Of course, the great Holy Emperor Li Xuan didn't know about Prince Li Hao's inner complaints. After all, he was not a real god, just a deified person, and he had no way of probing other people's thoughts.
Recently, Li Xuan's focus has been returned to overseas territories.
Although the progress of overseas immigration in the Tang Empire is already very fast, in Li Xuan's opinion it is still not fast enough.
It is now the thirty-fifth year of Xuanping. Even Li Xuan, a wise and great man who is greater than the sun, cannot stop the passage of time. He is fifty years old this year.
Although Li Xuan is greater than the sun, it is certainly impossible for him to live as long as the sun.
Although Li Xuan's own body is still alive and kicking, it is not a problem to control thousands of girls at night, but even if he is in good health, he will not live for decades in the future. If he gets seriously ill midway, he will die with the current medical conditions. It is also a high probability.
Thirty-five years after entering Xuanping, Li Xuan felt that time was tight, so he no longer planned to come as slowly as before, but was planning to speed up immigration and unify the world.
However, Li Xuan also knew that if it was just a military issue, the Tang Empire was fully capable of conquering all parts of the world. Well, Europe was a little more troublesome, but it was just a little more troublesome.
However, the global unification that Li Xuan wants is not a simple military government, but more importantly, global localization. What he wants to do is not only to conquer the world, but also to obtain enough living space for the Chinese nation.
One planet, one empire, one nation is no joke!
At this time, the report submitted by the American Affairs Yamen caught Li Xuan's attention: officials from the American Affairs Yamen believed that the indigenous resistance in North America was still very serious, and attacks on immigrants from the Tang Dynasty occurred from time to time, especially those who went deep into the country. When migrating inland, the risks are extremely high.
For this reason, the American Yamen petitioned to launch a large-scale sweep operation in North America, preparing to move the indigenous people in the Tang-controlled areas of North America to Mexico.
This is simple to say, but a lot of military power needs to be used. The Army must at least add 108,000 troops to North America to be able to support such a large-scale military operation.
After all, the focus of this operation is not to defeat the indigenous people, but to relocate them.
The concepts of the two are different.
The former only needs to defeat the indigenous army, but the latter requires more time and energy.
The reason why they moved to Mexico was because the Spaniards in Mexico were building a plantation economy in Mexico, developing gold and silver mines, and were in urgent need of a large number of laborers. For the labor force, they imported black slaves from Africa.
Now the Tang Dynasty drove a large number of North American natives to them, and they were very happy to accept this free labor.
The only problem is that the place is too big, there are too many native people, and the area that needs to be relocated is also too large, so it won't work if the troops are small.
According to the Army's estimates, to organize such a large operation, at least more than 200,000 combat troops would be needed, and it would only be limited to the surrounding areas currently controlled by the Tang Dynasty, not within the entire North American controlled area. All do this.
There are currently 8,000 regular troops on the west coast of North America, and about 30,000 troops can be mobilized from reserves and militia, which means that about 38,000 troops can be mobilized.
On the east coast, there are 18,000 regular troops, and about 50,000 people can be mobilized from reserves and militia. The total number of troops that can be mobilized is 68,000.
Adding the two together, that's more than 100,000 people.
But if a mere 100,000 people spread across the vast North American region, it would be a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, in order to carry out this relocation operation, the Army proposed to temporarily increase the number of troops, and at least it would have to increase by about 100,000 troops.
If there are 200,000 people, although the number of troops is still a little small, but as long as we are more careful, it will be barely enough.
After all, their mission is not actually to fight. If it were purely to fight, there would be basically no tribe in North America that could withstand their attack.
Their main task is to relocate the local indigenous people to Mexico.
Li Xuan, the Holy Emperor, agreed in principle with the purge plan put forward by the American Affairs Office, but he disagreed with the army's plan to increase the number of troops by 100,000.
The reason is simple, the cost is too high!
Although North America is now well developed, it is only limited to agriculture. A large number of immigrants have established farms one after another in North America. Through hard farming, the locals are not only self-sufficient in food, but can also provide large amounts of food to new people.
Immigrants used it as food rations, and even some of the rich food was used to make wine and sell it, or simply transported it to Europe for sale.
However, this is only limited to agriculture.
Under the control of the Empire's Import and Export Committee, even Luzon Province, which is very close to the mainland, has not been able to open this hole, let alone other overseas territories.
As long as there are still indigenous people in North America, and as long as the central government in Jinling wants to completely control North America, it will basically be impossible to promote local industrial development.
