The textile industry of the Chu Empire has maintained a rapid growth trend until now. Not only is overseas demand huge, but a large amount of cloth is exported.

At the same time, with the gradual economic development within Chu State, people's consumption level of textiles is also gradually increasing, which has led to huge consumer demand for textiles, and domestic demand for textiles actually far exceeds overseas demand.

Despite the fact that the Chu Empire's machine-made fabrics were conquering cities and territories overseas, in fact, 90% of the large amount of cloth produced by the Chu Empire was consumed internally, and only about 10% of the textiles were exported.
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An empire that has completed preliminary industrialization and currently has a population of more than 300 million has extremely strong internal demand and its consumption capacity far exceeds the sum of other feudal agricultural countries in the world.

Therefore, export trade is actually not that important to the contemporary Chu Empire!

And these export trades are basically concentrated in some vassal states, puppet states, and colonies controlled by the Chu State, mainly in Southeast Asian countries and the Indian Peninsula.

As for trade with West Asia and Europe, although the total amount is greater than in the early days, the overall proportion has dropped sharply. It can even be said that this export volume has no real impact on Chu's economy.

In the early years, in order to maintain export trade, the Chu Empire generally maintained a certain degree of restraint towards the Dutch and Portuguese. After all, they were needed to help export and transport a large amount of goods.

But now, the Chu people see you unhappy and beat you.

Trade with European regions became less and less important, which also made the Chu Empire's attitude towards these European colonists become more and more radical.

After all, if you have nothing to ask for, you have nothing to worry about.

Of course, if one day we directly attack Europe and turn Europe into our own colonies and product dumping ground, that would be another matter.

This is also what Chu State has been doing in its overseas expansion policy.

Seizing South Africa is not only for gold, but also for controlling the sea lanes to Europe.

In this process, the Portuguese suffered great misfortune.

Because when the Chu people opened up colonies in Africa and established coastal supply ports, they basically fought against the Portuguese.

This is not because the Chu people are hostile to the Portuguese, but simply because the Portuguese control a large number of colonies on the east coast of Africa, and the East African region is an important stronghold of the Portuguese in the African colonial system.

The Portuguese are in East Africa, and if the Chu people want to fight their way to South Africa, they have to pass through East Africa.

What to do?

What else can I do? Just call him directly.

After the expansion in Northeast Africa, especially in Somalia, the Chu people carried out large-scale construction here, mainly building the port city of Mogadishu, turning this place into the Chu State in the Northeast

Important military bases and supply bases in non-regional areas.

After initial construction, Chu State has accumulated thousands of troops here, a huge fleet, and a large amount of logistical supplies.

The Chu Empire turned these into its base camp in Africa.

In the autumn of the 31st year of Chengshun, Chu's expansion and construction in Northeast Africa came to an end. At the same time, the Great Chu Empire formally established the African Governor. The governor was based in Mogadishu and governed the affairs of Africa and the West Asian Peninsula.

The establishment of the African governor also heralded the beginning of the next large-scale expansion of the Chu Empire in the region.

In the autumn and October of the 31st year of Chengshun, Mao Yuanhang, former deputy director of the vassal affairs department of the Ministry of Rites and Education of the Great Chu Empire and in charge of European, African and West Asian affairs, officially took up the post of governor of Africa in Mogadishu.

After taking office as governor of Africa, Mao Yuanhang's first order was to order the already prepared military to go south to seize East Africa, including Mozambique Island, the Portuguese stronghold in East Africa.

In fact, before this, the Chu State occupied the Port of Pemba in East Africa in the name of the Western Trading Company, and built ports, forts and other facilities here, making the place a nail for the Chu Empire in East Africa.

After the Portuguese later discovered that the Chu people had occupied Pemba Port, they once wanted to send troops to regain the area, but they failed in the end.

They couldn't fight or drive them away. In the end, the Portuguese had no choice but to pretend they hadn't seen him.

Now, after the Chu Empire officially launched its expansion into the entire East Africa region, Pemba Port suddenly became the bridgehead and logistics supply base of the Chu Empire in the region.

In the past few months, many batches of Chu fleets arrived at the port, transporting a large amount of logistical supplies and more than 4,000 ground combat troops.

This made Pemba Port the largest military base with the second largest number of troops in Chu State in Africa.

Among the more than 4,000 reinforcements, more than 3,000 are from the third regiment of the Indian Army. The Chu army's regular army only has one battalion.

