The reason why he so happily handed over the remaining twenty-five shares for Wen Zhenmeng to sing and sell, and then raised military salaries for Chen Qiyu by the way, Su Baiyi actually had his own plans in addition to looking at the emperor's face.

Shaanxi Liumin's opposition to the Ming Dynasty is a cancer, but on the contrary, it is the right time for the husband to establish meritorious deeds. Su Baiyi didn't want to establish meritorious deeds, but he also wanted to profit from this war.

He needs people!

Now that the railroad is about to open, it will certainly not work without hundreds of thousands of workers to work.

Where do people come from?

According to the early planning, it is natural to attract displaced people from Shaanxi to join the construction army.

Therefore, Su Baiyi is bound to participate in this war.

And now Chen Qiyu, as the governor of the five provinces, is responsible for exterminating the bandits in the entire Shaanxi region, and Su Baiyi is not good enough to thin his face. After all, it is good to see each other in the future, and for the construction of the railway, there is no loss in getting the remaining 25 shares out.

Two days after the return of the Guide's mansion, Wen Zhenmeng and one of Su Baiyi's brocade guards returned to Beijing with the holy decree. Chen Qiyu parted ways and continued south from Guide Mansion, intending to find a more suitable place to be a place to govern in Nanyang, Xiangyang, Junzhou (Shiyan) and other places, and lead the soldiers and horses of the five provinces.

After Chen Qiyu and Wen Zhenmeng left, Su Baiyi ushered in another sad thing.

Hou Fangyu, Gu Zhong, Xu Xiake, and Puhai and others led a team to visit Annan, showing off their military power while preaching education by the way, and wanted to negotiate with Zheng Zhu, the actual controller of the Li Dynasty in Annan, with generous gifts, first, to ask for a grain business with Annan; The second is to plead for the opening of mountains and forests to plant rubber trees.

Obviously, Lord Zheng did not take the now embattled Ming Dynasty in his eyes, and refused very politely and directly.

That's not all, when Daming's division left the land of Annan and drove a boat on the sea, he was secretly instigated by Zheng Zhu to surround the soldiers, robbed all the belongings of the big ship, and unceremoniously killed more than a dozen people.

"Zhengzhuang dog thief, deceive people too much!" After Su Baiyi heard the news, his eyes were split: "It's just a matter of grabbing something, why did you kill our people?" Who died in battle? ”

After seeing that the four of them were fine, Xu Xiake, Gu Zhong and Hou Fangyu were unharmed, they finally felt a little calmer.

"Sir!" Hou Fangyu wiped away his tears and said, "A total of fourteen people were killed by them, six of them were students of our Yu Academy, two sailors, and six Jinyi guards. ”

"Hmm......" Su Baiyi's knuckles turned white, his upper teeth bit his lower lip, his eyes were like knives, and he said to Hou Fangyu: "I know, the blood debt must be paid with blood, and the blood debt that the Zheng family added to my Yuyuan will be recovered by the teacher." Go back and do a good job of bereavement and aftermath, and in addition, build a monument to the heroes of Yuyuan in the middle of our Yuyuan, and engrave the list of dead students. ”

"Yes, sir!" Hou Fangyu's chest was straight, and he still had tears in his eyes.

"You guys, come in with me first, I want to know about Annan's situation." Su Baiyi turned around, brought the four disciples into the office of the headquarters, sat down separately, and began to discuss the issue of Annan.

He doesn't know much about Annan, but it's not a smear in front of him, at least now Annan's power Su Baiyi is still very clear. Mo Dengyong, a powerful minister of the Li Dynasty, abolished the emperor of the Li Dynasty in the sixth year of Jiajing, and successfully usurped the throne and inherited the territory of the entire Li Dynasty. Mo Dengyong is a generation of heroes, but his heroes have not been inherited, and later his descendants became emperors and could not control the situation, and were restored by the descendants of the Li Dynasty who had ulterior motives.

After the Hou Li Dynasty and the Mo Dynasty controlled by the Zheng family for many years, the territory of Mo Dengyong's descendants became less and less, and they had to retreat to the Gaoping Mountains adjacent to the Ming Dynasty and Guangxi, and the remaining forces were already very weak.

But at this time, a force also appeared in the south of the Lingjiang River in Annan, occupying half of the entire Annan, that is, Lord Ruan, who corresponded to Lord Zheng. The Nguyen lord had a good power, and he and the Zheng lord had a slight advantage, and the two hurt each other for many years in order to fight for the unification of the whole of Annam, but to no avail.

Of course, if it weren't for the fact that Lord Zheng and Lord Ruan had been at war, the remnants of the Mo Dynasty would have been wiped out by Lord Zheng long ago.

Su Baiyi's understanding of Annan is limited to this.

"Sir!"

After sitting down, Hou Fangyu bowed his hand to Su Baiyi and began to report the main events of this trip to Annam: "We were ordered by my husband to lead two large ships with a total of more than 100 people, loaded with cloth, glass, perfume and soap, etc., from the Yellow River into the sea, and then to the south, sailing on the sea for more than a month before arriving in Tokyo (now Hanoi), the capital of Annam, and handing over the customs clearance documents and credentials, the Ministry of Rites of Annam arranged for us at the post station, but did not mention the matter of entering the palace to meet the monarch of Annam for a long time. I was also anxious, and after many inquiries, I learned that it was the powerful minister Zheng who deliberately hung us up. ”

"This Lord Zheng is Zheng Zhuang, the king of the Qing capital, right?"

