Chapter 332: Peace
"Oh, Lord Angel, Lord Angel, this is a big disaster!" Ruan Fuyu's face was pale, and he wanted to get angry at Su Baiyi, but when he saw Su Baiyi's indifferent expression, as well as the Daming Regiment Dragon Flag flying high, his anger had to be suppressed uncontrollably.
The Ming Dynasty is now much weaker.
But compared to the fear that remained in the hearts of the people of Annan, it was easy for them to choose to compromise.
They have a sense of the invincibility of the Great Tomorrow Army in their bones.
"Don't worry, my General Ruan, there will be no problem!" Su Baiyi laughed: "If the Zheng family asks, you Ruan Lord can push the question to our Da Ming, just say that I Su Baiyi's hand, what can I do with the Zheng family?" ”
Ruan Fuyu arched his hand and said: "Don't dare, don't dare!" ”
"Don't dare!" Su Baiyi waved his sleeves: "I have a holiday with the Zheng family, you just have to speak up." He smiled slightly as he spoke: "This is going to Fuchun, and General Lao Ruan sent someone to show the way for the envoy." ”
"That's as it should be!" Ruan Fuyu smiled bitterly.
Su Baiyi laughed, patted him on the shoulder and said, "You friend, I, Su Baiyi, have handed it over, come here, bring the gift prepared by the governor." ”
Two men carried a yellow bicycle from the bilge to the deck.
Su Baiyi stretched out his hand towards Ruan Fuyu and said, "A small meaning is not a respect, and I hope that General Ruan will not refuse!" ”
"What is this?" Nguyen Phuc Ngoc had never seen a bicycle before, and he couldn't figure it out when he looked at it.
Su Baiyi raised his legs and stepped on it, and with a little force under his feet, the bicycle ran "rapidly" on the deck, turned left and right to shuttle flexibly among the pedestrians, and finally stopped in front of Ruan Fuyu in a chic manner, and said: "This is a bicycle, the general can come and try it." ”
Ruan Fuyu was already stunned when Su Baiyi got on the bicycle, and now that Su Baiyi invited, he couldn't wait to ride up, put his two feet on the pedals, and drove slowly under Su Baiyi's guidance.
"Not bad!" Su Baiyi sighed: "General Ruan's balance is good, although the first time he rode a bicycle, he was a little rusty, but after a few days, the general will experience the fun." ”
Ruan Fuyu rode down, his face flushed with excitement, and he saluted Su Baiyi slightly: "This is too precious, the villain doesn't know how to repay it." ”
"No need to repay!" Su Baiyi said: "It's all worthless little gifts, as long as the general likes it." ”
"Thank you, Lord Angel!" Ruan Phuc Ngoc touched the bicycle and couldn't put it down.
Su Baiyi smiled slightly.
He really didn't tell a lie, this is really an insignificant little gift, isn't it just a little yellow car, which was bought in the system for hundreds of dollars.
Ruan Fuyu accepted Su Baiyi's gift, and then arranged for a school captain named Shi Cheng to take Su Baiyi all the way south to Fuchun, a hundred miles away.
After the Zheng Clan's sailors were bombarded by Su Baiyi six times, the losses were average, and they naturally wouldn't rush out of the nest to fight with Ruan Fuyu because of this little thing.
The key is at sea, and you can't beat others.
Therefore, Su Baiyi can be said to be driving the big boat all the way south.
Shi Cheng was right next to him, and although he spoke a little rusty in Chinese, it didn't hinder communication. And from the mouth of this Shi Cheng, I learned that his grandfather was a native of Fujian, and he ran to Annan to avoid the Japanese rebellion during the Jiajing period, and lived on the spot.
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At this time, Fuchun Tongzheng Palace.
Ruan Fuyuan sat on the top, raised his head with some effort, looked at the sunlight outside the window, his swollen eyes were in a trance, and he asked a little helplessly: "Are the envoys from the north settled?" ”
He's old.
It's old.
I am 71 years old this year.
From his grandfather Nguyen Gan gaining a firm foothold in Quang Nam, it has been 90 years now.
His grandfather ruled Quang Nam for 18 years, and his father Nguyen Huang was eloquent and strategic, finding a way out of the internal and external difficulties, turning the impossible into a possibility, and finally turned Quang Nam into the private property of their Nguyen family under the support of hard work, and his father Nguyen Hoang lived to be 89 years old and ran Quang Nam for 55 years, building the whole Quang Nam like an iron bucket.
By the time he took the throne, Nguyen Phuc Nguyen was already fifty years old, and now he is seventy years old, and his reign has surpassed that of his grandfather, but not half of his father's.
Although Quang Nam was built like an iron bucket by the three generations of the Nguyen family, and the Zheng clan in the north had some support to defend it, in general, the gap between their Nguyen clan and the Zheng clan in the north was still a world apart.
First of all, the Zheng clan occupied the right time and place, controlled the emperor of the Li Dynasty and commanded the princes of the world, its land was vast and the cultivated land area was more than twice that of Quang Nam, the population was dense, and the number of troops was more than five times that of Quang Nam.
The Nguyen and Zheng clans are always a little powerless.
In addition, Nguyen Phuc Yuan is old and his ambition is exhausted, but once the Zheng family brought the news of the peace, he also named him in the name of the imperial court as "the prince of Fu Guogong, who controlled the two camps of Hue and the military affairs of Pingzhang inside and outside", he really moved his mind.
This title means too much to him.
In the past, although he also became a benevolent national prince, he claimed to be a self-proclaimed.
