It is difficult to fight the world, and it is even more difficult to govern the world. To rule the world while fighting the world is, of course, the most difficult. Emperor Zhu is doing such a thing now. If you want to govern the world well, you can't expand it on a big scale. Because now the population of the Ming and Han Lands is close to the limit of what the land can carry! If you don't try your best to expand and expand your land, it will become difficult to maintain internal stability, so where is the energy to expand outward?

"Your Majesty, this time Du Wenxiu did have some luck fighting in Vietnam. Because the current Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam is at the peak of its national strength, the second generation of the Nguyen Dynasty monarch Nguyen Phuc Tan is a generation of Ming monarchs, reigned for 21 years, was enthroned in 1820 AD, and after succeeding to the throne, he followed the example of China, governed the country with Confucianism, and made great efforts to make the country reach its peak. In addition, the conquest of Chenla and Ailao made Vietnam's territory the largest in history. In 1839, Nguyen Phuc Thanh also abolished the name given by the Qing court and renamed it Da Nan, calling himself Emperor Ming Ming of Da Nan. After the death of the Ming Emperor, the Nguyen Dynasty weakened, but it was still much stronger than the Joseon State......"

Zhong Ziliang, deputy chief of general staff of the Ming Royal Army, was pale in the cabin of the "Daming" third-class battleship, and dutifully explained the situation in Vietnam to Zhu Jishi. As he said, Du Van Xiu's troops fought hard in the northern part of Vietnam. Although he achieved a great victory in Lang Son, after penetrating into the interior of Vietnam, he was met with stubborn resistance from the Vietnamese military and civilians, and his progress was slow. Later, due to the landing of the Ming and French forces in Da Nang, the 12th battalion of the main force of the Vietnamese army (2,500 people per battalion) was forced to return to Hue, so that Du Van Xiu and Zhang Jiaxiang's 10th Army, which had just entered Vietnam, chose a bargain and took Hanoi, Tokyo, Vietnam. But then the tide of the battle changed. The main force of the French army was transferred from Da Nang south to attack Gia Dinh (Saigon). Therefore, the danger of Hue was temporarily lifted. Emperor Nguyen Phuc Thi sent troops to surround the fortress of Da Nang, which was defended by 3,000 Ming troops. On the one hand, he personally commanded the 20 battalions of Beijing soldiers and 30 battalions of strange soldiers, a total of 50 battalions of soldiers on the Northern Expedition, claiming to counterattack Hanoi. He also fought with Du Van Xiu's troops who went south in Thanh Hoa, and actually defeated Du Van Xiu and forced him back to Hanoi.

After receiving the defeat report from Zhang Jiaxiang, Liu Peng immediately asked Zhong Ziliang to rush to Shanghai, got on Zhu Jishi's ship "Daming", reported in person and asked for countermeasures.

I heard that Du Wenxiu had lost the battle in Vietnam. Zheng Hong and Luo Zenan, who accompanied Zhu Jishi to Guangzhou in the south, suddenly turned grim. They all know that Vietnam is a thorn in the hand!

In history, the Yongli Emperor once crusaded against the Hu Dynasty of Annam, and the famous general Zhang Fu led the troops to take the entire territory of Annam, and then let the puppet Chen Dynasty supported by the Ming Dynasty take Annam to attach, so Annam returned to China, but this return only lasted for 21 years, and the founder of the Li Dynasty, Li Li, led the Yue people to revolt successfully, and drove the Ming army out of the country. Later, the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty took advantage of the fall of the Li Dynasty to send 18,000 troops to attack the Tay Son Dynasty in Vietnam and support Le Weiqi as a puppet king. Although at one time captured Thang Long. put Li Weiqi on the throne. However, he was defeated by the emperor of the Xishan Dynasty, Ruan Hui, and lost a commander, two general soldiers, and a prefect. More than 10,000 troops were lost. However, it was such a war that almost wiped out the entire army, and it was actually included in the ten martial arts by Emperor Qianlong, which is really a bit shameless.

And it was not only the Ming and Qing dynasties that suffered losses in Vietnam, the Yuan Dynasty established by the Mongols before and the Song Dynasty earlier were defeated in the war with Vietnam! It can be said that this Vietnam has not lost a war with the northern dynasty since its independence (temporary defeat is there)!

Therefore, at present, the important ministers of the Ming Dynasty have a little psychological shadow for the battle of conquering Yue. Now that they heard that Du Wenxiu was defeated, Zuo and Luo naturally felt a little prickly.

"I actually defeated ......," Zhu Jishi was obviously a little surprised, "What does the report say?" Why didn't Zhang Jiaxiang reinforce Du Wenxiu? ”

After all, Du Wenxiu's soldiers are not regular, and their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with Zhang Jiaxiang's 10th Army, even if the Vietnamese army can defeat Du Wenxiu, it must not be Zhang Jiaxiang's opponent. So Zhu Jishi felt very strange about Du Wenxiu's defeat.

