The battle under Thang Long City ended in a complete victory for the Zheng army. More than 30 leaders of the rebel army, including Nguyen Phu Kim, died in the battle, and although Nguyen Phu Binh fled the battlefield, less than 2,000 people returned to him.

In order to avoid the pursuit of the Zheng army, Nguyen Phu Binh had to cross the Red River and return to Shanxi. But he had been gone for less than a day before he met the rebel brothers who had fled from Shanxi, and learned a bad news from them. Not long after he left Shanxi, the combined forces composed of Xuanguang Wu, Gaoping Mo, Zheng Jun in the north and Yunnan Security Army surrounded Shanxi, and after besieging for more than ten days, they finally broke through the city the day before yesterday.

The first to attack the city was the Yunnan Tusi soldiers composed of the security army, the leading Sha Dingzhou was extremely barbaric and ferocious, after attacking the county town of Shanxi, he wantonly connived at his subordinates to rob and kill. Under the influence of this army, the other three coalition armies also lost the restraint of military discipline after entering the city, making the entire county town wail and become a hell on earth.

Only their small troops, who had not yet been dismantled, sneaked out of the city after dark, taking advantage of the night, to be regarded as escaping from the slaughterhouse. After the news spread, the soldiers brought back by Ruan Phu Binh immediately wept bitterly, the reason why they still gathered around Ruan Phu Ping after the defeat was precisely because most of them were from Shanxi, and their parents and brothers were in Shanxi, so they naturally had more centripetal force towards Ruan Phu Binh than other rebels.

However, as soon as Thang Long City was defeated and retreated, he heard the news of the slaughter of his parents and brothers, which naturally caused the emotional collapse of many soldiers, and everyone was desperate for a while, refusing to flee any longer, and asked Nguyen Phu Binh to fight to the death with the coalition army. Either live to avenge their families, or die in battle to reunite with their families, the world has nothing to remember for them.

Although the strategists around him were persuading Ruan Phu Binh to avoid the edge of the coalition army for the time being and flee to the northwest mountains to recuperate, Ruan Phu Binh said to them in frustration: "My brothers, subordinates, and fathers and villagers are all dead, so what's the point of me living alone?"

If I am asked to leave these brothers behind to endure humiliation and steal my life, what face will I have to call on the heroes of the world to fight against the Zheng family in the future? Since Providence wants me to perish here, why should I linger any longer.

Gentlemen, I need no more persuasion, I have made up my mind to wait here with my brothers for the coalition forces to fight to the death, and I will not live alone. I ordered someone to prepare some coils, and the gentlemen took them, so let's say goodbye and forget about each other..."

Seeing that Ruan Fuping had already sprouted a will to die, after everyone looked at each other, they finally gave up and continued to persuade each other. Some people took the coil and left, some people didn't take anything, and a few people expressed their willingness to die with Ruan Fuping.

Nguyen Phu Binh recuperated in the same place for 1 day, and then met the Xuan Quang town soldiers from the west direction, although the number of the two sides was not much different, but the germinated rebel army under the leadership of Nguyen Phu Binh was fierce and tenacious, but it quickly defeated the forward force of the coalition army in half an hour.

With the appearance of this Xuanguang soldier, the ranks of the coalition began to come one after another, but they were all repulsed by the rebels one by one. In the evening, the pursuers from Thang Long Province also caught up, and the disparity between the forces of the two sides began to become wide, and the strength of the coalition army was almost five times that of the rebel army.

But in the middle of the night, eleven attacks by the coalition army were crushed by the rebels, and the number of coalition troops killed and wounded by the rebels even exceeded the strength of the rebels. The combat effectiveness of Nguyen Phu Binh's remnants immediately shocked the commanders of the coalition forces, so they personally led the main force to the battlefield the next day, and the gap between the two sides once widened to 15 to 1.

However, even with such a superior number of troops, the coalition forces were unable to break into the village occupied by the rebels on this day. It was not until the afternoon of the second day that the rebels suffered too many casualties and * had been exhausted, that the entire village was captured by the coalition forces. However, at this time, less than 100 of the more than 2,000 rebels survived, and the casualties on the coalition side had exceeded 5,000. When Nguyen Phu Binh tried to commit suicide, he was stopped by his subordinates and captured alive, which can be regarded as saving some face for the coalition army.

Although the allied forces concealed the losses in this battle when they announced their achievements to the outside world, the fighting power and tenacious will of the rebels in this battle still frightened them. Whether it is the Zheng clan, or the Wu clan, the Mo clan and other local feudal towns, they are all targeting the rebel armies in various places at this moment, lest they develop into the second Ruan brothers.

Therefore, after joining forces to exterminate the Ruan brothers, the Zheng family issued an order to suppress bandits in the name of the Later Li Dynasty, calling on landlords in various places to form militia groups to protect the territory and defend the people, and assist the officials and troops to exterminate the bandits in these places. The downfall of the Nguyen brothers was itself a great blow to the cause of the Vietnamese people's uprising, and when the Trung clan united with local landlords and feudal towns to carry out the white terror campaign against the countryside by high-handed means, almost every Vietnamese village had a few or a dozen young men who were hanged by the local landlords as restless objects.

