This time, Tang Tong and his men plundered half of India, and the property they obtained was as high as 30 million taels of silver. Of course, this value was at least 50 million taels for India, but Tang Tong could only sell the looted things at a low price. Even though he sold them at a low price, in the end Tang Tong still made a profit of nearly 10 million taels of silver in this war.

This war also made the merchants of Da'an see the benefits of war. Some bold merchants bought some muzzle-loading matchlock rifles from Tang Tong and organized a group of colonial teams to go to Africa and West Asia for colonial activities. Among them, the most active was Zheng Zhilong. Zheng Zhilong, whose ambition had been dormant for several years, saw a way of development from this war. After buying tens of thousands of muzzle-loading matchlock rifles from Tang Tong, he organized a colonial team of tens of thousands of people and went to Africa to become a local emperor.

It was as if the merchants in Da'an had smelled the scent of silver from overseas overnight, and spontaneous colonial armed forces emerged in large numbers like mushrooms after rain. The earliest batch came from those merchants who had close ties with Tang Tong and royal relatives such as the Tian, Zhou, and Zhang families. Because the situation in Da'an was getting more and more chaotic day by day, these royal relatives had to find a way out for their families. Relying on their good relationship with Tang Tong, these people not only owned a lot of real estate and manors in Nanyang, but also followed the trend and formed a colonial team. As long as these teams did not run into Tang Tong's occupied area, Tang Tong would not care.

The rapid growth of these colonial forces also led to a shortage of ships produced by shipyards in Southeast Asia. Although the Zheng family also had a shipyard in Fujian, because the raw materials were not as cheap as in Southeast Asia, few sea merchants and colonists would buy Zheng's ships. Even the Zheng family themselves bought their large warships from Southeast Asia.

Of course, Tang Tong would not sell the most advanced warships and weapons. Tang Tong was very clear about this. If someone was so foolish as to collude with the Westerners, he would be in trouble. Even the weapons discarded by Tang Tong were more than those of the Westerners. For example, the muzzle-loading matchlock rifle was superior to those of the Westerners in terms of the quality of steel and the performance of gunpowder. Although the warships sold abroad were only 600 tons, they were still large ships in the Western fleet.

At this time, the people of Dali had the idea and pride of being the Celestial Empire. In addition, Tang Tong had powerful forces in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. Under normal circumstances, those Dali people would not collude with Westerners. However, Tang Tong was very concerned about Zheng Zhilong.

He had always been on guard because this guy had colluded with the Dutch in the past, so he naturally wouldn't trust such a person. However, the Zheng family was powerful enough, and Tang Tong would have to pay a price to destroy the Zheng family. So Tang Tong could only arrange some spies for the Zheng family to monitor their every move, and temporarily put aside the idea of destroying the Zheng family.

Zheng Zhilong led his team to occupy a piece of land in Africa. With the existing strength in his hands, he almost swept across the country. In two months, the area he occupied was several miles larger than Fujian. This made Zheng Zhilong ambitious for a while. He even proclaimed himself the Grand Marshal of Tianwu, intending to occupy this place for a long time as the foundation of the Zheng family.

With Zheng Zhilong as an example, some big businessmen who went to Africa to colonize also set up their own banners. However, there were also some smart people who still used the banner of Dali or the Tang family. These people knew clearly that even if they wanted to be local emperors here, they had to have a big backer. People without backers would be destroyed by others sooner or later.

Among these colonial teams, Tian was an exception. Tian and Tang were friends since childhood, and the Tian and Tang families were old friends, so their relationship was extraordinary. With the relationship between Tian and Tang and his status as a royal relative of Dali, no one dared to compete with him for where he wanted to occupy. However, Tian did not occupy any territory. Instead, he let his men lead the team to Africa to plunder gems, while he himself went to the Dali city in Southeast Asia to enjoy beauties of different styles from all over the world.

The Tian family's team ran around Africa. No matter who occupied the place, no one dared to make things difficult for them. However, everyone has selfish motives. At the beginning, these people honestly handed over the robbed gems to Tian, but later they gradually kept them for themselves. Finally, they became bolder and bolder and actually hid most of the robbed gems. Unfortunately, Tang Tong had planted spies in all the colonists' teams. After the matter was reported to Tang Tong, Tang Tong sent people to capture these people in one fell swoop and obtained a lot of gems. Then Tang Tong threw these people into a copper mine to mine.

