Outside the west gate of Thang Long, the team looked at the city that had just changed its owner with some nervousness and a little excitement.

"Your Majesty, it is said that the Nanzhong Army launched an attack on Thang Long City and broke through the city within a day, capturing all the members of the Zheng clan's traitor clan."

As the envoy of the Mo family and the Nanzhong Army, Mo Deling naturally has the obligation to introduce to his emperor, Mo Jinggong, the eighth emperor of the Mo family, the commander of the Ming Dynasty.

Mo Jinggong, who was a little emaciated, looked up at the Great Bright Sun and Moon Banner on the head of the city, the huge Li Zixu Banner, and the soldiers who were patrolling back and forth at the head of the city with swords, guns and firearms, and nodded thoughtfully, "Shenglong, we are back again." I don't know if I'll be here this time! ”

The Mo family has fought with the Li family and the Zheng family for decades, and it is this Shenglong City, even Mo Jinggong himself is also in and out, and the people in the city have long been accustomed to changing the king's flag at the head of the city. If it weren't for Li Shouhan's intervention, Mo Jinggong of this era would have been captured and beheaded in 1625 during the Zheng family's crusade against Gaoping. The remnants of the Mo family's defeated generals will hold out until the Mazi period before they were wiped out by the Li court.

"Let's go into town! Let's go meet Master Lee. ”

As the commander-in-chief, Mo Jinggong instructed his subordinate courtiers to suppress the surging emotions in his heart as much as possible like the waves of the South China Sea, so as not to let these courtiers find out.

However, at the gates of the city, they were blocked.

"Bastard! This is the car of Lord Mo Jinggong, the commander of the Ming Dynasty and Annan, you dare not let you enter the city? Delayed the military affairs with your general, can you afford it?! ”

Mo Deling, who opened the road in front of his head, did not dare to say that this was the car of His Majesty the Emperor of my family, so he could only take out the signboard of the commander of the Ming Dynasty and Annan to bluff people, trying to bluff the sentry officer guarding the door in front of him.

The sentry officer didn't bother to talk to this group of people, but just blew the copper whistle around his neck "toot", and at the same time waved the red and green command flag in his hand, and suddenly, the two groups of soldiers who were still resting on the side rushed up like wolves, stood in line, held swords and guns, and entered a state of combat readiness. The two guns in the gun emplacements on the side, the gunners also lit the fire folds in their hands, ready to fire at any time.

"I'll say it again, you can go in if you have the lord's order, and without the lord's order, don't say that you are the commander of the capital, even the emperor in Beijing is here, and you have to wait at the door!"

That is, Mo Jinggong is mentally prepared in his heart, this time he came, he must be humiliated by the Nanzhong Army, but due to the gap in strength between the two sides, he can only swallow his anger and make a gesture of admitting the low and subordinating, and see what kind of benefits he can get from the Nanzhong Army.

But I don't want to be treated like this at the city gate! You can't even get through the gates!

The generals who guarded the guards next to him had already clamored and did a good job. Those who are effective in imitating Fan Xu will break through, and those who are arrogant will turn their horses' heads back, and there are also those who are scolding the street in the language of unknown tribes.

"陛xià! 陛xià! Mo Deling reminded in a low voice in Mo Jinggong's ear, "For the sake of the dozens of cities east of Thanh Hoa and west of Thang Long, and more than a million people, endure the humiliation for a while!" When the people of the land are in hand, the ministers will assist His Majesty to taste courage and make great efforts, and they will be able to snow today's humiliation! ”

"In Aiqing's opinion, just wait here?"

Mo Jinggong's voice was still as calm as water, and he couldn't hear the slightest joy, anger and sorrow.

"This ,......"

"The Lord's Army has arrived!"

At the moment when the two monarchs and ministers were hesitating outside the city gate, a fast horse galloped from inside the city. The knight on the horse held an arrow aloft in his hand and shouted loudly.

"Who's here?!"

The sentry on duty turned to the comer.

"Come on!"

The knight on the horse answered the sentinel's question while turning the horse under his crotch into small steps.

"Dismount! I've checked the waist card! ”

More than ten paces away, the rider grabbed the reins, jumped off the horse, and took out the waist card and handed it to the soldiers on the side for inspection.

After checking the waist plate, the sentinel's attitude towards the rider was different. "I don't know what advice Shangguan has here?"

"By the order of the lord!" The rider raised the big order in his hand high, "Here to pick up the envoy of Annan and wait for the group to enter the city!" ”

The sentinel carefully checked the order, and wrote a stroke in the "Diary in the Battle", year, month, day, and hour, someone with the number of the lord's official order arrow number, went to the city gate to lead the Annan Commander and his party into the city.

In Thang Long City, Shouhan sat high in the palace of the former Li clan, and next to him was Li Peilin, who was dressed in a plain Taoist robe.

"Lord, do we really want to hand over the dozens of towns west of Thang Long to Thanh Hoa to the Mo family?"

