Chapter 2105 Datang borrows money and is never afraid that you will not pay it back
Since the Tang Empire reached a preliminary agreement with the Tatar Jin Kingdom, the Tatar Jin Kingdom began to prepare to relocate the residents of the western territories to free up land and gradually hand it over to the Datang Empire.
In exchange, the Tang Empire resumed normal trade with the Tatar Kingdom.
After normal business exchanges resume, the Tatar Kingdom can freely import various commodities from the Tang Dynasty. Of course, national defense and security controlled goods or technologies are still not included in this category. The Tatar Kingdom has the right to import, and other indigenous countries.
Same.
At the same time, the Golden Kingdom of Tatar could export various commodities to Datang.
In fact, there were already commercial exchanges between the two parties before, but they were not carried out directly, but through transit trade through third-party countries such as the Ottomans, the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and the Kingdom of Sweden, and the scale was not small.
Take kerosene, for example. The Tatar Kingdom now imports kerosene worth at least millions of Tang Yuan every year.
Another example is wool. The Tatar Kingdom produces so much wool every year, but most of it is actually exported to Datang through third-party transit countries.
Now that the two parties are trading directly, a third party is eliminated, which is beneficial to both parties.
At the same time, the Golden Kingdom of Tatar can safely increase its investment in animal husbandry.
Nowadays, the Tang Empire buys wool and meat products from all over the world, basically buying as much as they want. The Tatar Kingdom has advantages in this regard. The Tatars were originally nomadic people. After entering Europe, although they are moving towards
Farming has been transformed, but traditional animal husbandry has not been abandoned.
Now they are preparing to increase investment in animal husbandry and export their wool, meat products, etc. to Datang in exchange for precious Tang Yuan foreign exchange.
Using these Tang Yuan foreign exchange, they could import the commodities they needed from Datang, such as cloth, daily necessities, and more importantly, export-oriented weapons and equipment from Datang.
For example, the new flash cap flintlock gun and the new smoothbore cannon.
Among the weapons exported by the Tang Dynasty, some high-end products have very good performance, far better than those made by the indigenous people of various countries.
The Tatar Kingdom was able to make their own muskets and smoothbore cannons, but their performance was much inferior.
For example, smoothbore cannons. So far, the smoothbore cannons made by the Tatar Kingdom have not fundamentally changed in performance from more than ten years ago. The most commonly used ones are twelve pounds (nine pounds, one hundred and fifteen pounds).
mm) smoothbore cannon, the effective range when firing solid shells is only about a thousand meters, and when firing their homemade grenades, the effective range is only seven or eight hundred meters.
The fundamental reason is the quality of the gun barrel, the quality of the grenade, etc., and these problems are more deeply related to the problems of materials and processing accuracy.
These problems are not so simple to solve.
As for the high-end model smoothbore artillery exported by Datang, its 115 mm high-end smoothbore cannon can fire solid shells with an effective range of more than 1,500 meters, and even if it fires grenades, it can reach about 1,200 meters.
Why?
Because even if Datang produces these smoothbore guns and cannons, which are already very backward for itself and are no longer in use, they still use the most advanced mechanical equipment and material formulas of the contemporary era.
Bronze cannons with the same caliber and barrel length made by the Tang Dynasty had a longer effective range and greater power than the bronze cannons made by indigenous peoples such as the Tatar Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom.
In the past, most of the indigenous European countries had basically purchased and equipped the Tang Dynasty's guns and artillery, and a considerable part of them were relatively new and advanced flash cap smoothbore guns and new smoothbore cannons.
In other words, in fact, in the past many years, the equipment level of the European coalition forces has exceeded that of the Tatars in some aspects.
But even though there was no egg, he was still beaten by the Tatars...
Without the support of the Tang Dynasty, France would have been doomed long ago.
Well, having said that, according to the verbal agreement reached between the Tang Empire and the Golden Kingdom of Tartar, the Tang Empire will gradually give up its support for European countries, mainly the Kingdom of France.
How should I put it? The Tatar Jin Kingdom relocated its people and finally handed over a large area of land to the Tang Dynasty. They had to have a place to live and settle down, right?
If the Tang Dynasty had been supporting France, the Tatars would have nowhere to go, and there would be no land left.
For this reason, the Tang Empire also began to change its foreign policy in Europe.
However, other aspects will remain unchanged, such as trade, arms exports, etc. Datang will not change. There is only one change, and that is that it will begin to shrink its loan support to the Kingdom of France.
To put it bluntly, we no longer provide preferential loans!
As for how to deal with the loan of more than 20 million Tang Yuan after they no longer support the Kingdom of France, the Tang people did not need to tell them. The Tatars took the initiative to express that after they conquered the Kingdom of France, they would replace it.
Pay back this loan!
Of course, the Tatars definitely do not have so much cash, so they will still transfer the local customs and some special taxes to the Tang Dynasty for management like the current Kingdom of France, and use it to repay the loan.
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This is why the Tang Empire was so unscrupulous when lending money abroad and was not afraid that others would not repay it.
If civil strife breaks out in the borrowing country and the dynasty is destroyed, the new dynasty still has to pay back the money.
Even if the country is destroyed, the occupying country must pay back the money on its behalf.
Since Datang's money was lent out, it was natural that it would be recovered.
Giving up support for France is an established policy, but it does not mean that the Tang Empire will give up other countries at the same time.
For example, the United Kingdom of Spain and Portugal and the Kingdom of Naples and the Ottoman Kingdom on the Italian Peninsula.
The price paid by the Tatars is only enough to exchange for France for the time being. As for the future, we will talk about it later.
After the Tang Empire adjusted its foreign policy in Europe, the already fierce war in Europe escalated again.
This time, the Tatars have completely let go of their hands. Even the more than 200,000 troops stationed on the eastern front have been directly transferred to other fronts. This means that the Tatar Kingdom is completely defenseless against the Tang Empire.
Already.
Although the previous defenses were useless, there was still an eastern defense line.
Now, they have directly abandoned the entire eastern defense line and transferred troops to supplement the western and southern fronts.
As a result, they put even greater pressure on the European coalition forces and the Ottoman Kingdom.
Especially on the Western Front, the Kingdom of France was already suffering from civil strife that led to turmoil on the Western Front. Now the war is becoming more and more intense, and the casualties in this fight are huge.
Just three months after the Tatar Kingdom and the Tang Dynasty signed a trade agreement, a brutal battle broke out between the European Allied Forces and the Tatar Army in the Verdun region on the Western Front of Europe.