I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 523 Internal and external troubles

Fuchun City.

This is now the capital of the Nguyen clan's Nanyue Kingdom, and has been officially renamed Viet Chong, but most people are still accustomed to calling it Fuchun.

West of the city, Chinese Tea House (name).

The business of this tea house is very good, and the owner is also an overseas Chinese businessman, and he understands the needs of Vietnamese people very well. The tea house not only sells tea, but also provides betel nut. If you can afford it, you can even buy pipes and aphrodisiac.

Many Yue gentry and children of powerful people especially like to come here to drink tea, smoke and chew betel nuts.

"Brother Xinian, why did you suddenly stop placing orders for next year's opium?" Zheng Danian asked with a frown in the private room on the top floor of the teahouse.

Chen Xinian, the owner of the teahouse sitting opposite, smiled politely and said: "Brother Nian, don't be surprised. It's just that I felt that I had almost made enough money, so I thought I could live out my old age peacefully and never touch this business again."

Zheng Danian's face was full of disbelief. Others didn't understand this guy, but he didn't understand him?

You know, it was Chen Xinian who dragged him out to Vietnam to do the opium trade. At that time, Chen Xinian was still a serious maritime businessman and had never touched aphrodisiac before.

Now, the teahouse opened by the other party relies on him to supply all the opium and tobacco. The two of them can be regarded as having a serious supplier-seller relationship, one is responsible for shipping and the other is responsible for selling.

How can a person who is willing to take risks overseas for the sake of profit actually wash his hands in a golden basin and live out his old age in peace?

Zheng Danian couldn't help but ask: "Brother Xinian, what happened? If the funds cannot be circulated for a while, it doesn't mean that we can't borrow money. As for the interest, we have been friends for so many years, and we can also discuss it."

Chen Xinian took a sip of tea and said: "Brother Danian, I really don't want to do it anymore. Your Majesty was right at the beginning, aphrodisiac is a thing that does a lot of harm but does no good. Such a harmful poison, even if it only hurts overseas Being of a different race will inevitably damage your moral character. I also want to give birth to a big fat boy to pass on the incense to my Chen family, but sooner or later I will have to give up this aphrodisiac."

As he said that, he looked at his friend and business partner in front of him, and hesitated for a moment: "...Brother Danian, I would also like to advise you to get out of here as soon as possible! Even if you don't return to China, you can stay in Luzon, Coconut City, etc." It is not bad for overseas Han people to become rich. Moreover, His Majesty has decreed that these overseas Han people who have settled down can also participate in the imperial examinations."

Zheng Danian felt increasingly suspicious and uneasy, and he wanted to ask again.

It's a pity that Chen Xinian doesn't plan to talk anymore. He just insists that after finishing this year's work, he won't touch the drug business next year. He even wanted to find an opportunity to dump the tea house and let someone take over, which made it clear that he was planning to run away.

Zheng Danian failed to get any useful information, so he had to leave with worries. As an aphrodisiac supplier, he naturally had no worries about sales channels. He was missing Chen Xinian, but he was losing some profits.

But the other party pulled away and ran away, which made him feel very uneasy. But he was reluctant to give up the property here, not because he was reluctant to give up money, but because he was reluctant to give up his position of power.

In Fuchun City, he was a guest of the Ruan family's powerful people. Even King Ruan personally received him. After leaving here, he was nothing. He was a wealthy Chinese businessman with a net worth of tens of millions.

In fact, the reason why Chen Xinian wanted to run away was not a temporary decision, but because he saw clearly the difficulties faced by the Nguyen family in South Vietnam and the imperial court's ambitions for the Nguyen family in South Vietnam.

According to the situation he has seen, it is expected that in one or two years at most, the Nguyen clan's South Vietnam Kingdom will collapse, either due to civil strife or being annexed by the imperial army. There is no possibility of the third outcome, because if Ruan Phuc Thu wants to get out of the predicament, he can only go to war with other countries. No matter who he fights against, the imperial army will definitely take the opportunity to attack, and there are good reasons.

If Nguyen Phuc Su does not send troops, the current intensity of internal conflicts in Nguyen's South Vietnam Kingdom will not be able to survive the ten years expected by the Ming court, not even three years.

The current Ruan family is just a pile of dry firewood. As long as a spark is put into it, all the dregs of the Ruan family's burning will be left.

Not only Chen Xinian saw the situation clearly and was eager to escape, but many other smart people also saw that Ruan could not hold on anymore.

As a result, these Chinese businessmen in Ruan's territory began to sell off their properties, even at low prices, and prepared to run away directly.

This matter was quickly noticed by the anxious Ruan Phuc. Ruan Phuc was so angry that he directly ordered all Chinese businessmen and Han people in the country not to leave South Vietnam, and he also imposed heavy taxes on these Han Chinese businessmen.    …

Undercurrents are surging in Southeast Asia, and the Mobei grasslands are also unsettled.

It's winter, and the climate in Mobei has turned cold.

Chechen Khan and Tushetu Khan not only did not think about how to reduce the cold weather of the herdsmen, but took advantage of the gap in winter when they could not fight, and began to strengthen their own troops. He also ordered large quantities of Ming Dynasty armor and salt, and even traded livestock and horses.

In just one winter, Ming Dynasty earned thousands of fine prairie war horses, all of which were uncastrated.

The salt and iron war horse trade in Mobei Grassland has just resumed.

The two Khan tribes spared no expense and prepared their troops vigorously, but it was not for the purpose of marching south and marching across the Central Plains.

Even the Mongolian grasslands were uniformly conquered by the Ming Dynasty. Now if the Mobei Mongolians still dare to go south, they are giving away. It is estimated that they will be crushed by the Monan Army before they even get close to the Great Wall.

If they don't go south, there will be only civil war, and they have no choice.

Not only for the position of Mobei Khan, but also because one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers.

Just one Mobei grassland cannot support two great Khans.

The three Khans once stood side by side, but they could still interfere with each other and barely maintain stability.

But now, Zasaktu Khan is trying his best to break away from Junggar control, and there are only two forces left in the Mobei grassland, Tushetu Khan and Chechen Khan.

Moreover, these two Khans had just unified their various ministries, and it was the time when a foreign war was urgently needed to establish the prestige of the Great Khan. Otherwise, the newly unified Khanate may fall apart again soon.

Of course, the most critical thing is that the Monan Grassland was wiped out in an instant, which gave both the Chechen Khan and the Tushetu Khan a sense of crisis.

The Han people conquered the Monan grassland, so wouldn’t it be Mobei’s turn next?

There is no doubt about this. It is completely in line with the inertial thinking of the Central Plains dynasty. Even the Liao and Qing Dynasties, ruled by foreign races, were eyeing the grassland.

How can you allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch?

Oh, by the way, I, Da Song, can do it.

Once winter is over, a full-scale war will definitely break out in the Mobei Grassland.

Don't say that the two Khans can form an alliance and jointly fight against the Ming Dynasty. Do you believe this?

Since ancient times, alliances have been bullshit. Let's not talk about who will be the alliance leader. The key is when the Ming army will come. The alliance cannot always be maintained. Moreover, who can guarantee that both sides have no intention of each other and will take advantage of the alliance to come over and attack them.

Not even talking about these things, when a war breaks out, what if the other side fails to work hard?

Without a unified voice, this problem will always exist and cannot be avoided.

　My Song Dynasty territory was really not big at the beginning, but later on...it got smaller and smaller later on.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)