According to the agreement between the Tang Dynasty and the Tatars, the second batch of territorial transfers will probably take another two or three years. After all, the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom must be given enough time to relocate their people!
With two or three years as a buffer, the empire will be able to build the railway to Kiev.
However, although the empire will not continue to expand in Europe in the past two or three years, it does not mean that it will stop in other places.
In October of the 47th year of Xuanping, the thirty-six-nation alliance in the central and southern parts of the Indian Peninsula, with a total of more than 300,000 coalition troops, announced a Northern Expedition against the Mughal Kingdom!
That month, the thirty-six-nation coalition defeated the Mughal Kingdom's more than 100,000 troops. In November, the coalition advanced into New Delhi. The Mughal Kingdom urgently requested the Tang Empire to intervene!
The Tang Empire's diplomats in New Delhi refused and once again reiterated the empire's consistent foreign policy: the empire would never interfere in the affairs between the indigenous people!
That month, the thirty-six-nation coalition captured New Delhi. King Akbar of the Mughal Dynasty led his remnants to flee to the northwest region. However, Akbar, who fled to Afghanistan and other regions, did not gain support from the locals and was even beaten. So
The Mughal dynasty, which had just entered Afghanistan, was at war with the local princes again.
However, at this time, the thirty-six-nation coalition did not pursue Akbar because they themselves were already fighting.
The coalition forces had just captured New Delhi, and several powerful kingdoms in the coalition had already fallen out over who was the leader of the coalition.
After they fought several battles around New Delhi, the victors occupied New Delhi, but the losers were unwilling to accept it and took the remaining troops directly back to their respective kingdoms, and then led the army out again!
The war is far from over yet!
There was a fight within the Thirty-Six Nations Alliance, and the tribes and kingdoms outside the alliance were also affected.
As a result, the entire Indian peninsula once again fell into large-scale war.
The scale of the war this time was even greater than the previous ones, affecting almost every part of the Indian Peninsula. Even the puppet kingdoms under the control of the Tang Dynasty were forced to participate in the war.
For a time, the sound of gunfire rang out all day and night on the Indian peninsula. At this time, some princes who were defeated and even forced to flee were unwilling to accept it. They started a new combat mode, 'mobile combat'!
Of course, this mobile combat is just what they brag about, and what they actually play is the rogue mode.
After they lead their army to a place, the first thing they do is to rob all the local food, and the second thing is to destroy the crops in the land and burn down the houses.
As a result, the only way to survive is to join the so-called mobile army of these princes, so the third thing they do is to recruit people who cannot survive!
In just a few months, the number of troops under these princes could quickly expand from a few hundred to tens of thousands or more.
And even after another defeat, as long as the backbone of hundreds of thousands of people is not damaged, it won't take a few months for them to pull out a refugee army of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people!
When the Tang people nearby saw this scene, they couldn't help but sigh, these princes are quite capable.
But it was just a sigh. The Tang people still maintained strict neutrality in the turmoil on the Indian Peninsula!
The Tang Dynasty never interfered in indigenous affairs!
This is not an empty talk, the people of the Tang Dynasty actually did it.
They did not even interfere with the fall of the Mughal Dynasty. You must know that several princesses of the Mughal Dynasty were sent to the Tang Dynasty court.
There was no interference in the internal divisions of the Thirty-six-Nation Alliance. Many kingdoms in these thirty-six countries actually had a close relationship with the Tang Dynasty and were loyal henchmen of the Tang Empire.
Even when a puppet kingdom controlled by the Tang Dynasty was destroyed, the people of the Tang Dynasty did not intervene.
It was as if the people of the Tang Dynasty could not see the war in the Indian Peninsula. They still lived in the overseas territories of the Tang Dynasty such as Gehe Prefecture and Bomu Prefecture, and they continued to do business as usual.
This situation seemed abnormal to many natives. They could not understand why the Tang Dynasty could watch the destruction of the Mughal Kingdom and several other puppet kingdoms and turn a blind eye.
These are all manifestations of the interests of the Tang Empire!
But in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty people themselves, this is very normal!
The natives beat themselves to death, and it has nothing to do with us Tang Dynasty people!
As for puppet states, we can just find a few at random later on. The native princes who want to be puppets for the Tang Dynasty are going to the sea, and they can easily get a hundred and eighty of them.
Moreover, even if the indigenous people fought with all their wits, they would not be able to actually affect the Tang Dynasty, and they would not have the guts to block the entry and exit of the Tang Dynasty's merchant ships.
Even though they clearly knew that this Datang caravan was transporting ammunition to his enemies!
Simply ignoring the wars among the indigenous people is the current situation of the Tang people.
Large-scale turmoil broke out in areas such as the Indian Peninsula and even Afghanistan. Not many newspapers in the Tang Empire even reported on such a big event.
Some of them are only reported on a small scale by regional newspapers in the overseas territories of Pomu Prefecture and Gohe Prefecture in India. However, in the local area, more than 99.99% of the people do not know it. , and did not care that the Indian peninsula next door was already a river of blood and was uninhabited for thousands of miles.
The Tang people in the local area, and even the Tang people in the overseas territories, actually don't care much about the affairs of the indigenous people. They are more concerned about things that are closely related to themselves.
For example, this summer, several major domestic shipping companies have successively announced that they will invest in the construction of a new generation of refrigerated transport ships, professional grain transport ships, professional mineral transport ships, oil tankers, and the standard container transport ships newly formulated by the Empire this year.
From a large perspective, this is the development of the Tang Empire's shipping industry towards professionalism. The transportation of goods is no longer the same as in the past, where any cargo ship can transport anything.
From the perspective of the shipping company itself, it is only an important measure to improve its market competitiveness.
For major enterprises, this will further reduce the cost of maritime transportation and reduce costs.
For ordinary people, grains such as wheat, corn, and meat from overseas territories, especially from the Americas, will enter East Asia in large quantities in the future, further enriching people's dining tables and allowing people to eat more satiated.
These things related to themselves are what the people pay attention to.
In fact, even the official high-level officials of the Tang Empire did not pay much attention to overseas affairs. Overseas expansion seemed vigorous, but in fact, within the high-level officials of the empire, the weight of topics such as overseas expansion and overseas affairs was very low.
Throughout the year, many matters were discussed in the imperial study room duty meetings, but not many of them were overseas affairs.
This winter is no different!
The forty-seventh year of Xuanping was coming to an end. In addition to the annual year-end budget meeting quarrels within the empire, there was another incident that attracted everyone's attention.
That’s the third tax reform!
This tax reform has attracted the attention of the whole country. From the powerful and gentry to the middle-class citizens and farmers, to the lower-class workers and landless peasants, everyone has turned their attention to this tax reform.
Although the specific measures of the tax reform are not clear yet, and even the scope of the changes are not yet known, this does not affect people's attention.
This tax change affects the pockets of countless people!