Pei Lin pointed to a huge map at his feet with his bare feet, and Shouhan held a glass of hot sugar cane wine, savoring it, he had recently liked this wine with a slight hint of sweetness.

"This area can be said to be the anointing land of Annam, although after decades of war, but once it is stable, the Mo family is here to recuperate, but for more than ten years, it is the land of fish and rice, and there is a lot of money and grain. This is a great threat to the great cause of the lord. ”

Eliminated the power of the Zheng family, on the ground of the entire Annan, there is only one force of the Mo family, and this force has long been abused by the Zheng family.

"In addition to the territory of Laos, the places west of Qinghua, Taiyuan and other places that we have fought down have been handed over to the Mo family. Seal the treasury and make a register and hand it over to the officials sent by the Mo family. However, during the period when our troops are stationed, the policy of the Ten Articles of the Japanese Frontier must be strictly enforced, especially the emancipation of slaves, and after the handover, all the population that can be taken away will be taken away. What was left for the Mo family was not an empty city, but a city with basically no labor production capacity! ”

Shouhan said as if nothing happened, and after speaking, he drank the sugarcane wine in the cup. Savor the feeling of the vague sweetness sliding through your mouth and throat.

Pei Lin's eyes lit up when he listened, he leaned down, picked up an abacus on the ground, searched for the number of people and acres in the towns marked on the map, and began to crackle and fiddle with the abacus beads.

The map was based on the results of the survey conducted by the Commercial Information Office and the number jù in the household registers and tax lists stored in the Imperial Court of the Li Dynasty, and each town was marked with the basic information of the area's specialties (mainly minerals and timber types), population, acres of land, and taxes. This provides great convenience for Shouhan and others to make statistics.

The crackling abacus sounded for a while, and Shouhan only heard Li Peilin let out a long and heavy breath. "The lord is wise! This trick is enough to make the Mo family unspeakable, and we have to thank us for buying our products with real money! ”

It doesn't stop there!

Shouhan said secretly in his heart.

He picked up a pen and drew diagonally on the northern area of Annam, including Laojie, Hekou, Gaoping, and Tongdeng on the border with Yunnan and Guangxi. Only Guang'an and Haining were left.

"Give it to them according to this area! We just need this coalfield! ”

Destroying the Zheng family, for Shouhan, the gains and losses are huge. Needless to say, a woman I like sacrificed herself in front of the fangs of a poisonous snake in order to save herself. The biggest harvest is not Thang Long City, not the entire Red River Delta.

It's the Quang Ninh coalfield!

The Quang Ninh Coalfield, located in the Guang'an and Haining areas on the northeast coast of Annam, extends more than 100 kilometers from north to south, and is one of the largest coalfields in Southeast Asia. It provides energy and raw materials for the industrial and agricultural production of Shouhan. In the records of our time, there are about 10 layers of coal seams with a thickness of about 2~8 meters in the western part of the Quang Ninh coalfield, and the coal content in the east is better, with a total thickness of about 120 meters and a thickness of 30~40 meters for individual coal seams, which is low-ash and low-sulfur high-quality anthracite. There are 15 mines with resources of more than 6.5 billion tons and proven reserves of 1.5 billion tons.

The most important thing is that this coal field can be mined in the open pit, and the open pit mining production accounts for 70%!

Li Peilin, who is in charge of government affairs, knows very well what the coalfield means to Shouhan and the Nanzhong Army, but he is still a little unwilling to transfer almost one-third of the Red River Delta to the Mo family with a stroke of the pen of Shouhan.

"It's okay!"

With a slightly drunk face, Shouhan stretched out his hand and motioned to the guards on the side to add more wine, the guards hesitated, and asked Pei Lin for instructions with his eyes, Pei Lin nodded helplessly.

"The Mo family has always been loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and there have been people who have been officials in the court for several generations, and they have also made some contributions to the Ming court. It's better to give them than to cheapen those little ones. ”

"Moreover, the Mo family is a hollow boss at the moment, except for a righteous name, there is no other male capital. Whether it is soldiers and horses, money, food or talents, they are all empty-handed. By leaving them in the north and cutting off the land connection with the interior, we can bury our heads in sorting out our internal affairs, clearing the toast, cultivating the fields, smelting steel, and increasing fiscal and tax revenues. Ten years later, you will be able to hunt the world with heroes from all sides! ”

"What does the lord mean is to let the Mo family act as a wall to block the wind?" Pei Lin touched it very appropriately.

"Not bad! This bale is a wall to keep the wind out! Shouhan couldn't help humming the famous singing phrase in his mouth. Li Peilin, who was on the side, was a little confused, and the tune hummed by the lord also had some charm, but what is this song? Kunqu opera is definitely not, what kind of drama is it?

How could Pei Lin have thought that the tune hummed by his lord was actually a Peking Opera derived from the birthday of Hongli, the grandson of the Aixin Jueluo family, who has an inexplicable relationship with the Li family in Liaodong?

Two days later, Li Shouhan, the president of the South China Army, met with Mo Jinggong, the commander of the Annam Metropolitan Government.

