Chapter 376 Excessive
The destruction of northern Greece by the Horses was devastating. When the Tang army completed the Xiuli Northern Greece, the population loss exceeded 60%, all medium-sized cities were destroyed, and the fertile land was burned to white land. In just over two months, northern Greece seemed to have returned to the wilderness overnight.
In fact, the Tang army did not have the ability to save the people in northern Greece. Even after they captured Athens, they immediately went north, and there was no time to stop the Romans who were determined to destroy the potential of Greek wars. What's more, Li Ang had no such plan from the beginning. The massacre and destruction of the Romans was exactly what he wanted to see.
The Romans' voluntary departure made the Tang army stop the war. The broken Greece needed time to govern and restore its vitality, and their goal was to annex Greece.
So a strange scene happened. The Tang army and the Romans stood guard along the inherent border between Greece and Rome, without any offense. It was as if nothing had happened.
The navy was suppressed and the Romans had no other choice but to defend their homeland. After experiencing several tragic battles, Li Ang planned to suppress the Romans and strangle the Romans by eroding them.
In order to achieve suppression of the Romans, Li An began to consider moving the capital. The Xijing city of Baghdad is good, but now he has annexed Asia and Greece, so the Xijing city is not suitable for existence as a capital. Finally, in the headquarters, Li An decided to move the capital to Istanbul, the Byzantine, so that he could calmly manage the Eastern European grasslands, achieve the goal of eroding Europe, and finally strangle Rome on the Western European continent.
After knowing Li Ang's decision, Wang Meng, who was in Xijing City, had no choice but to agree. After all, Xijing City had not been a capital for a long time and had not had a major renovation of the palace at the beginning, so it was not difficult to move the capital. Considering the future plans of the entire country, moving the capital is also a must. What's more, Byzantium, which was renamed Zhongjing, is indeed a good capital.
In this way, when the Tang army established a defense line in Greece against the Romans, the capital began to move. For the Tang Kingdom, which had not been established for a short time, there was almost no force in the country to compete with Li Ang. When they knew that Li Ang decided to move the capital, the wealthy businessmen and tycoons of the original ethnic groups responded and voluntarily moved to Zhongjing City. They also contributed money and efforts to build Zhongjing into a capital that could be compared with Chang'an. However, Wang Meng, who was responsible for the supervision of the construction, rejected this very tempting suggestion. His mind was not confused. The land of the Tang Kingdom was basically 300 million Han people in the Great Qin land. No matter what, the Tang Kingdom was only a vassal prince of the Great Qin, and he must not do anything to do anything to avoid unnecessary trouble.
When the Tang army stopped military operations, all matters of the Tang State were given priority to internal affairs. The ruined Greece needed governance, and Asia, which had lost a large population, urgently needed supplementary. So in the next three years, the Tang State once again asked the Qin Dynasty for nearly three million young and strong people to enrich the Asia region. It also formed a unit of 200,000 people, mainly single soldiers, and handed them over to Ran Min for training, preparing to enter the territory inhabited by the former Germans, and subdue the only German races under the massacre of the Romans as a new military pressure point for the Romans.
In the past three years, Cao Ziyun did not do nothing in Longcheng as the officials in the Chang'an court thought, but experienced a lot of things with Li Jingqi. They first participated in the construction of the Tang army's defense line in Greece, and then went to Wang Meng to supervise the Zhongjing City that had been built for half a year. During this period, the two had commanded a construction team of tens of thousands of people. After a year, they followed Ran Min into Europe, subdued the more than 100,000 Germans and other European barbarians who were scattered under the Roman butcher knife, and successfully controlled the place that was regarded as barbaric in the eyes of the Romans.
After returning from Europe, the two were sent by Li Ang to Egypt, followed the Tang army stationed in Egypt to wipe out bandits, and included Egypt into the Tang territory, becoming an Egyptian province.
Although the Tang Kingdom did not launch an attack on the Romans, the swallowing of whales against the surrounding areas of Rome for three years made Constantine and Julius feel like they were on the back. They knew that the Tang Kingdom was suppressing them tightly on the European continent and dragging them down through military pressure.
Although he knew Li Ang’s plan, Constantine had no choice. His army was at an absolute disadvantage against the Tang army in the field. If he wanted to fight back, it would be equivalent to attacking the enemy’s strengths. Moreover, his navy was suppressed by the combined fleet of the Tang and Qin, which made him lose the possibility of attacking the Tang land. As for the border area of Greece, the Tang army built a stronger defense system, and the Germanic land that was subdued by the Tang Kingdom was mainly plains, and the Tang Kingdom’s cavalry was the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom.
