Chapter 30 The Prosperity of Annam

Within a few months, Li Tianbao rebelled in Huguang and Guizhou. The Datengxia Rebellion in Guangxi was pacified.

Zhu Qizhen was not too surprised.

Most of this was expected by Zhu Qizhen.

The reason why Zhu Qizhen is not in a hurry about the situation in the southwest, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the southwest has been chaotic several times every few years.

This is all under Zhu Qizhen's control.

I asked again where the 50,000 Jingying army had gone south. I heard that I have only arrived on the Yangtze River now, so I don't ask.

Although Zhu Qizhen felt that he would board a ship from Tianjin all the way to Guangzhou, and then go directly to Xunzhou against the Pearl River. I think it's much faster.

But this idea is still too ahead of its time in this era.

Although the Ming army has already had cases of large-scale water transportation, whether it is the Governor's Office of the Five Armies or the Ministry of War, they all feel that shipping is a rather risky thing.

So, the plan was decided. That is, from Beijing along the canal all the way south, then to the Yangtze River, transfer to the Yangtze River water transport, and then south to Xiaoxiang, from the Ling Canal directly to Guilin.

It's also a water ride.

But it's not the same as sea freight.

First of all, there are many gates on the canal, and it is impossible to go all the way. And because the canal is different from the Yangtze River, it needs to change ships many times, not to mention that the traffic capacity of the Ling Canal is also different.

So, this part of the journey seems to be good. But it may not be possible to arrive in two or three months.

Zhu Qizhen asked Liu Pu's whereabouts again, and calculated that Liu Pu had arrived in Yunnan at the time. The rectification of the Dian army began.

The Dian army still retains considerable combat effectiveness. With Liu Pu here, the advance preparations for the operation against Annam can also be completed.

But Zhu Qizhen still has some worries.

He knows what the generals below are like, even if there is nothing to do, they will find a way to fight, and in this situation, Zhu Qizhen still has doubts about whether to fight, but Mao Sheng, Liu Pu and others below are estimated to be already gearing up.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen's policy toward Annan is in a state of vacillation, and Zhu Qizhen's thinking has also affected the DPRK and China.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen still can't make a decision.

Zhu Qizhen summoned Yang Hong again.

Yang Hong has also been preparing for a long time. 、

To tell the truth, I just mentioned the matter of Annan before, and the recent situation of Annan in the Manchu Dynasty was almost dark-eyed, and this situation also included Zhu Qizhen.

After all, Zhu Qizhen's focus has not been on Annan, although Jinyi Weidong Factory has a large amount of information on Annan, but the original information, without analysis and sorting, it is difficult to analyze something.

But now, during this period of time, under the attention of Zhu Qizhen, a large amount of military and political information about Annam has been collected to the imperial palace from all aspects. The intelligence channels of Dongchang Jinyiwei are only one of them, and the reports of various localities in Guangxi and Yunnan are also one of them, such as Laos, Champong, and other neighboring countries in Annam.

Zhu Qizhen was even more hesitant.

Because, Annan is in the midst of an unprecedented prosperity. After three generations of management in the Later Li Dynasty, the wounds of the war thirty or forty years ago have also been healed.

On the basis of breaking and then building, Annan completed this Confucianization turn.

It seems that many people feel that Confucianism cannot strengthen the country, but in fact, this view is wrong.

Just look at Annam, who had been in confrontation with the two countries for hundreds of years, even in the last years of the Chen Dynasty in Annam, when it was once beaten to Thang Long by the city.

If it weren't for the fact that the king of Champa was killed by a traitor, what we can see is not that Annam annexed Champa, but that Champa annexed Annam.

The invasion of the Ming Dynasty was both a crisis and an opportunity for Annan.

Emperor Taizong's use of the Ming system in Annam caused the result of the flames. However, the Ming system did not disappear in Annam, but after Li Li occupied Annam, the Ming system was used in many places.

And divide the world into five ways, and establish Confucianism as the foundation. After decades of living and working in peace and contentment, the situation in Annan is getting better every day.

This can be seen.

Just look at Annan's actions at the border, in the face of Daming's border disputes, he is still a little aggressive.

Even Annam had a standing army of 130,000. That is, the Beijing camp in Annam, as for each province, there are also garrisons, adding up to hundreds of thousands.

It is true that a large country also.

In these years, Champa begged for help almost every year, that is, Annam pressed on Champa step by step, and even several times the army came under the capital.

