Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 759
The process of Datang's merging into South Asia was smoother than planned. However, what Li Shimin wanted was long-term rule. Therefore, taking over the power is just the beginning. Follow-up construction, economic development, and stability for all the people It's more important to get down.

After all, these places have been ruled by religious regimes for a long time, and it will take a long time to work hard to completely change the cultural traditions.

In late October, various places in the Tang Dynasty held various grand celebrations for the victory in South Asia. A new batch of students who had obtained national diplomas amounted to tens of thousands of people. Under the leadership of officials, they rushed to South Asia to serve as administrative officials in various states and counties. Li Chengqian personally saw them off at the pier in Chang'an.

This trip may last for three to five years, but they are not sad about parting. On the contrary, all of them are high-spirited and want to make some achievements and return home with honor.

Heraclius in Constantinople was not so happy. In history, he was assassinated to death by others. Perhaps it was because he did not die that the defeat of the Byzantine Empire was postponed for two days. It took more than a year to come.

After all, visiting Datang many times gave him a broader vision than his father, Emperor Flavis, and learned a lot of Datang's more advanced political and military management methods, and purchased more military equipment that can be used in military affairs. Equipment materials, although, these actions made him owe tens of millions of debts.

Therefore, after desperately stabilizing the line of defense, he had no choice but to borrow money from Datang again.

If it weren't for this defeat on the front line, he even saw the hope of his own country's resurgence.

Because the fields planted by the people led by the agricultural students of Datang have achieved a bumper harvest. The corn cobs are full of full-grained corn, and the heavy ears of rice and wheat can even bend the entire crop. It doesn’t take long. , His granary can be filled with these grains.

And the people who have learned the farming techniques of the Tang Dynasty will bring him endless war capital, just like the Tang Empire, they never consider how much it costs to build a pair of iron armor, and never consider how much money a warrior needs. , how much food, how much meat, and how much salary you need to eat.

So, after he was decadent, he came to the manor where Sun Xiangfu lived. What he didn't know was that a few days ago, Qu Tuquan had already brought information from all parties, and had a secret discussion with Sun Xiangfu all night here.

"Your Majesty Heraclius, you are the emperor of an empire with a population of tens of millions, so you shouldn't be so decadent." In the living room, after Heraclius, who was no longer as charming as a few months ago, sat down, he didn't speak. As the temporary owner of the manor, Sun Xiangfu opened the topic first.

"Is it just a population of tens of millions? Our Byzantine Empire was supposed to be the strongest empire in the world. Now, what we can say is only a population of tens of millions." Chirac continued with a little despondency.

In fact, even if most of the area south of the Mediterranean Sea is lost, the land area of ​​the Byzantine Empire is not smaller than Dashi, because at this time the entire Nordic region belongs to the Byzantine Empire, including Spain, Italy, Britain, France, Germany, even Denmark, Norway, Sweden.

It’s just that in the current period, the civilization over there is relatively backward, the output is relatively small, and the control of the Byzantine Empire over that area is relatively weak. If you calculate it carefully, even if this failure caused them to lose a lot of land and population, The Byzantine Empire still has a population of nearly 3000 million, which is no less than that of the Great Food Empire after it has grown.

But when these people talk about fighting, they are not on the same level as the big cannibals. The big cannibals who grew up on horseback are natural fighters. , because they have fanatical beliefs. Historically, they defeated the powerful Tang Dynasty army led by famous generals like Gao Xianzhi during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.

"Where there is a population, there is still hope. Besides, I don't think you are a fatuous and incompetent monarch."

As if encouraged by Sun Xiangfu's words, Chirac took a deep breath, cheered up and said, "I'm here this time to talk to you about the loan, I know, as a big Don's plenipotentiary, you have the power to make direct decisions."

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "That's right, when I arrived in Constantinople on the first day, I told Chief Deacon Ivan that my Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty wanted to see a better Byzantine Empire." , Therefore, I am willing to provide you with some agricultural technology, or assistance in other aspects, and you can tell me what you need."

"We need enough weapons, armor, and chariots to defeat the Dashi..." Hearing Sun Xiangfu's words, Heraclius said quickly with a little excitement.

However, when it comes to the latter, his voice is getting quieter, because there are too many things that need to be used as collateral for borrowing these things. After all, the cost of military equipment is inherently expensive, and it is impossible for Datang to sell it cheaply. Their.

But who knows, Sun Xiangfu gave him an unexpected answer.

"No problem, as long as you report the number of these things, I, Datang, can sell them to you. Moreover, the quality and power are better than you imagined. In addition, I can also provide you with an unsecured loan .”

"This······"

Chirac didn't expect that Sun Xiangfu would agree without thinking about such a large amount of loan, which completely stunned him.

On the other hand, Sun Xiangfu smiled wryly, "If you had signed an agreement with Datang to obtain these weapons and equipment when I first arrived in Constantinople, perhaps you would not have suffered such a big defeat. gone."

Hearing Sun Xiangfu's words, Heraclius immediately regretted a lot, but unfortunately, regret was useless. At that time, both he and Ivan didn't trust Datang very much. , In just a few months, the situation has changed drastically.

Of course they didn't know that Tang Dynasty knew the actions of the Great Food Empire from the very beginning. In this world, Li Shimin was the only one who could control the power structure in the world. He directed the whole scene.

