【Annam】Ha Sen Town. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the docks, a Chinese cargo ship is pouring cargo onto the shore like ants moving. The heavy cranes were all hooked up on the thousands of pounds of cannons, and the rest of the material in the cabin could only be carried to the shore by a labor team composed of manpower in the most ancient way.

Although the speed of the four-masted Chinese sailing ship is not as fast as that of the Western-style sailing ship, the comfort and safety are higher than that of the Western-style sailing ship. If it is not in a hurry to rush the goods, the Chinese still choose this old-fashioned oriental sailing ship.

In recent years, China's shipping industry has expanded rapidly, and the shipbuilding industry has become bigger and bigger, and shipyards capable of manufacturing qualified five-masted ships have emerged one after another. Although Western-style sailing ships have developed rapidly in China, the development of China's own traditional sailing ships has not been satisfied at all, with three-masted sailing ships becoming small boats, four-masted sailing ships being defined as medium-sized, and five-masted ships being the real big ships.

They are also cheaper than Western-style sailing ships for the same cargo capacity, because the materials are easier to find. In terms of masts, they are far less elaborate than Western-style sailing ships, and they are inexpensive to operate, and a five-masted ship only needs thirty or forty people to operate, which is much less than the number of crew required on Western-style sailing ships. It has made great contributions to the rapid development and growth of China's shipping in recent years.

Around the wharf, hundreds of heavily armed Hexian Town soldiers were waiting for them, in fact, where are these Hexian Town soldiers. The original army of Haxian Town has become an engineer and a security guard. The latter are all serious Chinese! The officers are all serving officers and veterans of the country.

Just when the eyes of the whole country in China were on Nanyang, the situation in Annan in the past two months was not stable at all.

Without the support of the French, Quang Nam was like a meat worm without bones, and was beaten to the ground by the Xishan army. And Ruan Phuc Chun, who received the olive branch from China, although he was very moved, he did not come to this point of exhaustion, and he was still unwilling to commit it.

But the people of the Ruan Dynasty did not give it for nothing, the combat effectiveness of the Xishan Army was far stronger than theirs, which was obvious, and they were unwilling to give up, so what should they do?

Someone came up with a clever trick for Ruan Phuc Chun - to cut the land and borrow soldiers!

I will cede to you the territory that Hexian Town has traveled through, and then borrow troops to resist the Xishan Army. Do you China say yes?

This is tantamount to a disguised soft call for help!

Nam Nguyen now knows that China has ambitions for its land, but China has to take into account the influence, and things can't be done. Then they are also interested in making do, cutting meat and feeding tigers.

After this news was sent to Nanjing by the Mo family, Chen Ming wrote a service word for the Ruan Dynasty, and this method of drinking to quench thirst can also be thought of, and there is a level. It's really in line with Chen Ming's impression of Confucianism.

Look at the Ruan family, isn't it very soft? Do you have the demeanor of the old Zhao family?

The men of the old Zhao family are in a hurry to pack their wives and daughters together and give them away, and the Mo family is not far behind. When giving land to Nanjing, Ruan Fuchun also sent one of his cousins to the Mo family.

In fact, Ruan Fuchun hopes to send people to Nanjing, but unfortunately Chen Ming is not interested in Vietnamese women, if this is heavenly, imagine the beauty of those little Loli of the heavenly royal family seen on the Internet in his previous life, Chen Ming's uncle's heart will also stir up two points of commotion. Vietnam's is all free to talk about!

After Mo Tianci received Nanjing's signal, he gave himself a grandson who had just grown up and made this very politically significant marriage.

The location of Ha Tien Town is in the Mekong Delta, adjacent to Gia Dinh Province (around present-day Ho Chi Minh City) and Phnom Penh (Cambodia) to the north, Jinou to the south, the Gulf of Thailand to the west, and the Jiulong River Plain [nine tributaries of the Mekong River] to the east.

Nguyen Phuc Chun is now ceding Jinou, Jiulong River, Kaoling, Tran An and other places to Ha Tien Town, it can be said that the entire Mekong Delta area, except for one Gia Dinh City, is still in the hands of the Nguyen Dynasty, and most of the area has been ceded to Ha Tien Town, that is, to China.

Hexian Town's response was to immediately reorganize its troops, and in the early stage, five thousand troops had already been sent to aid the Duole Plateau. It is the gateway to the central part of Guangnan Kingdom, if this place is lost, the Xishan army will form a condescending situation, and it will sweep Jiading in the blink of an eye.

But that's all there is to the total strength of Hexian Town.

The Mo family established themselves in Ha Tien by virtue of their fighting power, but by virtue of their Chinese identity and remote terrain, and the original political center of the Nguyen Dynasty was in Hue City, which was one or two thousand miles away from the Mekong Delta. The Mo family is living in this way.

Relative to the weak army is the unspoken rule of the Mo family and the Ruan Dynasty. Even if Mo Jiaxin hugged his thigh and survived the catastrophe, he didn't think about strengthening his military strength. And Nanjing doesn't think that anyone dares to provoke the river immortals on the one-third of an acre of land in Nanyang.

