The situation in Borneo was not of particular concern to Bainan, because there were no enemies there to be extra vigilant about, and the sultans were easily defeated, and the captured sultans were sent thousands of kilometers away to Hawaii and became ordinary people. Eventually, with the support of the Tang people, Meora, the lover of Bai Nan, became the queen of Hawaii, and a series www.biquge.info of Tang policies were maintained, and the naturalization of the natives continued. Bai Nan would correspond with Meora, but the letters rarely mentioned his longing, and Mei Nan would often ask Bai Nan some transactional questions.

The activities of the German Corps in Mindanao made the Spaniards particularly dissatisfied, and their rule was only maintained in the Zamboanga area, and after the German Corps took Basilan Island, which Zamboanga was looking at across the sea, it deliberately avoided the Spanish-ruled Zamboanga and attacked the area ruled by the Sultan of Maguindanao. The Spaniards were well aware that these Germanic people were lackeys of the Tang people, armed with more powerful Tang-made weapons than them, and that they had limited forces of their own, and did not dare to directly confront the German legions. This also led to the fact that in the following period, the German Corps crisscrossed Mindanao, and eventually the entire island was under the control of the Tang people, except for a limited area such as Zamboanga.

In fact, Bai Nan's intentions for Southeast Asia are not only like this, now is the best colonial era, and the emphasis is on a first-come, first-served basis. Even if the limited development of the Tang Dynasty at this time was the colonization of North America, there were no real enemies in Southeast Asia, even if it was not deliberately moved by the Dutch and Spaniards, there were large areas of land that could be started. At this time, the British had not even formed any real power in Southeast Asia.

Whitenan's next target was the Malay Peninsula, and if necessary, Whitenan would send the German Second Brigade to fight there. Of course, it was obviously too extravagant to use an entire brigade against the local sultans, and the initial goal of Bai Nan was to control the Strait of Malacca. That's right, although the Dutch occupied the ancient city of Malacca at this time, they destroyed the kingdom of Malacca. However, the most strategically important island in the strait, Singapore Island, is still under the control of the Sultanate of Johor.

Of course, the Sultan of Johor is in control of Singapore, because in reality the locals are more independent. There are references to Chinese living here as early as the 13th century, and now a small number of Chinese live here, and even the Chinese are in a certain dominant position in the local area. Naturally, there is no need to let the German Corps occupy here, send a battalion of Don Army soldiers, and use force and reason to work together. The Tang Dynasty was able to initially establish its rule here.

After that, the Tang Dynasty will extend its power to the already extremely weakened Sultanate of Johor and take Johor and Pahang. Other green sultanates, such as the Negeri Sembilan Sultan, the Terengganu Sultan, and the Perak Dynasty (established after the descendants of the original Kingdom of Malacca fled), all ended their history and established overseas territories here.

In this way, the Tang Dynasty divided the territory occupied in Southeast Asia into three overseas territories, and the earliest established Borneo overseas territory is deservedly located today, occupying the entire Borneo; Sajah's overseas territory, where Mindanao, Basilan and the Sulu archipelago are located. It follows the old name of this place in the Ming Dynasty; The Sriwijaya Overseas Territory, also known as the Malay Peninsula region, is also an ancient name. However, in fact, the Sriwijaya dynasty originated in Sumatra, but the Tang people consciously de-Malayized, so they didn't want to call this place Malay, so they adopted this name of Dipping.

There was a relatively careful plan and timetable for the military operations and colonial expansion of the three overseas territories, and it was expected that in 1783 the three overseas territories of Southeast Asia would basically lay the map and get on the right track. Datang's work is also relatively simple. Sending troops, killing people, emigrating. It turns out that the Malays in Southeast Asia are the type who do not hold grudges and fear the strong, even though this colonial war will be brutal and bloody. However, Bai Nan also firmly believes that he will not have too much impact on Datang's reputation. But even if it does, what can it do? The ass of the Europeans was not cleaner than that of the Dons, the massacre of the Indians, the black slave trade, on the contrary, Bai Nan was very sure that settled down in the overseas territorial colonies. It will bring a better life to the obedient locals. The premise is that they have the national identity of the Tang Dynasty.

Paiknam was only aware of the military advances in Southeast Asia, and he dared to delegate power in these matters, leaving it up to the officers to decide how to fight the war. And as the head of Datang's interests in the entire Asia-Pacific region, he thinks more about how to use and control these regions. After Borneo, Sayao and Sriwijaya were under control, they inevitably needed to emigrate. It doesn't have to be millions of immigrants like North America. In this area, there are hundreds of thousands of Chinese who have been able to completely control it. Places such as Borneo and Mindanao are sparsely populated in the 21st century, and the population density is not at all an order of magnitude compared to the population density of regions such as Vietnam and Luzon.

