Naturally, the Tatars will not violate the foundation of their country and return to serfdom or even slavery. This is a historical retrogression.
Therefore, although they also set up plantations in Africa, they only used prisoners of war for farming, not slaves or serfs. They did not even plan to adopt this strategy for long.
As long as they are allowed to wait past the initial stage, they will be able to continue to transport large numbers of immigrants from Europe. When hundreds of thousands or millions of immigrants are brought in, the Tatars will have to worry about insufficient land.
The Tatars began to immigrate in Africa, and naturally the Spanish and other European countries would not lag behind.
But following the Tatars, the first to take action was not Spain or England, nor the United Provinces, but the Kingdom of Sweden!
After they learned that the Tatars, Spain and other countries had signed relevant agreements with Datang, they also quickly found people from Datang to discuss and quickly finalized it.
Later, when various countries were preparing to start immigration, the Tatars had a big business and a large scale. However, Spain and England seemed to have rich experience, but it was also because of the limitations of past experience that their scale was small.
After half a year has passed, Spain has only established a small coastal town in its African colony, with only a few thousand immigrants.
You have to know that this is not the age of sails. In the age of sails, immigration was very troublesome. Not only did the mortality rate be high, but the sailing speed was slow and severely affected by the monsoon. Ships could not set sail whenever they wanted.
This also leads to the fact that when going on an ocean voyage, a round trip often takes a year and a half.
Nowadays, there are steam ships from the Tang Dynasty. It is very fast to go from Europe to the west coast of Africa. It can be reached in a few days if it is close, or ten and a half months if it is farther, and the most important thing is that it is not affected by the monsoon.
Due to the influence of ocean currents, navigation is possible at any time.
Compared with the sail era, this transportation efficiency is much higher.
Although the ship belongs to the Tang Dynasty, these European countries can also hire the Tang Dynasty's ships to go to Europe, and they can also take the regular flights opened by the Tang Dynasty specifically for local people.
This has greatly reduced the cost of long-distance travel, which has also greatly reduced the cost of European countries' immigration to Africa.
Another more critical factor is to prepare enough funds when you mainly immigrate. You don't have to worry about running out of food, farm tools, and construction materials when you get there. You can buy them directly from the Tang Dynasty people.
When various countries immigrated, the large amounts of food they needed in the early stages were basically purchased from people in the Tang Dynasty.
People in the Tang Dynasty make money, immigration from European countries becomes more convenient and smoother, and they don’t have to worry about starving to death after running there. This is a win-win situation.
It is precisely because of this convenience that whether the Tatars or the Ottomans move relatively slowly, they often organize large fleets of thousands or even tens of thousands of people to go there.
However, countries such as Spain and England have taken much smaller steps. Currently, Spain only has a few thousand immigrants in Africa.
But the Kingdom of Sweden is an exception. Although they are small and weak, their colonial actions are not slow at all.
They followed the Tatars and sent the first batch of immigrants, also mainly soldiers and craftsmen, with a number of 3,000 people. Subsequently, they successively sent a total of 15,000 immigrants.
Now the Kingdom of Sweden has more than 18,000 people in its various colonial settlements on the western coast of Ghana, and the total number of immigrants is continuing to increase.
The reason why the Kingdom of Sweden is so eager to immigrate on a large scale is because they feel tremendous pressure.
On the one hand, the pressure comes from the Tang Dynasty people!
Ever since the Tatars handed over a large area of Eastern Europe and the former Russian Principality to the Tang Dynasty, the Swedes sadly found themselves becoming neighbors of the Tang Dynasty.
While the neighbors of the Tang Dynasty can be good or bad, the good thing is that they can take advantage of being close to the Tang Dynasty and develop some industries to make money, but the disadvantages are even greater!
The people of the Tang Dynasty would put pressure on the Swedes every three days, asking them to manage the coastal fishermen and the people in Finland and not let them sneak into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
After these illegal immigrants were caught by the Tang Dynasty, they would be repatriated to the Kingdom of Sweden. What's more terrible is that the Kingdom of Sweden would also need to pay for the food and accommodation of these repatriated people.
In the past year, Datang repatriated many batches of Swedes who had smuggled themselves into the country. For this alone, the Kingdom of Sweden was forced to pay a total of 300,000 Tang Yuan in repatriation expenses.
This makes the Kingdom of Sweden very sad and helpless at the same time!
In fact, they already strictly manage coastal areas. Fishermen are strictly managed when they go out to sea. As many people go out as they come back, they also set up a patrol system to block off the sea areas and prohibit fishermen from running around.
At the same time, a blockade was set up directly in the southeastern region of Finland, which is the area bordering Datang, and a border patrol team of more than 5,000 people was deployed.
And all the people near the border were forcibly relocated.
This is to avoid large-scale population smuggling.
But it is still impossible to completely eliminate smuggling!
The Tang Dynasty people don't care what the Swedes do. Anyway, after catching the smugglers, they will send them back and let the Swedes pay for their food and accommodation.
The Swedes estimate that if this continues, just the cost of repatriation plus border patrol costs will cost 700,000 to 800,000 yuan a year.
This is hundreds of thousands of Tang Yuan dollars. For a medium-sized indigenous country like the Kingdom of Sweden, this is also a considerable burden.
What’s more, it’s frustrating!
For this reason, the Swedes are very cruel. Instead of using the money to seal the border and pay for repatriation, they might as well use it to immigrate to Africa.
As a result, they began to migrate people to Africa on a large scale. At first, they sent all the repatriated people to Africa, and then they also started to move people from the Eastern Haiyan and Finland areas.
Let's move them all to Africa first, so that they won't have to think about how to sneak into the Tang Dynasty every day.
These money-losing pariahs know the beauty of the Tang Dynasty, but there is no need to think about it. Even if you cross illegally, you will not live in France. The people of the Tang Dynasty do not welcome immigrants.
If you really want to go to the Tang Dynasty, then study hard, save money, and try to get a temporary resident status from the Tang Dynasty in the future!
In the past few years, some Swedes have worked hard and luckily passed the application for a temporary residence permit from the Tang Dynasty. After obtaining the temporary residence permit, they were able to live and work in various overseas territories of the Tang Dynasty, becoming the temporary residence of the Tang Dynasty that many people envied.
Residents, there is even a small hope that they will be officially naturalized in the future and become real people of the Tang Dynasty.
This is the right way to become a Tang Dynasty person!