Chapter 76 Truchen Empire (3)
Qitad looked at Toure.
"Third brother, tell me"
Toure is only twenty years old now. After hearing this, he quickly said, "Yes, Father"
"After our country occupied West Bengal, we first formed three regular brigades there, and then two, with a total of five regular brigades and 15,000 people"
"When we took over, there were about five million people in West Bengal. According to your instructions from your father, we implemented a plan to change the cages and birds, constantly attracting Assams, Arakans come to live and do things, and moved a large number of local Bengals to South Africa."
"Five years later, we have moved about 10,000 households and 50,000 people to South Africa, and moved 100,000 Assams and Arakans from the Assam region and the Arakans region"
"The transport ships in the meantime all used large ships built by ourselves. At first, they used local steam engines. Later, after the father's permission, they had already used steam engines produced in Kolkata since the last two years."
"But the capacity is still insufficient"
"About 10,000 Chinese households were moved from the Philippines and Batavia region in the Nanyang region. At this time, it was in Siam and Cambodia, and nearly 10,000 households were moved from there"
"Another 10,000 Alagans were moved to the Goa area, and they fought a war with the Marata Alliance, completely occupying the entire iron ore area in the Goa region, and signed a peace agreement with the leaders of the Marata Alliance."
"There are also using Bangladesh's high-quality coal resources to build coal-steel composites, shipyards, hemp spinning mills, cotton spinning mills, and cement factories in Kolkata. In accordance with my country's regulations, officials and schools are set up in various places. Nowadays, the steel output of Kolkata is almost the same as that of Stavropol"
"Alagan, Assam has a large number of excellent boatmen and sailors, and the scale of the shipyard is similar to that of Nikolayev, which can fully meet the needs of South Africa, Bangladesh and the Far East"
"Like the Far East, we have set up comprehensive military schools in Kolkata, recruited navies from the Nanyang Chinese, Assams and Arakans, and expanded two squadrons, all transported to the Far East jurisdiction"
"Bangladesh and Goa still have a squadron. By the way, we have set up a new brigade in Goa"
"Bangladesh is rich in precipitation, rice can be produced in three seasons a year, food can be supplied to Bangladesh, South Africa, and Far East, and can also support immigration operations in large quantities. At present, the income and expenditure in our jurisdiction can basically be balanced"
"With our support, the Mughal Empire launched a counterattack against the Maratha Alliance and regained a lot of territory, but in accordance with the instructions of the father, they maintained a rough balance between the two sides"
"The Ganges Plain occupied by the Mughal Empire is more prosperous than that of Bangladesh. There are many ethnic groups with similar faces to the East, according to the secret agreement with Alam II, and we have captured them in large quantities and transferred them to our country as conditions to support their war against the Maratha and Afghans."
"In the end, about 20,000 households migrated to Bangladesh, all of whom believe in Lamaism and are good at climbing mountains and wading waters. We built temples for them and recruited a brigade from them, called the Himalayan brigade"
"In the first half of this year, under our aggressive offensive, Assam agreed to join us, which greatly increased our strength. In accordance with the instructions of the father, I sent the Himalayan brigade to assist the Assams invading Myitkyina. From then on, my jurisdiction bordered Yunnan in the Qing Dynasty"
"How to get along with the Qing Dynasty next requires further instructions from Your Majesty"
Qitade thought about it.
"Don't pay attention to the Qing Dynasty. Your focus is to migrate mountain tribes such as Manipur and Mizoram that live on the mountains between Bangladesh and Myanmar to the Bangladesh region as much as possible. I guess there will be no fewer people there"
"When migrating, try to let the Assams come forward as possible, and use more temptations by themselves, otherwise they will not be able to clean up once they run to the mountain"
"In addition, the Arakan area was completely occupied and some Chinese, Bangladeshis and mountain tribes were incorporated, making it a state in the Bangladesh region"
"And three brigades and a squadron are formed here. Timur captured Edo Castle this time and obtained a lot of Ishimiyama silver. He can allocate half of it to you as a expense for rebuilding the Arakan area"
He is probably the only one who knows Qitad's idea.
"After taking Myitkyina, if I take Alagan again, I can threaten the country from two places in the northwest and southwest of Myanmar. If it attacks Alagan, we can start from Myitkyina, Mandalay, the northern capital, so that it dare not cause rash at will"
"If he attacks Myitkyina, I will attack the Yangon area by sea, so he can only develop north and east. By then, the Qing Dynasty and Southeast Asia will cause chaos, and our country will have further opportunities."
He asked again: "Is there any movement when Meng Yun retreated?"
"No, he retreated and did not return to Alagan, but went directly to his fiefdom, Beimue. There has been no movement in recent years. However, according to our country's intelligence, he has been preparing for war. His brother Meng Bo lost all Siam territory due to the unfavorable attack on Siam. He did not dare to blame him when he returned to his homeland."
"After Siam's restoration, the new master Daxin came to power. He was a descendant of Chinese and was very powerful. Not only did he drive away Meng Bo, but he also invaded Laos and Cambodia in one go, which caused chaos in Southeast Asia..."
Speaking of this, he looked at Timur, because the affairs there were under the jurisdiction of Timur's Far East Governor.
Timur nodded, "Brother, this is how it is"
"After Guangdong obtained the Tiandihui population to be prepared to fight against Qing and restore Ming Dynasty, our country moved it to the Peking University New Year area on the Malay Peninsula. With our support, we drove away the local Sultan and its Bugis mercenaries and established an independent kingdom, with Li Tongkuan, the leader of the Hong Gang in Guangdong, as the king."
