Valley Emperor

After signing a series of treaties with the Ottoman Empire, the Tang Empire officially acquired the entire Egyptian region and the West Asian Peninsula, as well as the Basra region on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf.

And this is not a way of leasing, nor is it a way to force the other side to cede land by means of war or other means.

But in a very fair and equitable way of dealing.

In order to obtain these lands, the Datang Empire paid 2.3 million Tang Yuan, and at the same time provided a large number of ships to help the Ottoman Empire transport the evacuees for free, and also provided a certain number of instructors to help Murad III train his Wangshi Guards, and A promise was given to continue to support Murad III as Ottoman monarch.

Well, the figure of 2.3 million Tang Yuan is indeed a little less. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to buy such a huge number.

But you have to know that the Tang Empire only spent a few million Tang Yuan to buy a large area of ​​African colonies and American colonies.

It is very cost-effective for the Tang Empire to be able to acquire such a huge amount of land at such a low price.

After all, for the huge Tang Empire, a mere few million is nothing, and launching a small-scale war will cost more than that.

This is also the reason why the upper echelons of the empire have always been reluctant to engage in the third west expedition.

You can get a large piece of territory with just a few million Tang Yuan, so why spend hundreds of millions fighting a battle to get territory?

Not to mention, if the Tatars are willing to sell large tracts of land in Eastern Europe, it is really possible for the Tang Empire to buy it directly.

For the Holy Son of Heaven, Li Xuan, none of this matters.

The third west expedition will be fought sooner or later, and other places will also be taken down.

And adhering to the principle of first easy and then difficult, and spending the least resources to do the biggest thing, it is not very cost-effective to directly engage in a third west expedition, so it is better to take down other places first.

And North Africa and West Asia are what Li wants.

On the one hand, it is for the Suez Canal, and on the other hand, it is naturally for the oil.

Although Datang currently has no easy-to-exploit oil fields in its native East Asia, it has a huge oil field in Baku and a huge oil field in the South China Sea.

The oil fields in these two areas alone can actually meet the current oil consumption of the empire.

After all, the current oil consumption of the Datang Empire is mainly kerosene and a small amount of industrial lubricants.

Before the large-scale popularization of internal combustion engines and the popularization of petroleum industry, too many oil fields were useless.

The Tang Empire had already discovered traces of oil in parts of North America a few years ago, especially in the Sanhezhou area around the Gulf of Mexico, but the upper echelons of the empire have never approved the localization of North America, let alone the development of North American oil.

It can also be seen from this that in fact, the Datang Empire does not lack oil resources at present.

But, this is only now!

Li Xuan is very clear that West Asia and North Africa have large oil resources, otherwise he would not let his people toss in West Asia and North Africa, and finally bought all this place.

If it is just for a Suez Canal, there is no need to be so troublesome at all, as long as you get the places on both sides of Suez, if it is just such a simple condition, you can negotiate with the Ottoman Empire casually, and it is estimated that it will not cost a dime. The Ottoman Empire will give these places to the Tang Empire for free.

However, there is oil in North Africa and West Asia. Li Xuan knew about it, but he never thought that his officials would also know about it.

But Li Xuan soon realized that this was purely false propaganda made by the officials of the colony.

This is known from the fact that the local colonial officials did not even report to the official official documents, but only secretly released news through the media.

But no matter whether the officials in these colonies know it or not, Li Xuan will go according to his own plan.

So at the cabinet meeting, Li Xuan also set the tone for this newly acquired overseas territory.

The Red Sea Affairs Yamen was established, and its jurisdiction included Africa, Egypt, West Asia Peninsula, the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, and several small colonies of the Empire in the Safi dynasty.

However, the regional affairs yamen of the Tang Empire are not limited to the areas actually controlled by the empire, but the affairs of the empire in all the above-mentioned areas are under their control, even if these areas are still under the control of the natives.

Because the yamen of the empire's overseas regional affairs are not only responsible for civil affairs, but also responsible for foreign affairs with the local indigenous people. They can sign diplomatic agreements with the indigenous people. Of course, this needs to be reported to the local area urgently and approved.

In the earlier days, when ships sailed slowly, and it took several months or even a year or two to travel between overseas territories, the affairs yamen in these overseas areas even had the power to directly declare war on the natives.

The Red Sea Affairs Yamen, the subordinate regions will set up two states and one area, the first is the Peninsula State, the jurisdiction is the entire West Asia Peninsula plus the Basra area, plus part of the Sinai Peninsula area, excluding the scheduled Suez Canal area .

Next is North Africa~www.wuxiaspot.com~ North Africa's jurisdiction is in addition to the Suez Canal, it also does not include the most essential lower Nile area in Egypt, this North Africa will govern the Red Sea coast and other Egyptian areas.

In addition, there is the Suez Canal area. Although the construction of the canal has not yet begun, the Empire attaches great importance to this area. This strategic key position must be completely controlled and the army must be stationed.

At the same time, it is also considered that it is not feasible to build the canal purely by manpower. Like the Panama Canal Zone, there must be a limited localization. Otherwise, there is no way to build the canal, and there is no way to operate the canal.

But this kind of complete control does not mean purely localization, but setting it as a military base, just like Ceylon.

Today's Ceylon Island is a very typical military base. Although the Datang Empire also established a traditional civil governance institution such as Ceylon, it also immigrated to it.

But the entire Ceylon Island is within the scope of a military base!

In the future, the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal Zone will also become a typical military base with the island of Ceylon.

In order to keep this place under the control of the Chinese people forever, Li Xuan specially included the area under the jurisdiction of the Nile River north of Cairo, and planned to migrate to this area on a large scale, at least to the Suez Canal There are hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the area.

At the same time, all the natives in the above-mentioned areas will be moved away.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of future localization, and to ensure the long-term control of the Empire in this region.

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