In fact, the Nanyang region now has such a situation.
It also has a lot to do with the British policy. The British development idea is a typical maritime policy.
What they pay more attention to is sea power.
Dong Shuheng knew that although the British were the world's hegemon, they were always slow to respond in terms of foreign policy.
This has a lot to do with the British domestic political system.
The British can only be regarded as a maritime hegemon, and they have always wanted to usurp their land hegemony.
So they have been suppressing the army powers on the European continent.
The land hegemons in this world can only appear on the Eurasian continent.
Just like the Mao Xiong and Ying Jiang in later generations, one is the overlord of the ocean and the other is the overlord of the land.
The Mao Xiong economy has been weakened to such an extent that Yingjiang regards it as their number one threat.
And even if we are the second largest economy in the world, we can still only be considered their competitors.
Many people don't understand why Yingjiang keeps suppressing Mao Xiong.
This is related to the geographical location of Mao Xiong, because it is the only large country that spans the Eurasian continent.
Many powerful countries in history wanted to take action against Tsarist Russia, but what?
Napoleon was so powerful, didn't he still fail in Tsarist Russia?
And the war madman in later generations.
There were many mistakes in the history of Tsarist Russia that could lead to the destruction of their country.
But they all managed to hold on.
This is the advantage of land dominance.
That's because his fault tolerance rate is very high.
They have a vast territory, and even if they lose most of their territory, they can still stand firm.
On the other hand, those ocean overlords cannot fail.
Since the great voyages of discovery, several ocean overlords have emerged.
From the Spanish to the Dutch to the British.
The overlord of the oceans changed hands several times.
A country like the French that wants to be both a maritime hegemon and a land hegemon is the worst off.
How many times has Paris been attacked in history?
Therefore, Britain can only be a maritime hegemon, but not a land hegemon.
The British were too small, and the number of their main ethnic group, the Anglo-Saxons, was not enough to support them becoming a land hegemon.
This puts them in a passive position in the game between Nanyang and the Renaissance Army. Because the Renaissance Army does not need a navy to maintain global trade routes.
It was impossible for the British to show off with the Renaissance Army at sea.
Even if it fails at sea, the foundation of the Renaissance Army will not be shaken.
Most of the FNA's current foreign trade is completed at home.
Because many of the Fuxing Army's current export products are exclusive, they don't need to send them out themselves. They have their own foreign merchant ships to transport them.
Even if the British tried to blockade the Ba'ath Army's land and sea, they could not cut off the Ba'ath Army's foreign trade.
Moreover, the Greater China Circle established by Dong Shuheng has already taken shape.
In East Asia, the Renaissance Army itself owns vast land and a large population.
Due to the continuous migration of people to remote areas, domestic demand in the areas managed by the Renaissance Army is now very strong.
Because when they immigrate to a new place, most of them start from scratch.
They need a lot of living materials. These things provide orders for the factories behind them.
In addition, the vassal states surrounding China are basically the market for the Renaissance Army.
The Japanese shogunate is still implementing a policy of isolation from the country.
Huaxia became the only internal seller able to enter Japan.
The import of a large number of Chinese goods has indeed improved the lives of the people under the shogunate and various daimyo.
Therefore, the people of the shogunate are now very grateful to Chinese merchants.
The only ones that were hit were the handicraft industry developed by Japan itself and the Japanese business class.
But China also compensated these people.
That is, these people can now come out of Japan and develop within the Chinese economic circle.
The Fuxing Army's overseas immigration policy also brought Japanese and Koreans with it.
As long as they immigrated abroad, these Japanese and Koreans were integrated into the Chinese community to live together.
With Chinese being the majority, these people will soon be assimilated and form a new overseas Chinese group.
This is also part of the Greater China Circle plan.
The Ryukyu Kingdom has basically retained the name of the kingdom.
Naha Port continues to expand and almost occupies the main island of Ryukyu.
The Ryukyu Kingdom only retains the location of the royal castle.
The original mayor of Naha, Zhang Wenhan, married a Ryukyu princess, and after the old Prime Minister retired, he concurrently served as Ryukyu Prime Minister.
All Ryukyu government affairs were handed over to the Chinese government.
The little king Shangtai is now studying in China. He has no restrictions and can do what he likes.
Little King Shangtai occasionally goes to Dong Shuheng's place to play. He has recently become obsessed with electricity and always pesters Dong Shuheng to take him to Xu Shou's electricity laboratory.
In the west, the Renaissance Army took advantage of the convenience of land transportation to develop trade relations with the three Central Asian countries including Aiurhan.
This kind of trade is completely mutually beneficial.
Nuts from Aiwuhan, carpets and wool from Bukhara were imported to China along the Silk Road.
However, the market here is not big. What the Renaissance Army values most is the trade route connecting Persia through here.
Compared with the three Central Asian countries, Persia is richer in products.
Moreover, the purchasing power of the nobles in Persia is very strong, and they purchase a large amount of silk tea and porcelain from China every year.