Forehead! It seems a little strange that Mo Jinggong, who knelt down and bowed three times under the steps, was a second-class official in the Ming Dynasty, while Li Shouhan's so-called presidential officer of the Nanzhong Army was a private position, and his own official title was just a hereditary garrison title of a thousand households!

Cause?

There is nothing else, just look at the soldiers of the Nanzhong Army standing neatly on the side, two words, strength!

Li Muhua, who has changed his outfit and is dressed as a woman, is also very pleased to see this scene, his father and grandfather have been at war with the Mo family for decades, and they have never been able to completely wipe out the Mo family.

Mo Jinggong had already learned from Mo Deling, who went to Li Peilin to inquire about the truth, that the Nanzhong army intended to send the area west of Shenglong and east of Thanh Hoa to the Mo family.

It is difficult to calm down this vast area one by one with its own strength, although there are still many forces that secretly support the Mo family, but under the suppression and suppression of the Zheng family, these forces are also dying. But what I didn't expect was that the high-level of the South Central Army actually wanted to give up these dozens of towns? What a big, thick pie from the sky!

However, what Mo Jinggong didn't expect was that what others threw on your head was not necessarily a pie, but also a shot put. Even if it's a pie, there may be poison in the pie.

But many people often only see the oily surface of the pie and don't know what is mixed in the meat filling.

Mo Jing was as his name suggested, and when he officially learned from Shouhankou that the Southern Chinese Army was about to withdraw from the area east of Thanh Hoa and west of Thang Long, nearly one-third of the Red River Plain would be under the name of the Mo family. When the general's palace of the Nanzhong Army had ordered the former enemy generals to seal the treasury, check the tax albums, and prepare to hand over to the Yamen, the commander of the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty, he respectfully bowed to the Shouhan, who was obviously arrogant and perched on the dragon chair of Emperor Li. to express his gratitude to the officers and men of the Nanzhong Army.

"Friendship is a colleague, why should you be so polite?" U Shouhan, who was sitting on the dragon chair, waited until Mo Jinggong finished kowtowing before he spoke out to stop him, and ordered someone to help Mo Dutong up and give him a seat to watch tea.

At that moment, the two sides held cordial and friendly talks in a harmonious and warm atmosphere, and held consultations on issues of common concern such as cracking down on the remnants of the Zheng clan and restoring law and order. Li Shouhan solemnly said that the Nanzhong Army will certainly act as a strong backing for the Yamen of the Commander of the Southern Metropolis and will vigorously support the exercise of the powers of the Commander of the Metropolitan Government in the area under its jurisdiction. At the same time, all kinds of materials needed by the Metropolitan Commander's Yamen were openly sold, so as to ensure that the Metropolitan Commander's Yamen could restore the production and life of this area to the fullest.

Metropolitan Commander Mo Jinggong said that in the long-term sharp, cruel and complicated struggle, the General Mansion of the South China Army has always been a good brother, good friend, and good partner of the Yamen of the Commander of the Annam Metropolitan Army, and will be a good neighbor in the future. The Yamen of the Annam Metropolitan Government will consolidate and develop all aspects of the relationship with the General Office of the Nanzhong Army in the long-term cooperation, and do my best to thank the officers and soldiers of the Nanzhong Army for their help and support to the Yamen of the Commander of the Annam Metropolitan Army for a long time!

The spoils sharing meeting between the two sides ended in this atmosphere of hello, me, big guys, and the Mo family's capital envoy Yamen got the city and territory, and Li Shouhan got the coal field he wanted, as well as about half of the Red River Plain.

In addition to the coal fields, Shouhan also had other gains.

"陛xià! The ministers went to receive the various cities, but found something strange! ”

An official of the Mo family's court reported the situation to his master.

"All the cities were handed over to our army intact, and the treasury and property were also handed over one by one, and the transfer documents were signed. However, when the minister inspected the city, he found that almost all the slaves, craftsmen, and ordinary people in the city were coerced away by the Nanzhong army! In the villages everywhere, those farmers were also swept away by the Nanzhong Army! Only the wealthy and wealthy families scattered everywhere were not harassed, but,"

"But what?!" Mo Jinggong was a little dissatisfied with this courtier, wasn't it just that the Nanzhong Army had taken away some poor sticks haha? Look at your fuss?!

"Most of those heroes are the remnants of Zheng's sworn friends! Right now, they are secretly colluding with each other and plotting against each other! ”

Such a situation came one after another in the next few days, and the Mo family did not fully count that after the retreat of the Nanzhong Army to the east, at least more than 200,000 young and middle-aged people were reduced in their own jurisdiction. From the city to the countryside, there are no people for dozens of miles, which is not an exaggeration in the literati's pen.

The first volume of Kei Qiu inherited Zuze, and it came to an end here, and the pig's feet carried forward on the basis of inheriting the ancestral foundation and becoming their own capital in troubled times. The next volume will open up a broader stage and space for the pig's feet, so stay tuned.

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