The Tang Empire's current overseas expansion is mainly concentrated in areas with rich resources or good agricultural conditions, such as the Americas, South Africa and other regions, which are the key expansion and immigration areas of the Datang Empire. Otherwise, the Datang Empire would not be able to cooperate with
The Kingdom of Spain is negotiating to purchase the American colonies. You must know that the Tang Dynasty has already offered more than 10 million Tang Yuan for that place. Unfortunately, the Spaniards want 50 million Yuan, and the price has not been agreed upon for a while.
In addition to these places used for immigration, Datang was also very interested in another kind of places, which were places with important strategic positions such as transportation chokepoints.
For example, in Ceuta, the Suez Canal area and the Danish Islands, in order to obtain the Suez Canal area, the Tang Empire directly launched a military attack.
In order to obtain the Danish Islands, the entire Kingdom of Denmark was relocated to Northwest Africa.
For the Tang Dynasty, other ordinary places, especially places with a large number of indigenous people, were generally not willing to go to the Tang Dynasty.
But the strategic location is different, and if there are indigenous people, they will be relocated.
The Black Sea Strait is such a place with an important strategic position!
After all, the Black Sea Strait is the only way in and out of the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions. In addition, the Western Expeditionary Army of the Tang Empire has already reached the Don River Basin and entered the Ukrainian plains. It has completely entered the Black Sea. At this time, the Black Sea Strait is very important for
The Tang Empire was even more important.
Although Datang's ships can currently enter and leave the Black Sea Strait without any hindrance, this is someone else's place after all, and there is no guarantee that there will be no problems in the future.
Once something goes wrong, it's equivalent to having your throat choked.
In order to avoid future troubles and nip them in the bud, it is understandable that the Tang Empire wanted to control the Black Sea Strait.
The Ottoman Kingdom is firmly opposed to this!
But is their opposition useful?
In fact, it is useless!
The people of the Tang Dynasty knew this, and so did the people in the Ottoman Kingdom.
The focus of the dispute between the two parties now is not whether Datang can control this area. In fact, this point does not need to be discussed at all. It has basically been acquiesced that Datang will control the strait.
The focus of the current dispute between the two sides is the way Datang controls this strait.
The Tang Empire proposed that the Ottoman Kingdom hand over the Strait and the entire ten-kilometer area on both sides of the Strait to the Tang Empire, and it was not a lease, but a purchase.
Which naturally includes Istanbul...
The Ottoman Kingdom is unwilling to do so. The Tang Dynasty wants to station troops in the strait. This is not impossible, but don't go too far. Just give you some places to establish military bases. There is no need to destroy the entire strait and the ten kilometers on both sides of the strait.
Take away all the space.
Especially since our capital city is still within this range.
The differences between the two parties are relatively large, so it is naturally not easy to negotiate!
In order to speed up negotiations, the European fleet directly invited the Ottoman royal family to board the warship to watch the live-fire exercise!
After watching the exercise, the Ottoman representative said in broken Chinese: "The ten kilometers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait can be sold to the empire. The selling price and compensation will be based on your price, but..."
When he said this, he said with a very aggrieved look: "But Istanbul is our capital, and we will never sell this place!"
The ghostwriter of Tang Dynasty remained silent!
The representative of the Ottoman Kingdom gritted his teeth and continued: "We can hand over part of the coastal area to you, but we will never move the capital!"
At this time, the representatives of Datang turned around and talked in a low voice: "The area where your capital is located does not need to be included in the ten-kilometer restricted area, but it must be de-armed. You are not allowed to deploy weapons of any nature in this area.
The armed forces can only leave a limited number of security police officers whose weapons are limited to sticks, knives, and swords. They are not allowed to be equipped with hot weapons of any nature, as well as bows, arrows, spears and other cold weapons outside the restrictions!"
Representatives of the Ottoman Kingdom naturally disagreed: "De-arming? So how do we protect our capital? Defend the royal family?"
The representative of the Tang Dynasty said: "Public security police equipped with swords are enough to protect your royal family!"
"Besides, when the time comes, we will establish military restricted areas in your capital and all places within a ten-kilometer area outside of necessary passages. Believe me, no one in the world dares to attack your capital through these military restricted areas.
Of course, we don’t care about the entrance and exit passages, but you can’t even defend an entry and exit passage that’s no more than a few dozen meters wide, right?”
"Establish a military restricted area outside the capital area?" After hearing this, the representative of the Ottoman Kingdom became very excited.
what does that mean?
This seems to mean that the Tang Empire provided military protection for their capital!
Once the Tang Dynasty established a military restricted area in the surrounding area, leaving only one entry and exit route to Istanbul, no country's army in the world would dare to break through the military restricted area of the Tang Dynasty and reach Istanbul.
Of course, this also has a hidden danger, that is, the entire Istanbul is surrounded by the territory of the Tang Dynasty, leaving only a small passage and port for entry and exit. Once there is an enmity with the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty will wipe out Istanbul in a matter of minutes.
draw.
However, people from the Tang Dynasty did not care: "Of course, since it is a territory sold to my empire, others cannot set foot in it!"
The representative of the Ottoman Kingdom said: "This is a serious matter, and I will make a decision after reporting it to the king of our country!"
The representatives of the Tang Dynasty did not interfere. They could discuss it if they wanted to. Anyway, the matter of Datang taking over the ten kilometers across the Taiwan Strait was already a certainty. The army and navy had already communicated with each other a few months ago. In order to ensure the safety of the Strait, the representatives of the Tang Dynasty
For strategic security reasons, it was decided to station troops in the Strait and establish a military restricted area.
Later, we also exchanged opinions with the cabinet, and finally reached a consensus. However, the cabinet said: "If your military is willing to do it, just do it, but don't expect our cabinet to pay for it!"
The army and navy then sat down together for a discussion. The discussion at that time was about the cost of sending troops to garrison. The calculation made the army and navy sick to their stomachs.
According to the plan of the army and navy, even a casual war will cost several million yuan at least. If the war lasts a little longer, tens of millions are possible. If nothing else, just dispatch the fleet.
The coal burned and the shells fired are very expensive.
The most critical thing is not the issue of more money and less money, but that both the army and navy want the other side to take the lead!
The Navy seriously came up with a bill for the cost of covering the Army's landing operations and bluntly stated that the Army needed to pay for it!
However, the cost of coal and artillery shells alone amounted to millions of yuan. When the Army people saw it, they yelled: You navy morons are so poor that you have lost your money in the Pacific Trench.