Therefore, at this time, in the Kermansha area at the junction of the Great Cannibal and the Tang Dynasty, groups and groups of Byzantine Empire civilians captured by the Great Cannibal were being taken over by Hou Junji, and the carts of grain, cloth, and ironware The equipment was pulled from the barracks of the Tang army and transported back to Medina by the cannibals. This agreement to exchange the prisoners for supplies had already been signed before the cannibals launched an attack on Byzantium.

"Then, what do we have to pay?" Heraclius asked Sun Xiangfu with a solemn expression after finishing his remorse.

"It's very simple. Give the big cannibal you captured in the war to our Tang Dynasty to pay off the debt." Sun Xiangfu smiled and said.

Collecting captives in two directions and consuming the war potential of the two countries is the strategic plan formulated by Li Shimin. When these manpower are in the hands of Datang, they can continuously create various materials and use the materials to exchange for more manpower. A cycle will make Datang's national power keep rising.

And Dashi and Byzantium, which consumed each other and lost their population, obtained the input of materials, so that their war could continue, and in the war, those obtained materials were consumed again, so they will become weaker and weaker , When they finally can't maintain the situation and collapse, Datang will come out to clean up the mess, and use the least labor-saving way to unify Eurasia, and the best results will be achieved.

Moreover, during the whole process, Datang was not worried that their war would stop, because the national characteristics of Dashi determined that they could not be self-sufficient. When the strengths of the two parties reached a balance, Datang could again Easily break their balance by aiding one side.

For example, now that Heraclius got the military equipment that was eliminated by the Tang Dynasty in the early years, it was a pity that it was destroyed, and it was useless and unusable. It is very likely to turn around and regain the lost ground. At that time, Sun Xiangfu had almost returned from the Byzantine Empire and was on a mission.

Soon, Heraclius signed an agreement with Sun Xiangfu, and only half a month after the agreement was signed, Datang sent him 20 bed ballistas and 20 continuous ballistas , 50 catapults, 2000 armors, [-] horses, [-] horses, fine iron steel knives, long spears, [-] handles, [-] million stones of grain, and many more to come.

Of course, because of these things, Byzantium’s national debt owed to Datang reached 5000 million guan, and the interest alone would cost 500 million guan each year, and they could repay this money by capturing prisoners from the battlefield. They are divided into races, not limited to young and old, and they are all purchased at the price of [-] yuan per person. Under the current situation, they have to capture at least half of the big cannibals and hand them over to Datang to fill this hole.

The big cannibal used the more than 500 million people in the newly occupied area to exchange for 5000 million worth of food, cloth, iron equipment and other materials from Datang. The military strength and material reserves, as well as the territory, have grown a lot. Don’t be happy. of.

And Heraclius, who had borrowed [-] million worth of military equipment from Datang, was also very happy. With these powerful equipment, he immediately prepared his army and planned to recover the losses he suffered in the next war.

And Datang is the busiest country. With the nearly 3000 million people merged into the South Asian region, the total population of Datang has exceeded 1000 million. In the ruling area, states and counties are demarcated, houses are built, and fields are divided. It is a great pleasure to allocate livestock and seeds for farming.

Just like that, time passed, and it was the 18th year of Zhenguan. Sun Xiangfu still gave lectures in the fields around Constantinople every day. Thousands of agricultural students and skilled farmers were scattered all over the Byzantine Empire, following his example. , Explain farming knowledge to the people and lead them to plant the land.

In just half a year, Chinese, a language that was originally only popular among the dignitaries of the Byzantine Empire, has made the local people no longer unfamiliar, and even many ordinary people can open their mouths to speak a few words.

Ever since they saw the crops in the field, far exceeding the previous output, they were more willing to calm down and listen to the speeches of these gods from Tang Dynasty. They will try their best to overcome the language barrier, so that they can have this kind of magic In their view, people with high abilities are gods, and they must listen to the oracle of gods.

Of course, there is also the reason why they already know that those people in Datang who can increase the yield of crops will not stay here to teach them how to farm. Therefore, their time is very limited, so they must learn as soon as possible.

What made them more depressed was that after Emperor Heraclius saw that the output in the fields had increased, he proposed to increase taxes.

Therefore, even if they planted far more than the original yield, they did not get much more.

The people of Byzantium can basically understand the reason why Heraclius levies taxes, because the empire is being invaded by cannibals, and Heraclius the Great needs to call up more troops to fight against the invaders on the front line.

Therefore, in order to get more for themselves, they have to work harder on farming. In this way, they have to work harder to learn farming techniques from the envoys sent by Datang.

If you want to learn, you must understand Chinese!Therefore, the Chinese Academy in Constantinople and its nearby cities are now the most lively places, and the Han culture is rapidly spreading in this area.

Only when they came into contact with Han culture did they realize how ignorant the things they originally believed in were.

It turns out that people in the Tang Dynasty all believed in scientific knowledge, explored and pursued the origin of things, and then became powerful. Therefore, the faster the Han culture spreads in the local area, the fewer people who believe in religion. This is Sun Xiangfu The real purpose of the mission.

　Thank you Shan Qingying for your reward, and I wish all brothers and sisters a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!There are no festivals for code farmers, I hope everyone will give some support for the next monthly tickets and recommended tickets! !Thanks!
　　
　
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