In the early years, the Holy Emperor entrusted three princes to North America.
They are the fifth son of the emperor born to Concubine Zhuang and Prince Li of Jin.
Followed by the sixth son of the emperor, Prince Zheng Li Yu, born to Concubine Kang.
The third is the seventh son of the Emperor, King Li Shan of the Song Dynasty, who was born to Concubine Jin who died early and was raised by Empress Dong.
The above three princes are all princes who have vassalized North America. They are also the only three vassal kings conferred by the Tang Dynasty in North America.
Of course, although there are only three vassal kings in North America, it does not mean that the three vassal kings can divide the entire land of North America.
Although it is said that when the Holy Emperor first ennobled these three princes, he divided most of the North America that he controlled and gave them to them. For example, at the beginning, the fifth prince and Jin Wang Li Yi were awarded more than just Xinjinshan Prefecture.
There is also the northern state, but now, he only has an expanded Xinjinshan state as a fiefdom.
The sixth son of the emperor, King Zheng Li Yu, was also granted the title of Wuhu Prefecture and Central Prefecture in his early years, and the Central Prefecture of that year actually included a large part of the current New South Island. Later, when North America changed its state, his fiefdom became
The expanded Wuhu Prefecture.
The seventh son of the emperor, King Li Wei of Lu, was granted the title of Sanhe Prefecture and Nanhe Prefecture, but now there is only one enlarged Nanhe Prefecture.
This is because after Li Xuan adjusted the states in North America last year, he officially divided them into seven states. He also adjusted the fiefdoms of the three princes. They did not let them continue to rule multiple states, but one state per person.
At the beginning, Li Xuan mainly considered that North America was a good place. If he only gave it to three princes, it would not be fair to the other princes. For example, the ninth prince, King Lu, could only conquer the Lapu State in South America.
And Li Xuan still has many princes, and now there are seven or eight princes who have not yet reached the age of enfeoffment. Li Xuan has to consider that other princes also have a fiefdom.
As a result, in today's North America, three of the seven states are vassal fiefdoms, but there are still four states that have not been enfeoffed. Among these four states, Xinnanzhou and Sanhezhou are where the empire is located.
The true essence of North America.
Moreover, Li Xuan is not planning to enfeoff this new Nanzhou in the future. This place is too important, and Li Xuan plans to keep it under the direct jurisdiction of the empire.
Let’s not talk about the follow-up, let’s just talk about the current situation in North America. The three major vassal kings have been ruling North America for many years. Even if they themselves are useless and have no talent, there must be a large group of talented people in their respective palaces.
These people spend their days thinking about how to help their princes control real power, develop fiefdoms, and accumulate strength in order to be prepared for future changes.
What changes?
No one dares to say this, but everyone knows that it is the chaos after the death of the Holy Emperor.
Nowadays, the Tang Empire seems to rule the world, but there are still many internal hidden dangers, especially the conflicts between the mainland and overseas territories. They can be suppressed in a short time, but they will definitely not be suppressed in the long run.
This can be seen from the situation in North America in recent years.
In this regard, many ministers in the court, especially those military and political officials, believe that in order to strengthen control over overseas territories, it is best to completely prohibit the localization and industrialization of overseas territories.
Let overseas territories become suppliers of local agricultural products and industrial raw materials, and dumping grounds for industrial products.
As long as the overseas territories do not have enough industry to arm their troops, then even rebellion will not be possible.
This was the unified thought of many important officials of the Tang Dynasty.
but!
The Holy Emperor doesn’t think so!
The Holy Emperor Li Xuan knew very well that forced suppression could not fundamentally solve the problem.
You can ostensibly ban the outflow of machinery and equipment, but if someone smuggles it and secretly builds an arsenal, it will actually be difficult to find it locally. The Tatars can smuggle some of the machinery and equipment from the empire, let alone the overseas territories within the empire system.
Secondly, even if you can prohibit the outflow of machinery and equipment, you cannot prevent the outflow of talent.
Didn’t you see that countless people immigrate overseas every year, especially those who go to North America? Although most of them are farmers, there is also no shortage of highly educated and highly skilled talents.
For these high-tech talents, they can polish a machine tool by hand, and then use the hand-made machine tool as an industrial master machine to manufacture more machine tools, and then more mechanical equipment.
As long as they have enough talents, they can establish a preliminary and simple industrial system within a few years, even if they cannot purchase local machinery and equipment.
Therefore, it is unrealistic to strictly focus on localization and prohibit technology leakage.
You can restrain it for a while, a year, or ten years, but what about fifty years or a hundred years?
Besides, even within the empire, there are many people who support overseas localization, such as companies that also have operations in overseas regions.
For example, American Mining Company is a typical example. Although their company is headquartered in Shanghai, their main business is in North America. They own multiple gold, silver, and copper mines in North America.
At the same time, they have always been promoting localization in the Americas. At the very least, they must allow their mining industry to use machinery and equipment, so that they can expand production capacity and get involved in basic minerals such as coal and iron ore.
Instead of relying on manual mining of gold and silver like now, the cost is high and the business is difficult to expand.
Also, the empire's Pacific Oil Company has also discovered traces of oil in the Americas. Since this year, it has been advocating partial localization in the Three Rivers continent in North America, following the example of the Baku region, and then they can exploit oil!
In other words, even within the empire, there are many people who support the localization of North America.
Those who oppose it and those who support it all serve their own interests and can find a lot of reasons.
As for the Holy Emperor, he continues to hold off on the current situation until radio comes out, ships can sail faster, and guns are more technologically advanced, and then he will gradually let go of localization in the Americas.
It's impossible to suppress it anyway, so it's better to take control slowly by yourself.
However, Holy Emperor Li Xuan could probably predict what would happen after North America was completely localized.
Rebellion is a high probability.
Especially when there is a conflict of interest between North American manufacturing and local manufacturing, even if the three vassal kings are unwilling, the people below will push them to resist Jinling. However, as long as the local side continues to maintain technological excellence, especially
With military and technological advantages, there should be no problem in continuing to suppress North America.
As for what problems will arise in the longer future, Li Xuan doesn't care. Anyway, those will be decades or even hundreds of years later.
It would have to be his prince Li Hao or simply his grandsons who have to worry about it!