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Most of the defeated soldiers outside the gate had gone to climb the mountain, and Sun Chuanting couldn't help shouting: "Rush over!"

Sun Dakui also said: "Come on!"

The Datong army took advantage of the situation to charge towards the city gate, but the gate was still being trampled on, and the unlucky side general was trampled unconscious with both his man and his horse.

After these rout soldiers fled into Guancheng, they were still in shock and continued to run subconsciously.Some officers wanted to gather the rout soldiers, but the effect was bad. After gathering for a long time, only a few hundred soldiers were gathered, and even the miscellaneous soldiers who had stayed in the city before were running around.

Finally, the Datong army chased the rout into the city, and each divided into small teams to hunt down.

According to their usual training, they automatically form a team with the friendly troops around them. The officers call out their military ranks, and the highest rank is the temporary commander.

The hundreds of Ruan troops who finally gathered were scattered everywhere, and were quickly defeated without any suspense.

Ruan Xun, the prefect of Guangping who had been clamoring, hurriedly straightened his clothes, and knelt down in front of Sun Chuanting: "Foreign minister Ruan Xun, knock on the heavenly official, long live His Majesty the Emperor of Heaven!"

Sun Chuanting glanced at it and said expressionlessly, "Cut it off."

Chapter 877 [Merchants Surviving Between Cracks]

Guangping Fucheng.

All the Han people inside and outside the city were ordered to move out, and Sun Chuanting wanted to take them to Guangnan Province.

In order to defend the city with a small number of troops, all the Yue residents in Guangping City have been expelled from the city.Now when you see a big house, you will enter it, and take away all the valuables, but don't touch those small households.

Ship after ship of goods was transported to the naval ships, and the Datong army led the Han people to abandon the city and leave.

Sun Dakui couldn't help but asked: "Sun Buzheng, the Ruan family is empty, why didn't they take advantage of the trend and attack south? Even if we didn't attack south, we should still defend Guangping. It took us a surprise attack on the conquered city."

Sun Chuanting had already stepped onto the deck of the ship and explained: "In a few months, the weather will get hotter and the rain will continue. You know these things. We have few soldiers now, and Guangping City It is not good for defense, and the Ruan family will definitely attack when they return to the army. At that time, the soldiers stationed in Guangping City will die in battle.

"How can you say that the gains outweigh the losses? This is a big city," Sun Dakui still couldn't let it go, "Besides, how can anyone survive in a war?"

Sun Chuanting said with a smile: "Guangping City is here, can it be possible to grow wings and fly away? In the future, choose a suitable month, and when the army arrives, the entire Ruan family will be wiped out, so why bother about the city of Guangping."

In this way, Ruan Fubin led the army back to the division, and angrily killed Quang Binh.

Sun Chuanting didn't miss it, he took his belongings and Han people with him, left the city and ran away.Only the Guancheng on the border was firmly occupied by the Datong Army. If troops were sent in the future, they could take Guangping City directly along the river.

"What? The Han bandits abandoned the city and fled?"

On the way, Ruan Fubin received the news, and was so happy that he wanted to vomit blood.

Then, what to do?

It is impossible to fight Bin Tonglong again, and it is even more nonsense to go north to attack Guangnan Province.After several years of hard work, tens of thousands of elite soldiers were assembled this time. Not only did they not get anything, but they also lost the border city, and Guangping Mansion was also robbed by the Han army.

Guancheng must be taken back, otherwise, from now on, Han soldiers will come whenever they want!

"Continue to move north!"

Ruan Fubin bit the bullet and gave the order. Anyway, they are at war with China, and they have to take advantage of the absence of China's main force to quickly retake their Xiongguan.

This guy led his troops to the north for more than [-] miles, and suddenly received a message on the way: "Your Majesty, it's not good, the Han bandits are attacking Chengtian Mansion (Hue)!"

Ruan Fubin was a little unresponsive, and asked several times to confirm that he had heard correctly. He roared angrily: "The Chinese thieves have bullied me too much, and return to the army to guard the capital immediately! From next year, I will expand the Dai Viet Navy (Navy) )!" As he spoke, he called the military officer again, "You immediately write an apology and ask the envoy to go to Nanjing with a gift."

