Chapter 221: The right time and place

The envoy looked back, and the Song flag had been hung on the city, and Hejing City was already the land of the Great Song Dynasty.

Five days later, the Thang Long direction sent the son of King Annam to Ha Tinh City.

The envoy who came with him told the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty that the siege of the Great Song Dynasty envoy had nothing to do with the king of Annan, and that he was the son of the kingdom of Annan, and he made his own decisions and made trouble from it, and wanted the Great Song Dynasty to have a grudge with Annan, and even a war, so he took the opportunity to make a rebellion and snatch the throne of Annan.

Obviously, this is an excuse, but Dai Cong acquiesced, and Yang Congyi did not refute it.

There was an explanation for Annan's matter, and it finally came to an end.

Accompanying the envoys of Annan, they arrived at Ha Jing City with six carts of gold, silver and jewelry.

There is also a letter written by the king of Annan, which says that the matter of the envoy is stopped, Annan has such a thing, the government is already unstable, at this time can not receive the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty, if the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty return from Nanyang, they can still pass through Ha Jing, he will definitely come to the city of Ha Jing in person, to welcome the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty to go to Thang Long. The letter also said that Annan would soon send envoys to Lin'an to congratulate and make amends.

Seeing this, Dai Cong had no choice but to stop there.

It's been delayed for more than a month. The northerly wind has weakened, and it is almost difficult to move forward smoothly.

After all, now that Hejing City is under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, if you don't care about it, you can't say it, but if you really send people to stay, the envoys and the Xuanwei army will not be able to send people.

Although there are many Annan people who have now taken refuge in the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that it will be difficult to send them to guard here. As a last resort, the two discussed it and had to give up.

And the people of Annan stayed in Hejing City, and Yang Congyi and Dai were not very relieved. But if you give it to the Annan people, you will be a little unwilling.

Immediately, Li Quan, the assassin of the assassin history, was appointed to stay in Jingzhou of the Great Song Dynasty, and was in charge of a twenty-mile radius of Hejing City, and all of his subordinate officials were under the management of the Great Song Dynasty.

If anyone dares to invade, they can send someone to cross the sea to Qiongzhou or Guangzhou to report to the Song court.

After some arrangement, the envoys immediately decided to leave Ha Jing City and head south. As for whether it is by boat or land, it is not very convenient to arrange.

Yang Congyi insisted on taking away the more than 2,000 Annan troops that had been subdued before. If this kind of thing happens to Annan, whether the Nanyang countries will also have trouble, he is not clear, and bringing more people may also help.

Whether to leave Hejing City by land or water, Yang Congyi and Master Dai also disagreed. There were only five ships, but there were more than three thousand people.

In desperation, the soldiers were divided into two ways again. Three sea ships, two warships, led by Lord Dai. From the sea south, go south to Champa. Yang Congyi led more than 2,000 Xuanwei troops to occupy the city by land.

From Ha Jing to the south, it went south to Zhancheng, passing through three small cities of Annam. Yang Congyi didn't know the geometry of the defense of these small cities, but he had asked Li Quan before, there were important towns in the south, especially near Zhancheng, and there were no less than 5,000 troops deployed. I don't know if the south is clear about the things in the north and the south.

After Dai said goodbye to Yang Congyi, he immediately went south from the shore.

Yang Congyi took more than 2,000 people to the south of Hejing City, all the way to the south to occupy the city. There were no major obstacles along the way, and there were warships to escort them at any time on the way south.

Both land and sea routes travel along the coast, and every other day, the two sides exchange information with fireworks, and if there are supplies that need to be replenished, they can also stop along the coast to replenish supplies.

Yang Congyi and more than 2,000 other people had to pass through the reckless tropical rainforest on the way south, but because the small cities in the east of Annan were close to the coast, the terrain was relatively flat, and there were originally roads connecting the cities, so the southward journey was also smooth.

More than 2,000 people, after passing through several small cities, reached the last city in the south of the country of Annam, but encountered obstacles.

The sudden appearance of more than 2,000 troops from the north of Annam made the defenders feel so stressed that they could only close the city gates, stop them under the city, and prevent them from passing.

Yang Congyi then sent the Xuanwei army to negotiate with the Lingqi, and after some negotiations, the defenders of Annam finally agreed to let go, but they needed to leave some money to buy the road.

But Yang Congyi and the others traveled lightly, except for weapons and basic supplies, they had nothing else on their bodies, and they almost had another conflict.

Fortunately, the generals defending the city are not reckless, and they also know the history of Annan, and know that there is a heavenly kingdom in the north of Annan as the Great Song Dynasty, since the Great Song army can come here, it must have been tacitly approved by the Thang Long court, and then these senseless disputes will be extinguished.

Yang Congyi led 2,000 people through the city without danger.

Lord Dai led five ships and arrived at Champa in six days.

A day after the arrival of the fleet, Yang Congyi also successfully arrived at the border of the Champa State.

Although Champa is a small country, its geographical location is very superior, backed by the mainland, rich in living materials, abundant fresh water resources, and very convenient for supply, almost all ships from the south to the north have to stop here.

