In April of the fifth year of Chongzhen, with the support of Li Hongyu, the Nguyen regime in the south allied with the Mo regime in the northeast, and at the same time challenged the Zheng regime in the north, and the civil war in Annam slowly began.

One day in June, in the south of Annam, Port Fifu.

The port of Feifu has now become a huge military port, and there are many ships of the Ming Navy, the most notable of which is the three-masted sailing ship.

Sea Dragon.

The Sea Dragon has been Li Hongyu's ship since it joined the sequence of the Daming Naval Division, and it is actually the flagship of the Daming Naval Division.

Li Hongyu hosted a banquet on the boat to entertain Mo Jingde, who had arrived from the Gaoping area in the northeastern part of Annan, and the two had not seen each other for several years.

Mo Jingde came this time to represent the head of the Mo regime, and his uncle Mo Jingkuan thanked Li Hongyu, and over the years, with Li Hongyu's covert support, the Mo regime had formed a sizable army, and in early May successfully captured Thang Long Province, where the Li regime had nominally informed Annam, and captured the royal family members alive.

Now, the army of the Mo regime is resting and is about to move south to fight the Nguyen regime in the near future.

According to the agreement reached between the Mo regime and the Nguyen regime, after defeating the Zheng regime, the two anti-dumpers would share the territory of the Trung regime, of which the Trung regime would account for one-third and the Mo regime would account for two-thirds, and the two sides would establish their own countries and form brotherly states.

In fact, Li Hongyu and the sailors did not participate in the civil war in Annam, he was only responsible for providing military supplies to the Mo and Nguyen regimes, so that both sides could attack the Zheng regime with all their might.

Li Hongyu's real action was after the Zheng regime was eliminated, when he would unite with the Champa state in the south of Annam, and attack the Nguyen regime in the north and south with the Mo regime, and then annihilate it in one fell swoop, so that the Mo regime, which was close to the Ming Dynasty, would take charge of Annam.

Of course, the Nguyen regime could not have imagined that Li Hongyu would have such a wishful thinking, and the leader of the Nguyen regime, Nguyen Phuc Yuan, misjudged the current situation, thinking that the Ming Dynasty had no interest in Annam, so he also wanted to use the power of the Ming Dynasty to eliminate the Zheng regime.

But Ruan Fuyuan didn't want to think about it, is Li Hongyu's advantage so easy to take advantage of? How could he be provided with so much military supplies for nothing?

In order to make the Mo regime have a strong enough military force, Li Hongyu not only provided it with a large amount of materials, but also sent the military attache of the water division to reorganize the army, which significantly increased the military strength of the Mo regime, and also made Li Hongyu indirectly control this team.

In fact, Li Hongyu did not come here just for the sake of Annan, his target was the entire Indochina Peninsula, and he wanted to take the Indochina Peninsula into his pocket.

Li Hongyu certainly did this on a whim, and with the prosperity of overseas trade, his forces had already carried out a comprehensive penetration of the Indochina Peninsula, and he was well aware of the situation in the Indochina Peninsula, so it was time to attack the Indochina Peninsula.

In Li Hongyu's view, if you want to control the Indochina Peninsula, solving Annan first is the key, as a military power in the Indochina Peninsula, as long as you can control Annan, then the rest of the countries are much easier to deal with.

However, in view of the special terrain of Annam, it is not an easy task to destroy the Zheng and Nguyen regimes, and I am afraid that it will take several years before the Mo regime can be supported to ascend to the throne.

But then again, Li Hongyu, who is far away from the affairs of the court, now has time, he is not afraid of spending time with the Zheng regime and the Ruan regime, and he can also take advantage of the situation to deal with overseas trade matters, he doesn't want to go back to the whirlpool of right and wrong in the capital.

Because it was the warlord forces of Annan who were at war in Annan, Li Hongyu seemed to be relatively leisurely, and he could take Zhao Xin and others around Nanyang, and the top priority for him was to consolidate the power of Nanyang, and Nanyang would become the foundation of his future development.

With Li Hongyu in charge, the power of the Customs Department in Nanyang gradually expanded, especially the Xingang Propaganda Division, which became a prosperous commercial city in Nanyang and gradually became prosperous.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, after two years of fierce fighting, the Nguyen regime and the Mo regime finally defeated the main army of the Zheng regime, successfully met at Thanh Hoa Province, and surrounded Thanh Hoa City, the old nest of the Zheng regime.

When Li Hongyu received the news, he was in Xingang Xuanfu Division, and immediately set off to rush over, preparing to mobilize the sailors and contact the Champa State to attack the Nguyen regime, so as to help the Mo regime take charge of Annam.

