Valley Emperor

In the thirty-ninth year of Xuanping, the Tang Empire, although there were many things, remained calm on the whole.

Whether it is the increase of the Import and Export Committee, or the comprehensive support for rural economic development led by Chen Lifu, or the relief for some disaster-stricken areas in the northwest.

It seems that there are a lot of things, but they are all innocuous.

For the huge Tang Empire, which already had a complete set of administrative systems, these were all daily affairs.

But having said that, the officials of the empire and even the people are only concerned about these daily affairs. As for many overseas territories, especially the contradictions and conflicts between the empire and some indigenous countries, and even wars, in fact, many people in the empire are don't care much.

Regardless of whether they are officials or people, they basically don't pay attention to those indigenous countries.

Even the Golden Kingdom of Tatar is the same.

In recent years, the most common thing the empire has seen with the Golden Kingdom of Tatar is the debate about the third west expedition, but the third west expedition has not been able to be carried out despite the struggles.

There is no other reason. Except for the army generals, there are very few people in the empire who are willing to spend hundreds of millions on a western expedition.

If it costs so much money to start a large-scale war and seize some remote and incomparable land, it is better to build more reservoirs, more railways, and more official roads in the countryside.

Anyway, the Tatar Golden Kingdom is dragged by the indigenous countries in Europe, so I am not afraid of any storms and waves in the Tartar Golden Kingdom.

With the equipment level of the Imperial Army, it is completely possible to hang and beat it all the way.

In short, the current internal argument of the empire is to fight the Tartars. It’s okay to have nothing to do, and you can play when the money is hot, but now the development of the empire in all aspects needs money, and it costs hundreds of millions of dozen. Tatars? We're not stupid when your Army's brains are burned out.

With this amount of money, all the Europeans can be directly armed, and then the Tatars will be flattened.

In this regard, the army of the Tang Empire, from generals to ordinary soldiers, is quite helpless!

They have long wanted to launch the third westward expedition, but they have never been able to gain domestic support, which is too expensive.

He always said that in the past, the war cost was just a few million, and at most tens of millions was enough. Now playing the third Western Expedition costs hundreds of millions, so crazy!

But the army is also very aggrieved!

Why is war so expensive now?

It's not the people in their army who eat and drink. It's purely because the weapons and ammunition produced by you **** are so expensive. A new 75mm howitzer costs dozens of yuan.

Can this war be expensive...

In short, for the third Western Expedition, because the issue of military expenses was still dragging on, the army even planned to raise funds on its own, and then figured out a way to do it on its own.

Your family's army also has a family background, and it also has military expenses every year. If you accumulate it for a few years, you can get some ammunition.

A large-scale battle cannot be fought, but a small-scale battle is still possible. Fighting a few small battles and advancing slowly will also allow the army generals to get the opportunity to exercise in war and get promoted.

There is no battle, no promotion, no promotion...

Compared with the troubles of the army, the navy side is much more relaxed, because the navy side doesn't need to fight any large-scale battles with the natives.

The navy's overseas operations are mainly small-scale operations. The previous six warships shelled Suez, which is already a rare large-scale naval operation.

More often, the navy sends an offshore patrol ship or an inland gunboat to perform the mission.

After fighting Suez, the officers and men of the Datang Navy's West Asia Fleet found themselves in pain again.

Not to mention them coming, even the already registered Egyptian Expeditionary Force, that is, the army and navy combined landing force with only regimental size is very idle.

The superiors did not let them continue to go north or east, just garrison the port of Suez.

As for the rest, they will first be resolved through diplomatic means. If they cannot be resolved through diplomatic means, then it is time for them to dispatch.

In March of the 39th year of Xuanping, in the consulate of the Datang Empire in Istanbul, several officials dressed in the Tang government's official residence were starting a new round of negotiations with a few Ottomans.

But this time, the negotiators of the Ottoman Empire were still helpless.

Because the words of the Tang diplomats across from him were still the same as last time.

"In order to ensure the safety of the people of the empire, we firmly believe that a military buffer zone needs to be established in Egypt!"

"Of course, the Tang Empire has always been reasonable in doing things, so I won't let you suffer. The Empire will invest 500,000 Tang Yuan to buy the entire area of ​​Egypt."

The people from the Ottoman Empire on the opposite side were not angry, because they were already angry when they heard this condition during the previous negotiation, and they left the stage and announced the suspension of the negotiation as a response.

As a result, those damned Tang people conducted another exercise in the coastal waters of Istanbul, and even in the name of the exercise, they reinforced at least a thousand troops to the embassy area.

Seeing this, the upper-level figures of the Ottoman Empire immediately panicked.

These damned Tang people want to start a war, and they want to start a war directly in Istanbul~www.wuxiaspot.com~ And once a war breaks out between the two sides, no one thinks that the Ottoman Empire can resist the Lord.

Because once a war breaks out, the Datang steel fleet on the sea can almost instantly destroy the entire Istanbul.

In the previous exercises, the Ottoman dignitaries already knew that the naval guns of the Tang Dynasty could cover almost the entire city of Istanbul.

The original mistake even blew up the palace of other princes.

After the exercise, the dignitaries of the Ottoman Empire moved their houses away from the sea, and their sultans lived in a small town 20 kilometers away from the sea for a long time in the name of vacation.

Most of the other dignitaries also relocated.

But the sultan and a few dignitaries can escape, but the whole of Istanbul cannot escape.

What's more, once a war begins, with the strength of the Tang Dynasty navy, it will directly blockade the entire coastal area of ​​the Ottoman Empire and block the Black Sea Strait.

Then, if the Tang navy went directly along the coastline and bombarded all the coastal port cities of the Ottoman Empire as it did with the Tatars, then the losses would be huge.

And this is not even counting the fact that the Tang people dispatched army troops to launch a landing operation.

The Tang people really want to launch a ruthless attack, and they can directly destroy the entire Ottoman Empire.

Therefore, war is impossible war!

Since you don't want war, you can only choose to compromise.

They all prepared in their hearts for the reparation to cede land, but the Datang people's appetite is too great, they directly want the whole of Egypt!