On the 23rd of the first month of the 44th year of Xuanping, after many negotiations, the Tang Empire and the United Kingdom of Spain and Portugal reached an agreement on the transfer of Spanish America.
According to this agreement, the Tang Empire will invest 18 million Tang Yuan to purchase all Spanish America, including almost all islands in the Atlantic Ocean, including but not limited to the Azores, Caribbean Islands, and all Spanish islands in the Pacific.
Belongs to an island.
This land transfer agreement, the Kingdom of Spain, Portugal and the United Nations, purchased all overseas territories except the European territories.
The agreement between the two parties is not just a purchase, it also has many ancillary terms.
For example, the Tang Empire will provide an additional two million Tang Yuan low-interest loans to the Kingdom of Spain.
At the same time, it also included some preferential trade agreements. The Tang Empire promised to purchase coal, wool, and other agricultural products, primary mineral products, or other handmade products that Spain could provide and that Datang needed in the next five years from the Kingdom of Spain.
This large order is worth five million Tang Yuan.
At the same time, Datang will also provide free ships for the United Kingdom of Spain to evacuate its citizens from the American colonies.
At the same time, Spain guaranteed that the land accepted by Datang would be an empty land without a single Spanish, Portuguese or other indigenous presence. At the same time, all kinds of infrastructure would be completely handed over and no intentional damage would be allowed.
and various ancillary agreements.
Through this agreement, the Tang Empire acquired all Spanish America and the Azores Islands and other lands, and a considerable part of these lands were already cultivated lands. After all, after so many years of immigrating to the Americas, they were already
Many manors were opened up.
For subsequent immigrants from the Tang Dynasty, there are mature ports and cities available. More importantly, as long as immigrants go there, they can get a large area of cultivated land to cultivate directly. They don’t have to immigrate to other places like in the past, and they have to build a port and a city first.
, and then open up the wilderness into farmland.
And this is actually the reason why Datang was willing to spend 18 million Tang Yuan to purchase it.
Because if there is no transfer fee of even a dime, but these places are a wilderness, Datang's initial development and construction costs will be more than 18 million.
The Spaniards also saw this at the beginning, so they opened their mouths.
To put it simply, the Tang Dynasty acquired the entire Spanish America at a much lower cost than taking it through war and developing it on its own. In the future, the entire North and South America will become the territory of the Tang Dynasty, opening up more opportunities for survival for the people of the Tang Dynasty.
space.
And the Spaniards also got the valuable funds they wanted!
The cash of 18 million Tang Yuan will be delivered in three batches. The Spaniards can use this fund to purchase various types of ordnance and weapons that they urgently need from the Tang Dynasty.
And they also got a pretty favorable purchase price!
In addition, they also received a low-interest loan of two million Tang Yuan. This money was not used to prepare for the war, but to repay part of the expired loans of Datang that they had previously defaulted on.
To put it bluntly, it means borrowing new debt to repay old debt.
Then they also received a large export order worth five million Tang Yuan. The average annual export quota was one million, which was enough for them to obtain valuable Datang foreign exchange, which was then used to purchase various commodities from Datang.
In addition, there was an informal agreement, that is, Spain asked the Tang Dynasty to allow them to expand in the North African region of Africa, to put it bluntly, Morocco.
Of course, this informal agreement has limitations, which is to ensure that if the Tatars fully capture France and invade Spain in the future, they will have a way out.
Datang recognized this.
Anyway, there is already a Kingdom of Morocco and a Kingdom of Denmark in the northwest region of Africa. It is not a big deal to add a Kingdom of Spain in the future.
After the two parties completed the agreement, the Spanish representative directly took out a long purchase list and formally purchased a large amount of goods from Datang.
From the latest export smoothbore guns to consumable ammunition, military canned meat, canned fruit, military grain, military tents, military uniforms, military shoes, etc., almost all military supplies.
They not only purchased it for themselves, but also provided part of it to the French. As for how they got money from the French and how much they got, Datang didn't bother to care about it.
Later, when I inquired about it, I found that the Kingdom of France had the same plan as the Kingdom of Spain, to directly sell its territory.
The Kingdom of France directly valued part of its territory adjacent to Spain and transferred it to the Kingdom of Spain.
Land transfer is very popular these days!
What Spain purchased was not just military supplies. After having such a large amount of funds, Spanish purchasers became proud and purchased a lot of daily necessities.
For example, one of the purchase lists is: 100 high-quality flush toilets and 200 high-quality porcelain wash basins.
God knows where they plan to discharge the toilet wastewater without a perfect sewer network, maybe on the street...
There are also other messy things, such as 580 Lady's two-inch mirrors and 300 full-length mirrors.
There are 500 pieces of high-grade fine cloth and 800 pieces of high-grade silk lining material. These are the fabrics used to customize high-end professional attire.
We have everything for use and clothing, and food is no exception.
They even purchased a batch of soda...
This is a kind of food that is blended with carbon dioxide and added with sugar and spices. It has not been around in the Tang Dynasty for a few years, and it is expensive even in the Tang Dynasty. If it is transported to the overseas territories of the Tang Dynasty, the price is not
Acceptable by ordinary people.
The Spanish purchase order cost a total of fifteen million!
The bulk of it is all kinds of military supplies, including weapons, ammunition, food, etc. It has to be said that food is also a big part.
Spain and France and other places have long suffered from war threats, huge casualties, insufficient labor, and a lot of land being abandoned, etc., which have led to a year-by-year decline in their own food production. In the past, both France and Spain had to do the opposite.
Imported grain from the Tang Dynasty.
As for the food that Spain had brought back for Habana’s overseas colonies before, they had to bring it back.
If they use sailing boats to transport it, it will probably become moldy on the road, and the cost will be extremely high, which will kill them.
As for finding ships from the Tang Dynasty to transport it, the people of the Tang Dynasty would either refuse, or charge sky-high freight rates.
In the past, the Tang Dynasty's operating model was to purchase agricultural products from the Spanish colonies at low prices, then digest part of them themselves, and transport some to Europe for sale. The sales price was naturally not low.
As for now, Spain has even sold off its American colonies, so it is naturally even more impossible.
Therefore, it was also necessary to import grain from Datang.
After purchasing so many weapons, the Tang Dynasty would not neglect its customers. After completing the transaction, the first batch of supplies departed from Ceuta Port for Cadiz three days later. Part of them was also transported directly to the coast of France at their request.
Woolen cloth.
A large amount of supplies were obtained, and more supplies will continue to arrive in the future, and there is still three million available funds on hand.
The Kingdom of Spain is confident that together with the Kingdom of France and other Western Front coalition forces, it has launched a larger counterattack against the Tatars on the Western Front. They are trying to capture Verdun, which was previously captured by the Tatars in the winter.
salient, reversing the situation on the entire Western Front.