Chapter 1273: I want to be a human trafficker, I think too much of you
After a few years, maybe the entire Fusang Islands can be turned into a barren wilderness, and the Tang Empire doesn't need to fight, it can directly turn this place into the mainland of the Tang Empire, and there is no need to worry about any barbarians coming out to resist!
Because!
The local Fuso barbarians have long been extinct!
Thinking of this kind of scene, the ministers on duty in the imperial study felt a little excited, this means of directly and completely eliminating an alien race without spending a single soldier is simply too clever.
The only problem now is that Fuso has a large population and many young women, and it is not easy to marry them all back to China!
But Li Xuan didn't care!
I'm afraid of Mao, as long as the empire opens its channels, countless singles in the empire can marry all the Fusang women, where do you need the imperial official to spend any thoughts!
The combat power of the single, that's quite powerful!
After adjusting the strategy against Fusang, the Tang Empire quickly formulated relevant policies, and the first thing to be launched was naturally not a marriage policy, but a military operation.
After all, the Tang Empire wants to marry a woman from Fusang, and no matter how stupid the Daimyo of Fusang are, they know that this kind of thing is not good and will resist.
So, there has to be a process!
And in this process, it is very necessary to maintain a high-pressure military strike at all times.
Although the Tang Empire said that it did not want to completely annex Fusang directly now, it was not because it did not have this military capability, but because it would be difficult to maintain its rule even if it was defeated.
So the first measure is to increase the number of troops in Fuso!
This time, after consultations between the army and navy, the army intends to expand the number of troops stationed in the Fuso Islands from the existing two garrison regiments and several independent battalions, totaling more than 4,000 troops, to 15,000 troops.
Of course, these 15,000 people cannot all be the main force, the main force of the Tang Army is only 300,000 or 400,000 in total, and the main force still has to face the threat from the north, and at the same time maintain a military presence in the country, it is unlikely that the main force of 15,000 people will be stationed in Fusang.
Therefore, the number of the main force, that is, about 5,000 people, and the rest will be garrisoned by reserve divisions from the country.
Therefore, the army first adjusted the existing strength of Fuso, plus the domestic reinforcement of the past two infantry battalions, an artillery battalion, the formation of the first mixed brigade of the Tang Army, which is also the first formal mixed brigade unit established after the Tang Army completed the military reform in recent years and abolished all mixed brigades and mixed regiments.
Today, the establishment of all units of the Tang Army is complete and unified, and the units stationed in the country, all infantry divisions, cavalry divisions, artillery brigades, reserve divisions, etc., are unified in establishment, and there are no mixed brigades and regiments.
In overseas areas, it is mainly based on various garrison regiments, such as the Ryukyu Garrison, the Luzon Garrison, and the Banten Garrison.
Today, the Tang Army is to gather the Ryukyu garrison regiment and other main forces stationed in Fuso, and then reinforce some troops from China to form the first mixed brigade of the Tang Army.
If nothing else, the brigade will be stationed in Osumi Prefecture.
At the same time, about 10,000 reserve divisions will be drawn from all parts of the country, and these reserve divisions will form a number of garrison regiments and battalions, which will be stationed in each colony, and ensure that each colony will have at least one garrison battalion with a strength of no less than 300 troops.
In the key areas, there are garrison regiments with no less than 1,000 troops.
To put it simply, the garrison units composed of reserve divisions are stationed in the colonies and act as garrisons to deal with small and medium-sized armed conflicts, while the first mixed brigade is used for strategic mobile forces.
The army has made great efforts, and the navy does not dare to lag behind!
First of all, the navy promised to further expand the size of the Ryukyu squadron, and at the same time expand the size of the fleets of the colonies, for example, in the Edo colony, the navy's Edo squadron had only one patrol ship and three small coastal warships.
The Navy decided to reinforce this Edo detachment with one frigate and two patrol ships, and build this detachment into a real detachment to meet most of the maritime military needs in the Fuso Sea.
At the same time, the navy also promised that it would be stationed at the main naval base in the Fuso area, that is, the Osumi Prefecture Naval Base, in addition to stationing powerful warships and transport ships, and would also garrison a marine battalion, which would be strengthened, with a strength of no less than 1,500 men, and would be complete with infantry, artillery, baggage, and other arms, and would have the ability to fight alone.
After the army and navy coordinated, one after another orders were issued, and many parts of the army began to move, and then arrived at the port to board the ship and go to Fuso.
While the military is increasing its troops, it is also studying how to intervene in the situation in Fuso.
Now, the situation on Fuso's side is not very good, first of all, there is a talent on Fuso's side, this is Oda Nobunaga, who even Li Xuan has heard of, this person defeated the powerful Imagawa family this year.
You must know that Oda Nobunaga's army was only four or five thousand people at that time, and the army of the Imagawa family was more than 20,000 people.
After the defeat of the Imagawa family, Oda Nobunaga took control of large areas such as Chufuso and Gyeonggi Prefecture, and became the most powerful daimyo in the region.
