June 29, 1863

The Royal Navy fleet of the Tang State blocked the Fuso Navy's main ships Gengshen Maru and Guihai Maru in the Tanoura Strait, and immediately said that the naval guns fired in unison, completely destroying the two wooden warships, and sinking in the strait, with 411 Japanese officers and soldiers killed and wounded.

In the following ten days

The Royal Navy of the Tang Kingdom sank and damaged more than 10 Japanese ships, almost swept away the weak naval power of the Fuso Islands, and forcefully demanded that the Choshu Domain, the current feudal lord Mori Keishin and Takasugi Shinsaku, and other culprits of the Yiyi faction, be handed over to the coalition forces.

In the name of arresting criminals, the allied soldiers hunted down and killed the low-ranking samurai, peasants, and townspeople who dared to resist in the Choshu Domain and the surrounding daimyos, and captured thousands of young and beautiful women to return to the barracks, stirring up the entire Choshu Domain.

The ferocious attack of the allied fleet plunged the Choshu Domain into the flames of war, and in a little more than a month, a wave of 100,000 refugees was formed, and many old and infirm people died in the process of fleeing, and starved everywhere.

Early August

The coalition fleet brazenly invaded Tokyo Bay, and Rear Admiral Zheng Shuyu led the fleet to shell the Yokosuka Battery, sent thousands of marines to land, burned, killed and looted Yokosuka, and single-handedly created the "Tokyo Bay Shelling Incident" to further put pressure on the shogunate and the feudal daimyos.

The coalition forces issued a list of 147 people, of whom 51 committed suicide to apologize, including the current lord of the Choshu domain, Mori Keikin, who had to commit suicide by disembowelment under great pressure, and 69 people were escorted to the coalition forces to be disposed of, and 17 were at large.

August 11th

The coalition publicly hanged 69 people in Yokosuka, including Takasugi Shinsaku, who was full of evil.

On that day, the wind howled, the wind and clouds changed miserably, and the 69 Fusang people with lofty ideals who were hanged were hanging on the gallows, and the cross could not be seen at a glance, which can be described as the same sorrow of heaven and earth;

This day, also known as the "Yokosuka Incident", became an eternal pain in the hearts of Fuso people.

In the following years, the 17 people on the list who were wanted were arrested one after another, and without exception sent to the gallows, with the bloody storm set off by Britain, France, Tang and the Netherlands, and other countries to make the Fuso people have a long memory, and from then on the "respect for the king" was established as the primary goal of constitutional reform, and the word "Zhengyi" was never mentioned again.

Encountering a deep beating, the Fuso people learned to be obedient.

In China

In February of the second year of Tongzhi (February 1863), after rescuing Shanghai, Li Hongzhang led the Huai army and the Changsheng army to attack Taicang and Kunshan westward based on the Shanghai Sea, and succeeded one after another.

After regaining these places from the Taiping army, Li Hongzhang threw his final goal to the south of the Yangtze River in the west, which was then the provincial capital of Jiangsu.

When Li Hongzhang's Huai army and Gordon's Chang Sheng's army reached the city of Suzhou, they exchanged fire with the Taiping army many times, and due to the thick walls of Suzhou City, the Huai army and the Chang Sheng's army were unable to conquer for a long time, and the bad situation of excessive casualties was too large.

The Taiping Army Mansion was about to collapse, and Gordon found out through the news that the kings of the Taiping Army had different ambitions, so he offered a plan to instigate civil strife in the Taiping Army.

To this end, Gordon found a way to meet with Gao Yongkuan, the leader of the Taiping army, and others, and personally promised to ensure his safety and prosperity for a lifetime after the surrender of the city.

So Gao Yongkuan decided to kill Tan Shaoguang, the shogunate, and took his head to sacrifice to the Qing army as a sign of surrender.

Who knew that after Li Hongzhang entered the city, he found that the Taiping army in Suzhou City had more than 100,000 strong people, and he was horrified, for fear of causing a mutiny that could not be controlled, so he simply prepared to kill them all without doing anything.

Li Hongzhang designed the surrendered Taiping Eight Kings and a group of leaders to go to the banquet, killed them all at the banquet, and began to kill prisoners in a planned way.

At the right time

When Gordon, the commander of the Changsheng Army stationed outside the city, heard about this, he angrily looked for Li Hongzhang everywhere with a gun, but Li Hongzhang avoided it and let his younger brother Li Hezhang deal with Gordon.

Gordon asked Li Hezhang to stop the killing immediately, patted his chest and said that he was responsible for contacting the envoys of the Tang Empire to send these hundreds of thousands of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom soldiers overseas, and they must not be killed all at once.