However, Bai Nam was not prepared to simply bring basic Chinese labor from the Qing Dynasty, and the colonial policy of the Tang people was never simply to treat a colony as a dumping market and a source of raw materials, nor was it to squeeze the colony, but to use it as an organic part of the national economy. Therefore, Borneo, Shayao and Sriwijaya and other places, in the future, Datang hopes that it can have a certain development. In addition to producing basic tropical cash crops and some minerals, Datang is bound to establish some industries and services in the local area.

Through the Treaty of Tianjin, the Tang Dynasty had completely controlled the economic interests of the Qing State, and it was still somewhat insufficient to rely only on the local industrial output plus the three special zones. In fact, it is a good choice to set up a certain industry in the overseas territory of Southeast Asia to meet local demand and export to Qing China, Japan, Korea and other countries in Southeast Asia.

For example, Borneo itself has relatively rich oil reserves, and Datang will build a second oil production base in the Far East here to supply the oil needs of the three special zones and the Qing Dynasty. The bauxite here can be used for the development of the metallurgical industry, and the coal can be used for coal chemical industry. As for Sha Yao, the same idea is the same, according to local conditions, the iron ore mining on the island can develop the steel industry, and it also produces a considerable amount of chromium. The abundant production of tropical fruits and fisheries in the region has enabled the development of the food processing industry. On the other hand, the Philippines' main exports are processed and non-processed foods. The area is also home to abaca, a cash crop that provides tougher fibres. Datang has a good agricultural research ability, which can be improved, research more suitable planting techniques, and large-scale planting. Abaca production can be used as a raw material for the fiber industry to make net ropes; The inner fibres can be used for weaving to make special linen cloth suitable for tropical use. Sriwijaya is the world's main tin mining area, and Europeans take away local tin, while Datang considers setting up some non-ferrous metal smelting in the local area. The peninsula also produces iron ore, and Malaysia is also a steel producer.

Therefore, the development of the three Southeast Asian overseas territories will still focus on agricultural production, supplemented by industry and mining, and the basic goal is to improve the local backward social environment, so that the local Chinese immigrants and naturalized aborigines can get rid of poverty and become rich as soon as possible and enter a well-off state.

Obviously, Singapore has to come up with it. The city is ideally placed for development and is strategically located on the choke point connecting the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Now that the Tang people have seized Singapore, it is basically a leak. Because now Europeans have not yet recognized the importance of Singapore. On the other hand, Singapore's main development is the processing industry, as well as services such as shipping and trade. However, after the 90s, Singapore's manufacturing industry basically had little weight in the world. Tang people are also preparing to build this city with the same idea, focusing on the development of local shipping industry, international trade, financial industry and other service industries.

Many of the commodities exported by Datang have to be sold to Europe, which is very difficult. With Singapore, Datang can build a large transshipment center here, where a large number of Datang goods will be stored, and merchants from Europe can trade directly in Singapore. In addition, goods produced by overseas consulates in Southeast Asia can also be exported to other parts of the world through the port of Singapore.

A large number of merchant ships passing through Singapore are looking to replenish some supplies or disembark for rest. This makes the crew and sailors bring consumption to the city. Some ships have problems during the voyage and need to be repaired, and local ship repair yards can provide similar services. If the number of steam merchant ships increased in the future, it is likely that the steam engine and other machinery would need to be repaired, and Singapore would still be the obvious choice.

A large amount of trade and shipping will naturally bring opportunities for finance. Datang is not a capitalist country, but Datang's state-owned commercial banks also have the attributes of capital, and Datang plans to set up a number of Tang-funded banks in Singapore, and open stock exchanges, as well as insurance companies. Businessmen who do business with Datang will become more accustomed to using Datang's commercial banks for more convenient transactions. They didn't need to carry a large amount of gold and silver, or even Tang Yuan banknotes, they only needed to transfer money in Datang's commercial banks. As for the business of exchange and bills of exchange, it also increased the convenience of merchants. Since Datang's commercial banks are all over Datang's territory, and even because the owners are all countries, they also support inter-bank transfer business. Foreign businessmen who deposit a sum of money in Singapore and arrive in Shanghai can withdraw their deposits from any Datang Bank, although there is a fee for this.

Although Datang's banking operations are conservative compared to the other side of the financial predators, it is many times more advanced than the current European bankers. (To be continued.) )