While the border between the Great China Empire and the Tang Empire was not stable, countries all over the world began to notice the smell of gunpowder smoke in the air. Lan
Everyone realizes that the Tang Empire is likely to intervene in the internal disputes of the Great China Empire! After all, this is how everyone attacks their neighbors, so they are very familiar with this set of things.
As a result, some countries began to persuade the Great China Empire to quickly stabilize and preserve the hard-won peace. Others began to add insult to injury and began to study how they could gain enough benefits if a war broke out.
In fact, Qin was already ready to take action. Their ambassadors to the Tang Empire frequently met with officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Empire and expressed their strong desire to support justice.
"Peace is hard-won! The economic and trade exchanges between the Great China Empire and the Tang Empire are not only matters between the two countries, but also related to the economic development of our Qin State." Qin's ambassador spoke sternly. A heartbroken look.
"If internal disputes arise in the Great China Empire, it will seriously affect Qin's trade exports to the Tang Empire... and it will also affect regional stability!" He said while secretly observing the faces of the Tang Dynasty diplomats.
After confirming that the other party had no obvious attitude, the ambassador of Qin continued: "So they went too far! They simply did not take the Tang Empire and our Qin country seriously! This kind of behavior must be punished! We cannot let it go unchecked. Let them run wild!"
To the ears of diplomats from the Tang Empire, this sentence basically translates to: If you and I join forces, wouldn't it be a massacre? Our Qin State is responsible for the killings, and your Tang Empire is responsible for the indiscriminate killing...Lan
In the early years, before the rise of the Tang Empire, Qin was still a vassal state of the Great China Empire, and its status was not even as good as that of Chu and Qi.
At that time, why didn't you study and attack the Great China Empire to ensure the stable development of Qin's foreign trade? Oh, so you can’t defeat the Dahua Empire?
Now the attention of the Great China Empire has been taken away by two-thirds or more of the Tang Empire. As a result, the weather has cleared up and the rain has stopped. Do you think you can do it again?
However, the signal sent by the Qin State is still very clear: once Dahua and the Tang Dynasty go to war, they, the Qin State, will not mind siding with the Tang Empire this time.
Therefore, the diplomats of the Tang Dynasty did not mind giving the other party a good look, and casually opened the topic with a smile. It was obvious that they were not very interested in the war between the Great China Empire.
The Tang Empire was going to fight its first real proxy war, and Tang Mo had no intention of going into battle himself at this time.
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If the already very powerful Tang Empire continues to show a strong willingness to expand, it is likely to once again arouse the hostility of other countries and increase the cost of subsequent trade. Lan
This is not the result that the Tang Empire wants - Tang Mo wants to solve the problem once and for all when he is ready. He wants more, and is not prepared to use the method of slicing sausages to get benefits bit by bit.
The Qin diplomat was not a fool. He could tell from the lack of interest of the Tang diplomat that the Tang Empire was unwilling to take action this time.
Even if it is disguised, the attitude spread by the Tang Empire is enough to cause some subtle changes in the situation.
After also assuring the special envoy of His Majesty the Emperor of the Great China Empire that the Tang Empire would not go to war against the Great China Empire, the special envoy of the Great China Empire returned home with satisfaction.
When he arrived, the special envoy assured the Tang Empire of its trade attitude, and directly explained that the investigation of the pro-Tang prince Zhao Yu was actually a misunderstanding.
Subsequently, the special envoy also promised to the diplomats of the Tang Dynasty that the Great China Empire would guarantee the safety of investment by all Datang merchants, and agreed to the "unilateral extraterritoriality of the Tang people" that the Datang Empire had previously requested.
In other words, citizens of the Tang Dynasty who broke the law within the territory of the Tang Dynasty must be tried within the territory of the Datang Empire, and citizens of the Tang Dynasty who violated the law within the territory of the Tang Dynasty must be sent back to the country of the Tang Empire for trial. Lan
The Dahua Empire had never agreed to this law before, but now it has directly agreed to it. I have to say, this is an unexpected surprise.
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Looking back to the endless sea, at Bunas Port, another new type of cruiser was launched, and its appearance already looked very modern.
This cruiser has only two integrated chimneys and looks very neat in appearance. It has four large main gun turrets at the front and rear. Each turret is a twin-mounted design and is equipped with a total of eight main guns.
I have to say that this design is still very reasonable. Its armor defense is very good and it is also equipped with a sufficient number of anti-aircraft artillery.
This was also the standard battleship design model for other countries in this era except the Tang Empire: install as many cannons as possible on a small ship, and then continuously pile anti-aircraft artillery on the battleship.
Because they have never experienced the era of big ships and big guns, other countries in this world generally have little affection for battleships. Lan
Their memory of battleships was short and embarrassing: their battleship record was either a dismal failure or a foolish waste of time stuck at sea.
Therefore, while the navies of various countries are building battleships, they are also focusing more on cruisers with better overall performance.
Obviously, when dealing with air and underwater threats, cruisers with a large number and stronger self-protection capabilities are definitely a more suitable choice.
After all, in terms of losses and losses, being sunk by a battleship is much more distressing than being sunk by a cruiser.
The basic tactics used by the navies of various countries today are almost as follows: to withstand the threat of land aircraft, approach the enemy's port, use heavy artillery to destroy the enemy's port, paralyze the opponent's war potential, and then leave.
For this reason, cruisers that can be equipped with main guns with a caliber of more than 200 mm, can also be equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft artillery, and have a certain degree of armor, have emerged.
Countries are frantically building similar cruisers and giving this type of cruiser a nice name: universal cruiser. Lan
They are more like the artillery cruisers that were used as aircraft carrier bodyguards in World War II. In fact, their combat effectiveness is still very impressive.
What is even more interesting is that in practice, various countries have focused on aircraft because they do not have the means to correct artillery beyond visual range.
Several countries have begun experiments with adding floats to aircraft and converting old biplanes into seaplanes to provide fleets with reconnaissance capabilities.
In the near future, there will be new warships equipped with seaplanes - although they are still far behind the Tang Empire, facts have proved that some things will appear when they develop to the corresponding stage. This trend...is unstoppable.
