The first thousand three hundred and fortieth chapters Tatars who let go of themselves
The selling price of weapons in the Annan region is the same as that in the Fusang region. What does this mean?
This means that the current price for Annan people to obtain a matchlock gun will be around 20 yuan, and a set of export-type light half-body plate armor will be around 100 yuan.
Nowadays, people in Fuso buy weapons at this price!
Under the joint leadership of the Nanyang Peninsula Affairs Office and the Navy, what was the price of the matchlock guns sold by the three major weapons companies to Annan, Northern and Southern Dynasties? The average price of each was only four yuan, and the price of export-type light half-body plate armor was only twenty yuan.
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This means that the Civil War in Annan just broke out, and the three major weapons companies in Datang directly increased the price five times!
What, Annan and Northern Dynasties found it too expensive and didn’t want to buy it.
Okay, if you have the guts, then we will sell these weapons to the Southern Dynasty.
No, I gave it to the Southern Dynasty in vain. If I turn around, the Southern Dynasty can go north and destroy you, the Northern Dynasty!
What, you want to get similar weapons from other places? Sorry, in the entire East Asia, there are only products from our three major weapons companies. You want to buy from other places, this is impossible.
Datang's arms trade in East Asia was a monopoly. Even the Portuguese could not break this monopoly. This monopoly was not obtained by administrative means, but was purely a matter of production capacity.
There is no way, the Portuguese's ordnance production in Malacca is so small, it is not enough for their own use, and there is no way to export it on a large scale.
Currently, only the Tang Empire is the only one that can export weapons on a large scale. It has no other semicolon. You can buy it or not.
And in some areas, you have to buy it whether you want it or not!
Even if the Portuguese or Spanish obtained weapons and wanted to sell them to the Annamites, they would have to pass the Tang Navy first.
Datang and the Portuguese have been dealing with each other for more than ten years. They have cooperated and competed together for more than ten years. Although there has not been any overt war between the two sides, there have been many secret armed conflicts.
In this kind of cooperation and competition, both parties have basically formed many default rules.
For example, Portuguese warships were not allowed to cross Malacca and enter the South China Sea, especially the imperial coastal waters, including the Annan coast.
The safety of the route along the coastline from Malacca via the Annan coast to Lianzhou was the responsibility of the Tang Imperial Navy, and Portuguese warships would not easily set foot there.
At the same time, the Portuguese could trade at many trading ports under the control of the empire, with the exception of Ryukyu and Fuso. The empire completely blocked the route from Nanyang to Fuso, and the empire completely monopolized the Fuso trade.
Of course, at the same time, the Imperial Navy will not cross Malacca and enter the Indian Ocean, which is currently basically 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 a trading company with warships is just a trading company.
There are also many hidden trade rules between the two sides, most of which are the result of mutual compromises between the two sides during more than ten years of cooperation and competition.
Although the competition between the two sides is very fierce, in reality the Portuguese need the empire, and the empire also needs the Portuguese!
Therefore, although the competition is fierce, the two sides are still mainly cooperating. At least, until the empire completely opens up the route to Europe, and before the Spanish, Dutch, British and other European countries increase their trade scale in Asia,
Basically, the two sides will not completely fall out.
With this kind of relationship between the two parties, let alone the Portuguese not having so much ordnance on hand for export, even if they did, they probably would not risk the possibility of the empire falling out with them by contacting the Annamites.
You must know that in the unspoken rules of both parties, the Portuguese recognized the empire's special interests in the South Pacific Peninsula, especially the Annan and Siam areas, which were designated as within 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 except for the existing Malacca.
If they dare to interfere in the situation in Annan, it will upset this balance and affect the relationship between the two parties.
Therefore, from all aspects, it is almost impossible for Annan to come into contact with other external forces except the empire, let alone import ordnance from other places. At most, it can only purchase a small amount of ordnance from other channels on land.
That's all, and it doesn't affect anything.
The three major arms companies can boldly and confidently raise the prices of ordnance!
A matchlock gun costs 20 yuan, not including bits and pieces of accessories and ammunition. This price is enough for the three major weapons companies to make a lot of money. You know, they have been producing export-type matchlock guns for many years, and their costs are very controlled.
Low, the production cost is only more than one yuan at most.
The selling price is 20 yuan, even if transportation costs and necessary public relations expenses are included, it is still a super high profit of more than ten times.
Annan people, now that a war has broken out, if they need new weapons, they can only buy them from the Tang Dynasty, and they have to buy them if they want to, and if they don't want to buy them, they have to buy them!
The arms merchants of the Tang Empire were not just arms merchants. Behind them were often the power of the civil service system and the military.
The government needs arms trade to achieve the effect of defeating others without fighting!
