The first thousand and sixty-eight chapters of the technical blockade of the Tang Empire
When Zhang Linong and others marched along the beach, their speed was not fast, it could even be said to be slow, because they needed to march with three five-pound field guns and several other shotguns, and maintain a battle formation at any time.
, so the speed of travel is naturally not going there.
This also means that Zidao's small army can also be mobilized accordingly.
When they saw Zhang Linong's troops heading to the dock, some of them might have realized what Zhang Linong's troops wanted to do. Soon, there were Fuso people taking action on the other side of the dock. Dozens of people hurriedly ran and prepared.
Arm your defenses.
The more than 600 to 700 Fuso people on land also speeded up and arrived near the dock first.
However, although they arrived near the pier, they did not enter the pier directly.
Because the dock was under the gunfire of the Ryukyu Squadron of the Tang Dynasty Navy.
Although they have not opened fire yet, the distance is only more than 300 meters. This distance is enough to turn the pier into ruins. The reason why they have not opened fire is not because the pier happens to be in a blind spot, but because Feng Qirong feels that now
Everything in this port, no matter whether it is ships, cargo, or dock facilities, are the spoils of the Tang Navy. Feng Qirong is not willing to destroy his spoils unless necessary.
But if the Fuso people entered the dock in large numbers to set up defenses, then Feng Qirong would not mind damaging the dock facilities and launching a massive bombardment.
The people of the Zidao family obviously knew the huge power of naval guns, so they did not enter the dock to set up defenses, but set up defenses behind the dock. In this way, they could avoid the naval gunfire and be able to attack Zhang Linong's troops who were attacking the dock.
Conduct fire interception.
Yes, you read that right, it’s fire interception!
This small army of the Zidao family is also equipped with guns and long-range firepower, and the guns in their hands are all produced by the Tang Empire, with reliable quality and superior performance!
No way, the Tang Empire's arms business has been more unrestrained in recent years. The military believes that it is equipped with flintlocks, field guns, grenades, matchlocks, and small and medium-caliber shotguns. These weapons can no longer be used to attack the emperor of the empire.
What real threat does the division pose? Besides, if the empire is not for sale, the Portuguese will sell it, and the Fuso people themselves can also build it.
Matchlocks and shotguns have been exported on a large scale, not to mention cold weapons such as swords, spears and plate armor. The exports are basically open. As for whose hands these weapons fall into after export, the empire is too lazy to care.
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Therefore, not only the Fusang people have been equipped with a lot of imperial ordnance in recent years, but in fact, even the Koryo people and even the army under the pseudo-King Minghui in Liaodong are equipped with a lot of Tang Empire ordnance.
These things can be manufactured by other countries anyway, but the cost is too high and the output is too small. Since it cannot be completely eliminated, it is better to produce and export in large quantities to seize profits. At the same time, it can also squeeze out the new ordnance of the surrounding indigenous people.
R&D and production capabilities.
It is much better to sell matchlock guns directly to them than not selling them to them and forcing them to develop and mass-produce them themselves!
Of course, flintlock muskets and long-barreled cannons, regardless of whether they are naval guns or field guns, or grenades, are strictly prohibited from export, let alone finished products, even the springs used in flintlock muskets.
Export is strictly prohibited.
In addition, the empire also strictly prohibits the export of steel products, especially the export of raw materials, and the export of finished products is limited to daily necessities. As for military footwear products, every export order needs to be reviewed and approved.
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As for mechanical products, let alone that, the Tang Empire explicitly prohibited the export of all types of machinery that could be used for industrial production, including but not limited to steam engines and various machine tools.
Interestingly, even four-wheel carriages with springs are banned from export!
And this export ban not only applies to foreign countries, but also includes the empire's overseas territories or colonies, etc.
In other words, it is not allowed anywhere else except the mainland!
At the same time, the Ministry of Rites has also issued certain regulations for various types of students. All government-run or private schools in the empire are prohibited from recruiting foreign students. It also stipulates that preparatory students and college students are prohibited from performing technical work for foreigners or companies with foreign capital investment.
, and at the same time prohibited the subjects of the empire from establishing technological enterprises and researching various industrial products or technologies outside the homeland.
These bans of the empire basically revolve around one core, which is the ban on technology exports!
Any products that can help other regions improve their industrial strength are prohibited from exporting technology.
The Tang Empire will have the confidence to conquer and rule the world in the future due to technology and population. Needless to say, the population is large enough. In terms of technology, in order to maintain the empire's leadership in various technologies and prevent later generations from catching up, it is common sense to impose various restrictions.
