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The mother-in-law took a breath.

In the small country of Cuoer, although Wangcheng is a commercial port, it really does not receive much commercial tax, because many of the tax for entering the port are taken away by the officials.

Even the guards in the royal palace can only support a few dozen. When fighting against the Zheng family in Vietnam, farmers had to be temporarily recruited into the army.If you want to repair the palace, you also need to collect corvee. The king has never seen 10 taels of silver.

Could it be that the mother-in-law: "After I betray my country, can I not live in Nanjing? The rewarded salt shop should not be rewarded in Nanjing."

His father and two older brothers were both in Nanjing. He wanted to monopolize the traitorous interests, and he didn't want his father and brothers to come to him to share the money.

"Yes." Xiao Chongguo smiled.

"That's good," Po Nan asked again, "Aside from Nanjing, which other cities in China are the best?"

Xiao Chongguo said: "There is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below. Suzhou and Hangzhou are both suitable for enjoying."

Po Nan happily said: "Then I will go to Suzhou!"

One-third of the territory of Hainan Island was bought in this way.

Chapter 642 [Annan Civil War]

The news of Champa's "attachment" had not been transmitted back to Nanjing, but the Vietnam Civil War broke out first.

Xu Ying hurried into the palace and said, "Your Majesty, Annan has already started the war!"

Zhao Han was a little surprised: "Is Mrs. Zheng so impatient? She didn't wait for the rice to be harvested before harvesting."

Xu Ying explained: "Your Majesty, Annan rice can be planted for two seasons, and some areas can be planted for three seasons. If there are two seasons of rice, it can be harvested every winter and replanted after spring. Annan Zheng's dispatch of troops this time is harvesting Last year's winter rice, after the farmers planted the summer rice, took advantage of the gap before the rainy season to send troops!"

"How many troops did the Zheng family send?" Zhao Han asked.

Xu Ying replied: "I'm not sure, but at least there are more than 5 people. The Ruan family should be able to withstand the danger. If it drags on for two months, the rainy season will come, and our army will definitely not be able to send troops."

Zhao Han called You Julian, the female officer in charge of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and asked the female officer Shang Bao to fetch the emperor's seal, and drafted an edict saying: "Notify the cabinet, let the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion order the Datong Army in Guangxi and Qiongzhou to follow the established rules. Plan to act!"

The established plan to send troops is to wait until the Vietnam Civil War is over, and send troops when Zheng Zhu's regime is most vulnerable.

Of course, as Xu Ying said, it should not be too close to the rainy season.

If the civil war between the two sides drags on for too long, the Datong army will definitely not be able to move. It is really a trick to let the army drill into the forest during the tropical rainy season.

In fact, it must be too late for Zhao Han's edict to be sent to the front line.Fortunately, the plan was formulated long ago, and even the food and grass were already in place. Li Dingguo, Liu Xinyu, and Ding Jiasheng had great autonomy.

At this moment, when the cabinet received the news, the three cabinet ministers did not speak much.

Pang Chunlai did not oppose the conquest of Vietnam, but he believed that the time had not come.At least the Tartars must be completely wiped out, and only after Hetao, Monan, and Nuer Gandusi have been harvested can they be freed up to use troops in other places.

Li Banghua and Song Yingxing were worried about the old rules of Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning, Zhu Di also brought down Vietnam. Not only did he set up the chief secretary of Jiaozhi, but he even started a course in Vietnam to recruit scholars.Those Jinshi in Vietnam, the highest reached the position of chief envoy, should have been assimilated logically, but decades later, an uprising still broke out, and they forcibly became independent from the Ming Dynasty.

The domains of the Nguyen and Trinh clans were bounded by Heng Son, the mountain range at the junction of Ha Tinh and Quang Binh provinces.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty sent troops to Vietnam to destroy Linyi State and set up three counties.In the Tang Dynasty, when the Linyi Kingdom was restored, Hengshan was used as the boundary.North of Hengshan,

It is the territory of the Tang Dynasty, which is now the main territory of Zheng; to the south of Hengshan, it is the state of Linyi, which is the current main territory of Ruan.

As for Linyi Kingdom, the predecessor of Champa Kingdom, Annan continued to encroach on the land, and now there is only a place the size of a palm.

Farmers in Zheng's area were recruited to fight in large numbers just after rice planting was completed.

Zheng Tao, who was quite old, not only personally led the troops to the south, but also brought the puppet king with him.This is his first expedition to the south, and he vowed to destroy the Nguyen family and unify Vietnam.

The Zheng family was defeated every time, and took the initiative to fight every time.

Nguyen wins every time, but has always been passive defense.

The reason is due to national strength.

The area controlled by the Zheng family has three times the population of the Ruan family, and the land is more developed, and the land area that can be cultivated is larger.

"Fire, fire!"

"Boom boom boom!"

