Earlier, there was a civil war between the North and the South among the Annamites. As for why it broke out, well, naturally both sides wanted to unify, and the empire just bought some weapons afterwards.
Both sides are still fighting with the weapons sold to them by the empire, because successive years of war have greatly damaged agricultural production and caused a large number of military and civilian casualties, but this is nothing. In war, casualties are normal, and reunification is the only way.
It's a hard truth.
In order to maintain the war at the same time, both the North and the South needed to continuously purchase various weapons from the Empire. However, the Empire's arms dealers have always been bastards who have money but do not want to make money. In order to make more money, the three major weapons companies have all set up a
The agreement stipulated that weapons could only be sold to the Annamites at a uniform price.
In this case, a matchlock gun can usually be sold for 25 yuan, but at special critical moments, they dare to sell it for 30 or 40 yuan.
And it’s not enough for these Annan natives not to buy it. If you dare not to buy it, tomorrow these arms dealers will bring these arms to the other side and sell them to their enemies.
But the Annan people bought so many arms to maintain the war, and the expenses were huge. The wealth accumulated by the North and South dynasties in Annan over the years had long been spent. Later, they raised taxes and other means to raise money, and then even
The little food that was originally available was used in exchange for weapons.
In the end, there was still no money. At this time, after being reminded by some friendly people in the Tang Dynasty, the Northern Dynasty discovered that territory could also be sold for money!
As a result, the Northern Dynasty directly leased the entire Guangning area to the empire. Although it was a lease in name, the lease term was for a full thousand years, and it could be renewed for free after expiration.
With this permanent lease model, the rent is naturally quite expensive, up to 100,000 yuan, and requires a one-time payment!
In fact, the Northern Dynasty didn't even see any copper coins in this one hundred thousand yuan, it was directly turned into various weapons and ammunition!
The Southern Dynasties also followed suit and directly sold Cam Ranh Bay and a large area nearby to the Tang Empire for use as a naval base. Well, they were even more straightforward. They didn't talk about self-deception like permanent lease and sold directly.
, the price is not expensive, the price is 20,000 yuan, and the 20,000 yuan is also exchanged for ordnance weapons.
Both the Northern and Southern Dynasties had their brains beaten out, but no one could defeat the other, and they wanted to cease the war, but the Tang Empire on the side refused to agree, and fanned the flames every day.
The peace advocates in the Northern and Southern Dynasties were basically killed by the arms dealers and their own hawks, and the rest were all war factions.
Later, many people understood that this war still had to be fought. Anyway, the people who died were not those in power, but the dead people. And no matter how hard the fight was, they would not worry about being destroyed by the other side, because everyone
The Tang Empire refused to give in.
In the past, both the Northern and Southern Dynasties tried to achieve great military victory and then have the opportunity to unify Annan, but they were all destroyed by the Tang Empire.
This summer, the Southern Dynasty's army reached Thanglong, the capital of the Northern Dynasty. Seeing that the Northern Dynasty was about to be doomed, the Tang Navy stationed in Guangning directly sent a marine regiment to force the Southern Dynasty's army to release under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese.
He opened a gap and watched helplessly as the reinforcements from the Northern Dynasty followed the Tang army into the city.
As a result, the two sides fought for a month in Thang Long City, with numerous casualties on both sides. In the end, the Southern Dynasty could no longer hold on and chose to retreat.
After this battle, everyone knows that it is easy to lose, but it is not easy to be destroyed by the opponent. What's more, many people in power, even their king, have quietly prepared to retreat. At Jinling Bay
Not only did he purchase a house on the leased land or the leased land in Guangning, he also went to the Guangzhou Business District to purchase real estate, and some direct descendants were also sent to the Guangzhou Business District early.
How can I put it, no matter how bad the situation is, it will never be worse than it is now!
So let’s continue fighting. What if we are unified?
In the end, everyone has learned to be smart. It's time to fight and enjoy. Anyway, those who died in the war were just ordinary soldiers and civilians. For the high-level dignitaries on both sides, it had no impact at all.
The only bad thing about it is that the population under its control is getting smaller and smaller!
But this has nothing to do with the powerful people in power!
Under this situation, the influence of the Tang Empire in the Annan region is also growing. Especially if the Tang Empire was not unwilling to accept Annan directly and then turned many Annan people into subjects of the empire, with the current situation,
There is no problem at all in directly annexing this area.
But the Tang Empire was a peace-loving country, and they would not easily annex Annan.
So, this war must continue!
However, some important areas can be included in the empire's rule in advance.
For example, two places, Quang Ninh and Cam Ranh Bay, one is for permanent lease and the other is for sale, both were captured by the empire.
However, for the time being, it still exists as a military jurisdiction and no formal administrative organization has been established.
