Valley Emperor

At present, the number of machinery and equipment that Datang has in overseas territories is extremely limited globally, and the only ones are deployed in major military bases.

For example, in overseas military bases of the navy, there are generally mechanical equipment to support the maintenance of warships.

But at present, there are only a few mechanical equipment in closed overseas military bases, and there are no other overseas territories at all.

Under the current situation, the overseas territories cannot even build railways, let alone any oil extraction and refining equipment.

In fact, the biggest possibility is that even the drilling equipment for surveying can't get through...

The Empire's import and export controls are too restrictive and are a basic national policy.

In order to ensure its leading edge in weapon technology, the military has always been firmly opposed to technology export, and the imperial elite, especially local industrial and commercial enterprises, are also firmly opposed to technology export, and a large number of companies and their compete.

Of course, there are also forces pushing for the liberalization of import and export controls. For example, officials in overseas territories, nobles, and companies that have invested overseas, especially mining companies that invest in minerals overseas, have been actively promoting the liberalization of imports and exports. Control, allowing them to use machinery and equipment in overseas industries, and even set up factories directly there, build railways to reduce shipping costs, and so on.

It's just that under the current situation of the Tang Dynasty, the voices of support are too small, and the voices of opposition are too loud, and it can't be changed for a while.

Under this circumstance, Datang Petroleum's overseas oil exploration is based on the most primitive exploration. During the process of oil exploration in overseas areas, there is no gain in other places, but oil is discovered here in Baku.

Zhu Tongen reported that the oil in Baku is very easy to extract, and the reserves are huge, which has great mining value.

When the top management of Datang Oil Company got this report, they planned it.

In order to exploit Baku's oil, the problem of import and export control must be solved first. The Tang Dynasty refused to export machinery and equipment even in overseas territories, let alone in the territory of the Ottoman Dynasty.

Although Datang Oil Company is a royal property company, it is not proud enough to have the ability to change the decision of the Import and Export Committee.

The Import and Export Council has never changed its course since the day it was established.

If you go to great lengths to open import and export controls, it is better to solve the problem once and for all: direct localization of Baku!

In fact, this method was not conceived by Datang Oil itself, but by officials from many overseas territories. Beihai Province was the firm executor and successor of this measure.

Today's Banten Province, Luzon Province, Malacca State, Australia and other overseas territories, such as Honolulu, North America and other overseas territories, are trying their best to re-localize.

One of the many reasons for directly urging local officials, nobles, enterprises and immigrants to localize, import and export control is one of the reasons.

In the opinion of the senior management of Datang Oil Company, although Baku is far away and is located in the Caucasus, it can also be localized.

And Datang Oil Company doesn't want a big place, and it doesn't swallow the entire Caucasus. It only needs a Baku, and then it's easy to localize a small place.

Once the localization is successful, the next thing is much easier!

These plans of Datang Oil Company were also reported to Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, and Li Xuan acquiesced to this.

People from Datang Oil Company can see the importance of Baku. As a later generation, Li Xuan is more aware of the importance of Baku, which is one of the main oil producing areas of the modern oil industry.

The development of the modern oil industry in the original time and space started in the United States, and then Baku and Nanyang followed.

At its peak, Baku Oil once supplied most of the oil in Europe, which shows its importance.

Direct occupation and localization of Baku is a must.

Of course, Li Xuan only acquiesced, and did not publicly say that he supported it, because it was not that level.

With the current strength and influence of the Tang Empire, there would be no problem in taking a Baku from the Ottoman Empire.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the military can simply do something to complete the task. There is no need for Li Xuan to directly say it, and let the empire make a big splash.

In fact, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the military have done things like this countless times, otherwise you would think that the Tang Empire had so many overseas ports and military bases.

Previously in Europe, the European fleet under the Seventh Fleet directly captured Ceuta from the Kingdom of Morocco and used Ceuta to control Gibraltar.

The local side didn't know about this before, until the Ceuta was captured, the construction of the Ceuta military port began, and the relevant news was transmitted back to the mainland.

It is rumored that the Seventh Fleet is not satisfied with taking a Ceuta, and is planning to take Gibraltar. Controlling a Ceuta, how can it be safer to directly control Ceuta and Gibraltar.

It's just that Gibraltar is more sensitive. The diplomats of the Seventh Fleet and the Tang embassy in Europe are still struggling to get Gibraltar without affecting Spain's resistance to the Tatars.

In this Baku, no exception, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Navy are ready to join hands to make trouble again.

The navy wants military exploits and ports.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs should make achievements in order to increase its own importance and expand the influence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the major departments of the empire, rather than being an optional department as it is now.

You must know that in the past few years, many people have called for it to simply abolish the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. What kind of diplomacy does the Tang Empire want.