After the Chu Army used the Indian Legion in Somalia, they found that the Indian Legion was particularly easy to use.

First of all, they are soldiers who are not citizens of the country. It is painless to use them, and casualties in battles are casualties. There is no need to worry about any adverse effects caused by excessive casualties.

The cost of use is low. The salaries of these Indian Legion soldiers are very low, and they don’t even need to pay pensions when they die...

The weapons and equipment are basically second-hand goods that have been replaced by the regular army, and they are very cheap.

Moreover, these soldiers of the Indian Army are particularly brutal when fighting in this poor place in Africa... These people do not have the concept of civilized people. When the soldiers of the Chu Army performed combat missions, although they were not very good, they were not good either.

Will take the initiative to do some outrageous things. After all, as civilized people, most of them still have some basic moral concepts.

But the soldiers of the Indian Legion don't have so many thoughts and scruples. When performing combat missions, in order to save trouble, they often engage in various massacres. Sometimes they even find an indigenous village to conduct live-fire exercises in order to conduct live-fire exercises...

...So much so that some people within the Chu army couldn't stand it and reprimanded the Indian Army many times, telling them not to mess around. They had killed all the natives. Go there to capture prisoners of war. There are no prisoners of war. Why don't you build the port yourself?
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But the effect was not great. The Indian soldiers of the Indian Legion were from untouchable backgrounds. They did not regard themselves as human beings, let alone the indigenous people.

Sometimes they even feel particularly aggrieved... I am not doing this just to complete the task better. As for killing a few groups of local indigenous people... it's just a few indigenous people, so what's the big deal.

However, this kind of Indian Legion also has some positive effects, that is, it kills more people, and its reputation is getting bigger and bigger.

Nowadays, the indigenous people in Northeast Africa fear the Indian Army more than they fear the regular Chu army.

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After all, the regular soldiers in the Chu army are still normal people, more or less civilized, and occasionally reasonable.

But those Indian soldiers of the Indian Legion will not talk to you about civility... let alone reason, and will engage in massacre at every turn.

After encountering the Indian Army, many indigenous people did not even dare to think about resisting. They either ran away or surrendered, for fear of being directly massacred after surrendering.

Such an Indian regiment also made the upper echelons of the Chu army sigh and have to strengthen their use.

Although this knife is a bit vicious, it is really useful!

No, the Indian Army, which performed well in Northeast Africa, soon received additional troops. The Chu Army recruited thousands of untouchable soldiers in the Indian area, and then organized transportation to Africa.

By now, the Indian Army in Africa has four regiments, organized into the Third Regiment, the Fourth Regiment, the Fifth Regiment, and the Sixth Regiment, with a total strength of tens of thousands of people, stationed on the front lines in various places, and

Indigenous people from various places fought.

The Third Regiment of the Indian Army, due to its rich combat experience and strong combat effectiveness, strengthened its artillery and even cavalry and logistics forces, and was dispatched to Pemba Port as an advance force.

If nothing else happens, this regiment will serve as the main force in the battle in East Africa.

The Third Regiment of the Indian Army was collectively transferred to Pemba, East Africa. Lieutenant Laihar, who served in the Third Regiment, naturally followed the team to Pemba.

As one of the very few in the Indian Army who was awarded the rank of 'Common Lieutenant' exclusively for indigenous officers, Laihar was also one of the very few indigenous soldiers who knew that his own army was about to face a war.

But he didn't feel scared about it, he even felt excited and looking forward to it.

Only when you fight a war can you gain military merit, gain trophies, and gain more.

He has heard that with the expansion of the Indian Army, more indigenous officers are needed to assist the Chu military officers in handling various matters. After all, you can't let the Chu military officers directly command the indigenous soldiers.

It doesn’t make sense...

The superiors are already preparing to carry out certain reforms on the indigenous officers, and expand the number of single lieutenants to second lieutenants, lieutenants and even captains to assist the Chu army officers in managing the larger Indian Army in Africa.

He hoped that he could catch the first batch of soldiers and have the same military rank as second lieutenant or even lieutenant.

But if you want to be promoted, in addition to your qualifications and abilities, you must also not lose your military merit.

The Chu Army has always attached great importance to military merit when it comes to promotions. Just having qualifications but not having military merit, you cannot get promoted just by spending time.
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