Moreover, Dong Shuheng has always hoped to build a railway from Persia to Turkey to open up road connections with Europe.
This idea is obviously difficult, because there is a feud between Türkiye and Persia.
For religious reasons, their hatred is even irreconcilable.
Fortunately, both countries are now facing internal and external troubles.
Dong Shuheng can control them in this regard.
Trade with Central Asia and West Asia was something the British could not block.
If the British wanted to block the Renaissance Army from moving west, then they would have to invest a large amount of ground forces.
This goes back to the problem at the beginning. The British could only maintain their maritime hegemony.
There is no way to become a land hegemony. The reasons have been analyzed above.
Besides, to the south, the Renaissance Army actually had the initiative to attack the Indian areas controlled by the British.
The terrain of India is high in the north and low in the south, and is separated from China by the towering Himalayas.
But on the Chinese side is a huge plateau area.
This can be regarded as a buffer zone. But this buffer zone is in the hands of the Renaissance Army.
If the Renaissance Army wants to attack the Indian region, it can pass through Ladakh, Gorkha or Chemengxiong.
These points can launch surprise attacks on Indian areas at any time.
And it can directly reach the core colonial belt of British India-the Ganges River Basin.
If the British want to attack northward from here, it will not affect the foundation of the Renaissance Army. Instead, they will be affected by the plateau climate.
It didn't take much force from the Renaissance Army to wipe out these British and Indian troops on the plateau.
During the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, this area was not paid enough attention to.
If only the Manchu Qing Dynasty could arm these vassal states at the southern foot of the Himalayas or build a strong army here.
So when the British launched the Opium War, the Qing army could let this army at the southern foot of the Himalayas march south.
This can completely counterattack the British army.
But how could the Qing court have such a strategic vision?
Dong Shuheng will not let go of such geographical advantages.
The Renaissance Army attaches great importance to the control of this place.
The Renaissance Army took an active approach to win over these vassal states in the southern foothills of the Himalayas.
These countries in the south have sent large missions.
Among them were a large number of instructors to help them establish a new army and resist the attack of the British and Indian troops.
At present, the Renaissance Army is the most successful in supporting the Gurkhas.
Originally, Gorkha was the most powerful country among the vassal states in the southern region, and also had the largest area.
The Gurkhas are also very brave and good at fighting. Now the Renaissance Army has helped them establish a new division.
All the Gurkhas in this division are equipped with muskets. These Gurkha warriors fight bravely. After they have muskets, their long-range combat effectiveness is no worse than that of the British and Indian troops, and their scimitars are stronger in close combat.
In the past, they had fewer wins and more losses in battles with the British and Indian troops, mainly because there was a huge gap in equipment.
Now that these people have received weapons from the Renaissance Army, their combat power has increased by more than one level.
But this time they attacked the British.
Dong Shuheng did not use the Gurkhas. However, they contained a large number of British troops.
It was the Gurkhas who prevented Ramsay from mobilizing troops from the upper reaches of the Ganges downstream.
This is a kind of shock.
Why, as a maritime overlord, have the British not declared war on the Renaissance Army yet?
This kind of intimidation from the north should also be considered as one of the reasons.
Let’s look counterclockwise at the Great China Circle.
The Taiping Holy Kingdom, which is entrenched in northeastern India, has not been officially recognized by the Renaissance Army until now.
But the Holy Kingdom is actually still included in the Great China Circle.
Shi Dakai is now very economically dependent on the Renaissance Army.
Without the Renaissance Army, Shi Dakai would have so many people under his command, let alone fighting, even eating would be a problem.
The trade between Shi Dakai and the Renaissance Army indeed promoted the economic development of the Renaissance Army.
Because what Shi Dakai paid here was all real money.
For the Renaissance Army, which lacks currency reserves, these gold and silver are very important for the Renaissance Army to establish a stable financial system.
Further east is the Kingdom of Burma.
The Kingdom of Myanmar produces timber and minerals, which are also highly complementary to the Baath Army's economy.
Now with the support of the Baath Army, the British were driven out.
They can only rely on the Renaissance Army.
Similarly, although Siam in the east is still in contact with the Westerners, they have been caught in the middle by the Renaissance Army.
We must listen to the Fuxing Army.
Moreover, Siam's economy is originally controlled by the Chinese.
This is especially obvious now that the Chinese are gaining strength in the Southeast Asia region.
Not to mention the Nguyen Dynasty regime in the east, they had a guilty conscience.
After being castrated by the Renaissance Army, Beiqi has become more honest now.
Nguyen Phuc Thi is now worried every day, fearing that the Renaissance Army will also take over the delta at the mouth of the Lancang River.
That is the Nanqi area, which was the main grain-producing area of the Nguyen Dynasty.
Further east, the Nanyang Chinese established vassal states.
Through these vassal states, almost the entire Nanyang was included in the Great China Economic Circle.
Even the Dutch are serving this economic circle.
In Dong Shuheng's plan, a larger Chinese circle is being drawn.
This great circle will encompass the entire Pacific Ocean.
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