As a result, the Spanish began to launch a medium-scale counterattack on the western coastal defense line of the Spanish Great Wall. About 30,000 Spanish troops armed to the teeth launched a counterattack against the Tatar army facing them.
The process and results of the battle made the Spanish people quite satisfied, especially their military generals. After seeing the actual results, they all shouted that Spain was invincible!
The Tatars opposite were unlucky!
In just about five days of fighting, they lost tens of thousands of troops and were even forced to withdraw their defense lines by at least hundreds of kilometers. Only then did they stabilize the situation.
This caused a bucket of cold water to be poured on the Tatars who were still in high spirits!
After the original Tatars broke through the western defense line, especially after taking Paris after several months of siege, their military strength of the Tatars has reached its peak level.
But I didn't expect that a small counterattack by the Spaniards on the southern front would result in heavy losses.
What caused the heavy losses?
The frontline generals reported that during the battle, our artillery units were at too great a disadvantage, and due to terrain and time constraints, our cavalry was unable to take advantage of them. Finally, the flintlock rifles used by the infantry were not as good as in performance.
A percussion musket used by the Spanish.
Although they are both muskets, the flintlock muskets produced by the Tatars themselves have a relatively large gap in terms of ignition rate, accuracy and effective range compared to the high-end flash cap muskets exported by Datang.
The performance gap in weapons was the main factor leading to the defeat.
In addition, there are certain reasons in other aspects. For example, the troops are very proud and do not take the Spaniards seriously. They think that the reason why Spain still exists is simply because the Tang Dynasty still protects them, and they, the Tatars, still need
Time to digest the large French territory and consolidate the fruits of victory.
But these factors are certainly not recognized by the Tatar military leaders.
They did not think that they had underestimated the enemy, nor did they think that they had made mistakes in deployment, especially the timing of dispatching cavalry. They firmly believed that this was not a human problem, but a problem of equipment.
In the end, the top military officials of the Tatar Kingdom wrote to King Shunyi, requesting more advanced weapons and equipment.
Where do advanced weapons and equipment come from?
Naturally, it was imported from Datang.
At this time, Datang Arms Trading Company was very considerate and took the initiative to sell products door-to-door and offered extremely favorable prices.
How discounted is it?
A percussion musket is cheaper than the Suifa musket they produce themselves!
Yes, this time Datang Arms Trading Company is determined to carry out arms dumping even if it does not make money temporarily, just like what they did in Spain, France, England, Ottoman and other places.
First, use high-quality weapons to sell them at low prices, so that they will feel that making them is not as good as buying them. Once they start to purchase Datang weapons and ammunition on a large scale, their own backwardness and the defense industry, which is still in the handicraft workshop stage, will lose orders.
If there are no orders, it will naturally go bankrupt. If it goes bankrupt for a long time, skilled workers will change careers.
In a few years, even if they want to produce weapons on their own again, they probably won't be able to find enough people.
Just like Spain and other indigenous countries today.
At this time, the price of weapons can be increased. It doesn't even have to be the price of guns. It can be the price of consumable materials such as bullets and shells. It won't take long to get all the money back with profits.
And the most important thing is that this can also complete the political tasks assigned by the empire.
What task?
Deindustrialize indigenous countries!
Again, farming and herding sheep is fine. Why build a factory? It pollutes the environment and makes noise, and the living conditions of the workers are still so poor.
As a responsible global empire, the Tang Empire has the responsibility and obligation to help indigenous countries develop sustainably and to restore green water and blue sky to the indigenous people.
Therefore, for companies like Datang Arms Trading Company, it is not important whether they make money or not. What is important is cooperating with the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs to implement foreign policies overseas.
Datang Arms Trading Company has done similar things many times in other indigenous countries and is very skilled in the business.
This time in the Golden Kingdom of Tatar is no exception!
There was a defeat on the Western Front, and it was a relatively bad defeat. If the Spaniards had not taken the initiative to retreat at that time, the Tatar army would have suffered even more losses.
Therefore, the Tatar army also wants to carry out military reforms.
Soon, a huge batch of orders was placed in the hands of Datang Arms Trading Company!
