Earlier, there was a civil war between the north and the south of the Annamite, and as for why it broke out, well, naturally, both sides wanted reunification, and the empire just bought a little bit of weapons in the back.

Now both sides are still fighting with the weapons sold to them by the empire, because the years of war have greatly damaged agricultural production and caused a large number of military and civilian casualties, but this is nothing, war, casualties are normal, and reunification is the last word.

In order to maintain the war at the same time, the north and the south need to buy a steady stream of various weapons from the empire, and the arms dealers of the empire have always been rich and do not make money, and the three major arms companies have made an agreement in order to make more money, stipulating that they can only sell weapons to the Annam people at a uniform price.

In this case, an arquebus can be sold for twenty-five yuan in normal times, and at a special critical moment, they dare to sell it for thirty or forty yuan.

And if you dare not buy these natives of Annam, if you dare not buy them, these arms dealers will pull these arms down to the other side and sell them to their enemies.

However, the Annan people bought so many arms to maintain the war, and the cost was also very great, and the wealth accumulated by the northern and southern dynasties of Annam over the years had long been spent, and later they used various means such as raising taxes to make money, and then even took out the small amount of grain in exchange for weapons.

In the end, there was still no money, and at this time, after being reminded by some friendly people in the Tang Dynasty, the Northern Dynasty found that the territory could also be sold for money!

As a result, the Northern Dynasty directly leased the entire Quang Ninh area to the empire, although it was nominally a lease, but the lease period was a full 1,000 years, and the lease could be renewed free of charge after expiration.

In this model of perpetual rent, the rent is naturally quite expensive, a full 100,000 yuan, and a one-time payment is required!

In fact, the 100,000 yuan in the Northern Dynasty didn't even see a copper plate, and it directly became all kinds of weapons and ammunition!

The Southern Dynasties also did the same, and directly sold Cam Ranh Bay and a large area nearby to the Tang Empire as a naval base, well, they were even more simply, not to say anything about the self-deception of perpetual rent, and sold it directly, the price was not expensive, the price was 20,000 yuan, and the 20,000 yuan was also exchanged for ordnance and weapons.

The two dynasties of the north and south are now all brains, but no one can beat anyone, and they want a truce, but the Tang Empire on the side still refuses to agree, and they fanned the flames in three days.

The main peace factions of the northern and southern dynasties were basically killed by those arms dealers and their own hawks, and the rest were the main battle factions.

Later, many people also understood that this battle still had to be fought. Anyway, it's not them who are in power, it's all some fart people who die, and no matter how they fight, they won't worry about being destroyed by the other party, because the Tang Empire won't let it.

In the past, both the Northern and Southern Dynasties tried to achieve a great military victory and then had the opportunity to unify Annam, but they were all destroyed by the Tang Empire.

In the summer of this year, the army of the Southern Dynasties had reached Thang Long, the capital of the Northern Dynasties, and seeing that the Northern Dynasties were about to end, the Tang Navy stationed in Quang Ninh directly sent a marine regiment to forcibly let the Southern Korean army open the gap under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese, and watched the reinforcements of the Northern Dynasties follow the butt of the Tang Dynasty into the city.

As a result, the two sides fought in Thang Long City for a month, and both sides suffered countless casualties, and finally the Southern Dynasty could not hold on and chose to retreat.

After this battle, everyone knows that it is easy to lose, and it is really not easy to be destroyed by the other party, not to mention, many people in power, even their kings, are already quietly preparing to retreat, not to mention the purchase of a house in the Jinling Bay lease or the Guangning leased land, and also went to the Guangzhou Business Zone to buy real estate, and some descendants were also sent to the Guangzhou Business Zone early.

How to put it, no matter how bad the situation is, it will not be worse than now!

So fight, just continue to fight, what if it's unified?

In the end, everyone has learned to be smart, they should fight and fight, and they should enjoy it, anyway, the people who died in the war were just some ordinary soldiers and civilians, and it had no impact on the high-level elites on both sides.

The only thing that is bad is that the population under the rule is getting smaller and smaller!

But this has a fart to do with the powerful in power!

In this case, the influence of the Tang Empire in the Annan region is also increasing, and if it were not for the Tang Empire's unwillingness to accept Annan directly, and then turn many Annan people into subjects of the empire, with the current situation, there would be no problem at all to directly annex this region.

But the Tang Empire was a peace-loving country, and they would not easily annex Annam.

So, this war has to go on!

However, there are some important areas that can be incorporated into the empire in advance.

For example, the two places of Quang Ninh and Cam Ranh Bay, these two places, one is a perpetual lease and the other is a sale, both of which are pocketed by the empire.

For the time being, however, it is still a military jurisdiction, and no formal administrative structure has been established.

After being reminded by the Ministry of Commerce, Li Xuan felt that it was time to establish formal administrative regions in the above two regions.

