The first year of the Heavenly Election (the twenty-second year of Qianlong), December

Nguyen Huy, the lord of Annam, fled overseas with the remnants of 30,000 troops, and the country of Annam was completely occupied by the Yi army.

In the same month, Le Wei Ao, the queen of Annam, officially settled in Hanoi, the capital of Annam, and immediately announced that the Fengyi Dynasty was the suzerain, with an annual tribute of 100,000 taels of silver, 10,000 horses of silk and 10,000 pieces of jewelry, and agate jewels (1).

As the 10 million taels of silver consumed by the Yi Dynasty's military support for Annan this time, Emperor Yi authorized Annan to repay it in installments of 200,000 taels per year for 50 years with zero interest, and even treated Annan leniently, and when there was not enough silver to repay the loan every year, he could even use the mineral materials in the territory as a deduction.

Emperor Yi's "benevolence and righteousness" made many courtiers loyal to Houli grateful and shouted to the Holy Lord.

The second year of Heavenly Selection (the twenty-third year of Qianlong), January

Annan "Zhangqi" Brahzi (former King of Champa) (2) absconded to Guangzhou, knelt in the temporary palace of the Yi Dynasty and begged Emperor Yi to be the master of the Champa State.

The Champa Kingdom, under the continuous invasion of Annam, became the current Shuncheng Town, and the King of Champa also became the "King of the Town". With the rise of the Tay Son Dynasty, after the "Quang Nam Kingdom" of Annam Nam Nguyen was defeated by the Tay Son Dynasty, the "Town King" who assisted the Quang Nam Kingdom was also reduced to "Zhangqi".

This time, the king of Champa saw that Le Wei Ao defeated Nguyen Hue and restored the country with the help of the Yi Dynasty's troops, and seemed to see hope. So, he took advantage of the chaos in Annan and secretly went to Guangzhou to ask Zhang Rui for a loan.

For a city that was not even left by Annan's annexation, Zhang Rui was not very interested. However, after several understandings, considering the familiarity of the Cham people with the Strait of Malacca, as well as the promise of the Brahmans, once the Yi army helped the Zhan Dynasty to restore the country, he would call on the Cham people to help the Yi Dynasty take the land of the Strait of Malacca.

In this way, Zhang Ruicai had to consider exercising the rights of the suzerain.

After all, a powerful Annan is not what the Yi Dynasty wants.

In the same month, King Aung Tong of Cambodia (3) sent an envoy to the dynasty, wishing the Yi Dynasty to be the suzerainty and seeking the protection of the Phnom Penh dynasty from Zhang Rui, the emperor of Cambodia.

In order to show the suzerain, in addition to the annual tribute, Cambodia is also willing to "donate" its territory, and is willing to dedicate to the Celestial Empire the land that Annam annexed and forcibly occupied in Chenla Chaigon and other places (5) to the southernmost point.

Emperor Yi was greatly moved by the "pure heart" of Champa and Cambodia, and did not hesitate to accept their "meager" tribute. At the same time, Emperor Yi Zhang Rui ordered the Annan court to negotiate and deal with the matter.

At this time, Annan had experienced large and small wars at home and abroad, and had long been overdrawing its national strength. Especially after the main force of the Xishan Dynasty was defeated by the Yi army, Ruan Hui also took away an additional 30,000 elites, and Annan's strength at this time was already very weak.

If Annam had not received the continued military support of the Yi Dynasty for this Siamese invasion, then even if Annam could defeat the two vassal states of Vientiane and Champasak, which Siam carried, would have to pay an unimaginably painful price, and if it was not good, the country would have perished.

It is true that Annam was once a powerful country, even if the country has been at war for a long time, but with the remaining strength of the "strong country" over the years, it is not impossible to repel the invasion of Siam.

However, this is in a state where Yijun does not disturb himself at all. If Annan dared not agree to Emperor Yi's conditions, he didn't even need to send Yi troops to make a move, as long as he turned to support Champa and Chenla (Phnom Penh Dynasty), then it would be almost a fool's dream to deal with so many countries at the same time with Annan's national strength.

On one side is the menacing Siam, and on the other side is the Yi Dynasty with its fangs exposed.

Would it be better to break the jade than to be complete or to survive with a broken tail?

With consideration, Annan came up much faster in negotiating the things proposed by Emperor Zhang Rui. Because the Siamese coalition army that was blocked in the south had a faint meaning of going north. If Annam does not speed up the negotiations and get the military support of the Yi Dynasty as soon as possible, perhaps Annam's Kyoto-Hanoi will be broken by Siam.

