Now the navy is thinking that to obtain Guangning from the hands of the Anbei and Northern Dynasties, it does not necessarily have to be done by the empire itself, it can be borrowed from others!

Whose hand to borrow?

Who else could it be, naturally it was the Annan Li Dynasty!

Annan is now in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there is a Mo Dynasty in the north, and there is a Li Dynasty in the south, and the two sides are fighting to the death, and they are not mutually exclusive, either I kill you, or you kill me.

Although there is no large-scale war between the two sides now, if you gently provoke one or two, it will not be easy to fight!

However, the navy does not have such professionals to sow discord, and if you want to do this, I am afraid you have to ask the civilian officials, more precisely, from the Tang Fusang Affairs Yamen for advice.

Soon, the navy found the Fuso Affairs Yamen and consulted a few officials who had been serving in Osumi Prefecture for a long time and had received Fuso affairs, and these officials at that time said that the matter was simple and not complicated at all.

Your navy wants to provoke a war between the Northern and Southern Koreas of Annam, and directly sell arms!

First, sell a little arms to the already powerful Southern Dynasties, so that they can increase their military strength, and see the hope of defeating the Northern Dynasties militarily, and then show that the empire supports them to unify Annam.

Then they sent people to secretly create some armed conflicts, and then bribed a few local generals to instigate one or two, so as to stir up a small-scale armed conflict first.

In the end, it is inevitable that the fight will start.

Then he went back to support the Northern Dynasties and bought them some arms as well, so that they could block the attack of the Southern Dynasties.

As long as they fight, then the North and the South will not be left to your navy to manipulate, whoever you support, who will have a greater advantage, and then operate one or two, when they run out of money, let them exchange the right to mine minerals for weapons, and then use customs duties and even administrative taxes as collateral, and then slowly infiltrate into it.

At that time, don't talk about the coal mines of Quang Ninh, even the mineral resources of the entire Annam can be mined at will, and even as long as you are ruthless, it is not impossible for the Northern Dynasty to directly sell the entire Thang Long City to the empire at that time.

These methods are actually simple to say and easy to operate.

However, it is not something that can be used by any country, and you must be able to have a strong enough strength to control the situation in order to do so, if you don't have strong strength, people in Annam are not stupid, so they will naturally not listen to you.

And when the people in the navy heard it, there was no problem at all, if the strength of the empire was not strong enough, then there would be no strong countries in the region.

So soon, I typed a report and asked the Son of Heaven to make a decision!

Although this kind of thing is said to have been proposed by the navy, its specific implementation has nothing to do with the navy, because the military and the government are separated, and this is the purview of civilian officials and has nothing to do with the navy.

What the navy has to do is to provide a definite cover for the situation in Annan anytime and anywhere.

After Li Xuan read the report handed over by the navy, he also agreed, anyway, this kind of thing is not harmful to the empire, and it will not cost any resources, just a few ordnance and weapons, in exchange for a resource exploitation right in Quang Ninh and even the entire Annam, it is definitely worth it.

Not to mention, it was also a shift in the Empire's strategy of external expansion, and if it was feasible on Annam's side, then the Empire would adopt such a strategy elsewhere in the future.

As a result, soon, Datang established a brand-new affairs yamen: 'Datang Nanyang Affairs Yamen'.

The nature of this yamen, similar to that of the Fuso Affairs Yamen, was to be solely responsible for the affairs of the South Seas (limited to the peninsula area, excluding the islands of Luzon Islands, Banten Islands, and excluding Malacca).

For the indigenous forces in the Nanyang Peninsula region, the Nanyang Affairs Yamen has the authority to conduct diplomacy, declare war, and sign agreements, but of course, it still does not have any power to dispatch troops.

Because of the distance, the affairs yamen is temporarily set up in the southernmost treaty port of the empire, Lianzhou Mansion!

And when the yamen of this affairs had just been established, and even all the officials had not yet arrived, and the local people in Lianzhou had not yet prepared the building for this yamen, they had already sent an envoy from Annan to the south on a navy ship!

Moreover, when this Annan envoy went south, he also brought several merchant ships loaded with all kinds of export-type ordnance!

Under the cover of naval warships, they ran directly to the south of Annam, and then found the rulers of the Southern Dynasty and sold a large number of ordnance to the Southern Dynasty at a relatively cheap price.

Then he found a group of pirates who were naïve, disguised as the army of the Northern Dynasty and attacked several villages and towns of the Southern Dynasty repeatedly!

Under the activities of Annan's envoy and his party, Annan's side quickly took action and made preparations for war, saying that the northern dynasty was too deceitful and dared to take the initiative to invade their villages and towns.