In this case, the strength of the 5,000 people not only drained the active strength of the river immortals, but also scraped off the reserves. How many people are there in the whole river fairy, isn't it?

Now Ha Xian is seizing the time to prepare the second batch of troops!

The combat effectiveness of the Xishan Army should not be underestimated, and they themselves have been going all out to develop firearms in the past two years, and they have manufactured some guns by themselves. Although the quality is far from being comparable to China, it is true that the overall strength of the Xishan Army is constantly rising. And the most important thing is that in terms of soldiers' fighting spirit, the fierceness of the soldiers of the Xishan Army is much stronger than that of the Guangnan Army.

Even with the support of 5,000 men, it is unknown whether the Quang Nam Army can withstand the Xishan Army on the Duole Plateau.

Fighting depends not only on armament, but also on people, and if people fight hard, everything is possible.

The only thing Ha Tien can do now is to go all out to form a new army and continue to reinforce Quang Nam.

In the absence of direct military support from China.

It's not that Chen Ming doesn't want to use the domestic army, but he wants to take into account the feelings of Siamese Zheng Xin, right? can only let the Mo family come forward to Zhang Luo by themselves, the current Hexian Town is not short of officers, weapons and weapons, what is lacking is people.

The Mekong Delta region is fertile with fertile farmland and crops that grow three times a year, making it easy to eat a full stomach. After the local Chinese achieved closer trade with the country, they became richer, and there was no shortage of material necessities for life. Just like the Chinese in Borneo, no one wants to be a soldier anymore. It has been more than a month since the first conscription order in the history of Hexian Town was posted, and there are only 1,000 strong young people who have joined the army. A lot of them are mixed-race!

The phrase 'men are not soldiers, good iron is not nailed' has been implemented here very thoroughly and thoroughly.

And within the territory of Hexian Town, at least another 5,000 people must be levied, which can only be more.

Mo Tianci's head is going to be big now. Although the military salary given in the conscription order issued by Hexian Town is very tempting, for the wealthy Hexian, this temptation cannot tempt 5,000 recruits.

Here, not only the Chinese are rich, but the indigenous people are also not short of food and drink.

The land is sparsely populated, all plains, as long as you are a little diligent, how can you go hungry?

Many mixed-race and natives who are willing to come to serve as soldiers are eager to change from a yellow book to a red book when Hexian becomes the land of the Han family in the future.

The latter is a policy that has been discussed and discussed in the Chinese cabinet, and in the case of North Korea, if North Korea is attached, what will happen to those North Korean slaves? And so on.

The Cabinet discussed this issue many times, and finally felt that it was asking for trouble.

Not to mention whether North Korea is attached or not, it is uncertain, even if North Korea is attached, isn't the yellow book and the red book a good solution?

If you don't have a criminal record, you can give a red book; If you have a criminal record, such as being a puppet soldier, or if you have sold yourself into slavery, then you should have a yellow book.

It's crude, but it's also very simple.

Mo Tianci is now worried about this number every day, and seeing that time is passing day by day, he can only use a strong way of distribution. The shortfall of 4,000 soldiers was distributed proportionately to the concentration of the population of the towns under his rule.

The Huang Benbens of Borneo envied the unusual opportunity to join the army, but they encountered the same cold reception as the Chinese in Borneo in Ha Xian.

……

Lu Yi. A small town southeast of Dishi, the capital of Ha Than.

It is a gathering place with a high density of Chinese, with six or seven thousand people in the town, at least five thousand of whom are Chinese or mixed-race.

The people here work and weave for a living, and the fields can be harvested three times a year, and there is really no such thing as starvation under the rule of the Mo family. But that doesn't mean that life here is rich.

Luyi is a traditional agricultural area, where the land can grow grain, jute, and the latter for weaving, but all the iron tools needed for life are imported from outside.

There is a scissors gap between Lu Yi and Di Shi, relying on salt and iron and medicinal materials, Di Shi is very easy to reap a lot of benefits.

But the population of the agricultural areas will not be less. Imagine China's Yu Province?

The small Luyi has a population of six or seven thousand, and it needs to gather enough for a full hundred young people.

It's a dark cloud!

Hexian Town has to pile up 10,000 troops before and after, and the population of the entire Hexian Town is less than 400,000, which is still because a large number of Chinese and natives have migrated over in recent years, otherwise it would make Mo Tianci overjoyed to have 200,000 or 300,000.

Sending 10,000 people out of a social group of less than 400,000 people to fight is simply a reckless force.

But there is an order from above, what can River Immortal Town do? Can they still not listen to the greetings from above?

The mayor of Luyi sent an invitation to the village chiefs and elders of each village.

The weather was sunny on this day, which was originally a very ordinary day, but because of the gathering of the village chiefs, the entire Luyi was shaken.

The venue was in front of the ancestral hall, and it didn't take long for the surrounding area of the venue to be full of people watching the excitement. As for the mayor of the town, surrounded by the crowd, he led several of his young and strong nephews and sons, as well as ten strong men, carrying big wooden sticks and bulleting their feet.