Therefore, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the arms trade, provoking a war is the most basic thing!
The situation in Annan developed quite smoothly. In December of the 17th year of Xuanping, Li Xuan received a report on Annan affairs from the Nanyang Affairs Office of the Tang Dynasty.
According to the report, the situation in Zhongcheng is developing well. According to incomplete statistics, in the past two months, there have been many large-scale battles between Annan Li Dynasty and Mo Dynasty.
According to feedback from military observers, the empire's weapons performed as well as ever in terms of lethality. During the war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the troops of the Annan and South Koreas equipped with imperial weapons caused a total of at least 30,000 casualties to the troops of the two dynasties!
Among them, a 5,000-man regiment of the Northern Dynasty equipped with spears, plate armor, matchlock guns, waist knives, and shields produced by the Empire even created a record of defeating and killing tens of thousands of Southern Dynasty troops in one battle.
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During the wars between the Southern and Northern Dynasties in Annan, the imperial ordnance continued to reflect the empire's high industrial standards, establishing in one fell swoop the status of the ordnance manufactured by the empire as the main ordnance of the Annan people.
Nowadays, both the Li Dynasty in the south and the Mo Dynasty in the north are trying to purchase more imperial ordnance to arm more troops.
In addition, the Nanyang Affairs Office has already conducted relevant negotiations with Mo Chao of Annan regarding mineral mining rights. I believe that the results will be announced soon.
At the same time, the Nanyang Affairs Office also included a series of other statistics in the report. Although the data may not be all true and reliable, it is still possible to take a look at it.
According to statistics in the report, due to the war, the number of soldiers directly killed and injured in the Annan and South Koreas has exceeded 50,000, while the number of ordinary people was at least 200,000.
Because the generals on both sides like to expel cannon fodder to consume the other side's firepower, where will the cannon fodder come from? Needless to say, it is naturally an ordinary young man.
The Nanyang Affairs Office predicts that next year, in the 18th year of Xuanping's reign, Annan's population will suffer casualties of at least one million due to war.
Naturally, it is impossible for the casualties caused by the direct war between the two sides to be so many. In that broken place, the number of military casualties was over 100,000. However, the turmoil and chaos caused by the war and the stagnation of agricultural production will be.
A lot of death.
At the same time, it will also obtain a large amount of economic benefits for the empire, including mineral mining rights. At the same time, the navy also proposed that it hopes to obtain a port, namely Cam Ranh Bay, as the navy's base in the Nanyang region.
The Nanyang Affairs Office estimates that it will not be difficult to achieve the above goals!
After reading the report of the Nanyang Affairs Yamen, Li Xuan commented: "It is excellent and effective and can be promoted!"
The war in Annan may have been a war to unify Annan for the local people, but for the empire, it was an important experiment to test its future foreign expansion policy.
This experiment showed that the empire could completely copy the trade policy in Fuso, thereby weakening the enemy's strength and laying a favorable foundation for directly sending troops to conquer the local area in the future.
However, this policy cannot be used everywhere. First of all, this kind of place must have a lot of internal conflicts, and the empire can control the situation, and no other external forces come out to cause trouble.
For example, in India, the empire cannot play like this, because the empire cannot control India now, and the local people are still strong. At the same time, a very important point is that the Portuguese are the bosses in the coastal areas of India, and the empire is causing trouble here.
, you have to ask the Portuguese first if they agree.
As for the Tatars, the empire couldn't play this trick either. Both sides were beaten to pieces. In addition, although the Tatars ran away, they were still very powerful.
To put it bluntly, in this part of East Asia, the Tang Empire is the boss, and they are the second child!
The hundreds of thousands of cavalry troops that can be dispatched at any time are enough to make any force in the Western Regions tremble with fear. Even the Tang Empire, the garrison in the northwest region can only pretend that they have not seen the Tatars making high-profile moves in the Western Regions and focus on defense.
, I only occasionally send cavalry out to fight against the autumn wind!
There is no way, supply is difficult, and too many troops cannot be stationed. The current strength of defense is okay, but it is still difficult to take the initiative to attack.
After the Tatars moved westward, Anda Khan found that he was finally proud and proud.
It was so frustrating in the past in the Hetao and Fengzhou River. I watched helplessly as the Nanbarbarians built the defense line in the Hetao and then tightened their necks step by step. However, I had no choice but to withdraw sadly in order to save the tribe.
Hetao and Fengzhou River.
But after moving westward, the Tubo people could fight whoever they wanted. Even the southern barbarians in the Tang Empire had no choice but to hide within the Great Wall!
The Tatars, who had been feeling aggrieved for several years, finally let themselves go after moving westward!