When the battle of Lang Son came to an end, another battle that made Gao Pragmatic even more concerned was about to start.

This war has a code name drawn up by Gao Pragmatic himself: snake hunting.

The capital of the Mo Dynasty, and even the entire Annam, including the Lê Dynasty, was recognized as the capital of Thang Long, or Hanoi in later generations.

The city was first established in 621 A.D., when it was called "Purple City", and in the Tang Dynasty it was called "Song Ping". In 886, it became a fortress known as "Da Luo", which was ruled by Gao Yu of the Tang Dynasty.

In 1010, Li Gongyun took advantage of Youchong, the heir of the former Li Dynasty, usurped the throne, changed the Yuan to Shuntian, and established the Li Dynasty.

The first policy promulgated by Li Gongyun in the first year of Suncheon was to move the capital from Hwah Lu to Da Luo City and change it to Thang Long. Li Gongyun said to his ministers: "I look at the map, Gao Biao's former capital Daluo City, in the middle of the world, there is the potential of dragons and tigers, the four directions are divergent, the characters are Fufu, and the emperor is above the city." I want to take advantage of this location to settle down. ”

Li Gongyun consulted the ministers in the court, and the ministers all said: Your Majesty said that this world will benefit forever. Li Gongyun Dayue is from Hualu to the capital of Daluo City. When the royal boat went to the city, there was a dragon who saw it, and ordered to change its city to Shenglong City.

After the capital of Thang Long, Li Gongyun gathered the assets of the whole country and built a large number of buildings according to the Chinese architectural style.

Thang Long is located in the abundant Red River Plain, and close to the sea, rich in products, prosperous people, as the center of the foundation of the dynasty, can get rid of the old capital of the mountain tribes and herdsmen economy restrictions, is very beneficial to the rule of the new dynasty, so that the Chen Dynasty after the Li Dynasty and the Later Li Dynasty have laid their capitals here.

However, Gao Pragmatic may have made Wang Mang's mistake for a while, and he was a little dissatisfied with the name of Thang Long City, so he named the combat operation of Thang Long City as the target "Snake Catcher".

Dragon?

Outside of China, how dare you call it a dragon!

The person responsible for carrying out this "snake catching" operation was Gao Jue.

After Gao Jue's honeymoon, he was transferred from Gyeonggi to Annam, if it was an ordinary family, I am afraid it would be very unhappy, not to mention that Gao Jue himself would be unhappy, his new wife would definitely be even more unhappy.

However, Gao Jue and his wife are just the opposite, they are both satisfied and even grateful for this appointment.

Because Gao Jue's wife is none other than Gao Zheng's maid in the past, who admired the moon, huh...... Now it's called High Moon Appreciation.

Gao Jue is an older youth, although he was reused before, but no one solved the "lifelong event" for him, although he himself was not from a high background, he has an ambition, and he does not want to get married when nothing is done.

Later, he has become the seat of the family guard group, still alone, it just so happened that Gao Pragmatic gradually grew older, if the second daughter of Moon Appreciation and Tingqin did not marry, she would also become an old girl in this era, so Gao Pragmatic was in charge, and married Gao Ming to Gao Ming, and Tingqin to Gao Xiaozhuang.

In fact, before this, no one in Jinghua dared to give the idea of appreciating the moon and listening to the qin, according to them, the result of admiring the moon and listening to the piano should be accepted by Gao Pragmatic. But it turned out that Gao pragmatic did not have this idea, and he would rather use it to consolidate the loyalty of his subordinates.

Of course, this is actually a side benefit, Gao Pragmatic mainly thinks that he has no lust for their two daughters, and it is not good for them to accept the house - the girl who enters the room and enters the concubine, and her status has not improved much, rather than being a concubine, it is better to marry Gao Jue and Gao Xiaozhuang as a wife.

Whether there is a trace of regret for the second daughter of the moon and listening to the qin, this outsider does not know, but they must be able to feel that Gao Pragmatic really cares about them.

Although Gao Jue is only the head of the family in name, but he is not an ordinary family leader, he usually has thousands of direct subordinates, distributed in Gyeonggi, Henan and other places.

In other words, he is the number one general who "manages the army" under Gao Pragmatic.

Gao Jue is in charge of the army, and Gao Xiaozhuang is in charge of money. The three major factories in Kaiping have always been managed by Gao Xiaozhuang, and later after the completion of Jinghua Musket Factory and Jinghua Artillery Factory, they were also dispatched by Gao Xiaozhuang, and it can be said that the most important industrial base in Jinghua "Kaiping Industrial Zone" is fully in the hands of Gao Xiaozhuang.

Therefore, Gao Jue's transfer to Qinzhou not long after his honeymoon ended is not only not a bad thing, but it is also a sign that he continues to be trusted by Gao Shishi. How, then, could they be unhappy?

However, Gao Jue's mood was still a little tense at the moment. He has fought against the Japanese invaders, gone out of Saibei, and suppressed bandits, but it was the first time he fought against the Annamites.

But fortunately, the old man handed over the mountain operations on the northern front to Cen Huang and the two Tusi, and he was in charge of the Thang Long area in the plain area.

The Red River Plain, with its water network, should be similar to the geographical environment when he fought in the south of the Yangtze River, but the overall situation is also a little different.

