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In the process of expansion, the Tatars accepted and even deliberately captured foreigners. However, the Tatars also had restrictions on this, that is, the people they accepted were slaves and the ruled class.
Naturally, these conquered people would not be regarded as part of the Tatar people.
People don't play fusion, they play conquest!
In general, it is similar to what the Mongols played hundreds of years ago. Their conquerors were superior, and the conquered were all inferior people. These inferior people were divided into several levels, such as taking the initiative.
Some ethnic groups that cooperate and can help the Tatars to a certain extent naturally have a relatively high status, while some ethnic groups that are not helpful but have little resistance are average, while ethnic groups that resist fiercely have a relatively high status.
They have the worst status. Some ethnic groups may even be demoted as slaves because of their fierce resistance.
This forms a clearly hierarchical governance system!
The advantages of this are obvious, that is, it is relatively simple to deal with, and it is easy to quickly establish effective rule in the conquered areas and use it for your own use.
But the disadvantage is more obvious, that is, the risk of rebellion is also very high, and even those ethnic groups who have been reduced to inferior people will not stop resisting for a moment.
This kind of policy and system has proven its advantages and disadvantages in the land of China. In the end, the Mongolian rule in the Central Plains only lasted for about a hundred years, and it was over in the end. And for these hundred years, the Mongols have always
They were busy suppressing various rebellions, until about a hundred years later, they could no longer be suppressed.
It can be said that the Mongolian rule in the Central Plains has never been stable!
Therefore, after the Jurchens of later generations entered the customs, they became much smarter.
They learned the lessons of the Mongols and did not engage in overt oppression. Although their own ethnic group still maintained a transcendent political status, in terms of governance methods and culture, they took the initiative to move closer to China and adopted a butcher's knife.
With a carrot policy, they took the initiative to ease the conflicts with the Chinese people, carried out Confucianism-emphasis policies, re-employed Han officials, and also carried out a series of people's livelihood policies such as paying grain and serving as errands to the gentry, but on the other hand, they used the butcher's knife to massacre the city.
, shaved his hair to make it easier to dress, and at the same time he was heavily on guard against Han officials.
In this way, the Chinese people could be enslaved for more than two hundred years. In the final stage, if the world was not undergoing a great social change, various doctrines were awakening, and the imperial system had been abandoned by history, it is impossible to say that they could have enslaved them for another few hundred years.
The differences between the Mongolian and Jurchen rule in the Central Plains are huge, but they both caused great harm to the Chinese nation. To be more serious, the Mongols caused relatively less harm. Although they killed countless people of our tribe
, but that’s it, they failed to cut off our blood and cultural inheritance!
After fighting for a hundred years, the ancestors finally drove them away and allowed the Chinese nation to rise to the top of the world again!
However, although the Jurchens' ruling policies are more relaxed, they are more lethal and they are the kind of people who kill without blood. To put it bluntly, even though the Qing Dynasty has been dead for more than a hundred years, they still leave a legacy to our culture.
Despite countless cancers, the pigtail in the hearts of many people still cannot be cut off!
Even crappy things like Qing Dynasty dramas can become popular, which is really the pain of the nation and the sorrow of China!
The wise and great Emperor Li Xuan, who is greater than the sun and whose rain and dew spread across all known and unknown spaces, claims to be a civilized modern man, but he cannot do what the Mongols and Jurchens have done to people.
Something extremely disgusting.
The Holy Emperor is merciful and great!
The Tang Empire under the rule of the Holy Emperor was also a ceremonial state governed by benevolence and filial piety, a kingdom governed by heaven!
Therefore, in the process of expansion, the Tang Empire had different expansion policies from those of the Tatars and Jurchens. As a celestial country that governs with benevolence and filial piety, the Tang Empire would not leave servility or destroy other ethnic groups.
Such rotten things as distorting other people's cultural traditions.
The Holy Emperor is more willing to respect their cultural traditions and then erect a big tombstone for their cultural traditions!
There is a beginning and an end!
Let’s not talk about the pros and cons of the Tang Empire’s expansion policy and that of the Tatars, but one thing is certain, that is, the Tatars’ Western Expedition provided a lot of nourishment for the Tatars.
, allowing them to develop rapidly and launch a larger-scale Western Expedition.
When Li Xuan heard from the grasslands that the Tatars had achieved another great victory in this year's Western Expedition, he had some doubts as to whether these Tatars might reach the Danube River.
This is extremely possible.
The military strength of the Tatars has never been weak!
