Valley Emperor

The war on the Liaodong Peninsula is naturally very important to the many officers of the Liaodong temporary formation in it. It is not only related to their future prospects, but also to their lives.

If this is a good fight, it is not a problem to get promoted and get rich, but if you are not careful, you will die heroically.

Even in the port, there are dozens of transport ships, two frigates, and many patrol ships on standby for a long time, ready to respond to the retreat of the garrison at any time, but it is impossible to say anything about war.

However, this importance is only for the temporary formation of Liaodong, and for the entire Tang Dynasty, the war on the Liaodong Peninsula is just a secondary front, and even the War Department is too lazy to make relevant plans. , but let Hong Huofang handle it.

For many senior staff officers in the War Department, their first concern is still the war in the southwest, followed by the north, especially the situation of the Tatars and Oara.

Although the Tang Dynasty has already finalized a preliminary contract with the envoys of the Tartars, it has not yet been signed. In the first month, the Tartars who have been in Jinling City for a long time are the ones who sent people to start the North with the preliminary agreement. When they returned, they would send the preliminary agreement back to the grasslands, wait for Altan Khan's reply, and then send the relevant results back to Jinling City.

In the follow-up, the two sides can formally sign the treaty of armistice and mutual market!

The whole process should take more than two or three months!

Until then, neither side can call it a state of war ended!

Of course, although the two sides are still at war, in fact, since the Datang Army took over Hebei, northern Shanxi and other areas, the two sides have not had large-scale wars, at most some small-scale armed conflicts.

In the short term, there should be no large-scale war on the northern border!

However, the Tang Army always regards the Tartars and the Oiras as enemies, never forgets to be vigilant, and never forgets to formulate relevant offensive plans!

In general, at present, both sides in the north are maintaining a high degree of vigilance in the confrontation!

This is a good thing for Altan Khan, because they can free up their hands to clean up some tribes in the eastern part of the grasslands, and they are also preparing to deal with the Oara people.

For the Tang Dynasty, this is also a rare buffer time, allowing the Tang Dynasty to free up its hands to pacify the southwest first!

However, after the Tang Dynasty pacified the southwest, the military center of gravity will definitely move north again. At that time, the relationship between the two sides is bound to become tense again.

But this is all in the future. At least in the near future, the Tang Dynasty has no plans to launch a large-scale war in the northern grasslands.

After the two major threats have been resolved, it is time to consider addressing the threats to the northern grasslands.

In Jinling City, Li Xuan once again summoned officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to hear about the situation in the northern grasslands. On the Tartar side, the situation is the same, and the negotiations are almost over. The terms of both sides are quite conservative. Obviously , both sides know that this is only a temporary truce under the compulsion of the two sides, and they do not expect to gain much benefit.

Therefore, in this negotiation with the Tatars, the two sides mainly reached three points. First, the two sides stopped the war, and the Tatars completely withdrawn from the border towns occupied by the puppet defenders before, and returned to the north of the Great Wall, which is to restore State before going south.

The second article is that the Datang Dynasty officially conferred Alta Khan as the king of Shunyi, and the title of the fief was "Datang Jinguo", which means "Jinguo under the Tang Dynasty".

And this Tang Jin Kingdom is also the first vassal state officially recognized by the Tang Dynasty. As for the other Annan, North Korea, etc., although they are all traditional vassal states of the Central Dynasty of China, they still did not request canonization. The Tang Dynasty also did not confer on them, so strictly speaking, it did not count.

The third article is that the two sides conduct mutual markets in certain fixed border towns, and the Tatars exchange various materials with the Tang Dynasty with horses. Ordinary materials are naturally not the core materials. The core materials are a batch of salt, iron, tea, etc. Important strategic materials for the grassland people, and an additional license for the sale of 5,000 arquebuses has been approved!

And these materials need to be exchanged by the Tatars with horses, and the Tang Dynasty does not accept other forms of payment!

Of course, the exchange of some common materials is not so strictly controlled, such as cloth, soap, various spices imported from Nanyang, etc. The Tang Dynasty said that you can take livestock for these things. In exchange, you can also exchange for gold and silver.

In addition to the above three nuclear treaties, the others are basically gone. Originally, the Tatars also proposed that the two sides have a relationship, and asked the Tang Dynasty to marry a princess to Alta Khan, and Alta Khan would also send a son or granddaughter to him. Like to be a concubine to Li Xuan.

Some people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs felt that they could increase mutual trust to a certain extent, so they agreed temporarily and reported it to Li Xuan!

As soon as Li Xuan heard this, he devalued the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who were in charge of discussing the matter and sent them to Yunnan to be the section chief of a small county!

