The two most powerful families in the Annan Kingdom, the Zheng family and the Ruan family, faced destruction. In order to protect themselves, they did not hesitate to agree to a series of conditions put forward by the Dachu Empire. Representatives of the three parties under the Guangdong Province of the Dachu Empire Guangning County signed a treaty.
That is the Treaty of Quang Ninh.
The terms of the treaty are actually very simple, with no compensation or apology and other common treaty terms.
There are only three!
Article 1 The Dachu Empire withdrew from the Annan Kingdom. King Annan, the monarch of the later Li Dynasty, was demoted to the Marquis of Nangui and was appointed as the Annan comfort envoy of the Dachu Empire. This title was a lifetime title and he would wait until the Marquis of Nangui. After his death, he was reduced to nobility.
As for the Annan Consolation Envoy, this position was also temporary for the empire and was a nominal position created specifically for the monarchs of the later Li Dynasty. It was just a title, and would be removed after the transition period was over.
After all, this person is a puppet with no real power, and the treatment against him is more for political legitimacy, so there is no need to think too much about the follow-up issues.
As long as the immediate situation is dealt with and you can justify it, then the follow-up will be ignored.
Later, after King Annan of the Li Dynasty was demoted to Marquis Nangui, he also accepted the official position of the Chu Empire, and then presented the so-called yellow book and a series of procedures. After a series of procedures, the Annan Kingdom would change from a vassal state of the Dachu Empire to a dependent territory.
The words "subordinate country" and "subordinate territory" seem to be just one word, but in fact it means that the Annan region will not exist as an independent country, even in the name of a vassal puppet state, but will directly evolve into the Great Chu Empire. Direct territory.
In other words, the Annan region will be completely merged into the empire and become part of the Chu Empire.
The second article is that the Great Chu Empire will canonize the head of the Zheng family as Shenglong Bo and grant him the position of "Governor of Shenglong and other places".
Article 3: The Great Chu Empire canonized the head of the Ruan family as Hue Bo and granted him the position of governor of Hue and other places.
The first article of the treaty is the price paid by the Zheng and Ruan families for their surrender, while the second two articles are the rewards of the empire for their surrender.
They dedicated their country to the Chu Empire. Well, even if they had lost control of their respective countries, at least they had a name!
The empire gave the Zheng and Ruan families titles and official positions and incorporated them into the empire's ruling class in return. Of course, this governor's position was only used for the initial transition, and they would be removed directly within a few months. Then they will go to Jinling City to enjoy a wealthy life.
Just like the leaders of many Mongolian tribes in Monan, Mobei and Moxi, except for a very few who are prominent in official circles, the rest are basically working as rice bugs in Jinling City...
You can think of them enjoying the glory and wealth in Jinling City, or you can think of it as the empire imprisoning them. Anyway, it’s both...
As for how the Zheng and Ruan families will become in the empire in the future, it depends on the abilities of themselves and their descendants. However, because there is a reduced-level inheritance title and there is also a clause that is not written in the treaty, but the empire The private promise was that the empire would allow the Zheng and Ruan families to retain a certain amount of family wealth.
The title and wealth can at least guarantee the prosperity of their family for generations.
The Zheng and Ruan families betrayed their country to ensure their wealth. Under normal circumstances, they would never agree, but the rebels in the Annan area were too powerful...
If they agree, they can still keep their glory and wealth. If they don't agree, there will be no need for the empire to take action. Then the rebels will cut them into pieces...
And even if the empire does not send troops, the empire will still secretly support the rebels!
If they don't submit to the empire, they will be dead, and they will be extremely miserable!
This is especially true for the Zheng family in the north. Now that the Zheng family has lost almost the entire territory in the north, they can only trap their beasts in Shenglong City. If they were not concerned about the garrison of the Da Chu Empire in Shenglong City, they would directly attack Shenglong City. Long's words would cause the Chu army to send out large-scale troops to retaliate. It is estimated that the rebels had already stormed and captured Shenglong City, and then threw all the Zheng family into the sea.
