Valley Emperor

Xuanping twenty-six years in September, South Africa city.

The westernmost and southernmost overseas territory of this empire has undergone continuous expansion and renovation, and it is already very different from the era occupied by the Portuguese.

Today’s South African city is also a very typical bastion city, divided into an inner city and an outer city. The outer city includes ports and commercial areas, while the inner city contains various official institutions, garrisoned troops, strategic warehouses, etc.

The inner and outer cities are integrated into each other, which together constitute the South African City.

However, due to the high cost of the bastion, even if the inner and outer cities are added together, the actual area is not large. According to the military's estimate, during the war, the South African city can accommodate about 10,000 soldiers and can accommodate up to 10,000 soldiers at the same time. ordinary civilians.

In other words, this South African city can only meet the garrison and living needs of 20,000 people, and the strategic reserve warehouse in the city is also reserved for 20,000 people.

Of course, the current South African city is not as many as 20,000 people, only more than 10,000 people, and most of them are soldiers and soldiers of the army and navy.

However, this will change in the near future, as colonial officials in South Africa have now received reports from the rapid communication ships that the immigrant fleet from the country is about to arrive in South Africa.

The number of immigrants in this group has reached 10,000.

The Empire attaches more importance to South Africa than Ceylon, even though it is very far away from the mainland, but in order to strengthen the defense and rule in this area, Li Xuan personally ordered the Immigration and Reclamation Division to organize immigrants from China to South Africa. And it directly approved the amount of 10,000 people.

No way, the strategic position of this place is too important, not to mention that the current Suez Canal has not been excavated, even if the canal is dug in the future, the shipping function of the Cape of Good Hope is still huge. In the next few hundred years, this Every place will become a strategic location.

Li Xuan naturally wanted to completely occupy this area for the future of the Chinese nation.

To completely control this area, it is not enough to rely solely on garrisoning troops, and a large number of immigrants are necessary.

As long as there are people from the Tang Dynasty living here, it is possible to completely control these places.

In the inner city of South Africa City, in the West Indian Yamen, Hu Qiaokun was wearing a thin shirt and was constantly waving a folding fan in his hand.

"At this time, I'm afraid the autumn wind is bleak at home!" Hu Qiaokun stood on the balcony on the third floor, looking outside, the sun was fierce outside.

South Africa is located in the southern hemisphere, and its winters and summers are opposite to those of the empire in the deep northern hemisphere. To be honest, when he first came to South Africa last year, Hu Qiaokun was still not used to it.

However, after staying here for more than half a year, I finally got used to it. Although the climate here is opposite to that of the empire, it is generally good, at least much better than the Wandan Mansion where Hu Qiaokun stayed a few years earlier.

Hu Qiaokun, the first prefect of the Western India State of the Tang Empire, said that the empire established the West India City in Africa in the early years and set up the West India State, but there was no official state capital Yamen.

A year ago, the empire was based on South Africa City, West Indies City, Madagascar City, and several other colonial cities in south-central Africa.

West India is a typical overseas territory model. It is more appropriate for the prefecture to call it the Governor's Office of West India. Hu Qiaokun is the first governor of West India, and his rank is also similar to that of the prefect of Luzon. The chief officials of overseas states with relatively large jurisdictions, such as the prefect of Banten House, etc., are of a relatively high rank, from the third rank.

Its powers are not only limited to administrative affairs, but also have many other powers.

Because in addition to being the governor of Western India, he has another more important dispatch, which is 'co-organizing foreign transportation and business affairs'. Although it is not a supervisor, it is just a co-organizer, but the problem is that he has not supervised the foreign transportation. Minister of Commerce.

And his official is not actually the governor of West Indies, his official is the deputy director of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

For many officials who are transferred to work overseas, going to work overseas is equivalent to devaluation and disappointment in their career. Under normal circumstances, few officials are willing to work overseas, and only some unlucky people who have failed in the official struggle will be transferred. work overseas.

However, Hu Qiaokun is not such a person. His coming to South Africa is not a devaluation, but a promotion!

However, his early experience of serving in the Wandan Mansion was a serious demotion. However, when he served in the Wandan Mansion, he showed his talents in dealing with those foreigners and indigenous people, and his superiors valued him. After he was transferred back to China, he was was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Although it is said that within the empire, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is only a Qingshui Yamen, but it is also a central institution after all.

After becoming a diplomat, he basically ran around all year round, and his rank gradually rose.

