Speaking of which, the empire has never been very concerned about overseas territories. The main reason is that these territories do not have so many origins for the empire, which means they cannot be said to have been since ancient times.

But the land since ancient times has been completely different. After the establishment of the empire, it gradually demarcated borders with neighboring countries, especially with Annan and Myanmar. It was a slight battle. During that period, sales of various historical books in the empire soared.

Whenever a boundary is drawn, the people will start to search for historical books to see if they suffer losses. If they suffer losses, they will be unwilling to let go.

Unlike the southwest demarcation, the demarcation between the far-sea and the Western Krai region is slightly eased. Most people only know that it is the Western Regions, the land ruled by the Han and the prosperous Tang dynasties. No one can tell clearly where the specific boundaries of the rule are. If you study it carefully, you will find that the development of this dynasty has completely exceeded history, so it doesn’t matter if you have more or less.

However, the imperial people still attach great importance to the border issues.

For example, because of the development of cotton planting in the river, the loose tax environment within the empire and the relaxed border control for a period of time, many Afghan mountaineering people and Sassanthemum Persians entered the border. Sometimes, they were not discovered for two or three years and had settled, and more of them came to the empire to spend the winter in winter, or cross the border to grazing.

The empire paid great attention to these border issues, because these border people invaded the empire's traditional territory - the Western Regions. Although in history, they had briefly ruled the river and the mountainous areas of Afghanistan in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it did not affect the people of the empire's belief that it was the traditional territory of the empire.

Further west, when demarcating the Caucasus mountainous areas and demarcating the Ukrainian Federation and Tsarist Russia, there were not so many historical factors. The geopolitical and strategic situations were considered completely, and even military factors were more prominent.

The border with Russia is bounded by the ridge line of the Ural Mountains, and the boundary with the Cossack Republic is the ridge line of the Greater Caucasus Mountains.

But in overseas territories, the empire, especially the people, have always been less concerned. For example, this time, Yizhou suppressed the rebellion. Assuming that the Japanese were not the Japanese who ruled in Yizhou, but a local indigenous ethnic group, perhaps this did not even count the political topic.

In overseas territories, the people of the Empire have always adhered to the attitude of occupying what they can and not occupying what they can.

The so-called ability to occupy or not is not just the national strength, but also the specific local situation. For example, the northward development of South Africa is based on the edge of desert, rivers, and swamps. Because further forward, the increase in the indigenous population is very expensive to solve, and I am unwilling to integrate with it, so I simply do not occupy it.

In Africa, because of the empire's attitude, the Portuguese and then Prussia, took a lot of advantages. After all, these two countries came from the mentality of operating colonies.

In overseas territories in the Americas, the national attitude is more tolerant, mainly because there are two types of colonies in the Americas, one is a free colony and the other is a restrictive territory.

The so-called restricted territory is called temperate territory in the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, including the North American continent and the area south of 20 degrees south of South America. It not only includes temperate zones, but also subtropical, subcold zones and cold zones.

This kind of colony has many policy restrictions. Some are directly included in the territorial territory. No place is included, and other countries are not allowed to invest and develop in the territory. They will suppress the European ethnic groups in the territory as much as possible.

South America is not bad, but the one who is really at the forefront of public opinion is actually the fief of King Yu in North America.

The reason is simple. The policy restrictions on these temperate colonies have harmed both local interests and the interests of imperial capitalists.

Especially in recent years, this has been even more true with the arrival of the cotton boom.

Nowadays, the people of the empire have known that the subtropical part of King Yu’s North American fiefdom was a place that was very suitable for growing cotton, but it could not be developed due to policy restrictions. Because the empire did not allow foreign capital and foreigners to enter this land.

For capitalists, the best way to develop this fertile land is to allow the people of the empire to develop, buy black slaves from Africa, plant cotton, and then sell them to Europe, and even form a textile industry center locally.