Now it is the emperor of the Li Dynasty, which is different.
"Back to my father, it's all arranged!" The second son, Ruan Phuc Cang, bowed his hand to Ruan Phuc Yuan and replied respectfully.
"Hmm!" Ruan Fuyuan said: "We have been fighting with the Zheng clan for five years, although we can prevent their attack, but the people are tired and can no longer fight. The generals on our side are quite hostile to the northerners, and you must send more men to ensure the safety of the envoys. ”
"Yes, Father!" Ruan Phuc Cang replied respectfully.
But the eldest son Ruan Fulan didn't do it, he twisted his slightly fat body, got up from the chair and saluted his father, and then admonished: "Father, by all means, then Zheng Zhuang intends to unify Annan, if he really agrees to his conditions to send troops to Gaoping, wouldn't it be a wedding dress for others, and we are losing our wife and losing our soldiers?" ”
This time, Zheng Zhuang proposed in the name of the emperor of the Li Dynasty to confer the title of Nguyen Phuc Yuan as the prince of the country, but at the same time, he also put forward a condition, that is, let the Ruan clan cooperate with the imperial court to send troops to pacify the Mo clan entrenched in Gao Ping.
"Several retainers have also argued about this in front of the master." Ruan Fuyuan's eyes turned, looked at his second son Ruan Fucang, who was only in his twenties, and asked, "Cang, what do you think?" ”
The Nguyen family began to entrench in Quang Nam from Nguyen Phuc Yuan's grandfather Nguyen Gan, known as the Nguyen family, but later he didn't know which tendon was wrong in Nguyen Phuc Yuan's head, so he changed his surname from Nguyen Phuc to Nguyen Phuc Clan.
Nguyen Phuc Cang's name is Cang!
"Cang didn't dare to say much, it was all up to my father." Ruan Fucang respectfully saluted Ruan Fuyuan, paused and said: "Since my father intends to accept the peace, it must have been carefully considered, and the Li Dynasty is the orthodoxy of the country, and our Ruan family has been the courtiers of the Li Dynasty for generations, and it is also our duty to pacify Gaoping." ”
"Hehe......" Ruan Fuyuan smiled and nodded, although what his son said was not correct, he was very satisfied. Because this son is very obedient, he has a deep affection for him since he was a child.
"Father, never!" The eldest son, Ruan Fulan, said: "Although the Li Dynasty is a royal family, but now that the Zheng family is in power, if we go to Gaoping, it is not to quell the rebellion for the imperial court, but to trouble the Zheng family, and when we and the Gaoping Mo family are both defeated, he Zheng will just benefit from it." Besides! Ruan Fulan gritted his teeth and said: "Our imperial dynasty in Annam, from the Ding Dynasty to the former Li Dynasty, to the Li Dynasty, the Chen Dynasty, the Hu Dynasty, and even the current Li Dynasty, there is the Mo Dynasty in the middle, and now the Li Dynasty is weak, it is a good time for the princes to take the opportunity to take their place. ”
"Hahaha!" Nguyen Phuc Nguyen laughed profligately.
The eldest son, Nguyen Phuc Lan, is now nearly 50 years old, far-sighted, politically mature, and does not follow the rules of things like his younger son, and is quite a hero, and he is the ideal successor in his heart.
It's just that the eldest son, Nguyen Phuc Lan, has one thing that he doesn't like: this son is too belligerent.
"You all have a point!" Ruan Fuyuan said: "But neither of you has understood the painstaking work of being a father. Lan you think well, we must not make wedding clothes for others, Zheng wants to borrow my hand to cut off Mo's is wishful thinking. However, now that he has issued an edict in the name of the emperor, we can't resist it openly, besides, he Zheng Zhuang dares to arrogant himself as the king, so why can't the court confer the old man as a prince.
So this peace, the master must follow, but Gao Ping, I won't go, just shirk it, and if you can, you can slow it down. Our top priority at the moment is not to compete with the Zheng family for territory, but to look to the south, this Cham and Zhenla are all anointed places, if we can take it in one fell swoop, it will be the capital to compete for the world in the future. ”
"But, father!" Ruan Fulan said worriedly: "A few months ago, an envoy arrived, and my father also agreed to their request, if you accept the Zheng family's peace now, will it anger the envoy?" ”
"It's not a contradiction!" Ruan Phuc Nguyen waved his hand to interrupt his son's words: "Last time, the envoy said that he wanted to buy our rice, this is no problem, as long as he pays a fair price, whether it is to buy rice or rent land to plant rubber trees, there is nothing." Zheng Zhuang's hands are not so long, so he can't care who we associate with. Besides, if we meet the Mingren's requirements, they won't care about our relationship with Zheng Zhuang! ”
"But ......" Ruan Fulan frowned and said: "Last time, my father said that he wanted the Ming Emperor to issue a decree to seal a name, if the Ming Emperor really has a will, then will my father accept the will of the Ming Emperor, or accept the will of the Emperor Li?" ”
Hearing this, Ruan Fuyuan did frown, but then smiled and said, "At the beginning, it was just a joke for my father, in order to increase the confidence of the negotiation." This land of China is the most important Taoist system, and now the country of Annan is nominally the master of Emperor Li, and we are all the courtiers of Emperor Li, and Emperor Ming will not and cannot agree to the request of this lord......"
But before Lord Ruan's voice fell, hurried footsteps sounded outside, and only someone was heard: "Lord, the great tomorrow has arrived." ”