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Chapter 1002: The Tang Dynasty does not need to marry

The war on the Liaodong Peninsula is naturally very important to the many officers in the Liaodong Temporary Regiment. It is not only about their future, but also about their lives and fortunes.

If you fight well, you will be promoted and make a fortune. If you fight poorly, you may die for your country if you are not careful.

Even though there are dozens of transport ships, two frigates, and multiple patrol ships at the port, they are always on standby, ready to assist the garrison in retreating, but how can we be sure of anything like this in a war?

However, this importance is only for the temporary regiment in Liaodong. For the entire Tang Dynasty, the war on the Liaodong Peninsula is just a secondary front. Even the war department is too lazy to make relevant plans.

, but let Hong Huofang handle it with full authority.

For many senior staff officers in the Operations Department, their first concern is still the war in the southwest, and secondly they are concerned about the north, especially the situation against the Tatars and Oaras.

Although the Tang Dynasty has finalized a preliminary contract with the Tatar envoys, it has not yet been signed. In the first month of the year, the Tatars, who had been in Jinling City for a long time, sent people to start north with the preliminary agreement.

In return, they will send the preliminary agreement back to the grassland, wait for Anda Khan's reply, and then send the relevant results back to Jinling City.

In the follow-up, the two sides can formally sign a treaty on armistice and mutual trade!

The whole process should take more than two or three months!

Until then, neither side can call it the end of the war!

Of course, although the two sides are still at war, in fact, since the Tang Army took over areas such as Hebei and northern Shanxi, no large-scale war has broken out between the two sides. At most, there have been some small-scale armed conflicts.

In the short term, there should be no large-scale war on the northern border!

However, the Tang Army always regarded the Tatars and Oaras as enemies, and never forgot to be vigilant at all times, let alone formulate relevant attack plans!

Generally speaking, in the north, both sides are currently maintaining a highly vigilant confrontation posture!

This is a good thing for Anda Khan, because they can free up their hands to deal with some tribes in the eastern part of the grassland, and at the same time prepare to deal with the Oara people.

For the Tang Dynasty, this was also a rare buffer time, allowing the Tang Dynasty to free up its hands to pacify the southwest first!

However, after the Tang Dynasty pacified the southwest, the military center of gravity would definitely shift northward again, and by then, the relationship between the two sides would inevitably become tense again.

But this is all for the future. At least for the next year, the Tang Dynasty has no plans to launch a large-scale war in the northern grasslands. In the short term, it will be the southwest, and in the mid-term, it will be Liaodong.

After these two major threats are resolved, it is time to consider solving the threat to the northern grasslands.

In Jinling City, Li Xuan once again summoned officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and listened to the situation on the northern grasslands. On the Tatar side, the situation was the same as before. The negotiations were almost complete. The conditions of both parties were quite conservative. Obviously

, both sides know that this is just a temporary truce forced by both sides, and they do not expect to gain much benefit.

Therefore, in this negotiation with the Tatars, the two sides mainly reached three terms. First, it was a truce between the two sides. The Tatars completely withdrew from the border towns they had previously occupied from the puppet Ming garrison, and returned to the north of the Great Wall, which meant restoration.

The state before going south.

The second article is that the Tang Dynasty officially enthroned Anda Khan as the King of Shunyi, and the fiefdom was the "Golden Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty". The name of the country means "the Kingdom of Jin under the Tang Dynasty".

The Tang Jin Kingdom is also the first vassal state officially recognized by the Tang Dynasty. As for the other Annan, North Korea, etc., although they are all traditional vassal states of the Central Dynasty of China, they still have not requested canonization.

The Tang Dynasty also did not canonize them, so strictly speaking, it does not count.

The third article is that the two sides conducted mutual trade in a number of fixed border towns. The Tatars exchanged horses for various materials from the Tang Dynasty. Naturally, ordinary materials were not the core materials. The core materials were salt, iron, tea, etc.

A vital strategic material for the grassland peoples, an additional sales license of 5,000 matchlock guns was also approved!

These supplies required the Tatars to exchange horses, and the Tang Dynasty did not accept other forms of payment!

Of course, there are also some exchanges of ordinary materials that are not so strictly controlled, such as cloth, soap, various spices imported from Nanyang, and other goods. The Tang Dynasty said that you can take these things for livestock

Come to exchange, or you can exchange for gold and silver.

In addition to the above three nuclear treaties, there are basically no others. Originally, the Tatars proposed that the two parties make peace and asked the Tang Dynasty to marry a princess to Anda Khan, and Anda Khan would also give a son, daughter or granddaughter.

Like being Li Xuan's concubine.

Some people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs felt that a marriage could increase mutual trust to a certain extent, so they agreed temporarily and reported it to Li Xuan!

When Li Xuan heard this, he immediately devalued the official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who was responsible for discussing this matter and sent him to Yunnan to become a small county section chief!

