I want to be emperor

The overseas colonization of the Great Chu Empire began many years ago, but to be honest, the scale has not been large, and the immigrants are mainly to go overseas to make a fortune and take risks. In fact, not many people actually went to the Nanyang region to farm and settle down.

Many years have passed, and the total number of new immigrants in the overseas territories of the Great Chu Empire in Nanyang is only more than 30. It seems to be a lot, but there are very few people scattered in the vast overseas territories of Nanyang.

And among these people, quite a few are still working immigrants!

That is, employees of trading companies and their families, family members of officials, etc., or people who ran over to do business to make money and their families, etc. Although these people live and work in Nanyang temporarily, there is a high probability that they will still be in Nanyang in the future. back home.

There are not many people who are purely attracted by the immigration policy to settle in the past, and there are even fewer immigrants who settle at their own expense. Most of the immigrants who settle down are official free immigrants organized by the government. Simply put, the government covers all expenses. You just need people to follow. That's fine.

There are many reasons for the low number of spontaneous immigrants. The main reason is that the people have concerns about the Nanyang region, and there are fears and fears.

Even if some people in the country want to immigrate, they will not go overseas, but will go to newly developed land such as Liaodong.

Liaodong and other northeastern provinces and regions, although the weather is cold and freezing, but because of the black soil, and this is the local area anyway, it is still more attractive to some people in China who want to immigrate than the places in Nanyang.

Immigrants to Nanyang... When they heard that they were going to a distant overseas by boat, and it was still a mosquito-infested tropical rainforest, people shook their heads immediately.

The folks have relatively great concerns and rejections about immigration to Nanyang, and at the same time, the scale of official immigration promoted by the government has not been large.

The main reason is that the cost of immigration is very high these years. Organize immigrants from the country, then organize boat transportation, organize them to settle down when they arrive at the place, and give them food rations for a certain period of time, etc. All of these have led to a decrease in the cost of immigration per capita. very high.

And if these costs are all paid by the government, then the imperial finances with a big family and a big business will not be able to bear it.

Therefore, the scale of official immigration has always been small, at most tens of thousands of immigrants per year.

The small scale of overseas immigration also caused great trouble to overseas colonial operations.

After all, maintaining an overseas territory requires human resources. If there is no one, you can't control a vast colony... At most, you can only stick to the city and fortress like the Portuguese and the Dutch, or play colonial trade. .

The overseas colonization of the Great Chu Empire was not purely for trade and benefit, these were all secondary... The overseas colonization of the Great Chu Empire was for land, more precisely land that could grow food!

Solve the fundamental problem of insufficient per capita food production due to the large population and small land in the country, and improve the per capita food level of the people.

Let the people have enough to eat, this is the fundamental reason why the Great Chu Empire robbed overseas territories and carried out overseas immigration.

After all, if you want to have enough food, if you only rely on domestic solutions, there are two points, either increase food production or reduce population.

As for grain production, there is only so much land, technical conditions are also limited, and there is a limit to increasing grain production.

As for reducing the population, under the condition of limited land in the country, if there are fewer people, the per capita land will naturally increase, and the per capita food will also increase. However, under normal circumstances, you cannot do this method, and you can only wait passively. Various natural disasters and man-made disasters, such as large-scale civil wars, wiped out a large number of people, and after the war ended, various prosperous times, ZTE will naturally come.

But you can't do it when there's nothing to do... After all, you can't regularly massacre a group of people or simply start a civil war.

It is almost impossible to solve the food problem in the feudal dynasty by relying on internal resources and using various peaceful means.

The change of dynasties in the past dynasties has proved this point. In the end, it is basically through large-scale wars to reduce the population to restore the balance of food supply.

In addition, there is another solution, which is to enter the modern society... After entering the modern society, people will consciously have fewer children, which is fully reflected in the white groups in Europe, America, and Japan and South Korea in later generations.

Children are consciously giving birth less or not at all, so naturally there will be no so-called food crisis.

In the short term, even within 100 years, the Great Chu Empire will not be able to rely on internal resources to solve the food problem, improve the per capita food level, and then increase the average food consumption level of the people.

So the only solution out there?

The answer given by Luo Zhixue is overseas immigration!

Seizing foreign food production areas and emigrating the remaining domestic population will not only reduce the per capita food pressure in the country, but also provide surplus food in some foreign food producing places to supply the local area, further reducing the food pressure in the local area.

