Chapter 382 All-round intervention

For the Annan Kingdom across the sea, the Executive Committee had no intention of directly ruling it from the beginning. Instead, it hoped to exert influence on Annan in many aspects such as military, economic, political, and cultural aspects.

The indirect control of the regime eventually positioned it as a slave state of the Hai Han regime. A large part of the various military assistance provided to the North Vietnamese court at this stage is also to achieve this long-term goal.

The situation in Annan is that powerful ministers are in charge, both in the north and the south. However, in the north, military generals are in charge, while in the south, civil servants are in charge, and the Le emperors on the throne are just puppets. Haihan chose to support North Vietnam, and naturally he will

The military system has been a key target, and Haihan's influence in the North Vietnamese army has been gradually increased by continuously training new troops and senior officers for North Vietnam.

Such measures do have a certain effect. For example, Zheng Ting and others, the first batch of North Vietnamese officers to receive training from Hai Han, have now gradually entered the senior ranks of the frontline main battle units in the North Vietnamese Army. Although these North Vietnamese soldiers have certain feelings about Hai Han.

I don’t necessarily agree with the approach, and even have a certain degree of vigilance, but it is undeniable that these officers who have received Haihan-style training have almost always said what Haihan is like, and use Haihan’s model as a criterion -

—After all, the Haihan Militia has been invincible since its emergence. There is no other company with such an impeccable model.

Judging from the achievements of military aid at this stage, although Hai Han is not yet able to influence North Vietnam's military trends, the influence of the North Vietnamese military has begun to take shape, especially in the arms trade, Hai Han has basically monopolized

North Vietnam's arms market. Now, in addition to muskets, artillery and corresponding ammunition and spare parts, Haihan has also begun to export a large number of weapons and equipment such as waist knives, spear points, plate armor, barbed wire, etc. The technical content of these things is not high.

The Hai Han base camp has iron ore, and coupled with the advanced production model, the cost can be controlled at a low level. The export price to North Vietnam is even nearly a quarter lower than its own production cost.

Given that prices and quality are similar, military leaders will naturally be more inclined to choose Haihan equipment, which symbolizes strong combat effectiveness. Therefore, more than 80% of the newly purchased weapons and equipment in the North Vietnamese Army are imported goods, ranging from small ones to

Belt buckles made of fine iron, and artillery pieces weighing more than 1,000 kilograms, are all branded "Made in Haihan." The North Vietnamese Defense Force, which has spent a lot of money to establish since last year, can now be regarded as the elite ace in the hands of North Vietnam.

The troops and their equipment are all made in Haihan, and even the army organization has been changed from the original Ming style to the Haihan style. The company and platoon-level officers are all from the Tushan training camp, and all the officers at the battalion level and above must

Going to Port Victory in batches to receive further training, and obtaining the completion certificate issued by the Port Victory Military Academy has become a necessary qualification for North Vietnamese officers to be promoted to senior military ranks.

If it were not for economic pressure, the North Vietnamese military would even want to purchase several "Exploration-class" warships produced by the Victory Port Shipyard from Hai Han. As early as the end of the aid operation in Vietnam in the first half of the year, the North Vietnamese military had already inquired

The price of such an advanced warship, but Haihan's quotation directly made them give up this unrealistic idea - an "exploration-class" warship equipped with a complete Haihan sail and steering wheel system, as well as all naval guns.

The price quoted was as high as 25,000 taels of silver per ship!

There is a good reason for Haihan to ask for such a high price. There are a total of twelve naval guns on the ship, five on the left and one on the left and one in the front. These twelve guns, plus the special mechanical recoil gun mount, are worth more than 10,000

Five thousand taels, plus the unique sails and steering wheel of the Shanghai Han warship, this price is already very "conscientious". In order to let the senior personnel of the North Vietnamese military understand the performance of this warship, Qian Tiandun even offered

A warship was specially transferred from the base camp, and senior members of the North Vietnamese military were invited to take the ship out to sea and conduct military exercises to prove that the performance of this warship was worthy of its high price.

