I want to be emperor

Chapter 781 The Sturdy Overseas Militia

Over the years, the overseas expansion of the Great Chu Empire has been various. Sometimes it is just to establish a trading base, do business and conduct trade.

Sometimes it also engages in proxy colonial rule and plunders economic benefits.

But the Great Chu Empire never engaged in direct colonial rule!
The first type is naturally similar to the colonization of ordinary European countries, by ceding land, leasing land, or just establishing ordinary trading posts to start trade with local indigenous countries.

This is the most basic and purest, and it is also the first expansion mode that the Great Chu Empire began to expand after going to a certain area.

After all... if you don't even have a place to stay, you can't directly transport troops all the way to play the battle of destroying the country, right?

The second is also an advanced version of the first stronghold trade model. When the overseas colonial forces of the Great Chu Empire have obtained a trade foothold in a certain area, they will gradually increase their troops, build coastal port fortresses, and then gradually Expansion and control, and through a number of military operations to subdue the local indigenous regime, and then forced them to sign a series of unequal treaties.

Turn the indigenous country into a puppet state of the Great Chu Empire.

This is the puppet colonization or agent colonization model widely used by the Great Chu Empire in its overseas expansion.

For example, today's Myanmar, Siam, the Kingdom of Aceh, Fusang Islands and other regions are typical cases of colonization by supporting local puppet regimes.

The Great Chu Empire did not directly rule over these themselves, but used puppet rule to plunder local economic interests in an all-round way. This is especially evident in the Fusang area.

Over the past ten years, the Great Chu Empire has obtained a large amount of gold and silver in the Fusang Islands, and has used the local area as a dumping ground for industrial products.

Among them, the sales of weapons in industrial products are very large, because the big names on the Fusang Islands have been fighting for three days... Ever since the Tokugawa Shogunate was beaten down by the Great Chu Empire, the Tokugawa Shogunate has been unable to continue to suppress them. many ambitious names.

And these Fusang daimyos have big ambitions, and many of them want to become the next Tokugawa shogunate.

In order to fight for world hegemony, these big names have fought against each other in the past ten years, and the fight has been very fierce.

This has also led to very good sales of the weapon products of the Great Chu Empire in the Fusang Islands. Over the past ten years, the local daimyos have tried every means to collect various resources and export them to the Great Chu Empire, and then exchange them back for various weapons and equipment for further development. war.

The mutual conquests of these daimyos have also led to a sharp decline in the local population of the Fusang Islands over the past decade or so.

The number of people directly killed by the war is actually not much, but the famine caused by the stagnation of agricultural production caused by the war and the abandonment of a large amount of farmland is the real fatality.

However, when these big names started fighting for hegemony, they naturally didn't care so much.

A similar situation also appeared in several other puppet states and the Indian peninsula. Local internal wars continued one after another, which led to a sharp increase in the local sales of weapons and products of the Great Chu Empire.

For example, in the Kingdom of Aceh, turmoil occurred within the royal family three years ago, and it was divided into three groups to fight back and forth. The weapons they used were matchlock guns, early smoothbore guns, and armored spears imported from the Great Chu Empire. sword.

Even military uniforms, tents, and rations were purchased in large quantities from the Great Chu Empire.

There is no internal fighting in Myanmar, but the war with the Arakan Kingdom in the west has never ended.

It is worth noting that after the loss of Chittagong, the Arakan Kingdom, which was hostile to the Great Chu Empire in the early days, had already signed a series of agreements with the Great Chu Empire such as ceding land, opening up the domestic market, ruling outside the law, and paying tribute to the Great Chu Empire. Unequal treaties, in exchange for the Great Chu Empire's cessation of war against them and the right to purchase weapons, and then also purchased a large amount of weapons and equipment from the Great Chu Empire to deal with the attack of the Burmese Kingdom.

As for the internal wars between the puppet states, the Great Chu Empire has always maintained a neutral attitude. As long as you do not infringe on the interests of our Great Chu Empire, then you can fight as you like, and you will not be the same as some big countries that care about face. , If there is a fight between the younger brothers, I have to go up to mediate.

Although the Arakan Kingdom has a smaller land area and a smaller population, it is very tenacious, and its army's combat effectiveness is relatively good. Therefore, after obtaining the weapons and equipment of the Great Chu Empire, it quickly launched a counterattack and pushed back to the hinterland of Myanmar.

Today, these two countries are still engaged in frequent and large-scale wars.