Zheng Pi pressed the hilt of his sword with his left hand, stood up and looked at the results of the shelling, turned around and said to the puppet king: "Your Majesty, this expedition will definitely be a victory!"

"Okay." Li Zhenzong nodded numbly.

Li Zhenzong was very young. A few years ago, Zheng Nanzheng failed and he blamed his father for all his faults.So, he abolished his father Li Shenzong and made him the new lord.

If he is also defeated this time, Li Zhenzong will have to take the blame, and another puppet king will have to be replaced.

The Annan civil war was not large in scale, but it was more expensive for the king.

Commanding the artillery was a Dutch officer.

The gunners of the Zheng regime are mainly Dutch mercenaries, and the Vietnamese artillery are all responsible for miscellaneous work.

Zheng Pi learned from the painful experience and saved money and food for several years. This time, he increased the number of cannons to twelve.

After firing hundreds of shells, Zheng Zuo, the son of Zheng Pi, drew his sword and shouted: "Let's go to the camp and attack first, break through the Great Wall, break through the Great Wall!"

The Ruan family built some earth and stone walls at the dangerous point of Hengshan, claiming to the outside world that Zheng's first camp on the Great Wall, holding a shield and holding a cold weapon, charged towards the earth and stone walls in front of them.In less than half an hour, the first line of defense of the defenders was broken.

It went so smoothly, purely because of Mr. Zheng's scheming.

Vietnam is fighting a civil war. Due to climate and agricultural reasons, it should break out in late winter and early spring.

Zheng deliberately delayed the time to make Ruan think that there will be no war this year, so the border guards have not many troops.

After Zheng Jun broke through the first earth-stone wall, he continued his efforts and quickly broke through the second one, completely opening up the main road in the mountains going south.

Counting the civilian husbands, a total of [-] troops quickly captured several towns south of Hengshan.

Only then did the Ruan family react, and hastily gathered troops to resist, and the two sides confronted each other on the banks of the Lishui River.

Ruan Fulan led an army of [-], and his son Ruan Fulan became a general.

Zheng Jun had already crossed the river, and because he came over the mountains and mountains, he didn't bring any decent navy, but only collected some small boats on the way.

Although the Ruan Army has few soldiers, it has a well-organized naval force.

In order to guard against the navy, Zheng Yanhe built artillery positions and asked the Dutch gunners to stop the enemy navy from making trouble.

After two days of confrontation, Ruan Fupin put down the telescope and said with a smile: "Father, the Zheng's artillery has been lured away by the navy, and our elephant soldiers can be dispatched.

"Go."

Ruan Fulan waved his hand and spoke weakly. He went out with an illness this time.

Soon, the Nguyen army came out of the battalion and harassed by the navy to contain the enemy's artillery.

Seeing this, Zheng Jun also left the camp and defected to Sha Dingzhou in Vietnam. At this time, he led the cavalry to form a formation, which was regarded as one of the main forces of Zheng Jun.

Sha Dingzhou led the Yunnan cavalry around to the flanks, and Zheng, the eldest son of the Zheng family, commanded the main force of the infantry to advance.

Just when the two sides were about to meet, a hundred war elephants of the Ruan Army came out from the other side of the camp.Before they had time to line up, these war elephants were urged to kill Zheng Jun's flank troops.

Who knows why the Nguyen family has a hundred war elephants, when they fought a few years ago, there were only more than 20 elephants.

Zheng Pi was shocked: "Notify the Dutch quickly, quickly turn the muzzle and shoot at those war elephants!"

It was too late, a hundred war elephants rushed faster and faster, and rushed into Zheng Jun's flank in a blink of an eye.

Zheng Jun also had a small number of firecrackers, but whether they were shooting arrows or shooting guns, they aroused the ferocity of the elephants even more.These war elephants rampaged, trampled countless corpses wherever they passed, and Zheng Jun's troops collapsed one by one.

Both sides are training in secret.

Zheng's training is artillery, while Ruan's training is elephant soldiers.

"Father go!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zheng Zuo rode back to the main formation of the Chinese army and urged Zheng Pi to flee across the river.

Zheng said while running: "Take Your Majesty away, if you can't take him away, you will kill him, and the Ruan family can't let him be arrested!"

Zheng Zuo hurriedly turned around on his horse, and soon found Li Zhenzong, and helped the puppet king onto his horse.

Li Zhenzong fled on horseback in a daze, and he did whatever Zheng Zuo told him to do.His father is a puppet, and he himself is also a puppet. He has long been used to obeying the orders of powerful ministers.

On the battlefield, the [-] Zheng's army was defeated by the [-] Ruan's army.

The soldiers scrambled to get on the boat to cross the river, and the ferry was in chaos.Many couldn't wait to get on the boat and simply jumped into the river, while the Ruan's navy took the opportunity to intercept them under fire.

"Boom boom boom!"

Those Dutch gunners didn't escape, they all stuck to the artillery position and fired at the Ruan family's navy warship.

