Chapter 1419 The Empire's Strategic Plan for the Next Ten Years
The Tang Empire could not spend hundreds of years to perfect the global colonial network like the Spanish or Portuguese, because Li Xuan could not wait for such a long time!
Therefore, the Tang Empire urgently needed these colonies and ports in a short period of time.
Since it takes too long to build and develop by yourself, the simplest and only way is to seize the enemy's already developed colonies!
This is also the reason why the Tang Dynasty Western Trading Company liked to attack and rob Portuguese colonies and strongholds.
As long as it can be conquered, you can immediately get a mature colony. Later, as long as you add a certain amount of immigrants and garrisons, you can turn this place into a mature place and provide a supply port for trade and warship supplies for the company's fleet.
Today, the Tang Empire's war against the Portuguese can generally be seen as an extension of the Tang Western Trading Company's previous strategy in the Indian Ocean region.
At the strategic meeting, after fierce debate between the Navy and the Army, the future South China Sea and Indian Ocean strategies were basically determined.
First of all, in Nanyang, many parties agree that the Nanyang region is related to the security of the empire. At the same time, this place is also one of the key areas for the empire to immigrate overseas in the future. Therefore, the Nanyang region must be completely controlled, and complete control of the Nanyang region is also the key to the empire.
The most important overseas expansion strategy in the next three years.
This complete control includes expelling all Portuguese strongholds in the Nanyang region, whether they are trading stations or colonies, etc., and expelling and replacing them. In addition, the indigenous tribes that still exist in the Nanyang region are raided and attacked to ensure that the Nanyang region is protected.
There will not be any organized indigenous nation or tribal organization in the area.
After crushing any organized Portuguese and indigenous tribes' resistance, large-scale immigration activities were carried out, especially in the Malacca Peninsula, Banten, and Luzon. Complete development was required to ensure that the number of immigrants in the above-mentioned places would be within five years.
It will reach more than two million in a year.
At the same time, according to the Nanyang immigration strategy, some Fusang indigenous people were organized to move from the Fusang area to the above-mentioned areas to further disperse and reduce the number of Fusang indigenous people in the Fusang area.
After the number of Fuso natives drops to a certain level, and this standard is limited to one million people, the empire will officially recover the Fuso Islands and bring them under native rule.
In the empire's Fuso strategy, Fuso will not be treated as an overseas territory in the future, but as a mainland. In fact, a similar strategy also includes the Nanyang Peninsula and various Nanyang islands.
With the development of steamships and trains, the empire believed that the previous overseas territory model was no longer suitable for today's situation. In order to strengthen control of the newly occupied areas, it was also to prevent future rebellions and independence in advance.
Risks, it is very necessary to properly localize some important areas, especially areas close to the empire.
The localization of the Fuso Islands, the Nanyang Peninsula, and the islands in the Southeast Asia is the product of this change in thinking.
The Tang Empire continued to develop. The various strategies of the Tang Empire were the ideas of its subjects. In fact, they were constantly changing. Many early policies were often deposed because they were inappropriate and replaced with new ones that were in line with the development of the times.
Policy takes its place.
However, the localization policy did not target all newly occupied areas, but was limited to some areas close to the empire's mainland.
However, as it continues to develop, sooner or later the empire will localize all its newly occupied territories, including Australia, America, and India.
In addition to determining the Nanyang priority strategy and the Indian expansion strategy, this imperial military strategy meeting also formulated several other strategies, such as the Fuso recovery strategy and a certain degree of military attack on the Tatars in the northwest region.
, put pressure on the Tatars to prevent the Tatars from expanding too quickly.
In the Indian expansion strategy, it was proposed to provide temporary support to the Timurid Dynasty to help them resist the Tatar invasion, and at the same time, take advantage of this time to colonize the vast areas in central and southern India.
In order to quickly occupy and rule the central and southern regions of India, and considering that there are many indigenous kingdoms in central and southern India and the local indigenous population is large, the empire will adopt special Indian policies here.
That is to win over some local indigenous princes, attack some local indigenous princes, and adopt the method of using barbarians to control barbarians to accelerate colonial rule in central and southern India.
In other words, in the Indian region, the Tang Empire will not adopt the model of military occupation of land with other regions, immigration, establishment of direct rule, and finally localization. Although this model has many advantages, it takes too long.
And Li Xuan obviously couldn't wait that long. The Tatars didn't know why, but they had already set their sights on India. It was not like he would have a large-scale cavalry showdown with the Tatars on the Indian Peninsula a few years later.
That would be too much nonsense.
Therefore, he decided to accelerate the colonization of India. He would not engage in localization or anything like that for now, but would first use some local indigenous princes to establish colonial rule.