But obviously this does not conform to the royal family's strategic considerations for America. To put it bluntly, Li Mingxun and Li Junwei, father and son, dominated the empire's overseas policies. The biggest consideration for North America is long-term political considerations. What is the cotton economy and the textile industry are not important. The most important thing is that there should not be another United States here.

If the development of some overseas territories is only restricted, it would be fine. After all, it is impossible to know how much the losses are, and these overseas territories do not consume much of the imperial fiscal expenditure. But the problem is that without comparison, there will be no harm. The existence of free colonies has criticized restrictive colonies.

The empire had several pretty good free colonies, two of which were the most successful. The free colonies in South America were Bolivia, while the free colonies in North America were former British and French colonies such as Jamaica and Haiti in the Caribbean.

In these colonies, the empire had almost no restrictions. The main business of the Bolivian colonies was precious metal mining. There, regardless of skin color or nationality, as long as sufficient mineral tax was paid and sufficient quotas were completed, it was a legal existence. Therefore, a large number of Spanish forces were retained, and Portuguese merchants also entered it.

The same is true for Jamaica. The empire only has two requirements in these free colonies. First, it does not rebel, and second, it can make money.

In Jamaica, the empire sent only one governor, stationed more than 200 soldiers and a military port. In the local government, a large number of foreigners were filled with them, and almost all the House of Commons were foreigners, especially the British and French.

These foreign merchants traded in Jamaica and reclaimed plantations, as long as they could pay enough taxes and did not oppose the rule of the empire, they would do whatever they wanted.

At the beginning, the Empire intended to promote the Mandarin of the Empire in Jamaica, but found that this required considerable cost. It required to establish schools locally and send more personnel. For the sake of reducing costs, the English of the former colonial sect leader, Britain, was directly used as the official language, and everything was solved. After all, saving money is actually making money.

In order to obtain more taxes from these colonies, the Ministry of Overseas Affairs even did the work of attracting investment in Europe, making Jamaica a paradise for merchants in Britain, which was forty-five years in the empire.

These free colonies are simply chickens that the empire can lay golden eggs overseas. Not only does it have no ruling costs, but it feeds a large amount of fiscal revenue to the empire every year. The reason for such a colony is that it involves the power structure of the empire's center.

The reason why the Ministry of Overseas Affairs is a real-powered department is that it controls these colonies and has a certain independent financial power, so it does not have to look at the face of the Ministry of Finance everywhere.

The Ministry of Overseas Affairs is a private place for nobles and military within the administrative system, so they also support more free colonies overseas, which coincides with the liberals who criticize the empire's overseas territorial policies.

Going to meet the Japanese prisoner Taki, it was just an appetizer. Li Zhaocheng wanted to let the reporters accompanying the army understand the nature of the war and tell the entire empire through their words.

After all, restrictive colonies like Yizhou have always been criticized among the people of the empire. People do not support this war of counter-insurgency, but if this war becomes just, the army that counter-insurgency will do the right way for heaven and punish violence and security, then no one will directly oppose this war.

After returning from Qiliping, Repukatijiang and Guo Jiangong witnessed the grand occasion of recruiting soldiers in Yizhou. After learning that Li Zhaocheng recruited soldiers this time, he went to fight against the Japanese in the cotton plantation in the north. Many Indians came to sign up. Although not many people were selected, many people were willing to provide help.

Because many of the Indians here have been oppressed or enslaved by the colonists of Brazil, these Indians are welcome to this war of declaring war on the enslavement system. Even Indians who have never contacted the Japanese show strong welcome. Although they do not know what the Japanese are, they know what the colonists are. After all, the Indians here were enslaved by the Spanish colonists more than 20 years ago.

This relationship between the army and the local indigenous people really shocked Repukatijiang and Guo Jiangong, because the two originally thought that the imperial people were also colonists in the land of South America, but now it seems that this is not the case. Although there are frequent conflicts between local indigenous people and imperial immigrants, and when the legal department and public security department handle it, immigrants always take advantage, the relationship between the two parties is not in opposition.

South America, Yizhou Military Camp.