The Ruan family in the south was not much better. They were retreating steadily on the battlefield. More importantly, many of the troops sent out still belonged to their Ruan family, but they transformed into rebels within a few days...
To a certain extent, in fact, the Zheng and Ruan families have offended the middle and lower classes in their country because of the series of humiliating treaties they signed against the Chu Empire in recent years, and also gained a considerable number of powerful people.
This was a riot started by the bottom class by boycotting Chu goods, and then the middle and upper classes quickly intervened and turned this turmoil into a war against traitors like Zheng Ruan by most of their domestic strata.
This is also the fundamental reason why so many dignitaries in the Annan region and why so many local troops rebelled so easily and then joined the rebels.
It can be said that the Zheng and Ruan families have lost all their hearts!
But having said that, this cannot be blamed on the Zheng and Ruan families... Who made the Chu Empire so strong? If they had not signed a series of treaties that humiliated the country and ceded territory, the Annan region would have been sent troops by the Chu Empire long ago. Went out.
It is actually not easy to be able to persist for more than ten years under the pressure of the powerful national power of the Chu Empire. Surviving in the cracks is actually not easy.
But there is no point in saying this kind of thing. Who asked you to lose your power and humiliate the country... Since you occupy the position of ruler, you must shoulder the corresponding responsibility of protecting the home and the country. If you can't do it, you will be overthrown.
Ordinary people and the middle and upper classes in the Annan region chose to overthrow the rule of the Zheng and Ruan families and then rebuild the so-called Annan Kingdom.
Of course, many local dignitaries who now took over control of the rebels did not have the guts to directly offend the Chu Empire. Anti-Chu slogans were only shouted for a few months when ordinary people started rioting. Later, after the dignitaries accepted control of the rebels, especially as their momentum grew, they basically stopped openly shouting against Chu, and even sent people to actively contact the empire to request canonization...
In the past, they hated the two big comprador families of Zheng and Ruan, but after they gained real power and even actually controlled most of the territory and population of Annan, they themselves thought about how to become The Da Chu Empire is such a loser...
From a certain point of view, it is actually quite good to be the white glove of the Da Chu Empire...at least there will be no shortage of glory, wealth and so on. As for the interests of the middle and lower classes, it has nothing to do with them!
This is another story about a dragon slayer who wants to become a dragon!
This is why, after so long, the Annan region is in chaos, and after the rebels have actually occupied most of the Annan region, they still dare not attack the two territories of the Chu Empire in the Annan region, namely Guangning County and Jinlan. Wan County did not even dare to take action against the concession colonies of the Chu Empire in places such as coastal cities and Thang Long City. Instead, they sent troops to protect them.
These dignitaries also know very well that if they really offend the Chu Empire, they will be destroyed in minutes.
They even want to be the empire's new lackeys in the Annan region.
But they didn't expect that the senior leaders of the Dachu Empire no longer wanted a dog-legger, but wanted to eat dog meat directly...
Whether it is the high-level officials of the empire, the industrial circles of the empire, or more importantly, Luo Zhixue, the emperor of the Chu Empire, I think Annan is not a good place, although many places are not good, but some coastal areas, especially the area around Thang Long It's quite suitable for farming.
If good water conservancy facilities are built on such a large piece of land, coupled with the local good subtropical climate and abundant rain, rice cultivation will definitely produce a lot.
No matter how hard it is, this place can still support millions of immigrants in the empire!
When the monarchs and ministers of the Great Chu Empire opened their bloody mouths and bit directly into the Annan region, the rebel dignitaries were dumbfounded...
In December of the 20th year of Chengshun, the Da Chu Empire officially issued a number of imperial edicts in accordance with the Treaty of Guangning. The monarch of the Li Dynasty was canonized as the Marquis of Nangui, and the Annan region was officially declared to be a dependent territory of the empire.
