At the end of August in the first year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, Annan Kingdom, Shenglong Mansion.
The most prosperous city of Annan Kingdom has an atmosphere of prosperity and stability that has not been seen for more than a hundred years since the decline of the Later Li Dynasty. The streets of Thang Long are bustling with people from Annam, wearing turbans, bamboo hats and long gowns. Most of the women are petite and charming. Walking on the street, Pingting is also a beautiful scenery.
Horse teams often pass by on the street. On the backs of the short and stocky Hequ horses are tall, strong, fair-skinned Shaanxi athletes. They are wearing lath iron armor made in Foshan, Guangdong. They look majestic and attract the admiring eyes of many Annan girls. .
These are all warriors of the Ming Dynasty. It was their arrival that ended the troubled times in Annan that lasted for more than a hundred years.
Everyone in Annan, from King Weiqi of Li to ordinary peasants and woodcutters, would not be grateful to this highly disciplined king.
Even Lord Ruan, Lord Bao and Lord Mo among the four Annan Lords are now grateful from the bottom of their hearts to Emperor Hongxing and Prince Rinan of the Ming Dynasty.
Because the Ming Dynasty King who came this time was really not a conqueror! They were just passing by and did some good deeds by the way, ending the endless troubled times and fairly distributing the land in Annan to one king and four lords.
And after completing the good deeds, the army of the Southern King of the Great Tomorrow will not stay at Shenglong. Now except for the two thousand cavalry who stayed in Thang Long at the invitation of Annan King Li Weiqi (those who often patrolled the streets), the rest of the Ming army set off to garrison in Xin'an Mansion.
Of course, the Ming Dynasty would not annex Xin'an Mansion. Xin'an Mansion has been assigned to the Mansion of Guangnan Marquis (Ruan Lord), and has become an enclave of Guangnan Marquis in the north of Annan.
With this land, Lord Ruan will be able to defend King Annan Le together with Lord Zheng, Lord Mo, and Lord Bao, and become the loyal minister of Annan Kingdom!
Now Annan has become a loyal vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and the four masters Zheng, Ruan, Mo, and Wu have become double loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty and King Annan Li.
Everyone is loyal and courageous!
If Emperor Hongwu, Emperor Yongle or Emperor Jiajing were in power in the Ming Dynasty now, good people and good deeds would be as good as this. If you continue to do it, it will be a failure - King of Rinan Zhu Cizhao actually did not have the strength to "conquer Annan". He just picked up a mistake, and luck accounted for 89%.
And the subsequent actions he and the Ming court made were in line with the general trend of Annan's people.
Annam has been in troubled times for more than a hundred years, and the overall pattern of South Ruan and Bei Zheng has been determined. In the original history, Nan Ruan and Bei Zheng were almost discouraged. In the generation of Zheng Zha's precious sons Zheng Zha and Ruan Phuc Bin, they were able to achieve lasting peace under the mediation of the Qing Dynasty. Until the Nan Ruan was corrupted in a hundred years of peace Nguyen Bei Zheng was beaten by the Tay Son peasant uprising...
Now, the Ming Dynasty only mediated the dispute between Zheng and Ruan twenty years ago, and also helped Lord Mo, Lord Bao and King Li - this matter was done in a wrong way, and it complied with the people in the north of Annan and South.
The population of Annan is more in the north than in the south, but its military strength is weaker in the north and stronger in the south - there are many ports in the south, and there are many contacts with the Dutch and Portuguese, and there are a lot of foreign guns, cannons, and foreign generals. Therefore, for a period of time, the main line of Annan's domestic political struggle was the south versus the north.
The two masters, Zheng and Ruan, were actually southerners from Annam, and they belonged to the Southern Dynasty in the previous dispute between the Southern and Northern Dynasties (North Mon Nanli). Therefore, these two "lords" use the southerners of Annan and exclude the northerners of Annan.
Lords Mo and Wu are both northerners from Annan. Although they are small in strength, they can still fight against the powerful Lord Zheng with the support of the northerners.
However, Zhu Cizhao supported the two masters Mo and Wu, and supported the King of Li, but he also went wrong and followed the wishes of the people in the north and south of Annan.
So now it is time for the external forces of the Ming Dynasty to gradually withdraw from Annam - maybe three to two thousand people can be left in Thang Long to protect King Li, but the army must withdraw.
If we don't retreat, we will conquer Annan...
In Emperor Zhu's plan, Annan was a vassal state, not a vassal town, nor would it become a province.
