On March 18, the ninth year of Hongwu's reign, the gates of Shenglong City opened after three days of chaos. "Emperor" Li Tianzuo, dressed in plain clothes, led his ministers out of the city to surrender and formally surrendered to the Ming army.
In addition to the gold, silver, treasures and copper coins they handed over as evidence of their sincerity in surrender, there were also a large number of war criminals and members of war criminal families, with a total number of thousands. A large number of men, women, old and children were crying. It was obvious that their families had experienced extremely painful experiences. change.
But this is war.
The Ming army was already very civilized, very, very, very civilized. Wherever they went, there was no mass killing, no burning, killing, looting, or destruction of residential buildings or farmland. They achieved the ultimate level of civilization that a country's army can achieve in war.
No one can make any accusations about the military discipline of the Ming army.
As for the rest, they belong to the post-war liquidation and are the legitimate rights and interests of the victors. They do not belong to the category of humanity, and no one can criticize them.
Li Tianzuo, wearing plain clothes, formally surrendered to Liao Xingye, the representative of the Ming emperor, and Zhao Yucheng, the commander of the Ming army.
He knelt and presented a series of ceremonial items such as talismans and seals representing the power of the "Emperor" of South Vietnam, and the important minister Li Gongxin read the surrender document on behalf of him.
And in front of the two of them, Li Gongxin also announced that all the troops who had been preparing to summon King Qin should return to their original positions, whether they had already set off or those who had not had time to set off, and do not continue to fight. The war was over. .
Liao Xingye and Zhao Yucheng accepted Li Tianzuo's surrender, and Liao Xingye personally helped Li Tianzuo up, took off his plain clothes, put on him the noble clothes symbolizing the king's status, and then entered Thang Long City with him.
About 500 Ming troops entered Thang Long City with Liao Xingye and Zhao Yucheng. As representatives, they symbolically occupied Thang Long City to show the victory of the war.
Li Tianzuo held a grand banquet to entertain Liao Xingye, Zhao Yucheng and others that night, and sent people out to present the Ming army with cattle, wine and food as a reward.
This war ends here. If it is not fought, it cannot be fought anymore.
Everyone shook hands and made peace, living in peace from now on without saying anything else.
However, Liao Xingye chatted with Li Gongxin at the banquet and asked him why he didn't see Huang Yixian.
Li Gongxin put down the wine glass in his hand in silence and sighed.
"He committed suicide."
"Oh why?"
"Although he was not recognized as a war criminal, he still felt that he could not accept the situation and believed that he was also responsible, so he committed suicide just last night."
"I see."
"By the way, he is responsible for the identification and selection of war criminals, as well as the specific arrangements. He is fully responsible and no one else interferes."
"Understood."
Liao Xingye didn't ask any more questions, and Li Gongxin didn't say anything else. He drank one cup after another, getting himself drunk one cup after another.
South Vietnam surrendered and accepted all the requirements of the Ming Dynasty. This news was sent to Su Yonglin on March 23, the ninth year of Hongwu. Su Yonglin was very happy when he learned about it and ordered to reward the Ming army officers and soldiers headed by Zhao Yu. Record credit.
On March 27, the South Vietnamese surrender envoy officially arrived in Guangzhou and presented a form of surrender in front of Su Yonglin, expressing his complete surrender to Su Yonglin.
The envoy also presented 2,081 South Vietnamese war criminals to Su Yonglin.
The total price of war compensation that South Vietnam needs to bear has also been agreed upon, and it is stipulated as 350,000 jins of copper coins, plus 5,000 jins of gold and 50,000 jins of silver.
After these conditions were confirmed, Su Yonglin accepted the surrender of South Vietnam.
He personally issued an order to confer Li Tianzuo as the Ming Emperor Nanping King, and specially appointed Li Tianzuo as the chief executive of the Annan Special Administrative Region.
He then renamed Thang Long City, the capital of Annam Special Administrative Region, to Annam City.
From now on, officials in the Annan Special Administrative Region must be formally appointed by the Ming Emperor to be considered legitimate.
More importantly, not only Li Tianzuo, the chief executive, but also all official appointments within the Annan Special Administrative Region government must be reviewed by the Ming Emperor, and then confirmed and ordered to be appointed, in order to be considered officially compliant officials.
Otherwise, it means that the name is not justified and the words are not justified, and we will be punished.
Although the actual personnel rights are still arranged by Li Tianzuo himself, in name and process, his personnel rights need Su Yonglin's approval before they can be recognized.
This means that Su Yonglin's actions to undermine the authority of the South Vietnamese government institutions and leaders have begun.
At the end of this action, Su Yonglin changed the name of Dananguan, a thousand-year-old pass, to Zhennanguan, and erected the inscription "The Ming Dynasty Destroyed the Song Dynasty" he had prepared in Zhennanguan.
He also wrote the article "Annan's Rebellion" in his own handwriting, and had it made into a stone tablet and erected in the capital of Langzhou as a witness to the Ming Dynasty's crusade against the "Annan Rebellion".
In this article, Su Yonglin elaborated on the causes and consequences of the Ming army's crusade against South Vietnam, clearly describing the Ming's legal possession of South Vietnam's territory and the "wild ignorance" of the South Vietnamese monarchs and ministers, and once again affirmed that the land of South Vietnam belonged to the Ming The facts of the country.
At the same time, Su Yonglin began to arrange some of the garrison situations after the war. He planned to leave an army to stay in Zhennanguan and Langzhou for occupation, and then arranged for the Fuxing Association and the government to enter Langzhou, carry out land reform in Langzhou, and completely occupy it. Langzhou.
After a series of things were completed, the climate in Lingnan began to feel hot. Su Yonglin planned to return to Zhongdu to prepare for the next stage of the rectification movement after handling Hu Xin's affairs in Guangzhou.
However, what Su Yonglin didn't expect was that just when he was about to have a conversation with Hu Xin, something happened that left him speechless.
King Zou Yana of Champa made some contributions this time in coordinating the Ming army's attack on South Vietnam. Although the attack he organized was blocked by South Vietnam's partial division, it still attracted some South Vietnamese troops and relieved some relief for the Ming army. It was better than nothing. pressure.
So when Su Yonglin ordered Li Tianzuo to pay compensation, he also gave Zou Yana a small portion of the compensation, which was regarded as his hard-earned money.
Zou Yana was very moved. In addition, the Ming Dynasty recognized the title of King of Champa. This crucial orthodox issue was also resolved. She was very happy and immediately prepared to fulfill her promise and pay generous tribute to the Ming Emperor. .
This batch of generous gifts was quite large and weighty. Su Yonglin was quite surprised when he first learned about it.
The gift list of the Champa Kingdom is 24,435 jins of white frankincense, 82,95 jins of mixed frankincense, 7,795 jins of ivory, 237 jins of monkshood and agarwood, and 900 jins of agarwood. Ninety kilograms, ninety-two kilograms and eight taels of agarwood head, two hundred and fifty-five kilograms of jianxiang head, three hundred and one kilograms of jianan wood incense, and one thousand seven hundred and eighty kilograms of yellow ripe incense.
Items such as spices and ivory are absolute luxuries these days. If so many things were sold, they would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, which is comparable to the cost of a medium-sized war launched by the Ming army.
Su Yonglin was very happy to receive so many gifts. He even hosted a special banquet for the envoys from the Champa Kingdom and asked them to go back and say hello to Zou Yana, saying that the Ming Emperor missed him very much and hoped that he would eat well and drink well.
However, the situation did not continue to develop according to Su Yonglin's ideas.
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