Under the effect of the two-sided crackdown, the peasant uprisings that had spread throughout Vietnam were quickly suppressed, and more than 200,000 people died unnaturally in the most densely populated Red River Delta alone. All of a sudden, the village intersections in the Red River Delta region have become the most terrifying road sections. Because the landlords of these villages, in order to deter the peasants, often like to hang the rebellious peasants and their perceived restless objects from the big trees at the intersections, and do not allow their families to collect their bodies.

Of course, behind this White Terror, in addition to intensifying the antagonism between peasants and landlords, the most direct change in Vietnamese society was the intensification of the tendency to feudal towns and the further concessionization of the port cities. This greatly shook the power of the Zheng clan to rule the regions outside of Thang Long, which the Zheng clan had not anticipated when they suppressed the peasant uprising. For the Ming Dynasty, the rise of local separatist forces in Vietnam greatly promoted the prosperity of the Ming arms trade, which was indeed an unexpected surprise.

On the last day of October, the leader of Nguyen Phu Binh's rebel army was imprisoned in a prison car and sent to Thang Long Province to parade through the streets.

Some of the onlookers in Thang Long Province pointed at him and yelled at him, or some threw him with clods of soil and leaves, but many people just stood silently on the side of the road and watched. Lin Yueshan, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty to Vietnam, specially ordered a private room with a good view on the second floor of Tao Ranju near the main street to observe the procession.

Accompanying him, in addition to several leaders of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Thang Long Province, it was Chen Shangjiu, who had recently been trained by Lin Yueshan. For Lin Yueshan to have to book a room in the restaurant to watch this parade in the street, Chen Shangjiu still felt a little incomprehensible.

After all, in his opinion, Lin Yueshan was not such a boring person, and he didn't set this room to celebrate Ruan Fuping's arrest. If Lin Yueshan really had any interest in Ruan Phu Binh, there was no need for him to stand here and watch, as long as he said hello, the Zheng family would naturally let him go directly to visit the leader of the peasant rebel army.

While waiting for Ruan Fuping's prisoner car, standing at the window and looking at the excitement of the people on the street as if they were celebrating a festival, Lin Yueshan couldn't help but say to Chen Shangjiu beside him: "Yigong, do you know what business is the most profitable in the world? ”

Although Lin Yueshan's question was a bit clueless, Chen Shangjiu still replied while figuring out the other party's thoughts: "It should be the most profitable business to monopolize one or two commodity rights, and the villain is stupid and I don't know if this is the case, and I ask the adults for advice." ”

Lin Yueshan smiled and said, "For those businessmen who have no background, what you said is good. But for businessmen like us, who are backed by a powerful country, harvesting the wealth accumulated by a country or nation is the real profitable business.

Let's take a good look at the people below, and what we are going to do to reap the wealth they have accumulated is what we really need to spend time studying. ”

After hearing this, Chen Shangjiu also subconsciously turned his eyes to the street below, and carefully observed the expressions of these Vietnamese people, and after he studied for a long time, he asked Lin Yueshan a little ignorantly: "The villain is still a little stupid, this harvest of a country's wealth, the adult should refer to those treaties we signed with the Zheng family, but what do these treaties have to do with these people?" Can they still oppose the treaty signed by the superiors? Even if it is a hero like the Ruan brothers, wasn't it finally eliminated by the Zheng family? ”

Lin Yueshan restrained his smile, glanced back at him, and said seriously: "Yigong, you should read more about the history of Vietnam, if you still focus on those trivial matters, I'm afraid it will be difficult to go to the next level."

Since the Great Qin conquered South Vietnam, China has been entangled with this place for thousands of years. Do you know why, to this day, Vietnam still maintains its independence and has not been incorporated into our country? ”

Chen Shangjiu immediately respectfully asked for advice again, and Lin Yueshan continued: "Because whenever our country begins to implement a policy of assimilation in this place, there will always be people who lead the Vietnamese people to rise up to maintain their independent national culture, and these people are also regarded as heroes by the Vietnamese people, so that more Vietnamese people will follow suit.

Although our country is strong and prosperous, in this place separated from our country by mountains and seas, after all, it cannot withstand the continuous resistance of the local people, and finally can only choose to abandon this place. This renunciation, in turn, will reinvigorate Vietnam's national pride, give rise to the ambition to challenge our country, and eventually create a complete cultural and ideological estrangement from our country.

Therefore, if you want to eliminate the consciousness of Vietnam's independence, you must first eliminate Vietnam's national heroes. And the national heroes who want to destroy Vietnam. It is necessary to first set the upper and lower classes of Vietnam against each other, and let them denigrate their own heroes. When a nation loses its heroes, it loses the will to go forward and resist outsiders, and eventually they become slaves to outsiders.

Look at the Ruan Phu Binh below, he could have become a hero against the Ming Dynasty. But now, it has become the object of spurning by the people, if this kind of thing is repeated a few more times, will the Vietnamese still choose to become the next Nguyen Phu Binh? ”