Once again, a quarrel or even a fight broke out in the imperial study room. If this was placed in the early years of the Tang Empire, it would probably have caused a shock in the officialdom. But now, after hearing this, most people just said "oh".
At most, a few people asked out of curiosity: "Who won?"
As for the influence, there is no influence. The ministers in the imperial study fought not only once or twice, but also when the prince didn't see him, he just pretended that he didn't hear or see him and just left...
This was the norm in the Tang Empire.
But this is only what outsiders see.
After a group of ministers on duty in the royal study had a fight, they were all still sitting there in good spirits.
By this time, the meeting could no longer be held, so we adjourned the meeting for the time being, taking breaks and going to the toilet.
While going to the toilet, Admiral Feng Jinhao and Army Admiral Gu Jinen happened to bump into each other. While walking the birds, Feng Jinhao lowered his voice and said: "I am cooperative enough this time, and this fight can be considered as allowing you to go back."
There are steps down the back!”
Gu Jin'en said: "It's almost done. If you let me hit it again, the effect will probably be better. Damn, those little bastards are hard to serve now. They are all clamoring for military spending every day. They can't lose face and want to increase the prestige of the army."
, Damn, this military expenditure is fixed, how can we just increase it if we say it will increase!"
Feng Jinhao also said: "It won't work if you smash it. Otherwise, if you can step down, it will be difficult for me to step down. My predecessor was hit on the head by that guy Chen Lifu, and he was scolded to death when he came back, saying that he had lost his position in the navy."
Face, if I get beaten by you now, I'm afraid I won't be able to suppress those bastards, and they won't scold me to death. Alas, all the young people nowadays are very arrogant. Wait until they come up on their own in the future.
, you will understand the difficulty.”
"Okay, no more words, just pay attention!"
"Let's go, get ready to go out, keep acting, there are people watching outside!"
So after walking the bird, before they left the toilet, the two of them turned into angry faces and looked unhappy with each other.
The subsequent meeting continued, but Prince Li Hao did not go through. Instead, the Holy Emperor sent someone over to inquire.
However, knowing that the result of his quarrel in the imperial study room had not yet come out, the Holy Emperor did not continue to send people over.
Li Xuan is actually a little interested in this matter.
Although the situation in Europe is not important to the current Tang Empire, it will be very important to the Tang Empire decades or even centuries from now.
Because the entire European region is mostly covered with vast plains, the land is fertile, and there are many mineral resources, and many places are relatively suitable for human habitation.
The overall natural environment is not much worse than that in America.
If it can be developed effectively, it will be easy to feed the Tang Dynasty population of several hundred million.
And what is the mission of the contemporary Tang Empire?
Naturally, it is necessary to obtain enough living space for future generations!
Otherwise, why would Li Xuan engage in American immigration and overseas development? It would not be to satisfy various resources for industrial production.
If it was just for industrialization, the territory of the Tang Empire was large enough, and all kinds of resources were available.
However, the Tang Empire continued to expand overseas resolutely and persistently, in order to gain more living space.
To be more precise, it is land where food can be grown.
As for mineral resources, that is secondary.
Food is always the most important and the most valued material in the Tang Empire.
Therefore, the Tang Empire did not hesitate to spend huge costs to localize the Nanyang Peninsula in order to open up a large granary.
Most of the overseas territories it occupies are also suitable for farming.
From these perspectives, it is necessary for the Tang Empire to conquer Europe and turn Europe into the main immigration place for the Tang Empire like America.
Of course, this matter is not urgent. The area that the Tang Empire now occupies around the world can already absorb the current population of the Tang Dynasty very well.
Taking Europe is for future consideration!
Fifty years from now, a hundred years from now, the population of the Datang Empire will inevitably be much larger than it is now, and by then the Datang Empire will need Europe.
Originally, Li Xuan thought that the expansion in Europe should be stopped for a while, at least until further industrialization could effectively reduce the production cost of these weapons and ammunition, and then reduce the cost of war, before launching the third Western War.
When marching.
The weapons used by the Datang military today are actually too advanced for the contemporary Datang industry. The production costs have always been high, and the usage costs are also very high.
The military now has a large number of advanced weapons, but it doesn't dare to use its hands and feet when fighting. Once it lets its hands and feet go, millions and tens of millions of military expenditures will be spent every minute, even for the Tang Empire.
I can't hold it in either.
In more than ten to twenty years, technology will inevitably become more advanced, and the cost of producing the same weapons will be lower. By then, the military will be free to fight wars.
But now the Tatar's proposal made Li Xuan interested.
If a large territory can be obtained without fighting, and the Tatars also said that they will move away all their own population, leaving only empty land, this will almost be a free delivery of fat to the mouth of the Tang Empire.
To eat or not to eat?
