The current GDP of the Tang Empire is very high. Even if we exclude the output value of the agricultural and livestock industry and only calculate the output value of the secondary and tertiary industries, it is still a very scary figure.
And the most important thing is that the current industrial output value of the Tang Empire definitely accounts for more than 99% of the world's total.
The reason why I didn't say 100% is because there are some handicraft industries, mining industries, etc. in indigenous countries. Although there are few people, we cannot ignore it.
Such a huge gross national product is not a strange thing for the contemporary Datang Empire. The territory of the current Datang Empire is so huge that after the population of more than 300 million is dispersed, many areas are
It seems that the land is vast and sparsely populated.
At present, the native areas of the Tang Empire include East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and Australia.
Next, there are overseas areas where the local residents are all imperial people, and there is basically no need to worry about indigenous infiltration, including Ceylon Island, Motor Island, North and South America, and Antarctica.
The above-mentioned areas are directly controlled and ruled by the empire.
In addition, there are overseas territories in the traditional sense, such as Gohe State, Bengal State, Perm State, etc. under the jurisdiction of the Indian Affairs Yamen, the West Asian Peninsula under the jurisdiction of the Red Sea Affairs Yamen, and Egypt in Northeast Africa.
The African Affairs Office governs South Africa and a series of coastal territories in central and southern Africa.
Some territories along the coast of Northwest Africa are under the jurisdiction of the European Affairs Office, such as Ceuta, the Danish Islands, etc.
The above is still not all the territories of the Tang Empire. For example, many territories under the jurisdiction of various affairs offices. In addition to state capitals like Ceuta, there are also quite a few embassy areas, leased areas, and some state capitals.
However, areas close to the indigenous people, etc., and finally colonies controlled indirectly through supporting agents, puppets, etc.
Counting all these, we have the entire territory of the Tang Empire.
To be honest, even the Tang Empire itself doesn't know how big its territory is, because many places are still vague and difficult to calculate.
The industrial and commercial radiation capabilities of the Tang Empire directly radiated around the world.
In addition to the output and market of the Tang Empire's own territory, other indigenous countries are basically the raw material suppliers and market dumping sites for the Tang Empire.
What is the pillar economy of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England in the British Isles?
Aside from growing their own food, their two biggest commodities are coal and wool!
Because these two commodities are the largest export commodities they can produce, and they are also the main commodities purchased by Datang in the British Isles.
They relied on exporting coal and wool to obtain foreign exchange from the Tang Dynasty, which they used to purchase the Tang Dynasty's ordnance and equipment to sustain the war, purchase the Tang Dynasty's cloth, fabrics, and silk clothing, and purchase various export-oriented industrial products of the Tang Dynasty.
, such as kerosene lamps and matching kerosene.
If they could not export wool and coal, then they would not be able to purchase various commodities from Datang.
Because of the wool and coal trade, which was extremely important to the two kingdoms of the British Isles, this also led to the continuous decline in the area of arable land in the British Isles, because a large amount of fertile land was converted into pasture by the nobles for grazing sheep.
At the same time, a large number of people began to work as miners in the coal mining areas controlled by the nobles.
Well, there is a big difference between the English coal mines and the coal mines of the Tang Dynasty. Digging coal in the coal mines controlled by the English nobles is much more dangerous than going to the battlefield.
The British Isles are a very typical raw material supply and market place for the Tang Empire.
Similarly, the Kingdom of Spain, the Ottoman Kingdom, Naples and other kingdoms were all similar. They all exported some industrial raw materials to the Tang Dynasty and purchased industrial products from the Tang Dynasty.
Now even the Tatars have begun to fully integrate into the Tang Dynasty's global economic system.
In the early years, although the Tatars had begun to export wool and other materials to the Tang Dynasty through third countries, and purchased some industrial products of the Tang Dynasty, the scale of these was not large.
After the Tang Empire and the Golden Kingdom of Tatar completely signed a trade agreement, the Golden Kingdom of Tatar, driven by economic interests, had spontaneously begun to expand the production capacity of animal husbandry in order to obtain more wool for export.
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At the same time, they were also mining some of the minerals discovered under their control, and then sold them to the Tang Dynasty people.
This shows the impact of Datang’s economy on the world.
Well, as long as the demand for coal, wool and other industrial raw materials within the Tang Dynasty drops, it can directly hit the economies of a large number of indigenous countries.
In the past, the Tang Empire had greatly increased its coal production in the mainland and the Americas. In many areas, it no longer needed to import coal from the indigenous people, which severely damaged the coal economy of many indigenous countries. In the British Isles, it directly caused
The Coal War broke out in England, and finally even the Kingdom of Scotland was involved in the war. Now in the British Isles, the war is raging and the war is lively.
The reason is to compete for coal export share!
As long as the people of the Tang Dynasty have so much coal, whoever can obtain a greater share of exports will be able to obtain greater foreign exchange from the Tang Dynasty.
It's a pity that no one is convinced by the other, and they are still fighting. It may not be over in a few years.
In fact, it is not just the economic models of these indigenous countries that are already bound to the empire's economy. In fact, other regions of the empire, such as the Americas, are also deeply bound to the empire's local economy.
In the 40th year of Xuanping, the Tang Empire announced the "Global Economic Development Plan". As of now, the plan has been implemented for its fourth year.
In the past four years, the Tang Empire actively expanded the import of industrial raw materials, agricultural and livestock products and other non-industrial products from various overseas territories. By increasing coal production capacity, developing various new technologies, and building large-tonnage professional grain transport freighters, coal
Transport freighters and popularize mechanized farming to reduce the cost of basic raw materials such as grain and coal.
This allows a large amount of materials from overseas territories to continuously flow into the mainland at a price acceptable to local residents.
This allows local residents to enjoy abundant agricultural products and cheaper industrial raw materials.
At the same time, it also allows the imperial subjects in overseas territories to obtain more generous income.
Nowadays, numerous ocean-going cargo ships continue to sail across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans every day, closely binding the economies of the empire's mainland and overseas territories.
It effectively alleviated the conflict of interests between the homeland and overseas territories that emerged in the early years.
And this economic binding will be further deepened in the future.