Chapter 1487: The Final Solution to the Fusang Problem
Looking at the empire's overseas immigration development policy in the past five years, we can see that it is mainly based on the development of immigrants from Nanyang. Nanyang as a whole includes the four places of Luzon, Banten, Malacca, and Australia, excluding Myanmar, Annan,
The Nanyang Peninsula in Siam and other areas.
These poor places still have a large number of indigenous countries, and the geography and climate are even worse, making them very unfriendly to imperial immigrants, so they are still being dealt with through commercial, military, diplomatic and other means.
To put it bluntly, they are constantly provoking local indigenous people to fight, making money while constantly encroaching on them.
This is how Guangning County came to be. Now, in addition to Guangning County, the empire has also acquired several pieces of land in recent years, which are under the jurisdiction of Guangxi and Yunnan respectively. This policy will not change in the short term.
In addition to Southeast Asia, there are also overseas regions such as Fuso, India, West Asia, Africa and North America.
In regions such as India, West Asia, and Africa, the empire currently has no plans to carry out large-scale immigration development in these areas, so it is following the path of ordinary colonies.
There is no way, the place is too big, and there are too many natives, and it won’t be able to eat for a while, so you have to take your time.
As for North America, the climate and geographical environment are more suitable, but the distance is too far. In addition, the Spanish power there is not small, and the local indigenous people are also large in number, so so far, there are only ten thousand people.
Just immigrants from left and right.
It cannot be compared with the hundreds of thousands of immigrants in Nanyang.
However, Fuso's affairs have now been officially put on the agenda.
Speaking of which, it has been more than ten years since the empire set foot on the Fuso Islands, and it has also implemented a long-term plan to fully control the Fuso Islands economically and militarily by provoking wars, seizing colonies.
There are even some other small means, such as the marriage policy that is widely popular among singles in the empire. Over the years, at least hundreds of thousands of young Fuso women have been transported away from Fuso one after another.
After various measures, today's Fuso is in dilapidated condition, and affected by the continuous war, the local population has dropped to a very low level.
According to the estimates of the Fusang Affairs Office of the Tang Empire, by the 24th year of Xuanping, the indigenous population of the Fusang Islands would never exceed two million.
Compared with ten years ago, half or even a larger proportion of the population has been informed with less talk.
The disappearance of these populations has nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty has never launched a large-scale invasion war in Fusang. It was all defeated by their own wars.
Today's Fuso is in the Warring States Period, with daimyo fighting every day. With wars so frequent, it would be strange if the population did not decline rapidly.
Today, everyone in the empire believes that the time has come to finally resolve the Fuso issue, especially since the Fuso Affairs Office submitted multiple reports in the 23rd year of Xuanping, all of which mentioned that the time has come to fully take over the Fuso Islands.
It's already mature.
But now, in the 24th year of Xuanping, Li Xuan feels that the Fusang issue cannot be dragged on any longer.
Nowadays, most of the entire East Asia is under the control of the empire, except for the Nanyang Peninsula and the Fuso Islands.
The environment of the Nanyang Peninsula is too harsh. People would rather cross the sea to Luzon or Wantanzhou than go to Annan to immigrate. Therefore, the empire has basically no hope of solving the Nanyang Peninsula in a short time.
But Fuso is different. Although the Fuso Islands are also a place with scarce resources, the local development is mature, and the climate is basically the same as that of the mainland of the empire, so there is no problem of being unsuitable for survival.
The empire has an overseas territory of Osumi County in the Fuso region, as well as dozens of colonies. It has even occupied many independent islands. It has also immigrated tens of thousands of people, but there is no problem that the immigrants cannot adapt to local life.
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Under this situation, Li Xuan also decided to include the Fusang area into the ranks of imperial rule, and it was not a colonial rule, but a true localization.
The treatment method is the same as that of the Koryo Peninsula!
First, military control was carried out, and then administrative agencies at all levels including provinces, prefectures, counties, towns, and villages were directly established, and a large number of domestic immigrants were organized to settle in Fuso within a short period of time.
Well, it’s not about immigration and development, it’s a final outcome.
Because the local area is already very mature for development, there is no need to open up wasteland.
And the number of immigrants is not just a few thousand but tens of thousands. Li Xuan plans to send millions of people there in one go.
Anyway, Fuso is only separated from the mainland of the empire by the Tsushima Strait. There is no need to travel thousands of miles for sea transportation. First, the troops and a large number of immigrants are gathered at Busan Port, and then transported by ship.
It doesn't cost anything.
Moreover, the imperial people's acceptance of the Fuso area is much stronger than that of Southeast Asia, the Americas, etc. It is just like organizing immigrants to the Koryo Peninsula in the past. It doesn't take much trouble. As soon as the land is divided, a large number of people enthusiastically signed up.
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Li Xuan made up his mind, and the huge war machine of the Tang Empire started to move again!
