It is not impossible for Zheng Zhilong to be emperor in a place like this, but the problem is that the Zheng family has intricate ties with the southern part of the Ming Dynasty. Zheng Zhilong may not be willing to be his emperor in Africa. Therefore, Tang Tong must put a certain degree of pressure on the power in Zheng Zhilong's hands and cannot let the Zheng family eventually go beyond his control.
In order to weaken the strength of these colonial teams, Tang Tong first adopted the method of enfeoffment. For any merchant who was willing to surrender his team, Tang Tong would enfeoff the land occupied by that merchant to that merchant, making it their hereditary territory. At the same time, he would also enfeoff those merchants with a title. This trick of Tang Tong was not very effective for those who had more teams, but it was very attractive to those small merchant colonial teams, because the hundreds or thousands of people in these people's hands were actually too small to make a difference, and they had no ability to guarantee that the land they occupied would not be snatched away by others.
Therefore, after Tang Tong's policy was introduced, the small and medium-sized forces in the merchant colonial team responded to Tang Tong's policy and sent out the little troops in their hands. Of course, according to the titles they obtained, these merchants who were enfeoffed were allowed to have some guards and servants, but in terms of personnel, the number of guards ranged from ten to two hundred people, depending on the size of the family. At most, no more than two hundred guards and servants were allowed.
Tang Tong had never expected that this policy would eventually allow him to gather millions of colonial troops. However, this is a story for later. At the beginning, Tang Tong's policy was not so smooth. There were those who waited and saw, and there were also those who resisted. The biggest of them was Zheng Zhilong. In addition, there were several super-large Ming Dynasty merchant families. Although these people had less than ten teams, the total number of teams they occupied accounted for almost half of all the merchant colonial teams. Moreover, as soon as Tang Tong's enfeoffment policy was introduced, these people understood what Tang Tong meant.
It's not that these people don't understand how powerful Tang Tong is, but they are used to being the head of a chicken, and they can't stand being the tail of an ox. Among them, Zheng Zhilong's son Zheng Chenggong once persuaded his father Zheng Zhilong to recognize the situation, but Zheng Zhilong was blinded by the immediate interests and did not listen to his son's advice. For this reason, Zheng Chenggong had to draw a clear line with Zheng Zhilong to avoid being implicated by his father. As Tang Tong's right-hand man, Zheng Chenggong knew very well how powerful Tang Tong was, and he also understood that it was impossible to fight against Tang Tong with just the strength of his subordinates.
Zheng Zhilong thought that he had an army of 300,000 and millions of slaves under his command. He thought he had enough strength in his hands and that he could continue to be a local emperor. At this time, Zheng Zhilong only saw that Tang Tong had an army of only 500,000 to 100,000 soldiers. He didn't know that Tang Tong was about to unify the territory of the Ming Dynasty. In the days to come, the army that could be provided to Tang Tong from the population of over 100 million in the Ming Dynasty was beyond his imagination.
After Tang Tong introduced the feudal policy, he immediately launched an attack on India. This time, when attacking the Mughal Empire in India, Tang Tong adopted the same method as before, calling on the merchant colonial teams of the Ming Dynasty to plunder all places in India. As the saying goes, money moves people's hearts, these merchant colonial teams swarmed from all over the place after Tang Tong issued the call. Millions of people began to wreak havoc on the territory occupied by the Mughal Empire before Tang Tong's army was dispatched.
As mentioned before, these merchant colonial troops all had some muzzle-loading muskets and other muskets. In terms of military equipment, they were slightly better than the Mughal Empire in India, so these people were not afraid of the regular Indian army at all. In addition, these people had been engaged in looting and fighting for several years, so in terms of combat effectiveness, they were slightly better than the Mughal army in India. Even if they could not win, in the minds of these merchant colonial troops, they still had Tang Tong's army behind them to support them.
Most of these people did not expect that Tang Tong was going to consume some of the combat effectiveness of these men this time. Now that these people took the initiative to go to war with the Mughal army of India, it was exactly what Tang Tong wanted. Therefore, in terms of rescue, Tang Tong's men were not as timely as before. They would often wait until the battle between the two sides was almost over before appearing. In this way, they not only rescued the colonial army of these merchants, but also consumed the colonial army of these merchants to a certain extent. At the same time, they also consumed the army of the Mughal dynasty of India, reducing the losses of Tang Tong's men.
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