It is said that the Donghu Dynasty has become so strong, why don't they take advantage of the situation to unify the Southeast Peninsula? Of course they also want to, but fighting a war costs money, they have fought with the Ming Dynasty for so many years, and have expanded everywhere for so many years, and the national strength has gradually been unable to support such a high-intensity war, so after the current Donghu King Ta Long succeeded to the throne, he basically gave up the war of foreign expansion and turned to develop the economy with all his might.

Now the Donghu Dynasty is recuperating, except for the continuation of the crusade against the remnants of the Siamese Kingdom in the south, all other directions have died down, perhaps, when they have accumulated enough money and food, they will set off a new round of expansion.

As mentioned above, in the southeast peninsula, in addition to Siam, there are also Champang, Chenla, and Annam are also vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, so what is the current situation of these vassal states, because these vassal states are relatively far away from Menggong Province, so the information detected by Jinyiwei is relatively lagging behind.

After the investigation of the situation in Donghu, information on Champong, Chenla, and Annam also came back one after another, but the situation was also not optimistic.

As early as the 22nd year of Wanli (1594 AD), the Zhenla Kingdom was destroyed by the Siam State, and now the territory of the Zhenla Kingdom has been occupied by the Donghu Dynasty, that is to say, the Zhenla Kingdom no longer exists.

The Champa state can still be stronger, but now they are also beaten by the Nguyen clan of Annam and cowered in the southeast corner of the southeast peninsula, surviving for a long time, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before they are conquered by the Nguyen clan of Annam.

As for the current Annan Kingdom, it can only be described in a garbled word, because their emperor has been controlled by his ministers, and the whole country has been divided into two parts, the north and the south, and the two sides are fighting each other and fighting happily.

What's going on, why did Annan suddenly start infighting? This has to start from the Yongle period of Chengzu.

As mentioned above, the monarch of the Chen Dynasty in Annam during the Yongle period of Chengzu was usurped by his relative Hu Jichen, and the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Hu regime at the request of the remnants of the Chen Dynasty, and set up the Jiaolu Cheng to announce the political envoy to manage all parts of Annam, but a few years after the death of Chengzu, Annam began to rebel, the leader of the rebellion was called Li Li, and he established the Later Li Dynasty after the Ming army ran away, but the Later Li Dynasty did not last long.

A series of successors to the throne after Li Li were mediocre and tyrannical, and the entire Later Li Dynasty was therefore in a state of civil war, and in the sixth year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1527 AD), Mo Dengyong, the Taifu of the Later Li Dynasty, even directly usurped the throne and turned the Later Li Dynasty into the Mo Dynasty.

Later, Zhuangzong Le Wei Ninh of the Later Li Dynasty successfully restored with the support of the Zheng and Ruan families, and occupied the southern part of Annam, confronting the Mo Dynasty that occupied the northern part of Annam, and Annam began to enter a period of decades of north-south division.

If you want to say that the life of the emperor of the Li Dynasty after this period of north-south division is quite good, why do you say that, because although the Li Dynasty only occupied half of Annam after this period of time, he was still an emperor, and the monarchs and ministers of the Zheng and Ruan families worked together to deal with the Mo Dynasty, and his life was also fulfilling. In the twentieth year of Wanli (1592 AD), after the monarchs and ministers worked together to destroy the Mo Dynasty, the tragic days of the Emperor of the Later Li Dynasty began.

Because at this time, the Zheng family had already controlled the military and political power of the entire Later Li Dynasty, and the emperor of the Later Li Dynasty had become dispensable in their eyes, so the emperor of the Later Li Dynasty directly became a puppet in the hands of the Zheng family, and the Ruan family simply monopolized the south of Annam, and confronted the Zheng family, and Annam fell back into the north-south division!

It stands to reason that the Zheng clan should have an absolute advantage at this time, because almost all the armies of the Later Li Dynasty are controlled by them, but the Ruan clan is equivalent to starting from scratch, how can it be possible to do it over the Zheng clan! But at this time, a Portuguese caravan came to the territory of the Nguyen clan, and it was even more coincidental that there were original Portuguese cannon engineers in this caravan.

Portugal's cannon casting technology should be okay, otherwise they can't divide the world equally with a small country and Spain, like the predecessor of the Ming ship-borne howitzer is the Franc cannon invented by the Portuguese, although the Franc cannon is not worth a lot of range or power in front of the Ming howitzer and the Dutch cannon, but for a backward feudal country like Annam, the power is still quite amazing.

At this time, Portugal has been annexed by Spain, and many Portuguese people are wandering around the world like ownerless souls, so it is naturally impossible for them to cast cannons for Spain, and Annam Nguyen is not bad to them, so they began to teach Annam Nguyen to cast Western bronze cannons.

As soon as this Western bronze cannon came out, it was really extraordinary, and the Ruan family, who was originally at an absolute disadvantage, actually beat the Zheng family without the power to fight back!

After being bombarded by Western bronze shells a few times, the Trung clan seemed to have their brains blown up, and they also began to seek help from the European powers, and it was at this time that the Dutch came to the South Seas, so the two sides hit it off and began to deal with the Nguyen and the Portuguese together.

The other party also had artillery, and it was a more powerful cannon, Nguyen naturally couldn't bear it, and began to retreat, but fortunately, at this time, the Portuguese shot again, and if they couldn't beat it, they would defend it, and the Dutch helped Nguyen build a few fortifications similar to a fortress at the junction of the north and south!

Now the Zheng clan was miserable again, and nearly 100,000 people were piled up successively, but they couldn't break through these defense lines, so they had to ask the Dutch to help, and the Dutch didn't know what benefits they had, so they really sent a fleet to help the Zheng clan attack these defense lines.

However, the range of this artillery was limited after all, and the Dutch did not go ashore, and the support provided was limited after all, so Zheng only broke through a defensive line and could not continue.

The news of Annan spread to the capital one after another, Zhu Cijiong was taken aback this time, he was not frightened by the chaos of Annan, the Annan people were already aggressive, which was famous in later generations, it was not strange that they fought back and forth, the key problem was their weapons.

Nima, this Annan can even build artillery, this is really a big trouble!

What's even more troublesome is that the Dutch actually got involved, he originally wanted to pacify the South Seas before the European powers intervened, but he didn't expect the Dutch to intervene a long time ago!

Zhu Cijiong originally thought that with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, he could easily take Nanyang, but he didn't dare to think so now, a Donghu Dynasty was enough for him to drink a pot, plus this can even build artillery, and Annan, which is supported by the Dutch, this Nanyang is even more troublesome than Beijiang.

His original idea was to transport troops from the sea, directly find a suitable place to land, and then rely on advanced weapons to crush all the way over, now it seems that it can't be done, just a Donghu is not a little bit of troops can be cleaned up, and now with an Annan, at least five or six hundred thousand troops have to be dispatched, with the current transportation capacity of the Ming Navy, let alone transporting troops, when the grain and grass can't be transported, it seems that it is still necessary to think in the long run.