Wild North America 1846

Chapter 610 Powerful Measures

Author: Portuguese toothless

Chapter 610 Powerful Measures

After occupying Bogotá, the main task was to maintain colonial rule.

After some preparations, the Army of the South overthrew the puppet government headed by General Delsono in early 1874, and established a servant army of the "Colombian National Armed Forces", referred to as the "Colombian Armed Forces", with a total army of about 62,000 people.

They were all soldiers selected from among the prisoners.

Why not establish overseas provinces in one step?

Such political decisions were obviously not led by the Southern Corps, but came from the imperial government and even the highest instruction from the Daming Palace.

Foreign colonization is a delicate business, which can be said to be full of mysteries.

So far in human history, there have been old and new foreign colonial countries such as Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the Tang Dynasty, and their colonial achievements have varied.

The most successful example is undoubtedly the United Kingdom, which is regarded as the top student among the old colonial countries. The characteristic of its colonial rule is to use barbarians to govern, using corporate operations to invest the least colonial costs and obtain the highest colonial benefits.

The world-famous East India Company and West India Company were created by the British and have been proven very successful by history.

The Netherlands and Belgium, which followed the British example, all fall into the category of indirect colonization, but they did not learn the inner and outer three flavors, and their performance was unsatisfactory.

A distinctive feature of British colonization is its willingness to invest. In a series of colonies such as India, Singapore, Penang, Malaysia, Canada, Australia, and South Africa, they have formulated measures to develop railways, highways, and port infrastructure based on different geographical conditions.

Develop the preliminary industrial system according to local conditions, so that it has strong self-sufficiency.

The Netherlands and Belgium are different. These two colonial countries had a small domestic population base and had to adopt the policy of "using barbarians to control barbarians" as a last resort. However, they have one common characteristic:

They just plundered colonies on a large scale but were unwilling to invest. Their colonies remained in a relatively primitive state for hundreds of years, with extremely backward infrastructure and low productivity.

This was the case when the Dutch colonists ruled the East Indies. They ruled the vast colonies through immigrants, mainly Chinese, and indigenous aristocratic landowners.

Under his rule, the East Indies colonies had little change and little development for more than 200 years. The industry was completely blank and the infrastructure was extremely backward.

From this perspective, the Netherlands can only be considered barely qualified.

France, Spain and Portugal are another hands-on colonial system. This colonial system directly sends officials and troops to maintain the colonies and consolidates colonial rule through immigration.

France adopted this colonial method in Libya in North Africa, and Spain and Portugal in Central and South America.

Due to the long history of colonization, the descendants of white colonists born in the New World are a huge number, even far exceeding the native people. However, these native white people are not recognized by the European natives and are even regarded as lowly slaves like the Indians.

Such unfair treatment seriously hurt the dignity and emotions of native white people, which triggered the independence movement throughout the Central and South American colonies in the early 19th century.

Taking advantage of the turmoil caused by the overthrow of the Spanish dynasty by the French Emperor Napoleon, countries in Central and South America became independent one after another.

From the perspective of human history

With a history of more than seventy years of independence, colonizing Colombia was not an easy task.

You cannot focus all conflicts on yourself. It is a wise decision to win over one party and suppress the other.

Colombia is the most populous country in South America, with a population of about 5.9 million. Although it has been devastated by war for several months, the total population is still as high as 5.7 million, which is almost three and a half times as many as Argentina.

In Colombia's population, Spanish white descendants born in the New World account for about a quarter, and they mainly live in surrounding towns with the capital Bogota as the core and in the northern Caribbean region.

This group of people has a strong spirit of freedom and independence. At the beginning of this century, the independent ideological trend in Colombia and surrounding countries such as Peru and Venezuela was driven by these native white people, and the independence war with the Spanish broke out.

The Spanish descendants of this New World are the actual controllers of the Colombian economy. They own a large number of pastoral, coffee and tobacco plantations and belong to the class that controls domestic political, economic and military discourse.

This group controls a large amount of social wealth in Colombia, is in the middle and upper class of society, and belongs to a social class that wants to suppress and deprive wealth.

The Southern Army also had no good intentions. The puppet military government they introduced, General Delsono, was an authentic Chibucha Indian. He had never been in the same pot with the white plantation owners who oppressed and enslaved the Indians. The two sides were naturally opposed.

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The "Colored People's Armed Forces" are also an army dominated by Indians, and the native white people have no say at all.

Ethnic antagonism is the root cause of Colombia’s domestic conflicts.

Guiding one party to suppress the other was a common method used by established colonists such as Britain and France, and the Tang Empire soon became adept at using it.

When the time is right, the integration will be a matter of course.

As the Southern Legion controlling the entire Colombian situation, it was well-positioned to create favorable conditions for the large influx of Chinese adventurers to seize wealth and plantations that also belonged to native whites.

