Chapter 411 Situation in Fujian

Since the beginning of Chuanchuan Group's establishment of foreign commercial relations, arms trade has become an extremely important part of export trade. Compared with other exported industrial products, export products in this field not only have extremely high gross profit margins, but also generate

The benefits are not limited to the economic aspect. The political and military influence brought by arms exports are also characteristics valued by the Executive Committee.

For example, the Li family, which was the first to obtain the arms monopoly, established its own powerful private armed force with the help of Haihan. Although the scale of this armed force is small and its combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the genuine Haihan militia, its strength has exceeded

The Ming Dynasty's official local garrison. Compared with other wealthy businessmen in Guangdong, the Li family is probably the first local force that can truly meet the standard of "local overlord".

Of course, they are powerful, but the dependence of local private armed forces like the Li Jia Vigilante Group on Haihan is also very obvious. Not only do all their personnel rely on Haihan instructors for military skills training, but more importantly, the weapons and ammunition they use are only

The supply can come from Haihan. Once they lose the support of Haihan, the combat effectiveness of the Li family militia will plummet if the supply is cut off. As a result, the Haihan side has many demands on the political attitude of the Li family, many of which have "any

Under certain circumstances, hostile measures shall not be taken against Haihan" and other clear terms.

Although many actions of the Haihan people seemed to be wary and hostile to the government, the Li family was still more willing to trust the Haihan people who had fought alongside them than the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers who had refused to save Lijiazhuang when they were besieged by rogue bandits.

Han people. If you hang out with the Haihan people, you can make a lot of money and get protection from the militia army. Anyway, the Haihan people are not directly rebelling now. The Li family is happy to pretend to be ignorant. They only care about Haihan's various activities near Guangzhou.

Treat it as invisible.

In recent years, Guangdong and Guangxi have been hit by natural disasters one after another. Bandits are rampant in the province, and the government is unable to change this vicious cycle. People often have to rely on associations to protect themselves. With the establishment of "Qiong Lianfa" and the Lijiazhuang Defense War,

With the success of Haihan, a large number of wealthy businessmen who cooperated with Haihan also began to follow the example of the Li family and form private armed forces in their hometowns. Merchants who are qualified to join the "Qiong Lianfa" shareholder meeting have no doubt their financial resources and can spend tens of thousands.

Buying Haihan weapons with two silver coins, hiring Haihan instructors, and forming a reliable private armed force is a cost-effective deal for these wealthy businessmen. Last year, Haihan sold more than 4,000 rifles through this channel.

There are more than 40 small-caliber artillery pieces. If they are concentrated together, this firepower can already fight with the defenders of Guangzhou Prefecture.

These wealthy businessmen often have inextricably linked interests with the government. Some of them even come from a family of government and businessmen. Therefore, local governments often turn a blind eye to the private armed forces they organize.

As long as they do not take the initiative to cause trouble, the government officials will not look for trouble to restrain these powerful forces with money and guns. And in this tacit agreement reached by many parties, Haihan remained silent.

The locals created a cooperative army of thousands of people in Guangdong and Guangxi.

The Executive Committee and the Military Commission did not place too high hopes on the combat effectiveness of this auxiliary army. After all, most of these people are not professional soldiers, and the planned functions when they were formed were mainly defense, but as civilian armed forces

It is enough to provide support for Haihan's various non-public or semi-public actions in the mainland. When Haihan assisted in the formation of these local militia groups, he reached an agreement with the bosses. As long as there is a document issued by the Armed Forces Division of the Guangdong Office, he can

Assign militia groups locally to complete some low-intensity tasks, such as escorting goods, protecting dignitaries, monitoring specific targets, etc.

If militia groups have to be dispatched every time for such tasks, firstly, the cost of operations is too high; secondly, the number of armed personnel of the militia in the mainland is limited and they often cannot perform multiple tasks at the same time; thirdly, the people of the militia are far less aware of the local situation.

The locals are familiar with and understand the operation, and the efficiency of the operation will be limited accordingly. Therefore, such lower-level tasks are often entrusted to the private armed forces affiliated to the cooperative merchants to perform, which to a large extent also makes up for Haihan's lack of support in the mainland.

The shortcomings of insufficient regional armed forces.

As for whether Haihan can gradually annex these civilian armed forces to his own banner after he establishes his political power in the future, this needs to be paved slowly from now on. The Executive Committee believes that with the means at its disposal, even if it cannot be completely integrated by then

Taking back these civilian armed forces will at least prevent most of them from taking a hostile attitude towards Haihan, which will greatly reduce the pressure on the Haihan regime when it invades the mainland in the future.

The situation in Fujian is different from that of Guangdong and Guangxi. The main purpose of the Haihan people in assisting the Xu Xinsu Group is not to establish local armed forces for their own use in advance, but to use Xu Xinsu's power to hold back the most powerful people on the southeast coast.

