Altan Khan, who has lived on the grassland all his life, discovered for the first time that the sky on the grassland was so vast that he could fly there if he wanted to.

There are no disgusting Mongolian left-wing tribes such as the Chahar tribe, and there are no annoying Southern Barbarians, whether they are the former Ming barbarians or the current Tang barbarians, they are all extremely annoying.

In the Western Regions, their old rivals, the Warats, had already been killed by him, and the remaining tribes of the Western Regions, large and small, were not worth mentioning at all.

Even those Southern Tang barbarians could only cower within their Great Wall defense line, and they couldn't pose much threat to them on the grassland at all, and by the way, they also had another benefit, that is, they cut off the possibility of the Southern Tang barbarians buying horses in large quantities from the Western Regions.

Well, this benefit is useless now, you don't have to think about it, the Southern Tang barbarians, who occupy the Hetao and Fengzhou Sichuan regions, are no longer short of pastures for large-scale grazing of cattle, sheep and horses.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, now the Southern Tang barbarians can't pose any threat to their Tatars.

In just a few months, Altan Khan led the army to completely wipe out the remnants of the Warat people, annexed the population and cattle, sheep and horses in the Warat tribe, and then especially personally led the troops into Tibet, which naturally could not resist the Tatars, and could only offer grain, grass, horses, and women to sue for peace.

For a while, Altan Khan once again found the domineering feeling of being the lord of the grassland!

It's good to move west, it's right to move west!

I knew that I should have given up the Hetao and Fengzhou River area earlier, and then entered the Western Regions, but unfortunately my previous vision was too limited, thinking about the Hetao and Fengzhou River every day, thinking about the prosperous world of the Central Plains, I never thought that the outside world was more vast, more exciting, and more importantly, they Tatars could not meet any real enemies, and they could fight whoever they wanted.

When the Tatars plundered Tibet, in addition to bringing back a large number of slaves, cattle, sheep and horses, they also brought back a lot of good things, especially many good things from the Tang Empire and many craftsmen.

In the past few years, the Tatars and the Tang Empire were at war, and the Tang Empire implemented a very strict material blockade policy on the steppe areas, and the mutual market between the two sides basically stagnated, and occasionally there was some private trade, but most of them were limited to living materials, such as tea, cloth and the like.

Weapons and other military supplies were basically completely cut off.

However, the Tatars still obtained a lot of good things made in the Tang Dynasty from various channels, after all, the Tang Empire is so big, and it also exported a lot of industrial products to the Western Regions and other places.

For example, telescopes, plate armor, swords, spears, and even arquebuses were all given to the Tatars.

Especially after the destruction of the Warats, the Tatars received many weapons from the Warats supported by the Tang Empire, not to mention the cold weapons such as swords, spears, plates, and armor, and even the arquebuses were captured by them in thousands.

Only the advanced long-barreled artillery still does not have them, and the flintlock pistols used by the military of the Tang Empire themselves do not have them.

There is no way, although the Tang Empire exports a large number of ordnance, but the ordnance materials exported are mainly all kinds of cold weapons, and the very important armor is only exported light armor, and none of the heavy plate armor that can resist muskets has been exported.

As for firearms, only arquebuses and a small number of short-barreled shotguns were exported, while advanced weapons such as flintlock pistols, long-barreled cannons, and howitzer shells were strictly forbidden to be exported.

Especially the flintlock pistol, which is currently the only one in the world, is only limited to the military and the fleet equipment of Western companies, and those ordinary armed merchant ships in China cannot be purchased and equipped, Datang not only prohibits the export of flintlock pistols, but even the springs are also prohibited from exporting, not only finished products, but more importantly, all kinds of industrial technology, which are also expressly prohibited from exporting.

In fact, after the Tang Empire established many colonies overseas, in fact, many people wanted to build factories directly in Banten or Luzon, so as to produce and sell nearby, and at the same time hire cheaper local workers to reduce costs, but the law of the Tang Dynasty for overseas territories clearly stipulates that all kinds of factories built overseas must be approved by the Import and Export Committee, otherwise, don't expect to ship a batch of machinery and equipment from China.

At present, there are only a few elementary schools in the three overseas territories of Banten, Luzon and Ryukyu, and there are no secondary schools. In China, above the middle school level, regardless of whether it is a government school or a private school, only the children of the empire are allowed to enroll, and children of other races are not allowed.

The Tang Empire does not play with international students, and then lets international students engage in the export of values.

What the Tang Empire wants is that all other alien races live in backwardness and ignorance, and any natives who try to civilize and develop science and technology are not good natives.

