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When Li Xuan talked about the development of American immigrants in Shanghai, he was not in a sudden interest and said it casually, but was laying the groundwork for the development of American immigrants in the empire.

Since the empire won a series of wars in the Indian Ocean, and finally signed an armistice agreement with the Portuguese, stipulating that the two sides demarcate the sphere of influence with the Cape of Good Hope as the center line, which means that the entire Indian Ocean coastal area, including the huge east coast of Africa, West Asia. The coast, the coast of India, the coast of Myanmar, and the South Seas are all spheres of influence that belong to the empire.

Although the Datang Empire has only occupied colonies in a few places in the above-mentioned areas, no one can deny that the empire has already occupied a strategic advantage in the above-mentioned areas. Then gradually expand the colonial rule of the empire in the above-mentioned areas.

In this case, it is basically impossible for the empire to have any large-scale overseas operations in the direction of the Indian Ocean. Even if it is to fight, it is to fight those indigenous countries, and those indigenous countries basically have no navy, so it is impossible to cause damage to the empire. what a threat.

In addition, in the Americas, the situation has changed to some extent.

This change was not brought about by the Spaniards, but by the actions of the Empire itself.

The Empire launched a relatively large-scale immigration operation on the western coast of North America last year.

What kind of immigration action is it, which is to organize immigrants to march inland, but it has been met with great resistance.

The local indigenous people also seem to have sensed the threat posed by the continuous invasion of the empire, so they also started armed resistance.

Although the natives' fighting strength is not that great, the population and troops of the Empire in the western region of North America are not large.

Today, the total number of immigrants and troops of the Empire in North America is only more than 30,000, which seems to be a lot, but compared with the huge North America and the many local indigenous populations, it is still too small.

Not to mention those natives, even the Spanish immigrant population and army in Mexico are more than 30,000!

Among these 30,000 people, most of them were ordinary immigrants. In the army, including the Army's Xinjinshan Garrison Regiment and a Marine battalion of the Navy, there were only about 2,000 people in total.

These two thousand people have also been dispersed to five large colony sites for garrisoning. If not for a certain number of militiamen to assist in the battle, I am afraid that the imperial military would have suffered a shameful defeat in the immigration war last year.

Rao is so, their plan to advance to the east has also failed, and they are unable to advance in detail on a large scale.

After several months of this news, after it was sent back to the empire across the Pacific Ocean, it made the empire pay attention to the situation in North America and decided to send more immigrants and troops to North America.

It was not only because of the threat of the North American natives that made this decision at the top of the empire. In fact, they were not a threat. If they died, it would only slightly hinder the progress of the empire's development of North America.

The reason that really prompted the Empire to attach importance to North America is mainly because the war along the coast of the Indian Ocean has basically ended. Today's military, more precisely, the Navy urgently needs to find a new strategic direction that can reflect the existence of the Navy. strategic direction.

The Army has a Northwest Strategy, and if nothing else happens, it will be implemented this fall. Next year, the Army will start a large-scale war in the Western Regions.

Even the navy knows that the expansion of the empire in the next few years will focus on the Western Regions and Central Asia, rather than overseas.

But the Navy is not reconciled.

The army is fighting in the Western Regions and Central Asia, which is prestige, but what about the navy?

Is it difficult to achieve incognito for several years?

How could it be, the Navy would not agree!

The Portuguese couldn't fight, they couldn't fight on the African side, and there was nothing to fight along the Indian Ocean, so the navy naturally surrendered its sights to the Americas.

There is extremely rich land there. It is generally believed that North America is very suitable for living and living. Its overall climate environment is similar to that of the empire itself. It is simply the second China, which is much better than India, Southeast Asia, and Africa.

Such a treasure land must be seized and become the second home of Chinese people.

In addition to the importance of North America, it also has a relationship with the local Spaniards. Although the empire currently has good relations with the Spaniards, Spain occupies a lot of fertile land in the Americas. Isn't Mexico occupied by them.

And because of the existence of the Spaniards, the empire has always been difficult to expand in the direction of Mexico. It can only march eastward. As for South America, it has not even set foot in it now.

Therefore, the Navy actually hopes to provoke the Spaniards, so that they have an excuse to kill them.