"In recent years, they have made a concerted effort to take down Songkhla, Luokun, Phuket and other places on the Malay Peninsula in taking advantage of the civil strife in Siam. Nowadays, they are already a country with a population of hundreds of thousands."
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"It was Daxin, and it was also called Zheng Xin among Chinese people. It was Zheng Xin who attacked Cambodia. Cambodia asked for help from Hexian Town in its southern border. It was also a de facto country occupied by Chinese in Guangdong."
"Hexian Town has few troops and is unable to rescue Cambodia. Li Tongkuan happened to know and wanted to annex Hexian Town. However, he also knew that it would not be possible without our support, so he asked the Singapore garrison in our country for instructions. I dare not decide such a big deal, and happened to come back to attend the conference and ask the emperor to give in."
Qitad nodded, "What do you mean?"
"Brother, ministers, what I mean is that nowadays, the entire Malay Peninsula is divided into various places, and the largest Johor country is still controlled by us. It is better to unify the Malay Peninsula first, and then migrate all the Chinese scattered in the Southeast Asian region here"
"The emperor's brother has always warned us that we will benefit from each other, and that we will not benefit from the division. It is best to slowly accumulate strong strength and then expand. Otherwise, if we expand everywhere before we have a certain strength, we will be backfired"
Qitad nodded, "Very good. He drew 10,000 people from the Japanese samurai who remained in Ryukyu, and then carried out simple training to them and put them all on the Malay Peninsula, so that he could cooperate with Li Tongkuan's army to continue attacking north, with the goal of taking down Banburi Prefecture in Siam"
"At this time, Zheng Xin will definitely be attracted, so he will naturally rescue Cambodia"
"Then negotiate with him to give up Chumphon and all areas south of the country and return the Panburi to him. He must have known our actions in Bangladesh and should agree to it."
"Didn't you just say that you will migrate another million Japanese in the next five years, 300,000 to Bangladesh, 300,000 to South Africa, and 300,000 to the Malay Peninsula"
"Your future goal is to take down the entire Malay Peninsula"
This matter is obviously not so easy. Timur needs to plan it carefully after he goes back. It is not easy to integrate Li Tongkuan, Hexian Town, Zheng Xin and the various sultans on the Malay Peninsula, let alone the Dutch will not stand by.
Qitad looked at Onktai at the end.
"Father"
Onktai said.
"With the support of the Far East and Bangladesh immigrants, our country has no rivals in the Wonbu area. At present, there are 30,000 households and nearly 150,000 people in our jurisdiction. These people have brought a large number of diseases and caused a large number of local black people to die."
"At present, the territory in our jurisdiction has expanded to the north, west and south by about 300 miles, and the grain produced has been self-sufficient"
"The prospectors have gone deep into all directions for thousands of miles in the past five years and finally discovered something"
"About 1,200 miles northwest of Wonbu Port, it is a sparsely populated plateau area with many black people. Most of them live in arid and rainy valley, claiming to be Tswana people"
"These blacks are quite tall, and it seems that they can smel iron, bronze, and a small number of muskets, most of which were exchanged from the Dutch and Portuguese."
"The locals in the most populous place are called Yigabi. The Zulu people followed us to explore the mines and they could understand their language slightly. Yigabi means the Golden Valley"
(Igobi, Johannesburg, later generations)
"The place with Yigaobi as the center and a radius of hundreds of miles is called Haoteng by the locals, which means the land of gold"
"It turns out that this place is indeed rich in gold. Perhaps the local blacks realized that this thing can be used for decoration and exchanged for white people for a lot of things, so they gathered there in large quantities to mine gold, but their mining methods are very primitive and the yield is not high."
"It seems that they are still very wary of white people. As soon as we walked to that valley, we came to us two big trees, each with two dead bones hanging on them, and there were clothes on them. We were obviously missionaries"
"Our Eastern Host made them slightly lower their guard, and with more gifts given to them, they forced us to walk nearby."
"Father, in the end, our people lingered around the Golden Valley for a year, and finally gained a lot. With the Golden Valley as the center, the farthest is only a hundred miles away, there are gold mines, coal mines, iron mines, and copper mines, all of which are of high quality and shallow buried deposits"
"Also, after leaving Wangbu Port, all the way to the Golden Valley, it is a vast plateau, where it can not only plant some dry crops, but also grazing in large quantities. It is really a treasure land. In my opinion, it is better than the North Caucasus, at least the temperature is much milder."
Qitad thought to himself: "Isn't this the Johannesburg-Pertoria area in later generations? Haven't the white Europeans discovered such a good place yet? It's impossible"
Then he asked, "How many of them are there?"
Weng Ketai looked furious, "Father, the child is about to say this. We originally thought that there were many black people near Wangbu, but the more we walked inland, we found that this was not the case at all."
(Wangbu, later generations of Durban Port)
"From Wangbu Port to the north, to the northwest, and to the west, they are all vast plateau areas with few forests, mostly savannas, and densely covered with mountains and rivers"
"Not to mention other directions, just from Wangbu Port to the Golden Valley, the valley area is occupied by tall black people who call themselves Soto and Tswana"
"They can farm, but they can't fertilize. In a few years, when the land is not strong enough to support the growth of crops, they will start to migrate and transfer to the next valley"
"Later, perhaps influenced by the white Europeans, these people were tall and strong, and were excellent candidates for black slaves. In addition to a small number of them moved to the coastal areas, they specialized in the business of arresting black slaves and exchanging supplies to white people."
Chapter completed!