As for the Kingdom of Siam, there was turmoil within itself. Because of the long-term oppression of the central ruling class in Siam, the real power factions in many places in the Kingdom of Siam were very dissatisfied, and then rebellions were set off, so it was also fought. It's a mess, if it weren't for the turmoil inside them, it is estimated that they would have sent troops west to attack Burma, and attacked with the Arakan Kingdom to kill Burma.

The situation is similar in the Nanzhang Kingdom. The Nanzhang Kingdom is a place where the local nobles are strong and the central government is weak. It is itself on the verge of splitting. Here we go.

Although none of them were very strong, they actually fought more brutally. Many so-called local nobles were no different from small warlords, very brutal.

As for the wars within these puppet states, the Great Chu Empire still said: As long as it doesn't affect my business, you can do whatever you want.

In the end, there were actually quite a few wars on the Indian peninsula. Although there seemed to be only a few relatively large countries within them, in fact, even the Mughal Empire, the central government had difficulty actually controlling the region.

Today's Indian peninsula seems to have only a few big countries, but in fact there are hundreds of states.

These states are all independent regimes with armies, independent financial powers, and personnel powers. Some of them are not small in size and strength, such as the previous Madurai, Bijapur, Mysore and other kingdoms.

Because there are so many various states, so far, the Indian governor of the Great Chu Empire has not even been able to figure out how many states there are in India... let alone figure out the extremely complicated relationship between them up.

Today's Indian peninsula is more chaotic than the Fusang Islands...

In the face of this situation, at the same time, it is not too long for the Great Chu Empire to really set foot in and control the overseas trade of the Indian peninsula. Therefore, in this area, the main strategy is to adopt a trade-oriented strategy, but in some coastal colonies of its own side , it adopts the mode of continuous annexation.

The direct annexation of the Madurai region is an attempt to see the reactions of the countries on the Indian peninsula and see what the actual effect is.

For the Indian peninsula, which has a huge area and a population of [-] to [-] million, the expansion policy of the Great Chu Empire here is very cautious, and several methods are often implemented at the same time.

There are ordinary trade cooperation, such as with the Mughal Empire and several relatively large central and southern states.
There is also a puppet agent mode, which is mainly aimed at some medium-sized states around a few colonies.

Some are directly annexed, and the land is merged into the colony to adopt direct rule, mainly for the surrounding areas of the overseas direct-controlled territories, and now a Madurai is added.

As for overseas territories directly under the Central Government, this is also the third expansion mode of the Great Chu Empire in overseas regions.

Such as some small-scale colonies, such as Bangkok in Siam, Dagon in Myanmar, Chittagong in Arakan, Gehe State in the Indian Peninsula, Goa in Bijapur, Mumbai in the Mughal Empire .

Then there are some areas with larger areas and established provinces, such as Malacca Province on the Malay Peninsula, Luzon Province, Borneo, Banten Province on Java Island, Dongdan Province, Ceylon Province in the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean Deep in Tanxiangfu, North America Province in North America.

In these areas, the Great Chu Empire will set up a standard administrative management model, and then organize a large number of immigrants from the country, starting from the port, along the roads, and the rivers will gradually go deep into the inland and control the places. Over time, these places will become Chu. place for people.

Up to now, there are no aborigines in many of the above-mentioned overseas territories.

Of course, at the end of the day, the local officials of the Great Chu Empire will still place them in several aboriginal protected areas for the remaining aboriginals to live in.

Today, several overseas territories of the Great Chu Empire on the Indian Peninsula basically follow this model, such as the Ceylon Mansion and the newly added Madhu Mansion.

The reason for this is that, except for some places that are more important and have strategic positions that require full control, the other is more to find new living land for a large number of poor people in the country.

Expanding the living space is the biggest driving force for the Great Chu Empire to expand overseas. Others, including the so-called overseas trade, are incidental.

In the newly occupied Madurai area, the Great Chu Empire continued to pursue this strategy, directly established the Madurai Mansion, and then organized a large number of immigrants to go there, and then turned this place into the Great Chu Empire's own place.

The expansion in the Madurai region can also be seen as the Great Chu Empire's firm foothold in the Indian peninsula region, and initial control of the local situation, so that it can start the local expansion.

For this reason, the Great Chu Empire has also invested a lot of manpower and material resources over the years, and the resident troops dispatched by the army alone have reached more than 6 people.