However, he would not leave Annan aside and let them play on their own. Annan still had great use.
Annan Kingdom, located in Southeast Asia, can become an important, even indispensable, outsourcer for Ming Dynasty's invasion and expansion business!
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Thang Long Palace, Le Royal Palace.
This palace was left by Le Li, the founder of the Li Dynasty. It covers a large area, but the buildings are generally short, so it does not have much of the grandeur of the palace. And because King Le has been out of power for more than a hundred years, he is unable to repair the palace. Today, it is naturally in a dilapidated state.
However, as the four Annan masters sincerely repented and became loyal ministers, this dilapidated and shabby palace once again became the center of power of the Annan Kingdom.
In the Qin Zheng Hall, the main hall of the royal palace, King Le Dui Kei is seated high on top. There are six top chairs on both sides. Four loyal ministers, including Zheng Chi, Wu Gong Pi, Mok Keng Yu and Nguyen Phuc Bin, each have a top chair. Zhu Cizhao, the prince of Rinan County in the Ming Dynasty, and Chen Zizhuang, the angel who came to confer one king and four princes on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, also each had a top position.
In addition, Shi Daxuan, the deputy envoy of the Jin'ou Yingtian of the Ming Dynasty, was also in the palace. He had no chair to sit on, only a post, and he sat in a grand manner. There was also a wooden basin beside him - the wooden basin had nothing to do with him, it was used to catch rainwater. Yes, it's raining outside now, and it's raining lightly inside King Li's Qinzheng Palace... He's so poor!
But the opportunity for Annan people to make money has come!
"The emperor's imperial edict has been read by the king and the four princes. This Champa country is unfaithful and unfilial and must be punished..." Chen Zizhuang, who was speaking, was one of the three loyalists in Lingnan in history. Loyal minister!
When Beijing fell, he was idle in his hometown in Guangdong. After Zhu Cixi escorted Chongzhen to Nanjing, he reported northward. One month before the fall of Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen gave him an official position to assist Zhan Shifu. Before he could take up the post, Beijing It belongs to Li Zicheng.
After he arrived in Nanjing, the Zhanshi Mansion had been merged with the Fujun Generalissimo's Mansion, so he did not become associate minister, but was sent back to Guangzhou as the prefect by Zhu Cixiang.
His prefect did a good job. Although he did not receive much customs duties and commercial taxes, he mobilized many Foshan blacksmiths to go north to start their own businesses.
After Zhu Cihong came to the throne, he was appointed as the chief envoy of Guangdong. When Zhu Cizhao entered Annan, he happened to be reporting on his work in Nanjing.
So Emperor Zhu sent him to take a trip to Annan (actually it was not too smooth) to convey the decree to the king and the four princes in Annan.
Shi Daxuan, after completing the task of occupying Chaigun, returned to Nanjing to report on his duties, and then went south with Chen Zizhuang. He also had the royal mandate - there were some things that Chen Zizhuang was not comfortable saying, so he, who was half businessman and half seaman, The thief is a real person.
"It's all stated in the emperor's imperial edict," Shi Daxuan grinned. "As long as King Rinan occupies the land, the population and wealth will all be given to the four princes of Annan... According to the number of troops sent by the four Distribute according to the strength and weakness! Marquis Guangnan, aren't there a few people there? If you send more troops this time, you can divide the population of the occupied city a little more.
Moreover, the business has just started this time, so there will be many opportunities to make a fortune in the future! Isn’t there Nanzhang and Shuizhenla in the west? There are Luzon Islands and Borneo on the eastern sea... You are fighting back and forth among your own people, so you might as well make a fortune with the Great Tomorrow! is not it? "
Chen Zizhuang couldn't help but frown when he heard Shi Daxuan's words.
Champa, Sui Chenla, Luzon, Borneo, etc... seem to be countries without conquests, right? Doesn’t Emperor Hongxing know? Why are they all lined up one by one to go on an expedition?
And he also wants to win over Ananguo... and make a fortune together! Did Emperor Hongxing really say this? Chen Zizhuang glanced at the pirate Shi Daxuan and said in his heart: You are not pretending to preach the imperial edict, are you?
"You're right! The Great Emperor wants to support us Annan people!" Li Weiqi nodded vigorously. He had to work hard to hug his thighs now!
"Four princes (the four princes are the princes of the Ming Dynasty, King Li has to respectfully call them princes), why don't you send 20,000 troops together to be the king's vanguard and destroy the Champa Kingdom!"
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