Some small countries are so nonsense, they obviously can't win, but they insist on provoking big countries.

It is said that Yang Guang labored the people and wasted money, and forcibly confiscated Goguryeo three times, making Goguryeo look like a victim.But how many people know that Goguryeo first invaded the Sui Dynasty, which completely angered Emperor Sui Yang.

As early as before Yang Guang ascended the throne, Goguryeo began to play dirty tricks. The Sui Dynasty couldn't make a move, so they always chose to be patient.

As a result, Goguryeo pushed its nose and face, and even directly sent troops to attack Liaodong, but was repelled by the governor of Yingzhou in the Sui Dynasty.When Yang Jian sent the king of Han to conquer, the king of Goguryeo was so frightened that he condemned his envoy to apologize, and claimed to be "Liaodong dung earth official Yuan" in the above table.It probably means, I'm just a stinky piece of shit, dad, please forgive me, if you lead soldiers to beat me, dad's hands will be dirty.

The minds of the rulers and ministers of the Ruan family are actually similar to those of Goguryeo. They feel that China's expansion is too fast, and they have to find opportunities to give it a go.

It's just that the fight was a bit ridiculous. With an army of tens of thousands, they first ran to attack Champa, then returned to the army and went north to rescue Quang Binh, and now they turned south to rescue Hue.Except for the many casualties in Bintonglong, the rest of the time was spent tossing back and forth, without even touching the hair of the Datong Army.

As for the Datong Army, it really wasn't intentional to walk Ruan Fubin like a dog.

Yang Zhan withdrew his troops from Myanmar normally, and when he withdrew to Palembang, he heard that Nguyen was beating Bin Thong Long.So, he hurried to rescue by boat. After arriving at Bintong Long, he heard that the Ruan family had withdrawn his troops, so he was so angry that he took a boat to bombard the capital of the Ruan family.

"Boom boom boom!"

Inside the port, cannons rang out.

In addition to the naval fleet brought by Yang Zhan, there are also envoy fleets from Lu Tianxiang and Zhang Ruifeng.

When the envoy fleet came back from Pattani and passed by Bin Thong Long for supplies, they heard that Hue was fighting, so they also came to help fire a few shots.

Prince Charles held a binoculars and stood on the deck to observe the battlefield. Dozens of warships bombarded Jiancheng, which made him extremely shocked.Such battles are rare in Europe.

"What country is this?" Charles asked.

Pan Wei explained: "This used to be the homeland of China, which has been occupied for hundreds of years because of the rebellion. Those rebels established a state of Yue, and now they are bombarding the capital of the state of Yue."

"So that's how it is." Prince Charles immediately understood that the local lord launched a rebellion and broke away from the monarch to establish a country and become the king. Such rebellious officials and thieves should be severely beaten.

A regular division of Guangnan Province led by Yang Zhan, as well as the Datong Army visited by the protection mission, have all successfully landed and started to encircle Hue.

To be honest, both armies contain a large number of wounded and sick, and most of them are sick.

There are about 5000 defenders in the city of Hue, but there are still more than [-] residents who can be pulled out to defend the city at any time.

It's really hard to fight!

Nguyen Phuc Bin's eldest son is only ten years old, and his second son is only five years old.Facing the siege of the city, the ministers of the Nguyen Dynasty panicked, and the Shaofu, the uncle of the country, and Song Fukang, the county prince, presided over the overall situation.

Historically, several queens of the Nguyen regime were all surnamed "Song", or "Song Fu".

The word "福" can be added or not.

Just like Ruan Fubin, it is okay to say that his surname is "Ruan", but it is also correct to say that his surname is "Ruan Phuc".

Song Fukang is the leader of the gentry in Hue.He not only did the ideological work of the officials, but also called the gentry and merchants in the city: "The Zheng family in the north was destroyed. I think you all know what happened to the gentry and merchants. Every family, every household, there are Money pays money, someone pays people, Hue City must be defended. Once the city is broken, you and I will all die, and all land and property will be taken away!"

