Wild North America 1846

Chapter 610 Strong Measures
After occupying Bogota, the main task is to maintain colonial rule.

After some preparations, the Army of the South pushed out the puppet puppet government headed by General Del Sono in early 1874, and established the servant army of the "Colombia National Armed Forces", referred to as "Colombian Armed Forces", with about 6.2 people in the army. All were soldiers selected from captives.

Why not set up overseas provinces in one step?
Such a political decision is obviously not dominated by the Southern Corps, but comes from the imperial government and even the highest order of the Daming Palace.

Foreign colonization is a delicate task, and it can be said that there is a lot of mystery.

So far in human history, there have been new and old colonial countries such as Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the Tang Dynasty, and their colonial achievements vary.

The most successful example is the United Kingdom, which can be regarded as the top student among the old colonial countries. The characteristics of its colonial rule are to rule by the barbarians, using corporate operations to invest the least colonial costs and obtain the highest colonial benefits.

The world-renowned East India Company and the West India Company were created by the British and have been proven to be very successful by history.

The Netherlands and Belgium, which followed Britain, belong to the category of indirect colonization, but they did not learn the inner three tastes, and their performance was not satisfactory.

A notable feature of British colonization is that it is willing to invest. In a series of colonies such as India, Singapore, Penang, Malaysia, Canada, Australia, South Africa, etc., according to different geographical conditions, measures have been developed to develop railways, roads, and port infrastructure. Develop the initial industrial system according to local conditions, so that it has a strong self-sufficiency capability.

The Netherlands and Belgium are different. These two colonial countries adopted the policy of "using barbarians to control barbarians" as a last resort due to the small population base in their country, but they have a common feature:

It is just a large-scale search for colonies and is unwilling to invest. Its colonies have been in a relatively primitive state for hundreds of years, with extremely backward infrastructure and low productivity.

This was the case when the Dutch colonists ruled the East Indies. They ruled a vast colony through mainly Chinese-dominated immigrants and indigenous aristocratic landlords.

The East Indies colony under his rule has hardly changed or developed for more than 200 years. The industry is blank and the infrastructure is extremely backward.

From this perspective, the Netherlands can only be considered barely qualified.

France, Spain, and Portugal are another hands-on colonial method. This colonial system directly sends officials and troops to maintain the colony, and consolidates colonial rule through immigration.

France adopted this method of colonization in Libya in North Africa, Spain and Portugal in Central and South America.

Due to the long history of colonization, the descendants of white colonists born in the New World are a huge number, even far exceeding the natives. However, this part of native whites cannot be recognized by Europeans, and they are even regarded as lowly slaves like Indians.

Such unfair treatment seriously hurt the dignity and emotion of native white people, which triggered the independence movement throughout the colonies of Central and South America in the early 19th century.

Taking advantage of the turbulent opportunity of the fall of the Spanish dynasty by the French emperor Napoleon, countries in Central and South America became independent one after another.

From the perspective of human history

With more than 70 years of independent history, colonizing Colombia was not an easy task.

You can't concentrate all the contradictions on yourself. It is a wise decision to win over one party and suppress the other.

Colombia is a populous country in South America, with a population of about 590 million. Despite months of war, the total population is still as high as 570 million, almost three and a half times that of Argentina.

Among Colombia's population, white Hispanic descendants born in the New World account for about a quarter, and they mainly live in the surrounding towns with the capital Bogota as the core and the northern Caribbean region.

This part of the people has a strong spirit of freedom and independence. At the beginning of this century, the independent thought trends in Colombia and surrounding Peru, Venezuela and other countries were driven by these indigenous whites, which led to the outbreak of the War of Independence with the Spaniards.

This is the Hispanic descendants of the New World are the actual controllers of the Colombian economy, owning a large number of pastoral, coffee and tobacco plantations, and belonging to the class that controls domestic politics, economy and military discourse.

This group controls a large amount of social wealth in Colombia, is in the upper middle class of society, and belongs to the social class that wants to suppress and deprive wealth.

The Confederate Legion also had no good intentions. The puppet military government they launched, General Del Sono, was an authentic Chipcha Indian. He had never been in the same pot with these white manor owners who oppressed and enslaved Indians. The two sides were naturally opposed. .

The "Brother Civil Armed Forces" is also an army dominated by Indians, and native whites have no right to speak at all.

The ethnic antagonism is the root cause of Colombia's domestic conflicts.

Guiding one party to suppress the other is a common method used by veteran colonists such as Britain and France, and the Tang Empire quickly used it skillfully.

When the time is right, integration is a matter of course.

As the Southern Legion in control of the entire situation in Colombia, it has the conditions to create favorable conditions for the influx of Chinese adventurers to seize the wealth and plantations that also belong to native whites.

