I want to be emperor

Chapter 827 Aceh Reserve

After entering the era of breech-loading rifles, the military of the Great Chu Empire encountered a series of problems after it began to apply skirmish tactics.

However, none of this dissuaded the determination of the Great Chu Empire to carry out a comprehensive facelift.

After all, the few problems brought about by new weapons and equipment and new tactics are not worth mentioning compared to the huge tactical and even strategic advantages they bring.

This point can be fully reflected in the wars in the Nanyang Peninsula and North America.

Especially in the complex terrain and climate environment of the Nanyang Peninsula, the effect of rear-loading rifled weapons is even greater.

In complex terrain, even if the local aborigines use backward matchlock guns or even bows and arrows to ambush, they can still cause certain casualties to the Chu army who use front-loading muskets.

However, with the large-scale equipment of breech-loading rifles, the Chu army was able to quickly find cover to protect themselves in the face of small-scale attacks. Accurate, quickly annihilate the invading enemy.

If you still use front-loading muskets, then the limitations of the Chu army are relatively large. If you spread out to find bunkers, it will be difficult to fight back with firepower. If you line up to defend and fight back, then it will give the enemy an opportunity. cause some casualties.

Therefore, the equipment of rear-loading rifles gave the Chu army better tactical freedom under complex terrain and weather conditions, and it was easier to deal with small-scale indigenous attacks.

As for the role of breech-loading rifles in large-scale frontal battles... To be honest, the Chu army is not very clear, because they have not fought such battles in the past year or so.

The aborigines are not stupid, how can they play a frontal battle with you when the equipment is extremely backward, and queue up to die foolishly!
Not to mention now, even when the Chu army used the percussion musket before, the aboriginal army with a little knowledge would not fight a large-scale frontal confrontation with the Chu army, that is the way to death.

This has nothing to do with any musket, the key is that the Chu army's artillery is too sharp!
As long as you dare to give the Chu army enough time to gather a large number of artillery, the Chu army will dare to blow up your entire defense line to pieces.

The reason why the Chu army put great pressure on those aborigines in the era of flintlock guns, making the aborigines shout invincible... more is because of the artillery of the Chu army.

This is an empire that dared to bring hundreds of artillery to the battlefield in the era of front-mounted smoothbore guns, and except for the 65mm field guns, other artillery can basically fire howitzers.

A large number of 115mm artillery and an equally large number of 150mm light howitzers are enough to provide the Chu army with sufficient field artillery firepower.

Not to mention if it was a siege battle, those damn Chu troops could even pull a bunch of 250mm and [-]mm mortars into the battlefield like crazy.

The grenade combined with a wooden bullet stock and a metal disc fuze gave the Chu army unstoppable artillery firepower in this era.

And now... the Great Chu Empire is further equipped with rifled artillery, regardless of whether it is rear-mounted or front-mounted rifled artillery, their biggest advantages for the Chu army are the same.

That is to be able to fire cylindrical grenades, so that rifled guns of the same caliber can obtain several times the lethal power of smoothbore guns of the same caliber.

In the past, it may have required a 150mm spherical grenade to cause relatively large explosive damage to the enemy, but now... a 75mm mountain cannon shell is sufficient, and even more powerful.

In the past, 250mm or even 120mm spherical grenades may be needed to deal a certain blow to the enemy's solid fortifications, but now... the shells of the [-]mm rifled howitzer are sufficient, and even more powerful.

In the Indian War and the African battlefield, the navy used 150mm front-loading rifled guns to bombard the enemy's strong coastal defense forts and coastal cities. The explosive power even exceeded the traditional [-]mm smoothbore guns.

Even the navy has tried to use 150mm semi-armor-piercing projectiles for shelling, and its ability to strike solid fortifications is very good.

The large-scale service of rifled artillery, regardless of whether it is front-loaded or rear-loaded, has brought a leap-forward increase in artillery firepower to the Chu army.

And when these are finally reflected in overseas battlefields, many overseas military operations of the Chu army will be smoother, and the expansion of the Chu army in overseas areas will be further accelerated.

