In the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Forbidden City in Chang'an, Jiang Run and Nangong Hong were sitting face to face, talking about the Mirage's hope of surrendering.
When the Tang Empire went to war against the Mirage Kingdom, it did not intend to completely annihilate the Mirage Kingdom: at least from a strategic point of view, Tang Mo did not expect to completely devour the four islands of the Mirage Kingdom.
At the beginning, the Tang Empire's plan was to drive the goblins to the North Island and then take the other three islands into its own hands.
One of them was used as a settlement for orc slaves, and the other two were used as land for his own use. After all, Tang Mo, a modern man who traveled from the civilized world, never thought about a horrific genocide in another world.
But now, a question posed before the diplomats of the Tang Empire: What conditions would they offer to the Mirage Kingdom and then accept their surrender?
To be honest, if the war has reached its current state, if Tang Mo nods his consent, the entire Mirage Kingdom may be directly incorporated into the Tang Empire.
But the problem is that Tang Mo, as the emperor of the Tang Empire, really does not want to accept people like goblins and orcs as citizens of the empire. This is tantamount to giving these goblins and orcs power! And giving them benefits!
If they were accepted into the Tang Empire, Tang Mo would have to admit that these people were also Tang people, which Tang Mo was unwilling to do subconsciously.
You must know that there are too many people in the world who want to become Tang people. The Tang Empire has already tightened its immigration policy, which is what other countries in the world are happy to see.
After all, as long as they become citizens of the Tang Empire, even ordinary people have their own rights. As long as they are willing to assume the obligations of citizens of the Tang Empire, they can enjoy the conveniences that the Datang Empire brings to them.
Therefore, after Tang Mo absorbed the aborigines of Zheng and Qi, absorbed a large number of refugees from Chu, and plundered a large number of people from the Great China Empire, he was no longer willing to easily open a gap to accept outsiders.
Of course, if you are rich, very rich, and are willing to accept the laws of the Tang Empire and be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Empire, then you still have a good chance of becoming a legal citizen of the Tang Empire.
The other type of person is much simpler: as long as you have outstanding talents and contributions in a certain field, you can apply to become a legal citizen of the Tang Empire after being reviewed by the Empire Immigration Department.
This condition includes but is not limited to: art, technology and other fields. To put it bluntly, if you are an eighth-level technician, you can use your craftsmanship to become a Tang person and change your life.
"I didn't expect that the Mirage uniform would be weak. Now the problem is on our side." Nangong Hong complained to Jiang Run with some resentment.
Sometimes the frontline troops fight too fast and too well, which makes diplomatic work difficult: the other party no longer has the bargaining chip to surrender, so how do you propose a price?
If you want minerals, you said that nearly ten million goblins will be crowded on the North Island in the future. There are only a few mines there, and the income from farming is small because it is located in the north. If you don't leave some mines for them, what will so many people eat?
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I want other things... The war has reached its current state, what else can the Mirage have? There may be some money, but it may not be possible to get back much of the money.
All countries are short of money. At this time, they have withheld the payment for the goods left by the goblins in their local areas. I expect them to pay back the money, unless the Tang Empire comes to ask for it in person... It's just a few gold coins. To be honest, Datang
The empire cannot afford to lose that man.
Capturing hundreds of thousands of goblins to work as laborers and repay debts was originally part of the plan, but it can no longer be used as a bargaining chip.
Asking the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to set a condition similar to that of children and grandchildren being slaves and maids, it sounds a bit too inhuman no matter how you sound.
In fact, it is not impossible to bite the bullet and force the goblins to send 100,000 workers every year for 100 years to help the Tang Empire update its infrastructure... But the problem is that since the last anti-Tang War, the Tang Empire has restricted
Diplomats have signed a treaty with the other party for a cooperation period of more than two years.
There is no way around this: before the Anti-Tang War, the Datang Empire had long-term cooperation contracts with many countries: including leasing ports for hundreds of years, including investment projects that need to last for decades, and including those purchased by the Datang Group.
Hundreds of mines.
But these things were affected by the war, causing the Tang Empire to suffer huge losses. After the war, some of the benefits were returned to the Tang Empire, while others were thrown away due to various reasons.
For example, all countries paid war reparations, but none of them returned the mines and ports purchased by Datang Group.
This is also because the Datang Empire was forced to cut off from the Datang Group at that time, and many countries took advantage of this: they believed that they provided a lot of convenience when Tang Mo entered the Western Continent, and did not take advantage of others.
Benefits should be obtained.
Of course, the Tang Empire was at war with the Great China Empire and Chu State at that time, so it finally acquiesced to this fact.
Then the war ended with the complete victory of the Tang Empire. The Tang Empire used aircraft technology to hit these countries hard, adding a little more twists and turns to this confusing account.
At that time, all countries knew that they were in the wrong, and they finally accepted it with their noses in their hands. Everyone understood it tacitly, and in the end the whole matter ended like this.
But this incident still had a huge impact on the diplomacy of the Tang Empire: from that time on, the Tang Empire would definitely be very cautious when it came to mortgaging mineral resources.
So far, the Tang Empire has only secretly controlled the Cyric Consortium to purchase some properties in the Eastern Continent. These properties only supply the Cyric Consortium and ensure the production of the Cyric Consortium.
Jiang Run, who had heard the whole thing from many people, was also worried: they, the landlords, were going to blackmail their tenants, but after they went there, they discovered that the tenants were too poor, and even the poor could not blackmail them.
Already...
This is indeed an embarrassing thing. The empire is unwilling to accept the long-term contract treaty, and there is no way to remove more meat from the bones of the Mirage in the short term. The whole thing is really embarrassing.
"Otherwise... just reiterate the terms we had before the war?" After thinking about it, although doing so made people laugh or cry, it was indeed a no-brainer. Jiang Run racked his brains and could only suggest this.
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Nangong Hong's expression is wonderful. Doesn't this mean that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs admits that their Ministry of Foreign Affairs is mentally retarded? Oh, the conditions for exemption from war that were mentioned before the war started are still the same after the war is won. How can there be such a thing in this world?
