considerably. The competitive advantage of lower tariffs and trade expansion allowed the Netherlands to overtake the British in trade with Southeast Asia. The British have repeatedly protested, but naturally they will not be ignored.

Maybe the Europeans still have a kind of superior racism towards the Tang people, but at least in Southeast Asia, in Singapore, they still have to hold their tails and behave. The Tang people used their terrible execution to create their own trade order in Southeast Asia, and European countries more or less benefited from it. It's just that they can no longer establish their own colony here, because the Tang Dynasty has already taken it all.

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