The first thousand two hundred and seventy-four chapters hit whoever dares to take the lead
The Fusang Affairs Office of the Tang Dynasty signed transportation agreements in an official name with more than ten large trading companies in the empire that trade to and from Fusang all year round.
The reason why it is not other organizations or companies directly organizing the transportation of Fuso women back to the country is to avoid a lot of trouble.
First of all, the purpose of the Fusang Affairs Office in the Tang Empire was to handle Fusang affairs in a unified manner nearby. After all, Fusang was too far away from the imperial capital Jinling City. If everything needed to be reported, it would be easy to do it all at once.
It took several months, which was much slower than delivering news from the northwest to the capital Jinling City.
Because there is a complete post system in China, the Three Hundred Miles Express is already very complete. The scale of the postal department is quite large, which is enough to bear the rapid transmission of information. Under the Three Hundred Miles Express, the message delivery is still relatively fast.
The transmission of information in overseas areas mainly relied on ships. Even though the Tang Dynasty had specialized fast communication ships, which adopted a clipper ship type and a new type of longitudinal and horizontal hard sails, the speed was still not very fast.
Because the message transmission was too slow, the Tang Empire adopted a model of dispatching specialized affairs officials to deal with the overseas direct territories and colonies directly.
For example, in Luzon Prefecture and Banten Prefecture, these two overseas territories directly under the Central Government, their prefects have far more authority than domestic prefects. To a certain extent, these two prefects are actually the local governors. In addition to
In addition to not being able to mobilize the army and be in charge of collecting taxes, it has all other powers, especially those dealing with local and surrounding indigenous people.
Originally, the prefect of Ryukyu Prefecture also had similar powers. However, after the establishment of Osumi Prefecture, the authority of the prefect of Ryukyu Prefecture was weakened. Basically, the prefect of Ryukyu Prefecture now has the same authority as the domestic general prefectural prefecture, with the authority of Fuso affairs.
, basically transferred to the Fusang Affairs Office of Datang.
With this yamen here, all Fusang affairs in the empire were handled by this yamen. Naturally, the transportation of Fusang women back to the country was handled by the Fusang affairs yamen.
The Fuso Affairs Office does not have any ships, so it can only sign an agreement with a private trading company and rent their ships for transportation.
After the empire decided on the highest policy towards Fuso, it was this yamen that implemented the policy specifically, and the marriage policy was one of them. The more urgent thing was not this, but military adjustments.
After Xia Wuyan convened his staff to discuss, he formulated a preliminary plan. First, he coordinated with the military to help the military complete the deployment of troops stationed in Fuso, and at the same time sought to expand the scale of each colony.
Especially in the Gyeonggi region, it is necessary to further improve military strength, because this place is the source of the recent turmoil in Fuso. In addition, the Tang Dynasty's colonies in the Gyeonggi region are located in Osaka and Kobe, which are very important areas.
Among them, Osaka can be said to be a transportation hub. Whether it is Oda Nobunaga, the previous Imagawa family, or any powerful daimyo emerging from the central region in the future, if they want to enter the Gyeonggi region or even the western region of Honshu Island
, all need to go through Osaka.
This place is so important. Naturally, the Tang military knew that it had reached a deal with the actual controller of the Osaka area, Ishiyama Honganji Temple, in the early years. It purchased a piece of land on the southern coast of Osaka City with ordnance support, capital purchase, etc.
In order to build commercial management and ports, 300 soldiers were stationed to protect security.
The area of the purchased land is actually not large, only 18 square kilometers in total, and most of it is in coastal areas. In terms of current technical conditions, development is actually relatively difficult.
However, because this place is very important, it has become one of the most important colonies of the Tang Empire in the Fuso Islands. It houses the Osaka Squadron and 300 soldiers. It is also the most important colony of the Tang Empire in the central and western Fuso region.
An important commercial and trade center.
This place is so important that the Tang Empire will not take it lightly, especially after learning that Oda Nobunaga is planning to invade the Gyeonggi area on a large scale, and may even attack the Ishiyama Honganji Temple in Osaka, so it will strengthen the defense here.
Take it as a top priority.
To ensure the Tang Empire's control and deterrence over the Fuso Gyeonggi region.
The Fuso Gyeonggi area is actually Kyoto and the surrounding areas where the emperor lives. It is located in the central and western region of Fuso Honshu Island. It is also called the Gyeonggi area. This place has always been the place where Fuso's big names fight. Everyone wants to compete for this place.
local control.
Previously, the Kanagawa family, the most powerful daimyo in central Fuso, relied on the power of the three countries of Suruga, Toe, and Mikawa that directly ruled it, and indirectly influenced many areas in central Fuso, and also had a strong influence in the Kinki region.
However, the actual controller of the area is the Sanhao family. In the past few years, the Sanhao family has developed quite fiercely, and its strength once controlled most of the economic region and the Shikoku region. Naturally, the Tang Empire did not want to see this situation.
