Chen Shangjiu and several other Chinese business leaders were frightened by Lin Yueshan's remarks for a while, and the people who could stand in front of Lin Yueshan at this time were naturally full of IQ, and they could naturally hear the viciousness and incomprehension in these words. Therefore, it took a long time for someone to cautiously compliment: "It's really unbelievable for adults to use schemes, I'm afraid that Zhuge Kongming's resurrection is just like this, how can a little overseas barbarian escape the palm of an adult, I think the future of an adult must be in the north, not in a small place in Vietnam." In the future, we will need a lot of care from adults..."

Just when everyone in the room was patting Lin Yueshan on the back, he glanced back at everyone and said, "You don't have to compliment me, this is not my remark, but I wrote it down when I listened to a certain noble person in the capital comment on the role of the prime minister's yamen." But the longer I've been overseas, the more I've thought it's a wise saying. ”

Hearing Lin Yueshan's explanation, even Chen Shangjiu was curious about the name of this nobleman, but Lin Yueshan was no longer willing to mention this person, so he changed the topic elsewhere, although they were curious, they didn't dare to continue to ask. When the prisoner car was about to arrive downstairs, Lin Yueshan suddenly ordered Chen Shangjiu: "You go down with wine and go to Kuan Fuping for three glasses to thank him for not looting and killing my Ming Shang when he captured Shanxi that day." Although I can't tolerate him, I can't be rude. ”

Ruan Fuping, who had a withered face, didn't expect that there would be someone in this Thang Long Mansion who would openly stand up and block the road to toast him, he had not eaten water for nearly a whole day, even if it was poisonous wine in front of him at this moment, he would drink it all in one gulp, not to mention that the other party gave him the best wine.

Before the officers and soldiers in charge came to stop him, he drank the wine that Chen Shangjiu brought to his mouth without hesitation, and devoured several mouthfuls of roast chicken. It was only then that he recognized that it was the Ming merchant with whom he had negotiated with him. He stared at the other party while eating and drinking, thinking about what the other party wanted to do, but after the other party finished feeding him the wine and food, he bowed to him, and then silently stepped aside.

Ruan Phu Ping was greatly surprised by the other party's behavior, and he was about to ask the other party's intentions, but found that his limbs and tongue were numb, and he couldn't make any sound. At this time, the Vietnamese officers and soldiers escorting the prisoner car dared to step forward and re-direct the prisoner car on the road, and although the people on the street were very surprised to see this scene, no one explained the bad words of the people, but felt that the other party was very humane.

After the prisoner car was far away, Lin Yueshan dismissed the others and took Chen Shangjiu back to the embassy in his own carriage. In the carriage, looking at Chen Shangjiu's puzzled expression, Lin Yueshan said calmly: "Don't think about it, the wine and roast chicken are mixed with anesthetics." ”

Chen Shangjiu's eyes widened suddenly, and he replied, "Huh? But why? ”

Lin Yueshan turned his head to look out the window, and said: "This person is a good man, even if he knows that he will be tortured by Ling Chi later, he still has a calm face, so feeding him some anesthetic medicine is to make him less painful."

Also, I'm worried that if he shouts something during the execution, it might cause us a lot of trouble. Since those Vietnamese have not been able to deal with their tricks, we will naturally gamble on this loophole for them.

It's rotting in the stomach. Now let's talk about it, after the Zheng family quelled the civil unrest, was there any change? ”

Chen Shang was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses and forced himself to concentrate and said: "As expected by the adults, after the Ruan brothers were destroyed, the Zheng family began to delay the agreement signed before, and was not willing to hand over the management power of Yongxian to us, and refused to allow us to start setting up a headquarters for the construction of the railway from Thang Long Fu to Nanning. ”

Lin Yueshan smiled and said, "Does Zheng Jie still think that today's Vietnam is Zheng's Vietnam?" Let them try our methods. It also lets Zheng know who has the final say in today's Vietnam.

You have to do three things, first, let Xuanguang Wu and Gaoping Mo go to the book together to protect Wu Wenzhong as Langshan Bo, and guard the land of Tongdeng and Langshan; secondly, Sha Dingzhou was ordered to forcibly occupy Shanxi, and the Shenglong Mansion was not allowed to appoint officials to accept it; Thirdly, we will contact the leaders of the rebels in Bac Ninh, and as long as they join us, we will help them to take Bac Ninh..."

Chen Shangjiu reacted immediately, Wu Wenzhong was the general of the Zheng clan to defend Gaoping in the north. Previously, the Ruan brothers rebelled, and this person actually ignored the Zheng family's order to recall him because he was worried that he would be attacked by the Mo clan and the rebel army. Now that the Ruan brothers have been wiped out, it is estimated that this person is having trouble sleeping, and now he has been protected by the Wu clan and the Mo clan in a feudal town, I am afraid that he will not dare to return to Thang Long Mansion.

Coupled with the second and third articles, the areas north and east of Thang Long Mansion are basically no longer subordinate to the Zheng family, and if the Zheng family turns against the Ming Dynasty, the Haiyang and Yongxian areas in the south will also be blocked, so Thang Long Mansion has become the forward position of the enemy on three sides. If the Southern Ruan clan comes to join in the excitement again, the Zheng clan may really die.