The speed of the development of the powerful "Eighteen Zhi" prevents it from monopolizing the entire maritime trade channels along the coast of Fujian, Guangdong and even Jiangsu and Zhejiang before Haihan's own maritime power takes shape.

This kind of cooperation is more out of strategic considerations that are beneficial to Haihan's own development. The executive committee does not want to step on the "Eighteen Zhi" while supporting another behemoth beyond its control. It has nothing to do with the local armed forces in Guangdong and Guangxi.

The difference is that the troops under Xu Xinsu are genuine officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Although most of them are pirates, and even Xu Xinsu's official title was exchanged for money, the official status still gives this army

More power means more uncontrollable possibilities for Haihan.

The Executive Committee is not a good man and a believer, and naturally it does not believe that an old fox like Xu Xinsu, who has money and soldiers, will sincerely cooperate with them. Therefore, it has always been cautious in providing military assistance to Fujian, in terms of the scale and grade of arms exports.

There are also reservations.

Take the Type 28 flintlock rifle as an example. Although it has been gradually replaced by the latest Type 29 breech-loaded flintlock rifle in the militia army, the rifles exported to Fujian are still based on the Type 27 matchlock gun.

Mainly, the Type 28 flintlock rifles are only distributed at a ratio of thirty to one. That is, for every thirty Type 27s purchased by Fujian, only one Type 28 can be ordered, and the price is lower than the Type 27.

The matchlock gun is three times more expensive. As for the newer rifle, it is not on the external quotation list of "Haihan Military Industry" at all.

The export restrictions on artillery are even more obvious. So far, the most powerful artillery that Fujian can buy from Haihan is the 12-pound army gun, and it is also a monkey version with castrated performance. As for the large-caliber gun that Xu Xinsu has always wanted to buy

Coastal defense guns have long been included in the list of prohibited sales by the Executive Committee - if this thing is erected on the city wall of Zhongzuo Suo or on the coast of Weitou Bay, the Haihan warship will want to capture it.

The local difficulty level has to be raised several levels because of this.

Since even coastal defense guns have been listed as prohibited items, warships with higher technical content and greater threats will naturally not be sold in batches to the Ming Dynasty military who may become opponents in the future. Xu Xinsu

Even if it can be considered as a sky-high price, Haihan will definitely not sell a large number of current warships to it before the next generation of warships are installed - there may be room for negotiation for one or two ships. After all,

The combat effectiveness that the captain can form is also very limited, but there is basically no need to talk about ten ships and eight ships. Among the Haihan Navy's current fleet establishment, each fleet only has two large, six small and eight warships, plus a few more

Just a supply ship.

Schneider considered the issue from the perspective of a businessman, so he would naturally feel sorry for letting go of this business with a gross profit of hundreds of thousands of dollars. But from Yan Chujie's point of view, safety issues are far more important than the profits from this arms deal.

Not only that, he also proposed further ideas to Schneider.

"Judging from the news we have received this year, the war in Fujian is not going well for the 'Eighteen Zhi's', and their strength has been reduced compared to the first two years. If we continue to open arms supply to Xu Xinsu, we may have

It’s a one-sided situation that I don’t want to see for the time being.” Yan Chujie frowned and analyzed: “If Zheng Zhilong falls too quickly, then Xu Xinsu’s family will be the only one, which may not be a good thing for us going north in the future, so I plan to make suggestions to the executive committee,

Reduce and limit the scale of arms exports to Fujian."

"Our biggest trade partner in Fujian now is Xu Xinsu, and our biggest trade item is arms. If we move on this project, our economic benefits from Fujian will be significantly reduced!" Schneider shook his head and said, "What do others think of me?

I know, but I will definitely vote against it."

"We can be a little more flexible in terms of policy. For example, we don't need to limit the export quantity of weapons, but we can limit the sales of ammunition." Yan Chujie probably expected that there would be objections, so he proposed a relatively compromise plan: "Without us

Even if they buy more original ammunition, the power they can exert is limited."

Ruan Jinggui was quietly listening to the conversation between the two. Although his face was calm, there was already a stir in his heart. He originally thought that the power that Haihan supported through the arms trade was only the North Vietnamese court, but this time

After listening to the conversation, he realized that the situation of Haihan's management was far greater than he expected. The Haihan people had supported numerous civilian armed forces in Guangdong and Guangxi, formed several militia groups, and were also conducting arms transactions with the Ming Dynasty's official army.

.From the tone of their conversation, the local Ming army in Fujian might have been defeated by the local pirate armed forces had it not been supported by Haihan's military assistance.

When Ruan Jinggui was sighing in his heart, Schneider unexpectedly turned around and asked him: "Mr. Ruan, what do you think of the issues we discussed?"

Ruan Jinggui responded quickly: "I am humble in my position and have little knowledge, so I dare not speak nonsense."

"It doesn't matter, just say whatever you want. I don't treat you as an outsider by letting you listen here. Don't put any psychological burden on me. Just tell me your opinion." Schneider advised with a harmless smile on his face.