Under the mediation of the Briton Hurd, Luo Fengxian, an envoy of the Tang Empire, hurried to Suzhou from Huhai, and immediately agreed to transfer more than a dozen large steamships into Suzhou Creek after learning about the relevant situation, preparing to transport the captured Taiping soldiers to Taiping Island in Nanyang for resettlement.

Soon after

The Supreme Decree came from the Empire; Immediately, the envoy Luo Fengxian arranged for 130,000 Taiping soldiers to be transferred to the Amami Islands for resettlement.

Amami Oshima is an archipelago forcibly stripped from the Satsuma Domain by the Tang Empire after the "Lieutenant Incident", and more than 95% of the island is covered by lush forests, with a beautiful environment and more than 230,000 Fuso people.

Although under the iron-fisted pressure of the Tang Empire, the Fuso Kingdom had to spit out this considerable treasure land, with the weak strength of the Ryukyu Kingdom, it was completely insufficient to completely control and occupy the island.

This time, through the "Suzhou Prisoner Killing Incident", the Tang Empire sent more than 130,000 strong Taiping soldiers to Amami Island, directly occupied the local Japanese houses, occupied Japanese wives and daughters, and settled them with almost no effort.

Li Hongzhang's worries are not groundless, these 130,000 Taiping Army soldiers are not good at stubble, they are all veterans who have fought on the battlefield for many years, and after getting the acquiescence of the empire, they showed their fierce side.

Just two or three months later

Amami Oshima was almost devoid of Fuso men, and many Taiping soldiers actively participated in the Imperial Expeditionary Force, burning and looting in the Nagashima Domain, Kagoshima, and Yokosuka, and transporting women and wealth back to Amami Oshima Island, which further aggravated the disaster faced by Fuso Province.

Regarding this incident, Fuso is known in domestic history as the "Taiping Army Rebellion".

The benefits are also obvious

The Tang Empire had a stable naval base between the Ryukyu Kingdom and the Fuso Kingdom, and the island was almost entirely composed of Chinese immigrants, and after the Tang Empire successively built naval bases, docks, shipyards and ship repair yards and seafood processing factories on the island, Amami Oshima's economy developed rapidly and became a shining economic star in the region.

In 1864, the population of Amami swelled to more than 310,000 due to the capture of a large number of young women and wealth by the Taiping soldiers.

The 2nd Division of the Royal Marine Corps established a naval base in Amami City, and subsequently established a complete shipbuilding enterprise and a group of docks and warehouses, and developed a socio-economic structure centered on transit trade, fishing, and ship repair.

Amami Oshima is a maverick member of the entire Ryukyu Kingdom, and in fact does not listen to the Ryukyu Kingdom, but only nominally belongs to the kingdom, and pays some taxes symbolically.

The people of the island generally believe that they are a member of the Tang Empire, and they are inexplicably grateful to His Majesty the Emperor for rescuing everyone from under the knife and placing them here to live a happy life, so the island has set up a temple for His Majesty the Emperor, and every household has set up a shrine, which has been passed down from generation to generation, and the incense is endless.

Even in the Hereafter

Amami Oshima finally became independent through a referendum and joined the Tang Empire, and the island's voters have always been the most hardcore royalists, that's another story.

In the two years since Amami Oshima was used to house Taipei, shiploads of captured Taipei's soldiers were sent here, and the island's population skyrocketed, soon surpassing the 600,000 mark.

Amami Oshima has since become an impassable iron gate to the south of the Fuso archipelago, shielding all Fuso culture and power from the invasion, becoming a powerful barrier for the Ryukyu Kingdom and a nail deeply rooted in the East China Sea for the Tang Kingdom.

The so-called Seon lost his horse, how do you know if it is a blessing?

The fact that such an important strategic role could be achieved by a casual move was something that Richard was far from expecting.

At the beginning, he only thought about resettlement nearby, which would greatly save immigration costs.

The indulgence of the burning, killing and looting of the Japanese archipelago by the soldiers of the Taiping Army was to accumulate some family funds for the new immigrants, second, to quickly start a family and start a business with a woman, third, to impose severe punishments on the Fuso people, and fourth, to save some resettlement costs.

Therefore, the empire placed so many Taiping soldiers, and the cost was only more than a million, and many of them were still used in the construction of towns, roads and ports.

The expedition to South America became larger and larger in July, August, and September, and the depiction and propaganda of South America by the major newspapers of the empire also played a great role in fueling the fire.

In society a kind of has been formed; The colonization trend of going to South America to establish your own vast pastures is intensifying.

these months

Between 13,000 and 15,000 people arrive in South America by boat almost every month, and many families sell their assets in the Tang Empire and migrate to the vast Pampas steppes to fulfill their dreams of large ranches.

