Chapter 606: North-South Division
Annam, Hue preach, Hue city.
Hue City was the "capital" of the Nguyen regime in Annam, and it was used as a base to compete with the Trung regime in the north, which "coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes".
The current ruler of the Nguyen regime is Nguyen Phuc Yuan, when the envoy sent by Li Hongyu arrived in Hue City, the military generals of Hue City were immediately fried, and they never expected that at this time the Ming Dynasty would help the city to come out.
"Grandpa Guo, we can't agree to Daming's request, otherwise the previous hard work and efforts will be in vain." Upon learning of this, the civil and military elites of Hue City gathered at Nguyen Phuc Yuan's mansion and excitedly refused.
"Grandpa Guo, it's a big deal to fight with them again, Taizu didn't beat them to the ground back then!"
Emotionally, a military general couldn't help but say loudly, the Taizu in his mouth naturally refers to Li Li, the founding monarch of the Li Dynasty, who is regarded as a hero by the people of Annan.
"Yes, another fight with them was not our opponent two hundred years ago, and certainly not now." Soon, the generals in the crowd spoke up one after another.
Ruan Fuyuan couldn't help frowning slightly when he saw this, this sudden incident caught him off guard, he never expected that there would be a fire in the backyard, and the Zhancheng State actually moved Da Ming out, which gave him a problem.
In Nguyen Phuc Yuan's view, the powerful Trần regime in the north was his main enemy, and he devoted his main energies to consolidating the northern defense line against the invasion of the Truong lords.
In fact, Annam now has four armed forces, the Truong and Nguyen clans being the two largest of them, and there are two other smaller forces, one is the Lê regime in Thang Long province in the north, and the other is the Mo regime in the northeastern An Binh region.
Although the Trần and Nguyễn clans are now the most powerful in Annam, the king of Annam is surnamed Lê, and the Lê regime is the orthodoxy of Annam.
Originally, the Annan Kingdom was the Li clan in power, and the founding monarch was Li Li, who had defeated the Ming army in the Yongle period, and was known as the "Li Dynasty" in history.
At the beginning of the fifteenth century, the powerful minister Mo Dengyong forced the Li family to take the throne, thus becoming the new king of the Kingdom of Annam, and creating the "Mo Dynasty" of the Kingdom of Annam.
It was Mo Dengyong who asked Emperor Jiajing to belong to him, so Annan has now nominally become a dependency of the Ming Dynasty, which is why the Ming Dynasty has always supported the Mo regime established by Mo Dengyong's descendants.
The Zheng regime and the Nguyen regime were originally courtiers of the Lê regime, and the ancestor of the Trung regime was the son-in-law of the ancestor of the Nguyen regime, and the two sides were related by marriage.
Later, the Trung and Nguyen regimes grew in strength and helped the Lê regime defeat the Mo regime.
It is worth mentioning that after the fall of the Mo regime, the Li regime sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to ask the Ming Dynasty to restore the canonization of the past "King of Annam", but the Wanli Emperor temporarily granted him the title of "Commander of Annam" on the grounds that the situation in Annam was undecided.
This title was maintained until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not until the Southern Ming Dynasty that the canonization of the Li Dynasty monarch "King of Annam" was restored.
In addition, the Wanli Emperor also asked the Li regime to cede the Gaoping region in the north to the descendants of the defeated Mo regime, but the Mo regime made Annam a meritorious minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the Wanli Emperor naturally could not ignore his descendants.
After the overthrow of the Mo regime, in order to compete for the power of Annam, the Nguyen regime and the Zheng regime broke with the north and south of Annam respectively, and then officially opened the curtain of military confrontation between the Nguyen group and the Trần group, making the Annam Kingdom enter the period of "Trần Rebellion".
Li Hongyu saw this and took advantage of the contradiction between the Nguyen and Zheng clans to force the Nguyen clan to agree to return part of the land in the Zhancheng state.
In the late 15th century, Le Shengzong of the Lê Dynasty of Annam led an army to break through the royal city of Champong, captured the king of Champong, and set up the captured land as Quang Nam Province to rule, with three prefectures and nine counties under its jurisdiction.
In order to make Quang Nam Province a permanent land of Annam, Li Shengzong erected a lower boundary monument on the cape of Seokbi Mountain, the southernmost part of Quang Nam Province, with ****** words written on it: "When the Cham people pass here, the army is defeated and the country is destroyed; The Annan people passed here, and the soldiers were about to die. ”
These newly opened territories became remote areas where prisoners were exiled during the Annam dynasties, as well as safe havens for political exiles.
Due to the capture of the Champa king, the generals of the former Champang state fled to the city of Pirobura in the Bintonglong region and became the new Champa king, the ancestor of the current Champa king.
Later, the Nguyen regime continued to move south to swallow up the territory of the city, making the area of the city smaller and smaller.
What Li Hongyu asked the Nguyen regime this time was the land south of the Quang Nam area of Annam that was later seized by the Nguyen regime, which can be said to be justified and justified, after all, Le Thanh Tzong had already drawn the line between Annam and Champa.
