Due to the establishment of military restricted areas on both sides of the Black Sea Strait, we are preparing to garrison troops. At the same time, we are also preparing to set up a military base at the northernmost and southernmost ends of the Black Sea Strait, that is, on the Black Sea coast and the Mediterranean coast respectively, to block and guard the Black Sea Strait.
At the same time, it is also preparing for limited immigration in this area, so it still attaches great importance to the security of surrounding areas. In this way, the Datang Empire also attaches great importance to the security of Istanbul, which is within the restricted area.
The local sanitary conditions made the people of Tang Dynasty very disgusted and even worried.
People in the Tang Dynasty like to be clean, and everyone around the world knows this.
However, people of the Tang Dynasty not only like to be clean themselves, but also particularly hate the dirty natives who come into contact with them.
For example, Cadiz has the embassy district of the Tang Dynasty, so the Tang Dynasty is also very concerned about the health conditions of the neighboring city of Cadiz.
We have asked them to carry out sanitation and rectification through official channels many times, and even donated a lot of money to them for sanitation.
The local people in Cadiz also care more about the opinions of the Tang people, because Cadiz is now the window for Spain's foreign trade, especially in the trade with the Tang people, this place is very important.
Therefore, Spain must care about the feelings of the people of the Tang Dynasty, and it also attaches great importance to the health status.
Today, Cadiz has become the cleanest and tidiest city among the indigenous cities in the Kingdom of Spain and even in the entire Europe. It can be regarded as the only indigenous city in Europe that the Tang Dynasty people are willing to visit frequently.
As for other places, people from the Tang Dynasty rarely go there, and it can even be said that they don’t go if they can’t.
In fact, contemporary Tang people rarely have direct contact with the indigenous people, because most Tang people are not willing to have contact with the indigenous people.
Even if they immigrate overseas, even to places like Ceuta and Egypt, they will stay in overseas territories and will not wander to the indigenous places.
Now that I'm gone, who knows if I'll get sick and come back!
The Tang Dynasty is now paying attention to the issue of Istanbul because this place is too close to the control area of the Tang Dynasty. Separated by this wall, inside is the territory of the Ottoman Kingdom, and outside it is the military restricted area of the Tang Dynasty.
After some friendly suggestions from the Tang Dynasty, the Ottoman Kingdom finally realized the importance of hygiene and immediately launched a city-wide sanitation campaign.
Even in order to keep the entire city clean and tidy, as well as to relieve the pressure on living space and ensure better living conditions for the royal family and dignitaries living in the city, the Ottoman Kingdom also implemented its own measures to restrict entry into the city.
If ordinary people want to enter this city, they must have a proper pass or something like that.
Although the Ottoman royal family's actions were somewhat slow, they still paid attention to health issues, which made the local Tang people happy.
Even though these natives are extremely ignorant and there is no way to reason with them normally, fortunately, when necessary, you can still use guns and the like to reason with them.
If they are still stubborn, then the Tang Dynasty people don't mind wasting some cannonballs to let them know the importance of being reasonable!
You can't be too ignorant as a person, you must be reasonable, and you must know how scary guns are.
Once the natives understood how terrifying guns and cannons were, it would often be easier for the Tang Dynasty to reason with them.
If that doesn't work, then why don't you find someone else to talk to? There are so many natives in the world, and there will always be some who can reason with you.
The Ottoman Kingdom began to implement sanitation, and this kind of thing has actually been done in many other places, but there are still not many that can be done as well as Cadiz.
However, even in Cádiz, the sanitary conditions here were actually not very good in the eyes of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Let alone the people of the Tang Dynasty, even the Spaniards knew that the sanitary conditions they created were significantly different from those of the cities of the Tang Dynasty.
Many Spanish dignitaries have been to Ceuta and have a deep understanding of how clean and tidy Ceuta is. Many Spaniards also want to do the same in Cadiz and even Madrid.
But when they actually started doing it, they discovered that improving city appearance and sanitation was not as easy as imagined.
This is not to say that the amount of the project is huge or that large-scale sewers, tap water and other infrastructure need to be built. These large-scale infrastructure are easy to build, but to be honest, it does not necessarily require talent to solve sanitation problems.
In the early years when the Tang Dynasty was founded, it had not yet entered the industrial age. At that time, the city's infrastructure was not very good, but it was still clean and tidy.
The real problem is people's perceptions!
For example, it is not easy to completely ban open defecation, spitting, and littering. Direct persuasion is basically ineffective. You have to rely on tough methods, and tough methods test the local organizational capabilities.
For medieval Europe, which was still in the feudal system, its organizational capabilities were very fragile and there was no way to carry out these large-scale rectifications.
Even the nobles who are the rulers defecate anywhere in their own castles... and you still expect them to manage it.
Of course, the people of the Tang Dynasty did not care much about their internal affairs, and the people of the Tang Dynasty did not forcefully ask the indigenous people to clean themselves up all the time.
If you do a good job of hygiene, more people from the Tang Dynasty will come to do business and so on.
If you can't do a good job in hygiene, then the people of the Tang Dynasty will stay far away. Didn't you see that the Embassy District of the Tang Dynasty in London is far away from the city, hiding directly in the suburbs more than ten kilometers away? At the same time, the entire periphery of the Embassy District is
There are ordinary city walls for isolation. Entering the city wall, this is still a closed and isolated area. Within several kilometers, that is the area where the people of the Tang Dynasty live. This place is also surrounded by city walls.
In other words, the Tang people took the initiative to isolate themselves from the indigenous people and had no daily contact with them. Don't expect the Tang people to go to London.
Even if there are diplomatic contacts between the two sides, they are all transferred through temporary residents.
However, there are some things that cannot be relayed by temporary residents alone. For some formal diplomatic talks, people from the Tang Dynasty will still come forward in person.
This time, because of the coal war, the English royal family urgently needed to purchase advanced weapons from the Tang Dynasty in order to win the war, but they ran out of money...
As a result, they prepared to use their income from tariffs, coal, etc. as collateral to try to get loans.
This kind of matter needs to be discussed by Datang.
However, the envoys from the Tang Dynasty still would not enter the city of London. Instead, the English royal family sent envoys to negotiate.
Hammond was the plenipotentiary representative of the English royal family who was responsible for the negotiations this time, but he found that it was not easy to negotiate with the Tang Dynasty people.
If he wanted to enter the embassy area, he had to take a shower from beginning to end and be quarantined for several days. Finally, after being examined by a doctor sent by Datang and confirmed that he was healthy and free of infectious diseases, he was allowed to enter the embassy area.
Although this was not the first time he entered the Embassy District of Tang Dynasty in London, he was still deeply shocked when he entered this place again.
Even he couldn't understand why there was such a big difference between their London City and the Tang Dynasty's London Embassy District, even though they were both in the London area and only about ten kilometers apart!