I want to be emperor

Chapter 707 Panicked Europe

In European countries, quite a few people don't even know that there is such a country as the Great Chu Empire. Even if they know about the ancient eastern country, they don't know that this ancient eastern country has changed its dynasty.

The closedness of information in ancient times far exceeded the imagination of later generations.

Some countries that have no direct contact with the Great Chu Empire, such as the Kingdom of France, a large number of elector states in the Holy Roman Empire, including the Grand Duchy of Austria, Prussia, which is familiar to later generations, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, the Kingdom of Scotland, etc. In many European countries, even the top leaders of the country are not very clear about the Great Chu Empire. At most, they have heard the name of the Great Chu Empire from the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Russians and other countries that have more contact with the Great Chu Empire.

But as for the specific situation of the Great Chu Empire, they also heard from hearsay, and they didn't know much about it.

As for those small and medium nobles and even ordinary people, they are even less clear, and many people have never even heard of it.

In the past, the country with a deeper understanding of the Great Chu Empire should belong to the Netherlands.

Because the Dutch have been in contact with the Great Chu Empire for the longest time, and their trade exchanges are very large, and Dutch merchant ships also frequently go to ports such as Guangzhou in the mainland of the Great Chu Empire for trade.

Therefore, the Dutch know a lot about the Great Chu Empire through the channels of the Dutch East India Company. Even the steam ships of the Great Chu Empire that just came out, they have seen it a long time ago.

Well, although they still can't understand steamships...

In addition, the Russians who have been at war with the Great Chu Empire for many years also have a certain understanding of the Great Chu Empire, but this understanding is more limited to the army.

The contact between the Russians and the Great Chu Empire was basically in Siberia. The two sides fought for Siberia, but during this process, all the Russians had access to was the army of the Great Chu Empire and a small number of naval inland river fleets.

Except for fighting with each other, other contacts are almost zero...

It is worth mentioning that so far, the Great Chu Empire has not sent any diplomatic envoys from the sending country to visit Russia, nor has it submitted any diplomatic documents to Russia, nor has it made any diplomatic requests...

The Russians have repeatedly requested to send envoys to peace talks in an attempt to negotiate on the ownership of Siberia, but the Great Chu Empire has never accepted the negotiation request.

The idea of ​​the top management of the empire is very simple, I fought well, let's talk about it...

Therefore, the diplomatic exchanges between the two sides are almost zero... From the perspective of the Russians, it is: the Chu people are a group of lunatics, who came to fight well, and chased them all the way from the Lena River Basin to Hubei like mad dogs. The Bi River Basin is still running towards the Ural Mountains.

Under such circumstances, even though the Russians have been at war with the Great Chu Empire for many years, the Russians still have very limited understanding of the Great Chu Empire. They only know that the army of the Chu people on the opposite side is very powerful, with many guns and large-scale Use a flintlock.

The Russians have a better understanding of the military power of the Great Chu Empire, especially the army, but they don't know as much about other affairs of the Great Chu Empire as the Dutch.

Except for the Dutch and the Russians, several other countries that have traded with the Great Chu Empire have more or less understanding of the Great Chu Empire, but they still don’t know much, especially about the current Great Chu Empire There are not many, such as the Portuguese, their impression of the Great Chu Empire is still more than ten years ago.

Spain is even less. Although the Spaniards have a lot of trade with the Great Chu Empire, in fact, the Spanish merchant fleet has never been to the mainland of the Great Chu Empire. Before that, the trade between the two sides has always been in the Luzon Islands in Manila.

After the Luzon Islands were sold to the Great Chu Empire, the place of trade between the two parties was still Manila in the Luzon Islands.

The merchant fleets of the East India Company of England, Denmark and several other European countries could go to Guangzhou, the mainland of the Great Chu Empire in the early days, but later, after the Great Chu Empire opened up Singapore and fully controlled the Straits of Malacca, , in order to ensure the overall security of Nanyang, avoid pirates, and prevent European colonists from going to Nanyang to continue colonization or trade with indigenous people.

Well, in fact, it is to monopolize the trade in the entire Nanyang region.

The Great Chu Empire directly blocked the Strait of Malacca, and no foreign ships were allowed to enter Southeast Asia through the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca.

If you want to trade with the Great Chu Empire, you can only choose to do it in Malacca.

As for Singapore, this place is not a trading port, but the administrative and military center of the Great Chu Empire in the Nanyang region, and it is not a trading port open to the outside world.

The port open to the outside world is Malacca, a traditional trading port.

