Chapter 341: Calculating the Alliance
Ruan Fulan looked at Su Baiyi and said with a smile: "Ming envoy, the business is over, let's talk about the alliance." ”
Su Baiyi was a little furious by him, and took a sip of water and said: "Now that Your Majesty has canonized the king as the king of Guangnan, it is my foreign vassal of the Ming Dynasty. ”
"Huh!" Ruan Fulan was not angry, he also sat down, drank water, and said: "As far as the widow knows, the Li Emperor in the north and the Mo clan in Gaoping are also your Ming Dynasty's foreign vassals. But the last time your envoy sent someone to the Zheng family to seek cooperation, the Zheng family not only cooperated with him, but also plundered the goods of the Ming Dynasty at sea. Doesn't Da Ming want to return the color? ”
Su Baiyi's eyebrows moved slightly, and he said in his heart that there is really no impermeable wall in this world, this matter is concealed by the Zheng family, and Da Ming has been hiding it because of face, but this Ruan Fulan has already learned about it.
But...... Hehe! Su Baiyi smiled slightly in his heart, if this Ruan Fulan didn't propose to attack the Zheng clan now, it would be abnormal.
Having said that, the head of the Ruan family has been passed down from generation to generation, from Ruan Huang to Nguyen Phuc Lan for four generations, and it has been more than 70 years since he gained a foothold in the entire Quang Nam region, but each of the four generations of family heads can be called the male master, and he doesn't know how many times better than the Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty.
Among the four, each has its own characteristics.
The first generation of the head of the family, Nguyen Gan, is the founder of the entire Quang Nam and the founder of the entire family.
As the second-generation head of the family, Ruan Huang has been running Quang Nam for 55 years, and has built Quang Nam like an iron bucket, under the great pressure of the Zheng family, with small and broad, hard to support and even have today's great cause, like a generation of heroes who are replaced by fakes.
Although the three generations of Ruan Phuc Yuan and his father are slightly lacking in martial arts, he is far-sighted, relying on the danger of Hengshan Lingjiang and the Zheng family, and was slaughtered by the Zheng family for five consecutive years without losing an inch of land.
These four generations of Ruan Fulan are full of iron courage, and their iron head skills are superb. Su Baiyi checked the information before, and in the original historical framework, he vividly interpreted the three words of iron head gong, and he did one thing in his life: to fight to the death with the Zheng family.
To what extent?
From the time he succeeded to the throne until his death, he fought a battle with the Zheng clan during his thirteen years of reign, of course, this battle lasted for a full thirteen years, and if you add the seven years before his father Nguyen Phuc Yuan, a full twenty years.
As soon as Nguyen Phuc Lan died, his son immediately reconciled with the Zheng clan after succeeding to the throne, and then began his journey to invade Champa and Chenla in the south.
Therefore, this Ruan Fulan is an iron-headed skill.
Now that the business has just been negotiated, he proposed to go to the Zheng family with Daming to make trouble, which was also expected by Su Baiyi. If he didn't mention the war, Su Baiyi would feel a little abnormal!
"That king......" Su Baiyi's face was bitter, but he was happy in his heart.
War, hehe, as long as we don't use the power of our Ming Dynasty and don't consume our Ming army, just fight, anyway, there are no nuclear weapons, so you don't have to worry about nuclear pollution.
However, if you want to promote and suppress first, the effect is the best, so that people can feel that you are forced to have no plans.
"O king, we have a art of war called "The Art of War" in the Ming Dynasty, which begins with a clear meaning, saying: soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored. It's okay to deal with Zheng, but it doesn't have to be a sword fight. Su Baiyi said: "For example, we can criticize him, insult him, cut off contact with him, and ......"
"Hey...... Messenger! Ruan Fulan was already impatient to hear it, coughed and said: "These methods are insignificant, and they are not relieving to use, according to me, we should send troops on both sides, attack from the north and south, and destroy the Zheng clan in one fell swoop." ”
"I'm afraid it's not going to be easy." Su Baiyi said quite solemnly: "The Zheng clan has an army of 100,000, and your Ruan clan currently has only 20,000 available soldiers, and there is more than enough to defend, but if you attack the Zheng clan, it is bound to penetrate deep into its soil, and then your only 20,000 troops will not be enough, and besides, even if my Ming can attack from the north, I am afraid it will be difficult to work for a while." ”
Ruan Fulan was silent, picked up the teacup and took two sips of tea fiercely.
How did he not know that it would be difficult to make it work, but he was just eager to defeat the Zheng clan and then unify Annan.
"But ......" Su Baiyi's words seemed to be full of magic, and he immediately attracted Ruan Fulan, who was drinking tea with his head down, and he said in a low voice: "If the strength of our two families is not enough to pose a threat to the Zheng family, then find a few more." ”
"How many more?" Ruan Fulan was slightly stunned.
"Yes, there is a lot of strength in numbers!" Su Baiyi was upright, and said in a low voice: "The king knows that during the Spring and Autumn Period of China and the Warring States Period, Yan was weak and Qi was strong, but Yan could eventually destroy Qi, what is the one to rely on?" ”
"This widow knows!" Ruan Fulan said: "Because although Yan is weak compared to Qi State, it has gathered four other countries, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin, and then combined the strength of the five countries to destroy Qi in one fell swoop. ”
"That's right!" Su Baiyi clapped his hands and said, "The Yan Kingdom can use the power of other countries to destroy Qi and take revenge, why can't the king?" The foreign minister thought that if he wanted to destroy the Zheng clan, he had to rely on the power of other countries. ”
"Who else will help the widow?" Ruan Fulan looked at Su Baiyi suspiciously.
