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Luzon Province was the earliest overseas territory developed by the empire and also the overseas territory with the largest number of immigrants. As long as we were ruthless, it would only take a few years to complete localization.
The reason why the previous progress was not smooth was purely due to the restrictions of the empire's localization policy.
In the areas under actual control of the empire, indigenous people are not allowed to exist, which means that arresting indigenous people for farming, mining, etc. is not allowed, so overseas colonial businessmen often have little incentive to take the initiative to arrest people.
Otherwise, no matter how fierce the indigenous resistance is, they will not be able to stop the guns!
When Luzon Province did this, Banten Province in the south did not dare to lag behind.
We have been talking about the localization of Nanyang for more than ten years, and the establishment of provinces in Nanyang has been for many years. However, now Beihai Province has been completely merged into the local provinces. However, Luzon Province, Banten Province, Malacca State, Australia, etc.
However, the land has still not been incorporated into the mainland.
This made local officials, nobles in the fiefdom, and immigrants very worried.
Nowadays everyone knows the benefits of becoming a native province.
If you don’t know, just look at Beihai Province in the north.
When the empire first annexed Beihai Province, it was not completely deserted, but since Beihai Province completed its localization, it became a native province and then embarked on the road to industrialization.
Nowadays, although Beihai Province is limited by resources and population and is far less developed than the mainland, their fishery, shipbuilding, and raw silk industries are developing well.
Its fishery includes fishing and fishery processing, and the various canned fish it produces are sold locally.
Not to mention raw silk. The production and sales of raw silk in the empire are increasing year by year. This business is very big, and Beihai Province has also successfully participated in it.
Coupled with the development of the shipbuilding industry and the beginning of railway construction, a certain amount of steel industry developed.
Today's Beihai Province is already considered an industrial province. Although it is a bit smaller and cannot be compared with other large industrial provinces, it is still much stronger than other overseas territories.
Nowadays, looking at the many overseas territories of the empire, the only ones that may become the second native province are the two provinces and two states in Nanyang.
But there are a lot of indigenous people in these places, Luzon Province is pretty good, Banten Province has a lot of indigenous people, even Australia, if we just talk about the Australian continent, there is nothing, but the Australia of the Tang Dynasty also includes (Dongzhou
Island) New Zealand Island.
The indigenous people in these places are relatively fierce, and there are many chaotic and disgusting indigenous tribes, such as cannibals and so on.
If it were purely through force, the Tang Dynasty would naturally have no pressure. However, to clear these places, relying solely on force would not work, because the enemies of the immigrants from the Tang Dynasty were not the natives at all, but disease and climate.
In other words, those shabby places are not suitable for people of this era to live!
Therefore, localization has always been a long way off.
Now, Luzon Province has taken the lead in purging, and Banten Province, Australia and Malacca are also preparing to follow suit.
Of course, the situation in each place is different, so it is impossible to simply carry out purges in Banten Province, Australia, and Malacca State.
When the troops landed on those islands, it was estimated that most of the natives fell ill before even seeing a few of them!
Similarly, it is impossible for the empire to fill these places with its people.
For this reason, the Governor's Yamen of Banten Province, the Yamen of Australia, and the Yamen of Malacca State successively reported to Jinling that they were preparing to drive away wolves and swallow tigers.
The strategy is very simple. It is to follow the example of the Korean people and the Fusang people who migrated to Nanyang to colonize, and fight the natives when they are natives.
To this end, they plan to gather the indigenous people in areas within their jurisdiction that are prone to military operations, such as Sitan Island and Dongtan Island in Banten Province, and directly move them to other islands, such as Makassar Island, and small
Australia (New Guinea) and other islands are still populated by indigenous people.
At the same time, the indigenous people who had migrated to other islands were organized, and weapons such as matchlocks, swords, and armor were distributed to the young and strong indigenous people, so that they could carry out clearing operations against the indigenous people on the islands.
In order to survive, they will become the best helpers of the Tang Dynasty.
As for the subsequent handling of these indigenous immigrants, officials from Banten Province, Australia and other places said that competition among indigenous people always exists and there is no need to worry about getting out of control.
These overseas territorial provinces in Nanyang are also determined to strive for localization.
For a time, indigenous migration actions were launched in several places in Southeast Asia.
As long as the natives follow the instructions of the Tang people and move to specific islands on the immigration ships arranged for them, then the Tang Dynasty will ensure their safety and provide food and weapons. Of course, how will they survive in the future?
It's up to them.
After all, Datang is not here to do good deeds, it is just to help the natives move to another place. It is impossible to support these natives for a lifetime!
During the specific implementation process, Banten Province made another concession, requesting the empire to open up a loophole on the use of indigenous labor.
