The first year of natural selection (the 22nd year of Qianlong), December
Nguyen Hue, the leader of the Annan Kingdom, fled overseas with the remaining 30,000 troops, and the Annan kingdom was fully occupied by the Yi army.
In the same month, the Queen of Annan, Li Wang Li Dui, officially moved into Hanoi, the capital of Annan. Immediately, Annam announced that the Fengyi Dynasty was the suzerainty, and the annual tribute was 100,000 taels of silver, 10,000 pieces of silk, and jewelry and agate.
As for the 10 million taels of silver consumed by the Yi Dynasty's military support for Annan, Emperor Yi granted Annan permission to repay it in fifty-year installments with zero interest at 200,000 taels per year. He even treated Annan leniently. If there was not enough silver every year, When repaying the loan, you can even use domestic mineral materials as a deduction.
Emperor Yi's "benevolent and righteous" heart made many ministers loyal to Hou Li shed tears of gratitude and call out to the Holy Lord.
January, the second year of Tianzhi (the 23rd year of Qianlong reign)
Annan's "Zhangqi" Brazi (the former king of Champa) fled to Guangzhou and knelt in the temporary palace of the Yi Dynasty to beg Emperor Yi to make the decision for the Champa Kingdom.
The Champa Kingdom, under the continuous invasion of Annan, became the current town of Shuncheng, and the king of Champa also became the "King of the Town". With the rebellion of the Xishan Dynasty, the original "Guangnan Kingdom" of Annan Nanruan was defeated by the Xishan Dynasty. As the "King of the Town" who assisted the Guangnan Kingdom, he was reduced to "Zhangqi".
This time, the king of Champa, Poluozi, seemed to see hope when he saw Li Weizui using the troops of the Yi Dynasty to defeat Nguyen Hui and restore the country. So, taking advantage of the chaos in Annan, he secretly ran to Guangzhou and asked Zhang Rui to borrow troops.
Zhang Rui originally had little interest in Champa, a city whose territory had been annexed by Annan. However, after several rounds of understanding, considering the familiarity of the Champa people with the Strait of Malacca, and the sworn assurance of Pharaoh, once the Yi army helps Champa regain its kingdom, he will call on the Champa people to help the Yi Dynasty win the land in the Strait of Malacca.
In this way, Zhang Ruicai had to consider exercising the rights of the suzerain.
After all, a powerful Annan was not what Yi Chao wanted.
In the same month, King Ang Tong of Cambodia③ sent an envoy to the DPRK, wishing the Feng Yi Dynasty to be the suzerainty and seeking the asylum of the Phnom Penh Dynasty from the Yi Emperor Zhang Rui.
In order to express its gratitude to the sovereign state, in addition to annual tribute, Cambodia was also willing to "offer" its territory, and was willing to offer to the Celestial Empire the territory from Annan's occupation of Chenla Chaigong and other places to the southernmost point.
Emperor Yi was deeply moved by the "innocent heart" of Champa and Cambodia, and accepted their "meager" tribute without hesitation. At the same time, Emperor Yi Zhang Rui ordered the Annan court to negotiate and handle the matter.
At this time, Annan had experienced large and small wars at home and abroad, and was already overdrawing its national power. Especially after the main force of the Xishan Dynasty was defeated by the Yi army, Ruan Hui also took away an additional 30,000 elite troops. At this time, Annan's strength was already very weak.
If Annan did not receive continued military support from the Yi Dynasty during this Siamese invasion, then even if Annan could defeat the two vassal states of Vientiane and Champasak led by Siam, he would still have to pay an unimaginable heavy price. If not, the country will be destroyed.
It is true that Annan was once a powerful country. Even if the country has experienced wars for a long time, it is not impossible to repel Siam's invasion with the remaining strength of the "powerful country" for many years.
However, this was under the condition that Yijun did not disturb him at all. If Annan dared not agree to Emperor Yi's conditions, he wouldn't even need to send the Yi army to take action. He would just support Champa and Chenla (Phnom Penh Dynasty). Then it would be almost a fantasy for Annan's national strength to cope with so many countries at the same time.
On one side is the menacing Siam, and on the other is the Yi Chao with its fangs exposed.
Is it better to live in pieces rather than live in ruins, or to survive by cutting off one's tail?