Ma Dan, how dare you let the Tang princess marry a barbarian, this is simply daring!

What's more, there is only one adult princess in the Tang Dynasty, Princess Huichen, and after being ignored by the Queen Mother Bai for many years, Princess Huichen finally finalized a marriage for her at the end of last year, and is ready to get married this spring.

The royal family is withered, and there are no distant relatives. In this way, the unmarried princess is only Li Xuan's two daughters, not to mention how old Li Xuan's two daughters are, whether they can marry.

But you **** dare to attack their ideas and want to marry them to barbarians.

Perhaps in the eyes of many officials, these princesses are all money-losing goods, used to stabilize Altan Khan and buy time for the empire, it is normal, but in Li Xuan's view, this is not the case.

When Li Xuan criticized this matter, he rarely used Qian Ming's deeds to compare it, saying that Qian Ming was so **** up, everyone knew that he would not get along with each other. I am proficient, and I also take Princess Wencheng and her relatives as an example on the excerpt, Nima, how can my Tang Dynasty be comparable to the previous Tang Dynasty.

When did the hundreds of thousands of my Tang Dynasty fail to defend the border and need a weak woman to guard the border?

As a result, the matter of marriage was over, and Li Xuan even refused the request of the Tatars to send Altan Khan's daughter or granddaughter over!

If he wants Tatar women, he can send an army to grab them!

However, the Tang Dynasty does not need to kiss!

So in the end, the main content of the finalization is three, and it can be seen from these three that this truce is only a temporary truce.

The negotiation with Altan Khan was almost like this, while the negotiation with the Oara people was simpler or even purer. There was no official contact between the two sides, but only on the northwest border, and the content of the contact was quite Simple, that is the mutual market!

The content of the mutual market is also very simple, horses are exchanged for materials!

For any mutual market that can expand the source of horses, the Tang Dynasty welcomes, um, the premise is that you don't want to talk about artillery.

Artillery is not for sale, none of them are for sale, but arquebuses can be bought appropriately!

As for the flintlock gun, that's not for sale either!

As for ordinary ironware, salt, tea, cloth and other materials, the Tang Dynasty has already let go, anyway, the steel products of the Tang Dynasty are getting higher and higher.

And more importantly, now that the war has entered the era of guns, it doesn't matter if you sell some iron tools and let the nomads in the north build a little sword or something.

The situation in the north, as a whole, is calm after all, and the war in the southwest is relatively smooth.

Therefore, Li Xuan's main concern in the near future is still internal affairs. He is preparing to launch a new round of various reforms, and at the same time vigorously promote the development of industry and commerce.

And the development of industry and commerce will directly promote the development of sea trade!

Because of the development of industry and commerce, the demand for raw materials and the market will increase!

And with the development of sea trade, the conflict with the Folang machine is getting bigger and bigger!

When another small-scale Spanish fleet traveled thousands of miles, they finally hid in Tibet and came to the South Seas, but were discovered by the patrol fleet of the Flang machine and summoned warships to fight and escape everywhere, and finally forced to hide in Guangzhou Port is the time to avoid the annihilation of the whole army.

Once again, the Flang machine made a serious protest against the Tang Dynasty's shielding of the Spaniards!

Unfortunately, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Dynasty once again handed over a protest document to the Folang machine.

It is said that the Folang robot obstructs the normalization of trade in Nanyang!

And the contradiction between the two sides can also be seen from the protests again and again, it is getting bigger and bigger!

In the final analysis, it is because the trade volume between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger, the Folang machine is trying to completely monopolize the trade from Europe to East Asia, while the Tang Dynasty is trying to get rid of the monopoly of the Folang machine, and more Western countries directly trade and make more profit.

But the protest is a protest, but the two sides still maintain great restraint~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After all, money still has to be earned!

Folang machine people also did not dare to provoke the Mao Tang Dynasty, for fear of cutting off the trade between the two sides.

At the same time, the Tang Dynasty was unwilling to interrupt trade casually until there were no alternative channels.

So the relationship between the two countries is to do business while protesting, which is very interesting!

However, will this situation last forever?

Both parties knew it was impossible!

But if you want to fight, you can't do it for a while. It's just like that. When entering April, the Datang Dynasty will usher in two major events!

The first is the palace exam in Xuanping's seventh year. At that time, more than 1,000 scholars from the Jinshi and Ph.D. departments will gather together to participate in the palace exam, thereby changing their life's destiny.

And the second major event is the marriage of the only adult princess of the Tang Dynasty, the only younger sister of the Son of Heaven, Princess Huichen!