There are tens of thousands of sailors and marines in the navy.

Then there was the army, not counting as a regular army, the armed tax police.

Finally, there are militias in the lowest immigrant groups.

Within the Great Chu Empire, the militias were only part of the mobilization system. In the early years, there were relatively many militias, and the training was relatively frequent. They were greatly responsible for maintaining local law and order and cracking down on violent crimes.

However, with the long-term peace in the Great Chu Empire, various bandits, armed landlords, and gang members continued to be wiped out on a large scale, and more importantly, as the living standard continued to increase, the importance of grassroots militia organizations continued to decline. .

And after the Great Chu Empire established a large-scale C-level garrison force and used it to suppress the vast hinterland, the importance of domestic mass organizations further declined.

Up to now, the militia has become part of the mobilization system... But in the past 20 years, the Great Chu Empire has not actually carried out any war mobilization...

Of course, the fact that the effect is small and the actual use is less does not mean that the militia organization is gone or that it is not taken seriously.

There are still militia organizations that should exist in the country, and they will still organize regular training.

Even the quality of the personnel composition is quite good, most of them are retired soldiers.

Not only do they exist widely in villages and towns, but even some large government-run enterprises also have militia organizations. For example, the Tangshan Coal and Iron Company in the north has an entire militia regiment.

It’s just that although these militia organizations exist and conduct regular training, their equipment management is very strict. At the same time, militia organizations are rarely used to engage in any combat tasks. When they are used, they are basically used in conjunction with local garrison troops or patrols for disaster relief. , searching for violent criminals or something.

However, this situation is different overseas. Overseas, due to the lack of regular troops, it is difficult to cover a large number of immigrant settlements. Therefore, in order to protect themselves, immigrants need militia organizations.

Therefore, militia organizations exist widely in overseas territories directly under the Central Government and play a relatively important role.

In many cases, some sporadic or even small-scale battles with indigenous people actually took place in militia organizations.

Therefore, the Great Chu Empire also attached great importance to the militia system in overseas regions, and often equipped them with a large number of weapons and equipment.

For example, the early flintlock guns and even the current cap percussion guns, some light artillery, light plate armor and so on.

At the same time, regular training, live ammunition shooting, etc. will be organized. In the militia training in some turbulent areas, the training intensity of ammunition shooting is actually higher than that of the domestic garrison!
In some domestic C-level garrison units, the soldiers rarely practice live ammunition in their daily training. Most of them are physical training, tactical training, and simulated shooting training.

However, the militias in overseas territories have been threatened by violent attacks by indigenous people for a long time, so they have more live ammunition training.

It is even an exaggeration to say that in some small-scale and sporadic battles, the C-level garrison of the domestic headquarters may not be able to defeat the militias of the overseas directly-administered territories...

The militias in some overseas regions are very tough!

This is caused by different environments.

Numerous regular armies and militias with strong combat effectiveness allowed the Great Chu Empire to have 10,000+ regular and militia armed forces in the Indian peninsula. The confrontation of the Great Chu Empire.

Under the strong military guarantee, the Great Chu Empire also began a comprehensive colonial expansion of the Indian peninsula.

The direct annexation of Madurai is just one of them, and various expansions are also rapidly unfolding in other places, but they are not so radical.

This is not only the case in the Indian peninsula, the Great Chu Empire also set off a new wave of overseas colonial expansion in West Asia and Africa.

Especially in southern Africa, the Great Chu Empire has long coveted South Africa, and has long wanted to snatch South Africa from the Dutch.

Before, it was just a sneaky foothold there, but after several years of development, the local foothold has become a large-scale military base, and at the same time it has been extended to other places, and multiple coastal port fortress supply points have been established.

After several years of trials and armed conflicts, the Great Chu Empire has established a complete supply line from the Indian Peninsula to West Asia, to Northeast Africa, and then to South Africa. Provide supplies.

With such a supply line, the Great Chu Empire is also ready to attack South Africa.

But before taking action against South Africa, the Great Chu Empire was also planning to expel the Portuguese and Dutch from Northeast Africa, East Africa and other coastal areas first.

After all, they can't be attacked in South Africa when the supply line is attacked. Even if their sea power doesn't pose any real threat to the sea transportation of the Great Chu Empire, it's still disgusting.

When the European colonists in these places are settled, it is time for the Great Chu Empire to attack South Africa.

And that day won't be too far away.

(End of this chapter)