What does it mean that the price of weapons in Annam is the same as that in Fuso?

This means that the price of an arquebus that the Annamites want to get now will reach about 20 yuan, and a set of export-oriented light half-body plate armor will reach about 100 yuan.

Now the Fuso people buy ordnance, this is the price!

And what was the price of the arquebuses sold by the three major arms companies to the Annan and Southern Dynasties under the joint leadership of the Nanyang Peninsula Affairs Yamen and the Navy? The average price of each is only four yuan, and the price of export-oriented light half-body plate armor is only about twenty yuan!

This means that Annan's Civil War has just broken out, and Datang's three major arms companies have directly increased their prices by five times!

What, Annan and the Northern Dynasties are too expensive and don't want to buy it.

Okay, if you have the guts, then we will sell these weapons to the Southern Dynasty.

No, Lao Tzu gave it to the Southern Dynasty in vain, and if you turn back to the Southern Dynasty, you can go north and destroy your Northern Dynasty!

What, you want to get similar weapons from other places, sorry, in the whole of East Asia, there are only the goods of our three major arms companies, and you want to buy them from other places, it's impossible.

The arms trade in East Asia was a monopoly of the Tang Dynasty, and even the Portuguese could not break this monopoly, and this monopoly was not obtained by any administrative means, but purely a matter of production capacity.

There is no way, the Portuguese have such a small amount of ordnance production in Malacca, and they can't use it enough for themselves, and they can't export it on a large scale.

At present, only the Tang Empire can export weapons on a large scale, and it is the only one, and there is no other semicolon, and it loves to buy it or not.

And in some areas, you have to buy it, and you have to buy it if you don't buy it!

Even if the Portuguese or Spaniards got weapons and wanted to sell them to the Annamites, they would have to pass the Tang Navy first.

Datang has been dealing with the Portuguese for more than ten years, and they have cooperated and competed together for more than ten years.

In this kind of cooperation and competition, the two sides have basically formed many default rules.

For example, the Portuguese warships were not allowed to cross Malacca and enter the South Seas, especially the coastal waters of the Empire, as well as the coast of Annam.

The safety of this route along the coastline from Malacca to Lianzhou via the coast of Annam was the responsibility of the Tang Imperial Navy, and the Portuguese warships would not easily set foot in it.

At the same time, the Portuguese could trade in a number of treaty ports under the control of the Empire, with the exception of Ryukyu and Fuso, where the Empire completely blocked the route from Nanyang to Fuso, and the Empire had a complete monopoly on the Fuso trade.

Of course, at the same time, the Imperial Navy would not cross Malacca and enter the Indian Ocean, which was currently largely the sphere of influence of the Portuguese.

As for the Western trading company of the Tang Empire, it is not a navy, it is an ordinary trading company, even if it is a trading company with warships, it is only a trading company.

There are also many unspoken trade rules between the two sides, most of which are the result of mutual compromise between the two sides in more than ten years of cooperation and competition.

Although the competition between the two sides is very fierce, but in reality, the Portuguese need the empire, and the empire needs the Portuguese!

Therefore, although the competition is fierce, the two sides are still cooperating on the whole, at least, before the empire completely opens up the route to Europe, and before the Spaniards, the Dutch, the British and other European countries in Asia trade scale, the two sides will basically not completely turn their faces.

Under this kind of relationship between the two sides, the Portuguese, not to mention that they don't have so many ordnance on hand for export, even if they do, it is estimated that they will not risk the possibility of the empire turning the other cheek and contact the Annamite.

You must know that the unspoken rule of both sides is that the Portuguese recognize the Empire's special interest in the Nanyang Peninsula region, especially the Annam and Siam regions, which are designated as the Empire's sphere of influence.

The Portuguese have also repeatedly stated that they will not seek to establish colonies along the South China Sea coast of the peninsula region, except for the existing Malacca.

If they dare to meddle in the situation in Annan, it will upset this balance and affect the relations between the two sides.

Therefore, in all respects, apart from the empire, it is almost impossible for Annam to come into contact with other foreign forces, let alone import ordnance from other places, at most, it is to buy a small amount of ordnance from other channels on land, and this will not affect anything.

The three major weapons companies can boldly and confidently raise the price of ordnance!

Twenty yuan a arquebus, not including bits and pieces of accessories and ammunition, such a price is enough to make the three major weapons companies make a profit, you know, they have been producing export-oriented arquebuses for many years, the cost control is very low, and the production cost is only more than one yuan at most.

The selling price is 20 yuan, even if you add transportation costs and necessary public relations costs, but it is still more than ten times the super high profit.