The military itself is the biggest beneficiary. The army's merits are realized by depriving Colombian hacienda and plantation owners of their interests. Army officers and soldiers occupy most of the wealth and land in Colombia's cities and towns.

In the future, after retiring from the army, they will transform themselves on the spot, and they will become large and small manor owners and plantation owners, and form the upper-middle-class celebrities in Colombian society, holding political, economic and military power.

It is precisely because it is related to everyone's vital interests that the cohesion of the officers and soldiers of the Southern Army is unprecedentedly high, and their guns are unanimous.

Imperial Capital Chang'an
Wanshou Garden

Prime Minister Earl Dong Jie is reporting to His Majesty the progress of Colombian colonization, eloquently saying;

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In summary

The imperial government intends to take a more prudent attitude towards the issue of colonial Colombia, and promoting the establishment of the puppet government of General Del Sonno is only the first step, and it is also the most important step.

It is more conducive to slowing down the hatred of the people at the bottom of Colombia, diverting it to the puppet government, changing the focus of contradictions, and gaining precious time for the Tang Empire to eat and digest Colombia bit by bit.

The second step is to invest heavily in infrastructure construction such as railways, bridges, urban construction and dams.

This move can effectively stimulate the development of domestic steel, cement, machinery and other industries, release production capacity, and alleviate the current situation of domestic overcapacity.

The Colonial District of Columbia plans to invest 50 to 60 convicts, focusing on the construction of roads, bridges, railways, docks, warehouses and urban construction along the Caribbean Sea, which is expected to take 3 to 4 years.

nowadays

Every month, 1.5 to 1.8 young Colombian women pass through the unobstructed road from Medellin to Panama, and then enter the population market in the southern and central cities of the empire, creating a monthly income of 600 to 700 million Tang yuan.

This part of the income is used to feed back and invest in various constructions in Colombia, and the input of young women in the south has also greatly eased the population contradiction in the empire where there are more men than women.

According to the colonial step estimate;
In the next 6 to 8 years, Colombia will be able to import no less than 20 young women to the southern and central provinces of the empire every year, and solve the problems of more than 150 million families, which can be said to be of great help.

through various measures
Colombia is expected to reduce the total number of indigenous Indians and native whites to less than 7 million in the next 8 to 320 years (note; more than 150 million young women will be outflowed, and more than 50 young and strong men will be sent to labor camps, plus war and natural population decrease), the total population will drop to about 15 million in the next 150 years (note; because of the lack of married and childbearing women in this area, a cliff-like population decline is inevitable.).

The influx of a large number of Chinese immigrants will fill this part of the gap, and always maintain the population of the Columbia Economic Zone at around 500 to 550 million.

Infrastructure construction, including railways and roads, will closely link the Colombian residential area with the empire itself, strengthen the national integration policy and expand the colonial effect.

The third step is to completely ban Spanish and indigenous language education in Colombia, build a wide range of Chinese-language schools, strengthen economic and cultural penetration and control, strengthen publicity and brainwashing education measures, etc., to strongly promote the Sinicization process in the region.

The fourth step is to carry out a large-scale reassignment of officers and soldiers of the Southern Legion between May and June next year. It is expected that at least half of the 5 soldiers will be placed in the new colonial area of ​​Colombia.

These imperial officers and soldiers are the most staunch supporters of the current foreign colonial expansion policy, and they are also the backbone of the establishment of Colombia's upper-middle class society and government departments. Facts have proved that the effect is very good.

Based on past experience

It only takes 1 to 2 years for the retired officers and soldiers of the empire to be placed on the spot to take root deeply and become the peripheral nerves of the empire ruling Colombia, penetrating to the lowest level of the countryside.

Estimated around 1890

That is, through 17 years of colonial rule, the digestion and integration of the Colombian colony will be gradually completed, and the goal of integration will be achieved. "

17 years?

Emperor Richard nodded thoughtfully. After digesting such a large-scale new Colombian colony, he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry. He really needed to eat it step by step.

The Tang Empire is different from the old colonists such as Portugal and the Netherlands who suffered from underpopulation in the country. The Chinese immigrants imported from the mainland of China and the new generation of people born in the North American New World made the empire free from population worries and could freely colonize and expand.

Not to mention his superhuman physique, his life expectancy is much longer than that of ordinary people, and he has enough time to wait for Colombia to mature, just like Cuba.

All kinds of ancient cultural relics and temple artworks from the Inca civilization in Colombia were transported back to the mainland of the empire by train after train, filling the warehouses of dozens of museums.

Relevant cultural inheritances such as ancient books and sacrificial lithographs, except for those transported to the museum, will be destroyed.

In the future, the only pure Chinese education that can be received in the new residential area of ​​Colombia, all Spanish education will be illegal, this is the main measure to completely eliminate the influence of Spanish culture.

(End of this chapter)