There is no doubt, although it is not necessarily true, but as the emperor of Rome, I must think so, that is, the Tang Empire will not do things without meaning, let alone not do things without meaning!
Continuing to crack down on pirates, and eventually directly drag out a large number of pirates and publicly hang them, this is the serious approach. The Tang Empire must have some conspiracy, and this conspiracy.
Hannibal became even more convinced after he obtained further recent price reports within the Tang Empire!
According to the current investigation, the Tang Empire had several coastal trade and naval cities, with a total of more than five - which is indeed much more unique than Rome, the country of seven hills.
Before that, I knew that the Tang Empire planned to enter America, and these guys quietly did a lot of preparatory work for this purpose - after some preparations, prices in the Tang Empire rose rapidly.
Without thinking, little Hannibal could guess that those guys must be officially preparing to take action.
As time went on, he got more and more information - after the price of goods in the Tang Empire rose, shipbuilding workshops everywhere also stopped working, which further confirmed his suspicion - the other party was definitely not suddenly
They are no longer interested in oceans and overseas interests, but must be preparing for a big wave.
If the comparison of strength between the Tang Empire and Rome was the main reason that bothered me, then these relatively more detailed things were the reasons that not only bothered me, but also annoyed me almost every hour.
However, worries are not always a bad thing. Worries at least mean that you have obtained information and grasped your situation.
In addition to the serious and steady advancement of the Tang Empire, another plot or strategy was probably to fund the disbanded group of pirates. Among other information sent along with the price information, little Hannibal also learned about it.
The main driving force behind the disbandment of that group of pirates was a group of young nobles trained within the Tang Empire.
It's not quite accurate to say they are nobles. In fact, little Hannibal didn't know how to call or position these young people. Because these young people come from all kinds of backgrounds, and most of them are not nobles at all, but...
After so many years, based on Hannibal's understanding of world affairs, the education those young people received was undoubtedly aristocratic education - military aristocratic education and ordinary aristocratic education coexisted.
I had known about such a strange thing for a long time, so I couldn't think of any way to do it, so I had no choice but to stop thinking about it. However, although I didn't think about it more, as the emperor of an empire.
There is still a surprising point in little Hannibal's heart, which will appear in his mind from time to time even if he doesn't think about it.
, cultivating so many new aristocrats, no matter whether these young people were originally aristocrats or not, they are undoubtedly already aristocrats.
So the question is, how can the Tang Empire afford to cultivate so many nobles?
Of course, it is not that little Hannibal has never seen what the Tang Empire did. Although these young people grew up receiving aristocratic education, their jobs are often in the field of trade and industry. They build and sell various or
An unusually exquisite or powerful artifact.
There is no doubt that these trades have made huge profits. If you really want to say where these young nobles were raised by the gold and silver treasures, there is no doubt that Rome is one of them anyway. This is simply undisputed.
Of course, everyone is doing this kind of thing, and everyone who comes out needs to make a living. There is no essential difference between an individual and an empire.
One person and ten million people all need to eat.
However, little Hannibal still felt strange, because the training level of these young people in the Tang Empire was actually, according to him, too high.
, then the problem arises. Although the Tang Empire is now vigorously cultivating these young people, and these young people are profiting from the business of sea trade, everyone is living a pretty good life, but the problem is, if the sea trade
What about profit decline?
Although young Hannibal valued sea trade very much, he actually didn't particularly care about this kind of thing.
Although he doesn't particularly care about this kind of thing, it doesn't mean that he doesn't understand it. After all, this is a huge amount of interest, and it is related to the lifeblood of the country.
But even if the understanding is quite comprehensive, it does not mean that little Hannibal really cares. After all, in the final analysis, opening up borders is the true way of survival for an empire.
Because after all, it is impossible for people to be truly satisfied, or in other words, no matter any group, as long as it exists, there will always be people whose interests will not be taken care of. And if it happens that the empire itself does not have enough money to appease it at this time, then what will happen next?
In one step, the world will be in chaos. This can be said to be the fate of almost any empire, even business empires.
In the final analysis, civilization is rooted in the wilderness and exists. If you don't want to see the empire end, it is of course necessary to open up borders. Of course, methods and methods are the most important. As for what the most important method is, that is another story.
But what is certain is that the issue of opening up Xinjiang itself cannot be ruled out.
Then, things are very strange. The Tang Empire cannot be an exception. If one day sea trade cannot make money, what are they going to say to those young people? And the question of whether sea trade can always make money has actually been solved.
The answer is that in recent years, on the one hand, sea trade has been booming, which was initiated by the Tang Empire, but on the other hand, the profits of sea trade have indeed been declining in recent years.
Whether this profit was due to the scarcity of all goods in the early trade, which made early sea trade profits very high, or because there were too many merchants who followed up, which flattened the profits, or because of the Tang Empire's
Naval activities have made maritime trade extremely low-risk, and naturally reduced costs and profits.
Maritime trade has always had a certain nature of exchanging lives for money, and the Tang Empire reduced or even eliminated this nature, so the results are naturally conceivable.
But no matter what, profits have been declining year after year. At this time, no matter how powerful the emperor and ministers of the Tang Empire are, if something is not done, then the next step will be when these young people educated by strict aristocrats gather together and something will happen.
It’s hard to say what. At this time, profits must come in from the outside world.
As the philosophers of later generations said, the only way to cure mental internal friction is to have a large amount of money appear in your bank card.
But now, the Tang Empire has really shown its fangs.