Hoan Kiem Lake is one of the most famous of the many large and small lakes in Thang Long City, located in the central area of the city, it is a long and narrow oval shape from north to south, with an area of about 180 acres, which is not small, but it is not big in Thang Long City, and there are some lakes that are larger than Hoan Kiem Lake.

This place was originally a tributary of the R River, which used to be connected with the Red River not far to the east, and was later cut off by the river embankment, so it became a lake, and became famous in later generations, and is the first scenic spot in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.

Since it can become the first scenic spot, the beauty is naturally beautiful, and the trees around the lake shore are verdant and the shade is like a cover. The water of the lake is as clear as a mirror, elegant and quiet.

However, at this time, Hoan Kiem Lake was still relatively "original", although there were already some pavilions and water pavilions, but they were not well dotted, and it seemed a little desolate, which made Gao Shishi feel that he was not worthy of the name of later generations.

Of course, the reputation of Hoan Kiem Lake in later generations is also related to legends, and what makes Gao Pragmatic feel a little interesting is that the word "Hoan Kiem Lake" in this "Hoan Kiem Lake" is related to a figure who has a lot to do with the Ming Dynasty.

Legend has it that in the sixteenth year of Yongle, on the eve of the Blue Mountain Rebellion, Li Li, the later Taizu of the Later Li Dynasty, coincidentally obtained a sword body with the word "Shuntian" engraved on it. Later, he picked up a sword hilt, and put it together has special strength.

Annam folklore says that Li Li, the hero of Annam, used this sword to defeat the "seven million Ming army", and later became the king and established the Later Li Dynasty.

Ten years later, one day, while on a boat at Lushui Lake, which was formerly known as Hoan Kiem Lake, Li Li suddenly saw a golden turtle emerge from the water, swam to the side of the boat, and said to Li Taizu: "The enemy army has been defeated, please return my sword, the king." As soon as he finished speaking, the sword on Li Taizu's waist suddenly shook and fell into the mouth of the golden turtle, and the golden turtle then dived to the bottom of the lake with the sword in his mouth.

Li Taizu and the ministers were very surprised, thinking that it was a fairy appearance, so they called the golden turtle the god golden turtle, in order to express their respect for the golden turtle, the green water lake was changed to Huanjian Lake. Later, it is said that the sword was returned by the immortals and inserted in the lake, and the sword handle was left on the water, forming a small pagoda in the center of the lake.

Now, Gao pragmatic confirms the nonsense of this story - this small island in the center of Hoan Kiem Lake does not have the dilapidated small tower of later generations.

This small island, which is very famous in later generations, is now just a small desert island of dozens of square meters, except for weeds, there is nothing to see at all, but the big island in the lake in the north is a bit interesting, I heard that it was Mo Dun who asked the king of Ying, who could not fight, to send someone to repair a little pavilion and water pavilion, and he could barely stop and rest.

So, Gao Pragmatic put the meeting with the prince and princess of Nanzhang here.

Gao Shishi, who was wearing a big red silk flying fish suit, stepped across the mahogany bridge from the shore to the island, and two young people, a man and a woman, had been waiting by the pavilion in the middle of the lake for a long time.

The two young men were dressed in the same clothes as Da Ming, and as soon as they saw Gao Shi coming over, they immediately stepped forward and bowed.

"The Lao Military and Civilian Propaganda Department consoled the eldest daughter of Setatila, Bia Jue, and the eldest son, Nojiao Gumeng, to see the Great Tomorrow Dynasty Guangxi Patrol Imperial Shi Gao to seek the true prince, and wish the high prince the protection of ten thousand Buddhas."

Ten Thousand Buddhas Shelter? Is this an auspicious word for the southern palm country?

But it doesn't matter, although Gao Pragmatism does not believe in Buddhism, some of the words of Buddhism are quite philosophical, and Gao Pragmatism does not exclude them.

casually returned the half-salute, he smiled and said: "The two of you have worked hard from afar, and I was busy with things a few days ago, so I hope you will forgive me." ”

The two "princesses" and "princes" who were both a little dark didn't even dare to speak, and said some kind words, but their Chinese was not only a little awkward, but also had a heavy Yunnan dialect accent, and Gao Shishi only understood half of it.

Gao pragmatic introduced the two behind him to them: "These two are the right-hand men of Ben in Annan, Cen Tusi and Loess Division, and they will ...... in the future You may still have to deal with each other, so you might as well get to know each other. ”

The black-clothed prince, who was about fifteen or sixteen years old, didn't seem to be good at words, but bowed honestly, and the black-robed princess, who was about to be in her early twenties, said a few more kind words that roughly meant "please advise me".

Gao Pragmatic saw that she followed what she had just said, calling Cen Ling and Huang Zhiting "Cen Tusi" and "Loess Division", and couldn't help laughing: "These two titles, I'm afraid no one will mention them in Annan in the future, otherwise, you call them the new positions of the Annan Metropolitan Commander Cen Ling and Haidong Town Guard Cen Ling." ”

The titles of the Annam people, the previous ones, are now nominally abandoned, what King Ying, King Dunhou, etc., the previous official positions are also abandoned in name, what is the left and right, that is ironclad not allowed - you are all subordinates of the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming Dynasty allows you to do your own set, but you can't be too arrogant, right?

