The first thousand five hundred and seventy-three chapters, the Tatars set the capital in Europe
The representatives of Spain and Portugal, after hearing this request, all stood up. They are both old colonial countries. Maybe other countries don't know what a colony is, but they know it clearly.
Very.
They are all knowledgeable and far-sighted. Even if the Tang Empire asked for troops to be sent for protection, it's okay. Your diplomats are expensive and we can't say anything. Anyway, the troops sent to protect are only a few hundred people at most, which is nothing.
But as soon as I heard that the embassy area would become the territory of the Tang Dynasty, people immediately moved.
Are you kidding me? You come to us to set up a consulate, and then the place where the consulate is located becomes your Datang territory?
Then how come the consulate we established in Shanghai is still your land of the Tang Dynasty and not the land of our Spanish and Portuguese people?
Not to mention the country, the Spanish and Portuguese cannot even send troops to the consulate to protect their diplomats. They can only ask some soldiers to disguise themselves as ordinary diplomats to protect them, and they are not allowed to carry weapons!
In this regard, Xu Zhenchuan said: The empire has its own national conditions and cannot be generalized!
Arrogant, arrogant!
This is the first thing that the Spanish and Portuguese people said about Xu Zhenchuan, a diplomat of the Tang Dynasty!
But although it is disgusting, the negotiations must continue. Who can make Datang stronger? Moreover, both sides also know that Xu Zhenchuan will not only go to Europe alone, but will also bring a large amount of military aid to help European countries resist the Tatars.
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Xu Zhenchuan told them clearly that among the various supplies that accompanied the mission this time, there were 50,000 matchlock guns and more than 5,000 sets of various types of plate armor!
Although these ordnance supplies cost money, except here in Datang these days, if you have money, you can't buy so many such good ordnance supplies!
Even though Xu Zhenchuan acted aggressively on some issues during the negotiations, the Spanish and Portuguese representatives still endured it.
Send troops for protection, just send troops for protection, but these soldiers can only stay in the embassy area and cannot appear outside the embassy area. The number cannot be large. The specific number will be discussed later, but at most it will only be a few hundred people.
Then there is the issue of communication. In order to maintain normal communication, personnel exchanges, and material replenishment between Datang’s diplomats in Europe and South African ports, Datang will regularly send ships to the coastal ports of the two countries.
For this reason, Datang needed the above two countries to open ports along the African coast and in Europe to supply Datang ships.
Regardless of whether it was the Tang Dynasty or Portugal and Spain, their blockade of sea areas was not actually blocking the ships themselves, but rather preventing the other party's ships from entering the port.
Fleet patrols to attack other countries' ships are only auxiliary means.
Without ports for supplies, ships cannot continue sailing on the sea for too long. For example, if the warships of the Tang Dynasty enter the Atlantic Ocean, there will be no ports for them to supply. With the supplies they carry, they may be able to move for a month or even two or three days.
Months, but it will take longer to return or starve to death.
The same is true for the ships of the Portuguese and Spanish. If they crossed the Cape of Good Hope and entered the Atlantic Ocean, there would be no port for them to supply supplies. If they kept sailing eastward, they would definitely starve to death at sea.
Well, it's another thing to sneak in to the shore to resupply like the English did, or even to resupply directly at the port when pirates robbed the ship.
The reason why Datang brought this up for discussion was to allow Datang's ships to enter each other's ports for supplies, and to measure the local port hydrology and fort facilities to provide intelligence support for the future capture of these port cities.
Why do you have to be sneaky when you can go openly?
The Spanish and Portuguese said that if they were just simple communication ships, they would not make any obstructions and could freely enter and exit the coastal ports controlled by the two countries and supply supplies.
As for warships, as long as the number is not too large and they are notified in advance, they can also enter the ports of the two countries for supplies.
As for merchant ships, especially transport ships transporting large amounts of cargo, don't count on it!
Unless the Tang Dynasty also allows merchant ships from the two countries to enter the Youyang ports and local ports controlled by the Tang Dynasty, don't expect the two countries to open their ports to the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty. If they are all open, then the South African port will not
It has become a transit point between the east and west, because everyone's merchant ships can go to each other's ports for trade.
After Datang occupied the Youyang sea area, it adopted a series of maritime trade policies that were extraordinary and had a huge impact.
The most critical point is that Datang has a tough attitude and refuses ships from European countries to enter the ports controlled by Datang for supplies and trade!
This is because the Tang Dynasty wanted to monopolize all maritime trade along the entire Nanyang and Yuyang coasts, and by the way monopolized all markets in Yuanyang, West Asia and other coastal areas around the Yuanyang, allowing the whole country to enjoy this feast of foreign development.
Mouth full of oil.
Only one South African port was opened for trade!
The people of the Tang Dynasty could only do the first grade of junior high school, and the Spanish and Portuguese could do the fifteenth grade. They also did not allow the ships of the Tang Dynasty to enter their ports on the Atlantic coast.
Now even the Spanish treasure fleet has changed its voyage. After leaving Mexico, the Spanish treasure fleet went south along South America, then went directly to the port of South Africa for trade, and then returned to Europe. The global route became
Circum-Atlantic route.
Therefore, it was impossible for the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty to enter the ports controlled by the two countries for supplies and trade.
