Valley Emperor

The collapse of the Western Front in Europe and the arrival of the Tatars in Paris also made the Western European lords headed by Philip II feel a huge threat and pressure.

So even at this time, the Kingdom of France is actually facing collapse. The troops directly under the royal family suffered heavy losses and almost completely lost control over the other lords of the Kingdom of France. However, other countries, especially the Kingdom of Spain, firmly supported the French royal family in sticking to Paris.

Everything is to stop the Tatars!

This is the idea of ​​the Kingdom of Spain and other European countries!

For this reason, Philip II even gave the French army weapons and ammunition worth more than one million Tang yuan for free, just to rearm the French and then resist the Tatars.

In addition, Philip II did not put all his hopes on France and on the defense of Paris.

He has already started to build Spain's own defense line after the fall of France.

Because the territory of France is too flat, and after the previously painstaking western front was broken by the Tatars, although Paris is still holding on, in fact, other directions have been completely lost. Stick to it, but the fall of other places and even the rear has become inevitable.

Under such circumstances, Philip II naturally could not expect Paris to hold back the Tatars, nor would he expect the Tatars to stop moving south after they captured France.

To this end, Philip II supported the French side to continue to resist, but this support only hoped that the French kingdom would be able to delay the Tatars for a while.

Taking advantage of this time, he wants to build Spain's own defense.

He followed the advice of Datang's military advisers and gave up the proposal to establish a new line of defense in France, but chose to actively shrink and rely on the Pyrenees to build a new line of defense.

The dangerous terrain of the Pyrenees is enough to further reduce the area of ​​heavy defense. In the future, as long as the Spaniards heavily defend the eastern and western coasts of the relatively flat areas, as well as the passages of some mountainous areas, it is enough to kill the number of Tatars. An army of 100,000 was turned away.

Philip II called this line of defense, with a total length of more than 400 kilometers, the Great Wall of Spain!

In order to build the Great Wall of Spain, Philip II worked hard. Not only did he invest a lot of money in it, but in order to speed up the construction of the defense line, he also used a lot of domestic people and bought a lot of money from businessmen in the Tang Dynasty. building materials.

In addition, began to recruit a large number of soldiers.

And that doesn't include troops withdrawn from overseas.

Because of the shortage of manpower, Philip II even brought back a lot of free labor from the American colonies, let them build defense lines, and even armed them as servants.

Later, he also found Datang for help.

But the Datang official's request for help to him is still those old sayings, saying that Datang never interferes in the internal affairs of the indigenous people and so on, it is not willing to give free assistance.

People said that if you want weapons and ammunition, you can buy them with money.

No money to talk about.

It is not impossible to take a loan. As long as you can get enough collateral, the Royal Bank of Datang or several other large banks of Datang are happy to provide loans.

But the problem is that there is not much collateral that Spain can come up with.

And Philip II couldn't really learn from the French royal family. He was so shameless that he mortgaged all the taxes. If the Tang people didn't want their territory, they would have mortgaged a large area of ​​their territory.

As for those embassy areas along the coast that were sold to Datang people, leased ports, etc., these ruined places are more than money. The ports are all delivered for free...

For these small places, ports and the like, the Tang people generally do not refuse, but at best they exist in the name of embassies and leased ports, not some serious overseas state capitals.

As for the large-scale places, I'm sorry, Datang people don't want it!

In the past few years, the Kingdom of France, in order to resist the Tatars, basically mortgaged everything that could be mortgaged, and there was nothing left.

But the Kingdom of Spain didn't want to be like them. They mortgaged everything. Will Spain still be the Spain of the Spanish royal family?

Philip II was skeptical!

Therefore, although the situation was difficult, Philip II never thought of mortgaged the domestic tax revenue, but thought of other ways.

Fortunately, there is still a lot of money left from selling the American colonies before, and a lot of materials are still there, some of which are even on the way. With these funds and materials, it is enough for Philip II to arm more than 300,000. Heavily armed Spanish Army of Tang equipment and stationed in the Spanish Great Wall defense line.

But that alone is not enough!

To this end, Philip II has the cheek to contact his daughter through the diplomatic officials of the Tang Dynasty~www.wuxiaspot.com~!

That is, she entered the imperial court of the Tang Dynasty and gave birth to the concubine, Elizabeth, who gave birth to the nineteenth son of the emperor.

Philip II did not say that his daughter Elizabeth would influence the decision-making of the Tang Dynasty. He was also a ruler of a country. He knew the complexity of politics and was more aware of the dangers of the court. His daughter Elizabeth was in the Tang Dynasty for these years. Well said, it must be nonsense.

This is evident from the fact that she has only given birth to the nineteenth son of the emperor, and it is not that she cannot give birth, nor that the Son of Heaven is dying, but that Son of Heaven has stopped recruiting her to serve her.

Although because of the marriage that year, the nineteenth son of the emperor was also born at the same time, allowing Elizabeth to successfully obtain the title of Concubine Zhen, but this is already the limit.

In this case, even if his daughter Elizabeth wanted to influence Datang's decision, she couldn't do it.

So Philip II had no such plans at all. What were his plans?

Borrow money!

Borrow money from Elizabeth!

At that time, he gave the entire Principality of Chile to Elizabeth as a dowry. The Principality of Chile subsequently became a semi-autonomous Principality under the Tang Dynasty. Even if Elizabeth actually had difficulty controlling this Principality of Chile, the actual power was controlled by the Tang Empire. It is under the control of the yamen of the Chilean Principality that was dispatched in the past.

However, she is still the Grand Duke of Chile. This title is recognized within the Tang Empire, so she can still develop from the Chilean Principality, the largest saltpeter mining company in the Chilean Principality: Chilean Mining Company, which is under her name. private enterprise.

Not only this mining company, but what, the entire Principality of Chile is her private property, and theoretically the tax also belongs to her, but she only takes part of the annuity every year, and the rest is used for the public expenditure of the Principality of Chile.