As a naval admiral who has served overseas for a long time, Vice Admiral Qiao Haozhong has dealt with indigenous people from all over the world. In his early years, he served in Southeast Asia, followed by India and Africa. In the past few years, he served in West Asia and Northeast Africa.
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All kinds, regardless of whether they are the Ottoman Empire, the Safavid Dynasty, the Spaniards, who have been civilized, established a country and are relatively powerful, or the various indigenous people who are not civilized and are still in a tribal state, Qiao Haozhong is with them
Have dealt with.
Therefore, I have quite a lot of experience in dealing with indigenous people.
It's just that in the past, when Qiao Haozhong dealt with the indigenous people, he mostly used naval guns to talk. To be honest, he was really not very good at other methods.
Well, it wasn't just him. In fact, there were very few people in the Tang Empire who were good at dealing with the natives in other ways.
Because when the Tang Empire dealt with the indigenous people, it was often with guns and cannons first, and then various negotiations, and the negotiation methods were also very poor. It was said to be a negotiation, but it often just put forward conditions and asked the indigenous people whether they would agree to it.
If you agree, nothing will happen next.
No!
OK, call it again!
Then after the beating, ask the natives if they accept it?
This also shows that the foreign policy of the Tang Dynasty was simple and crude, and even diplomats had little room to perform. Many elite students were not willing to apply to enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
I have to stay overseas, and there is absolutely no room for me to use my talents.
Regarding the issue of the Danish Islands, the simplest and most direct way is to directly send a fleet with thousands of ground combat troops and directly ask the Danish royal family to request these three islands.
The Danish royal family will probably refuse, but after refusing, the Tang army and navy will land and fight. At that time, the Danish royal family will agree to the conditions of Datang. Even if they don't agree, Datang's landing troops will not mind being destroyed directly.
The King of Denmark then occupied this unclaimed land.
If we just grab it directly like this, the negative impact will be too great, and it will make a lot of young people in Europe feel cold.
If direct action doesn't work, then let's deliberately release the water, for example, put pressure on the Swedish troops who are assisting in the defense to withdraw from these islands, and then remove the Swedish warships blocking the strait, and then the Tang Navy will not send any warships.
Patrol in the past.
In this case, the Tatars will see an opportunity and launch a cross-sea battle.
Although the Tatars have a small advantage at sea, it is still not a problem to defeat the surviving Danish Kingdom.
After the Tatars kill the Danes, the Tang Dynasty will be able to send troops to the Danish Islands with the slogan of fighting the Tatars. At that time, it will not even need to send many troops. It will directly ask the Kingdom of Sweden for troops. It will only need to dispatch its own fleet and some
Just the Marine Corps.
As long as the strait is blocked, the Tatars who landed on the island in the early stage will be dead sooner or later.
At that time, the Danish Islands will fall into the hands of the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that no one is stupid. Once Datang does this kind of thing, people who are interested will definitely see it, and they will still be disappointed when the time comes.
In recent years, this group of younger brothers in Europe have not been solely focused on following the Tang Dynasty to fight against the Tatars.
Especially the main forces resisting the Tatars, such as the Ottoman Empire. In recent years, they have actually stopped large-scale wars with the Tatars. They are just fighting small fights. Otherwise, the huge Balkan Peninsula would have started a war.
Woke up.
Although Spain, Portugal, the British Isles, Naples and other peripheral countries also sent troops to participate in the war, the war did not reach their territory after all, so sending troops to participate in the war was more about taking precautions before they happened, and also to deal with the Tang Empire.
The ones who really resisted desperately were France and the European lords in Switzerland. Because the Tatars invaded their territory and they suffered from the pain, they were the most active in resisting.
It's just that the courage to resist slowly passed away in the continuous war, and the Tatars also gradually changed their policies. Instead of directly killing the nobles as they did in the early years, and killing the nobles with one knife when they caught them, they adopted
A gentle policy will adopt preferential treatment policies for some lords who come to seek refuge, such as ennobling them.
This swayed many nobles in the resistance coalition.
At this time, if the Tang Dynasty annexed Denmark, it is estimated that many people would directly turn to the Tatars, which would have a negative impact on the situation in Europe.
After much deliberation, Vice Admiral Qiao Haozhong gave up on direct annexation.
No matter whether it is taking it by force or killing someone with a borrowed knife, it is not advisable.
So what else can be done?
After thinking for several days, Qiao Haozhong finally set his sights on Africa.
Is it possible to follow the example of the Southeast Asian countries and directly help the Kingdom of Denmark relocate to Africa?
However, even if the Kingdom of Denmark agrees, the empire's maritime transportation capacity will not be available for a while.
As far as he knew, several Southeast Asian countries had begun to relocate, occupying a large amount of the Tang Empire's maritime transport capacity.
Most of the early troops from the Nanyang countries have landed in Africa, and then a large number of people will ride to Africa.
According to the report of the Nanyang Affairs Office, they expect to complete the initial relocation of the Nanyang countries within three years and completely complete it within five years.
Many relocations in Nanyang were from north to south, and places close to the Tang Dynasty were the first to be relocated. For example, Annan, Northern Dynasties, and Siam were the first batch. A total of hundreds of thousands of people from the two countries had already traveled there by ship.
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In this early batch of relocations, more than ten shipping companies in Datang were involved.
In order to meet the huge immigration transportation needs of Southeast Asian countries, Datang's domestic shipbuilding industry also specially launched several low-cost passenger ships.
The full load displacement is mostly between 1,000 tons and 2,000 tons. However, although the tonnage may be different, they all have several common characteristics, that is, old and cheap steam engines are generally used, which results in a relatively slow speed. At the same time, in order to
As the number of passengers increases, the ship's center of gravity tends to be higher and its ability to withstand storms is lower.
But this is not the point. The point is that the passenger cabins during this period are very dense. This kind of cheap passenger ship can carry three times the number of passengers as an ordinary passenger ship of a full tonnage, and more than five times as much as a luxury passenger ship of a full tonnage.
Three times, five times. Compared with many ordinary ocean liners in the Tang Dynasty, the passenger capacity is much larger!
It's just that when this kind of cheap ship came out, the Ministry of Transportation of the Tang Empire explicitly prohibited the use of some of the above-mentioned ship types as passenger ships carrying the people of the empire. Violators were severely punished. On the one hand, this thing has a relatively high center of gravity and a poor ability to withstand storms.
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At the same time, there are too many passengers, and the limited lifeboats cannot meet the needs of so many passengers. In the event of a shipwreck, it will be difficult to escape.
At the same time, because there are too many people on board, the sanitary condition on the ship will be worrying.
However, even if the government does not ban it, domestic shipping companies will not use such cheap ships to transport domestic passengers.