The Kingdom of Sweden also had a lot of contact with the Tang Empire. In the early years, when the Tatars marched westward and the Tang Empire continued to support European countries in forming a European coalition to resist the Tatars, the Kingdom of Sweden was a relatively small country in Northern Europe.
The powerful kingdom was naturally the key support target of the Tang Empire at that time.
At that time, the Kingdom of Sweden was greatly threatened by the Tatars because it was in Finland and the Baltic Sea coast. The Tatars once invaded southern Finland, captured Vyborg and other areas, and directly threatened the Kingdom of Sweden on the Baltic Sea.
of safety.
Therefore, the Kingdom of Sweden at that time also vigorously responded to and participated in the European Allied Forces called by the Tang Dynasty. With the many firearms supported by the Tang Dynasty, the Kingdom of Sweden completed the modernization of its military and established a military force mainly composed of muskets and smoothbore cannons.
Weapons of the modern army, and at the same time established a large sailing navy.
And fought wars with the Tatars in Finland and the Baltic Sea.
The Tang Empire even established the Tang Consulate in Sweden in Stockholm very early to support the Kingdom of Sweden. In order to allow the Kingdom of Denmark to move to Africa smoothly, the Tang Empire also supported the Kingdom of Sweden in launching an attack on Denmark.
What about Kingdom War?
At that time, the Kingdom of Denmark lost the Danish Peninsula under the attack of the Tatars, and was defeated one after another under the attack of the Kingdom of Sweden.
In the end, the Kingdom of Denmark gritted its teeth, directly gave up its sovereignty over the Danish Islands and other areas, and went to Africa with the help of the Tang Dynasty.
However, after the relocation of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Norwegian region and the southern part of Sweden originally controlled by the Kingdom of Denmark did not disappear. Instead, with the support of the Tang Dynasty, they inherited the Kalmar Union and continued to exist in the name of the Kalmar Union.
However, the current Kalmar Alliance is weak and can no longer pose any actual threat to the Kingdom of Sweden. In the process, the Kingdom of Sweden also took the opportunity to seize a lot of land and greatly expanded the actual control area.
At the same time, in the past four or five years, the Tatars have devoted their main energy to the war in Western Europe and have not paid much attention to the Finnish region. They have not even bothered to deploy too many main troops. Therefore, the Kingdom of Sweden has been able to gradually regain the southern part of Finland.
and recaptured Vyborg.
Therefore, the Kingdom of Sweden is a very special one among European countries!
In the past twenty years since the Tatars marched westward, other European countries were extremely unlucky and even were directly destroyed. Only the Kingdom of Sweden took the opportunity to expand its territory.
Being able to be such an anomaly means that Swedes always keep a clear head.
While other European countries were still hesitant and even wary of the Tang Dynasty, the Kingdom of Sweden had already taken the initiative to move closer to the Tang Empire.
This positive attitude of getting closer made the people of the Tang Dynasty feel good about the Kingdom of Sweden.
As time went by, the Swedes learned more and more about the Tang Dynasty, and the more they learned about it, the more panicked the Swedes became about the people of the Tang Dynasty.
When the Kingdom of Sweden received requests from the Tang Dynasty asking them to strengthen border patrols and coastal patrols to prevent people from the Kingdom of Sweden from smuggling into the Russian areas currently under the actual control of the Tang Dynasty, they were very panicked!
On the one hand, they are really worried that the problem of illegal immigration will directly cause the people of Tang Dynasty to become angry.
On the other hand, they were deeply afraid of the expansion of the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Empire used to be far away from Europe, but suddenly it reached an agreement with the Tatars. The Tatars actually gave up a large area of territory in Eastern Europe to the Tang Empire. The Tatars had a life-and-death struggle with Sweden.
It doesn't matter, but this will cause the Finnish area under the control of the Kingdom of Sweden to directly border the area controlled by the Tang Dynasty.
This made them panic.
Why panic?
Look at the neighbors of the Tang Dynasty, such as Fusang and the Southeast Asian countries. Do they still exist now? They don’t exist anymore.
Let’s look at our current neighbors, the Mughal Dynasty, the Safavid Dynasty, the Ottoman Dynasty, etc., did any of them have a good life? No, they were all in war and turmoil.
There is another very typical neighbor of the Tang Dynasty, the Tatars.
What was the biggest reason for the Tatars to march westward? In fact, many people in European countries know that these Tatars were forced by the Tang Dynasty to march westward. If they had not done so, the Tang people would have conquered the Tatars in a matter of minutes.
People are destroyed.
The Tatars' westward expedition was better said to be a westward flight. They fled from the Hetao area all the way to Europe and as far as the English Channel.
The Tatars' Western Expedition also brought serious disasters to European countries, far worse than the disasters caused by the Mongol Empire's Western Expedition hundreds of years ago.
The Mongol Empire's Western Expedition back then only reached the Danube River, but now the Tatars have occupied the entire territory of France and have invaded Spain.
More importantly, the Mongol Empire's Western Expedition was just a military conquest in the traditional sense, but now the Tatars, these damn Tatars will kill all the noble lords and liberate all the people after they come to Europe.
The serfs distributed all the land owned by the nobles to the serfs for free.
Finally, countries with an oriental flavor were established in Eastern and Central Europe.
The Tatars wanted to rule tens of millions of people with a small number of their own people, and they relied more on its system, especially the policy of liberating serfs and distributing land, and imitated the Tang Empire in many other policies.
This also led to great fear and even hatred of the Tatars by the European noble lords.
This is actually the reason why the nobles of European countries have been resisting the Tatars for decades.
The Tatars want the lives, lands and all the wealth of their noble lords to maintain their rule.
The contradiction between the two cannot be reconciled at all!
However, after decades of resistance, the Tatars are still strong and helpless, and even become stronger as they fight. As for the European countries, countless countries have disappeared from history in the past few years.
The direct reason for the suffering that the Tatars brought to Europe was that the Tatars did not want to be neighbors with the Tang Dynasty!
But now, the Swedes find that they wake up one night and become neighbors of the Tang Dynasty people, so they are extremely panicked.
Faced with the reminder of the illegal immigration issue by Datang diplomats, the Ruidan Kingdom restored it very seriously. We will definitely seal the border strictly and will never let anyone cross the border and enter the Datang-controlled area.
For this reason, the Kingdom of Sweden took the initiative to establish an extremely wide border military restricted area within the border, allowing the public to enter.
It even promised to strictly manage ships going to sea to ensure that every fisherman who goes to sea will come back with the same fisherman.
In short, the Swedes will do their best to prevent their own people from entering the areas controlled by the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty people were very pleased with the knowledge of the Swedes. In order to show their support, the Tang Dynasty people took the initiative to donate a batch of muskets to the Swedes to equip the newly established border patrol team of the Swedes.
But the Swedes know what's interesting, and the Ottomans don't know what's interesting.
The Tatars had just evacuated with a large number of Ukrainian natives, and after handing over a large area of Ukraine empty to the Tang Dynasty, a large number of Ottomans dragged their families with them, or crossed the Black Sea by boat, or sneaked across
Pass through the Romanian area controlled by the Tatars and enter the Ukrainian plains.
When the cavalry patrols of the Tang Dynasty discovered the Ukrainian region, many Ukrainians had moved away and left abandoned villages, and there were actually people there, and they were Ottomans, the Tang people went crazy!