Chapter Seventy-Four: Annan (9)
Mo Jing bowed down and said, "Elder Sun Ge can let the Ming army enter Gaoping at any time, and the same is true for civil affairs officials. The officials of the South Vietnamese Kingdom will have a good handover with the officials of the Ming Dynasty. This matter is handled by my brother Wang personally, please rest assured. ”
The Ming Dynasty got the land north of Cao Ping, and obtained the right to garrison troops in Thang Long Province and Hue, which can actually be regarded as a great gain. However, what Zhu Youxiao actually wanted to do most was in the reward: let the South Vietnamese participate in the imperial examination.
Xiang Ye Xianggao only thought of spreading the way of the sage to South Vietnam and other wild places, but Zhu Youxiao understood that as long as the South Vietnamese people used Chinese characters and learned Chinese civilization, then there would definitely be no situation where Vietnam and China would become feuding in later generations.
As long as the South Vietnamese people participate in the imperial examination and enter the Beijing Normal University Hall to study, then within 20 years, the elite class of South Vietnam will be pro-Ming. At that time, there is no need for the Ming to use force, as long as they operate a little, they will take the initiative to ask to join the Ming Dynasty and become a political secretary of the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, South Vietnam is the only way for the Ming Dynasty to enter Southeast Asia from the sea, in addition to South Vietnam, there are many countries such as Chenla, Siam, and Burma. Only by taking South Vietnam into their hands can they try to control the whole of Southeast Asia.
And Mo Jingkuan only paid for the place north of the barren Gaoping, plus a small estuary area, in exchange for the most thorough support of the Ming Dynasty. With the Ming army stationed in Thang Long Province and Hue, even if there is only one small banner of troops, it can also make the enemy weigh it and dare to face the anger of the Ming Dynasty. With the endorsement of the Ming Dynasty, he is the most justifiable ruler of the entire South Vietnam.
The two sides talked happily at the banquet after the court meeting. In the midst of the staggering, Honglu Siqing introduced the prince of Nanyue to various people who might deal with him in the future, and under Mo Jingwan's deliberate friendship, they quickly became familiar with each other.
At this time, Cui Chengxiu had returned to Thanh Hoa City. He begged to see Mo Jingkuan and proposed to escort Li Weiqi of Houli Shenzong to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but Mo Jingkuan naturally did not allow it, and handed over Li Weiqi and his family to Cui Chengxiu.
After Cui Chengxiu said goodbye to Mo Jingkuan, he immediately took Li Weiqi's family to sail. When he was thirty miles away from Thanh Hoa, he ordered him to turn around immediately and go to Hue.
In Hue, he handed over Le Wei Qi's family to Lord Nguyen. Then with the formal agreement in exchange, he returned to the capital in high spirits.
When he presented the agreement to the emperor, Zhu Youxiao was greatly pleased. First of all, rice was urgently needed by the Ming Dynasty, and the Ruan clan was willing to provide a place for the Ming to build a wharf, which gave the Ming navy the opportunity to station, with the naval superiority of the Ming Dynasty, then the Nguyen clan's Quang Nam Kingdom was in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
Cui Chengxiu said: "If Your Majesty makes the Ruan clan the lord of the country, then the emperor of the Hou Li Dynasty will have no effect." The Ruan clan will directly serve the Ming Dynasty, which is much better than having a Hou Li Emperor in the middle. ”
Zhu Youxiao was puzzled: "Since the Ruan family agreed to these conditions only on the condition of Emperor Houli, do you think he will be willing for me to make him the lord of the country?" ”
Cui Chengxiu hesitated for a moment and said, "It should be." The minister felt that he had become the lord of the country and now could only be appointed by the emperor of the Hou Li Dynasty, and it was obviously more beneficial for him to be the lord of the country. ”
Zhu Youxiao said: "It's no problem to make him a king of Guangnan, he is fighting with the Mo family, and both families have asked us, which is a good thing." But I don't think he'll accept the title. ”
Sun Chuanting said: "Your Majesty, since it is determined that he will not accept the title, then we will not ban him now, and then we will seal him when we want to beat him, if he does not accept it, don't we just have an excuse?" ”
Zhu Youxiao felt that this method was not very reliable, but it was too early to say that it was too early to fight Guangnan, and it seemed to be a good choice to maintain the status quo like this first, and who knows how the situation would change in the future.
As for the construction of the wharf, it could have been started immediately. The royal building team sent a steward, three research students, and five craftsmen to Hue City with a boatload of Ming troops.
Nguyen Phuc Nguyen was a man of his word, and found a harbor by the sea in Hue City where he could build a port. The harbour is horseshoe-shaped, with its mouth facing northeast. It is nearly 30 miles long from north to south, about 20 miles wide from east to west, and the water depth is mostly more than 3 zhang. There is the Camellia Peninsula in the south of the mouth of the bay, the Han Island as a barrier in the north, and the Marble Mountain and Fuxiang Mountain as a cover along the coast.
When the students of the graduate school saw this terrain, their eyes bulged out. This is simply a natural harbor, but unfortunately the place allocated to Daming is too small, if the whole harbor is given to Daming, it will be perfect.
The steward said, "They only have two docks here anyway, and the docks are smaller than the ones we want to build." After we build a pier first, if there are many ships, it is not bad to temporarily stop in the harbor. Maybe the emperor will ask them to give us more places. Let's fix it first, it's a big project. ”
Nguyen Phuc Nguyen gave Da Ming a section close to Han Island, and the students and craftsmen of the institute consulted and drew a sketch of the construction according to the topography, while the steward was led by local Nguyen officials to gather the Nguyen Clan workers to check the situation on the stone mountain.
After the steward gave the Nguyen official a bag of silver coins, the Nguyen official immediately became very enthusiastic. helped the steward recruit workers and reduce the price, so that the steward recruited 1,000 migrant workers at a very cost-effective price, and obtained the right to use a stone mountain not far from here.
Moreover, the steward promised to let them build temporary shelters more than a mile from the sea, so the first thing these migrant workers did was to repair their houses, and the houses where the people lived in Shangguo were better repaired, and their own sheds were relatively simple.
The construction of the port wharf is a time-consuming and laborious matter, although the wharf to be repaired by the Ming people is not large, but it still took more than a year, to the end of the fifth year of the Apocalypse to repair the same, this is still in the case of increasing the number of migrant workers to complete.
After receiving Li Weiqi, in order to prove the legitimacy of his rule, Ruan Fuyuan built a palace for Li Weiqi, and publicized that Li Weiqi came to Quang Nam, which was soon known by Mo Jingkuan.
Mo Jingkuan handed over Li Weiqi to Cui Chengxiu, but he didn't want Li Weiqi to go to Guangnan, which made him very passive and annoyed. So he wrote an excerpt and asked people to send it to the capital of the Ming Dynasty and hand it over to Mo Jingwan to present to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
After Zhu Youxiao received Mo Jingwan's complaint, he had no choice but to comfort him with kind words, saying that he would definitely give an explanation to the vassal state, so he summoned Cui Chengxiu and asked him why he deceived Mo Jingkuan.
Cui Chengxiu kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, at that time, the emperor of the Li Dynasty had no effect on Mo Jingkuan, and the premise of the agreement between the minister and the Ruan clan was to transport the emperor of the Li Dynasty to Quang Nam. If the minister directly said that he wanted to hand over the emperor of the Li Dynasty to the Ruan clan, then Mo Jingkuan would obviously not agree, so the minister used a trick to secretly cross the Chen Cang and smuggle the emperor of the Li Dynasty to the Nguyen clan in Quang Nam. ”