Chapter 2178 The Great Colony of Indigenous Countries
Following the United Kingdom of Spain and Portugal was the Kingdom of England.
After the English royal family, which was still in the midst of a civil war, heard the news, it almost made contact with the Tang Empire at the same time as the Spanish, only a few days later at most.
They first found out that the Tang Dynasty wanted to colonize Africa, and the places they wanted to go were similar to the Spanish, which belonged to the Luanda area.
However, after the Spaniards chose to be in the south of Luanda, they could only choose to be in the north of Luanda.
In fact, the English initially wanted to go to the Gulf of Guinea, such as the western part of Ghana controlled by the Tang Dynasty, but the eastern part of Ghana is the Tatar West Africa Province.
Although there is a Datang-controlled area of Ghana in the middle, the Datang-controlled area of Ghana is only limited to the coast and does not care about the inland.
If the English rush to western Ghana, the Tatars will bypass the Great Tang Ghana in minutes, and then directly block the English western colony of Ghana on land.
By then this place will become a dead land.
They don't have the courage to be neighbors with the Tatars. In this case, if they want to go to a slightly better place, they can only become neighbors with the Spaniards.
After the English obtained permission from the Tang Dynasty, they couldn't wait to send people south to Africa. Time was tight. They needed to establish coastal port colonial cities as soon as possible, and then use this as a basis to expand in the coastal areas, and finally go deep into the inland.
After Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom and England started, other countries could no longer sit still. If they arrived too late, they would have no place to stay.
Africa seems very big, and the Tang Empire generously put all places on the table, except for the coastal control areas, so you can go there if you like.
However, there are actually very few places where outsiders can establish a foothold. For example, on the western coast, currently only the Luanda area, the Gulf of Guinea area, and the Cape Verde area are more suitable.
There are more suitable places on the east coast of Africa, but there are also many countries to visit. The twelve Southeast Asian countries have already taken over a whole area of Central Africa, and the six Ottoman countries have taken over the southern coast of the Red Sea.
The remaining areas are the Somali region and the east coast of Africa on the other side of Mada Island, along the Mozambique Channel.
How should I put it? There are only a limited number of suitable places to stay. If you go there too late, you won’t be able to get there.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that there will be no place if you go late. The Tang Empire is a benevolent and righteous empire, and it is the head of the earth. It will not let people who want to go to African military countries have no place to go, but latecomers will definitely not get a share.
Good place.
Everyone can think of this kind of thing, and when they saw that the Tatars, the United Kingdom of Spain, Portugal, and the Kingdom of England had occupied several good places on the west coast, other countries couldn't help it, and hurriedly found the Tang Dynasty people to say...
To colonize Africa.
No matter how many people can be sent there now or how much development can be done, at least we must first secure a foothold.
As a result, the diplomats of the Tang Empire's consulates in Europe began to get busy, writing and drawing on the map of Africa with a bunch of indigenous envoys to confirm the African colonial sites of various indigenous kingdoms.
And many people are sensitive to the fact that although the Tang Dynasty people clearly divided the coastal areas for each country, they did not care about how to divide the inland areas.
This means subsequent expansion, but it also means war!
There are too many things involved here, enough for these indigenous countries to choose their foothold in Africa with great caution.
Not only are these indigenous countries cautious, but the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also very cautious about this. A large number of telegrams are sent back to Jinling from Europe, West Asia, India and other regions every day.
A group of officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs look at the map of Africa every day, analyze the data of each country, and then decide to allocate different regions to different countries.
There are many factors that need to be considered, including the indigenous country's current relationship with the empire, its future relationship with the empire, their current strength, future development potential, the country's relationship with other countries, etc.
These require careful analysis.
Finally, the specific footing points for each country will be gradually determined.
Just like the previous destination of the Tatars, the Tatars may think that this is their final choice under comprehensive choices, but in fact the Tang Empire determined from the beginning that the destination of the Tatars would be the Gulf of Guinea.
To put it bluntly, where they can go is decided by the empire and they cannot decide on their own.
This is true for the Tatars, and it is true for other countries as well.
Why were the Spaniards able to go to the southern region of Luanda? This place was one of the most suitable places for initial colonization in West Africa, and it was close to South Africa, a large area controlled by the empire.
There are three main reasons why the Spaniards can go here. One is that the Tatars cannot come here, and the second is that the Spanish Princess Elizabeth is one of the concubines of the Holy Emperor, and the most important thing is that she also gave birth to the Nineteenth Son of the Holy Emperor.
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She was the only one among the many foreign concubines who gave birth to a prince for the Holy Emperor and received the title of concubine.
In addition, Elizabeth also had inheritance rights to the Kingdom of Spain.
This also means that the nineteenth son of the emperor also has the right to inherit the Kingdom of Spain.
The existence of Elizabeth and the nineteenth son of the emperor inevitably affected the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' attitude towards the Kingdom of Spain.
At the same time, why can the English go to the north of Luanda? This is because people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs believe that after the Kingdom of Spain arrives in the south of Luanda, it cannot be a dominant force and must have an opponent who can contain them.
Apart from the Tatars, the only country in Europe that is suitable for the time being is the Kingdom of England.
The Kingdom of England itself is not actually that powerful, but its royal family and people are relatively aggressive in external expansion, especially colonial expansion, and have great potential for development.
The arrangements for Spain and England were made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and most of the arrangements for other countries were based on similar considerations.
For example, in the Kingdom of Sweden in Northern Europe, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to arrange them to the south of the Kingdom of Denmark. On the one hand, the Kingdom of Sweden and the Kingdom of Denmark are mortal enemies, and on the other hand, the Army of the Kingdom of Sweden is the first group in Europe to complete modernization reforms.
Yes, their combat effectiveness is not bad. When the Tatars marched eastward, they suffered great losses at the hands of the Swedish army.
Well, the Europeans in Germany were all finished, the Austrian dynasty was finished, and later France was also finished. Subsequently, the Kingdom of Denmark also lost their peninsula, but the Kingdom of Sweden still controlled the Nordic region.
The Tatars could not even win Finland back then, and they also suffered losses at the hands of the Kingdom of Sweden in some subsequent battles.
People in the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs believed that if the Kingdom of Sweden was thrown to the west of Ghana and south of the Kingdom of Denmark, they should be able to resist the expansion of the Tatars.
Most other countries have similar considerations in their decision-making decisions.
However, this consideration is still at a very superficial level, because the empire's senior officials actually don't care much about the situation of indigenous people from various countries after they immigrate to Africa. As long as there is no big country in Africa in the future, and then come out to fight against it,