At the beginning of the 20th century, the power of the Tang Empire spread throughout the Americas and the Southwest Pacific, with a total area of 28.09 million square kilometers, including the colonies of the Arabian Peninsula and the colonies of Malawi and Mozambique in East Africa.

As a matter of fact

Its influence is far more than that, the northern Canadian territory covers an area of 8.61 million square kilometers (note, minus the Yukon Territory, Columbia British Province and Metro Vancouver area), and the population is only less than 10 million (note, the original historical period is more than 9000000), which is only 1/22 of the total population of the Tang Empire.

After the outbreak of the First World War

At the request of the United Kingdom, Canada formed a Canadian Corps of nearly 400,000 people to fight in Europe, and has suffered more than 260,000 casualties so far.

The proper cannon fodder on the battlefield was all filled into the brutal flesh mills of the French front.

These Canadian Corps are predominantly of white descent, which has led to the majority of Canadian-Chinese Americans occupying the majority of the social population, with a total population of about 40%.

This proportion is higher than that of French and British white descendants.

Many of Canada's remote provinces and territories are dominated by ethnic Chinese at the top of their governments, and Chinese influence has infiltrated the northern shores of the Five Lakes, including Ontario, Quebec and Cyberta, and has significant influence in the political and military police hierarchy.

The war has led to a serious imbalance in the ratio of men to women in Canada, and a large number of Chinese men who have immigrated to the local area have married white women, which is deeply injecting Chinese blood genes into this North American country.

Through philanthropic education and other means, the Tang Empire is building temples and Taoist temples in Canada, promoting and popularizing national language education, and establishing a national cultural education system from primary school, middle school to university.

Compare it to

French Americans account for 26% of the entire Canadian population, mainly concentrated in Quebec, and their influence in local politics is similar to that of Chinese Americans.

British Americans make up 17.6% of Canadian society, and their influence is mainly in Ontario, showing an inevitable decline.

Severely affected by the world war, the local populations of Britain and France are seriously imbalanced between men and women, and there is an urgent need to import a large number of young and middle-aged people.

Between now and the next 20 years, there will be no capacity to export large numbers of immigrants to the overseas colonies, because of the severe shortage of native labor.

The Tang Empire, on the other hand, was favored because it was not severely devastated by the war, and the polygamous Chinese family population multiplied faster, more often, and more easily accepted by women of all white ethnicities in North America.

This is common not only in Canada, but also in Australia and New Zealand, in South Africa, in the United Kingdom or France.

The government of the Republic of China imported more than 300,000 Chinese laborers to France during the war, and these Chinese laborers generally formed families with French women in the local area, and their legitimate rights and interests in marriage and property were respected.

In the original history

There are about 170,000 Chinese laborers from the mainland, which has now doubled and is more easily recognized by European countries on an equal footing.

Because now in Europe, the number of expeditionary forces of the Tang Empire from North America is as high as more than 2.2 million (note, as of the beginning of July), which is fighting on the front line against the German-Austrian coalition army, and is generally respected by European countries.

Back to the point

Imperceptibly, Canada has become more dependent on the huge market of the Tang Empire, which is a long-term trend.

The inevitable Chineseization of its society, the power of pro-Tang politicians to speak stronger, more dominant in popular elections, and the Chinese language is becoming the largest language in Canada.

In the entire Americas, not knowing English is not a big problem, but if you don't know Chinese, it is really difficult to do it.

Nowadays, in the foreign policy of the Canadian government, it has become the norm to be submissive to the Tang Empire, and even sometimes refute part of the isolation policy of the suzerain, Britain, because it is not in the interests of Canada as a whole.

This was unimaginable before, but it happened.

Therefore, when considering the vision category of the Tang Empire, the important role of Canada in North America should not be ignored.

The same situation occurred in Australia and New Zealand, as well as South Africa, which continued to bring in Chinese labor, which greatly strengthened the voice of the Tang Empire.

Obviously

Richard has always adhered to the policy of pursuing a unified national language education policy at home, strengthened colonial expansion and promoted the influence of Han and Tang culture externally, and achieved fruitful results.

After more than half a century of unremitting efforts, the influence of the Han and Tang cultural circles is now blossoming and bearing fruit all over the world, which is also the situation he is most willing to see.

Former German colony of Tanzania in East Africa

Entered October 1918

The German general Paul von Leto Föbeck led the remnants of the German army, hiding in a dense valley and facing the dilemma of running out of ammunition and food.

The German army under his command now has only 2,722 men, and more than 860 are wounded and sick, and the rest are more than 6,300 black troops, which are being surrounded and suppressed by more than 300,000 multinational coalition forces.

