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Chapter 507 Intervening in An Nanguo

Although the center of gravity of the Kyushu Army is temporarily in the northern region, there has been a trend of shifting to the coastal areas.The reason is also very simple, mainly in the age of the sea, the geographical location of the coastal areas is relatively good, and the Kyushu Army has gradually shifted the focus of development from unifying the customs to expanding outward, and the coastal areas are more prosperous.

Guangzhou Mansion served as the defense zone of the Nanyang Fleet. After the surrender of Nanming, the Kyushu Army sent a group of craftsmen and scientists to Guangzhou Mansion to train workers, build smelters, and ordnance factories.Because before entering the customs, the industrial base of the Kyushu Army was basically only in Liaodong and Liaonan, controlling the outflow of all firearms.However, when the territory controlled by Chu Yun became larger, the export of firearms from Liaodong and Liaonan alone could no longer meet the needs of the Kyushu Army to expand overseas.When the autumn wind gradually picked up, the ordnance factory in Canton Prefecture was able to produce small batches of Dreiser rifles and bullets, as well as shells for smoothbore guns.

Ruan Youyi, the envoy sent by the Ruan family of Annan State to Guangzhou for help, saw the autumn wind. Although the firearms brought by the Kyushu Army from southern Liaoning to support the Ruan family stayed in Guangzhou, it was just like this. It has not been possible to transfer these firearms from Guangzhou to Hoi An Port controlled by the Ruan family of Annan State.

Ruan Youyi received another letter urging Lord Ruan, because after the most powerful Lord Zheng of Annan Kingdom wiped out the Mo family dynasty in Gaoping in the north, he mobilized his troops and prepared to go south to eliminate Lord Ruan in one fell swoop and unify Annan Kingdom.

As a last resort, Ruan Youyi cheekily came to Xiong Wencan's official residence in Guangzhou to meet Xiong Wencan.

"This batch of firearms was shipped to Guilin City for the main force of the Independent Corps to equip. And this batch of firearms was shipped to Zhennan Pass. There must be a mistake." Xiong Wencan was handling affairs in Guangdong and Guangxi.

Xiong Wencan was promoted from a civil affairs official in Guangdong to a civil affairs official in Guangdong and Guangxi, and his power has risen to a higher level, but it is not a problem in the Kyushu military regime where power is separated.Civilian officials can temporarily manage internal affairs, but they cannot mobilize regular troops, and they don't even have the power to order smelters and ordnance factories to produce armaments.The production order for these equipment was issued by the logistics department of the Kyushu Army, and Xiong Wencan just wanted to transfer this batch of supplies to the barracks that needed firearms intact.His status as a civil affairs official in Guangdong and Guangxi allowed him to freely transport materials from the Chief Secretary of Guangdong to the relatively backward Chief Secretary of Guangxi.At present, only Liaodong, Liaonan, Beijing, Nanjing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Xiangyang, and Guangzhou are the places where military materials are produced in the places controlled by the Kyushu Army.

"Lord Xiong, An Nanguo envoy Ruan Youyi is asking to see you." A small official came in and reported to Xiong Wencan.

"Oh? Let him in." Xiong Wencan said in surprise.

"Yes."

After a while, the petty official led Ruan Youyi to Xiong Wencan.

"Greetings, Mr. Xiong. The emissary came this time to report something important." Ruan Youyi cupped his hands.

"What's the matter?" Xiong Wencan stopped his brush.

"The little envoy looked at the sky at night, and saw that the stars in the night sky in the direction of An Nanguo were dim, and there was a ghost star. I am afraid that something will happen." Ruan Youyi said.

"Yinghuoxing? I'm afraid there is an ominous sign." Xiong Wencan is so smart, Ruan Youyi only halfway through his words, Xiong Wencan knew what he wanted to express, but Xiong Wencan deliberately pretended not to understand.

"That's right, the one who is glamorizing the stars is the Lord Zheng, Zheng Bing, who has hundreds of thousands of troops and is a disaster. The people of our Annan Kingdom are in dire straits and suffering because of Lord Zheng's ambition. If you let him If his ambition is realized, he may conspire against China's Yunnan, Guangxi and other places, causing serious harm." Ruan Youyi hurriedly explained.

"We are quite alert to Master Zheng's behavior, so we agreed to assist your Ruan family with a batch of arms." Xiong Wencan said.

When Ruan Youyi saw that Xiong Wencan talked about the batch of munitions parked in the wharf of Guangzhou Mansion, his eyes lit up: "Yes, my lord, but that batch of munitions has been staying in Guangzhou Mansion for a month, why haven't they been transported to our safety?" Hoi An Port in the Southern Kingdom? I received a letter from our Master Ruan, Master Zheng is raising troops and will launch a southern expedition soon, we urgently need these firearms!" Ruan Youyi said a little anxiously.

"It turns out that you came here to see me for this matter. Anyway, let me tell you why the firearms we aided you have stayed at the port of Guangzhou Prefecture for a month. Please sit down." Xiong Wencan waved his hand and signaled Ruan Youyi sat on the guest chair.

"Our batch of weapons to support you includes [-] flintlock guns, [-] bronze cannons, and [-] iron cannons. There are tens of thousands of bullets and gunpowder worth millions of taels of silver. We need enough silver taels." Xiong Wencan made a gesture asking for money.

When Ruan Youyi saw that Xiong Wencan mentioned money, he couldn't help but blush: "The envoy is in a hurry this time, but no silver has arrived, and the silver notes in our Annan Kingdom are not as developed as the Celestial Dynasty...but I swear to God here, as long as The Nine Provinces Army transported this batch of firearms to Hoi An Port, and our Lord Ruan will definitely hand over the silver taels that satisfy the Nine Provinces Army to the Nine Provinces Army as agreed."

Xiong Wencan snorted softly: "If swearing is useful, there will be no rascals in the world. The lack of silver taels is the first point, but our Kyushu Army will not worry that you can't pay back the million taels of silver just because your country is not as rich as ours. , and the second reason is that we are waiting for the north wind to arrive at Hoi An Port with the wind.”

"The envoy almost forgot about the wind direction!" Ruan Youyi was so anxious this month that he ignored that the main driving force of the sailboat was the wind, and if there was no suitable wind direction, he really couldn't reach Hoi An Port.

"It is estimated that it will take half a month before it is very suitable to go to sea and enter Nanyang." Xiong Wencan said, "The delivery of firearms this time is absolutely safe, and the fleet we are responsible for delivering will pay with your country at Hoi An Port. Delivery, isn't this kind of disposal bad?"

"It's not bad, it's better to say it's great!" Ruan Youyi couldn't help but burst into tears seeing Xiong Wencan's guarantee of the safety of firearms.

Xiong Wencan nodded slightly, but he was thinking in his heart: You haven't figured out who is responsible for delivering the firearms, are you too happy?
Chu Yun started from Dongjiang Town, and it might be as simple as selling some arms to make money. This time, the main force of the Nanyang Fleet was to transport the arms to Hoi An Port.The Zhili Fleet has quietly mobilized to the vicinity of Xiamen Bay, just to let the main force of the Nanyang Fleet stationed in Guangzhou Mansion come out.And this time it was Deng Qianlong, commander of the Nanyang Fleet, who led the team.After Zheng Zhilong of the Beiyang Fleet intervened in the civil war of Dongying Kingdom, Deng Qianlong of the Nanyang Fleet began to intervene in the civil war of Annan Kingdom.

　One chapter today... Two more stable chapters from tomorrow...

　　
　
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