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In addition, the Ottoman Empire is also in the same situation. The Empire also sold a batch of advanced ordnance to Murad III to arm the direct guards of Murad III. Of course, these equipments have just been ordered, and it will take some time to be able to Delivered to Murad III.

In addition to these countries that have or are about to equip these advanced weapons on a large scale, many other countries will also purchase small amounts, but the number of purchases will be very small, and generally they are mainly equipped with a very small number of elite troops.

It's not that they don't want it, it's that most people can't afford it, and even if they can afford it, they sometimes don't sell it.

In most ordinary cases, Datang is more willing to sell ordinary equipment, which has lower cost and higher profit.

But even these ordinary flintlock guns have far more performance than the weapons produced by European countries. At the same time, in order to squeeze the living space of European countries' own flintlock guns, Datang often adopts a low-price strategy.

Of course, the low price is only temporary.

In the past, when the Spaniards bought Datang's flintlock guns, the price was very cheap, but now, Datang has used various excuses to increase the price many times.

It is because the Spaniards were able to produce flintlock guns on a large scale at first, but later because it was cheaper to buy than to manufacture, many workshops that could produce flintlock guns closed down.

After waiting for the follow-up, Datang people even more simply launched the flash cap to fire the flintlock gun!

Because of the flash cap, those indigenous people can't imitate it at all, because they don't even know what a flash cap is. Although Datang sells flash caps, the technology of this device is strictly confidential. It is difficult to analyze if you only look at the finished product. If you come out with specific things, even if you analyze them and you can't make them, and if you try to make a little of them in the laboratory, it is impossible to mass-produce them at all.

Buying indigenous weapons that cannot be imitated and will not threaten their own weapons, this is the consistent strategy of Datang's weapons exports.

European countries are now widely equipped with weapons and equipment of the Tang Dynasty, and even the Tatars are no exception...

Even the few elite troops of the Tatars used all Tang equipment. Of course, it was impossible for them to buy these weapons from the Tang Dynasty, although the Tang Dynasty never said that it was forbidden to The Tatars sell weapons and equipment, but they are enemy countries anyway.

Some of the Tatars' Tang equipment was captured from the armies of various European countries, while the other part was purchased from the Tang people secretly.

Well, although Datang and the Golden Kingdom of Tatar are enemy countries and are still at war, the Tang Dynasty never said that the official prohibition of trade with the Golden Kingdom of Tatar, nor did it say that it was not allowed to sell guns to the Golden Kingdom of Tartar. gun.

As long as the weapons and equipment comply with the regulations of the Import and Export Commission, you can sell them casually!

The reason why the Golden Kingdom of Tatar is sneaky is simply that they can't let themselves down, so they will find some middlemen to make purchases.

The people from the Datang Arms Trading Company pretended not to be able to see it. They knew it for sure. Otherwise, who would they sell the large quantities of ordnance shipped to Amsterdam in the United Province every year?

On the face of it, it was sold to the Dutch, but in such a poor place in the Netherlands, with just that little army, can they buy tens of thousands of flintlock guns and hundreds of artillery pieces at once?

What nonsense!

Every fool knows that the real buyer of these armaments is the Golden Kingdom of Tatar.

However, Datang doesn't care!

Even the Datang military didn't say anything about this situation, and even maintained a supportive attitude.

The military sometimes buys a batch of second-hand flintlock guns for the Tatars through middlemen...

The military does this for a reason.

In the European war, everyone’s weapons and equipment are similar, so the fight will be more balanced. It is impossible for Spain to be equipped with artillery with a range of 1,400 meters, and the Tatars have artillery with a range of 600 meters, so there is a performance gap. Not good looking.

Everyone has weapons and equipment with advanced performance, so they are balanced.

And more importantly, we want the Tatars to form a mentality that it is better to build than to buy, so that they don't spend all day thinking about digging out the technicians of the Tang Dynasty and making rifled rifles.

Directly supply the Tatars with sufficient flintlock guns in large quantities, and their own military industry in the Tatar Golden State will naturally be abolished.

Without orders, it would be strange if it did not go bankrupt. Without profit, there would be no R&D.

After all, the current technical level of the Golden Kingdom of Tatar is still good, much stronger than that of other European countries such as Spain. They are all capable of mass-producing flintlock guns and large-caliber smoothbore guns. In order to improve their technical capabilities, they want to To kidnap Datang's technicians.

So when the people above them got hot, they came up with a strategy that is worse than buying.

First, provide large quantities of cheap supplies, cut off orders from their handicraft workshops, and make these workshops lose orders, lose profits, go bankrupt, and lose research and development momentum.

After their military handicraft industry is completely finished, the Tang Dynasty can do whatever they want.

This method has been used by Datang in other European countries, and the effect is surprisingly good.

In the early years, countries such as Spain still had the ability to produce flintlock guns by hand on a large scale, but now it is no longer possible.

Once the Tang Dynasty cut off their supply of weapons and ammunition, they couldn't even fight.

And the last reason is to make money!

The Golden Kingdom of Tatar is also a big country with a population of tens of millions, and after the reform of the Golden Kingdom of Tatar, its market is very dynamic, and it is an excellent dumping ground for various industrial products.

It is even blunt to say that the market potential of a Tatar Golden State is comparable to the total number of other European countries, second only to the market of the Ottoman Empire.

A large number of businessmen, not only arms dealers, are drooling at this market.

Otherwise, how could Amsterdam in the United Province of the Netherlands not become a colony of the Tang Dynasty or annexed by the Tatars, not because the trade between the Tang Dynasty and the Tatars needed a transit station, a fig leaf~www.wuxiaspot.com~ even The Tatars all use weapons and equipment produced by the Tang people, which shows how crazy the Tang Dynasty's weapons and equipment are.

However, Datang's crazy purchase of weapons did not affect its global hegemony in the slightest. Even the military did not object to it but supported selling weapons.

It is because Datang never sells weapons and equipment or any industrial products that can pose a threat to itself.

Things like hollow steel pipes are absolutely contraband, and their export is prohibited.

There is also a steam engine, even if it is the most primitive and low-level steam engine, Datang still prohibits the export.

Other mechanical equipment is similar.

Not to mention the ban on exporting to those indigenous countries, Datang could not even obtain these machinery and equipment in its own overseas territories.

This shows how strict Datang's control of high-tech leaks is.

The ban on external exports, and the continuous improvement of the technical level internally, to form a huge generation gap, this is an important means for Datang to maintain its absolute advantage over indigenous peoples around the world.

Especially with the continuous advancement of its own technology, this is even more important.

Li Xuan has always attached great importance to the Royal Institute of Technology, which has undertaken most of the imperial technology research and development tasks.

And this time, he was a little surprised.

He saw an airship, and it was a steam airship!

Looking at the huge steam airship in front of him, Li Xuan thought of the steam chariot before, and was speechless.

You guys are going to play steampunk to the end!