"Old Chen is so old, he is still talking nonsense." Da Yu'er carefully lifted the purple clay pot and added tea to Mr. Chen. Her pretty face turned slightly red. It was probably because Mr. Chen's words hit the girl's thoughts.

"How can you talk nonsense? Can the Three Bonds and Five Constant Persons make everyone have enough food? If the military leader had not broken or established and advocated new learning, how could the current peaceful and prosperous era come from? So many times, it is just that the world is bound by unnecessary dogma. The Three Bonds and Five Constant Persons and other things are not as practical as this tea." Chen Ting took another sip of fragrant tea.

"Liberty of love... It's a good thing. At least people have the right to pursue their love and don't have to marry someone they don't like... But the other party... sometimes it's really hard to speak..." Da Yu'er used her fingers to circle the wooden table. After a while, she realized that Mr. Chen was still there, and then Da Yu'er fled from the scene with blushing cheeks.

"This little girl." Seeing this big Yu'er so shy, Chen Ting couldn't help but smile. But when he thought of the project of building a national telegraph system and the cost of another considerable expense, he felt inexplicably irritated.

"Silver, silver, why can't you breed offspring by yourself? Money makes money? In this way, I won't have to worry about money anymore. The military leader will do whatever he wants." Chen Ting sighed and gently stroked the general ledger.

"Old Chen is not good!" An official from the Ministry of Revenue hurriedly walked in.

"What's the matter in panic?" Chen Ting, who was upset, asked angrily.

"The military leader has received another new order, asking our Ministry of Revenue to allocate a huge sum of money to provincial governments such as Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Yunnan, etc.," said an official from the Ministry of Revenue.

"..." Chen Ting immediately stretched his face, like a big bitter gourd, "Just approve as the military leader said."

At this time, Chu Yun summoned a group of military aides at the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion, which was also Chu Yun's temporary residence. He had just finished the arrangements for the construction of the telegram network, and then received letters from the Guangzhou Prefecture, Guangxi Prefecture and Yunnan Prefecture. The reports from officials from the three places were unanimously directed to Annan Kingdom.

"The people from the Ruan family in Annan followed our Chinese merchant ship to Guangzhou Prefecture and wanted to buy us a batch of firearms to resist Zheng Zhu of Annan. Deng Qianlong said in the letter that they were willing to pay 20% more than the Zheng family." Chu Yun spread Deng Qianlong's letter to everyone.

"In the past, our official arms business had been carried out with Zheng Zhu of Annan. If we agreed to Lord Ruan's trade request, it would seem a bit unkind and unrighteous to Lord Zheng." A consultant said.

All the senior executives of the Jiuzhou Army knew that the Far East Trading Company was engaged in firearm trading, and the funder of Annan Kingdom was the Zheng family of Annan Kingdom.

"It is precisely because we sold too many firearms to the Zheng family in Annan that the balance of Annan was broken by us. According to my idea, Lord Ruan would ask for help from Western countries such as Florence, Spain, the Netherlands, and others, and bought a large number of Western artillery to fight to the death with the Zheng family. However, the Western countries were busy with disputes over the Western side and were unable to support Lord Ruan. This led to the Zheng family dominance. You see, this is the military newspaper from the General of Zhennan Pass in Guangxi, and the documents reported by the General of Guangnan Prefecture here." Chu Yun also sent letters from the General Secretary of Yunnan and the General Secretary of Guangxi to everyone.

Everyone circulated these two letters from the frontline with a solemn expression.

"What? The Li family's court in Annan Kingdom was destroyed by the Zheng family, and the Li family went into exile to Guangnan Prefecture? And the Zheng family's army was discovered outside Zhennan Pass?" The staff members who did not pay attention to Annan before were extremely surprised. Unexpectedly, they agreed to resell the arms to the Zheng family, which made them bigger and stronger.

Everyone gradually realized the seriousness of the situation. If this continues, the Guangxi area seems to be in danger. In fact, it cannot be said that the Zheng family will pose a great threat to the Jiuzhou Army, but if this continues, it will make things difficult.

"You will introduce the current situation in Annan Kingdom to all the officials." Chu Yun said to the person sent by Deng Qianlong to send the message.

"The military leader and all the great masters. Nan'an Kingdom was originally a check and balanced between the Zheng family, Ruan family and Li family. Among them, the Li family was the weakest and could be ignored. However, in recent months, the Zheng army has successively fought hard to deal with the main force of the Ruan family, almost destroying the Ruan family. Later, he led 30,000 troops to the northern expedition to Gaoping and annex the territory of the Mo family. The Mo family had to flee to the territory of our Guangxi Prefectural Office for temporary refuge. Now only the Ruan family is in the Zheng family's struggle, but it is estimated that the Ruan family will be unable to support it, and it may be difficult to last." said the confidant sent by Deng Qianlong.

"Since that's the case, we might as well support Lord Ruan to strengthen Lord Ruan's power and let the Ruan family and Zheng family fight to the death. It would be better that neither side could defeat each other, which is in our interests." A adviser said.

"Military Master, should we do something more perfect? ​​I heard that the military master is lacking in silver because he is planning to build a telegram network. It is better to take this opportunity to take advantage of the situation and use it to make use of the national treasury." Another strategist said cunningly.

"How can I take advantage of the troubled waters?" Chu Yun asked.

"First, we will sell the firearms sold to the Zheng family to the Ruan family at a high price, so that the Ruan family and the Zheng family will fight to the desperate. When they are evenly matched, we secretly resell the firearms to the Zheng family, so that the Zheng family will continue to gain the upper hand. In this way, the Ruan family will lack firearms and continue to buy firearms from us. Second, we deliberately shorten the service life of the firearms, which can not only reduce the cost of manufacturing firearms, but also speed up the consumption of firearms by the Zheng family and the Ruan family. I believe that day after day, we can make a fortune. After these two forces of Annan Kingdom consume all the treasury in the future, we can send us to take advantage of the situation and let Annan Kingdom return to our territory."

"You guy is really a bad guy, but I like it, so I'll do it." As soon as Chu Yun learned about the news of the Ruan family and the Zheng family's dispute, he roughly thought of this method to support both parties at the same time.

It’s just that cutting corners on the firearm is indeed a little broken...but it’s really feasible!

In Chu Yun's eyes, only silver and technology are the top priority, and strong strength is the kingdom. A backward kingdom can only ask for help like the Ruan family, and give the strong silver to the strong country in exchange for weapons to protect themselves. But they have no choice but to be sold by others, they will be destroyed by the Zheng family sooner or later. This is the sorrow of a weak country, but there will be no strong country to pity, but they will also add to the insult, thinking about how to make a fortune in war. This is the survival rule of this era - the prey of the weak.

"In addition to doing some tricks on firearms, we also need to make some other preparations," Chu Yun said. "We need to have a strong and powerful army in the Nanyang area."
Chapter completed!