Valley Emperor

Vol 2 Chapter 1452: Datang's back garden

Fang Dongquan was canonized as the Marquis of Lu Nan, and he obtained half the fief of Borneo and one twentieth of the entire Borneo as a private domain.

This time, Li Xuan canonized more than 50 nobles, and their fiefs, without exception, were all in various parts of Nanyang, and most of them were undeveloped areas.

For example, areas that have been developed, such as Luzon Island and Banten Island, are not canonized to any aristocracy.

Among them is the newly conquered Malacca area!

When the military took the city of Malacca, Li Xuan in the rear also established the state of Malacca at the right time.

It is worth noting that the theoretical jurisdiction of this Malacca Road includes the city of Malacca and most of the peninsula area, and a large area on the southern shore of the Malacca Strait is also included.

The entire Malacca state, the area under its jurisdiction is basically the area on both sides of the Strait of Malacca!

At the same time, the jurisdiction of this state of Malacca does not belong to Banten House, but is temporarily directly under the jurisdiction of the cabinet. In addition, in terms of title, it is not called an overseas territory, but is directly included in the local category.

Li Xuan naturally attaches great importance to an important area like Malacca, and he wants to completely localize this place!

And this localization starts from the administrative management model!

In order to reflect the importance of the state of Malacca, this is the model under the direct jurisdiction of the cabinet.

With the subsequent conquest of the islands in the South China Sea, the Datang Empire will inevitably accelerate the immigration development and localization process in the Southeast Asia region, and the construction of provincial-level units will become natural.

It's just that it's still a little early, and the immigrants in the entire Nanyang region are only hundreds of thousands!

It will take time to completely localize Nanyang and set up provincial-level administrative agencies to rule as a local.

Li Xuan is not in a hurry about this, and now the Datang Empire has time to slowly stabilize its rule in the Nanyang region.

What is more important now is the follow-up war in India. After Malacca was conquered, there is no doubt that this city, which was once used by the Portuguese as a colonial bridgehead in the East, will also become an important strategic base for the Tang Dynasty to enter the Indian Ocean westward.

Therefore, in the processing of Malacca, in addition to the administrative processing of the establishment of the state of Malacca, the more important thing is the processing of the military and commerce.

Militarily, the headquarters of the Indian Ocean Fleet is temporarily set up here, and the military has already planned to renovate the city of Malacca.

This is a bastion after all. Although it was beaten and tattered, the foundation of a bastion is still relatively well-preserved. After subsequent repairs, it will become the strongest fortress of the Tang Dynasty in Malacca.

In addition, the navy intends to build a naval base here to park its huge fleet, and set up coal bunkers to add coal and water to steam warships.

Not to mention in terms of commerce and trade, this Malacca was originally an important trade city, but now it is occupied by the Tang Dynasty, and it will not change its attributes as an important trade town. A huge port city will be rebuilt here.

In the future, this place will gradually replace Banten and even Luzon, and become the most important commercial and even military base of the Tang Dynasty in the Southeast Asia region.

It is a pity that after the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Portuguese, the trade between the Tang Empire and Europe and even to India was almost completely interrupted.

Because the main object of the Tang Empire's trade in this direction is the Portuguese, the entire trade model in the past was that the Tang merchants transported goods from the country to Malacca, and then in the Portuguese-controlled Malacca, Portuguese merchants, Indian merchants, Ottoman merchants , Safi merchants, and all kinds of other messy merchants in the rain.

Of course, in addition to the Portuguese merchants themselves, most of the merchants in the above-mentioned countries have obtained the permission of the Portuguese, and paid various benefits like the Portuguese, such as paying heavy taxes, so that they can enter and leave the port of Malacca.

However, even with the participation of merchants from other countries, most of the goods in Datang were purchased by merchants from the Vine people, and then transported all the way to Europe after a long sea transportation.

In the past few years, Datang has also been trying to open up European routes independently. Unfortunately, it has never been successful.

At the same time, Datang is also supporting the Spaniard's global fleet and exporting products to Europe through the Spaniard's global trade fleet, but the Spaniard's global fleet sails around the world, only once a year, sometimes even two or three years. It is only one time. Although the single volume is large, the sustainability is not good. Therefore, the European route of the Spaniards is not very reliable.

