But in any case, the Nanyang Peninsula and the archipelago area are also at our doorstep. Immigration is more convenient and the cost is cheaper, so it is natural that the empire attaches great importance to it.
Of course, there is a reason why everyone likes to go to North America. The climate is similar to that in the mainland of the empire, and there are no serious diseases unique to tropical rainforests. There is basically no difference between the life of the people of the Tang Dynasty and that of the mainland.
It is also rich in resources, fertile land, and has no indigenous threats.
This is why many people in the empire who plan to immigrate first choose to go to North America.
In other places, there are more or less flaws.
Especially Nanyang, even if it is right at home, except for the maturely developed Luzon Island, other places are actually not very friendly to the people of the Tang Dynasty. If one is not careful, they will contract diseases and die.
As for India, everyone knows that the empire is not planning to localize in the Indian continent in the near future. Anyway, there is no hope in the next ten or twenty years, and there is no hope of going there.
Not to mention Africa, except for a small area in South Africa, which is pretty good, the rest are all barren mountains and rivers for the people of the Tang Dynasty. North Africa is full of sand, and Central Africa is a tropical rainforest area with a quite unfriendly climate, and the indigenous people are very harsh.
Vigorous.
As for Europe, if the empire wants to localize in Europe, it is estimated that many people will go there, but there is a war in Europe right now. Why don’t you see the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs tossing around Europe every day, provoking European countries to fight with the Tatars?
, that’s a war zone, what are you doing there!
In the end, people chose to go to North America.
Naturally, Li Xuan will not force the immigrants to go there, so he can only work on other aspects, such as making boat tickets free, giving more land, and giving more subsidies.
The Nanyang region, whether it is a peninsula or an archipelago, is an area with great development potential. It may not seem like a good place now, but with the advancement of the empire's medical and other science and technology, these places will become fertile ground.
It can easily feed hundreds of millions of people. If it is developed properly, it can even feed a billion people.
A place like this must be fully grasped.
Today's partial localization is definitely not Li Xuan's goal. It is just a process. Li Xuan's goal is to completely turn this large area into the land of the Chinese people.
Let the Nanyang region and the Huaxia region be integrated into one, becoming the foundation of the Tang Empire.
From this point of view, the importance of the Nanyang region is actually far greater than that of the Americas and Central Asia.
As for India, Europe, Africa and the like, it is even more incomparable.
As for other places, Li Xuan's idea was to occupy them as much as possible, and let the people of the Tang Dynasty travel around the world as much as possible, striving to turn the future world war into a Chinese civil war.
But for the Nanyang region, Li Xuan was prepared to turn this area into the foundation of the Chinese people.
This is also the reason why Datang implemented strict localization in the Nanyang region, and why Datang is willing to help the twelve Nanyang countries relocate to Africa.
However, the total population of Nanyang is only a few million. Obviously, this area cannot become the foundation of China. Now, leaving aside a few places such as Luzon Island, Banten Island, and Malacca State, other islands and peninsula areas are basically
There were not many people, and there were even many uncivilized natives inside.
If we don’t completely localize these areas now, in a few hundred years, these uncivilized indigenous people will probably be able to jump out and fight for independence and freedom.
While many officials in the empire, even the ministers on duty like Chen Lifu, boasted that they had considered the problem for several years or even ten years or even decades, the great Holy Emperor had already considered it for hundreds of years...
The way of thinking about problems is different, the ideas are different, and the resulting ways of doing things are also different.
Therefore, although many people did not understand it, the empire began a new round of large-scale immigration from Southeast Asia.
In order to satisfy the Holy Emperor, the Immigration and Reclamation Department planned to immigrate at least two million people to the Southeast Asian Peninsula and the Islands in thirty-eight years.
This number may seem like a lot, but it is much easier than immigrating to the Americas without having to travel across an ocean.
Many people can even take a train directly to the Guangdong and Guangxi areas, and then enter the peninsula. If you take a boat, you can get there by just taking a boat.
For the Immigration and Reclamation Department, simply organizing immigrants to Nanyang is not a big problem.
The real big problem is how to solve the high mortality rate after immigration to the Nanyang region and solve agricultural problems at the same time.
The high mortality rate is naturally due to various diseases brought by tropical areas. This thing is very troublesome. Even the good hygiene habits and treatment methods of the immigrants from the Tang Dynasty have not been able to completely conquer these tropical diseases so far.
Therefore, even now, the Tang Empire's immigration operations in Nanyang are mainly concentrated in a few mature areas, especially Luzon Island. The small Luzon Island now has a population of more than one million.
They account for more than one-third of the total immigrants from Nanyang.
In addition, a small number of areas in Malacca and Banten are also places where immigrants are concentrated, with a total number of hundreds of thousands.
With current scientific methods, the Tang Dynasty was still unable to conquer tropical diseases, so when immigrating, they chose to avoid undeveloped areas.
Also choose non-tropical areas.
What is a non-tropical area? That is Australia!
The Nanyang region of the Tang Empire included Australia. Although most of Australia was desert, there was a pretty good area in the southeastern region.
This area and the neighboring New Zealand Islands became new growth points for the empire's immigration in the Southeast Asia region.
In the past, the empire did not pay much attention to Australian immigration, especially in the Age of Sail when there were basically no immigrants.
Even in the age of steamships, there were not many.
But now, the empire is preparing to develop Australia on a large scale.
There are also prerequisites for preparing to develop Australia on a large scale. The climate and environment are relatively friendly and will not be as deadly as those in the tropical areas of Southeast Asia. This is a very critical factor.
On the other hand, there are no indigenous people in Australia. There may have been a small number of indigenous people in the past, but now, it is quite difficult to find an indigenous person in Australia.
In addition to the climate, apart from the indigenous people, the land in the southeastern region is good and suitable for farming, and there are many areas suitable for grazing.
The Army has long taken a fancy to the Australian region, and has set up two military horse farms there to breed military horses, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger. Currently, a considerable number of Tang people in Australia work for the Army Horse Farm.
In recent years, when Datang was waging wars overseas, many of the horses used were shipped directly from Australia.
Last year alone, the Army transported more than 10,000 war horses from Australia to fight in various regions.
In recent years, Australian horses produced in Australia have become quite famous. Australia has been regarded by the army as one of the three major horse farms of the empire. The other two horse farms are one in the northern grasslands of the empire and the other in the Central Asian grasslands.
In addition, Australia also has many high-quality minerals, such as coal and iron ore.
These are important reasons that promoted large-scale immigration to Australia from the empire.
However, the immigration development of Australia is still not the focus, the immigration development of the Nanyang Peninsula is the focus.
Especially the Nanyang Peninsula area close to Guangdong and Guangxi has officially begun large-scale development!