Chapter 284 Is it really when our Tang Dynasty collects rubbish?
This area was proposed by the Ottoman Kingdom itself and could be sold to the Tang Dynasty, and the money from the sale would be used to offset the cost of various ordnance supplies for this aid.
The people of the Tang Dynasty refused at first. These wretched places were worthless and what would they be used for? In the entire North Africa region, the only areas that the Tang Dynasty people were interested in were the Nile River plain area and a canal zone. If they were exhausted, they would add Ceuta.
, Elsewhere, Datang's attitude is very casual.
But the Ottoman Kingdom begged and begged, saying that it had no money in its pockets. Please be kind to the empire and take over this place, otherwise we would have no money to buy ordnance.
The empire considered that the Ottoman Kingdom was really poor, and the Tatar Kingdom in the north had put too much pressure on them in the past two years, so the Tang Empire pinched its nose and recognized these poor places.
However, the Tang Empire firmly believed that these shabby places were not worth much money, and was only willing to give them 800,000 Tang Yuan.
The Ottoman Kingdom must be trying to negotiate a higher price, saying that these places are big enough and can be worth three million Tang Yuan no matter how small they are!
This is the main difference between the two sides!
It is said that the indigenous kingdoms these days especially like to sell their territories for money. Portugal, Spain, England, Scotland and other indigenous countries that have contact with the Tang Dynasty have all sold their territories to the Tang Dynasty.
The United Kingdom of Portugal and Spain sold the entire African colony and half of the South American colony to the Tang Empire.
The Ottoman Kingdom also sold all of Egypt and the peninsula to the Tang Empire.
Other countries are no exception, the most typical of which are the embassy areas of Datang in various places. Many of these embassy areas are territories directly purchased by Datang.
Whether legally or in other terms, these places were serious Tang territory.
The remaining parts of the embassy area are also leased on a long-term basis. The lease period basically starts at a hundred years and has no cap at a thousand years.
If you hadn't done territorial transactions with the Tang Empire these days, you would be embarrassed to say that you were a serious country.
Even now, as the costs of war in Europe are increasing, many indigenous countries are actually negotiating with the Tang Dynasty to sell their territories.
For example, the United Kingdom of Spain and Portugal has been negotiating with the Tang Empire for a long time. What are they negotiating for? Naturally, they are negotiating for the American colonies of the United Kingdom of Spain and Portugal. The Tang Dynasty wants to buy this place. Spain is a little hesitant, but they have not said they will not sell it. Now
The difference between the two parties is that they cannot agree on the price.
The lions on the Spanish side opened their mouths and offered a sky-high price of 50 million Tang Yuan for these colonies. The Tang Empire was only willing to pay 10 million Tang Yuan. The two sides had huge differences on the price, so the negotiations dragged on for several years.
Collect.
These indigenous countries like to sell their territories to the Tang Dynasty. On the one hand, these indigenous countries do not actually have any concept of country and nation these days. To put it bluntly, these territories are actually the territories of various royal families and nobles. The royal families and nobles transfer their territories.
, it is natural that such territorial transactions often occur between the indigenous kingdoms in Europe.
On the other hand, it is because the people of the Tang Dynasty are rich and generous. As long as the people of the Tang Dynasty are willing to ask for it and it meets the needs of the people of the Tang Dynasty, the people of the Tang Dynasty will not be reluctant to give up money.
I didn't see Spain asking for 50 million Tang Yuan for the American colonies, but the Tang people didn't refuse it directly, but continued to negotiate with a counteroffer of 10 million Yuan.
Even if it is 10 million Tang Yuan, this is an astronomical figure. Now the Spanish royal family's annual income from the American colonies does not exceed 500,000 Tang Yuan.
And most importantly, this number is still falling further.
The reason for the continued decline in revenue is that Atlantic shipping and commerce were almost monopolized by the Tang Dynasty, from which the Tang Dynasty people gained a large amount of profits.
In addition, the most critical point is that since the Tang Dynasty adopted the gold standard and silver production in the Americas and other regions increased significantly, the value of silver plummeted rapidly. In the early years, the exchange ratio of gold and silver was still six to one.
But now, it has been reduced to fifteen to one.
The people of the Tang Dynasty searched for gold all over the world and sold silver all over the world.
You have to know that the people of the Tang Dynasty are the largest silver producers in the world. When the people of the Tang Dynasty trade overseas, they basically use silver to pay bills, but when they collect money, they tend to accept gold or Datang currency, which is basically free of charge.
silver……
This has caused great fluctuations in other countries in the world that are still using the silver standard or bi-standard. Silver is pouring in, but it is becoming less and less valuable. Gold is becoming more and more valuable, but they have no gold...
The depreciation of silver led to large-scale inflation on the European continent, which was also the main factor that further reduced the Spanish colonial income in the Americas and reduced domestic income.
Now the money owed by the Spanish royal family to the Tang Dynasty exceeds tens of millions of Tang yuan, and the annual interest is in the millions. Basically, the annual income from the American colonization is not enough to exchange for interest. If the Tang Dynasty did not need Spain to fight against the Tatars,
, if the principal and interest repayment period were extended multiple times, the Spanish royal family's finances would have gone bankrupt.
The Spanish royal family is having a hard time, and other indigenous countries are even worse off.
It’s understandable that we don’t have the money to start buying.
It's just that the scale of military assistance this time is relatively large, and the total cost is estimated to be three million Tang Yuan, so just selling these three areas is not enough. The Ottoman Kingdom is preparing to borrow the remaining money.
This borrowed money must be mortgaged. The Ottoman Kingdom originally wanted to mortgage its territory, but the Tang Dynasty directly rejected it. What a joke, buying three lands in North Africa has already given you face, and also forced other poor lands to come over.
We really think that we Tang people are just collecting rags!
Therefore, Datang People proposed another transaction method. As for mortgage, you can use tariffs or other mortgages. Anyway, you will not receive much money from collecting tariffs. We Datang People will collect it for you. When will you collect enough money to repay the loan?
The customs will return it to you anytime.
This tariff issue is the focus of the trade negotiations between the two sides this time.
In fact, there are only two core issues in this negotiation. One is the issue of navigation safety in the Black Sea Strait, and the other is the arms trade. As for territorial transactions and tariffs, they are just incidental issues to the arms trade.
In this negotiation, the package deal for ordnance went relatively smoothly. The attitude of the Tang Dynasty was very tough. The ordnance was at this price, whether you wanted to buy it or not; the three territories in North Africa were charged at this price, whether you wanted to sell them or not; and the loan interest was at this price.
, Love is not a loan!
So the Ottoman Kingdom only persisted for a few days and agreed to these conditions, and the two sides successfully reached an agreement!
However, it is more difficult for both sides to reach an agreement on the issue of navigation safety in the Black Sea Strait!
The Tang Dynasty insisted on setting up defense zones on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Naturally, the Ottoman Kingdom was not willing to give in easily. If it retreated, the capital would be lost...