Chapter 432: The Taiping Army Advances into Africa

After a year or two of recuperation and recuperation and training of the army, Li Xiucheng now has 200,000 standing elite soldiers in his hands, and the military power of the kings has also been almost reduced by him, and the cohesion of the heavenly kingdom has been raised again.

And took out a lot of Western sets and replaced them with Chinese hearts.

In addition, he was still in the prime of life, so he was naturally unwilling to be depressed and wanted to do another thing, so he naturally didn't want to stay on the islands facing the sea, so he chose East Africa.

"Your Majesty! Barrenness is not terrible, we can transform, we have the most industrious, hard-working, hard-working people, I believe we can turn this place into a fertile land.

And here is close to the coast, now the people of my heavenly kingdom are all Fujianese, most of them make a living from fishing, and when they get there, they can return to their old business, quickly settle down, and be self-sufficient. Li Xiucheng then said:

"The most important thing is that Your Majesty, your Chinese Empire will definitely eat India in the future! At that time, it will be very convenient for South Asia to East Africa, and we can echo the Chinese Empire from afar and get your support. It's not a child without a mother, and I'm sure Your Majesty won't be stingy with help. ”

Yang Dongfang nodded, but in his heart he was scolding Liu Xiucheng for bragging and not making drafts, all of the above is a fool.

It is not surprising that in the eyes of his military masters, he would not see the strategic value of this region, and in the case of Somalia, the southeast can be used to make ships passing through South Africa.

To the north, it can control the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, and control the Suez Canal.

The problem is that this guy shouldn't know that the Suez Canal is being excavated!

Of course, Li Xiucheng didn't know that the Suez Canal was being excavated and would be open to navigation in less than two years, but he saw Egypt on the map, which was a bit narrow.

In terms of the long history of canal excavation in the Great Celestial Empire, digging a canal here is too simple and necessary.

In the future, someone may dig it, and then the sea channel leading from the Mediterranean Sea to the Taiping Sea will be opened, and the Gulf of Aden in the Red Sea will not become a heavy place.

That's why he chose this place.

However, Yang Dongfang would not agree, pointing to the Kenyan piece and saying: "You can fight the south and east of here!" I don't have so many resources for you, even if it's a loan, I don't have so much food for you, after all, the country is developing greatly, so you can start here, rest assured that there are not many British troops in South Africa, and they can't threaten you. ”

After thinking about it, Yang Dongfang still took out the strategic land of Somalia and Ethiopia, which is the enclave of the Chinese Empire in Africa in the future, so naturally it cannot be given to Li Xiucheng.

And next to it is South Sudan, where there are oil fields.

Li Xiucheng couldn't help but be a little disappointed, it was not so simple to dig some benefits from Yang Dongfang, he was more shrewd than himself.

In order to better encourage Li Xiucheng, Yang Dongfang said: "Look at the long term, south and east is the real good East, see that there is no here, through this Great Rift Valley is the Kingdom of Congo (later including Angola, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo), here is full of good things, oil, timber, and diamonds everywhere!" ”

"To the south is South Africa, with a lot of gold mines, and if you can get rid of the British, it's all yours."

was said by Yang Dongfang like this, Li Xiucheng was really a little moved, this is a big cake, if you conquer all the following lands, it is also equivalent to a China, and the territory is wide enough.

Can it be bad, Yang Dongfang is greedy, the entire Africa south of the equator has been turned into him, you must know that this is the richest and most potential region in Africa, and it is also the area with the best natural climate.

Compared with the vast desert of North Africa, it is simply one in the sky and the other on the ground.

Of course, although these places are good, Yang Dongfang doesn't have so much thought to develop, so let Li Xiucheng be a villain first, and see how fast he can eat.

"Good! Your Majesty, we have decided so happily. Li Xiucheng knew that he was not qualified to talk about conditions, so it was better to be cheerful.

Yang Dongfang smiled, but he finally said: "There is one more thing I want to remind you, no matter how much you achieve in Africa in the future, I hope you don't swell, although the king of heaven has done many wrong things, his son is still young, even if one day you want to stand on your own, don't kill him, the world is so big, you don't have to fight for such a piece of broken land, give him a piece of what to imitate." ”

Li Xiucheng promised, saying that I will learn from you, you can be benevolent and righteous, you have a mind, you want to be a national hero in China, and I, Li Xiucheng, can do the same.

