If the navy chooses to send a fleet to land in Guangning from the Beibu Gulf, it would be simple to land directly. However, if a quick victory cannot be achieved, the army will be dragged down in the end and the empire will fall into a quagmire. I am afraid that someone in the navy will do this.
Responsible.
Moreover, although the Navy despised the Army's fear of fighting in the jungle, the Navy did not dare to easily send its Marines to fight in the hinterland of Vietnam.
Landing in Quang Ninh is easy, but if you want to fight directly to the Thang Long area, it is actually about the same difficulty as if the army fights directly from the border area to Thang Long. If you take the land route, although the road is difficult, there are still supplies at least.
Therefore, even if the navy directly launches a landing operation, it is unlikely to directly attack Thang Long.
This is not the way the navy is good at fighting. The way the navy is best at fighting is to use a powerful fleet to randomly choose to fight in a certain coastal area, or to attack the enemy's port city, or simply to land directly for combat, but it will never
Easily penetrate the interior.
The Marine Corps of the Navy is not used to fight the enemy in inland areas, but is used to perform ship-hopping operations and landing operations. Fighting deep in the inland area is the mission of the Army.
However, just by landing in Guangning and then attacking several coastal cities in Annan and Northern Dynasties, it is probably unrealistic to make the Northern Dynasties surrender and cede the entire Guangning to the empire.
The Annan people are a stubborn type and will not easily succumb to foreigners. In the pre-Ming Dynasty, the Ming army also defeated Annan, but they were defeated. In the end, they were forced by the poor local geographical environment and severe non-combat attrition.
I had to quit Annan.
As for the resistance of the local indigenous people, it was actually very weak, at least it was unable to fight against the Ming army at that time. However, why the Ming army chose to retreat was not because they couldn't stay in that poor place.
Stationing an army of 100,000 people will do nothing but spend countless money and food. Disease alone can cause heavy losses to these 100,000 people.
Although the level of medical theory in the Tang Empire today is much better than that in the pre-Ming Dynasty, the teachers and students of the Department of Medicine at the Royal Institute of Technology have established a relatively complete modern medical system.
But the problem is, myrrh!
With the current medical level of the Tang Empire, there were no such things as antibiotics.
Today, the main medical treatment method in the Tang Empire actually still relies on traditional Chinese medicine. It has not changed fundamentally from the pre-Ming Dynasty. At most, the concept has changed a lot. We know that we need to pay attention to hygiene, we know that we need to disinfect, and we know that after wounds are infected,
Amputation surgery must be performed promptly...
The complex environment of the tropical rainforest and the almost irresistible diseases caused the Tang Empire's fundamental unwillingness to fight deep into various tropical rainforests.
Not only in the Nanyang Peninsula, but also in other places, the Tang Empire is also like this. Even in the two places it occupies, Wandan Mansion and Luzon Mansion, the Datang Empire still does not go too deep into some areas.
In tropical rainforest areas, cities and farmland are only built along the coastline, and then rely on immigrants to spontaneously push inland, step by step, and gradually transform the local environment.
In order to avoid fearless casualties, after careful consideration, the senior leaders of the Navy felt that it was better for Shengtianzi to have something to say about the situation in Fuso: Whatever you do with killing and killing, doing business will be good!
The Emperor Sheng said this because although the Tang Dynasty has not sent out large-scale troops to conquer the Fuso Islands so far, the population of Fuso has been reduced by at least half in the past ten years.
Everything needs to be done efficiently and save time and effort.
Why?
Because the Tang Empire frequently provoked various daimyo to fight wars and sold various weapons to these daimyo, increasing the casualty ratio of these daimyo's armies.
The weapons sold at the same time all required money to be purchased by the daimyo. In order to obtain the weapons of the Tang Dynasty, these daimyo basically sold everything, not to mention gold and silver, other various materials, and even food.
Everything like that was taken out.
In the past year, many famous people have discovered that there is a commodity that the Tang Dynasty needs in their ruling areas, and that is young women!
The Marriage Committee under the Fusang Affairs Office of the Tang Dynasty naturally has no plan to directly spend money to buy women and then transport them back to the country. Their policy is to recruit young Fusang women who voluntarily go to the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, although those big names regard women as commodities, they do not mean to sell them directly to the marriage committee. Well, the marriage committee does not want them at all.
They just organized a large number of Fusang women to go to the Tang Dynasty, and then married them to Tang Dynasty people. These famous people just collected the bride price.
