After the occupation of Bogotá, the main task was to maintain colonial rule.

After some preparations, in early 1874, the Southern Army pushed a puppet government headed by General Del Sono and established a servant army of the "Colombian National Armed Forces", referred to as the "Colombian Civil Force", with a total of about 62,000 soldiers, all selected from the prisoners.

Why not set up an overseas province in one step?

Such a political decision is obviously not led by the Southern Corps, but from the imperial government, and even the highest instructions of the Daming Palace.

Foreign colonization is a delicate work, and it can be said that there is a great mystery.

So far in human history, there have been Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Tang and other old and new foreign colonial powers, and their colonial achievements have been different.

The most successful example is the United Kingdom, which is considered to be the top student of the old colonial powers, and its colonial rule is characterized by razing and controlling, using corporatized management to invest the least colonial costs and obtain the highest colonial benefits.

The world-renowned East India Company, the West India Company, was the work of the British, and history has proven to be very successful.

The Netherlands, which followed the British to learn, and Belgium both belonged to the category of indirect colonization, but they did not learn the three flavors of the inside, and their performance was unsatisfactory.

In a series of colonies such as India, Singapore, Penang, Malaysia, Canada, Australia, South Africa, etc., according to different geographical conditions, measures were formulated to develop railways, highways and port infrastructure, and the initial industrial system was developed according to local conditions, so that it had a strong self-sufficiency ability.

The Netherlands and Belgium are different in that the two colonial powers adopted a policy of "razing and razing" as a last resort due to the small population base in their countries, but they have one thing in common;

It was only a large-scale raid on the colonies and was unwilling to invest, and the colonies were still in a relatively primitive state for hundreds of years, with extremely backward infrastructure and low productivity.

This was the case with the Dutch colonizers who ruled the East Indies through immigrants who were mainly of Chinese origin and large indigenous aristocratic landowners.

For more than 200 years, the East Indies colony under his rule has undergone little change and development, with a blank industry and extremely backward infrastructure.

From this point of view, the Netherlands can only be considered barely qualified.

France, Spain, and Portugal were another form of hands-on colonization, in which officials and troops were sent directly to maintain the colony and colony was consolidated through immigration.

France colonized Libya in North Africa, Spain and Portugal in Central and South America.

Due to the long history of colonization, the descendants of white colonists born in the New World are a large number, even far exceeding the natives, but these native whites are not recognized by the European mainland, and are even regarded as lowly servants as the Indians.

This unfair treatment seriously hurt the dignity and feelings of the native-born whites, and thus sparked the independence movement that spread throughout the colonies of Central and South America in the early 19th century.

Taking advantage of the turmoil of the Spanish dynasty being overthrown by the French Emperor Napoleon, the countries of Central and South America became independent.

From the point of view of human history

With more than 70 years of independent history, colonizing Colombia was no easy task.

You can't concentrate all the contradictions on yourself, and it is a wise decision to win over one side and suppress the other.

Colombia is the most populous country in South America, with a population of about 5.9 million, and although it has been devastated by several months of war, the total population is still as high as more than 5.7 million, which is almost as large as three and a half Argentinas.

More than a quarter of Colombia's population is of white Spanish descent born in the New World, mainly in the surrounding towns centered on the capital Bogotá and in the Caribbean region in the north.

At the beginning of this century, the independence trend of Colombia and neighboring Peru, Venezuela and other countries was promoted by these native-born whites, which led to the outbreak of the war of independence with the Spaniards.

It is the Spanish descendants of the New World who are the de facto masters of the Colombian economy, with a large number of pastorals, coffee and tobacco plantations, and belong to the class that controls the political, economic and military discourse in the country.

This group holds a large amount of social wealth in Colombia and is in the upper middle stratum of society, belonging to a social class that wants to suppress and deprive wealth.

The Southern Legion was not at ease, and the puppet junta General Del Sono they launched was an authentic Chibcha Indian, who had always been in the same pot as these white estate owners who oppressed and enslaved the Indians, and the two sides were naturally opposed.

The "Brotherhood Army" is also an army dominated by Indians, and the native-born whites have no say at all.

Ethnic antagonism is the root cause of Colombia's domestic contradictions.

Guiding one side to suppress the other was a common method used by old colonists such as Britain and France, and the Tang Empire quickly used it skillfully.

When the time comes, it is a matter of course.

As the Southern Army, which controls the situation in the whole of Colombia, it is in a position to create favorable conditions for the influx of Chinese adventurers to seize the wealth and plantations that also belong to the native whites.

The military itself was the biggest beneficiary, and its exploits were realized by depriving Colombian haciendas and plantation owners, and its officers and soldiers took possession of most of the wealth and land in Colombia's towns.