Because there are too many indigenous people in Banten Province, and the infrastructure construction tasks in Banten Province are also very heavy. At the same time, the climate and disease environment are too harsh, and the immigrants are unwilling to come, even if they come.
Go dig and build roads and the like.
So in Banten Province, can they be allowed to hire a group of indigenous people for free for infrastructure construction?
At the same time, in order to avoid affecting the empire's global localization strategy, Banten Province also proactively proposed many restrictive solutions, such as adopting militarized centralized management of these young indigenous people who are hired for free, and stipulating that they can only be hired by government organizations.
And can only be used for infrastructure construction and mineral development.
And it is guaranteed that after the project in one place is completed, these unpaid indigenous people will be dragged to other construction sites to continue working.
When Banten Province put forward these suggestions, Li Xuan also hesitated.
According to his past temperament, he would definitely refuse. Regardless of the reason, the natives were not allowed to appear on the land of the Tang Dynasty, regardless of whether they were employed without compensation, slaves, or anything else. It was impossible.
But reality has told him that the progress of this approach is too slow, and it is not applicable everywhere.
There is no problem in doing this in North America, a place with a rich and pleasant climate, because the people of the empire are more willing to immigrate there, and the local area can be effectively developed, thus reducing the cost of subsequent immigration.
But this is not possible in some poor and remote places. The people of the empire are not willing to immigrate to these places, and the government cannot force them to go. At most, they can send some criminals there, but this is obviously of no avail.
Some places with harsh environments require people to die in the early stage of development, and many people need to die. There is no doubt that the people of the empire are also afraid of death. Why go to these poor mountains and rivers to die when there are other good places to go.
This is why the empire has controlled the Nanyang Islands for so many years, but the total number of immigrants has never been increased and effective development has not been possible.
This is because even though the distance is short, the environment is too harsh, the mortality rate for immigrants is too high, and immigrants are afraid of death.
They would rather borrow money to buy a ticket to America than go to the Nanyang Islands.
However, if a place undergoes preliminary development, the environment will naturally improve, such as the main island of Luzon.
At that time, the Tang Empire invested a lot of power, immigrated a lot, and carried out very frequent military strikes. Later, hundreds of thousands of immigrants migrated from Fusang. With these combinations, the development of the main island of Luzon was relatively smooth.
Once the development is completed, the so-called harsh environment will no longer exist.
Now Li Xuan is no longer willing to wait slowly. He wants to complete localization as soon as possible. This is why he agreed to adopt the expulsion plan in the Americas.
The lives of the people of the empire are small and valuable, and they cannot afford to suffer the consequences of developing overseas territories, so employing the young and strong natives for free has become an option.
However, there is also a huge risk, that is, once these indigenous people take root, they will crowd out the living space of the Chinese people.
For this reason, Li Xuan put the issue to the cabinet and the military and asked them to discuss the issue separately.
This problem is no longer just a problem for Banten Province. If the policy changes, it means that the empire's localization policy has opened a small gap, and the empire must make careful decisions.
The opinions of the cabinet were quickly put together. In principle, they agreed to employ young indigenous people for free to carry out infrastructure construction tasks in overseas territories. However, they also believed that the most severe restrictions must be imposed, that is, these young indigenous people must not work in local areas.
Living a settled life, let alone becoming a citizen of the Tang Dynasty.
The noble Chinese people cannot bear to live under the same empire as a group of natives.
In order to impose restrictions, they have introduced hundreds of restrictive measures.
A simple summary of these hundreds of measures is: you can use it but you can’t leave it!
This "cannot stay" means that they cannot be allowed to stay in the local area to start a family and have children.
There are many reasons not to keep them, and why not to keep them? Killing them directly is definitely not possible. The Tang Empire is benevolent and will not commit massacres like the Tatars.
Therefore, they cannot stay, which means that after they have finished their work, they will be allowed to work in another place. If there is no more work to do, they can just find an uninhabited desert island and let them fend for themselves.
After all, the Tang Dynasty was not a philanthropist, and it was impossible to support the natives in vain.
If a group of young indigenous men could get married and have children on a deserted island, and then grow and occupy the island, the Tang Dynasty people would say: You are awesome, I am convinced!
In this regard, they have learned from the practices of some indigenous states in Southeast Asia and India. In order to buy things from the Tang Dynasty and earn foreign exchange from the Tang Dynasty, these indigenous countries generally organized laborers to work in the mines of the Tang Dynasty to earn labor fees.
Or simply organize your own labor force to mine and sell it to the Tang Dynasty people to make money.
On this point, the natives were ahead of the Tang Dynasty.
After the cabinet determined the specific policy, it was the military's turn to express its position.
This matter is not only a matter for the cabinet, but also for the military, and the military still has a very important say.