However, the localization policy will not give up, but will continue in some areas, especially some coastal areas with strategic positions.
For example, the very important island of Ceylon will be completely localized to ensure that only the people of the empire live there, and there will not be any indigenous people, to ensure the long-term rule of the empire here, because of the navy
A report has been submitted, saying that the island of Ceylon has a superior geographical location and a very superior natural port that can be used as a large military port.
For this reason, the Navy is already preparing to build Ceylon Island as the main naval base of the Imperial Navy in the Indian Ocean to control the Indian Ocean.
In view of the importance of Ceylon, the island must be completely localized to eliminate any risks.
In addition to Ceylon, some other strategic coastal areas in India will also be selected for localization in the early stage.
In other words, in the next ten years, the Tang Empire will adopt a two-step policy in India. On the one hand, it will carry out localization, and on the other hand, it will carry out colonial rule. As time develops in the future, it will
Complete localization will be carried out gradually.
In addition to the Nanyang priority strategy, the Indian Ocean strategy, the Fuso localization strategy, and the Tatar military strike strategy, several other sub-plans were also determined at the meeting.
Including contacting the Safavid Dynasty and the Ottoman Dynasty, and conducting trade with them, seeking colonial strongholds in the areas controlled by the above two countries, and at the same time, if circumstances permit, especially if the above two countries maintain goodwill towards the empire, to the above two countries.
The country provided certain military support to strengthen their ability to resist Tatar attacks.
There is also an African colonial plan, but the African colonial plan is more important to establish colonial strongholds, and its main tasks are to ensure trade and naval operations.
As for large-scale immigration to Africa, it is not in the empire's plan for the time being.
Finally, there is the Americas Plan, which also focuses on preliminary immigration, establishing immigration cities, and ports. At the same time, the Americas Plan is limited to North America. To be more precise, it is the west coast of North America, which is generally the area north of Xinjin Mountain.
Because the area south of Xinjin Mountain, that is, the vast area of Mexico, is the Spanish sphere of influence!
Although it is now as powerful as Spain, it still cannot completely control all parts of the vast Mexico. It basically only controls the coastal areas and some important cities in the interior. The vast Mexican area is actually still controlled by many local indigenous people, that is, Aziz
Occupied by the Teks, in addition to the Tlaxcaltecas who sided with the Spanish, they also occupied a large amount of land.
However, although the Spanish have not yet been able to completely control this area, the main coastal cities in Mexico and some important cities in the interior are actually under the control of the Spanish.
So Mexico is now under Spanish control.
The Tang Empire is still on friendly terms with the Spanish. The Spanish Global Fleet departing from Mexico conducts huge amounts of trade with the Tang Empire every year.
Of course, what's more important is that the Tang Empire's foundation in North America is not yet stable, and its relatively large stronghold is Xinjinshan. In addition, there are about a dozen small-scale immigration strongholds or ports.
Nowadays, even the North American region north of Xinjin Mountain is facing many difficulties in the development of immigrants. For the time being, it cannot take care of the Mexican region, so it will not trouble the Spanish for the time being.
The same is true for Central and South America. Most of the vast coastal areas of Central and South America are now controlled by the Spanish and Portuguese respectively. Spain controls the entire Mexico and Central America. At the same time, the northern part of South America is still under the control of the Spanish and Portuguese.
The western coast of South America was under Spanish control.
The eastern coast of South America, mainly the coastal areas of Brazil in later generations, was occupied by the Portuguese.
The only blank area is the Patagonia region in southern South America. The environment in this area is harsh and it is not suitable for immigration. Even the local indigenous people are unwilling to live in this area. Otherwise, they would have died early.
It was seized by Spain or Portugal.
In view of the current situation in the Americas, the empire's strategy for the Americas is to focus on developing the west coast of North America north of the Xinjin Mountains, while trying to extend inland.
As for the area south of Xinjinshan, it was temporarily put under Spanish custody. When the time was right, the vast territory of Mexico and Central and South America would be taken back from Spain.
Through this imperial military strategy meeting, the Tang Empire basically determined its colonial expansion plan for the next five or even ten years!
According to this plan, the empire will prioritize the localization of the Nanyang Peninsula, various islands and the Fuso Islands, and continue to immigrate to Australia.
A two-step plan was adopted in India: some important coastal areas were localized, and colonial rule was established in the vast central and southern parts of India.
The West Coast region of North America north of the Xinjin Mountains has been the focus of immigration development in America, but restraint has been maintained in other places.
Mainly establishing immigration strongholds in Africa.
In the northwest, military attacks were mainly carried out against the Tatars.
Among this series of plans, Nanyang and India were the most important, which also led to the ongoing Malacca Campaign to receive the focus of the empire's top brass.