And there is information that Oda Nobunaga is negotiating with the Tokugawa family in an attempt to form an alliance.
This series of news is not good news for the Tang Empire, because once the two sides form an alliance, then a fairly large force will be formed, and then there is a great possibility of unifying Fusang.
The Osumi authorities, who were at the forefront of the Empire's intervention in the situation in Fuso, quickly sensed that the situation was not good, and on the one hand, they quickly reported it to the country, and on the other hand, they also made their own efforts.
The Osumi administration, which is a word that is often mentioned, is a very famous name even in the Fuso Islands, and in terms of administrative level, Osumi is actually just a prefecture under the Ryukyu Prefecture.
However, because of its particularity, the Tang Empire did not treat Osumi Prefecture as an ordinary county at all, because of its special geographical location, although Osumi Prefecture was subordinate to the Ryukyu Prefecture, many things were already handled independently.
First of all, this Osumi authority does not refer to the Yamen of Osumi County, but to the 'Datang Fusang Affairs Yamen'.
The yamen is directly under the management of the cabinet, this institution is an independent institution, not a local administrative body, nor a diplomatic agency, it is an independent institution of the Tang Empire stationed in Dayu County to deal with Fusang affairs nearby, and has considerable authority.
In this way, the Yamen of Dayu County is just a county yamen, and there is nothing special, and in the political system of the Tang Empire, the local yamen do not have any special authority.
The authority of the Yamen of Fuso Affairs mainly comes from the supervision of the Yamen, and the dispatch of the supervision is to 'supervise the affairs of Fusang', which is a simple few words, in fact, it already reflects its huge power, but all Fusang affairs, the Yamen has the power to deal with them, including trade affairs, peace negotiations, signing treaties and even declaring war.
To put it bluntly, this is actually the Fusang Governor in the Tang Empire system.
And the Fuso Affairs Supervisor, coincidentally, happened to be the former Osumi County Preparatory Special Envoy and Osumi County Commander Xia Wuyan.
The man was born in the army, and when Osumi Prefecture was first established, he served as the prefectural commander of the prefecture, and later because he was in charge of Fuso affairs, he was transferred back to the country, but he was soon transferred back to Osumi Prefecture.
It's just that when he came back to Osumi County, he had already become the first Fusang affairs supervisor of the Tang Empire.
And there are already several more titles on his head, first of all, he is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and the grade of this position is from the fifth grade.
In addition, he is also the director of the Fuso Division of the Oriental Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a position he holds as a Jeho Pin position.
But at the same time, he was also the minister of the Imperial Mission, and was ordered to supervise the affairs of Fuso.
As a traditional feudal dynasty, the official system of the Tang Empire is also quite complicated, first of all, his title of bachelor is just a fictitious title given to him by Li Xuan, in fact, he has never been to the Hanlin Academy.
In recent years, Li Xuan has usually adjusted the rank and position of officials by adding titles under some specific circumstances, and the titles are usually used to increase the positions of the Inspectorate and the positions of the Hanlin Academy, and sometimes they simply add the title of waiter, but these titles are only nominal.
The director of the Fusang Division of the Oriental Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is Xia Wuyan's own official, and his grade is five grades.
And supervising the affairs of Fusang is only a temporary dispatch!
Therefore, the so-called Tang Fusang Affairs Yamen is actually only a temporary institution, and all its rights come from Xia Wuyan's dispatch.
Based on Xia Wuyan's title and dispatch, outsiders usually call him the superintendent minister, but this is just an honorific title for ordinary people, not an official name, and it will not be written in official documents.
Now, after receiving the report from the country, Xia Wuyan, who supervised the affairs of Fusang, also began to act quickly, and his supervision yamen had a lot of manpower, and he was soon scattered.
He began to summon the Empire's merchants doing business in Fuso, especially those in the Empire, and reaffirmed the Empire's policy that all arms trade in Fuso required official Imperial approval.
It's not that they won't be allowed to sell weapons, but that they should be sold under official guidance!
At the same time, Xia Wuyan, on behalf of the official, hoped that the businessmen would bring several batches of young Fusang women back to China, so that single men in China would marry Fusang women.
The first one, they all understand, but the latter one is a little weird, they can't understand it?
Is this to make them human traffickers?
It's not okay to be a human trafficker, the laws of the empire prohibit human trafficking, and it's too risky to play this!
Although the laws of the empire were only domestic, and there were people who went to foreign territory to capture natives and then transported them to other places as slaves, one thing was that these acts took place outside the empire, even outside the colonies.
If you dare to engage in human trafficking within the rule of the empire, even within the colony, it is a crime and you will be killed.
Hearing the merchants euphemistically raise their concerns, saying that the laws of the empire are inviolable, they would never dare to be human traffickers.
Hearing this, Xia Wuyan was also speechless, what kind of human trafficking is he doing, can such a powerful dynasty of the Tang Empire use these indiscriminate methods?
Besides, my Datang man wants to marry a Fusang woman, and those Fusang women can't pounce like moths to a fire, just let you businessmen help with transportation!
I still want to be a human trafficker, I think too much of you!