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Although this made many businessmen dissatisfied, thinking that this would increase the cost of products and dilute profits, but the small profits were nothing compared to the empire's global hegemony.
These bans are only for the empire. In the future, Li Xuan still wants to be a troublemaker and pay close attention to technological progress on a global scale. When that country's technology improves, he will send people there to kill their scientists.
The troops launched a war to destroy their factories and research institutions!
Li Xuan can't control what happens hundreds of years later, but Li Xuan feels that within a hundred years, at least while he is alive, he does not want to see other countries also carry out industrial revolutions, and then build factories one after another and the Tang Dynasty.
Empires compete.
If there is such a sign, we should not hesitate at all and directly launch a war to defeat them!
In the next hundred years, Li Xuan's positioning of the global trade system is: the mainland of the Tang Empire is an industrial manufacturing base and a consumer market for various agricultural products, while other colonies outside the mainland and areas that have not been conquered by other countries are all agricultural production areas.
The place where industrial raw materials are supplied and the place where industrial products are dumped!
By that time, merchant ships all over the world's seas will bring back boatloads of agricultural products and industrial raw materials from various regions. These agricultural products will then be provided to the people of the empire for consumption, while industrial raw materials will enter major factories for production.
After various industrial products are produced, they are transported to every corner of the world through huge transport fleets, and then sold to local people in exchange for more food and industrial raw materials.
Any force or individual who tries to challenge this system is an enemy of the Tang Empire and needs to launch a war!
Although it takes time to establish such a trading system, it can be considered the beginning now, and Li Xuan is not in a hurry. If he takes his time, it can be done.
Three to five years would definitely not work, and ten or twenty years would be enough, but Li Xuan counted on that he would complete this great cause before he died, because it was an important part of the process of conquering the world.
Li Xuan not only wanted to conquer the indigenous people militarily, but also controlled them culturally, economically and even in terms of living materials.
Otherwise, how would the Tang Empire maintain its global rule in the future? Maintaining such a huge rule would cost countless dollars, and the military expenditure alone would be an astronomical figure.
As for saying that we won’t need so many troops to defeat them, are you kidding? People who are not my race must have different minds. Even some races are still bastards. If they don’t hang a sharp knife above their heads, they will attack them anytime and anywhere.
Can be a rebel.
Li Xuan has never thought about establishing a country of benevolence and righteousness, and then let a group of aliens sincerely shout about how great the Tang Dynasty is, and be willingly exploited by the Tang Dynasty. He has never had this kind of 250-year-old idea.
If you are stupid, you cannot expect your enemy to be stupid too!
The Tang Empire that he expected was hated by the foreigners, but it was an empire on which the sun never set with great fear!
Hate and fear are indispensable, because the former represents exploitation and the latter represents power!
Li Xuan's first step in building an empire on which the sun never sets is to expand in the direction of East Asia. The Northeastern region, the Korean Peninsula, Fusang, and various parts of Southeast Asia are all the goals of the Tang Empire at this stage.
This pirate encirclement and suppression operation is just a small prelude to the Fuso Strategy in this series of operations.
Capture the Osumi Islands and obtain a foothold and advance base, which can effectively cooperate with the future Koryo Peninsula and Tsushima Island to gradually encroach on Fuso from the north and south directions at the same time.
The situation here at Fuso is quite special, so Li Xuan did not plan to swallow it in one gulp, but planned to take it step by step, otherwise he would easily suffer from indigestion.
Li Xuan would not shout out stupidly about annexing Fusang in three months.
In the Fu strategy of the Tang Empire, the Zidao family was very unscrupulous and became the first whetstone!
When Feng Qirong's fleet arrived at Tanegashima, it was actually possible to declare the destruction of the Zijima clan. The only question was how long they could resist before being destroyed, one day? Two days?
After Zhang Linong led 600 marines to arrive near the dock, he launched an attack without any hesitation, and then carefully observed the dock and the surrounding situation with a telescope.
Half a quarter of an hour later, Zhang Linong suddenly issued an order: Instead of going to the dock, he would directly attack the army of 600 Fusang people.
Because he found that if he foolishly attacked the dock, the Fuso man hundreds of meters away could just wait and intercept his troops from the flanks, and the situation would not be good at that time.
Although the Fuso people's matchlock guns and shotguns are lagging in performance, they can still kill people!