Under the deliberate deliberation of all parties, Annan quickly acquiesced in Cambodia's willingness to "dedicate" land to the Yi Dynasty. As a consolation to Annan, the Yi Dynasty directly forgave Annan's war loan of 5 million yuan, and gave Annan a financial aid of 3 million taels in ten-year installments.

Therefore, the Annam court continued to declare to the outside world that because of the rebellion of the Xishan Dynasty and other rebels, Annan's national strength was empty, and in order to prevent the people from being poisoned by the war, and at the same time, in order to deal with the Siamese invasion, it had to sell the surrounding land such as Jiading (5) and the wild land south of it to the Yi Dynasty at a high price of 20 million taels of silver.

There may be no shortage of stupid people among the people of Annan, but under the general trend of the ministers of Annan, many people of Annan who originally had a lot of complaints about the Yi Dynasty who bought land instantly felt that the Yi Dynasty was a rich "wronged man", and their favor for the Yi Dynasty suddenly rose a lot.

As a result, with the compromise of the Annam court, the Yi dynasty successfully took the provinces of Annam, such as Xining, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Ba Ria and Vung Tau.

At the same time, at the request of the Yi Dynasty, Annam, as a negotiation with Champa, Annan ceded the provinces of Qinghe, Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, Dong Lin, Phuoc and De Nong to Champ.

The provinces ceded by Annan almost immediately ceded more than half of the former Zhancheng territory, which made the king of Zhancheng so excited that he knelt and bowed in the direction of Emperor Yi's palace.

The reason why Annam is willing to give up so much land at once is that in addition to the threat of Siam's northward movement, this is also the old land of the former Nam Nguyen and the Tay Son Dynasty. These places are too remote from Hanoi, the capital of Annh Ninh, and there are many inconveniences.

At the same time, although these places have been occupied by Nam Nguyen for many years, they have not yet been fully developed, and they are really "poor and remote" compared to the northern land.

Now, with the decline of Annam's national power, these places may be swallowed up or taken back by Cambodia, Siam and even Champa at any time. Rather than this, Annan felt that it was better to sell it directly, which would not only gain favor from Emperor Yi, but also get a lot of benefits, so why not?

And now there are many cities in these areas that have been defeated by the Siamese coalition forces. With Annan's current national strength, even if Annan refuses to sign the agreement and cede it, he may not be able to take it back.

Of course, it is impossible for Annam to cede these places to Champa in an open way. For the sake of Annam's reputation, the two sides tacitly agreed that the premise of these provinces was that Annam would directly withdraw troops from these provinces and leave without leaving garrisons, and the rest would need to be occupied by Champong.

And the Champa had to promise not to kill the people of Annam after occupying these places. At the same time, in return for Annam's "benevolence and righteousness", Champa was required to give Annam 50,000 taels of silver or goods as compensation every year for the next ten years.

As a result, after a "friendly" and "harmonious" conversation, the three parties finally signed the "peace talks" on the premise of unanimity.

Note (1): This is a sample of Nguyen Hue's tribute to the Yi Dynasty, and after learning about it, Le Vy Ao immediately promised a more generous one. However, Emperor Yi was "benevolent and righteous", and decided to focus on Ruan Hui's. It can be regarded as letting Li Weiao give an explanation to the officials and people in China, so Li Weiao is naturally grateful to Zhang Rui.

(2): Zhangqi, in Annam, there is the meaning of the Tusi chieftain, which has the meaning of insulting the king of Champong.

(3): Cambodia, formerly known as the Kingdom of Chenla, the Angkor Dynasty, and the Khmer Empire. Because Siam besieged the national capital Angkor, he moved the capital to Phnom Penh, and became the Phnom Penh Dynasty. After the Ming Dynasty, it was transliterated as Cambodia, and then it was called Cambodia.

(4): In 1353, Laos established the Lancang Kingdom, also known as the Nanzhang Kingdom, which was divided into four small states of Champasak, Luang Prabang, Sichuan Khouang, and Vientiane in 1694 due to internal strife, and finally became a subject state of Siam (Thailand).

(5): That is, the later Saigon and Ho Chi Minh City are located. This place originally belonged to the uninhabited land of Zhenla Dongpu, and later a large number of Ming Dynasty remnants came here to reclaim and develop.