However, because some of the generals of the Zheng regime felt that the future was hopeless, they united and mutinied, and the city of Thanh Hoa and the people of the Zheng clan were handed over to the Mo and Nguyen clans, and the Zheng regime, which had been glorious in the south of the country, officially stepped down from the stage of history.

Li Hongyu originally thought of using the leapfrog tactic to wait for the Nguyen army to withdraw and attack Hue City, the nest of the Nguyen regime, by sea.

As the saying goes, if the thief captures the king first, as long as the Nguyen clan is caught, then the army in the area controlled by the Nguyen clan will be leaderless and can be easily defeated.

What Li Hongyu didn't expect was that on the night when the rebel generals of the Zheng regime sacrificed Thanh Hoa City, the army of the Mo regime raided the army of the Nguyen regime stationed in the city, wanting to annihilate it in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that the news leaked somehow beforehand, and as a result, the sneak attack of the Mo army became an encounter, and the two sides fought a big battle in Thanh Hoa City.

Because the Nguyen army was twice as large as the Mo army, the Mo army was defeated and evacuated from Thanh Hoa City in disarray, and was chased by the Nguyen army for more than a hundred miles.

At this moment, the situation in Annan became tense again, and Mo and Ruan, who had fought side by side, officially tore their faces and drew their swords.

Li Hongyu was very annoyed by this, and it would take a lot of time to end the war in Annan.

Originally, after the withdrawal of the Nguyen army, the senior officials of the Nguyen clan would be in Hue City, so that Li Hongyu could destroy the center of the Nguyen regime in one fell swoop.

But now due to the need to deal with the Mo clan, a group of senior officials and generals of the Nguyen clan are fighting outside, even if Li Hongyu raids Hue City and captures the leader of the Nguyen regime, then the Nguyen army will continue to fight under the command of those high-ranking officials.

Since the incident had already happened and could not be reversed, Li Hongyu had no choice but to face up to the trouble in front of him, attack Hue City as planned, and at the same time prepare the Champa army to attack north.

Of course, Li Hongyu will not let the Champa state send troops in vain, and will return the territory that Annan has snatched from the Champa state to the Champa state, which is something that the top and bottom of the Champa country have been looking forward to for a long time.

In Li Hongyu's view, in order to ensure the stability of the Indochina Peninsula, it is necessary to balance the military and national strength of the countries on the Indochina Peninsula, so it is inevitable to weaken Annam and support the occupation of the city.

The Nguyen regime had no idea that Li Hongyu would have people launch an offensive from the sea and raid Hue City, where his lair was located, so when the soldiers of the Navy Division landed on the coast under the cover of night and appeared in Hue City, the defenders in Hue City were not prepared in the slightest and were taken by surprise, and they could not even close the city gates.

If it were Li Hongyu, he would definitely guard against attacks from the sea, after all, the territory of Annan was a long and oblique area near the sea, and it was natural to be cautious in the face of a maritime power like the Ming Dynasty.

After some scuffle, the Ming army successfully took control of Hue City, and the leader of the Nguyen regime, Nguyen Phuc Yuan, and the Nguyen clan in the city were all captured.

After learning the news of the breach of Hue City, the Nguyen army, which was engaged with the Mo army, immediately turned around and came to the rescue, and several high-ranking generals had infighting during the march, some of them continued to Hue City, while the other part went west and hid in the mountains to fight guerrillas.

The last thing Li Hongyu wanted was for the Nguyen army to enter the mountains, because it would take a lot of time to wipe out this force.

As for the Nguyen army that went to rescue Hue City, they were defeated by the Ming army and the combined army of Champa in the Hue area, and they either died or surrendered, and then Li Hongyu asked the Mo army to pursue the Nguyen army hiding in the mountains.

With the collapse of the Nguyen army that rescued Hue City, the areas ruled by the Nguyen regime surrendered to the Mo regime, and the entire kingdom of Annam was truly unified.

In February of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Mo Jingkuan, the leader of the Mo regime, accompanied Li Hongyu to Beijing to meet Emperor Chongzhen in the name of the envoy of Annan, and presented the map and population roster of Annan to show his attachment.

At this time, it has been more than three years since Li Hongyu left the capital, and after returning to the capital again, there is a sense of vicissitudes and feelings, because many cabinet members and ministers of various ministries and institutes when he left have been replaced.

Wen Tiren is now the first assistant of the cabinet, and now no one knows that Wen Tiren will become the longest-serving first assistant of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Li Hongyu's return made the officialdom of the capital gradually recover a little bit of vitality like a pool of stagnant water, and Emperor Chongzhen's face also showed a rare smile, Li Hongyu really did not disappoint him, and really recovered Annan.

