Valley Emperor

Although most of the time, the people of the Tang Dynasty pay attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality, and they rarely end up in person to wage war against the natives.

But wherever they went, the local natives would fight.

And before the Datang diplomats went, the local aborigines used to be good, but when the Datang people came, war would break out. Everyone is not stupid, even if they don't know the truth of the matter, but a little guess or two will be able to know that this is the case. The war instigated by the Tang people.

In this regard, the Datang diplomat said: Don't wrong people, we just wandered around casually, their natives are extremely savage and insist on fighting what we can do.

Even if we sell ordnance, we are just building a bridge, and it is all arms trading companies that do this.

Besides, the arms trade is normal trade, and the arms dealers in Datang are also anxious for the natives. They came all the way to sell weapons to help them improve their national defense capabilities. This is a great and selfless spirit of international aid, okay!

Also, Datang pursues a free trade policy!

I can sell weapons to whomever I want!

Regardless of whether it is Buddha, God, or other ghosts and snakes, none of them can block the freedom of trade of Datang merchants, let alone the mere natives.

Well, the Import and Export Council exceptions!

The Import and Export Committee said that if you can't export, you can't export. There is no negotiation. If you have an opinion, talk to the cabinet and the army and navy to make sense!

For the sake of world peace, the diplomats of the Tang Dynasty have been active in the Mughal Dynasty and the Safi Dynasty frequently in the past two years, and it is estimated that they will fight in a short time.

But these have nothing to do with Zuo Chengsheng and the others. They only focus on the current Caspian Sea trade.

It has been two months since Zuo Chengsheng came to Curry. Before that, he had been watching, getting to know people, and waiting for opportunities.

And now, the opportunity has finally come. He has already found out that the government is organizing a small-scale fleet to go to Baku, which is controlled by the Ottomans.

Of course, the people from the government are not for trade. The people from the government are going to go directly through the Caspian Sea to establish a more direct connection with the Ottomans.

It is rumored that the military will also send people there.

These have little to do with him. What he cares about is that although the official fleet is small, there are only two ships, and the ships are not large, but in addition to carrying official personnel, there will definitely be rich tonnage.

This is his chance.

For this reason, he acted quickly, and when the others hadn't reacted, he went directly to the state yamen and said that he wanted to take a downwind boat to Baku for trade.

Although the government acts and doesn't care much for ordinary people, there is no reason to refuse. Anyway, the cabin of the ship is empty, so it is directly rented to him.

After the matter was finalized, several other businessmen reacted. After this swarm searched, except for a few people who were able to get the cabin, the others could only return after failure.

After all, there are only two ships in the fleet, and one of them is a navy ship. The navy ships do not carry other people, and the government ships are not large, and the people and goods that can be carried are limited.

After the ship was finalized, Zuo Chengsheng directly purchased the goods. Since it was the first time to go to Baku to deal with the Ottomans, in order to avoid risks, he brought many kinds of goods, and the quantity of each kind was small.

Silk, porcelain, tea, cloth are all available, and he even got a set of export-type plate armor.

A few days later, he boarded the Shengyuan with all the goods he had spent. This ship was not an ocean-going ship, but an offshore inland river ship with a relatively shallow draft.

The tonnage is not large, only more than 200 tons. Many people can see that this ship is similar to the ships of the empire running on the Yangtze River and other rivers.

Because Shengyuan was not big, there were not many merchants accompanying him except for officials and government materials, including Zuo Chengsheng, only four people, and the total amount of goods they carried was about 100 tons.

Next to Shengyuan is the Navy's inland gunboat Jia627.

The names of the inland and offshore ships of the Datang Navy are generally directly numbered as the ship name. Otherwise, it is too troublesome to take place names or other special names one by one.

The scale of the offshore inland river vessels of the Datang Navy is huge.

The gunboat No. 627 belongs to a typical inland river gunboat. It is the latest type of A6-class gunboat. It is only suitable for sailing on inland rivers and lakes. Its standard displacement is 200 tons, and the main gun is one gun. The 120mm rear-mounted guns are deployed on the front deck, and the secondary guns are two 75mm rear-mounted guns.

The small 200 tons are equipped with a 120mm rear-loading gun and two 75mm rear-loading guns, which is quite difficult.

While the firepower is strong, it also leads to the general performance of the ship in other aspects. The protection can only rely on the steel hull to resist, and the power can only maintain a maximum speed of eight knots, and the endurance is very general, only poor. of 2,000 kilometers of endurance.

And because the draft is relatively shallow and there are a lot of weapons, in order to ensure balance, the freeboard is very low, and the superstructure is relatively tall. Naturally, the anti-wind and wave performance is not good, and it is not suitable for sailing at sea.

