Wild North America 1846

Nov. 1863, 6

The Royal Navy Fleet of the Tang Dynasty blocked the battleships Koshin Maru and Guihai Maru of the Fuso Navy in the Tanoura Strait. Immediately, the two wooden warships were completely destroyed and sank in the strait. 411 Japanese officers and soldiers were killed or injured. It is known as "Tianoura Naval Battle" in history, also known as "Tianoura Tragedy".

in the next ten days
The Royal Navy of the Tang Dynasty sank and damaged more than 10 Japanese ships, almost wiped out the weak naval power of the Fuso Islands, and strongly demanded that the Changzhou Domain hand over the current lord Mori Takahiro and Takasugi Shinsaku and other culprits of the anti-barbarian faction , Handed over to the coalition forces.

In the name of catching criminals, the soldiers of the coalition hunted and killed low-level samurai, farmers and townspeople who dared to resist in Changzhou and surrounding daimyo, and kidnapped thousands of young and beautiful women and returned to the barracks, stirring up the entire Changzhou.

The ferocious attack of the coalition fleet caused the Changzhou Fan to fall into the flames of war. In more than a month, a refugee wave with a number of up to 10 was formed. Many old and weak people died while fleeing. .

Early September
The coalition fleet blatantly invaded Tokyo Bay, and Rear Admiral Zheng Shuyu led the fleet to bombard the Yokosuka Fort, dispatched thousands of marines to land, burned, killed and looted Yokosuka, and single-handedly created the "Tokyo Bay Shelling Incident" to further put pressure on the shogunate and the daimyo .

The coalition forces issued a list of 147 members of the "Bibari Sect List", 51 of whom committed suicide and apologized, including the current lord of the Changzhou Domain, Maori Jingqin, who had to commit suicide by caesarean section under tremendous pressure, and another 69 were arrested. Escorted into the coalition forces at their disposal, 17 people are at large.

8/11

The coalition forces publicly hanged 69 people in Yokosuka, including Shinsaku Takasugi, who was full of crimes.

On that day, the wind was howling, and the situation changed tragically. The 69 Fusang people with lofty ideals who were hanged were hanging on the gallows, and the cross could not be seen at a glance.

This day, also known as the "Yokosuka Incident", has become an eternal pain in the hearts of Fuso people.

In the next few years, the 17 people on the wanted list were arrested one after another, and they were sent to the gallows without exception. The bloody storm caused by Britain, France, Tanghe and other countries made the Fusang people have a long memory. Establishing the primary goal of constitutional reform, the word "rejection of barbarians" is no longer dared to be mentioned.

Encountered a serious beating, Fusang people learn to behave.

in china

In February of the second year of Tongzhi (February 1863), after rescuing Shanghai, Li Hongzhang led the Huai Army and the Changsheng Army to attack Taicang and Kunshan westward from Shanghai as a base, and succeeded one after another.

Then he turned his horse's head and conquered Jiangyin, Wuxi and other cities to the north. After capturing these places from the Taiping Army, Li Hongzhang set his final goal on the important city in the south of the Yangtze River in the west, which was Suzhou, the provincial capital of Jiangsu.

When Li Hongzhang's Huai Army and Gordon's Changsheng Army arrived at the foot of Suzhou City, they exchanged fire with the Taiping Army many times. Due to the high walls of Suzhou City, the Huai Army and the Changsheng Army were unable to attack for a long time and suffered excessive casualties. situation.

The building of the Taiping Army is about to fall, and Gordon finds out through the news that the kings of the Taiping Army have different aspirations, so he proposes to instigate civil strife in the Taiping Army.

For this reason, Gordon found a way to meet Gao Yongkuan, the leader of the Taiping Army, and others, and personally promised to protect his safety and prosperity for the rest of his life after Xiancheng surrendered. …

So Gao Yongkuan decided to kill Tan Shaoguang, the king of the curtain, and take his head to offer to the Qing army as a gesture of surrender.

Unexpectedly, after Li Hongzhang entered the city, he found that the Taiping Army in Suzhou had 10,000+ strong people.

Li Hongzhang designed the Eight Kings of the Taiping Army who surrendered and a group of leaders to a banquet, killed them all during the banquet, and began to kill prisoners in a planned way.

exactly at this time
When Gordon, the commander of the Ever Victorious Army stationed outside the city, heard about this, he held a gun and looked for Li Hongzhang everywhere, but Li Hongzhang avoided seeing him and let his younger brother Li Hezhang deal with Gordon.

Gordon asked Li Hezhang to stop killing immediately, and said that he would be responsible for contacting the envoys of the Tang Empire and sending these 10,000+ soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom overseas, and they must not be killed at once.

