At the end of August of the first year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, Annan Kingdom, Thang Long Mansion.

The city of Annam, the first good city, has seen an atmosphere of prosperity and stability that has not been seen for more than 100 years since the decline of the Later Li Dynasty. The streets of Thang Long are bustling with people of Annam, wrapped in headscarves, wearing bamboo hats, and wearing long robes, surging shoulder to shoulder in the streets. Most of the women among them are petite and feminine, walking on the street, graceful and graceful, which is also a beautiful landscape.

There are often horse teams passing by on the street, and on the back of the short and stocky Hequ horses, they are tall and strong, fair-skinned Shaanxi athletes, dressed in slatted iron armor made in Foshan, Guangdong, majestic and majestic, which really attracts the admiration of many Annan girls.

These are all warriors of the Great Ming Dynasty, and it was their arrival that ended the troubled era of Annam for more than a hundred years.

From the king of Annan to the king of Li Weiqi and down to the ordinary peasant woodcutters, there is no one who is not grateful to this disciplined king's division.

Even Lord Ruan, Lord Bao and Lord Mo of the four lords of Annam are now grateful to the Son of Hong Xing and the Prince of Ninan of the Great Ming Dynasty.

Because the Daming King Master who came this time is really not a conqueror! People were passing by, and they did good deeds by the way, ended the endless troubled times, and fairly distributed the land of Annam to one king and four lords.

And after doing a good job, the army of the Great Tomorrow King of the South did not rely on Thang Long and did not leave. Now, except for the 2,000 cavalry who stayed in Thang Long at the invitation of Annam's king Le Wei Kei (the same ones who often patrolled the streets), the rest of the Ming army was stationed in Xin'an.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty will not annex Xin'an Province. Tan An Province has been assigned to the Quang Nam Hou Mansion (Nguyen Lord) and has become an enclave of the Quang Nam Hou in the north of Annam.

With this land, Lord Ruan will be able to defend King Li of Annam together with Lord Zheng, Lord Mo, and Lord Bao, and become a loyal minister of Annam!

Now Annan has become a loyal vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and the four lords of Zheng, Ruan, Mo, and Wu have become the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty and the King of Annan Li.

All of them are loyal and courageous!

If the Ming Dynasty is now in power Emperor Hongwu, Emperor Yongle or Emperor Jiajing, good people and good deeds will be almost the same. If you continue to do it, you will do it badly - Zhu Cizhao, the king of Ninan, actually does not have the strength to "conquer Annan", he just picked up a leak, and the element of luck accounts for eighty or ninety percent.

And the subsequent disposition of him and the Ming court also conformed to the general trend of the people of Annan.

It has been more than 100 years since the turbulent times in Annam, and the general pattern of South Nguyen and North Zheng has been set. In the original history, the southern Nguyen and the northern Zheng were also about to be deflated, and in the generation of Zheng Jie's precious sons Zheng Zheng and Ruan Phuc Wei, they were able to achieve lasting peace under the mediation of the Qing Dynasty, until the southern Ruan and Northern Zheng who were corrupted in a hundred years of peace were beaten by the Xishan peasant uprising......

Now the Ming Dynasty has mediated the dispute between Zheng Ruan twenty years earlier, and has also helped Lord Mo, Lord Bao and King Li - this matter is also crooked, and it conforms to the hearts of the people in the north and south of Annan.

The population of Annam is more in the north and less in the south, but the military power is weak in the north and strong in the south - there are many ports in the south, and there are many exchanges with the Dutch and the Portuguese, and there are a lot of foreign guns, foreign artillery, and foreign generals, so for a period of time, the main line of domestic political struggle in Annam was the south and the north.

Zheng and Nguyen were actually southerners of Annam, and belonged to the Southern Dynasty in the previous dispute between the Northern and Southern Dynasties (Northern Mo Nam Li). Therefore, these two "lords" use the southerners of Annan and crowd out the northerners of Annan.

Mo and Wu are both northerners of Annan, although their strength is small, but with the support of the northerners, they can also confront the powerful Zheng lord.

And Zhu Cizhao supported the two masters of Mo and Wu, and supported King Li, and also fought crookedly, following the wishes of the people of Anbei and Nanbei.

So now is the time for the Ming foreign forces to gradually withdraw from Annam - maybe you can leave three or two thousand people in Thang Long to protect King Li, but the army must withdraw.

If you don't retreat, you will conquer Annam......

In Emperor Zhu's plan, Annam was a vassal state, not a feudal town, and would not become a province.

