Chapter 1944: The Tang Dynasty never interfered in the internal affairs of the indigenous people
According to the agreement reached between the Tang Empire and the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire will move a large number of people from the above-mentioned areas back to increase their population.
Of course, not everyone is willing to return to the Ottoman Empire, but people in the Ottoman Empire are not vegetarians. If they say they will take the local indigenous people with them, they will naturally take the local indigenous people with them.
Population is a valuable asset for any country, and the Ottoman Empire was no exception.
These people can farm, and they can produce young men and send them to the battlefield to fight the Tatars. No matter what, these people are useful.
How to carry out the migration of indigenous people from Egypt and West Asia is a matter of the Ottoman Empire and has nothing to do with the Tang people.
People in the Tang Dynasty were too lazy to care.
However, these were only limited to areas controlled by the Ottomans themselves. In fact, in many places, the Ottomans only controlled part of urban areas, and they were unable to actually control large areas.
Especially many tribes in the desert, the Ottomans have never had any control over them.
But Datang cannot ignore it!
Since this place was in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, they had to turn a blind eye to the local indigenous people. After several colonial officials from the Red Sea Affairs Office visited other areas.
It was really unbearable to see the indigenous tribesmen chewing sand in the wind every day. I immediately reported it to my superiors and asked my superiors to find a better place for these indigenous people to live.
To this end, superior officials quickly agreed and took relevant actions quickly.
It can't be too soon. The first batch of official immigrants organized by the Imperial Immigration and Reclamation Division will arrive soon, and officials from the Red Sea Affairs Office and its affiliated states and counties, as well as staff from the Suez Canal Company, have already arrived to start work.
After a large number of immigrants arrive, we can't let the newly arrived immigrants and indigenous people live together.
This is a mistake to make, and it is also a huge political mistake.
Political opponents can label Dong Liqun as a man who shakes localization in a matter of minutes.
Therefore, arrangements must be made for the natives before large numbers of immigrants arrive.
For this reason, local officials requested the cooperation of the military and began to organize large-scale immigration!
In order to give these indigenous people a better living environment in the future, the empire will very humanely move them to central Africa for free to live with the twelve Southeast Asian countries and the local African indigenous people.
As for how they get along with the twelve Southeast Asian countries and the indigenous Africans, that is the business of these indigenous people. The Tang Empire has always adhered to the principle of not interfering in the internal affairs of the indigenous peoples.
Because of the big things happening among the indigenous people, the people within the Tang Dynasty, especially the higher-ups in the empire, were really too lazy to pay attention to them.
If we don’t have time to pay attention to the internal affairs of the indigenous people, we might as well discuss what to eat for late-night snacks.
However, based on what the Twelve Nanyang Countries have done in central Africa in recent years, it is estimated that the Twelve Nanyang Nations will give these new neighbors the warmest welcome with gunfire.
These are not what the people of the Tang Dynasty care about. The people of the Tang Dynasty are only responsible for sending away the natives and finding a place for them to settle down. The rest will be up to them on their own.
You can't expect Datang to be the nanny of these natives, feeding them like shit.
After the Ottomans moved several million people, the remaining approximately one million people were planned to be sent to Africa en masse by the Tang Dynasty.
Next, their focus will shift to accepting and settling immigrants.
As for the development of the canal, that is a matter for the Suez Canal Company. Although it has something to do with their local officials, the relationship is not significant in terms of time.
This ultra-large-scale project is ostensibly the responsibility of a canal company, but in fact it is directly controlled by the empire, most directly by the military. Therefore, local officials in the Red Sea Affairs Yamen do not pay much attention to this canal.
Construction, because of this, they can't interfere.
What they care more about is getting hundreds of thousands of imperial immigrants within a certain period of time.
This will be enough to ensure that the entire canal area will be under the control of the Chinese for a long time no matter how it changes in the future.
Well, it is limited to Chinese control, not imperial control.
Because Li Xuan didn't know when the empire would collapse and split.
But even if the empire collapses, the Chinese people scattered around the world will still control the most important strategic arteries and the most fertile land on the earth to ensure the prosperity and survival of the Chinese people.
Because the Holy Emperor Li Xuan attached great importance to the Red Sea region, the officials of the empire naturally also paid attention to it.
These important ministers who were able to get up were not stupid. Although they all believed that the Red Sea area was nothing but sand and had no economic value, but just a canal was enough.
Especially the military, both the army and the navy, are vigorously promoting the construction of the Suez Canal and supporting the military baseization of the entire canal area.
Just like Ceylon and the Panama Canal Zone.
To ensure the effective extension of the empire's military power on a global scale.
In this case, the candidate to supervise the Red Sea Affairs Yamen is very important.
This supervisor, like the supervisors in other areas of the Tang Empire, was a dispatch and was called the "Minister of Civil Affairs Supervising the Red Sea". From now on, the people will call him the Minister of the Red Sea.
Just like the Minister of America, the Minister of Nanyang, the Minister of India, and the Minister of Africa.
Such an important position naturally requires the selection of a capable leader.
Li Xuan personally selected the personnel for this position, and finally selected Dong Liqun, director of the West Asia Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the supervising minister of Red Sea affairs. His administrative level is comparable to that of the affairs yamen in other regions, and the supervisor is the second grade.
At the same time, he was awarded the virtual title of lecturer of the Hanlin Academy.
It has been the practice of the Tang Empire in recent years to assign false titles to top local civil servants sent abroad. However, this thing is considered honorary and has no practical significance.
There are too many officials of the Tang Dynasty who hold the title of Imperial Lecturer, I dare not say, but there are still dozens...
In the early years, some important local ministers were assigned to the post of the Inspectorate. However, later, taking into account the independence of the Inspectorate, the post of the Inspectorate was finally abolished, and some mid-level and senior officials were assigned to the Imperial Academy.
It can be regarded as an honor given to the emperor's close ministers. It has no practical significance. Basically, the top leaders in every province will have such a title from the Hanlin Academy.
Therefore, adding titles cannot reflect the true political status of Tang Dynasty civil servants.
Even in many cases, rank cannot reflect their political status.
Officials of the fourth or even fifth rank have actual power that overwhelms the governors, and there are too many department heads.
What can truly reflect the political status of Datang officials is their actual affairs. This is the only criterion for measuring their power.