The localization work in the Americas is actually simpler than in other places. The main reason is that the local area is large and there are few indigenous people. It is a vast and sparsely populated place.
Datang's local localization work mainly focused on moving these indigenous people to Mexico controlled by the Spanish. At the same time, the Spanish were very happy to accept these indigenous people and often sent their own personnel to organize the migration of the indigenous people to Mexico.
So it is relatively simple to do.
When the performance natives migrated away, they naturally became localized.
After all, the only criterion for localization in the Tang Dynasty was the proportion of the local population. Only when the Tang people in a place accounted for the majority of the local population can they apply to become a native province.
When this standard is implemented, it is often more stringent. Sometimes it is necessary to complete 100% of the population structure ratio to achieve a square shape.
At the same time, this standard does not apply to overseas territories in the colonial model, such as overseas territories in India, Africa and other regions. In fact, all of these overseas territories are people from the Tang Dynasty, but they are surrounded by indigenous people, and the overseas territories cannot be
Avoid the fact that there will also be a large indigenous population living there.
So at present, those who can have relatively good conditions to complete the localization work are actually the Nanyang Islands and the Americas, plus some other islands or some extremely important strategic areas.
As for the vast Indian peninsula and the African continent, Datang currently has no plans to completely localize these places. The reason is that the distance is too far and there are too many indigenous people.
Although the Nanyang Islands have a large number of people and a relatively harsh environment, they are all islands and can be completed one by one. It will take some time to complete.
As for the Nanyang Peninsula, it is simply because it is too close, right on the edge of the empire, and the empire is worried if it does not localize it. The empire is prepared to push the actual line of control of the empire to the Bay of Bengal no matter what.
In other words, the entire Nanyang Peninsula needs to be included in the empire's mainland. However, this place is more difficult to deal with than on the Nanyang Islands, so it has been delayed. The policies implemented in the Fuso area are implemented locally.
People from the Tang Dynasty would not easily go into battle in person.
In addition to the Nanyang Islands and the Nanyang Peninsula, the remaining islands that are relatively easy to deal with are a few islands, such as Ceylon and West Indies (Madagascar).
The island of Ceylon has actually been localized for a long time. During the Indian Ocean War, Datang directly moved all the local indigenous people to India in order to set up a large military base there and bypass the restrictions of the Import and Export Committee.
On the mainland.
Therefore, there are no indigenous people in Ceylon.
However, the local area has always been under military control, and almost the entire island is within the scope of military bases, so there has been no localization.
As for Xiyin Island, the progress is much slower. After all, this place is of average importance and there are many indigenous people. It is a bit difficult to localize it. The military is not in a hurry and the local government is powerless, so it can only take its time.
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In other places, such as South Africa, this place seems to be developing very well. There are already more than 100,000 people living on the huge South African plains, but it is still far from the standard of localization.
Although South Africa is located on the African continent, the north is full of black indigenous people, and these indigenous people are still infiltrating into South Africa. Some of the imperial subjects who immigrated to the local area even secretly hired local indigenous people for free to develop plantations for their own benefit.
Garden etc.
When the officials find out about this kind of thing, they will search their homes together. However, there are many people who want money or their lives, and they have never been able to completely put an end to it.
Therefore, localization in South Africa is hopeless!
In this regard, the military is actually more anxious than the African Affairs Office. The military has proposed several times to build a city wall hundreds of kilometers long based on the cliffs and mountains in the northern part of the South African plains. At the same time, it is located in several strategic areas.
Against various garrisoned forces, they continued to expel the indigenous people north of the city wall, striving to establish an isolation zone stretching over 500 kilometers across southern Africa, stretching from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Indian Ocean in the east.
This will prevent the northern natives from penetrating further!
The reason why the military is so urgent is simply to obtain more and better supplies in South Africa. Otherwise, everything would have to be transported thousands of miles from the mainland, which is too expensive for both the army and the navy.
bear.
After the military proposed it, the African Affairs Office was also very interested in it.
The localization in various parts of Southeast Asia and Baku has given officials of the African Affairs Yamen great inspiration!
Let them know that localization does not mean that all of Africa must be localized. You can do one place first, and then another place.
Of course, the conditions for partial localization are too restrictive, especially the complete elimination of indigenous entry, which is difficult to achieve in many places.