In the winter of Chengshun's 34th year, Lieutenant General Qian Xingbang, the commander of the No.20 Second Army who was in charge of the war in Siam and Burma, and the garrison commander of the Nanyang Peninsula, sent a good news to Jinling City.

It is said that the No.20 Second Army, with the cooperation of the garrison forces in Siam, Bangladesh, Hue, and Malacca, has completely destroyed all organized resistance in Siam and Myanmar after several months of fierce fighting, and found and recovered in the mountains of western Myanmar. The Burmese royal regime was killed and the only remaining members of the royal family and officials were killed.

Henceforth, there is no longer any large-scale, organized resistance group in the region.

The above two areas will officially enter normal security operations in the future.

After Luo Zhixue received the report, he ordered the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs to reward the soldiers according to their merits, the promotion that should be promoted, and the reward that should be rewarded.

As for some of the senior generals who performed well, as well as a few middle and low-level officers and even soldier representatives who performed outstandingly, Luo Zhixue personally issued the imperial decree of commendation.

More than a dozen soldiers and non-commissioned officers with outstanding military merits were exceptionally allowed to enter the Army Academy without examination.

Don't think it's just a free entry to the Army Military Academy, giving you a chance to go to school... But in fact, for these soldiers and non-commissioned officers, this is the best way to achieve a class leap and transform from an ordinary person to an upper class in society aisle.

The Military Academy of the Great Chu Empire is quite valuable in the Great Chu Empire. Not to mention ordinary people, even the children of the middle class or even wealthy families are all proud of being admitted to the Army Military Academy.

Because enrolling in the school and joining the army is the best way to enter the high society in the Great Chu Empire, achieve a leap in class, and maintain prosperity and wealth.

The treatment of officers in the Great Chu Empire is very good. If you are lucky enough to be stationed overseas to fight, you will get more rewards from the spoils...

At the same time, military officers from the military academy to the military service, and then to the retirement, even if they have no credit, they can survive to a certain level with just their qualifications. After reaching a certain level, they will transfer to local politics, and they will start at the seventh rank or even the sixth rank...

But if you directly participate in the imperial examination and enter politics, you may not be able to advance to a higher level in more than ten years, and you may not be able to reach the eighth grade when you retire at the age of 60.

As a civil servant, there is no such thing as automatic promotion after the number of years has expired.

After such a comparison, then you can find a healthy way to enter politics: first join the army and gain qualifications, and then transfer to a local government after reaching the seventh rank or so, skipping the most difficult and fiercest competition in the local area, such as ninth rank and eighth rank. two levels.

Therefore, joining the army at the young age and politics at the middle age is the ideal life path for many young scholars in the Great Chu Empire.

In fact, this was intentionally done by Luo Zhixue, in order to attract young scholars to actively report to the military academies to join the army, improve the overall quality of the officer group, and at the same time elevate the social status of the officers, so as to avoid the situation where the military is strong and the military is weak.

Joining the army can not only pave the way for politics, but also the best way to get a title. If you are a civil servant, unless you reach the level of minister of affairs, you basically don't expect to be able to get a title. But joining the army...even if you are just a Ordinary lieutenants and school officials can also be awarded titles as long as their contributions are large enough and their luck is good enough.

At the same time, it is relatively easy for senior generals to be knighted.

In addition, the top title of the empire, the duke, is not awarded for non-military merit... For the Marquis, non-military merit and major scientific research are not awarded!

At the same time, all hereditary titles will not be conferred unless they are military merits!
In other words, in today's Great Chu Empire, if you don't join the army, then don't expect to be granted a hereditary title, and don't expect to be awarded a duke. As for the marquis, it is actually hopeless for normal people.

Because apart from military merits, there is only one way to become a Marquis, and that is to become the top genius scientist, make breakthroughs, and have a huge impact on scientific research... There are not many scientists in the entire empire who can do this , and are all concentrated in the Royal Institute of Technology.