The North Vietnamese military does not know how much the Hai Han quotation contains, but one thing is clear, that is, the North Vietnamese military has no money in their pockets now. Although they are very coveted for the performance of the Hai Han warship, military expenditures have already

The North Vietnamese military was stretched thin and could no longer spend more money to build its own fleet - even if it wanted to buy one and use it as a flagship, there was no longer enough funds. Therefore, although Hai Han used various means

came to promote it, but in the end they still failed to get an order from North Vietnam.

However, Bai Kesi, the person in charge of "Haihan Military Industry", has never given up on this project. It is said that he has recently communicated with the Victory Port Shipyard and Haihan Bank and plans to launch a special arms trade loan to North Vietnam, with several concessions in the coastal areas of North Vietnam

The permanent ownership rights were used as collateral, and Haihan Bank provided a ship purchase loan. It happened that Zheng Zha came to negotiate this time, and Bai Kesi was gearing up to fool him.

"When it comes to actual influence, I have something to say." Ning Qi saw a few people in the military attache system having a lively discussion, and of course he didn't want to let them take all the limelight.

"Although North Vietnam is a military government, we can't just introduce short-term overseas students with military backgrounds. We should follow our current approach to the Ming Dynasty and let North Vietnam's dignitaries send their children here to receive our education. When North Vietnam

When the entire upper class of society becomes more friendly towards us, influence will naturally arise." Ning Qi had obviously already prepared this, and said calmly: "Nowadays, education institutions at all levels already have

There is already a establishment of international students, so adding another enrollment target will not be very troublesome. It is nothing more than an additional review and registration procedure for the civil affairs department, but the benefits of this are obvious."

"This is possible." Tao Donglai agreed very much with Ning Qi's suggestion and nodded repeatedly: "In the first half of the year, I was busy with war matters, and the work on cultural communication has been relaxed. Now that the situation is better, we need to

We should seize the time to start this work. It is best to normalize and institutionalize the recruitment of overseas students. In the future, the areas we control will definitely not be limited to the current one. In the future, we can extend this mature experience to other countries and regions.

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At present, Haihan’s external cultural promotion work has achieved more obvious results in Ming Dynasty. Under the operation of relevant departments, educational institutions in Shengli Port area have accepted more than a hundred international students, ranging in age from seven or eight to early twenties.

etc. Most of the overseas students come from various businesses that have business dealings with Haihan, and most of these people choose to study in Sanya to learn various unique production technologies of Haihan in the future, hoping to

Bring it back to Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the executive committee is not worried that the leakage of these production technologies will bring competitors to its own business. In fact, the production projects included in vocational training are basically unlikely to rely on manual workshops for large-scale production, such as glass.

Even if it could be imitated in Ming Dynasty, its production cost would not be able to be reduced to Haihan's current level. It would be almost impossible to compete with Haihan products in the first-tier market.

The education department hopes that through this kind of vocational training, it will gradually cultivate some overseas students who are truly interested in Haihan culture. After these people return to Ming Dynasty after completing their studies, they will become voluntary propagandists of Haihan culture, thereby attracting

More people came to the Haihan area to engage in trade, study and even settle down.

"Your military and cultural circles have expressed their opinions, so I will briefly say a few words on behalf of the industrial and commercial circles." After everyone had discussed Ning Qi's opinions, Schneider also cut into the topic: "Our trade with North Vietnam has begun.

It has been more than a year. There is a saying that our trade surplus with North Vietnam is indeed too large. Sometimes even I feel that North Vietnam is about to be squeezed dry. North Vietnam can now export very few products to us.

There are only a few limited types such as grain, wood, medicinal materials, and fur. Some low-tech processing projects, such as rough processing of wood and medicinal materials, can be carried out locally. It is nothing more than investing money to do some

It's just a handicraft workshop. This will save our limited transportation capacity, and secondly, it will also support the local economy."