This is the fundamental reason why the Great Chu Empire promoted overseas colonization. It was not for money or the market. Whether it was money or the market, it was inedible...these are all icing on the cake.

Land, food, these are the fundamentals.

After seven or eight years of laying the groundwork, the Great Chu Empire has gradually formed a set of effective overseas immigration methods. In addition, domestic medical technology has further developed, especially the large-scale planting and use of cinchona trees. against various types of malaria.

And malaria is the biggest obstacle for immigrants to go to areas where the water and soil are not acclimatized, especially in tropical areas such as Southeast Asia, how to effectively fight against malaria is a prerequisite for immigration.

Otherwise, if 1 people emigrate, thousands of people will die within a few years. Such a high death rate is not immigration, but death.

In addition to the improvement of medical technology, the scale of the shipbuilding industry of the Great Chu Empire has further expanded. There are more ocean-going ships, and the cost of navigation will naturally gradually decrease.

Especially after the appearance of iron-ribbed wood-hull ships, the ships can be made bigger, and the larger ships can transport goods or carry passengers, the lower the average cost will be.

This is why shipping companies and trading companies like to use large-tonnage armed merchant ships and transport ships.

Because the larger the ship, the more cargo it loads, the lower the average cost.

This is the case in the first batch of armed merchant ships ordered by the Western Trading Company (formerly the United Trade Union). The armed merchant ships of more than 1000 tons are the main force, and the smallest is seven to eight hundred tons. They have even begun to build batches of more than 800 tons or even more than 2000 tons. large armed merchant ships.

These are not only to enhance the combat effectiveness of armed merchant ships, but also to reduce freight costs.

Medical technology has improved, shipbuilding technology has improved and transportation costs have been reduced, and immigration policies have also undergone a series of tests and gradually improved.

Adding up many aspects, this also made the top leaders of the Great Chu Empire make up their minds to start expanding the scale of overseas immigration.

The establishment of Xiyang Trading Company and Dongyang Trading Company is the most direct symbol of this strategic change.

And it is worth noting that overseas immigrants are not limited to Southeast Asia and India, but also the Americas.

The Toyo Trading Company was set up to colonize the Americas.

America, especially North America, Luo Zhixue has a long-term view of it, and everyone in later generations knows how good the conditions are in that place.

It has a huge amount of arable land and is extremely rich in various mineral resources.

If North America can be snatched, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people can be resettled in the future, and a large amount of agricultural products can be continuously obtained from North America and shipped back to the mainland.

In the past, the Great Chu Empire had been busy tossing in Southeast Asia in overseas colonization, and it began to toss in India in the following years.

As for North America, I have not been able to free up my hands to do it.

But now, Luo Zhixue felt that the time was ripe!
Especially last winter, after years of continuous exploration of routes, the Toyo Trading Company finally successfully dispatched a fleet to the west coast of North America last year, and also bartered with the local aborigines. amazing.

When I went there, I brought some invaluable industrial products, but when I came back, I brought countless gold and silver, precious stones, animal fur and other goods.

Driven by such a huge Lilan, it directly drove a lot of people involved in the ocean-going armed trade crazy.

In addition to the Lilan factor, the more important thing is that the route has been explored.

After years of route exploration, the Great Chu Empire has figured out the expected route along North America.

This is a long route across the entire Pacific Ocean.

In order to explore the route to the Americas, the Great Chu Empire began many years ago. At first, they wanted to use the Manila cruise route in the Spanish treasure fleet, follow the Spaniards, and cross the Pacific from Manila to Mexico. .

But this is the route of the Spaniards themselves. Although the relationship between the two parties is still good, if you want to use this route to engage in large-scale colonial trade, the Spaniards have to go crazy... so the Spaniards are not willing at all. Take the ships of the Great Chu Empire to America.

There is no way, the Great Chu Empire can only explore the route to America on its own.

Anyway, there is a continent to the east of the sea. This is an established fact, and it is also an established fact that this sea is very vast.

When the result is known, it is much easier to explore slowly eastward.

The Dongyang Trading Company of the Great Chu Empire is constantly trying to send fleets from the Fusang area to find islands that can be supplied along the way. Build a supply base.

Then use the island stronghold on the sea to continue to explore the surrounding area!
After exploring and establishing a stronghold in this way, they headed east all the way, and discovered the Sandalwood Islands (Hawaiian Islands) on the way... After discovering this archipelago, the Toyo Trading Company traded with the indigenous people on it and established a supply point on it .

