Chapter 1795 Please do not doubt the strength of our Tang Dynasty
Everyone knows that this kind of cheap passenger ship is used to transport indigenous people from various countries in Southeast Asia. If it is used to carry people of the empire, its reputation will definitely plummet.
This will greatly damage the company's brand. Have you not seen that in order to reverse the company's cheap and low-end brand image, Fung Shipping Company is preparing to spend huge sums of money to build the 30,000-ton luxury liner Rising Star?
Besides, the lives of the people of the empire are very precious. Shipping companies need to purchase insurance for every passenger who goes out to sea. If the safety of the ship is worrying, other insurance companies will not undertake the insurance.
At that time, it will be the shipping company's turn to be dumbfounded. Without insurance, there is no way to engage in passenger transport business!
Therefore, this kind of cheap ship is mainly used to transport various indigenous people.
However, although the number of passengers carried by the cheap passenger ships built by the Tang Dynasty was not small, it was still small compared to the large number of labor ships built by the Europeans.
When Europeans transport various types of labor, they dare to transport four to five hundred people in a two- to three-hundred-ton ship, and seven to eight hundred people in a five- to six-hundred-ton sailboat.
But what is interesting is that even so, the Spaniards were more willing to hire Tang Dynasty ships to help them transport.
Although the passenger ships provided by Datang for the Spaniards carried fewer passengers than their labor ships, the environment of Datang's ships was good, and passengers generally did not suffer from large-scale illnesses during the journey, and because they were steam
The ships go straight back and forth, and it only takes about ten days to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
Therefore, generally speaking, passengers will not die on a large scale while traveling.
After this comparison, the Spaniards found that it was more cost-effective to hire Tang Dynasty ships to help transport.
Datang's developed maritime transportation not only affected its own maritime transportation, but also directly affected global maritime transportation.
This can be seen from the fact that in recent years, the tonnage of ships in Spain, England, the Netherlands and other regions has decreased instead of increasing.
Because their sailing wooden boats cost more to build and are full to transport, the transportation costs are even more expensive.
Today, there are even regular steamship flights from the Tang Dynasty to several ports in Europe. From Amsterdam to London, to Lisbon to Cadiz, to Venice, Rome, and Constantinople, you can see the steamships of the Tang Dynasty.
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This shows how developed the maritime transportation in the Tang Dynasty was.
However, even so, Datang's maritime transportation capacity is limited, especially in recent years in order to implement the Nanyang strategy.
Well, that is to say, many indigenous countries in Southeast Asia will be relocated to Africa, and then the empire will organize a large number of immigrants to colonize Southeast Asia, localize the entire Southeast Asia region, and create the empire's Nanyang granary.
Therefore, many domestic shipping companies have mobilized a large number of ships to help Southeast Asian countries immigrate.
Under such circumstances, it may not be easy to deploy ships on a large scale to Europe for transportation.
So if we want to do it, we can only mobilize ships from the Atlantic Ocean, especially European waters.
When Vice Admiral Qiao Haozhong was considering maritime transportation capacity, he did not consider whether the Kingdom of Denmark would agree or not.
Because there is no need to think about it at all!
They want the best, and if they don't want to, Datang doesn't mind forcing them to agree.
Anyway, it is not to destroy their country, it is just to change their place, and it can also keep them away from the Tatars. This kind of good thing cannot be found at other times.
After Qiao Haozhong finalized his initial ideas, he sent his men to contact the people of the Kingdom of Denmark.
When a diplomat from the Tang Dynasty went to Göbenhavn in Zealand and asked the Danes if they wanted to change places, they were all stunned at first.
Change place?
Where to change?
However, when they heard that if they were willing, the Tang Dynasty was willing to give them a place to settle in Africa, establish a new Kingdom of Denmark on the African continent, and promised to help transport all their property and people there, of course.
, the shipping fee still has to be paid.
When they heard this, the Danish royal family and nobles were stunned.
Is there still such an operation?
They have seen this kind of thing changing places to become nobles. Many European nobles had their fiefdoms exchanged. This was within their acceptance range.
But to be honest, they can't even imagine relocating the entire country.
Although the Kingdom of Denmark is just surviving, it still has a population of hundreds of thousands. How many ships will it take to move so many people to Africa collectively?
Therefore, the Danes did not directly agree or object, but raised questions about this. You Tang people are quite awesome, and the steel ships are indeed very powerful, but you cannot transport hundreds of thousands of us to Africa in one breath.
Go ahead?
Regarding this issue, the diplomat of Datang just smiled slightly: "We Datang have already carried out relocation business in Southeast Asia, and have reached relevant agreements with all countries or tribes in Southeast Asia to provide them with corresponding services when they move to Africa.
maritime transportation capacity, and they have a total of more than six million people."
"Compared to six million people, hundreds of thousands are nothing but a piece of cake!"
"Please don't doubt our Datang's ability!"
Well, when they heard the number six million, the Danes knew that the Tang people in front of them were not bragging, and there was no need to brag to them.
If they really want to move there, I guess these people from the Tang Dynasty really have this ability.
The question now is, should they relocate?
“This is the place where we Danes have lived for generations. If we leave here, are we still Danes?
“Without Copenhagen, would we still be the Kingdom of Denmark?”
"And relocation is also a big trouble. Although the Tang Dynasty has enough ships, they will not help us transport it for free. Even if they have promised a discount on the freight, there are hundreds of thousands of people, and there are countless more.
If we need to take away the materials together, the shipping fee will be an astronomical sum!"
"How will we survive after we go to Africa? How will we provide food for hundreds of thousands of us after we go there?"
These are people who have concerns or even objections to migration.
But there are also supporters, and there are quite a few of them!
"If it was before, we wouldn't be able to leave under any circumstances, but it's different now. The Tatars have already occupied the Danish peninsula, and in the past year, they have tried to attack our island many times. Maybe they can't survive.
How long will it take before they launch a large-scale landing, and we won’t be able to defend it by then?”
"If possible, I would rather be neighbors with the natives of Africa than with these Tatars!"