In this way, apart from the Dutch directly entering the South China Sea through the Sunda Strait, and the Spaniards crossing the Pacific Ocean and entering the Luzon Islands, there will be no ships from a third European country that can enter the South China Sea.

Now the Great Chu Empire purchased the Luzon Islands from Spain and expelled the Dutch.

In today's Nanyang region, there are no European merchant ships!

After more than ten years of colonial expansion, the Great Chu Empire finally achieved full control of the Western Pacific region and completely monopolized the foreign trade of the indigenous countries in the Nanyang region.

At the same time, it also means that no foreign merchant ships will be able to reach the local ports of the Great Chu Empire in the future.

In the future, the Great Chu Empire’s trade with Europe, West Asia and other countries, except for Spain, which is relatively special and opened a port of Manila specifically for Spain’s trade fleet across the Pacific Ocean from Mexico, the trade fleets of other European countries and even West Asia and other countries, only Can travel to Malacca and the Great Chu Empire for trade.

Of course, ports such as India are also possible.

In this way, other countries know even less about the Great Chu Empire.

However, now, as the army of the Great Chu Empire approached the Ural Mountains and scared the Russians half to death, in order to guard against the Great Chu Empire, the Russians began to deploy a large number of troops from the west to the east to reinforce the Ural Mountains.

In this way, their strength on the western front will inevitably be reduced. After all, the total strength of the Russians these years is estimated to be only a few hundred thousand, and half of their troops will be stationed on the eastern front at once. Inevitably there has been a substantial reduction.

This also forced the Russians to adjust their foreign policy towards some countries on the Western Front to avoid the embarrassing situation of being at war on the two fronts.

As a result, some countries in the west of Russia, especially the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, feel deeply.

After inquiring, I found out that it was the Great Chu Empire in the east that killed the Ural Mountains.

Inquire carefully again... Good guy, the Russians have already lost the huge Siberia. The fighting power of those Chu people is too strong. When fighting the Russians, they seem to have a greater advantage than the Mongols back then.

So, before they had time to rejoice that the Russians were restrained by the Great Chu Empire, they began to worry. What if the Great Chu Empire played a western expedition like the Mongol Empire back then and killed them all the way?
In the eyes of those Easterners, it is estimated that it is impossible to tell who is a Russian, what is a Polish, and what is a Lithuanian...Russia will not feel good when the Great Chu Empire kills, but after the Russians are finished, they will not be in Poland or Lithuania. It will be good.

Ever since, they themselves panicked!

Not only Poland and Lithuania, but also a bunch of countries behind, such as a group of vassal states in the Holy Roman Empire, what Austria, Prussia heard that the soldiers of the Great Chu Empire had reached the Ural Mountains, and when Russia was in danger... I was stunned.

The horrible scene of the Mongols killing them also appeared in my mind.

In this way, the prestige of the Great Chu Empire passed through Russia and quickly spread to Eastern European countries, and then to Western European countries.

The panic in these countries made the Dutch unable to bear the contempt!

A group of idiots who have never seen the world are so scared just hearing about the army of the tens of thousands of Chu Empire. If I let you know that the army strength of those Chu people is more than 100 million, and there are hundreds of battleships. When there are dozens of large ships and devil battleships that can move without wind, wouldn't it scare you into a diabetes collapse...

As a European country that has dealt with the Great Chu Empire for 20 years and was only able to go to Guangzhou for trade in the following years, the Dutch are quite familiar with the Great Chu Empire.

After they heard that the Great Chu Empire had killed the Ural Mountains, they were not panicked, but happy...

The Dutch had just suffered a defeat in the Spice Islands, and finally had to completely withdraw from the Nanyang region. Even in order to continue to maintain trade with the Great Chu Empire, their Dutch East India Company finally had to sign a contract with the Great Chu Empire. signed an armistice agreement and formally ceded all their colonies in the Nanyang region, including Batavia, the Spice Islands and other territories, to the Great Chu Empire.

At the same time, it also compensated the Great Chu Empire for a sum of military expenses to redeem thousands of captives captured by the Great Chu Empire.

These thousands of Dutch captives are all employees and armed employees of the Dutch East India Company. The Dutch East India Company still needs these people to maintain the rule of the colonies on the Indian Peninsula.

Therefore, it is still necessary to lose money to redeem people.

After the armistice agreement was signed, the Dutch East India Company was able to resume trade with the Great Chu Empire. Although the profit was not as much as before, it was still able to continue the business.

The Dutch still have many colonies on the Indian Peninsula, and they still control Ceylon.

They just snatched the island of Ceylon from the Portuguese a few years ago, not only the island of Ceylon, they also snatched a large number of colonies in the Indian Peninsula from the Portuguese.