No matter how bad it is, we must compress the organization and turn the Ministry of Foreign Affairs into the Department of Foreign Affairs or something. This makes many diplomats in the Datang Empire have a strong sense of crisis, and they always want to do something to refresh their sense of existence.

Because they are worried that this will not create a sense of existence, and if they make trouble, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs may be abolished that day!

The joint promotion of the oil company and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the acquiescence of the Son of Heaven, led to Hu Qinyuan and his party.

From the current point of view, Hu Qinyuan's actions are still very smooth.

Although the excuses made are a bit poor, it doesn't matter. Even Hu Qinyuan and others, regardless of the excuses, planned to bombard Baku.

If this does not provoke a war, how can they have reason to occupy Baku?

The No. 627 gunboat of the Navy's West Sea Fleet is just a river gunboat of more than 200 tons. Naturally, it has no sense of existence in the Navy.

Even in the navy's offshore inland river troops, this kind of small gunboat of more than 200 tons still has no sense of existence. The navy's inland river fleet also has inland river gunboats that are hundreds of tons or even thousands of tons.

But in this West Sea Fleet, this is the flagship. In the huge West Sea waters, there is no enemy at all!

With its full firepower, a 120mm main gun and two 75mm secondary guns fired at Baku with an unimaginable rate of fire, range and accuracy.

Under the blow of the only three artillery pieces, in about ten minutes, the port was reduced to ruins.

This makes those Ottomans cry without tears!

The Datang people who have been killed these days are unreasonable at all.

Many officials or officers wanted to stop the resistance, but found that their soldiers had almost run away, and it didn't take long for them to run too.

Looking at the natives running around, a team of marines from the navy began to land and clear the remaining enemies.

And the guns in the hands of the Marine Corps were not the same as usual.

Zuo Chengsheng could clearly see that the landed Marines did not reload from the muzzle after firing, but directly from the rear of the gun, and the rate of fire was extremely fast.

Zuo Chengsheng is also a knowledgeable person, but he knows very well that a musket can fire two shots per minute to be a skilled soldier, and one who can do three shots per minute is an elite.

But the Marines in front of them were shooting extremely fast, at least ten shots were fired in just one minute.

"I'm afraid this is the newly installed rear-loading gun!" Boss Xu, who was on the side, was surprised when he saw this scene: "This gun is really fast, and they can hit the enemy within two or three hundred meters. !"

"If my men had such a gun back then, they would have robbed all the natives of Nanyang!" When Boss Xu spoke, he did not conceal what he did back then.

Zuo Chengsheng also said: "Looking like this, it should be. The newspaper said that the Guochao will be equipped with a new type of rear-loading rifle, which has an extremely fast rate of fire and extremely high precision. !"

The rifles used by the soldiers of the Marine Corps of the West Sea Fleet are indeed the latest Type 34 rifles installed by the Empire, also known as the Union Rifles.

As a rear-loading rifle that integrates the design features of a variety of rear-loading rifles and makes choices, the combined rifle has the advantages of being simple and easy to use, low in cost, and low in failure rate. After the design is finalized, mass production begins~www. wuxiaspot.com~ and began to install gradually.

It has become the second rear-loading rifle of the empire. As for the first, it is naturally the performance of the guards' equipment. It fires metal bullets, supplies bullets from the magazine, and has higher accuracy. At the same time, the price is several times more expensive. Li Fu Rifle up.

It's just that Li Fu's rifle is limited to the equipment of the Guards, and neither the Army nor the Navy has it. That thing is not only expensive for guns, but also more expensive for bullets. The army and navy have a lot of demand and can't afford it at all.

The combination rifle is the choice of the army and navy. The army rifles are equipped with the standard model of the combination rifle, as well as the navy model and the cavalry model.

The combined rifles equipped by the Marine Corps are either shorter than the standard version. In addition, certain improvements have been made in the manufacturing process, and the requirements for anti-corrosion are improved.

If it is simply compared in terms of firepower, in fact, the difference between the naval version and the army version is not large. Although there is a slight gap in the initial speed and long-distance accuracy, it does not affect the actual combat effect.

Just when fighting the enemy hand to hand, the naval version of the gun is shorter in length, and there will be some disadvantages.

But now with the firepower density of Datang, it is not so easy for the enemy to rush up to fight meleely.

After the Marines landed, they used the muskets in their hands to fire quickly, and in no time, they wiped out all the enemies that were visible to the naked eye, regardless of whether they were the Ottomans or the local indigenous Persians.

Zuo Chengsheng also saw that after they landed, they also used a very special small cannon to fire artillery shells directly at the enemy's position.

The shells fired by this type of artillery did not hit straight, but first hit the sky, and then fell into the city wall where the enemy was hiding, blowing up the natives who were trying to hide behind the city wall or other obstacles.

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