"In times of crisis, you should serve the country. My Duan family provides 1000 taels of salary, and thirty monks serve as soldiers!"

"My Zhang family pays 1000 taels, and [-] monks serve as soldiers!"

"My Chen family pays 1000 taels..."

The Datong court's policy of dividing land in the north really frightened the gentry in the south.Although the donations are relatively small, the gentry in Hue are indeed working together to defend the city.

Immediately afterwards, Song Fukang carried out propaganda in the city again, saying that the Datong Army brutally killed the city and would definitely massacre the city after breaking through Hue, so that the people of Hue would take up arms.

"Boom boom boom!"

The guards beat the gong and shouted along the street: "Han merchant Li Yongjin, assisted 1000 taels of silver. Han merchant Zhang Chong, assisted 800 taels of silver. Han merchant Chen Lianggui..."

In the city of Hue, there are a large number of Han merchants, who have formed a commercial interest community with the Hue gentry.

Song Fukang was very insidious. He first sent troops to force Han merchants to donate their salaries, and then made a big publicity with gongs and drums, cutting off the retreat of those Han merchants.

Qian Fang is an employee of a firm, he silently observes the situation on the street.

The shopkeeper Qian Deshun suddenly said, "Qian Fang, come here."

"Okay!" Qian Fang nodded and bowed, and followed the shopkeeper into the room.

The big shopkeeper, who was quite dignified outside, knelt down after entering the room, and wailed in a low voice: "My lord, my master also donated 1000 taels. My master asked me, Mr. Bingming, that he was also forced. Donate money."

Qian Fang sat at the head seat, picked up the teacup and said: "I know all about it. You can let our master send letters to other merchants in the city. They donate money to help the thieves. The court will not blame this matter. Just remember one thing In the future, when the imperial court destroys the Ruan family, the merchants who bought the land will have to honestly cooperate with the distribution of the land."

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!" Qian Deshun kowtowed repeatedly.

Qian Fang took a sip of tea: "What to do, just go, this city of Hue can't be defeated yet."

The Han people doing business in the Ruan family's territory actually wanted to maintain the status quo, because their ties with the local gentry were too deep.Some Han merchants have even become gentry in Hue. They marry wives and have children here, and buy land here, just like the big landlords of the Yue nationality.

If it weren't for the fact that the Datong army was too strong, these Han merchants might have helped the Ruan family fight.

But who is not a shrewd person in business?

The Ruan family was clearly about to perish. As early as two or three years ago, there were already Han landlords who sold their land one after another, so as not to be divided by the imperial court in the future.

outside the city.

Yang Zhan gritted his teeth and said, "Withdraw the troops!"

The hot air balloon has already observed clearly that the city is full of soldiers and civilians defending the city, and a large amount of supplies for defending the city have been prepared.And the streets and alleys in the city are also moving supplies back and forth.

In such a situation, if the city is forcibly attacked, the Datong Army will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

Moreover, the hot and rainy season is approaching, and the army must be withdrawn to rest quickly, otherwise it will inevitably cause a large number of non-combat attrition.

Seeing the Datong army leave by boat, the soldiers and civilians in the city cheered happily, but the Han merchants were all frowning.

They complained about the Nanjing court for a while, why did they insist on annexing the Ruan family?After a while, he blames Ruan Fubin, can't he live a happy life?Why did you send troops to provoke China?

Han Chinese merchants knew very well that if it is fast this year's autumn and winter seasons, or if it is slow until next year's autumn, the Chinese army will inevitably overwhelm the country!

These merchants wanted to pack their bags and run away, but many of them already regarded Hue as their home.They have shops here, warehouses here, and a fleet of ships, and they buy goods from Hue and go to sea trade.

The Han people monopolize the Ruan family's trade.

Ruan Fubin led his army back to Hue, rewarded the meritorious officials arbitrarily, held a happy funeral, and declared to the outside world that he had achieved the "Great Victory in Hue".

Immediately afterwards, we began to investigate which Han people were selling land in the past two or three years.

As long as the sale of land exceeds [-] mu, whether it is because of losing money in business or not, they will all be charged with "collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country" and executed.