However, at this time, it was not possible enough for them to take the initiative to attack north, and the special envoy of Annan and the navy added another fire to the situation in Annan.

They turned around and ran to the side of the Northern Dynasty, saying that the Southern Dynasty was going to launch a large-scale northward attack, and you Northern Dynasties should not hurry up and take precautions.

Also, we have all kinds of cheap and beautiful weapons here, swords, spears, plate armor and arquebuses, all of which are good things, and the prices are very cheap, do you want them?

What no money?

It doesn't matter, just owe it, our Datang businessman is still very good, first give you a small part of the trial for free, I think it is easy to use, and the rest is sold to you at a low price, if you don't have money, you can owe it first, the Royal Bank can provide loans.

When the Northern Dynasty also began to reorganize its armaments, they turned around and ran to the Southern Dynasty, and then said something, the Northern Dynasty in the North was already preparing to start moving south, you have to be careful!

Originally, although hostile, it was the two dynasties of Annam, the North and the South, which had been calm for many years, entered a state of combat readiness in just one month under the joint instigation of the Tang Nanyang Affairs Yamen and the Navy.

And the most important thing is that in November, taking advantage of the good weather in the crisp autumn, and even under the repeated promises of Annan's envoy that the empire would support them to unify Annan, the Southern Dynasty, which had long wanted to unify Annan with the Northern Expedition, finally couldn't bear it anymore and launched an attack first.

More than 20,000 troops were sent to attack the Northern Dynasty!

However, the Northern Dynasty was also prepared, although it was caught off guard, but it also quickly stabilized its position, and then began to counterattack!

At this time, it is time for the empire to start harvesting!

Under the armed forces of the empire, whether it was the Northern or Southern Dynasties, they all used the imperial standard export ordnance, light plate armor, arquebus and even shotguns, and the main forces in the armies of both sides were all standard Tang ordnance troops.

And in war, there will be losses, and the loss of this main force needs to be replenished.

And the most important thing is that the performance of this main force is outstanding, whether it is the Southern Dynasty or the Northern Dynasties, they all hope to buy more Tang Dynasty ordnance, and then arm more troops.

Of course, at this time, the price of ordnance is not as almost free as before!

The Tang Empire has never done loss-making business, even if it was the previous price that was almost free of charge, it was still profitable, but it was only a relatively small profit, but now, if there is no profit several times over, they will not do it.

At this time, the Datang Nanyang Affairs Yamen issued a sternly worded document, requiring domestic merchants who went to trade in the Annam region to obey the arrangements of the affairs yamen, and absolutely not to lower prices for the sake of competition.

The military side has always been in line with this policy, with the army directly blocking the border and the navy blockading the coast, ensuring that every batch of ordnance entering Annam must be high-priced ordnance.

Of course, whether it is the army and navy, or the Datang Nanyang Affairs Yamen, they are not doing business, they are just raising the price of local ordnance.

And the merchants are also willing to do this, and everyone likes to make war money, even if it goes without saying, they will desperately raise the price.

What's more, the production of all kinds of ordnance in the empire is strictly controlled by the hands of the three major arms companies, and the traders and merchants engaged in overseas arms trade are also approved companies.

And because of the chaos of overseas arms trade in the early years, which led to vicious competition, so at the beginning of the twelfth year of Xuanping, the empire began to strictly control the arms trade.

Any enterprise engaged in the arms trade must be approved or licensed before it can set foot in.

At the same time, it is mandatory that any trading company involved in the arms trade must be a holding enterprise controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and even if it does not hold 100 percent of the shares, it must still hold more than 51 percent of the shares.

In addition, there is a more important point that in order to make more profits, the three major weapons companies have already begun to end up in person, and they all went directly to Osumi Prefecture to start a branch, contact with the customers of Fuso nearby, and then directly sell them, without giving those second-hand dealers of any arms trading company a chance at all!

In Fuso, the largest overseas arms sales market of the Tang Empire, the three major arms companies all set up companies in Osumi Prefecture and even in the major colonies, directly contacted the local daimyos, and then sold all kinds of weapons.

Of course, there are still quite a few trading companies with arms trade licenses, and there are more than a dozen of them, but the scale is not large, and the arms trade is not their main business, it can only be regarded as a side business.

Moreover, the markets involved are all small and medium-sized markets, at least the big market in Fuso, which is basically directly controlled by the three major arms companies.

Under such strict control, first of all, the three major arms companies reached an agreement internally and agreed on a minimum price range, that is, the price of ordnance exported to the Annam region should be kept the same as the price of ordnance exported to the Fuso region, which can only be high, not low.