The warship fleet currently held by Datang is naturally quite powerful.
This relied on the painstaking efforts of the Tang Dynasty. As a more advanced regime, as a regime that unleashed the potential of papermaking as a window of productivity, the Tang Dynasty did have advantages.
The biggest advantage is that with papermaking, you can have "designs" for making things, and you can make more complex, precise and useful things!
In the Qin and Han Dynasties, China did not have the exquisite heavy armor of later generations, so the form of warfare at that time was large groups of cavalry. But in the Tang Dynasty, after the productivity was liberated, finely armored heavy armor like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei
There are knights all over the place, and you can easily defeat the old-style army when you encounter them.
In an earlier era, the Qin and Han dynasties liberated the combat effectiveness of cavalry, thereby eliminating various chariot forces in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The so-called "nation of ten thousand chariots" was all buried.
And now that the Tang Dynasty had printing technology, this meant that more sophisticated and complex production could be carried out. Not only top craftsmen could use the design drawings to create new light, thin, high-performance heavy armor, but even ordinary craftsmen could use the designs.
Make something!
This means that if Datang wants to break the situation without resorting to the Romans’ mindless robbery routine, it must:
Achieve an advantage in productivity and use a "peace-loving" moral high ground to master the most advanced means of violence.
In other words, a more awesome warship!
However, the warships of the Tang Dynasty are indeed powerful now.
The latest steel warships carry artillery and are not "almost" but completely invincible in all the southern oceans!
There is absolutely no force that can rival it.
You can't even fight, you can't even run away. Datang's warships are driven by machines!
But that's on the southern ocean.
In the vast distance between China and America, the situation is different. Although the warships of the Tang Dynasty are powerful, however,
The biggest problem is that there is no trace of the other party!
Everyone has come a long way from the sea. Not to mention warships finding each other's island ships and cleaning them out, even ordinary merchant ships would never encounter them by chance.
This is also the reason why maritime merchants are unwilling to go here to make a fortune. They can't even meet anyone who comes along, so how can they not feel panicked?
Of course, based on this logic, it seems that it would be difficult for the Romans to find the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, and it would not be easy to do so. Taken together,
The risk of going to sea has not become higher, but has become lower.
But this is not actually the case, because when merchants go out to sea, they hope to meet people traveling the same way. Of course, this can actually be done in a team.
After all, going overseas is about doing business, and doing business is always about finding rare goods. If a large group of people traffic in the same kind of goods, where will the profits come from?
In fact, when the Nanyang route emerged, a large group of maritime merchants first formed groups and then gradually disappeared. This was because, on the one hand, there were overly powerful pirates who specifically sought out such large caravans, and on the other hand, because
This is a business reason.
And now.
The situation is even more complicated and difficult, because today's pirates composed of Romans are definitely far more powerful than the Japanese and Southeast Asians of the past. When the time comes, it will be even more difficult to go to sea to do business?
The intensity of the Romans was as you can imagine.
For ordinary merchants, the pirates from Southeast Diao and Yingzhou could still be dealt with, and the pirates born in the Tang Dynasty could still be dealt with, but the Romans were really good soldiers and generals.
The key point is that the Roman pirates were not only extremely powerful, but ordinary maritime merchants could not handle them at all.
Not to mention being able to defeat, it is difficult to say that such a level of armament can be achieved even if it "forms a certain level of" deterrence.
Although this era is not like that of later generations.
The gap between the official military forces of various countries and their civilian counterparts is extremely wide. The level of official and formal armed forces is far beyond what ordinary enterprises can touch - in fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the so-called private military industry in North America is, to put it bluntly, another country.
A state-owned enterprise.
Think about it and wonder how ordinary companies like those fighter jets and missiles can produce them!
At this stage, China is not that exaggerated. In any case, as long as financial resources really allow it, private merchants can still organize manpower to mass-produce armor, hard crossbows, and even hand mines and other things.
That is to say, civilian merchants like artillery and steel battleships really can't play with it. Those things are just too difficult for ordinary people.
But overall it seems to be okay, and the armament of civilian merchant ships seems to be not too stretched.
However, this is not the case!
If it were the pirates in Yingzhou and Southeast Bay, their level of armament was indeed not worth mentioning.
But that is not the case for the Romans now. The warships of this group are definitely above the first-line level. Although the Romans still most likely do not have such things as the steel warships of the Tang Dynasty, but,
Another thing, the Romans really had it.
artillery!
And honestly, who knows.
What if the Romans also had steel battleships? After all, the Romans had been quietly collecting material civilization from the Tang Dynasty and turning it into their own use.
Aren’t the previous chemical fertilizers and gunpowder just?
After all, a cultured and well-established opponent like Roma is a bit more troublesome and can be played in any way. This is the most disgusting thing.
No one can tell whether the Romans will actually send out a few steel warships one day, which would be extremely troublesome.
Therefore, after the latest wave of pirate news spread, the whole world was immediately in an uproar.
As soon as the news spread, there was an immediate explosion-like effect.
The key point is that there is a very natural and realistic problem before us,
After all, the Romans did not need to search the vast sea for merchants from the Tang Dynasty.
Everyone knows where the Tang Dynasty sailed from, so just block the door!
Apart from the location of the voyage, the place of arrival in America seems to be basically uncertain.
When merchants from the Tang Dynasty went to America, it was basically completely random where they would land.
It's even possible that Tang merchants directly landed in America. This is entirely possible.
It seems that the Romans had nothing to do with the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty in the waters near the Americas. After all, the coastlines in those places were so long that the Romans could only draw random draws. Unlike the east coast of the Tang Dynasty, which was mainly one Hangzhou and one
There is a lot of commercial interest in such a place as Zhongzuo, and of course now there is also Port Saint-Jermain.
Of course, this is easy to capture and locate, but the west coast of America is very long, so it should be safe.