Then Tang Tong told Tian that his team was missing in the African forest. Tian didn't understand why his men ran into the forest, but he could do nothing about it. Tang Tong comforted Tian by marking out a piece of land in Africa and told Tian that this was the time to own a piece of land, and in the future, land would be the most valuable thing.

However, Tian did not listen. In Tian's mind, it was a barren land, how could it be worth any money? Tian was not someone who could endure hardship. Although the Da'an City in Nanyang was also bustling, it was far inferior to the capital of Da'an. In the end, Tian returned to Da'an with a large number of beauties from various countries that he had looted. He was the only one among all the Da'an colonists who stopped continuing the colonization activities. Years later, Tian regretted it.

Although Tang Tong obtained a large amount of silver from his colonial activities in India, he had to temporarily stop his external expansion because of the small population under his command. At the same time, Tang Tong also needed time to digest and consolidate the benefits he had gained, so the entire colonial activity became dominated by big businessmen. On the one hand, Tang Tong was committed to developing the economy of Southeast Asia and increasing industrial investment. On the other hand, he strengthened military training and established many schools. The original Tang Family School was divided into four, and a specialized military academy, industrial college, agricultural college, and economic management college were established.

Time flew to the 13th year of Chongzhen. The Great Tang Empire was on the verge of death due to internal strife. In this era, because of the arrival of Tang Tongdi, history had changed beyond recognition. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong did not become bandits, but each occupied a place and proclaimed themselves king. Li Zicheng occupied Shaanxi, Henan and part of Shanxi, Zhang Xianzhong occupied Jiangxi and Hubei, Li Yan occupied part of Shanxi, part of Hebei and part of the Mongolian grassland, Hong Niangzi and Chen Zilong occupied Shandong, part of Anhui and part of Jiangsu. The four forces separated the south and north of the Great Tang. Because the four forces had to be wary of each other, it gave Emperor Chongzhen in the capital a chance to breathe and maintain his rule over the Great Tang.

At this time, within the territory of the Later Jin Dynasty, the Jiannu people had grown in population after years of recuperation, but they had already been conquered by three forces: Huang Taiji, Dorgun, and Amin and Manggurtai supported by Tang Tong. These three forces restrained each other, and no one dared to take action first, which allowed Shanhaiguan in Dajin to be stabilized.

The current commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan is Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chengzong has retired. The main enemy of the Guanning Iron Cavalry is no longer the Jiannu, but the rebels in Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong. Although the landlord armed forces in various places have grown stronger in recent years, the rebels have developed faster and blocked all roads to the south, making the Guanning Iron Cavalry in Shanhaiguan the only one Chongzhen can rely on.

Zhou Linfeng has now become a general. In the battles with various rebel forces, Zhou Linfeng has made many military achievements. At the same time, he has also received Hong Chengchou's care and has been promoted all the way to the position of general. This makes Zu Dashou, who is also a general, feel dissatisfied.

There are six generals in Shanhaiguan today, Zhou Linfeng, Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang, Jiang Xiang, Zuo Liangyu, and Sun Wang. Except for Zhou Linfeng who is young, the others are already quite old. Zu Dashou has been a general for many years but has not been able to make any further progress. Naturally, he is dissatisfied with Zhou Linfeng's rapid promotion.

Among these six generals, Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang belonged to the Shanhaiguan faction, Zhou Linfeng could only be considered half, and the other generals were not from Shanhaiguan, but were under the unified command of Hong Chengchou. These generals were somewhat self-reliant and did not obey orders. Hong Chengchou could not do anything about them, and Emperor Chongzhen could not do anything about these generals at this time. Since the road to the south was cut off, there was no supply from the south, and even the sea route was cut off by the Tang family's fleet. Emperor Chongzhen had no military pay to give to those soldiers.

There was no place to buy the silver notes that were issued in the past. After the silver notes were issued, ordinary merchants moved away from the capital one by one. Those who remained were powerful merchants. How could they be willing to sacrifice a piece of waste paper? The soldiers who received the silver notes had no other way to make a living except to rob the common people.

The Chongzhen Emperor, trapped in the capital, had already grown a lot of white hair at a young age, but in this year, Huang Taiji was even more worried. In this year, the worried Huang Taiji finally fell. (To be continued. If you want to know what happened next, please log in. There are more chapters. Support the author, support!)

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