When Nguyen Phuc Yuan convened his ministers of civil and military affairs to discuss the return of the land of Annan by the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, Li Hongyu naturally would not be idle, and now in a legal sense, Annan is still the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and he will definitely find a way to truly turn it into the land of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition to the grievances between the Ming and Annan during the Yongle Emperor's period, Annan bordered the Ming Dynasty and was a military power in the Indochina Peninsula, which would become a huge obstacle for Li Hongyu to control the Indochina Peninsula, so it must be removed quickly.
Pirobura Port, a restaurant.
Li Hongyu clasped his hands on his chest, and stood leisurely in front of the window of a private room on the third floor, overlooking the rippling blue sea, he was going to have a treat here today.
"My lord, here they are."
After a while, the door opened, and a guard led several men in, and reported in a deep voice.
"I've seen adults." The men then bowed to Li Hongyu, saluted in unison, and spoke a mouthful of Guangxi-flavored Chinese.
"Sit." Li Hongyu smiled slightly when he heard this, and stretched out his hand to make a gesture to the men to sit down.
"Master Xie." Several men thanked respectfully and sat around the wine table, and the guys in the restaurant served the wine and food in an orderly manner.
"You have worked hard all the way, and this official respects you a glass." After the wine and food were served, the guys in the restaurant retreated knowingly, and only Li Hongyu and those men were left at the scene, Li Hongyu raised his wine glass and said to the men with a smile.
"My lord has won the prize, and it is my blessing to be able to come and see my lord." Seeing this, several men hurriedly got up with wine glasses and said flatteredly.
"Sit, sit." Li Hongyu smiled slightly, drank all the wine in the wine glass, and then smiled and pressed his hands down on the men who were standing.
"How is the health of the Commander now?" Waiting for the men to sit down, Li Hongyu smiled and asked a man with a Chinese character face sitting below him, this man with a national character face was the head of several people
"The Lord is in good health, and Lord Xie is worried."
Hearing this, the man with a national character face bowed to Li Hongyu and said respectfully, "This time I learned that the adults led the team to the West, and the adults were very happy, and my Ming will definitely regain its former glory." ”
There is only one envoy in the Nanyang region, who is the title of the supreme ruler of the Annan Kingdom recognized by the Ming Dynasty, who was the head of the Mo regime in the past, and is now the head of the Li regime.
Although the head of the Li regime has the title of "Commander of Annam", due to the decline of the Li regime, it has no name.
The most powerful in Annam was the head of the Trung regime, followed by the head of the Nguyen regime, and then the head of the Mo regime, and the head of the Lê regime was the last, and its decree did not leave the Thang Long area, where the king of Annam was located.
However, the "capital envoy" in the mouths of Li Hongyu and the man with a national character face is not the head of the Li regime, but the head of the Mo regime, Mo Jingkuan.
Although the Mo regime was defeated in the struggle for hegemony with the Li regime, leaving only the Gaoping region in the north, it was an out-and-out pro-Ming faction and was protected by the Ming Dynasty, and the Wanli Emperor did not deprive the head of the Mo regime of the title of "Commander of Annan".
Therefore, Li Hongyu called Mo Jingkuan the "commander of the capital" to show his recognition of Mo Jingkuan's rule over Annan, and the man with the national character face also admitted that he was a person from the Ming Dynasty, so there were three words "I am the Ming Dynasty" in his words.
In fact, the surname of the Mo regime is "Mo Jing", not "Mo", and the surname of the Nguyen regime is "Nguyen Phuc", not "Ruan".
Since Li Hongyu wants to plot against Annan, then he naturally wants to support the forces close to the Ming Dynasty in Annan, so it must be the Mo regime, the Mo regime calls itself the Ming people, if the Mo regime is in charge of the Ming Dynasty, then it will be of great benefit to the next step of the Ming Dynasty to change Annan to the "political envoy".
Therefore, Li Hongyu had already made contact with the Mohs regime, and the two sides maintained good communication.
This time, Li Hongyu led a team to start the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty, and specially arranged a meeting with the Mo regime, Mo Jingkuan attached great importance to this, so he sent the most trusted Mo Jingde to lead several ministers to meet Li Hongyu secretly.
Due to the subordinate relationship between the Mo regime and the Ming Dynasty, the atmosphere of the banquet was very relaxed and harmonious, Li Hongyu and Mo Jingde and others were staggered, talking and laughing, and there was no Ming auxiliary minister's frame at all, which made Mo Jingde and others feel good.
Li Hongyu's meeting with the people of the Mohs regime this time naturally wanted to support the Mohs regime, not only to enhance the economic strength of the Mohs regime, but also to increase the military strength of the Mohs regime, so that the overall strength of the Mohs regime could be enhanced.
To this end, Li Hongyu prepared to establish a branch of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce in the Gaoping area, where the Mo regime was located, and sent people to assist the Mo regime in developing agriculture and commerce, expanding trade with the Mo regime, and retraining the army of the Mo regime.
Mo Jingde is naturally very pleased with this, this is different from the Ming Dynasty before only giving funding, Li Hongyu this time to invest a huge amount of money and energy in the Gaoping area, with these help, the strength of the Mo regime will definitely grow by leaps and bounds, no longer have to be afraid of being annexed by the Zheng regime, maybe he can defeat the Zheng regime and reunify Annan.
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