Now that a war broke out between the Grapevine and the Tang Dynasty, the trade with the Grapevine people is no longer expected. This means that most of the European routes have been interrupted. Before the end of the war, the only way for Datang's goods to enter Europe is to leave Get off the Spaniards.

In addition, it is also very important that with the outbreak of war between the Tang Dynasty and the Vine people in the Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean regions, it has also hindered other countries, such as the Ottomans, Safi Dynasty India and many other merchant ships to go to Malacca for trade, even the Tang Dynasty. The ships of the Western Trading Company were also affected by the large-scale war, and many were interrupted.

In the past, although the Datang Western Trading Company and the Portuguese competed fiercely, the officials of the two sides generally maintained restraint, at most they just pretended to be pirates to attack.

But now, the grape people are directly blocking the routes of the entire Indian Ocean, especially the several ports in southern India controlled by the grape people. They rely on these port colonies to directly block the coastal routes of southern India.

This has also led to the fact that today's Datang overseas trade has fallen into a rather embarrassing state: the goods cannot be shipped out!

But even so, it cannot dispel the determination of the Datang Empire to conquer Southeast Asia and even India. The war between Datang and the Vine people was not an accident. Fully prepared.

In order to make up for the loss of overseas trade interruption, the Datang Empire vigorously promoted the development of domestic demand as early as a few years ago.

What I have to say is that in the world today, the local market of the Datang Empire is the largest market. Sufficient population and a good livelihood economy make the local market of the Datang Empire the largest single market in the world. .

Therefore, although the loss of overseas trade is not small, a large part of it can be passed on to the domestic market, thereby reducing the loss.

Although the reduced loss is still heart-wrenching, it is already unable to cause too much damage to Datang's domestic economic development, and it is precisely because of the huge domestic demand as a support that the Datang Empire is able to brazenly. start a war.

Today, the war has achieved initial results, conquering Malacca, and at the same time winning the Portuguese colonies on other islands in the South China Sea, so it can be said that the Portuguese have been completely driven out.

This huge Nanyang region has become the back garden of the Tang Empire!

It has laid a favorable foundation for the Datang Empire to promote localization policies in this region!

As for the affairs of the South China Sea, and even the affairs of the Indian Ocean, after Li Xuan has set the general direction, he doesn't care much. Anyway, this war is not a matter of a while, or even a matter of a year or two. Five years is a normal thing. After all, the scope is too large, and they are both very far away from the mainland of both sides. It is unlikely to cause any actual blow to the mainland of the other side, and it is unlikely that wars in the colonies will be fought. For a large-scale strategic decisive battle or the like, because the two sides dispatched troops from the mainland and the colonies, it would take a year and a half, and the strength was limited, and it was impossible to dispatch tens of thousands of troops at one time. A war on a scale of several thousand people actually has little impact on both sides, and both have the ability to consume a long time.

Therefore, this kind of colonial war usually takes a long time, and Li Xuan has the patience to wait.

Putting aside the affairs of the South and Indian Oceans, Li Xuan also refocused his attention on domestic development.

In the past two years, domestic development, especially the development of industry and commerce, has shown an explosive growth.

The biggest driving force is undoubtedly the upgraded high-pressure steam engine. In industry, the high-pressure steam engine unit can achieve greater power, higher efficiency, and lower coal consumption, which is to improve the industrial At the same time of production capacity, it can also greatly reduce the cost of industrial products.

This can be seen from the recent two years ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ domestic textile companies' cotton ex-factory prices have dropped and dropped again. At present, in Shanghai's trade market, the price of ordinary cloth is already lower than Xuanping. Nineteen years ago, it was down at least 40 percent or more, and the price drop continues.

Don't think that if the price falls, you won't make money. At the same time, you must see that in Shanghai alone, the output of cloth has increased by more than 300% in the 19th year of Xuanping!

The output is larger, the cost is lower, and the price is lower, which means more people can afford it.

In the nineteenth year of Xuanping, an ordinary working family might have to plan carefully to buy a suit of clothes for the family in one year, but now, on the premise that the income level does not change, this time can be shortened to half a year about.

The price is cheap, people who could not afford it can buy clothes, and people who can afford it now buy more, which has brought about an explosion in the sales of cloth in the entire market.

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