Ever since it split from China during the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, South Vietnam has been very restless, jumping around from time to time in an attempt to give itself a sense of existence.
So they actively expressed themselves, fighting with the Northern Song Dynasty during the Northern Song Dynasty, and also had some unpleasant frictions with the Southern Song Dynasty during the Southern Song Dynasty, planning to turn Lingnan into their territory.
When they realized that it would be a little difficult for them to complete the feat of snake swallowing elephant due to their size, they began to have civil strife. After the civil strife ended, they began to set their sights southward.
In the seventh year of Hongwu, Su Xiancheng, an important minister of the Li family in South Vietnam, led his troops southward and had some physically unfriendly exchanges with the Champa Kingdom, which caused a big blow to the Champa Kingdom.
The Champa Kingdom lost for a while and suffered heavy losses.
Of course, the Champa Kingdom itself is actually not a good quarrel. Although the country is small, it has great ambitions. It has been in love and fighting with the neighboring Chenla Kingdom, which is much larger than it, for many years. You can give me a knife. If I stab you with my sword, the rainforest warrior will be fearless.
Zhenla Kingdom has been at war with it for many years. No one can take advantage of the other, and there is victory or defeat for each other.
But just a few years ago, some small things happened within the Champa State.
The result was that within a few years, a Southeast Asian young tough guy called [Zou Yana] by the Song Dynasty successfully killed the original king of Champa and became the new king himself.
As a result, before Zou Yana could sit on the throne, the South Vietnamese army came. In a hurry, Zou Yana suffered a lot and felt anxious.
He had just usurped the throne, had not yet been widely recognized in the country, had not yet successfully integrated the internal forces to secure the throne, had not yet stuffed all the opposition into the pond and drowned, and had not yet stabilized his own regime, the South Vietnamese army came.
The old guys from the Li Dynasty of South Vietnam did not respect martial ethics, so they came to deceive and sneak attack on him, a young tough guy who had finally succeeded in usurping the throne. They were very shameless.
But he didn't have any good ideas for a while.
While he was in a hurry, someone gave him an idea.
The Champa Kingdom has always been a vassal state of the Song Dynasty. As long as you send envoys to pay tribute and ask the Song Dynasty to recognize your identity as king, and then make your own request to let the Song Dynasty put pressure on the Li family of South Vietnam, the Li family will inevitably restrain its arrogance. Dare to mess around.
And in this way, after being recognized by the suzerain country, those gossips in the country will no longer be able to gossip. The throne will be secure, and he can quickly integrate the internal affairs, restore the strength of the Champa Kingdom, and then he can do whatever he wants.
Zou Yana was overjoyed and immediately decided to do this.
But soon someone else pointed out that this was not possible.
why?
Because the Central Plains has changed.
The original ruler, the Song Dynasty, was declining and could not protect itself. The Ming Dynasty, a large country in the Central Plains to the north, was so powerful that the Song Dynasty was unable to fight back. Even important sea trade ports such as Guangzhou and Quanzhou were ceded to the Ming Dynasty. Can such a big brother still exert pressure on South Vietnam?
Are you afraid that you are exhausted?
Zou Yana is emo now.
This doesn’t work, that doesn’t work either, what should I do?
Zou Yana made a decision quickly.
Of course he is on the side of the strong.
The Song Dynasty is declining, with less air coming in and more air coming out. It seems that it is going to die. Do we still want to be the dutiful sons of the whirlwind and wear filial piety to the Song Dynasty? Or sing him a song to thank you for having you?
What a joke!
The correct approach is of course to immediately switch to the Ming Dynasty and show sincere filial piety to the Ming Dynasty.
[The Kingdom of Champa has been wandering for half its life, only regretting that it has never met the master of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty does not give up, the Kingdom of Champa City is willing to worship the Ming Dynasty as its father, and will go through fire and water without hesitation! 】
Zou Yana hopes to let Daming's father know that he has an adopted son in the south, and asks Daming's father to remember the love between father and son and help drive away the thieves from the Li Dynasty of South Vietnam.
Therefore, we must first arrange for people to go to the Ming Dynasty to surrender to the Ming Dynasty's father and win a legitimate king's position, and then make a request.