Then Yang Dongfang built a space gate in Fujian, and then let intelligence officers go deep into the Kilimanjaro Mountains in East Africa, and half a month later, Yang Dongfang built a space gate somewhere in the mountain range.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's 200,000 troops came one after another, and quickly attacked all directions, destroying the indigenous army and destroying their regime.

Relying on 200,000 elite troops in a month, it quickly opened up to the eastern coast, that is, Mombasa and other places in later generations.

Yang Dongfang also borrowed two engineer divisions to help build garrisons, docks, and roads for the people of the Kingdom of Heaven to live and livelihood.

Li Xiucheng's troops opened up the coast, turned eastward and continued to march to the Great Rift Valley, where they brought Uganda under their rule in two months, and then moved south along the Great Rift Valley and the coast.

The later Rwanda and ******** were included in the rule, and the first state of the Chinese people in Africa was established, which was later called this Fujian version of the Chinese state.

Of course, these are not Yang Dongfang's concerns, after all, there are few people here in Fujian, as the saying goes, eight mountains, one water and one land.

Even if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gets rid of the people of Fujian, he has no opinion, but in fact, Li Xiucheng can only take half of it, because Yang Dongfang mentioned it to the Taiping Army, and it can't be too forced.

What Yang Dongfang can help is to give some support for people's livelihood, so that the people of Fujian in the past will suffer less and will not starve and suffer from heat stroke.

The army of the Heavenly Kingdom is going from Fujian, Yang Dong is convenient for people to expand and repair Mawei Port, the shipbuilding base and the naval academy in Fuzhou can have no scruples, and Deng Shichang and these little guys are also placed here, let them toss hard, form the Fuzhou fleet, and control the Penghu Strait together with the Taiwan fleet.

Of course, in view of the fact that Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands and other countries have obtained many warships, all the major fleets have been expanded into large fleets, and they have actively recruited and trained troops to condense their strength.

The historical legacy of Fujian has been solved, and this time Yang Dongfang's vision has finally turned to the three northeastern provinces, and it is time to solve them together, leaving too many opportunities for the traverser, but unfortunately he does not know how to do things after all.

Returning to Chengdu from Fujian, the imperial emperor Yang Dongfang suddenly issued several edicts.

The edicts were all crowned kings with different surnames, which caused heated discussions among the people for a while.

The first to be crowned was Shi Dakai's son, Shi Dingzhong, who was crowned the king of East Africa!

Later, Li Xiucheng was sullen for a while after learning about this.

The second is Liu Jintang's uncle Liu Songshan, who promised to be crowned king when he surrendered in Xiangyang, but he didn't dare to ask for it.

But Yang Dongfang couldn't help but give it, so he added the title of King Bo! Full name is King of Northern Persia!

What the hell is Persia, Liu Songshan looked for it on the map, and the mother is in the southwestern neighbor of the Bukhara country controlled by his nephew, and it is also Northern Persia, which means that it can only be close to the Caspian Sea.

This...... This is still a foreign land, and it is still where the Persian people are, and the empire has not yet been fought! Standard Exotic.

So the little old man ran from Ningxia to Chengdu.

Your Majesty, I'm too old, I can't go! I miss you! Reluctantly! I'm so old, I'll be a waiter, then the king of Northern Persia don't want it, don't let me eat sand, I don't want to die in a foreign land.

Under the circumstance that Yang Dongfang shook his head, the righteousness was awe-inspiring, I couldn't say anything, Liu Songshan had no choice but to be authentic: "Or!" Your Majesty, you can give this king to your beloved nephew Jintang! Anyway, I don't have it, and everything good will be left to this stinky boy in the future. ”

Yang Dongfang looked at him with a smile, and finally only replied: "Get out, take your people and go to Northern Persia, my general will become a stinky boy in your mouth, and his officials are bigger than you...... I'll give him Iceland in the future! Or you can change it with him. ”

Good guy, as soon as the little old man found the location of Iceland, he shivered and went to Kashgar to find his nephew to borrow someone from Qiufeng.

Your Majesty the Emperor, you are too picky, and you have to fight your own fiefdom.

(End of chapter)