They knew they couldn't run, that jumping into the river would make them easy targets.

They didn't intend to surrender either, because the Nguyen family burned churches, drove and killed the Dutch, and most of them were killed after surrendering.

Turning around to Sha Dingzhou on the other side, I was a little dazed when I saw this, why did I lose out of nowhere?

Sha Dingzhou led the cavalry and ran towards Ruan's central army, and sent someone to shout in advance: "I wish to surrender, I wish to surrender, all the cavalry belongs to Master Ruan!"

Before Ruan's father and son agreed, the guy led the cavalry to turn around and went after Zheng's rout.

Zheng's father and son led the soldiers, hacked and killed the broken soldiers who blocked the way, and ran fast in the boat, and the puppet king did not fall behind.

The Dutch artillery positions were soon flanked by Ruan's navy and army, and more than 30 Dutch gunners all chose to fight to the death.They knew that they would die worse after being captured.

Zheng's father and son fled all the way back to Hengshan with the remnant soldiers. Out of the [-] army, only a few thousand remained.

Most of the soldiers fled, because the Ruan family only took more than 3000 prisoners, and more than 2000 corpses were found on the battlefield, and one or two thousand drowned in the river.

Ruan Fulan died of illness just as the Ruan army was pursuing the victory.

His son Ruan Fubin had no choice but to stop the army and hurried back to formally succeed to the throne, lest there would be any trouble in the rear.

However, they said that Zheng's father and son had not fled back to Shenglong Mansion, and they started discussing halfway.

Zheng Zuo said: "Father, this battle has been defeated, and the royalist party in the ruling and opposition parties will definitely make trouble. We have to start in advance."

Zheng Bing said: "The defeat in the war was all due to the country's lord not practicing virtue. Re-establishing a virtuous lord can calm the criticism."

"After returning to Shenglong Mansion, don't change the king for the time being, and wait for those traitors to jump out," Zheng Zuo planned, "Anyone who dares to collude and cause trouble is the henchman of the king of no virtue. Kill these traitors , there is just enough reason to change the head of the country!"

Zheng Bing praised: "My son has grown up and is capable of governing the country. After returning this time, you will start to take over the government. As a father, you will not live for a few years."

"Father is in the prime of his life, so he will live a long life." Zheng Zuo said hastily.

The father and son discussed it properly, and looked at the thousands of remnants around them, feeling disappointed and regretful again.This was a major defeat that the Zheng family had never experienced in decades. There must be royalists who wanted to make trouble when they went back. In history, after this battle, the Zheng family and the Ruan family stopped fighting, and later they simply chose to negotiate a formal peace.

"Han soldiers are coming, Han soldiers are coming!"

It was more than ten miles away from Shenglong Mansion, when Zheng Bing received the news, his face turned pale instantly.

Thousands of remnants, who have just lost a battle, how can they resist the attack of the Chinese army?

Chapter 643 [Strike directly at the gate of life]

Li Dingguo's [-] troops did not go to the mouth of the Red River, and then went straight to Shenglong Mansion, the capital of Annan.

Because the mouth of the Red River at this time is still in a semi-developed state, and there are mangroves everywhere along the banks of the river.There is no big port for warships to berth, and it is very troublesome to change to the Red River by boat.

The [-] army is divided into two groups.

The first way is to take a sea boat to the mouth of the Majiang River. There is no need to change boats, and the navy can go straight to the outside of Tsinghua City.

The second way is to take a sea boat to the estuary of the Lanjiang River. After entering the Lanjiang River, change to a small boat and travel for more than ten miles to reach the outside of Ngee'an City.

Why do you want to fight these two cities?

More than 80% of the top officials in the Zheng regime have their hometowns in these two places!

The Majiang River Basin and the Lanjiang River Basin were the earliest developed areas in Vietnam, and they were also the capitals of the Ding Dynasty and the former Le Dynasty.

As long as they occupy these two cities and then quickly control the surrounding villages and towns, Zheng's court officials will be dumbfounded, and a small half of Zheng's grain-producing areas will be gone.

This is thanks to the fine work and merchants, otherwise, how would the Nanjing monarch and ministers know?Most of them will attack Shenglong Mansion foolishly.

After returning from Japan, Yuan Shizhong was finally promoted to deputy division commander and led [-] troops to attack Yi'an.

Taking a boat to the estuary of the Lanjiang River, Xu Xuechang, a mission officer, walked out of the cabin and stood on the deck to bow to the river.

"Old Xu, who are you worshiping?" Yuan Shizhong joked, "Could it be your ancestors who lived here in Annan before?"

Xu Xuechang said solemnly: "It's not worshiping ancestors, but sages."

"Which sage can be found here?" Yuan Shizhong asked.

Xu Xuechang said with emotion: "Wang Zi'an in the early Tang Dynasty encountered wind and waves here, and the ship capsized and unfortunately died on the bottom of the sea."