From Thang Long to Thanh Hoa, this area has been fought for decades, and now the north and south are facing each other, and the Mo Dynasty also happened to send troops to the south, if the Mo Dynasty wins, it will be fine, in case the Mo Dynasty is defeated and the Li Dynasty chases over, the situation they have to face will be even more complicated.

Gao Jue didn't think there was anything strange about his master's actions this time, the so-called "revenge war" of the lord was definitely just an external rhetoric in his opinion, with his understanding of the lord, he could make the lord use so many resources to promote this war, and the purpose could only be profit.

And it's a huge benefit.

But Gao Pragmatism did not say it explicitly, and Gao Jue could only guess: What benefits can Annan have?

When he became an ancestor, he could only collect more than 70,000 taels of silver in Annan every year, and the highest silver consumption was nearly one million taels a year, which was the time when there was nothing to do, because there were 80,000 field troops stationed, and it would cost hundreds of thousands of taels every year.

Unless there is a mine in Annam!

Gao Jue guessed in his heart that if it weren't for the big mine in Annan, the lord would not have been so interested in this kind of border wasteland, but how big does the mine in Annan have to be for the lord to spend such blood?

The point is, the master doesn't seem to be short of mines now.

Come on, don't think about making money if you can't figure it out, anyway, the master is always better than himself, and now it's better to think about how to win Shenglong.

The general layout of Thang Long City, Gao Ming now has a copy in his hand, which Gao Pragmatic asked Gao Mengnan to transfer to him, in addition to a description of the hydrological situation of the Red River.

These two things were provided by a merchant in the port of Guangzhou, whose surname was Hu, who also happened to be in the pepper business, and of course occasionally did some business such as agarwood. During the Ming Dynasty, Cantonese businessmen were also a large commercial force, which is also the reason why the highly pragmatic Jinghua has only laid a foundation in Guangzhou Port for so many years.

However, this Boss Hu is not a native of Cantonese businessmen, he migrated from Huguang, so he is not very happy among Cantonese businessmen, and he is often ostracized and bullied. After the pragmatic Jinghua power expanded to Guangzhou, he made up his mind to take refuge in the past after observing for a while - it was not the meaning of selling his body, but the fact that all his cargo ships used Jinghua's private port in Guangzhou.

Boss Hu's fleet is not large, and even calling it a fleet is a bit high, he actually has a total of three ships, and it is a big circle smaller than Jinghua's own armed transport ships. Because Jinghua's armed transport ships are to be equipped with cannons, the tonnage is larger along the coast of Daming, and the unified system is 1,600 materials, and the displacement is 800 tons in later generations.

Although Boss Hu's three ships are only 900 large, they also have armed forces, and at the earliest time they only hired some sailors who dared to fight in the jump gang war, and later after he voted in Jinghua, he bought twelve Jinghua-made naval guns and loaded them on his own ship, and since then he has been walking sideways along the northern coast of Annan, and even Mo Chaoshui rarely troubles him.

His business is also mainly in the north and south of Annan, and he occasionally goes to the south, but he doesn't go much, because the Mo Dynasty in the north is nominally the commander of the Ming Dynasty, and the face of the Ming Dynasty is easier to make here.

His boat was not very large, and he often sailed directly along the river from the mouth of the Red River to Thang Long for trading, and was familiar with the hydrology and navigation of the Red River. So this time, Gao pragmatic wanted to attack Mo Chao, and when he mobilized sea forces in Guangzhou Port, Boss Hu took the initiative to ask Ying, not only providing the layout map of Thang Long City, but also providing a more critical hydrological description of the Red River.

He even personally joined Gao Shishi's maritime expeditionary force, and his three transport ships with guns became part of the two hundred or so sea ships mobilized by Gao Shiji. In fact, a maritime merchant like him still has twenty or thirty ships in his highly pragmatic fleet this time.

Of course, Boss Hu can't talk about any loyalty to Gao Pragmatic, they don't have a relationship with each other, and he and the other bosses who are willing to join the Gao family's expeditionary fleet value Jinghua's thighs, huh...... Giant legs, perhaps.

Jinghua is really powerful in their opinion, there are ports, fleets, shipyards, and artillery factories, not to mention that the owner of Jinghua is still the emperor's classmate, Gengchenke's six champions!

What does it mean to hug Jinghua's thighs? It means that they are basically not afraid of the government finding faults, which means that they can buy anything they want from Jinghua...... Whether it is a ship, a cannon, or even a few muskets for the sailors - although it is theoretically illegal, but when you go to sea, the Ming law is not very useful, only firearms are useful.

Gao Jue looked at the booklet in his hand again, turned his head and finally confirmed to Boss Hu, who was tall and fat and didn't look like an ordinary southerner: "Boss Hu, at this time, can my fleet really be able to kill Bensheng Dragon City directly along the Red River River?" ”

Although Boss Hu is tall and fat, he laughs like a bodhisattva, and he doesn't look nervous at all: "Although Gao Tuanzuo can rest assured, the Red River is wide and deep enough, and this waterway has been walking down for more than ten years, so there will be no problems." If Annam had been prepared, it would have been possible to lay something like a dark tsubaki in the river, but their sailors were far stronger than the Southern Dynasty, and they didn't know that they would suddenly send troops to attack Thang Long by water, so these things would definitely not exist at the moment...... After all, after the dark tsubaki was laid, it was inconvenient for his own sailor. ”