Chapter 1701: The Tang diplomat who stinks ten miles into the wind
After coming to Curry for half a year, He Xihua also lamented how fast things have changed. Before coming to Curry, he had nothing but about ten yuan of savings.
But now, my wife has made a reservation, although she hasn’t come to propose marriage yet. There are more than 100 hectares of farmland, although most of them are wasteland and need to be cultivated by yourself. Many of them are even dry land that cannot be cultivated. They also have a house, although it is only a one-story house.
It's a small cabin, but at least it can protect you from wind and rain.
As for the money, it's still a bit short, and he still owes a lot of money to the bank. But after a few months when his chickens, ducks, and pigs are put on the market and the first crop of grain is harvested, he will be able to pay back all the money.
Debt, and at the same time, I estimate that I can save thirty or forty yuan on hand.
To be honest, he could not have imagined such a day half a year ago.
Now he is already thinking about persuading his eldest brother and his parents to immigrate here too. Although his hometown is his hometown, the little land is only enough for the eldest brother and his family to make a living, so there is no better way to come to Kuli.
It's just that because of my father's stubbornness, I'm afraid he won't be willing to come.
If his father was willing to immigrate, he would have immigrated more than ten years ago. There is no need to wait until now. At that time, Liaoxi and Liaodong, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Huguang all needed a large number of immigrants. His father did not go there, and now it is even less likely to come to the more distant Kuli.
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Not everyone is like me, willing to give up their hometown for a better life.
However, it doesn't matter if you don't come. As long as you get along well in the bank, you can also send money back to your parents in the future so that your parents can live a better life in their later years.
There is not just one person like He Xihua in the library, there are many, many more. Although they come from different places, and everyone's situation is different, they all have a common characteristic, that is, they cannot survive in their original place.
, and then gritted his teeth and ran to the library to start a new life.
After these people arrived in Kuli, generally speaking, their lives were still going well, and most of them were better than before they immigrated.
Of course, not everyone is a pure agricultural immigrant like He Xihua and others.
In fact, there is a rather special group of immigrants here in Curry.
That's all kinds of adventurers. They don't come to Curry for the wild lands, they come to seek opportunities to make a fortune.
These people include businessmen, even gentry and nobles, retired soldiers and various hooligans. In short, they are not good people.
They come to Curry with only one goal: to get rich!
And make a fortune!
Zuo Chengsheng is such a person. The Zuo family used to be considered a prosperous family. However, with the opening of the Northwest Railway many years ago, after the military entered the Western Regions and even Central Asia, the Zuo family also opened a cotton spinning factory in Chang'an.
, purchasing wool from the Western Regions and Central Asia, and then spinning it into woolen fabrics for sale. I still made money in the first few years.
However, as more and more capital pours into the northwest region, many large companies have even gone directly to Tumi Province to start textile factories. Their factories have small capital and old machinery, and the quality of their products is not as good as others.
, this gradually became worse.
The factory went completely bankrupt a year ago. More importantly, for these small workshops and factories, there is no such thing as limited liability. When the factory goes bankrupt, the Zuo family needs to repay the huge debt it owes.
As a result, after the debt was paid off, the Zuo family could not even keep their ancestral home in Sanjin.
My father was so devastated that he passed away a year later!
As the eldest son of the Zuo family, Zuo Chengsheng naturally took over the important task of revitalizing the family business.
Half a year ago, he heard a friend talk about Curry and then the West Sea, saying that to the south of the West Sea was the Persian Safavid dynasty, and to the southwest were the Ottomans.
Moreover, this friend is a retired naval officer, and he also knows some of the empire's overseas policies. He said that the natives in these two places were supported by the empire, and the empire had a huge influence on the Safavid dynasty and the Ottoman dynasty of Persia.
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Moreover, it is said that the empire is still supporting the war between the Ottomans and the Tatars. In the Caucasus and the Balkans, the Ottomans are fighting against the Tatars.
He also said that nowadays, many merchant ships go to the Safavid Dynasty or the Ottoman Empire for trade every year, making huge profits.
The speaker has no intention, the listener has no intention.
After Zuo Chengsheng heard this, he wrote it down, then returned home and looked up the map, and found the city of Kuri and the Caspian Sea, as well as the Safi Dynasty and the Ottoman Dynasty south of the Caspian Sea.
Then a bold idea just lingers!
That was the Caspian Sea trade.
Since those large maritime trading companies can start from the mainland, pass through Malacca and the Indian Ocean, and go to the Safavid Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire for trade, why don't they know how to start directly from Kuri, and then cross the Caspian Sea to the Safavid Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire for trade?
trading.
Moreover, the Caspian Sea is still an inland lake, with calm waves and low requirements for ships. Any small boat will do. As for the goods, he can purchase them directly in the library or simply produce them himself.
