Under the surging undercurrent, Datang is engaged in wind and rain, and Datang on the bright side is also very strong. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the beginning of 1781, the Tang Dynasty originally only sent troops to Siam to quell the civil strife in Siam, but this military campaign soon spread to the whole of Southeast Asia. Not only did Siam fall completely into the hands of the Tang within two months, but Chenla also handed over power to the newly established Tang Dynasty Overseas Consular Government. Meng Yun, who had just ascended the throne, challenged the Tang people, but soon his country was even about to perish.

The Tang army conquered the Burmese capital in July, and in September it expanded into Lower Burma and took control of Rangoon. The Irrawaddy Delta was also completely controlled by the Yamato Corps of the Tang Army. Some of the remnants of the Burmese army retreated northward, and the Tang army took advantage of the situation to attack the area controlled by the Tusi in the north. And Meng Yun had no choice but to lead the forces to flee westward in the face of defeat.

Meng Yun knew the power of the Tang people, he repeatedly wanted to ask the Tang people for peace, and was even willing to cede a part of the land, but the Tang people ignored his suggestions at all. It stands to reason that the Tang people should not chase and fight hard, and they should stop if they take advantage. However, how did Meng Yun know that Bai Nan, who was far away in Shanghai, had prepared logistics supplies and military expenses for the Tang Army for about two years, and the Yamato Corps showed full tenacity in combat, constantly challenging the difficult combat environment, and still being able to maintain a relatively good combat state, which also made Bai Nan have no intention of entanglement with Meng Yun and ordered Chang Bin to completely wipe out Burma.

Even if the Tang people may encounter some trouble when controlling the territory of Myanmar in the future, the Tang Dynasty does not expect to have effective control, what is needed is the name of sovereignty over the vast area, just like after the merger of Siam, most of the areas are only governed according to the regulations issued by the overseas consular governor's office, and even a few points can be implemented and a big hello is given. However, they were nominally subordinate to the Siamese Governor's Office.

The same is true in Myanmar, where Paiknam is already planning to set up a Burmese Overseas Governorate in Yangon to administer the upper and lower Burma regions. However, apart from Tanintharyi and Shan State to Siam, Pak Nam also dismembered other areas. For example, the northern Tusi administrative area, that is, the northern region of Kachin State and Sagaing Province in later generations, was handed over to the Qing State by the Tang Dynasty. This is a pie-in-the-sky thing for Jiaqing. Although these local Tusi basically did not hand over any money to the imperial court, they nominally accepted the canonization of the Qing Dynasty, which was also a very face-saving thing.

As everyone knows, this kind of behavior of the Tang people is not to treat the Qing State as an outsider at all, anyway, the whole country will be Tang in the future, so why not expand the land of Yunnan at this time. Moreover, this area was controlled by the Qing army, which could be regarded as liberation for the relatively limited strength of the Tang army. A piece of land on the southwest border, Datang did not ask Jiaqing for money. This also made Jiaqing very proud, and took out a big book. Jiaqing's hostility towards the Tang Dynasty has decreased slightly, and it has become more cooperative in matters such as immigration and the economy.

The Burmese king Meng Yun was chased by the Yamato army. He fled into Manipur in a hurry, but because the Manipur people had a deep hatred with the Burmese, it was the Burmese who destroyed the Manipur Kingdom, so Meng Yun was attacked here instead, which made Meng Yun have to continue to flee westward. After the Tang army arrived in Manipur, it was welcomed by the Manipur people. In fact, in another plane, Manipur, although it is a state of India, is emotionally closer to China. After consulting with the locals. Manipur agreed to join the Tang Dynasty, with the locals exercising a limited degree of autonomy.

Meng Yun fled all the way west. It gave the Tang people an excellent excuse to continue to expand their power westward. By November 1781, the Yamato Corps had defeated the local regime in Nagaland, Mizoram, and Assam with only 5,000 troops in one brigade. And Meng Yun himself was caught up by the Tang army near Agartala, and finally committed suicide in defeat.

And on Christmas Eve, the advance party of the Yamato Legion finally encountered an armed force from the British East India Company. The British were not closed to information, naturally they heard that the Tang people fought all the way from Burma to Bengal, and the British were afraid of the military ability of the Tang Dynasty. Afraid that his colony would be taken away, he mobilized arms on the one hand, and dared to negotiate with the Tang people on the other hand.

In fact, the Tang side does not want to continue to expand to Bengal for the time being, and fights all the way from the Indochina Peninsula to South Asia, even if the Yamato Corps is resilient and patient. But it was also tired, and the Tang Dynasty left a large area without a Tang rule of the Tang people, and its control over the organization of the area was extremely limited. If there is another war with Britain, it will obviously involve all kinds of energy and invest more costs.