Of course, only a small part of them has been activated. A mere Fuso cannot allow the empire to completely activate the war machine. Let alone Fuso, even the Tatars, who are now in full swing and are almost sweeping across Central Asia, cannot
Let the empire conduct a general mobilization or something like that.
Of course, some tension was inevitable. After all, the Tatars' hundreds of thousands of cavalry still posed a huge threat.
As for Fusang, it's not that Li Xuan underestimated them. With Fusang's current situation, even if the empire no longer sends more troops to the Fusang area, it can only rely on the 15th Army, which is responsible for the defense of Liaodong Province and the Fusang Islands, to control the Fusang Islands.
The numerous famous names were cleared one by one.
Among the many army units of the Tang Empire, the Fifteenth Army is quite special, because in addition to being responsible for the defense of the Liaodong region, it also needs to be responsible for the combat affairs of the Fuso Islands.
Let’s not talk about the defense and troop deployment in the Liaodong region of the mainland. Let’s just say that in the Fuso Islands area, the 15th Army has the Army’s 56th Infantry Division, Ryukyu Garrison, Osumi Garrison, Osaka Garrison, and Edo Garrison.
As well as more than ten garrison battalions and teams from various colonies.
Among them, the 56th Infantry Division was formerly the First Mixed Brigade of the Tang Dynasty Army stationed in the Fusang Islands. Later, Datang carried out military reform and merged this First Mixed Brigade with a reserve division stationed in the Koryo Peninsula.
, and then organized into the 56th Infantry Division. At the same time, this corps was also the only combat-ready unit in the 15th Army. Its organization and combat-readiness equipment belonged to the first-class division organization within the army.
The 56th Infantry Division is stationed in two places. Some of the troops are stationed in the southern part of the Koryo Peninsula. The division headquarters is located in Busan, but another part of the troops is stationed in Osumi County.
In addition to the 56th Infantry Division, there are also various garrison regiments and garrison battalions. However, the strength of these garrison regiments, battalions, and teams is relatively small, and their equipment is relatively average.
The garrison regiment generally only has a strength of more than a thousand people, and the garrison battalion only has a few hundred people, not to mention the garrison team, which only has a few dozen or a hundred people.
However, with the 56th Infantry Division plus four garrison regiments and 18 garrison battalions, the 15th Army had more than 25,000 troops available for the Fuso operation.
Just relying on these troops, it is actually possible to sweep across the Fuso Islands.
However, for the sake of safety and to avoid falling into a long-term situation, Li Xuan decided to increase the number of troops in Fusang, but only one more division would be enough.
There is no need to even mobilize from the hinterland of the country, just let the 15th Army directly mobilize another division.
In addition to being responsible for the defense of Fusang, the Fifteenth Army is also responsible for the defense of Liaodong. Therefore, in addition to the troops stationed in the Koryo Peninsula and Fusang areas, there are also two divisions stationed in other areas of Liaodong.
Although the remaining two divisions are only second-class divisions, they are enough.
In the 24th year of Xuanping, Li Xuan officially issued a combat order to recover the Fuso Islands and ordered the Army and Navy Guards to recover Fuso.
In addition, it also allows the Immigration and Reclamation Department to prepare for a large number of immigrants!
After all, the number of people immigrating to Fusang this time is quite large, at least hundreds of thousands.
Organizing such a large number of immigrants is not a trivial matter, so preparations must be made early. Otherwise, when the time comes, the military will have conquered the Fuso Islands, but the immigrants will be late, which will not be good.
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After receiving the combat order, senior leaders of the Army, Navy, Guards, and the Joint Operations Department held a meeting. However, this matter was different from previous Indian operations. Basically, there was no dispute among the three parties.
Because the Army's ground combat troops have long been in Fuso, they can sweep across Fuso with just one order. There is no need for the Navy to carry out transportation with great fanfare. Subsequent reinforcement transportation will also be mobilized from the nearby Koryo Peninsula and then cross the Tsushima Strait.
That's it. As far as the strait is concerned, the military doesn't even plan to form a large-scale transport fleet. It can just use the military's own transport ships and then directly requisition some merchant ships in Busan.
In addition, the Fusang people basically had no maritime power. Even some small sampans had been wiped out by the Tang navy long ago. Even the slightly larger fishing boats were not left by these Fusang people.
Nowadays, the ships operating in the sea areas of the Fuso Islands are all ships of the Tang Dynasty. People who don't know it may think that the sea areas of the Fuso Islands are the inland seas of the Tang Dynasty.
The Fuso people have little maritime power, so the navy naturally has no need to dispatch the main fleet for special escort. They even do not plan to send the main ship to fight.
Nowadays, the use of warships in the Navy is also very tight. There are dozens of warships scattered in the Indian Ocean, and it seems that it is still unable to completely control the Indian Ocean. The top brass of the Navy plan to continue to send reinforcements to the Indian Ocean.
As for Fuso, what kind of battleships, cruisers, and even frigates are not needed there? Just send a few offshore patrol ships there as you wish!