In the spring of 1773, the dry season in Nanyang arrived.

Kitard left Singapore and prepared to go to Ha Tien Town.

At this time, a full year had passed since Truchin took over the place.

Previously, more than 100,000 Chinese from the entire Malay Peninsula, Sumatra Island and its surrounding islands, including the Tiandi Congregation, which had just suffered a tragic defeat, had moved to Ha Tien Town.

About 70,000 people from the Philippines also moved there.

Adding in the 10,000 households of Japanese immigrants, 10,000 households of Korean immigrants who arrived there earlier, and the nearly 50,000 local Chinese, Khmer, and Guangnan households, the population of Ha Tien Town has expanded dramatically to more than 500,000!<

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After a year of construction, Ha Tien City in the west, Timur City (Can Tho) in the middle, Saigon and Vung Tau in the east have begun to take shape. With Chitard watching from the side, Timur City as the capital

It has been completely completed.

Thanks to Garcia's twenty decommissioned steam tengis converted into civilian ships, without them traveling day and night on the vast sea between the Nanyang Islands, Truchen would not have been able to move so many immigrants to Ha Tien Town so quickly.

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The reason why the empire is still stretched thin in recent years even though its annual fiscal revenue is much higher than that of other European countries is because most of it has been spent on immigration.

Fortunately, there are Barbary pirate treasures and the blessing of local white Spanish funds. Otherwise, even Truchin, who is rich and wealthy, would not be able to bear it.

In addition to Garcia's short-distance immigration, Truqin's normal long-distance immigration of 50,000 households and 100 Tengis ships per year is still proceeding step by step.

Each household needs at least one hundred silver coins in total, including shipping fees, travel expenses, and settlement expenses. In order to reassure the immigrants, before the immigrants arrived, the local state-owned construction company of the Truchen Empire spent the winter break with the support of the local people.

Then they built their cottage.

Of course, Truchin’s support is not unrewarded.

Before, their grain tax was 20%, but after the immigrants arrived, they had to pay 30% every year for the next five years, which actually gave them back one hundred silver coins.

What the Truchin government loses is nothing but interest.

In addition, the country now has a central bank, state-owned commercial banks, and a complete financial system introduced by European commercial banks, which can slowly and gradually increase the leverage of banknotes based on the silver coins in stock.

Although the annual immigration of 50,000 households is a huge burden, it will not affect other normal expenses of the Truqin Empire, such as transportation, water conservancy, research and development, etc.

After obtaining the Spanish money, in addition to retaining 10 million in Ha Tien Town (covering the entire Far East region), the remaining 10 million can be shamelessly expanded to 30 million, which can meet the needs of three years of immigration.
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This is because Truqin already has two large fleets dedicated to transoceanic immigration. Each fleet has one hundred Tengis, which can immigrate 100,000 households every year, and 300,000 households in three years!

Three hundred thousand households, that's more than one million people. It is estimated that in three years, they will be able to move all the Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese from Kyushu Island, Jeju Island, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Nowadays, the fleet that has caused a stir in Europe has changed from the Spanish treasure fleet of twenty ships to the Truchen immigrant fleet. Whenever it sails into the Mediterranean with its huge scale, it will cause waves throughout the Mediterranean.

The coastal countries caused a huge sensation.

This shows Kitard's foresight. When he carried out a series of operations in Egypt and Algiers aimed at attacking the Barbary people, ordinary people would only see that they were weakening the Ottoman Empire's navy, but people with a discerning eye could see that they were weakening the Ottoman Empire's navy.

See his true intentions.

That is to completely dredge the Mediterranean waterways!

As far away as Kyushu and as close as Lemnos Island, which is only a stone's throw away from the Dardanelles Strait, there are a series of islands including Ryukyu, Keelung, Hong Kong, Hon Kei, Ha Tien Town, Singapore, Arakan, Bangladesh, South Africa, Gai

Supply ports including Nitra, Laches Port (Gozo), and Lemnos Island.

Once the fleet is in danger, it can rush to the nearest port for rest and supplies. After the nearest port is informed, it can also dispatch a rescue fleet for quick rescue.

In Kitard's long-term plan, Ha Tien Town, Bangladesh, and South Africa, which have a large population and a vast area, will become large-scale immigration bases. By then, even without the support of additional funds like the Spanish Fund, they can use these towns with sufficient food and

Base transfer immigration of coal resources.

Together with several short- and medium-distance fleets of public-private partnerships that are about to join Garcia, the current scale of immigration can be maintained without increasing funds.

The immigration funds provided by the Truchin government to each base will be a large amount of money, and can also become a driving force for the local development of each base. Banks will set up branches in each base to operate this.

With the support of the bank, the rapid development of the three major bases is just around the corner.

What's more, after India defeated the British giant, the Truchen people encountered very few constraints. In addition, Portugal and France are still at least allies, so this series of strongholds will not be greatly affected at all.

As for the Dutch, who have been appearing in the Far East with a sly attitude, their strength is limited, and Kitard does not take them to heart.

After the capture of Manila, he did not take advantage of the opportunity to attack Batavia, although they were also an enemy country participating in the Battle of South Australia.

But he still held back.

Spain, representing the conservative Catholic forces, and Britain, the representative of the maritime Protestant forces, have already severely attacked these two families. The so-called killing the chicken to scare the monkeys, other forces must consider it, especially the extremely soft-bodied forces like the Dutch.

So true.

When he was in Singapore with Benedita and Zhao Ling'er, as he expected, the British and Dutch came to show their goodwill.

The British's attitude was obviously to try their luck. They were secretly building a steam fleet in Scotland and trialling it in the North Sea. Information that a new single-shot rifle was also being secretly developed had long ago reached his ears.