In the past, the Ming Dynasty didn't intervene, and you just messed around, but now you can't continue to mess around, so Annan's official positions are now almost all demoted. However, after all, they are "used to being independent", and the imperial court does allow them to do their own set of their own, so this time they basically imitated the Ming Dynasty to establish a new system, but the name was a little low-key.

However, the Jingxi Town Envoy and the Haidong Town Envoy were two new official positions, which were purely tailored for Cen Ling and Huang Zhiting, and were determined to be "second only to the Commander of the Metropolitan and the Commander of the Tongzhi Commandery" within Annan, which was roughly equivalent to the military preparation of the Ming Dynasty.

However, in the northern part of Annam, except for Thang Long City and Haiyang Xuanfu Division, which were occupied by Gao Shishi himself and written into the "Jinghua Sixteen Articles", the rest of the areas were all owned by them respectively, so the real power of these two "military preparation roads" can be described as quite huge.

However, the actual strength of the two of them in Annan is not strong, only 20,000 people each, and they are not all descendants, so whether it is "Jingxi" or "Haidong", there are new troops with high pragmatic reorganization, which can be regarded as supporting them.

Mo Yulin and Nguyen Ti's troop arrangements are also quite interesting - all of them were transferred out of Thang Long City, Mo Yulin's troops were transferred to defend the British capital and Nguyen Ti to defend Hue Province, and the name of the transfer was even more interesting, which was "Nghe An and Hue are newly attached, and the Metropolitan Department of Command was invited by the Jinghua Group to temporarily send troops to clear and defend the town." ”

But with the troops at hand, it is obviously enough to defend the south, where do you need their help?

The main reason for this is nothing more than because Mo Maoqia's lackey performance made Gao Pragmatic quite satisfied, so he temporarily transferred them away, so that Mo Maoqia could be a dog with peace of mind - if they were not at ease, since the two of them were only temporarily transferred to the south at the invitation of Jinghua Group, they could naturally return north at any time.

In fact, according to Gao Shi's plan, Mo Yulin's ministry was used to threaten Mo Maoqia, and Ruan's department actually existed to balance Mo Yulin.

The three people with different names and strengths are an interlocking chain of mutual containment laid by Gao Shipra, and as long as Jinghua is slightly biased, it can affect the entire "chain".

It's subtle, but it's a little complicated, but it's ...... It's very pragmatic.

"Cen Envoy Jun, Huang Envoy Jun." Biajue then re-met Cen Ling and Huang Zhiting. However, there is still a problem with her level of understanding of Chinese culture, although the word "envoy" has a "make", but it is actually wrong to call the envoy.

Fortunately, everyone knew the identity of the other party, and they were more tolerant of it, and they didn't say anything to explain, but the two sides met again.

Hoan Kiem Lake is already a pragmatic private residence - although the "mansion" still exists only in the planning, and the Annam Metropolitan Department is still arranging for the mobilization of craftsmen and the preparation of building materials, but after all, this place has justifiably become a highly pragmatic site, so he took out the demeanor of the host's family and invited everyone to sit down.

"Dao Gongzi and Miss Dao, the two of you came to see me, I heard that it was because Laos was bullied by Burma, so that the dignity and inferiority were out of order?"

The Lao Xuanwei Division of the Ming Dynasty and the actual monarch of the Nanzhang State can be traced as far back as the Tang Dynasty Kaiyuan and Tianbao years of the Nanzhao King Piluo Pavilion.

Known to the Laotians as Khun Bo Long, Joan Sai's History of Laos states that Pi Lok "left behind seven sons, all of whom were sent to rule over several parts of the empire." It is known that Khun Lok was sent to rule Nam Chang, or Luang Prabang, as the ancestor of that dynasty, which has ruled until now, with other brothers sent to rule Yunnan, Annam, Lanna, Ayutthaya, Khammon, and Chuankuo. ”

No one knows if this is the case, but the Ming Dynasty did identify it according to this pedigree, and translated it according to the habits of the Han people, and gave the surname of the monarch of the Southern Palm Kingdom as "Dao" - that is, the "knife" of Duan Yu's mother Dao Baifeng in Mr. Jin Yong's "Tianlong Babu".

"Dignity and inferiority disorder" is a polite statement, the throne of the southern state was first usurped by the prime minister, and then it was set up by Myanmar's Mang Yinglong to establish the monarch again.

However, the Ming Dynasty only treated the southern state as the Lao Propaganda Department, and Gao Pragmatic could not say that they were a country - as an official with a high political consciousness, of course he had to "maintain a high degree of consistency with the central government", so he had to vaguely say "respect and inferiority disorder".

Fortunately, the two sisters and brothers, who have lost their country for ten years, have recently made up for the Han culture because they have sought the head of the Ming Dynasty, and they have received a certain amount of Chinese teaching when they were young, so they can barely understand the meaning of high pragmatism.

The princess of the southern kingdom, Biajue, folded her hands, bent down and saluted, and said: "Yes, Gao Gong, after our father was killed in battle, the prime minister Sen Surin usurped the throne not long ago, and was attacked by the Burmese White Elephant King several times, and then he died, and the White Elephant King set up our brother and sister's uncle Ubalu as a puppet...... We complained to Yunnan, but Yunnan ignored it, I had no choice but to raise troops, it was going well, but was defeated by the White Elephant King who heard the news, and now our sister and brother have no place to go, so we can only come to ask Gao Gong for you...... I heard that you are a great Confucian in the world, so you must be able to uphold justice, right? ”

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