"Your Majesty, Zhang Jiaxiang's report said that there were rebellions in all parts of North Vietnam at that time, and the situation in Hanoi was also unstable, so the 10th Army had to divide its troops and suppress it."

Hearing this, Zhu Jishi's first thought was that the Ming invading army fell into the vast sea of guerrilla warfare of the Vietnamese people!

This Vietnam seems to be really a tough bone, and it makes sense for him to mobilize three armies to prepare for a war of aggression, and it seems that it is time for the Fourth and Fifth Armies to enter Vietnam.

However, Zheng Hong and Luo Zenan obviously had other ideas, the two exchanged glances, and Luo Zenan said: "Your Majesty, I have no proper reputation for the Ming Dynasty's expedition to Annam, so the Yue people are not attached to it, and it is better to establish the descendants of Emperor Li Zhao of the Li Dynasty as the king of Annam." ”

"The descendants of Emperor Li Zhao?" Zhu Jishi was stunned for a moment, "Where is it?" ”

In the northeast, Li Weiqi went into exile in Beijing after losing the country for the second time, was made a duke by Emperor Qianlong, and the relics of the Li Dynasty who returned together were included in the Han Army Banner, and placed in Xi'an Nanying and Dong'an Nanying in the area of Dongzhimen on the side of the Guozijian Ya of Andingmen in Beijing. During the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Army, he went to the northeast with Yixin, and then it was obtained by our Ming army, and now it is placed in Lushunkou. ”

Zheng Hong also said: "The influence of the Li Dynasty in Vietnam is very great, and the Vietnamese regard Li Li as a national hero......

"Humph! What a national hero! Zhu Jishi waved his hand and interrupted, "The Li Dynasty is my enemy of the Ming Dynasty, what are you doing when you recover?" Don't mention this again! ”

He paused and said, "Didn't I explain that I want to take the land on both sides of the Red River in the north of Vietnam to establish a Red River Province, and let them expel the Yue people?" How could Zhang Jiaxiang still be tripped by the Yue people? ”

"Your Majesty, Du Wenxiu and Ma Xinyi all think that the Yue people can be educated, so they ......"

When Zhu Jishi heard this, he rolled his eyes and snorted, "Why did these two H people say such things?" ”

Luo Zenan smiled bitterly: "Although he is a citizen of H, he also reads the books of sages, and he can't do anything to expel innocent civilians......"

Emperor Zhu slapped the table: "Isn't the lesson of the former Ming and Qing Tartars not deep?" These Yue people will not be of the same heart as us, so we must not be soft-hearted, and we must not have the delusion of educating the Yue people into Han people. If Du Wenxiu, Ma Xinyi and Zhang Jiaxiang can't be wicked, I will ask people to go to the United States to invite Yang Xiuqing back and make him a general, he is used to being a wicked person! ”

Zhu Jishi took a long breath, looked at Luo Zenan and Zheng Hong, and said: "I didn't send troops to Vietnam to force them to submit, I don't care if Vietnam obeys me or not, I want the Red River Plain and the mountains of northern Vietnam!" The Red River Plain is a rich and fertile land, and there is no problem in reclaiming 20 million mu, and it is a land of fish and rice rich in rice, which can accommodate 500,000 to 600,000 Guangxi immigrants. In addition, there are coal mines in the north of Vietnam, and I will build a large steel plant in Hainan in the future, and I need coal from the north of Vietnam to make steel! ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly aggravated his tone: "As for the Vietnamese, I don't need them, it's useless to come!" ”

Emperor Zhu looked at Zheng Hong, Luo Zenan and Zhong Ziliang, and said earnestly: "Do you understand my hard work? What I am doing now is fighting for a living space for my descendants of the Ming Dynasty! What is living space, you don't know? This is the territory, the territory for our own people to thrive! We have a lot of people in the Ming Dynasty, and now there are 40,000,000, and more than 4 million will be added every year. Because there is a limit to the population that the land can carry, and once this limit is exceeded, the people will feel difficult, they will not have enough to eat, and they will rebel!

Therefore, I am now going to do everything possible to move the surplus population of the Han land out of the Han land...... Although many of them are reluctant to leave their homes and go outside, I still want to force them, deceive them, and get them away! Because if we don't get them away from the Han land now, their children and grandchildren will be guillotined in the future!

But where am I going to get them? Now the empty and uninhabited rich and fertile land in the world is difficult for us to touch except for the northeast. Therefore, I can only fight with others and drive others away from my own territory......" (To be continued......