Under the mediation of the British Hurd, the envoy of the Tang Empire, Luo Fengxian, hurried from Shanghai to Suzhou. After learning about the relevant situation, he immediately agreed to mobilize more than a dozen large steam ships into the Suzhou Creek, preparing to take the captured Taiping Army soldiers First transported to Taiping Island in the South China Sea for resettlement.

Soon after
The highest decree came from the empire; the envoy Luo Fengxian immediately arranged for 13 Taiping soldiers to be transferred to the Amami Islands for resettlement.

Amami Oshima is an archipelago forcibly separated from the Satsuma Domain by the Tang Empire after the "Lieutenant Incident". More than 95% of the island is covered by lush forests, with a beautiful environment and more than 23 Fusang people.

Although under the pressure of the Tang Empire's iron fist, the Fusang Kingdom had to spit out this rather large treasure land, but with the weak strength of the Ryukyu Kingdom, it was not enough to completely control and occupy the island.

Taking advantage of the "Suzhou Prisoner Killing Incident" this time, the Tang Empire sent more than 13 strong Taiping Army officers and soldiers to Amami Oshima Island, directly occupying the local Japanese houses, wives and daughters, with little effort. settle down.

Li Hongzhang's worries were not groundless. These 13 Taiping soldiers were not good-natured people. They were all veterans who had fought in the battlefield for many years.

in just two or three months

There are almost no Fusang men in Amami Oshima. Many Taiping Army soldiers actively participated in the Imperial Expeditionary Force. They burned, killed and looted in Nagashima, Kagoshima, and Yokosuka, and transported women and wealth back to Amami Oshima. The disaster facing the Fusang country.

Regarding this incident, it was called "Taiping Rebellion" in Fusang's domestic history.

The benefits are also obvious

The Datang Empire owned a stable naval base between the Ryukyu Kingdom and the Fusang Kingdom. The island was almost entirely composed of Chinese immigrants. The Datang Empire successively built naval bases, docks, shipyards and ship repair yards on the island. After the product processing plant, the economy of Amami Oshima developed rapidly and became a shining economic star in the region.

Amami City’s population swelled to more than 1864 in 31 due to the plundering of a large number of young women and wealth by the soldiers of the Taiping Army. Various Chinese-style buildings sprung up, and the streets were bustling and bustling. It became the logistics core port closest to the mainland. .

The 2nd Division of the Royal Marine Corps set up its naval base in Amami City, and subsequently established complete ship repairing enterprises, docks and warehouses, and developed a social and economic structure centered on transit trade, fishery, and ship repairing. …

Amami Oshima is a maverick member of the entire Ryukyu Kingdom. In fact, it does not listen to the Ryukyu Kingdom. It only belongs to the kingdom in name and pays some symbolic taxes.

The people on the island generally think that they are members of the Tang Empire, and they are inexplicably grateful to His Majesty for rescuing everyone from under the knife and placing them here to live a happy life. Therefore, the island has set up a temple for His Majesty, and every household has set up a temple. The position of god is passed down from generation to generation, and the incense is endless.

Even in later generations
Amami Oshima finally became independent through a referendum and joined the Tang Empire. The island's voters have always been the most die-hard royalists, and that's another story.

Since Amami Oshima was used to resettle Taiping Army soldiers, in the following two years, boat after boat of captured Taiping Army soldiers were sent here, which caused the population of the island to skyrocket, and soon exceeded 60 close.

Since then, Amami Island has become an insurmountable iron gate to the south of the Fusang Islands, shielding all Fusang culture and forces from invading, becoming a powerful barrier for the Ryukyu Kingdom, and a nail deeply rooted in the East China Sea by the Datang Kingdom.

How can you know that it is not a blessing if you lose your fortune?

It is far beyond Li Cha's expectation that a casual move of chess can achieve such an important strategic role.

At the beginning, he only thought about resettling nearby, which would greatly save immigration costs.

Indulging in the burning, killing, and looting of the Japanese archipelago by the soldiers of the Taiping Army, one is to accumulate some wealth for the new immigrants; .

Therefore, the empire placed so many soldiers of the Taiping Army at a mere cost of more than a million yuan, and most of them were used in the construction of towns, roads and ports. Unexpectedly, they got such a rich return. Just thinking about it, Richard felt very happy.

The expedition to South America became bigger and bigger in July, August, and September. The description and publicity of South America in the major newspapers of the empire also played a great role in fueling the flames.

A kind of colonization trend has formed in the society; going to South America to establish their own vast pastures, and it is intensifying.

these months
Almost every month, 1.3 to 1.5 people arrive in South America by boat. Many families sold their assets in the Tang Empire and migrated to the vast Pampas grasslands to realize their dream of ranching. .

