688 Colonial New Theory

Acquiring Ceylon and the Cape colonies, Datang has no particularly large-scale development plans for the time being. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoActually, all of Datang's overseas consulates are now a bit of a dead end. After years of development, Goodway Overseas Territory has steadily become a "developed economy". It is now the center of Datang's steel, shipbuilding and fishing industries in the Far East. After more than ten years, the population of Guwei can exceed one million, and the natural growth rate is considerable, but due to the deliberate control of Datang, the Japanese move in very little, and the Chinese move in is not much, so the development has entered a stable period.

As for the other overseas territories, the situation is basically similar. For example, overseas consulates with relatively abundant populations, such as Dongying, Siam, and Myanmar, are basically led by overseas consular governments to develop the regional economy. There was also a large number of aristocrats and merchants in these areas who gradually and slowly became private owners, that is, capitalists. Unlike the mainland, there is no large-scale investment led by the National Council, and infrastructure construction is relatively slow, so the economic situation in most overseas territories has not changed much from before the Tang people arrived.

Some large state-owned enterprises have also made some relatively large-scale investments overseas, and they have also brought in many Chinese. Larger projects include oil development in North Gouvai and Balikpapan, and nickel mining in New Caledonia. Compared with the economic development characteristics of Datang's local economy, some overseas leaders are even more unhurried.

Basically all overseas territories have similar development strategies: first, invest in some resource industries, such as plantations, farms, mines and basic processing plants, etc., and the main purpose of investing in such industries is to provide raw materials for the production of local industries; Encourage private capital to participate in production, disseminate a series of industrial technologies of Datang, and promote the development of local large, medium and small private economies; Reform the primitive and feudal mode of production, and strengthen local control and increase local productivity with more collectivized and more manageable modes of organization such as production communes; Fourth, we should focus on the development of commerce and promote trade between overseas territories and their own territory or other overseas territories.

Generally speaking, this set of measures is basically applicable to all overseas territories, so the governance model and development strategy of overseas territories are basically the same. Datang has a relatively strong order of development, obviously the local is in the first place, and then the China Special Administrative Region is better than the Mexican Special Administrative Region, and even some investment and development in the Qing Dynasty are more attentive than many overseas consulates. This is, of course, because, perhaps, it will not be long before the Qing State will be changed to the Tang State.

Although the development speed is slower than that of Datang itself, in fact, the development speed of overseas leaders is even faster than the average development speed of European powers. The small base is also counted, but this achievement has to be remarkable.

Taking over Ceylon and South Africa is not much of a challenge for Datang. Datang was able to deploy a capable team of civil servants and send troops to defend its interests in the two new overseas territories. Of course, in the initial stage, Datang actually preferred to use the original Dutch to run these overseas territories. For example, Ceylon, for example, the Dutch basically did not have much to do with it, and Colombo basically served as a trade staging point. Using a part of the Dutch and sending a part of the Chinese can basically maintain this overseas territory very well. Datang does not expect much development in Sri Lanka in the short term, and basically Bainan's current actions to occupy overseas territories are "preemptive pit strategies". The vast Australian continent and New Zealand, where the Tang Dynasty was basically abandoned, had tens of thousands of immigrants growing wheat and raising sheep.

As for South Africa, there is already a certain number of Boers here, but Bai Nan thinks that the mercenary Dutch are easier to say, and if they are more axis, maybe they are not as good as the blacks.

In the past 20 years, Datang has liberated a large number of black slaves in the Caribbean, at least in law and in name, if blacks obtain Datang status, they are no different from Chinese, they can enjoy free education and medical subsidies, and they can get jobs assigned by the government. So, since the 80s, black slaves on Caribbean islands such as Jamaica and Haiti have been smuggled to the Bahamas and Cuba at the risk of being swallowed by the sea. Most of the smugglers are not repatriated, as this is also a good labour force, and they are granted temporary residency and employed by some local plantations. Although the work does not seem to have changed much, they have regular working hours and salaries, they have freedom, and their children can learn Chinese language and culture at schools near the plantation. In the only mainland state where the Chinese population of the Tang Dynasty is not predominant, Yuzhou (the Caribbean territory of the Tang Dynasty, including the Bahamas, Cuba and other places), black people account for the main proportion, with a black population of about 700,000.

So, in the ad hoc corps, the Negro Corps is a fairly loyal unit. Most of the Negro regiments are now black people whose families are located in the Bahamas and Cuba, and most of them have received basic education in the Tang Dynasty and claim to be a Datang national. The social status of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty is generally relatively high, which not only affects the aboriginal Indians, but also affects the black immigrants, which makes the black people in Yuzhou very interested in becoming the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, after taking South Africa, some congressmen suggested that the Negro Corps should be directly expanded and stationed in South Africa, so that the Tang Dynasty could rule this new overseas territory.

Bai Nan had an assumption that by emancipating black slaves and cultivating blacks who were educated by Tang culture, he would then use these "Tang blacks" as the vanguard of colonizing Africa. Perhaps within half a century, Datang's main energy will still be on the development of North America and China's homeland, so that these Datang blacks can step by step from South Africa to the north to conquer Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Congo and other countries, and eventually put most of Africa under the authority of Datang.

Although this idea has its inherent problems, for example, cultivating "Tang blacks" is not an easy task, and it will inevitably require the participation of a large number of Chinese talents in the process. At the same time, after the formation of a new cultural group, it is possible that a group of Chinese-speaking blacks will prepare to become independent from the Tang Dynasty.

Colonization was a huge way of cultural integration, India had countless ethnic groups and different languages, but through British colonization, these groups slowly merged together and became a unified Indian nation. Of course, black Africans are also different ethnic groups, and through cultural cultivation, they are likely to eventually form a single ethnic group. (To be continued.) )