The Empire also introduced the South American Reclamation Act, which allowed any citizen of the Empire who arrived in South America to receive a 120-acre plot of land for free and not pay any taxes for 10 years.

After 10 years, according to the preferential tax of "10 taxes 2", the imperial side guaranteed that the tax policy remained unchanged for 100 years.

The introduction of the "South American Reclamation Law" has further increased the enthusiasm of Chinese immigrants for colonization, and many people have called friends to go to South America for development, setting off a wave of southward expansion that has lasted for more than 20 years.

The Empire was not idle, and the Ministry of Transportation, using the large number of Native American labor captured, launched an ambitious plan to build a railway network, planning to build a 3,440-kilometer railway line along the Atlantic coastline in South America, first.

At the same time, there is also a plan to build 5 horizontal railway lines from east to west, and vigorously promote the construction of coastal towns, along the railway towns, hundreds of bridges, reservoirs, power stations and township roads, in order to comprehensively deepen the control of the area.

The empire's plan for the territory of South America was to produce large pastures and large farms, producing high-quality wool and red wine, grain and various high-quality agricultural products, and in terms of industry, only considering the development of construction industry based on cement brick kilns, trade transit and limited industry based on coastal ship repair, and appropriate development of mining industry to provide raw materials for the empire itself.

Such a development strategy is based on the development direction formulated by the overall strategy of the empire of "strong cadres and weak branches", and will be thoroughly implemented in the future colonization.

In the development strategy of the Tang Empire, all industries and developed science and technology, culture, economy and trade should be concentrated in the empire itself, including the Pacific Rim provinces, the provinces of the Great Plains in the middle of North America, etc., to the east to Michigan, to the north to Minneapolis, to the south to Mexico, to the west to California, are all key development areas.

The Strait Province, Zhennan Province (formerly the Aztec Republic), Costa Rica, Panama, Hawaii, Alaska, Paradise Island Territory, Texas Territory and South American Territory under the Crown are all based on the development of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishing, and no industrial development is considered.

The reason for doing so

In order to strengthen the local cohesion and strength of the Tang Empire, more than 90% of the resources will be invested in local development to create a centralized feudal capitalist empire.

The economic strength of remote areas is strong, and there is no doubt that there will be centrifugal forces, which is unacceptable to Richard, the monarch of the Tang Empire, and must be curbed at the source.

Therefore, the empire did not subsidize South American immigrants, but guided conditional and capital private immigrants through preferential policies, and the scale of nearly 200,000 per year was sufficient, and no more was needed.

It would take decades for the empire to develop and grow, and in Emperor Richard's view, with the empire's population of nearly 40 million today, it was appropriate for the huge enclave of South America to maintain a population of 100,000 immigrants in recent years.

Then after 6~7 years, it is also appropriate that the population of South America will remain at more than 120~150 thousand.

Until then

The total population of the Tang Empire will be close to 60 million, the economic strength will be stronger, the industrial technology is highly developed, and the second industrial wave represented by chemistry and electricity will truly enter a period of comprehensive development, which will promote the rapid growth of the empire's economy on a higher basis.

These more than 10 years will be the golden period of development, but also a precious moment for the empire to lay a solid foundation, thoroughly digest the huge dividends in the North American war, firmly control the central provinces, and ensure that the Chinese population accounts for more than 85~87%, and further consolidate the imperial rule.

With the deepening of the steam industrial revolution, new inventions and new technologies have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, which has effectively promoted the progress and development of the world's overall civilization, and also led to the great development of the iron and steel smelting industry and shipbuilding industry.

The world will become smaller, and the Royal Navy, which the empire has carefully built over the past 20 years, will gradually take shape, and will have a certain size and strength, ranking among the world's largest navies.

At least on the Pacific and the east coast of the Atlantic, whether the British admit it or not, the Royal Navy fleet will be the unquestionable supremacy of the mother, capable of firmly defending its territory.

Only then

It was the right time to liberalize immigration to South America on a large scale, which meant that Richard would not allow large-scale immigration to South America until at least 1870.

It's simple to control, as long as the high ticket prices for migrants to South America are maintained.

Many Chinese people are very interested in the vast ranches in South America, and they also dream of receiving the preferential policy of the South American Reclamation Act, which allows them to get a 120-acre plot of land for free, provided that they can buy a boat ticket.

The cheapest ticket to South America is as high as 96 yuan, and high-grade shipping is often hundreds of yuan, which alone blocks 9 percent of Chinese immigrants.

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