As a result, after the Tang army came into contact with the British army, it did not start a battle, but the two sides formed a confrontation situation, the British were unwilling to take a step back, and the Tang army did not retreat. Not long ago, due to the Anglo-Dutch war, the British had to watch as a large part of the Dutch East Indies colonies were taken over by the Tangs, and now the Tangs had come to the door of the Bengal colonies, and the British cabinet had to summon the British envoy again to discuss a solution.

The minister to Britain also took the opportunity to propose that the Tang Dynasty had no intention of occupying British colonies and had no intention of going to war with the British army, so it hoped to survey the border of the South Asian colonies with Britain. The British have never done this kind of thing, and the European powers often draw colonial borders with each other to avoid conflict, and in many cases this boundary is very inaccurate.

The British didn't expect the Tang people to progress so quickly, they originally had the intention of developing eastward, and they did so in history. However, now due to the existence of the Tang people, the British can only give up this idea and go all out to develop Bengal and India.

After several months of bargaining, the Tang and the British finally reached an agreement: the current line of confrontation between the British and the Tang army and the Finney River would be the border, and the overseas territory of the Tang Republic would be to the east of the border, and the British Indian colonies would be to the west of the border. Although the British had actually extended their influence to some areas east of the border, the vast majority of their assets were in the west, including Dhaka, the most important city in Bengal. Chittagong belonged to the Tang Dynasty, and the British had never been able to complete the capture of this place, and now they can only sigh with admiration.

Tang and Britain also signed non-aggression treaties and trade agreements with respect to the South Asian colonies, but this trade agreement was of little use. The British were well aware of the advantages of the Tang Dynasty's merchants, and if the British Indian colonies were opened to the Tang merchants, it would be difficult for them to sell a series of goods such as textiles. Therefore, Britain categorically did not agree to the unlimited enlargement of the entry of Don merchant ships into the port. However, Datang has always maintained free trade, and Datang opened the British East India Company to trade with Datang's overseas territories, but the tariffs were relatively high, and the sale of manufactured goods from Britain was also prohibited. On the contrary, it allowed the trade of iron ore, jute and other raw materials in British India, and at the same time sold Tang goods to British merchants.

The British were reluctant, after all, if they were given another half a century, the British believed that they would be able to expand their influence to Burma, but the Tang had already taken the lead, so they still focused on protecting their own interests.

For the Tang Republic, it is a long-term process to digest the entire Indochina Peninsula and the newly occupied areas of South Asia. Datang had to train a group of people in the Qing Dynasty to come to Southeast Asia and South Asia to serve Datang, involving many links such as government management and commerce. However, even so, manpower is still stretched, so this huge area is still dominated by local self-government.

In addition, because Datang also took the East Indies colony from the Dutch, Datang later redivided its own Southeast Asia-South Asia overseas territorial administrative division.

The Sunda archipelago region, which includes Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, Mindanao, and Maluku Islands, was merged into one large overseas territory, the Sunda Overseas Territory, which is governed in Pontianak. This overseas territory includes the provinces of Borneo, Mindanao, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi.

The Shan, Kare, Karen, Mon and Tanintharyi provinces of Laos and Myanmar were merged to form the new Siamese Overseas Territory, which is located in Bangkok, which is now the largest overseas territory in Indochina and has the largest economy and population. In the future, it will also be the core area for Datang to develop the Indochina Peninsula.

The kingdom of Zhenla became the territory of Zhenla, and the area under its jurisdiction did not change from before, and the place of governance was Phnom Penh.

After ceding the Kachin region to the north, Shan State and other areas to the east, and Manipur to the south, Myanmar finally formed a shrunken Burmese overseas territory, which governed Yangon. This overseas territory is also considered to be the most unstable, and the Tang army continues to fight against the rebellious Burmese in the area.

The Sriwijaya Overseas Territory has increased the area of the Kra Isthmus from Siam by a small amount, but this regional change will make the copper mining industry in the Overseas Territory more concentrated. Sriwijaya Overseas Consulate is located in Singapore.

In South Asia, the Tang Dynasty merged Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Tang Bengal into Donghui's overseas territory and governed Chittagong. The name Donghui is also derived from the ancient name of the region, also known as Gamo Wisp, which is recorded in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty.

As a result, in Southeast Asia and South Asia, Datang has six large overseas territories with a considerable area. The plan to establish an economic hinterland for China has been completed in the top-level design part. The Philippines and Timor-Leste are not yet in the hands of Datang, and Datang will not make a move for the time being, but it will be sooner or later. (To be continued.) )