There are not many normal people who can be admitted to the Royal Institute of Technology these days, all of them are perverts!
The road of scientific research and conferring nobility has nothing to do with ordinary people. It is the Zhuang Kang road of very few perverted geniuses, whose IQ is not more than [-] or even [-]. Don’t even dream about it...

But if you join the army, it is much easier. Even if you are an ordinary child, as long as you work hard enough and add a little talent, there is still hope for being admitted to the two major military officers.

In fact, the freshmen in the two major military academies, if you want to say how smart they are, you can't really talk about it... Generally speaking, the top students at the prefectural level in small places are about the same.

For ordinary soldiers in the military, it is basically impossible to go to a military academy through formal channels... Although the military academy also allows soldiers to study on their own and then report to the military academy, and even provides more than ten special enrollment places for active soldiers every year, but just There are so many people competing for the dozen or so places, ordinary soldiers can't compete at all.

However, if ordinary soldiers make enough credit, they can be admitted to the Army Academy without examination.

Luo Zhixue interviewed more than a dozen soldiers who had made meritorious service and entered the Army Military Academy. What they studied was books, but what changed their lives was life.

This is much better than simply promoting a military rank and giving some rewards.

In addition to this group of meritorious soldiers, rewards were also given to a small number of officers and generals who made outstanding contributions.

Among them, lieutenant general Qian Xingbang was promoted from baron to viscount.

Many other generals also received many rewards.

These are all rewards personally handled by Luo Zhixue, and more still need to be handled by the Military and Political Department!
The granting of large-scale rewards also means that the large-scale military operations in the Nanyang Peninsula area have come to an end, and the follow-up conventional security warfare will be much simpler.

Chu State has very rich experience in security warfare in overseas territories, and after two or three years of steady implementation, it is basically the same.

What is more important now is the large-scale development of the Nanyang Peninsula. The organization of immigration and development is much more important than purely military issues.

However, these things have been planned before, and now they only need to be carried out according to the plan.

According to the Great Chu Empire's plan for the Nanyang Peninsula, the entire Nanyang Peninsula will be brought under the direct rule of the empire.

A total of five provinces will be established: Myanmar, Siam, Malacca, Hue, and Thang Long. These five provinces will implement direct rule like the provinces in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

The Great Chu Empire wanted to make this area an inalienable part of China since ancient times.

With the completion of the direct control of the Nanyang Peninsula area, the Great Chu Empire has also begun related planning for many islands in the Nanyang area.

Among the many Nanyang islands, the Luzon Islands are the simplest, so they were originally colonized by the Spaniards. After Chu State took over, they continued to rule. Through gradual immigration and development, they have now fully controlled Luzon Island and Mindlao Island. There are no natives on the two major islands, and they are basically immigrants from Chu State.

There are still many aborigines in other large and small islands, but immigration and development will continue in the future, and a number of reservations have been set up to allow the local aborigines to migrate to these reservation islands to continue living.

The same is true for Borneo and Java Island. The Great Chu Empire has promoted immigration development in these places for more than ten years, and the results have been considerable.

The populations in Borneo and Java Island are mostly immigrants from Chu State, and there are very few aborigines, and they are all concentrated in a few remote areas on the edge. These remote areas are reserved areas planned by Chu State for these aboriginals .

This reservation policy is a system established by the Chu State during the colonial development of the Nanyang region, with the intention of reducing the resistance of the indigenous people. The subsequent Indian reservations for Siam and Burma are actually this kind of policy. variant of

Of course, there are still many aboriginals on Nanyang islands who don’t know good or bad, or who simply don’t know much about it, don’t care about Chu at all. For these aborigines, Chu has nothing to do, but can only engage in immigration and development step by step.

But no matter what, the immigration development in these places will be a foregone conclusion.

The only remaining problem is the Kingdom of Aceh on the island of Sumatra.

This kingdom is also the only large-scale kingdom remaining in Southeast Asia after the fall of the Kingdom of Burma and the Kingdom of Siam.