Because of recruiting soldiers, it was very lively, and Repukatijiang and Guo Jiangong were even more busy, because many of the Indians who came to apply for recruitment had an unbearable past with the Japanese, and these were all material for them.

Li Zhaocheng watched with his own eyes the soldiers and officers recruit soldiers until Sun's army arrived.

"Captain Sun, come, please come in, please come in." Li Zhaocheng sent Sun's troops into his office, talked to him in a familiar way, and then took out a box from the cabinet and said, "This is what the guy from the Prancing Horse asked me to send to you when I came from Shen Jing. He attaches great importance to the friendship you two have made on this land."

Sun Bu opened the box and found some good wine and a newspaper clipping, which were full of news about the guy named Racing Horse. Compared to Racing Horse, a passerby who had been in a military career, Sun Bu was actually more happy with Li Zhaocheng's attitude towards him.

"It's rare that the second young master still remembers me..." Sun Bu's eyes were red.

Li Zhaocheng smiled and said, "How come we couldn't remember? When we were young, we often saw you. At that time, I wanted to see what a gun looked like. After begging so many people, only you were willing to show me secretly at the risk of being punished. And Sister Ling Hua often took us."

Sun's army is a sheriff in Yizhou area and is also working part-time in the border defense brigade. This kind of military-police combination is very common in remote overseas territories, but he shouldn't have been like this.

Unlike many local immigrants who came from poor origins, Sun's army was a serious imperial guard. He was a survivor of a martyr. He was adopted by the Army's Martyrs since childhood and entered the imperial guards. Because of his outstanding performance, he entered the Shenjing Guard Brigade in the Imperial Guard at the age of 20 and served as a lieutenant. This is a very special army because it is directly responsible for the security of the palace. Among them, those with excellent performance can enter the attendant room, which means they have made great achievements.

The Sun army had this opportunity, and at the age of 23, he selected from the guard brigade and came to serve in Yizhou. This is a kind of exercise. After returning, he could serve as a middle-level officer in the imperial guards, or enter a department like the attendant, a central government.

After serving overseas for a few years, Sun's team performed well, but after returning to the Guard Brigade, there was a little accident. He was originally in a romantic relationship with a female official named Ling Hua in the palace. After returning, he met for the first time in the palace. The two of them had been in a different place for many years. Obviously, there would be a lot of things to say, but they were seen during a private meeting in the Imperial Garden.

This is nothing outside, but they dated in the palace.

The Sun army fell sharply, completely lost its position in the imperial guards, and returned to Yizhou, but this time it was no different from being exiled.

Li Zhaocheng was close to him because he felt that Sun Bu was very concerned about friendship. Even after experiencing such ups and downs, he still married Ling Hua and settled in Yizhou.

"Actually, the emperor still remembers you, and he has also received all the punishment you should have." Li Zhaocheng said to Sun's tribe.

"The Emperor said so seriously?"

Li Zhaocheng said: "Don't think I am the emperor's nephew, but I dare not pass the imperial edict. If you abandoned Sister Linghua or Linghua abandoned you, maybe the emperor wouldn't look at you directly. The emperor himself values ​​feelings, and of course he also likes people who value feelings.

We have seen each other today. I will send a telegram to the emperor and say that I have found you. See how the emperor responds."

Sun Bu shook his head repeatedly: "I dare not, I dare not, I dare not to be humble."

Li Zhaocheng smiled and said, "Don't be reserved. This time I came to Yizhou to quell the rebellion. My subordinates really lacked people who know this place. If you are willing to help me, that would be a big wing."

"I have received orders from the army and should do my best." Sun's army said immediately.

Li Zhaocheng nodded: "That's good, Chief Sun, come and talk about the Japanese in the north now?"

"Since the last time that Huye and Racing Horse patroled the border and caught people, the Japanese seemed to have noticed it, especially when you were in Shenjing, the court talked about suppressing rebellion. There were many reports in the newspapers, and everyone knew it. About three months ago, the Japanese sent someone to come and said they were willing to submit.
Chapter completed!