England's Coal Wars What were the origins of the war?
Datang announced last year that it expected the coal purchase quantity to be reduced by about 20% compared with last year. The reason is that Datang's coal production capacity in overseas territories such as the Americas has increased significantly, and the European coal market has begun to decrease.
These mining companies have successively lowered their coal purchases across Europe.
However, the coal merchants in England had previously predicted that the demand for coal in the Tang Dynasty would continue to increase, so they increased production one by one, and the lords of each territory also vigorously developed coal.
As a result, when the Tang Dynasty came, instead of increasing the purchase volume, they wanted to reduce the purchase volume.
What does this mean? It means overcapacity!
Today, apart from the people of the Tang Dynasty, there are really not many people who can purchase hundreds of thousands or even millions of tons of coal.
What should I do if I can’t sell so much coal?
The English royal family chose the simplest solution. They blocked the main coal export base, London, and did not allow coal from hostile lords to be transported. They only allowed the royal family and lords who favored the royal family to transport coal for sale.
Anyway, the Tang Dynasty people stayed in London to purchase coal. As long as the quantity was sufficient, the quality was good, and the price did not rise, the Tang Dynasty people would not care who owned the coal.
But the other lords were not easy to mess with. When they saw that the transportation channels were blocked, they immediately rebelled. Several big nobles had already united to start a war against London.
This war that started last autumn and is still being fought is also called the coal war in Europe.
Of course, although the cause of this war was coal, there were many deeper reasons. The coal embargo was just a spark that directly ignited the huge conflicts that had accumulated in England in recent decades.
It can be seen from the situation of the Moroccan royal family and the English royal family that although the Tang Dynasty did not interfere in the internal affairs of the indigenous people, and they really did not bother to interfere, the huge Tang Dynasty empire still affected the world in all aspects.
Even a few internal changes in the Tang Empire were enough to trigger violent turmoil in a certain region.
From this, we can more intuitively understand why these indigenous countries wanted the Tang Dynasty people to build cities there.
With the example of Ceuta, many European countries hoped that the Tang Dynasty would establish a city there. Even the Golden Kingdom of Tatar revealed this intention through the Dutch.
It is said that since you have occupied the Danish Islands, don't just station troops, at least engage in some industry and commerce. Then we can do business happily!
As for security issues, do you Datang people still have to worry about security issues?
We are not stupid, and we will definitely not start a war with you on the sea. You don't think that our sailboats can only defeat your ironclads. We are also afraid of death!
However, the Tang Dynasty people did not agree!
The Danish Islands are just a pure military base. Although there are some immigrants there, the number of immigrants is very small, and the Tang Dynasty has no idea of developing business here.
The current Tang Empire has no shortage of land.
What is lacking is the homeland and overseas territories that are fertile and easy to develop agriculture.
As for ordinary places, Datang is still in great supply.
Ceuta is not actually a very good agricultural base, and there are no minerals. For the people of the Tang Dynasty, this place is just a shipping transit station.
The real focus of development is actually in the Egyptian region to the east.
The land in the Egyptian state under the Red Sea Affairs Yamen is very fertile. According to official estimates, if this Egyptian state is properly developed, it can accommodate at least three million immigrants. Today, there are about 200,000 immigrants from the mainland.
Don't think that this number is small. You have to know that when the Tang Dynasty went overseas, they had to divide a lot of land. In the same place, in the hands of the indigenous people, tens of millions or even more people could survive, but in the hands of the Tang Dynasty,
, it can only maintain a population of a few million at most.
North America is such a large area, but its current population is only over 10 million.
Perhaps the population of these places will increase in the future, but the current overseas territories of Datang are definitely considered vast and sparsely populated.
The same is true for the state of Ceuta. The area is quite large, but the population is only tens of thousands. Except for the land that can be cultivated and has a relatively high value, the remaining wasteland is basically worthless.
Land is cheap, which means that the price of houses cannot be too high. The main price is reflected in the building itself, and the added value of the land is relatively small.
George bought this house for only over 800 Tang Yuan.
However, to maintain the normal operation of this courtyard, there will be a lot of subsequent costs. At least two more people will have to be hired as servants, at least a coachman, groom and gardener, and a maid to help.
Including Catherine, the cost of hiring servants alone is nearly 100 Tangyuan. Although the salary of ordinary temporary resident servants is low, each person costs at least 20 or 30 Tangyuan.
But this is within George's tolerance.
In fact, it was only in a place like Ceuta that George could afford to buy such a large estate and hire a few more servants. If it were a local, don't expect his income.
Even in South Africa, it is not feasible. South Africa relies on shipping routes, and more importantly, relies on the South African plains and the South African gold mines in the north. It has attracted a large number of immigrants from the mainland. Today, the permanent population of South Africa is nearly 400,000. South Africa Port
It is also quite prosperous, some courtyards in good locations are relatively expensive, and even the salaries of temporary resident servants are relatively high.
Ceuta is still relatively backward, mainly because the population of the Tang Dynasty is relatively small.
After all, for the people of the Tang Dynasty, Ceuta was still too far away, and it was close to Europe.
Except for businessmen, few people from the Tang Dynasty would come to this place. Europe these days is not attractive to people from the Tang Dynasty at all. There are actually relatively few ordinary immigrants.
In the past two years, the Tang Dynasty officials have stopped allocating immigrants to these overseas territories. Now the official Immigration and Reclamation Department of the Tang Dynasty is mainly focusing on developing Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and other regions. For the immigration work in overseas territories, in addition to
A very few strategically important places, such as the former Danish Islands, Spaka Bay and other places with military strategic value, will send official immigrants, while the immigration work in other overseas territories is basically left to chance.
If people from the Tang Dynasty want to immigrate to these places, the Immigration and Reclamation Department will not stop them, but the Immigration and Reclamation Department will not encourage immigrants to go to these places.
But even so, a large number of people still immigrate overseas every year.
Through a large number of immigrants, it is inevitable that the people of the Tang Dynasty will form a global nation!