Chapter 43 The fate of the loser
The number of Arabian cavalry exceeds 200,000, provided more than 180,000 kills to the Fourth Armored Infantry Brigade of the Eighth Division of the Empire. Although this was an extremely asymmetric war. However, most of the elite soldiers of these 200,000 Arabians still launched a desperate charge towards the Emperor** without hesitation. The spirit and courage of these people are indeed worthy of recognition. But this is meaningless.
After hearing that the desert cavalry that he was proud of was sent to hell without any mercy and effortlessly by his opponent, Arabi's Caliph fell into great panic. The vanguard of the empire was less than fifty kilometers away from Lasek and could reach the city in an hour. In the city, all the guards, which had the power of fighting, were sent out, and were naturally killed. The remaining defeated generals who escaped had no energy at all. They seemed to have their souls removed. There was no normal mental state. They were crying all day long and dazed.
Logically speaking, being able to escape from such a terrifying battlefield shows that they are lucky enough, smart enough, and strong enough. Such lives should be protected well. However, among the remnants and defeated soldiers who fled back, there are many suicides. Countless soldiers and officers with mental collapse finally chose to end their lives, which made the Arabs who were not sure about the war also have a psychological shadow - what is more terrifying than death. So much so that these people will suffer for so long after escaping the battlefield, and even choose to end their lives?
If the Fourth Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Eighth Division had come to their royal city after this, perhaps this problem would have been resolved soon. But before that, the Caliph, who had been frightened enough, issued an order to compromise and surrender overnight. His ministers were sent to the front line to dissuade Sylvanian's army from continuing to move south.
"All conditions can be agreed to them! As long as these damn Sylvanians no longer attacked Arabia, they can agree to any conditions! Whether it is opening trade ports, compensation or tariff issues, they can be agreed to!" At that time, the panicked Caliph shouted at the top of his lungs and asked for a negotiation to resolve the war. What, it was obviously waiting for the good news from the front line a few days ago, and his complacent hope of increasing his martial merits. Fortunately, he bragged about it in the following historical books. But in the blink of an eye, it turned out to be speechless. But for granted, this is a good thing for Sylvania.
Next, Arabi, who was scared out of his courage and wanted to reach a compromise with the empire, agreed to very harsh conditions. In the new trade treaty, the empire had preferential trade policies for Arabi, and Arabi's tariffs on the empire should not exceed two percent. The empire could export any product to Arabi without restrictions. At the same time, Arabi's commodity empire also had the right to acquire first. All kinds of high-quality agricultural and sideline products produced by Arabi must be selected and purchased by the empire first. Then the Arabi local merchants chose.
This article was followed by an announcement of compensation. Because Arabi still adopted the old monetary policy and used precious metals as coins. Therefore, the compensation required by the Empire also needed to be paid by gold coins. Previously, the harm to merchants and immigrants in Sylvania was caused. Therefore, the total compensation was required to exceed eight million ral gold coins. As a result, the Empire sent troops, it required to pay 21 million ral gold coins. The total amount was close to 30 million ral gold coins in ten years, and Arabi also needed to pay 5% of the Empire's compound interest every year. In this way, the final compensation would exceed 30 million.
In addition to compensation for commercial trade and war reparations, the Empire also required the opening of sixteen special trading ports in Arabia. Among these special trading ports, the Empire will divide a part of the area as the concession set up by the Empire in Arabia. The concession security is the responsibility of the Imperial Team. The management of the lease is also the responsibility of the Imperial personnel. The Arabs are not allowed to enter the concession for no reason, and they are not allowed to carry weapons into the concession. The imperial laws must be abide by the concession.
After that, the right to natural resources development is. The explorers and their escort forces of the empire can act arbitrarily within the Arabian Empire and conduct exploration activities. The developed mineral empire enjoys priority mining rights, and can obtain 50% of the raw ore of the mineral for free. The remaining 50% of the raw ore is adapted to the first clause's priority refusal.
Then, the empire did not attach much importance to it, but it was essential - in order to avoid the harm caused to the empire by Arabic's barbaric and backward laws, and to avoid the Arabic people giving the empire a wrong criminal law for their own reasons. Therefore, the empire needs extraterritorial legal power. The imperial citizens who committed crimes in Arabic will be tried by the imperial court, and the sentences and fines will be handed over to the empire for handling.
In order to spread the sects of science and truth, the missionaries of the empire will enjoy the right to preach freely in Arabia - although it is unlikely that they will gain too many devout believers in semi-colonial areas. But the large population base of Arabia is there. Even if only one in ten thousand Arabs become my "not very devout" believers, I can gain a lot of faith.
After extraterritorial law and free missionary rights, they are joined together with it, the right to freely purchase Arabian houses, land and industries, the right to recognize dual nationality, etc.
The unequal treaties stipulated by the empire. In the eyes of the Arabs, most of them found it incredible - that compensation is fine. But other fragmentary treaties are not unacceptable to the Arabs. Most of them are commercial terms. For a traditional farming country, they do not pay much attention to this - despite suffering a great loss before, inertial thinking is still so terrible. For them, money, land and population. These three are the most important things. The empire did not plunder the land and population of the Arabs. It only demands compensation for money and provides convenience in doing business. And there are some legal privileges. These are acceptable. Anyway, in this country where slaves still exist. Aristocratic privileges are not rare.
So, the messenger of the Caliph who represented Arabia agreed to the other terms except for muttering a few more words on the issue of compensation. After the clause was sent to Rasek and was seen by the Caliph, the old and weak Arabian ruler could hardly believe that such a good thing was at the first time. He had even made plans to ced part of the territory and compensate more money. But he never expected that the final result would be like this.
After confirming this treaty, the Empire and Arabia were all happy. Because of this series of unequal treaties, Arabia's huge market and abundant resources all opened its thighs to the Empire. The Empire finally obtained a high-quality semi-colonial area that could provide him with nourishment and allowed the Empire to develop rapidly.
In terms of area and population alone, Arabia is almost inferior to the Sylvanian Empire. It may even be even wider than the Empire. Although this includes some desert areas that are not suitable for human survival, mineral resources, especially the oil resources urgently needed for the development and development industry of the Empire, are quite rich. This is a good thing that the Empire is determined to win.
For Arabi... to be precise, it is also an extremely happy thing for Arabi's princes and nobles, and those rulers, to escape the punishment of a great empire that controls the power of terror, and continues to act as a blessing. They own the entire Arabi Empire. Even if they are divided, the interests they don't care about at all are not unacceptable. Anyway, countries established by agriculture will not care about the interests of commerce and industry - as for the untouchables who lost so much because of Arabi's commodity dumping and raw materials, and how painful they lived. These are not within their considerations.
In this way, the empire's expedition to Arabia was successfully concluded in 4804. The last bottleneck restricting the development of the empire - the huge overseas colony. At this moment, most of the time was finally solved. It is conceivable that even if the empire is self-confidence and no longer intends to make progress, they just guard their own acres of land and their existing interests. They can also live a good life, look down on the world, and become the strongest and greatest empire in the material world.
Of course, this is impossible.
Although the empire has gained a lot - but with the strength of the empire, the empire can gain more benefits. Expand more territory, government more countries, explore more properties and seize more wealth. The empire will never stop these behaviors. This will definitely make the empire stronger and stronger. The stronger the stronger the empire. The stronger the more it can fight, the more resources it can occupy. What a beautiful virtuous cycle this is hahahahaha...
Just ignore the tragic situation of those colonies.
But what I said - everything outside the empire is chaos. Understanding the past from this sentence can also be explained as "nothing outside the empire can be ignored." Although I will never admit it.
Chapter completed!