Thang Long Province was established and the head of the Zheng family was appointed as the governor of Thang Long.
Hue Province was established and the head of the Nguyen family was appointed governor of Hue.
At the same time, the Thang Long Garrison Command was established, and Brigadier General Xu Huatong, the Quang Ninh border officer under the Guangdong Provincial Garrison Command, was transferred to the Thang Long Provincial Garrison Commander;
The Hue Provincial Garrison Command was established, and Colonel Chao Shuli, the Cam Ranh Bay garrison commander under the Nanyang Garrison Command, was promoted to the post.
In addition, two chief envoys were set up. These two chief envoys were naturally all officials from the Chu Empire. The chief envoy to Shenglong was promoted to the post by Song Shouji, who was also the governor of Lianzhou Prefecture and the left political counselor of Guangdong. The chief envoy of Hue was promoted from Li Kaiguan, who participated in politics from the right in Guangxi and was also in charge of Wuzhou Prefecture and other places.
Officials in other ministries were basically transferred from other places in the empire. Only some unimportant positions such as deputies in some agencies were held by retainers of the Zheng and Ruan families.
These political measures are all aimed at turning the Annan region into the land of the empire in name and in a reasonable way.
It should be comprehensively established from the beginning in terms of legal principles to prevent any future troubles.
Well, the Ming Dynasty actually did this before. They nominally named the Mo Dynasty the commander of the Annan capital for a long time. In other words, the Ming Dynasty had nominally owned Annan as a territory for a long time.
It's just that the Ming Dynasty did not have the ability to turn this nominal territory into a reality!
The Dachu Empire is different. The empire has the ability and the determination to turn what is now a nominal territory into a true territory.
Following a series of decrees such as canonization and province establishment, the imperial official announced in the Da Chu Di newspaper that the local rebels in Annan and Nan provinces were plotting rebellion, and the empire would send troops to suppress it.
Before Di News published this news, the military had actually made comprehensive preparations and had actually started fighting with the local rebels.
The first to take action were the army and navy troops stationed in Guangning!
On the navy's side, the Third Coastal Defense Group under the South China Sea Fleet, which is responsible for the waters around the Beibu Gulf, and more than 20 offshore warships and gunboats had already converged in Quang Ninh on December 13th.
Then carrying a large number of troops, weapons and ammunition and other supplies, they will then move up the Red River to the Thang Long area.
At the same time, on the ground, there are two mixed regiment-sized army forces, which have been divided into two groups and marched directly, one of which went to Thang Long and the other way south along the coastline to support the navy's coastal defense fleet.
It is worth noting that in this battle, the Navy did not dispatch a real main ocean fleet, but only dispatched a local patrol fleet, that is, the South China Sea Fleet. The main force of the battle was a group of offshore patrol ships and offshore gunboats, plus some A galley or something.
It's not that the Imperial Navy underestimates the enemy... but that the surface strength in the north and south of Annan is really poor. The official surface strength is already poor, and the surface strength in the hands of the rebels only inherits part of the surface strength of the local official army, so it is even more... It’s ready...
Another part of the reason is that the navy has to go up the river and go directly to Thang Long. This kind of combat is a very typical inland river combat... And in fact, the local coastal defense fleet is better at this combat mode. As for the main ocean-going force, The fleet and warships can easily be hundreds or even thousands of tons in size... If we venture into the Red River when the water is dry in winter, we might even run aground and become a living target.
Therefore, there is really no need for the empire to send the main ocean fleet there with great fanfare. It is enough to dispatch a local patrol fleet to Shenglong.
On the other hand, ocean fleets can be dispatched to assist in coastal operations elsewhere.
Just as a large number of Chu troops in the northern region were using Guang Ninh as their base and marching towards Thang Long and other places, the Chu troops in the southern region of Annan were not idle either.