As a prominent German general, General Paul had only 14,000 German troops under his command at his peak, and had no access to distant European resources.

With this strength, General Paul led the German army and the black native army to fight the multinational coalition forces for five years, and almost never lost a battle.

And the vast majority of the remnants of the army he led were estimated to have been captured in battle, so General Paul was called the "African Lion" by the British, implying respect.

Bitter struggle so far

General Paul has been surrounded by more than 200,000 troops in this dense rainforest valley of Africa, and is being squeezed and forced step by step, and is on the verge of despair.

He looked up at the biplanes flying in the sky, and there was a hint of bitterness on his face.

Since the Tang Empire officially joined the Allied military bloc, its formidable cavalry units attacked from Malawi and Mozambique in the south, coupled with the frequent biplanes flying overhead, almost making it impossible for the German troops to hide.

More than half a year down

General Paul had no choice but to fight several battles with the coalition forces, and his troops were drastically reduced by as much as 7 percent, and he was forced to flee without stopping.

And these cavalry of the Tang Empire were like maggots attached to the bones, deep into the dense forest area and chased closely.

Compared with the rigid and rigid tactics of the British, French, Belgian and other militaries, these Tang cavalry from Mozambique were much more mobile and flexible, posing a great threat to the German troops.

From time to time, they scattered into small squads of cavalry, infiltrating everywhere.

From time to time, hundreds or thousands of cavalry brigades gathered to pursue the fleeing German troops all the way, and General Paul arranged many small forces after being broken, and this was the tragic annihilation of the whole army.

Thinking of this, it makes him hate it so much.

These Tang Imperial cavalry were well-equipped, with at least one or two heavy machine guns in the cavalry squad and at least one field cavalry artillery platoon in the cavalry squadron.

These lightweight field guns can be disassembled and loaded on horses, and depending on the caliber, each platoon has 4~6 field guns, which has quite strong attack capabilities.

Untied from the horses and assembled, they could be put into battle in more than 10 minutes, very light and fast, and the German troops often suffered a lot under these heavy firepower.

German troops in East Africa generally had only rifles and grenades, only seven artillery pieces, and none of their heavy machine guns, and relied on mobile and flexible guerrilla tactics to evade the enemy.

At this time

The biplane hovering in the sky dropped several iron bombs, and the sound of the bombs exploding could be heard far away.

Although no one was hit, General Paul had to sigh and order his German troops to prepare to continue the transfer, because the general objective was exposed.

These biplanes are capable of carrying six iron bombs, each weighing five pounds, and it is no fun to land on their heads.

The most critical thing is

These iron bombs are useful for marking targets in the jungle, and explode with a thick yellow smoke that lasts for several minutes.

It is estimated that it will not be long before those Tang cavalry will touch it.

The valley rainforest region of Tanzania in Africa is completely different from the Amazon rainforest in South America, relying mainly on the rushing water and heavy rainfall on both sides of the river valley, and the bottom scrub is not as dense.

And the forest is not an endless conjunction, but a cluster of bald men like a banlai, with a large gap between the trees, which allows the cavalry to pass through easily.

It didn't take much time

In the distance, there was the sound of crisp gunfire and dull field artillery bombardment, and General Paul knew that it was the haunted cavalry of the Tang Empire that had caught up again.

These cavalry have strong off-road ability trucks in the rear to replenish them, and although they are not many in number, they have strong sustained combat capabilities and particularly strong firepower.

Every time a German unit was bitten on the buttocks, it had to go through a hard battle to get out.

I can't say that this time I have to leave a force behind the palace to cover the transfer of the main force of the remnants of the German army, otherwise no one will want to escape.

Every time you are targeted, you have to take off a layer of skin, how long can you last like this?

A deep apprehension appeared on General Paul's resolute face, and he skillfully conveyed the command as he quickly got up and walked over to the horses, ready to follow the main force to move.

There were no horses in East Africa, but after the Tang Empire fully invaded the Portuguese colony in Mozambique, many good horses and mules were brought from North Africa and Arabia to breed, and some of them were also exported to German Tanzania.

Mozambique is home to the impressive volume of the Zambezi River and its dozen or so tributaries, as well as vast expanses of forests and pastures, as well as highlands to the northwest.

These areas are very suitable for horses, and even in the wild there are herds of wild horses, some in the hundreds.

These are horses scattered in wars and conflicts left in the wild, and gradually multiply and grow into wild horse herds.