The Empire also introduced the "South American Reclamation Law." Any citizen of the Empire who arrived in South America could obtain a piece of 120 acres of land for free and would not pay any taxes within 10 years.

After 10 years, according to the "10 tax 2" preferential tax payment, the empire guarantees that the tax policy will remain unchanged for 100 years.

The launch of the "South American Reclamation Law" further increased the enthusiasm of Chinese immigrants for colonization. Many people called their friends and friends to go to South America to develop, setting off a wave of southward expansion that lasted for more than 20 years.

The empire has not been idle either. The Ministry of Communications has launched an ambitious railway network construction plan using the large number of captured indigenous Indian labor force. It plans to build the first railway line along the Atlantic coastline in South America, with a length of 3440 kilometers from south to north.

At the same time, there is also a construction plan for 5 horizontal railway lines from east to west, and vigorously promote the construction of coastal towns, along the construction of railway towns, the construction of hundreds of bridges, reservoirs, power stations and township roads, in order to comprehensively deepen the construction of the Regional control. …

The empire’s plan for the territory of South America is large pastures and large farms, producing high-quality wool and red wine, food and various high-quality agricultural products. In terms of industry, it only considers the development of the construction industry mainly based on cement brick kilns, and coastal shipbuilding. The trade transfer and limited industries in the country, and the mining industry should be developed appropriately to provide raw materials for the empire.

Such a development strategy is based on the development direction formulated by the empire's overall strategy of "strong stems and weak branches", and will be thoroughly implemented in future colonization.

In the development strategy of the Tang Empire, all industries, advanced technology, culture, economy and trade must be concentrated in the mainland of the empire, including the provinces along the Pacific Ocean, the provinces of the Great Plains in central North America, etc., eastward to Michigan, northward to Ming Dynasty. The province of Neapolis, south to the province of Mexico, and west to the province of California, are key development areas.

The scope of this empire will develop industry, economy, and culture according to the provinces’ own conditions, while the more southern Channel Province, Zhennan Province (formerly the Aztec Republic), Costa Rica Province, Panama Province, Hawaii Province, In the province of Alaska, the Paradise Island territory directly under the royal family, the Texas territory directly under the royal family and the South American territory all focus on the development of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery, and do not consider the development of industry.

the reason for doing this
It is to strengthen the local cohesion and strength of the Datang Empire, invest more than 9% of its resources in local development, and create a centralized feudal capitalist empire.

The strong economic strength of remote areas will undoubtedly produce centrifugal force, which is unacceptable to the Emperor of the Tang Empire, Li Cha, and must be curbed from the source.

Therefore, the empire does not subsidize South American immigrants, but guides qualified and capitalized private immigrants through preferential policies. It is enough to reach a scale of more than a dozen and nearly 20 a year, and no more are needed.

The empire still needs decades of development and growth. In Emperor Richard’s view, with the population of the empire now approaching 4000 million, it is appropriate for this huge enclave of South America to maintain a population of tens of thousands of immigrants in recent years. .

Then after 6-7 years, it is appropriate to keep the population of South America at 120-150 million.

by then
The total population of the Tang Empire will be close to 6000 million, the economic strength will be stronger, and the industrial technology will be highly developed. The second industrial wave represented by chemistry and electric power will truly enter a period of full-scale development, which will drive the empire's economy to a higher level. Growing rapidly from a high base.

These more than 10 years will be the golden period of development, and it will also be a precious moment for the empire to stabilize its foundation. It will thoroughly digest the huge dividends in the North American War, firmly control the central provinces, and ensure that the Chinese population accounts for more than 85~87%. Consolidate imperial rule.

With the deepening of the steam industrial revolution, new inventions and new technologies have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, which has effectively promoted the progress and development of the overall civilization of the world, and also led to the great development of the iron and steel smelting industry and the shipbuilding industry.

The world will become smaller, and the Royal Navy, which the Empire has carefully built over the past 20 years, will gradually take shape. By then, it will have a certain scale and strength, ranking among the world's first-class navies.

At least on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, whether the British admit it or not, the Royal Navy fleet will have an unquestionable supremacy, capable of firmly guarding its territory.

only then

It is the right time to allow large-scale immigration to South America, that is to say, at least before 1870, Richard will not allow large-scale immigration to South America.

It's easy to control, just maintain high ticket prices for immigration to South America.

Many Chinese are envious of the vast pastures in South America, and they all dream of getting the preferential policies of the "South American Reclamation Law", which allows them to get a 120-acre piece of land for free, provided they can buy a boat ticket.

The cheapest ferry ticket to South America is as high as 96 yuan, and the high-class cabins cost hundreds of yuan. This threshold alone blocks 9% of Chinese immigrants.