Relying on the Sandalwood Islands, it continued eastward, and finally successfully reached the west coast of North America, which is the California area discovered by the Portuguese a hundred years ago.

The Dongyang Trading Company of the Great Chu Empire also found a small harbor suitable for mooring ships, so they had to build a small camp fortress and called it Dongyang Port, named directly after the company...

The Dongyang Trading Company left more than 100 marines and a small number of businessmen stationed here, and by the way, did business with the local Indians.

The natives there have a lot of good goods in their hands, all kinds of furs, gold, silver, precious metals, gems, etc., while the businessmen of the Toyo Trading Company only need to use some cheap industrial products, such as glass products, small hardware and even some Cold weapons and knives can be exchanged for these good things from these natives.

A small steel dagger mass-produced by a factory is only worth a few cents in the Great Chu Empire, even if it is of good quality, it is only one or two yuan.

But when the aborigines took a look at North America, they regarded this thing as a precious knife that cuts iron like mud, and can be exchanged for dozens of catties of gold... Looking at their appearance, they probably brought it back to the tribe as a magic weapon... …

This kind of trade model, purely from the point of view of money, Lilan is so high!

These directly promoted the merger of many armed trading companies, and then established the Dongyang Trading Company. This Dongyang Trading Company actually refers to the maritime trading companies in the east of the Great Chu Empire, not Fusang.

With the Great Chu Empire as the center, the West is to the west, and the East is to the east.

Therefore, the eastern part of Asia where the Great Chu Empire is located is not the Far East, but the center of the world.

The saying of the Far East is a saying of other Europeans, and the Great Chu Empire does not recognize it.

The Toyo Trading Company was established, and the route to North America was also explored. Now what they need to do is to continue to develop and operate the route along the route, improve the supply points along the route, and continue to establish colonial and trade bases in North America.

After these basic preparations are completed, it is time to immigrate to North America on a large scale and carry out trade and development.

For this reason, after the establishment of Dongyang Trading Company, which was established by the merger of many armed trading companies, the first American exploration fleet organized was very large in scale!

There are as many as 33 large and small ships, and the main force is three large armed merchant ships with a displacement of more than [-] tons. These are the only three large ships of more than [-] tons in the Toyo Trading Company!

Followed by thirteen large armed merchant ships ranging from more than 1000 tons.

In addition to the sixteen large armed merchant ships, there are also twelve transport ships with weaker firepower. These transport ships have a displacement of more than a thousand tons when fully loaded.

Finally, there are five other ships with smaller displacement but faster speed, mainly fast clipper ships with communication and reconnaissance purposes.

33 ships!

These ships used to belong to dozens of armed trading companies, but now these armed trading companies have merged into Dongyang Trading Company, so after they are used together, they appear to be very large in scale.

The 33 ships will carry more than [-] different naval guns, tens of thousands of tons of various materials, and a total of [-] sailors, marines, technicians, and administrative personnel.

This will be a massive and meaningful expedition!
Because they went this time, not purely for trade, nor for immigration. The main purpose was to further improve the supply points of the islands along the way, build ports, forts, and develop farmland to grow various crops, so as to provide food for the people passing by. The boats provided food and fresh water supplies.

Then there is another important plan, which is to completely control the Sanxiang Islands, build large forts on them and plant large tracts of farmland, trying to use the Sanxiang Islands as a strategic transit point for the Great Chu Empire to North America.

After all, in the long trans-Pacific route, if there is no supply port to provide various supplies along the route for several months, it will inevitably cause great difficulty in navigation.

In order to make the follow-up large-scale route smoother, they need to find out the supply points along the route first, especially because there are many indigenous people, the islands are also large in size, and there are a lot of arable land, and the islands that produce sandalwood, Toyo Trading companies are determined to win.

The local aborigines are still in the tribal era scattered across the islands, and even civilization has not yet appeared, so there is no threat to the Toyo Trading Company.

Besides, in addition to its important strategic position, this place also produces expensive sandalwood... Sandalwood is a precious wood in the Great Chu Empire and is expensive. The reason why the Sandalwood Islands are called the Sandalwood Islands is that Because there are so many sandalwood on the island!

Dongyang Trading Company wants to occupy this place, and then transport the sandalwood on the island back to the country for sale, and then earn a lot of money.

Under such circumstances, the huge fleet of the Dongyang Trading Company will land a large number of people and materials on the Sandalwood Islands, and establish a large-scale living and planting base on it, and wipe out the local uncivilized natives who don't have long eyes...

