Valley Emperor

At present, the global trade dominated by Datang has basically nothing to do with other countries in terms of shipping, because it is impossible for them to compete with the Datang people who own steam ships.

Even if they have some cost advantages, such as using sailboats to transport only some materials that do not require such high timeliness, then European sailboats can only be transported slowly. Anyway, the labor cost of Europeans is very low, and the ship is empty. on.

In this case, in fact, they can still achieve lower transportation costs than Datang's steam ships, because Datang's steam ships need coal, and the wages of Datang's crew are generally higher.

but!

Datang Navy is not to eat dry rice.

What is the Datang Navy, which has so much military spending every year, used for it?

That's not just to safeguard Datang's overseas interests.

If you find that there are other countries with lower cost and more competitive merchant ships than you when you are doing business at sea, then you can confidently tell the navy that their maritime trade is very good.

It didn't take long for the navy to come to the door, call them one by one with naval guns, smash their sails, and blow up their ports to smithereens.

Or you are the dozens of trading companies with armed merchant ships in Datang, then it is easier to find your competitors, and then rely on the mobility of steam ships and the range advantage of front-loaded rifled guns to directly eliminate them on the sea. On, um, grab their cargo by the way.

Although it is said that this kind of piracy is not advocated by the Tang government, or even prohibited, but in the vast sea, no one knows what you do, not to mention that the Tang navy prohibits piracy, and prohibits pirates from attacking the Tang Dynasty. merchant ship.

Datang law is not used to protect indigenous ships.

In short, after a series of events, you will find that your own merchant ships not only have a competitive advantage over the natives in trade, but may even have no native competitors at all.

In short, if you can't compete with normal, you can use abnormal competition. If you can't compete, you can fight!

Of course, this kind of thing is not easy to say publicly. The correct official statement is that Datang people work diligently. In addition, Datang people’s steam ships are fast, and they are not affected by monsoons and ocean currents. The market is more competitive.

But it is undeniable that in the past ten years, many ships from European countries that have traveled to and from the Atlantic Ocean have not been able to return after going to sea. As for how they lost, only God knows. If you get lost, you may be attacked by pirates, or you may encounter a battleship or an armed merchant ship of the Tang Dynasty.

There are all kinds of possibilities, but no one knows the truth.

In short, now, the ocean-going merchant ships in the global waters are basically all Datang ships.

In European countries, there are basically only a small number of Spanish ships and a small number of English merchant ships running the Atlantic route of the Americas. These ships are basically official ships of various countries, and they are all certified and licensed by the Datang Navy.

However, although there are fewer ocean-going ships, it does not mean that they have fewer ships. In fact, today European countries, especially the sailing countries represented by Spain, England and the Netherlands, still have a large number of ships running on various European waters routes, including Baltic Sea Route, Mediterranean Route, Atlantic European Coast Route.

This situation also occurs in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and some coastal waters of India. In fact, there are still many ships of local indigenous countries in these waters, such as ships of the Ottoman Empire, Safi ships, and ships of the Mughal Empire. There are also ships from some other Indian states.

Most of the ships in these indigenous countries that are only tens of tons or hundreds of tons dedicated to the coastal route are generally ignored or blocked.

After all, Datang also needed a large number of indigenous coastal and inland river ships to distribute a large amount of Datang goods.

Although Datang's global shipping is great, it is more reflected in ocean transportation. For offshore and inland water transportation, Datang people generally do not engage in these in indigenous countries, but only develop offshore and inland rivers in their own overseas mainland and overseas territories. transportation.

This is mainly related to a technical control problem. Datang does not want too many civilian steam ships to appear on the coasts and inland rivers of indigenous countries, because it is very troublesome to monitor.

However, offshore and inland warships are not included.

The Datang Navy and Army have deployed small-tonnage offshore gunboats and inland river gunboats in many offshore and inland rivers under their control.

Even the Volga and Kiel Rivers in Eastern Europe controlled by the Tatars and the Danube River in the Balkans can see the inland gunboats of the Tang Dynasty.

Not to mention other places, Datang people even deployed at least two offshore gunboats of more than 600 in London all year round, and they were moored at the pier in the embassy area of ​​the Datang Consulate in London on weekdays.

If anything happens, they don't need to set sail, just raise their gun barrels to bombard the city of London. At the same time, they can quickly sail to the surrounding areas, and even cross the English Channel to the offshore waters of France or the United Provinces, and cooperate with other warships of the navy. fight.

In the military, the Datang Navy's control on a global scale is very powerful, and it does not rely on the few marines in the Navy, nor does it rely solely on those main battleships.

The size of the Marine Corps is not large, and it is mostly used to perform mobile strike missions. It is difficult to station too many Marine Corps troops in one place all year round.

As for the capital ships, although Datang has a large number of capital ships, the Datang Navy needs to control more sea areas, and retains a large number of capital ships all year round in the mainland. size.

The Datang Navy controls the global waters, especially the offshore waters in various regions. It relies more on the number of offshore patrol ships, shallow water gunboats, offshore gunboats and other small tonnage and cheap offshore and inland river fleets.

Datang currently has an astonishing total of more than 300 inland warships of various types around the world to carry out various combat missions in coastal and inland waters.

Some of these more than 300 offshore inland river vessels are also equipped with front-loaded rifled guns, and some are equipped with new rear-loaded rifled guns. Small vessels under 500 tons.

Just in various regions of the European waters, Datang has a total of more than 40 various types of offshore inland river combat vessels~www.wuxiaspot.com~ stationed at the piers in the embassy areas.

In fact, it is these ships that perform daily tasks.

As for the main ships in the European Fleet, they are basically dispatched only when they are on major missions. On weekdays, they are training and conducting naval artillery diplomacy.

Even if these main ships are dispatched, they are actually mainly cruisers and frigates. As for battleships or armored cruisers, I am sorry, these battleships basically stay in the country as mascots. The sea area, at most, is to run the South China Sea.

It is unlikely that these capital ships will be dispatched to overseas missions if there is no major accident.

Because of those cruisers, frigates are enough.

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