Chapter 878 [What I saw in Guangzhou]

"So tall, so bright!"

Under the starry sky and above the sea, Prince Charles looked at the lighthouse and expressed emotion.

Not only him, but the envoys from France, Portugal, Persia, India, and Arabia were all staring at the bright lighthouse dumbfounded at this moment.

The lighthouse was built on Naozhou Island, where the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty made his capital and upgraded Naozhou Island to Xianglong County.Then there is the Yashan sea battle, Shenzhou Lu Shen.

Zhang Ruifeng and Fan Chao were also quite surprised when they saw the towering lighthouse.

Because when they went to sea, construction had just started here.

Maritime merchants from Gaozhou Prefecture and Leizhou Prefecture donated money to build a Tianhou Palace.Then, relying on government funding and donations from believers, a 36-meter-high Mazu Pagoda was built in Tianhou Palace.

In addition to belief, the real function of Mazu Tower is actually a lighthouse.

And the top uses a glass lens to block the wind, somewhat similar to an Argonaut lamp.Due to the difficulty of making giant convex lenses, existing glass technology is expensive and heavy.Therefore, only a large convex lens is used in the middle part, and many small convex lenses are used up, down, left, and right, which is a bit like a Fresnel lens.

No matter what kind of lens light it is, the brightness has been increased several times anyway.

The Guangzhou Navy has moved here, turning Naozhou Island into a military port.Of course, there are also civilians on the island, supplemented by farming and mainly fishing.Except for the military port, other ports and fishing villages are densely packed with fishing boats at night.

As for trading merchant ships, they can follow the lighthouse at night and stop at Haikang, Wuchuan, Zhanjiang and other ports.

Zhanjiang was still a small fishing village at this time, but it was engaged in smuggling in the Ming Dynasty.After Emperor Zhao opened the sea, it quickly rose to become the outer port of Suixi County, where a small lighthouse was also built in the port.

That night, the envoy fleet and envoys from various countries stopped in the military port to rest.

Thanks to the smooth sailing, they arrived at Guangzhou Port smoothly on the second night.

It was already midnight, and the lights outside Guangzhou were still brightly lit.Envoys from various countries were allowed to disembark and walk around, but they could not run around and had to follow Chinese officials all the way.

"There are so many lights, how much does it cost for one night?" The messenger from Mughal felt that he was in heaven.

Prince Charles looked excitedly at everything around him: "Is there really a city that never sleeps?"

In Europe at this time, the French aristocrats are the most luxurious, and they often stay up late at night to have fun.But it is only limited to the nobles of Paris, because only the French royal family has the money to hold a dance with hundreds of candles.

As for the city of Paris, it is pitch black at night.Therefore, excrement workers are high-risk occupations. They are not allowed to work during the day and can only dig excrement in the dark at night. Every month, excrement workers fall into the latrine and drown.No decent person is willing to do this work, resulting in a shortage of excrement workers, and the whole city stinks.

As for China, lanterns are lit at night, and cheap grease is used for lighting.

There is no need for street lights either. One store has a lantern, and the other store has a lantern.Small vendors along the street light oil lamps at their stalls, and then put a cover on them as the light source.

"Aren't the city gates open at night?" asked Charles.

Pan Wei explained: "The gates of the city will be closed at night, but there is also a night market in the city."

The rise of night markets has brought a heavier management burden to the government.The public security issue is still secondary, mainly because the firefighting work must be done well. There are wooden houses all over the city, and if you don't pay attention, they will accidentally catch fire.

As night markets appeared in more and more cities, the imperial court also made corresponding regulations.

First, classify a certain area of ​​the city as a legal night market to facilitate centralized fire management.Blocks that are not designated as night markets are not allowed to set up stalls and light fires at night.

Second, in the police force, set up a special "sailor" whose main duty is to guard the night market and carry out fire protection.Shops and vendors operating in the night market must pay an additional "water fee" every month.

Charles was unable to enter the city at this time, so he could only follow the Chinese officials and wander around the night market outside the city.

The night market outside the city mainly serves business travelers.