While the border between the Great China Empire and the Tang Empire was not stable, countries all over the world began to notice the smell of gunpowder smoke filling the air.
Everyone realizes that the Tang Empire is very likely to intervene in the internal disputes of the Great China Empire! After all, this is how everyone takes action against their neighbors, and they are very familiar with this set of things.
As a result, some countries began to persuade the Great China Empire to quickly stabilize and preserve the hard-won peace. Others began to add insult to injury and study how to gain enough benefits if a war broke out.
In fact, Qin had already begun to make moves. Their ambassador to the Tang Empire frequently met with officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Empire and expressed their strong desire to support justice.
"Peace is hard-won! The economic and trade exchanges between the Great China Empire and the Tang Empire are not only matters between the two countries, but also related to the economic development of our Qin State." The ambassador of Qin State spoke sternly.
A heartbroken look.
"If internal disputes arise in the Great China Empire, it will seriously affect Qin's trade exports to the Tang Empire... and it will also affect regional stability!" He said while secretly observing the faces of the Tang diplomats.
After confirming that the other party had no obvious attitude, Qin's ambassador continued: "So they went too far! They simply didn't take the Tang Empire and our Qin seriously! This kind of behavior must be punished! It cannot be allowed to go unchecked.
Let them do whatever they want!"
To the ears of the diplomats of the Tang Empire, this sentence basically translates to: If you and I join forces, wouldn't it be a massacre? Our Qin State is responsible for the massacre, and you, the Tang Empire, are responsible for the massacre...
In the early years, before the rise of the Tang Empire, Qin was still a vassal state of the Great China Empire, and its status was not even as good as that of Chu and Qi.
Why didn't you study and attack the Great China Empire at that time to ensure the stable development of Qin's foreign trade? Oh, it turns out that you can't defeat the Great China Empire?
Now the attention of the Great China Empire has been taken away by two-thirds or more of the Tang Empire. As a result, the weather has cleared up and the rain has stopped. Do you think you can do it again?
However, the signal sent by the Qin State is still very clear: once Dahua and the Tang Dynasty go to war, they, the Qin State, will not mind siding with the Tang Empire this time.
Therefore, the diplomats of the Tang Empire did not mind giving the other party a good look, and casually opened the topic with a smile. Obviously, they were not very interested in the war between the Great China Empire.
The Tang Empire was going to fight its first real proxy war, and Tang Mo had no intention of going into battle himself at this time.
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If the already very powerful Tang Empire continues to show a strong willingness to expand, it is likely to once again arouse the hostility of other countries and increase the cost of subsequent trade.阑
This was not the result that the Tang Empire wanted - Tang Mo wanted to solve the problem once and for all when he was ready. He wanted more, and was not prepared to use the method of slicing sausages to get benefits bit by bit.
Qin's diplomats were not fools either. He could tell from the lack of interest in the Tang diplomats' appearance that the Tang Empire was unwilling to take action this time.
Even if it is a disguise, the attitude spread by the Tang Empire is enough to cause some subtle changes in the situation.
After also assuring the special envoy of His Majesty the Emperor of the Great China Empire that the Tang Empire would not go to war against the Great China Empire, the special envoy of the Great China Empire returned home with satisfaction.
When he arrived, the special envoy assured the Tang Empire of its trade attitude, and directly explained that the investigation into the pro-Tang prince Zhao Yu was actually a misunderstanding.
Subsequently, the special envoy also promised to the diplomats of the Tang Dynasty that the Great China Empire would guarantee the safety of the investments of all Datang merchants, and agreed to the "unilateral extraterritorial rights of the Tang people" that the Datang Empire had previously requested.
In other words, citizens of the Tang Dynasty who broke the law within the territory of the Tang Dynasty must be tried within the territory of the Datang Empire, and citizens of the Tang Dynasty who violated the law within the territory of the Tang Dynasty must be sent back to the country of the Datang Empire for trial.
The Dahua Empire had never agreed to this law before, but now it has directly agreed to it. I have to say that this is an unexpected surprise.
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Looking back to the endless sea, at Bunas Port, another new type of cruiser was launched, and its appearance already looked very modern.
This cruiser has only two integrated chimneys and looks very neat in appearance. It has four large main gun turrets at the front and rear. Each turret is a twin-mounted design and is equipped with a total of eight main guns.
I have to say that this design is still very reasonable. Its armor defense is very good and it is also equipped with a sufficient number of anti-aircraft artillery.
This was also the standard battleship design pattern of other countries in this era except the Tang Empire: install as many cannons as possible on a small ship, and then continuously pile anti-aircraft artillery on the warship.
Because they have never experienced the era of big ships and big guns, other countries in the world generally have little affection for battleships.
Their memory of battleships was short and embarrassing: their battleship record was either a dismal failure or a foolish waste of time stuck at sea.
Therefore, while the navies of various countries are building battleships, they are also focusing more on cruisers with better overall performance.
Obviously, when dealing with air and underwater threats, cruisers with a large number and stronger self-protection capabilities are definitely a more suitable choice.
After all, in terms of losses and losses, being sunk by a battleship is much more painful than being sunk by a cruiser.
The basic tactics used by the navies of various countries today are almost as follows: to withstand the threat of land aircraft, approach the enemy's port, use heavy artillery to destroy the enemy's port, paralyze the opponent's war potential, and then leave.
For this reason, cruisers that can be equipped with main guns with a caliber of more than 200 mm, can also be equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft artillery, and have a certain degree of armor have emerged.
Countries are frantically building similar cruisers and giving this type of cruiser a nice name: Universal Cruiser.阑
They are more like the artillery cruisers that were used as aircraft carrier bodyguards in World War II. In fact, their combat effectiveness is still very impressive.
What is even more interesting is that in practice, various countries have focused on aircraft because they do not have the means to correct artillery beyond visual range.
Several countries have begun experiments with adding pontoons to aircraft and converting old biplanes into seaplanes to provide fleets with reconnaissance capabilities.
In the near future, there will be new warships equipped with seaplanes - although they are still far from those of the Tang Empire, facts have proved that some things will appear when they develop to the corresponding stage.