Nonsense, you must eat it!
As for the Tatars that many ministers were worried about, they would go to Western Europe and use the local population and resources, as well as their learning ability, to complete industrialization, thus posing a real threat to the Tang Dynasty.
The premise is that Datang watched helplessly as they completed industrialization!
And will the Tang Empire watch helplessly as they complete industrialization?
Definitely not!
Those Tatars tried to secretly imitate the steam engines of the Tang Dynasty and build ironclad ships. How did the Tang Empire do it?
They directly dispatched warships to bombard their coastal ports one by one, and at the same time dispatched marines to conduct comprehensive searches. At that time, all the ports of the Tatar Kingdom in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea were beaten to pieces.
In the end, the Tatar Kingdom was forced to take the initiative to retreat inland.
Not to mention, the Tang Dynasty Navy also sent river warships deep along the river many times, and shelled the river shipyards when they saw them...
This was just one of the countermeasures taken by the Tang Empire. If it was discovered that the Tatars had really built a steam engine that day, it goes without saying that the Tang Army and Navy would directly send troops...
The technological blockade of the Tang Empire not only blocked the export of its own technology, but also prohibited the indigenous people from conducting research on their own...
And this is not the first time that the Tang Dynasty has done this. When the Fuso people still existed, they themselves tried to imitate and produce guns. How did the Tang Dynasty do it in the Fuso armies? They found a famous person.
If you try to imitate it, you will kill a famous person.
Therefore, if the Tatars want to complete industrialization, whether they can succeed does not depend on the Tatars themselves, but on the Tang Empire.
The Tang Empire was not allowed to do so. Even if they were given 10,000 years, they would not be able to complete industrialization!
And the indigenous countries that cannot complete industrialization pose no threat to the Tang Dynasty!
However, in order to prevent future generations from messing around and allowing the natives to rise, Li Xuan planned to set the tone of the matter first and directly issue a regulation and write it into the law to avoid future generations being confused.
As a result, before the negotiations with the Tatars were completed, Li Xuan instructed the Ministry of Justice to issue a 'ban on weapons of mass destruction'.
This law stipulates that because the indigenous people of various countries outside the Tang Dynasty are uncivilized, extremely ignorant, and do things indifferently, in order to prevent these barbarian indigenous people from messing around, throwing nuclear bombs randomly when their minds are hot, and endangering the survival of mankind as a whole, it is completely prohibited.
Any indigenous research and production of weapons of mass destruction as well as research and production of technologies and equipment used to research and produce weapons of mass destruction.
The scope of this ban is very vague. What are weapons of mass destruction that endanger human security? Datang did not give a clear definition.
What are the technologies and equipment used to research and produce weapons of mass destruction?
Datang also did not give a clear scope.
The entire scope of the ban has no upper limit, only a lower limit.
To this end, the ban also comes with a series of catalogs, the core of which are steel-related technologies, steam engine-related technologies, internal combustion engine-related technologies, chemical industry-related technologies...
Well, Datang included all industrial systems based on its own situation.
To put it bluntly, it is to prohibit those indigenous people from engaging in industrialization!
If we don’t engage in industrialization, what else can the indigenous people do?
Whatever you did before, do it now.
It would be good to plant a field and raise a sheep as before...
It must be noted that when the Ministry of Justice of the Tang Dynasty issued this ban, it did not ask any indigenous people whether they agreed...
The laws of the Tang Dynasty never required the opinions of the indigenous people.
If you want to ask why the law of the Tang Dynasty can control the indigenous people, nonsense, of course it depends on the millions of troops of the Tang Dynasty. If they don't obey, they will fight!
Of course, there are actually few indigenous countries that are so short-sighted and dare to offend the Tang Empire or openly ignore the Tang Empire's prohibitions.
After all, generally speaking, the relationship between the indigenous people and the Tang Dynasty was relatively friendly, and the indigenous people would still listen to what the Tang Dynasty said.
Nowadays, serious conflicts rarely break out between the Tang Dynasty and the indigenous people. Even if there are conflicts, they usually subside quickly.
After all, most natives are just ignorant, not stupid!
They may not know how powerful Datang is at the beginning, and foolishly go to provoke Datang people, but after experiencing Datang's live-fire exercises, they often wake up quickly:
The Tang Empire is not something you can provoke!
The Tang Empire has implemented a ban on weapons of mass destruction, but the natives of other countries don’t know about it yet. After all, this thing does not need to be shown to the natives. The Tang Empire is too lazy to publicize it. It will be of no use to publicize it now, even if
If the Tatar Kingdom wants to meet the restrictive standards of the ban, it is estimated that it will have to work hard for more than ten years.
Lin Ziran's original intention in doing this was to show it to future generations, to remind them not to be stupid!