Nowadays, many gentry capitalists in the empire have fully realized the power of industry.
They are more willing to turn their numerous overseas territories into suppliers of agricultural products and industrial raw materials and sales places for industrial products, rather than turning them into industrial production areas to compete with local companies.
If it was said at the beginning that the Import and Export Committee was established just to prevent the leakage of industrial technology to the indigenous people, then now, in fact, the existence of the Import and Export Committee has more than just this role, and more importantly, it serves the local industry and commerce.
In this environment, North America, like other overseas territories, has a small number of handicraft industries, and all other industries are zero industries. Even the railway construction they have always wanted to apply for was directly rejected by the top management.
This also means that ammunition and supplies required for overseas military operations must be transported from the mainland.
This is not hundreds or thousands of kilometers, but tens of thousands of kilometers.
Although Datang's national power was sufficient to carry out supplies across tens of thousands of kilometers, it was not necessary.
In the end, Li Xuan only approved the army's small-scale troop increase plan. Don't expect 100,000 troops. At most, he would send one more division.
Anyway, it’s not that we want to move all the indigenous people in North America to Mexico at once. Now we are just expelling the indigenous people from the areas actually controlled by the Tang Dynasty.
Move one place, immigrate another place, build another place, and then move again.
The cycle continued again and again, and by the time the people of the Tang Dynasty spread all over North America, the indigenous people would naturally cease to exist.
After receiving the reply from Jinling, the American side began to take action.
In the past, the army's operations were basically large-corps operations, and the main operations were against large-scale indigenous tribes.
But now, in addition to maintaining relatively large corps in a few directions, other parties have dispersed and launched attacks on indigenous-controlled areas based on battalion-level troops and troops of a thousand people.
Behind the army, a large number of immigrants dragged their families and headed inland!
The fastest-moving areas were naturally those with rivers, especially the Xinnan River Basin and the Great Lakes Basin. The Tang Dynasty's military made rapid progress and opened up many new colonial sites.
At the same time, the country has also begun to mobilize more immigrants to the Americas. The Immigration and Reclamation Department has already shouted a slogan. Starting from the 35th year of Xuanping, the number of immigrants to the Americas will further expand. In the next ten years, at least three people will immigrate to the Americas.
Millions of people passed by.
Now, coupled with the natural growth of the local population, we strive to have the population of North America exceed five million within ten years.
Although a population of five million may seem large, for the vast country of North America, the population density is still very low, incomparable to that of the mainland.
Nowadays, there are many provinces in the empire with a population of over 10 million. In some densely populated areas, even one prefecture can have a population of over a million.
However, a population of tens of millions is nothing to the mainland, but it is enough for the empire to control the Americas.
Relocate the natives and follow up with immigrants. This is the immigration control strategy formulated by the Tang Empire in North America.
The relocation strategy of the American Affairs Office has also given great inspiration to many officials in overseas territories!
Soon, Luzon Province, which had been pursuing localization diligently and wanted to make its province a member of the empire as soon as possible, also took quick action.
They began to organize the people to relocate the indigenous people.
Among them, the main island of Luzon doesn't have many indigenous people to begin with. After this relocation, it is estimated that not a single person will be left.
As for other islands, they also took action step by step.
In fact, the military is not interested in this kind of thing. After all, there is not much military merit to be gained.
But nowadays, except for Central Asia, where the Tang Dynasty can gain a lot of military merit, other places are half-baked. At best, it can only gain a little hard work.
Hard work is better than no work at all.
Therefore, the local garrison, whether it was the navy or the army, took action.
The military's actions are naturally much more efficient than pure youth.
It didn't take long for the Luzon governor's office to report the victory to Jinling, saying that Luzon Island had completed 100% localization.
They can proudly claim that the current population of the main island of Luzon is all subjects of the empire, and there is not a single indigenous person.
At the same time, Mindao Island, the earliest overseas territory of the Tang Dynasty, also quickly achieved success. Mindao Island was also the second island after Luzon to be 100% localized.
In addition, Borneo, another large island in Luzon Province, is also steadily promoting the localization process. The governor's office of Luzon Province has made up its mind this time and is preparing to invest a lot of effort in Borneo, increase its efforts to attract immigrants, and provide local
The yamen will receive more financial subsidies, etc., and strive to complete localization within three years.
Once Borneo has also completed localization, it means that several major islands in Luzon Province have already completed localization. At that time, they can follow the example of Beihai Province and apply to the mainland to build railways and open factories.