Therefore, the Tang Empire in the Fusang area, three days and two ends to fight those who tried to make their own guns, as long as those daimyo dare to build their own factories, the Tang Dynasty will dare to immediately send troops to destroy the factory, by the way.

In addition, it is also stipulated that no schools shall be set up in the colonies, and there are still some primary schools in the overseas territories, and there are no primary schools in those pure colonial areas, such as several colonies in Fuso, and the Gohe state in India, but there is not even a primary school.

Moreover, the Imperial Ministry also has a rule for officials, that is, officials go overseas to take up posts, and their minor children and nephews are not allowed to follow them, of course, nominally to protect the safety of officials' families, but in fact this is to prevent these minor children from growing up in overseas colonies, receiving education, and finally having a weak sense of identity with the empire.

When an official takes office overseas, he must be a naked official!

All these measures are partly aimed at ensuring the centripetal force of overseas territories, while others are aimed at limiting the outflow of technology.

In order to ensure that the empire always maintains a leading position in technology, the Tang Empire has good intentions to suppress the technological development of foreign races.

And this set is basically accepted by many subjects of the empire, why, because everyone now knows that guns are sharp weapons in the army, how can they be awarded to others?

And science and technology are the key to the manufacture of guns, and they are also the important weapons of the country, let alone let foreigners know about it.

In all the Chinese dynasties, I have never seen that dynasty like to provide technical support to foreign races, not a single one, and each of them is eager to cover all kinds of technologies tightly.

However, no matter how strict the blockade is, there is no impermeable wall in this world, and the Tatars have obtained a lot of products from Datang through many channels in the past many years.

Now in the Warat people and the Tubo people, they have obtained a lot of good things, among which from the hands of the Tubo people, they found a world map that has been passed down from the Tang Empire.

It is rumored that this map was circulated by the Royal University of Technology on the side of the Tang Empire, and it can be regarded as the most detailed world map that a huge part of the world can access.

The world map is not an abstract map, a city can occupy most of the area of the map, but a realistic work, and the whole world is displayed.

Although most of them are still very vague, especially the coastlines of the continents are basically straight, and there is no Australia, no Antarctica, and many places are still lacking, after all, this is only a map for university education, not a secret world map within the empire, so many of them have been clicked off.

However, this is still the most detailed map that can be circulated in the world.

When Altan Khan saw the plains of India, Central Asia and Eastern Europe marked on the map, his eyes lit up and his saliva dripped directly onto the map!

Grass, I knew that there was such a good place, why did Lao Tzu have to fight with those southern barbarians for life and death, what kind of Hetao and Fengzhou River!

Wait for the spring of next year, Lao Tzu will lead the army to the west, robbing women, cattle and sheep and grassland!

Altan Khan didn't know that there was a wider area to the west, but with the help of old abstract maps and word of mouth, he really didn't have the courage to follow the example of his predecessors hundreds of years ago.

But now that he had this map, he had a clear idea of what he was aiming for, and he knew better where it would be best for them to be Tatars.

There is no doubt that the steppes of Central Asia are the most suitable home for their Tatars at this stage!

As for what enemies he would encounter along the way, Altan Khan never worried!

Although it is said that the Tatars were beaten by the Tang Army in the Hetao area, but looking at the world, to be honest, there are really few countries that can withstand the impact of their hundreds of thousands of cavalry.

Moreover, the Tatars now not only have horses and sabers, but they are also well-equipped.

Through various means, especially the plundering of the Chahar tribe, the Warats, and the Tubo people, a large number of ordnance made by the Tang Dynasty was enough for the Tatars to build a Tang ordnance army of tens of thousands of people.

The Tang Dynasty ordnance in the hands of the Tatars, including seven or eight thousand arquebuses alone, more than 200 sets of full-body plate armor, thousands of half-body armors, 2,000 sets of cuirasses, and even more steel waist knives and spears produced by the Tang Dynasty.

Equipped with 10,000 Tang Armament Army, there is no problem at all!

It is also embarrassing to say, although the ordnance imported from the northern steppe of the Tang Dynasty was not sold directly to the Tatars, but to the Chahars, Warats, and Tubos, the original intention was to let these aliens contain the Tatars, but I didn't expect that all of them became transport captains, and in the end, most of the ordnance fell into the hands of the Tatars.

Moreover, the Tatars did not spend a dime, all of them were robbed, which has to be said to be an irony.

The Tatars have enough Tang weapons for 10,000 people, and there are also more than 100,000 traditional cavalry, and looking at the Western Regions, there is basically no opponent.