To this end, the African Affairs Office has held many consultations with the army and navy to strive for the joint efforts of the three parties to first localize South Africa, and then gradually plan to localize other places.
These three parties are all interested in each other. The basis for cooperation is already there, and there are even specific methods.
That is to directly ask the African labor service company to build a border wall more than 500 kilometers long. However, building the wall costs money, and the money required is quite a lot.
The reason why the matter was settled in the end was purely because of money. The military could make suggestions, but it was impossible for them to spend money to build the city wall.
The African Affairs Office itself is also a pauper. Although the South African local office is considered wealthy, it is only an overseas territorial state with only a few hundred thousand people. Even if it is rich, it is not as wealthy as this.
But this situation soon changed!
In the winter of the thirty-fifth year of Xuanping, a piece of news first spread in Loren City, an overseas territory of the Tang Dynasty overseas in eastern Africa, and then quickly spread to several other overseas territories of the Tang Empire in Africa. Even South Africa was severely affected.
Big stimulus.
When this news flows into these overseas territories, it will stimulate a large number of people to rush to Loren City, and then pour into the inland areas.
Where do they go?
A large area called Nello by the people of the Tang Dynasty.
You can tell from the name that this place is located in the inland area of Loren City. It is hundreds of kilometers away from Loren City. In such a far inland area, there are currently only a few adventure teams who are looking for money or life.
, no one will go in at all, not even the labor recruitment teams will go deep into these places.
This kind of place still maintains its original indigenous style and has a large number of indigenous people. Ordinary people from the Tang Dynasty would never go there.
But now, they are rushing to go there. After hearing about it, many people want to go in groups or even alone. Many commercial companies operating in Africa have also sent caravans to go quickly!
What news made countless people crazy?
What else could it be!
Of course it’s gold!
An adventurous team went to the inner Loren region for an adventure. When they returned to Loren City, they brought back nearly a hundred pieces of nugget gold. The largest piece weighed more than 20 kilograms!
There was no way to hide such a big news, and soon the adventure team split instantly. The members of the adventure team who had been to Nello all became fragrant buns and became very popular.
According to some members of the expedition team, gold is almost everywhere in the Nello area. When they pick up a handful of sand from the river, the sand is golden because it is filled with gold sand!
Gold, tons of gold!
This made the Tang people in South Africa completely crazy!
One expedition after another entered the Nello area, which also attracted the attention of the African Affairs Office.
Just one month later, the African Affairs Office personally organized an armed expedition of more than 2,000 people to go there. By the time they arrived, there were already at least a thousand people from the Tang Dynasty digging for gold in the Nello area.
Immediately afterwards, at the request of the African Affairs Yamen, the Army dispatched a mixed battalion to the area to protect the local gold mines.
Soon, an overseas territory of the Tang Dynasty that was farthest from the coastal areas was established: Nello State!
Later generations may find it strange that these two place names were used by the Tang Dynasty people, but in fact Loren City was Maputo in later generations. Of course, when the Tang Dynasty people came here and occupied it, it was not called Maputo yet.
The small number of local Portuguese people do not have any official name for the place. They just call it Lourenço Marquez after an early explorer.
After the people of the Tang Dynasty came here, they felt that the geographical environment here was not bad. There was a harbor here, which could be used as a supply port if properly developed.
The Nello area was actually the Johannesburg area in later generations.
There is nothing else in this place but a lot of gold!
As the largest gold mining area discovered on earth, at one time, the gold produced here was equivalent to 75% of the world's gold reserves!
One can imagine how terrifying the gold reserves here are.
Stimulated by gold, even though there were poisonous natives everywhere along the hundreds of kilometers along the way, they still could not stop the people of the Tang Dynasty from pursuing wealth.
Countless gold diggers are pouring in crazily, and major companies, regardless of whether they operate gold mines or not, any company that has business in Africa will send personnel to join in the fun.
Even after some merchant ships arrived in Loren City, after hearing that there was countless gold in Nello City, most of the sailors ran away on the spot, so that for a long time, many ships were moored in the port of Loren City.
It's not that the owners of these ships don't want to leave, it's that the sailors have gone to gold mining, and they can't leave even if they want to.
Not only ordinary sailors, but also some captains went to hunt for gold, and they even took the sailors with them, making countless shipowners vomit blood in anger.
Of course, with sailors and captains, it’s inevitable that the ship’s owner would abandon the ship and take people directly to pan for gold!