Hurd's attitude towards the war has always been clear, that is, as long as France has the ambition to annex Vietnam, a war between Ming and France is inevitable, and his attitude towards this battle has always been consistent, without the slightest hesitation between war and peace at that time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Therefore, Hurd's policy after taking office has always revolved around military affairs and actively prepared for war. This is what satisfies Zhu Jinglun, but Zhu Jinglun knows that Hurd is so resolute, not really thinking about the interests of Daming, but more for Hurd's own future, to a certain extent, Hurd needs this war more than anyone else.

Although he has 20 years of accumulation in the Ming officialdom, the customs he established that year trained a large number of Ming civil officials, but the identity of a foreigner is his biggest obstacle. Constantly expressing loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and the opposition cannot win the recognition of the Ming people with a strong xenophobic mentality. This allowed Hurd to temporarily stabilize the political situation through political means, and also pulled the two important departments of the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Rites to his chariot through transfer, but the prestige of the government and the opposition was never enough.

If Hurd can lead the Ming Dynasty to win a war with the foreign powers, he thinks that this letter of surrender to the French, who are also white, will definitely satisfy the people of the Ming Dynasty, and will definitely allow him to gain enough prestige, he succeeded in becoming the prime minister (Shang Shuling's English translation is the prime minister), because he supported the war and was recognized by the imperial power that was also inclined to war, but Hurd never intended to be only a wartime prime minister, he had his own ideals and ambitions, and being the prime minister was just the starting point, how to use the power of the prime minister, Achieving the purpose of his life is the most important thing. Therefore, winning this war is not the pinnacle of his Hurd, but the starting point of his paving the road to Qingyun.

Therefore, after Hurd took office, on the one hand, it strengthened its armaments, and on the other hand, with the help of Western experience, it continued to prepare public opinion, and the government constantly emphasized the threat to the Ming Dynasty after the French occupation of Vietnam by bribing and guiding public opinion, and promoted the development of patriotism and nationalism in the Ming Dynasty's public opinion, hoping to arouse the hatred of the government and the opposition against France, and at the same time let the government and the opposition shift their attention from him, the foreign prime minister, to the goal of France.

Although the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty was the mainstream, in the short term, the resistance to the French had an advantage, and to a certain extent, it diverted everyone's attention from Hurd's government and bought Hurd time to prepare.

With the outbreak of the anti-French movement in Vietnam, Hurd thought that the time was ripe to intervene, and after reporting to Zhu Jinglun, while negotiating with France, while sending people to contact the Vietnamese monarchs, he once again promoted the issuance of a second batch of loans in the United Kingdom, the amount was also 100 million pounds, because of the sudden tension in the East, the fear of war, so that the British capital raised the interest rate on bonds, and the interest on bonds instantly rose from six to seven percent, but compared to the nine percent high interest issued by the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War, it was still cheap, obviously the British had confidence in the Ming Dynasty, At least they think that even if the Ming Dynasty is defeated, it will not be destroyed, and their money will still be returned.

The anti-French movement broke out, the Vietnamese raised troops to attack the French army, and after the defeat, they also took away the Vietnamese emperor, and the French envoy in Vietnam, Keerxi, was extremely angry. He was a military envoy, also translated as the commander-in-chief, a position sent by France to Vietnam to supervise the Vietnamese government, similar to the positions of Ito Hirobumi or Yuan Shikai in Korea, or MacArthur's positions in Japan after World War II, to put it bluntly, the emperor of Vietnam.

After the temporary change, Kersi immediately took emergency measures, on the one hand, directly sent troops to Hue, completely occupied the Vietnamese capital, controlled a part of the Vietnamese officials, Nguyen Van Huong surrendered to the French, was appointed as the first assistant to the cabinet, the French gave Nguyen Van Huong two months, let Nguyen Van Huong bring back the Vietnamese emperor who was hiding in the mountains.

At the same time, the French supported the accession of Emperor Tongqing to the throne and abolished the throne of Emperor Xianyi, but the behavior of the French, the Ming Dynasty objected, and publicly stated that they did not recognize the abolition of an oriental monarch by the French without authorization. France claimed that France had the right to protect Vietnam and had the right to depose unsuitable Vietnamese monarchs.

However, the Ming Dynasty believes that France does not have relevant powers at all, even in the "Hue Treaty" signed between France and Vietnam, France only has the right to manage Vietnam's diplomacy and has certain military powers, but the Vietnamese monarch still exercises complete power in domestic affairs. France does not have any power to abolish a legitimate monarch.

In this matter, the French were at a loss, but at this time they were already riding the tiger, and there was no other choice but to continue to support their puppet emperor. The Ming Dynasty resolutely refused to recognize the new monarch of Vietnam, and publicly stated that he would continue to support the power of Emperor Haen Gi.

Now the core of the contention between the two sides has become the Vietnamese little emperor Nguyen Phuc Minh in Quang Tri Province.

At this time, the French army in Vietnam was only 20,000 people, and it was impossible to control the vast area of Vietnam, in addition to the key control in Nam and North Ki, the central region of Vietnam was still under the jurisdiction of the Vietnamese government, and the French forces could not penetrate it, so they asked Nguyen Van Xiang to come forward, hoping to bring back Nguyen Phuc Minh.

But Nguyen Van Huong failed, although Nguyen Phuc Minh was young, but there was a group of resistance supporters, resolutely refused to return to Hue, in addition to the fact that he also knew that the French had set up a new emperor, he would not have good fruit to eat when he returned, he had rebelled against the French, and it was impossible to predict how these Yi people would treat him.