Jiulongjiang Prefecture first sent more than 1,500 people to attack from south to north. At the same time, the Cam Ranh Bay Military Base also sent more than 4,000 army troops and more than 2,000 marines. A total of more than 6,000 troops were killed all the way. Towards Hue.
As for the other small coastal colonies, due to limited garrison forces, they basically chose to stand still and wait for reinforcements.
Anyway, with a large number of merchant ships and naval support, coupled with the absolute difference in weapon performance and tactics, even a small stronghold with only a hundred people stationed on the opposite side cannot be expected to be defeated without tens of thousands of people dying.
This is also a very typical feature of contemporary colonial armies, that is, when facing indigenous armies, their combat effectiveness is particularly impressive...
When many indigenous countries attacked the fortresses of Western colonists, due to the generational differences in weapons and tactics, they often fought very hard. Apart from using a large number of lives to pile up, there was no good way.
A group of small indigenous countries in Southeast Asia attacked Portugal, and the Dutch colonial strongholds all had the same pattern.
And this pattern was further amplified by the Chu Empire's army... because the Chu army's weapons were more advanced, their ammunition reserves were generally larger, and even their fortress defense systems were more complete.
So far, in the overseas colonial activities of the Da Chu Empire, there has been no record of any fortress being directly conquered by the indigenous army...
Of course, it has happened several times that due to long-term attrition operations, ammunition and food were exhausted, and then forced to evacuate voluntarily.
In overseas colonization, when supplies are difficult, if the local indigenous people are really fighting with you, they will directly send a large number of cannon fodder troops to die under your guns, just to consume your ammunition...
Then the Chu army has no good way to deal with this. They can only run away under the cover of naval guns after finishing their ammunition...
After all, you can't stupidly fight with the natives with bayonets!
Therefore, the Chu Empire's garrisons and civilian merchants in many leased areas along the coast of Annan did not evacuate. Instead, they arrogantly resisted and defended to the death!
Anyway, there are many ships from various trading companies behind, as well as navy warships that can provide reinforcements and supplies at any time.
They have enough confidence to block the local indigenous counterattack!
In fact, their worries are somewhat unnecessary!
Because when the Chu Empire officially launched troops against Annan, the rebels themselves were dumbfounded...
Especially on December 23, when the main rebel force in northern Annan, totaling more than 30,000 people, was neatly defeated by the 73rd mixed regiment of the Dachu Empire, they were even more stunned.
Speaking of which, this was the first time that the Annan people actually fought against the Chu army on the battlefield, and then they chose a stupid head-on confrontation...
If they are experienced Siamese and Burmese people, unless they are crazy, they will never pull the army down on the plains, and then set up a battle array with the Chu army for a face-to-face battle. This is looking for death...
Moreover, they will not engage in city defense operations, but will break into pieces, abandon the city, retreat into the mountains and forests to deal with the Chu army, and force the Chu army to retreat through frequent small-scale attacks.
Only a fool would engage in head-on combat with the Chu army!
The generals of the North Route Army of the Annan rebels were such fools. They had never seen the Chu army fighting head-on. They blindly believed that people were more important than weapons. They felt that as long as their own army was brave enough, they could defeat the unjust Chu army. Evil invader army.
Then when the battle just broke out, they were stunned by the cannonballs flying in the sky, and then looked in despair at the continuous explosions in their own array!
They... haven't even launched a charge towards the Chu army yet!
They didn't even see the infantry of the Chu army arrayed opposite them. Before they even had time to show off their unknown bravery, they collapsed under the fierce shelling of the Chu army!
To be honest, this is also the smoothest large-scale battle that the Chu army has fought in the past few years, or the enemy is the stupidest.
Dozens of the Chu army's artillery have been deployed, and countless grenades are ready. Any enemy who understands the Chu army's combat mode knows not to foolishly form a dense line and move forward, otherwise they will be bombed...