The Annan people, now that the war has broken out, if they need new weapons, they can only buy them from Datang, and they belong to the kind that they have to buy if they want to, and they have to buy if they don't want to!

The weapons merchants of the Tang Empire are not only weapons merchants, but often stand behind the power of the civilian system and the military.

The official needs to trade in weapons to achieve the effect of a soldier who surrenders without a fight!

Therefore, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the arms trade, it is most basic to provoke war!

The situation on the Annan side developed quite smoothly, and Li Xuan received the Annan affairs report from the Tang Nanyang Affairs Yamen in December of the 17th year of Xuanping.

According to incomplete statistics, in the past two months, there have been a number of large-scale battles between the Li Dynasty and the Mo Dynasty in Annam.

According to the feedback of military observers, the weapons of the empire performed as good as ever, and in the war between the north and the south, the troops of the Annam and the two dynasties equipped with imperial weapons caused at least 30,000 casualties in total!

Among them, a corps of 5,000 people equipped with spears, plate armor, arquebuses, waist knives, and shields produced by the empire created a record of defeating and killing tens of thousands of troops in the Southern Dynasty in one battle.

In the war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties of Annam, the imperial ordnance continued to reflect the high industrial level of the empire, and established the status of the ordnance made by the empire as the main ordnance of the Annamite people in one fell swoop.

Now, whether it is the Li Dynasty in the south or the Mo Dynasty in the north, they are trying to buy more imperial ordnance to arm more troops.

In addition, the Nanyang Affairs Yamen has already negotiated with the Mo Dynasty in Annam on mineral mining rights, and it is believed that it will not be long before the results will come.

At the same time, in the report, the Nanyang Affairs Yamen also attached a series of other statistics, although the data cannot all be true and reliable, but it is probably possible to look at one.

According to the report, because of the war, the number of soldiers directly killed or wounded in the two dynasties has exceeded 50,000, while the number of ordinary people is at least more than 200,000.

Because the generals on both sides like to expel cannon fodder to consume each other's firepower, where does the cannon fodder come from? Needless to say, he is naturally an ordinary young man.

The Nanyang Affairs Yamen expects to wait until next year, that is, the eighteenth year of Xuanping, because of the war, the population of Annam will be killed or injured by at least one million.

Naturally, it is impossible to have so many casualties caused by a direct war between the two sides, and in that broken place, the army will have more than 100,000 casualties, but because of the war, which has led to turmoil and chaos and the stagnation of agricultural production, there will be a large number of deaths.

At the same time, it will also obtain a large number of economic benefits for the empire, including mineral mining rights, and the navy also proposes to get a port, that is, Cam Ranh Bay, as a base for the navy in the South Seas.

The Nanyang Affairs Yamen predicts that it will not be difficult to achieve the above goals!

After reading the report of the Nanyang Affairs Yamen, Li Xuan commented: "Excellent and effective, it can be promoted!" ”

The war in Annam, for the locals, may have been a war for the unification of Annam, but for the empire, it was an important experiment to test the future policy of foreign expansion.

This experiment showed that the empire could replicate the trade policy of Fuso, thereby weakening the enemy and laying a favorable foundation for direct military conquest in the future.

However, this kind of policy cannot be used everywhere, first of all, this kind of place must be more internal contradictions, and the empire can control the situation, and no other external forces come out to make trouble.

For example, in India, the empire can't play like this, because in the current India, the empire can't control it, the strength of the local people is still strong, and at the same time, it is very important that the Portuguese are the bosses of the coastal areas of India.

And on the Tatar side, the empire can't play this game, both sides have played their brains, and although the Tatars have run away, their strength is still very strong.

To put it mildly, in this part of East Asia, the Tang Empire is the boss, and they are the second!

An army of more than 100,000 cavalry that can be dispatched at any time is enough to make any force in the Western Regions tremble, even if it is the Tang Empire, the garrison in the northwest region can only be when they don't see the Tatars moving high in the Western Regions, and they are on guard, and only occasionally send cavalry out to fight the autumn wind!

There is no way, it is difficult to supply, it is impossible to garrison too many troops, the current force defense is okay, but it is enough to take the initiative to attack.

And after the Tatars moved westward, Altan Khan found himself finally raising his eyebrows.

In the past, I was so aggrieved in the Hetao and Fengzhou River, and I watched those southern barbarians build the Hetao defense line, and then tighten their necks step by step, but they had nothing to do, and finally in order to save the tribe, they could only withdraw from the Hetao and Fengzhou River.

But after moving west, what Warat, Tubo people, he can fight whoever he wants, even those southern barbarians of the Tang Empire are helpless against themselves, they can only retreat within the Great Wall!

The Tatars, who had been aggrieved for several years, finally let go of themselves completely after moving westward!