After receiving the reminder from the Ministry of Commerce, Li Xuan felt that it was time to establish formal administrative regions in the above two areas.
In the Guangning area, Guangning Prefecture was established. Because Guangning is connected to Lianzhou Prefecture in Guangdong, this place was directly merged into Lianzhou Prefecture as a state directly under the jurisdiction of Lianzhou Prefecture.
Cam Ranh Bay is far away from the mainland, so it is still managed as an overseas territory and the Cam Ranh Bay State was established.
After these two places are established as formal administrative regions, they will definitely have a significant impact on the subsequent situation in Annan. It will not be too difficult for Annan to become part of the empire in the future, and it will happen naturally.
The only obstacle that prevents the empire from completely bringing Annan under its rule is that there are still too many Annan people!
Generally speaking, just like the situation in Fuso, the empire has been reluctant to launch large-scale military operations in Fuso and bring Fuso under its rule. This is also because Fuso has too many people and the empire is not willing to accept too many foreigners as imperial subjects.
part of the people.
At this point, many courtiers and even ordinary people of the Tang Dynasty had a relatively tough attitude. It was difficult for them to accept that these foreign barbarians could become noble subjects of the empire like themselves.
Whether it is at this time or in the previous dynasties, the Chinese people are proud of the Yanhuang blood flowing in them. As for the foreign barbarians, you can see it from the word barbarian. The Chinese people treat
The attitude of the foreign barbarians has changed, and people do not regard these barbarians as human beings at all.
They all regard them as beasts and monsters.
Under this social background, it is not very likely that the Chinese people can happily accept the foreign barbarians and become subjects of the empire like themselves.
When the Koryo Peninsula and Ryukyu region were recovered before, they adopted an integration policy and downplayed it in propaganda. The word "Koryeo" was never seen in the newspapers of the Tang Dynasty.
Because there were only about a million people left on the Korean Peninsula at that time, and because of the war, almost all the young and middle-aged people died, leaving only the old, young, women and children. Therefore, after the integration policy of immigration and marriage is continued, basically there will be no
What's left of the fixed name of Korean people?
There are fewer people in the Ryukyu group area, so integration is easier.
When integrating, publicity and guidance are also handled in a downplayed manner, and no rankings with specific discriminatory connotations such as Koreans and Ryukyus will be made public.
The overall publicity policy is no publicity!
In addition, the people in these two places were originally part of the Chinese cultural circle, and the people in Goryeo and Ryukyu looked similar to the people of the empire, so it was not a big problem.
But if it were Annan and Fusang, the problem would be big. Fusang has a large number of people and has its own perfect cultural heritage, which is quite different from the people of the empire, so it is not easy to deal with.
As for the Annan people, their appearance is quite different from that of the people of the empire, and they can be easily distinguished. Moreover, in the eyes of the people of the empire, the people in these areas are true barbarians and savages.
Therefore, it is actually more difficult to integrate, and even the people will reject this kind of integration.
In this general environment, it is impossible for the empire to directly annex Annan easily and regard Annan as part of the mainland.
Li Xuan planned to take it step by step. He was not in a hurry anyway, and slowly encroached, controlled and immigrated to each place, ensuring that the newly occupied land would be filled with only the people of the empire!
From this perspective, the expansion policy of the Tang Dynasty was actually completely different from that of the Tatars at the same time!
Today's Tatars are also very happy in Central Asia. Since they moved westward last year, they have changed drastically. Antar Khan saw the vast Central Asia and Eastern Europe, and his whole person burst out with ambitions.
, wholeheartedly wanting to imitate their ancestors in the Western Expedition and expand their pastures to the Danube River!
From last year to this autumn, the Tatars were very active. They maintained defenses on the Eastern Front. They even built several fortresses like the Tang Empire and garrisoned troops for warning and defense. But this was just a show.
That’s it, their main cavalry is on the Western Front!
They launched a small-scale western expedition last year, and the results of the battle were unbelievable to the Tatars themselves. They seized a large amount of trophies, including cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock, as well as countless precious metals such as gold and silver, and
There are many slaves, and among these slaves there are also many craftsmen.
With the help of these craftsmen, the Tatars also began to make guns and cannons, and the ones they made were not bad.
This year, these Tatars launched another large-scale western expedition. According to uncertain news from the grasslands, Antar Khan personally led an army of 100,000 people on the expedition, sweeping through many foreign countries and capturing countless
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Moreover, because the Tatars themselves had a limited population, Anda Khan also recruited soldiers from the conquered lands and formed a servant army mainly composed of infantry.
The more the Tatars fought, the stronger they became. They occupied a lot of land and pastures, and captured countless slaves, cattle, sheep, and horses.
All of a sudden, the miserable Tatars became rich. Some Tatars even secretly tried to buy some luxury accessories from the empire through the Tubo people!