America 1869: A Doppelganger Every Day

East Timor in 1873.

At this time, East Timor was in a completely primitive stage.

East Timor was a Portuguese colony.

However, because East Timor is located in a remote area, it is not taken seriously by Portugal.

During this period, Portugal nominally designated East Timor as a colony.

However, according to what Li Changsheng's clone learned, there were only a few dozen so-called Portuguese colonists in East Timor.

While the exact number is not yet confirmed, the total number will not exceed 30 people.

It was more of a trade than a colony.

They conduct international trade with local tribal chiefs in East Timor.

They exchanged some worthless items for various spices and agricultural products produced in East Timor.

Eight of them were missionaries.

At the same time, although the area was nominally ruled by Portugal, Portugal only controlled the eastern coast, while the western part was controlled by the Dutch.

In other words, present-day East Timor was in fact jointly colonized by the Portuguese and the Dutch.

Compared to the Portuguese, the Dutch have a slightly larger population here, but it's still only a little over 100.

According to the message transmitted by Li Changsheng's clone.

The total population of all the tribes in East Timor should not exceed 10.

Most importantly, the tradition in East Timor is to worship nature spirits and ancestral spirits.

Therefore, Li Changsheng's deification campaign has been very effective in East Timor.

He has used the deification movement to control several tribes in East Timor, and as one of the three divine messengers, he controls approximately 50,000 people in East Timor.

Currently, they are using these 5 people as a base to control the surrounding tribes.

Meanwhile, there are also a few people from other countries scattered throughout East Timor, as well as Chinese from Macau, who control the entire East Timorese trade market.

Furthermore, because East Timor has been a colony for a long time, handicrafts are very scarce, and the local area needs to rely on Portugal and the Netherlands for many things.

Therefore, the locals' survival was inseparable from the colonizers.

Li Changsheng's three clones each controlled several tribes in the east, west, and central regions, creating the impression of internal strife within East Timor.

So far, it has not attracted much attention in either of the two colonial countries.

After all, Portugal's original colonization of East Timor was only in the form of trade.

Although the Netherlands has acquired half of East Timor from Portugal, the colonization period was short and many aspects were still unclear, so for the time being, trade was the primary means of communication.

This resulted in their very weak control over East Timor.

If this situation continues, with both countries constantly increasing their control over East Timor, they will eventually completely colonize East Timor.

Unfortunately, an unexpected event has occurred.

Li Changsheng turned the page again and wrote on the next page.

"The Plan to Take Control of East Timor (1)"

"The first step: the Portuguese and Dutch became the de facto colonial rulers of East Timor, completely severing East Timor's connection with the outside world."

It wasn't that Li Changsheng didn't want to allow East Timor to become independent, but after learning about the situation with the Portuguese and Dutch, he simply gave up on the idea.

Portugal has indeed weakened.

But even if Portugal were to decline, it would never give up East Timor, a colony it had maintained for hundreds of years.

If independence were to actually be achieved, Portugal would certainly use force to suppress the rebellion and reclaim the colony.

At the same time, the Netherlands will not allow East Timor to secede.

Because the Netherlands was colonizing the entire Indonesian peninsula, East Timor was on the periphery of the colony. Therefore, if East Timor wanted to gain independence, it would face the Dutch troops stationed in Indonesia.

East Timor is currently unable to withstand the suppression from both sides' armies.

Therefore, compared to independence, it is better to control the influence of the two colonial powers in East Timor.

By controlling these two forces, Li Changsheng would essentially have indirectly controlled the entire East Timor region.

"The second step: to establish a state system for East Timor as a divine messenger, while having other incarnations become tribal chiefs, thus completing the unification of East Timor."

"The third step: Establish your own arsenal to produce gunpowder, rifles, and grenades; establish your own shipyard to produce advanced ironclad warships; and build your own army and navy."

"Step 4: Following the example of Hawaii, Chinese immigrants lived together with locals, and Chinese language promotion teams were sent from the Far East to popularize Chinese and simplified characters in the local area."

The emergence of simplified Chinese characters was mainly due to reasons in the Far East.

While Li Changsheng was conducting cultural education in the Far East, he discovered that the literacy rate in the Far East was already low.

Since he was starting from scratch, he had his clone simplify the existing Chinese characters and introduce simplified characters.

In the future, every Chinese-speaking area under Li Changsheng's control, or any place where Mandarin is spoken, will primarily use simplified Chinese characters.

Even after Li Changsheng finished promoting simplified Chinese characters in the Far East, he sent his alter ego, Kuraki, back to the Qing Empire.

Under Dao Xuan's guidance, he became a guest of honor of Empress Dowager Cixi.

Furthermore, simplified Chinese character education was implemented in the Qing Empire.

At that time, the clone Kuraki only said one sentence.

"Simplified Chinese characters can save half the ink and one-third the paper, making learning easier, writing faster, printing and storage easier, and dissemination simpler."

"Most importantly, it can save national expenditures and speed up national efficiency."

A single sentence was enough to make simplified Chinese characters popular in the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, the popularization of simplified Chinese characters became the foundation for Li Changsheng's control over the region.

"The fifth and most important step is to take advantage of East Timor's geographical advantages, isolate the entire East Timor, and prevent East Timor from communicating with the outside world. All goods that need to be purchased and exported will be transported by a fleet of ships formed by the clone in the form of a merchant caravan. They will not be referred to as East Timor in East Timorese, but as Indonesia or Australia, so that people will ignore the existence of East Timor."

The fundamental reason why Li Changsheng had this plan was that he had learned through his clone that East Timor had not seen a single foreign ship pass through or any foreigners enter for decades.

Basically, only Portuguese and Dutch colonists were able to come here; other people wouldn't.

By controlling the colonial forces of the two colonial powers in East Timor, it would be possible to keep East Timor out of the public eye for decades.

It was precisely for this reason that Li Changsheng came up with this plan.

"Like Panama, to resolve the issue in East Timor, we need to complete the first step first."

"The most important thing is to first take control of the Portuguese and Dutch colonial forces in East Timor."

"These will require efforts from our separate teams in Portugal and the Netherlands."

Similarly, the control of East Timor will also be a long-term process.

Whether it's Panama or China, gaining complete control will not be an easy task.

So Li Changsheng turned his attention to his third target.

He then turned to the next page of the book in his hand.