On September 16, the 46th year of Xuanping, a Swedish fishing boat was fishing in the Gulf of Finland, but soon there were fishermen on the fishing boat pointing to the west and shouting. Immediately, other people also pointed towards the west.
Look to the west.
Then everyone showed shocked expressions. In their sight, a huge fleet appeared on the sea to the west, and all the ships in the fleet were all puffing out light smoke.
Even the Finnish indigenous fishermen who have little knowledge know that this is a steamship of the Tang Dynasty.
Since the Tang Dynasty established a military base in the Danish Islands, they have stationed naval warships in the Danish Islands for a long time. From time to time, they also send cruisers and other large-tonnage warships into the Baltic Sea for patrols. At the same time, steam merchant ships from the Tang Dynasty will also enter the Baltic Sea.
Many fishermen in the Gulf of Finland or people in coastal ports have actually seen the steam ships of the Tang Dynasty.
However, what they have seen in the past are actually ships of several hundred tons, which can only support a thousand ships. As for other large-tonnage ships, they have actually never seen them. After all, this poor place in the Gulf of Finland has nothing. Before
The Tang Empire had never had much interest in this place.
Even if it is a civilian ship, no large-tonnage civilian ship has come to this poor place.
But today, what they saw were numerous huge ships of thousands of tons.
What they saw were naturally the ships of the Tang Dynasty. Among them were escort warships of the European fleet, ordinary cargo ships of several thousand tons, and even a cargo ship of tens of thousands of tons. In addition, there were many small offshore ships of several hundred tons.
This is a mixed fleet composed of sixteen battleships or cargo ships, passenger ships and other types of ships!
What are they doing here?
Following instructions from their superiors, they came here to formally take over a large area of territory, and planned to build a port and garrison at the outlet of the Neva River.
The military took action, and it was the army and navy that took action together, and there was support from the Immigration and Reclamation Department. This action and scale were naturally relatively large.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that winter here comes very early and time is tight.
In order to quickly build a port and repair the housing and other facilities needed for the garrison and early immigrants, the fleet carried a large amount of building materials and mechanical equipment. In order to quickly build a port here, the military directly transferred it from the Suez Canal.
Many large pieces of machinery and equipment have arrived.
The Tang Dynasty's fleet ignored the Finnish fishermen in the nearby waters. The fleet quickly passed them, then headed westward, and finally arrived at the mouth of the Neva River.
After arriving, the fleet began to anchor down, and at the same time, a number of small offshore ships headed towards the small island in the middle of the river mouth and the land on the other side of the river.
There is actually a small port here, but it is a very small port. It was built by the Tatars. When the Tatars advanced westward, the army pushed them all the way, and finally reached here, and even entered Finland for a time.
It’s just that the Tatars thought that the poor place in Finland was too cold and mountainous, and the Kingdom of Sweden resisted very resolutely. In the end, the Tatars voluntarily gave up and continued to attack Finland, and only built a small fortress at the mouth of the river.
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Now most of the Tatars in this small fortress have left, and only a few people are still stationed here waiting to hand over to the Tang Dynasty.
After the simple handover after landing, the few Tatars took the small passenger ship kindly provided by the Tang Dynasty with complicated emotions and left, while the Tang Dynasty began to unload the supplies.
First, several small cargo ships approached, relying on the simple port to unload construction materials and some small equipment, which were used to build the port terminal.
If this terminal is not built, there will be no way to dock thousands of tons of cargo ships, let alone unload the large amounts of materials carried on them.
When the Tang Dynasty began to build a port here, some of the garrison and people in the Kingdom of Sweden on the other side naturally knew about it. Local officials and military officers even came over in person and asked the Tang Dynasty if they would like any help they could provide, such as labor.
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That attitude is more respectful than that towards the King of Sweden!
Naturally, their respectful willingness was not because of how scary the Tang people were, but because they could make money by working for the Tang people!
The people of the Tang Dynasty are very reasonable. If you work for the people of the Tang Dynasty, you can get paid.
It was Tang Yuan who made a lot of money, and few of the natives were unhappy about it.
Datang originally planned to hire Finns from the opposite side for construction when they arrived here. After all, although the fleet looked huge, there were not many Datang people actually coming here, and besides the merchant ship crews and hundreds of construction workers,
, the others are all soldiers.
Including the navy and sailors, there are about 1,500 army troops stationed here.
It seems that there are many people, but in fact it is still not enough.
With the help of the local Finnish indigenous people, the construction was naturally faster.
The Tang Empire built ports and cities at the mouth of the Neva River, naturally not just to garrison troops to defend the Kingdom of Sweden. In fact, this was not necessary.
Even if there is no one here, the Kingdom of Sweden would not dare to send troops to invade this area even if it gave the Kingdom of Sweden a hundred courages.
Now the whole of Europe knows that the Tang Empire has completely taken over this area from the Tang Jin Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Sweden naturally knows it too.
So why did you send a small regiment of troops?
This is to patrol and block the border to prevent the Finnish natives from the other side from sneaking in...
These days, apart from the issue of illegal immigration, there is no other thing that can cause the Tang Empire to deploy a large number of troops to garrison a certain border area.
The Tatars are gradually handing over the Ukrainian and Russian regions to the Tang Empire. What is the biggest problem during the handover process?
It's not about military defense, it's not about the handover itself, it's about how to prevent those damn illegal immigrants from entering in large numbers.
You know, in order to make the Tatars willingly relocate all the people, the Tang Empire also paid a certain price in addition to threats and inducements. It gave a lot of cheap weapons and equipment, and it also signed an agreement with the Tatars.
A large number of preferential contracts for the purchase of various agricultural, livestock and mineral products.
Since the people of the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom have moved away, the Tang Empire naturally does not allow indigenous people from other countries to illegally enter this area, which will cause trouble for the localization of this area.
For this reason, the Tang Empire adopted a very special policy for the newly taken over areas, that is, it adopted a militarized management model first and then changed it according to the situation.
Under militarized management, large areas of no-man's land will be created for blockade.
A small number of immigrants will be carried out in some key areas with favorable conditions. At the same time, a large number of troops will be stationed in some border areas to patrol and seal the borders.
Of course, it is inevitable that the Tatars will strengthen the construction of border patrol forces and patrol intensity, allowing them to blockade themselves.
As the border advanced to Finland, the Tang Empire also made the same request to the Kingdom of Sweden: Strengthen your border patrols to prevent your people from sneaking over every day!
If your patrols are ineffective and a large number of people belonging to the Kingdom of Sweden sneak over, then the anger of the Tang Empire will not be something that the Kingdom of Sweden can withstand.
In this regard, the Kingdom of Sweden is speechless...