The Tatars are expected to purchase various weapons and equipment sufficient to arm an army of 200,000 people.
Of course, the Tatars are not like the Spaniards. Even the military uniforms they wear are imported from the Tang Dynasty. They mainly import guns and ammunition, and other things can be saved as much as possible. Although the Tatars have slightly better funds, but
In fact, it's not any better than Spain, not to mention they have more places to spend money.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Datang is very satisfied with this result.
If this happens a few more times, it is estimated that the entire Tatar army will be equipped with weapons and equipment of the Tang Dynasty. If this continues for a few years, it is estimated that the Tatar Kingdom will be completely restored to green water and blue sky.
The forty-fourth year of Xuanping was destined to be a stable year. The wars between some overseas indigenous countries did not have any negative impression on the internal development of the Tang Dynasty, and even had a certain promoting effect.
After all, there are tens of millions of Tang Yuan orders for overseas military supplies.
With more orders, it will naturally further promote the development of domestic enterprises. After all, the Datang Arms Trading Company is backed by the three major arms companies, and behind the three major arms companies is actually the entire Datang industrial system.
In the end, these orders will be distributed to the entire industrial system, providing a considerable boost to the development of the Tang Empire's industrial system.
However, these external stimuli were far less powerful than the empire's own promotion.
After all, in the economic system of the Tang Empire, domestic demand was the engine of economic power.
This is a global economic system with a population of more than 300 million, with the mainland as the core, the Americas as the supplement, other overseas territories as the third, and the indigenous countries as the third. It is huge.
In order to completely investigate the economic situation in the empire, the Department of Economics of the Royal Institute of Technology even formulated a standard for measuring economic development, Gross National Product, based on many data references.
According to incomplete preliminary statistics, the GDP of the Tang Empire in the 43rd year of Xuanping Dynasty reached 1.2 billion Tang Yuan, which is a quite terrifying figure.
After the statistics were compiled, many cabinet ministers were stunned: Can we create so much wealth every year?
Also, why are our taxes so low? It’s only a few hundred million a year, shouldn’t we collect billions?
However, the professor in charge of the Department of Economics at the Royal Institute of Technology said this: "Is this strange? The empire's industrial output accounts for more than 99% of the world's industrial output, and it is normal to have more than 10 billion."
Everyone liked to hear this, so all the ministers nodded in unison!
But what the professor said next made people a little uncomfortable.
"And the statistics include a large amount of agricultural and livestock industries. We have a population of more than 300 million. If we just grow some grain and put some cattle, horses and sheep, the output value will be billions. These data are not very meaningful."
In response, the Minister of Agriculture frowned slightly and casually focused on grain? Ma Dan, in order to feed more than 300 million people of the empire, our Ministry of Agriculture worked hard to increase the output value of agricultural and livestock, but it doesn't make much sense to you?
I want to hit someone...
The professor continued: "As for taxes, the hundreds of millions you are talking about are only central taxes. Local taxes are not included in the statistics. If local taxes are included, it will be more than one billion a year."
The Minister of Taxation frowned. As for taxation, decades ago everyone had a tacit agreement to only talk about central taxation. This year it is only a few hundred million, and everyone can accept it. If you suddenly bring up local taxation, the people
We know that tax collection of more than one billion a year has a bad impact!
"We spend 1.6 billion on the army and navy alone every year. This does not include the Guards. Including the Guards, I am afraid it will be almost 200 million. There is no money to support such a sky-high price.
Military expenses?”
People in the military are starting to get upset! Haha, sky-high military spending? It’s less than 200 million, what the hell are you yelling about!
Ma Dan, now the navy officers have to go to the sea to fish, and the army has to grow vegetables and raise pigs. Looking at you, do you support cutting military expenditures?
Damn it, I really want to slap him in the face
And the professor continued: "In these more than 10 billion miles, the proportion of the secondary industry is still a bit small. This is abnormal and unhealthy for an industrialized country. This shows that the speed of our industrialization process is not enough.
Far from enough!"
"We must accelerate the pace of comprehensive industrialization!"
The Empire’s Minister of Commerce was also unhappy with this!