In order to exert their full strength, even Constable was unable to launch an attack under such circumstances, and could only watch Li Ang form a strategic encirclement against him.
For the Romans, the only thing they could count on was the Huns, except for themselves, but the Huns were not having a good life. The Qin army, which had once been restored to the former iron-blooded and domineering, clamped the Huns' army tightly on the Eurasian grasslands. The huge national strength of the Qin Dynasty was enough to support them in a long war until the Huns were defeated. Therefore, the Huns could only provide horses for the Romans to train a cavalry unit that could compete with the Tang cavalry. However, after Ran Min entered Eastern Europe and conquered the local Germans and barbarians, the horse trade between the Romans and the Huns was also seriously threatened, forcing Constantine and Julius to re-arrange heavy troops on the Western Front to prevent the sudden attack of Ran Min's troops.
The pattern of the world quietly changed under such circumstances. The two Han civilization countries, Daqin and Tang, suppressed the two most powerful and last enemies of the Han civilization in the world, respectively, in the east and west. Perhaps it only takes a few decades to completely eliminate the Huns and Romans and truly realize the world of Han civilization.
Due to the continuous immigration of Daqin to the outside world, the problems brought about by the original population increase were fundamentally solved, because the Tang State had very high requirements for the number of immigrants of local Han people, rather than a little population. Although a considerable number of the migrant population was forced, it did not hinder the benefits of the entire migration.
The mobility of the population drove the economy of the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time it also made the process of the Chineseization of the Tang Dynasty faster. The young and strong Han people were continuously imported from Central Asia to the vast areas of the Mediterranean. They often married women from several different ethnic groups as wives to balance the number of unmarried women in the local area. During the years of war, due to a series of wars and headhunting orders launched by Li Ang and the provocative national vendetta, the male population in Central Asia, West Asia, Asia, North Africa and some parts of Europe died in large numbers. According to the secret archives of the Ministry of Revenue of the Tang Dynasty, the number of men who died directly or indirectly in these areas was around 15 million, which is a very terrible number. If there were no Han immigrants from the local Han people in the Qin Dynasty, it would take at least fifty years for these areas to recover their vitality.
But now, no problems exist because the Qin Dynasty is behind the Tang State. As for the tax issue, the officials of the Tang State do not need to worry. The trade brought by the Silk Road is enough to support the national government expenditure of the Tang State, not to mention that they also have the financial support of the Qin Dynasty.
For Chang'an, the great families support the Tang State in fact for the local interests. After all, the Tang State originated from the Great Qin State, and now the forces of various families in the Tang State's court have also infiltrated. I believe that it will not take long to achieve a perfect balance like the Great Qin State. In essence, the Great Qin Royal Family is also an interest group of the aristocratic families. The Great Qin and the Tang State will annex other countries in the world and create an unprecedented rule.
On the surface, the Qin Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty are subordinate, but in fact, the two countries are actually a whole. Of course, this was obtained by Li Ang at the expense of his certain royal power. He could reject the interests of the aristocratic alliance for the Tang Dynasty. However, in that case, he would lose the support of the Qin Dynasty, which was not what Li Ang wanted. In addition, he was not a person with strong power. What he pursued was the long-term stability of the country and the balance of power. He had no intention of becoming a dictator like Emperor Wu of Han.
In three years, for the aristocratic alliance, the most important thing they did was marriage. They entered the Tang Dynasty. Although Li Ang had no reaction, it did not mean that his subordinates would have no objection. For these heads of family who had been immersed in power and tactics for a long time, confrontation was meaningless. Pulling these Tang Dynasty upstarts into their own camp is a wise and visionary choice. To make their daughters in their family marry these Tang Dynasty upstarts, it can be said that they are a sure profit and profit.
Li Ang was happy to see his success in marriage. The aristocratic families in Chang'an were well versed in politics. For the Tang Dynasty, their entry was not a bad thing. What's more, he himself had two marriages with the Royal Family of the Qin Dynasty. His eldest son, the future king of the Tang Dynasty, would marry the princess of the Qin Dynasty, and his daughter would marry the prince of the Qin Dynasty. The future emperor Cao Yu and Cao Ziyun's real name. For the two countries, these two marriages would make the connection between the two countries closer.
Chapter completed!