In order to stimulate the initiative of the Jin people in the Tang Dynasty, officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also hinted that the specific kind of land granted to the Tatars in the future would depend on the performance of the Tatars themselves. If this is done well, there is no telling whether it will be given to the Tatars in the future.
There is a real chance to get the British Isles, but if you do an average job, you may be thrown into some barren land in the future.
Even in Africa, there are good and bad places!
Although the Tang people still did not give a clear answer, this promise was enough to make the Tatars work hard.
Because the promise of the Tang people means that they will have a retreat in the future. The only difference is the quality of the retreat, but they should not be completely wiped out like other indigenous people.
If nothing else works, I’ll go to the Gulf of Guinea from now on!
It’s better than genocide, right?
For this reason, although the Tatars continued to plead with the Tang Dynasty diplomats in an attempt to obtain better places, especially the British Isles, the other side also began to prepare for a new round of war.
In addition, they also sent an inspection team to Africa through the channels of the Tang Dynasty, mainly to inspect the Gulf of Guinea region, but also to other parts of Africa. They will take the Tang Dynasty ship from northwest Africa.
Starting from the beginning, we will inspect the African region all the way, and finally we will bypass South Africa and head to the east coast of Africa.
However, so far, the Tatars are not very interested in the east coast of Africa, not because the place is not good, but because that place will inevitably be strictly monitored by the Tang Dynasty.
They know that the twelve countries in Central Africa cannot even build a sampan now. Compared to the Kingdom of Denmark and Morocco in West Africa, the Tang Dynasty allowed them to build sailboats and the like.
This is because the east coast of Africa still faces the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Ocean is now regarded as an inland sea by the Tang Dynasty people.
At the same time, the West Asian Peninsula in West Asia is now the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Although that place is full of sand and there are not many people there, the Tang Dynasty still does not want to see indigenous people going there, so the coastline is blocked very severely.
In order to prevent the indigenous people from going to sea and then sneaking to the West Asian Peninsula or Egypt, or other regions, the Tang Empire simply adopted a blanket policy and directly banned the development of shipbuilding and navigation industries in the twelve Central African countries.
You can do whatever you like on land, but you can't go to sea!
The upper-class Tatars of the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom were still a bit ambitious. They did not want to be like the twelve Central African countries and end up being confined to the African land without even being able to leave the sea.
Although the conditions in West Africa are worse, the supervision of the Tang Dynasty is not so strict.
Especially the Tatars also know that the Suez Canal built by the Tang Dynasty is about to be opened. It is said that it can pass large-scale ships of 10,000 tons. In this way, the routes along the African coast, especially in West Africa, will become even less important.
And precisely because it is not important, the supervision of the people of the Tang Dynasty will be relatively loose, and there will be room for the future development of their country of the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, although the inspection team from the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty will eventually go to both West Africa and East Africa, if they can only go to Africa in the end, they will choose West Africa instead of East Africa.
The question now is, where to choose in West Africa?
West Africa is also quite large, starting from the Morocco region in northwest Africa, to the Kingdom of Denmark, and then all the way south to the Gulf of Guinea region, to the coastal areas of Central and West Africa, and then to South Africa.
Well, there is no need to think about South Africa. It is already the territory of the Tang Dynasty. In order to control this area and prevent indigenous infiltration, the Tang Dynasty people built border walls along the Atlantic coast all the way to the Indian Ocean coast. It is said that this border
The total length of the wall is more than 1,800 kilometers.
The border wall has created a no-man's land with a depth of more than 300 kilometers.
It’s simply heartbreaking!
The Tatars sent an inspection team to Africa, which can be regarded as preparation for the future.
But this does not mean that they are willing to accept going to Africa. They are still working hard. The tribute representative of the Shunyi Dynasty visited the diplomats of the Tang Dynasty every two days to express their loyalty and complain, hoping to be able to settle down in the future.
The land changed from Africa to the British Isles.
What is interesting is that the Kingdom of Suez and the Kingdom of England in the British Isles region are not aware that the senior officials of the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom are trying to seize their land.
The current transactions between the Datang Jin Kingdom and the Datang Empire are all secret transactions. There is not even a clear agreement between the two parties, only some verbal agreements.
Anyway, there is no need to make any agreement on this matter, because no matter what kind of agreement it is, it still depends on the people of the Tang Dynasty.
If the people of the Tang Dynasty were not willing, it would be useless to make any kind of agreement or contract.
However, the world still saw that the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom quickly completed war preparations. In the spring and March of the 46th year of Xuanping, the army of 300,000 from the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom divided into two directions and entered the Ottoman Kingdom area.
The situation in the Ottoman Kingdom, which was already in chaos, was turned upside down.
The Ottoman Kingdom is now in great chaos. Several internal pashas and the royal family are fighting against each other. The Safavid dynasty in the east is also fighting against them. Now the Tatars are moving south again.
Under such circumstances, it is highly probable that the Ottoman Kingdom will become history.
But the senior officials in the Ottoman Kingdom, whether it was the royal family or the pashas, were naturally not willing to sit back and wait for death. They were suitable to unite with foreign enemies to deal with other groups, and sometimes united to deal with the Tatars or Safis.
In short, it’s just a fight!
And who is the winner in the end?
Nonsense, it must be the Tang Empire!
I haven’t seen these people fighting. They are all using weapons and equipment produced by the Tang Empire!
Whether it is matchlocks, flintlock guns, percussion caps and percussion guns, or various types of smoothbore cannons, or even swords and plate armor in cold weapons, most of them were produced by the Tang Dynasty.
Datang Arms Trading Company has been very busy in recent years. In the forty-sixth year of Xuanping, the business was even busier. It was busy transporting weapons and ammunition to several Ottoman feudal towns, and it was busy transporting weapons and ammunition to the Tatars.
Transport weapons and ammunition to the Persians.
Datang Arms Trading Company single-handedly supplies the armies of many indigenous countries and vassal towns!
Due to its busy business and huge transportation volume, Datang Arms Trading Company is now paying more and more attention to the opening of the Suez Canal.
Several years ago, the Datang Suez Canal Company announced that the Suez Canal would be opened in the forty-sixth year of Xuanping.
Last year, an announcement was made that most of the main projects of the Suez Canal have been completed and the canal will definitely be opened next year.
But now that the spring of Xuanping 46 has ended and summer has begun, the Suez Canal is still not open, so the outside world is paying closer and closer attention.
Even the Tang Dynasty Daily published several special reports on the construction of the Suez Canal and its future prospects this year.
Once the Suez Canal is opened, it will greatly shorten the sea voyage from East Asia to Europe!
Everyone knows this fact, so everyone is waiting for it!
Amid everyone's close attention and expectations, on May 16, the 46th year of Xuanping Dynasty, the Datang Suez Canal Company finally issued an announcement. At present, the canal has completed a comprehensive main project, and all major supporting projects have also been completed. At present,
Currently in the final finishing stages.
If nothing else goes wrong, the canal will be officially opened next month, that is, June 15th!