In the future, when they retire and become local owners, they will become large and small estate owners and plantation owners, and they will form the middle and upper echelons of Colombian society, holding political, economic and military power.

It is precisely because everyone's vital interests are at stake that the cohesion of the officers and men of the Southern Army Corps is unprecedentedly high, and the guns are unanimous to the outside world.

The imperial capital is Chang'an

Wanshou Garden

The Prime Minister, Count Dong Jie, was reporting to His Majesty on the progress of Colombia's colonization, and he talked endlessly;

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Sum up

The Imperial Government intends to take a more cautious approach to the colonial Colombia issue, and the promotion of the establishment of a puppet government of General Del Sono is only the first and most important step.

It is more conducive to alleviating the hatred of the people at the bottom of Colombia, dispersing and guiding it to the puppet government, transforming the focus of contradictions, and winning precious time for our Tang Empire to eat and digest Colombia little by little.

The second step is to invest heavily in infrastructure such as railways, bridges, urban construction and dams.

This move can effectively promote the development of domestic steel, cement, machinery and other industries, release production capacity, and alleviate the current situation of domestic overcapacity.

The Colombian colonial area plans to invest 50~600,000 hard labor prisoners, focusing on the construction of roads, bridges, railways and terminals, warehouses and urban construction along the Caribbean coast, which is expected to take 3~4 years.

Now

Every month, 1.5~18,000 young Colombian women have been transferred to the population market in the southern and central cities of the empire through the smooth road from Medellín to Panama, creating 600~7 million Tang Yuan per month.

This part of the proceeds was used to feed back into the construction of Colombia, and the import of young women in the south also greatly alleviated the demographic contradiction of more men and fewer women in the empire.

According to the Colony Step;

In the next 6~8 years, Colombia will be able to import no less than 200,000 young women to the southern and central provinces of the empire every year, and solve more than 1.5 million family problems, which can be said to be of great benefit.

Through various initiatives

Colombia is expected to see the total number of indigenous Indians and native whites drop to less than 3.2 million in the next 7~8 years (Note; With the outflow of more than 1.5 million young women and more than 500,000 young men in forced labor camps, combined with the war and natural population decline, the total population will fall to around 1.5 million in the next 15 years (Note; Because of the lack of married women in the region, a precipitous decline in the population is inevitable. ）。

The influx of a large number of Chinese immigrants will fill this gap and always maintain the population of the Colombian economic zone at about 500~5.5 million.

The construction of infrastructure, including railways and roads, will closely link Colombian settlements with the empire itself, reinforcing the policy of ethnic integration and expanding the colonial effect.

The third step is to completely ban Spanish and indigenous language education in Colombia, build a wide range of Chinese-speaking schools, strengthen economic and cultural penetration and control, strengthen propaganda and brainwashing education measures, etc., and vigorously promote the process of sinicization in the region.

Fourth, in May ~ June next year, a large-scale rehabilitation of officers and soldiers of the Southern Army will be carried out, and it is expected that at least more than half of the 93,000 soldiers will be resettled in the neo-colonial zone of Colombia.

These Imperial officers and soldiers are the staunchest supporters of today's policy of foreign colonial expansion, and they are also the backbone of the establishment of Colombia's middle and upper classes of society and government departments, and they have proved to be very effective.

Based on past experience

It only takes 1~2 years later, and the retired officers and soldiers of the empire who are resettled on the spot can take deep roots, become the peripheral nerves of the empire's rule in Colombia, and penetrate into the lowest villages.

It is expected to be around 1890

That is, through 17 years of colonial rule, the digestion and integration of the Colombian colony will be gradually completed, and the goal of integration will be achieved. ”

17 years?

Emperor Richard nodded thoughtfully, digesting such a large-scale new colony of Colombia, he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and he really needed to gradually eat it step by step, and the quantity would become qualitative.

Unlike those old colonists such as Portugal and the Netherlands who suffered from the lack of population at home, the Tang Empire imported Chinese immigrants from the Shenzhou continent and the new generation of births in the New World of North America made the empire have no population worries and can let go of its hands and feet to colonize and expand.

Not to mention his superhuman physique, he lives much longer than the average person, with plenty of time to wait until Colombia is ripe, as in Cuba.

Trains after trains of ancient artifacts and temple artworks from the Inca civilization of Colombia were shipped back to the empire itself, filling the warehouses of dozens of museums.

Cultural heritage, such as ancient books and sacrificial stone tablets, will be destroyed except for those that are transported to the museum.

In the future, only education in the original national language will be available in the new settlements of Colombia, and all Spanish education will be illegal, which is the main measure to completely eliminate the influence of Spanish culture.