Today, the Dutch have many colonies in India, and they are also the biggest competitor of the Great Chu Empire in the process of colonizing India.

At this time, there were only a few scattered colonies of the Portuguese in the Indian Peninsula. The English had just developed not long ago, and their main forces were concentrated in Mumbai, etc. There were even fewer colonies in Denmark and Sweden, with only a few scattered colonies.

However, the relationship between the Dutch who retreated to India and the Great Chu Empire is still relatively complicated. It belongs to both cooperation and competition, and cannot be concluded based on purely hostile or friendly relations.

In order to avoid the further expansion of the Great Chu Empire in India, especially swallowing the whole of India in the Nanyang region, many efforts have been made.

Now that it is discovered that the Great Chu Empire is advancing westward in the north, it feels that it is possible to formulate a plan to divert disasters to the north, so that the Great Chu Empire can increase its investment in the northern region.

The Great Chu Empire invested more power in the north, so naturally it did not have enough energy to fully expand on the Indian peninsula.

Ever since, the Dutch found Russia, and also found several vassal states of the Holy Roman Empire, and of course Poland and the Lithuanian Commonwealth were indispensable.

Then I told these countries about some of the things I knew...

When the Dutch envoy told them that the Great Chu Empire in the east had more than one million troops alone, and hundreds of artillery pieces would be used in any war involving tens of thousands of people. The strength is extremely powerful, and at the same time, this country is also aggressive, with a dragon-like greed for territory.

Those in power in these countries were all scared to death!
All of them couldn't help but think of a scene, that is the scene when the millions of troops of the Great Chu Empire came to their own city!

If such a scene were to happen, it would be too terrifying.

In order to avoid this situation, in order to avoid a repeat of the Mongolian Western Expedition, they felt that it was necessary to stop them before the Great Chu Empire entered Europe.

Well, yes, it is to let the Russians block the Great Chu Empire.

As a result, a group of countries that were at odds with each other and even frequently broke out in wars began frequent diplomatic exchanges, discussing how to resist the future invasion of the Great Chu Empire.

In order to show their sincerity, the Federation of Poland and Lithuania, as well as several major princes of the Holy Roman Empire, sent a batch of weapons and ammunition to the Russians first.

Their plan is very simple, let the Russians be at the forefront as cannon fodder, even if they pay some supplies for this.

It has to be said that the panic of European countries, especially the major countries of Central and Eastern Europe, towards the Great Chu Empire, and the reaction they made because of this panic, were beyond the expectations of the Russians themselves...

And the Great Chu Empire on the opposite side is even more unaware that a group of countries in the west have begun to support the Russians because they are afraid of their future invasion.

But even if you know it, it's nothing, because the Great Chu Empire has no plans to continue westward for the time being... It's not how strong the enemy in the west is, but the distance is too far, and its own supplies can no longer keep up.

If it continues to advance westward in the future, the Great Chu Empire doesn't care whether these countries are united.

Because it is similar to what many Europeans imagined, Chu people really can’t tell the messy countries in Europe. In the eyes of Chu people, Russians, Poles, Lithuanians, Austrians, Prussians, etc. are all Europeans. The barbarians... If they really fought through, they must have swept them all the way.

There is no distinction between this native and that native.

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The European region started at the end of the 24th year of Chengshun, because the Great Chu Empire approached the Ural Mountains, which caused a lot of panic, but inside the Great Chu Empire, it was still calm.

Many citizens of the Great Chu Empire don't even know that their own army has reached the Ural Mountains... Even if they know, they don't care.

It's just a wild land in the northwest, and the distance is so far away, no matter what happens, it doesn't matter much to them.

Nowadays, the citizens of the Great Chu Empire don't care much about external changes. They care more about their own land harvests, when their wages will rise, and whether food prices are high.

Ordinary people always care about the food, clothing, housing and transportation of themselves and their families.

Therefore, when many countries in Europe were panicking, the Great Chu Empire was still calm. Not to mention ordinary people, even the top officials of the empire did not think that there was any major event on the western front...

It's just a few barbarians increasing their troops. It's not a big deal. Anyway, the empire doesn't plan to fight over now, but if you give those barbarians a hundred courage, they probably won't dare to fight over. Even if they do, they won't be able to shake the Great Chu Empire. Absolute control of the Ob River Basin.

It really doesn't work... In the worst case, we can temporarily withdraw from Tuobo City, rely on the Ob River as a natural moat to block those barbarians first, and organize manpower and material resources to counterattack later.

