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Chapter 155 The Southern and Northern Dynasties of Annan Kingdom

When Chu Yun reached a consensus with businessmen from all over the Ming Dynasty, they left the main hall one after another to discuss with officials from various departments in other places.If you want to contract housing construction, you need to bid to the land management office, but if you want to contract workers' catering, you need to bid to the mining farm.

Now Chu Yun has established a large number of new administrative departments in addition to the army, completely ignoring the bureaucratic system of the previous Ming Dynasty.Anyway, the southern and eastern part of Liaodong recovered from the late Jin forces, and after the abolition of the Jin people's system and officials, there was a blank, just to break and re-establish.

The current system in southern Liaoning is a management system of bureaus, divisions, and departments. There are also production institutions such as government-run mining farms, smelters, and textile factories. Their status is at different levels according to their scale.Under the influence of Chu Yun, the officials under him no longer attach great importance to the positions granted to them by the imperial court. Only with real power in the Liao Army can they speak weight and status!
Moreover, the salaries given to them by the Fu Liao Army are much richer than those of the imperial court, and they are also keen to improve the quality of life of officials. For example, recently, Chu Yun wanted to build something called a flush toilet for free in their residences, which is said to improve toilet use. experience...

After these merchants left, Chu Yun specially left a group of merchants from An Nanguo.An Nanguo's businessmen did not come to participate in the bidding for the construction of Liaodong City. Even if they were willing, Chu Yun would not let An Nanguo interfere in the construction of his forces.

Chu Yun didn't need to think about it to know that these Annan businessmen just happened to catch up with this investment promotion meeting, and they took advantage of this opportunity to build a relationship with him, and their purpose was to discuss other big business.Of course money is to be earned.

"Everyone, please, this is the high-quality tea picked around the Qingming Festival in the Jiangnan area of ​​the Ming Dynasty. Only the emperor and senior officials can enjoy it." Chu Yun smiled and asked his servants to make good tea for the An Nanguo businessman.

"Thank you, General." An Nanguo businessman bowed slightly to Chu Yun, raised his teacup, and looked at how Chu Yun tasted the tea from the corner of his eye.

"I don't know their last names?" Chu Yun asked.

"My name is Zheng Chi, and I am a member of the main clan of Zheng." An Nanguo merchant leader said to Chu Yun.

"Master Zheng?" Chu Yun asked suspiciously.Chu Yun really doesn't know about the situation in An Nanguo at this time, who cares about such a small country...

Of course, in their own eyes, An Nanguo may be the dominant power in the southeast region, but in the eyes of powerful countries such as Daming, Houjin, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan, Annanguo is just a small region.

"Well, our Lord Zheng is assisting King An Nanguo, who is fighting against the southern rebel General Ruan, and sent me to seek assistance." Zheng Chi said.

"Can you tell me in detail? I also want to know what happened in your country and provide help to your country." Chu Yun's understanding of the Nanyang region is almost blank, so he just took this opportunity to learn more.

According to Zheng Chi, the Annan Kingdom was in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties at this time, and the royal power was declining. The general Zheng in the north took the emperor to command the princes and crusade against the rebels, similar to the shoguns in Dongying.The Ruan family in the south accused the Zheng family of their behavior and took the opportunity to become independent in the south.A great war broke out between the north and the south this year. Lord Zheng led one hundred thousand imperial guards to conquer Lord Ruan in the south, trying to unify Annan Kingdom, but was repelled by Lord Ruan.

Master Ruan also built an 11-kilometer-long wall at the junction of the northern and southern forces, and placed a cannon every few feet, and prepared enough ammunition to make Master Zheng restless.

"I heard from you that the population of the Ruan family is only one-fifth of that of your Lord Zheng, and they are located in the southern region with a harsh environment. How could they defeat Lord Zheng's [-] army, and... so many cannons? "Chu Yun couldn't help being secretly surprised when he heard Zheng Chi's words.

If it is true what they said, the long wall prevents a cannon every few feet, wouldn't it be that the Ruan family has hundreds of cannons?Terrible, a mere An Nanguo, and only the southern forces, has such a powerful firepower, it's unbelievable...

Chu Yun was a little suspicious that the Annan businessman had exaggerated the strength of the Ruan family.

"The general of the Celestial Dynasty didn't know that the Ruan family colluded with the Frang machine and bought a large number of artillery and warships from him. He took the lead in defeating our navy in the battle, which put us in a dilemma. He also bombarded our army with the Frang machine gun. 2 people repelled our [-] Imperial Forest Army. Their Hoi An Port brought together merchants from Ming, Dongying, Western, and Southeast Asian countries. They are so rich that they really worry us." Zheng Chi said about Ruan The current situation, frowning.

Originally, Lord Zheng vowed to go south to destroy Lord Ruan and rule the Annan Kingdom forever, but due to the intervention of Westerners, their attempt was shattered. In turn, Lord Ruan still had the strength to compete with Lord Zheng and even the Northern Expedition.

"It turned out that Frangji intervened in the struggle between Lord Zheng and Lord Ruan." Chu Yun found it interesting when he heard the current situation of An Nanguo.I didn't expect that I would start to have contact with Westerners of this era so soon.

A divided Annan Kingdom has unlimited business opportunities... Chu Yun smacked his lips, thinking about how to profit from this big water fish.

"Exactly! Our Annan Kingdom has been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times, and their Ruan family invited Westerners to help out, which is a contempt for the Ming Dynasty Shang Dynasty!" Zheng Chi was very sad and indignant when he said about Frangji.

"Well, our Ming Dynasty is the suzerain state, and what they do is against tradition." Chu Yun never thought that the Ming Dynasty at the end of the empire would still have such a great influence in the southeastern countries.

"We have tried to ask the Ming court to ask the Heavenly Soldiers to destroy the Ruan family, but the Ming court seems to be busy with the war with the northern tribes, and thinks that our Annan country is far away, so it has been delayed. My lord went to Annan country to do business. Daming The businessman heard that the Liao Army in Southern Liao has excellent firearms, which are even more powerful than the Frangji, so they came here to buy firearms from you." Zheng Chi finally explained his purpose.

In fact, Chu Yun knew the intention of the Annan merchant group halfway through hearing it.The current Ming court is too busy to take care of itself. It is no longer the Ming Dynasty that was able to calmly govern An Nanguo in the past. How could it send tense troops to support An Nanguo.

"Although our Liao Army has a lot of firearms, we all produce them for our own use, so we don't have much in reserve." Chu Yun said in embarrassment.

Hearing what Chu Yun said, Zheng Chi said anxiously: "General of the Heavenly Dynasty, if you don't help us, our Lord Zheng will be in danger! Although our Annan Kingdom is not as good as the Kingdom of the Heavenly Dynasty, we still have some silver. The general sells us firearms, let us defeat Ruan and the Westerners!"

What I want is your words!Hearing the word Baiyin, Chu Yun pretended to be contemplative and said, "Well...let me think about it, we seem to have a batch of firearms that are indeed idle, but they are expensive..."

(End of this chapter)