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Therefore, at that time, the Tang Empire supported many daimyo and the Sanhao family in the Gyeonggi region to fight for life and death. Now, in the fifteenth year of Xuanping, although the Sanhao family's sphere of influence is still huge, it is still limited. Hanoi and Yamato
, with the support of the Tang Empire, its strength is not small. It has been fighting with the Sanhao family for many years, and there is no winner or loser.
This summer, the Imagawa family was beaten to the ground by Oda Nobunaga. After the Imagawa family was defeated, they could only retreat within the scope of the Suruga Three Kingdoms. At the same time, they also faced the rebellion of the two ministers, the Matsudaira family and the Takeda family. It was already
Too busy to take care of themselves, it is impossible to control the Gyeonggi region.
Therefore, today's Gyeonggi region is actually in chaos. The power of the Imagawa family is weakening, Oda Nobunaga is rising, the Miyoshi family is still strong, and daimyo such as Kawachi and Yamato are novices.
This kind of chaos is exactly what the Tang Empire needs!
But now, Oda Nobunaga has taken advantage of the situation to rise, and his performance is quite scary. Many local daimyo in Gyeonggi express their fear. If the Tang Empire does not interfere with this situation, then according to the development of Oda Nobunaga,
, sooner or later we will capture the Gyeonggi region.
Under this situation, the Tang Empire also began to move!
Therefore, at this time, Oda Nobunaga had already begun to promote slogans such as unifying Fuso, and any daimyo who wanted to unify Fuso was an enemy of the Tang Empire.
Previously, the Tang Empire had been restraining and supporting other daimyo to suppress relatively powerful daimyo such as the Imagawa family and the Miyoshi family. This was because the Imagawa family, the Miyoshi family and other daimyo were powerful and wanted to expand on a large scale.
Nowadays, Oda Nobunaga wants to annex other daimyo and then unify Fuso. Naturally, the Tang Empire's target is to quickly switch to Oda Nobunaga.
Xia Wuyan has stayed in Osumi County all year round and has even been to the Fuso Islands several times to inspect various colonies. He has a good understanding of the situation on the Fuso Islands.
Therefore, after receiving the order from the empire, he first coordinated with the military to expand its military presence in the Gyeonggi region. The original three hundred garrison troops were no longer enough. He believed that the military needed to at least deploy
A thousand or more troops can safeguard the interests of the empire when necessary.
At the same time, he also suggested that the navy should increase its naval power in the Osaka area to maintain supply lines, protect waterways, and at the same time deter the surrounding daimyo with force.
You must know that the Tang Empire has been causing trouble in Fusang in recent years. In fact, many Fusang famous names are well aware of it. Even some famous names who have a good relationship with the Tang Empire actually have no good impressions of the Datang Empire.
I thought that when the Tang Empire was working in Fusang, it basically meant that when the big name became powerful, the Tang Dynasty would suppress anyone!
Although I have never done it myself, selling ordnance, conducting commercial cooperation, providing funds, etc. can still affect the direction of the war. Otherwise, why do you think Yamato and Hanoi have not been annexed by the Miyoshi family? You must know the strength of the Miyoshi family.
Far superior to these two, if they really want a fair fight, Sanhaojia can defeat them in minutes.
However, the Tang Empire was behind the scenes, providing money and guns, and even controlled the sales of arms to the Sanhao family at the critical moment. As a result, the Sanhao family was unable to defeat the above two countries, leading to such a stalemate.
The Tang Empire behaved this way, and the Fuso daimyo were not fools. They could naturally see some tricks. Therefore, there were not many Fuso daimyo who really liked the Tang Empire.
However, whether they like it or not, this does not prevent them from wanting to embrace the Tang Empire!
Why Oda Nobunaga was able to defeat the Imagawa family in one fell swoop was certainly due to Oda Nobunaga's own abilities, but he and the Tang Empire sold them a total of five thousand matchlock guns and more than a dozen shotguns at one time.
The restriction on the supply of arms to the Imagawa family has something to do with it.
If you cling to the thigh of the Tang Empire, even if you can't annex other forces, self-protection is usually not a big problem. Yamato and Hanoi are typical examples. With the support of the Tang Empire, the Miyoshi family can't do anything to them. The Imagawa family
There is nothing we can do against them, and Oda Nobunaga will probably have to worry about their existence in the future.
In order to speed up the implementation of the Fuso policy and be wary of major changes in the Gyeonggi region, a thousand marines originally stationed in Osumi Prefecture were quickly ordered to sail to Osaka to strengthen local defense. At the same time, when necessary, they took the initiative to send troops to intervene in the local situation.
There is still only one principle for intervention, and that is not allowing any party to unify the Gyeonggi region!
The Tang Empire will attack anyone who dares to take the lead!
In addition to strengthening the garrison in Osaka, the Tang Empire is also preparing to strengthen its troops in several major colonies such as Kobe and Edo. However, domestic reinforcements have not yet arrived, so they can only make plans first and wait for a while.
There may be some large-scale military operation.
However, the joint venture policy has officially begun, and the scale is very large from the beginning!