The military itself is the biggest beneficiary. Its merits are realized by depriving Colombian large estate owners and plantation owners of their interests. Military officers and soldiers occupy most of the wealth and land in Colombian towns and cities.

In the future, after retiring and transforming themselves on the spot, they will become owners of large and small estates and plantations, and will form the middle and upper class celebrities in Colombian society, possessing political, economic and military power.

Precisely because it concerns everyone's vital interests, the cohesion of the officers and soldiers of the Southern Army has been unprecedentedly high, and their guns are unanimously facing the outside world.

Chang'an, the imperial capital

Longevity Garden

Prime Minister Count Dongjie is reporting to His Majesty the progress of Colombia's colonization, and he talks eloquently;

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In summary

The imperial government intends to treat the colonial Colombia issue with a more cautious attitude, and promoting the establishment of the puppet government of General Del Sonno is only the first and most important step.

It is more conducive to slowing down the hatred of the Colombian people at the bottom, dispersing it and directing it to the puppet government, transforming the focus of conflicts, and buying precious time for our Datang Empire to eat up and digest Colombia bit by bit.

The second step is to invest heavily in infrastructure construction such as railways, bridges, urban construction and dams.

This move can effectively stimulate the development of domestic steel, cement, machinery and other industries, release production capacity, and alleviate the current domestic overcapacity situation.

The Colonial District of Colombia plans to invest 500,000 to 600,000 hard labor prisoners, focusing on the construction of roads, bridges, railways, Caribbean coast docks, warehouses and urban construction, which is expected to take 3 to 4 years.

nowadays

Already, 15,000 to 18,000 young Colombian women pass through the smooth road from Medellin to Panama every month and enter the urban population market in the southern and central parts of the empire, creating a monthly income of 6 to 7 million yuan.

This part of the proceeds is used to feed back investment in various construction projects in Colombia, and the import of young women from the south has also greatly alleviated the population conflict of more men than women in the empire.

According to colonial estimates;

In the next 6 to 8 years, Colombia will be able to import no less than 200,000 young women to the southern and central provinces of the empire every year, solving more than 1.5 million family problems, which can be said to be of great help.

through various measures

Colombia is expected to see the total number of indigenous Indians and native whites fall below 3.2 million in the next 7 to 8 years (note; more than 1.5 million young women have been expelled, and more than 500,000 young men have been thrown into hard labor camps. Coupled with war and population natural disasters,

decrease), the total population will drop to about 1.5 million in the next 15 years (Note: Because of the lack of women in marriage and childbearing years in the area, a cliff-like population decline is inevitable.).

The influx of a large number of Chinese immigrants will fill this gap and keep the population of the Colombian economic zone at about 5 million to 5.5 million.

Infrastructure construction, including railways and highways, will closely connect Colombian residential areas with the empire's mainland, strengthening the national integration policy and expanding colonial effects.

The third step is to completely ban Spanish and indigenous language education in Colombia, build a wide range of Chinese-language schools, strengthen economic and cultural penetration and control, strengthen publicity and brainwashing education measures, etc., to strongly promote the sinicization process in the region.

The fourth step is to implement a large-scale redeployment process for the officers and soldiers of the Southern Legion between May and June next year. It is expected that at least half of the 93,000 soldiers will be placed in the new colonial area of ​​Colombia.

This group of imperial officers and soldiers are the staunchest supporters of today's foreign colonial expansion policy and the backbone of the establishment of Colombia's middle and upper-class society and government departments. Facts have proved that the effect is very good.

Based on past experience

In just 1 to 2 years, the retired officers and soldiers of the empire who have been resettled on the spot will be able to take deep roots and become the peripheral nerves of the empire's rule in Colombia, penetrating into the lowest villages.

Estimated around 1890

That is, through 17 years of colonial rule, we will gradually complete the digestion and integration of the Colombian colony and achieve the expected integration goals."

17 years?

Emperor Richard nodded thoughtfully, digesting such a large-scale Colombian new colony. He was too anxious to eat hot tofu. He really needed to eat it step by step, turning quantity into qualitative change.

The Tang Empire was different from the old colonists such as Portugal and the Netherlands who suffered from insufficient domestic population. The Chinese immigrants imported from mainland China and the new generation of people born in the New World of North America gave the empire no population worries and could free up its hands to colonize and expand.

Not to mention his superhuman physique, his lifespan is much longer than that of ordinary people, and he has enough time to wait until Colombia matures, just like Cuba.

Various ancient cultural relics and temple artworks from the Inca civilization in Colombia were transported back to the empire one train after another, filling the warehouses of dozens of museums.

Relevant cultural inheritance such as ancient books and sacrificial tablets will be destroyed except those transported to museums.

In the future, only pure Chinese education will be available in the new residential areas of Colombia, and all Spanish education will be illegal. This is an important measure to completely eliminate the influence of Spanish culture.

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