In order to better help the indigenous people develop their own agriculture and animal husbandry, the Tang Dynasty people would even take the initiative to provide advice to the indigenous people. For example, for the Swedes, the Tang Dynasty people inspected the local terrain and actively suggested that the Swedes could plant cocoa and cocoa on a large scale.
coffee.
Ever since, the Swedes have grown cocoa and coffee on a large scale in Western Ghana, and they don’t even grow food on a large scale.
Although the Swedish immigration in Africa was slightly weaker than the Tatars in the early stage, it was much stronger than the Spaniards and the English.
This also allowed the Swedes to receive more help from the Tang Dynasty people in their African immigration operations.
Especially help with transportation and business cooperation.
Because whether it is the Swedes or the Spanish or other people who want to immigrate to Africa, they all rely more on the steam ships of the Tang Dynasty. After all, the steam ships transport faster and can travel back and forth quickly. Needless to say, the back and forth is the same as in the sailing era.
The trip took too long.
At the same time, after they arrived in Africa, they had to rely on the support of food, agricultural tools, medicine and other materials provided by the Tang Dynasty in the early stage. Otherwise, if tens of thousands of people were sent there at once, most of them would probably starve to death.
However, the Tang Dynasty's transportation power in Europe was also limited, and its material supply capacity was not unlimited.
Although the shipping power of the Tang Empire was extremely developed, with the empire having more than 10 million tons of merchant ships, most of them were operating in the Western Pacific waters, and the rest were also running American routes, divided into Europe, Africa, and the Indian Ocean.
There are not many merchant ships in such areas.
These ships also have to give priority to meeting the shipping needs of the large number of Tang people in this area, so the ships that can be freed up to transport specifically for the indigenous people are limited.
Among the limited ships, the Tang Dynasty had to allocate part of its transportation capacity to the Ottomans. After all, the Ottomans had officially signed a relocation agreement with the empire. Many people in the empire were waiting for the Ottomans to migrate to Europe before they began to immigrate to the Ottoman region on a large scale.
Go.
The remaining capacity is allocated to other European countries, which is actually very limited.
This time, the Swedes took advantage of the fact that other countries had not yet taken large-scale actions, and took action first, seizing part of the Tang Dynasty's shipping capacity allocated to other European regions.
Under this situation, even if the Spaniards wanted to immigrate on a large scale, it would be difficult to find too many Tang Dynasty ships. They could only rely on a small number of ships for transportation, or simply rely on their own sailing ships, and
The transportation capacity of sailboats is not very good.
In this case, if they wanted to colonize on a large scale, they would have to wait for a while until the Tang Dynasty assigned more transport ships to Europe before they could make the trip.
Even though many Datang shipping companies have already made special plans to renovate old ships in response to Europe's relocation to Africa, shipping companies also need to wait for new ships to enter service and free up old ships to carry out special modifications.
It can be transported to European waters to engage in related business.
This time span is not short, and the transportation capacity of Datang steam ships in Europe will be very tight for at least a year and a half.
This means that the Swedes can use this period of time to establish an early advantage on the west coast of Africa.
Following the previous example of the Swedes, the Spaniards are actually starting to get anxious now. They also want to increase the scale of their colonization, but their transportation capacity cannot keep up. It is now difficult to find steam ships from the Tang Dynasty even if you have money.
However, the Spaniards are worthy of being an empire that never set, a colonial power. Even if they could not hire the steam ships of the Tang Dynasty, they just started a new round of large-scale immigration with the large number of sailboats they had.
Every sailing ship going south was packed with people.
As for material transportation, they themselves were too lazy to carry out material transportation. They directly signed a material supply contract with the Tang merchants and asked them to send them directly to the Spanish colonial port on the west coast of Africa. In this way, they did not even have to find a ship. The Tang merchants wanted to deliver the goods.
Naturally, freight ships will be arranged for door-to-door delivery.
The Spaniards who did this made them grit their teeth and immigrate 10,000 people to the southern Luanda area despite the lack of steam ship transportation capacity of the Tang Dynasty.
After the 49th year of Xuanping, all parts of Africa have become very lively.
On the west coast of Africa, from north to south, there is the Kingdom of Morocco, an indigenous kingdom that was originally here. To the south of the Kingdom of Morocco is the Kingdom of Denmark, which has migrated there. To the south of the Kingdom of Denmark is the colony of the United Provinces, and further south is the Gulf of Guinea.
In this area, there are the colonies of the Kingdom of Sweden in the western part of Ghana, the Tatar Kingdom of Tang Dynasty in the eastern part of Ghana, and the Tatar territory further south.
Continuing south is the colony assigned to the Neapolitans. After passing the Naples colony, there is a place where several other small European countries are arranged in a mess.
Continuing to the south is the territory of the Kingdom of Scotland, the Kingdom of Wales, and the Kingdom of England in the Northern Luanda region. This area is also called.
Further to the south is Luanda State, which is controlled by the African Affairs Office of the Tang Dynasty. This is a narrow coastal strip. South of Luanda State is the colony of the Kingdom of Spain. To the south of the colony of the Kingdom of Spain, there is also a colony of the Kingdom of Portugal.
It's just that now the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal are both under the rule of Philip II and belong to the United Kingdom, so these two places are also connected and developed together.
It's just that within the Kingdom of Portugal, especially the Duke of Braganza, who claims to be the only legitimate heir to the former King of Portugal, Sebastian I, has always wanted to regain independence. At that time, they also found the Tang Dynasty, saying that although
Portugal and Spain are now under the same king, but they are still two independent kingdoms, so in the African colonies, the Portuguese kingdom also hopes to have a separate colony.
At first they wanted to run to the east coast of Africa, away from the Spanish...
But the Tang Dynasty people were not sure.
People of the Tang Dynasty believed that since the mainland of Spain and Portugal were connected together in Europe, then their colonies in Africa should also be connected together.
As a result, in the southern part of Luanda do Sul, a slightly smaller territory was given to the Kingdom of Portugal to the south of the Spanish territory.
It's just that in theory, this colony is still together with the Spanish colony, and is called the Southern Luanda region, which also falls under the rule of Philip II.
If the Luanda do Sul region goes south, a bunch of small countries will be resettled in a mess.
After passing through the colonies of these small countries, there is a large no-man's land.