Chapter 1174: 1175Difficulties of the Imperial Foreign Office

Chapter 1174: 1175Difficulties of the Imperial Foreign Office

Chang'an, the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Forbidden City, Jiang Run and Nangong Hong sat face to face, talking about the Mirage's hope to surrender.

When the Tang Empire went to war against the Mirage Kingdom, it did not intend to completely wipe out 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 is used as a settlement for orc slaves, and the other two are used as territory for their own use. After all, Tang Mo, a modern man who traveled from the civilized world to the past, really 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, with the war in its current state, if Tang Mo nodded in agreement, the entire Mirage Kingdom might 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 races like goblins and orcs as citizens of the empire. This is equivalent to giving power to these goblins and orcs! And do them good!

If they were admitted 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 brought to them by the Datang Empire.

So 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 Dahua Empire, he was no longer willing to easily open a gap and 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 Entry 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 become a Tang person through your own craftsmanship and change your life.

“I didn’t expect that the mirage country would be weak. Now the problem is on our side.” Nangong Hong complained to Jiang Run with some resentment.

Sometimes the troops on the front line 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? ?

I want other gadgets... Now that the war has reached its current state, what else can the mirage have? There may be some money left, but it may not be possible to get much of it back.

 Every country is short of money. At this time, they have withheld payments for goods left by the goblins in their local areas. Expect them to pay back the money, unless the Tang Dynasty Empire comes to ask for it in person... It's just a few gold coins. To be honest, the Tang Dynasty Empire can't afford to lose that person. Capturing hundreds of thousands of goblins to work as laborers and repaying debts was originally part of the plan, but now 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 it sounds.

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 the Tang Empire has restricted diplomacy since the last anti-Tang war. The personnel has signed a cooperation contract with the other party for 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, the Tang Empire got back some of its benefits, while others were thrown away due to various reasons.

For example, all countries have paid war reparations, but none of them has 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.

The war then ended with the complete victory of the Tang Empire. The Datang 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 finally they all held their noses and admitted it. Everyone understood it tacitly, and in the end the whole matter ended like this.

 However, 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.

 Up to now, the Tang Empire has only secretly controlled the Cyric Consortium to purchase some industries in the Eastern Continent. These industries only supply the Cyric Consortium and ensure the production of the Cyric Consortium.

Jiang Run, who had heard about 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 bone of Mirage in the short term. The whole thing is really embarrassing.

"How about... restating the terms we had before the war?" After thinking about it, although this is a bit dumbfounding, it is indeed a no-brainer. Jiang Run racked his brains and could only suggest this.

Nangong Hong’s expression is wonderful. Doesn’t this mean that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is mentally retarded? Oh, the conditions for exemption from war that were mentioned before the war started will remain the same after the war is won. How can there be such a thing in this world?