When Elizabeth entered the Imperial Palace of the Tang Dynasty, her courtiers, namely the dozens of officials from the delegation she brought from Spain and the hundreds of soldiers of the Knights, had also boarded the carriage provided by the Tang Dynasty.
ships, preparing to take them to the Principality of Chile.
Although these people were Spanish before, they had already sworn allegiance to Elizabeth when they were in Spain, so strictly speaking, their status had become people of the Principality of Chile.
The Principality of Chile has now become a principality under the Tang Dynasty, because to a certain extent, they can be regarded as half of the Tang Dynasty.
Datang has also found a way to deal with these people, which is to issue them temporary residence permits and treat them as temporary residents.
Not only them, but also the Spanish officials and soldiers currently serving and stationed in the Principality of Chile. If they do not leave and are willing to swear allegiance to Elizabeth, then these people will also become people of the Principality of Chile, and they will also receive
Datang Temporary Residence Permit.
However, even if these people are added up, there will actually not be many people in the newly born Principality of Chile. The colonial officials and soldiers dispatched before add up to only a few hundred people. If you include the approximately 600 people who are currently going there, all of them will be
Altogether, there are thousands of people.
This is mainly because the previous Spanish rule in South America was mainly divided into two parts, one was the Viceroyalty of Peru, and the other was the Portuguese-controlled area.
However, Portugal is now controlled by Spain. Although it still retains the name of the kingdom, the king has become Philip II, so the Tang Dynasty often treats the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Spain as one.
Although the Portuguese were very dissatisfied with this, the Tang Dynasty people were too lazy to pay attention to them. The Tang Dynasty would talk to whoever was the king, and the Tang Dynasty was too lazy to pay attention to the intricate internal fighting among the indigenous people.
The Viceroyalty of Peru controlled by Spain has its center of governance in Lima, and its main development area is the northern region of South America. It is not very concerned about the development of the Chilean region and has only established a number of strongholds along the coast.
The total number of immigrants is only a few thousand.
And quite a few of them are colonial officials and garrison soldiers.
In fact, these colonial strongholds were mostly used as supply ports and for trading with local indigenous people. They mainly hired local indigenous people to mine guano and saltpeter, and then resold them to the Tang Dynasty people.
Therefore, it can be said that the foundation for the subsequent development and management of the Principality of Chile is very weak. The Tang Dynasty people attach great importance to this, and the ministers of the Principality of Chile under Elizabeth also attach great importance to it.
They knew that the Tang Empire was preparing to develop the guano and saltpeter of the Principality of Chile on a large scale. If this was done well, it would not be a problem for them, the principality of Chile's ministers, to explode overnight.
It's just that the foundation is still too weak. It will be very difficult to develop it on a large scale, which is even more difficult than when the Spaniards developed the northern part of South America.
The main areas where the Spaniards immigrated and developed were mainly the Mexican region in North America. In South America, they were mainly concentrated in the northern region.
Not very interested in the southern region.
The main reason is that transportation in the northern region is more convenient. They don't have to go around the dangerous southern tip of South America. They can take the land route across the narrow Central American region and then reach the Caribbean Sea.
At the same time, you can also directly contact the Mexican region from Lima and other places. After contacting the Mexican region, you can join forces to trade directly across the Pacific to Asia.
That is to say, in the early years, the Spanish conducted a global treasure ship route for many years.
Of course, the Spaniards have long stopped engaging in global shipping. On the one hand, the Tang Dynasty has adopted strict localization measures. Needless to say, local ports, even many ports in overseas territories prohibit the entry of indigenous ships.
, although in theory Spanish ships can continue to enter the Pacific and Indian Oceans, it is already difficult to find suitable supply and trading ports.
And more importantly, the Tang Navy is not a good thing. They directly blockade the South African Strait and the South American Strait. Any ship passing through must pass the test of the Datang Navy.
With the strength of the Tang Dynasty's navy, they can definitely block these two sea areas.
On the other hand, there was no need for them, because the Tang Dynasty people shipped their goods to Ceuta at their doorstep, and they could even be directly transferred to various coastal ports in Europe through Ceuta.
There was no need for the Spaniards to risk their lives in sailing ships and sail across the sea to trade with the Tang Dynasty.
And when they sell their goods, they don’t have to work hard to transport them to Datang, because the merchants of Datang will come to buy them themselves and then ship them away.
Door-to-door delivery and door-to-door purchase.
This kind of trade is so convenient. You can make money without risking your own business.
Therefore, most of the Spaniards' overseas trade has begun to transform now. It is mainly concentrated on European offshore transportation trade, purchasing Datang goods from Ceuta, and then transporting them to other places for sale.
As for ocean transportation, they still retain the transportation from the mainland to the American colonies, but the scale of this ocean transportation is getting smaller and smaller, because most of their goods are sold directly to the Tang Dynasty in the colonies, and there is no need to transport them back to the mainland.
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The Spanish's development and management of overseas colonies has turned into operating colonies, mainly selling output directly to the Tang Dynasty to make money.
Sometimes the Spanish immigration ships even directly hired ships from the Tang Dynasty, because they found that the cost of transporting them on their own sailboats was higher than hiring cheap immigration ships from the Tang Dynasty.
It can be seen from the fact that in the thirty-seventh year of Xuanping, the Spanish only had 16 merchant ships traveling to and from the Americas. The Spanish ocean transportation has shrunk significantly in just over ten years.
Instead, a large number of Tang Dynasty steamships were active in global waters.
The ships of the Tang Dynasty transported various local industrial products to the world, and then transported various agricultural products, industrial raw materials, specialties and other products back from around the world.
Not to mention the trade between the Tang Dynasty and its overseas territories, let’s talk about the trade between the Tang Dynasty and the Spaniards. Most of the specialties produced by the Spaniards in the Americas, including coffee, cocoa, tobacco, mahogany, dyes and other commodities, amounted to more than a hundred
Ninety percent of them were purchased and shipped away by the Tang Dynasty people.
At the same time, the Spanish used the money earned from selling these goods to purchase various goods from the Tang Dynasty, including traditional tea, porcelain, silk and other goods, as well as various industrial products, such as perfume, soap, cloth, steel products and farm tools,
Various swords and plates, guns and weapons, etc.
Almost everything the Tang Dynasty was willing to export, the Spaniards wanted!