Chapter 220 The Tang Dynasty never interfered in the internal affairs of the indigenous people
The interests of the Tang Empire in Europe were very simple and pure, and that was to prepare for the future localization of Europe!
However, the Tang Empire was unwilling to do things that would harm the peace of the world, so situations like this often occurred.
The Tang Empire could obviously capture some places, but the Tang Dynasty refused to attack...
The current expansion of the Tang Empire in Eastern Europe is generally based on localization considerations. It is not impossible to win, and it is not even strictly a matter of money.
But he doesn't want to fight.
If this takes down the whole of Europe, with a population of tens of millions, what do you want Datang to do?
Cold salad?
So I just kept putting it off!
This is also the fundamental reason why the Golden Kingdom of Tatar has been able to survive in the past few decades.
At the same time, the Golden Kingdom of Tatar also deeply felt the threat of the Tang Dynasty. They always wanted to escape from the Tang Dynasty. For this reason, they continued to launch western expeditions and wanted to invade Western Europe. For this reason, they even had to conquer the entire Eastern Europe.
It is okay to give it to the Tang Dynasty people in various regions and even Central Europe for free.
The Tatars have always wanted to continue to expand westward, and the Tatar army is vulnerable to the Tang Army, but when they attack European armies, they can only hit them with accuracy.
Otherwise, we would not have been able to challenge European countries alone for so many years.
Moreover, these European countries needed assistance from the Tang Empire from time to time in order to sustain themselves.
Otherwise, the Golden Kingdom of Tatar would have taken over all of Europe.
Because the war between the Tatars and European countries has lasted for many years, the situation in Europe has now become relatively bad.
The European Affairs Office of the Tang Empire has reported on the situation in Europe many times.
According to their estimates, in the past many years of war, the local indigenous population in Europe has declined significantly. Needless to say, the population of European countries has declined very seriously. For example, the Portuguese, who are already very hard-working, only have about a hundred people.
With a population of 10,000, they continued to fight against the Tatars.
In the following years, it was annexed by Philip II. Philip II was also a bad man. Not only did he sell a large part of the Portuguese colonies to the Tang Dynasty, but he also recruited soldiers extensively in the Portuguese areas and then sent them to the Tang Dynasty.
Go to the French front to fight the Tatars.
As I kept doing this, I accidentally discovered that the current population in Portugal is less than 500,000...
Portugal, a small country, is just an example. Other countries are not much better. France at the front is in a very bad situation, and Spain at the back is not much better either.
Even the Ottomans have been having a hard time in recent years.
As for the Tatars, their losses were not small.
Generally speaking, the current population in Europe is roughly only about 70% of what it was before the Tatars advanced westward.
The Tang Empire naturally didn't care when the Europeans fought their own wars, just like the current Tang Empire doesn't care about the war between the Safi Empire and the Mughal Empire.
If you want to fight, then fight. The Tang Empire will never talk nonsense!
If you don’t have enough weapons for fighting, you are welcome to come and buy at any time, large quantity discounts!
This surprised the Safavid court, which had originally prepared to launch a war to kill the Mughals.
When the Safi Dynasty was preparing to launch a war last year, it repeatedly asked the Tang Empire for its opinion.
The general meaning is: Boss, the little brat from the Mughal Dynasty next door often bullies me. I am going to fight back. Boss, do you have any objections?
If I have any objections, I won't comment.
If there is no objection, I will beat him.
Datang has a stupid opinion!
The diplomatic principle of the Tang Dynasty has always been: not to interfere in the internal affairs of the indigenous people!
Anyway, no matter how they fight, it will not harm the interests of the Tang Empire, such as the millions of loans the Tang Empire lent to the Mughal Dynasty.
If the Safi Dynasty came and annexed the Mughal Dynasty, the Tang Empire would take the initiative to bear the debts without saying anything about the money.
Besides, arms have always been the main cargo of the Tang Empire's foreign trade. The natives did not fight, so who would sell so many cold weapons, plate armor, matchlocks, etc. that the Tang Dynasty produced every year?
The Safi Dynasty and the Mughal Dynasty had been fighting back and forth in the past year, and the Tang Empire didn't even bother to take a look. The Tang Dynasty was even less concerned about the wars between European countries.
At most, it only occasionally supports European countries to ensure that they do not let the Tatars kill them.
Datang didn't bother to take care of the rest.
Under this background, it is conceivable that if the army wants to go south to the Caucasus or east to Eastern Europe, it is actually unrealistic.
Even within the Army, this idea is about to be abandoned.
But Emperor Sheng said that in a few years, when the domestic economy improves a little, the army can be supported to launch a truly large-scale Western Expedition.
The target of the Holy Emperor has been set in advance, and that is the Ukrainian plain.
Li Xuan's purpose of taking over this place is also very simple and pure, just to expand the food source of the Tang Empire!
The Ukrainian plain is a super large granary, and if it is taken down, the empire's food supply will be more abundant.
With a food index of 40%, the whole people are prosperous.
This is an extremely ambitious goal. In order to achieve this goal, in addition to more jobs and a more developed economy, it is more important to have sufficient food supply.
Although there are many grain-producing areas in the Tang Empire, especially the Nanyang Peninsula area that is under development, once the area is fully developed, it will become a super-large granary.
But Nanyang development is not that easy.
Therefore, in order to develop local farmland on a large scale, the first step is to build a large number of water conservancy facilities. For example, in Guangnan Province, why did the Annan Kingdom live so hard? It was because it looked very good and the land was fertile.
, but if there is no perfect water conservancy and other infrastructure, there will basically be floods every year.
In order to develop agriculture in the area, the Tang Empire spent tens of millions of Tang Yuan on the early construction of water conservancy facilities.
In addition to water conservancy facilities, diseases brought by the local tropical climate are actually very troublesome.
Even though the medical industry in the Tang Empire is relatively good now, and there are medical treatments for many tropical diseases, there is still a long way to go before we can completely solve the problem of tropical diseases.
Therefore, Nanyang, the granary, still needs time to settle.
And the Nanyang region is just one of the super granaries planned by the empire!
What the Tang Empire wanted was an abundant supply of food, and with current planting and fertilizer technology, when the grain output per acre was limited, it naturally required more arable land.
In order to ensure the food supply of the future empire, the senior officials of the Tang Empire regarded the entire American region as a super granary!
It is conceivable that the people of the Tang Dynasty were eager for cultivated land and food!
A super granary plain like Ukraine was naturally one of the empire’s occupation targets.