Chapter 663: The Lu State is our vassal state
After negotiating an armistice agreement with Lu Guo, Zhang Liang reported to Zhang Qiang, because Zhang Qiang managed five ministries, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Military Intelligence, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Supervision, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
As the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zhang Liang often reports to the cabinet, because Zhang Qiang generally does not specifically manage specific affairs, so as the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who is inclined to national affairs, he can only report to Prime Minister Zhou Congee, and the Ministry of Supervision also reports to Prime Minister Zhou Congee, but after they report to the Office of the Youth League of the Pro-Guard Corps.
Today's Office of the Regiment Headquarters of the Guards Regiment has merged with the original Governor's Office of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, which is responsible for coordinating the security of the palace and the members of the royal family, and is responsible for the distribution of the guards and guards of each department, and is also in charge of the memorabilia recording and reporting of the discipline battalion and the recruit battalion, contacting the garrison headquarters and the Prime Minister's Office, and important matters arriving here are still handed over to the chamber to manage, and all the major matters of the guard regiment must eventually be reported to the chamber, and the chamber will report to Zhang Qiang. Zhang Qiang handled these matters in his palace where he handled official business.
"Your Majesty, this is an agreement we have reached with Prime Minister Feng Quan of Lu State," Zhang Liang put a copy of the recital on the table in front of Zhang Qiang.
"Well, it's good, Zhang Qing, it's a good job, I've probably heard that from now on we will have a vassal state, ha——, I didn't expect Hong Chengchou to have this courage, we fought a war with him for twenty years, he should be our old opponent, an old enemy, since he can bow his head and give in to us, this is very good, before we completely solve the small countries in Southeast Asia and Sishan Prefecture, I don't want to start a war with any overseas forces, that will make us very passive, maybe we won't lose the war, but it will slow down our unification time."
Zhang Liang is also not young, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty is wise, Weichen just did what Weichen should do, and he didn't dare to bear His Majesty's praise." ”
"Hehe, you did a good job, if it weren't for you, how could they recognize becoming our vassal state? Who is Hong Chengchou? That's a person who would rather die than admit defeat, but you only let him admit his defeat in half a month, yes, although this vassal country pays a little pitiful tribute, a little money, for our huge national body, it will not have much impact, increase income, but after all, he has become our vassal state, making our rule more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, people talk about it, they all say look, even Hong Chengchou, who has fought with the Huaxia army all his life, gave up and surrendered, so the Qing Dynasty and the Dajin Kingdom are just struggling, They are not far from destruction, and we have won the hearts and minds of the people, and this is all thanks to you. ”
After saying some greetings and praises to Zhang Liang, Zhang Qiang stopped and picked up the notes to look at the specific content of the armistice agreement.
It is said that it is an armistice agreement, but it is actually a proof agreement that Lu surrendered to Huaxia, and the previous series of mouths, shouting at each other, and threatening each other, are all for this agreement, Hong Chengchou just wanted to stop, restore the strength of his Lu State, recuperate, and then try to land from a weak coastal place in Huaxia and counterattack on land, after all, the Ryukyu Kingdom is too small.
The resources here are not abundant, and they also face the harassment of the Japanese Tokugawa Ietsuna shogunate generals, although the Japanese navy is not very good, but the Japanese samurai are too hateful, from time to time suddenly jump on the land and wield a samurai sword to cut a few unprepared civilians, and sometimes there are those officers and soldiers of the city ship division who are guarding the coast, which makes Hong Chengchou very headache.
After a few months of chaos, he sorted out the entire kingdom, established his throne, rewarded hundreds of officials, and reorganized the army.
Lu now has a population of 120,000 people, distributed on several large islands in the Ryukyu Islands, the most important is the main island, there are 50,000 troops, 10,000 sailors, after several wars, this 10,000 sailors after several wars, supplemented by some sailors and Qing soldiers who fled from the land of the Ming Dynasty, Lu soldiers, and some merchant sailors of Lu merchants.
The 50,000 army had two new army town troops, and was supposed to bring six new army town troops, but in the end only two new army town troops arrived, and then they came one after another are some new army town routs, and these new army town rout troops formed a new palace guard force, Hong Chengchou did not move two complete new army town troops, one of the two new army town troops was stationed on the main island, and one was stationed on the nearby big island separately.
The total strength of the three troops reached 32,000 troops, and the others were 3,000 Mongolian cavalry, 3,000 Manchu heavy infantry, and 2,000 Han army flag troops.
Raising them, he took a fancy to the remaining reorganized Green Battalion troops, which was the third new army town unit he wanted to establish, but what he wanted was to learn from the Huaxia Army to build this army into an elite unit of the water division, and they belonged to the army.
He dispatched some elite backbones of the three new army town units to train this unit, and at the same time sent his henchmen to master this unit and organize this force into his own guards.
The Guards instead of the Praetorian Guards, this is a continuation of the habit he has been learning from the Huaxia Army, and he is definitely the most capable of fighting the Guards of the Huaxia Army.
At the beginning, this unit was equipped with the best cold weapon weapons, armor equipment, everything is the best, all of which are the best cold weapon equipment built by the Qing Army and the Huaxia Army and the Lu Army that he has accumulated in recent years.
The training method of the Huaxia Army Marine Corps is difficult for Hong Chengchou, the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, there are so many officers and soldiers of the naval division in Huaxia Country, he only needs to buy a few people, and he will soon know how to train.
This can't help but say that Hong Chengchou is powerful, thinking forward, he knows that from now on, Lu may be on the island for a long time, so naval warfare, the sailor has become the only way out for the Lu country, with the sailor as the mainstay, supplemented by land warfare, from a land country to an island country.
In this way, the shortage of materials on the island has become the biggest problem restricting the development of a country, so Hong Chengchou chose to bow to Huaxia, although it is a vassal country, but Huaxia has little binding force on him, but he has become the little brother of the family in name, and other aspects are still independent, at most pay some tribute and pay a little money.
The armistice agreement stipulated that if one side did not take the initiative to provoke the other side within three years, the two sides would be in a state of peace, and that they could trade and cooperate, cooperate with each other in the arrest of bandits at sea, and jointly deal with the hostile countries and enemies of one side.
The two sides send envoys to each other's kingdoms to communicate some information in a timely manner, resolve some misunderstandings, and the two sides do not interfere in each other's internal affairs, do not send spies to each other, and do not attack each other's merchant ships, warships, and merchant ships can enter the two countries' countries for trade after inspection.
The two sides stopped the war and became a friendly country, and the Lu State declared itself a vassal to the Huaxia State and regarded itself as a vassal country.
(End of chapter)