Chapter 1942 False propaganda: there is gold and oil
In order to gain the support of the Tang Empire, Murad III did not hesitate to sell the entire Egypt and the West Asian Peninsula. Although he could obtain more than two million Tang yuan in funds, he could also take away all the population and even wealth in the above areas.
return.
Even the Tang Empire would provide a certain number of ships for free to help them transport in the Mediterranean.
However, even if it cost more than two million Tang Yuan and packed away the population, it would still be impossible for Murad III to agree to it under normal circumstances.
In the end, the reason that prompted Murad III to agree to buy land from the Tang Dynasty was because the Tang Dynasty agreed to help Murad train an army.
An army only loyal to Murad III personally, and promised to provide the latest weapons and equipment, including percussion-fired muskets that have not yet been exported on a large scale in Europe, and new field smoothbore guns with an effective range of about one thousand meters.
Waiting for weapons and equipment.
Behind this promise to train the army, the Tang Empire made a promise to Murad III.
Support him to continue to be the boss of the Ottoman Empire!
Murad III has not been very happy in recent years. He has never really controlled the power of the entire Ottoman Empire. Not only his mother, but also his wife is involved in politics.
It is said that the problems of interference in politics in the harem and infighting among princes in the Ottoman Empire have been very serious in recent decades. Suleiman I's wives all liked to interfere in politics, and his sons killed each other in order to compete for the throne, provoking a large-scale civil war.
In the end, Murad's father Selim II won the civil war. However, Selim II's civil war was fierce, but he was very incompetent in governing the country. He was addicted to wine and sex all the year round, and his power was controlled by the harem and powerful ministers.
When Murad succeeded to the throne, it was very embarrassing.
When he succeeded to the throne, Murad III did not dare to leave Istanbul, because the generals of the Sudanese Guards (the New Turkish Army, the Turkish Guards, etc. were called variously) were very dissatisfied with Murad III and always wanted to remove Murad III.
Get rid of it.
Even if he later pushed out of the city of Istanbul to avoid possible attacks by the Tang Dynasty's naval guns, it was only on the edge. If something unexpected happened, he could still escape back to Istanbul at any time.
From this we can see how unsatisfactory it is to have too many Murad IIIs.
Now that the Tang Dynasty promised to help him train an army loyal to him and support him in continuing to be the boss of the Ottoman Empire, he agreed to sell Egypt and the entire West Asian Peninsula.
Supporting Murad III was a small matter for the Tang Empire.
The empire does not matter who the monarch of the Ottoman Empire is. As long as he does not oppose the Tang Empire and is willing to continue with the support of the Tang people, then the Tang Dynasty does not matter.
As for helping Murad III train troops, this is not free, it also costs money.
The salary of the dispatched instructors needs to be borne by Murad III.
What's more important is that he also needs to bear the cost of the ordnance.
As for the large-scale export of flintlock pistols, this is what the Tang Empire has been doing in recent years.
The purpose of this is actually not to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the troops of European countries and enable them to better resist the Tatars.
More importantly, if the flash cap fires a flintlock gun, the indigenous people cannot imitate the flash cap.
As long as they use flash caps to fire their flintlocks, they will have to purchase ammunition from Datang. Once Datang refuses to supply them with flash caps, their muskets will turn into fire sticks in minutes.
The Tang Dynasty sold more advanced weapons and equipment to the indigenous people, not to improve the indigenous people's combat effectiveness, but to further control the indigenous people.
For Murad III, this royal guard, which has not yet started training but has already been designated, is very important, but for the Tang Empire, it is only a trivial matter.
The Tang Empire was more concerned about the newly purchased Egypt and the West Asian Peninsula.
The empire wanted to immigrate here, establish administrative rule, and more importantly, dig a canal here.
As soon as the agreement here was signed, the Tang Empire had already started preparations for the Suez Canal.
However, it is just preparation, and it will probably take some time before the official start of construction.
The main task at this stage is to establish rule here.
And before they could immigrate and propose rule, they had to let the Ottoman Empire take away their people.
In order for the Ottoman Empire to successfully transport people away, the empire provided a certain number of ships for free to help transport them.
The Ottomans evacuated quickly and easily, but it was difficult for the remaining millions of natives to evacuate.
Strictly speaking, the Ottomans were only conquerors, and they only had administrative officials and troops in the area. Most of the remaining people were actually local indigenous people.
The Ottomans also wanted to take these people away. After all, population is a valuable asset.
But not everyone is willing to leave, especially the people in the lower Nile plains who will not leave easily.
But the Ottomans were not good people either. When they evacuated, they directly drove away the people with their army. The natives were packed away by the Ottomans whether they wanted to or not.
The Tang people didn't care about these things. If the Ottomans couldn't take everyone away, the Tang Dynasty's solution was very simple. They would directly move them to central Africa and let these Egyptian natives interact with the natives of central Africa.
In addition, some people will be hired to dig the Suez Canal.
The people of the Tang Dynasty were frightened by the difficulty of digging the Panama Canal.
Digging the canal required hundreds of thousands of laborers, and the mortality rate was so high. The Tang Dynasty would not let its immigrants do such a thing, so it had long been prepared to hire local indigenous people to dig the Susez Canal.
After the canal is dug, they will be resettled to Africa.
The people of the Tang Dynasty already had great experience in how to deal with the local indigenous people. They not only ensured the normal implementation of localization, but also ensured the interests of the indigenous people.
As for directly killing everyone, the people of the Tang Dynasty would never do that. It was too barbaric and did not conform to the character of the civilized country of the Tang Empire.
Compared with the local indigenous people, the lack of immigrants from the Tang Dynasty is a bigger headache for local officials.
West Asia has never been the main export area for immigrants from the Tang Empire.
Immigrants from the Tang Empire preferred to go to the Americas. They were rarely willing to go to other places, and few people came to West Asia.
In the eyes of many people in the empire, this shabby place is nothing but sand. What are you doing here, chewing sand?
Therefore, how to attract immigrants from the mainland is the top priority for Tang officials who will serve in the West Asian region of Egypt in the future.
In response, these officials are preparing to send people back to the country to conduct a propaganda campaign.
It focuses on promoting the pleasant climate along the Mediterranean coast, saying that the climate conditions along the Mediterranean coast are better than those in North America and are very suitable for living.
He also promoted the fertile land of the plains downstream of the Nile River.
Furthermore, the imminent excavation of the Suez Canal will not only bring huge economic benefits to the local area, but also implies that Egypt is very likely to be partially localized and become one of the few overseas territories of the empire.
Localization has always been the most attractive condition.
I haven’t seen that poor place like Ceylon. It’s just because it became localized that many immigrants went there.
As this was not enough, several colonial officials in Egypt started to make false propaganda, saying that there might be super-large gold mines in Egypt and super-large oil fields in the West Asian Peninsula.
This false propaganda later reached the ears of the Holy Emperor Li Xuan, and he was surprised!
How did you know that there is a lot of oil in the West Asian Peninsula?