Just as Lin Yueshan was playing a game with the Zheng family, Zheng Zhilong, who had received the news of the victory in the battle of Thang Long in the north, finally decided to leave Hoi An and go south to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Siam and other places to inspect. Nguyen Phuc Lan, the lord of Quang Nam, personally came to Hoi An to send Zheng Zhilong out of Hong Kong, and he did not see the dissatisfaction that he had been forcibly suppressed by Zheng Zhilong's fleet before, and had to give up the plan to take advantage of the Northern Expedition.

Although Zheng Zhilong admitted that the lord of Quang Nam was indeed a figure, he still didn't pay much attention to Nguyen Phuc Lan. Because the stage that can be given to this person is too small, not to mention the Zheng clan in North Vietnam, that is, the Cham and Chin La in the south of Quang Nam, because they are protected by the Ming Dynasty, and are gradually expelling the power of the Vietnamese from the country.

The Jingjiang Palace, which sits on Jingjiang Island, and the Saigon Zhenshou Mansion, which sits on Saigon, control the entire Mekong Delta in the palm of their hands. The Ha Thanh Province opposite Jingjiang Island and the Jiading Province centered on Saigon have become the most developed areas in the delta.

The delta area, known as the Jiulongjiang Plain by the locals, is less than one-twentieth of the total land area, and with the excellent natural conditions, advanced farming techniques, agricultural tools, and guano fertilizer brought by the Ming people, the total rice output in spring and winter has exceeded 5.5 million Akashi, and the development potential of this land is obviously far greater than that of the Red River Delta.

In addition to being surprised by the abundance of this place, Zheng Zhilong also realized a problem, although the grain produced in the land of Nanyang was enough to solve the grain problem of the Ming Dynasty, but the low shipping capacity constrained the grain production capacity of this region. Just in order to transport an extra one or two million stone of grain, the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty had to adopt the method of nearby transportation, which caused such a big mess in Vietnam, but in the Malay Peninsula, Siam and other places, there was still a large amount of grain that could not be transferred back to China, and had to be used to feed pigs and cattle and other livestock to prevent the grain from rotting with nowhere to reserve.

The more the fleet sailed to the south, Zheng Zhilong realized that his vision in the past was still too narrow, and the Nanyang region had so many rich resources, how could it be satisfied with just maintaining a little trade? Whether it's gold from Borneo, tin and oil from the Malay Peninsula, or cotton, rubber, and sugar cane that are now being cultivated everywhere, these are all kinds of wealth that is hard to give up.

After this southward cruise, Zheng Zhilong finally realized that it was obviously difficult to strengthen the navy by maintaining only one or two trade routes, and only by operating nearby land around the trade routes could the navy take root overseas, so as to truly master and monopolize these profitable trade routes, and even continue to develop added value.

By this time, he finally understood what kind of foundation the former chief of the Navy and the staff officers of the Naval Staff had dreamed of building a large fleet.

The Zheng Zhilong fleet's cruising visit to various parts of the South China Sea also made the local princely states and European colonists feel a strong shock, and the double-decker gunboats of the 1,000-ton class alone in the fleet exceeded five feet. Compared with the previous Ming Nanyang Fleet, it is simply a shotgun change.

Whether it is the Dutch or the Spaniards, they have to admit at this time that if the sea power of the Ming Dynasty was purely dependent on quantity to win, then the quality of the Ming warships now exceeds the sea power of European countries in Asia. With the strength of this fleet alone, the Ming Dynasty was already enough to cross the entire Nanyang region.

The natives and European colonizers, who were originally dissatisfied with the Ming merchants' wanton inflating grain prices, chose a policy of actively moving closer to the Ming Dynasty after the Ming showed their strength. The natives who rose up to make trouble, and the natives who attacked the Ming merchants, were quickly suppressed by the local rulers, and began to cooperate with the Ming merchants to requisition local grain.

Later, according to European records, in 1640 there was a widespread famine in various parts of the South Seas due to a sudden agricultural disaster. The natives had to feed on fish, shrimp, melons and fruits, sweet potatoes, cassava and some insects from abroad, and many tribes on the island suffered countless deaths and injuries due to lack of food. However, there is no record of this in the history books of the Ming Dynasty and the local princely states, only some overseas Ming people recorded diaries, which have extremely vague accounts of the epidemic in Nanyang this year.

Of course, some historians in Southeast Asia later claimed that there was no plague in Nanyang in 1640, and that it was purely because the Ming Dynasty plundered too much grain from all over Nanyang, which led to widespread famine in Nanyang. For this reason, he also took out some official documents of the Ming government as evidence, most of which recorded the number of grain ships coming from Nanyang on a certain day in a certain year, and the number of living people transported to a certain place.

The statements of these historians were soon ridiculed by the elites of their own countries as conscientious inventors of history and criticized by public opinion as grandstanding clowns. There are even those who have been warned by their own governments that they are trying to undermine the great friendship that their country has forged with China in blood over the long history. As a result, such historical discoveries soon became the history of barnyard officials, but in 1640, when a great plague occurred in Nanyang, the Ming Dynasty sent a large number of medical personnel to treat it, which has become a historical truth recognized by mainstream historians.

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