In order to reward Mo Jingkuan's attachment, Emperor Chongzhen ordered Mo Jingkuan to be rewarded, not only rewarding a thousand taels of silver, but also adding his title of crown prince, which can be described as infinite favor.

A few days after arriving in the capital, Li Hongyu keenly found that Emperor Chongzhen was getting stronger and stronger, which made the courtiers more and more in awe of him, whether it was the Donglin Party or the "Eunuch Party" were afraid of Emperor Chongzhen, in his opinion, this was not a good thing.

In the history of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the founding Emperor Hongwu and the Yongle Emperor of Jingnan, who killed many officials, the third emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty is probably Emperor Chongzhen.

Generally speaking, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty after the Yongle Emperor were kind to the civil and military officials in the court, and even if they were provoked, they usually beat the board, and there were very few officials who could be killed with a cane.

But Emperor Chongzhen was different, and soon after ascending the throne, he showed his iron-blooded side, killing many ministers in the court, such as Yang Hao, who had been locked up in the imperial prison after the Battle of Salhu, Liu Ce, the imperial history of Jiliao, Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Caoyun, and a large number of officials.

It is Emperor Chongzhen's iron-blooded hand that makes his relationship with his courtiers more and more stiff and distant, if he were the Emperor of the Apocalypse, he would never do this, and the feeling of being alone is not comfortable.

However, what made Li Hongyu admire was that Emperor Chongzhen was very diligent, often reviewing the recitals until late at night, and he was very busy.

Although he felt admiration in his heart, Li Hongyu did not approve of Emperor Chongzhen's doing, the Ming Dynasty had a cabinet and a celebrant supervisor, all of which were institutions that assisted the emperor in handling the chapters, so as the Son of Heaven, Emperor Chongzhen did not need to bow down to everything, and should act like the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

But Emperor Chongzhen is not the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and it is impossible for Li Hongyu to persuade Emperor Chongzhen to give the power of approving and reading the chapters to the cabinet and the celebrant supervisor, in that case, I am afraid that Emperor Chongzhen will be suspicious.

Therefore, Li Hongyu could only wait and see the changes, and be cautious in his words and deeds, so as not to inadvertently offend Emperor Chongzhen.

If the Emperor of the Apocalypse knew that Emperor Chongzhen would govern the government like this, nine times out of ten he would regret handing over the Ming to him, it would be better to let King Fu succeed to the throne, even if King Fu did not implement changes, he would definitely be able to control the situation of the court, so as not to make the situation of the Ming Dynasty gradually become out of control.

Speaking of which, the Ming Dynasty has now entered a vicious circle stage, the people rebelled because of the hardships of life and could not eat, so the court had to raise troops to fight, so that it would increase military spending, and the court raised taxes for this, resulting in more people not being able to eat to join the rebellion.

Therefore, although the imperial court is now requisitioning against those rebellious people in the local area for many years, the scale of the rebellious people has not only not decreased, but has become larger and larger, which has to make people think deeply.

Nowadays, the imperial court has to spend a lot of energy and material resources every year because of the suppression of bandits, Li Hongyu is quite speechless about this, does no one know that the chaotic people should be sparse or not blocked, as long as they find a way to solve the problem of eating the people, then who will have enough to support the rebellion?

In fact, looking at the situation in the Ming Dynasty, the most painful thing for Li Hongyu was the Dongjiang Army, which had been abandoned, which not only made the Ming Dynasty lose its containment of the Houjin, but also became a major help for the Houjin.

Since Mao Wenlong was killed, the Dongjiang army has been suppressed and excluded by the defenders of Liaodong, which made many Dongjiang generals rebel and throw themselves into the arms of the Houjin.

Li Hongyu felt very sorry for this, most of the members of the Dongjiang Army were Liao people who were invaded by the Later Jin Dynasty and lost their hometowns, and the Later Jin Dynasty can be said to have a bitter hatred for the destruction of their families.

However, when Huang Taiji wantonly encircled the Han people, the generals of the Dongjiang Army surrendered to Houjin, and the contradictions between him and the defenders of Liaodong can be seen.

It is worth mentioning that among the Dongjiang troops of Jin after surrender, the most famous were the three generals of Dongjiang who were miners: Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde.

After they invested in Houjin, the power of Houjin increased greatly, not only bringing the manufacturing technology of firearms, but also allowing Houjin to have a sailor.

The Dongjiang Army Naval Division controlled by Shang Kexi became the core force of the Houjin Naval Division, not only turned around and eliminated the remnants of the Dongjiang Naval Division, but also beat the Ming Liaoxi, Beizhili and Shandong Naval Divisions to the point that they did not dare to leave the port, which was really an out-and-out tragedy.

If Mao Wenlong is alive, why is the situation of the Dongjiang Army here?

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