Chapter 2143 At least we can still be the knives of the Tang people
Although the problem of more people and less land has always existed, for the current Tang Empire, with the development of industry and commerce, more and more people have actually flowed into cities and began to gradually transform into industrial and commercial population.
Now, as in the past, they are all farmers who depend on the weather for their livelihood.
In other words, in fact, the method used by the Tang Empire to solve the land conflict between more people and less land, in addition to increasing territory and immigrating to expand the area of arable land, mainly relied on the development of industry and commerce to provide more jobs.
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At present, the proportion of urbanization in East Asia has reached about 30%.
The rapid development of urbanization is mainly due to the economic development plan of the empire in recent years, which provides a large number of jobs in vast cities, especially in remote urban areas, so as to encourage a large number of rural surplus people to work in cities.
Develop agriculture-related technologies, such as chemical fertilizers, build more water conservancy facilities, open new granaries to increase grain output per acre, and at the same time develop industry and commerce to provide a large number of new jobs. This is the current solution to the problem that the Tang Empire has continued for thousands of years.
The main program of the land conflict in 2016.
As for purely expanding territory and obtaining more arable land, this method is actually just a auxiliary plan.
But unfortunately, everyone in this meeting tacitly agreed not to mention it.
Even if it is mentioned occasionally, it is from the perspective of expanding the arable area, obtaining more food supplies, expanding controllable mineral areas, and obtaining more mineral resources.
After all, everyone has unified the concept of expansion.
This time the Imperial Study Room meeting was just to find more reasonable reasons for expansion.
To put it bluntly, I want to set up an archway to make my expansion look more upright, and then convince myself and the people.
After the meeting in the imperial study room, He Bo, the walking minister in the imperial study room of the Tang Dynasty and the right minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, summoned the tribute representatives of the Shunyi Dynasty in Shanghai.
The tribute representative of the Shunyi Dynasty was actually the diplomatic envoy of the Tatar Kingdom to the Tang Empire.
But the reason why it is different from the official names of other indigenous countries, such as the minister of a certain country to the Tang Dynasty, is because the official name of the Tatar Jin Kingdom is the Jin Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty, and the King of Tatar is the Shunyi King canonized by the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Jin Kingdom was a vassal state of the empire, and King Shunyi was a minister of the Holy Emperor. The Tatar Jin Kingdom believed that their status was special and could not be confused with other indigenous countries. After King Shunyi was granted the title a few years ago, he submitted a letter
The Holy Emperor requested that diplomats be sent to the empire in the name of tribute representatives.
The Tang Empire actually refused at first, because there was no precedent for this. Envoys are envoys. If you get a tribute representative, it doesn't matter...
However, the Tatar Kingdom insists that we are a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, and our King Shunyi is also the minister of the Holy Emperor. We, the ministers of King Shunyi, are naturally the ministers of the Holy Emperor. Since we are also the ministers of the Holy Emperor, naturally we cannot
What's the name of an envoy?
This title cannot be messed with!
In the end, people from the Tang Dynasty were annoyed by them, and finally allowed them to use this special title.
Therefore, the name of the diplomatic agency of the Tatar Jin Kingdom in the Tang Empire was different from that of other indigenous countries. The leader was the tribute representative of the Shunyi Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, and the organization was called the Representative Office of King Shunyi of the Tang Dynasty in Shanghai.
Although the names are different, the things they do are still the same.
This time, He Bo, the right minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, summoned the tribute representatives of the Shunyi Dynasty. He mainly made several suggestions. For example, the empire would increase its support for the Shunyi King and provide a batch of smoothbore guns and other military supplies at a preferential price.
One batch.
In addition, it was said that when the empire recently accepted some territories in Eastern Europe, it was discovered that many indigenous people from the Ottoman region had illegally smuggled in, and the empire was deeply worried about this.
The tribute representative of the Shunyi Dynasty was not stupid. He naturally knew what the Tang Dynasty wanted to say. It was nothing more than that they wanted the Tatars to go south to the Balkans to fight against the Ottoman Kingdom.
Naturally, he did not dare to decide on this matter without authorization, so he quickly used Datang's telegraph communication to report to Berlin.
Well, the message from the tribute representative of the Shunyi Dynasty was sent directly to the Datang military base in the Danish Islands through the radio system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After the local Datang military received the wireless message, it translated it and then forwarded it to the Tatars.
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If it weren't for the Tang Dynasty's telegraph communication system, this back-and-forth communication would have taken several years. Datang didn't have so much time to waste!
Therefore, within just a few days, King Shunyi, who was far away in Berlin, received the news.
"What do these people of the Tang Dynasty want to do?" King Shunyi, who was dressed in Confucian robes, finished reading the telegram and handed it to the courtiers around him while continuing: "Send us weapons and military supplies to fight the Ottomans. You think this is a good business."
Don’t you go too far?”
Several courtiers around King Shunyi, some were wearing Confucian robes, and some were wearing Tang business attire. One of them, a middle-aged man, said: "If we agree, we can even get 10,000 percussion guns for free, a new model."
Thirty smoothbore cannons, along with a batch of ammunition."
"At the same time, we can also buy 30,000 flash cap percussion guns and 100 smoothbore cannons at half price!"
“In addition, they have also promised to increase the purchase of wool, timber, livestock, coal and other materials this year and next year. The overall purchase amount will increase by about 20% compared to the original plan, which can further improve our economy.
situation!"
"But these benefits require us to use the lives of our soldiers to gain them."
At this time, someone else said: "In fact, it is not impossible to fight against the Ottomans. If the Tang Dynasty pays to help us fight against the Ottomans, then it will be a good thing. But they are obviously not like this. They will definitely let us take the captured Balkans later."
The area and even other places have been cleaned up and handed over to them!”
"They want to use us as knives to expand their territory for them!"
At this time, another person said: "Everyone knows what the Tang Dynasty people want. They just want territory, but they don't want people, and they are not willing to do it themselves!"
"Otherwise, they wouldn't have found us!"
"The question is, do we have a choice?"
King Shunyi spoke at this time: "We have no choice, but the Tang Dynasty people have a lot of candidates. If we don't agree, I'm afraid they will turn around and find other people and offer the same generous conditions!"
"There are so many people these days who want to be the swordsman of the Tang Dynasty!"
King Shunyi's words silenced a group of ministers, because King Shunyi told the truth that they were unwilling to face.
These days, I don’t know how many kingdoms and tribes are crying and shouting that they want to be used as knives for the Tang Dynasty, but they can’t!
But there weren’t many that could impress the people of Tang Dynasty!
King Shunyi sighed and said: "At least, we can still be used as knives for the Tang Dynasty people!"