The huge fleet of the Oriental Trading Company with a clear purpose set off, and many people in the Great Chu Empire are also paying attention to this matter, expecting them to bring more good news and more wealth when they return next year.

But ordinary people only cared about the huge ships of the Eastern Trading Company for a short period of time, and soon they shifted their attention to the northwest region of the empire: Zhungeer.

Because after several years of reclamation and management, and half a year of strategic preparations such as troop mobilization and material reserves, the Great Chu Empire has completed preparations for a new round of western expedition.

Everything from materials to deployment of troops has been prepared.

At such a time, of course, there would be no delay. The Jinling side simply approved the battle plan for the first group army on the front line to launch a new round of offensive to the west.

In this round of westward offensive, the Chu Army, that is, the First Army, will assemble an unprecedentedly large mobile force, including more than 12 cavalry, [-] infantry and artillery.

With a total force of more than 20 troops, they will simultaneously attack the Zhungeer Ministry from the direction of Hami and the western area of ​​Monan Mongolia!

This large-scale two-line attack means that this war is not an ordinary war, but a real war of annihilation.

The upper echelons of the Great Chu Empire have made up their minds, and this time they will do a big job, even if they pay huge military expenses for it.

No matter what, this time they will completely wipe out Zhungeer to completely solve the border security problem on the western front.

Otherwise, with Zhungeer staying by the side, the Great Chu Empire would have to worry about doing something in the Shaanxi-Gansu region, and it would be difficult to fully implement effective rule in the western part of Monan and the Mongolian region of Mobei.

Moreover, it is necessary to continue to deploy heavy troops in the above-mentioned areas, especially the Monan and Mobei areas, so as to avoid being attacked by Zhungeer by bypassing Monan Mongolia and attacking the North China area.

As the saying goes, long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. If you spend so much money every year playing house-playing games with Zhungeer people, it is better to spend a large sum of money to kill them completely.

Otherwise, the empire is worried that if it continues to drag on like this, if Zhungeer further unites with the Russians, it will eventually cause irreversible risks to the strategic security of the western part of the Great Chu Empire.

The Great Chu Empire launched such a large-scale military operation on the western front, and the domestic public opinion was naturally guided early, and the Great Chu Mansion Newspaper continuously published articles on the crusade against the Jungars.

But it is worth noting that the official caliber of the Great Chu Empire is not to expel foreign enemies or to seize the territory of the Western Regions, but to start the war with the statement that Zhungeer rebelled and regained the Western Regions.

According to the official propaganda of the Great Chu Empire, the Western Regions and even Central Asia to the west have been the territory of China since ancient times, and the territory of Zhungeer is naturally part of the China region.

Well, this part includes the territories occupied by the Jungars in Kazakhstan and other areas.

This is still the Western Region. After all, the Western Region was ruled by the Huaxia Dynasty. In the past, there was an Anxi Protectorate, and there was a Suiye City to the west.

Even in other places, such as the expansion in Nanyang... The Great Chu Empire almost never said that this was a war with an enemy country, or a territorial dispute between the two sides. territory since.

Because according to the territory of the vassal state is my territory, the vassal state of the vassal state is my vassal state, and the territory of the vassal state is my territory, plus the almost unlimited retrospective of the previous dynasty...

Calculated in this way, every individual can be regarded as a subject of the Great Chu Empire... Every place can be regarded as the territory of the Great Chu Empire.

Therefore, if the subjects plan to rebel, the army will go to suppress the rebellion!

Taking territory is not encroaching on the enemy's territory, but recovering the territory from ancient times.

But in actual operation, what exactly is included in the territory since ancient times, and where the border is, depends on where the Chu army's guns are...

The Chu army's guns are all pointing at the Great Chu territory!

There is no way, the territory of the Great Chu Empire can be traced back to spread all over the world... Well, Antarctica without people is no exception, although there is no one in Antarctica now.

But there are still penguins up there. Let the penguins and the Chinese geese recognize each other and establish a relationship. Naturally, Antarctica also belongs to the territory of the Great Chu Empire.

So...just relying on theory or something, the territory of the Great Chu Empire is infinite...it is impossible to say.

As for the actual control, it depends on the combat effectiveness of the army and navy of the Great Chu Empire.

This is the actual situation, and it is also recognized by neighboring countries.

According to these theories, the Chu army's expedition to the Western Regions to fight Zhungeer was a war to suppress rebellion and civil strife, not a war of aggression.

Never fought a war of aggression, the Chu Empire still wants this face!