Surrounded by the abundant Zambezi River Basin, Mozambique is the second largest green lung in Africa, with a high level of forest cover and gold and ivory in the middle and upper reaches of the river.

Africa's largest green lung is in the Congo River Basin, covering an area of more than 2.3 million square kilometers, and is now a Belgian colony, under the brutal colonial rule of the Kingdom of Belgium.

After more than twenty years of construction

The Malawi and Mozambique regions under the Tang Governor's Office of East Africa have become the largest producers of agricultural and animal husbandry products in central and southern Africa, and the population has grown to more than 1.4 million.

With a well-developed network of railways and roads, vast tracts of fertile land and pastures, and tropical fruit plantations, especially cashew nuts, figs, almonds and all kinds of dried fruits, it is a rich land of rainy rice.

There are less than 200,000 blacks in the area, and the vast majority of them are concentrated in various mines and road sites, which are extremely rare to see in ordinary villages and towns.

If discovered, they will be captured immediately, and whether they live or die, they will be rewarded by the colonial government.

Therefore, Mozambique and Malawi are also forbidden areas for the surrounding black tribes, and the relevant northwestern plateau and northern border are patrolled by local armed militias all year round.

For those young black men who dared to enter the above-mentioned areas, they were generally captured and handed over to labor teams and arranged to be placed in forced labor camps, where they were responsible for the construction of roads, bridges, dams, railways, and other arduous projects.

In the Tang colonies of East Africa, strict population movement control was imposed.

Even Chinese immigrants with legal status are not allowed to move at will, and must have proof of living in villages and towns, let alone blacks without official status.

See one and catch the other, it's right.

Although as an opponent on the battlefield, General Paul hated the Tang cavalry, and he would definitely be ruthless when he had the opportunity.

But he was a German soldier with a principled bottom line, and he would never take such an attitude out of anger on ordinary Chinese immigrants.

On the contrary, General Paul himself was full of admiration for the upper echelons of the East African Governor's Office of the Tang Empire, and very much agreed with the colonial policy they had always adhered to, which was almost the benchmark of colonial policy.

If there is a chance after the war

He very much wanted to have a face-to-face exchange with these highly talented colonial officials, and to write a book of in-depth articles on colonial policy by summarizing what he had seen and heard.

In his opinion

Instead of spending huge sums of money to build a bridgehead for the German colonies in the Far East, it is better to absorb the advantages of the colonial policy of the Tang Empire and settle down to develop the German Tanzanian colony.

It has a large area and a mild climate, which is very suitable for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.

By building a road, you can develop a plantation or pastoral area that is thousands of kilometers deep.

Along the rivers and with the construction of new railways, a vast hinterland of 100,000 German immigrants could be developed in just two or three years.

Relying on the 100,000 German immigrants in Tanzania and a small number of elite German troops, General Paul was very confident that he would be able to fight the enemy's 100,000 troops to the end.

At the very least, it could not be worse than the Boers in South Africa.

But what did the German top brass do in reality?

They chose the model colony on the Jiaodong Peninsula in the far Far East, and spent hundreds of millions of German gold marks to build urban canals and shore defense batteries at any cost, and as a result, they all made wedding clothes for the Tang Dynasty and Fusang people.

After the Fuso people conquered the German fortress in the Far East at great cost, the Tang Empire exerted strong pressure to force it to be taken over by the Tang Empire, and only gave nearby garrisons and warships the convenience of stationing.

The Tang Empire occasionally showed its hideous face, and the Fusang State, as a vassal, had to surrender.

It's not right or wrong, it's just strength.

The strength of the Tang Empire was enough to make the Fusang people desperate, especially the powerful fleet stationed in the Kingdom of Luzon, which was three and a half times stronger than the Fusang Combined Fleet, plus the Beihai Squadron and the Malacca Squadron, which crushed the Japanese Combined Fleet in minutes.

In this case

Choosing to back down was a wise decision, and the Tang Empire got the biggest cake through deterrence, and surrendered without a fight.

This is the highest achievement in the art of war, and it is enough to go down in history forever.

If the German upper echelons were to invest all these resources in Tanzania, why would they be like this?

This is what General Paul admires most about the Tang Empire, he thinks;

The decision-making hierarchy, composed of the noble royal blood of the Tang Dynasty and the most elite parts of the empire, has an amazing strategic vision and is able to choose the decision that is most in line with the national interest.

This is undoubtedly a serious lack of information at the highest level of the German Empire.

Since the death of former Chancellor Bismann, the German Empire has not produced a great geostrategic statesman for a long time, which is undoubtedly the sorrow of the entire nation.

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