Chapter 34: The Beginning and End of the Battle of Jiaozhi

Zhu Qizhen's various emotions only showed a trace of half on the surface, and then he hid this thought deep in his heart, and said with a slight smile: "The matter of Nanyang, let's not mention it for the time being. Tell me about the situation in Cochin? ”

"Why, this dynasty has occupied Jiaozhi for more than 20 years, and can it be lost once? Why? ”

Zhang Zhong coughed, his face turned a little red, this is a pain in the British government. Most of Zhang Fu's life's work is in the cross-toe, when he abandons the cross-toe.

Zhang Fu alone can't hold it.

Zhang Zhong, as Zhang Fu's son, also has an unknown analysis of this battle.

It's just that I didn't expect to say it one day when such a monarch and minister played right. He cheered up and said: "My father can have a flat toe, inherit the virtue of Emperor Taizong, and have the Hu father and son perverse, and the heavens are angry and resentful." ”

"The Chen clan of Annan has been established for a long time, but the government is chaotic, and uncles and nephews kill each other, so that there is an opportunity for foreign ministers to intervene. The father and son of the puppet Hu Emperor Li were unpredictable, seized the power of the Chen family, killed the emperor and established himself, moved the capital to limit the land, killed the Chen clan, and humiliated the holy master. The hearts of Annan people fell apart. ”

Then the Hu father and son did a detailed explanation of what they did.

This statement made Zhu Qizhen admire the Hu father and son a little.

This Hu father and son are not surnamed Hu, but after Hu Gongman, the descendant of Shun. His surname is Li.

First of all, in order to usurp the throne, it is necessary to crack down on the die-hard loyalists of the Chen family, that is, the ministers of the central government, and the land he restricts is to determine the land owned by each official according to the size of the official position.

It can also be regarded as a measure to combat land annexation.

In the last years of the Chen Dynasty in Annan, the people were not making a living, so it was time to sort it out.

It's just that what he did was mixed with political elements, and I don't know how many high-ranking families who have been inherited for a long time have been driven away. There is no mercy for the Chen family, and there is almost no Chen child to be found in Annam.

As for insulting Confucius, it is even more funny.

It is also the point that Zhu Qizhen admires the most. He pushed the Duke of Zhou to suppress Confucius, put the divine position of Confucius under the Duke of Zhou, and even made the "Twelve Chapters of the Ming Dao" with his own hands, wanting to replace Confucianism.

I want to be one gentleman and teacher.

It really made Zhu Qizhen not know what to say.

You must know that although Annan is not Chinese, he is also a member of the Confucian cultural circle, and what he did was naturally met with internal opposition.

Of course, the power of Annan's scholars is not too great.

Perhaps this is why the Hu family felt that they could do it.

"If only that's all." Zhang Zhong said: "Emperor Taizong will not be furious. He is Chen Tianping's matter, but who is tolerable, who is unbearable! ”

There is no need for Zhang Zhong to say, Zhu Qizhen knows about Chen Tianping.

Because of the persecution of the Hu father and son in China, one of the descendants of the Chen family fled to Jingshi and asked for protection.

Later, Emperor Taizong asked Annan to blame, but he didn't know how Annan thought of it, and promised to return to the Chen family and promise Chen Tianping to return to China as king.

So, Emperor Taizong sent officers and soldiers to escort Chen Tianping to Jiaozhi.

As a result, after entering Jiaozhi, the Hu father and son immediately ambushed their troops. The officers and soldiers and ministers who escorted Chen Tianping were not killed.

As soon as something like this happens. Emperor Taizong couldn't do it if he wanted to attack Annan.

Zhu Qizhen said: "This Hu father and son are really arrogant. ”

Zhang Zhong coughed and said, "Your Majesty is wise. Hu's father and son really didn't know that with the power of the Celestial Empire, Emperor Taizong ordered the transfer of 230,000 foreign troops, 30,000 Tusi soldiers in Guangxi, and 80,000 Beijing troops, known as 800,000 troops. My father was ordered to take over the army and go south to Jiaozhi, after seven months, three wars, after all, Jiaozhi was destroyed, and Taizong ordered the county to be in its place. ”

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "At that time, Zhang Fu was only thirty-two years old. ”

This is the age at which a person is jealous, and most of them are thirty-two years old, what do they do again? And Zhang Fu was thirty-two years old, and he wiped out a country with 300,000 people.

Sometimes I have to admit that the difference between people is probably bigger than that of animals.

Even though there are reasons for this, the country that has been inherited for hundreds of years, it was destroyed in just seven months. Zhang Fu's talent must not be ignored.