The high-level empire has never given any orders to the front-line troops that they can only advance and not retreat, and the high-level army on the front line will not have this idea.

There is no place in Siberia that must be guarded, and there is no need to do any rigid defense.

Not worth it!
On the western front, the Chu army is still very flexible. There is no place that must be defended, and there is no place that must be taken down... Whatever place can be defended, it can be taken down according to fate.

Anyway, the days are still long in the future, and the current gains and losses will not affect anything. After the opening of the Northwest Railway of the Great Chu Empire, there will be more opportunities and time to slowly deal with these barbarians.

Generally speaking, the upper echelons of the Great Chu Empire don't pay much attention to the western front, and the military is also fighting some Buddhists...

Relatively speaking, the empire should pay more attention to some small-scale battles in the Nanyang region, especially the numerous medium and small-scale battles with local indigenous people in Luzon and Banten provinces.

Although the intensity of these battles is not high, they are related to the control of the Great Chu Empire in the Nanyang region, so the military attaches great importance to them.

Since taking the city of Batavia, the Chu army has begun to advance to other places on Java Island with the No.14 Division as the main force.

At this time, there was actually a relatively large indigenous country on Java Island at this time, the Matalan Sultanate. This country had fought against the Dutch many times before, but after being beaten by the Dutch several times, its upper rulers chose Cooperate with the Dutch, and to a certain extent rely on the strength of the Dutch to shock other interest groups in the country.

Many of the native Javanese troops who helped the Dutch garrison the city of Batavia before had been Matalan.

However, due to the influence of the Dutch, the Great Chu Empire did not choose to establish formal diplomatic exchanges with the Madalan Sultanate, and only had a few commercial exchanges.

After capturing the city of Batavia, the Chu army interrogated the captives of the indigenous soldiers in the city, and found that many of the indigenous soldiers were still from the Matalan Sultanate... This is not bad, the Chu army immediately sent troops to attack the Lam Sultanate, Get ready to ask for an explanation!
Well, this is actually an excuse!

The real reason is that since the Dutch were expelled from Java Island, Java Island has naturally become the sphere of influence of the Great Chu Empire.

At this time, the Great Chu Empire will naturally replace the Dutch to start controlling this place.

Unlike the Dutch who only like to set up a colonial stronghold in a coastal port and then play trade, the Great Chu Empire's overseas expansion and colonial policies are diverse.

In some special areas, or where it is more troublesome to project your own troops, and the natives are more powerful, they often adopt a trade-based colonial strategy, similar to the Dutch and Portuguese, who control several ports under various names. Trade from these colonial ports.

Some areas are mainly directly annexed, the most obvious is the Siberia area, which is sparsely populated, and there is no adverse effect if it is swallowed directly.

The second is the Annan region, which has suffered from war for a long time and has a small population. In this place, the Great Chu Empire also adopted a policy of direct annexation.

There are also some places that mainly adopt the colonial rule of puppet countries, such as Siam, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Kingdom of Aceh, and the Fusang Islands.

There are also some places that directly occupy a large area of ​​land. This is different from ordinary annexation. In conventional annexation, the local indigenous people will also be included. However, this kind of occupation and annexation is different, as long as the land does not need people.

The Great Chu Empire did this in many colonies, such as Jiulongjiang in Cambodia, Bangkok in Siam, and Malacca in the Malay Peninsula.

In these places, the Great Chu Empire will organize a large number of immigrants to go there, and then expel the local aborigines.

Well, this is the same policy that is being implemented in the Luzon Islands today.

Constant immigration and expulsion eventually turned these places into the real territory of the Great Chu Empire.

Not only the land belongs to the Great Chu Empire, but even the people belong to the Great Chu Empire.

According to different situations, the Great Chu Empire adopted different methods of expansion and colonization. On Java Island, when the Great Chu Empire decided to attack the Dutch, it had already decided how to deal with Java Island and other islands.

On the largest and most important island of Java, a parallel approach of multiple colonial methods will be emulated.

On the one hand, the western region of Java Island, that is, the areas around Banten and Batavia, will be directly ruled. Later, a large number of immigrants will be arranged to expel the local aborigines to the east to achieve a comprehensive, Complete occupation and control.

At the same time, it controls several coastal ports in the central and eastern regions of Java Island, forcing the local aborigines to sign various treaties, allowing them to open the market all year round, and turning the aborigines into puppet countries for economic colonization.

This is the current strategy. As for the follow-up, the direct control area will be gradually pushed eastward, and the entire Java Island will be under full control.

Just like what is done in Malacca area now.

(End of this chapter)