The Coal War broke out in England last year. For the Tang Empire, this matter was just a trivial matter, and it was not even qualified to be discussed seriously by the big shots in Jinling City.
The main people paying attention to this matter are the European Affairs Office of the Datang Empire, and then there are some local institutions stationed in North Africa and Europe, such as the Imperial European Office, the European Headquarters of the Datang Army, the European Fleet of the Datang Navy, etc.
As for the mainland, even many ministers did not know that a civil war broke out in distant England.
Even if they know, they won't pay attention, and most likely they will say one word: Oh...
After all, the people of the Tang Dynasty don't pay attention to the indigenous people at all. Even if they do, the Tang Dynasty people have seen this kind of small-scale indigenous civil wars too much, and the people of the Tang Dynasty have long been accustomed to it.
As long as it does not affect the interests of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty is too lazy to pay attention to the internal affairs of these indigenous people.
However, this coal war had a huge impact on the Kingdom of England, not only on the Kingdom of England, but also on Scotland and Ireland in the north.
Especially in Scotland, King James I had already purchased a large number of weapons from Datang Arms Trading Company in advance. Why use them?
Suppression?
This is not true. Although he is still quite young and has just taken over the throne, his rule in Scotland is still relatively stable, especially in the past few years. Under his leadership, the Kingdom of Scotland began to fully open up trade many years ago and cooperated with the Tang Dynasty.
Trade and exchanges began.
During this period, it also led what is still considered the greatest diplomatic victory in Scotland in the past hundred years. Many years ago, when the Tang Dynasty came to Scotland, Scotland offended the Tang Dynasty. Faced with the anger of the Tang Dynasty, the Kingdom of Scotland was about to perish.
At this time, they sold the worthless Onike Islands (there is Scapa Flow in the area) to the Tang Dynasty. Not only did they successfully calm down the anger of the Tang Dynasty, but more importantly, the Tang Dynasty subsequently settled in Onike.
Onik Naval Base was established in the archipelago.
Taking advantage of the fact that the Tang Dynasty was nearby, the Kingdom of Scotland began to mine coal, raise sheep, shear wool, and various other agricultural and livestock products, and sell handmade products to the Tang Dynasty, in exchange for valuable foreign exchange Tang Yuan.
Not only did it greatly improve the financial situation, but it also used these foreign trade profits to win over a large number of nobles and businessmen in Scotland.
At the same time, he also purchased weapons from the Tang Dynasty and formed the first modern army in Scotland's history.
With money in his wallet and an army united, James I couldn't help it when he didn't see civil strife breaking out in England in the south.
This has nothing to do with the execution of his mother by Queen Elizabeth I of England a few years ago. After all, these native barbarians do not pay attention to the hatred of parents.
The reason why James I was ready to move was because Elizabeth I, Queen of England in the south, was not married and did not have any heirs. According to blood, James I was the best heir, but Elizabeth I has not declared him as her successor.
Heir to the throne of England.
Instead, he kept talking about getting married every now and then, so forget it. However, after the internal coal war broke out in the English royal family, a Charles III suddenly appeared who claimed to be a direct descendant of the Plantagenet dynasty.
Not to mention, this name has deceived many people. Even the Tang Dynasty announced that it recognized the English Free Army led by Charles III as a "Civil War Warring Group".
Although I don't know how the term "Datang people" came about, the people of Tang Dynasty did not oppose or approve of Charles III's England's Free Army, as if whoever wins the battle will recognize whoever is the ruler of England.
Even in the Kingdom of England, many nobles have declared that Charles III is the real king of England.
Some nobles also advocated that they simply let Charles III marry Elizabeth I. Although Elizabeth I was very old now, she was still unmarried after all.
In this way, the orthodox debate will be gone, and by the way, a new king can be brought to the Kingdom of England. This new king will still be able to marry and have children in the future. In this way, even the subsequent issue of heirs will be solved.
This made James I feel in crisis!
At the same time, I also felt an opportunity!
The attitude of the people of the Tang Dynasty was that they didn't want to care about it, and they didn't care who ruled the British Isles.
So, Elizabeth I could do it, Charles III could do it, why couldn’t James I?
According to blood, he is the most legitimate heir to Elizabeth I.
At the end of last year, he personally had a few conversations with the envoys of the Tang Dynasty, and he also tested the attitude of the Tang Dynasty people in his words.
The attitude of the people of the Tang Dynasty was as always, they had nothing to do with themselves, and they did not refuse his request to purchase large quantities of ordnance.
This made James I completely tempted.
He could not refuse the temptation to send his army south, unify the entire British Isles, and establish the United Kingdom of Scotland, England, and Ireland.
So, when the Coal War in the Kingdom of England was in full swing, James I announced that he would lead his army southward, shouting to avenge his mother Mary, and take back the throne of England that belonged to his mother Mary before and now belonged to him.
After the Scottish army also moved south, the war in the British Isles became even more chaotic.
You fight one of the three families, and I fight you. Occasionally, two of them will join forces to fight the other one. The fighting back and forth is very chaotic.
People from the Tang Dynasty in London or the Onyx Islands are all confused about the situation in the British Islands, but it doesn't matter if they don't understand. Anyway, as long as trade continues.
As long as they continued to supply coal, wool, and various other agricultural and livestock products to the Tang Dynasty, people in the Tang Dynasty did not bother to pay attention to the civil war between them.
This three-way war in the British Isles will naturally not stop on the European continent.
On the Western Front, a battle broke out again between the Tatar Kingdom and the Spanish and French coalition forces. The scale of the fight between the two sides was actually not large. The most important thing was that this time the Tatar Kingdom's cavalry troops directly bypassed and raided the French army.
In the rear, wherever he went, he gave full play to the style of the Tatar Kingdom, killing all the nobles, dividing the land on the spot, and inciting the local serfs.
Although the subsequent European Allied Forces on the Western Front fought bravely and wiped out this cavalry unit in various encirclement and suppression campaigns, they also launched a counterattack on the Western Front, killing a large number of Tatars.
But at this time, most of the French Kingdom was already in chaos.
The Tatar cavalry killed all the nobles wherever they went, distributed the land to the serfs, and even gave these serfs weapons to organize them to resist. For a time, countless rebels and bandits appeared in the fields of France.
, which greatly restrained the military power of the Kingdom of France. At this time, the Tatar Kingdom took the opportunity to launch a full-scale attack on the Western Front. For a time, the Western Front Defense Line was crumbling.
In response to this situation, the European Affairs Office of the Datang Empire immediately sent a notification to Naples and the Ottoman Kingdom, asking them to launch a large-scale counterattack on the southern and southeastern fronts to contain the power of the Tatar Golden Kingdom, otherwise France would
It's going to be over.
After people from the Ottoman Kingdom and other countries saw the notice, they all acted like ostriches: It is none of our business for the Tatar Kingdom to fight France. Why should we go to war? War is very expensive and people will die in war.
Okay!
Faced with the ostrich mentality of these indigenous countries, the European Affairs Office of the Tang Empire did not issue a notice this time, but issued an 'instruction', requiring all countries to immediately organize troops to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Tatar Jin Kingdom and prevent the Tatar Jin Kingdom from attacking.
The massacre of the French people restored the dawn of freedom in the Italian Peninsula and the Balkans and other regions!