If history is not mistaken, Su Baiyi remembered that the Zheng lord at that time was Zheng Zhuang.

"Yes sir!" Hou Fangyu said: "The emperor of the Li Dynasty is actually called Li Weiqi, but this Li Weiqi is like Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty in our Three Kingdoms, this Zheng Zhuang is Cao Cao, and the princes are so unhappy that the Son of Heaven is coerced." ”

Su Baiyi nodded.

Hou Fangyu continued: "Actually, this Annan is not Jingping, they have several forces in the country, the two largest ones are Zheng Zhuang, the powerful minister of the Li Dynasty, and the other is the Ruan Lord who is entrenched in the south of the Lingjiang River, it seems that what is called Ruan Fuyuan, just like Sun Quan in our Three Kingdoms period is also a hero!" ”

Ruan Fuyuan is not Sun Quan!

Su Baiyi said silently in his heart.

Now it seems that Lord Zheng's power is relatively strong, although the Mo Dynasty is ostensibly one of the three kingdoms, in fact, it only has a small land, and compared with Lord Zheng and Lord Ruan, it is not even one percent of its strength.

But this Ruan lord is very famous, and he is very famous.

At this time, the Nguyen family only occupied half of the country, and by the early 19th century, they unified the country and established the real Nguyen Dynasty, which lasted until the end of World War II.

When Japan surrendered unconditionally in 1945, the Nguyen dynasty ended its 300-year lineage.

Therefore, if the Ruan family is not Sun Quan, if you have to compare it with so-and-so during the Three Kingdoms period, the Sima family should be the most similar to him.

"This old puppet Zheng Zhuang seems to know the details of our Ming Dynasty, and sent an envoy to reveal it intentionally or unintentionally, saying that our Ming Dynasty is not as good as one day, and it will not be long before the country will be destroyed. He also said that our Liaodong is in danger, Mongolia is ready to move, and even the Shaanxi thieves Gao Yingxiang and Li Chuang know a lot! ”

Hou Fangyu said on the side, generally looking at Su Baiyi's face.

After this trip to Annan, although the little guy's face is still childish, there is a sense of vicissitudes on his white face, and his speech and deeds are much stronger than before.

"What do you mean, this Zheng Zhuang is looking at our Ming strength, so he doesn't make a deal with us?" Su Baiyi sneered: "The skinny camel is bigger than the horse, our Daming is being bullied by Xiaoxiao, how can they be compared to Annan?" ”

"Not exactly!" Hou Fangyu thought for a while and said: "Behind the Zheng lord of the Li Dynasty, there is a place called Gaoping next to our Ming Guangxi, which is said to be entrenched in a group of remnants of the previous dynasty, and the Zheng lord always wants to conquer, this group of people either scattered into the mountains, or fled to our Daming to take refuge, making the Zheng family tired but helpless, because of the deliberate protection of our imperial court, the Zheng family is estimated to hate our Daming, and the Zheng family thinks that our Daming can't spare his hands to fight with them, so he doesn't treat us very much!" ”

"And then he robbed you of your belongings?" Su Baiyi asked.

"It's not!" Hou Fangyu said: "Although our Ming Dynasty is far inferior to before, it is not something that they can provoke from the Annan Li Dynasty. Although Zheng Zhuang didn't wait to see our envoy, he didn't dare to rob him blatantly, he just coveted our property, and waited until we went to the sea before making a move. ”

"Okay, I'll get justice for you and talk about the rest." Su Baiyi's brows furrowed slightly: "Have you heard any other useful information?" ”

In order to speed up the industrialization into the city, rubber must be produced in addition to steel.

Annan also has to be laid out.

Zheng disagreed, and Lao Tzu found someone else to cooperate; If you don't cooperate in Annam, Lao Tzu will cooperate with Champa and the Donghu Dynasty (Burma), and your family will not be able to open the entire Indochina Peninsula?

"Yes!" Hou Fangyu thought about it, his face showed shame, and he arched his hand towards Su Baiyi: "Because we are not familiar with Annan, and we don't have time to ask around, the information we can know is limited, and we haven't even been able to find out the relationship between the royal family and the Zheng family. However, there is a well-known news in Annan, and I don't know if it is useful for Mr. ”

"What's the news?" Su Baiyi asked.

"Fight!" Hou Fangyu said: "Annan is at war, and it has been fighting for five years. ”

"Five years?" Su Baiyi was stunned.

The entire imperial court didn't know that Annan was at war?

Su Baiyi really obeyed the current cabinet, and he couldn't even figure out the movements of the surrounding countries, and he was really not far from decline.

"Yes, sir!" Hou Fangyu said: "The two sides of Annan Zheng and Ruan have been fighting for five years. I heard from the people in Tokyo that the Zheng clan has been increasing troops to attack Jiangnan, and the Jiangnan Ruan clan is overwhelmed by hard support, and it is estimated that they are about to win. ”

Win?

If the Trần clan can win, then the Nguyen Dynasty, which lasted for 300 years in Vietnam, can still exist?

Although the Ruan Dynasty is now struggling to support, it will definitely not be defeated.

Su Baiyi knew that about 200 years later, in the early 19th century, the Nguyen clan unified Vietnam with the help of France, and it seemed that the division between the north and the south of Vietnam would continue for a long time.

But now, the Zheng family's strength is indeed stronger than the Ruan family, under the impact of the Zheng family for five consecutive years, the Ruan family has been struggling to support, if you can give the Ruan family a breath of life water at this moment, I don't know if the Ruan family will agree to their request?