Qin Lin returned home from the Jinyi Wei Yamen, and saw at a glance that Xu Wenchang was teaching Si to forget his worries and play chess in the flower hall, and the little girl was shouting loudly: "Playing Lai Grandpa, you are playing Lie, obviously elephants can go on a rampage, why do you have to go Tianzi?" And elephants can swim, so why can't they cross the river? This game doesn't count, let's do it all over again! ”

Well, Si Forget not only used the "elephant" as a "car", but also ran to the opposite side of the Chu River and the Han Realm!

Xu Wenchang patiently explained to her: "Girl, this 'elephant' is not an elephant, but the minister next to the monarch, so he can't run to the other party's territory." ”

"Ha, you trick me into not knowing words? I invited a Han teacher at home, and I can recognize thousands of words! Si Wang's mouth flattened, and he said to himself: "The chess piece on my side is an 'elephant', that is, a war elephant; Therefore my elephant can cross the river to fight your soldiers, but your image cannot cross the river and eat my soldiers. ”

The chess is divided into red and green, and the words on both sides are indeed different, one side is "soldier", one side is "pawn", one side is "handsome", one side is "will", and the phase is also written in two kinds, the "elephant" that forgets the worries, and Xu Wenchang is the "phase".

Rao is Elder Xu Wen was calculating, and at this time, there was a sound in his throat, and he stroked his beard and smiled bitterly, not knowing how to explain it clearly to this little girl.

Seeing Qin Lin walk in, Xu Wenchang hurriedly threw away the chessboard, blew his beard and said, "Go, the girl is going to play with your sister Xu, grandpa and Chief Qin have something to do." ”

"You can't get off me," Si Wangwu grinned, said hello to Qin Lin, and bounced away, the gold bracelets and silver bells tied around his ankles made a crisp sound.

In the end, it is a child, although the hatred of the country and the family left a painful mark on her, but it cannot completely hide the innocence of belonging to this age.

Qin Lin looked at the little girl's back: "Mr. Xu and her are in love, and if you want to play against her with Mr. Xu's wonderful chess skills, I'm afraid it will take you a lot of brains this afternoon." ”

"After the loyal ministers and martyrs, the old man pities his misfortune and respects his loyalty," Xu Wenchang had a trace of compassion in his eyes, and his tone was full of sympathy.

is also a loyal minister and a righteous man, and he is forced by the times to succeed and fail, how similar is Meng Yang's experience of comforting and thinking about it? The difference is that Si Ge has been heroic, and he, Xu Wenchang, is lucky to survive...... Qin Lin told Liu Shouyou about the situation in person, Xu Wenchang also learned a lot of information from Si Wangwu and Xu Xinyi in the afternoon, the old man slapped the table heavily, and said angrily: "They have all been bullied by Burma, and Liu Dudu also keeps saying that the Hajj after the third day is the most important, but I am afraid that in the future, Fanbang Siyi will not see the benevolence of the Celestial Empire in his eyes, but think that my China is weak and can be bullied!" ”

Touching his nose, Qin Lin's wry smile was also a little helpless: "I'm afraid that among the ministers of our court, there is more than one who thinks the same thing as Liu Dudu." ”

The two guys sat on their chairs and pondered, thinking about how to make the father and son of Mang Yinglong and Mang Yingli in Burma whole, so that he could know the power of the Celestial Empire and the methods of Chief Qin.

Is it true that I have no one in China?

But these two, one is cunning and the other is vicious, but they didn't come up with any good ideas for a long time, after all, Xingshi mobilized people to fight, not to mention them, even the Ming Dynasty is difficult to make this kind of decision!

"With the story of Annan Mo Dengyong during the Jiajing period, the possibility of prompting the imperial court to send troops directly is very low," Xu Wenchang said depressedly, scratching his head like a bird's nest.

The interference of the Ming suzerainty in the vassal state was more reflected in political pressure, and there were not many direct conquests.