As for Laos, Ailao and other countries, they were beaten without temper.

Annan even went so far as to call himself China behind closed doors and ordered dozens of countries in Southeast Asia to pay tribute to them.

This is the Annam sub-clan system. Among them, the ambition to be called the Northern and Southern Dynasties alongside the Ming Dynasty is almost obvious.

From Taizu Taizong of the Later Li Dynasty, to the present and the next few decades. It was a rare highlight moment in Annan's history. Even later generations of Europeans commented that even in modern Vietnam's authority in Southeast Asia, it was not as good as it was at the beginning.

This is not only the rise of Annam's national power, but also the culture.

This period of time was also the peak of the awakening of Annam's national consciousness.

During this period of time, Annan completed the legend of the Hung King. and wrote him into the canonical history.

What is the Legend of the Male King?

It is the ancestral legend that the Annan people have added layer by layer, saying that King Xiong is Shennong, but it is ordered by God, and the emperors in the north have their own side.

There is even known as Annan's first Xiongwen "Ping Wu Dahe". I won't go into detail here. The article discusses the legitimacy of Annan's independence.

Although this article watched Zhu Qizhen rush to the crown angrily.

There are many words in it, which makes Zhu Qizhen unbearable. In the article, there are many misappropriations, ancient Chinese sentences, there are allusions to the text of Luo Bingwang, Li Mi and others, that's all, anyway, the ancient articles, used each other, there are also many people. Among them, where he despised the imperial court many times, Zhu Qizhen didn't care. But calling Emperor Xuanzong a cunning boy was unbearable for Zhu Qizhen.

After all, although Zhu Qizhen and Xuanzong's father-son relationship is not much, they have a lot of plans.

But the wrath of the Son of Heaven is like thunder, and when it is not released, it is hidden above the nine heavens, and the wind and rain come, and the dense clouds do not rain.

Angry is angry, the more angry he is, the more Zhu Qizhen attaches importance to Annan.

If Annan, whose morale of the army and the people had almost reached its peak, wanted to go down in one fell swoop like North Korea, it would be absolutely impossible, and even if it were not for Li Jin's own death and the inability to make peace with the two classes of nobles, North Korea would not be so easy to pacify.

Today, Vietnam's national strength may not be higher than that of North Korea. However, the prosperity of the country is better than that of North Korea, and I am afraid that after the army attacks South Annam, even if Annam mobilizes a million troops, it may not be impossible.

Zhu Qizhen didn't give up on destroying Annan.

On the contrary, the stronger Annan is, the more Zhu Qizhen will be extinct.

It's as if Tang wants to destroy Goguryeo.

Is there anything wrong with Goguryeo?

No, on the contrary, Goguryeo is too powerful, and Goguryeo will not be destroyed, and Liaodong Africa will be owned by the Tang Dynasty.

The same is true today.

If Zhu Qizhen had no ambition for Nanyang, he could naturally let Annan go, but Zhu Qizhen's ambition for Nanyang was above the Western Regions, because he knew too well that the future of the Ming Dynasty was above the ocean.

In this way, the hegemony of Southeast Asia, which does not cut off Annam, can be allowed to pass unimpeded by the Ming order.

Even if Annan is not destroyed now, as the power of the Ming Dynasty penetrates deep into the South Seas, Annan will have contradictions with the Ming Dynasty.

After all, Yunnan is to the northwest of Annam, and Guangxi is to the northeast. Zhengxi was also a vassal of the imperial court, and if the imperial court consolidated the authority of Nanyang, then Annam would be surrounded by the imperial court on all sides.

In this case, it is strange that the monarch of Annan can sit still.

But not because you have to fight doesn't mean you have to fight now.

After all, the battle to destroy Annan, although it may not be more difficult than fighting the tile, but it is a completely different mode of war, Zhu Qizhen even had a premonition that if he wanted to destroy Annan, the imperial court had to mobilize an army of 600,000.

Otherwise, it will not be enough to destroy the great powers.

Not to mention that the sophistication of Annan's firearms is not under the Ming Dynasty, so above the firearms, it is likely that the two sides are equal, and the imperial court does not have an advantage.

In other words, the firearms that fight Annan in the face of Annan are already Annan's water network, and the spears and horses of the Daming border army may not be able to give full play to their advantages. It is likely to be a very brutal offensive and defensive battle.

After all, firearms in this era, on the whole, are conducive to defense, not to offense.