Valley Emperor

In Africa, in addition to clearing and direct management of some islands, Datang is very conservative on the African continent, especially in central and southern Africa.

Only occupy the coastal areas and carry out small-scale immigration.

The only exception is South Africa, where the empire was locally localized because of the discovery of gold mines in South Africa.

Although it is local localization along the railway line, it is also local localization anyway.

In the follow-up, in order to better manage the entire South Africa region, the African Affairs Yamen of the Datang Empire finally made up its mind to build a Great Wall of Africa.

All the way from the Indian Ocean coast to the Atlantic coast.

In order to completely put an end to the bad situation of the continuous influx of local indigenous people into the Datang-controlled area.

At the same time as the Great Wall was being built, the African Affairs Yamen was also encouraging the twelve countries of the South Seas to expand on a large scale, encouraging them to expand inland.

But it is only encouragement, but the Tang Empire itself will not do these things.

The only ones that are better off should be the Red Sea areas in Northeast Africa and West Asia. When the Ottoman Empire evacuated, they packed everyone away, and some of the remaining natives were also sent to Central Africa by the Tang Empire. The Red Sea area that Tang accepted was a wasteland, and there was no one else except the Tang people.

And there are large tracts of desert for isolation.

So in a short period of time, there is no need to worry about the natives breaking in.

When it came to Europe, Datang's non-intervention policy was implemented more thoroughly. Last year, there was a mutiny on the Portuguese side, trying to overthrow the Spanish rule, but the Datang Empire ignored it.

As long as the European countries unite and continue to fight against the Golden Kingdom of Tatar, then the Tang Empire will have nothing else to ask for!

So even if the Spaniards and the Portuguese were in civil strife, as long as the Spaniards and the Portuguese were still fighting the Tatars on the front lines, the Tang Empire would not care about their rubbish.

To a certain extent, the foreign policy of the Datang Empire greatly eased the financial pressure of the Datang Empire.

After all, if there are wars all over the world, the expenditure is very huge, and those overseas territories basically cannot provide any wealth for the local, even the extremely rich America, in fact, for the Datang Empire, at best, it is a supply of agricultural products and resources. That's it.

Therefore, the current global **** of the Datang Empire is largely dependent on local blood transfusions. If there is no local blood transfusion supply, the local finances of many overseas territories will be directly bankrupt.

The cost of maintaining rule is already big enough, and if wars are still fought every day, it will be even worse.

Therefore, Datang has also begun to change its diplomatic style of "peace talks are worse than fighting" that has been going on for many years, and has begun to use various advantages to directly gain benefits at the negotiating table.

The acquisition of the Red Sea region is the actual embodiment of this foreign policy.

According to the practice of the Tang Empire several years ago, it would be impossible to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire and directly send troops to occupy the territory.

But now, it has become a matter of sending a fleet to block other people's doorsteps and then negotiating.

In the end, it's all about saving money.

Otherwise, the arrogant officials of the Tang Dynasty would be too lazy to talk to the natives.

Just this kind of negotiation is sometimes useless.

Not all the natives were frightened, some had never seen the power of the Great Tang, and they did not believe that the Great Tang was really so powerful.

When you told them that Datang's fleet was running around the world and swept across the world's waters, people laughed at them: If you lie, you won't lie, the ground is obviously flat, where's the ball...

And you said that Datang's navy is very powerful, but why is there no Datang navy in the small lake in front of my house?

You said that Datang's artillery is very powerful, one cannon can shoot ten kilometers!

Everyone can directly laugh at you: Don’t bully Lao Tzu who has never seen artillery before. Lao Tzu also has artillery. A cannon can hit a few hundred meters and it’s not bad. It’s still ten kilometers.

At this time, the messenger of the Tang Dynasty would be speechless!

These natives don't understand, don't know, and can't even imagine how awesome Datang is, what you ask him to say.

They don't believe it!

The only way to convince them was that the fleet came over and pulled the artillery up.

but!

That doesn't require money. Today's Tang Dynasty doesn't care about the dispatch of the army and navy, it is very expensive.

Of course, most of the time the army and navy will be dispatched. As for the expensive situation, generally the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will make arrangements.

First put the enemy on the ground, and then use the captured spoils as military expenses, or let the other party bear the military expenses and so on.

Directly, most of the indigenous kingdoms that have the courage to provoke the Tang Empire are not very knowledgeable and powerful. Even if they are evacuated, they will not be able to make up for the loss of military spending.

As for those who can afford this kind of loss, they are all big countries in the indigenous world, such as Spain and Ottoman. Woolen cloth.