The Great Chu Empire wants to turn the Nanyang region into its own back garden and the hinterland of its homeland. Naturally, the Aceh Kingdom cannot be kept.

And the Kingdom of Aceh also knew that it was facing a huge crisis!
At the same time, after they saw the tragic ending of the Burmese royal family and the preferential treatment received by the high-level officials of the Siam Kingdom after they voluntarily surrendered, they also had the idea of ​​voluntarily surrendering.

But they are different from the high-level people in the Kingdom of Siam who surrendered and then became Chu people. They hope to get a reserved land after surrendering and continue to be kings!

In short, they are willing to give most of the territory to Chu State, and only ask Chu State to leave a reserved land for them.

After the Fan Affairs Department of the Ministry of Ritual and Education of Chu State received the opinion of the Aceh Kingdom, the local diplomats did not make arbitrarily determined decisions, but reported the matter to Jinling.

After discussing with officials from the Ministry of Etiquette and Education in Jinling and asking Luo Zhixue for instructions, they felt that since the Kingdom of Aceh was so knowledgeable, they were willing to offer land and assist the people of Chu in relocating the Aceh people.

Then it is not impossible to give preferential treatment to a reserved place.

But don’t count on Sumatra Island. This place belongs to the Nanyang region, and the entire Nanyang region has been included in the jurisdiction of the Great Chu Empire. It is impossible to leave you with a large area of ​​reserved land and let you retain the regime system. .

The reservations in areas such as the Luzon Islands and the East Indies only allowed the aborigines to live and live, but did not allow the aborigines to establish political power. The administrative management of these reservations was still managed by the reservation management yamen established by the Great Chu Empire.

Therefore, the Kingdom of Aceh was given two options. One is to set up a reservation for the Aceh people in the western part of Sumatra, but the reservation is directly managed and ruled by the people of Chu. The royal family of Aceh can accept the household registration given by the people of Chu. For this reason, the Chu people were even able to give the Kingdom of Aceh a preferential treatment with the title of Viscount.

Of course, the Aceh royal family can also continue to live in the reserve as ordinary people without the household registration of Chu.

In addition, there is another option, that is, the Great Chu Empire can set aside a reservation for the Aceh people on the east coast of India, and allow the Aceh royal family to rebuild the kingdom here and retain the title of king.

Well, if India can't, Africa can...

But only for the place, as for how to go, how many people you can bring with you, that is the business of your Aceh kingdom.

Well, you can also hire ships from Chu State to help you move people.

As long as you give money, you can talk about anything!

Anyway, before the Great Chu Empire set aside two areas on the east coast of India to serve as the Siamese and Burmese reservations, it is not impossible to add an Aceh person now.

However, after careful consideration by the Aceh people, their royal family still gave up their plan to move to India...their royal family also planned to give up all rights.

After all, the Great Chu Empire gave a preferential treatment of the title of Viscount, which is still very important in the eyes of the Aceh royal family.

Being a nobleman of the heavenly kingdom, even a low-level nobleman with no real power, is much better than being a king in a reservation that cannot be resisted in life.

After some diplomatic discussions, the Kingdom of Aceh finally reached a series of agreements with the Great Chu Empire.

In April of the 35th year of Chengshun, the two parties formally signed the treaty. More than 100 people from the royal family of Aceh and more than a dozen powerful aristocratic families in the kingdom were naturalized in the Great Chu Empire and moved to Singapore to live and live. The king of Aceh was canonized as The Viscount of the Great Chu Empire, the title can be reduced and inherited.

The Great Chu Empire assigned an area in the western part of the Aceh Kingdom as a reserve, allowing Aceh people to live and live freely in the reserve, and accept the rule of the Yamen of the Aceh Reservation established by the Great Chu Empire in the reserve.

In other places, the Great Chu Empire took over and sent immigrants there.

As a result, the Aceh Kingdom, the last indigenous regime in the Nanyang region, officially became history.

The Nanyang region has completely become the back garden of the Great Chu Empire, and the next step for the Great Chu Empire is to turn this back garden into the hinterland of the mainland.

(End of this chapter)