Quang Ninh area, the establishment of Quang Ninh Prefecture, because Quang Ninh and Guangdong Lianzhou Prefecture are connected, so this place is directly under the jurisdiction of the Lian Zhou Prefecture as a Lian Zhou Prefecture and incorporated into the Lian Zhou Prefecture.

Cam Ranh Bay is far from the mainland, so it was still managed as an overseas territory, and Cam Ranh Bay State was established.

After the establishment of these two places as formal administrative regions, the impact on the subsequent situation in Annam will definitely be significant, and it will not be too difficult for Annam to become a part of the empire in the future.

The only obstacle that prevented the empire from completely bringing Annam under its rule was that there were still too many Annamite people!

In general, as in the case of Fuso, the empire was reluctant to launch a large-scale military operation in Fuso and bring Fuso under its rule because of the large population of Fuso, and the empire was unwilling to accept too many aliens as part of the empire's subjects.

At this point, many courtiers and even ordinary people of the Tang Dynasty have a relatively tough attitude, and it is difficult for them to accept that these foreign barbarians have become noble subjects of the empire like themselves.

Whether it was at this time, or in the previous dynasties, the Chinese people were proud of the Yanhuang blood flowing on their bodies, as for the foreign barbarians, you can see from the word barbarians that the Chinese people's attitude towards foreign barbarians, people did not regard these barbarians as human beings at all.

They are all treated as animals, and demons and monsters are seen.

In this kind of social background, if you want to say that the people of China can gladly accept the foreign barbarians and become the subjects of the empire like themselves, it is not very likely.

In the past, when the Goryeo Peninsula and the Ryukyu region were recovered, the integration policy was adopted and the propaganda was diluted, and the word "Korean" was never seen in the Tang Dynasty newspapers.

Because there were only about one million people left on the Goryeo Peninsula at that time, and because of the war, almost all of them died young, young and old, women and children left, so after a set of integration policies of immigration and marriage continued, there was basically no fixed title of Korean.

There are fewer people in the Ryukyu area, so it is easier to integrate.

At the time of integration, the propaganda and guidance were also treated with diluted propaganda, and there was no public ranking with specific discriminatory connotations, such as Koreans and Ryukyuans.

The overall propaganda policy, that is, no publicity!

In addition, the people in these two places originally belonged to the Chinese cultural circle, and the people on the Goryeo and Ryukyu sides also looked similar to the people of the empire, so there was no big problem.

But if it is replaced by Annam and Fuso, then the problem is big, Fuso is not easy to do because there are many people and has its own perfect cultural heritage, which is a little different from the people of the empire.

As for the Annan people, there is a big gap between them and the subjects of the empire in appearance, and it is easy to distinguish them, and the people in these areas, in the eyes of the people of the empire, belong to the kind of real barbarians, savages.

Therefore, it is actually more difficult to integrate, and even the people will reject this kind of integration.

Under such circumstances, it was impossible for the empire to easily annex Annam directly and treat it as part of the mainland.

Li Xuan plans to come step by step, anyway, he is not in a hurry, slowly encroaching, controlling one place, immigrating to another, and ensuring that there are only the people of the empire on the newly occupied land!

From this point of view, in fact, the expansion policy of the Tang Dynasty was completely different from that of the Tatars of the same era!

Today's Tatars are also very jubilant in Central Asia, since they moved west last year, all of a sudden it has changed greatly, Altan Khan saw the vast Central Asia and Eastern Europe, and the whole person is full of ambition, and wants to follow the ancestors of the westward expedition and expand the pasture to the Danube!

From the beginning of last year to the autumn of this year, the Tatars were very active, they maintained their defense on the Eastern Front, and even built several fortresses like the Tang Empire, stationed troops, for vigilance and defense, but this is just for show, their main cavalry is on the Western Front!

They had launched a small expedition to the west the previous year, and the results were unbelievable to the Tatars themselves, and they seized a large amount of booty, including cattle, sheep, horses, and other livestock, as well as countless precious metals such as gold and silver, and numerous slaves, among whom were a large number of craftsmen.

With these craftsmen, the Tatars also began to make guns and cannons, and they were not badly made.

This year, these Tatars launched another large-scale expedition to the west, according to uncertain news from the steppe, Altan Khan personally led an army of 100,000 to sweep through many foreign states along the way, and captured countless people.

Moreover, because of the limited population of the Tatars themselves, Altan Khan also recruited soldiers from the conquered lands and formed a servant army dominated by infantry.

The Tatars, the more they fought, the stronger they became, the land and pastures they occupied, and the slaves they captured, the cattle, sheep, horses, etc., were also numerous.

All of a sudden, it made the bitter Tatars rich, and even some Tatars secretly tried to buy some luxury ornaments from the empire through the Tibetans!