As Xu Wenchang said, in the fifteenth year of Jiajing, Mo Dengyong, a powerful minister of Annam (Vietnam), usurped the throne and established himself as king, and Li Ning, the grandson of King Annam, sent an envoy to the Celestial Empire to accuse Mo Dengyong of rebellion and asked for troops to avenge him.

Emperor Jiajing first suspected that Li Ning's accusation was untrue, and ordered the dispatch of troops to be postponed, and the governors of Liangguang and Yunnan were to investigate and report.

In the spring of the seventeenth year, Mu Chaofu, the Duke of Qianguo, sent Mo Dengyong to the imperial court, asking for forgiveness for his sins and allowing him to pay tribute. First of all, the court thought that Mo Dengyong was cunning and changeable, and he was repeatedly troubled by the border, so he did not allow it, and ordered Mao Bowen to be the secretary of the military department and the imperial history of the right capital, to lead the army, and to prepare for the crusade against Annan, and later to delay the dispatch of troops again because the court discussion was ineffective.

It was not until the eighteenth year of Jiajing that Mao Bowen was finally sent to the south to conquer Annan, and was ordered to conquer Annan, and in the autumn of the nineteenth year, Mao Bowen was stationed in Nanning, Guangxi, and published a document to order the armies from all directions to form a high-pressure situation of the army pressing the border on Annan, and at the same time sent an envoy to convey the benefits of Enwei, and finally forced Annan Mo Dengyong to hand over the map and household registration, and surrender on his knees.

Annam was originally a vassal state, because Mo Dengyong usurped the throne and stood on his own, the Ming Dynasty issued a decree to reduce Annan to the Annam Metropolitan Envoy in order to show punishment, and Mo Dengyong was demoted to the Annam Metropolitan Envoy, which legally turned Annan's subordinate state into a domestic Tusi jurisdiction.

The whole process of Mao Bowen's conquest of Annam lasted five years, several times to prepare to move troops and did not send troops, and finally Guangxi and Yunnan troops gathered, but never sent an arrow, the army did not even go out of the border, completely with military pressure to assist the political offensive, bloodless will be the entire Annam from the subject state of the Reading Li Domain into the domestic Tusi region, the usurper Mo Dengyong from self-established as the king, into the Ming Dynasty's Annam capital envoy, become the Ming Dynasty in the Indochina Peninsula a chess piece.

Mo Dengyong's behavior is called usurping the throne and self-reliance, which is the most intolerable to the Ming Dynasty who believes in Confucianism and Taoism, and the final settlement process did not really mobilize troops to fight.

In a sense, Mao Bowen's means and results of the expedition to Annam were very good, and the sons and daughters of the Ming army did not shed blood and sacrificed, avoiding war casualties and huge expenses for grain and grass, and at the same time declaring the majesty of the Celestial Empire, which achieved good results.

Qin Lin groaned and touched his chin: "What's the matter, let's do it like Mao Bowen to conquer Annan, and scare the father and son of the Mang family in Burma, so that he can know the power of the Celestial Empire and vent his anger for the Si family!" ”

"My Commander Qin, the problem is that the imperial court is now blindly compromising and retreating, killing my Tusi, occupying my country's land, and sending messengers to comfort and appease the Baba people, and I can't wait to carry the Burmese to the sky!" Xu Wenchang was angry as he spoke, and he blew his beard.

Looking for Zhang Juzheng about this? I am afraid that Xiang Ye is anxious to gain time to recuperate for the implementation of the new policy, and is reluctant to send troops to fight.

Go to Zeng Shengwu? The Ministry of War still has lingering fears about the matter of Mu Chaobi, the Duke of Qianguo, for fear that a war will start in Yunnan, and the Duke of Qianguo will take the opportunity to sit big, and Mu Changzuo will become the same as his Laozi.