After making an action plan, Zou Yana summoned several businessmen who were traveling between the Ming Kingdom and the Champa Kingdom to consult with them about some information about the Ming Kingdom, and then asked them to send a message to the Ming Kingdom officials in Guangzhou. Let's see if the Ming Dynasty is willing to accept this adopted son who is far away in Caiyun.
So these merchants from the Champa Kingdom came to Guangzhou and planned to meet with the officials of the Ming Dynasty. However, before they could meet with the officials of the Ming Dynasty, Su Yonglin led his army directly to Guangzhou, and what followed was the [Ming Army]. Full-scale southward movement, the Song Dynasty collapsed] news.
The Song Dynasty was really buried now.
The land of China is undergoing great changes, China has changed its owner, artifacts have changed even more, the Song Dynasty has died, the Ming Dynasty has risen, and the times have changed!
Several merchants in Champa were shocked and finally calmed down, which led to what happened today.
After Su Yonglin understood the relationship between the two, he felt that the international relations in Southeast Asia during this period was very interesting.
Just fight each other!
There is nothing to do except fight. As long as these rulers have some money, they will use their troops everywhere to get more money. It is sheer fantasy to let them improve people's livelihood or anything like that.
But then again, Zou Yana's request might really be a strategic breakthrough for the Ming Dynasty.
The vassal relations and normal international relations of the Southeast Asian countries were originally established with the Song Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty had not established any formal diplomatic relations with the Southeast Asian countries before, so it also needed to re-establish relations.
But now, the South Vietnamese Li Dynasty, which originally belonged to the Song Dynasty's relationship network, was basically unlikely to take the initiative to contact the Ming Dynasty due to conflicts in Confucian ideology. The situation was deadlocked here.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty just lacked a legitimate excuse to intervene in the situation in Southeast Asia.
As a usurper, Zou Yana must be very eager to gain recognition from the central dynasty to stabilize the legitimacy of his regime. If this vital legitimacy is provided to him at this time, he can use this as an excuse to intervene in the political situation in Southeast Asia.
So Su Yonglin thought over and over again and felt that there was no need for him to worry about whether Zou Yana was a usurper or not. He only needed to look at the issue from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty.
South Vietnam was, in all likelihood, hostile.
The Champa Kingdom may become an ally of the Ming Dynasty because of the status of its king as a usurper.
Isn’t this a situation where these two sides are attacking South Vietnam?
There is nothing wrong with Su Yonglin's thinking this way. It is a matter of course that the north and south attack South Vietnam, making them lose their footing and creating favorable conditions for the Ming Dynasty.
So Su Yonglin decided to recognize the existence of the Champa Kingdom because of Zou Yana's rule over the Champa Kingdom.
But soon, Su Yonglin learned a piece of trivia that surprised him - the Southern Song Dynasty had not legally recognized South Vietnam as an independent country.
Unlike Goryeo, Champa, Chenla and other countries, the Southern Song Dynasty did not recognize South Vietnam as a country. Although they broke away from the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty and became de facto independent from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Song Dynasty was unable to regain South Vietnam, but the later rulers of the Song Dynasty were deny.
Your independence is your business, I admit it is my business.
After Li Tianzuo ascended the throne, Wan Yangou issued an edict and conferred upon him the titles of envoy of Jing Hai Jiedu, special commander, prefect of inspection, imperial censor, governor of Annan, king of Shangzhu Kingdom and Jiaozhi County.
In the twenty-fifth year of Shaoxing, Wan Yangou granted Li Tianzuo the title of King of Nanping.
In the legal narrative of the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Tianzuo's legal identity was an official and prince of the Southern Song Dynasty, not the king of South Vietnam.
Although the Li family of South Vietnam internally called the Kingdom of Dayue, and Li Tianzuo proclaimed himself the emperor internally, the Song Dynasty did not relent in legal terms and only recognized it as a special existence under the aristocratic title system of the Southern Song Dynasty. The territory of South Vietnam was still legally considered by the Southern Song Dynasty It is our own territory, and we do not call it [country] when we refer to South Vietnam.
This is somewhat interesting.
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