Zheng Ke was helpless and had to put forward the last condition.

The rental area proposed by the Ming army is too large, especially Haiyang, as the east gate of Tokyo, is on the side of the Tokyo couch, if the Ming army is stationed, then the prestige of the Annam court will be swept away, and it is very easy to provoke civil revolt in the future.

This is Zheng Ke's bottom line, and he never dares to agree.

Lin Xiao didn't want to have such a large territory, this was a bargaining chip deliberately left for the other party to bargain. If it were really at the opening price, the base area would have to be more than 2,000 square kilometers, and there were too many Annam natives there, and his management pressure would be too great.

Before the re-emergence of the Ming Dynasty, it was indeed difficult to convince the people of the vassal states to naturalize and be willing to be the real Ming people.

So Lin Xiao pushed the boat down the river, and reluctantly agreed to give in with a bitter face.

The two sides agreed to take the Poshi River as the boundary, the east side to be under the control of the Ming army, and the west side to be under the control of the Vietnamese army, and to take the middle zone between Haiphong and Hai Duong as a buffer zone for the two sides, and neither side was allowed to garrison troops.

Lin Xiao knew that even so, they still had a narrow coastal control area of nearly 1,000 square kilometers, no matter how the situation developed in the future, it would be enough to turn around, and if they really wanted to deal with the Annan army, they didn't need any defensive depth at all.

In the final analysis, his short-term goal was only money and food for Annam, and a prosperous and stable commercial port and military port were the foundation for the future.

The two sides agreed that Zheng Ke would return to the city to resume his life.

Lin Xiao ordered someone to take out a wooden box with a simple appearance and exquisite workmanship.

"Everything has General Lao Zheng, this is a little caution, and I hope General Zheng will not dislike it."

Zheng Ke took the wooden box, and it was inconvenient to open it in front of him to inspect it, but he felt that it was not very heavy, and he thought that it was not gold and silver, so he accepted it with a few polite words.

It wasn't until he got on the ox cart back to the city that Zheng Ke opened the wooden box, only to see that in the middle of the blue velvet cotton lining inside the wooden box, there was an extremely delicate brand new handcuff, and its barrel was roasted blue and glowed slightly.

Zheng Ke picked up the handcuff, felt very handy in his hand, looked at its shape and structure, but it was not an ordinary arquebus, it was estimated to be the same Western goods as Lin Xiao's own firecracker, Zheng Ke was happy at the moment, and naturally had a little more good impression of Lin Xiao.

This gift is indeed a modern pistol, a Beretta M92 pistol, a world-famous gun equipped by the three armed forces of the US military in later generations.

When Lin Xiao was visiting the market in Haiphong, he saw that there were vendors selling wooden boxes of various sizes, and Lin Xiao saw that they were finely made and the materials were of high quality, so he liked them, so he asked Gong Zhenhao to buy some of them, preparing to return to China in the future as a gift packaging.

Seeing that Zheng Ke was also a tough guy, Lin Xiao had a good impression and decided to give him a pistol to play with.

However, Lin Xiao also had an extra mind, although he knew that they couldn't imitate it at all, he only gave him a magazine, which was filled with 15 bullets, and did not give him another bullet, nor did he teach him how to shoot, let him figure it out for himself.

Gifts are for treasure, not for killing!

……

Of course, Zheng Nahu was very angry at Lin Xiao's lion opening, and the food was not enough, there were millions of stones in the capital alone, but the key ten million taels of silver made him have a very toothache.

Annan is a typical agricultural country, commerce is not very developed, the country's annual gold and silver mining capacity is only tens of tons, the annual output of silver is only a million taels; Although the population of the Northern Dynasties alone was more than 7 million, most of the taxes collected from the peasants each year were offset in kind, and the actual taxes collected and paid were only 2 or 3 million taels of silver per year.

Now that Lin Xiao has looted the taxes of the Northern Dynasty of Annan for nearly three years as soon as he opened his mouth, the operation of the Annan regime in the next few years will be extremely difficult.

And let the unpleasant be the king?

"This, how is this different from destroying the country?" Zheng Nahu said hatefully.

But if you can't beat it, what can you do?

After thinking about it, he still couldn't resist the temptation of the last two promises put forward by the Ming army, so Zheng Nahu had to grit his teeth and agree.

In the past, due to the need to compete for orthodoxy with the Southern Dynasty, he had to maintain the name of the Later Li Dynasty on the surface. Now, if the Ming army can really help pacify the Ruan family in the Southern Dynasty, then not only can the taxes of more than 4 million people be increased to make up for the financial deficit, but the key is that the last fig leaf of the Later Li Dynasty does not need to exist, and he Zheng can finally ascend to the throne in his later years, and it is hereditary......

In Zheng Nahu's complicated mood of toothache and itching, the two sides finally reached a formal agreement.

……

Without further ado.

In the blink of an eye, another ten days passed, and the country of Annan quickly changed its ways, Zheng Nahu successfully ascended the throne, abolished Li Weizhen, and proclaimed himself the king of Annan.

The first batch of grain ships and other materials to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty have basically been transferred from various places, and some grain ships have already begun to send them to Haiphong.

Lin Xiao decided to go back to Haiphong.

He was not interested in the palace fighting in Annan, but at the request of Zheng Nahu, Xiao Kaifeng and Zhu Yujia led the main forces of the three companies to stay in the camp temporarily, on the one hand, to help Zheng Nahu deter the widows of the Later Li Dynasty; On the other hand, supervise the follow-up transportation of food and materials.

A few days later, Lin Xiao and the "unicorn" they were riding led a fleet of supplies to Haiphong Port. Li Tao and Gong Zhenhao summoned tens of thousands of local Ming people to welcome them.

The news that Haiphong has become a place of refuge for Daming refugees has long been spread, and the Daming refugees who are scattered in various parts of Annam have rushed to hear the news, and the number of people has increased and increased, and now it has reached 780,000 people.

In Lin Xiao's plan, after returning to China in the future to open up the situation, the maritime trade route between Annam and Daming and even Temasek must be restored as soon as possible.

He knew that the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty must be so poor that the rebels must raise their own food to support the army and the people.

Moreover, his goal is not only to defeat the Qing army and recover the Central Plains, he also wants to expand the territory and restore the glory of China. These rations were far from sufficient for his vast plans at present, and he had to fight through commerce.

As the largest seaport in northern Annam and the most important distribution center for commodities and materials, Haiphong is expected to become a very prosperous city that needs a large number of migrant workers.

Of course, the resettlement of so many refugees is now imminent.

After settling down for a while, Lin Xiao hurriedly went out with Li Tao, Gong Zhenhao and others to inspect the construction of the new city on the street.

In the past month, the streets of Xincheng have begun to take shape thanks to the efforts of 3,000 captives.

Except for the stone pavement of the main street, which has not yet been paved, the shops and residences on both sides of the street have been basically completed, and they are all blue brick houses with backyards, and many of them are even two-story buildings.

These shops, Lin Xiao is going to rent them to powerful merchants from all over the world who come to do business in the future, charging a little rent is a trivial matter, providing convenience for merchants, that is, it is convenient for himself, the more prosperous the business, the more sufficient taxes he can collect.

The original stone wharf has been expanded, and more than a dozen large granaries have been built on the open space next to the yard in front of the wharf to store the grain and materials that the Annan court has continuously paid tribute to.