Although Qin Lin had a certain amount of influence in the court, he was not arrogant enough to think that he could decide to send troops to conquer such a militaristic matter...... Annoyed, the pro-military lieutenant came to report: "Report to the sir! There were three strange-looking people who asked to see them, but they refused to say their names, but they only said that they would know if they met. ”

It's dark now, who comes to worship at night? Isn't it the demon bandits of the White Lotus Sect seeking revenge?

Qin Lin first arranged for the captain of the pro-soldier school to ambush with a stun gun, and then called for the three people to come in.

Sure enough, these three are wearing ordinary people's inconspicuous gray cyan cloth clothes, Mo said that it is late now, even if they mix into the crowd during the day, they can't see it all of a sudden, but their figure and appearance are really too bone-like, at first glance it seems to be not much different from the Chinese, and if you look closely, you don't feel like a Chinese:

All of them were thin and short, with dark skin, deep-buttoned eyes, lips turned outward, and two of them had curly hair.

As soon as the three visitors saw Qin Lin, they knelt down and kowtowed in unison: "Ruan Song, the envoy of Lord Mo, the envoy of the Commander of Annam, the tributary envoy of the State of Cambodia, Mahaluo, and the tributary envoy of the State of Siam, Chaiwalit, knock on the Heavenly General Lord Qin!" ”

Sure enough, it came from the south! When Qin Lin saw their appearance at first, he guessed that they were probably people from that area from the racial characteristics that the forensic doctor was familiar with, and the result was completely consistent with his judgment.

But Qin Lin has never been in contact with Annan, Cambodia and other places, why did the three envoys suddenly come to worship?

Xu Wenchang was quite surprised at first, and then stroked his beard: There is a door!

Qin Lin is not as familiar with the relationship between countries as Xu Wenchang in this era, but after thinking about it carefully, he almost guessed it, and he was immediately overjoyed.

On his face, he still pretended to be neither salty nor light, and his hands were weak: "What do you say?" Qin has never had a relationship with several friends, and he has never been to Siam, Annam, and other places......"

Ruan Song, Mahara, and Chaiwali looked at each other, and invariably took out something from their arms, and said with a flattering smile: "Our lord admires the prestige of General Qin, and when we meet for the first time, there is nothing else to pay respect, a little meager gift to talk about the heart, and I hope the general will smile." ”

Qin Lin was also not polite, took the gift list of the three people, Annan sent a high-grade sea pearl, two ivory carvings, a pair of gold armor, a helmet, Cambodia is a golden Buddha statue, three boxes of the best jade, Siam is a huge ruby sapphire each ten pieces and a scimitar inlaid with precious stones, all of which are valuable treasures, and the combined value is no less than 100,000 taels of silver.

Oh, that's a lot of money! Qin Lin was rich, and he was secretly surprised when he saw the gift list, knowing that the three tribute envoys had made a bloody investment.

Putting the gift list on the table, Qin Lin said unhurriedly in an official tone: "Nothing is worthless, this official must be a little ashamed, I don't know what can help the three of them?" You might as well tell the truth, so as not to let the official's heart fall to the bottom. ”

The three tribute envoys gave heavy gifts, but Qin Lin's expression was unmoved, they were all a little flustered, looked at each other, and Ruan Song, who was the leader, said tentatively: "It is said that General Qin and Prince Mang Yingli of Burma have some grudges? So I waited for the night to come and tell General Qin a heartfelt song. ”

When Qin Lin heard this, he already knew the reason, and pushed the gift list back with a wry smile: "The three brothers are good, the official has no choice but to accept it, this money is going to buy the army of the Celestial Empire to fight Burma for you, I'm afraid it's not enough, and the official doesn't have that much ability, so he can casually decide the important military affairs of the war for the imperial court." ”

Sending troops, fighting? Ruan Song, Mahara, and Chaiwali stared at each other with wide eyes, and only after a while did they say, "General Qin misunderstood, right?" The little ones didn't say they were going to fight! ”

(To be continued)