On the naval side, there are too many reasons to want to enter North America.

At the same time, the country is also very interested in North America. At least most people do not reject immigrants to America because they know where is a good place.

The same immigrants, if you ask them to go to the South China Sea to India or Africa, they are not happy, but they are very welcome to go to America.

There are political reasons, and the current steam ship technology of the Empire is very mature. Passenger ships of several thousand tons have been built, and one or two thousand tons are not to mention. The shipping capacity, especially the transoceanic Shipping capacity has been greatly increased.

Thus, the seafaring skills that limited mass immigration to the Americas were no longer an obstacle.

Politically mature, supported by the navy, and there are not too many restrictions on navigation technology, it is logical for this large-scale immigration to develop North America.

To this end, at the end of last year, Li Xuan made a preliminary decision at a small court meeting. In the next few years, the empire will organize at least 200,000 immigrants to live and live in North America. The number of troops stationed in North America increased from 2,000 to 5,000.

The reason why more troops are not added is because if there are too many troops, the local area cannot support so many troops.

Ammunition and other items can also be transported thousands of miles from the mainland, but if the bulk materials such as food need to be transported from the mainland, then the cost is too great, and the empire cannot afford it for the time being.

Therefore, this is also the reason why immigrants and the army marched at the same time. These immigrants actually went to the local area to reclaim land and grow food to feed the army.

When the supply difficulties in the first few years have been overcome, and the number of local people of the empire has increased, then the follow-up will be much simpler, and the empire will step by step to turn North America into the second home of the empire.

Of course, this premise is to kill the Spanish fever first, then kill the other countries that have colonized the eastern coast of North America, and then kill the local indigenous people.

North America, will be, and can only be Imperial North America.

On this point, the top officials of the empire valued it very much. They didn't even plan to colonize North America, but planned to do it in one step and directly localize it.

The empire's presence in India, Africa and other regions is more dominated by colonial rule, supplemented by immigration and development.

In North America, especially in the new Jinshan state, the empire is directly localized.

What is localization? Generally speaking, the population of the Empire has an absolute advantage in the local population, at least 90% or more.

Only in this way can it be determined that a hundred years later, a thousand years later, North America will still be the North America of the Chinese people. Even if the Tang Dynasty no longer exists at that time, North America will still be the North America of the Chinese people.

To do localization, it is impossible to not have enough immigrants, so there is an immigrant development plan.

Speaking of the development of the Americas at the state banquet, Li Xuan set the tone for the immigrant development plan for the Americas to be launched this year, but he didn't say much. As far as the empire is concerned, it is still just a small matter.

At least ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is absolutely not as important as the strategy of the Western Regions that will be launched this fall.

Much less important than the industrialization that the Empire has been promoting in recent years.

The next day, Li Xuan continued to inspect Shanghai. The main body of the inspection was still enterprises. Most of them were large enterprises from the royal family or the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. However, there were still a few private enterprises that were qualified to be inspected, and some of them were very famous in China. The Fung Shipping Company.

To inspect the company, it was not recommended by others, but Li Xuan's initiative to ask to see it.

Because this Feng Shipping Company can be regarded as a landmark enterprise of domestic private industrial enterprises.

The company is one of the two giants of the domestic shipping company, comparable to the Yangtze River Shipping Company. The two companies have always been competing for the title of the largest shipping company in China. , port services, machinery manufacturing and other fields, so its overall volume is much more than the Yangtze River Shipping Company.

It's just that the main business of Feng's Shipping Company, the most famous business is shipping, so the outside world has always regarded this company as a pure shipping company, which is actually incorrect.

The shipping business accounts for only 60% of Fung Shipping's annual revenue, and 40% is contributed by shipbuilding, port services, machinery manufacturing and other fields.

To be honest, a mere private enterprise, and it is still able to do this in heavy industry, Feng Shipping Company is also an anomaly among a large number of private enterprises in China.

Most of the private enterprises in the empire are engaged in light industry or trade. Although heavy industry is also involved, there are not many to be honest, and they cannot constitute the main body of a heavy industry.

But there is an exception in shipping and shipbuilding. The reason for this exception is because of the Fung Shipping Company.