No matter it is the age of sails or steam, or even after the large-scale application of railways, the transportation role of inland rivers has always been very important. It was like this before and it is still like this now.
For the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta to develop, the inland river radiation capabilities brought by the Yangtze River Basin and the Pearl River Basin are very important.
When Guangxi moved the provincial capital from Guilin to Guiping, it was also due to this economic consideration.
This shows how important transportation is to the development of a place.
Now, Guangxi is also preparing to build the Lianliu Railway, hoping to create another external transportation channel for Guangxi.
As long as the railway is built, a large amount of goods will be able to enter Lianzhou Port through this railway, and then be transported to the vast markets in various places through ships in Lianzhou Port.
This will further reduce the cost of cargo transportation in some areas of Guangxi.
There are actions here in Guangxi, and there are also actions in other places such as Yunnan.
And what a coincidence, it is also a railway construction plan.
After all, although the Tang Empire planned the Southwest Railway from an overall perspective, the Southwest Railway would reach all the way to Kunming.
But for Yunnan, they are planning to build a new railway, a railway that will allow Yunnan to get a closer access to the sea.
After much deliberation, they finally proposed a railway plan from Kunming to Thanglong.
However, there is a problem, that is, the area of Shenglong is not yet controlled by the Tang Dynasty.
And this Thang Long is the capital of the Annan Mo Dynasty...
Although under the infiltration and control of the Tang Dynasty for many years, this Mo Dynasty has become a name in vain, but at least it still retains the name of an indigenous dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty wanted to build a railway in the capital and through part of the Mo Dynasty's territory. The Mo Dynasty actually didn't have any objections. You can build it if you like. Moreover, it would be good for them to build it, so the Mo Dynasty actually welcomed it.
, and even expected Datang to come to them to build the railway.
But the problem is that Datang’s import and export restrictions are too strict.
It is almost impossible to build a railway on indigenous territory.
But people in the Tang Dynasty are all good people!
They saw that the people of Mo Dynasty had been living so hard in recent years, with constant wars and the decline of people's livelihood, so that only a few hundred thousand people remained out of the early millions.
So the people of the Tang Dynasty decided to help them, so the diplomats of the Tang Dynasty went to Mo Chao and told the people there.
In recent years, you have been living a very hard life. Have you ever thought about changing your country? The world is so big, and there are actually many places where you can build a country.
When Mo Chaoren heard this, he thought, oh my god, the people of Tang Dynasty are so kind, they even plan to help them move!
In the end, they happily agreed, saying that they had had enough of this miserable place in Annan and that they were going to find ideals and freedom in the distance.
Needless to say, this time the Tang Dynasty people really didn't recruit an army to go to Shenglong to shoot artillery in the name of military exercises.
This time, the Tang diplomat just mentioned it casually, and actually didn't say that Mo Chao had to agree.
But they underestimated the Mochao people's desire for the distance!
In other words, the desire for freedom and life!
Because they have a neighbor like Tang Dynasty, the people of Mo Dynasty can be said to be one of the most miserable indigenous countries in the world.
How hard it was, Mo Chaojun and his ministers all cried bitterly when they talked about it.
In the past two years, people in the Mo Dynasty have been unable to even continue the business of labor dispatch, because the Tang Dynasty people have set up a Nanyang labor service company.
Anyway, it’s very sad!
Li Xuan was stunned when Mo Chaoren promised to go to other places to found the country.
To be honest, he had never considered that such an operation could be possible!
Can this country be refounded in another place? It sounds ridiculous no matter how you look at it, but the reality is that it happened.
But now that it has happened, and Li Xuan also feels that there are many benefits, it does not matter what the Thang Long Railway is. The most important thing is that this seems to be able to greatly reduce the difficulty of localization of the Nanyang Peninsula.
Because the Nanyang Peninsula is too complicated, the Tang Empire basically has no extravagant hopes for localization in the Nanyang Peninsula in recent years. It is all based on the intention of doing whatever you want, and I will not annex you anyway.
In fact, if the Tang Dynasty was willing to annex the countries of the Nanyang Peninsula, the local people and even the powerful would be very happy, because this would mean that they would also become Tang people.
The specific situation is the same as that between the United States and Mexico in later generations. If the United States annexed Mexico, Mexicans would definitely laugh out of their dreams!
But the Tang Dynasty was not stupid, and would not accept millions of natives as subjects of the empire without any reason.
Therefore, if Datang wanted to annex the Nanyang Peninsula, there would not be any military or political obstruction, and the local people would welcome it!
But Datang was not happy!
The expansion policy of the Tang Dynasty has always been about land, not people!
If the land brought people, Datang would rather not have it!
If this happens, it will actually be very difficult for the countries in the Nanyang Peninsula. Internal wars are frequent among the countries, the people's lives are difficult, and the population is falling again and again. It is estimated that the total number of countries in the entire Nanyang Peninsula will never exceed three million.
population.
Now, the people of the Tang Dynasty have given them a suggestion, saying that they can go overseas and re-establish the country. This is definitely a good thing for them, a great thing.
There is no need to think about this kind of thing at all, just agree to it.
However, it was Datang's turn to be stunned!
You agreed directly like this, which makes it difficult for us to do it.
Our army is ready. Once you refuse, we will attack Thang Long, then incorporate the entire Thang Long and other areas into the mainland, and then build the railway. Datang has done this whole process a lot, and is very skilled at it.
But you agreed directly, which frightened many diplomats and generals in Datang.
What to do next?
Li Xuan looked at the report submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and couldn't laugh or cry!
What else can we do? Don’t find a place for others to move to!
They even gave up their land, and just wanted to stay far away from their Tang Dynasty. If they didn't agree to this, it would seem that their Tang Dynasty was too unkind.
The people of the Tang Dynasty are all good people, and it is absolutely impossible for them to refuse.
The key is to move there!
Li Xuan turned the globe, then turned it several times, and finally pointed at a piece of land along the coast of Africa!
"Let them go here, and I guess they won't be able to get the money for their boat tickets. Give them a preferential price and use some of the assets they left behind to compensate!"
If the people of the Mo Dynasty wanted to change places and establish their country again, Datang would have to find a place for them and even help with transportation.
This matter made Li Xuan himself feel a bit nonsense.
What's even more ridiculous is that after hearing about this, the Li Dynasty in the south of Annan actually sent people over and asked, boss, can you change a place for us too!