Su Baiyi snapped his fingers and said: "Of course there is, the king thinks about it, in addition to Da Ming, there is also Gao Ping Mo's who has grievances with the Zheng family." ”
"Mohs ...... Hey! Ruan Fulan's mouth tilted slightly when he mentioned Mo's, and he said with disdain: "The Mo's occupies Gaoping, saying that it is a county, but in fact it is just a county under my Guangnan, and its land is mountainous and fieldless. This Zheng clan also wanted to exterminate them many times, but every time they entered the mountain, they ran away without a trace, or ran to the territory of your Ming Kingdom to avoid trouble, so they can be extended to this day, but ...... Moh's commission is not enough and conspiracy. ”
In the vernacular, it is that Mo's is bad, he has no strength at all, and the value of uniting Mo's is not much.
Ruan Fulan added: "There are 20,000 soldiers in Guangnan, and the Zheng family has 100,000 soldiers. Without waiting for Su Baiyi to answer, Ruan Fulan raised his right hand and said with five fingers: "Five thousand old and weak, it's just vulnerable." ”
"If the king thinks so, then he is very wrong!" Su Baiyi stood up from his seat and said, "Not only is the Mo clan not weak, but it is also the strongest existence among our coalition forces. ”
"How is this possible?" Ruan Fulan sneered.
"The king doesn't believe it?" Su Baiyi asked: "The so-called division is famous, dare to ask if the coalition army is successful, and then attack the Zheng family, what name do we use?" ”
"Naturally, it's Qingjun's side!" Ruan Fulan said in his chest: "Zheng Zhuang bullies the master, and Emperor Li is like a prisoner, this is the best reason for us to send troops." ”
"That's the reason why your Ruan Phuc clan sent troops, but what reason do we have for the Ming Dynasty to send troops?" Su Baiyi took a sip of water and continued: "If you use such a reason as Qingjun's side, not only will it be unpopular with the people, but it will also seem too far-fetched, and it will only increase the laughing stock. ”
"Is there a way for the envoy?" Nguyen Phuc Lan asked.
"Well, just talking about Mohs, I just thought of one!" Su Baiyi said with a smile: "This Mo ancestor Mo Dengyong was the king of Annan at the beginning, and this royal title was given by the Ming Dynasty, and this Mo Dynasty is the orthodoxy of Annan." On the other hand, the marionette Emperor Li in Tokyo, what is he, the commander of the Annan capital of my Emperor Daming Shenzong, from this point of view, who is orthodox? Mohs, of course. If we are under the banner of recovering the country for the Mo family, many people with different aspirations in Tokyo will win the grain shadow, and those local wealthy families will also respond, so that I will have a reason to send troops, why worry about the big thing? ”
"That's ......" Ruan Fulan thought for a while while with his beard curled, and his face suddenly became gloomy.
Su Baiyi is right, the Mo clan does have advantages in this regard, and although the Gaoping Mo clan is now dilapidated, and there is not even a national capital and a royal city, but people still regard themselves as emperors, and their Ruan clan can only be called the lord of Ruan before Su Baiyi arrives, and they can't even ask for the title of a prince.
If Mo's raised the banner of recovering the country, it would indeed be able to get twice the result with half the effort.
However, this cake is so big, and after Mo's involvement, the benefits that his Ruan family can get are undoubtedly much less.
The pros and cons need to be weighed more, and he won't give Su Baiyi a clear attitude for a while. Ruan Fulan paced in the side hall, pondered for a long time, and suddenly said: "In this way, the matter of the Mo family makes the widow think about it later, the envoy will talk about it first, and there are those people who can help the widow." ”
"The foreign minister heard that the old prince had married Princess Yujiao to the king of the Cham country, and the queen Po died, and now the king of the Cham country is the son of the princess Yujiao, and with this in-law, the king only needs to send a messenger to get the help of the Champa, why not?" Su Baiyi raised his eyes and looked at Ruan Fulan.
Ruan Fulan coughed lightly twice in embarrassment, and said, "Envoy, this ...... Ahem, Bhammaro is indeed the nephew of the widow, but he, ahem, because of some misunderstandings, is quite hostile to the widow, I'm afraid it will be difficult to ......"
At that time, Ruan Lord Nguyen Phuc Yuan married his daughter Princess Yu Jiao to Po A, which was purposeful, in order to seize the land of Champa. And there has been no less friction between the two regimes over the years, and now that Ruan Phuc Lan asked his nephew to help, he himself felt that he didn't have this face.
"If the king is inconvenient, the foreign minister is willing to run for the king." Su Baiyi said: "Although the Cham country is no longer what it used to be, it also has tens of thousands of armor and elephant troops, so this foreign aid is necessary." ”
"Good!" Ruan Fulan's eyes lit up. In his heart, this envoy is not only well versed in diplomacy, but also has a sharp tongue and decisive killing, and is the best candidate for an envoy: "If the angel can be my ambassador to Guangnan for a while, the widow is really grateful, and the widow will let people make a national letter." ”
"And Maha!" Su Baiyi said: "Since you want to go to the south, simply go to Zhenla again, and the foreign minister will definitely bring two more strong troops for the king." In this way, Zhenla and Cham can have more than 20,000 people, you Guangnan has a total of more than 20,000 people, and my Ming and Mo have sent 100,000 troops, so that there will be 150,000 troops, which will be called 200,000 at that time, and there is no need to fight. ”