"There is nothing wrong with helping North Vietnam develop rough processing industries, but doing so will not solve the current unequal trade volume unless more high-value goods can be found in North Vietnam." Ning Qi questioned Schneider's statement.

"It's not that there are no good things over there, it's just that we don't have the ability to mine them yet." Regarding this issue, Bai Kesi had already done research on this issue. Hearing this, he took over the topic: "Dau Lok in central Vietnam, Da

There is a large amount of bauxite that can be mined in Nong, Kontum, and Lam Tong. According to the information we have, the total bauxite reserves in the places I just mentioned exceed 4 billion tons.

, with the current production capacity, it can be mined for hundreds of years. In addition, there are quite a lot of titanium ores in the coastal areas of North Vietnam, including primary ores, weathered residual ores and coastal placers, from Mang Cai in the north to Thanh Hoa in the center.

They are distributed in Hue, Quy Nhon, and all the way to Vung Tau and Ha Tien at the southern tip of the Indochina Peninsula. The rich ore grade can reach more than 30%, which is very valuable for mining. As for the iron ore, needless to say, the Ha Tinh Shixi Iron Mine

The reserves are two-thirds more than the Shilu Iron Mine that we have always been obsessed with, and the ore has a higher iron content and can also be mined in the open. In addition, there are also lead, zinc, phosphorus and other mineral deposits there.

There are quite a few, and if conditions permit, we can develop them one by one, and we won’t have to worry about unexported products.”

"It's better not to be too hasty about opening mines. There is still a large area of ​​mines on Hainan Island that have not yet been opened!" Tao Donglai did not agree with the enthusiasm shown by Bai Kesi. In the plan of the executive committee, Hainan Island

The Shilu Iron Mine in the west has always been a key development project in the future. As for minerals in other overseas countries, the Executive Committee's attitude is to only develop places with strategic value for the time being, such as the coal mines in Heitu Port. As for those on Hainan Island,

For minerals that are suitable for development, Tao Donglai believes that there is no need to go long distances to other countries to import them.

After a night's rest, Zheng Zha launched formal negotiations with the executive committee the next day.

According to Zheng Zha's formulation, the North Vietnamese court hopes that Haihan will send troops to help realize the complete unification of Annan, corresponding military expenditures and exchange conditions. It also hopes that Haihan can come up with a more specific plan. In this regard, after the day before

After the internal meeting, the Executive Committee has reached a relatively unified understanding.

Tao Donglai said: "As for sending troops to assist your country to exterminate the rebels and achieve reunification, we are happy to see it happen in principle. However, considering that the combat period will be relatively long and the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, it is difficult to make appropriate decisions now.

After discussing the military budget, we made the following suggestions, which you can use as a reference."

“First of all, let’s talk about the military expenditure issue that your country is most concerned about. Military expenditure is still calculated based on the previous standards based on combat duration and combat consumption. However, considering the economic difficulties your country is currently facing, we can appropriately extend the payment period.

The period has been relaxed from one year to five years, and you are no longer required to pay a large deposit before the war."

Before Zheng Zha could smile, Tao Donglai continued: "This is actually because our side has advanced the military expenses in advance. In essence, we have provided a considerable amount of war loans to your country. In order to avoid risks

, we also require you to provide certain physical collateral."

Zheng Zha frowned and said, "I wonder what the physical mortgage you require means?"

"Same as before, use land as collateral." Tao Donglai explained to him: "But the places we requested before were all in the north, but this time we plan to ask for several places in the south."

The place in the south is still in the hands of the Ruan family. It doesn't hurt to give away other people's things. Zheng Zhu felt relieved and nodded: "Mr. Tao just said it doesn't matter."

Tao Donglai said: "Da Nang, Quy Nhon, Cam Ranh, and Vung Tau south of Hue will be leased to us as concessions for a period of fifty years, and the fees will be calculated according to the Black To Port concession.

If your country cannot repay our war debts in full within five years after the end of the Unification War, then the ownership rights of these places will be obtained by us as loan collateral."

