In the evening, Qin Mo, as the host of the high-ranking official, attended the banquet to welcome the sea tribe "exchange group". At the banquet, Qin Mo's friendly smile and elegant speech made all the mermaids admire her. They all resented in their hearts why they hadn't come to Great Xia earlier, otherwise they might have been the queen of the sea tribe.

"Mr. Xiao, are there any disharmonious events happening in Southeast Asia these days?"

After the banquet, Qin Mo summoned Xiao Jingxian, the current highest-ranking official in Singapore, to a private room. Since Lin Yongqian, the director of the Development Administration, had been continuously expanding the colonies of Da Yuan to the west, the old general Xiao Jingxian had actually been in charge of Singapore.

"Your Highness, although some prominent families from Great Xia have sailed to Southeast Asia, they are not capable of competing with us, so most of them have shown a desire to cooperate with us."

"But two months ago, a troublemaker suddenly came along, and his attitude was very tough. He has clashed with our Trail Blazers several times."

Qin Mo took it to heart as soon as she heard it. Xiao Jingxian was mature and prudent; if things weren't really that complicated, he probably wouldn't have told her at all.

What caused the conflict?

“Your Highness, our plans on Java Island are already complete. There has been a war between East and West Java, but this so-called ‘Haihe Marquis’ is interfering and constantly trying to incite a ceasefire between East and West Java. They have also subtly implied that we, the Grand Princes, are the foreign invaders and that the whole of Java should unite to deal with us. They have also offered to provide them with better weapons to fight us.”

Xiao Jingxian said angrily, "If it weren't for the fact that we've planted a lot of spies in East and West Java over the years, I would never believe that the Great Xia people would secretly trip us up. I really want the 'ghost ship' fleet to send them all into the sea."

“No, Lao Xiao! We can deal with those foreign merchant ships, but we won’t touch the ships of the Great Xia. Besides, we don’t know anything about this so-called ‘Marquis of Haihe’. Let’s not touch him for now.”

Qin Mo knew that as the Great Xia family became more and more interested in Southeast Asia, such things would happen more and more often in the future. Therefore, it was necessary to occupy important ports as soon as possible and have the sultans and chiefs near the ports accept his protection in order to make his development administration bureau invincible.

This "Marquis of Haihe" likely has the support of a high-ranking official in the imperial court, otherwise how could he have provided better weaponry? It should be noted that the weaponry that the official is now selling to Java is the mainstay weaponry of the Great Xia Imperial Guard from ten years ago. Only the Imperial Ordnance Department could provide better weaponry than that.

"Old Xiao, send someone to contact the leader of West Java and offer them an irresistible sum of arms on credit, but in exchange for land around Coconut Harbour as collateral. Then... you know what to do, right?"

Xiao Jingxian's eyes immediately lit up, and he excitedly replied, "Your Highness, please rest assured, I guarantee that West Java will not be able to repay that debt."