But the other side was still stupidly forming a dense horizontal formation and slowly moving forward... It seemed that they wanted to use matchlock guns and a bunch of spears to fight in line with the Chu army.
As a result, when the generals of the Chu army saw that the opponent was stupid, they naturally became rude and let go when the enemy entered the effective shooting range.
Then those Annan rebels turned into defeated troops all over the mountains and plains...
The defeat of this battle directly led to the retreat of the Annan rebels who besieged Thang Long!
At this time, they still have time to besiege Shenglong. If they don't retreat, they will be slapped in the face by the Chu army.
Shenglong is no longer under siege, let alone some other small colonies. These rebels are busy mobilizing troops and trying to find ways to block the main force of the Chu army.
As for the main force... In fact, the Chu army did not use much ground troops in the Annan battle. There were four main forces in total. Guangning sent two mixed regiments, totaling about 10,000 people.
A mixed navy and army brigade was sent from Cam Ranh Bay, with more than 6,000 people.
Then there is a reinforced battalion sent from the direction of Jiulongjiang Prefecture, with more than 1,600 people.
The total strength of the entire army is approximately 18,000.
Even if some second-class or third-class troops stationed in various colonies are added, the total number is just over 20,000.
The strength of 20,000 troops is not even a fraction of the huge total strength of the Chu Empire!
When the Chu army captured Geer, the main front-line force used more than 200,000 troops.
The Northern Strategy currently being prepared in the north is expected to use hundreds of thousands of troops.
However, in Annan, the Chu army only used a little over 20,000 troops, and it did not have any A-level combat readiness troops. Instead, it had B-level standing divisions as the core and C-level garrison troops as supplements.
However, such a force is enough to deal with some Annan rebels.
After all, these Annan rebels are not doing well themselves. The various departments are in chaos and there is no unified command. There are even a lot of disputes and conflicts within them. When the 30,000 main force of the rebel North Route Army fought with the Chu army, The tens of thousands of rebels who besieged Thang Long remained motionless... and paid no attention to friendly forces' calls for help.
Not to mention weapons and equipment, although there are matchlock guns, there are not many, and the artillery only has a few field guns of about three pounds and old short-barreled guns.
In fact, such rebels would not be a concern even in any normal feudal country. As for why the local Zheng and Ruan families fought in Annan were miserable... I can only say that the Zheng and Ruan families were completely devastated.
Most of the officers and soldiers sent out to encircle and suppress the rebels turned into rebels not long after the expedition. This shows how much the local middle and lower class and even the upper class dignitaries in Annan hate the traitors Zheng and Ruan...
The siege of Thang Long City was lifted due to the active retreat of the local rebels.
After the third day, a large number of Chu soldiers entered Thang Long City.
At this time, the atmosphere in Thang Long City was also a bit awkward, with people singing and dancing on one side and wailing in pain on the other!
Singing and dancing are naturally the concession area of the Chu Empire in Thang Long City. There are more than a thousand expatriates and garrison troops in the area. These people are naturally very happy about the arrival of the imperial army.
At the same time, there were also a large number of members of the Zheng family and officials who betrayed the country and surrendered to Chu with the Zheng family in the concession area.
After seeing the imperial army, these people were all overjoyed. They finally didn't have to worry about being chopped off by the rebels and thrown into the Red River!
On the other side of Thang Long City, many dignitaries and middle- and lower-level people who directly or secretly supported the rebels felt as if the sky had fallen. Many of them were shocked when they saw the Chu troops lined up in neat lines and entering the city. It shows hatred.
But more of it is numbness!
After the rebels retreated and the Chu army entered the city, Shenglong City also entered a new era. The head of the Zheng family directly accepted the angel's summons in the name of the imperial minister and governor of Shenglong.
Subsequently, the Zheng family ordered a city-wide manhunt for the remnants of the rebels and spies in the city, in order to completely eliminate the stubborn enemies.
