Chapter 2167 The Six Ottoman Countries Moved To Africa
When the diplomats of the Tang Empire met people from the Ottoman royal family and heard that they wanted to exchange the entire territory of the Ottoman Kingdom for a piece of African territory, even the diplomats of the Tang Empire had to admire them.
The decisiveness of these Ottoman royal people.
When the Great Xia is about to collapse, you can still come up with this method to survive.
It is certain that the Ottoman Kingdom is going to end. Facing such a fierce offensive by the Tatars, the already divided Ottoman Kingdom simply cannot withstand it, not to mention that the Safi Dynasty in the east is also taking advantage of the situation.
Besides, the high-ranking officials of the empire knew that the Tatars went south to attack the Ottoman Kingdom because the empire actually forced the Tatars to fight.
To put it bluntly, the current Tang Empire feels that the Ottoman Kingdom, which spans the Eurasian continent and occupies the Caucasus, Asia Minor and the Balkan Peninsula, is too annoying.
The empire wants the Ottoman Kingdom to go away, so there is no room for it to say no!
Under this situation, the Ottoman royal family had almost no hope of making a comeback. Obviously, the Ottoman royal family also saw this, so they gave up the entire kingdom territory without hesitation and turned to the Tang Dynasty.
Want to gain a piece of African territory.
The empire readily agreed to the Ottoman Kingdom and even said that it could give them a relatively large territory in East Africa.
Because this is actually what the Tang Empire wanted to see.
Whether the Ottoman Kingdom will be destroyed or not is not actually a problem. The problem is that it is difficult to deal with so many people in the Ottoman Kingdom. Even if the Tatars are extremely cruel, it is impossible to help the Tang Dynasty to kill all the Ottomans, and this will harm the peace of the world.
The Tang Empire also did not want to see this happen.
The Tang Empire still hopes that Africa will be more colorful in the future. Since there are Nanyang people and Danes who have moved there, there is a high probability that there will also be people from other European countries, Indians, and West Asians in the future.
There is no reason why there will be a shortage of Ottomans!
Keeping them will allow the people of the Tang Dynasty to travel there and see the backward and barbaric natives in the future, thereby cultivating the national pride of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
After all, things like national pride and happiness are all based on comparison. In fact, many people in the Tang Empire are living a very hard life. Even the people in the local area are still struggling.
On the poverty line, people in the Tang Dynasty still feel that they are living in the best of times and are extremely happy.
Why?
Because the indigenous people outside the Tang Dynasty were even worse!
Compared with the indigenous people who did not even have to eat, the people of the Tang Dynasty felt that they could have food, even if the food was not very good, they still felt very satisfied.
Compared with the backward and barbaric natives, the people of the Tang Dynasty felt that their culture was very advanced and they were civilized people.
Compared with the natives who were still using cold weapons and smooth-bore weapons, the Tang people felt that their troops equipped with bolt-action rifles and equipped with rifled cannons in the early days were very powerful.
These feelings of happiness and pride are all obtained through comparison.
Therefore, even if it is to maintain the national pride of the Tang people and maintain the internal unity and stability of the Tang people, it is necessary to retain a large number of indigenous people and use these indigenous people to tell the Tang people: You have lived a good life, don't think too much.
, don’t ask for more!
Considering these factors, it is still necessary to have a colorful indigenous world in Africa.
Originally, the empire was planning to wait for a while, after the Tatars captured Istanbul, and then contact the Ottoman royal family or other pashas to see if they could move the Ottomans to Africa.
Now they take the initiative to come to our door, which is naturally a good thing!
Hello, I'm hello, everyone, that's a good thing!
However, after the empire readily agreed, several other great pashas of the Ottoman Kingdom also heard about it and came to tell them that they also wanted to go to Africa.
In this regard, the Tang Dynasty did not reject anyone. Regardless of whether you were an independent pasha before or a current warlord general, as long as you took people to Africa, the Tang Dynasty would welcome you.
Of course, since these Ottomans dispersed themselves and were not integrated into one body, the Tang Dynasty also very considerately divided a large area of land originally reserved for the Ottomans into many pieces and distributed them to them.
By July of the 48th year of Xuanping, when the Tatar army reached the Caucasus Mountains and the Safi border, the empire had already finalized the specific matters of relocation to the Ottoman royal family and several pashas.
On July 16, the empire officially announced that it had reached a relocation agreement with the Ottoman royal family and six other Ottoman powerful families. According to the agreement, the empire would allow them to live in an area north of the twelve Central African countries.
At the same time, the ships needed for migration will be provided to the above-mentioned six countries at preferential prices, and a road migration channel will be opened specifically for them, allowing them to travel from designated areas, through the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt and other areas, all the way south to East Africa.
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And provide them with the food, seeds, agricultural tools and other materials they need in the early stage at preferential prices.
The empire promised to negotiate with the Tatars and let the Tatars release the nearly 150,000 Ottoman army prisoners of war they had captured. These 150,000 Ottoman army prisoners will each find their own mother, each return to their own home, and return to their respective homes.
Among the Six Nations, they served as the first troops to migrate to Africa.
At the same time, the empire will provide various countries with a batch of affordable weapons and equipment to rearm these 150,000 troops.
As for their original equipment, the Tatars will not return it...
After all, the Tatars worked hard and needed to gain trophies. Although the Tang Dynasty had provided some weapons and ammunition before, it was still nothing compared to the huge war expenses. The Tatars' harvest was not land, but war.
Huge seizures in the process.
Their army fought in the front, and behind them were countless young and strong civilians who were demolishing and moving everything they could move back to Western Europe. The gains were quite rich. It is said that the gold and silver seized were worth at least 50 million Tang Dynasty.
Above 1 yuan, other types of materials are not included.
The Tatars paid a huge price to seize these trophies. If you want them to spit them out again, even if the Tang Empire applies pressure, it is a bit difficult. After all, if you want to make the horse run, you don't need to feed the horse.
, you also want the horse to vomit out the grass it eats in the wild, this is a bit too much.
Datang also wanted to save face and wanted the Tatars to continue to be thugs, so it acquiesced.
But in this way, the six Ottoman countries became completely pauper.
Considering their poor financial situation, the Royal Bank, Imperial Bank, Zhili Textile Bank and other Datang Imperial Banks formed a banking syndicate to provide them with loans totaling 2,500 Tang Yuan.
At the same time, the Tang Empire will officially announce its recognition of the legitimacy of each kingdom after their migration to East Africa, and the establishment of embassies in each other.
The Ottoman royal family and other six forces announced that they would completely abandon all the territories of the original Ottoman Kingdom and hand them over to the Tang Empire, and promised to take away all the people in their respective territories.
In short, after paying these prices, what the Tang Empire hoped to get was an empty land, and the Ottomans naturally knew this.
In fact, they themselves also need to take these people away to live in Africa. Moreover, they are on the edge of the twelve Central African countries. If they go deep into the interior, there are still a large number of African indigenous people.
Surrounded by enemies, and the natural environment in East Africa is actually not that good, there are fewer people running there, and I am afraid that if a wave of disease comes over, they will all die.
Therefore, they must bring enough soldiers and civilians there, otherwise they will not be able to gain a foothold there!
When the empire and the six Ottoman states reached a formal agreement, the Ottoman royal family moved faster than other pashas. They wanted to rush over and seize the opportunity.
They didn't even wait for the first batch of immigration ships sent by the Tang Dynasty. They hired two steam ships from the Tang Dynasty. On the third day after the agreement was signed, they were ready to head to the new territory in East Africa.