With this in mind, Annan made much progress in negotiating the matters proposed by Emperor Yi Zhang Rui. Because the Siamese coalition forces that were blocked in the south had vague intentions of heading north. If Annan did not speed up negotiations and obtain military support from the Yi Dynasty as soon as possible, Annan's Kyoto-Hanoi might be captured by Siam.
After deliberate discussions by all parties, Annan quickly acquiesced to Cambodia's willingness to "dedicate" land to the Yi Dynasty. In order to comfort Annan, the Yi Dynasty directly exempted Annan's five million war loan and gave Annan a financial aid of three million and two installments over ten years.
Therefore, the Annan court continued to declare to the outside world that the rebellion of the Tay Son Dynasty and other rebels had caused Annan's national power to be empty. In order for the people to no longer be harmed by the war, and to deal with the invasion of Siam, they had to force the rebellious minister Nan Nguyen from Chenlana. The captured Jiading ⑤ and other surrounding lands and the wild lands to the south were sold to the Yi Dynasty at a high price of 20 million taels of silver.
There may be no shortage of dull people among the people of Annan, but under the publicity of the Annan ministers, many Annan people who originally complained about Yi Chao who bought the land suddenly felt that Yi Chao was a rich "taken advantage of", and for Yi Chao The favorability towards Chao suddenly increased a lot.
Therefore, with the compromise of the Annan court, the Yi Dynasty successfully took over Annan's present-day Tay Ninh, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Ba Ria-Vung Tau and other provinces.
At the same time, at the request of the Yi Dynasty, Annan negotiated with Champa and ceded the provinces of Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, Dong Lam, Binh Phuoc and Duc Nong to Champa.
The provinces that Annan gave up almost immediately gave back more than half of the former Champa territory, which made the Champa king so excited that he knelt and worshiped in the direction of Emperor Yi's palace.
The reason why Annan was willing to give up so much land at once was that, in addition to the threat of Siam moving north, this was also the old land of the former Nan Nguyen and Tay Son dynasties. These places are too remote from Hanoi, the capital of Nanjing, and have many inconveniences.
At the same time, although these places have been occupied by Nan Ruan for many years, they have not been fully developed after all. Compared with the lands to the north, they are really "backwaters".
Now, as Annan's national power declines, these places may be swallowed up or taken back by Cambodia, Siam and even Champa at any time. Instead of doing this, Annan thought it would be better to sell it directly. In addition to gaining favor from Emperor Yi, it would also bring a lot of benefits. Why not?
And now many cities in these areas have been defeated by the Siamese coalition forces. With Annan's current national strength, even if Annan refuses to sign the agreement and cede it, he may not be able to get it back.
Of course, Annan could not openly cede these places to Champa. For the sake of Annan's reputation, the tacit premise of both sides is that Annan will directly mobilize troops to leave these provinces and no longer retain troops. The rest will need to occupy the cities and send troops to occupy them.
And Champa must promise not to kill the Annan people in them after occupying these places. At the same time, in return for Annan's "benevolent and righteous" act, Champa must give Annan 50,000 taels of silver or goods as compensation every year for the next ten years.
Therefore, after the three negotiating parties had a "friendly" and "harmonious" conversation, they finally signed the secret "peace negotiation agreement" with each other on the premise of consensus.
Note ①: This is a sample of the tribute presented by Nguyen Hue to the Yi Dynasty. After learning about it, Li Weicui immediately promised a more generous one. But Emperor Yi's "benevolence and righteousness" made Ruan Hui's decision the main one. It can be regarded as letting Li Weixi have an explanation to the officials and people in the country, so Li Weisui is naturally grateful to Zhang Rui.
②: Zhangqi, in Annan it means chieftain, which means to insult the king of Champa.
③: Cambodia, formerly known as Chenla Kingdom, Angkor Dynasty, and Khmer Empire. Therefore, Siam later besieged the capital Angkor and moved the capital to Phnom Penh, which became the Phnom Penh Dynasty. After the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty, it was transliterated as Cambodia, and was later called Cambodia.
④: In 1353, Laos established the Lancang Kingdom, also known as the Nanzhang Kingdom. Due to internal strife, the Nanzhang Empire was split into four small kingdoms: Champasak, Luang Prabang, Xieng Khouang, and Vientiane in 1694, and finally became Siam. Luo (Thailand) is a dependent country.
⑤: This is where Saigon and Ho Chi Minh City were later located. This place originally belonged to the uninhabited land of Chenla Dongpu. Later, a large number of Ming Dynasty survivors came here to cultivate land and developed.