Before he was transferred to South Africa, he was already from the fourth rank, and he also served as the governor of Gehe state. After the empire decided to establish the West Indies state, the high-level officials came to ask him for his opinion, and asked him if he was interested in taking up this position and in charge of the affairs of the empire in southern Africa. At the same time, he was also responsible for the diplomatic and commercial affairs of the Empire to Europe.

Hu Qiaokun agreed, not only because of his power, but also thought that as long as he agreed to go to work in South Africa, which is a place where the people of the country don't give a shit, as compensation, he would get two promotions in a row and the European Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Compensation from the deputy director of the department.

Even the boss above suggested to him that as long as he did a good job in South Africa and established a sound diplomatic network in Europe, he would be the director of the European Department in the future.

Therefore, when Hu Qiaokun came to South Africa, he did not have a gloomy face like many of his subordinates. On the contrary, he came with the mentality of making contributions.

It's just been more than half a year since he came to South Africa City, but the feeling to him is that there's nothing wrong with it!

Because we were still fighting with the Portuguese before, and the road to Europe was cut off, naturally there is no foreign traffic and commercial affairs. As for West India itself, it seems that the jurisdiction includes the entire southern Africa, but in fact it is only a few A colonial city with few people in total.

Among them, South Africa has a total population of nearly 10,000 people, but most of them are soldiers in the army and navy. Only one or two thousand people are merchants and sailors from China. As for immigrants, it is estimated that there are only about a hundred people. It was still from West India City.

In such a place, there is nothing to do with internal government affairs, so he just focused on communication with the Portuguese.

After all, it's impossible to keep fighting, you have to stop fighting and then do business.

Under his matchmaking, this was the scene where the Portuguese took the initiative to seek peace and sign a humiliating treaty.

The war is over, and he is counting on the arrival of immigrants from the country earlier to continue to consolidate the empire's rule in South Africa.

The area where South Africa City is located is a small plain called the South African Plain by the Empire. This plain is extremely suitable for reclamation and cultivation of crops, and there is another small plain to the east that is called the West Indian Plain by the Empire.

Together, these two small plains can feed hundreds of thousands of people, even if they grow any food.

It is precisely because of these two small plains that the empire made up its mind to migrate here on a large scale.

The first batch of 10,000 immigrants has already set off. According to the scheduled voyage, it is estimated that they will be able to arrive next month.

As long as these migrants arrive, Hu Qiaokun will be able to start his own large-scale settlement plan.

As the saying goes, don't panic when you have food in your hands!

Although Datang has developed shipping and the navy is more powerful, South Africa is very far away from the mainland. If it is unable to maintain self-sufficiency in food, it is almost impossible to completely control this place.

Thinking about the settlement, Hu Qiaokun looked at the port with a folding fan!

At this time, a carat ship was lowering its sails in the port. Next to it, there was an offshore patrol ship of the Datang Navy, which was coveting. Although the carat ship from England was accidentally more than ten nautical miles away, it had already accepted the patrol ship. Inspection, but in order to prevent accidents, the Datang Navy has developed a strict patrol and monitoring system in the South African waters.

All ships going to South Africa City need to be monitored by at least two maritime patrol vessels before they can follow the fixed route set by the Datang Navy to enter the port.

This is naturally to avoid accidents and prevent unscrupulous ships from entering the port to make trouble.

After all, the merchant ships these days are all armed merchant ships, and any merchant ship is the kind with a lot of naval guns, and sometimes they are merchants, and sometimes they become pirates.

Faced with this chaotic maritime security, the Datang Navy was also very helpless, and could only carry out strict inspections, and asked these merchant ships or pirate ships to close the gun doors, lower the sails, and It is to seize all the gunpowder for temporary storage!

At the beginning, many ships were very dissatisfied with this kind of careful inspection, especially the seizure of gunpowder. Among them, there were many warriors of armed resistance. However, the Datang Navy has always had only one way to deal with this: if you don't obey, just shoot!

After sinking a few unknowing European merchant ships, the European merchant ships that came to South Africa City were much more honest~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This carat ship from England is no exception, especially honest!

Alvin Grant is a captain who loves the sea and freedom. He takes his sailors all the year round on his beloved Alvin to haunt all over the Atlantic Ocean, offering greetings to the merchant ships of various countries, especially the Spanish merchant ships!

Well, he's actually a pirate!

It’s still the officially certified one, with a smuggling certificate officially certified by the Royal Family of England!

However, these days, pirates and maritime merchants have always been inseparable. The merchant ships of those overseas trading companies in Datang went to the waters of other countries, and often part-time pirates. The merchant ships of other countries are almost the same.

How can I put it, the maritime merchants of various countries are playing like this these days, and no one should say what is wrong.

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