In the summer and June of the 40th year of Xuanping, Major General Tian Qinyun of the 18th Division of the Army was depressed, watching the consumption and the captured spoils sent by the logistics officer.

Sighing continuously: "It's a loss, a big loss!"

"It's a big loss to fight these natives!"

The chief of staff on the side also said: "Yes, after our division was deployed to Gehe Prefecture at the end of last year. The entire division was dispatched once, regiment-level troops were dispatched twice, and battalion-level troops were dispatched six times. It cost a lot!"

"However, the captured spoils and subsequent indemnities are less than half. Otherwise, the military department will not send a special document, let's take it easy!"

"Alas, our army is poor!"

At the same time, at the monthly regular liaison meeting of the Army and Navy Guards in the Imperial Study Room of the Imperial Palace in Jinling, Army Admiral Hu Fengbao was furious at this moment: "Our army soldiers can't even afford bullets and artillery shells, but you guys On the navy side, there was an Indian Ocean exercise last month, tsk tsk, more than 40 ships have been assembled!"

"All the hard-earned money of the people has been wasted by you navy bastards!"

Admiral Cao Changlin snorted coldly: "Don't go too far with your army. We can only use some coal and some training bombs for our exercises. It can cost a few dollars, but as for your army, don't think I don't know, sir. For half a year, your army has frequently used troops in the direction of India, and it has been extravagant, so the transport ships for your army to transport ammunition can be lined up from Ceylon to Shanghai!"

"Just dealing with a few natives. You spent no less than 5 million in war expenses just in the direction of India in the first half of the year!"

"Speaking of prodigal sons, our navy is not good enough!"

Seeing that the generals of the army and navy were arguing again, Admiral Zhou Guang, the chief of staff of the Guards, narrowed his eyes!

Follow the tradition of the Guards in the past few decades: never intervene in the contradiction between the army and the navy!

The Guards have their own set of operating systems and positioning. For decades, all the generals of the Guards have known that if they want to secure their positions and even get promoted, they must never interfere in the contradiction between the army and the navy.

As for ordinary administrative affairs, let alone meddle in them.

Therefore, most of the time, the presence of the Guards is not very high. It is not only that the Guards do not interfere with other things, but more importantly, the military expenses of the Guards, which come directly from the royal family's funds, are not in harmony. Linked to military spending.

But in fact, the Guards' position in the empire's political map is quite high, and it is one of the three major military forces of the empire. In terms of political status, the Guards' status even surpasses that of the army and navy.

I just didn't like to be in the limelight.

Just when the generals of the army and navy were quarreling, the chief of staff of the guards, the guard admiral Zhou Guang, was already thinking about the affairs of the guards.

Especially the new round of reorganization of the Guards.

In the past so many years, the Guards have been developing continuously. This development is not only the increase of personnel and the expansion of the establishment, but also the emergence of various technical arms.

This also makes people think that the Guards have always had only three Guards divisions, but in fact, the total strength of the entire Guards is maintained at the scale of 80,000 people, and most of the troops are They are all assigned to various guard divisions~www.wuxiaspot.com~ For example, the first guard division, in addition to the conventional three infantry regiments, also has a field artillery regiment, a heavy artillery regiment, a baggage regiment, and an engineering regiment. , a cavalry brigade, and other messy affiliated units, with a total strength of nearly 25,000 people.

No matter how possible, this is not like a division, and the number of infantry is too small, even if the Guards have expanded the three infantry regiments many times before, but the number of infantry is still too small.

In view of the fact that the current system of the Guards is incomplete, and more importantly, the generals of the Guards have realized that the current tactical system and organization are not suitable for many exercises and overseas deployments. It is difficult to fully exert the performance of today's advanced weapons.

Nowadays, the tactics of the Guards are actually the same as the army's tactical system. They are all born out of line tactics and developed in the era of the Mini rifle. After the rear-loading rifle was finally equipped, the skirmish tactics finally appeared. The generals have gradually formed it after years of research, and thoroughly promoted the use of the whole army in the 32nd year of Xuanping.

From the perspective of the time, the skirmish tactics at that time were still very advanced, and they also performed quite well in many foreign wars.

However, the generals of the Guards still felt that something was wrong, because the Guards were equipped with Li Fu rifles, while the Army was equipped with combined rifles.

Although both are rear-loading rifles, there is a big difference.

From the beginning, the Li Fu rifle was a rifle that used metal bullets and magazines, and the rate of fire was extremely fast.

As for the joint rifle, it is only a single-shot rear-loading rifle, and its rate of fire is far inferior to that of the Li Fu rifle.

But the two are using quite the tactics!

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