According to the relevant agreements signed between Datang and Spain and the Portuguese, the money used by Datang to purchase these colonies will be directly used by the Spanish and Portuguese to purchase goods and related services from Datang.
The goods are mainly ordnance and ammunition and some other industrial products, such as cloth and the like.
Then it was used to pay for the freight, not only for these ordnance commodities, but also for the Tang Dynasty to help Spain transport indigenous labor.
After all, the current Tang Dynasty was a serious sea coachman, much better than the Dutch, who were later generations of sea coachmen. A single large-tonnage ship could transport thousands of tons of cargo, and it was very fast.
The transportation competitiveness of Datang's ships in sea areas around the world is unparalleled in the world. Not only are they fast, large in volume and cheaper, but they also come with safety guarantees.
Nowadays, Spain does not even have a treasure fleet. It often directly hires ships from the Tang Dynasty to help transport various precious metals, spices and other valuable things obtained from the Americas.
Therefore, in recent years, the Spaniards have been burdened with shipping by sea.
However, shipping costs are just hard-earned money. What is even more profitable is exporting goods, especially ordnance products.
The arms dealers of the Tang Dynasty have always been extremely evil-hearted.
They are expected to sell to Spain and the Portuguese a total of 2.8 million Tang Yuan worth of ordnance.
The manufacturing cost of these exported ordnance plus shipping costs is only 450,000 at most!
In other words, Datang only spent hundreds of thousands of yuan to acquire these colonies and the accompanying rights and interests.
As soon as this result came out, the people in the military were completely speechless!
Damn it, it’s cheaper to buy territory directly than to seize it through war, and it’s countless times cheaper. So in the future, what reason will their military have to ask for military expenditures of tens or hundreds of millions?
Don't blame the military people for being worried, because someone at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already shouted the slogan: Fighting is worse than buying!
Let's just have a fart war and just spend money to buy all the territory that Datang wants. Anyway, it won't cost much. No matter how much it is, it will still be cheaper than fighting!
This argument made the military worried and angry at the same time.
Some of the young and strong factions of the military are already clamoring to kill those national traitors who say it is better to buy them than to fight them!
Otherwise, over time, the army and navy, which Datang was most proud of, would be destroyed!
After all, the reason why the Tang Dynasty's army and navy were able to maintain such a large scale and fight wars all over the world was because of the needs of the empire's global expansion strategy.
Once there is no need to fight, and you can buy these lands directly with money, and buy them at a very cheap price, then what value does the army and navy have?
There will definitely be a massive reduction in military spending by then!
Wouldn’t this cost the military’s life?
The young and strong faction clamored to kill the national thieves who were better off fighting than buying them, while some senior military officials were already considering whether to establish a new enemy.
Otherwise, they are really worried about being sent to the south mountain, and the rabbit will die and the dog will cook!
It's just that after searching all over the world, the Tatars are barely reliable, and then the Spaniards, Ottomans, Safi Dynasty, Mughal Dynasty and the like can also make the Tang Dynasty pay attention.
But this estimate alone is not enough.
Datang must have a long-term enemy, an enemy that keeps Datang on alert and then invests its energy in developing technology and armaments.
In the end, the top military officials searched and searched but couldn't find it. Anyway, they couldn't find it on earth.
Then the military people thought, since they can’t find it on the earth, they should look for it outside the earth!
There just happened to be a professor at the Royal Institute of Technology recently who said that humans are not the only intelligent life in the universe. The universe is so big, there must be other intelligent life.
I won’t say it’s too far away, but people from Mars, Mercury, or people from the moon in the inner solar system are all possible.
The speaker has no intention, the listener has intention.
When the military people heard this, they thought it was a good idea!
The Tang Dynasty is already invincible on earth, but there are still aliens!
Although no aliens have been discovered yet, this is because science and technology are limited and they have not been discovered yet. There is no guarantee that there are people on the moon.
Isn’t it said in mythology that there is a moon palace?
There is no smoke without fire. If there are no people on the moon, how can there be such things as the Moon Palace and Fairy Chang'e?
The energy of the military is huge. Although it is just a very immature idea, with the secret support of the military, a large number of science fiction writers have emerged!
In the winter of the thirty-sixth year of Xuanping, a science fiction novel called "Mars Invasion" suddenly broke out. The bizarre descriptions in it were very eye-catching.
Although this is just a science fiction novel on the surface, since the military came up with this thing, it must have deep meaning, so a large group of people just said in the newspaper that the probability of intelligent life on Mars is quite high.
Then came the theory of alien battleships. After an adventure team ventured deep into the Americas, they encountered some danger. Anyway, only one person came back, and then this person swore that they encountered
He entered the alien warship, and dozens of his companions were kidnapped by the aliens...
Beginning in the winter of the thirty-sixth year of Xuanping, a science fiction trend swept through the Tang Empire, and the term alien was quickly popularized!
All this was seen by the Holy Emperor.
Then he was speechless...
Li Xuan, who holds Hantong in hand, can easily know that the military is behind all this, and the intention is very obvious, which is to promote the alien threat theory.
As for why?
It's nothing more than worrying about being cooked by a rabbit to death!
But what Li Xuan wants to say is that you really think too much!
Even though the Tang Empire seems to be incomparable glory now, the crisis hidden behind it is still huge.
Internally, the contradiction between the mainland and the overseas territories cannot be seen in the short term, but it will definitely break out slowly in the next few decades or hundreds of years, especially for the new generation of people born in the overseas territories.
Okay, but as time goes by, after a few generations, the imperial subjects in these overseas territories will become more and more unfamiliar with the mainland, and they will no longer even identify with it.
Most of the many colonies of European countries in history were actually so independent.
It was not overthrown by the natives, but by the descendants of immigrants from the mother country.
The early independence of various regions in the Americas is a very typical example. Even in later African regions, the initial independence of large colonies was actually guided by the descendants of immigrants. However, after the descendants of these immigrants later lost the support of the mother country, even if
They became independent, but were soon killed one after another by the natives.
Li Xuan himself could foresee that a hundred years or more later, a war would inevitably break out between the mainland and the overseas territories, which would then trigger a wave of independence. And he was certain that the independent subjects would be those now.
Descendants of immigrants, not barbarian natives.
Regardless of the internal contradictions, the external contradictions are still huge.
Even if the Tang Dynasty was awesome, aren't the Tatars still jumping around now?
Even if the Tang Dynasty crushed these natives in science and technology, they would always catch up.
After all, no matter how strict the import and export restrictions were in the Tang Dynasty, science and technology would always be slowly leaked out.
Nowadays, people in England and Spain have gradually used primitive steam engines to pump water in coal mines and other mines.