Damn, you dare to let the Princess of the Tang Dynasty marry a barbarian. This is simply audacious!

What's more, there is currently only one adult princess in the Tang Dynasty, Princess Huichen. After Princess Huichen was ignored by Queen Mother Bai for many years, she finally finalized a marriage for her at the end of last year and planned to get married this spring.

The royal family is declining, and there are no distant relatives. As a result, the only unmarried princesses left are Li Xuan's two daughters. Let's not mention how old Li Xuan's two daughters are and whether they can be married.

But you bastards actually dare to take advantage of them and want to marry them off to barbarians. I'm just being polite if I don't exterminate your clan.

Perhaps in the eyes of many officials, these princesses are losers, used to stabilize Ada Khan and buy time for the empire. It is normal, but in Li Xuan's view, this is not the case.

When Li Xuan criticized this matter, he rarely compared it with Qian Ming's deeds. He said that Qian Ming was so fucked up and everyone knew that he would not get married. You are better off. You didn't learn the good things from the former Tang Dynasty, but you did learn by giving away women.

He is so proficient that he even used Princess Wencheng's marriage as an example in the book. Damn it, how can our Tang Dynasty be comparable to that of the previous Tang Dynasty?

When will the hundreds of thousands of us in the Tang Dynasty be unable to defend our borders, and will we need a weak woman to guard our borders?

As a result, the marriage was settled, and Li Xuan even refused the Tatar's request to send Anda Khan's daughter or granddaughter over!

If he wanted Tatar women, he could send an army to get them!

However, Datang did not need a marriage!

So in the end, the main content that was finalized was three items, and it can be seen from these three items that this truce is only a temporary truce. It can take as short as three to five years, or as long as ten or so years. The war in the north is bound to start again!

The negotiation with Amada Khan was almost like this, while the negotiation with the Oara people was simpler and even purer. There was no official formal contact between the two sides, but they only had contact on the northwest border, and the content of the contact was quite

The simplest thing is mutual trading!

The content of the mutual market is also very simple, horses are exchanged for supplies!

The Tang Dynasty would welcome any mutual trade that could expand the source of horses. Well, the premise is that you don't insist on artillery.

The artillery is not for sale, none of them will be sold, but you can buy some matchlocks!

As for flintlock guns, they are not for sale!

As for ordinary ironware, salt, tea, cloth and other materials, the Tang Dynasty has now let go. Anyway, the iron and steel products of the Tang Dynasty are getting higher and higher.

And more importantly, now that war has entered the age of guns, it doesn't matter if you sell some iron tools and let the nomads in the north make some swords or something.

Overall, the situation in the north is calm at the moment, and the war in the southwest is going relatively smoothly.

Therefore, Li Xuan's main concern recently is internal affairs, preparing to launch a new round of various reforms, while vigorously promoting the development of industry and commerce.

The development of industry and commerce will directly promote the development of maritime trade!

As industry and commerce develop, the demand for raw materials and the market will become greater and greater!

As sea trade develops, the conflict with the Folangji people also grows!

When another small-scale Spanish fleet traveled thousands of miles and finally managed to hide in Tibet and reach the Nanyang waters, it was discovered by the French patrol fleet and summoned warships to fight and escape. Finally, it was forced to hide in

Guangzhou Port is the time to avoid the total annihilation of the army.

The Francois once again made a serious protest against the Tang Dynasty's shielding of the Spaniards!

Unfortunately, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Dynasty once again submitted a protest document to the Fo Langji people.

It is said that the Folangji people are obstructing the normalization of trade in Southeast Asia!

And the contradiction between the two sides can be seen from the protests again and again. It is getting bigger and bigger!

In the final analysis, it was because the trade volume between the two parties was increasing. The Francons tried to completely monopolize the trade from Europe to East Asia, while the Tang Dynasty tried to get rid of the monopoly of the Francons and directly cooperate with more Western countries.

Trade and earn more profits.

But a protest is a protest, but both parties still maintained great restraint. After all, money still has to be made!

The Folangji people also didn't dare to offend the Tang Dynasty, for fear of cutting off the trade between the two sides.

At the same time, the Tang Dynasty was unwilling to interrupt trade casually until there were no alternative channels.

So the relationship between the two countries is to do business while protesting, which is very interesting!

However, will this situation last forever?

Both sides know this is impossible!

But if you want to start a fight, you can't do it for a while. It just goes like this. And when April comes, the Datang Dynasty will usher in two major events!

The first thing is the palace examination in the seventh year of Xuanping. At that time, more than a thousand scholars from Jinshi and doctoral programs will gather together to take part in the palace examination, thus changing their life's destiny.

The second major event is the marriage of Princess Huichen, the only adult princess in the Tang Dynasty and the only sister of the Holy Emperor!


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