Since merchant ships relied on the monsoon to walk, the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty could take advantage of the north wind to move south in winter and return north when the typhoon did not rise in early summer of the second year, while the merchant ships going north in Tianzhu and Dashi had to take advantage of the southwest and west winds blowing on the ocean in summer to go eastward smoothly, and return to the west when the northeast wind prevailed in winter.

That is to say, when the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty went south, it was when the merchant ships of Tianzhu and Dashi returned to the west, and it was impossible for the two sides to meet. Ocean-going ships rely on sails, and if they miss the right monsoon, they will have to spend a year, time is money, and no one wants to delay a year when merchant ships and crews spend so much money on the road. Therefore, there is no way to achieve direct trade between the East and the West, so you can only find a middleman.

In this way, whether it is a merchant ship going south from the Great Song Dynasty, or a merchant ship going north from the Three Buddhas, Tianzhu, Dashi and other places, without exception, all have to dock and trade here. With the development of shipbuilding technology and the increase in ocean-going merchant ships, Champa also became more and more prosperous.

As a transit station and middleman for the exchange of materials between the East and the West, its status has also risen rapidly, if there is no it, the exchange of materials between the East and the West will be cut off, and because of this, after a long time, the city of Zhancheng took advantage of the advantages of the geographical advantage and began to reap the benefits.

Due to the long distance and the monsoon, merchants from the East and the West who held large quantities of goods could not meet, so they could only sell their goods to middlemen, and then buy exotic goods from the middlemen. It uses its absolute advantage to buy rare materials needed by both the east and the west at a low price, store them in the warehouse for a few months, and then sell them to the other party at a high price, so that it can make huge profits by sitting at home with little to no effort.

The richness of Champa can be imagined.

Champa is rich, and the surrounding countries will naturally be red when they see it, so Annan has sent troops south to attack many times, but because the road is too far, it is very difficult to supply, and often before the army arrives in Zhancheng, most of the soldiers flee, and then they can only give up.

Annan gave up, but other surrounding countries did not think of giving up, such as Zhenla, a large country west of the city, this country has a vast territory and strong military power, and it naturally wants to eat the fat meat of the city, so it will send troops to attack every few years.

But Champa is not a vegetarian, although the country is small, the population is quite large, and the military is also strong, and it is used to being a second-class dealer, with a flexible mind, no matter how powerful the other party is, it is not afraid, and there is a simpler way, that is, to pay money to win over the surrounding small affiliated countries.

Those small countries are attached to Zhenla today for the benefit of Zhenla, and tomorrow they can be attached to Zhancheng, and Zhancheng will give benefits, as long as Zhenla sends troops to attack Zhancheng, many of the more than a dozen small affiliated countries around Zhenla will rebel, and Zhenla's backyard will catch fire, and the front attack on Zhancheng will be weak, and there will be more defeats and fewer victories.

After a few times like this, Zhenla was also tossed and choked enough, and he didn't catch anything, and he also hurt his vitality, and Champa was still a second-way dealer between Eastern and Western merchants, making a lot of money, and from time to time leaking jewelry gifts from between his fingernails to send them to the surrounding remote small countries, buying them for his own use.

Although Zhenla tossed many times and failed to eat the city, but there is no doubt that Zhenla still took some advantage, at least it robbed some of the mountains and forests that originally belonged to the city, and the land of the city is getting smaller and smaller, and the people of Zhenla believe that one day the city will be eaten by the city, and all the things left will be eaten.

However, Champa doesn't seem to care, in the eyes of the Champa people, what was robbed by Zhenla is some remote and barren land, the really prosperous port and land have always been in their hands, and the money and wealth are still flowing in as before, as long as the wealth is continuous, the barren and uninhabited mountains and fields Zhenla loves to rob or not, they don't care.

The money that occupies the city comes too easily, and they are afraid of being robbed, but they are not afraid of being robbed of land, but they are afraid of being robbed of the port and cutting off their financial resources.

When Dai Cong led five ships to the city, the other party saw that they had their own armed forces and were not allowed to enter the port and dock at all.

Five ships anchored outside the harbor and negotiated with the Cham people for a day, until one of the ships sailed into the harbor and sold all the goods it was carrying at a low price to the Champa merchants, and the other ships were allowed to enter the port.

After entering the port, the Cham people warned that none of the accompanying troops on the warship were allowed to disembark, and even though Dai Cong revealed his status as an envoy of the Great Song Dynasty and asked the accompanying forbidden troops to land for protection, he was still not allowed. The Cham people have repeatedly stressed that all foreign armed forces are forbidden to enter the city, and not a single person is allowed to enter, and the Champa Council is responsible for the safety of the envoys.

After the incident of Annan, although Dai Cong was a little worried, he had no choice but to give up when he was under the roof, and only brought a few envoys ashore into the city, and went to rest with the arrangement of the occupants of the city.

The king of Champa rarely sent envoys north to pay tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, so it can be said that the Great Song Dynasty and the Champa had little friendship.

Although it was still the territory of the Central Plains during the Qin and Han dynasties hundreds of years ago, since the independence of the Eastern Han Dynasty at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it has refused to accept the Central Plains Dynasty and repeatedly went north to attack Annam, opposing the Central Plains Dynasty.