Of course, it’s not just the Tang Dynasty. Ships from other countries, such as the English ships, don’t expect to enter the ports of the two countries for trade or supplies. Otherwise, why would England be so focused on breaking the maritime hegemony of Spain and Portugal?
It is not for the smooth conduct of maritime trade.
The three parties negotiated many terms and conditions, and finally reached an agreement.
According to the agreements signed between Datang and Spain and Portugal, it was initially decided that Datang would set up consulates in Madrid, Spain, and Lisbon, Portugal.
At the same time, the Datang Embassy in Europe will be established in Cadiz, Spain!
The Tang Dynasty did not have sovereignty over the place occupied by the above-mentioned consulate, because the Portuguese and Spain refused to agree. In the end, a model was created in which sovereignty still belonged to the local country, but the management rights belonged to the Tang Dynasty.
Datang had free and independent administrative, judicial, military garrison and other rights in the embassy area, and local countries were not allowed to interfere in any way.
As for the number of troops stationed in the embassy area, the preliminary regulations stipulate that the Lisbon embassy area is 200 people, the Madrid embassy area is also 200 people, and the Cadiz embassy area can be garrisoned with 500 people, and the total tonnage is no more than 3,000 tons.
A warship with a tonnage of not more than 1,000 tons.
However, the Spanish and Portuguese also kept an eye on it, and stipulated in the agreement that the local country had the right to expel imperial diplomats at any time. Once expelled, the embassy area would be immediately invalidated.
They still have certain advantages. After all, although Datang has garrison soldiers, if a war really breaks out, they can expel these garrison soldiers as soon as possible.
After the main problem is solved, the rest is not a big problem.
For example, when it comes to the land for the embassy area, compared to the Tang Dynasty, which did not provide embassy land to the two countries in Shanghai at all, the Spanish and Portuguese were very generous and directly converted a large wasteland to the Tang Empire, so you can do whatever you want.
Xu Zhenchuan also expressed satisfaction with this!
As long as there is a place, as for the construction of the consulate, Datang can do it by itself. Others will directly give Datang a building for office use. Datang does not want it, because Datang has the same consulate in every consulate in the world.
Bastion building!
After the two sides reached an agreement, Xu Zhenchuan also officially took the diplomats and non-commissioned officers of the embassy guard to Europe on the warships and transport ships specially selected by Hu.
Of course, they were not alone along the way, because the Spanish and Portuguese specially sent warships to accompany them!
In addition, there are a large number of transport ships loaded with military aid materials from the Tang Dynasty.
There are a full 50,000 matchlock guns and 5,000 sets of plate armor, enough to raise the equipment level of the entire European army to another level.
However, after these ordnance is transported to Europe, it will only be used as military aid and sold at low prices to countries resisting the Tatars.
Except for Spain and Portugal, the French, Germans, and Austrians all sold weapons to them regardless of who they were, as long as they fought against the Tatars.
Today's Tatars are still very fierce. In Eastern Europe, they are losing ground to Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Federation.
After Russia lost Moscow, it continued to retreat without a pout, and now the Polish-Lithuanian Federation has also lost Kiev.
Anda Khan has reestablished a new political power in Kiev in an upright manner, positioned Kiev as the new capital, and renamed it the capital.
They also removed the word "Datang" from the name of their country, "Datang Jinguo", and treated European countries seriously as "Jinguo". At the same time, Anda Khan also called himself the King of Jinguo.
However, it is worth noting that when they were communicating with the Tang Dynasty in the east, they still called themselves the Jin Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty. Anda Khan was not the king of the Jin Kingdom, but the Shunyi King of the Tang Dynasty.
When I Dahan gave Li Xuan a piece of paper, he called himself "Chen".
These things are actually just ceremonial things, but more importantly, after many years of moving westward, Ada Khan finally stabilized and began to turn his Jin Kingdom into a real country.
How can we change it to become a real country?
There’s no need to ask, just copy it from Datang!
Anda Khan imitated the Tang Dynasty in his military reforms, and also imitated the Tang Dynasty in his political reforms. However, this kind of reform was not a complete plagiarism. After all, the Tatars had their own special features, and complete plagiarism was impossible.
But overall, the new Jin Kingdom established by Anda Khan in the Ukrainian plains is no longer a pure nomadic nation, but a relatively typical feudal country.
It's just that although the Tatars have carried out many reforms, the natural aggression of the nomadic people will not change.
Since this spring, the Tatar Kingdom has continued to launch attacks on Poland and Lithuania!
Poland and Lithuania cannot be stopped at all, and complete collapse will be a matter of time!
In order to resist the Tatars, starting this spring, some chaotic European nobles near Eastern Europe, including kings, dukes, and marquises, have formed a 30,000-strong Eastern Expedition Army and rushed to Poland and Lithuania to fight the Tatars.
It is said that the Eastern Expeditionary Alliance had more than 30,000 troops, equipped with tens of thousands of muskets, and dozens of artillery pieces.
But can the 30,000 Eastern Expeditionary Army defeat the Tatars?
In response to this, Xu Zhenchuan, an expert on European issues in the Tang Empire and a European expert, said in an official letter sent back to the mainland: He is personally not optimistic about the prospects of the Eastern Expedition organized by some European countries and regions!
As a literati, I use words more euphemistically!
To translate Xu Zhenchuan’s letter using the vocabulary of a rural baba: “I won’t even believe that 30,000 scum scraped together can kill the Tatars!”