However, he will not leave Annan aside and let them play on their own, Annan is still of great use.

Located in Southeast Asia, Annam can become an important, even indispensable, outsourcer for the Ming Dynasty's aggressive expansion business!

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Thang Long Province, Loi Palace.

This palace was left by Li Li, the founder of the Li Dynasty, and covers a large area, but the buildings are generally short, so there is not much grandeur of the palace. And because King Li has lost power for more than a hundred years, he is unable to repair the palace, and today, it is naturally dilapidated.

However, as the four lords of Annam sincerely repented and became loyal ministers, this dilapidated and shabby royal palace once again became the center of power in the Kingdom of Annam.

In the main hall of the palace, Li Weiqi sits on top of it, and six chairs are placed on both sides, and the four loyal ministers such as Zheng Jie, Wu Gongyi, Mo Jingyu, and Ruan Phuc Wei each have a chair. Zhu Cizhao, the king of Nanjun in the Ming Dynasty, and Chen Zizhuang, the angel who came to canonize one king and four marquis on behalf of the Ming court, also have their own chairs.

In addition, Shi Daxuan, the deputy envoy of the Ming Dynasty's Jinou Yingtian, was also in the hall, he had no chair to sit on, only a sitting pier, and he was also sitting in a big way, and there was a wooden basin next to him - the wooden basin had nothing to do with him, it was used to catch the rain, and now it was raining outside, and it was raining lightly in the Qinzheng Hall of King Li...... What a poverty!

But the opportunity for the Annan people to make money has come!

"The holy decree of the Son of Heaven, the king and the four princes have also seen it, this ...... who is disloyal and unfilial to the city and must be crusaded" Chen Zizhuang, who was speaking, was one of the three loyal ministers of Lingnan in history!

At the time of the fall of Beijing, he was idle in his hometown in Guangdong, and only reported north after Zhu Cihong escorted Chongzhen to Nanjing—a month before the fall of Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen gave him an assistant official in charge of Zhan Shifu's affairs, and before he could take office, Beijing was returned to Li Zicheng.

And after he arrived in Nanjing, Zhan Shifu had been merged with the Generalissimo's Mansion of the Fu Army, so he did not become an assistant, but was sent back to Guangzhou by Zhu Cihong as a prefect.

His prefect did not do a bad job, although he did not receive much customs duties and commercial taxes, but he mobilized many Foshan blacksmiths to go north to start a business.

After Zhu Cihong ascended the throne, he made him the political envoy of Guangdong. When Zhu Cizhao entered Annan, he happened to report on his work in Nanjing.

Therefore, Emperor Zhu sent him to take a trip to Annan (in fact, it was not too smooth) to send a decree to the four princes of Annan.

And Shi Daxuan returned to Nanjing to report on his work after completing the task of occupying the firewood stick, and went south with Chen Zizhuang, who also carried the king's order - there were some things that Chen Zizhuang was inconvenient to say, so he said it by him, a real man who was half a businessman and half a pirate.

"The emperor's decree has all said," Shi Daxuan grinned, "As long as the king of Rinan occupies the land, the population, and the wealth of the city, all of them will be given to the four marquis of Annan...... Distribute according to the number and strength of the four troops! Guangnan Hou, aren't you less crowded there? With more troops this time, we will be able to divide a little more of the population of the city.

And this time the business has just opened, and there will be a chance to make a fortune in the future! Isn't there still a southern palm in the west, and there is also a water zhenla? To the east there are the islands of Luzon and Borneo...... If you have your own people calling back and forth, you might as well follow the Great Tomorrow Dynasty to make a fortune together! Isn't it? ”

Chen Zizhuang listened to Shi Daxuan's words, and couldn't help frowning.

Champa, Suchenla, Luzon, Borneo...... It seems that they are all non-conscripted countries, right? Didn't Emperor Hongxing know? Why are they lined up one by one to go to the expedition?

And it is also necessary to pull up the country of Annan...... Also make a fortune together! Is this really what Emperor Hongxing said? Chen Zizhuang glanced at Shi Daxuan, the pirate, and said in his heart: You won't be falsely preaching the holy decree, right?

"That's right! The Great Emperor is here to bring us Annam people! Li Weiqi nodded vigorously, he has to work hard to hug his thighs now!

"The four princes (the four marquis are the marquis of the Ming Dynasty, and the king of Li has to call them a prince), why don't you send 20,000 troops together, drive the king forward, and destroy the city of Zhancheng!"

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