At the same time, the Ming envoy who made a detour to Siam finally established contact with the Vietnamese monarchs. The Ming expressed their support for them, which made the Vietnamese resistance in distress ecstatic, but they were hesitant about the proposal made by the Ming envoys, because the Ming suggested that their emperor and ministers rush to the Ming-controlled area to establish a temporary capital, and with the support of the Ming Dynasty, recruit troops and horses to regain the lost territory.

The Vietnamese monarchs and ministers believed that although their soldiers and horses were no match for the French, they could still resist stubbornly in the mountains with the help of their geographical advantages, and who knew what the consequences would be once they left here. There is no good fruit to eat in the hands of France, and the future is uncertain in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and in the history of the East, there are not a few examples of this kind of king of the dead country being used by other countries, and in this regard, the political history of the Eastern countries is not clean.

The envoys of the Ming Dynasty asked the Vietnamese monarchs and ministers to take the Ryukyus as a reference and weigh the pros and cons, and the Vietnamese monarchs and ministers decided to secretly go north, because they saw that the current situation of the Ryukyus was that the king of the Ryukyus was still sitting firmly, and the Ryukyu Society was still there.

The Ryukyu precedent was ahead, and the Vietnamese monarchs, who had reached the end of their rope, thought that this risk was worth taking. The Venerable said that he would immediately ask for orders to accompany the emperor to the north, but they did not agree to enter the controlled area of the Ming Dynasty, and they decided to go to the area ruled by the Black Flag Army and regroup in the area of Baosheng (Lao Cai).

The Ming envoy accepted this plan, saying that what the Ming wanted was only the safety of the king of Vietnam, and he did not intend to coerce Vietnam.

Nguyen Van Xiang did not complete the task assigned by the French and did not bring Emperor Nguyen Phuc Minh back to Hue, and the French Emperor Kersi immediately removed him from his post.

Later, the French imprisoned Nguyen Van Xiang and the arrested father of Zun Mushuo in Kunshan Island. Nguyen Van Xiang plotted to make a comeback in prison and sent a message to the gentry against the French. The French, for their part, confiscated Nguyen Van Siang's property and found 14.5 million French Indochinese dollars in cash issued by Crédit Agricole CIB.

For the Frenchman Kersi, he didn't like this Nguyen Van Xiang at all, because if it weren't for the power struggles in Vietnam set off by Nguyen Van Huang, who killed three Vietnamese emperors one after another, the political situation in Vietnam would not be so chaotic. In particular, Nguyen Van Xiang killed the pro-French Emperor Nguyen Phuc Ho, which made France extremely angry.

When it was discovered that Nguyen Van Xiang could not even control the Ham Yi Emperor whom he had proclaimed, K'er Siang thought that he was completely useless, and two months later, Nguyen Van Huong was exiled by the French to the French colony of Tahiti in the Pacific, where he died the following year, and a generation of powerful ministers died in the struggle for power.

Completely different from Nguyen Van Xiang's fate, the royal room said that after taking Emperor Xianyi and some important ministers to Bao Sheng, he was respectfully received by Liu Yongfu, who was appointed as the deputy governor of Sanxuan because of his meritorious service against France, and held the military and political power of the three provinces of Vietnam near the Sino-Vietnamese border, so he served the king of Vietnam as a Vietnamese courtier.

Liu Yongfu's attitude made the Vietnamese king have a captain, and the loyalty shown by this kind of courtier with heavy troops is particularly heartwarming when he looks like a wanderer. With the encouragement of other ministers, Liu Yongfu was immediately appointed as the governor of Beiqi, Vietnam, responsible for commanding the military affairs of Beiqi, and recruiting soldiers together with the Vietnamese auxiliary minister Zun Shishuo in order to restore the country.

Liu Yongfu had more than 10,000 soldiers in his hands at this time, and was repelled by the French all the way from Xuanhua to Baosheng, relying on the support of the Ming Dynasty and struggling to support in the Baosheng area. With this amount of troops, it is obviously impossible to defeat the French army, and at this time, with the Vietnamese emperor in his hands, Liu Yongfu's mind is even greater, even if he doesn't have a mind, his subordinates will let him have a mind.

So Liu Yongfu accepted the conditions put forward by the Ming Dynasty, allowing the Ming to send officers into his local area to help him train soldiers, and at the same time recruit local Vietnamese and Chinese soldiers to form a new army, fully adopt the Ming military system, and equip Ming weapons.

However, at this time, the news of Nguyen Phuc Minh's escape to Bao Thanh was still under wraps, and the French had no idea that he was here, and thought that he was still in Quang Tri Province.

At the same time, the royal room said that after the failure of Hue to resist the French colonial army, he and Emperor Xianyi sent a message to the gentry of King Qin to all parts of Vietnam, calling on the gentry to rejuvenate King Qin. Under the banner of "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism", the literary gentry in central and northern Vietnam rose up one after another to carry out the "army of King Qin" to carry out an armed struggle against France, and the lower field bureaucrat Phan Dinh Feng, who was said to have been pushed out of the court, revolted in his hometown of Huong Khi in his hometown of Tinh Ha Province, and Nguyen Thien Shu revolted in Hung Yen Di Lin.

Kersi sent the French army to suppress these capturing armies, starting from Hue and heading north, intending to suppress the uprising and capture Emperor Hamyi back to Hue.

But the march did not go well, and a large number of French troops did not adapt to the tropical climate, contracted the plague, and their morale was low.