The reason for such a situation is that after many Fuso women arrived in the Tang Dynasty, whether they were getting married or working, there would always be a small number of people who did better and began to send a certain amount of money back to their relatives in China.
Thanks to the Royal Bank, which has opened branches in all the colonies of Datang in Fuso, and the Post Office of Datang, which has also opened branches, some of the money sent back by these Fuso women, after certain twists and turns, was actually
Received by their families.
After this news gradually spread, many Fusang women hoped to go to Datang even more. This would not only improve their own lives, but also help their families in the future.
Then, some smart daimyo discovered this way to make money. At first, they just hoped to organize Fuso women to go to China to work through the marriage committee, and naturally these daimyo took away the wages.
But the Marriage Committee will definitely not do it. Women who enter the Tang Dynasty through the channels of the Marriage Committee will all obtain the nationality of the Tang Dynasty. You big names still dare to exploit us, the people of the Tang Dynasty. You will die.
After warning, no Fuso daimyo dared to do this, but they quickly thought of other ways. Labor dispatch was not possible, and Datang banned human trafficking, so they could ask Datang to come to Fuso to buy it. No, it couldn't be done.
It's said to be a purchase, but a wedding.
These big names organized a large number of young women, and then acted as an intermediary platform to introduce them to unmarried men of the Tang Dynasty, and then charged a small and insignificant introduction fee. Isn't this against the law of the Tang Dynasty?
Not to mention, what they did was really in compliance with the laws of the Tang Dynasty!
Although human trafficking was banned in the Tang Dynasty, the traditional bad custom of bride price still existed, and the profession of matchmaker still existed.
Several smart celebrities contacted several traders from Datang through their own channels and asked them to invite a group of single men from Datang to come over for blind dates!
As a result, the most special way of trading between Fusang in the Tang Dynasty was born: "marriage trade"
Businessmen who traveled overseas would dare to do anything, not to mention that such things did not violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty, so soon bold businessmen returned to China and recruited a large number of singles.
In order to avoid insignificant legal risks, they still set up a so-called "Fuso Tourism Project". These singles all traveled to Fuso. As for why they went to Fuso, whether to get married or to take concubines, they took these Fuso women with them.
Naturally, they, the maritime merchants, can't control it when they come back. Well, neither can the marriage committee.
After these singles arrived in Fuso, they were all dazzled when faced with countless young women organized by local daimyo, and their saliva almost filled the East China Sea.
In the end, each of these singles took away several Fusang girls in the name of getting married. Although the money they spent on gifts was quite a lot, it was not much compared to domestic marriages.
Then take them back directly to the country!
The singles married women, the merchants made money, and the famous people also made money. Even those Fusang women escaped from the super bitter sea of Fusang and came to the Tang Dynasty. They dare not say how good their life will be in the future.
But it’s not easy to starve to death.
Of course, many singles have to bear a certain amount of debt for this, because most of the people who come to Fuso to get married are poor people. They have little money, but those maritime merchants have united with some banks to get a special one for them.
Loan, but not too much. After all, it is easy to get to Fusang these days.
Marriage trade, after this kind of thing started, quickly became popular. Although there was no obvious situation in the Tang Dynasty these days where there were more men than women, it was still a bit difficult for poor people to get married.
Now everyone knows that women in Fusang want to marry Tang Dynasty people, and they almost get it for free, so many men go to Fusang specifically to get married, and those who are willing to sign up for tour groups directly, and those who don't have much money,
It can also be carried by cargo ships.
After going to Fusang, even if you are a pauper and a second-rate person who is despised by everyone in China, there will be a lot of Fusang women willing to join you!
This situation is similar to that in China in the 1980s and 1990s. Any American beggar can make many, especially highly educated new-age women lift their skirts and spread their legs.
All he did was get a green card!
The marriage trade and marriage policies in Fuso also led to the outflow of a large number of Fuso women. In addition, wars in the Fuso Islands have almost never stopped, and agricultural production in many areas has been completely destroyed due to wars.
The population is decreasing at an alarming rate.
This situation also led the Holy Emperor Li Xuan to say that it is better to do business than to kill!
Now, the Navy is thinking that although the situation at Fuso is somewhat special, which led to this situation, can Annan also follow suit?
Can not only Annan, but the entire Nanyang Peninsula or other colonial areas follow suit?
Through various methods, they provoke civil wars and let them fight against themselves. The empire will sit on the side eating melon seeds and watching the show, and then go off to get the land after the show is over. It is simple, efficient, safe and worry-free!