Zheng Zha did not respond in a hurry this time, but began to recall the locations of these places in his mind. Da Nang and Quy Nhon are easy to understand. After all, these two places have natural ports. For those who are good at sea trade,

The Han people are very tempting. But Cam Ranh and Vung Tau are disputed areas between the Champa Kingdom and Annam in the south - these two places originally belonged to the Champa Kingdom, but were later occupied by Annan. If North Vietnam would

If the place is handed over to the Haihan people, it will undoubtedly cause a backlash from the Champa Kingdom.

Zheng Zha hesitated for a while before asking: "Mr. Tao, does he know that there is still a dispute between our country and the Champa Kingdom over the ownership of Cam Orchid and Vung Tau?"

Tao Donglai pretended to be stunned and said: "Is there any dispute? Then this matter will be difficult to deal with... How about we talk about this today, and the young prince goes back to have a good rest, and let us have another meeting here to study it."

When Zheng Zha heard this "research and study", he felt confused. Everything else about the Haihan people was good, but they were procrastinating in doing things. Even the most serious things required a group of people to hold meetings to study. Although Tao Donglai seemed to be the leader of the Haihan people,

But they do not have the power to make decisions, and they don’t know how these Haihan people are in power. If it were any other time, maybe Zheng Zha would have just accepted it, but now every day of delay will put greater pressure on North Vietnam.

At one point, Zheng Zha, who was well aware of his own dilemma, did not have the patience to wait for two more days, and quickly responded: "Actually, there is no need to hold a meeting. The so-called dispute is just the opinion of the Champa country and cannot be taken seriously. This Cam Ranh, Vung Tau and other places

, naturally it is the territory of our Dali Dynasty."

Hai Han has long been hooked up with the Champa Kingdom in the south, and has even sold a lot of weapons to them, so that the Champa army can add fire to the precarious Hue government from the south. Regarding Cam Ranh and Tou

Of course, Haihan had known about the dispute over Dunton's ownership rights for a long time. But precisely because of the dispute, the executive committee deliberately raised it to Zheng Zao as one of the conditions for exchange.

If the war goes well, there is a high chance that Annan's reunification will be realized next year, but the Executive Committee does not want to see Annan settle down - creating regional tension has always been one of the means for big countries to exert influence on small countries. Although

Haihan is not a big country now, and it has not even established a formal political power, but the thinking mode of the Executive Committee is already looking at the situation in Indochina from a condescending perspective.

After eliminating the rival South Vietnam, the Executive Committee decided to support Thang Long Province with a new rival so that it could continue to maintain its military dependence on Haihan. The Champa Kingdom, which had territorial disputes with Annan, was undoubtedly an ideal candidate.

Choice. Although Haihan now has trade relations with Champa, this will not prevent the Executive Committee from trying to trick it. Who made the terrain so good that it is right next to Annan Kingdom?

As for whether the current arms trade between Haihan and Champa State will cause an embarrassing situation because of Annan as an ally, the Executive Committee is not worried at all - in the future, countries will use weapons produced by the same country to fight against each other.

There are so many countries, but I have never seen these countries fall out with arms exporting countries. What’s more, in order to implement this plan, the Executive Committee has even found the next agent. Yes, that’s right, just to make money, you can completely give up your integrity and stance.

of Portuguese.

After the military conflict between Annan and Champa, Haihan will probably suspend arms sales to Champa out of concern for their allies. Then the Portuguese will take over the baton and complete the remaining part on behalf of Haihan. As long as

Good profits can be obtained by transferring goods from the left hand to the right hand. For the Portuguese who are good at sea trade, this is simply the simplest profitable business. They will be happy to take over this task from Haihan.

As for whether there will be a day when Annan becomes stronger and destroys Champa, the Executive Committee is not worried. Even if that day comes, it will not be a big deal - there is Siam to the west of Champa, and Siam to the west

There is also the Toungoo Kingdom of Myanmar, so I am not afraid of finding new characters.
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