As soon as this idea appeared, he couldn't bear it anymore.
In the end, he raised the last amount of funds and ran to Curry!
He doesn't have much money, only more than 600 yuan!
This amount of money would naturally be a huge amount of money for an ordinary farm family, such as someone like He Xihua, but for the wealthy Zuo family, it was already too little.
He came to Curry three months ago, but he did not act rashly immediately.
Of course, it was impossible to take action, because at that time, except for military and government ships, there were no civilian ships in Curry Port.
So even if he wanted to trade by ship, it would be impossible.
In addition, after arriving in Kuli, Zuo Chengsheng discovered that there were quite a few people who wanted to engage in Caspian trade just like him. He knew and got to know more than a dozen people, with varying amounts of capital, and even more.
There are tens of thousands of net worth, but the few like him only have a few hundred net worth.
Some people didn't even find out clearly that a large amount of goods were mobilized from the central part of the country. Well, the result was that there were no ships here, so how could they go to the Safavid Dynasty to trade.
If you take the land route, you will have to cross hundreds of kilometers of desert, Gobi Desert and other uninhabited areas. The transportation cost is too high, and it is impossible to go to the Ottoman Empire.
The pattern of Eastern Europe and West Asia in the 35th year of Xuanping Dynasty was relatively complicated. For example, the Caucasus region was bounded by the Caucasus Mountains in the north. The north was controlled by the Tatars, while part of the south was controlled by the Ottomans.
Some parts were controlled by the Persians.
Among them, the Caucasus is close to Baku, an important port on the Caspian Sea, and is currently controlled by the Ottomans.
This place was originally a highly autonomous khanate controlled by the Persians, but after the Tatar invasion, the Safavid dynasty failed to stop it.
Later, the Tatars' strategic focus moved westward and entered Central Europe in one fell swoop. They strategically abandoned the Caucasus region and only occupied strategic locations in the northern Caucasus Mountains to control the Don River and the Volga River Plain in the northern part of the Caucasus Mountains.
As for parts of the South Caucasus, they chose to give up on their own initiative.
Under this circumstance, the Ottomans launched a "counterattack" in the Caucasus and finally occupied a large area of the South Caucasus, including Baku.
From the perspective of the Persians, these territories belong to them and they have always wanted to get them back.
Another key point is that with the strategic westward expansion of the Tatars, they abandoned the South Caucasus, and Central Asia was also occupied by the Tang Empire. The Safavid dynasty, like the Mughal dynasty, no longer had peace with them.
The Tatars made contact.
Without the huge threat of the Tatars, everyone's thoughts became wild. The Mughal Dynasty wanted to unify the Indian Peninsula, and the Safi Dynasty also wanted to recapture the Caucasus and Mesopotamia.
Naturally, the Tang Empire would not allow this.
They themselves don’t even know that once they are no longer bordered by the Tatars and lose the threat of the Tatars, their value to the Tang Empire will drop significantly. Don’t expect support, let alone support.
They went to war with the Ottoman Empire.
The Tang Empire also needed the Ottoman Empire to consume the Tatars in the Balkans and Caucasus. If the Safavid Dynasty stabbed the Ottomans in the back, it would easily lead to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
If the Ottoman Empire is finished, who will contain the 300,000 to 400,000 Tatar troops on the southern and eastern fronts?
Therefore, the Tang Empire did not care about the conflicts between the two countries, but did not allow them to break out into war. For this reason, the Datang Empire gradually increased its troops and fleets deployed in the Persian Gulf.
If the Safi Dynasty dared to stab the Tang Empire and undermine the Tang Empire's global strategy, the Tang Empire would not mind destroying them first.
At the same time, in order to eliminate hidden dangers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was already making trouble with the Mughal Dynasty, trying to provoke the Mughal Dynasty to attack the Persians.
The top officials of the Mughal Dynasty were very excited about this. The Indian Peninsula was very good, but the Tang Dynasty was too strong here and did not give the Mughals a chance to go south. It was even split up by the Tang Dynasty in recent years.
They went to several places and if they continued like this, they were afraid they would be completely dismembered.
The Indian peninsula cannot be moved, so it is better to expand westward.
When the Mughal Dynasty raised gold and other materials from everywhere, they purchased military supplies from the Tang Dynasty and prepared to march westward.
They did not know that the diplomats of the Tang Dynasty also persuaded the Safavid Dynasty in this way and supported them in seizing part of the Mughal Dynasty's territory.
So now the Safi Dynasty is also preparing for war and preparing to launch a war against the Mughals.
In fact, both of them knew about this situation, but they both kept silent by default.
No matter what, today's Tang diplomats can be said to be notorious among contemporary indigenous people!
It belongs to the kind that smells like wind and wind!
Why?
Because Tang Dynasty diplomats would bring war wherever they went!