After receiving the discount from Chen Lifu, Li Xuan was a little surprised.
What's going on? Why did Chen Lifu suddenly become so radical? You must know that Chen Lifu had always maintained a conservative attitude towards the issue of expansion.
This is also the attitude of many civil servants, that is, external expansion and war cost money, and it costs a lot of money.
If it was just a simple war, it would actually be nothing. At worst, they would spend a few hundred million and win with gritted teeth. As for the fact that they could not win despite spending money, they had never considered this.
With the current strength of the Tang Empire, it would be easy to capture a native, at least not militarily.
The Imperial Army has repeatedly said over the years that if it really wants to fight in Europe, it can fight directly to the English Channel if it gives the Army half a year.
And these six months are not a time for fighting, but a time for marching. As for the military resistance of the indigenous people, it seems that the army does not exist at all.
After all, the current Army of the Tang Dynasty is on a different level from the indigenous army. The Army of the Tang Dynasty is now equipped with all breech-loading rifled weapons.
The front-line regular field troops, including the Marine Corps, have completely replaced the Joint Type 2 rifles. The Joint Type 2 rifles use eight-millimeter bullets with all-metal smokeless propellants, and have magazines that can be loaded during reloading.
Press the bullet magazine in advance and use the double magazine mode to load ten bullets at a time.
It also adopts a more convenient and faster rear-end locking, which makes loading the gun very convenient, and skilled shooters can maintain a very high rate of fire.
Moreover, the various processes of the gun have been greatly improved, with high accuracy, high effective range, good lifespan, and good corrosion resistance, high temperature resistance, and severe cold resistance.
Otherwise, this rifle would not be able to become the new generation of universal standard rifle of the Tang Empire.
With the large-scale service of the Union Type 2 rifle, the single-shot rifles such as the Union Type 1 rifle in the early years, which fired paper bullets, have been completely eliminated. There are still some models that can fire metal bullets, which have taken a back seat.
For the second line, equip militia or simply seal it.
The emergency is that relying on the powerful firepower of the United Type II rifle, the Tang Army is enough to sweep across the world.
There is no way, who makes the weapons of the indigenous people of various countries still stay in the era of muskets? Whether they are Tatars or Europeans, the main rifles they equip today are mainly flintlock guns, and a few are equipped with flash cap percussion guns.
, and what’s interesting is that most of the guns they equip are purchased from Datang...
In addition to the firepower advantage of light weapons such as rifles, not to mention the Tang army and navy also possessed a more important weapon, which was rifled artillery.
A large number of breech-loaded rifled artillery is the foundation for the Tang Army and Navy to gain a global foothold!
At present, the army and navy are fully equipped with breech-loading rifled guns, and this breech-loading rifled gun has been developed for at least two generations, from the first generation in the 1930s of Xuanping to the second generation after 40 years of Xuanping.
With each generation, the performance of this breech-loaded rifled gun is also getting higher and higher.
At the same time, combined with the artillery's firing of balloons, the Tang Army's effective range against fixed targets could reach more than ten kilometers.
The army's new generation 120mm cannon and 150mm cannon have an effective range of more than ten kilometers.
A precise and effective firing range of ten kilometers is almost insurmountable for the indigenous people who are still in the era of smoothbore guns.
Once they start a fight with the Tang Army, they may have been blown to pieces without even meeting the Datang Army.
The Tang Army had such a huge advantage, which allowed them to form an almost one-sided absolute advantage when facing the natives.
Therefore, there is no military problem in attacking Europe.
The problems are other aspects, such as money!
The equipment of the Tang Dynasty's army and navy was advanced, but wars were more expensive than ever. A big war would cost hundreds or hundreds of millions.
Another problem is localization. As we all know, the Tang Dynasty people do not like to live together with the indigenous people. If they invade Europe, it will be easy to overthrow the Tatars or other local nobles, but how to deal with the data?
Tens of millions of local indigenous people?
Accept them and make them part of the empire?
Any minister who dared to say this would probably be stoned to death by the angry people of the Tang Dynasty!
If they don't accept them, and they can't take extreme measures, then there are not many feasible solutions. In recent years, the empire has found a feasible solution, which is to immigrate them en masse to Africa...
But to be honest, this is very costly and troublesome.
It's okay to move hundreds of millions of people to a few small countries, but don't dream about tens of millions of people. If you have money, you can't waste it like this.
These problems are the reason why Datang has not entered Europe for a long time.
We can only continue to adopt roundabout strategies, such as supporting the Tatars to advance westward, and after the Tatars advance westward, they will accept large tracts of empty Eastern European territory from the Tatars.
In this regard, Chen Lifu also said in the book that this method is an excellent and effective method under the current situation. If the empire can increase its support for the Tatars and allow the Tatars to accelerate their westward march, then in a short time
, the empire would be able to acquire a large amount of uninhabited territory in Europe to support more of its subjects.
At the same time, this is not only done in Europe, but also in regions such as India and West Asia.
For example, the Ottoman Kingdom can also allow the Tatars to go south, or support the Persians, or it can be a pasha within the Ottomans, allowing them to fight, and use uninhabited territory to exchange military supplies with the empire.
The same is true in India. The current melee between hundreds of kingdoms and tribes seems lively and the scene is not small, but after a lot of tossing and tossing, more than ten years have passed, and the Indian peninsula is still in the same state, so it is necessary to speed up the process on the Indian side.
the localization process.
Chen Lifu supported this strategy by launching limited military strikes on his own side, supporting some indigenous people, and exchanging weapons for uninhabited territory.
For this reason, Chen Lifu is very optimistic and estimates that within three years, the empire will be able to initially complete the localization work in most European regions, and progress in other Indian and West Asian regions should be equally rapid.
At the same time, during this period, large-scale construction of Eastern European Railways, West Asian Railways, Indian Railways, etc. was carried out to connect the above areas to support subsequent immigration.
Adopt a method of gradually promoting immigration, consolidating the results, and finally completing the localization work except Central Africa.
After reading Chen Lifu's excerpt, Lin Ziran did not reply immediately, but stayed silent.
This means that Chen Lifu's trick has already initially impressed Lin Ziran.
As a result, Chen Lifu then made a second statement, this time he continued to advocate global localization in the fields of industrial and commercial economy, especially food index, people's happiness and other fields.
From economic and cultural aspects, it once again affirms the necessity of global localization!
Li Xuan also knew what Chen Lifu said, and even he himself agreed with it, otherwise he wouldn't have kept it in mind.
Li Xuan has long decided to unify the world, but the policies he promotes are different in different periods, but the ultimate goal has never changed.
And now, it's time for the empire to enter a new stage!