This is also even if Zhang Fu is in the middle of the court, there is no specific official system, and even if the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is just a matter of ignoring things, he is still regarded as the head of the warriors by the nobles of the world.

It is regarded as the needle of the sea god by the Empress Dowager.

This is also the reason why even if Zhang Zhong is not in good health and knows that he will not be able to come to the Qianqing Palace for a few days, he still has to let him come to hang the commander of the guards.

Generals who have fought such a record, being alive is a deterrent in itself.

Zhu Qizhen said: "The British public merit is more than the Han horse's aid. I also ask Zhang Qing to tell me about the Battle of Annam. ”

Zhang Zhong coughed twice and said, "Follow Your Majesty's orders." He paused for a moment and said: "As soon as my father entered Annan, he read out the twelve deadly sins of the Hu family and his son, and said that he would only punish the Hu father and son, and he would never ask. ”

"In the army, no one shall be killed in vain unless it is in wartime,"

"The people of Annam are like flowing water."

"The march was a thousand miles in a day, and in December of that year, I arrived at the city of Mubang, and told him not to surrender. The father of the family and the Duke of Qianguo made a soldier, avoided the real and attacked the false, broke the city in one fell swoop, and then broke two levels in a row and killed the Hu father and son. ”

Zhu Qizhen saw that Zhang Zhong's face was not very good, so he didn't ask carefully.

It's not good to think about being a son and showing off his father's exploits in front of the emperor. If you say a little better, it seems to be a little arrogant, and if you don't say it well, you have the worry of unfilial piety.

Zhu Qizhen also changed the topic and said: "The British Duke Si conquered Annam and pacified the Annan Rebellion. Cochin is so repeated, but what is the reason? ”

Zhang Zhong was silent for a while, and said: "The minister thinks there are two reasons, one of which is that the people of Jiaozhi are not convinced. My father's four expeditions to Jiaozhi, the first time to recruit Jiaozhi, the easiest, He also, because the Jiaozhi people hated the Hu family, thinking that after the imperial court defeated the Hu family, and then reinstated the Chen family. But I didn't expect that the imperial court actually had counties and counties, isolated from the Central Plains for 400 years, and had already become a country of its own. ”

"Second, the country is too wide to deal with Jiaozhi people."

"My father recommended more than 9,000 Jiaozhi people, and he was lenient with the hearts of the Jiaozhi people, but he didn't know that the Jiaozhi people no longer felt that they were Chinese."

"Although the imperial court has the heart of the people of Jiaozhi, the people of Jiaozhi have no intention of obeying the court."

"If Qin Zhao hates, Qin people want to favor Zhao people, but can they get it?"

Zhu Qizhen was taken aback, he never expected that Zhang Zhong would say this. There was a faint implication of accusing Zhang Fu, Zhu Qizhen said: "In this way, the foreign ministers often say that the internal ministers have cholera and toes, but is it wrong?" ”

Zhang Zhong said: "There may be ministers, who don't know the meaning of the court, and do misbehaps, but it is not the main reason. Zhang Zhong glanced at Wang Zhen with the rest of his eyes.

He talked in his stomach, but he held it in his stomach.

Zhang Zhong has long heard of what the eunuchs are like, and the ministers are almost non-behaving when they go out. Of course, there are a few early seedlings among them, but most of the ministers are rotten wood and cannot be carved.

It's not that going to Annan is particularly bad.

However, the people of the Central Plains are rarely extremely in civil unrest.

The reason is that the internal officials are in chaos in the Central Plains, and the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee will have someone to speak. When it reached the ears of the emperor, there was nothing good for these people.

At least until now, none of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are mediocre.

Naturally, because the ministers did not regard the Jiaozhi people as Chinese, the Jiaozhi people did not have any Austrian assistance in Korea. Naturally, there will be no bottom line.

The Jiaozhi people had no way to ask for help, so they naturally resisted with swords.

In the Jiaozhi Rebellion, those ministers naturally had a share, but it was not the most important reason, and the civil officials who came to Jiaozhi were not good people.

After all, how can a person who really has the ability to become an official.

After all, people at the time regarded Guangxi as a place to degrade officials, let alone a farther Jiaozhi.

It's just that these words can't be said clearly in front of Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen said: "The British prince also thinks so? ”

Zhang Zhong said: "My father was a little unimpressed. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Oh, you say so, aren't you afraid that after you go back, the British Guild will blame?" ”

Zhang Zhong said: "The minister is the minister of His Majesty, Your Majesty is right, the minister is telling the truth, even if my father knows, he will only be pleased." ”