However, the three series of inland gunboats of the Tang Dynasty, A, B, and C, also sailed to sea, and they all sailed in inland rivers and lakes, so there was no problem.

As the twenty-seventh inland river gunship with steam after-loading guns in service with the Navy, Jialiu27 was dismantled after the initial construction was completed at Jinling Shipyard. Assembly at the Curry Shipyard.

Otherwise, relying on the technical capabilities and equipment of the current Curry Shipyard, there is no way to directly build warships, even if it is only a 200-ton inland gunboat.

The gunboat No. 627, after being reassembled in Curry, entered the service of the West Sea Fleet of the Datang Navy and became the flagship of the fleet.

The West Sea Fleet is also the latest fleet established by the Datang Navy. Its mission is to control the West Sea and the Volga River Basin, provide logistical supplies for the Western Expedition troops, ensure the safety of inland transportation, and provide artillery support for the Army troops when necessary.

In addition to Jialiu27, there are also two inland gunboats with only a few dozen tons built by the Curry Shipyard.

Although the number is small, the combat effectiveness is not bad. Before, the West Sea Fleet used the gunboat Jia627 as the core, and crossed the West Sea with two other gunboats, arrived at the northwest coast of the West Sea, and attacked the Tatars deployed at the mouth of the Volga River. some ships.

If Astrakhan, which is not controlled by the Tatars, is still dozens of kilometers away from the sea, there is a large floodplain in the middle, and the estuary is relatively small, and the Tatars also deployed artillery batteries to block it.

It is estimated that the West Sea Fleet of the Datang Navy had been bombarding Astrakhan along the Volga River before.

Although there are only a few gunboats, these gunboats are all steel steam gunboats, and they are equipped with rear-mounted guns, which is enough to make the West Sea Fleet of the Datang Navy invincible in the Caspian Sea.

Of course, the reason why this kind of invincibility cannot be defeated by the enemy does not mean that the West Sea Fleet has control of the West Sea.

The West Sea in the population of Datang and the Caspian Sea in the population of Europe are very large in area. After preliminary survey by the Datang Navy, it is estimated that the area of ​​this inland saltwater sea is probably 380,000 square kilometers. Kilometers, such a long coastline, it is impossible for the ships of the West Sea Fleet to completely control it.

It is impossible to control the West Sea by cruising, so the Datang Navy West Sea Fleet adopted a simpler way to control the West Sea, that is, directly block the Volga River exit of the Tatars and kill their ships.

It's just that the Tatars are not stupid. They will flee into the Volga River and rely on the artillery of the shore defense to resist.

In this regard, the West Sea Fleet of the Datang Navy is not in a hurry. Anyway, the top officials of the empire have not planned to launch a large-scale westward expedition for a while. For a long time in the future, the West Sea Fleet will continue to increase ships.

In order to increase the strength of the West Sea Fleet, and considering the small population of Curry and the extremely poor shipbuilding capability, the Navy has already started dismantling small-tonnage inland vessels in the central and eastern regions and transporting them by train.

When there are more ships in the West Sea Fleet, it is impossible for the Tatars to stop the West Sea Fleet from entering the Volga River.

But these are all things in the future. At present, the West Sea Fleet has only a few ships, with a total tonnage of less than 400 tons, and the total number of officers and soldiers is only a few hundred people~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In order to **** diplomats to Baku, They all have to move half of the main force!

A Jia627, its 200-ton tonnage has occupied half of the tonnage of the West Sea Fleet!

Although the West Sea is vast and is a saltwater lake, its ecology is very similar to that of the ocean, but as an inland lake, it is generally very calm.

The Shengyuan that Zuo Chengsheng and the others took was originally a shallow inland river vessel, and its seaworthiness was not very good, but when it was running across the West China Sea, it was very stable, although this was similar to the sunny weather and no wind and no rain. great relationship.

After traveling smoothly across half of the West Sea, they finally arrived at Baku, one of the most important cities along the coast of the West Sea.

When this small fleet of only two ships arrived at the port of Baku, it instantly caused a sensation among the local Ottomans.

Well, in fact, there are not many local Ottomans at all. The locals are actually the original Baku people. The real Ottomans are actually only a few hundred troops, plus dozens of officials and their families. .

As for ordinary Ottomans, why do they come here when they have nothing to do!

Standing on the bow, Zuo Chengsheng looked at the port of Baku in front of him, and couldn't help showing disappointment. This place was different from what he expected.

He had heard before that Baku was a relatively important city in the Caucasus, but now it seems that it has only a few thousand people, and its size is similar to a small fishing village on the eastern coast of the empire.

Can such a shabby place allow myself to sell these things?

Zuo Chengsheng's doubts were also the doubts of Hu Qinyuan on the same ship. Is this broken place worth taking down by the empire?

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