Although they were at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the empire and were finally forced to withdraw from the Hetao and Fengzhouchuan areas, but then again, in East Asia or even the entire Asia, except for the Tang Empire, no other country or tribe could
Confronted them.
There are hundreds of thousands of cavalry troops all over the mountains and plains. It is not that easy to fight against!
At least in today's Central Asia, if the Tatars fight all the way to West Asia, they will probably encounter the real enemy, well, the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire is now relatively powerful. At least in the surrounding areas where Europe, Africa and Asia meet, they basically have no enemies that can pose a fatal threat to them.
Spain, which is known as the empire on which the sun never sets, does not dare to run wild in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, even at sea. As for fighting the Ottomans on land, let alone fighting the Ottomans on land, they can defeat Spain with just a bunch of people.
The legions of men were piled alive to death!
Otherwise, why would there be an Age of Discovery when Western European countries were all trying to find a route to the East? It wasn't because the Ottomans occupied China and the East and then monopolized the trade connections in this region. And the Europeans were doing it.
However, the Ottomans had to find another route to the east.
Therefore, without the Ottoman Empire, there would be no Age of Discovery!
If the Tatars continue to expand westward, they will definitely encounter a powerful enemy like the Ottomans. It remains to be seen whether the Tatars can defeat the Tatars by then.
From the perspective of the Tang Empire, it was just right for the Tatars to help them test the way to the west to see if the Western Expedition was a good one. Especially given the strength of the Ottomans, it was just a good time for the Tatars to give it a try.
After all, the strategic goal of the Tang Empire is to conquer the world, and this timetable is approaching faster and faster.
The strategic plan set by Li Xuan back then was to develop science and technology in the early stage, restore people's livelihood, accumulate strength, and wait for steamships and trains to mature and be used on a large scale. That would be the time to go global.
Because by that time, distance will no longer be an obstacle for the empire to conquer distant lands!
Whether in the northwest or northeast, or even to the South Seas or even the Americas, the biggest obstacle is actually not the local barbarian indigenous people. The strength of the Tang Army and Navy is enough to crush any foreign resistance.
But the problem is that as an army that has entered modernization and has fully entered the age of firearms, the Tang army relies more and more on logistics.
As long as the army in the cold weapon era can ensure sufficient rations, it can maintain combat effectiveness, and even rations can be provided to the enemy.
But for an army with thermal weapons, it not only needs military rations, but also ammunition!
Moreover, the ammunition used by the Datang Army today relies heavily on transportation from rear arsenals. Some of them have relatively high requirements for production and processing. Even the simple ammunition manufacturing plants set up by the military on the front line cannot produce them. They must be produced by the three major weapons companies.
Produced in professional factories, such as howitzer shells and shrapnel shells.
These two types of shells are both types of shells, but one explodes after landing, relying on shrapnel and shock waves to kill, while the other explodes on top of the enemy's head, relying on iron beads and shrapnel outside the projectile to kill the enemy.
The bodies and fuzes of these artillery shells rely on high-precision processing equipment to produce them.
There are also some items that can be produced by soldiers on the front line, such as ordinary solid artillery shells. This thing is simple, just buy an iron furnace and then pour a round cannonball.
The bullets for muskets can also be made by soldiers on the front line. Although the Tang Empire currently uses paper-cased bullets, combining propellant and lead bullets and making them into paper-cased ammunition, this can greatly
Simplify the loading steps and increase the rate of fire.
However, the production process is relatively simple. These lead bullet soldiers can be made directly using simple molds and then loaded into paper cases together with the propellant.
But this is just assembly at best. In fact, the propellant required to assemble these bullets, as well as the paper casings and lead blocks, all need to be sent from behind.
Therefore, in fact, it does not make any sense for the front line to make their own bullets, because all the raw materials need to be produced by factories in the rear and sent to the front line. In this way, it is better to complete the assembly of paper bullets directly in the factory and then make them into standard paper bullets.
The shell bullets are sent to the front line.
And this is also the method currently adopted by the Tang Empire.
However, the military still retains a large number of simple molds in front-line troops, especially molds for making lead bullets. This is so that if one's own bullet supply is insufficient, lead bullets and propellant can be collected on site and then used
Combat.
But in any case, today's Tang Dynasty army and navy are still more powerful, and the army relies very heavily on logistics. It is very dependent on logistics, and it is difficult to carry out long-distance operations when transportation is not convenient.
This is also the reason why the Tang Empire is currently only maintaining strategic defense in the northwest region. It is not that it cannot be defeated, but that it cannot deliver supplies!
However, all this situation will change after the emergence of trains and railways. Currently, the empire is preparing to build a northwest railway.