"People don't want to send their children to join the army. I know, and the top knows. But there is no way, we must be a soldier of this army. ”

"Now the top has set a hundred places for our paperweights. But so far, there are only seven who have signed up, and the old man's children and grandchildren have come out of four, and everyone has nothing to say about me. ”

"The school-age children and grandchildren of the old man's family are the whole family in this book. But now it is still short of ninety-three. There are only five days left in the allotted time. So the old man had no choice but to make this decision. ”

The mayor took a bamboo tube from his youngest son, and there was a stick in it. "The big guys are coming to draw lots." The mayor shook the bamboo tube.

The elders of each village were present and watched, and the village chiefs of each village came up to draw lots. The bamboo sticks in this bamboo tube are all written on them, and together they are ninety-three. ”

"Whoever smokes that one, that's the number. There are as many numbers as there are as few as three, and as many as ten. ”

"Don't think it's unfair, it's all about luck."

The atmosphere in the venue suddenly became solemn, and all the people around them stopped talking. A pair of eyes looked at the bamboo tube in the mayor's hand in a daze.

"After the village chiefs of each village went back, they would draw lots according to what they had won."

"All the young people in the village will draw them one by one, and you will be the one who wins. It doesn't matter if you have money or not, if you have a daughter-in-law or not, you will go to the army. ”

Mayor Town's face was full of exhaustion, he was really going to break down this matter.

"Alright. That's clear. Please come up to see this bamboo stick, and then we will draw lots quickly. ”

The mayor of the town directly put the bamboo tube to the case in the middle, and bowed respectfully to the ancestral hall.

Ever since the old ancestors fled south here more than a hundred years ago, and since they settled in Luyi, the war seems to have stayed away from them. But now, the Luyi people themselves are going to take the initiative to go to war.

The mayor of the town did not dare to say that it was a disaster caused by the imperial court, after all, the improvement of the quality of life of the people of Luyi in recent years is obvious to all. The rice kept going out, and the salt, iron, medicinal materials, as well as porcelain and silk that were exchanged for it, were so much that the people of Luyi didn't dare to think about it. And they Lu Yi also set up a school, and there will be teachers next year.

Then there are the local natives, who now dare not talk to the Chinese scum at all. In the previous time, although the Mo family was Chinese, and although the ruler of Hexian Town was Chinese, in order to better integrate into the indigenous society, he had to take the initiative to give his surname price ear - Yan.

And now?

The proportion of the indigenous Chinese population has not changed much, in recent years, the Chinese have been migrating, the indigenous people are also migrating, and Annan has become a mess. The town of Ha Sen is a paradise.

However, the society of Hexian Town has become an initiative of the native people of Annam to integrate into the Chinese. This active and passive change means much, much more.

But now that it was this imperial court that let Ha Xian go to war, the mayor really had mixed feelings in his heart.

Inside and outside the venue in front of the ancestral hall, everyone's eyes fell on the bamboo tube and the bamboo sticks inside.

A small bamboo skewer can determine the joys and sorrows of a village. And the joys and sorrows of a village depend on their own luck.

"Now the old man is optimistic, and the old man is not cheating. So, let's start drawing lots now. Queue up, all the way to the column, one by one, all for the old man I have done! ”

The mayor stopped talking nonsense and waved his hand: "Next, draw lots." In each row according to the height of the order, those who dare to act recklessly and those who disturb it. Spank you guys! ”

The mayor's eyes were fixed on a group of village chiefs who were trembling all over, and there was no trace of sympathy, half of pity, only calm.

This is a hurdle that they Lu Yi can't resist, so they can only obey.

The faces of more than a dozen village chiefs changed rapidly, as if they were thinking about the tragedy after the lottery with the high number they had drawn.

But each of them knew it all too well in their hearts, and the mayor of the town had already understood what he said, so he would definitely not play false. Everyone knew they had to go to the draw, but they really wanted to hide in the last one.

"Wu Zhuang, Wu Asheng, seven-"

The shouts rang out, and when Dong Ansheng saw the number 'seven', which was by no means small, his eyes darkened, and everyone collapsed. His legs had become noodles.

"Wu Asheng, my dick is your mother, you are a street boy......"

The people of Wuzhuang outside the venue had already scolded.

The mayor of the town has just said that there are thirteen villages under Luyi Town, and if Luyi itself is counted, that is fifteen villages. Ninety-three people, fifteen villages, an average of six .2 per village.

……

Outside the venue, a middle-aged man dressed as a merchant saw all this, and there was a small notebook in his hand.

This vendor, who looked to be less than thirty or forty, had a trace of imperceptible disdain on the corner of his mouth, and there was a deep puzzle in his eyes.

“…… This scene in Ha Xian is not simply a rich life that erases the blood and service to the country in the hearts of the people, I personally think that this is more because of the traditional key impression, the Chinese here are more of a military and soldier as a food industry, rather than the duty of defending the country......"

The eyes of the Department of Education and Education are not purely staring at domestic newspapers and books, as a responsible government office, their eyes must see the most remote and insignificant corners of society.

"This trip was not in vain. The problem of river immortals is greater than that of Borneo......" (To be continued.) )