But he remained unmoved.

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Being able to develop it and being able to use it on a large scale are two different things. With the advice of Truchin, a man who has an eye for technology and materials, he can naturally complete small trials, pilot trials, and mass production in a very short period of time.

The whole process.

At this time, the British, the most technologically advanced people in Europe, wanted to achieve this, but they could only slowly sum up their experience with extremely high scrap rates.

If you want to completely catch up with Truchin, wait until the end of this century.

In Singapore, he signed another ten-year peace agreement with representatives of the British and Dutch. He promised that except for the place that Truchin now occupies, the two countries could develop freely anywhere in Asia, and he would not interfere at all.

Even the territory of the Portuguese and French is no exception. This can be regarded as a warning to these two countries.

Of course, due to the massive losses of the British fleet, their actions in North America were obviously slowed down. Although Canada has not been returned to the French in accordance with the agreement, the latter still occupied Louisiana as a base and was moving along the

The Mississippi River, the main artery of the United States in later generations, continued to expand into the vast area inland.

In North America, it is still unclear who will win.

For the Truchen Empire, according to Chitard's consistent practice of concentrating all resources into one place, North America would not be involved at least while he was alive, unless the British suddenly became overwhelming there and pushed the French again.

Defeat it and force it to withdraw from the North American continent.

In another ten years, when his bases have become more mature and the local population has become more reasonable, he will again set his sights on Asia and the Pacific.

Of course, we will no longer seize land in Asia. There is obviously only one goal.

Australia.

It would have to wait until the 19th century for white people to enter there on a large scale. He still had time.

The fleet soon arrived at Timur City.

As soon as he entered Houjiang, he saw changes.

A lighthouse and a small military fort have been built at the outlet of Houjiang River, and embankments have also been built on both sides. He estimated that the embankment would only reach Timur City, and it would probably take several years to connect it to Zhudoc City.

But no matter what, the Mekong River system like Houjiang is a large river with wide river surface and deep water. The Truqin giant ship with a draft of more than five meters often has no pressure.

Fertile plains and a large number of large rivers extending in all directions are the only reasons why Timur in the past and Kitard now favor this place.

In the past, Chitard did not have the idea of ​​taking over a large area, but only established a series of strongholds for the convenience of immigration. The purpose of taking West Bengal was to attack potential competitors, the British.

The reason for occupying South Africa is that it is still a terra incognita, and God will not take it but he will be blamed for it.

As Timur occupied Ha Tien town first because he was not worthy of his reputation as governor, Kitard also acquiesced in his approach.

Although most of these places will become independent in a few hundred years, it is not a waste of time for Chinese territories to exist and dominate in all parts of the world.

It was almost dusk when the fleet arrived at Timurid City. The setting sun shone on the broad green surface of Houjiang River, dotting it into pieces of gold. Timur City, a large city with typical Chinese characteristics, stands in the south of Houjiang River.

Shore.

The thick and simple city walls, the city gate tower with green bricks and blue tiles, the vigorous and distant sound of bells and drums welcoming the fleet, and the endless green and vast land that can be seen at a glance form a sharp contrast with the modern fleet emitting black smoke.

Someone in later generations painted this scene and named it "Picture of Emperor Chitard Entering the City", which was passed down for a while.

The next day, the Governor's Mansion.

Kitard summoned Governor Asalai, Ahai and his wife, Suleiman, the chief administrator of Ha Tien Town, and others.

After taking a sip of tea, Kitard looked at Suleiman.

"Didn't it take a lot of labor to build this city so quickly?"

Suleiman replied: "Of course yes"

"Nearby countries are suffering from wars and all industries are in ruins. Our country has sufficient financial resources. In addition to having enough food to eat, all those who come to Ha Tien Town to work will also have one silver coin per month. Siamese, Khmers, and Guangnanese

They all came in an endless stream, and in the end we had to carefully select them before they could come in."

"Nowadays, there are a large number of workers from various countries in Vung Tau Port, Saigon City, Svay Rieng City, Ha Tien City, Chau Doc City, and Ca Mau City"

Kitard smiled and said: "If I hadn't gotten a lot of money from the Spaniards, you wouldn't have dared to recruit people."

"That's natural. Fortunately, God blessed Truchin and our country gained a lot of wealth. Before His Majesty got the money from Manila, the silver our country got in Japan had already been put to use. It was about to run out. It happened that His Majesty's money came again.

Got it"

Kitard nodded and looked at Asalai, his stepson. At this time, his mother, his third wife, Jain, was already nearly sixty years old.

Asalai said: "Your Majesty, in accordance with your instructions, the five brigades in the Far East, namely Luo Fangbo's Nanyang Brigade, Liang Taiping's Ryukyu Brigade, Aka Junichiro's Kyushu Brigade, and the two brigades in Hong Kong have been reorganized.

Arrangement"

"Currently, Malha's Assam Brigade is stationed in Cebu Island. Except for the two brigades still stationed in Kyushu Island and one brigade stationed in Hong Kong, the remaining two brigades have all been stationed in Ha Tien Town. Wei Chen personally leads one brigade.

,Sangjice leads one”

"Singapore has a regiment of marines, and others such as Hongji, Keelung, and Ryukyu only have marine battalions. The population of the Ryukyu Islands has been moved except for Okinawa."

"In terms of fleet, there are two squadrons in Kyushu Island, one in Hong Kong, one in Cebu Island, one in Singapore, one in Ryukyu and one in Keelung. Hongji has two battleships, one Batu Lu, one Saiyin, and one

Tengis"

"As for the armored fleet..."
Chapter completed!