Schneider didn't know if he said this intentionally or unintentionally, but Ruan Jinggui was moved by the words "I don't treat you as an outsider." After all, he is a new immigrant who has not yet obtained naturalized citizenship. In terms of status, he is not even a second-class citizen in Sanya.

Not really, but to be lucky enough to attend a private meeting between two members of the Haihan Executive Committee is quite a privilege.

Of course, Ruan Jinggui didn't know that Schneider dared to take him with him to attend meetings with other executive committee members with confidence. He didn't really trust him. In fact, this was also part of the employment review. If Ruan Jinggui was not strict with his words, he would dare to

Spreading this information will naturally be fed back to the relevant departments through certain secret channels. At that time, it is very likely that he will be sent to a hard labor camp in a daze before being promoted to a regular job. If he can understand without being reminded by his superiors,

Regarding the importance of confidentiality, there is hope that it can be reused in the new environment.

Ruan Jinggui saw that Yan Chujie had no intention of objecting, so he thought carefully and said: "Then I'll be bold enough to say a few words, and I hope the two chiefs won't be surprised. Although I don't know the situation in Fujian, I just heard the two chiefs talking about it, and it seems that they have nothing to do with Annan."

The situation earlier was somewhat similar, except that the two sides in the confrontation were replaced by the Ming Dynasty official army and a certain powerful pirate group, I wonder if this is the case?"

"The metaphor is not particularly appropriate, but if you want to understand it this way, it will not be much different. Go on." Yan Chujie nodded and encouraged Ruan Jinggui.

Ruan Jinggui relaxed a little and continued: "Mr. Shi wants to sell arms to the Ming Dynasty military in exchange for benefits, but Mr. Yan is worried that it will make it difficult to control it in the future. In my opinion, why not support that pirate group instead?"

Power? They are not as reliable as the Ming Dynasty's military, so they should be easier to control."

"You don't know something about this. The leader of this pirate is famous for being two-faced. He can fall out of favor faster than flipping through a book. His personal credit is very poor. We cannot trust this person and it is impossible to cooperate with him." Yan Chujie shook his head in denial.

He accepted Ruan Jinggui’s suggestion: “In comparison, the reliability of the Ming Dynasty’s military is still a little higher.”

Ruan Jinggui was not discouraged after being rejected. He thought about it and asked again: "The two of you mentioned earlier that the pirate's home base is in Taiwan. I wonder where the bay is?"

"Taiwan is not a bay, Taiwan is what the Ming Dynasty called Da Yuan Island." Yan Chujie explained to him patiently.

"So that's it. I know that Dayuan is a place across the sea from Fujian. Then why not join forces with the Ming Dynasty military to directly destroy this pirate, and then let us occupy its home base? Since this pirate can attack the coast of Fujian from time to time, it must be

The distance at sea is not far away. After occupying the area, we must be able to check and balance the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers in Fujian from close range." Ruan Jinggui racked his brains and came up with another plan. He did not know the specific situation along the coast of Fujian, so he could think of this step.

It's already been considered as my best effort.

Schneider nodded in approval and said: "I heard that you have never been to Fujian. You can get so much information from our conversation and come up with ways to deal with it. You are considered a thoughtful person!"

Ruan Jinggui was secretly proud of receiving Schneider's praise, and he quickly said humbly: "Being humble and humble, I made Mr. Shi laugh."

"You said this method is a good one. In fact, we have always wanted to do this..." Yan Chujie took over and said: "But the problem is that we are not strong enough and cannot cross the sea to fight the pirates over there. Even if

Winning one or two battles doesn’t mean much.”

"The Haihan army crossed the sea and invaded Annan several times. Mr. Yan's words are too modest!" Ruan Jinggui hurriedly handed over a top hat without losing the opportunity.

Yan Chujie glanced at him and said, "Do you know how far Zhangzhou and Danyuan are from Sanya?"

Ruan Jinggui responded quickly: "I don't know how to handle this humble position. Please give me some advice, Mr. Yan."

"You have walked back and forth from Hue to Sanya several times, so you should be familiar with this stretch of road." Yan Chujie explained to him: "It's not too far from here to the fighting area in Fujian, it's probably just

It’s almost three round-trip flights from here to Hue!”

Ruan Jinggui almost choked on his own saliva. He was not familiar with the geographical conditions of the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty. He thought that the place these two were talking about was not too far away from Sanya. If he had known this, he really should not have met these two high-ranking Haihan officials.

You are talking nonsense in front of me.

After the fall of the South Vietnamese regime, Ruan Xinggui gradually understood why the frequency of Haihan militia attacks on South Vietnam remained at about half a year. The fundamental reason was that the preparations for cross-sea operations were too complicated and took a long time to prepare before launching.

A wave of offensive. The voyage from Sanya to the coast of South Vietnam is only about three days, and it is so troublesome. The Fujian battlefield is five or six times longer than the voyage from Sanya, and the journey will take about half a month. Naturally, the Haihan people are not willing to take it easy.
To be continued...